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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 II

2020 Science

  • A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
    OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
  • Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
    This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
  • Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
    Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
    I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
  • The art of regulating nanotechnologies
    The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Pembina reacts to the Green Party platform
    Pembina Institute 7 Apr 2011 OTTAWA, ON — The Pembina Institute's Clare Demerse made the following statement in response to today's launch of the Green Party's campaign platform: ...
  • Declining Grasslands and Species at Risk
    On the Environmental Law Centre blog, Laura Bowman posts on the decline on native grasslands in Canada, and the threats posed to the species at risk in Alberta that rely on grassland habitats. Bowman identifies deficiencies in the recently posted Recovery Strategy for the Sprague’s Pipit (Anth ...
  • Call for Input: Lower Athabasca Regional Plan
    Organization:� Government of Alberta Land Use Secretariat Initiative:� Lower Athabasca Regional Plan ...
  • Edmonton Bicycle Commuters is hiring summer po ...
    Edmonton Bicycle Commuters�(EBC)�has posted three terrific summer job opportunities for students: Cycling Education�Coordinator Artist In�Residence Bicycle Events�Coordinator Application deadline for all three positions is April 15, 2011 at�5:00pm. ...
  • Alberta’s caribou left out in the cold, again
    Ecojustice 5 Apr 2011 EDMONTON — The highly-anticipated Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP), rolled out this morning to much fanfare, is another glaring example of Alberta’s unwil ...

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war: April 10
    ==== NATO’s Libyan War: Nearly 1,500 Sorties With 200 Aircraft NATO Destroys 17 Libyan Government Tanks, Ammunition Depots African Union Calls For End To Conflict In Libya West’s Libyan War Zigzagging Into Blind Alley Edward Herman: Gilbert Achcar’s Defense Of Humanitarian Intervention ==== NATO ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 9
    ==== NATO, Recolonization Of Africa, BRICS And Silent Lambs Post-Cold War NATO Expansion: No Neutrals Left In Europe U.S. Considers Sending Ground Troops To Libya Libya, AFRICOM And The U.S. Scramble For Africa After Libya And Ivory Coast, Obama Condemns Syria Western Nations Must Abandon Illusi ...
  • STOP NATO News: April 8, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 8 From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa Threatened With Western Military Subjugation ==== No To War – No To NATO Network Congress In Dublin U.S. Prepares For Landmark Interceptor Missile Test Georgia Ready To Join NATO In “2-3 Years” Abkhazia: Two Georgia ...
  • From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa T ...
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 8 ==== Stop NATO April 8, 2011 From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa Threatened With Western Military Subjugation Rick Rozoff On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military oper ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 8
    ==== Back To Africa: Swedish Jets In First Combat Mission In 50 Years Italy Flies 108 Air Missions For NATO’s Libyan War Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Libya: Sarkozy, The New War President Russian, Venezuelan Presidents Cal For Peace In Libya NATO Solidarity: German Okays “Humanitarian” Troops To Li ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Men (and Women) Who Stare At Codes
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas April 10, 2011 Editors Note: Figure it out and pass it on. Feel free to reproduce it in sticker form, web form, poster form or tattoo form, whatever you fancy. Please Share This With Everybody! Scan It With Your Smart Phone!
  • Bretton Woods II: The Destruction Of The US Do ...
    Federaljacktube4 April 9th, 2011 George Soros has been labeled by many as an economic terrorist yet brainwashed liberals literally believe this man is working for them. People need to understand that this is an OPEN push for world government that is not only horrible, it is TREASON. It is absolu ...
  • EPA Finds Japan Nuclear Radiation In Milk ABOV ...
    The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins - Contributing Writer April 9th, 2011 The EPA has finally released some of the radiation data it has been collecting: Los Angeles milk radiation was above federal drinking water standards. Radiation found in Phoenix milk was almost at the federal drinking water ...
  • Nuclear Radiologist: Don’t Be Fooled By ...
    Enenews.com April 9th, 2011 Don’t be fooled by the spin: radiation is bad, Sydney Morning Herald, April 8, 2011: Dr Peter Karamoskos is a nuclear radiologist and a public representative on the radiation health committee of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency … There see ...
  • Brian Camden of ‘Hardened Structures&#82 ...
    NotForSale2NWO April 8th, 2011 The Intel Hub Radio with special guests Brian Camden of Hardened Structures. April 7th 2011 Download/Listen to full show here http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Intel_Hub/Intel_Hub.2011-04-07_16k.mp3 The Intel Hub http://theintelhub.com http://theintelhubradio.com H ...

FRS

  • US and Israel Police Jointly Train, Exchange, ...
    Police training programs twin US-Israeli racism Hira Mahmood and Wafa Azari, The Electronic Intifada, 7 April 2011 The racism of the American “war on drugs,” especially in the south, is notorious. So is the racism faced daily by Palestinians. In Atlanta, a university program allows these two man ...
  • Violent army crackdown on Cairo protesters sho ...
    Clashes erupt around Cairo’s Tahrir Square AlJazeeraEnglish on Apr 9, 2011 Egypt’s health ministry has confirmed the death of at least one person following clashes between protesters and the military. Hundreds of soldiers stormed Cairo’s symbolic Tahrir square, after demonstrators formed a human ...
  • The US as Shepherd of Nepali Peace
    US ready to provide ‘limited support’ for combatant rehabilitation The United States has said it is ready to provide” limited support for some aspects of rehabilitation” of the Maoist combatants provided Nepal’s political leadership shows readiness to take the peace process forward. Robert O. Bl ...
  • Nepal: Thoroughly rupture with Revisionism, an ...
    SAVE THE REVOLUTION! By KJA (email address: kja.2011@hotmail.co.uk) (A long time supporter abroad of the revolution of Nepal) (Originally published in the Nepali language journal Samayabaddha (Modern Times) in November 2010) While everyone who has supported the Nepalese revolution from the begin ...
  • Background on “Western powers grab for L ...
    21 March 2010. A World to Win News Service. *The Western powers now bombarding Libya like to pretend that their so-called humanitarian intervention is something new in the world. It would be something new and amazing if the US and Europe were fighting to liberate an oppressed people, but that’s ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
    During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
  • Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
    We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
  • Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
    We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
  • The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
    Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...

StillSmallVoice

  • A little more reading with Sunday's column...
    To read the column, go here. To read more about the Nuremberg trials, go here. To read the Nuremberg Code, go here. To read more about the Saint Jane Doe presentation, go here. To read more about SNAP, go here. Michael McAndrews photo for The Courant
  • Top this:
    Two kids -- ages 6 and 3 -- quoting Matthew 7, of the Sermon On the Mount. I'm not even sure I, Bible thumper supreme, can do that. Happy Weekend.
  • A fabulous answer to an ignorant rant
    Here's what prompted this video. And thanks, Christopher, for the link.
  • Tammy Duckworth's coming to Hartford
    Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth will talk about eliminating homelessness among veterans at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 18,�at Hartford's Lyceum. Duckworth's speech will be followed by a panel discussion that includes Sharon Castelli of Chrysalis Center, and Margaret Middl ...
  • Single-payer health care is cheaper
    DickG. sends this, an argument for a vast, vast, vast restructuring of our health care "system," which really isn't a system at all, but more a reaction to a crisis. As DickG. says, a private health care system is more expensive because it must charge for all services, in addition to paying for ...

Associated Content

  • $38.5 Billion in Budget Cuts Agreed To, Averti ...
    Literally at the last minute, President Obama, the Senate Democrats, and the House Republicans agreed to a package of budget cuts totalling $38.5 billion in a continuing resolution that will fund the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: ...
  • Donald Trump Rises in the Polls, Could Be True ...
    As odd as it might sound, businessman and reality show star Donald Trump could be a real contender for the Republican nomination for a 2012 presidential bid. Or say a couple of recent polls...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Apr 09, 2011
  • Charlie Sheen Bombs at Radio City Music Hall
    Having failed to impress at the Detroit performance of his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour, Charlie Sheen moved on to New York and opened at Radio City Music Hall. In many ways the New York performance was a greater disaster than the Detroit one.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 09, 2011
  • Politicians' Quotes on Budget Debate Focus on ...
    Let's take a look at some of this week's comments by politicians on the budget debate.Contributor: Gregory Schmidt Published: Apr 08, 2011
  • Sony Halted by Hacker Collective
    A fight between Sony and a collective of hackers over security shortcomings reached a head when the "Anonymous" collective launched a distributed denial of service attack on Sony's servers, calling security into question.Contributor: Matt Hawk Published: Apr 08, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, April 4-8, 2011
    Disclaimer: In the future, you will not have to worry about spills like this one, what with the superhydrophobic fabrics and all. But that technology is not widely available quite yet, so the t-shirt you could win simply by retweeting us on Twitter is susceptible to saturation by liquids of all ...
  • Study Finds Commonly Used Silver Nanoparticles ...
    Nanotech is looked upon by many as the next great enabling technology that will revolutionize (and is revolutionizing) everything from materials science to disease therapies to game-changing new energy technologies. But, according to a new study by Queen’s University researchers, some commonly ...
  • Rinderpest, the Cattle-Killing Plague, to Beco ...
    The UN will formally announce the triumph this summer The plague begins with a fever, weepy eyes and a drippy muzzle. Dysentery and diarrhea follow, and then death by dehydration. Rinderpest sweeps through a herd quickly, and can kill half its animals in a matter of weeks. The loss of thousands ...
  • 'Retina in a Dish' is the Most Complex Tissue ...
    Researchers in Japan have grown a retina from mouse embryonic stem cells in a lab, but this isn’t just another incremental advance in tissue engineering. Scientists claim their “retina in a dish” is by no small degree the most complex biological tissue yet engineered. If the breakthrough can be ...
  • Neuroscientists Engineer Mice That Make Better ...
    Adding newborn brain cells to an aging brain can improve memory and decision-making, according to a new study. Adult mice with newborn neurons in the hippocampus, which governs memory and learning, were better able to distinguish between similar events and make better-informed choices. Combined ...

Veterans Today

  • U.S. Government Looting Social Security To Wag ...
    “As long as the $1.2-trillion annual budget for the military-security complex is off limits (to cutting), nothing can be done about the US budget deficit except to renege on obligations to the elderly, confiscate private assets or print enough money to inflate away all debts,” Paul Craig Roberts ...
  • Veterans Still Affected by Increasing Problems ...
    Veterans-For-Change would like to bring to the attention of Congress, POTUS and the general American Public the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day. President Obama has clearly stated, âWhether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our respons ...
  • ALLEN L ROLAND: GOP’s Unbalanced Budget ...
    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: Allen L Roland � In yet anoth ...
  • Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact
    By Stefano Ambrogi Stefano Ambrogi – Fri Apr 8, 5:52 pm LONDON (Reuters) – A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it. The Dornier [...]
  • Politician tackles gunman who shot officer on ...
    SHOOTING ON ROYAL NAVY TOP HUNTER-KILLER SUB LONDON: A Royal Navy officer was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting on a British nuclear-powered submarine which was only halted when a visiting politician tackled the gunman. Another member of the navy was arrested on suspicion of mur ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Gotcha! US Faulted by WTO on Susidizing Boeing
    Today, the WTO finally released its panel report on the EU's complaint against the United States regarding American subsidies for Boeing (case # DS353). This, of course, is the countersuit launched by the EU in the wake of the US launching a case against Airbus on launch subsidies (DS316). I hav ...
  • USTR Ron Kirk on Moving Doha Forward
    I guess the points put forward here will not surprise many since the US trade representative is tasked with promoting trade liberalization first and foremost. For what they're worth, here is Ron Kirk on the US position regarding the aforementioned topic, all the while emphasizing the reasonablen ...
  • Japan Says Don't Overreact to 'Nuked' Foodstuffs
    With alarming news reports coming out of Japan on a nearly daily basis about how various foodstuffs are exhibiting raised radioactivity levels--whether the bulk of them are true or not I cannot ascertain for obvious reasons--its trading partners are becoming understandably wary of importing Japa ...
  • Like Greece & Ireland, IMF Shouldn't Help Portugal
    Now I'm hopping mad! I know that I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but in the interest of fairness, I will fight the good fight even if no one else will do so. Bravely I must soldier on in this bleak and unbearable world. Previously, I have argued that the IMF should not have ...
  • Why I Still [Heart] Trade War, US Federal Shutdown
    I've just come from an engaging talk by Martin Wolf at the LSE. In his take on one of Aesop's fables, China and other industries have been, in recent years, industrious "ants" busy saving up through thrift and industry. Meanwhile, the likes of the US and the UK have been loafing around, singing ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Is America Becoming The Land Of The Part-Time ...
    Do you need a good job?  If so, there are millions of other Americans that are just like you.  Unfortunately, most of the jobs that are available in America today are either part-time jobs, temp jobs or are "independent contractor" jobs.  The "full-time job with benefits" is a d ...
  • Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
    Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing.  Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months.  Now those price increases are ...
  • 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
    If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while.  New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
  • Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
    Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
  • 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
    How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
    As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
  • Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
    Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
  • Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
    There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
  • Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
    Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
  • Who’s Looking After The Children?
    “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...

WL Central

  • 2011-04-09 Syrian security fires on mourners a ...
    TweetMass funerals were held in Syria today for the protesters killed yesterday, now reported as 37 by the National Organisation for Human Rights. In Dara'a, security forces fired on the mourners as thousands assembled near the old Omari mosque where six people were killed on March 22 and where ...
  • Call for the Release of Ai WeiWei
    TweetPetition from Change.org started by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. We members of the interna ...
  • Avaaz petition for Bradley Manning
    TweetStop Wikileaks Torture - Sign the petition To President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: We call on you to immediately end the torture, isolation and public humiliation of Bradley Manning. This treatment is a violation of his constituti ...
  • 2011-04-08 WikiLeaks Challenges Media's Gateke ...
    TweetCitizens who are concerned with the state of media and democracy in the United States have gathered in Boston to talk about how to reform media. People are here to dig into some of the biggest developments in media, technology and democratic society to get closer to a truth, which can help ...
  • 2011-04-08 Vote for Julian Assange (Again) i ...
    TweetVote for Julian Assange in The 2011 TIME 100 Poll,

U N News

  • Successful polls a sign of Haitians' yearning ...
    The United Nations envoy for Haiti said today that the recent successful electoral process in the Caribbean nation is a demonstration of the resilience of its people and an indication of their determination to build a better country for themselves.
  • Continued US support vital to UN's success, Ba ...
    As United States lawmakers remain embroiled in a heated budget debate, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for continued support from the largest contributor to the United Nations system so that the world body can carry on with its important work.
  • Haiti will continue to need strong internation ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged the continued assistance of the United Nations for Haiti, which, while having made significant gains in recent months, still faces a number of daunting challenges such as reviving its crippled economy and strengthening the rule of law.
  • Ban to discuss UN's work with officials in Was ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to discuss with United States officials the work of the United Nations in a number of critical areas, his spokesperson announced today.
  • UN welcomes calm atmosphere as initial results ...
    The United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti today welcomed the release of the preliminary results of the country's presidential and legislative elections and urged Haitians to continue to show patience and calm in the lead-up to the release of final results.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • Leonard Cohen exposes the New World Order thro ...
      It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the [ ...
  • I can prove that the Canadian Government Suppo ...
    First off Kadhafi Duck is a looney-toon thug. He has always been a tyrant but we, as a Western Civilization, have tolerated his evil because he sold his oil to the world. With a brief history lesson of the area, unbeknownst to the bulk of you mindless drones who know no better, Libya has been [. ...
  • Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
    This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
  • The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
    The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
  • Alex Jones On The View
    Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...

Truth About Our World

  • The memo that ‘proves aliens landed at R ...
    hhhmmm, why are they releasing this now?  Supposing these documents are real…  Are they conditioning us to their (alien) existence so they can then use the “aliens” in a much grander scheme to bring about what they want—the New World Order?  Since the idea of aliens won’t be so “alien” to pe ...
  • The Price Of War (graphic)
    I always pray that these videos and stories are not true…
  • A Prescription for ‘Global Warming’: Doctors t ...
    By Neil Foster � The Sovereign Independent - As reported on The Sovereign Independent website in August 2010, the British military already have a plan drawn up to engage and control the British public in light of future trends likely to affect our society as it collapses. The report titled �Stra ...
  • Scientists issue urgent world-wide warning on ...
      First thing that comes to my mind:  biological warfare?  More lies/exaggerations?  Watch, they’ll come up with a vaccine for it… Well, I’m not frightened…   by: S. L. Baker   Nuclear meltdowns. Oil spills. More strife in Africa and the Middle East. GMO tainted crops. So what else could happ ...
  • FBI Launches 1 Billion $ Biometrics Project Wi ...
    http://vigilantcitizen.com � The FBI launched this week a massive program aimed to record all citizen�s biometrics data. This will eventually enable instant surveillance and recognition of any individual walking on the street or entering a building. The 1 Billion $ deal was awarded to Lockheed M ...

Bloomberg

  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same
  • HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
    The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Hitachi's Plasma TV Gets the Picture
    The new 55HDT51 delivers high image quality in a sleek package with a generous screen, although the remote's layout is confusing
  • Applications That Get a "Yes"
    Do Harvard and Wharton scrutinize differently? Clear Admit answers this and other queries about getting into the right MBA program

Enviroblog

  • New old news: 2004 Industry Tests Found 'Brock ...
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Tap water industry representatives made no mention of their chromium-6 2004 study when they testified alongside EWG at a Feb. 2 Senate environment committee hearing on chromium-6 pollution. Some water utility... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Toxins in Our Kids' Foods: Where is the FDA?
    Guest Post by Laurie David and Robyn O'Brien, EWG Board Member Yesterday, in the face of a just- released report by the National Cancer Institute that showed a 9.4% increase in childhood cancer between 1992 and 2007(1), the FDA let... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic ...
    By Alex Formuzis with Sonya Lunder In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to the United States.... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Spring relieves electricity crisis
    The newly-arrived, mild Norwegian spring looks set to spare the country an electricity crisis, as rain and melting snow relieve the pressure on the country’s reservoirs, and reduce energy prices. Although reservoirs remain at historically low levels, the status of the energy supply in the count ...
  • Several still trapped in Ivory Coast
    13 Norwegians remain in the Ivory Coast as the conflict there intensifies, with Norwegian foreign ministry officials working to bring them home. All 13 are currently in different places within the country’s largest city, Abidjan, awaiting transport out of the conflict-ridden area. Norwegian auth ...
  • Majority supports Libya mission
    Seven out of 10 Norwegians support their country’s involvement in enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya, according to a new opinion poll. Six F-16 fighter jets have been sent from Norway to participate in the multinational mission. The survey, undertaken by research firm Respons Analyse for new ...
  • Minister urges toddler testing
    Norway’s education minister, Kristin Halvorsen, has released a new parliamentary report that seeks to reduce the number of Norwegian children receiving special education, including the controversial proposal that kindergarten pupils as young as three should have their language ability tested. T ...
  • One Chinese exhibit in Norway
    MUSEUM GUIDE: Norwayâs capital is full of museums, and theyâre often in the news. Weâre following that news, and aim to focus regularly on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The National Museum – Architecture, which has been hosting an exhibit on Chinese architecture a ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • GMOs Linked to Organ Disruption in 19 Studies
    A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% of the measured parameters, ...
  • How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30
    This video makes two things clear: We don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to make a compost tea brewer Things in the USA are too cheap! (I couldn’t get the items mentioned in this video for anything near as low a price as $30). It just goes to show how accustomed we are to [...]
  • Earth Policy Institute Video Asks “How Many Fa ...
    Watch the full episode. In this PBS-produced video, with actor and philanthropist Matt Damon narrating, Lester Brown gives a good overview of some of the current issues we face as a race. He connects the dots between the world’s rapidly melting glaciers, extreme weather events, and reso ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture Group Hosts Permacultu ...
    Click for larger, printable version Coinciding with Australia’s National Permaculture Day, the Gold Coast Permaculture Group will host a Permaculture Skill Fair Day on May 1st, 2011. This event will incorporate fun, interactive and educational talks, workshops and stalls relating to permacult ...
  • Passive Houses vs. Strawbale Buildings in the ...
    The housing industry has slowly developed itself for a century or so in the cheap oil economy, and is now well-rooted and developed in the market and minds. As subsequent use of constructed buildings normally spans over long time intervals, it is historically a conservative area of the economy, ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Fake cancer drugs given to thousands: Conman j ...
    Thousands of cancer patients were given fake drugs in a multi-million pound scam that could have condemned them to early deaths.Peter Gillespie, 65, imported the bogus Chinese-made drugs and packaged them to make them look like genuine medicines for......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • The Key to a Long Life: Conscientious Habits
    Long before the age of gene therapy and miracle medical treatments, the secrets of long life were being gathered and revealed in a unique study of 1,500 children born about 1910. By studying these people throughout their lives, successive generations..Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness ...
  • Anand Kumar shows "The Way to IIT" with 'Super 30'
    IIT aspirants would be holding their hearts as the exam will be conducted on April 10 that will decide their fate about opportunity of getting admission into India's top technical institute. Instantly, Super 30 will come to mind whenever IIT will be......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Take a bite out of that: Ground-breaking apple ...
    Technological breakthroughs and the word �apple� seem to be synonymous these days but this latest advance has nothing to do with the computer giant.Japanese researchers have found a technique to create full-colour holograms and the discovery could .......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown
    Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years. Submitted by Anna Smith to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
  • 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
    abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
  • 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
  • 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
    deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
  • 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...

Truth About Our World

  • The memo that ‘proves aliens landed at R ...
    hhhmmm, why are they releasing this now?  Supposing these documents are real…  Are they conditioning us to their (alien) existence so they can then use the “aliens” in a much grander scheme to bring about what they want—the New World Order?  Since the idea of aliens won’t be so “alien” to pe ...
  • The Price Of War (graphic)
    I always pray that these videos and stories are not true…
  • A Prescription for ‘Global Warming’: Doctors t ...
    By Neil Foster � The Sovereign Independent - As reported on The Sovereign Independent website in August 2010, the British military already have a plan drawn up to engage and control the British public in light of future trends likely to affect our society as it collapses. The report titled �Stra ...
  • Scientists issue urgent world-wide warning on ...
      First thing that comes to my mind:  biological warfare?  More lies/exaggerations?  Watch, they’ll come up with a vaccine for it… Well, I’m not frightened…   by: S. L. Baker   Nuclear meltdowns. Oil spills. More strife in Africa and the Middle East. GMO tainted crops. So what else could happ ...
  • FBI Launches 1 Billion $ Biometrics Project Wi ...
    http://vigilantcitizen.com � The FBI launched this week a massive program aimed to record all citizen�s biometrics data. This will eventually enable instant surveillance and recognition of any individual walking on the street or entering a building. The 1 Billion $ deal was awarded to Lockheed M ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Past Masters
    What would an 18th-century pub landlord make for lunch? By Natalie Whittle What was pub food like in the 18th century?Mrs. Peckham, Mrs. Acton and Mrs. Beeton never met. The first was the author of The Complete English Cook: Or, Prudent Housewife, published in 1790, a cookbook you’ll need should ...
  • Flash fish
    This is the age of aquariums: young men are paying a fortune to âaqua-scapeâ their indoor fish tanksâand parting with up to £250,000 for a single fish. Why? Edward Docx Top tank: this 6,000 litre saltwater aquarium is 13ft long, stands 8ft high and contains a live coral reef with hundreds of ki ...
  • Morality without God
    A new wave of secular books has challenged religionâs claim to supply meaning and morality. Simon Blackburn reflects on the root of human values Simon Blackburn The Grand Canyon: ageless, implacable, indifferent and sublime, says Simon Blackburn, and more worthy of our admiration than gods When ...
  • Word crimes
    Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Fearing that events in the Middle East may spark a "Jasmine Revolution," Chinese authorities are cracking down on dissident writers. But some are still willing to speak out Ai Weiweiâs arrest this week is evidence of the Chinese governmentâs increasingly tough stance on ...
  • Rape, Murder and Genocide
    By Jan Fleischhauer Photo Gallery: 7 Photos Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-287-0872-28A The myth that the Nazi-era German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, was not involved in war crimes persisted for decades after the war. Now two German researchers have destroyed it once and for all. Newly published conver ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • No title
    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
  • The legacy of Phineas Gage
    FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...
  • An Agrarian Renaissance?
    FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...

NAU Resistance

  • U.S. Predator Drones Patrol Canadian Border
    What this is really about is the creation of a common security perimeter around the continent of North America
  • Parliamentary Law Bars Harper From Re-Election
    By: PAUL W KINCAID March 28, 2011 – 7:27 am Canada Elections Act CANDIDATES â Qualifications http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=loi%2Ffel%2Fcea&document=part06&lang=e Ineligible candidates 65. The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate: (b) a person who is dis-ent ...
  • Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
    "The Conservative government has maintained that a security perimeter with the U.S. will not impact on sovereignty"
  • Harper Cronies Intentionally Misleading Canadians
    "Now we've learned that the F-35 stealth fighter deal is connected to Harper's plan to build a security perimeter around Canada and the United States- a Fortress North America!"
  • Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
    Obama also announced, “we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries.” He added, “I look forward to consulting with Congress and moving forward in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollar ...

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Duelling carbon tax rallies in Sydney - 2nd Ap ...
    Hereward Fenton reports on pro and anti carbon tax rallies held in Sydney on 2 April 2011. Some observations about the events: the anti-carbon tax protest was composed of a wide demographic in terms of age, education and occupation, whereas the pro carbon tax group appeared to be mainly co ...
  • Goldstone’s shameful U-turn
    Judge Richard Goldstone in the Gaza Strip, June 2009. (UN Photo) "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone's much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might ...
  • The 9/11 truth movement needs leaders
    The 9/11 truth movement in Australia desperately needs YOUR help. We need YOU to take charge, step up and LEAD. The truth is, while a handful have exhausted both their energy and finances, thousands of others have just looked on and done NOTHING to help us. If you are one of those people, th ...
  • Scott Grainger, fire protection engineer, blow ...
    This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary: "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" - AE911truth.org
  • The people say NO to the Carbon Tax!
    Today I welcome to the show Luke Jenkins, organiser of the Sydney No Carbon Tax Rally, to be held in Hyde Park on Saturday 2nd April 2011. Luke explains why he became an activist in the campaign, and we cover some of the key questions and controversies within the topic of anthropogenic climate ...

Beacon

  • Japan’s Radiation Leak Causes Fishing and Ship ...
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since our first post about the impacts of Japan�s nuclear crisis on the oceans, a lot has happened, but many questions remain and the situation is constantly changing. As the cooling systems for the injured reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle ...
  • Where Are They Now?: Ocean Hero Jay Holcomb
    Jay Holcomb with a pelican patient. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Throughout the nomination period, which ends April 27, I’ll be featuring a few of the past winners and finalists to get you inspired. Last week I updated you on last year’s Junior ...
  • Washington State Passes Shark Fin Trade Ban
    Great news from the Evergreen State: Washington State’s legislature has passed a bill banning the illegal trade of shark fins, an extraordinary step toward shark conservation on the U.S. Pacific coast. The legislation now goes to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. While shark finnin ...
  • Christie’s Green Auction Raises $1.4 Million ( ...
    The Runway to Green fashion show. Photos © Oceana/John Dee Last Tuesday evening, the live component of Christie’s Green Auction raised $1.4 million to benefit four environmental organizations: Oceana, Conservation International, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Central Park ...
  • Oceana Proposes a Canary Islands MPA
    Last week, in a culmination of several years of work, our European colleagues presented a proposal to protect 15% of the marine area around Spain’s Canary Islands. If the proposal is accepted, it would multiply the current protected area by 100. Here’s the back story: In 2009 the Oceana Ranger, ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • The Sunday Early Bird Round-Up
    Good morning and welcome to Sunday. On this day in history, April 10, 1912, the ill-fated Titanic set out on it’s maiden voyage. I’ve rounded up some news so you don’t have to: ~The GOP continues to put its thumb on the scales in favor of big business. Because, you know, if they don’t look out ...
  • The Next Obamas
    Did that mean, I asked, that Mario Cuomo, who strongly opposed Clintonian compromises like the welfare-reform law of 1996, had come at last to appreciate triangulation? âNo,â he said quickly, shifting a bit in his swivel chair. Then, more softly, âIâm still a liberal, I guess.â – Mario Cuomo S ...
  • Reid: Ideology Holding Up Budget Compromise
    Oh, how perfect. If this doesn’t say it all. Democratic leaders are shocked, shocked, I say, that ideology is important to people. That it means more to them than money, though that’s not really the issue. It’s just that the Right knows how queasy Democrats get when they’re asked to stand up f ...
  • BREAKING NEWS… Say Hello to ‘Mayor Lake Lady’
    Hi TM friends~Well, I did it! I got 61.52% of the vote!The last couple of months have been fun and exicting. I had a great team of very smart and able supporters and we pulled it off. We proved a small group of citizens if determined can make change.The great thing about local government is that ...
  • Stepping on Your Message, Blowing Off Your Base
    Morning headline and story: Obama launches reelection campaign. Afternoon headline headline and story: In a Reversal, Military Trials for 9/11 Case: The Obama administration, ending more than a year of indecision with a major policy reversal, will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other ...

Hudson New York

  • The Palestinians' Own Goal
    The assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was a well known Israeli Arab actor and film producer who moved to live in the West Bank to help Palestinians establish a theater, has seriously embarrassed the Palestinian Authority. Although its leaders
  • The Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. Enablers
    Last month, Ahmed Bedier, an extremist Muslim from Tampa, Florida, who had attended Cairo rallies against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, tried to apply the lessons he learned while agitating in Egypt, and attempted to apply them to the Florida State
  • Chavez Defends Gaddafi, Tries to Save Assad
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez can be counted on always to stand on the side of radicals and dictatorships. After defending the Libyan regime, Chavez is now trying to save Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The Venezuelan leadership is openly supporting
  • Turkey 'More Democratic' Than Some EU Members
    THIS WILL BE ERDOGAN'S LAST ELECTION Speaking at the closed session of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made important statements regarding his party's candidate lists. Recalling that members of his
  • Spain: The "Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe"
    Spain emerged as one of the most anti-Semitic countries in the European Union in 2010, and the Spanish government has done nothing about it, according to the authors of an annual report that tracks anti-Semitic violence on the Iberian Peninsula. The

Urban Survival

  • Coping: With the Horrible Earthquake Trend
    Every month, spreadsheet job/reader/contributor Tony Ring generously sends us the monthly crunch of long-term earthquake data.  What he does is log into the USGS database and then slices and dices by month, subtotals and figures.  Even he was amazed at … Continue reading →
  • GlobalRev Heats Up – Again
    I suppose its only right to begin our Monday morning adventure with a look over the shoulder at this weekend.  We have the US military none too happy about the Quran burning in the US which touched off a wave … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Wars of Convenience
    Nice to see that people who read this site maintain their level-headedness despite the daily barrage of bummers (and partial truths) that spew forth from the mainstream media. For example, when I noted that Sweden was sending some jet fighter … Continue reading →
  • Game Time: Let’s Play Brinksmanship & Bu ...
    Always good theater to watch as the republicorps and the democorps are once again playing the time-honored game of government budget brinksmanship.  It’s all dandy theater and it provides a nice break from the still-leaking nuke plants and still evolving … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Copyrights and Complexity
    Some mornings we get into nitty-gritty stuff here, other days are like this one.  Just a more or less constant parade of housekeeping items; some of which are interesting, perhaps others not. First up is the small tweak of the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Gerald Celente The Ballot box is rigged
    Gerald Celente on The Nutrimedical Report with Dr. Bill Deagle 07 Apr... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.trends2012.co.cc for the full story ]]
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    Tim Alexander and Gerald Celente on Dr Deagle Show - 07 Apr 2011 Donald Trump 2012 White House Race Underway Lindsey Williams The Gold and Silver Bull Run just started Peter Schiff on The Government shutdown April 9th 2011 Marc Faber : Everybody wants to rip off the system in America Moha ...
  • Doomsday 2012
    December 2012, Mayan Calendar Doomsday, Astrology,Bible CodeFrom the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.trends2012.co.cc for the full story ]]
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    Blacklisted News

  • Jurors vote to acquit the former CIA operativ ...
    A Texas jury on Friday acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to U.S. authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in 1997.
  • Johnson & Johnson fined for bribing doctors
    US authorities fined cosmetics and drugs giant Johnson & Johnson $70 million on Friday for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq.
  • Syria’s biggest day of unrest yet sees at lea ...
    Anti-government demonstrations have spread across Syria with the highest turnout yet in a month of unrest, despite a heavy crackdown by security forces in Deraa in which at least 22 people were reported killed.
  • Special Forces scandal as officers are held ‘ ...
  • A Militarized Economy Cannot Balance the Budget
    It does not matter on what side of the political fence you sit during the current budget debates. The fact is that if our leaders are not willing to take into account our over-dependence on a militarized economy and change it, we will never balance the budget. Our progeny will face an endless s ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Three Mideast Stink Bombs
    Summary: Sharmine Narwani Popular revolts may be spinning through the Arab world with a fervor and determination not seen in decades, but efforts to sidetrack the reform momentum are also gaining strength. Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at ev ...
  • Israeli Official Admits to Tuesday Attack on Sudan
    Summary: 'Not Our First Time There,' Confirms Military Official source: Antiwar.comread more
  • New Iran group to press White House on democracy
    Summary: With democratic revolutions shaking the Middle East, a Democratic think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the pro-democracy group Freedom House are launching a new task force aimed at shifting American policy on its central regional foe, Iran, toward a more aggressive focu ...
  • Four Iranian police killed in border attack: r ...
    Summary: The report said the attack happened Friday night in the city of Marivan. "Unidentified armed people threw a grenade into the police office," it said. On March 25, news agencies reported two policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in two "terrorist" shootings in the ...
  • A Package to Resolve the Nuclear Impasse with Iran
    Summary: Mousavian Eight years of negotiations between Iran and the P5+ Germany on the nuclear issue have failed and will likely continue to do so, as long as the existing negotiating strategy and the hostilities between Iran and the US persist. After the revolution, despite Western support ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Mainstream media regurgitates exact same news ...
    (NaturalNews) Where can you go to find "trusted" news about Fukushima? Well according to Google News, only the mainstream sources are "trusted" these days. That's why they've removed nearly all alternative news sites from their news index, leaving only the monotone, mindless canned mainstream ne ...
  • Common amphetamine drugs linked to Parkinson's ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study to be presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology says that users of amphetamine drugs like benzedrine and dexedrine have a heightened risk of developing Parkinson's disease. According to a follow-up review of more than 66,000 volunteers wh ...
  • Many Eco-friendly bulbs contain toxic chemicals
    (NaturalNews) Though the notion now borders on political incorrectness among many environmentalists, the simple incandescent light bulb is still the cleanest, most non-toxic form of consumer lighting available. A new study published by the University of California - Irvine (UCI) has found that p ...
  • Extreme weather taking a huge toll on global f ...
    (NaturalNews) An increase in the prevalence of extreme weather events due to global warming will seriously affect global food production worldwide, climate and agriculture experts are increasingly warning."Climate change threatens to make large areas of the planet unsuitable for human habitation ...
  • Seventy-five percent of prostate cancer cases ...
    (NaturalNews) More than 75 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are treated aggressively, even though most prostate cancers are slow-growing and will never pose a risk to a man's life, according to a study conducted by researchers from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and UMDNJ-Robert ...

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
    Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
  • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
    A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...
  • In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Aut ...
    Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree. Gonzalez, ...
  • Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Am ...
    The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Comm ...
  • Feds, RIAA Ask $22,500 in Damages Per Song
    Do federal judges have the power to reduce jury awards in copyright-infringement cases? The Obama administration and the Recording Industry Association of America don’t think so. They argued that point Monday before a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which ha ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Grant and the Enduring Lessons of Appomattox
    On April 12th, Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War. The reenactors will be out in force, though their numbers will be dwarfed by the revisionists pretending the conflict was about anything else but slavery. Even as the ...
  • "Big Abortion" and the GOP's Bogus Budget Battle
    Back in early February, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan presented the Republican leadership's plan to cut $35 billion from the remainder of the fiscal year 2011 budget. As it turns out, that dollar figure is roughly the same one John Boehner, Harry Reid and President Obama have closin ...
  • Party of Lincoln Wages War for Government Shutdown
    As the nation prepares to mark next week's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the Party of Lincoln stands on the brink of shutting down the federal government. But whether it comes this week over the GOP's budgetary blackmail of Planned Parenthood and the EPA or next month over th ...
  • 50 Years Later, Republicans Still Trying to Ki ...
    Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed the obvious about Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare as we know it. The GOP plan to "voucherize" and inevitably ration Medicare would lead to future seniors paying more - much more - for health insurance. Of course, killing the wildly popula ...
  • GOP Budget Pits Rich, Elderly Against Everyone ...
    Last November, the elderly and the rich powered Republicans to victory in the midterm elections. Voters aged 65 and older backed the GOP by a staggering 59% to 38%, while boosting their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% in 2008. Those with family incomes over $200,000 chose Republicans over ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Positively Orwellian by Dennis Kucinich
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 8, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement responding the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion regarding the President’s authority to use military force in Libya: In the leg ...
  • It’s Time To Go To Work For The Solar Initiati ...
    By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 8, 2011 The below is a possible Letter to an elected official. We would urge you to please write one and send it, letting them know this subject is both important to us all, and to our planet. Sadly, due to terrible events, NOW is ...
  • The Empire conducts a war fest (or business as ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info April 8, 2011 To paraphrase, the first casualty of capitalism is the truth and the outrageous and totally illegal invasion of Libya, launched with so much super-heated air, has degenerated into a vile exposé of the true nature ...
  • From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa T ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 8, 2011 On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military operations in fellow West African nation Ivory Coast and t ...
  • David Cameron’s Gift of War and Racism, to The ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House www.johnpilger.com April 08, 2011 The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West’s response to popular uprisings in strategi ...

Consortium News

  • NYT Demands Libyan War Escalation
    New York Times' neocon editors call on President Obama to use close-combat attack aircraft in Libyan cities, Robert Parry reports. April 8, 2011
  • Strange Twist in Wisconsin Battle
    A Republican clerk's fortuitous discovery of thousands of lost votes put a key GOP judge over the top in Wisconsin, notes Lisa Pease. April 8, 2011
  • Iraqis Resist Longer US Occupation
    President Obama signals a willingness to extend the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but some Iraqi leaders balk, reports Gareth Porter. April 8, 2011
  • Rep. Ryans' Free-Market 'Death Panels'
    Rep. Paul Ryan's GOP budget would phase out Medicare and confront the elderly sick with life-or-death choices, says Robert Parry. April 7, 2011
  • Eliminating Medicare for the Elderly
    Republican congressional leaders are taking aim at Medicare, seeking to force seniors into private insurance, notes Margaret Flowers. April 7, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • TLR Rally, PC Activist Andy Wilson confronting ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • It all began with an innocent phone call…
    On April 13th, the Uptown Marble Theater at 218 Main Street in Marble Falls will present the world theatrical premiere of Green Dreams, a 50 minute documentary about the revolution at the Pedernales Electric Cooperative. Following the screening will be a meet & greet with PEC’s newly-hired CEO, ...
  • Noisier, Nastier, and Costlier Elections
    Most folks outside of Wisconsin and the Washington beltway were not paying much attention to that state’s recent state supreme court justice election, but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision this election was a study in what judicial elections have evolved into — a trend ...
  • Corporate welfare for oil and gas or fully fun ...
    Texas oil and gas officials will plead with House Appropriations Committee members next week that the industry needs its $1.2 billion annual tax break, more than children need fully funded schools or the elderly need nursing homes to stay open. The committee will take testimony on April 14 from ...
  • Whaaaa, don’t take my tax break away
    In another effort to stave off critics who call a $1 billion annual tax break for high-cost gas producers in Texas outrageous, a study paid for by the industry has emerged intended to scare folks into believing that for every $1 the state spends in tax breaks it gets back about $4 in related eco ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • FBI releases memo on Roswell UFOs
    The FBI have made thousands of files available including a memo about the recovery of three alien craft. The 1950 memo penned by an Agent Hottel descr...
  • Coffee drinking is in the genes
    Two genes have been identified that are thought to determine how much of a craving you have for coffee. The gene can come in a high or low consumption...
  • Yawning student gets her mouth stuck open
    What started out as an innocent yawn turned in to a painful ordeal and a trip to the emergancy room. 17-year-old Holly Thompson was in class when she ...
  • Russia outlines plan to build moon base
    Russia are planning to build a manned outpost on the moon by 2030 and use it to stage a mission to Mars. As the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's his...
  • ET life researcher Baruch Blumberg dies
    Baruch Blumberg who helped NASA begin its search for alien life in the 1970s has died aged 85. Nobel Prize winner Blumberg was credited with saving mi...

Grassroots

  • The Coming Global Food Fight
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Robin Broad is a Professor of International Development at American University in Washington, D.C. and has worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Congress. John Cavanag ...
  • Closure in Beit Ommar violates resource rights
    4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b.jpg This article, Israel lays Gaza-like siege on West Bank village, highlights many threats to resource rights in Palestine, as the people living there have diminishing access to land, water, and food. These develop ...
  • Mourning the death of a colleague, and fearing ...
    juliano.jpg Sometimes the work we engage in as people who believe in a just peace in the face of a brutal world is quite simply heart breaking. Today is such a day.read more
  • Celebrating Palestinian Land Day
    olive_tree_in_field.jpg At the rate the Separation Wall is being built, soon Palestinian Land Day (March 30) will need only a few hours. The Wall and the Israeli mandated buffer zones jut into the Palestinian territories by as much as 300 ...
  • Update from farmers in Japan
    �Below is an update from Grassroots International�s partner, the Via Campesina, concerning the situation of farmers in Japan. To keep up to date with the� Noumiren blog, visit http://earlybirds.ddo.jp/earlybirds/saigai/?lang=en.read more

Climate

  • EU Warns Climate Talks Too Slow
    Source:� Sydney Morning Herald The EU warned Friday that diplomacy on climate change was moving too slowly after UN-led talks in Bangkok eked out an agreement on an agenda for further negotiations this year.
  • U.S. Accepts Only Symmetrical Climate Commitme ...
    Source:� Xinhua The United States would not commit to a new legal climate change regime unless it is applied to other major economies, the head of the U.S. climate delegation said Friday.
  • EU Says Raising $100 Billion a Year for Climat ...
    Source:� Bloomberg Raising $100 billion a year for climate aid is "challenging but it can be done" with the participation of public funding, private funds leveraged by banks and carbon markets, the EU said.
  • Japanese Plants' Power Is Restored
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Utilities in northern Japan restored grid power to three nuclear facilities hit by a strong earthquake the night before, reminding a nervous populace of the vulnerabilities of nuclear plants.
  • Huge Pumps Heading to Damaged Reactors in Japan
    Source:� Washington Post A massive Russian cargo plane roared into Atlanta on Friday to pick up one of the world's largest concrete pumps, which has been retrofitted to pour water on a Japanese nuclear power plant. read more

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, a deterrent ...
    Pakistan's nuclear weapons are meant to counter India's conventional military superiority but they may also be aimed at deterring a U.S. attack should relations break down completely.
  • Gbagbo and the crocodiles — can the cycl ...
    Isn't it poignant to recall, then, as Ouattara's forces, aided and abetted by the former colonial power France, besiege Gbagbo in his bunker that Ivory Coast's first post-colonial ruler Houphouet-Boigny also was considered a progressive in his day?
  • India and Pakistan: practising peace
    The latest attempt at peacemaking between India and Pakistan has the advantage of combining political leadership with more structured dialogue between bureacrats.
  • Nigeria’s non-vote: Incompetence or sabotage?
    A Nigerian vote delay has inevitably put another question mark over the credibility of a series of elections seen as a chance for a break from a history of ballots where fraud and thuggery have been the order of the day.
  • A tribute to journalist and colleague Sabah al ...
    For those of us who work in the Baghdad bureau, it is always a shock to look back through the collected photos of one of our Iraqi colleagues. We think we are used to those old scenes. But seen one after another, the images compiled over eight years of carnage by a single journalist like Sabah a ...

Booman Tribune

  • Evil Bastard of the Day: James Baker
    Here's a galling quote from a New York Times article on the Republicans' plans to hold the government hostage again in May over the federal borrowing limit. If I were still Treasury secretary, it would worry the hell out of me, said James A. Baker III, who served in that office for President ...
  • For GOP, Deficits Still Don't Matter
    If you know any wingnuts in your personal life, please tell them that all John Boehner's threats and posturing only resulted in saving less than a third of the money it cost to extend the Bush tax cuts. In both cases, Democrats made big concessions on key Republican agenda items tax and s ...
  • All Spending is Not Good Spending
    It's funny. I guess Duncan wasn't in the mood to listen to my request that progressives engage in less all spending is good spending analysis, since he retorted with exactly that rhetoric. I understand his point and it will take a small bit of argument to explain why I disagree with it. Dunca ...
  • The Aftermath
    I have to rescind my assessment last night that John Boehner got nothing out of the late negotiations on the 2011 budget. Apparently, he won the restoration of a ban on the District of Columbia spending its own money to help poor women attain abortions. President Obama and the Democrats had li ...
  • Now They Try to Soften Boehner's Landing
    It looks like the far right of the Republican Party (as represented by Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee) is creating some room for John Boehner to cave and make a deal with the president. Their rationale is identical to the rationale I gave this morning for not making any concessions whatsoev ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy Friday! This week’s news details some of the latest research on workplace satisfaction, very important new discoveries about long term depression treatment, and information about alcohol use in light of Alcohol Awareness Month. We hope y ...
  • Women Feel Prettier by Having More Things
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A new study discovers a link between a womanâs view of material possessions and a negative body image. Lead author Eleni-Marina Ashikali discusses the findings. “Not all women are affected in the same way by looking at idealized media models, and it has therefore b ...
  • Power Up Communication by Finding “The Lost Co ...
    By Lori Hollander LCSW-C, BCD Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lori and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “The Lost Conversation” is the one that goes beyond the spoken word, diving deeper into the conflict, to uncover the hidden and unconscious conversati ...
  • People Pleasing and Looking for Mr/Ms Right
    By Beverly Amsel, Ph.D., Individuation Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beverly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When I think about many of the clients I see in therapy, men and women who want to develop relationships, find partners and have families of their own, there are m ...
  • Workday Improves from Positive Morning Mood
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research shows that if an employee starts their day in a good mood, it will positively impact their interactions with their managers, peers and overall production. The study showed that when workers kicked their day off on a high note, they felt better about ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effo ...
    Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effort to reduce mountaintop removal ... Charleston Gazette (blog) You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. One Response to �Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA ...
  • Banks come under fire for mountain top removal ...
    Banks come under fire for mountain top removal ties Environmental Expert (press release) UBS, Citi, and PNC banks are the biggest financiers of mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in the USA's Appalachian mountain region, according to a new report issued this week. Only Credit Suisse came away uns ...
  • Looks like environment was spared - Louisville ...
    Treehugger Looks like environment was spared Louisville Courier-Journal (blog) They included measures to strip the EPA of power over regulating mountaintop removal mining, and regulating air and water pollution. Longtime clean air advocate Frank O'Donnell sent a notice out last night briefly di ...
  • URGENT: Mountaintop removal threat on spending ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) URGENT: Mountaintop removal threat on spending bill Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Word on the street (and on CNN) is that Republican budget dealmakers now want to weaken EPA's ability to address mountaintop removal mining as part of a spending ...
  • Don't like air pollution? Can I interest you i ...
    Streetsblog Capitol Hill (blog) Don't like air pollution? Can I interest you in some water pollution? Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) In the last several hours, we've been hearing that Republican leaders have sought to include riders to prevent the government from carefully scrutinizin ...

Memeorandum

  • Budget deal leaves liberals disheartened (Abby ...
    Abby Phillip / The Politico: 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 ...
  • Next on the Agenda for Washington: Fight Over ...
    Jackie Calmes / New York Times: Next on the Agenda for Washington: Fight Over Debt  —  WASHINGTON — The down-to-the-wire partisan struggle over cuts to this year's federal budget has intensified concern in Washington, on Wall Street and among economists about the more consequential clash comin ...
  • Kyl Walks Back Planned Parenthood Claim: It 'W ...
    Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress: Kyl Walks Back Planned Parenthood Claim: It ‘Was Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement’  —  As ThinkProgress reported earlier today, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) defended Republicans' willingness to shut down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood by falsely ...
  • Why Progressives Keep On Losing and the Right ...
    Richard / The Huffington Post: Why Progressives Keep On Losing and the Right Keeps On Winning  —  Congratulations!  The “grand compromise” will cut nearly thirty nine billion dollars in needed government spending, which proves how “serious” everyone is about reducing the deficit.  The grand com ...
  • Who Won the Shutdown Showdown? It Wasn't Even ...
    Carl Cameron / Fox News: Who Won the Shutdown Showdown?  It Wasn't Even Close  —  While Republicans wanted to cut more spending in Saturday's early morning compromise to keep the government open, they think they got the better of the deal.  —  Here's why: HR1 was originally to seek spending cut ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, western Sichuan, China
    Sunday, April 10, 2011 09:02:43 UTCSunday, April 10, 2011 05:02:43 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.60 km (8.45 mi)
  • M 5.7, Fiji region
    Tuesday, April 5, 2011 04:10:08 UTCTuesday, April 5, 2011 04:10:08 PM at epicenterDepth: 565.50 km (351.39 mi)
  • M 6.7, south of Java, Indonesia
    Sunday, April 3, 2011 20:06:42 UTCMonday, April 4, 2011 03:06:42 AM at epicenterDepth: 24.00 km (14.91 mi)
  • M 6.4, Fiji region
    Sunday, April 3, 2011 14:07:09 UTCMonday, April 4, 2011 02:07:09 AM at epicenterDepth: 551.90 km (342.93 mi)
  • M 5.0, Kermadec Islands region
    Sunday, April 10, 2011 04:45:22 UTCSunday, April 10, 2011 04:45:22 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.60 km (19.64 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Joining forces on the grasslands
    Cooperative herding in Inner Mongolia embodies the spirit of traditional nomad culture – it is also a path to economic development and grassland protection, writes Zhou Wei.This winter, continuous snows covered the pastures of Inner Mongolia’s East Ujumchin Banner. On the phone to Hobshalt, I co ...
  • Physics of the future
    A new deep science programme at Cambridge University, funded by a high-flying financier, will hunt for technologies to protect the planet. John Elkington went to the launch.Hedge-fund superstar David Harding has just made the biggest ever gift to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University: ...
  • In Shanxi, lasting pain (1)
    A fatal radiation incident 19 years ago still casts a shadow over the lives of a mother and daughter in north China, reports Cui Zheng in the first instalment of a two-part article.Zhang Jingsheng puts on some light make-up, ties her hair back in a ponytail and leaves the house in a short jacket ...
  • In Shanxi, lasting pain (2)
    Across China, radiation sources are used in healthcare, agriculture and industry. But sloppy management has led to accidents, writes Cui Zheng, concluding a two-part article.The Zhang family tragedy was the only case of radiation poisoning that Lou Bincheng dealt with in his long career as a doc ...
  • Climate crisis on our plates
    While speaking up for policy reform, individuals can help provide market demand for climate-friendly foods by following the principles of a climate-friendly diet, writes Anna Lappé.The following extract, published with permission, is from the Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2011: Innov ...

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  • Your Own Personal Tahrir
    Your Own Personal Tahrir There is a moment half-way through âTweets from Tahrirâ – the new tweet by tweet running quotation of the Egyptian Revolution – where the reader gets goosebumps. Itâs when you realize, âI could do this. I could have my own personal Tahrir.â The young people who ran up an ...
  • Michele Bachmann Helped Spawn An Entire Genre ...
    “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” – George Orwell, 1984 Politicians lie all the time, this we know. But what’s addressed here is different–a determined ongoing campaign to overwrite the historical record with carefully crafted hi ...
  • Obama Hails Short-Term Deal to Avert Governmen ...
  • GOP Offers No Death Panels, Just Death From La ...
    Republicans concocted death panels in an attempt to terrify Americans about health care reform, then propagated the lie because they wanted insurance corporations to profit from illness and injury unfettered. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed anyway, but now the GOP has annou ...
  • For the Family Research Council, government sh ...
    The Family Research Council seems to be taking time from its “busy schedule” of gay-baiting in order to inform folks about the possibly imminent government shutdown. And the organization’s actions seem to indicate the prevailing story coming out of Washington, i.e. the possibility of a govern ...

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
    Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
  • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
    A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...
  • In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Aut ...
    Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree. Gonzalez, ...
  • Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Am ...
    The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Comm ...
  • Feds, RIAA Ask $22,500 in Damages Per Song
    Do federal judges have the power to reduce jury awards in copyright-infringement cases? The Obama administration and the Recording Industry Association of America don’t think so. They argued that point Monday before a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which ha ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Elizabeth Taylor's jewels, art, fashion to be ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elizabeth Taylor's renowned collection of jewelry, works of art, clothing and memorabilia will be sold at a series of auctions, Christie's said on Saturday.
  • Analysis: Obama and Boehner relationship brigh ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The spending cut pact that stopped a government shutdown may not make Barack Obama and John Boehner friends, but their relationship improved in ways that could help them mold compromises in battles to come.
  • Japanese voters may further weaken PM over nuc ...
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese voting in local elections on Sunday are expected to vent their anger over Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the ongoing nuclear crisis, further weakening him and bolstering opponents to seek his resignation once the crisis ends.
  • Police seek suspect in blast near Santa Monica ...
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A blast outside a Los Angeles-area synagogue this week was caused by an explosive device and police on Saturday were looking for a suspect, authorities said.
  • WRAPUP 1-Increased NATO strikes help rebels be ...
    TRIPOLI, April 10 (Reuters) - Libyan rebels beat off a new assault by Muammar Gaddafi's forces on the besieged western city of Misrata, losing as many as 30 fighters but helped by more intense NATO air strikes.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #494
    David Petraeus tipped to be new CIA director. Reuters denies bureau chief had CIA contacts. UK court grants Russian 'spy' aid to fight deportation. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #493 (MI6 edition)
    MI6 scientist's death questioned by close friend. Who killed MI6 agent Linel Crabb? Analysis: Libya gives spies a chance to shine. Continue reading →
  • Suspicion mounts as US unlocks Moussa Koussa’s ...
    Eyebrows were raised in intelligence circles on Monday, after the United States lifted its freeze of foreign assets belonging to Libyaâs former intelligence chief, who defected to London last week. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #492 (history edition)
    New information on Evdokia Petrova's defection. British spy files shed light on Nazi saboteurs in the US. Holocaust spy's memoir gets movie treatment. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #491
    Libyan defector Moussa Koussa 'was an MI6 double agent'. Israel pressures Russia to prevent EU Palestine recognition. Anlysis: Egypt's top spy a US concern. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Photos from Saturday's Anti-War Rally in NYC
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  • Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New Yor ...
    Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New York Times Tradition - by Stephen Lendman According to media scholar/critic Robert McChesney, today's corporate journalism is co-opted, corrupted, gutted, and virtually worthless as a source of real news, information and analysis. As a result, a free a ...
  • Obama Again Capitulates
    Obama Again Capitulates - by Stephen Lendman A previous article explained his sellout to Republicans last year on extending tax cuts to America's aristocracy, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/12/obama-capitulates-to-republicans.html It shouldn't surprise th ...
  • Trials of Globalization: And We All Melt Down
    By Betsy Ross We are now on the brink of the mother of all meltdowns in more ways than one. Last weekend, The Times quoted Alan Hansen, a nuclear engineer and executive vice president of Areva NC, a unit of Areva, a French group that supplied reactor fuel to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...
  • War News Radio: Big Decisions
    � Big Decisions April 8th, 2011 - First, we hear about the Obama administration trying Guantanamo detainees in military commissions. Then we analyze media coverage of NATO attacks in Libya. Finally, we hear about the controversies surrounding Basetrack, an experimental media project in southern ...

Grist - News

  • Money is a miracle cure for ‘wind turbin ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. There’s a down side to getting energy from wind: People who live near turbine farms report annoyance and even health effects from the noise. Amazingly, though, people with turbines on their land don’t have these symptoms, even though they live closer to the turbines tha ...
  • How one nerd zeroed out his energy bill with s ...
    by Christopher Mims. George Musser, a physics editor at Scientific American, has dreamed of powering his home with solar panels ever since he was a little boy. And now he does! In New Jersey, no less. His story is a part of Beyond the Light Switch, a totally rad documentary filmed by ...
  • London and Sydney have cute accents, great pla ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Both Sydney and London are making a push to become friendlier cities for biking. London’s instituted a big new bike-share program, and Sydney is building a giant network of bike lanes. Let’s check in on these two charming-accented metropolises and see what we can learn ...
  • Why Congress will destroy America sooner than ...
    by Christopher Mims. In a far-reaching, data-driven, and damning feature for the Huffington Post, lead Washington correspondent Dan Froomkin explains why Obama has found it completely impossible to eliminate subsidies to oil companies. These subsidies amount to up to $90 billion over the ...
  • Too much is not enough for The Edge’s gr ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. U2’s The Edge is planning a mansion complex that’s a metonymy for post-Joshua Tree U2: It means well, really, but it’s just way, way over the top. The five homes (!) averaging 10,500 square feet (!!) are supposed to be built to LEED Gold standards, so bravo to The ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • The Declensionist Diet
    We continue with the ‘big picture’ of food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. This is the second of three excerpts. The first can be found here. We argued the causes of our ongoing, and oncoming, food crises are manifold, rooted in present-day policies as well as humanity’s ...
  • The Born Identity
    With Richard Kock and Robyn Alders I co-authored the following review of food and forest crises. Richard presented an earlier version at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Global Conference on Wildlife held in Paris in February. Over the next few days we will publish three slightly e ...
  • From Reactor to Plate
    âJapan’s PM vows to win battle against nuke plantâ reads one recent headline. It is unclear which possibility is worse, that Naoto Kan has failed to grasp the plant at Fukushima Dai-ichi has already defeated Japan, or that he knows full well and broadcasts a ânecessary lieâ protecting an industr ...
  • Evolutionary Investigations
    1.1 A particular kind of evolutionary biology—lost in its capitalist devotionals—uses the failures of its mortal enemies—say, creationist science—to defend itself against all other kinds of critiques. 1.1.1 “But you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy…” is a common refrain, devoid of substan ...
  • Red River
    It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the planet]…God is not capricious. He’s given us a creation that is dynamically stable. We are not going to run out of anything. –Minnesota State Representative Mike Beard (R-Shakopee) Sims Reeves: Plantin’ and readin’, plantin’ and readin’. ...

Suzie-Q

  • President Obama’s Weekly Address: Budget ...
  • Pulling The Plug On Working Families To Give T ...
    Pulling the Plug on Working Families to Give Tax Cuts to Millionaires Crooks and Liars- By Mike Lux April 09, 2011 11:00 AM The Ryan budget is a remarkable document: all of its budget cuts hammer working class families, seniors, and students — while all of its tax cuts go straight to millionaire ...
  • What about Scott Finstermaker, Gitmo & Obama& ...
    Mr. Fenstermaker is a member of the pool of Qualified Civilian Defense Counsel, authorized to represent the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba before the Military Commissions being conducted at Guantanamo Bay. He has a secret security clearance and is available to represent clients involved in na ...
  • Reid: GOP Threatening Shutdown Over Family Pla ...
    Reid says GOP threatening shutdown over family planning funding, Boehner avoids talking specifics by Jed Lewison for Daily Kos Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 11:32 AM EDT In separate statements late this morning, both Harry Reid and John Boehner agreed that we are very close to an agreement to prevent a fe ...
  • Glenn Beck Leaving Fox: Why It’s Really ...
    Glenn Beck Leaving Fox: Why It’s Really Happening (CHART) The Huffington Post Carol Hartsell  First Posted: 04/ 7/11 01:04 PM ET Updated: 04/ 7/11 02:04 PM ET When it was announced yesterday that we will no longer be seeing Glenn Beck’s face on Fox News night after night, a lot of people were ...

Solari

  • Bill Cunnuingham New York
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  • Georgian Woman Cuts Off Web Access to Whole of ...
    Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper. By Tom Parfitt in Moscow An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services t ...
  • California, Here I Come!
    San Francisco Bay Area Map I am leaving next week to drive to Montana to meet with the Solari team there and then on to San Francisco where I will be working from Pleasanton for the next two months. Stay tuned for more news when I reach Pleasanton. San Francisco Wikipedia
  • What is Gang Stalking?
    Targeting can happen to anyone in society. In the past primary targets of programs such as Cointelpro have been minorities. Targeting however can happen to anyone. Individuals are often targeted for being outspoken, whistle blowers, dissidents, people who go up against wealthy corporations, ...
  • Jesse Ventura on “The View”
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Why the Libyan War is important to us – ...
    Summary:  The Libyan War will have long-term consequences, no matter who eventually rules Libya.  It’s another precedent.  Another step away from the Second Republic (1788-) towards a new political regime.  One with a far stronger Executive than the Founders wanted.  One as strong as they f ...
  • Origins of what may become the 3rd American Re ...
    Summary:  The article excerpted here provides a powerful explanation for the evolution of our political system during the past 35 years to favor the super-rich, becoming in effect a plutocracy.  It even provides an excuse for us, the citizens.  If you consider ignorance and apathy to be excuses. ...
  • Money as a weapon in Afghanistan. Like strate ...
    Summary:  Money, provided by CIA bagmen to tribal leaders was our secret weapon to defeat the Taliban in 2001.  Money was supposed to be our decisive weapon in the forging of a new Afghanistan, but the results so far appear disappointing.  This article in the current LRB explains why. “Mon ...
  • Tearing the Constitution is a bipartisan sport!
    Summary:  There is no Constitutional Party in America.  The Left and Right take turns shredding the Constitution.  Sometimes they take turns.  Sometimes they work together.  Domestic surveillance withour warrant, quotas for hiring (ignoring that “equal protection” nonsense), administrati ...
  • Can the UN give Obama the authority to send US ...
    Summary:  Many advocates for the war in Libya cite the UN Security Council resolution as giving Obama authority to start a war.  That’s easily shown to be totally false. The Constitution has died of a thousand cuts.  Small cuts.  Each accompanied by rationalizations and soothing words.   ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Cancer cause or crop aid? Herbicide faces big test
    Reuters – Critics say it’s a chemical that could cause infertility or cancer, while others see it speeding the growth of super weeds and causing worrying changes to plants and soil. Backers say it is safe and has made a big contribution to food production.  It’s glyphosate, the key – but contro ...
  • Germany: Freak sandstorm causes deadly motorwa ...
    BBC – A freak sandstorm that swept across a motorway in northern Germany caused a multiple pile-up, leaving eight people dead and dozens injured. Sand and dirt were blown on to the four-lane A19 near Rostock, close to the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state, on Friday. The pile-up ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Why Are Visa Applicants Forced to Travel to Me ...
    Almost anyone who wants to come to the U.S. — either as a visitor or a resident — has to physically visit a U.S. consulate in their country of origin to apply for a visa and undergo an interview by an Embassy officer. In Mexico, those applying for U.S residency can only do so at one location: t ...
  • Misrata’s Sea-based Lifeline
    The Libyan port city of Misrata was one of the first urban areas to fall to rebel when the pro-democracy uprising began in February. Since then, the city has been under siege from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, including the feared Special Forces Khamis Brigade. The city is a short 130 miles f ...
  • More Blogfare on Lawfare
    In my Friday post I forgot to give a shout out to Ben Wittes and the Lawfare Blog who have been writing about this since last fall. In particular, they had an excellent series of posts on the concept (but way of a discussion of the Rule of Law in by Brigadier General Mark Martins (in Centcom and ...
  • Extension of US Troop Presence in Iraq Likely ...
    Sec. of Def. Gates disembarking from a plane in Kurdistan (AP) On April 7, 2011 Defense Secretary Robert Gates landed in Baghdad for a three day tour of the country. The purpose of his visit was to pressure Baghdad into making a decision on whether it wanted American troops to stay past t ...
  • The Quasi-War
    Not a lot of people know about the so-called “Quasi-War” fought between the United States and France during the John Adams administration, but I think it’s an important episode to recall for the purposes of ongoing debates about the Obama administration’s protestations that the ongoing war in Li ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Can Finance Be Regulated?
    Can Finance Be Regulated? The consensus here at the Bretton Woods conference of INET, the Soros-underwritten Institute for New Economic Thinking, is that finance can be put back in its cage—as a technical matter. But there doesn’t seem to be a political appetite to do the job right, because fin ...
  • The Budget Deal
    Well, that was anti-climatic. After staring with baited breath at my Twitter feed for hours, I leanred just before midnight, just like the rest of us, that Congress had made a deal to pass a temporary stop-gap to keep the government open and would work on a spending plan that would cut $38 bill ...
  • Keynes' Ghost
    I’m blogging from Bretton Woods, NH, site of the 1944 conference that reconstructed the rules for the global financial, monetary and trading system and the postwar recovery. This weekend, the world’s leading critics of the current economic mess have gathered here to discuss measures that the w ...
  • Idaho Follows God's Plan in New Abortion Law
    Not to be outdone by all the draconian anti-abortion laws being passed in states like South Dakota, the Idaho legislature has jumped on the Fetal Pain bandwagon and passed a law restricting abortion at 20 weeks. But they've added a twist of their own: No exceptions for rape or incest. It’s a ch ...
  • "Seriousness" Really Does Mean Screwing the Le ...
    Ezra Klein lists the ways the Affordable Care Act pushes Medicare toward smarter and more efficient ways of buying health care, then notes Paul Ryan's plan does none of that. It simply "appeals to people who have an ideological take on health-care reform and believe we can make Medicare cheaper ...

Buzzflash

  • Milton Friedman's Legacy: The Suppression of I ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Is Milton Friedman, the father of modern anarchistic capitalism and the economic "shock doctrine" a "true hero of freedom"? That's how George W. Bush praised Friedman in a White House ceremony a few years back. (Ronald Reagan bestowed the Presidenti ...
  • If You Are Black or Young in America, the Econ ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you are black or young in America, the economy is not getting better. According to the April 1st AFL-CIO blog, Young people and people of color continue to experience the worst jobless rates which have remained high, with 24.5 percent of teena ...
  • JoAnne Kloppenburg Elected to Wisconsin Suprem ...
    NEWS ALERT FROM BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The following is an April 6th news release from "The Kloppenburg for Justice Committee," the campaign organization for JoAnne Kloppenburg: With 100% of Wisconsin precincts reporting according to the Associated Press, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppe ...
  • Disgraced Ex-Tea Party Chairman Williams Plans ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   Psst! Mr. Tea Party! Here's A word to the wise: You kinda blew the Element of surprise.   http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/disgraced-ex-tea-party-leader-promises-to-infiltrate-and-sabotage-obama-2012.php?ref=fpb  
  • Under Obama, the US Still Fears Populist Regim ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite soaring rhetoric about the need for an equal partnership in U.S.-Latin American relations, the Obama White House is still intent on halting the leftist contagion spreading throughout the wider region.  Over the past few years, a more radical blo ...

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Sciencebase

  • Five more science stories
    Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...
  • Young Science Writer of the Year
    Looks like the Guardian and Wellcome Trust are taking up the young science writer gauntlet with a new award. Winning an award like that can be a great start to a career in science communication. If I remember rightly, I first entered the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the year awards in ...
  • A year of Materials Today
    I contribute materials science news and editorials to most issues of the journal Materials Today and usually bookmark each item on Sciencebase and Delicious. But, you can subscribe to the electronic edition of Elsevier journal Materials Today for free if you're in the USA. Just fill in the form ...
  • Five more science stories
    Sperm condensation – Protamines are small basic proteins that condense the genetic material, the DNA, in mature sperm helping to form the head of the sperm. They are rich in the amino acid arginine whose residues are distributed in a number of stretches separated by neutral amino acids. The amin ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Incognito – If the conscious mind – the part you consider you – is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries.  (97818476 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Enbridge’s B.C. Oil Cleanup Plans Challenged a ...
    Smithers, BC - Enbridge has submitted a new spill response plan for its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project, but B.C. groups say a recently released video of Enbridge's Michigan oil spill clean up shows that the company cannot be trusted.read more
  • TV Spots Remind Rep. Cantor’s Constituents abo ...
    The Campaign for America's Future is releasing a new ad to be aired starting April 8, in Rep. Eric Cantor's congressional district in Virginia, highlighting Cantor’s comments that Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be."read more
  • U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: No Guaran ...
    As the Obama Administration signaled its intent to send the U.S.-Columbia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress for ratification, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: “SEIU cannot support the U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement ...
  • NRC Rules UniStar Ineligible to Receive Licens ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff today released a letter to UniStar Nuclear that says UniStar is not legally eligible to receive a Construction/Operating License from the NRC to build its proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 reactor.read more
  • “Unnecessary Austerity”
    Reversing tax giveaways to the super-rich and the nation’s largest corporations could raise $4 trillion within a decade and avert possible government closures, according to a newly released report.  read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • An Inconvenient Truth in Honduras
    Rodolfo Pastor Campos At the same time that the police and the Honduran army were brutally repressing popular protests of teachers, students, and resistance members for the sixth day in a row, Julissa Reynoso was greeting Honduran Presiden ...
  • Wisconsin Common Cause: Count Every Vote
    Mary Bottari Many voters went to sleep in Wisconsin and thought they woke up in Florida on Friday after a "Republican activist" county clerk announced that she discovered an extra 14,315 votes in a hotly contested Supreme Court race. Not s ...
  • Thrill is Gone; So is the Alternative
    What were they thinking? What possessed his strategists to decide to make President Barack Obama's re-election effort official on the same day his administration was making its final surrender on Guantanamo Bay? Is their campaign slogan "Cave You Can Believe In"? It certainly won't be "Change Yo ...
  • Life in ‘Fitzwalkerstan’: Sudden, Suspicious V ...
    Roger Bybee Since conservative Republican Scott Walker became Wisconsin's governor, the state's tradition of democracy and openness has been under ferocious attack.read more
  • Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Natio ...
    Robert Reich When I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother had packed in my lunchbox, or, they said, they’d beat me up. After a close ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • How Much Are You Paying in Taxes for War This ...
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  • Petraeus "Understands the Frustration" With Sp ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus told senators that he understood the frustration with the Afghanistan War, conceding that "we have spent an enormous amount of money." The general has a gift for unde ...
  • Petraeus, McCain Continue Afghanistan War Spin ...
    By Derrick Crowe General David Petraeus is set to testify before Congress today, and he's expected to again try to put a positive spin on a war effort that's utterly failing to meet the goals set by its backers. While intelligence assessments show that tactical moves on the ground in Afghanistan ...
  • Karzai Asks NATO To Stop Operations
    By Steve Hynd Is Afghanistan a sovereign nation or not? I guess we'll find out. During a meeting in Kunar to discuss recent civilian deaths including those of children, President Karzai said: "On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nat ...

Water Wars

  • Southern Africa: Water - Working Together On R ...
    Postwar Angola is keen to expand irrigation for much-needed development, Namibia is prioritising clean drinking water and sanitation, while Botswana wants to preserve the integrity of the world-renowned Okavango Delta for tourism.
  • "World Water Day" panel looks at tri-state wat ...
    GAINESVILLE - The City of Gainesville, in conjunction with Brenau University’s Sustainability Task Force, hosted a panel discussion Tuesday afternoon entitled “Tri-State Water Wars” as part of the annual World Water Day observance.
  • Viewpoints: A market solution for treatment pl ...
    State water regulators last December adopted a new discharge permit for Sacramento's Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant that will require upgrades that could cost regional ratepayers approximately $2 billion. Opinions differed on whether those requirements were necessary to protect human health ...
  • "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
    (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. They said the U.N. Security Council should work out ways to ...
  • "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
    Climate change seen worsening stresses on water supplies and heightening risk of conflict, though water wars remain very rare

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Bomb kills 3 tribal elders in western Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; A roadside bomb killed three tribal elders in western Afghanistan on Sunday, possibly in retaliation for their cooperation with the government. The men were driving to a ...
  • ‘Kill team’ photos reveal truth of ...
    Malalai Joya. The disgusting and heartbreaking photos published in March by the media are finally bringing the grisly truth about the war in Afghanistan to a wider public. All the PR about this war ...
  • Destroying booby-trapped Afghan towns to save them
    Two aerial photos tell the story of this tiny village in the southern province of Kandahar. One shows a deceptively bucolic collection of mud huts amid pomegranate orchards. The second shows a field ...
  • U.S. restores ruined Afghan villages
    U.S. soldiers guard a gate at an outpost in Tarok Kolache, Afghanistan. The U.S. called in airstrikes on the village, deserted at the time, in October after 100 days of fighting for control of the ...
  • 2-Afghan probe says five civilians killed in N ...
    KABUL: A probe by Afghan officials has concluded that five people killed by NATO-led troops in a raid in northern Afghanistan this week were civilians, President Hamid ..
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