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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.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

10 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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Geothermal Energy Use On The Rise
MyFox Atlanta
- Apr 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Geothermal energy is a renewable source of energy that comes from the heat that is below the Earth's surface. Geothermal exchange pumps, buried several hundred feet below ground, are increasing in popularity because the return on investment is high. ...
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Huge opportunity in China's clean energy market: experts
Xinhua
- Apr 10, 2011
- 11 hours ago
In a panel discussion on clean energy, experts who have been keeping a close eye on China's renewable sectors evaluated its market size, development level and current challenges. "No matter it comes to wind, solar or any other type of clean energy, ...
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Biomass website starts up in NH
Boston Globe
- Apr 09, 2011
- 23 hours ago
The site, NewBiomassNH.org, was started by communications consultant Scott Tranchemontagne. He says 14 percent of the state's energy comes from renewable sources and nearly 40 percent of renewable power is produced by biomass.
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PhillyInc: Solar energy hot, industry chief tells conference | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
- Apr 08, 2011
- Apr 08, 2011
By Mike Armstrong A national leader came to Philadelphia this week and expended a lot of energy and rhetoric on the subject of renewable energy. Of course, I'm talking about Rhone Resch, president and chief executive officer of the Solar Energy ...
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Human Habitat

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LRU program is about ecology, economics and conservation
Hickory Daily Record
- Apr 10, 2011
- 7 hours ago
“We focus on industrial ecology,” he said. “We can learn from nature by mimicking our process with natural processes,” he said. “The issue is design. Most consumer products are designed to be thrown away. Everything in nature is recycled. ...
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UConn student prodigy named Truman Scholar
The Seattle Times
- Apr 09, 2011
- Apr 09, 2011
He's now a junior studying for a dual degree in evolutionary biology and in environmental studies and ecology. In addition to the $30000 from the Truman Scholars program, he is among three UConn students recently awarded $7500 each by the Barry M. ...
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No. 12: The Ecology Center
Patch.com
- Apr 08, 2011
- Apr 08, 2011
And talk about recycling: The Ecology Center calls the 133-year-old Congdon House home. The community and family-based center is particularly meaningful this time of the year, with Earth Day just around the corner, April 23. Interested in a follow-up ...
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Ecology extends public comment period on Port Gamble sites
Peninsula Daily
- Apr 08, 2011
- Apr 08, 2011
OLYMPIA — The state Department of Ecology has extended the public comment period on draft cleanup plans for two sites on Port Gamble Bay on the Kitsap Peninsula. Ecology extended the comment period because of requests from the public for additional ...
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Water Power

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Japan to stop pumping radioactive water into sea
msnbc.com
- Apr 10, 2011
- 3 hours ago
TOKYO — Japan hopes to stop pumping radioactive water into the sea Sunday, which should help ease concerns in neighboring China and South Korea over the spread of radiation from the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. But problems in restoring ...
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Water receding in Fargo, but rural areas still threatened
Minnesota Public Radio
- Apr 10, 2011
- 32 minutes ago
"We have probably 60 roads that have been washed out or have water on it," Bergquist said. "Things are getting a little better, I guess. The river is dropping a little bit, but the overland is still causing some problems. ...
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One person rescued from water near Ocean Beach, one still missing
San Jose Mercury News
- Apr 09, 2011
- 16 hours ago
Crews rescued one person who fell out of an inflatable boat into the water near San Francisco's Ocean Beach this afternoon, according to a fire spokeswoman. A US Coast Guard helicopter responded to the beach at about 2:30 pm on reports of a person in ...
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Water main fixed after break disrupts downtown Durham traffic
NBC17.com
- Apr 10, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Water leaked from the intersection of E. Main Street and Roxboro Street Saturday morning. A witness describes what she saw. (more) By Justin Quesinberry , NBC17 Staff Water gushed from a broken 12-inch water main around 9 am Saturday in downtown Durham ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • EUROPE: The Harmless Invasion of the Pacific O ...
    In the 1970s, French oyster breeders introduced the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) to the Bay of Biscay to diversify the area's species and develop the commercial oyster industry.
  • EGYPT: Shia Hope for New Chapter
    The political currents that sweep across the Middle East often surge out of Iran, form treacherous eddies in Lebanon and Iraq, then slam into the front door of Ahmad Rasem El-Nafis' apartment in the northern Egyptian city of Mansoura.
  • Botswana Steadfast Over Death Penalty
    On Apr. 15, Michael Molefhe and Brandon Sampson will appeal against their death sentences in the Court of Appeals in the Botswanan capital, Gaborone.
  • ZAMBIA: Constitutional Baby Out With the Bathwater
    After two commissions and close to a decade of consultations, Zambia's constitutional redrafting process crashed when the new constitution failed to win parliamentary approval. Politicians, civil society and ordinary citizens seem uncertain whether to laugh or cry.
  • KENYA: Feisty Politician Enters Presidential Race
    Martha Karua fears nothing and no one, but when her adversaries look back at her long track record in politics, they must get nervous. This previously staunch supporter of Mwai Kibaki resigned as justice minister in 2009, and will challenge all comers for the presidency at the head of her own ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Iran: Israeli nuclear program destabilizing Mi ...
    Israel's nuclear program is endangering the entire Middle East, an Iranian official said on Wednesday, adding that Iran had been advocating a nuclear-free region since before 1979's Islamic Revolution. Speaking at the United Nation's Annual Conference of the Disarmament Commission, Iran's env ...
  • The Arab Spring: Quo Vadis ?
    What is the “Arab spring” becoming? After three months of upheaval, repression and conflict, the democracy wave in the region, including Iran, is at a crucial stage. openDemocracy authors offer concise perspectives on a complex and fluid political moment.
  • Earthquake early warning system along Pacific ...
    Following a closed-door summit at UC Berkeley, leading West Coast seismologists recommended in a news conference today (Tuesday, April 5) the establishment of an earthquake early warning system in California, Oregon and Washington.
  • Fukushima's Radioactive Fish ..
    Japan hastily set a legal limit Tuesday for the permitted level of radioactive iodine in seafood as safety concerns spread overseas in the wake of continuing leaks contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
  • NATO Fears War without End in Libya
    The front in Libya is barely moving as the country remains split between rebels and Gadhafi's troops. The rebels are complaining of not receiving enough air support, but NATO is hardly in a position to ramp it up after the withdrawal of US fighter jets. The resulting stalemate underscores the l ...

Independent - London

  • Libya rebels fight Gaddafi forces for strategi ...
    Libyan rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi battled for control of the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Sunday after government troops fought their way inside.
  • Libyan rebels fight Gaddafi forces for strateg ...
    Libyan rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi battled for control of the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Sunday after government troops fought their way inside.
  • Syrian tanks deployed to deter more unrest
    Syrian tanks deployed overnight in flashpoint areas, residents said today, in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of pro-democracy unrest, intensifying a crackdown on mass protests now in their fourth week.
  • Filipino troops defuse bomb
    Army troops defused a powerful bomb outside a school today in the same southern Philippine province where the night before a blast destroyed a lodging house and another explosive was found near a hotel in attacks blamed on Abu Sayyaf extremists.
  • Dutch mourn shopping mall shooting victims
    Church services were held Sunday in a quiet suburb outside Amsterdam to mourn six people killed by a gunman at a crowded mall, as investigators puzzled over his motive and struggled to explain how he was able to obtain and legally own five firearms in the Netherlands.

Rogue Government.com

  • General: U.S. may consider troops in Libya
    The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over.
  • Boston Mayor To Ban Sugary Drink Sales On Cit ...
    Menino is expected to make the announcement at City Hall before noon. The mayor’s office said Menino is issuing this order because of the link between sugary drinks and rising obesity rates and health care costs.
  • NATO Fears War without End in Libya
    "Libya appears to be sliding into a prolonged conflict with no light at the end of the tunnel," Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East expert at the London School of Economics (LSE), wrote in a commentary posted on CNN's website.
  • US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror a ...
    The U.S. government's new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — that will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances for limited periods of time, sometimes using Facebook and Twitter.
  • Washington Post and CBS receiving money from ...
    Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP).

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Iran: Hegemons want Shia-Sunni war: Ahmadinejad
    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the United States and its Western allies are seeking to provoke Iran-Arab conflict and Shia-Sunni war with the aim of saving the Zionist regime. "The main goal of the leaders of the U.S. in Bahrain and Libya is saving the Zionist regime, even if thousand ...
  • Stranded Japanese farmer, 75, found alone in M ...
    Kunio Shiga must have felt like the last man on earth. The feeble 75-year-old was discovered stranded alone in his small farmhouse on Friday, surrounded by fallen trees, dead pigs and garbage strewn by the deadly March 11 tsunami in Japan. He doesn't know where his wife is, and his neighbors ...
  • US: Molly Midyette, a mother sentenced to sixt ...
    On the afternoon of December 21, 2007, twelve jurors filed into a Boulder courtroom, ready to issue their verdict for the city's most sensational trial in years. Over the previous two weeks, these jurors and everyone else in the packed courtroom had heard all about the very short life of Jason ...
  • US: Death toll hits 5 in Hawaii fireworks bunk ...
    A bomb squad recovered the bodies of two more people Saturday who had been missing after a fireworks storage bunker blast in Hawaii, bringing the death toll to five, officials said. The blast near the Waikele Business Center at a former military bunker where fireworks were warehoused occurred ...
  • Radioactive water to be moved to storage in Ja ...
    Highly radioactive water filling an underground trench at the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are expected on Sunday to be moved to a nearby storage inside the No. 2 reactor turbine building, local media reported. The water inside the basement of the No. 2 reactor turbine building ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • A week's groceries . . .
    GOT THIS E-MAIL last week that's interesting to ponder. The author notes, "Notice how cheap the American diet is compared to that of the Europeans. With all of their meat and junk food, the Yanks spend less than $100 more than the Sicilians. Wonder where an average Canadian diet would fit in? Pr ...
  • Criminal Immigrant Naturalization Act
    TGB News (12 October 2013): The government of prime minister Jason Kenney today tabled the Criminal Immigrant Naturalization Act designed to replace the existing Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act. The PMO released a statement claiming this act "addresses wea ...
  • Canada: Celebrating 300 years of Tuberculosis
    There is no excuse. A distinctive tuberculosis was unintentionally left by 18th-century Voyageurs in remote aboriginal communities along their trade routes and still plagues those communities today, new research shows.Excuse me while I vomit.
  • Creep apologises for creeping
    Yeah, perhaps it dawned on him that it looks very bad to have party operatives looking at the facebook pages of young women for evidence of contrarian politics. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is apologizing to anyone who has been removed from his party's campaign rallies, three days after ...
  • Hold the one-on-one debate anyway
    Nicely played Ignatieff: As you stated, there are only two people who can be Prime Minister after May 2nd: you or me. Canadians truly deserve to see us go face to face in a contest of ideas, values and very different visions for our country. That is what democracy is all about. Like many C ...

Media Matters for America

  • A Timeline Of Fox News' Handling Of Glenn Beck ...
    Fox News' decision to end Glenn Beck's show comes after a tumultuous two years during which Fox News figures were constantly forced to defend Beck's outrageous comments or distance themselves from the controversial host. July 2009:�Fox Forced To Address�Beck's Statement That�Obama�Is�A "R ...
  • Right-Wing Media Obscure Fact That Policies -- ...
    With a possible government shutdown looming, many right-wing media figures have falsely suggested that the negotiations are centered solely on spending. However, according to news reports, conflicts over policies -- such as Republican demands to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict the Enviro ...
  • Right-Wing Media Trivialize, Dismiss Potential ...
    Right-wing media have recently trivialized or dismissed the potential effects of a federal government shutdown. However, a shutdown could disrupt the economy and many businesses, cause hundreds of thousands of workers to be furloughed, and disrupt numerous public services.Right-Wing Media Trivi ...
  • Right-Wing Media Falsely Suggest Planned Paren ...
    Right-wing media have used the ongoing budget standoff to�falsely�suggest that Republicans want to end funding to Planned Parenthood because�the federal funding is used to�"provide abortions." However, these reports have failed to note that Planned Parenthood does not and cannot use federal fun ...
  • Myths And Falsehoods: Birther Edition
    With birther conspiracy theory claims about President Obama again being hyped by the right-wing media, Media Matters looks at the myths and falsehoods surrounding Obama's birth certificate. MYTH: Obama Hasn't Released A Birth Certificate MYTH: Obama's Stepgrandmother Confirmed He Was Born In ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • New Economic Thinking Conference to Shatter Il ...
    (Steve Clemons and Joseph Stiglitz sitting in the private apartments of John Maynard Keynes, Kings College, Cambridge University; April 2010) Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and I attended last year one of those conferences that decades from now historical societies will note with a marker ...
  • Paul Ryan's Plan, the Coming Shutdown, and Wha ...
    I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor Department's 15,600 employees to go home and not return the next day. I also had to tell them I didn't know when they'd next get a paycheck. There were two shutdowns, actually, rollin ...
  • Goldstone Flinched For Reason So Many Progress ...
    A terrific article in the Jewish Forward today explains what was behind Judge Richard Goldstone's decision to amend his original findings on the Gaza war: social pressure. The article describes how Goldstone's community in Johannesburg summoned Goldstone to a meeting with the Jewish Federatio ...
  • A Heritage of Exaggeration
    To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. Even as the key players in the budget debate, from President Obama to House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) are shirking their responsibility to take a serious look at reducing military spending, a new report from the Heritage Foundation ...
  • Iraq has Oil & Afghanistan has America: Obama ...
    One of the lines working around the Middle East and South Asia is that "Iraq has oil, and Afghanistan has the U.S." The budget showdown looming in Washington now, threatening to shut down the government on Friday seems to hardly recognize the expenditure by the US in FY2011 of $119 Billion i ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • The People v. Big Energy: Bangladesh Protests ...
    Phulbari, Bangladesh - For the past six years, a growing concert of indigenous peoples in the northwestern part of Bangladesh have joined in protest against a planned open-pit coal mine here -- what would be the largest such mine in the world. The rich agricultural region has been inhabited and ...
  • Government Shutdown 2011: See How Much Republi ...
    A potential government shutdown is all the news right now, as it should be. The U.S. government could grind to a screeching halt due to Congress' inability to agree on a budget. But many of the news agencies covering this possible shutdown are painting the picture much too evenly. (i.e. Is it th ...
  • Funny Dancing Video & Insightful Commentary
    A good friend and Planetsave supporter recently shared this great video above with me. It is really worth a watch, for the interesting dancing alone.
  • Huge Environmental Organizations Merge (350.or ...
    If you haven't heard the news yet, two huge environmental organizations just decided to merge -- 350.org, which organized what was reportedly the biggest day of global action in October (the 10/10/10 day of global action), and 1Sky, a great organization that has inspired many and accomplished mu ...
  • Greenpeace 30-Second Facebook Unfriend Coal Ad ...
    Joe created an excellent cartoon to go with Greenpeace's latest Unfriend Coal video last week, as well as a nice little write-up of the campaign and where it's at. But we didn't actually share the video. Here it is.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Peru’s Less-Than-Benign Environmental Policy - ...
    Editor's Note: Axis of Logic has always been known as a "reader's site" so we make no apology for the length of this excellent research article on the Peruvian Amazon by Michael Reaney for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. In terms of its importance, it resides easily alongside reports floodin ...
  • House Votes to Kill Net Neutrality. Call for A ...
    Yesterday, the House voted to block the FCC from protecting our right to access an open Internet. If successful, the move would give phone and cable companies absolute, unrestricted power over the Internet. In the Senate, Republicans have introduced a "resolution of disapproval" that wo ...
  • Mark Weisbrot: Latin America shakes off the US ...
    The current spat with Ecuador is symptomatic of Washington's failure to grasp that it no longer exercises regional hegemony. On Thursday, the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday's expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leave ...
  • Stiglitz: Gambling with the planet - Economy
    Japan's disaster and the global recession provide stark lessons on societies' failure to manage risks, economist says.   The consequences of the Japanese earthquake - especially the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant - resonate grimly for observers o ...
  • Michel Martelly: Haiti's Uribe? - Haiti
    On a continent which has been moving away from U.S. imperial dominance, Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe was an exception. In stark opposition to defiant leaders like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Uribe emerged as Washington’s closest ally in La ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Farmer Divorce News Helps the GOP Ticket
    First, kudos to Media Czech for beating everybody - including the MSM - on this story. Rebecca Farmer, the wife KY Commissioner of Agriculture and current Lt. Governor candidate on the GOP ticket Richie Farmer, filed for divorce this Tuesday, April 5th, according to documents obtained by Barefoo ...
  • Can't we act like civil adults, asks liberal-d ...
    The Washington Post's Kathleen Parker must have been rushing off to have her nails done when she wrote her last column scolding liberals for the rough treatment they've handed out to the budget "plan" authored by Congressman Paul Ryan, which reads more like a right wing manifesto. That's because ...
  • No Money for Healthcare, But a Blank Check for ...
    Balls and strikes, baby - balls and strikes. Scott Lemieux on Monday: One of the trademarks of the Roberts Court has been to find ways around precedents without explicitly overruling them. One area where this has been particularly evident is with respect to the ability of taxpayers to bring suit ...
  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Taking, and re-taking, and re-re-taking the same acreage, over and over again. "Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, have shelled rebel positions west of Ajdabiya. There are reports the town is on the brink of falling to Gaddafi troops, in a major setback for rebels who earlier in ...
  • What is your Planned Parenthood story?
    If you choose your words wisely and don't offend or act judgmental, you can ask pretty much any woman between the ages of 40 and 50 if she has any experience with Planned Parenthood and find out that yes, indeed, she does, if not first hand then through a friend or family member, and the story i ...

Care 2

  • Malls Continue to Display Big Cats: Take Actio ...
    Just last month 8 more malls have announced their decision to end these awful events that are made possible only by over breeding lions and tigers, ripping the cubs from their mothers, and then hauling them around the country in the back of tractors...Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals �|� �Note- ...
  • Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!
    Send letters to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture to convene hearings to force the United States Department of Agriculture to enforce the Animal Welfare Act. Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • NYC Modifies Building Code to Require More Ene ...
    With a new energy benchmarking law and new regulations for heating oils, New York City is pushing hard for greener, more efficient buildings. Yesterday, the City Council�s sustainable efforts continued, with the approval of three more green building...Submitted by Nancy C. to Green Lifestyle �| ...
  • NYC Proposes Banning Toys in Happy Meals
    Last November, Inhabitat reported that San Francisco banned toys in Happy Meals that contain excessive levels of fat, sodium, and sugar, and now it looks like New York City might do the same. Today, Councilman Leroy G. Comrie, Jr. introduced a bill to...Submitted by Nancy C. to Health & Wellness ...
  • ACTION ALERT: End All PTSD Experiments on Ani ...
    Shockingly, taxpayer dollars are still being wasted for animal experiments involving cruel and pointless maternal deprivation. Emory University, for example, recently received several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct ongoingSubmitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �No ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Is The MSM Hiding Attacks On Women Journalists?
    * Bumped Up * Again? So it would seem. This time, it is in Palestine by Hamas Security officers. But I bet you haven’t heard a word about it, have you? Had it not been for Phyllis Chesler, I wouldn’t have known, either. In Chesler’s excellent post, “Arab Spring: Male-on-Female Atrocities In Gaza ...
  • Remains
    Colleague Thaddeus McCotter remarks dryly on the House floor during the same day (4/8) that the music died and the Boehner led GOP House surrendered the high ground to the toothless, bootless, feckless Democrats in the Senate and in the White House. The so-called budget deal was never in doubt: ...
  • Government Shutdown, Cable News Hysteria
    Can’t stand to watch the hand-wringing and screeching of the various cable news anchors and politicians hyperventilating about the supposed tragedy of shutting down the Federal Government. For starters it is Friday night. The Federal Government largely folded its tents about 4:30 pm today as hun ...
  • Friday Night Light * Open Thread
    If you’d told me in 1994, when I held my first job in the brave new world of the Internet, that we’d all be able to watch the TV shows we like, whenever we want, on the Internet, I’d have had a hard time believing you. In those days, just hooking up to the Internet [...]
  • Is Nancy Pelosi For Real?
    Nancy Pelosi has come out with another whopper. Honestly, I just do not understand how this woman can be so clueless, but well, she is. She is now claiming that “there is a war on women,” discussing primarily issues related to choice. And of course, this “war” is perpetrated by the Republicans. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Intracellular Invasion of Green Algae Inside S ...
    A breakthrough in biology: a species of eukaryotic algae has been discovered that lives inside the cells of salamanders. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Eating with Cannibals in Papua New Guinea
    Learn how and why some tribes ate human flesh from the people who consumed it in Papua New Guinea's Western Province read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Glittering Glacier Caves are Formed
    Spectacular images of glittering glacier caves with an explanation of how they formed from an expert glaciospeleologist! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Packaging Made from Mushrooms Could Benefi ...
    Dell Computers will ship using packaging made of mushrooms. What are the environmental benefits? Will it work as well as traditional packaging materials? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Nyiragongo: The Most Dangerous Volcano on Earth
    A photographer's story of visiting the most dangerous volcano in the world. Meet National Geographic's Carsten Peters as he climbs the Congo's mighty Mount Nyiragongo. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study
    "When I hear scientists say, 'The data speak for themselves,' I cringe," a social scientist says. "Data never speak."
  • A Fresh Take on Sea-Level Rise
    A new study confirms that the ocean has been rising in fits and starts since the 19th century -- and that the rate appears to have accelerated in the early 1990s to almost twice the rate of increase that prevailed through most of the 20th century.
  • Galloping Food Price Index Shows First Dip in ...
    The price index is still 37 percent higher than it was a year ago, with the diversion of crops to biofuels playing a significant role.
  • Clean Energy Is a Target of Ryan Budget Plan
    The congressman's plan for drastic cuts is expected to be opposed by President Obama and the Senate but it enjoys the support of many Republicans.
  • Chemistry 201: Why Is Fukushima So Gassy?
    An explosion at the nuclear plant would be powered by a combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Where are those gases coming from? From the doused seawater, gamma radiation from the nuclear fuel, and zirconium metal cladding.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
    FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
  • Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
    Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
  • Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
    We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
  • March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
    A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...

Daily Censored

  • What’s it all about, Alfie?
    It is not about spending.  But then we know that, look at the tax breaks for the super rich.  It is not about jobs because shutting down the government will KILL the economy.  So, what’s it all about, Alfie? Republicans are refusing to budge on these ideological demands: • No federal financing f ...
  • Big Budget Showdown – The Crazies versus ...
    By Michael Collins Why can’t anyone in a position of power mention the unmentionable? The Republican crazies are in a celebrity death match with sleepwalking Democrats. It is a fabricated drama amounting to not much of anything in terms of the nation’s well being. The stakes are supposedly the s ...
  • Workers at the University of Maryland say, &#8 ...
    On March 31, the UMD student newspaper, the Diamondback, wrote an article based on an anonymous letter from a non-exempt University Employee describing the work environment on campus as a “Nazi camp” and a “plantation.” “We are made to feel like idiots,” the letter said. “Our opinions are null a ...
  • US Revolution: Obama fascism is more unlawful ...
    Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Activist Post wrote a brilliant article to explain and document how the Obama administration has escalated the unlawful policies of the Bush administration. The unlawful policies of murderous wars and fraudulent transfer of trillions of taxpayers’ dollars to cor ...
  • Tim Donnelly: Racist or Rule of Law Man?
    � Nationwide, Republicans have elected extremists, whose radical agenda is now becoming apparent. It should come as no surprise that the most radical of Republicans are those that garnered Tea Party support. In California, one such radical extremist is newly elected assemblyman of the 59 Distric ...

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Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • DeFranco Hazelnut E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Hit ...
    As of April 1, 2011, the CDC reported eight persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli serotype O157:H7 were reported from Michigan (1), Minnesota (3), and Wisconsin (4). Reported dates of illness onset range from December 20, 2010 to February 16, 2011. Ill persons ranged in age from 1 ...
  • The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Warns of E ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume raw shelled walnuts described below because these products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The affected raw shelled walnuts, product of USA, were sold from certain retail stores during the specified time p ...
  • Second Salmonella Death Linked to DeFusco's Bakery
    According to press reports, the Rhode Island Department of Health said today that a second person linked to the DeFusco's Bakery Salmonella outbreak has died. A Health Department spokeswoman said the patient was a man in his 90s from Providence County. He died Thursday. The spokeswoman said t ...
  • Video - Listeria Lawyer and Attorney
    In August of 2010, Veron Foods, LLC of Prairieville, Louisiana recalled approximately 500,000 pounds of “ready to eat” sausage and hog head cheese products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The following products were subject to recall: A Louisiana State Report noted the 1 ...
  • Defusco's Zeppole Salmonella Outbreak has Sick ...
    The number of people sickened in connection with the Defusco’s Bakery Salmonella outbreak continues to climb. Here are the new numbers from the Rhode Island Department of Health: Cases of Illness between March 14 - 29, 2011 64 Cases Total (63 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) 27 Hospitali ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Milestone Accomplished: Toyota sells one milli ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota 2011 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery California Toyota dealers may or may not be running out of Priuses, but the hybrid is most certainly still popular. How else to explain the news that one million of the ico ...
  • Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
  • Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
  • Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
    Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
  • Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Egyptian American Mohamed Radwan Released from ...
    Egyptian American engineer Mohamed Radwan was arrested in Syria on March 25 and released April 1. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat interviewed him in his family’s home in Cairo on April 5 and filed this report. ANJALI KAMAT: Mohamed Radwan spent one week inside Syria’s notorious d ...
  • One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York
    On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal court, but through controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Holder blamed members of Congr ...
  • Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering ...
    On March 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear the death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, se ...
  • Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
    Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
  • Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
    Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...

Digg Green

  • 50 Years In Space [INFOGRAPHIC]
    It was 50 years ago when people first flew in space. Here's an infographic that shows you the spacecraft humans have flown to reach that great void over the past half-century.
  • 40-Year-Old Mystery of Massive Gamma-Ray ...
    A German supercomputer cluster at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany models events that unfold in just 35 milliseconds -- three times faster than the blink of an eye, has finally solved the Gamma-ray burst mystery by showing that colliding neutron stars can produce magnetic structures ...
  • APOD: 2011 April 9 - Lunar Farside
    Explanation: Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon's farside can become familiar, though. In fact this sharp picture, a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera, ...
  • Are Cavities Really Contagious?
    So much can be communicated in just one kiss - including the bacteria Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus, which flourish on teeth and gums and cause cavities.
  • Evolution of prejudice: Study reveals rac ...
    Several experiments on the uninhabited Puerto Rico island of Cayo Santiago island of have found the animals were more wary of outsiders and associated bad things with them. Racial, ethnic and religious prejudice may lie in our evolutionary past, according to new research using monkeys. Seve ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Glamour and the Ghost Cities of the Moon
    By Les Visible I speak often about attractions and desires. I think the richest person in France is the lady who is the heir to the L’Oreal fortune. When you consider the commercial industry of glamour and all that it connects to, directly and indirectly, you’re looking at one of the biggest ind ...
  • Looking for Dr. Pangloss in an Orwellian Nightmare
    By Les Visible If things seem to be moving faster, it’s not because they’ve all of a sudden gained some mysterious acceleration, even if that might be true to a degree. The fact is that for a few decades now, deluded individuals and groups have been industrious about setting the stage for an Orw ...
  • Is Japan’s Elite Hiding A Weapons Progra ...
    By Yoichi Shimatsu 4-6-11 Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of ...
  • The Pending Judgment of the New World Disorder
    By Les Visible Life operates according to a seasonal progression. We are in The Fall at present, culturally speaking, and… along with being the season of harvest; it is also a season of judgment. Harvesting and judgment are very similar. In order for circumstances, individuals and groups to be e ...
  • Drunvalo Melchizedek on ETs, Historical Univer ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Fergie Wears Dress Made From Lego Blocks to Ki ...
    We thought we’d seen Lego blocks applied to just about every design out there, but leave it to Fergie to figure out a whole new way to make use of this age old fave. Debuting her new look at the Nickelodeon Kidsâ Choice Awards, the sassy Black Eye Peas singer chose to don an incredible black ...
  • 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy ...
    You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from ...
  • Canadian Timber House Uses Salvaged Wood From ...
    Read the rest of Canadian Timber House Uses Salvaged Wood From Nearby Elk Reservehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: british columbia, eco des ...
  • Herzog & de Meuron’s Towering Triangular Skysc ...
    Read the rest of Herzog & de Meuron’s Towering Triangular Skyscraper Receives Green Light for Construction in Parishttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Po ...
  • BRC Designs’ Binary Table-01 is Made Entirely ...
    If you have a soft spot for vintage circuitry then you’ll love these spectacular tables made from outdated electronics. Designed by Benjamin Rollins Caldwell of BRC Designs, the Binary Collection is a fusion of what Caldwell describes as “mid-century modern architectural philosophies” and materi ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going
    Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion so strange they don’t even know what to call it. Although the blowup, discovered with NASA’s Swift satellite on March 28, emits high-energy radiation like a gamma-ray burst would, the event has now lasted for 11 days. Gamma-ray bursts last for a ...
  • Shark Teeth Found Stuck in Ancient Ammonite Shell
    A shelled fossil discovered in an amateur’s collection may harbor the first direct evidence of prehistoric sharks eating ammonites some 150 million years ago. The palm-sized ammonite, an extinct marine animal and distant relative of the modern nautilus, was fossilized with three shark teeth st ...
  • Real-Time Debate Feedback Distorts Democracy
    During the 2008 presidential debates, CNN unveiled their latest onscreen gimmick: A real-time graph depicting the averaged reactions of 32 supposedly undecided voters, who expressed favor or disfavor by turning handheld dials as they watched. At the time, some psychologists wondered whether the ...
  • Gut Microbes May Foster Heart Disease
    Even the best of friends can be heartbreakers. Friendly bacteria living in the intestines may contribute to heart disease just by helping digest dietary fats. Bacteria that break down a fat found in meat, dairy and some fish set off a chain reaction that leads to the buildup of an artery-clo ...
  • Plasmons Create Beautiful Full-Color Holograms
    By harnessing the power of tiny waves dancing in an electron sea, Japanese physicists have developed a novel way to project holograms that don’t change color when you move your head. “In a conventional hologram, if you change the angle, the color changes,” said optical physicist Satoshi Kawata ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • Bagram and Beyond: New Revelations About Secre ...
    This is the fifth article in âBagram Week” here at Andy Worthington, with seven articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, and ongoing updates to the definitive annota ...
  • On Guantánamo and Torture, Campaigners Send A ...
    In its tenth year of operations, Guantánamo continues to recede in the news, as though ignoring it will make it go away, rather than continuing to skew America’s moral compass from wherever it is that horrors go when they are hidden. However, while Guantánamo is still a largely unacknowledged ...
  • Holder, Obama and the Cowardly Shame of Guantá ...
    Since May 2009, when President Obama first bowed to Republican pressure on national security issues, and abandoned a plan by White House Counsel Greg Craig to rehouse on the US mainland a couple of cleared prisoners at Guantánamo who were at risk of torture if repatriated, it has been apparent t ...
  • The “Dark Side” of Bagram: An Ex-P ...
    This is the fourth article in âBagram Weekâ here at Andy Worthington, with six articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, and ongoing updates to the definitive annotate ...
  • After Wisconsin and the “We Are One&#822 ...
    On April 4, the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., over a thousand events — teach-ins, vigils, faith services and town hall meetings — took place across the United States, as part of a campaign, backed by unions, faith groups, civil and human rights activists, students a ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • New Evidence Trove Found in MLK Day Bomb Attempt
    Federal agents investigating the attempted bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane have found a pile of new evidence abandoned in a remote area near the U.S.-Canadian border. Forensic comparison tests are now being conducted at the FBI lab on 75 items to see if they are tie ...
  • Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
    Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...
  • Enraged by Florida Pastor, Afghan Crowds Kill ...
    Is Terry Jones a mass murderer? Probably not, under American law. But does he bear moral responsibility for the deaths today of at least a dozen people in Afghanistan, after mobs enraged by his March 20 burning of the Koran stormed a United Nations building and killed men and women inside? Thatâ ...
  • Arrest Reported in Spokane Terror Bombing Attempt
    A significant break in the Martin Luther King Day backpack bomb investigation in Spokane occurred this morning when an FBI SWAT team executed a search warrant and reportedly made an arrest in the small northeastern Washington town of Addy. FBI officials weren’t immediately available for comment, ...
  • After ‘Liberty Dollars’ Creator Convicted, Fed ...
    The U.S. government wants ownership of $7 million worth of coins manufactured and sold by Bernard von NotHaus, a 67-year-old antigovernment icon who became a âhigh priestâ in his own marijuana-smoking church. A federal jury in Statesville, N.C., decided on March 18 that the âLiberty Dollarsâ and ...

change: org.

  • Breaking News: Missouri Anti-Trafficking Bill ...
    A Missouri bill that would toughen penalties for human trafficking has unanimously passed through the Senate. Although newspapers reported that the Senate gave first-round approval to SB394, the bill actually passed 32-0 on Thursday, according to Margaret Howard, an anti-trafficking lobbyer clos ...
  • Pharma Continues to Raise Cost of HIV Meds Des ...
    The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Crisis continues. In fact, it is getting worse. As of March 31, the waiting list for ADAP has increased to 7,745 people in 11 states. (The number was 5,100 in 10 states when we first began reporting about the ADAP Crisis in January.) That means right at th ...
  • A New Phase: Here's to Building a Mass Climate ...
    This post is authored by 350.org Board members Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, and originally appeared on Alternet. We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible. Not for forty years has t ...
  • 5-Month-Old Puppy Starved, Left to Die on Sidewalk
    This is the story of Snoop, a five-month-old pit bull puppy who was dumped on a Wisconsin sidewalk to die. Snoop was like any other puppy; he did nothing to deserve the neglect and abuse that ultimately led to his death. His abusers — 19-year-old Bryan Hutcherson and his girlfriend — told police ...
  • Congressional Leaders Try to Reinstate Global ...
    With just hours left to negotiate a budget deal and avert a government shutdown, U.S. Republican leaders are putting ideology first - insisting on policy riders that threaten the health of poor women and their families worldwide. Not content with trying to deny funding for Planned Parenthood, th ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Budget Deal Leaves Liberals Disheartened
    The $38.5 billion deal brokered between Republicans and President Barack Obama on Friday night may have resolved the immediate threat of a government shutdown. But it didn’t take long for many liberal Democrats to begin to realize that there might be not much cause for celebration in the substan ...
  • Friends Mourn Juliano Mer-Khamis, the Palestin ...
    He had feared for his life in the past, but Juliano Mer-Khamis foresaw no danger when he carried his one-year-old son, Jay, to his old red Citro�n for the drive home from the theatre he had founded in the West Bank city of Jenin. read more
  • Julian Assange: WikiLeaks is More Accountable ...
    WikiLeaks is more accountable than democratically elected governments because it accepts donations from members of the public, Julian Assange has claimed, in his first formal public appearance since being arrested in December following accusations of rape and sexual assault. ...
  • As One-Month Tsunami Anniversary Approaches, J ...
    In the Japanese city of Minamisoma, just 18 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Tsunakawa family has returned to retrieve pets and other belongings from their home. The family was forced to flee after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima plant, causing rad ...
  • Egypt Protesters Defy Military After Crackdown
    CAIRO — More than 1,000 Egyptian protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after an overnight sit-in demonstration when the army backed down on a threat to disperse them. The protesters, who blocked the square with a charred army truck, barbed wire and beams, chanted against military chief Fi ...

Lifehacker

  • Five Best Daily Deals Sites [Hive Five]
    Daily deals sites offer some amazing, "ending soon" discounts on choice items and experiences. Here's a look at the five most popular daily deals sites. More��
  • DIY Self-Disinfecting Toilet Brush [Cleaning]
    Does the thought of the germs and bacteria that may be breeding on your reusable toilet brush gross you out? More��
  • Chemists Explain How to Make the Perfect Blood ...
    Not only is the Bloody Mary the classic Sunday morning drink, it's also the most complex cocktail, in terms of flavor chemistry. So naturally scientists are all over it. Here, tips from an American Chemical Society presentation on perfecti ...
  • Create Your Own Dvorak Keyboard [Hacks]
    Have you ever wondered why the keyboard you are using right now has the characters laid out in that particular order? The standard keyboard layout is called the Qwerty layout, and was designed around 1875. But what if you wanted to try a m ...
  • How to Make a Web Site Part V: Additional Reso ...
    This week we showed you how to create a web site using HTML and CSS... but now what? Here are some additional resources and methods you can use to learn more. More��

Water Privatization

  • Chomsky critiques western society
    Students, like many other groups in contemporary society, are being indoctrinated with notions of privatization, efficiency and distorted ideas about capitalism to keep them passive and obedient so rich people who run the corporate world can become even more wealthy.That, in a nutshell, was the ...
  • World water woes
    Where does our water come from?  What watershed are we in?  Where does our wastewater go?  What companies are we supporting with our purchasing power?  We need to start asking questions, and acknowledging the impact of our choices.  We need to take back the tap at Carleton, and ban bottled water ...
  • Union of Water Employees Against Privatization ...
    By Ina Alleco R. Silverio Bulatlat.com While the public is continually bombarded with reminders to save water, Malacañang is pushing for the privatization of the water industry which, critics say, will lead to higher water rates. Rodrigo Aranjuez, Water System Employees Response (WATER) national ...
  • Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
    ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
  • University Lectures | Activist highlights impo ...
    The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...

Guardian

  • Clegg ally threatens to quit over coalition NH ...
    MP Norman Lamb says he agrees with giving GPs more power, but attacks 'risky and destabilising' speed of legislationOne of Nick Clegg's closest allies has expressed "very real concerns" about the coalition's NHS reforms and has threatened to resign if the pace of change is not checked.Norman Lam ...
  • Rebels 'failing' as Gaddafi pushes on
    Soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi reach heart of strategic town of Ajdabiya, 90 miles from city at centre of revolutionMuammar Gaddafi's forces continued to fight their way toward Benghazi, the city at the heart of Libya's revolution, as five African leaders arrived in Tripoli in an attempt to b ...
  • Defiant Mubarak denies corruption
    Hosni Mubarak gives first public address since his removal from power, as new wave of protests turns against militaryEgypt's deposed president Hosni Mubarak has denied he stole billions of dollars from his country's coffers, in his first public address since he was removed from power by mass pro ...
  • Israel and Hamas call for Gaza calm
    Leaders from both sides appeal for restraint after escalation of violence to levels not seen since end of Gaza war in 2009Israel and Hamas appeared to have stepped back from a major confrontation after a weekend of attacks which left 19 Palestinians dead and saw dozens of rockets fired at southe ...
  • Stolen military gear 'enough for coup'
    Vast array of hardware stolen includes £50,000 worth of night-vision goggles and even an aircraft fuselageThieves stole enough military equipment from Britain's armed forces last year to "launch a small coup", according to an MP.The vast array of hardware included expensive kit needed by troops ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Charlie Sheen
    I'm working on a longer post, but if I don't finish it today, this will be my post for the day. It's obviously a symptom of our celebrity-obsessed culture, but what the hell, I want to say it ... I don't find Charlie Sheen to be amusing. The reason for this is because his condition has led him ...
  • Too Bad For you stephen harper!
    Right now, his contemptibleness is reminding me of the giant, cockroach shaped aliens at the end of "Godzilla vs. Gigan." I watched that one with my first boy over and over when he was a wee tyke. The insect-alien's last words as it lies dying on the floor of its wrecked headquarters (from which ...
  • Democracy: Familiarity Breeds Contempt?
    I have some sympathy for politically aware people who say that none of the candidates or parties in this election does anything for them. I used to feel that way at times. When Bob Rae betrayed social-democratic values as premier of Ontario, I stayed that election out. I didn't know that mike ha ...
  • Honesty is the Best Policy
    I was reading the Saturday Toronto Star this morning and I just had to take a walk away from the kitchen table. Let's see, the cover story has harper braying like a jack-ass about how he'll slash spending and taxes if re-elected. The Star reports that economically illiterate right-wing voters a ...
  • Smokestack Lightning
    Where has the time gone? Here's my post for the day.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Winslow Wheeler on the F-35: News coverage
    Winslow Wheeler’s briefings on the planned F-35 purchase (sponsored by the Rideau Institute) led to an additional round of Canada-wide coverage of the controversial purchase, which is becoming one of the hot-button issues of the current election campaign. Key media coverage included: Meagan Fitz ...
  • We’re taking action on the F-35 today
    Today we are bringing one of the most respected critics of the F-35 stealth fighters directly from Washington to Ottawa.
  • Liberals release election platform
    The Liberal Party released its latest “Red Book”, its election platform document, on April 3rd (Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, 2011). The foreign and security policy elements of the document for the most part reaffirm the positions the Liberals took in the intern ...
  • Withdrawal issues: NATO countries on the futur ...
    According to “Withdrawal issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe,” a recently released report by peace advocacy group IKV Pax Christi, there is sufficient political will within NATO to end the deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Eur ...
  • Let’s Make the Stealth Fighters an Election Issue
    Yes, I can donate $25 to stop the stealth fighters Dear peace supporter, It’s been a pitched media battle with Harper’s Conservatives and his corporate defence lobby since I last wrote you. And as you will read below, it’s about billions of dollars in military sales, deceit, corporate and govern ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-9-11
    Today, the “all-seeing” Kevin Trudeau gives you his predictions for what will happen to the US economy & the US dollar within the next 2-5 years. Plus, Dr. Tom Morter stops by to explain why Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! S ...
  • Dr. Ray Lala – Resolve Herpes/HPV
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Dr. Ray Lala and click here to learn more about how to eliminate herpes, HPV, and other viruses that may be lurking within your body! Dr. Ray Lala on The Kevin Trudeau Show 4/08/11 
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-8-11
    Today, Kevin reveals exactly how the government is spending your hard earned money! Plus, find out how to eliminate herpes, HPV, and other viruses that are lurking within your body when Dr. Ray Lala calls in from New Zealand! Self Help: Push The Viruses OUT! The Secret To Perfect Health    Coura ...
  • Government Shutdown Threat Prompts Obama, GOP ...
    April 8th, 2011 The Huffington Post Uncomfortably close to a deadline, President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders have only hours to avert a Friday midnight government shutdown that all sides say would inconvenience millions of people and damage a still fragile economy. Obama said he s ...
  • Triangular UFOs: Close Encounters With Unident ...
    April 8th, 2011 AOL News By: Lee Spiegel In recent years, there have been a lot of UFO sightings. We know that. But a question I’ve wondered about for a long time is this: What’s up with all the triangle-shaped UFOs? From the U.S. to Belgium, France, Australia and even a reported flying “Dorito” ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Where’s the best view of Benghazi?
    Whether it’s on the basis of an anti-imperialist narrative or cold-blooded realism, most of the opponents of intervention in Libya have one thing in common: bar those who belong to or a have a direct affiliation with the Gaddafi family, virtually everyone whose been beating this particular antiw ...
  • The fight for Libya
    Prospects fade for military overthrow of Gaddafi Libyan rebels said on Friday they repulsed a government assault on the besieged city of Misrata but prospects faded for a military overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. NATO leaders acknowledged the limits of their air power, which has caused rather tha ...
  • Intifada update
    Friday protests erupt in Arab world Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak’s fall. Syrian security forces killed 17 pro-demo ...
  • Obama’s secret prison network
    The Associated Press reports: “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogat ...
  • Whose flag still gets burned in Baghdad?
    As US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited Baghdad yesterday, the New York Times reported: Mr. Gates and American military commanders have made no secret of their view that some of the 47,000 American troops in Iraq should remain after 2011 as a stability force, particularly as tensions ha ...

Watts Up With That?

  • “Get Carter” campaign grows on Austrailia&#821 ...
    Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones [Note from Ric Werme: Bob asked me to help post this while Anthony was away. I'm not familiar with everything going in this matter, but the previous post appears to have been welcome in Australia. … Continue reading →
  • The pre-Climategate issue that is the issue
    Yamal and Hide-the-Decline By Steve McIntyre In The Climate Files, Fred Pearce wrote: When I phoned Jones on the day the emails were published online and asked him what he thought was behind it, he saidâ Itâs about Yamal, I thinkâ. … Continue reading →
  • The smallest sunspot cycle in two hundred years
    I missed this earlier this week from NASA, I got a bit distracted with other things. Sixty two – that’s the new number from Hathaway on April 4th, have a look: They write at NASA MSFC Current prediction for the … Continue reading →
  • Uh, oh…the clash of ice and warmth bring ...
    Snowcover hangs toughâ¦with warm Gulf of Mexicoâ¦spells spring trouble By Joseph DâAleo, CCM, WeatherBell Snow as the first week of April drew a close was still extensive across Canada and Asia. It remains well above the normal as it did … Continue reading →
  • “Snow” in Fairfield California &#8 ...
    My lovely wife and I are back home now from our medical diversion to Stanford, and everything is OK. Looks like this was the last time surgery was needed. Thanks for all the well-wishes and help everyone! While en-route on … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Armed Settlers supported by Israeli army attac ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://palsolidarity.org/ April 9, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 8.30am this morning around fifty settlers, some masked and armed with guns, descended from Yitzhar settlement onto the Palestinian village of Assira Al Qibliya. International observers from the ...
  • “Collateral Repair” – Turnin ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 9 April, 2011 Where did we leave our life behind?” I asked the butterfly circling round the light, and it burnt up in its tears.’ (Mahmoud Darwish, 1941-2008.) As the US., and UK., rope in NATO and a few straggling cronies to bring freedom a ...
  • Andrew Gavin Marshall: The “Humanitarian ...
    with Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 9, 2011 AntiVirusIVXIX on Apr 7, 2011 The Intel Hub The Intel Hub – 04/07/11 – Andrew Gavin Marshall see Qaddafi Unplugged and Uncensored â Recollections Of My Life â Muâummar Qaddafi Positively Orwellian by Dennis Kucinich Bahr ...
  • The Economic Crisis in Iceland: “IMF Med ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research, April 8, 2011 Will Iceland Vote “No” on April 9, or commit financial suicide? A year ago, in March 2010, Iceland’s economy was so small that it did not warrant much attention when 93% of its voters rejected the Social ...
  • On the Edge with Max Keiser: Ellen Brown: Ther ...
    with Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 9, 2011 PressTVGlobalNews on Apr 9, 2011 In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Ellen Brown; author of Web of Debt. US States creating their own banks-On the Edge with Max Keiser-04-08-2011-(part1) *** US States ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    In The 1960s, If You Said By The Year 2000 People Would Be Reading News & Buying Goods Online You Were Of The Lunatic Fringe A true pioneer of the internet, Paul Baran, has died at 86. This story provides a quick summary of his life and some interesting details about the early days of what we ...
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    An exceptionally brave piece of citizen reportage, considering the nuclear reactor evacuation zone of Fukushima may soon be permanently abandoned due to radioactive pollution : And if you have any doubts left about the extent of the destruction at Fukushima, here's a recent screen shot from a ...
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    Tsunami Meets Port City = Oblivion By Darryl Mason As a kid, I can't recall ever seeing actual photos of a tsunami ploughing into a city. If there was film footage of such an event, it was never shown on any TV I saw, and it's the sort of thing I would have been looking for. About all we saw o ...
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    John Patterson : We live now largely as adjuncts to our computers, as fallible back-up hard-drives made of meat, subservient one day – and perhaps already – to them and their evil sisters, the TV and mobile phone, with half our minds online, and all our experiences mediated by screens of gl ...
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    Market Street, San Francisco, 1905 : Market Street, San Francisco, 1906, one week after a massive earthquake :

Wired - Science

  • Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going
    Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion so strange they don’t even know what to call it. Although the blowup, discovered with NASA’s Swift satellite on March 28, emits high-energy radiation like a gamma-ray burst would, the event has now lasted for 11 days. Gamma-ray bursts last for a ...
  • Shark Teeth Found Stuck in Ancient Ammonite Shell
    A shelled fossil discovered in an amateur’s collection may harbor the first direct evidence of prehistoric sharks eating ammonites some 150 million years ago. The palm-sized ammonite, an extinct marine animal and distant relative of the modern nautilus, was fossilized with three shark teeth st ...
  • Real-Time Debate Feedback Distorts Democracy
    During the 2008 presidential debates, CNN unveiled their latest onscreen gimmick: A real-time graph depicting the averaged reactions of 32 supposedly undecided voters, who expressed favor or disfavor by turning handheld dials as they watched. At the time, some psychologists wondered whether the ...
  • Gut Microbes May Foster Heart Disease
    Even the best of friends can be heartbreakers. Friendly bacteria living in the intestines may contribute to heart disease just by helping digest dietary fats. Bacteria that break down a fat found in meat, dairy and some fish set off a chain reaction that leads to the buildup of an artery-clo ...
  • Plasmons Create Beautiful Full-Color Holograms
    By harnessing the power of tiny waves dancing in an electron sea, Japanese physicists have developed a novel way to project holograms that don’t change color when you move your head. “In a conventional hologram, if you change the angle, the color changes,” said optical physicist Satoshi Kawata ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • WikiLeaks – Israel
    Haaretz' coverage of WikiLeaks documents concerning Israel is very interesting and well worth reading HERE. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Gideon Levy: Israel wouldn’t need propaganda i ...
    The world knows that this is a battle between the Israeli Goliath and the Palestinian David, and its heart is with the underdog. The world heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak of a two-state... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: On Reporting from Israel and ...
    Tarachansky, The Real News Middle East correspondent. Tarachansky covers the political economy of the occupation, while also focusing on international law and its applicability to the conflict.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: On reporting from Palestine a ...
    Paul Jay interviews Lia Tarachansky, The Real News Middle East correspondent. Tarachansky covers the political economy of the occupation, while also focusing on international law and its... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Safed rabbi says struggle to keep the city Jew ...
    Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: "It is necessary to see this struggle as action completing the Law of Return and the declaration of a Jewish state, as a continuation of the redemption of lands by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Roberto Bolli, MD, to Discuss Cardiac Stem Cel ...
    Bolli and colleagues are conducting the groundbreaking study, "Cardiac Stem Cell Infusion in Patients with Ischemic cardiOmyopathy (SCIPIO)," to perfect a technique for using a patient's own cardiac stem cells to regenerate dead heart muscle after a heart attack.
  • University of Louisville Chief of Cardiovascul ...
    In honor of his illuminating work, the American Physiological Society has selected Dr. Roberto Bolli to present the Walter B. Cannon Memorial Lecture at the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting (EB 2011).
  • Scientists Develop "Universal" Virus-Free Meth ...
    Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a simplified, cheaper, all-purpose method they say can be used by scientists around the globe to more safely turn blood cells into heart cells. The method is virus-free and produces heart cells that beat with nearly 100 percent efficiency, they claim.
  • Clarkson University Students' ROI Among Nation ...
    Bloomberg Businessweek has placed Clarkson University as #20 in its list of the "Fifty Most Affordable Colleges with Return on Investment" in its College ROI: What We Found report issued April 7, 2011.
  • Reducing Revolving Door Hospital Readmissions
    Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital readmissions, the Affordable Care Act proposes a number of initiatives to improve care and health outcomes and ...

Natural Health News

  • Deer Befriends Widowed Nursing Goose
    Sometimes friendships can cross even species barriers.
  • Speech Recognition Technology that Actually Works
    With an Android phone and a good internet connection, you can now hit the microphone icon on the home screen and ask questions in a normal speaking voice -- and the phone will give back a reply. The queries can range from "what's 10 times 10 divided by 5 billion" to "directions to McDonald's". ...
  • Vitamin D Levels Linked to Arterial Stiffness
    Research has recently found that vitamin D has a protective effect against arterial stiffness and impaired blood vessel relaxation. Study participants with reduced levels of vitamin D had increased arterial stiffness and vascular function impairment. However, among those whose vitamin D levels ...
  • Major Media Finally Exposes Splenda's Lies
    Researchers recently investigated sucralose (Splenda) to see if it could reduce hunger and keep blood sugar steady.� They found that it could not. The researchers were hopeful that they would find that sucralose could cause the intestine it produced a hormone that reduces blood sugar and decrea ...
  • Warning -- FDA Issues Alert that Topical Anest ...
    The FDA has notified healthcare professionals and patients that they are receiving reports of methemoglobinemia, a serious and potentially fatal side effect, associated with benzocaine products. The condition can occur when benzocaine is used either as a spray used during medical procedures to n ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
  • Making Health the Default
    A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
  • How much meat do we eat, anyway?
    Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question.  The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry.  But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more.  So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
  • What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
    What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...

Norwegianity

  • What the clerk barfed up
    Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...
  • Kloppenburg trails after ballots found in the ...
    Didn’t really want to do a second post but new numbers from Winnebago County have put Prosser on top in Wisconsin. [more] No, they didn’t find any ballots in the trunk of anyone’s car but it’s still super close so a recall will be mandatory. Inevitable is the word I’d pick for the usual whining ...
  • Fitzwalkering themselves
    JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory with a final tally of 740,090 to 739,886. David Dayen says that if this holds up, Prosser will be only the fifth WI Supreme denied re-election in state history (but the second one in three years). Steve Singiser says Walker blames the hippy scum in Madison ...
  • Kloppenburg up, recount unavoidable
    The trouble with RSS feeds is that they don’t always update as quickly as you’d like. That and I didn’t check out the Great Orange Satan this morning which was a mistake because they’ve got the best Wisconsin election coverage of anyone. Currently David Nir puts Kloppenburg’s lead at 233 with th ...
  • Stink linking good
    Picking up where the last post left off: Dictator-loving scum Like mother, like daughter Don Blankenship revisited The gods themselves Paul Ryan’s budget: Milbank on the dogmatism, Harold Meyerson on the pain redistribution, and the Plum Line with more links $900 million for road work: Gov. Brid ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work ...
    AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work Remains Phoenix, AZ - A new study finds the United States falling behind in clean energy investments, just as Arizona is becoming a more energy-efficient state. Some say there's room for the Grand Canyon State to become more of a leader. Comments fr ...
  • Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart
    Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart Phoenix, AZ – Sometimes there’s a big gap between perception and reality when judging your own health. According to a recent American Heart Association (AHA) survey, nearly 40 percent of Americans thought they were in ideal heart health, when in reality, less tha ...
  • Triangle Fire Anniversary Today
    Triangle Fire Anniversary Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 New York sweatshop workers and led to government-enforced workplace safety rules, as well as strengthening the growing labor movement of the time. Ther ...
  • Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for ...
    Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for Rural Arizona, Small Biz Phoenix, AZ – A new report says small businesses and uninsured Arizonans living outside the state's metro areas have a huge stake in the one-year old Affordable Care Act. Comments from the report's author, Jon Bailey of the ...
  • Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range N ...
    Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range Next to National Monument Flagstaff, AZ – Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners are moving forward with plans for a regional shooting range within hearing distance of Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff. Opponents say the gunfire will dist ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism
    Pinkwatching Israel � GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly)”grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates ...
  • Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...
    Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
  • The hypocrisy of military intervention for so- ...
    The hypocrisy of military intervention for so-called 'humanitarian assistance': "(FinalCall.com) - The fast moving media discussion concerning the invasion of the North African country of Libya, under the auspices of the creation of a no-fly zone, and the destruction of “military targets” appear ...
  • In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
    thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
  • Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...
    March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Are we smarter than bacteria
    Are we really smarter than bacteria? A very clever animation by Lou Petho, Potts Point, NSW! Surely we're smarter than single-cell organisms… right? Watch this and see!
  • Environmental News 07/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Plastic in the ocean
    This image, displayed in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, shows the great amount of plastic floating in the Ocean and the terrible impact it has on the wildlife. To find out more about this issue, watch a video about the Plastic Soup (videos/plastic-soup.html), and read our article M ...
  • Mangroves in Cape Tribulation
    There are so many amazing trees (recycling-waste/cut-down-paper-not-trees.html), plants and flowers to discover in our country. Mangroves like these grow all over the tropics. They are prevalent in Australasia, in particularly on the island of Papua New Guinea and in northern Australia (glossar ...
  • Environmental News 31/03/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Intolerance–Then and Now
    This post is a bit of a departure for the website.  While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...
  • Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
    Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...
  • Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
    Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • White underclass crushed by economy
    William Bowles reviews Joe Bageant’s new book, Rainbow Pie: a Redneck Memoir.” Bageant died on March 27 from cancer. He will be missed.(I’ll be revieweing the book soon) A few excerpts. I don’t know where to start with Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. It’s a book of two sides, two faces even. On t ...
  • Henry and Mildred Tuatara mate after 40 years
    After a romance stretching over four decades, the 111-year-old male and 80 year-old female stunned the world by finally making babies. Now their reptilian romance has inspired a film — proving that even old cold-blooded animals can still get hot.
  • Testing huge wind turbines
    Some new offshore wind turbines have blades more than 260 feet long. Testing these ginormous turbines requires new technology and methods. Popular Science explores how this is being done.
  • How Wachovia laundered billions in drug money
    The Observer provides an excellent summation of a story we’ve long followed here, about how a major US bank laundered drug cartel money. You would expect Wachovia executives would have been arrested and gone to prison but no, the bank (now owned by Wells Fargo) just received a slap-on-the-wrist ...
  • Duopoly hocus pocus
    From Randy Miller via The Hankster

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • It’s the magnitude that is hard to ignore
    Joe Bastardi on the recent AV post highlighted at WUWT. H/T Reader Keith Grubb
  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale o ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rational of ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
  • Trouble with Thunderbird
    I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.   I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials.  The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...
  • Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
    I’ve been thrown out of better.   It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.   Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.   Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Ubisoft, Row Sham Bow Inc, Daglow Entertainment, Acquinity In ...
  • Facebook Roundup: White House, Twitter, MySpac ...
    White House Spokesman Not Headed to Facebook – Although there was widespread speculation that former White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs was being courted by Facebook, The New York Post reports that an interview didnât favor him. There was also speculation that Gibbs planted the story to boost hi ...
  • Facebook Promotes INQ Cloud Touch With Mobile ...
    Facebook is promoting the INQ Cloud Touch mobile handset with Sponsored Story home page ads leading to a new Showcase tab on the Facebook Mobile Page. Commonly referred to as “The Facebook Phone”, the INQ Cloud Touch recently became available for purchase in the UK. The Wildfire-powered Showcase ...
  • Facebook Rumored to be Partnering with Baidu t ...
    Several China-based publications are reporting that Facebook has signed a deal with Chinese internet search giant Baidu to create a special social network for China. Facebook’s is blocked by the Chinese government, so the rumors indicate that the company will create a new social network especial ...
  • Facebook Changes Some Like Buttons to Show New ...
    Facebook has changed the interface of Like buttons that allow comments, such that users are shown a preview of the story that will be published, complete with image and caption. Previously, users only saw a text input field for adding their comment. This will let users comment with confidence, k ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Judge Goldstone’s wobble sends wrong signal
    Stuart Littlewood explains why judge Richard Goldstone was the wrong person to head the UN fact-finding mission into the conflict in Gaza in the first place, and argues that Goldstone’s latest “wobble” could be the prelude to a new Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza.
  • Alternative strategy for liberation of Libya
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the time has come for the pro-democracy leaders in Libya to acknowledge that NATO will not help them overcome the Gaddafi tyranny and that, in order to avoid the division of Libya, they must consider inviting another Arab country or Iran to intervene directly against t ...
  • Goldstone's rethink: cleansing Israel's war crimes
    Jonathan Cook considers what judge Richard Goldstone may or may not have retracted from his original report on Israel's attack on Gaza in 2008, the validity of his apparent retractions and what may lay behind his rethink.
  • Judge Richard Goldstone alters his verdict
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the flawed logic and the tribal, personal and political pressures that may have led Richard Goldstone, the South African Jewish judge who authored the report of the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict, into altering his original verdict which suggested that Is ...
  • Judge Richard Goldstone's U-turn
    Gilad Atzmon argues that Judge Richard Goldstone's shunning of his own report into possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza is a "point of no return", signalling the need to "free our intellectual, spiritual and ethical life from any trace of Zionist ideology, from people who may have Zionist views o ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April 10
    The Conditional Antiwar Movement, FBI’s Mole in the News Business, This Week’s Hillary Clinton Joke, Pepe Escobar & the New Chalabi for Libya & More! Here is a round up with a few noteworthy developments and articles and an absurdity or two. This week Peter B Collins and I will be recording inte ...
  • The Left’s Hypocrisy? Dialing Seymour Hersh
    If Obama Does ‘It’ … Well, We Simply  Won’t Cover It! It is not easy to criticize a solid professional journalist. It is much harder to criticize a Pulitzer Prize Winning and well-respected investigative journalist. And, it is extremely hard to criticize a professional multi award winning invest ...
  • Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen Nabs George Bush ...
    Fethullah Gulen’s Cosmos Foundation Hires Bush Karen Hughes & Here is Why! Here at Boiling Frogs Post we have been covering the infamous Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen, his $25 Billion network and CIA guardians, his more than 1000 Madrasas in the Balkans, Central Asia, Caucasus and elsewhere, his ...
  • A Warm Up Round Up: Back in Operation
    The Ever Growing List of Untouchable-Notorious-Infamous US War Profiteers, Libya-Groom & Plant Candidate,  My Relocation Journey & BFP Countdown Status After a month of being away and with so much happening on all the fronts of interest I am finding it hard to pick a starting point. First, I wan ...
  • Being Proud of What We Are Not
    A Few Notes on Boiling Frogs Post in Wrapping Up Our Countdown I think it is appropriate to revisit the purpose and some of the main characteristics of Boiling Frogs Post as we are getting ready to wrap up and finalize our countdown month. Usually, as we have done, organizations and various foru ...

Afro Spear

  • “What the World Needs Now…”
    I was eleven years old. The riots were still fresh. The “Poor People’s March” had failed to ignite the revolutionary redistribution of wealth. “Soul Brother” graffiti was still plastered on burnt out buildings in DC. The faint smell of tear gas could be conjured by its mere mention. On the radio ...
  • Cote D’Ivoire Update: BBC
    From the BBC: Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants EU sanctions lifted Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. Mr Ouattara now controls the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, and wants to restart ...
  • Cornel West on Aljazeera
  • Why I Appreciate the Black Blogosphere and the ...
          Because our voices are local and they are global. Black people are all over the world speaking truth to power in the way that matters to them! And just what are we talking about? And do we have a right to speak “our truths”? Well as I have gone through the black [...]
  • Les Twins — Hip Hop Dance Straight Outta ...
    At the beginning of the year, I was on Facebook when I noticed a post of young twin hip hop dancers. I was blown away by their talent as I watched the brothers Larry and Laurent start actually dancing. Fantastic doesn’t even begin to describe them! There are many dancers out there and most of [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
    Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
  • UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
    On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
    This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
  • Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
    [Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...
  • Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
    The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
  • LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
    Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
  • Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
    The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Border War - UN Committee Scolds Mexico for La ...
    According to the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, “it’s obvious that in Mexico the so-called ‘migration business’ exists and it is very worrying that the government has made no significant progress in prosecuting those responsible ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Al-Qaeda Operatives Recrui ...
    According to Brazil's Veja news magazine, members of the Islamic terrorist groups Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas are operating in Brazil, where they hide, raise money, recruit new members and plan attacks. The April 3 report alleged that�at least 20 high-ranking members of the three groups operat ...
  • Edge of Terror - Do Gaza Rockets Cause Enough ...
    Since the start of the Palestinian War in 2000, terrorists from inside Gaza have fired no fewer than 12,000 Kassam rockets, GRAD missiles and mortars at southern Israel, including more than 6,000 since Israel unilaterally withdrew from the area in 2005, and nearly 100 since the beginning of Marc ...
  • Arab World Unrest - Qatar's Quest to Become th ...
    The small Persian Gulf state of Qatar is emerging as a significant international player in the Libyan crisis and a crucial supporter of U.S. policy. But its relationship with the United States has often been difficult, and its standing in the rest of the Arab world is questionable. For Washingto ...
  • Japan after the Quake - Fukushima Plant to Rel ...
    Tokyo's main electric power company has begun a planned release of thousands of tons of water from a damaged nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.The water, which is about 100 times more radioactive than Japan's legal limit, is collected in several areas inside the reactor buildings. But t ...

High Country News

  • The way the West was can be seen again
    Watching sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River in Nebraska is like stepping into a time machine that takes you back an unspoiled, wild West.
  • Photographer Sharon Stewart on the acequia tra ...
    The photographer discusses landscape photography and her immersion in a tiny New Mexican town.
  • Group sues to stamp out tolerance anddiversity
    A successful one-month voluntary climbing ban, designed to respect Native American religious practices at Wyoming's Devils Tower, provokes a lawsuit from the Mountain States Legal Foundation.
  • Island Hoping
    In On Oct. 19, 2002, a group of people working to preserve the diversity of the Sky Islands is holding a one-day conference to promote awareness of the region.
  • LEDs ought to be leading the way
    Forward-thinking towns and cities are lighting their streets with LEDs -- light-emitting diodes -- that save both energy and money.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Who Won't Talk? The Palestinian Authority, Not ...
    By Barry Rubin There�s a wonderful line in the great film, �Arsenic and Old Lace� in which the main character, played by Cary Grant, learns that his relatives are all quite insane. He remarks, �Insanity doesn�t just run in my family. It gallops!� So it is with anti-Israel bias in the ...
  • Some European Intellectuals Go Insane With Hatred
    By Barry Rubin People in English-speaking countries are often horrified and outraged by what�s published in their language�s mass media. They have no idea what�s being published in other European languages! This article isn�t typical but it shows the kind of lynch-mob insanity seizing ...
  • The Budget Deal---Good or Bad?
    Just a few weeks ago the progressives in congress were complaining that a $32 billion dollar budget cut was draconian last night they agreed to a $39 billion dollar cut. In the first major battle of the 112th congress it is clear that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has earned ...
  • Who Wants Democracy? And Who Gets American Bac ...
    BENTLEY [American journalist]: �You gonna be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament?� ALI: I will tell you that when I have a country. BENTLEY: Ha! Ha!�� ALI: Did I answer well? BENTLEY: You answered without saying anything. That�s politics. You learn quickly.� ...
  • Newsbusted: Barack Obama's Actual Religion Dis ...
    Barack Obama may have inspired more Americans to find God than any other President in recent history. Thanks to Obama millions of Americans are praying to God for things like a Job or protection from SEIU thugs, that they will be able to keep their health care, or even that the guys from the New ...

The Real Agenda

  • Globalists, Climate Alarmists Move Forward wit ...
    Reuters April 8, 2011 Rich and poor nations overcame deep divisions on Friday to cut a deal that maps out U.N. climate negotiations for 2011, building on last December’s agreement in Mexico and hardening the focus on tougher issues. The deal in Bangkok came after nearly four days of talks that s ...
  • Reaping What Bretton Woods Has Sown
    The International Forecaster April 2, 2011 The seeds of today’s monetary problems were laid at Bretton Woods, NH in 1944, as a combination of socialists, communists and fascists laid the groundwork for the IMF, the World Bank and the eventual elimination of gold from the monetary world. The Fede ...
  • General: U.S. ‘may consider’ troop ...
    First, it was Obama saying the U.S. would not be the police of the world. Then, came Libya. The U.S. said no ground troops. Now, they are ‘considering it’. What is next? CBS April 8, 2011 Army Gen. Carter Ham says ground forces wouldn’t be ideal, but may be a possible way to aid rebels; [...]
  • Chefe da Interpol quer uma Identidade Biométri ...
    The Real Agenda Abril 8, 2011 O chefe da Interpol, tem enfatizado a necessidade de um cartão de identidade global verificável por via electrónica (e-ID) como parte de um sistema que inclui trabalhadores migrantes. Ronald K. Noble disse isso em um fórum internacional em projetos de identificação ...
  • Jefe de INTERPOL quiere una Identidad Biométri ...
    The Real Agenda Abril 8, 2011 El jefe de INTERPOL, ha hecho hincapié en la necesidad de una tarjeta de identidad a nivel mundial verificable electrónicamente (e-ID) para un sistema que incluya a los trabajadores emigrantes. Ronald K. Noble dijo esto en un foro internacional sobre proyectos de id ...

Wind Watch

  • Rare sea eagle killed by wind turbine
    A white-tailed sea eagle introduced to the Killarney National Park from Norway three years ago has been killed after colliding with a wind turbine near Kilgarvan, an area designated as suitable for wind farms in the Kerry county development plan. Although such collisions are common in Europe and ...
  • Ill winds are blowing
    Thirteen landholders in the Crookwell district are in shock after receiving letters from a wind farm developer giving them three months to sell out or live in the shadow of 73 giant wind turbines. The situation flows from a Land and Environment Court decision late last year giving the developer, ...
  • Eddington residents enact strict wind ordinance
    EDDINGTON, Maine � Residents in town discussed the wind energy facilities ordinance for about 20 minutes, with people speaking passionately for and against the 35-page draft that is one of the strictest in the state, and then residents resoundingly endorsed the measure. �We should be looking at ...
  • Residents sue town over municipal wind turbine
    FALMOUTH â Neighbors of the controversial municipal wind turbine off Blacksmith Shop Road are suing the town. Six West Falmouth residents filed the lawsuit Monday in Barnstable Superior Court. In the suit, they ask a judge to reverse a vote last month by the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals, whi ...
  • Wind farm opponents rally; Backdraft from prop ...
    COLEBROOK � Residents and some neighbors from Winsted and Norfolk stood up overwhelmingly in opposition to plans to build six wind turbines here during the first of two hearings on Tuesday. Residents who spoke before the Connecticut Siting Council at Northwestern Regional High School in Winsted ...

Not My Tribe

  • “Bring your gun to school” day kil ...
    Yeah, the ones who keep saying that MORE guns will deter such crimes, they’re on it already. Babbling their retarded shit about how a whole bunch of trigger-happy goons firing into crowds will somehow not get even more accidental victims killed or maimed. The God-Damn Army has rules about that, ...
  • Why not sue faith-healers for malpractice?
    I know a person who has a partially displaced hip, old compression fractures of the lower spine, walks around in pain every day. Doctor says “use your cane, it will keep the discs from deteriorating further, take pressure off the back and the hip, you’ll have a lot less pain”. But, somebody told ...
  • Doug Bruce files fake state tax return, gets b ...
    one of the inconsistencies was on his Federal Tax he posted more money given to “charities” than he took in income. Even counting the RepubliCan’t and TeaTard definition of “charity” to include buying guns for the MinuteMurder Militias, organizing Astroturf Roots Parties, and then taking it all ...
  • Republicans trying for another vote-fraud powe ...
    supposedly, in a last minute miracle, Prosser and Scott Walker and their Corporate Overlords were SAVED by 7200 extra votes, all Republican, misplaced by Human Error. Oh, please. Walker, Prosser, other Koch-worshipers, you’re pathetic beyond belief.
  • Brits on Kenya: “Oopsies!!”
    Turns out that the common knowledge of the past 50+ years was right, the American backed British colonial government was, despite American and British denials, murdering, torturing and “disappearing” people, just like they did in every other nation where they sent in the Royal Marines to take ov ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Clinton told it like it is...
    I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...
  • Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader
    ae911truth YouTube.com Mar 19, 2011 AE911Truth's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Tom Sullivan - Former Explosives Loader for Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary "9 ...
  • Health problems related to 9/11 will be felt f ...
    Eric Stevenson 911debunkers.blogspot.com Certainly, living in America, all of our lives were changed nearly 10 years ago on September 11th, 2001. As days moved on, more and more were added to the death toll in the ensuing weeks afterwards. What’s not common knowledge is that some of the effec ...
  • The Debunking the Debunkers Exploding Paint Ar ...
    It's been two years now since the publishing of the Active Thermitic Material ... paper, and over the last two years the debunkers have gone to great lengths to deny this forensic proof of demolition. We at Debunking the Debunkers have been following the thermite denialists closely, and have w ...
  • You're Either in Sheen's Korner or You're With ...
    My new t-shirt I found at Hot Topic. :) Related Info: The Sheen comments that matter Charlie Sheen and Some Facts About 9/11 for President Obama to "Deal With" Scootle's "Twenty Minutes With The President" Contest Entry Debunking dsglop's ridiculous answers to Charlie Sheen's 20 points to O ...

Fooducate

  • Interactive Infographic Reveals the Reason We ...
    Check out this interactive infographic. It shows a breakdown of our calorie consumption for every year since 1970 til 2008. Hover your mouse from left to right and you’ll see the progression (if it can be called that) of consumption over the past 4 decades. On the year the Beatles broke up, we c ...
  • Save America’s Babies from Obesity: Join Dr. G ...
    Fooducate recently presented at the Health 2.0 conference in San Diego. On stage, facilitating the discussion on food as a preventive medicine, was Alan Greene, MD, FAAP, pediatrician, author, and Stanford professor. His website, DrGreene.com, has been online since 1995! Dr Greene, who is alarme ...
  • Fooducate App v 1.4: Product Search, iPod Scan ...
    We’ve just released version 1.4 of the Fooducate iPhone App, and we’re really excited. Most of the features here are based on your requests: Textual Search – Now you don’t need to have a product in front of you to learn about it. Just type in its name or some keywords to get a list [...]
  • The Truth About Carbohydrates
    This is a guest blog post by Shoshi Domb. The sun is shining, the snow is melting, and summer is right around the corner. As summer arrives, so does diet season. Since there are so many diets on the market it is sometimes hard to choose a sensible one. Regardless of the diet that you [...]
  • 10 Things to Know About Rennet [It's in your c ...
    We recently received an interesting inquiry from a Fooducate community member: I just learned what “rennet” is (an enzyme used to make most cheeses and which is usually derived from the lining of calves stomachs).  You can imagine what an unwelcome surprise this might be to some people. For exa ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Malaria outbreak could reach uncontacted Indians
    Numerous tribes are threatened by the Madeira River dams project © © Clive W. Dennis/Survival The lives of uncontacted Indians living close to the Madeira dams in the Brazilian Amazon are at grave risk from a malaria outbreak in the area. New figures released by a local Mayorâs office re ...
  • Police charged for role in Bagua massacre
    A wounded protester is beaten by police, Bagua, Peru © Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen Three senior police and army officers have been charged in connection with the deaths of 33 Peruvians during clashes between Amazon Indians and police in June 2009. Violence erupted in the northern Ama ...
  • Inter-American Commission orders Brazil govern ...
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Telma Monteiro/ Survival The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered the Brazilian government to suspend construction of the Belo Monte dam until the rights of the thousands of indigenous people in the area are respected. The B ...
  • World Health Day: Uncontacted tribes at risk o ...
    The Nukak have been decimated by diseases since contact © Gustavo Pollitis/Survival Survival has warned on the eve of World Health Day (April 7) that uncontacted tribes face massive population loss if their land is not protected. Tribes like the Amazon Indians shown in the incredible aeri ...
  • Ecuador’s government under Indian attack
    Crossed spears found on a path in northern Peru, in the region where oil company Perenco is working. Crossed spears are a common sign used by uncontacted Indians to warn outsiders to stay away. © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization has launched an unprecedented ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle kitchen cupboard doors?
    My friend Katherine is getting a new kitchen soon and I’ve unofficially bagsied her (wood or woodish) kitchen cupboard doors – for reusing for other stuff rather than just putting in our kitchen. Lots of still-in-good-condition kitchen cabinets are given away from Freecycle/Freegle or sold on eB ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle the metal frame fro ...
    Over on the “suggest an item” page, the bookstorebabe said: Broken umbrellas were done a few years back, but most of the suggestions were reuses for the umbrella fabric. How about specifically the metal frame, as is or taken apart? Any clever ideas, anyone? Over on the old umbrella page, Pamela ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a futon?
    We’ve had an email from Nicki: How can I recycle a futon? I think I’ve got a friend who will take the frame but she doesn’t want the mattress. What can I do with that? I suspect, like all mattresses, they won’t be too not too popular secondhand as they’re hard to clean, especially if [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a room divider/screen?
    At some point in the long forgotten past, I bought a room dividing screen thing. I think the idea was that we would use it to shelter off the messy desk whenever we had guests staying over in our spare room/office in our old house but to the best of my knowledge we never used [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle roofing felt?
    We’ve had an email from Daniel: Can I recycle roofing felt? I have a lot of small pieces to get rid of. I’ve not heard of it being recyclable and looking into it, it seems unlikely because it’s several hard/impossible to recycle materials all squished together. The better option would be to use ...

Age of Autism

  • Riddle Me This: Has Autism Awareness Turned in ...
    By Cathy Jameson Autism Awareness month will be half over this week. In those first two weeks of awareness, one of the biggest news stories about autism included tragedy: a three year old non-verbal child went missing in Canada. After...
  • After News International Hacking Scandal Quest ...
    By John Stone Questions remain about the journalistic culture which gave rise to the News of the World hacking scandal in which the Murdoch ruled News International has just admitted culpability (HERE ). Brian Deer, who has conducted a seven...
  • Tell Mike Strautmanis and Anand Parekh Your Au ...
    The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Full Committee meeting that will take place on Monday, April 11, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET in Washington, DC. The meeting will feature special presentations and activities to celebrate HHS Autism...
  • Kim Stagliano: Evelyn Guzman Given Accelerated ...
    Photo credit: Autumn Driscoll, CT Post newspaper Managing Editor's Note: I posted my oral statement to the judge at the end of this post. That's me holding the 84 page petition (with a Bella on top), 1099 signatures and comments...
  • North Texas Autism Action Month Event Features ...
    In honor of Autism Awareness Month - April 2011 The Autism Trust USA Warrior Parents of Dallas & the National Autism Association of North Texas Warmly Welcome: Dr. Andrew Wakefield & Rupert Isaacson & Kristin Neff For a FREE Presentation...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.S. Lawmakers Reach Budget Deal to Avert Gove ...
    Bloomberg – U.S. Congress leaders reached an accord to slash $39 billion from federal spending this year while jettisoning Republican provisos that would have defunded Planned Parenthood and blocked environmental rules, pulling the government back from the brink of a shutdown with less than two ...
  • Japan’s Stricken Nuclear Reactors Spared Damag ...
    Bloomberg – A 7.1-magnitude earthquake minutes before midnight spared the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan, although workers struggling to cool radioactive fuel were evacuated, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said based on its initial assessment. The aftershock was the strongest since ...
  • Students aim to combat malaria with smartphone ...
    Reuters – A team of graduate students has created a new smartphone application they say will allow healthcare workers in remote locations to diagnose malaria cases on the spot. But first, the students hope their application wins this weekend’s Imagine Cup 2011 national finals in Seattle. The 9th ...
  • Ivory Coast: UN warns of Gbagbo advance in Abidjan
    PressTV – The UN says forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo have reinforced their positions in the city of Abidjan as they struggle to break a siege enforced by pro-Ouattara forces. Read article
  • 30 militants killed in Pakistan
    Press TV – Dozens of Pakistani militants have been killed and several others injured after security forces attacked their strongholds in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region. Local sources told Press TV that Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts in the Swaran ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Lake Tahoe logging plan ignites a court battle
    Should the scorched forests around Lake Tahoe be logged and replanted, or should they be allowed to regenerate at nature's pace? That's the issue at the heart of a lawsuit filed recently in U.S. District Court in Sacramento by the...
  • California farmers, ecologists square off over ...
    Should farmers in the Central Valley, California's richest agricultural region, be required to monitor and clean up groundwater pollution from their operations? The issue will be taken up by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board at a three-day...
  • The elderberry longhorn beetle: a new endanger ...
    The lawsuit points out that the USFWS in 2006 found that the Valley elderberry longhorn beetle was no longer “threatened.” But the federal agency still has not removed it from the list of species fully protected under the Endangered Species Act.
  • Wind energy: headed for a slowdown?
    The 5,116 megawatts of wind power installed in the U.S. in 2010 was just half the amount put in during the record year before, but the industry still grew 15%, according to an annual report from the American Wind Energy...
  • Freeway air pollution linked to brain damage i ...
    ow, exposure to vehicle pollution particulates roughly one-thousandth the width of a human hair has been linked to brain damage in mice including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study to be published Thursday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

water.org

  • Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
    Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...
  • Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
    Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
  • Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
    Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
  • Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
    Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
  • Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
    Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • 10 Landmark Court Cases in Womens Rights
    On Tuesday March 29th, discussions began in the class-action lawsuit disputing the workplace policies of Wal-Mart, marking the start to what could be the largest Supreme Court case concerning women�s rights in decades. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • India's Literacy Rate rises to 74.04%
    In a significant development, India's literacy rate rose by 9.21% to reach 74.04% in 2011 as compared to 64.83% in 2001. The women in India scored a point over the men when it came to literacy. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Migraine heart link in children
    Children who see flashing lights during a migraine have twice the normal likelihood of having a hole-in-the-heart, a study suggests.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Court hears argument in Wal-Mart sex bias claim
    The justices suggested that they are troubled by lower court decisions allowing the class-action lawsuit to proceed against the world's largest retailerSubmitted by EarthSpirit Angel to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Imagine if…
    After being convicted of these crimes, Struck requested a lenient sentence from the judge because the man who kidnapped, beat and tortured a 15-year-old Palestinian claimed to be a �law-abiding citizen with no prior convictions.�Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UN Documentary Forum to Fight Against Hunger W ...
    Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, said the choice of poverty and hunger for this year's event was particularly timely given the approaching target date for the MDGs.
  • U.S. Confronts Hatred Through Diplomacy, Publi ...
    Hatred comes in many forms. Ms. Rosenthal define hatred directed against people on account of their religion, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or differences of political opinion or due to their country of origin.
  • Human Rights Practices - State Department Issu ...
    Ms. Otero considered the report as one way of providing credible thoughtful, analytical information to all of those people around the world, whether it is non-governmental organizations, universities, other governments who are specifically looking
  • Israel Responds to Grad Missiles, Rockets and ...
    Over the past 48 hours, terror organizations in the Gaza Strip fired over 70 Grad missiles, rockets and mortars at Israel.
  • Brazzaville Declaration to Combat Non-Communic ...
    The declaration called for urgent action against non-communicable diseases, including heart conditions, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory problems, blood disorders, mental health, violence and injuries.

Worldnews

  • 7 Warning Signs That An Employee Is Overs ...
    Burton Goldfield, Entrepreneur | Apr. 10, 2011, 8:06 AM | 753 | A A A � x Email Article From To Email Sent!...
  • Morgan Freeman says he's excited about 'D ...
    Morgan Freeman is promoting the film "Born to be Wild", a new nature 3D IMAX movie, in which Freeman provides the narration. During interviews Friday and Saturday, Freeman has conducted interviews answering questions about "The Dark Knight Rises" as well. "The most exciting thing about it i ...
  • How To: Be a Savy n' Healthy Food Shopper
    Take Inventory Make a list of the foods you enjoy cooking, eating and preparing for yourself and/or your family. Be sure to jot down your must-haves and staples for your fridge and pantry such as vegetable broth, canned tuna fish, wheat-free soy sauce, seltzer or fresh greens. Each househol ...
  • Man accused of animal cruelty in death of ...
    Grady Whitlock, 82, of Mount Hope died Thursday at the Raleigh County Hospital. A cause of death has not been released. Back in February Whitlock was arrested and...
  • BENAYOUN: TORRES WILL COME GOOD
    Yossi Benayoun has insisted Fernando Torres remains "the best striker in the world", despite seeing the Spaniard extend his goal drought. Torres has gone 817 minutes - more than 13-and-a-half hours - without scoring for club and country, with his misery continuing in Chelsea's 1-0 Barclays ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Budget Deal Leaves Liberals Disheartened
    The $38.5 billion deal brokered between Republicans and President Barack Obama on Friday night may have resolved the immediate threat of a government shutdown. But it didn’t take long for many liberal Democrats to begin to realize that there might be not much cause for celebration in the substan ...
  • Friends Mourn Juliano Mer-Khamis, the Palestin ...
    He had feared for his life in the past, but Juliano Mer-Khamis foresaw no danger when he carried his one-year-old son, Jay, to his old red Citro�n for the drive home from the theatre he had founded in the West Bank city of Jenin. read more
  • Julian Assange: WikiLeaks is More Accountable ...
    WikiLeaks is more accountable than democratically elected governments because it accepts donations from members of the public, Julian Assange has claimed, in his first formal public appearance since being arrested in December following accusations of rape and sexual assault. ...
  • As One-Month Tsunami Anniversary Approaches, J ...
    In the Japanese city of Minamisoma, just 18 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Tsunakawa family has returned to retrieve pets and other belongings from their home. The family was forced to flee after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima plant, causing rad ...
  • Egypt Protesters Defy Military After Crackdown
    CAIRO — More than 1,000 Egyptian protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after an overnight sit-in demonstration when the army backed down on a threat to disperse them. The protesters, who blocked the square with a charred army truck, barbed wire and beams, chanted against military chief Fi ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • FEPC Fukushima Reactor Status Update For April ...
    Update to Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthquake The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) Washington DC Office As of 12:00PM (EST), April 8, 2011 Radiation LevelsThe concentration of radioactive nuclides from the seawater sampled at the screen device ...
  • Is the Electric Car’s Tax-Free Ride Coming to ...
    The tax-free joyride electric and hybrid-electric vehicle owners have been enjoying while cruising the highways and byways of America may soon be a thing of the past.
  • Unconventional Energy and Transportation Wisdom
    Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation asked me to speak on a panel yesterday -- the entire thing was recorded and is available here -- along with Jed Kolko of the Public Policy Institute of California and Shin-Pei Tsay of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The topic was "unc ...
  • Global Market Impact Starting To Be Felt From ...
    The global energy market consequences of the devastating earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 are already starting to be felt, but so far, impacts have been more in spot LNG markets than in oil markets.� That�s because the increased demand for oil to burn for electricity generation will b ...
  • Congress Defers to EPA on Climate Policy
    The confrontation over climate policy that was teed up by the results of last November's mid-term election culminated with the House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly yesterday to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

Green House - USA Today

  • Wearable, self-powered batteries in the works
    How cool is this? Replacing or recharging batteries may become a thing of the past if this idea by New Zealand researchers can be commercialized: wearable batteries.
  • USDA offers incentives to boost E-85 flex fuel use
    The Obama administration announced Friday that it will give gas stations financial incentives to install pumps for a higher blend of corn-based ethanol fuel.
  • House nixes EPA climate rules but Senate prote ...
    The GOP-led House of Representatives moved Thursday to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, but its effort was largely negated by Senate rejection of such a measure a day earlier.
  • IKEA to develop green product scorecard
    Ikea, the global home furnishings retailer, is developing an internal scorecard of its products this year to promote the use of sustainable and recyclable materials.
  • Rolling Stones' Leavell: Mother Nature Network ...
    Chuck Leavell, a renowned keyboardist, has spent decades touring the world with the Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers, George Harrison, Eric Clapton— you name it. But as if that's not interesting enough, he also co-founded Mother Nature Network, which has expanded quickly.

Prior Art

  • Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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  • Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
    By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...

Peoples Voice

  • GOP’S UNBALANCED BUDGET HAIRCUT
    Allen L Roland It’s grand Kabuki theater in Washington, DC these days with both parties politically posturing, our Appeaser in Chief President straddling the middle and everyone ignoring the two elephants in the room ~ tax cuts for the rich and out of control defense expenditures. In yet an ...
  • A Question Of Values And Ethics
    by Brian McAfee The Muskegon Tea Party has scheduled a rally in the Muskegon area for April 15, it is important to take a look at them and their Republican cohorts to see what they are up to and what they really seem to want. First, of course, in worshipful homage to the rich there was the tax ...
  • The Zionists wield their influence by winning ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Stuart Littlewood is a British writer and photographer. He is the co-author of the book "Radio Free Palestine" in which he has elaborately described the plight of the Palestinian nation under the Israeli occupation. Littlewood's articles on the cause of the Palestin ...
  • Judge Goldstone’s wobble sends wrong signal
    Stuart Littlewood "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document,” says Judge Goldstone in a bombshell article in the Washington Post that set Zionist champagne corks a-poppin’. But what exactly is it Goldstone now knows that suddenly weakens h ...
  • Ryan turns knife on Medicare, Medicaid
    By Margaret Flowers, M.D. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee, unveiled two proposals this week which if enacted would constitute a mortal threat to our nation’s health – particularly to the health of our seniors and our most vulnerable p ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Making It Count: CCPA's federal election blog
    The CCPA has launched a federal election blog to bring you expert analysis on the issues that will—or should—define the election. Making It Count features timely commentary from CCPA staff and research associates, who will be weighing in everything from the economy and federal finances to the ...
  • Will the middle class have to learn to do with ...
    That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations of millions of Canadians". Read the column here.
  • Living Wage 2011: how much does a family need ...
    CCPA-BC has just published Working for a Living Wage 2011, which shows that the living wage for Vancouver in 2011 is $18.81 an hour, up from $18.17 last year, and far higher than the $10.25 minimum wage planned for next year. A living wage enables families to pay for necessities, support the h ...
  • So you think you can budget
    From corporate tax cuts to seniors benefits, everyone on Parliament Hill seems to think they know what should be in the budget. But can you do better? What if you were finance minister for a day, what would be in your budget? We've developed an interactive budget tool based on our Alternative F ...
  • Canada's military spending higher now than any ...
    A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the end of the Second World War, thanks to twelve years of budget increases. Canada is the 13th largest military spender in the world and the 6th largest within the 26-member NATO alliance. The study points o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Dutch mourn victims of mall killing spree
    By Darren Mara | dw-world - The Netherlands was trying to come to grips with a deadly shooting in a small town over the weekend. Church bells tolled for the victims as questions began to be asked as to how such violence could have occurred. Shock washed over the Netherlands on Sunday, April 10, ...
  • Welcome To America
  • The Big Picture: Mexico’s Drug War
    Mexico’s drug war | Boston.com Mass graves. Dismembered corpses. Entire towns besieged. Macabre visions grow in depravity as the drug war in Mexico drags on. Since President Felipe Calderon began using the army to contain the violence four years ago, rival gangs have escalated their turf battles ...
  • Wake ‘N’ Bake 101: Capitulation
    WWH – You know that great, ol’ Dr. John samba/shuffle, “(I was in) The Right Place“? I started hearing it when I was reading Robert Reich on Friday. As usual, Robert Reich is right, but it’s about the wrong thing, and he’s also therefore wrong about his central prescription: “…But if the shutdow ...
  • Mystery of the ‘naked’ penguin chi ...
    By DAILY MAIL REPORTER – Scientists are baffled by a wildlife mystery: Why are some penguin chicks losing their feathers? The illness known as feather-loss disorder has hit colonies on both sides of the South Atlantic and no one knows what is causing the condition. Researchers from Washington, S ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
    From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
  • The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
    According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...

Salon

  • Egypt's Mubarak denies abuse of power
    Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is denying that he abused his authority to amass wealth and property in his first speech since his ouster.
  • White House: Obama to lay out spending plan
    A top White House political and economic adviser says President Obama will lay out new plans this week to reduce the federal deficit.
  • The Washington Post's dependence on the govern ...
    The Washington Post this morning published a lengthy article detailing the fortune -- and now the trouble -- generated for its parent company, The Washington Post Co., as a result of its acquisition of Kaplan Higher Ed. While The Post continues to lose money, Kaplan -- particularly its sprawl ...
  • Obama signs short-term bill staving off shutdown
    President Barack Obama has signed a short-term spending bill to pay for federal operations through Friday.
  • Right-winger + hard time = compassion?
    Last week, disgraced former congressman Duke Cunningham wrote a letter to several media outlets from the federal penitentiary where he has resided since 2006. In it, Cunningham, a conservative Republican who pleaded guilty in a public corruption case in 2005, waxed eloquent about an unlikely ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • FEPC Fukushima Reactor Status Update For April ...
    Update to Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthquake The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) Washington DC Office As of 12:00PM (EST), April 8, 2011 Radiation LevelsThe concentration of radioactive nuclides from the seawater sampled at the screen device ...
  • Is the Electric Car’s Tax-Free Ride Coming to ...
    The tax-free joyride electric and hybrid-electric vehicle owners have been enjoying while cruising the highways and byways of America may soon be a thing of the past.
  • Unconventional Energy and Transportation Wisdom
    Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation asked me to speak on a panel yesterday -- the entire thing was recorded and is available here -- along with Jed Kolko of the Public Policy Institute of California and Shin-Pei Tsay of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The topic was "unc ...
  • Global Market Impact Starting To Be Felt From ...
    The global energy market consequences of the devastating earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 are already starting to be felt, but so far, impacts have been more in spot LNG markets than in oil markets.� That�s because the increased demand for oil to burn for electricity generation will b ...
  • Congress Defers to EPA on Climate Policy
    The confrontation over climate policy that was teed up by the results of last November's mid-term election culminated with the House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly yesterday to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

EU Times

  • Russia Orders Missile Alert After Mysterious ‘ ...
    A shocking ‘top-secret’ report prepared Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) on their meeting this past week with Prime Minister Putin, in Novgorod region, warns that our planet Earth is ‘under attack’ by an as yet unnamed ‘extraterrestrial entity’ to which President Medvedev has ...
  • Researchers find superbugs in Delhi drinking water
    A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday. The NDM 1 gene, which creates what some experts describe as “super superbugs”, ha ...
  • Evolution of prejudice: Study reveals racism i ...
    Racial, ethnic and religious prejudice may lie in our evolutionary past, according to new research using monkeys. Several experiments have found the animals were more wary of outsiders and associated bad things with them. The research was conducted on the uninhabited Puerto Rico island of Cayo S ...
  • UK ‘disappointment’ as Iceland rejects repayme ...
    Icelanders have rejected the latest plan to repay the UK and Netherlands some 4bn euros lost when the country’s banking system collapsed in 2008. Partial referendum results show 58% voting no, and 42% supporting the plan. Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland’s Prime Minister, said the rejection meant ...
  • Infiltrating Europe’s shameful trade in human ...
    Olga winced as she drew back the bandage on her right breast, revealing an infected puncture wound that hadn’t healed since a man bit her in a fit of sexual rage. But the wound, for which the 19-year-old Moldovan lacked even basic medicine, is only a small part of Olga’s daily agony. For more th ...

Stonecipher News

  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • At Lincoln Memorial, Obama again makes point t ...
    President Barack Obama has found the monuments of Washington to be quite the picturesque backdrops for making the point that a government shutdown was averted. Obama surprised visitors at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday not long after signing a short-term bill to keep the government open after ...
  • Civil war, Ivory Coast-style
    It's 10 in the morning in Abidjan, and at least a quarter of the soldiers around me seem drunk. One man, sporting a gas mask, is offering me a beer. Nearby another heavily armed group is driving off in a car, packed with looted kitchen appliances. Suddenly there's a burst of incoming gunfire. I ...
  • Boehner Secures the Futures of D.C. Children
    In a momentous victory for D.C. schoolchildren, Speaker John Boehner succeeded in reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program in the long-term continuing resolution to which the Obama administration agreed just before midnight. As Kathryn noted late last night, “John Boehner just wal ...
  • Army says ready to use force to clear Cairo sq ...
    Army says ready to use force to clear Cairo square ..CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling generals said on Saturday they were ready to use force to end protests in Tahrir Square after troops cracked down on demonstrators overnight and sparked violence that medical sources said killed two people. So ...
  • Shaw gets Kobe's endorsement
    PORTLAND, Ore. -- Brian Shaw has always appeared to be the odds-on favorite to replace Phil Jackson when he retires from coaching at season's end. Neither of them has spoken publicly about the possible transition during the summer, but Kobe Bryant did on Friday in an interview with a reporter f ...

Groklaw

  • Google CEO Promotes Engineers in Management Sh ...
    The seven known promoted executives-five of whom are software engineers like Mr. Page-include the chiefs of video site YouTube and mobile-device software Android. They will report directly to Mr. Page, a company spokesman said. The move comes the same week Jonathan Rosenberg, a senior vice pres ...
  • Steve Wozniak says would consider return to Apple
    "My thinking is that Apple could be more open and not lose sales," said Wozniak, but added: "I'm sure they're making the right decisions for the right reasons for Apple." - Reuters
  • If the [US] Government Shuts Down, Will the Fe ...
    The answer to the above question, in a word, is no. That is, at least not right away. The National Law Journal has kept its pedal to the metal on how a potential government shutdown might affect the federal courts (click here and here), and the bottom line is that the courts would keep runni ...
  • Justice Approves Google's ITA Deal With Condit ...
    Under a settlement with the Justice Department, Google will be required to continue to license ITA's software to online airfare-search sites for five years on terms described in the settlement as "reasonable and nondiscriminatory," and it must continue to fund research and development of that so ...
  • Judge in Oracle-Google case gets a lesson in Java
    Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco was given an overview of Java and why it was invented, and an explanation of terms such as bytecode, compiler, class library and machine-readable code. The tutorial was to prepare him for a claim construction conference (also calle ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • White underclass crushed by economy
    William Bowles reviews Joe Bageant’s new book, Rainbow Pie: a Redneck Memoir.” Bageant died on March 27 from cancer. He will be missed.(I’ll be revieweing the book soon) A few excerpts. I don’t know where to start with Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. It’s a book of two sides, two faces even. On t ...
  • Henry and Mildred Tuatara mate after 40 years
    After a romance stretching over four decades, the 111-year-old male and 80 year-old female stunned the world by finally making babies. Now their reptilian romance has inspired a film — proving that even old cold-blooded animals can still get hot.
  • Testing huge wind turbines
    Some new offshore wind turbines have blades more than 260 feet long. Testing these ginormous turbines requires new technology and methods. Popular Science explores how this is being done.
  • How Wachovia laundered billions in drug money
    The Observer provides an excellent summation of a story we’ve long followed here, about how a major US bank laundered drug cartel money. You would expect Wachovia executives would have been arrested and gone to prison but no, the bank (now owned by Wells Fargo) just received a slap-on-the-wrist ...
  • Duopoly hocus pocus
    From Randy Miller via The Hankster

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
    Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
  • Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
    Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
  • Open thread, early April 2011
    Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
  • More on Turkey/Syria
    On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
  • What can be done in Syria (and could have been ...
    Syria is, like Libya, a one-man-ruled country with a long history of having been on Washington's hit-list that in the past two weeks has witnessed mounting popular protests and government attempts to crack down. I have made periodic reporting trips to Syria for 35 years now and have a broad ran ...

frogblog

  • General debate, April 10, 2011
  • Our advantage is low wages, says Bill English
    Remember all that talk of “catching up with Australia“? It was a big part of Nationals rhetoric in the 2008 election, followed by the Don Brash 2025 Taskforce, etc? Bill English: …over the next few years New Zealand’s advantages would become more apparent. “One is the wage differential. We have ...
  • Sharks need a better PR strategy
    Sharks suffer from bad PR. Just this week the Kaikoura District Council voted 7-1 to paint over a local mural because it features a basking shark, which local tourist operators thought may ‘scare’ tourists. Never mind that basking sharks are endangered, protected in New Zealand and are gentle fi ...
  • Earth. Let’s not frak it up
    It’s Armageddon this weekend! The Green Party will be at this weekend’s Armageddon pop culture expo in Wellington running a stall with this Battlestar Galactica themed banner encouraging people to enrol to vote in this year’s General Election. Come join candidates James Shaw, Tane Woodley and me ...
  • Greens could lead Government in Germany, and h ...
    The Greens are now the largest opposition party in Germany, according to a poll commissioned by news magazine Stern. Support for the center-left environmentalist party has risen to 28 percent, seven points higher than in the previous survey. The Social Democrats (SPD), traditionally Germany’s la ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 8 April 2011
    Yesterday was play-with-string day. The string itself is out of the frame in both these pictures, but on the left Domino is waiting for the string to come back within reach of her paws, and on the right Inkblot is watching the string dangle above his head. What are you going to do for playti ...
  • Paying for What We Get
    Andrew Sullivan writes today that healthcare costs are skyrocketing and there are basically two way to rein them in: If we want to reduce this giant suck from the rest of the working economy, there are two options: have a government body decide which treatments can be afforded and which c ...
  • Map of the Day: High Frequency Trading Locations
    Via Tyler Cowen, A. D. Wissner-Gross and C. E. Freer investigate where you should open a high-frequency trading facility given that light-speed propagation delays are a key factor in arbitraging trades between two exchanges. After much fiddling with partial differential equations, they come ...
  • The GOP Yanks the Football Away Again
    This is quite a budget showdown we're having, isn't it? The original Republican proposal asked for $32 billion in cuts, and after considerable grumbling Democrats eventually accepted that. But by that time Republicans had moved on, proposing $38 billion in cuts. Democrats are now willing to ...
  • Taxes, Cost Controls, and Medicare
    Speaking of fiscal reality, Austin Frakt reminds us that the federal budget, including Medicare, is actually in pretty good shape if we follow current law. Here's the CBO's projection of the primary budget (i.e., excluding interest payments): Are Democrats willing to raise taxes in order ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 240: Shutdown
    Topics: People who abuse ‘reply all’ Old lady shuts down an entire country’s Internet service Lebron’s mom gets arrested The politics of the government shutdown Glenn Beck is leaving his daily show…is it really a victory? Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Fredrick Douglass and S ...
    Just when you thought the anti-abortion movement couldn’t get any worse….Arizona jumps into the fray and shouts “Checkmate Bitches!!!” A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5 Mo ...
  • IC 239: I Blame OJ
    Topics: Drunk dialing Teacher makes fun of student’s hair on Facebook….but for good reason Snooki gets $32,000 to speak to college kids We’re doing it all wrong Everything is OJ Simpson’s fault Share with your friends:
  • IC 238: Student Athletes
    Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
  • No One Does Fear Like Glenn Beck…No One…
    The hilarity from this video is almost too much. Which country in the Middle East has the same morals as us? Well Glenny, if you include the shadiness of the U.S. government then of course the answer is Israel. Of course we know that’s not what Beck meant. Remember, he’s not talking bad about Is ...

Simple Climate

  • Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
    By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
  • Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
    Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
  • 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
    Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
  • Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
    By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

e!Science News

  • NIH researchers identify cause and new treatme ...
    A preliminary study conducted by a team at the National Institutes of Health has identified a promising new treatment in children for the most common form of a rare disorder. The syndrome is called periodic fever associated with aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis — or PFAPA — ...
  • Roberto Bolli discusses cardiac stem cell trea ...
    Heart failure affects roughly six million Americans, yet treatment consists of either a heart transplant or the insertion of mechanical devices that assist the heart. This is unacceptable to Roberto Bolli, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Louisville in Lo ...
  • NASA's Kepler helps Iowa State's Kawaler, astr ...
    NASA's Kepler Mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 sun-like stars, giving astronomers a much better idea about the nature and evolution of the stars. read more
  • IPF drug fails in new trial
    A new study has demonstrated no significant benefit of taking the drug bosentan for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). read more
  • Breast-cancer awareness now in national consci ...
    Each October, the color pink marks the arrival of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Media coverage, product promotions and even the football gridirons showcase the national effort to promote screenings and early detection of the cancer that 200,000 American women are diagnosed with each ye ...

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Brave New Climate

  • Fukushima Daiichi nuclear saga – 2 to 9 ...
    The nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi has, alas, now evolved into more of a saga. The last seven days of events has been acted out in slow motion compared to the first dramatic week (dating back to almost a month ago), but there continues to be plenty of headaches for TEPCO — and no clear [...]
  • Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese ...
    Below is the second piece published on BNC on the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. For an earlier perspective, see: Preliminary lessons from Fukushima for future nuclear power plants. Below is a Guest Post by Dr. William Sacks. Bill is a highly experienced physicist a ...
  • Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. For another terrific article by Geoff, related to Fukushima and radiation risk read: Cancer deaths in Japan will be from alcohol ...
  • Some other perspectives on Fukushima
    Apart from getting on with my life (e.g., building a new computer, catching up with my backlog at work, spending time with the family, etc.), I’ve been spending the last few days reading widely on what other people have had to say, in reflection, on the Fukushima crisis. Here are some highlights ...
  • Fukushima Daiichi crisis – April 1 persp ...
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has moved off the front page of most newspapers, but a lot continues to happen, and the situation remains unresolved. Below I offer some personal perspectives on some of the things that have been widely reported over the last few days, and then I conclude wit ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism
    Pinkwatching Israel � GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly)”grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates ...
  • Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...
    Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
  • The hypocrisy of military intervention for so- ...
    The hypocrisy of military intervention for so-called 'humanitarian assistance': "(FinalCall.com) - The fast moving media discussion concerning the invasion of the North African country of Libya, under the auspices of the creation of a no-fly zone, and the destruction of “military targets” appear ...
  • In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
    thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
  • Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...
    March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • The Tea Party Traitors
    Isn’t it obvious that the tea baggers are working to destroy our nation? I mean obvious to people that aren’t mentally retarded of course….
  • The Fix America Plan
    Correcting America’s financial problems is easy. We ALL will have to sacrifice some. Including corporations. Including the filthy rich, the rich, the middle class, and the rest of us. Here is the fix America plan that would work. End the Bush tax cuts. Tax corporations a 20% on global income bot ...
  • What Do You Mean?
    So let me get this straight. Is the middle class waking up? Are they finally starting to figure out that having corporations screw us for our own good isn’t actually good for us? Is having the middle class pay more taxes so corporations don’t have pay any income tax really what’s good for Americ ...
  • Shame Shame Shame
    Shame shame shame shame shame
  • David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
    We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • WATCH: Racist protest in Tel Aviv targets refu ...
    Racism in Israel is nothing new. There is racism against Palestinians, against Arabs, against non-Jews. There is racism between Jews from Europe and Jews from Arab countries. In our racism, we are no different from many other Western countries. However, the past year in Israel has seen an a sign ...
  • Gaza and the Negev: Setting the stage for the ...
    This is a post about how Israel prepares for war. I don’t know if we are going to war. But the awful attack on a school bus by an anti-tank missile fired from Gaza on Thursday, seemed tailor-made to push Israel over the edge. Following weeks of escalation between the IDF and Hamas, the airwaves ...
  • Interview: Abbas on Hamas, refugees and indepe ...
    By Roee Ruttenberg On Tuesday, I had a unique opportunity to sit down with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Amman, Jordan.  We discussed the peace process (or lack thereof), refugees, prisoners, Gilad Shalit, incitement and diplomacy. The interview aired on CCTV News ( ...
  • Eight arrested as Nabi Saleh protests continue
    The demonstrations against the Occupation in Nabi Saleh have experienced major setbacks in recent months. The demonstrations been taking place for over one year despite serious military repression. The two leaders of the community, Bassem and Naji Tamimi, have both been arrested by Israeli soldi ...
  • Four notes on the upcoming war in Gaza, “Scorc ...
    Who turned down the ceasefire: In a couple of months, when the operation takes a turn for the worse – either when some soldiers get hit by an IED (improvised explosive device), or when an IDF missile will miss its target, as usual, blowing up a Gazan kindergarten – we’ll have to remember: Hamas ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Murray-Darling Basin water purchase rounds an ...
    Water Minister Tony Burke today announced a tender for water purchases in the southern-connected Murray system in Victoria and South Australia under the Gillard Government's new approach to recovering water for the environment through smaller, more consistent tenders.
  • Product Stewardship Bill introduced
    The Gillard Government today introduced into Federal Parliament the landmark Product Stewardship Bill, which will help manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products including televisions and computers.
  • Support for Murray-Darling Basin communities
    Tony Burke, Minister for Water, today announced that the Gillard Government will invest in Murray Darling Basin communities with support to implement water savings initiatives.
  • Wilgie Mia on National Heritage List
    Wilgie Mia, an ochre mine near Cue in the Murchison district of Western Australia and used for centuries by Indigenous people, will be added to Australia's National Heritage List.
  • Victorian Government told to get cattle out o ...
    Mr Burke said after considering advice from his department, he had determined cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park satisfied the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act requirement that it 'may be' a controlled action.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • WOW! Palm Beach Post Nails It– Are Judge ...
    Palm Beach Post Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Please Watch 60 Minutes Tonight!
    For a variety of reasons, I’ve been a bit quite on the blog of late.  I certainly don’t have less to say and things have not gotten better to where I feel I can stop…..I’m just biding my time…..and preparing. Good law continues to be made in most of my cases and while that gives [...]
  • Our Hero Lynn Syzmoniak on 60 Minutes This Sunday!
    As this war rages on, it’s easy to focus on all the ways we are losing the battle for integrity, for justice, for the respect of basic law and respect for important Constitutional rights. It’s demoralizing to go into courtrooms day after day, continuing to fight the same battles over and over an ...
  • A MONSTER ORDER VACATING A FINAL JUDGMENT OF F ...
    Florida’s courts are underfunded to a level that violates our fundamental Constitutional rights. Florida’s legislature has whittled down the funding of our court system so that our courts are funded with only .07 of the state’s entire budget. During this year’s legislative session, the legislato ...
  • RICK SCOTT IS THE ANTICHRIST-HELP ME BOO HIM O ...
    Looks like the front doorstep of my office will be ground zero in the battle to BOO RICK SCOTT. We’re all warning about the terror and tragedy that is descending upon EVERY SINGLE FLORIDIAN and I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERY READER OF THIS BLOG. PLEASE COME OUT TOMORROW TO PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • “Yikes”
    Campaigns are supposed to be a battle of contrasts and this one certainly has shaped up in such a manner. But they can also offer a heavy dose of hypocrisy. A number of people and organizations were upset yesterday with the National Citizens Coalition and its mangling of Canadian sensibilities w ...
  • Why Elizabeth May Must Be In The Debates
    Jeffrey Simpson did us all a huge favour today with his Globe and Mail column, “Climate change? Not in this campaign.” His conclusion? “The Harper government’s 17-per-cent reduction target can’t be met with policies now in place, and every expert knows it. Canadians just don’t care. So the issue ...
  • Campaign Insider – Canvassing (Education)
    The University of Western Ontario – one of Canada’s finest learning institutions – is in my riding, so clearly post-secondary education is important to London. The city also houses Fanshawe College. Going door-to-door canvassing, we hear about concerns from both parents and their kids about the ...
  • Get ‘em While They’re Young
    Yesterday I spoke about politics to a joint gathering of two grade five classes at St. Martin’s school in London’s Old South district. I had promised I would do it before I knew there was an election but felt I couldn’t break the commitment. I was to talk for a few minutes then permit them [...]
  • Proper Vetting
    I spotted him early and had no idea who he was. But it was clear he was miffed and not about to be placated. It was a few days ago at the Ignatieff event in London and I wondered if it would create some difficulty. The Liberal leader was still about 20 minutes away, and [...]





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