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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 III

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treehugger

  • Do Lectures Launch Snazzy New HTML 5 Site + St ...
    It's a double dose of exciting news from the Do Lectures camp today. In true double-barreled doing style they are launching their new super snazzy HTML 5 website to the world this afternoon, plus the speaker line up for Do 2011. The new site is apparently the world's largest responsive websi ...
  • Introducing G-Date: The Best Place To Meet Gra ...
    Forget J-Date, TreeHugger is proud to introduce G-Date, the premier community online for dating Graham Hill. Every day, thousands of people join G-Date to score a date with TreeHugger's most eligible bachelor. Soon to be ensconced in his LifeEdited coolest apartment in New York! ...Rea ...
  • Climate Change Now! Birds Start Migrating Late ...
    photo: włodi/Creative Commons Two further examples of how climate change is already having very much measurable impact on the world around us: 1) Declining rain in tropical areas is causing birds to delay their departure to migrate northwards; 2) Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmos ...
  • Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto over GM Seed
    Photo credit: Peter Blanchard/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Nancy Roberts, a writer for Care2 Causes. A group of organic farmers and seed dealers is preemptively suing agribusiness/biotech giant Monsanto to protect themselves from legal action by the corporation in cases ...
  • Popular Climate Myths From Politicians Debunke ...
    photo: Wikipedia The following is a guest post from SkepticalScience.com by Dana Nuccitelli. The main purpose of Skeptical Science is to debunk climate-related myths. To achieve this purpose, we created the Arguments Database, and examined what the scientific literature says about each a ...

Biosingularity

  • Scientists build Parkinson’s disease in ...
    Until now, there have been no witnesses to the death of brain cells in people with Parkinson’s disease. And like any murder mystery, this has slowed the search for the killer. In a big break in the case, Stanford University scientists say they have re-enacted this tragedy in a petri dish — growi ...
  • ‘Can you hear me now?’ Researchers ...
    There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across a crowded room, neurons must figure out the best way to get their message heard [...]
  • Making Cells on an Assembly Line
    Researchers have developed a way to create uniformly sized cell membranes, small cellular packages that can be used like tiny terrariums to study the inner workings of the cell and even create new molecules. Sandro Matosevic and Brian Paegel of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, ...
  • Pulling an all-nighter can bring on euphoria a ...
    A sleepless night can make us cranky and moody. But a lesser known side effect of sleep deprivation is short-term euphoria, which can potentially lead to poor judgment and addictive behavior, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Ha ...
  • Re-creating autism, in mice
    By mutating a single gene, researchers at MIT and Duke have produced mice with two of the most common traits of autism — compulsive, repetitive behavior and avoidance of social interaction. They further showed that this gene, which is also implicated in many cases of human autism, appears to pro ...

CFACT

  • Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
    Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
  • Welcome to the Third World
    Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
  • Fearing EPA's carbon tax
    The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers’ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else’s.
  • More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
    A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.
  • Krugman flunks food and history
    Krugman is trying to frighten us about what’s very likely the finest weather humanity has ever seen. We’re still getting heat waves, blizzards and some hurricanes, but fewer of them. Still, you are three times as likely to read about the severe weather we do get because the media is seeking ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Tuesday, April 5 - Invest in Ohio's Future Rally
    12:00 - 5:00 pmColumbusOne Ohio Now is holding an “Invest in Ohio’s Future Rally” rally at the Ohio StatehouseWhere: North Plaza: Broad St., 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215.Contact: Andrea Fejes at andrea (at) oneohionow.org or RSVP Online.Due to the large turnout expected, we are moving to ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 31-Mar-2011
    Thursday, March 3110:00 AM - 6:00 PMColumbusSenate Bill 5 Rally at the StatehouseWhere: 225 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215OEA Building & Ohio StatehouseOEA will open at 10:00 a.m. so you can pick up signs, water and snacks. RSVPs are not required, but are helpful and appreciated. By letti ...
  • 'No On SB 5': What's next if it passes
    Below is from an email sent by the state Democratic party.More news is developing by the minute on Senate Bill 5. After the Republicans shut down public hearings and hashed out backroom deals all last week, the House Commerce and Labor Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. this morning to vote this bill ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Similarly, here are a few things that have been ignored or greatly downplayed by American media:Ray Davis sprung.Trophy photos with murdere ...
  • 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 26-Mar-2011
    Saturday, March 2612:00pm - 3:00pmBowling Green State UniversityOhio’s March Against MadnessIn front of the Student Union at BGSUMonday, March 2810 am - 12 pmGraftonJob(less) Ohio TourThis event is sponsored and organized by Ohioâs middle class: Making Ohio great since 1803.Where: Grafton Correc ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Pro-Biotech Scientists Defend Monsanto from Wi ...
    DES MOINES, Iowa - The widespread Internet posting of a letter by a retired Purdue University researcher who says he has linked genetically modified corn and soybeans to crop diseases and abortions and infertility in livestock has raised concern among scientists that the public will believe his ...
  • How to Organize a Millions Against Monsanto Ra ...
    Was there a Rally for the Right to Know in your area? You can organize your own picket line or rally, just pick a date that's good for you, even if it's just taking a clipboard and petition, a homemade sign and some fliers to your local grocery store.Click here to read this article
  • Ask New York Legislators to Label GMOs!
    Ask NY Legislators to support the following bill: The New York Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act Bill #: AB1367 Year: 2011 Bill Summary: Provides for the labeling of food or food products that contain a genetically modified material or that are produced with a genetically modified m ...
  • Ask West Virginia State Legislators to Label GMOs!
    Ask West Virginia State Legislators to support the following bill: Creating the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act" Bill #: HB2178 Year: 2011 Bill Summary: The purpose of this bill is to create the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act." The bill makes legislative findings, ...
  • Ask Vermont State Legislators to Label GE Salmon!
    Ask Vermont Legislators to support the following bill: Genetically Engineered Salmon Right to Know Act Bill #: HB123 Year: 2011 Bill Summary: AN ACT RELATING TO LABELING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SALMONClick here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Threat of Prosecution Plays a Role in Libyan D ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Critics of the Security Council’s decision to refer the situation in Libya to the ICC normally argue that the referral denies Gaddafi the option of going into exile instead of fighting to the death.  That may or may not be true — as I’ve noted previous ...
  • A Major Scandal at the Army Crime Lab
    by Kevin Jon Heller On paper, courts-martial are far more fair than military commissions -- the substantive law they apply is superior, and their rules of evidence and procedure are designed to protect defendants, not ensure convictions.  Unfortunately, a recent McClatchy investigation indi ...
  • St. John’s Center for International and Compar ...
    by Chris Borgen Tomorrow, the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL) of St. John's University School of Law will have its inaugural symposium. Peggy and I are CICL's Co-Directors, and we are looking forward to what we hope will be a great kick-off. The symposium, entitled Challen ...
  • Declaring War and Libya: A Comment on Past Pra ...
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey My previous post argued that the original meaning of the declare war clause requires the President to get Congress’ approval before beginning military conflicts (including the current conflict in Libya).   I’ll now turn to two leading counterarguments: firs ...
  • Opinio Juris at ASIL: Cocktail Hour at 7:00 pm ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Greetings from Washington, where several OJ bloggers are attending the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting.  Congratulations to the meeting co-chairs and organizing committee for putting together a terrific program.  If you are attendin ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Nuclear Power -- Not Now, Not Ever
    Any attempt to assess the risk, or for that matter the risk associated with any and all nuclear power plants, is almost certain to underestimate that risk. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Certified Environmental Professionals for Canada
    There are a variety of certifications available for people to specialize in the environmental field. EP Environmental Professional Certification is the only designation of its kind in Canada. Organizations who directly affect the certification are:Submitted by Ezra D. to Green Lifestyle �|� ...
  • Nuclear Accidents and All, Coal Is By Far the ...
    Nicola wrote about an interactive chart that compared the number of deaths per terawatt-hour that could be attributed to a few major sources of energy. Yesterday, Seth Godin did the world a service by simplifying that rather complicated chart.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Not ...
  • BP Gulf Oil Gusher Disaster Subsidized by Corp ...
    The BP deep water drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was subsidized by the US government which gave oil companies tens of billions [2] in tax breaks, subsidies, and royalty relief.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • There Is No 'Defeat' in the Face of the Global ...
    One protestor interviewed on television said, "This is the beginning of the corporate takeover of the U.S. It's the end of freedom.... I'm willing to lay my life on the line for it." Students and workers are risking their lives in Bahrain, Yemen, LibyaSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...

Angry Indian News

  • Cem Ertür: UK minister: Britain at risk of a n ...
    The Guardian, 26 March 2011 [propaganda alert] compiled by Cem Ertür 26 March 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/25/kenneth-clarke-fears-new-lockerbie excerpts from: Clarke: UK at risk... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Puerto Rico: U.S. Census Shows Increase In Bor ...
    Puerto Rico: U.S. Census Shows Increase In Borikén’s Indigenous Population - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesThe 2010 U.S. Census count for Borikén (Puerto Rico) had some significant... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Black GOPer Cain: "I Will Not Appoint a Muslim ...
    Rod 2.0:Beta #gay #news #lgbt #gaynews: Black GOPer Cain: "I Will Not Appoint a Muslim Federal Judge": "Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain and Atlanta radio talk show host Herman Cain is one of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ‘COINTELPRO 101’: an interview wit’ filmmaker ...
    ‘COINTELPRO 101’: an interview wit’ filmmaker Claude Marks | San Francisco Bay View: "“COINTELPRO 101” is a recently released documentary that takes a long hard look at the deeds of the U.S.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Settler Receives 18 Months Sentence For Attack ...
    Settler Receives 18 Months Sentence For Attacking , Kidnapping A Palestinian Teen - International Middle East Media Center: "Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the verdict concluded that the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Japan plans to bail out stricken nuclear plant
    ShareThisJapan plans to bail out stricken nuclear plant 01 Apr 2011 Japan plans to take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the country's stricken nuclear plant, in the face of mounting public concerns over the crisis and a huge potential compensation bill, a newspaper reported o ...
  • Ohio governor signs anti-union bill
    ShareThisOhio governor signs anti-union bill 31 Mar 2011 Governor John Kasich signed on Thursday a bill that curbs collective bargaining rights and bans strikes affecting about 360,000 public workers, making Ohio the most populous state to pass anti-union legislation this year. Republican Kasich ...
  • Japan nuclear crisis: Fukushima 50 'expect to die'
    ShareThisJapan nuclear crisis: Fukushima 50 'expect to die' 31 Mar 2011 Workers who have been fighting to bring the reactors under control at Japan’s strick nuclear plant expect to die from radiation sickness, according to the mother of one of the men. The so-called Fukushima 50, the group of ar ...
  • Turkey says arming Libya rebels could spawn te ...
    ShareThisTurkey says arming Libya rebels could spawn terrorism 31 Mar 2011 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected on Thursday the idea of supplying arms to Libya's rebel fighters, saying that doing so could be "conducive to terrorism." Speaking at a joint press conference in London ...
  • Radiation Found in U.S. Milk
    ShareThisRadiation Found in U.S. Milk 31 Mar 2011 Tests of milk samples taken last week in Spokane, Wash., indicate the presence of radioactive iodine from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, but at levels far below those at which action would have to be taken, the Environment ...

Daily Loaf

  • A gift of a gold-encrusted diaper pail? April ...
    Cast from solid gold and studded with more than 5,000 rubies, sapphires, and diamonds ... yeah, right?!
  • New political era begins in Tampa; Florida Rep ...
    The morning after he was elected Mayor of Tampa, Bob Buckhorn was asked by a reporter what he thought about the fact that he would be inaugurated on April Fools Day. The (three quarters) Irishman replied that he wished it were on St. Patrick’s Day, but had to accept the fact that according to ...
  • Baseball is back: Sports Illustrated calls for ...
    Several bloggers and activist groups are rallying around booing the chief executive of Florida for the couple of minutes he'll be out on the mound shortly after 7 p.m. tonight, but what does he care? He's got 3 years and 9 more months to effectively change the lives of every resident of this s ...
  • EarthTalk: Water fluoridation – Safe or not?
    According to the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, over-exposure to fluoride can be toxic and many American children are at risk from excess fluoride in drinking water and other sources.
  • George LeMieux on the “liberal” Bill Nelson: “ ...
    Going up against Mike Haridopolos and potentially Adam Hasner, both perceived to be to the right of LeMieux, you'll be hearing a steady diet of this rhetoric all the way through next summer, no doubt. Going up against Mike Haridopolos and potentially Adam Hasner, both perceived to be to th ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Rolling Stone: Boycotting Advertisers
    31 March 2011 In 2006, I launched a boycott against a magazine owned by a huge conglomerate.� The Boycott damaged the magazine but the extent was unknown.� Eight months later, the press reported that the magazine had died.� (Early Christmas Present for Michael Yon.) The boycott was not done on ...
  • Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
    29 March 2011 Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.� Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.� The story is titled �THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.�� It should be titled: �BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone. ...
  • Statement regarding Today's Attacks in Afghanistan
    28 March 2011
  • 101st Airborne
    04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
  • War Stories & Rumors
    Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...

The Killing Train

  • Fukushima and low-probability events
    A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him to nuclear power. George summarizes the Fukushima incident as follows: read more
  • Aristide's speech upon return
  • Aristide's return
    For the seven years since he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004 there have been many different speculations about why Aristide never returned to Haiti. People argued that his exile in South Africa was comfortable, that he had fled in 2004 out of fear for his life and didn't return because ...
  • Wikileaks and the Future of Information
    Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
  • Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
    Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...

treehugger

  • Do Lectures Launch Snazzy New HTML 5 Site + St ...
    It's a double dose of exciting news from the Do Lectures camp today. In true double-barreled doing style they are launching their new super snazzy HTML 5 website to the world this afternoon, plus the speaker line up for Do 2011. The new site is apparently the world's largest responsive websi ...
  • Introducing G-Date: The Best Place To Meet Gra ...
    Forget J-Date, TreeHugger is proud to introduce G-Date, the premier community online for dating Graham Hill. Every day, thousands of people join G-Date to score a date with TreeHugger's most eligible bachelor. Soon to be ensconced in his LifeEdited coolest apartment in New York! ...Rea ...
  • Climate Change Now! Birds Start Migrating Late ...
    photo: włodi/Creative Commons Two further examples of how climate change is already having very much measurable impact on the world around us: 1) Declining rain in tropical areas is causing birds to delay their departure to migrate northwards; 2) Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmos ...
  • Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto over GM Seed
    Photo credit: Peter Blanchard/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Nancy Roberts, a writer for Care2 Causes. A group of organic farmers and seed dealers is preemptively suing agribusiness/biotech giant Monsanto to protect themselves from legal action by the corporation in cases ...
  • Popular Climate Myths From Politicians Debunke ...
    photo: Wikipedia The following is a guest post from SkepticalScience.com by Dana Nuccitelli. The main purpose of Skeptical Science is to debunk climate-related myths. To achieve this purpose, we created the Arguments Database, and examined what the scientific literature says about each a ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • President to chair defence council
    Thein Sein to head 11-member committee that analysts believe will wield huge influence over military policy in new government
  • 3,000 homeless as illness strikes
    Survivors of Shan state earthquake battling diarrhoea and thirst as high levels of sulphur are found in damaged water supplies
  • New President calls for ‘media respect’
    Thein Sein hails media as the 'fourth estate' and tells parliamentarians they have a duty to tell Burmese 'what they should know'
  • US lawmakers want tougher sanctions
    Tightening of punitive measures on Burma's banking sector seen as one step in quest to pry country open to free-market reforms
  • This is Burma, this is our reality
    This week the Burmese junta officially handed over power from the military clique that has ruled the country for decades, marking what it claims is the start of a steady transition to civilian governance. That pledge has however been met with doubt: many of the key players in the junta have shed ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Syria president forms committee to consider en ...
    [JURIST] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [Al Jazeera profile] on Thursday ordered the formation of a committee that will evaluate possible elimination of the country's 48-year-old state of emergency law. The panel will be composed of legal experts and charged with examining potential legislativ ...
  • Ohio legislature passes bill limiting state wo ...
    [JURIST] The Ohio Senate [official website] on Thursday passed Senate Bill 5 [text, PDF], which alters Ohio labor law and restricts the collective bargaining abilities of unions for public sector workers. The bill was approved in the Senate by a vote of 17 to 16, shortly after a House vote of 53 ...
  • Federal appeals court upholds EPA cap on vehic ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday upheld [opinion, PDF] an approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] of caps on motor vehicle emissions in California. The court held that no abuse of discretion had occurred, citi ...
  • Federal judge allows suit over Guantanamo proc ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against the Library of Congress (LOC) [official website] filed on behalf of former Guantanamo prosecutor and LOC employee Col. Morris Davis [o ...
  • Czech Constitutional Court overturns parts of ...
    [JURIST] The Czech Republic's Constitutional Court [official website, in Czech] on Thursday overturned [press release, in Czech] parts of a controversial data retention law that obligated telecommunications companies to maintain records of their customers' internet and telephone usage. The court ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Just 43 Percent Know Boehner Is Speaker
    Only 43 percent of Americans know that John Boehner is Speaker of the House. As John Dickerson points out, more people (55 percent) know that Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. From the most recent Pew Research Center for the People and the Press News Quiz, based on 1,004 respondents 18 and olde ...
  • The Massively Popular Scott Brown
    The Massachusetts Republican is looking unbeatable in his 2012 reelection bid, according to a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) poll obtained by Salon's Steve Kornacki: But the DSCC received some bad news this week when a poll it commissioned found that Brown's popularity is soari ...
  • Obama's False Premises for War
    The president assumed authority for the Libyan adventure without permission from Congress, which is more brazen than Bush's march into Iraq If there is one piece of the national agenda that is uniquely the president's turf -- an area in which we must hope the president is truly compet ...
  • Picture of the Day: Michelle Bachmann Poses Ne ...
    Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) poses for a photo at Thursday's Tea Party Patriots rally on Capitol HIll, next to a sign that suggests President Obama is from Kenya. Bachmann spoke at the rally, along with other tea-party luminaries in the U.S. Congress. On a cold, rainy day, the rally drew pe ...
  • America's New Electorate
    How rising minority populations can reshape U.S. politics and carry Obama to victory in 2012 Voters in Miami Beach wait to cast their ballots in the 2008 presidential election. credit: Hans Deryk/Reuters The next America is arriving ahead of schedule. And it could rattle assumptions abo ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Shabak Arrests 18 Year-Old Palestinian Under G ...
    On March 22nd, the Israeli Shabak arrested 18 year-old Ahmad Khaled Ghanem, a native of Nazareth.  Because his arrest is under gag order inside Israel, it’s likely he is suspected of some sort of security offense.  HaMoked has helped me locate him in Kishon Prison near Haifa.  I am trying to ...
  • Abusisi’s First Public Words at Hearing: ‘I am ...
    Dirar Abusisi has made his first public statement since his kidnapping in Ukraine and extraordinary rendition to Israel.   Before beginning a hearing that is underway as I write this, he made his first comments to the media during the court proceedings, saying: The interrogated me about Gilad S ...
  • Bibi: Abusisi is Hamas and He’s Spilling His Guts
    Bibi Netanyahu took the unprecedented step, one which I don’t ever recall a previous prime minister taking regarding a specific security detainee, of publicly defending Israel’s extraordinary rendition of Dirar Abusisi.  He did so deliberately according to Amir Oren in Haaretz in an interview f ...
  • Maria Abusisi: ‘Ask Daddy to Buy Me a Barbie W ...
    In the midst of all the spookery and legal maneuverings of the Israeli security apparatus as it lumbers into action against Dirar Abusisi, we should remember the very real human beings in this case and the very real suffering that this is inflicting on them. Dirar’s brother, Yousef, told me he t ...
  • Josh Block ‘Discovers’ Iranian Democracy
    Josh Block, Aipac’s former PR flack and media enforcer, has a new perch at the rather inaptly named Progressive Policy Institute, the place where hawkish Democrats go to die politically.  Apparently, the PPI hired Josh because they didn’t have enough street cred with the pro-Israel crowd.  Jos ...

Ode Magazine

  • Kissing and energetic medicine
    By: AmeryZedd Many of us were raised in families where emergency medical treatment of minor childhood cuts and abrasions were treated with iodine, a Band-Aid and a hug. If you fell off your tricycle and scraped your knee, then your pain, tears and fear ...
  • How to live gracefully
    By: Mon_W Being graceful is to accept everything in our lives, because it has a reason. We accept, not because we are unworthy of anything else, but because we can learn through this situation we are in, and we understand this. Grace helps us to und ...
  • Using the power of advertising for good
    By: Kohtrad The worldwide advertising industry is worth 428 billion U.S. dollars a year. Big companies spend huge amounts on advertising campaigns to persuade you to buy their services and products. What if advertising were used for socially positive ...
  • Commit to making an impact
    By: WhatYouCanDo Since childhood, my family has always observed Lent (though thankfully, we were given Sundays off). Looking back now, I think it was my mother’s way of encouraging me and my sister to acknowledge the world beyond the four walls of our ...
  • Every little Dripp counts
    These days, instead of gushing jets of water, what comes out of the bathroom faucets at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn, a small town in the eastern part of the Netherlands, are showers of tiny drops. That’s because the firm has installed 26 Dripps. Inv ...

OpEd News

  • Controlled Releases of Information? Apps to th ...
    The digital information revolution has disrupted the previously highly centralized world of nuclear public relations and spin, putting a stunning amount of information at our fingertips for the first time.
  • In Praise of Older, More Experienced Teachers
    Politicians and right-wing pundits are trashing older teachers, not because they're dead wood but because they're more expensive, but the author says most of his best teachers in public school were the older, more experienced ones.
  • The Myths That Buttress America's First Nation ...
    Baseball's founding myths for the historically illiterate
  • A sober take on setbacks
    None of us is perfect. Setbacks will therefore always occur, and often at the least convenient time. However, there are multiple perspectives possible to everything in life. Whatever we do, we should do with an optimistic and positive mind in general, and not with a focus that is too narrow.Set ...
  • I am mad as hell about this radioactivity and ...
    Radioactivity has been found in Washington state milk. CNN reports radioactivity in 15states between Washington and Florida.

Switchboard

  • The Choice Is Clear: Public Health vs. Polluters
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Right now, big polluters and their friends in Congress are cutting deals that would make our air and water dirtier. They are trying to attach these deals to just about every piece of legislation b ...
  • Obama's Oil Savings Plan at Work: UPS
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City In a speech in Georgetown earlier this week, President Obama restated his goal to cut oil imports by a third by 2025, and laid out a plan to get there: by increasing vehicle carbon pollution and fuel ...
  • In surprise move, House leaders propose nation ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC    WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2011 --  In an initiative apparently designed to win environmentally minded voters to GOP ranks, House of Representatives Speaker John Boe ...
  • India Climate Change and Energy News - March 1 ...
    Anubhav Gupta, Program Assistant, Water, San Francisco Climate Change Why India Might Save the Planet “Singh had already begun to subtly shift from that recalcitrant position on climate change, promising that India would never exceed the develo ...
  • On heels of President's speech on reducing dem ...
    Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC Today, one hundred landowners from Montana to Texas wrote a letter to the President and Secretary Clinton objecting to a proposal for a “massive tar sands pipeline slicing down America’s heartland ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Happy April Fool’s Day!
    Bloomsberg is reporting the US has vowed to withdraw air support from Operation Odyssey Dawn as of tomorrow. Says National Review’s Rich Lowry, “And it doesnât appear to be an April Foolsâ story.” Well, it sort of is. They’re only going go withdraw “until NATO requests them to stay.” Ed Morris ...
  • Why Can’t My Twins be More Marketable?
    Too awesome:
  • The Roberts Court: Immunizng the American Crim ...
    I have an article up at the Prospect about the most recent Roberts Court excrescence, which adds some further context.   I remain deeply unpersuaded by the majority’s reasoning that 5 prosecutors acting over nearly two decades doesn’t represent a pattern of misconduct — if that’s not enough, g ...
  • Who Says Markets Can Never Be Efficient Anymore?
    It’s oddly reassuring that you can too still go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.   In this case, the idiot publisher in question seems to forget that even if we generously assume that the Beltway insiders who represent Ford’s only constituency are literate they can ...
  • Back-of-a-Napkin Constitutionalism
    I generally don’t pay a lot of attention to proposed constitutional amendments.   Given the near-impossibility of anything even mildly controversial surpassing the Article V barrier they’re just rube-running.   And for the wingnuttiest combination of normatively appalling and sheer unworkabi ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
    NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
  • Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...
  • Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
    Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
  • Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
    By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.
  • DRI is a Nevada Asset
    Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
    Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
  • Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
    Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...
  • Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
    Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...
  • Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
    The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...
  • Has Your Stream Been Affected by Gas Drilling?
    How do you know? For many, it rests upon early detection -  and prevention of environmental impact. In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)  researched and tested a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Penn ...

News Blaze

  • Technology Revolution Brings People Closer Tog ...
    He pointed out that the twin phenomena of increasing globalization and interdependence fueled by a technological revolution of communications and information that have changed the face of the world bringing people closer together, fueling economic g
  • NASA Negotiates Six, One-Month Options With Un ...
    The contract covers work and support for mission design and planning; software development and integration; astronaut and flight controller training; system integration; flight operations; vehicle processing, launch and recovery; vehicle sustaining
  • UNICEF Installs Sanitation Facilities in Libya
    Hundreds of latrines, showers and water tanks have been installed in the Ataawan and Shousha camps, both close to the Tunisian-Libyan border, UNICEF. Hygiene kits are also being distributed within the camps and messages are being disseminated about
  • U.S. Takes An Integrated Multidimensional Appr ...
    In a March 30 address sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro noted that an even more energetic and comprehensive international response to pi
  • Lone Gunman Murders Filipino Radio News Anchor
    Marlina 'Len' Flores-Sumera, 45, was killed by a lone gunman as she was leaving her home for work in Malabon City on 24 March. She was a news anchor for radio station dzME's Arangkada 1530.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Operation Odyssey Dawn; An Illuminati Mega Hum ...
    As I watch in disgust the UN and Barack Insane Obama have declared war on Libya creating yet another unjustified war. But as most feel angry about this war most will not realize that this is another sacrificial ritual that the psychotic Killuminati are celebrating. In this analysis I will connec ...
  • First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty
    These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown. The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to coo ...
  • While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It’s ...
    It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled through Latin Ame ...
  • India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conduc ...
    Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wrote a letter to ...
  • Jerusalem bus bomb victim was British
    The woman killed when a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The bombing, the first in the city for seven years, left the 60-year-old dead and injured dozens of others. The 1-2kg suitcase bomb detonated close to the main bus station and ...

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

  • A Closer Look at Wild Horse Roundups - Help st ...
    Despite the public�s concern over wild horse roundups, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to blaze forward with roundups across the western United States. Tragically, these roundups often result in the death of and injury to the horses.....Submitted by Chris V No petitions please to A ...
  • This is the text of the petition. If you agree ...
    Mr. Dutcher has tweeted that felony charges 'are a bit much' in a local animal cruelty case, states that the reinstatement of horse slaughter facilities in the United States 'is a very good thing' and mocks further legislation to regulate puppy mills. Submitted by Chris V No petitions please to ...
  • Mayor Paula Bacon again speaks out against hor ...
    Paula Bacon was the mayor of Kaufman, TX for several years. Kaufman, TX was the home of one of the last US horse slaughterhouses. Mayor Bacon continues to speak out publicly about the perils of the horse slaughter industry. Submitted by Chris V No petitions please to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Bear Farming in Korea ! PL ...
    Right now over 1,400 bears suffer on bear farms in South Korea. Although it is illegal to extract bile from live bears this does not stop the suffering of these animals. Instead the bears are bred for slaughter, living in tiny cages until they are Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Robert Gates Again Rules Out U.S. Ground Force ...
    “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates reiterated Thursday that the U.S. would not put ground forces in Libya, but conceded that allies involved in the operation might provide arms and send in trainers to aid the rebels, who have lost ground to Col. Moammar Kadafi’s forces in recent days.” (L.A. Tim ...
  • Mexico’s Drug Lords Fall, but War Goes On
    “With just 18 months left in his six-year term, President Felipe Calderon is desperate to show that his U.S.-backed strategy of sending thousands of soldiers and police to fight the traffickers is working and that his government can calm the storm of gruesome violence that has killed more than 3 ...
  • A Victim of the State, pt. 2
    Now even speaking out against injustice can subject a person to criminal investigation. What’s next?
  • Republicans and Democrats Begin Negotiating Po ...
    “After weeks of arguing, Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill began negotiations Wednesday on a possible budget agreement that would slash federal spending by as much as $33 billion and avert a government shutdown. . . . If approved, the deal would be the largest single-year budget cut in U ...
  • GOP Drafts Legislative Assault on Illegal Immi ...
    “The proposal may come with such a hefty price tag that it’s unrealistic to carry out. But Republicans say cost should not be the Border Patrol’s concern. ‘They need to be very candid with us and tell us what they need,’ Miller said. ‘We’re the ones passing the budgets and we have to decide amon ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching about storytelling
    As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
  • Is your story actually a story?
    “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...
  • Web literacy: Should be required
    A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
  • Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
    Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
  • HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
    Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
    By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
  • Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
    By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The corporate tax dodge
    Profits earned by Exxon Mobil in 2009: $19 billion Amount the Texas-based oil giant paid that year in federal income taxes: $0 Amount Exxon got back from the IRS as a rebate: $156 million Size of the tax refund Bank of America received last year: $1.9 billion Profits earned by the Charlotte- ...
  • VOICES: Georgia, meet your future
    What happens when the country's largest Legislative Black Caucus comes face to face with nine thousand immigrants -- many of them declaring themselves as undocumented -- chanting aqui estamos, y no nos vamos! (we are here, and we're not leaving!)? Love. Or a mad crush, at least. It happened ...
  • VOICES: Obama administration must reverse cour ...
    By Lisa Evans, Earthjustice The verdict is in. The U.S. Environmental Protection�Agency turned a blind eye to coal ash reuse during the Bush administration, and, in fact, the agency went a considerable way toward promoting reuses that were dangerous to human health and the environment.� Aft ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Jasmine Revolution
    Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
  • Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
    In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Women's Modern Plight
    With all the progress that has been made to advance women's position in the world, their standing still ranges from disadvantaged in developed countries to brutalized in developing ones.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What Next in Libya
    So now what? In Libya as there appears to be a highly predictable stalemate as the pro-Quaddafi forces cannot move en masse due to the threat of NATO airpower hitting mobile columns strung out on exposed road marches. The anti-Quaddafi forces are unable to effectively maneuver because they have ...
  • 1984 Was Not A Manual
    But the people running England, or at least London, certainly think it is.  CCTV cameras are everywhere you go, in large numbers.  On one Undergroun  platform today I counted 13.  Of course, with that many CCTV cameras there is no way they can actually effectively be monitored in real time, so t ...
  • No Free Lunch
    I haven’t had much to say about the Japanese Tsunami and the nuclear mess there, but here’s the short and to the point. First: the reactors in question were not properly built and tested.  It is very clear now that the Japanese nuclear industry, as with the American, has been cutting corners to ...
  • Burning down your house to generate heat
    Some years ago I worked for a large insurance company.  I was originally hired to help deal with a class action suit, but soon found myself working on something different, demutualizing the company.  Mutual insurance companies are owned by their customers, not by shareholders.  This has a num ...
  • Watch oil prices tomorrow
    Tomorrow’s oil markets should be interesting. The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore: Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thur ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Opinion: Gene patents and democracy
    Posted on behalf of Shobita Parthasarathy. On 4 April, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC will review a case that calls into question patents on human genes. Much of the debate has focused on how the case might reshape the future of biotechnology research and ge ...
  • Open access articles not cited more, finds study
    Posted on behalf of Zoë Corbyn. Make an article open access and it is more likely to get cited - at least that is one powerful argument in open access advocates' arsenal to get researchers to make their work publicly available. But new research published in the Federation of American Soci ...
  • Fukushima update: did nuclear chain reactions ...
    There is growing evidence that uranium and plutonium fuel at the Fukushima nuclear plant may have continued nuclear fission chain reactions long after the reactors were shut down almost three weeks ago. This worrying development may explain the continued release of some shorter-lived radioisotop ...
  • Fukushima update: more radiation data errors
    As the battle continues at the Fukushima reactors, the 'fog of war' has once again descended, throwing doubt on vital groundwater contamination data. Yesterday, Kyodo News reported that the first groundwater contamination at the Fukushima power plant had been detected, and cited levels 10,000 ...
  • Fukushima update: local contamination of power ...
    Here's a very brief update on events as of tonight at the Fukushima Daichii power plant in Japan. Overall, "the situation remains very serious," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reiterated at a briefing today. To recap briefly on past events; concerns focus on reactors 1 to ...

new geography

  • The End of the Line: Ambitious High-speed Rail ...
    A well-intentioned but quixotic presidential vision to make high-speed rail service available to 80 percent of Americans in 25 years is being buffeted by a string of reversals. And, like its British counterpart, the London-to-Birmingham high speed rail line (HS2), it is the subject of an impassi ...
  • The Best Cities For Minority Entrepreneurs
    As the American economy struggles to recover, its greatest advantage lies with its diverse population. The U.S.’ major European competitors — Germany, Scandinavia, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Italy — have admittedly failed at integrating racial outsiders. Its primary Asian ri ...
  • Hanoi’s Underground Capitalism
    Along the pitted elegance of Pho Ngo Quyen, a bustling street in Hanoi, Vietnam, you will, predictably, find uniformed men in Soviet-style uniforms, banners with Communist Party slogans, and grandfatherly pictures of Ho Chi Minh. Yet, capitalism thrives everywhere else in this community ...
  • The Accelerating Suburbanization of New York
    Some of the best evidence that the tide has not turned against dispersion and suburbanization comes from an unlikely source:  New York�s 2010 census results. If dense urbanism works anywhere in America, it does within this greatest of US traditional urban areas. Before the actual count, the ...
  • Vietnam, No Longer an Underdeveloped Country
    The most recent estimates for 2010 indicate that Vietnam is no longer among the underdeveloped countries of the world and has moved onto the ranks of middle-income countries.  Financial remittances – better known as money being sent back to the home country – have lent a critical hand in acc ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • A Murder Foretold
    Via: The New Yorker: Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Gu ...
  • Libya-Owned Arab Banking Corp. Drew at Least $ ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed. The bank, then 29 percent-owned by the Libyan state, had aggregate borrowi ...
  • Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Lifeline Most ...
    Via: Bloomberg: 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, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank ...
  • Japan: Same Type of Concrete Pumping Trucks Us ...
    Via: MSNBC: Some of the world’s largest cement pumps were en route to Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday, initially to help douse areas with water but eventually for cement work â including the possibility of entombing the site as was done in Chernobyl. Operated via remote control, one o ...
  • More Flash Crashes
    Via: Reuters: Ten new exchange-traded funds suffered their own mini “flash crashes” shortly after the U.S. stock market opened on Thursday, suggesting recent measures put in place to protect against extreme market moves may not be enough. Nasdaq OMX Group Inc said it canceled trades in 10 new ET ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • The death of the Aral Sea and the desertificat ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.day.kiev.ua/207619 The Aral Sea tragedy Environmental disasters and legal instruments By Dmytro SAVCHUK Global climate changes and human economic management (to be more exact, mismanagement) have caused a number of global environmental disaster ...
  • Desert gardening : need to use additives to th ...
      Read at : Google Alert – desert gardening http://ezinearticles.com/?Desert-Gardening-For-Beginners&id=6117549 Desert Gardening For Beginners Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6117549 By Amy C. If you are a new comer to the desert, a novice gardener or both you can learn how to make … Co ...
  • Soil will no longer be effective when the nutr ...
      Read at : Google Alert – soil coinditioning http://pingheng.wordpress.com/my-garden-journey/gardening-abc/how-to-condition-your-soil/ How to condition your soil? If youâre like me (or my parents) you may ask âsoil what?â. Before I got into gardening I never gave much thought to soil. Why does ...
  • Soil conditioning : use of coco-coir (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – soil conditioning http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=25232 DPWH to maximize use of coco-coir by Mai Gevera DAVAO CITY, March 31 (PIA) – Projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will maximize the use of coconut … Continue reading →
  • The Great Turning Times Newsletter (Chris John ...
    Read at : The Great Turning Times Newsletter  “The Great Turning is the name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilisation” – Joanna Macy Reading through Joanna Macy’s recent … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • The impact from the Center’s coverage of ...
    A lot has happened in the month since the Center first exposed the controversy over the so-called Fast and Furious probe by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
  • Budget cuts may axe Obama’s government t ...
    Funding for government transparency websites, part of a two-year long initiative by the Obama administration, will be cut in the upcoming months. The websites were part of President Obama’s effort to make government data more accessible to the public and show how federal funds were spent. Websit ...
  • House committee subpoenas ATF for documents on ...
    The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today issued a subpoena for documents about a controversial federal gun smuggling probe after the investigating agency missed a deadline for providing the documents voluntarily.
  • Fed reveals which banks borrowed from discount ...
    The Federal Reserve is naming the banks that drew emergency loans during the financial crisis, offering information on its oldest lending tool for the first time in the central bank's nearly 100-year history.
  • New York City pension fund to post stock picks ...
    NEW YORK — The city's comptroller announced Monday that he plans to make public the inner workings of one of the nation's largest public pension fund systems, letting residents see which companies' stocks are being bought with their tax dollars and monitor the performance of more than $113 billi ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria ...
    Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ~~Please Forward Widely!~~ ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals 4. Festival of Anarchy 5. Volunteers needed! ***************** ...
  • Reportback from 2011 Critical Observatory: Cub ...
    social forum.jpg A report from the 5th Observatorio Critico forum in Havana. This year the event was promoted as a Cuban Social Forum bringing together diverse groups and individuals from across Cuba ...
  • Egypt Revolt at the center of wide social chaos
    Since the early Second Postwar, our current kept watching over the events pertaining to Mediterranean Sea, its coast countries and mainly Europe and Middle East (concerning Mediterranean Sea in a geopolitical sense). read more
  • Walk-Out and March in Ithaca NY
    Crossing the street.jpg Students from the Lehman Alternative Community School walked out in solidarity with Wisconsin and democracy. Students from the Lehman Alternative Commun ...
  • European Court of Human Rights absolves Italy ...
    CarloGiuliani5.jpg On March 24 the European Court of Human Rights fully absolved Italy of the death of Carlo Giuliani during the anti-G8 protests of 2001 in Genoa. With 13 vote ...

Free Range International

  • Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
    Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
  • Rant Time
    Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...
  • Crickets
    Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
  • It Takes A Clue
    Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
  • Thugs, Mobs And Education
    The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
  • First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
    This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
  • Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
    Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...
  • HAARP SMOKING GUN — (Where is America&#8 ...
    Incredible Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on HAARP originally broadcast  January, 1996!!!   What you have to realize before viewing this segment is that Raytheon Corporation is a strategic and primary arm of DARPA (Virginia Tech – Defense Advanced Research Projects A ...
  • “Greater Israel” — Great Art ...
    The Ongoing Plot To Create “Greater Israel” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:29 “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli em ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Google Adds Dynamic View
    Google unleashed 5 Dynamic Views for your viewing pleasure. To view the Dynamic View of St Louis Renewable Energy (Additional Web Pages by Scotty, Scotts Contracting) use this Dynamic View Web Links Provided Below Flip Card Dynamic View Side Bar Dynamic View Mosiac Dynamic View Snap Shot Dynamic ...
  • St Louis Area Business-Small Business Week!-Jo ...
    Join Other Small Business Owners for 2011 Small Business Week of Eastern Missouri! Each year, Small Business Week of Eastern Missouri hosts a series of events and seminars geared toward small business needs. This year, special seminars include timely discussions on government contracting, export ...
  • WattHead’s Jesse Jenkins on NPR: Nuclear ...
    WattHead.org Founder and Chief Editor and Breakthrough Institute Director of Climate and Energy Policy Jesse Jenkins was on NPR’s Weekend Edition this past Sunday discussing Japan’s nuclear crisis and what it means for the future of nuclear power. The interview touched on many of the issues that ...
  • Background on the EPA’s new mercury and air to ...
    most important actions to clean up air pollution from dirty coal-burning power plants Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council via: Grist Today, the EPA announced the most important actions to clean up air pollution from dirty coal-burning power plants since the Clean Air Act was ...
  • Chief Economist-potential fallout from high Oi ...
    Apr 1, 2011 Balkans News The surge in oil prices poses a threat to the fragile global economy, the International Energy Agencyâs Chief Economist, Dr. Fatih Birol, has said. A rising oil price represents a wealth transfer from oil importing to exporting countries. This will have an impact on the ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Where Is The Outrage?
    For 42 years, the world did business with Muammar Qaddafi, even as it knew about the brutality he was inflicting on his own people. Too often, there was no outrage in the West about Qaddafi’s crimes. Now, if the same pattern is not to be repeated in Iran, one must ask: Where is the outrage about ...
  • نامه ی جمعی از مادران زندانيان سياسی رجايی شهر ...
    کلمه: جمعی از مادران و خانواده های زندانيان سياسی رجايی شهر کرج (گوهردشت)، در واکنش به فشارهای وارده بر زندانيان سياسی و اِعمال محدوديت و تهديد و فشار حکومت بر خانواده های آنان، طی نامه ای به چند سازمان جهانی و حقوق بشري، خواستار حمايت و کمک و مداخلۀ آنان در اين زمينه شده و گفته read more
  • Butterflies and Guns
    The iran born artist Parastou Farouhar opened her exhibition “he kills me, he kills me not” in the Galeria Karin Sachs in Munich. read more
  • Iran to invest 90 bln USD in gas, oil projects ...
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  • ISLAMIC WORLD: Strong science in Iran, Tunisia ...
    Iran, Tunisia and Turkey are among a number of countries beginning to challenge the dominance of established powerhouses of scientific research, according to major a new report that has identified rapidly emerging nations "not traditionally associated with a strong science base". Although tradit ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wyeth Losing in Court
    As I blogged previously, the National Institutes of Health Women’s Health Initiative Study (launched in 1993-95) had to be shut down in 2002, when it became clear the women in the Premarin/Prempro arm of the study were experiencing an unacceptably high rate of breast cancer, strokes, heart disea ...
  • Wyeth Stocks Soar While Women Die
    Six Decades of False and Misleading Marketing Estrogen, a hormone regulating the development and function of the female reproductive system, was first discovered in 1925. In the 1930s, the drug company Wyeth developed a process (viewed as barbaric by animal rights activists) to extract conjugate ...
  • Menopause: Made in the USA
    Historically 80% of Premarin and Prempro sales have occurred in the US. Even in the US, the cessation of menstruation is a non-event in 75% of women, producing no physical symptoms whatsoever. In fact, most languages and cultures have no word for menopause. In Chinese medicine, so-called menopau ...
  • Wyeth and the Multibillion Dollar Menopause In ...
    (this is the first of several posts regarding the “corporatization” of the US health care system – and its harmful effects on human health) I have blogged previously about the ingenious – and deadly – strategy by pharmaceutical companies and other corporate interests of inventing fictitious illn ...
  • I’m Okay, Thanks
    I’ve been at WOMAD for the last three days collecting signatures on a Green Party petition opposing government plans to privatize four of New Zealand’s state owned energy companies. Most people sign – well aware of the sad and embarrassing results of earlier privatization exercises (including th ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
    OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
  • NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
    Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]
  • “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
    Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...
  • BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, WARNING, SEEING THIS MOVI ...
    A TV commercial just came on saying “Battle: Los Angeles” was the world’s number one movie. I’ve seen it. If it’s the world’s number one movie, it’s because it doesn’t have much competition. Not that it’s a bad movie. If one likes alien invasion movies, say Aliens crossed with Independence Day, ...
  • Another Day, Another War
    The USA is now at war with Libya. Not to mention in conjunction with our old buddies, France and Britain. Since this website is about war and the onrushing darkness, I guess I better comment on it, depressing as it is. And it is depressing, wars almost never work out the way people wanted, and [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
    Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
  • To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
    … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...
  • How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
    The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...
  • Dangers, Properties, possible Uses and Methods ...
    Most methods and tools being recommended here on the Internet such as purification by filtration will not lead to your desired result of decontaminating “radioactive water”. a) Radioactive contamination of drinking water in Japan at this point in time can come about in only two ways: 1) The sour ...
  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
  • Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
    Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...
  • Modes of Transportation
    Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...
  • Clarifying Misconceptions on Taxpayer-Subsidiz ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Last November, the Financial Times published an article charging that ethanol from the U.S. is collecting U.S. tax credits before being shipped to Europe, where it also qualifies for favorable tax treatment. I wrote an article about this called Taxpayer Su ...
  • Ethanol and Corrosion Follow-Up
    Join the forum discussion on this post Problem? What Problem? Following my recent post What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corrosion, someone made a comment that gets to the root of why many ethanol proponents mistakenly see me as an enemy of ethanol (indeed, one of the Top 10). The p ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Ban Food Dyes? The FDA Says No
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Against the wishes of many prominent public health advocates, an advisory panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided Thursday that there isn't enough evidence to ban food dyes or require labels stating that some evidence exists linking food dyes to att ...
  • Act Now to Shelve Sinister Soap
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâClean hands shouldn't come at the cost of tainted water and hard-to-kill supergerms. And there's an opportunity now to keep unsafe chemcials out of soap and other personal-care products. Consumers spend a whopping billion bucks annually on antibacterial soaps, household ...
  • Why You Should Buy Organic Seeds
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you're planning your garden for this year's growing season, there's good reason to avoid the 50-cent packets sold at the supermarket or big-box garden center and load up on organic seeds instead. For one thing, chances are those seeds came from a corporation that gets ...
  • Organic Community Fights Back, Sues Biotech Bully
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A large group of organic farmers, small businesses, and seed companies, along with advocacy groups from around the world have filed a lawsuit against the chemical company Mon read more
  • Proof at Last: Avoiding Plastic Lowers Your BP ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Lately, scientists have found that food packaging leaches everything from flame retardants to petroleum-based mineral oils into your food. And that's just in the stuff that comes wrapped in paper. It's long been known that foods wrapped in plastic or packaged in cans can ...

big think

  • Fat as Class War in Arizona
    � Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
  • As Congress Holds Climate Change Hearings, Str ...
    Following Congressional hearings this week on climate change, in a guest post today Ashley Brosius considers the origins of the partisan divide on the subject and suggests several possible paths forward for overcoming ideological barriers.� Brosius is a graduate student in this semester's course ...
  • Top Chefs in Washington, DC Discuss Sustainabi ...
    In a guest post today, Lauren Krizel reports on an event held this week in Washington, DC that gathered some of the city's top chefs to discuss sustainability and the ethical treatment of animals.� In a video as part of her post, she also interviews several of the attendees to gain their thought ...
  • Liberation Biology
    Maybe the most provocative speaker (although not so much, maybe, to BIG THINK readers) at our conference at Berry next Friday and Saturday will be RONALD BAILEY--the libertarian proponent of liberation biology.� Here's a fascinating interview with Mr. Bailey.� A taste: On the possibility of ...
  • Is The Mortgage Crisis Now A Permanent Element ...
    After reading a story earlier this week about the problems in Bank of America’s mortgage modification department, I wondered—has the mortgage crisis become so large and pervasive that we have simply accepted it as a permanent part of the background in our financial landscape? Richard Eskow wonde ...

Information Liberation

  • Atheist protests prayer at public meeting -- S ...
    After a member of 'Atheists of Florida' protested prayer at a public government meeting, state goons responded by raiding her home and attempting to charge her with some retarded law which she was clearly not even breaking. TheLedger reports: L...
  • Texas Cops Ticket Thousands of Schoolchildren ...
    This is how low your government will go. Cops in Texas have been writing thousands of tickets to schoolchildren for $250-$500 each for the "crime" of "misbehaving in school" so the government can raise cash. This has been going on now for over five...
  • Texas Pushing to Expand Checkpoints in Order t ...
    Interesting testimony this morning on southbound checkpoints (SBs 288 and 294), an idea which was first suggested by senators on the Finance Committee as a possible revenue generator, aiming to tap into cartel profits heading south to fill their shor...
  • Cops enforce theft of people's basketball hoop ...
    Delaware Department of Transportation crews escorted by state police tore down basketball hoops this morning in two neighborhoods in Claymont amid protests from residents who say the nets aren't harming anyone. (03/25/11) Camera: Daniel Sato Edit...
  • CIA Ground Forces Operating in Libya for 'Seve ...
    Already ill-defined and increasingly unpopular, the US War in Libya has taken several more hits today as evidence mounted that the administration has been overtly lying about the US role in the conflict, and had actual been conducting covert operatio...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • What Is Libertarianism Part II
    Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
  • It’s Just A Jump To The Left
    …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →
  • McLurg’s Law
    I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →
  • Cactoblastis
    Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →
  • The Centre Of The Universe
    A column by Boris Johnson in the UK Daily Telegraph caught my eye the other day. It shone a cold, hard light on man’s seemingly innate tendency to place himself at the centre of everything. Reflecting on the recent earthquake … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Five more science stories
    Sperm condensation – Protamines are small basic proteins that condense the genetic material, the DNA, in mature sperm helping to form the head of the sperm. They are rich in the amino acid arginine whose residues are distributed in a number of stretches separated by neutral amino acids. The amin ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    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 ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Free complete works of H.P. Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle (and Calibre) – You can now download the complete works of HP Lovecraft as an ebook for your Kindle (or if you haven't wasted your money on that device you can read it with the Calibre software for Windows, Mac and Linux. FYI: OMG, tinfoi ...
  • The fraudulent invention debunkifier
    Debunking crackpot and fraudulent inventions has never been easier than now thanks to the world-shattering invention of the Crackpot Flowchart(TM) from Sciencebase. Based on the 13 unlucky-for-crackpots warning signs published some time ago on ka9q.net, this handy multicoloured flow chart lets y ...
  • Six science selections
    Map mashup reveals world’s top science cities – Combining citation data with Google Maps reveals the cities where science prospers, and those where it doesn't. 9 arguments for (against) herbal remedies – About 40% of pharmaceuticals have a herbal origin but that doesn't mean natural is all good. ...

RFF Library

  • Is Biopower Carbon Neutral?
    Congressional Research Service / by Kelsi Bracmort http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41603.pdf [From Summary] Congress has been increasingly interested in biopower—electricity generated from biomass. Biopower, a baseload power source, has the potential to strengthen rural economies, enhance energ ...
  • The Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Refined Pr ...
    Congressional Research Service / by Anthony Andrews and Robert Pirog http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41687.pdf [From Summary] Congress authorized the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA, P.L. 94-163) to help prevent a repetition of the economic disl ...
  • Uranium Mining in Texas: Why is it Done That Way?
    Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University / by Ronald L. Sass http://tinyurl.com/4jl6tve [From Introduction] The mining of uranium is carried out in widely separated parts of the world, including, surprisingly, the Gulf coastal plains of Texas…. The most common method employed along the ...
  • Avoiding Water Wars: Water Scarcity and Centra ...
    Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate http://tinyurl.com/46c5sar [From Executive Summary] Water scarcity is often overlooked, underfunded, and undervalued within foreign policy. Yet a government’s ability to provide and manage access to water is critical for ensuring political, economic, a ...
  • Oil and Gas Lease Utilization – Onshore and Of ...
    US.. Department of the Interior http://tinyurl.com/4ekscdy [Executive Summary] On March 11, 2011, President Obama asked the Department of the Interior (Department) to determine the acreage of public lands (onshore and offshore) that have been leased to oil and gas companies and remain undevelope ...

Scientific American - News

  • A New Wrinkle: Comet Strikes in the 1980s and ...
    Something is disturbing the famed, majestic rings of Saturn as well as the lesser-known rings around Jupiter. The ring systems, which appear at first glance to be planar, wafer-thin bands of ice and dust, have on closer examination been found to be rippled, like a corrugated tin roof. [More] ...
  • New Drugs for Hepatitis C on the Horizon
    Some 3.2 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C , an infection that can linger in the body for years before producing symptoms. It can eventually lead to serious liver scarring and cancer. And most infections in the U.S. are the disease's particularly tough breed, known as genotype 1, which ...
  • 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Will Be Active, ...
    AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists, led by Meteorologist and Hurricane Forecaster Paul Pastelok, are predicting an active season for 2011 with more impact on the U.S. coastline than last year.The team is forecasting a total of 15 named tropical storms, eight of which will attain hur ...
  • The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical S ...
    Early in his new book, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Crown Business, 2011), Duncan Watts tells a story about the late sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who once described an intriguing research result: Soldiers from a rural background were happier during World War II than thei ...
  • Lost in Triangulation: Leonardo da Vinci's Mat ...
    Artist, inventor and philosopher Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was without a doubt a genius. Yet, there is some criticism. In his book 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (William Morrow, 2008) British author and retired submarine commander ...

First Truths

  • Contaminants of the Corporate State
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I take on Texaco as a useful example of the corporate malfeasance generated by the state: Responsibility and stewardship won't — indeed can't — result from a system where a tiny elite controlling huge hoards of resources doesn't have to literally pay for i ...
  • The Real Terrorists
    I commented on the Iraq hostage situation among other things: Terrorist attacks, if indeed they are disproportionately directed at the U.S. and its surrogates, are, while monstrous and morally detestable, the desperate convulsions of a people trapped and oppressed by the weight of empire. As Gre ...
  • For Our Own Good
    I discuss the regulatory state for C4SS: Well, if they’re our last hope, then there really isn’t any way out of state capitalism’s shrewd schemes to bleed us dry and sell us poison. Barrett never bothers to consider, though, what it is that enables corporations to “cut corners” against the inter ...
  • Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
    The Empire couldn't care less about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, I argue in a commentary for C4SS: For the novel’s superpower Oceania, then, as for the United States, defeat of an enemy that is “unconquerable” by design is neither possible nor even desired. Since Afghanistan, in and of itself ...
  • No title
    For C4SS, I examine the substance of statist "meritocracy" in Bahrain: Free market anarchists regard the meritocratic credo of the state capitalism as an integral organ of that oppressive system not because we see all people as possessed of the same abilities, but because it is not through any a ...

Media Co-Op

  • Mining Injustice: Is ‘Canada’s University’ Com ...
    A recent post on the University of Ottawa website celebrates the signing of an agreement between the University and the Devonshire Initiative (DI), a "forum for leading international development NGOs and Canadian mining companies to come together in response to the social agenda surrounding priv ...
  • Edible Plant Walk: Real Life, Real Learning
    Under the dense forest canopy of the Burnaby mountain campus on Wednesday afternoon, a group of folks came ...
  • Alternative Budget calls for assault on poverty
    CCPA recommends taxing the rich An independent research institute that pushes for social justice is calling on the Nova Scotia government to cancel its $84 million energy rebate program. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the ...
  • Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet, issue 29
    News and views from around Vancouver The April issue includes a reflection on service providers, direct action and safe shelter for women in Vancouver, snaps from the march against racism and anti-Kenney action, news briefs from around the ...
  • Book Review: Oka: A Political Crisis and its L ...
    Oka: A Political Crisis and its Legacy by Harry Swain, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto 2010 Review by Zig Zag, March 2011, WarriorPublications.wordpress.com What more could be said about the 1990 'Oka Crisis' thirty years after the ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on yo ...
    Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly ...
  • Libya for Dummies: the lipstick doctrine
    The Lipstick DoctrineIn the Victorian age, the British once sang � �We don�t want to fight, but by Jingo if we do/ We�ve got the ships, we�ve got the men, we�ve got the money too.� The Libyan intervention feels like a last reprise of that old tune, rather than a bold statement for a new age. Gid ...
  • The shooting in Tucson: the sound and the fury
    A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing Monday on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. - Associated PressDavid Seaton's News LinksThe obligatory ...
  • Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney". ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well.� From one moment to the next, this poor m ...
  • Poor United States, so far from God and so clo ...
    The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico.� Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario - CNNDavid Seaton's News LinksI put the quote above, one that I have taken at random from CNN, to a ...

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Skip the Doctor - Use 'Grandma's Home Remedies ...
    When you look at the science, it turns out your grandmother wasn't so far off on some of those home remedies she used to talk about. For example, it's really true that olives can help stave off motion sickness – but only if you eat them when the first symptoms appear. That's because olives conta ...
  • 5 Tropical Fruits that Can Change Your Life
    Many people love the flavor of tropical fruits like coconut and mangoes. But did you know that, aside from tasting good, they also have healthy benefits that in some instances could be lifesaving? For example, five of the most outstanding fruits that can change your life are Coconut, ...
  • How Not to Get Sick from a Flight
    A researcher who took swabs of various surfaces on planes in 2007 found the surfaces contaminated with the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), norovirus, and E. coli. Norovirus and E. coli can cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms and illness, including nausea, vomiting ...
  • Foods with Scary Surprises
    The FDA has established guidelines for a number of contaminants that it will allow in our food supply. Mainstreet.com has assembled a list of some of the most common products for which the FDA has set contamination thresholds. Here's just a taste of what they found: Potato Chips The FDA only ...
  • The Root Cause of Cancer Almost Universally Ig ...
    In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. So what's happened in the 40 years since? After weeding out the hype and filling in the actual statistics, it turns out, not much. "These summary statistics show that the war on cancer has not gone well," says the article's author, ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousand ...
    A family stand amidst the ruins of their home © COPORWA/Survival NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa âPygmiesâ homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen their homes destroyed in recent ...
  • South American Indians to receive royalties fr ...
    The Quechua people of Peru first cultivated potatoes up to 3,000 years ago. © H Mason/ Survival The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know ...
  • British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...
  • Indians take on Amazon loggers
    Ceramic pots found in the Isconahua reserve are evidence of the presence of these isolated Indians. © Pepe Villacorta / ProNaturaleza Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for ...
  • Amazon tribe’s unique fishing ritual could be ...
    An intricate wooden dam is at the heart of the Enawene Nawe's Yãkwa ritual. © Fiona Watson/Survival The Enawene Nawe tribe of Brazil have begun their unique annual fishing ritual, amid fears that the 80 dams planned for the Juruena river basin are destroying their fish. The tribeâs extra ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Memo to all parties: Montreal's not the enemy
    It was good having Conservative leader Stephen Harper in town this week stressing the importance of having Montreal representation at his cabinet table should his party be returned to government this election.
  • Hard and fast rules needed for federal debate
    There are good reasons why Green Party leader Elizabeth May should be included in the leaders' debates during this federal election campaign, but also good reasons why she should not
  • Hard and fast rules needed for federal debate
    Unless there is a change of mind on the part of the debate organizers, the consortium of TV networks that broadcast them, the latter will prevail and May will be relegated to the sidelines for what will be the campaign centrepiece.
  • Potholes strike again
    On March 21, you published my letter regarding pothole damage ("One pothole story"). A week later, my husband Ed was driving on Décarie Blvd. and had a blowout on the opposite tire because of the numerous potholes on that road.
  • Tabachnick's resignation is a loss for community
    With the resignation of Marcus Tabachnick as chairman of the Lester B. Pearson School Board, anglophone Quebec is losing one of its most forceful advocates.

Food World Order

  • 'flossophy' fundraiser for health-conscious ki ...
    my girlfriend, the amazing cassie cohn, is currently raising funds for her latest directing project: a music video for 'flossophy 101', a health-conscious kid's song by van oodles ... if you support media monarchy, please consider a donation and help give this project some teeth! 'flossophy ...
  • in new food culture, a young generation of far ...
    oregon farmer "looks more indie rock star than seed farmer" from nytimes: For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming. After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former feder ...
  • 3/31 binge & purge: radioactive milk & reversi ...
    epa reports radiation found in american milk* video: study says reduce bpa exposure by cutting consumption of packaged foods* americans stage nationwide protests over genetically modified foods* video: protesters in salem, oregon denounce influence of monsanto* reversing roles, farme ...
  • bad food makes kids dumber, study says
    from grist: A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their parents r ...
  • 3/3 binge & purge: poison, polls, paycheck
    satire: gerber recalls 60,000 jars of baby poison* poll: do you believe gmo foods should be labeled?* states try to loosen raw milk restrictions as fda tries to tighten them* uk restaurant's breast milk ice cream seized by council officials* whole foods ceo: don't call it 'whole payc ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
  • Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
    Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...
  • COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
    COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
  • A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
    A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The Conservative and (European) Unionist Party ...
    This morning, we ran an April Fool gag claiming that 'Call Me Dave' Cameron had agreed to an 'In-Out Referendum' after pressure from the 1922 Committee. Although we did make it clear in the same post that it was a joke, we would like to apologise to anybody who got their hopes up. That sai ...
  • BREAKING! Government agrees to 'In-Out Referen ...
    Just received a phone call from an inside contact inside Tory HQ. Call Me Dave is going to make an announcement at 11.30 this morning announcing that he has agreed to an In-Out Referendum! Apparently, the decision follows a move by the powerful 1922 Committee who warned Cameron that, unles ...
  • We should thank Gaddafi, for taking our rose t ...
    You know, I think the madman dictator of Libya - the murderous Colonel Gaddafi - has done us all a favour, though probably an unintended one on his part. Before this unjustified military action in Libya, most people had not been exposed to the truth about Al Qaida. We had the rather strang ...
  • England, a sea-faring nation with no ports
    The Daily Mail - quite rightly - asks the question today: As the last British-owned port is sold abroad... What kind of nation sells its soul to the highest foreign bidder? May I suggest that it is a nation with a treacherous executive, an unaccountable civil service, and a House of Common ...
  • I can't speak on behalf of UKIP but...
    I can't speak on behalf of UKIP - I'm just a supporter of the party and have no authority or claim to anything UKIP whatsoever. However... ...I'm sure if Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell, Bill Cash and John Redwood were to see the futility of the situation and chose to come defect to the fu ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
    By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
  • Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
    By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The corporate tax dodge
    Profits earned by Exxon Mobil in 2009: $19 billion Amount the Texas-based oil giant paid that year in federal income taxes: $0 Amount Exxon got back from the IRS as a rebate: $156 million Size of the tax refund Bank of America received last year: $1.9 billion Profits earned by the Charlotte- ...
  • VOICES: Georgia, meet your future
    What happens when the country's largest Legislative Black Caucus comes face to face with nine thousand immigrants -- many of them declaring themselves as undocumented -- chanting aqui estamos, y no nos vamos! (we are here, and we're not leaving!)? Love. Or a mad crush, at least. It happened ...
  • VOICES: Obama administration must reverse cour ...
    By Lisa Evans, Earthjustice The verdict is in. The U.S. Environmental Protection�Agency turned a blind eye to coal ash reuse during the Bush administration, and, in fact, the agency went a considerable way toward promoting reuses that were dangerous to human health and the environment.� Aft ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Scottish Prosecutors Want to Interview Koussa About Lockerbie After Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa defected to Britain late Wednesday, Scottish prosecutors have submitted a request to interview the former intelligence chief about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, according to multiple reports. ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Canada Arrests Man on Suspicion of Plan to Join al Shabab Canadian authorities arrested a man at Torontoâs Pearson Airport on Tuesday night on suspicion that the man was headed to Somalia to join the militant group al Shabab, according … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Appeals Court Reverses Uthman Habeas Decision The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a lower courtâs decision Tuesday to release a Yemeni detainee, Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, who has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. Last … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Saudi Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Pleads Not Guilty A Saudi student accused of attempting to assemble a bomb to be used against U.S. targets pleaded not guilty in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Monday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    NYT: FBI Data Show Thousands Are Assessed for Terror Links Under Relaxed Rules The New York Times reported this weekend that FBI data it has obtained indicate that thousands of people have been assessed for criminal or terror links under … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Gmail Motion - The Future of Email is Here!
    Google has done it again. When Gmail was originally introduced few years ago, it was a revelation of sorts in terms of services and space it offered, for free. Gmail Motion Beta is Google's yet another attempt at re inventing Email technology. Gmail Motion lets you control Gmail with different b ...
  • First Nintendo 3DS TV Commercial for US
    Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce 3D effects without the need for any special glasses. Nintendo 3DS is among the early entrants into the market for devices with glassless 3D capabilities along with the likes of LG Optimus 3D smartphone. Following video is sup ...
  • 9 Good CD and DVD Burning Tools for Ubuntu/Linux
    There is no dearth of good CD/DVD burning tools for Ubuntu. Brasero Disc Burner comes as default in Ubuntu and it is a good enough tool with almost all functionalities you expect from a basic CD/DVD burning application. But what really are the alternatives. Here is a quick listing of very good C ...
  • Awoken 1.9 Icon Set Brings in a Darker Version ...
    AwOken icon theme is among the most downloaded and highly rated icon themes for GNOME and we had no second thoughts while including AwOken in our listing of top 10 most popular Icon themes for Ubuntu GNOME. AwOken version 1.9 brings in a lot of changes that includes a new darker version of the t ...
  • IE9 Day 1 - 2.3 Million Downloads, Firefox 4 - ...
    You all must aware of the fact that both IE9 and Firefox 4 was released within a span of two weeks and both of them are considered highly improved versions their predecessors. Now here are some interesting download statistics of both the browsers.� source: firefox wallpapers Firefox 4 ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • DID HAARP CAUSE THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN?
    The  earthquake and tsunami in Japan was caused by HAARP and not by solar or other natural activity argues a Swedish reader in his report below. A look at the induction magnetometer charts from last year’s earthquake in Haiti as well as from the recent earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter ...
  • Secret files released by Austrian justice offi ...
    Justice officials in Austria yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing files concerning their investigation into the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch amid criticism that state prosecutors systematically ignored evidence that a paedophile ring was  involved. http://diepresse.com/home/pano ...
  • Defamation charges against me underline new po ...
     Some people may receive defamation charges from the Austrian Ministry of Justice and feel a little dejected. After all, such charges carry a jail setence. http://wakenews.net/verleumdnungJMB18.02.11.pdf However, for me, it was a moment of great pride. This is because the defamation charges unde ...
  • ÖVP nominates lobbyist to replace disgraced MEP
     Austria’s conservative People’s Party, the ÃVP, has nominated another lobbyist to replace MEP Ernst Strasser after a video caught him accepting secret payments to change draft EU laws to benefit banks. Hubert Pirkerâs consultancy company EU Triconsult brazenly stated it could influence EU leg ...
  • Germany pulls out of military action against L ...
    Who’s in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:32 AM on 23rd March 2011 Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political ‘committee’ to over ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • North Carolina bill would prohibit cities from ...
    By Stephen Webster The Republican-dominated North Carolina State Assembly this week approved a bill that would prohibit communities from upgrading their internet access, forcing individual municipalities into a private monopoly of managed broadband services by companies like Time Warner and Comc ...
  • Taking Deborah Lipstadt Apart  
    By Gilad Atzmon The ‘deniers’, according to Lipstdat, are a lively movement that is working vigorously to “distort history and inculcate anti-Semitism”. Yet, it is far from being clear how anyone can ‘distort history’, for history is not a singular set of facts laid down and dictated by one grou ...
  • President Assad’s defiant speech stuns S ...
    By Nicholas Blanford, Correspondent / March 30, 2011 Beirut, Lebanon Syrian President Bashar al-Assad struck a defiant stance Wednesday, blaming “conspiracies” for two weeks of unprecedented antiregime protests and stopping short of offering a widely anticipated reform package. The content of Mr ...
  • Huge Yemeni crowds press on for president&#821 ...
    By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen â Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters packed the streets of cities throughout Yemen Wednesday, demanding the president’s ouster and blaming him for a munitions factory blast that left at least 100 people dead. Enraged men chanted as they walked toward ...
  • The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids ...
    Packouz and Diveroli had picked the perfect moment to get into the arms business. To fight simultaneous wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration had decided to outsource virtually every facet of America’s military operations, from building and staffing Army bases to hiring merc ...

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 ...

electric politics

  • Tell Me About the Future
    Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
  • What is Religion Good For?
    In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...
  • Booker T. Washington
    White supremacy was never a good cornerstone upon which to build a union. A pact with the devil, we're still not done dealing with its implications. For a look at how an earlier generation of Black Americans attempted to cope, I turned to Dr. Raymond W. Smock, former official historian of the U ...
  • Korea, Korea
    Remembering, forgetting, never knowing. Dr. Bruce Cumings, in his recently published book, The Korean War: A History, examines how willingly America intruded into Korea after the Second World War and how difficult it's been for us ever afterward to deny ourselves any real understanding of Korea ...
  • The Art of the Unexpected
    Useful intelligence is surprisingly difficult to produce, mostly, I think, because it doesn't lend itself to commoditization or assembly line methods. And, as Dr. David B. Kanin suggests, to be useful it must be directed by some rational, higher-level, national security purpose. David recently ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
  • First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
    This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
  • Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
    Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...
  • HAARP SMOKING GUN — (Where is America&#8 ...
    Incredible Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on HAARP originally broadcast  January, 1996!!!   What you have to realize before viewing this segment is that Raytheon Corporation is a strategic and primary arm of DARPA (Virginia Tech – Defense Advanced Research Projects A ...
  • “Greater Israel” — Great Art ...
    The Ongoing Plot To Create “Greater Israel” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:29 “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli em ...

k2p blog

  • A new field : Pillaibooks.com
    Books and the marketing of books is a new field for me – but it is fascinating and I am still a beginner at this. I have established a new website pillaibooks.com specifically for marketing two books: 3000 Miles to Freedom by Brig. M.M Pillai MC Essence of a Manager  
  • Juholt continues his Stalinesque purge
    Håkan Juholt continues with his Stalinesque purge of the Swedish Social Democrats. Male social democrats who are out of favour are being replaced on the grounds of being the wrong sex!
  • The dark side of black
    Radiation fears have prevented authorities from collecting as many as 1,000 bodies of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
  • A “Culture of Courage” in manageme ...
    Without fear being present, bravery and courage do not appear on stage. It has always struck me that super-heroes must be particularly devoid of courage since their fantastic abilities must mean that they have little opportunity to feel any fear.
  • Is cash crunch just a ruse to get SAAB into Ru ...
    SAAB's apparent liquidity crisis may be something engineered by Spyker Cars, Victor Muller and Vladimir Antonov as a way of getting Antonov in as SAAB's owner.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Jehova's Witness's Suit Over Being Fired For R ...
    A woman who says the Belk department store fired her after she refused to wear a Santa hat during Christmas has won a in a $55,000 suit against the company, reports the News & Observer. The worker was a Jehovah's Witness, and said her religious believes prevented her from wearing such a cap. Ho ...
  • Ford Overtakes GM In Owner Loyalty
    A cocktail of advertising, performance, customer service and social prominence leads to the elusive concept of brand loyalty. Judging from an R.L. Polk study of 5.2 million new vehicle-buying households, Ford has nailed the formula more effectively than its competitors recently, because the com ...
  • Combination Axe/Knife Recalled Due To Lacerati ...
    You can cut yourself when using an axe with a knife that nestles inside the handle? Who knew? Silly as it might sound, this is a real hazard, since the knife can theoretically fall out of the axe handle while you're using the axe to chop. A related product that contains a saw instead of a knife ...
  • At Least One FCC Commissioner Thinks AT&T/T-Mo ...
    With the pending $39 billion sale of T-Mobile to AT&T heading toward review by the various regulatory bodies involved, there is at least one senior FCC commissioner who thinks it might not be so easy for the deal to go down. Of course, he was the one commissioner who voted against the NBC/Comca ...
  • Middlemen Blocking Mortgage Mods
    Homeowners trying to get loan mods often run into resistance by banks who say they're powerless because they need to protect the interests of investors. But ProPublica reports a recent lawsuit uncovered a document where, when HSBC polled investors, a majority of those responding say they favore ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • The Gandhi None of Us Knew
    It has been not quite a century since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India. The bevy of hagiographies written about him is now being replaced with truth-telling biographies about the Gandhi nobody knew. The most recent one is titled Gre ...
  • Obama’s JFK Move
    by Brent Budowsky I strongly support the decision by President Obama to approve the US joining multilateral military action in Libya, and believe it might be Obama’s first moment of historical greatness, comparable in some ways to Kennedy blockading Cuba in 1962. Had the president not acted at t ...
  • As Mideast Lashes Out Against Corruption, Cham ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica Even as anger over governmental corruptionhas exploded into protests across the Middle East, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been working to weaken the law that bans companies from bribing foreign officials. That effort, which has been going on for months, recently go ...
  • Jury Service: Business Casual for Blind Justice
    by Tina Dupuy I consider myself to be a decent citizen. I vote. I recycle. I don’t litter. I yield to most pedestrian traffic. But when I received notice I was selected for jury service, I did what every red-blooded American does – I wondered if I should pretend it got lost in the mail. [...]
  • More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were ...
    “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentat ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Prof Vincent Courtillot speaks with clarity
    I’m traveling at the moment, in Darwin tonight. I can’t really comment on the hot-bed of climate action that Australia is right now, but instead this is something from afar that caught my eye a few days ago. Video’s bore me usually, but I enjoyed watching Courtillot — he’s possibly the clearest, ...
  • The Tyranny grinds on: Update on the Thompsons
    Background: Can a Western Government wipe out an honest business with red tape? (What a naive question…) Matt and Janet spoke out as skeptics in May 2007 and their life savings and business are now at grave risk as they fight off bankruptcy. What has undone them is not the financial crisis, or a ...
  • Lewandowsky bitten by a hoax
    Professor Stephan Lewandowsky may not understand much about the climate, but he is a professor of psychology — so satire, humor, and hoaxes ought to be right up his alley, right?  He’s realized he fell for the brilliant Alene Composta (a master satirist) replying to her and even sending her fak ...
  • 130,000 Australians say No Carbon Tax, Greens ...
    What a week downunder, just in case you missed it. We’re a nation, up in arms. With three months til G-Day (when the Greens control the Senate on July 1) and the tax-based-on-a-lie likely to become legislation, the heat is on. Protests and smears are running strong. Forces are being mobilized, a ...
  • David Evans, Carbon Accounting Modeler, Says I ...
    Dr David Evans’ address to the Anti-Carbon-Tax rally, Perth Australia, 23 March 2011. Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy tr ...

ReNew America

  • Tea party to storm Capitol for 'gut check'
    (Washington Times) - Miffed at the inability of Republicans to deliver on promises of deep cuts in federal spending, tea partyers will converge on the Capitol on Thursday to warn both parties about political repercussions if they don't act...
  • Obama punts as Utah grants amnesty to illegals
    (Washington Times) - Last April, when Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation authorizing Arizona to enforce federal immigration laws, President Obama stepped before the television cameras in the Rose Garden and threatened to take action to prevent the law from taking effect...
  • Schumer the extremist
    (Washington Times) - If only there were an app for Sen. Charles E. Schumer's smartphone that would tell him when there's a reporter on the line waiting to trap him. The New York Democrat was caught unaware that others were listening during a conference call he held with colleagues...
  • Law bans abortions linked to ethnicity
    (Associated Press) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed what is likely the first legislation in the nation to ban abortions over ethnicity. The law makes it a Class 3 felony to knowingly perform or provide financing for an abortion sought because of the race or sex of the fetus or a parent's rac ...
  • Tea party turning back Obamacare at state level
    (Newsmax) - Tea party activists in states around the country are making real gains in blocking Obamacare even as the national debate centers on a stalled effort to repeal it in Congress. They're doing it by blocking the law's implementation in state legislatures, according to Politico...

Truth Offering

  • Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Jan. ...
    Here's our second Podcast, this week featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon and friend of the show/talented musician, Chris Phenom. Chris teamed up with his producer, Robert Maxwell, and created the brand-new theme song for the TruthOffering.com podcast! I think you guys will appreciate, not ...
  • Truth Offering Podcast w/ Matt Gordon - Dec. 1 ...
    Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
  • A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
    Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...
  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

2012 Blog

  • New 2012 Doco / 2012 Robot Film
    According to CNBC (USA): “APOCALYPSE 2012″ will premiere on Thursday, April 7th at 9pm. The documentary will repeat that evening at 10pm, 12am and 1am. Meanwhile, here’s a robot 2012 short film: Don’t Kill Me, Now from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo. Related posts:New 2012 Social Network Great Pyramid Ai ...
  • UPDATE: Zahi Hawass Quits?
    UPDATE: Mar 30 2011: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass, as the new Minister of State for Antiquities. On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. Whi ...
  • Clif High on 2012
    Clif High, of Web Bot fame, has written an article on 2012. Specifically he discusses the theories and predictions of Patrick Geryl, and gives us his own take on what will happen to our “expando” planet. Here’s some snippets: So, in the Expando Planet model, the continuous stream of energy from ...
  • 19 August 2011: Last Chance for a Temple?
    I find it terribly confusing, but for some Christians, the rebuilding of the temple is everything. And some of those folk have the power to make it happen. Here’s the raw text from the King James Bible: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgr ...
  • Bunker Business Booming
    CNN reports that bunker sales are booming in the wake of the Japanese tsunami and Middle Eastern unrest: Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, has seen sales surge 70% since the uprisings in the Middle East, with the Japanese earthquake o ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
    By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
  • Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
    By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The corporate tax dodge
    Profits earned by Exxon Mobil in 2009: $19 billion Amount the Texas-based oil giant paid that year in federal income taxes: $0 Amount Exxon got back from the IRS as a rebate: $156 million Size of the tax refund Bank of America received last year: $1.9 billion Profits earned by the Charlotte- ...
  • VOICES: Georgia, meet your future
    What happens when the country's largest Legislative Black Caucus comes face to face with nine thousand immigrants -- many of them declaring themselves as undocumented -- chanting aqui estamos, y no nos vamos! (we are here, and we're not leaving!)? Love. Or a mad crush, at least. It happened ...
  • VOICES: Obama administration must reverse cour ...
    By Lisa Evans, Earthjustice The verdict is in. The U.S. Environmental Protection�Agency turned a blind eye to coal ash reuse during the Bush administration, and, in fact, the agency went a considerable way toward promoting reuses that were dangerous to human health and the environment.� Aft ...

One News Page

  • Penelope Cruz To Get A Star On Hollywood Walk ...
    Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz is all set to receive a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. 
  • Johnny Depp A Freak! Why?
    The very famous and extrovert Johnny Depp, claims to be a total opposite in his childhood. As a child, Johnny Depp says he was a complete freak as a child. He stole away from the rest of the world as he
  • Penelope Cruz: 'Depp likes toilet humour'
    Penelope Cruz recalls being tricked with a 'fart machine' by Johnny Depp.
  • Eva Longoria’s Beauty Secrets Revealed!
    EVA Longoria uses coffee grounds to improve her complexion. The Desperate Housewives actress is reportedly a fan of making her own face-max and thinks the caffeinated remains from her morning drink are perfect for giving her a healthy glow. “At least once a week, Eva mixes used coffee grinds ...
  • 'Obama-robber' nabbed in Austria
    Police in Austria have arrested a man suspected of robbing banks while wearing a mask of US President Barack Obama, soon after another heist.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Post-Gaddafian Africa (II)
    By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Part 1 In the middle of 90s Colonel Gaddafi decided to give up his venturesome-terrorist policy at the African continent and became one of the African Union architects — this Euro-Union-like organization including an entire Africa. On the 9th of September, 1999 African ...
  • The US Steers towards a Caste Society
    David Kerans (USA) As we discussed in our previous piece, the authoritarian revolution of the US right that has generated so much tumult in various state capitols over the last two months is more than a struggle over economic spoils. Money is at stake, to be sure, in the form of tax policies, pa ...
  • Post-Gaddafian Africa (I)
    By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Libya has been carrying out utmost active policy in Sahel (part of African continent, lying to the south from Sahara desert) long since. Libyan presence in the region is perceivable in the military, economic, cultural and propagandistic spheres. Numerous countries of t ...
  • Libya: Time to Say What is Really Happening (I)
    Irina Lebedeva (USA) Global media are beaming with enthusiasm over the advancement of the ârebelsâ in Libya. The Independent, for example, ran a nearly sadistic weekend account of the coalition’s raid which caught the forces of the regime amidst open space, with nowhere to hide, and left scores ...
  • Sowing the Wind
    Konstantin Penzev (Russia) The radioactive dust had not yet settled after the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant when Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan gave a speech saying it was inappropriate to compare the crisis at Fukushima-1 with the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. He said the a ...

BlogHer

  • April 1st: The Day the Internet Changed My Life
    {Sharing a post that I will have on my site later this morning} No joke -- Today is a very special and wonderful anniversary for me. Three years ago today the internet helped me have a baby. Seriously. Wait -- do you not know this story? Oh it's a good one. And it's nice to be reminded that th ...
  • Grey's Anatomy...The #*@$%^ Musical?!
    A warning, before I continue.� It's hard enough to find the right words to discuss what was essentially the TV equivallent of a genetic lab freak to begin with, so there's no way I'm going to be able to worry about spoilers in this post.� If you haven't seen the episode?� Maybe save this post ...
  • The State of Education: The Children We Leave ...
    When I read this week about the investigation into possible (probable) cheating on standardized tests in the District of Columbia school system, I can’t say I was surprised. I was teaching in the D.C. public school system when No Child Left Behind was launched and very shortly after, one of the ...
  • I'm Okay with Being a Soccer Mom
    At our house, the major sports focus is soccer. My kids are small and skinny - we just aren’t built for football or basketball. Even though I never played on a team myself, I always seemed to hang out with kids who did, so I grew up around it. My husband played soccer up through high school, an ...
  • A Month of Breakfast Ends With the Charming "B ...
    I found jazz guitarist, graphic designer, and breakfast lover Bill Wurtzel in the New York Times just as the Month of Breakfast began -- and I melted. How wonderful is this fellow, who plays with his food to give his wife of nearly 50 years over 400 healthful, and adorable, breakfasts? Bill t ...

Health Freedom Alliance

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Breaking news: New lawsuit says some Upper Big ...
    There’s another new lawsuit that’s been filed in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. This was was filed on behalf of the estate of miner William Roosevelt Lynch, and it contains some interesting new allegations. Remember that Lynch was one of seven miners who were killed while they were on thei ...
  • NMA says new study refutes EPA on mining
    This just in from the National Mining Association A new study released today casts doubt on fundamental assumptions used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to justify its regulation of Appalachian coal mining and its controversial new water quality standard. A year–long study in the ...
  • Why won’t Democrats ask MSHA tough quest ...
    During yesterday’s Senate committee hearing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, I tried to follow the questions being asked by West Virginia Sen. Joe Main. I swear I did. But I just couldn’t figure out his point. As best I can tell from his office’s press release, Sen. Manchin wants to strip ...
  • Suing over selenium: Judge Chambers allows cas ...
    In a ruling just issued today, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers has allowed environmental groups to continue lawsuits over selenium pollution against Arch Coal and Massey Energy. We’ll have more about this in tomorrow’s Gazette … Until then, here’s a copy of the ruling: DV.load('ht ...
  • Did MSHA miss a key inspection the week before ...
    Testimony at today’s Senate committee hearing has raised a new question about the performance of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration in the days just prior to the April 5, 2010, explosion that killed 29 miners. Did MSHA fail to perform a mandated inspection meant to help protect mine ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Another Mass SQLi Attack
    In this case, the injected SQL is simply updating text fields within the database, to make them include an extra fragment of HTML. This HTML in turn loads a JavaScript from a remote server, typically “http://lizamoon.com/ur.php” or more recently, “http://alisa-carter.com/ur.php.” Both domain nam ...
  • The Captain America Trailer
    via youtube.com I’m not a Captain America fan, but this looks like another excellent comic book remake. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Strange Powers of the Pla ...
  • CNN and Hero Suicide Bombers
    I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch. It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s forces. He and his friends were trying to get into some government barracks and he realized they had no chance. So he, a humble oil worker, husband, and father, loade ...
  • Among the Worst Ways to Die: Upside-down Sawing
    via en.wikipedia.org Damn. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsChess Boxing | WikipediaFaith PalmBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosQuicksilver is BackI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s Health
  • How to Practice Your Web Application Testing S ...
      For those who are learning web application security testing (or just trying to stay sharp) it’s often difficult to find quality websites to test one’s skills. There are a few scattered around the Internet (see the link in the notes section below) but it would be nice to have a solid collection ...

Fitwatch

  • Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
    The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...
  • Serious violence by police at protest party.
    Forget what the mainstream media are saying about the black block, the most serious violence yesterday was probably the attack by police on partying crowd that was gathered in Trafalgar square. Senior police officers had warned in the run up to the March 26 protests that any occupation of Trafal ...
  • Surveillance policing and the TUC march
    On the eve of what will probably be the biggest demonstration seen in the UK for many years, it is probably a good time to give a little blog space over to looking at the role of Forward Intelligence Teams and the various intelligence gathering strategies that will operate on such massive events ...
  • Top Ten Nasty FIT cops – Nos 1&2 Discombe and ...
    Unlike many FIT cops, who only take on FIT duties at major events, these two are full time intelligence officers for CO11, the public order unit of the Metropolitan police. For this reason alone they warrant being top of the table. Discombe and Cowlin lead and direct FIT teams, making sure they ...
  • Top ten nasty FIT cops No3 Alan Palfrey
    Alan Palfrey is a regular FIT member, with a knack of being in all the wrong places. He was at the massive climate camp in Kingsnorth in 2008, where ‘intelligence gathering’ hit new heights as thousands of protesters were stopped, searched and pressurised to give their personal details. A fair p ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Don’t Mess With Texas (College Students)!
    Guns on Campus Bill Heads to Senate Floor | Texas Tribune The Senate Criminal Justice Committee today approved a controversial bill that would allow students to carry concealed handguns on college campuses. In a brief meeting, the bill passed 4-2, with Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, and Sen. Juan ...
  • GOP Decides To Increase Taxes on the Rich, Spe ...
    April Fools’ Day is celebrated all around the world on the April 1 of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools’ Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day where everyone plays all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commiss ...
  • Gates says US ending its air combat role in Li ...
    US Ending Its Air Combat Role in Libya | ABC The Pentagon is about to pull its attack planes out of the international air campaign in Libya, hoping NATO partners can take up the slack. The announcement Thursday drew incredulous reactions from some in Congress who wondered aloud why the Obama adm ...
  • “Safe” Radiation is a Lethal TMI Lie
    By by Harvey Wasserman | OpEdNews – There is no safe dose of radiation. We do not x-ray pregnant women. Any detectable fallout can kill. With erratic radiation spikes, major air and water emissions and at least three reactors and waste pools in serious danger at Fukushima, we must prepare for th ...
  • Don’t Get Sent To Drug Court In Georgia
    Very Tough Love | This American Life This week: A drug court program that we believe is run differently from every other drug court in the country, doing some things that are contrary to the very philosophy of drug court. The result? People with offenses that would get minimal or no sentences el ...

reference frame

  • BEST: surface warming since 1880 seems robust ...
    I watched a part of the climate hearings in the U.S. Congress - together with infantile ASCII exclamations by Gavin Schmidt and his comrades on a Science Magazine page whose URL was sent to me by a skeptic. ;-) Kerry Emanuel has said lots of lies about the ClimateGate. Otherwise, the c ...
  • CMS will stop operations in September 2011
    You must have already heard the news. The LHC has created black holes, thus demonstrating that Walter Wagner and other experts who have been warning the world about a possible doomsday at the European collider have been right. Dr Walter Wagner explains how it was possible for him ...
  • Australian carbon tax
    Australian prime minister Ms Julia Gillard suffers from a Messiah complex. She decided to impose an insane carbon tax on the economy of the most compact continent. Fortunately, today, she suffered a serious setback when the PC turned against her. About 3,000 nice but alarmed prot ...
  • Monbiot vs McKibben: nuclear civil war inside ...
    �Andrew Revkin has noticed the diametrically opposite conclusions extracted from the recent events in Fukushima. He is comparing two opinions in the Guardian: Japan's horror reveals how thin is the edge we live on by Bill McKibben Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear pow ...
  • UAH AMSU: temperature got 5 °C warmer last month
    The UAH AMSU figures for March 2011 have been released. The global anomaly jumped from -0.01 °C in February 2011 to +4.99 °C in March 2011. "The warming has finally arrived from the pipeline to our pipes," James Hansen - a holy prophet who has been always right - mentioned. Leadi ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?
    Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to recede. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?
  • The Horse Manure Problem
    In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.
  • Message From Australia
    Australians are outraged by a Prime Minister who, prior to last summer's election, said there'd be no carbon tax - but is now implementing one. At a recent protest rally, a scientist explained why he thinks the dangerous global warming hypothesis has been proved wrong.
  • The IPCC Insider’s Club
    A small group of IPCC insiders filled as many as seven different roles each during the writing of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.

Tarpley

  • Tarpley on Alex Jones Show: Bush and Cheney us ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 31, 2011 download file
  • The Libya Rebels: A CIA Secret Army of al Qaed ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net March 30, 2011
  • Italiano
    English Deutsch Français Italiano Other I ribelli libici della CIA sono gli stessi terroristi che hanno ucciso truppe statunitensi e truppe NATO in Iraq Uno studio di West Point mostra che lâarea di Bengasi, Derna e Tobruk era i leader mondiali nel reclutamento dei bombaroli kamikaze di al ...
  • The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists wh ...
    2007 West Point Study Shows Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk Area was a World Leader in Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Recruitment “Serpents, thirst, heat, and sand … Libya alone can present a multitude of woes that it would beseem men to fly from.” Lucan, Pharsalia   Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net March ...
  • CIA’s Libya Rebels Are Younger Brothers ...
    Benghazi, Darnah Among Top Four Centers of Terrorist Recruitment; These Are Heroes of Democracy UN, NATO, US are Bombing Libya to Protect; 2007 West Point Combating Terrorism Center Study Proves the Case Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 22, 2011 download file

Modern Survivalism

  • Container Garden Onions, Sand Soil Mix
    We somewhat regularly grow a quantity of onions in our garden each year, along with everything else, but this year we’re going to try something a little different as an experiment. That is, growing some of them in a container (bucket). Many homes do not have the space for a full-on garden, so co ...
  • Earthquake Situation Report, 2011 Q1
    Earthquake Summary, 2011, first-quarter We are now a quarter the way through the year 2011, and it is time for a world update on earthquake numbers with relation to some historical averages. Geological reference times are quite long, and modern day seismic monitoring systems are just that, moder ...
  • Jiffy Seedling Greenhouse
    An excellent solution for germinating seeds and growing the seedlings during their initial phase is to use a Jiffy Seedling Greenhouse, or anything similar. Benefits of using a Jiffy Seed Starter Greenhouse (or similar) Water wicks up from the bottom tray which promotes downward root growth A cl ...
  • Fukushima Japan, Meltdown Update
    Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associate Inc., has provided several video-opinion updates regarding the Fukushima-Japan nuclear power plant disaster. Given his credentials (listed below), his practical and straight-forward demeanor, I find it beneficial to hear what he has to say. So much so that ...
  • Plutonium and Nuclear Meltdown, Japan
    Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Uranium – Plutonium, MOX fuel There has now been wide reporting of the fact that there is plutonium in the fuel rod mix at Fukushima’s Reactor No. 3, which uses MOX fuel, or, mixed oxide fuel. Recent tests around the Fukushima facility has confirmed that some amount of pl ...

Fast Company

  • Jane McGonigal to Find the Future at the New Y ...
    Gaming guru and Reality is Broken author Jane McGonigal is organizing a game to commemorate the New York Public Library's centennial celebration. On May 20th, 500 gamers will spend the night in the main branch of the library on 42nd Street to complete 100 "quests" designed by a McGonigal-directe ...
  • CBS Conscripts Twittering Stars for #CBSTweetWeek
    The network apparently hopes to turn Twitter buzz into ratings.Here's an idea that we're surprised has taken so song to implement: Stars have already been experimenting with live-tweeting during events--think James Franco at the Oscars, for instance. But so far as we know, CBS is the first netwo ...
  • Rubber Chicken on April Fools? Scientist Turns ...
    _ Plastics have a lot of issues--made from oil, they're often not recycled, and they end up in landfills. You might not consider soft, fluffy chicken feathers as problematic, but billions pounds of them end up in U.S. landfills every year. Now a scientist has worked out a way to eliminate both ...
  • Zoolander Meets Dr. Evil: Kinect Hack Prints O ...
    Ever want to be a model? Then you'll love this new Kinect hack that combines 3-D imaging and a RepRap machine to turn you into...a model! It's clever, and hints at two powerful futures for tech. Who needs cloning!?We've seen any number of clever Kinect hacks in the time that Microsoft's $150 won ...
  • HTC Outsells Apple, Time Warner's Cryptic iPad ...
    The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.Mobile Scavenger Hunt Spices Up NY Library A smartphone apps that inspires patrons to explore the library's prized pieces premiers with an all-night marathon for the first 500 player ...

Jadaliyya

  • What Emergency? The ADL, Academic Freedom, Law ...
    On the evening of March 24, the board of directors of University of California â Hastings College of the Law held an emergency meeting that lasted until midnight. The putative emergency was a two-day conference titled âLitigating Palestineâ scheduled to start at 3 pm the following day. W ...
  • Roundtable on Syria Today (Part 2): On Portrayal
    This is Part 2 of our first Jadaliyya Roundtable on Syria, moderated by Bassam Haddad and Joshua Landis, of�Syria Comment. It features Steven Heydemann, Fred Lawson, David Lesch, and Patrick Seale. This post will be published on both Jadaliyya and Syria Comment. See Part 1 here. � � R ...
  • Roundtable on Syria Today (Part 1)
    This is our first Jadaliyya Roundtable on Syria, moderated by Bassam Haddad and Joshua Landis, of�Syria Comment. It features Steven Heydemann, Fred Lawson, David Lesch, and Patrick Seale. This post will be published on both Jadaliyya and Syria Comment. � After two weeks of protests in ...
  • Essential Reading: State Building and Regime S ...
    [Editors� Note: This is the first in a series of �Essential Readings,� in which we ask contributors to choose a list of must-read books, articles, and new media resources on a variety of topics. Ziad Abu-Rish, a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, provides a list of readings focusing on state buildi ...
  • Al-Jazeera English Interview with Bassam Hadda ...
    This interview was conducted by Al-Jazeera English with Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Bassam Haddad. It focused on the reactions to President Bashar's speech on Wednesday, in which viewers expected him to announce wide-ranging reforms. No such reforms were announced, triggering a spate of disappo ...

mediagazer

  • Guardian.co.uk Picks Current Editors To Reboot ...
    Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK: Guardian.co.uk Picks Current Editors To Reboot Its U.S. Odyssey  —  Guardian News & Media will dispatch part of its existing Guardian.co.uk team from London to reboot its U.S. editorial foray from New York.  —  Guardian.co.uk's current editor Janine Gibson will ...
  • Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclu ...
    Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclusive) … Google has filed its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the closely-watched $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube.  —  In the 94-page document, Go ...
  • Amazon.com pushes into book publishing (Matthe ...
    Matthew Flamm / Latest from Crain's New York Business: Amazon.com pushes into book publishing  —  The online retailer recently participated in the auction for best-selling novelist Amanda Hocking, making its most aggressive move yet into traditional publishing territory.  —  Amazon.com, the onl ...
  • Clara Jeffery: What I Read (The Atlantic Wire)
    The Atlantic Wire: Clara Jeffery: What I Read  —  How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all?  Do they have some secret?  Perhaps.  We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.  This is from a conversation with Clara ...
  • Goodbye, NYTClean, hello new name? A Canadian ...
    Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab: Goodbye, NYTClean, hello new name?  A Canadian coder gets a letter from the NYT's legal department  —  Remember David Hayes, the Canadian coder who, when confronted with the new New York Times paywall, figured out a way to evade it with four lines of Java ...

Chemtrail News

  • Chemtrail - WFTV Upload and Share Blog post
    Chemtrail. When the media are going to show to the citizens of florida whats really whats going on? Are you guys are controlled by The Gov to not show the ...my.wftv.com/_Chemtrail/blog/3386371/6696.html
  • Anti-spray group hosts film Saturday
    Chico Sky Watch focuses on chemtrail, aerosol spraying and geoengineering awareness. The group attributes purposeful aerosol spraying as the cause of higher ...
  • Chemtrails, page 1
    The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some trails left by aircraft are actually chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread681213/pg1
  • YouTube - Chemtrail Zagreb 24.3.2011 13.10h
    Added to queue Hrvatska / Zagreb - Chemtrail 2009by Sarah0sweet0girl318 ... Added to queue chemtrail Zagreb 28.12.2010by andrej150937 views · Thumbnail 2:51 ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHReRbXzBU&feature...
  • The Cato Institute Should Apologize For Legiti ...
    The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup, which claims that we are "being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent" and that "they are lying to us ...

World News - Top Stories

  • Jobless rate falls to 8.8% as 216,000 pri ...
    The U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday that U.S employers added 216,000 non-farm payroll jobs to the U.S. economy in March, pushing the unemployment rate down slightly to 8.8%. It was the fourth straight month that the unemployment rate has declined and t ...
  • Q&A: MLB.com Boss Bob Bowman on Android O ...
    It’s odd to talk about baseball when part of the country is still getting fresh snow. But yesterday was indeed opening day, which makes it a good time to check in with Bob Bowman, who runs Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the digital business jointly owned by all of pro baseball’s team ...
  • Many leaving Haiti's earthquake settlemen ...
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Large numbers of Haitians are leaving the dirty, overcrowded camps that sprang up after last year's earthquake, some lured away by financial incentives from officials and others forced out by landowners. Many more may be pushed out, with no safe place to go, just ah ...
  • Praise for "beautiful" Goldie Hawn
    Kate Hudson says mother Goldie Hawn looks better the older she gets. The 31-year-old actress – who is currently pregnant with her second child – is jealous of her 65-year-old mum’s body and features because she doesn’t show any signs of ageing. Kate said: “She is just beautiful. She is out ...
  • GarageBand For Mac Now Supports iPad Proj ...
    Ellis Hamburger | Apr. 1, 2011, 1:51 PM | 0 | A A A � x Email Article From To Email Sent!...

no frakking consensus

  • Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?
    Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to recede. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?
  • The Horse Manure Problem
    In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.
  • Message From Australia
    Australians are outraged by a Prime Minister who, prior to last summer's election, said there'd be no carbon tax - but is now implementing one. At a recent protest rally, a scientist explained why he thinks the dangerous global warming hypothesis has been proved wrong.
  • The IPCC Insider’s Club
    A small group of IPCC insiders filled as many as seven different roles each during the writing of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
  • Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Naggin ...
    As a young woman I embraced feminism because I had no desire to be bossed around by men. These days it's greens who want to regulate my behaviour.

Pointman's

  • Living with ghosts.
    This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
  • Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
    I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 23
    Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...
  • Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
    In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...
  • Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
    Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • First National Conference of Formerly Incarcer ...
    From our friends at Black Agenda Report: A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the spirit of those brave and selfless Georgia prisoners who stood up for their human rights last December, formerly incarcerated people from across the country ...
  • Questions on NOPD's Respect for First Amendment
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Interference With Photographing Police Action Prompts Request for Public Records Concerned about repeated interference with the public's right to photograph police conduct, the ACLU of Louisiana has send a request to Superintendent Ronal Serpas seeking ...
  • Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in ...
    Civil rights activist Catrina Wallace, who received national attention for her role in organizing protests around the Jena Six case, was convicted today of three counts of distribution of a controlled substance. Wallace, who is 30, became an activist after her brother, Robert Bailey, was arr ...
  • Wrongfully Convicted Urge Action in Wake of Su ...
    From our friends at Innocence Project New Orleans: After Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Thompson v. Connick granting prosecutors' even greater immunity for their misconduct, the Innocence Network released a letter signed by 19 innocent people who were wrongfully convicted in ...
  • LJI Co-Director Tracie Washington Named One of ...
    The Root, a daily online magazine published by Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive, has named Louisiana Justice Institute Co-Director Tracie Washington as one of it's twenty Leading Black Women Advocating Change. The list, published this week in commemoration of Women's History Month, aims to " ...

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

Gyrovague's Raves

  • One Writer’s Road Trip with Novelist Dav ...
    By Charlie Duerr David Foster Wallace Gary Hannabarger / Corbis In 1996 Rolling Stone sent a young writer to cover David Foster Wallace on the last leg of his book tour promoting Infinite Jest. The gargantuan novel was climbing the bestseller list and Wallace was the toast of the literary world. ...
  • Unfinished Business
    By Lev Grossman Marion Ettlinger/Corbis Outline Two months after the writer David Foster Wallace killed himself, his agent, accompanied by his widow, went into his garage office to look through his papers. It was Thanksgiving weekend, 2008, and the weather was cold and gray in Claremont, Calif. ...
  • Too Much Information
    When the generation-defining writer David Foster Wallace took his own life in 2008, he left behind an unfinished novel, The Pale King, that will either serve to round out his transcendent body of writing or place a haunting question mark at the end of his career. John Jeremiah Sullivan holes up ...
  • Google Page Speed Now Works in any Web Browser
    By Scott Gilbertson Googleâs Page Speed tool is a great way to find out how you can speed up your website, and now Google has released a version that works in any browser as an easy-to-use online service. The new Page Speed Online couldnât be simpler â just enter a URL and Page Speed Online … Re ...
  • Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three ...
    By Kevin Poulsen 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 leaves a federal ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
  • The legacy of Phineas Gage
    FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...
  • An Agrarian Renaissance?
    FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...

NAU Resistance

  • Parliamentary Law Bars Harper From Re-Election
    By: PAUL W KINCAID March 28, 2011 – 7:27 am Canada Elections Act CANDIDATES â Qualifications http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=loi%2Ffel%2Fcea&document=part06&lang=e Ineligible candidates 65. The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate: (b) a person who is dis-ent ...
  • Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
    "The Conservative government has maintained that a security perimeter with the U.S. will not impact on sovereignty"
  • Harper Cronies Intentionally Misleading Canadians
    "Now we've learned that the F-35 stealth fighter deal is connected to Harper's plan to build a security perimeter around Canada and the United States- a Fortress North America!"
  • Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
    Obama also announced, “we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries.” He added, “I look forward to consulting with Congress and moving forward in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollar ...
  • Canadian Swan Song
    Far too few Canadians noticed the non-sequitur of Emperor Harperius, as first he boasted loudly of how our (sovereign) banking regulations had saved us from the ravages of the global financial debacle of 2009, and then handed our banking sovereignty, and the right to keep those same regulations, ...

Gaea Times

  • New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
    WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
  • It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
    WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
  • Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
    LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
  • Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
    WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
  • Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
    LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Scott Grainger, fire protection engineer, blow ...
    This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary: "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" - AE911truth.org
  • The people say NO to the Carbon Tax!
    Today I welcome to the show Luke Jenkins, organiser of the Sydney No Carbon Tax Rally, to be held in Hyde Park on Saturday 2nd April 2011. Luke explains why he became an activist in the campaign, and we cover some of the key questions and controversies within the topic of anthropogenic climate ...
  • Susan Wolfe: truth activist and organiser of t ...
    Today I am joined by Susan Wolfe, who is organising the massive 9/11 truth gathering for We Are Change in New York, scheduled to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.� Susan is attempting to make this event a landmark in the history of the 9/11 truth movement, and she is taking all steps t ...
  • Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Hum ...
    March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Li ...
  • Radiation levels and their effects
    There's been alot of talk in the news lately about radiation levels, yet most people, including myself, have little idea of what these numbers really mean in terms of health risks. News reports today have indicated that radiation levels in Tokyo have been recorded at 20X the normal background ...

Beacon

  • Chilean Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Oceana
    The good news just keep coming in Chile. Yesterday the Chilean Supreme Court ruled against a lawsuit filed by the laboratory Veterquímica to prevent the Livestock and Agriculture Bureau (SAG) from disclosing information to Oceana. The case began in 2009, when Oceana submitted a Freedom of Infor ...
  • Where Are They Now?: The Shark Finatics
    A member of the Shark Finatics. As you know, we are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest. Throughout the nomination period, which ends April 27th, I’ll be featuring a few of the past winners and finalists to get you inspired. First up, the 2010 Junior Ocean He ...
  • How Might Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Affect the Oc ...
    Many of you have inquired via Twitter, Facebook and e-mail about how the Japanese nuclear crisis is affecting the oceans and marine life. There are still a lot of question marks, but here’s what our scientists have to say. How it could affect marine life in general: The greatest concern for ma ...
  • Nominate an Ocean Hero Today
    The 2010 Junior Ocean Heroes, the Shark Finatics, with teacher Robin Culler. It’s that time again: we are looking for ocean heroes, and we need your help. Nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest begin today, so think of the person you know doing the most for the oceans -- and ...
  • Video: Lewis Pugh on Hydrofracking
    Lewis Pugh is a British environmentalist, maritime lawyer and Oceana ally. He was the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean, and is probably best known for two impressive feats: his 2007 swim across the North Pole to highlight the melting of Arctic sea ice, and a swim acro ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Michele Bachmann Beats Romney on 1st Quarter F ...
    Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., raised a combined total of $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2011, outgaining presumed presidential contender Mitt Romney who raised $1.9 million over the same period. Bachmann’s political action committee, MichelePAC, raised $500,000 while her Congressional r ...
  • Union Busting Backfires, Cops & Firefighters T ...
    Many cops and firefighters have thrown their allegiance to the GOP for years — union members who frequently stray from labor’s longtime support for Democrats. A host of new Republican governors is changing all that. [...] Chuck Canterbury, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police ...
  • The Ad Progressives Should Have Run
    Okay, so it needs some work. That’s because this one is from the GOP.
  • Lewis Black Endorses Donald Trump
    **UPDATED**The Daily Show – Back in Black – Trump 2012Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Lewis Black outdid himself this week. Talk about getting roasted. As for Donald Trump running for president in 2012, maybe. But he’s already staked out ...
  • Progressive Notes: Ferraro, VT House Passes Si ...
    Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. With the news of the death of trailblazer Gerladine Ferraro we remember one of her most famous moments in the 1984 campaign. It was during the debate between her and Vice President Bush when this famous flashpoint broke ou ...

James Laxer

  • Beyond the Bubble on TVO
  • Beyond the Bubble on TVO Part II
  • No title
  • Aging Agitator James Laxer Enters Red Zone
    Aging Agitator James Laxer, who is constantly on the look out for a demonstration to attend, entered the red zone of the G 20 summit this morning.He rose early to be sure to make it to downtown Toronto before day’s end. Much to his surprise as he pointed his ten-year-old vehicle southward, traf ...
  • The Harper Plan for a Global Depression
    At the G8 and G20 Summits, the Harper government is touting its plan for governments around the world to cut their deficits in half by 2013 and to stabilize their debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016. In a letter sent to G20 leaders on the eve of the summit, Harper declared that “advanced countries must s ...
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