10 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblowers host book signing party for Ste ...
  Fourteen whistleblowers hosted a book signing party last night for Stephen Kohn's new book, The Whistleblower's Handbook. Pictured here are:� Jane Turner, Jim Murtagh, Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Bill Sanjour, Russell Tice, Kiki Ikossi, Jim Bobreski, Dr. David L. Le ...
• IRS issues $4.5 million reward to tax whistleb ...
  The Associated Press is reporting that the IRS has issued a whistleblower reward to an in-house accountant at a financial services firm. This accountant became a whistleblower for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), providing inside information about the firm's lapse in tax compliance. The tip r ...
• Citizen activism does the impossible: One WPEA ...
  Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement on this bill: In December of 2010, the National Whistleblower ...
• Citizen activism does the impossible: WPEA loo ...
  Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement on this bill: In December of 2010, the National Whistleblower ...
• Pension Stripping Bill Passes Senate Committee
  TAKE ACTION! We previously reported about the Senate Intelligence Committee's plan to include a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Bill (S. 719) requiring federal employees working at intelligence agencies to sign a contract stipulating that they would forfeit their federal pensions if ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Crade's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
  This week's favorites post comes from crade Happy Saturday to the workers. I guess we have another week of dirty tech and it would be good to review, summarize, and have a look at the best posts of the week. We aren't going to, though; we are going to have a look at the ones I happened to ...
• If You're Arguing That Someone 'Deserves' Copy ...
  For many years, we've explained why the debate about copyright is not a moral issue at all. Yet, whenever we get into discussions on it, sooner or later, someone makes an argument about how this or that creator "deserves to make a living" from their art. There are two things wrong with this st ...
• Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A ...
  A few weeks ago, when the NYTimes' Bill Keller bizarrely compared Arianna Huffington to a Somali pirate, we noted that journalism is a form of aggregation as well. After all, you're taking content from the people who actually make news, and aggregating it into a publication. It appears that ot ...
• Feds Say It Doesn't Matter If No One Reads A P ...
  In the ongoing attempt by the US government to access Twitter info from some Wikileaks supporters, we noted that an odd part of the government's reasoning for why it should be allowed access to this info is that Twitter's privacy policy is evidence that users are willing to give up private info ...
• DailyDirt: Materials Behaving Weirdly
  Materials used to be so important that several stages of history are marked by them: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc... Nowadays history seems a bit less intrigued by the materials we have access to. There's no Superconducting Cuprates Age, for instance. But there are still so ...

VacTruth

• The ‘Unknown’ About Polio Vaccine: SV40 and Cancer
  On September 10, 2003, on the simian virus (SV40) that was included in the original polio vaccine produced and administered to children in the 1950s and 1960s. More than 60 laboratories world wide have documented the presence of SV40 in human tumors.Vactruth.com
• Thimerosal: From the 1930s to 2011
  Healthcare professionals should read this article to get the down and dirty facts about what’s been going on under their closed eyes regarding a neurotoxin Pharma is pushing with such vigor as to make one wonder why. Vactruth.com
• Experts Recommend Delaying Breastfeeding Until ...
  News came in today of a study entitled 'Inhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on Infectivity of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines' advising nursing mothers to delay breast-feeding until after vaccinations.Vactruth.com
• Mother Jailed for Taking Vaccine Damaged Daugh ...
  A mother from Detroit was jailed this week for trying to protect herself and her daughter from the police and the CPS. Maryanne Godboldo's problems began when her daughter aged 13 was given mandatory vaccinations.Vactruth.com
• Is There A Paradox About Vaccines?
  There are many paradoxes in life but none so ludicrous [preposterous, ridiculous, absurd] as those that exist within the fields of health, healing, medicine, and, most of all, pharmaceuticals.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• The Big Show
  Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend?  I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office.  In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget.  Ahem. ...
• Clarity Through Microcosm
  I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Sorry for skipping my usual Thursday post last week. My social life seems to be getting in the way of writing and the next couple weeks are busy. Guess I’ll have to skip work or something. Thanks to @db0 for the heads up on this post about the men’s rights people. You have probably already [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, April 9, 2011
  Science Is Statecraft
• The LaRouche Show, April 2, 2011
  Killer Seismic Dangers? Don’t Blame San Andreas; It’s Obama’s Fault!
• The LaRouche Show, March 26, 2011
  Only a Criminal Would Ignore the Galaxy, and Oppose Nuclear Power!
• The LaRouche Show, March 19, 2011
  The Rim of Fire, the Mass Strike, and the Crisis of Civilization
• The Issue Is the Rim of Fire
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 11

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

• By: April
  Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
• By: Rich's coworker
  In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

• On a Tiny Museum's Roof, Paris Tests the Limit ...
  The Maison de l'Air and its two wind turbines, in Paris. All photos: Alex Davies Paris' Maison de l'Air is in the City's 20th arrondissement, on high ground, overlooking the Belleville Park and providing a great view of the whole city. But it's only by standing in the park and looking up at ...
• Garnier and Terracycle To Offer Free Recycling ...
  Photo: Terracycle Garnier is rolling out a paraben- and silicone-free shampoo and conditioner, called Pure Clean--just in time for Earth Day, go figure--but the big news here is that they're partnering with TerraCycle on a a href="http://www.terracycle.net/brigades/personal-care-and-beauty- ...
• Nuclear Industry Shows Their True Green Cards
  Image: C. Lepisto modifiation of CC photo by Phault The fallout from Fukushima has had ripple effects in the nuclear industry across the world, but nowhere outside of Japan has the impact been so significant as in Germany. Here the ensuing frenzy has resulted in a moratorium on nuclear powe ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Nourish
  Photo: Lloyd Alter, of the ingredients in Nourish When my husband and I were at the Brewer's Plate this week, amidst the fancy chefs with their enticing dishes of stuffed morels, and beef brochettes and the like, there was a familiar red and white logo which seemed slightly out of place. It ...
• Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Playing a Role ...
  Earlier today, I examined the fact that http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/clean-air-act-looming-government-shutdown.php was at the core of the looming shutdown of the federal government. But it even goes deeper than that -- TheGreenMile explains how a fight to preserve mountaintop coal ...

Biosingularity

• Sperm grown in a test tube
  Researchers in Japan have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish, a feat long thought to be impossible. The technique, reported today in Nature1, could help to reveal the molecular steps involved in sperm formation and might even lead to treatments for male infertility. Biologists have b ...
• Gene Therapy May Improve Parkinson’s Symptoms
  An experimental gene therapy injected into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease improved tremor, stiffness, and other movement symptoms and was safe with few side effects over six months of follow-up, a study shows. The small study represents the first successful clinical trial compar ...
• New UCSF Robotic Pharmacy Aims to Improve Pati ...
  Although it won’t be obvious to UCSF Medical Center patients, behind the scenes a family of giant robots now counts and processes their medications. With a new automated hospital pharmacy, believed to be the nation’s most comprehensive, UCSF is using robotic technology and electronics to prepare ...
• An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
  With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The study highlights the power of optogenetics technology—which allows neuroscientists to control genetically engineered neurons with light—to explore the fun ...
• Coffee May Lower Stroke Risk
  Women who drink a cup or more of coffee each day may be less likely to have a stroke, compared to women who drink less coffee, according to new research in the journal Stroke. The new findings should not be taken to mean that everyone should start drinking coffee to lower their stroke risk, as [...]

CFACT

• EPA's Clean Air Act: Pretending air pollution ...
  Despite historically low levels of air pollutants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking to enforce air quality regulations that are increasingly strict and burdensome. These regulations cost the economy billions of dollars by the EPA's own admission.
• Is it time to sell federal lands?
  Faced with a soaring federal deficit and a slumping economy, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have hit on an idea to deal with both: They want the federal government to begin selling off some of its vast estate.
• Congress bickers over biodegradable forks
  CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto to discuss congressional Democrat's fight for biodegradable forks, knives, and spoons in the congressional cafeteria.
• Saving lives in Japan: search, rescue & recovery
  CFACT helped send this SAR team to Japan where they are now hard at work saving lives and easing suffering.
• We need nuclear: Wind won't keep us warm
  How many thousands of people would die in a severe winter if wind turbines don’t have any wind to turn them? Britain last winter got just 9 percent of the rated generating capacity of its huge wind turbine arrays. Only fossil fuel backup plants saved them from freezing to death.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Japanese rally against nuclear power industry
  About 15,000 people took to the streets in Tokyo on Sunday to protest against the nuclear power industry after a devastating earthquake caused meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Kyodo agency said on Sunday.
• Bank of Moscow CEO says sells his 20% stake at ...
  Andrei Borodin, the embattled head of Bank of Moscow, said on Sunday he had sold his 20.3% stake in the bank, owned jointly with his aide Lev Alaluyev, at half the stake's real value.
• Russian opposition holds Day of Wrath protest ...
  Russian opposition activists gathered in downtown Moscow on Sunday to hold a sanctioned Day of Wrath rally.
• Polish officials pay tribute to Kaczynski plan ...
  Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other Polish government officials on Sunday paid tribute to the victims of last year's plane crash in western Russia that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
• Suicide bomber blows himself up in Dagestan, n ...
  A man wearing a suicide bomber vest died in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan after his bomb apparently exploded ahead of time, with no one hurt in the explosion, local police said on Sunday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia urges Japan to stop radioactive dumping ...
  Russia hopes that Japan will disclose full information about the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and will stop dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
• Russia looks to grab half of world space launc ...
  Russia needs to increase its presence on the global space market and increase its share of launches from 40% to 50%, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
• Putin touts Russia's growing investment in spa ...
  The Russian government earmarked about 200 billion rubles ($7 billion) in funding for space programs in 2010-11, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
• NASA plans to use ISS in preparation for fligh ...
  The work on the International Space Station will be the focus of the U.S. human space program for the next decade and it will be the first step in preparation for future manned flights to Mars.
• Japan to inject nitrogen into troubled reactor ...
  Nitrogen will be injected into a reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to reduce an explosion risk, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) was quoted by the Kyodo news agency as saying on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Some views from over there here, here and here. Just because we aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean no one else is.Combat operations ha ...
• Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
  (Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Pfc. Dustin J. Feldhaus, 20, of Glendale, AZ.Pfc. Michael C. Mahr, 26, of Homosassa, FL.Pvt. Jeremy P. ...
• Tuesday, April 5 - Invest in Ohio's Future Rally
  12:00 - 5:00 pmColumbusOne Ohio Now is holding an “Invest in Ohio’s Future Rally” rally at the Ohio StatehouseWhere: North Plaza: Broad St., 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215.Contact: Andrea Fejes at andrea (at) oneohionow.org or RSVP Online.Due to the large turnout expected, we are moving to ...
• 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 31-Mar-2011
  Thursday, March 3110:00 AM - 6:00 PMColumbusSenate Bill 5 Rally at the StatehouseWhere: 225 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215OEA Building & Ohio StatehouseOEA will open at 10:00 a.m. so you can pick up signs, water and snacks. RSVPs are not required, but are helpful and appreciated. By letti ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Sludge Sloughs Off Perfluorinated Chemicals
  Farmers often add nutrients to their fields in the form of treated sewage sludge, also called biosolids. Environmental scientists worry that chemical contaminants-in particular perfluorochemicals-in these biosolids could leach into the soil and eventually enter groundwater.Click here to read th ...
• Pennsylvania May Limit Drilling Byproduct From ...
  Pennsylvania is seeking to limit the use of sewage sludge as a fertilizer on farmers' fields if the sludge comes from sewer plants that treat wastewater from natural gas drilling. Click here to read this article
• Pressure Mounts to Take Monsanto's Roundup off ...
  It's glyphosate, the key - but controversial - ingredient in Roundup herbicide and the top selling weed killer used worldwide. For more than 30 years, glyphosate has been embraced for its ability to make farming easier by wiping out weeds in corn, soybean and cotton fields, and for keeping gard ...
• U.S. Subsidizes Brazilian Cotton to Protect Mo ...
  On February 18, Republicans in the House of Representatives defeated an obscure amendment to the House Appropriations bill by a 2-to-1 margin. The Kind Amendment would have eliminated $147 million dollars that the federal government pays every year directly to Brazilian cotton farmers. In an era ...
• Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Threaten the Fund ...
  The New York Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) – together with City Council Members, non-profit organizations and dozens of community gardeners- rallied against proposed cuts to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) on the steps of City Hall Tuesday, April 5th. These cuts threaten to se ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• The Irritating ICC Prosecutor
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Luis Moreno-Ocampo wants to formally investigate crimes against humanity in Cote D’Ivoire.  Cote D’Ivoire consented to the ICC’s jurisdiction over crimes committed there eight years ago.  So what’s Moreno-Ocampo waiting for?  Apparently, a state refe ...
• Guest-Post: Anna Dolidze on the ICJ Judgment i ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Anna Dolidze, a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. In 2007-08, Dolidze was
 an Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk at New York University Law
 School and a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute.  She has wor ...
• OLC Issues Libya War Powers Opinion
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Office of Legal Counsel has released an opinion asserting the constitutionality of President’s Obama’s use of force against Libya.  Here’s how it frames the question: [T]he Presidentâs legal authority to direct military force in Libya turns on two questions: ...
• The Interplay of Chevron Deference and Charmin ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Assume that a U.S. agency modifies its interpretation of a federal statute to respond to an adverse WTO decision. In so doing, consistent with the Charming Betsy doctrine, its interpretation is brought into conformity with WTO jurisprudence with respect to one ...
• Guest-Post: Nuclear Trafficking as an Internat ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest-post written by Orde Kittrie, a professor at ASU’s law school, and Sandy Spector, the deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.  They very much want input from OJ’s readership, so please post your ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• You know you live in Christchurch when...
  You know you live in Christchurch when.... · Geonet / ChristchurchQuakeMap is your homepage · The rest of the country offers you a place to stay · “Munted” and “buggered” are official technical terms · You go 'pfffff' when Wellington...
• Just a hint of what the next Investigate HIS/H ...
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• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...

My Care2 Picks

• Dead, missing and jailed BP whistle-blowers -- ...
  From Real Coastal Warriors on Facebook More posted Apr 3 - see main feedSubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Globalists Coming Full Circle
  Long before the verified lies of Qaddafi�s �door-to-door� genocide and even before the media cleverly tagged the engineered destabilization of the Middle East the �Arab Spring,� Libya was already marked for destabilization and regime change. Submitted by Lori B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note ...
• Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)
  Khan describes how remote tutoring his relatives on Youtube exploded into a utility pioneering change in the classroom right in the current school system, teachers using it to pioneer a completely different use of their time as education coordinatorsSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech � ...
• Soda loses its fizz - The BANNING of Soda in B ...
  The banning of soda in parts of Boston,MA...this will reverse obesity?..I think notSubmitted by . to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Homeland Stupidity
  News collection indexed by topic and date : Economy,Environment, Health Care, Homeland Security,Humor,Immigration,Internet,Intelligence,Military, Law Enforcement,Linux,Open Source,Politics,Privacy,Telecommunications,TerrorismSubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Land Destroyer: Exposing the International Arb ...
  Land Destroyer: Exposing the International Arbiters: "Bangkok, Thailand April 10, 2011 - The colorful maps of press freedom, democracy, and other metrics we are told are indicative of a free and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Anti-Cuban Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Acqu ...
  UNITED STATES/TEXAS (APNS) -- A US federal jury in El Paso, TX today acquitted a anti-Castro activist and former CIA operative of perjury and immigration fraud after a 13-week trial. Luis Posada... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Trece detenidos y choques con la Policía en la ...
  Batalla campal en el centro de Madrid - Vídeo Batalla campal en el centro de Madrid - 20minutos.tvAfter the demonstration, which began in the Plaza de Antón Martín and finished at Plaza de Atocha, a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Azerbaijani authorities target opposition rall ...
  Azerbaijani authorities target opposition rally leaders - Amnesty International Australia: "The Azerbaijani authorities must halt a campaign of intimidation against opposition leaders that has seen... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Nubians demand the right to return to their ho ...
  Nubians demand the right to return to their homeland | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt: "Scores of Nubians on Thursday protested before the parliament building in Cairo, demanding that they... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Canada Okays GMO Wheat
  Canada is giving the go ahead to GMO wheat. Although it is not ready for production yet, the plans are set.
• Truth Squad Radio: Toxic chemical dumps and health
  This week's guest is Gail Shephard, who is sick from arsenic and fluorine poisoning as a result of her employment at the Downey Hospital in California. The hospital was built on top of a toxic dump used by Rockwell and Boeing. Gail tells the story of what has happened to many of those who worked ...
• Googly Eyes Gardener: Indoor gardening tips fr ...
  Googly Eyes Gardener Christopher Walken on Saturday Night Live. Hilarious!
• Detective Pig Investigates “Responsible” GM Soy
  Detective pig investigates the sad truth behind the production of 'Responsible' labeled soy. The soy industry is not what it seems - deforestation and toxic chemicals are destroying South America to grow the [GM] soy that feeds Europe's factory farm animals.
• Marti Oakley on Call to Decision with Pastor B ...
  Call To Decision Host: Pastor Butch Paugh GCN Radio Marti Oakley The PPJ Gazette Listen here: Marti Call to Decision

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Big protest in Baghdad to demand U.S. leave Iraq
  ShareThisBig protest in Baghdad to demand U.S. leave Iraq 10 Apr 2011 A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that U.S. troops could remain here for years, tens of thousands of protesters allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shiite cleric, flooded the streets demanding an ...
• Obama signs short-term funding
  ShareThisObama signs short-term funding 09 Apr 2011 President Barack Obama signed a short-term funding extension on Saturday hours after Democrats and Republicans narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the federal government by agreeing on the measure and a budget deal. The new funding extension ...
• Police seek suspect in blast near Santa Monica ...
  ShareThisPolice seek suspect in blast near Santa Monica synagogue 09 Apr 2011 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. The explosion on Thursday near the Chabad House in the Los A ...
• Santa Monica synagogue explosion caused by unu ...
  ShareThisSanta Monica synagogue explosion caused by unusual type of device, authorities say 09 Apr 2011 First it was believed to be a bomb, then it was dismissed as a freak industrial accident, and now authorities are again saying that the explosion last week near a Santa Monica synagogue was, m ...
• House Votes Against 'Net Neutrality'
  ShareThisHouse Votes Against 'Net Neutrality' 09 Apr 2011 The GOP-controlled House of Representatives approved a measure on Friday that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from regulating how Internet service providers manage their broadband networks, potentially overturning a c ...

Daily Loaf

• The Green Community week in review: Shrooms re ...
  Read what you might have missed last week in CL's Green Community.
• A step backward: Rays lose 4-2 to ChiSox
  The Rays that played in the third game against the Chicago White Sox once again looked like a completely different team than the one that played the first six games of the 2011 season. True, they still lost this game 4-2. Also true is the fact that 2 runs on 6 hits is little better [...]
• UPDATE: Congress comes to term on budget – no ...
  Somewhat comically, the 15 minutes allotted for satellite time expired right after a Gannett news reporter asked Nelson if he intended to get paid if the shutdown occurred, and before the Senator could respond.
• See Professional Bull Riders For $10
  Have you ever seen bull riding? I don’t mean a mechanical bull at your favorite watering hole. I’m talking about eight seconds of furious action between the best humans and bulls that the Professional Bull Riders organization has to offer. If you haven’t had a chance to see it live, PBR’s pre ...
• Lightning put on a show, beat Panthers 4-2 in ...
  Friday night was fan appreciation night at the St. Pete Times Forum, as the Tampa Bay Lightning wrapped up their regular season home schedule with one final tune up against their cross state rival, the Florida Panthers. And boy, the Lightning sure did a good job showing their appreciation of ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Alexander the Great
  Sunrise over Farah 07 April 2011 Afghanistan contains many treasures of ancient history.�� Climate conditions here preserve old structures whose origins often remain a mystery. Alexander stormed through here a thousand years before the Arabs introduced Islam.� Today, after travelling arou ...
• Last Man Standing
  Kuchi Girl in Farah 05 April 2011 Many Provinces, Afghanistan As the Afghan war wears on and politicians, diplomats and generals thrust and parry about an endgame, one thing is clear: The outcome of this war will be decided by the last man standing. Who that will be, and what has to happen be ...
• There is a Right, and a Wrong
  Mark Bieger with Farah 04 April 2011 In war, the closer you get to blood, the closer you get to truth.� One day in Iraq there was a car bomb. It was like any other day at that time.� Several American Soldiers were wounded. In addition to hitting American Soldiers, this bomb hit children.� ...
• Rolling Stone: Boycotting Advertisers
  31 March 2011 In 2006, I launched a boycott against a magazine owned by a huge conglomerate.� The Boycott damaged the magazine but the extent was unknown.� Eight months later, the press reported that the magazine had died.� (Early Christmas Present for Michael Yon.) The boycott was not done on ...
• Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
  29 March 2011 Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.� Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.� The story is titled �THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.�� It should be titled: �BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone. ...

The Killing Train

• Harper and Bribery
  Today's headlines were interesting. Conservatives using the RCMP as their political goon squad to turf people out of events and pre-screen them. But Harper's said he's sorry and, I'm sure, has promised to never do it again. This is a good little quote from the Toronto Star though: read more
• Harper's Foreign Policy
  Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" discusses Harper's foreign policy. It isn't really distinguishable from Liberal foreign policy, except that it is a little more paranoid and secretive. Throughout the West, there is fairly unconditional support for Israel. Some explain this with lobbies, etc. For t ...
• Stephen Harper, Bruce Carson, and the Environment
  The quote of the day is definitely from Stephen Harper about Bruce Carson's fraud convictions: "I did not know about these revelations that we're finding out today. I don't know why I did not know." Anyone who doubts Carson's importance in Harper's team should definitely read Lawrence Martin's " ...
• Harper and the Press
  In Harperland, Lawrence Martin points out how Harper hates the press (you can see it in this campaign, with the 19th century schoolmaster's Five Questions policy). In a chapter on Harper's press policy, called "the Control Fixation", Martin relates this story (pg. 65): read more
• Incrementalism
  Calgary academic and Harper advisor Tom Flanagan has more influence on Canadian politics than most people in this country realize. He was an important informant in Lawrence Martin's imporant book, "Harperland". A good quote from Flanagan, on pg. 47 of Harperland: read more

treehugger

• On a Tiny Museum's Roof, Paris Tests the Limit ...
  The Maison de l'Air and its two wind turbines, in Paris. All photos: Alex Davies Paris' Maison de l'Air is in the City's 20th arrondissement, on high ground, overlooking the Belleville Park and providing a great view of the whole city. But it's only by standing in the park and looking up at ...
• Garnier and Terracycle To Offer Free Recycling ...
  Photo: Terracycle Garnier is rolling out a paraben- and silicone-free shampoo and conditioner, called Pure Clean--just in time for Earth Day, go figure--but the big news here is that they're partnering with TerraCycle on a a href="http://www.terracycle.net/brigades/personal-care-and-beauty- ...
• Nuclear Industry Shows Their True Green Cards
  Image: C. Lepisto modifiation of CC photo by Phault The fallout from Fukushima has had ripple effects in the nuclear industry across the world, but nowhere outside of Japan has the impact been so significant as in Germany. Here the ensuing frenzy has resulted in a moratorium on nuclear powe ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Nourish
  Photo: Lloyd Alter, of the ingredients in Nourish When my husband and I were at the Brewer's Plate this week, amidst the fancy chefs with their enticing dishes of stuffed morels, and beef brochettes and the like, there was a familiar red and white logo which seemed slightly out of place. It ...
• Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Playing a Role ...
  Earlier today, I examined the fact that http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/clean-air-act-looming-government-shutdown.php was at the core of the looming shutdown of the federal government. But it even goes deeper than that -- TheGreenMile explains how a fight to preserve mountaintop coal ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• President’s 30 unilateral powers revealed
  No approval required from parliament over terrorism prevention, closing communication systems and protection of war refugees
• Suu Kyi wins global women’s award
  Burmese democracy icon named Voice of the Decade by prominent US women's group and will be presented with the award by Hillary Clinton
• Local authorities get a facelift
  Township councils renamed and local security committees are formed as new Burmese government reorganises its administrative powers
• ASEAN battles ‘hot money’ inflows
  SE Asian ministers to discuss threat of unstable capital attracted by a region that has fared better than most in the global financial crisis
• Burma ‘likely to deport’ Canadian
  Ron Zakreski to be taken to Rangoon but is expected to be charged and deported after entering Burma illegal on 24 March

Telegraph - Climate Change

• What happens when the great fantasies, like wi ...
  There's a pattern in the unravelling of make-believe projects, whether it's wind power or the euro, says Christopher Booker.
• Arctic meltwater could lower temperatures at h ...
  Average temperatures in Britain could fall by several degrees due to a massive pool of melted ice water heading south from the arctic, scientists have warned.
• Eton student in bid to become youngest person ...
  A 16-year-old boy is set to make his second bid to be the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.
• Bob Ward boobs again over rainfall records
  The Grantham Institute's attack dog, Bob Ward, came back for another bite, but missed again, says Christopher Booker.
• How my family and I hatched a plan to keep lob ...
  A charity is working to reverse the effects of overfishing on one of Cornwall's premium 'common resources', writes Roger Highfield.

National Geographic | Environment

• Volcano Pictures: First Descent Into a Magma C ...
  NoneFor the first time, scientists have descended into a volcano's magma chamber—rappelling 45 stories into Iceland's Thrihnukagigur.
• Pictures: High School 'ShopGirls' Design for t ...
  NoneAn all-girl team of high school students from Granite Falls, Washington is building a car to compete in the Shell Eco Marathon.
• All-Girls Team Seeks Record in High-Mileage Ma ...
  Aiming to break stereotypes and records, the first all-girls team in the Shell Eco-Marathon seeks a repeat victory that will set a new U.S. mark in fuel efficiency.
• Alien Wasps Abduct, Drop Ants to Get Food
  When competing for food with an ant swarm, the common wasp will pluck an ant from the pile, fly away, and drop the insect, a new study says.
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Jurist - Legal Research

• US jury acquits anti-Castro militant on perjur ...
  [JURIST] A federal jury on Friday acquitted anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] of charges of lying to federal immigration officials. He was indicted [Miami Herald report] before the US District Court for the Western District of Texas [official webs ...
• US House votes against net neutrality regulations
  [JURIST] The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to overturn regulations aimed at preserving the Internet as a free and open platform of communication. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] approved the regulations last year [JURIST report], which prevent Interne ...
• US State Department releases 2010 annual right ...
  [JURIST] The US Department of State (DOS) [official website] on Friday released the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [materials]. The report outlined three prevailing trends that shaped human rights in 2010. These included the growth of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the inc ...
• Human rights organizations criticize rampant a ...
  [JURIST] Human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Doctors Without Borders (DWB) [advocacy websites] criticized [HRW press release; DWB press release] Bahrain on Friday for rampant human rights abuses related to anti-government protests. HRW deputy Middle East director Jo ...
• Wisconsin AG sues judge, calls for state Supre ...
  [JURIST] Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen [official website] on Thursday filed a filed a Petition for Supervisory Writ [text, PDF] directly to the state Supreme Court over a circuit court judge's temporary blocking [JURIST report] of a controversial bill that limits the rights of publi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Can Poll Respondents Predict the Future?
  We're on the verge of a government shutdown, and the political question of the hour is: If a shutdown happens, who comes out ahead politically? As is often the case, polling constitutes the only empirical evidence we have to try to assess. And the polling we have is based on similar, future-ten ...
• Government-Shutdown Watch: An Inside View
  I mentioned yesterday the uncertainty tax that the possible government shutdown was imposing on "normal" government operations, as people from National Park employees to members of the military tried to figure out whether they could plan as far ahead as next Monday. I included mention of one im ...
• Stop Blaming GOP Freshmen for a Shutdown
  I was about to write an item about how it's a little misleading to blame the Tea Party for a shutdown, since cultural issues like Planned Parenthood funding are what's at stake in the 11th-hour negotiations. But Dave Weigel at Slate beat me to it. (Now we're even.) So let me add a sub clause: it ...
• The Brave and Serious Mr. Ryan
  I mentioned earlier that if asked to choose an adjective to describe the budget plan presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, I would suggest "partisan" or "gimmicky," as opposed to "serious" or "brave." Most budget proposals are both partisan and gimmicky, so this is no particular knock against Rep. Ryan. ...
• Washington's Dueling Budget Battles
  With a federal shutdown appearing likelier by the minute, Washington is now engaged in two very different discussions about federal spending. Right now, they appear to have little to do with each other. On the one hand, Republican and Democratic negotiators are seeking a deal to avoid a governm ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] ***SPAM*** Libya's Qaddafi stars in U.S ...
• [COAT] Watch my antiWAR music video (Dylan/See ...
• [COAT] Peace Surge NOW! Save Ottawa Ban on War ...
• [COAT] Afghan MP tells Ottawa to Stop Arms Sho ...
• [COAT] Ottawa's Mayor & War Bazaars! Democracy ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Shabak Charges Against Abusisi Further Debunked
  Friends in the Ukraine have done tremendous research there regarding the charges against Dirar Abusisi levelled by the Israeli Shabak.  I’ve already reported on the debunking of a number of the claims contained in his charge sheet.  My sources there have enabled me to expand the critique, and ...
• Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
  Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
• Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
  Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
• N.Y. State Senator Hosts Anti-Jihadi Inquisition
  Anti-Muslim crusaders Frank Gaffney, Nonie Darwish and David Yerushalmi were shut out of Rep. Peter King’s recent Congressional hearings on alleged Islamic extremism.  But like a Jack in the Box, no sooner are they squashed than they rear their ugly heads once again. N.Y. state senator Gregory ...
• Juliano Mer-Khamis: The Death of Hope
  Juliano Mer-Khamis, the noted Israeli actor-director, was assassinated in Jenin on Monday. The PA has arrested Mujahed Qaniri, a Palestinian suspected of the crime.   The shooter has alleged connections to Hamas. Mer-Khamis was a living, breathing representative of what an Israeli, and Israe ...

Ode Magazine

• A new food manifesto
  Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
• A business in a box
  Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medai ...
• From dirt to shirt
  When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas b ...
• The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
  While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for ma ...
• Shaking it up for charity
  By: Ode Very few good stories end with the characters grungy and exhausted, outdoors in Times Square at 5:18 a.m. in freezing weather, but this is one of them. After months of training and preparation, two hardy teams were the last men standing in a re ...

OpEd News

• An Appreciation of The Sea Inside, starring Ja ...
  Movies are not even mainly Hollywood any more, and they never were. But American moviegoers can still have it otherwise.
• It's Time to "Whig" It
  Desperately needed now, if Constitutional Democracy, as defined by the Preamble to that great document and the Bill of Rights, is to be maintained, indeed restored in the United States, and if a Second Civil War is to be prevented, is a new party, not a traditional third party, but a Progressive ...
• Person Corporatehood
  We are being trained to become more like corporations even as they are being handed our rights.
• Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New Yor ...
  Everything in the NYT is suspect
• Obama Again Capitulates
  Obama again sells out to wealth and power

Switchboard

• India Climate Change and Energy News - March 2 ...
  Anubhav Gupta, Program Assistant, Water, San Francisco Climate Change Jairam Ramesh Inaugurates ‘Cap and Trade’ for Air Pollutants “India may be all set to become one of the few countries to put in a nation-wide ‘cap and trade’ mechanism for ai ...
• Disgrace: Gutting the ESA and Killing Wolves
  Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago The Associated Press is reporting that Senator John Tester got the go-ahead to attach a rider to last night’s budget deal that will strip endangered species protections from gray wolves ...
• Feds Agree to Protect Beluga Habitat in Alaska
  Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that Alaska’s Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat will be federally protected. The final rule designates mo ...
• Recent Study Finds Alarming Asthma Rates Near ...
  Morgan Wyenn, Project Attorney, Santa Monica Almost 30% of households in West Long Beach, California are home to someone with asthma.  This heartbreaking statistic is among the findings of a recent study conducted by the Greater Long Beach Interfa ...
• Better Life: Weatherization saves low-income p ...
  Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York It was so cold in Dorothy Johnston’s trailer in Hannibal, Missouri that the retired factory worker sometimes couldn’t get out from under her covers to go to the doctor. High heating bills meant “ ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Stephanie Carvin Deploys Blogfare In Bid to Co ...
  In her latest post on lawfare, Carvin outs me for being the audacious, asymmetric tactician I suppose I am, and attempts to win readers’ hearts and minds with a combination of wit and reasonableness. Will these tactics succeed? Or will this ‘soft power’ approach be read as alternatively naive or ...
• Some Saturday Evening Links…
  For your pleasure: Long, interesting post from Dmitry Gorenburg on conflict at the Russian Academy of Military Sciences. I suspect that Hamas and Hezbollah will be delighted by the opportunity to bleed Israel of $25000 at will.  Tactically impressive, but quite likely to be a strategic failure. ...
• Speaking of anachronistic baseball institutions
  Scott’s observations about Murray Chass not cottoning to newfangled statistics or the computer geeks who frighten and confuse him came to mind when I was in a Barnes and Noble this afternoon, and saw copies of Who’s Who in Baseball on the magazine stand. The cover of the thing looks exactly as i ...
• Do Pitchers Play For Teams? A Far and Balance ...
  Blogger Murray Chass, in a recent blog post on his blog, generously supplemented his own original thoughts with some equally fresh perspectives: Klein called the recent “devaluation of wins” a mistake. “Remember when it used to be said of good pitchers that ‘they do what it takes to win’ and of ...
• Dept. of Corrections
  We have been informed by the Federal Bureau of Internets Investigations that the post below, while excellent substantively, is in flagrant violation of Internet Traditions, which plainly hold that “every excuse to post a cheesy video from a famous former Star Trek cast member shall be taken adva ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• SFO Terminal 2 Takes LEED Gold
  Virgin Atlantic's new green digs at the San Francisco International Airport have taken LEED Gold, offering those coming and going a sleek terminal to be in.
• Zero Carbon Franchise Building Runs Itself
  Seale Solar announces a co-developed zero-carbon franchise facility that generates its own power, captures and purifies water and includes a composting toilet.
• Energy Star Ups Green Lighting Standards
  Starting in Oct., fluorescent and LED lighting fixtures carrying the coveted Energy Star seal of approval must be 30% more efficient than current qualifiers.
• Int’l Renewable Energy Agency Moves To UAE
  The UAE has officially been announced as the home of the International Renewable Energy Agency, a group dedicated to the global advancement of renewable energy.
• LEED: 10,000+ Green Homes & Counting
  The U.S. Green Building Council recently announced it has certified more than 10,000 green homes since 1998, with 38,000 units currently in the pipeline.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Attorney, client sanctioned for violating gag ...
  A federal appeals court has ruled that a former Dallas city official and his attorney violated a gag order by making remarks about the George W. Bush administration during a TV interview prior to the official's corruption trial.
• Judge tosses overseas claims against Toyota
  A federal judge has dismissed a consolidated lawsuit brought by Toyota consumers in foreign countries over sudden acceleration claims.
• State-owned company officials count under anti ...
  A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss an indictment on the argument that the officials who allegedly were bribed didn't meet the definition of "foreign official" under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• ALM, LexisNexis sign content agreement
  The parent company of The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and several other legal publications has reached a deal to make its content available through LexisNexis.
• OPINION: Transparency: the cure for America's ...
  For the first time, they would have a potent incentive to reduce tuition and accelerate the so-far glacial movement to incorporate practical skills into legal education.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• PennFuture workshop: Gas and Our Water
  Gas and Our Water: Legal tools for watershed advocates dealing with drilling in the Marcellus Shale Saturday, April 16 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre This workshop will give grassroots conservation and watershed groups, concerned citizens and volunteers the legal tools necessary to protect our wat ...
• Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
  Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
• Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...
• Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
  Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...
• Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
  The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...

News Blaze

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

environment 360

• Flaring of Natural Gas Wastes Five Percent of ...
  About 5 percent of the world’s natural gas production is squandered each year through gas flaring, a process in which unused gas is burned while drilling for oil, a new analysis by General Electric has found. In addition to wasting a potentially valuable energy resource — roughly 30 percent of t ...
• Record-Low Arctic Ozone Leads to High UV Radia ...
  The effects of record low ozone over the Arctic have reached southern Scandinavia, where large ozone-depleted air masses have produced higher ultraviolet radiation levels in Finland this week, scientists say. Click to enlarge WMOArctic ozone cover, March 30 While ozone levels above Finland i ...
• A Scientist Extols the Value Of Forests Shaped ...
  Political ecologist Susanna Hecht has incurred the wrath of some conservationists by arguing that the notion of the primeval forest is largely a myth and that disturbed forests play a vital ecological function. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she makes the case for a “new rurality” th ...
• Tree-killing Pine Beetles Moving East, Canadia ...
  The mountain pine beetle that has decimated large swaths of lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests across western North America in recent years is migrating eastward, according to report by Canadian researchers. iStockA mountain pine beetle Scientists at the University of Alberta say they have ...
• Funding Limits on Coal Plants Proposed in New ...
  The World Bank is planning to limit its funding for coal-fired power plants to the world’s poorest nations, bowing to pressure from environmental groups and governments that have criticized the bank’s record on funding fossil fuel projects, according to published reports. Under proposed new regu ...

Red Ice Creations

• Bankrupt Jesuit Order Pays Native Americans $1 ...
  A bankrupt order of priests has agreed to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native American and Alaska Natives who were abused at their schools. The payout by the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province - part of an agreement to resolve its two-year-old bankruptcy case - is the third biggest settlemen ...
• Battered Mothers Custody Conference Interviews
  Prof. Garland Waller produced "Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts" which is an independent documentary that explores the relationship between domestic violence, child sexual abuse and custody laws in America. To learn more about the stories of the women seen in this 10 minu ...
• Ground operation in Libya could start in April ...
  The international coalition force is planning a ground operation in Libya that could start in late April, a high-ranking Russian intelligence service source said on Friday. "Information coming via different channels shows that NATO countries, with the active participation of Britain and the Unit ...
• Japan: Radioactive levels in sea 1,250 times h ...
  Levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are 1,250 times higher than the safety limit, officials say. The readings were taken about 300m (984ft) offshore. It is feared the radiation could be seeping into groundwater from one of the reactors. But t ...
• Nigel Farage: "Bombings, bailouts - what on ea ...
  The UN says it's alarmed by the looming humanitarian crisis in Libya. Officials warn food supply lines have been disrupted and over three hundred thousand refugees have already fled the country. Nigel Farage, MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, believes the whole military strategy in Li ...

Russia Today

• Major search operation underway in tsunami-hit ...
  Japanese and US troops have launched a search for the bodies of those killed by the severe earthquake and tsunami which hit the country on March 11. This comes as the Fukushima plant workers prepare to pump radioactive...
• US releases evidence against 9/11 plotters
  For the first time in practically ten years, the American authorities have given the world access to the complete set of evidence against the organizers of the 9/11 terror acts in the US.
• Deported Norwegian of the Year granted work permit
  A Russian-born woman, whose deportation case caused public outrage in Norway, has received a permit to work in the country.
• Two countries, one tragedy: Russia and Poland ...
  One year ago a plane carrying the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk. Poland and Russia are remembering a tragedy that left the two nations devastated.
• Georgia leads way with record number of prisoners
  Georgia's legal system is under fire for failing to match its claims of democratic development. The number of prisoners has significantly increased since President Mikhail Saakashvili came to power.

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

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

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...

The Freeman

• Business Disruption Would Follow Government Cl ...
  “The federal government is, after all, a very big business, and temporarily pulling the plug would disrupt many other businesses.” (New York Times) Well, isnât that the problem? FEE Timely Classic “What Big Government Is All About” by David Boaz
• Bidding for Business Costs Taxpayers Money
  “Though some say [rivalrous interstate efforts to attract businesses] strengthen communities with new jobs and tax revenue, a growing chorus of leaders on both sides are wondering about the point of it all, warning that the efforts serve only to help private companies at taxpayer expense.” (New ...
• Had Enough Yet?
  Let’s acknowledge the debt of gratitude due every politician who put us in this predicament. Each spending vote dug the hole deeper and made it harder to get out.
• Time Running Out on Budget Writers
  “Congressional negotiators raced against the clock Wednesday to reach a deal to fund the government for the rest of the year.” (Washington Post) Whoâd have thought Leviathan would be so hard to manage? FEE Timely Classic “Whatâs So Bad about Big Government Anyway?” by George C. Leef
• Turning Food Crops to Fuel Poses Global Danger
  “Each year, an ever larger portion of the worldâs crops â cassava and corn, sugar and palm oil â is being diverted for biofuels as developed countries pass laws mandating greater use of nonfossil fuels and as emerging powerhouses like China seek new sources of energy to keep their cars and indus ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• A great Flash infographic
  This might be the best interactive information graphic ever. What do you think? I love the simplicity of the rollovers. The multiple information (timeline, map) delivered in the top image below is delightful. Tapuiassauro, o novo dinossauro do Brasil won a gold medal at this year’s Malofiej (se ...
• 10 useful resources about data visualization
  These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization. (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-wor ...
• Timelines in journalism: A closer look
  You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
• Teaching about storytelling
  As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
• Is your story actually a story?
  “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...

Facing South

• Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
  By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
• VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
  We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Did Massey miners die in vain?
  Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29 Year in which Congress passed a landmark mine safety law in response to a mine explosion in Fairmont, W.Va. that killed 78 miners: 1969 Year in which Congress passed ...
• Legal action seeks to slow rush to build new n ...
  A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South. Filed directly with the NRC's five ...
• Latino South Rising
  It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 perc ...

Worldpress - Africa

• The Uncertain Future of Libya
  Removing Gaddafi is proving harder than expected. But what will be even harder for Libyans who have never known democracy is putting together a viable government after the rebellion is over.
• The Jasmine Revolution
  Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
• Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
  In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
• U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
  In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
• Zimbabweans Still Suffering
  On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Alex Salmond dusts off his party's 'It's Scotl ...
  Salmond has begun his campaign to be re-elected as Scotland's First Minister on May 5, writes Alan Cochrane.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• We don't have the luxury of an interventionist ...
  We must work out what our national interest is, and then we must act upon it, writes Simon Heffer.
• We need nuclear power
  Telegraph View: The earthquake in Japan must not divert Britain from its nuclear energy programme

Ian Welsh

• Obama to Right Wing
  “I agree with you, now make me do it” (what FDR said to the left, if you aren’t aware.) See, he is the new FDR!
• Lambert and Corrente Need Help
  If you value what Corrente and Lambert do, and you can afford it, consider tossing Corrente some money.  Blogging isn’t free, someone’s labor is always involved.  Corrente punches above its weight, the big dogs in the blogosphere may not link to it, but they definitely do read it, it’s sort of ...
• In Light of the Budget Deal: Obama’s Personality
  Sometimes our early take on a man is the best.  In 2006, I wrote “I believe Obama“. (Re-repost, because it seems… appropriate.) One of my rules of analysis is that I believe people when they tell me who they are. That doesn’t mean I believe everything they say – I never believed Bush was a [...]
• When Medicare is destroyed is only a matter of ...
  Folks, this won’t pass this year, but a version of it will pass: That plan would transform Medicare from a government insurance program to one in which seniors would chose from private, federally subsidized coverage. Americans 55 and older would stay in the current system. Remember, Obama’s heal ...
• When Medicare is destroyed is only a matter of ...
  Folks, this won’t pass this year, but a version of it will pass: That plan would transform Medicare from a government insurance program to one in which seniors would chose from private, federally subsidized coverage. Americans 55 and older would stay in the current system. Remember, Obama’s heal ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Japan's nuclear disaster: live Q&A
  Do you have questions about the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan? Join us at 4pm London time on Wednesday 6 April for a live Q&A with Jim Smith, an environmental physicist from the University of Portsmouth and Nature's Geoff Brumfiel. Enter your email below to sign up for a reminder. Feel ...
• US government shutdown averted in 11th hour deal
  Forget the cherry blossoms and the monuments. Today the most remarkable sight in Washington DC is simply that of a government operating normally. With barely an hour to go before a crucial budget deadline expired last night, congressional leaders arrived at a deal to fund the US government ...
• US shutdown: a scientist's guide
  Time is running out for US congressional leaders trying to agree on spending legislation before a crucial budget deadline expires. While the Senate's Democratic majority leader Harry Reid (left), and Republican House Speaker John Boehner (right) spent the day demanding concessions from one a ...
• Podcast Extra: Fukushima
  Japan is struggling with a nuclear emergency following the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. In this podcast, reporter Geoff Brumfiel brings us up-to-date on the situation at the Fukushima power plant. He also tells us how Japan is planning for the long t ...
• NASA disbands science teams to make way for Eu ...
  NASA is disbanding two major US science teams following a bilateral meeting with the European Space Agency, Nature has learned. In a public presentation April 4, Jon Morse of NASA Astrophysics Division said that the International X-ray Observatory and the Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA ...

new geography

• China, Detroit, and Houston: How Ghost Propert ...
  Learning about China's property boom and its "ghost" cities has given me a whole new perspective on my four decades in the building, land development and consulting fields. During these periods our economy has had various ups and downs. In ‘up’ times, the rise in construction of new housing an ...
• Local Stakeholders Debate Changes to San Franc ...
  Despite one of the highest population densities in California and a prohibitive cost of living, the San Francisco keeps packing them in. Figures released by the U.S. Census last month show that the City of San Francisco added 28,502 people during the last ten years, a modest population bump of 3 ...
• Cities and the Census: Cities Neither Booming ...
  For many mayors across the country, including New York City’s Michael Bloomberg, the recently announced results of the 2010 census were a downer. In a host of cities, the population turned out to be substantially lower than the U.S. Census Bureau had estimated for 2010—in New York’s case, by ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Mumbai
  The continuing dispersion of international metropolitan areas is illustrated by recently released 2011 Census of India preliminary data for the Mumbai "larger" metropolitan area. The historical core, the "island" district of Mumbai (Inner Mumbai) lost population between 2001 and 2011, while ...
• The Problem With Megacities
  The triumphalism surrounding the slums and megacities frankly disturbs me. It is, of course, right to celebrate the amazing resilience of residents living in these cities� massive slums. But many of the megacity boosters miss a more important point: that the proliferation of these sorts of commu ...

GM Watch

• Stop attacks on independent researchers
• Bt toxin found in blood of pregnant women and ...
• Wikileaks' GM revelations just keep mounting
• US Embassies used Romania as Trojan horse to f ...
• Agrochemicals found in mothers' milk in soy pr ...
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spiked

• Northern Ireland: a zombie IRA and zombie gove ...
  The killing of Ronan Kerr exposes both the moral turpitude of republican dissidents and the opportunism of Northern Ireland's rulers.
• Frankie Boyle: the bastard child of Ofcom
  Ofcom creates precisely the stifling conditions in which an unfunny misanthrope like Boyle can flourish.
• Taking easy pops at the English Defence League
  The online mockery of a young EDL member speaks volumes about liberals’ contempt for the white working classes.
• The mainstream is so last year
  James Harkin’s new book reveals what the rise of niche marketing represents: a growing trend for expressing one’s identity, and superiority, through consumption choices.
• There’s more to being an adult&nbsp ...
  Kay Hymowitz’s assault on men who seem incapable of growing up is well aimed, but her recourse to human biology as the source of adulthood makes for miserable reading.

Cryptogon

• U.S. Dollar
  WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. My U.S. Dollar Index analysis from 22 March remains in play. Here’s an update. I expect a sucker bounce to occur sometime between the current level and 74.170, but that should be pretty short lived; days, not we ...
• The Budget Pie Illustrated
  I didn’t post a single story about the absurd Kabuki theater, brain rot, nonsense that came to a head last week, but this cartoon sums up the whole thing very succinctly. Via: IBD:
• Sony, Canon Plants Knocked Out by Aftershock
  Via: Bloomberg: Sony Corp. and Canon Inc. were among manufacturers that shut plants in Japan following a 7.1- magnitude earthquake yesterday, delaying their recovery from last month’s record temblor. Sony, Japan’s largest exporter of consumer electronics, said it suspended operations at two plan ...
• Naked Man Shoots SWAT Robot with AK-47
  Via: WFTV: A Brevard County man was naked when he opened fire on a SWAT team robot and it was all caught on video, according to deputies. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said the robot was sent into the West Melbourne home last week because the homeowner had called his family and said he was ...
• Off Topic: Telecom More Than Triples Far North ...
  On 8 April, early AM hours NZ time, I noticed that my Telecom XT connection was running much faster than normal. I did my usual speed test: Woh. That’s interesting! I’ve been using Telecom XT “out here” since November 2009 and the link was always throttled back to a maximum of 1.3 Mbits/sec up a ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• Lebanese Makhzoumi Foundation at the UNCCD-COP ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.makhzoumi-foundation.org/en/default.asp?contentID=673 United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification Makhzoumi Foundation participated in a meeting regarding the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification, which was held a ...
• Good old Prof. KASSAS of Egypt (Google / Green ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/04/egypt-prophet-desertification/ Mohamed Kassas: Egyptâs Prophet Of Desertification by Tafline Laylin If Hassan Fathy is the Middle Eastâs father of sustainable architecture, then Mohamed Kassas is the prophet of desertif ...
• Drought in Kenya : livestock dying, number of ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92393 KENYA: Livestock dying as drought deepens ISIOLO/MANDERA, 6 April 2011 (IRIN) – Thousands more heads of livestock have died in Kenyaâs arid Northeastern province as La Niña drought conditions worsen and water shortages become more acu ...
• WaSH Survey (IISD)
  Read at : Water Issues Announcement List   Researchers at U.S.-based universities and organizations that are concerned with water, sanitation, and hygiene challenges in developing countries have begun to explore ways to expand, better coordinate, and increase support for ...
• Protest against Ethiopia’s mega-dam (Afr ...
  Read at : AfricaFiles No. 25183: Hundreds of groups join in protest against Ethiopiaâs mega-dam — Ecology Title: Hundreds of groups join in protest against Ethiopiaâs mega-dam Author: Tesfa-Alem Tekle Category: Ecology Date: 3/30/2011 Source: Sudan Tribune Source Website: http://www.sudantribune ...

The Paper Trail

• Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
  PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
• Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
  When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
• E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
  An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...
• Broadband money flows to House panel that oppo ...
  Broadband and wireless companies contributed $81,500 to members of a key House subcommittee after the Federal Communication Commission in December approved “network neutrality” rules requiring providers to treat all Internet content equally, according to American University’s Investigative Repor ...
• Fact Check: The debate over federal workers&#8 ...
  Are federal employees overpaid? Republican leaders in Congress think so, and they are calling for an overhaul of the entire federal pay system to help slash government spending.

backofthebook.ca

• Harper’s Facebook police
  By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: "Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and 'u ...
• Canada’s startup scene gains traction
  By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, ...
• Stephen Harper, funny guy
  By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper's June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term" "the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegra ...
• CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
  By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
• The Pacioretty effect
  By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...

libcom

• Community Assembly in Christchurch (NZ): the f ...
  Rally.jpg Summary of a public assembly held in Christchurch, New Zealand, to organise the direction of recovery after the February 22 earthquake and in response to draconian changes in city power. ...
• Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria ...
  Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ~~Please Forward Widely!~~ ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals 4. Festival of Anarchy 5. Volunteers needed! ***************** ...
• Reportback from 2011 Critical Observatory: Cub ...
  social forum.jpg A report from the 5th Observatorio Critico forum in Havana. This year the event was promoted as a Cuban Social Forum bringing together diverse groups and individuals from across Cuba ...
• Egypt Revolt at the center of wide social chaos
  Since the early Second Postwar, our current kept watching over the events pertaining to Mediterranean Sea, its coast countries and mainly Europe and Middle East (concerning Mediterranean Sea in a geopolitical sense). read more
• Walk-Out and March in Ithaca NY
  Crossing the street.jpg Students from the Lehman Alternative Community School walked out in solidarity with Wisconsin and democracy. Students from the Lehman Alternative Commun ...

Free Range International

• Poppy Time
  It is Saturday, the 9th of April here in the sunny paradise of Afghanistan and both Kandahar and Kabul are in UN declared “White City” status as the locals brace for another round of anti American protests in response to the Koran burning in Florida.  I’m in Kandahar where all is quiet after   ...
• Afghanistan Gone Wild
  The killings in Mazar-i Sharif followed by rioting in Kandahar, Jalalabad and towns across the country are more than a little troubling. Joshua Foust posted on the topic expressing concern about the viability of internationals remaining outside the wire which makes concerned too because Joshua ...
• Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
  Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
• Rant Time
  Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...
• Crickets
  Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Project Blue Beam Update
  Seeing is NOT synonymous with believing — at least not anymore. Lucifer is synonymous with light – his very name means “the Shining One”.   Today, using LIGHT WAVES  – holograms of incredible detail and design now entertain vast crowds of human beings.  They dance on stage, wiggle their behi ...
• Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
  I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
• New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
• First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
  This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
• Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
  Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
  Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
• Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
  His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
• James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
  He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.

Scotts Contracting

• Good News for Our Health
  Thank President Obama for Protecting our Health!   Dear Scotts Contracting, What a week. In the midst of intense political wrangling over the federal budget, anti-environmental lawmakers tried to sneak in some nasty surprises — like gutting the Clean Air Act and handcuffing the Environmental Pro ...
• Disgusted with the Politicians
  I’m not happy with the Politicians and their Back Room Deals with Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Business. I suggest to everyone to check out the site: opensecrets.org. It is full of valuable information about who is donating and to whom. After viewing the information- You to will then have an idea ...
• Finally, Nat Gas Act, let the Debate begin:
  Guest Post: Subject: Finally, Nat Gas Act, let the Debate begin:
• MO one step closer to restoring 2008 voter-ena ...
  HB 613 aims to reinstate portions of Prop C, though it is still weaker than what Missouri voters passed with 66% of the vote in 2008 New Renewable Energy Bill Passes Out of House Committee Missouri one step closer to restoring 2008 voter-enacted renewable energy law In response to the Missouri G ...
• The EPA protects the American public; please p ...
  On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Solar Nation wrote: Thank you for using Solar Nation Mail System. Message sent to the following recipients: Senator Blunt Senator McCaskill Message text follows: April 7, 2011 [recipient address was inserted here] Dear [recipient name was inserted here], The House ...

The View From Abroad

• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.
• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Other Obstacles to Disarmament Exist Besides S ...
  Withholding their nuclear weapons isn't the only way states retard the progress of disarmament.
• Letter from Maguindanao
  For nearly 40 years, a civil war involving Muslim rebels and clan politics has raged in the southern Philippines.
• No Moral Consistency in Obama's Middle East Policy
  In Libya, the U.S. lead role in the military intervention has proved that its advertised intentions and actions clash with reality on the ground.
• How to Break the Deadlock With North Korea
  North Korea can't help but think: "Look what happened to Libya when it gave up its nuclear weapons."
• Take Part in the Global Day of Action on Milit ...
  We can all participate in the first Global Day of Action on Military Spending.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iraq forces attack Iranian PMOI rebels at Camp ...
  Iraqi forces have attacked a camp housing an Iranian exile group north of Baghdad, home to about 3,500 people.read more
• /سالگرد روز ملي فن‌آوري هسته‌يي/ خــبــر خــوش ...
  0 فروردين، "روز ملي فن‌آوري هسته‌يي" است و امسال سالگرد آن در حالي برگزار خواهد شد كه درباره اعلام دستاوردهاي جديد هسته‌يي گمانه‌زني‌ها ادامه دارد. از ميان "توسعه سانتريفيوژ‌ها"، "مكان‌يابي و ساخت سايت‌هاي جديد read more
• Harvard Lecturer's Persian Manuscript Sells fo ...
  A page from a 16th-century manuscript sold today for 7.4 million pounds ($12 million), an auction record for any Islamic work of art. The illuminated sheet was one of the 258 illustrations to the “Shahnameh” and offered by Sotheby’s (BID) in its sale of works from the collection of the late Harv ...
• سکه طرح جدید 399 هزار تومان/ دلار آزاد 1115 تو ...
  قیمت انواع سکه و طلا امروز در بازار داخلی در پی افزایش نرخ جهانی طلا افزایش یافت، به طوریکه نرخ سکه طرح قدیم 440 هزار تومان و سکه طرح جدید 399 هزار تومان شد. به گزارش خبرنگار مهر، قیمت انواع سکه و طلا امروز سه شنبه در بازار افزایش یافت، به طوریکه قیمت هر قطعه سکه تمام بهار آزادی طرح قدیم به 440 ...
• پاسخ احمدی نژاد به پیام نوروزی اوباما: شما چه ...
  احمدی نژاد در جمع مردم استان کرمانشاه در ورزشگاه آزادی، به پیام نوروزی اوباما واکنش نشان داد. به گزارش  انتخاب، وی با اشاره به پیام نوروزی اوباما گفت: شما چه می فهمید نوروز چیست؟ نوروز یعنی مهربانی، پاکی، توحید(!)، گذشت، صله ارحام، نو شدن و زیبا شدن، امید، دعوت به صلح، برادری و آرامش. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Bill Ayers: Obama’s Ex-Terrorist Pal
  In 1984, Obama left Business International Corporation (BIC), a known CIA front engaging in economic espionage (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/04/02/the-president-with-no-past-obamas-electability-in-2012/), to move to Chicago, where he became a civil rights lawer. From that po ...
• The President with No Past – Part IV
  All in the Family Although many official records of Obama’s extended family are sealed, there is sufficient information in the public domain to suggest that his stepfather Colonel Lolo Soetoro and both maternal grandparents also had links to the CIA. Colonel Lolo Soetoro Following her return to ...
• The President with No Past – Part III
  Obama’s Fictional Autobiography The scenario Obama lays out in Dreams from My Father about his parents’ background differs markedly from limited information available from school and other public school records. Some commentators attribute this to his embarrassment over his father’s multiple mar ...
• The President with No Past: Part II
  Obama’s secrecy and evasiveness about his early life has only fueled speculation about his alleged links to the CIA. Sherman Skolnick, the late Chicago based court reformer, journalist and conspiracy buff, first raised the issue when the Russians detained Senator Obama in 2004. Any evidence Skol ...
• The President with No Past: Obama’s Ele ...
  Implications of Executive Order 13489 What are the chances of a president who has all his pre-presidential records sealed winning re-election to a second term? At the moment, because of Executive Order 13489, the public and press have virtually no way to independently verify much of what Obama ...

Doug's Darkworld

• The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
  Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]
• The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
  Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]
• The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
  OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
• NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
  Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]
• “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
  Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...

FourWinds10

• CARS, WHOLE HOUSES AND EVEN SEVERED FEET IN SH ...
• New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet
• NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE AND MORE
• Videos of the âtoxicâ black sludge coating ...
  VIEW THESE HERE http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ video-toxic-black-sludge-coating-ocean-floor-video
• âFirstâ Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: T ...
  To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico.  Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up ...

Crisis Maven

• How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
  Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
• Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
  Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...
• Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
  Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
• To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
  … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...
• How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
  The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Speculator’s Political Reserve?
  Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...
• Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around a ...
• Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
• Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
  Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...
• Modes of Transportation
  Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Call :Teachers worldwide are invited to join f ...
  Comments:BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION: - LUCIAN DUMATags: #edtech20, project, teaching, learning, collaboration, Resources, education20by: LUCIAN DUMA
• eTextbooks and Educational Apps: iPads Enter t ...
  Tags: educational, ipad, mlearning, etextbooks, appsby: Dean Mantz
• TinEye Reverse Image Search
  Tags: search, image, searchengine, photos, tools, reverse, tineye, copyrightby: Dean Mantz
• GeoGames: The New Way to Teach GeoGraphy
  Comments:Interactive Geography games that one can use on the IWB. - Dean MantzTags: Geography, interactive, socialstudies, maps, reachtheworld, geogames, iwb, smartboardby: Dean Mantz
• RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
  Comments:Provide a single word and it provides you the rhymes, synonyms, etc. - Dean MantzTags: writing, dictionary, reference, rhyme, rhymezone, rhyming, Tools, grammar, englishby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Broken Ocean? Here are 25 Ways You Can Help Fix It
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As we've been pointing out all Ocean Week, anyone who enjoys seafood, fishing, snorkeling, or breathing oxygen (the ocean produces up to 70 percent of the world's O2) needs to be concerned about the endangered state of the world's oceans. But as author and ocean activist ...
• Radiation from Full-Body Scanners Minimal, Stu ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the world waits nervously to see what happens with the nuclear reactors in Japan, many people are worried about nuclear radiation drifting across the Pacific and contaminating food, air, and water here. But last November and December, the American public was much more ...
• "Everything You Do Makes a Difference": How Oc ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You may not live near the coastline, but rest assured, everyone's health rides on our oceans' well-being. To learn more about the interconnectedness of everyday live and our sprawling seas, we turned to third-generation explorers and ocean activists, siblings Philippe an ...
• Ocean Week on Rodale.com!
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• Jellyfish Soup? Get Used to It, Or Act Now Sav ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—"It's a little weird that Sam Malone is talking to you about oceans," Ted Danson told a crowd of editors at Rodale's headquarters last week on a tour promoting his new book Oceana (Rodale, 2011). And it would be weird, if not for his obvious dedication to the cause. Da ...

big think

• How the Brain Reacts to Beauty
  What's the Big Idea? Beauty: What is it? Why are we so affected by it? And when we find it, why does it lead us astray from so many of our rationally determined principles? Our courts defend equal application of the law, but in truth, the law is applied more favorably to attractive people. We ...
• Bad Idea of the Week: Poor People Have a Duty ...
  A century ago, governments began to assert their authority over poor people and immigrants whose bad behavior was supposedly spreading epidemic diseases like smallpox, cholera and typhus. Cops in Boston held down writhing workers to inoculate them, and authorities in New York City locked up "Typ ...
• This is Your Brain on Shakespeare
  Shakespeare's literary career, which spanned a quarter century between the years 1587 and 1612, came�at a time when the English language was at a powerful stage of development. The great fluidity of the language gave Shakespeare an enormous amount of room to innovate.� In all of his plays, son ...
• Why You Should Read Shakespeare to Your Children
  Passive acts, like listening to Mozart, will not make your child smarter. On the other hand, active engagement--learning to play an instrument or processing words--improves mental functioning. For instance, there is a positive relationship between the number of words a child hears every day and ...
• Free Porn Lowers Rape Rates
  A protest in Toronto last weekend against sexual assault stereotypes, affectionately called the “Sluts March”, reminded me that I have omitted (or perhaps avoided) talking about rape here on Dollars and Sex. You may think that violent crime falls outside the scope of economic analysis, but there ...

Information Liberation

• Why Aren't The Rich Paying 50% in Taxes?
  Tax Day (April 18) is fast approaching, which means anxiety and night sweats for about 99 percent of taxpayers. And bitching and moaning by those at the top of the income pyramid about how they aren't forced to pay more in taxes. Secretary of St...
• Peter Schiff Interviews Robert Kiyosaki (And G ...
  Peter Schiff has quite a way of inadvertently exposing people. First Dick Morris hangs up on him, now Robert Kiyosaki curses at him for merely asking questions. You know someone is a con-man if they can't give any concrete specific advice and onl...
• Harry Reid: Taxation Is Voluntary
  This is a prime example of the mental illness that pervades Washington D.C.. How can we have allowed ourselves to be governed by such people? Why are we putting up with this? Next time you go to a party meeting to vet a politician, ask them the ...
• Do not panic, citizens: If the government shut ...
  Many federal Web sites will go dark if the government shuts down tomorrow night, the White House indicated this afternoon. A 16-page memo (PDF) to federal agencies says their Web sites may stay online only in a small number of situations, includin...
• Heads Up, Mexico: You May be Next
  The time has come, insists Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), "for the U.S. to show serious commitment to war in our own backyard." It's shamefully narrow-minded of Washington to confer the blessings of humanitarian mass murder on distant B...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Inferno
  The scene: a desolate, barren moonscape. Lightning bolts flash occasionally across a blackened sky. Boiling, bubbling lava pools dot the ground as far as the eye can see, sending plumes of reeking smoke into the gloom. The only sounds are … Continue reading →
• What Is Libertarianism Part II
  Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
• It’s Just A Jump To The Left
  …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →
• McLurg’s Law
  I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →
• Cactoblastis
  Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...

RFF Library

• The World of Rivers
  National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water/water-animation The annual Malofiej awards, for top graphics in journalism, were handed out last week. The best map of 2010 went to National Geographic for the World of Rivers. Every river system in the world was mapped and scal ...
• Hazmat Incident Database
  Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/library/data-stats/incidents The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has launched an online database of hazardo ...
• The Relationship between Common Management and ...
  LUISS “Guido Carli” University of Rome / by Danilo Sama http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28978/ [Abstract] Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the environmental and scientific society. On one hand, it has been considered as a m ...
• Estimating the Costs and Benefits of the Smart ...
  Electric Power Research Institute http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt?Abstract_id=000000000001022519 [Abstract]  The present electric power delivery infrastructure was not designed to meet the increased demands of a restructured electricity marketplace, the energy needs of a digital society, or ...
• FAO Food Price Index (4/7/11)
  Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesindex/en/ The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 230 points in March 2011, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March last year. International pri ...

Scientific American - News

• A Lovely Swirl: Orbiter Spots a Shifting Vorte ...
  Venus is Earth's closest sibling, in terms of size and proximity, but it remains relatively little explored compared with Earth's other planetary neighbor, Mars. For instance, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) currently have three working Mars orbiters and one active Mars rover between ...
• Defending the Body Corporate: Appeals Court Pu ...
  The latest chapter in the legal battle over gene patenting unfolded this week during oral arguments (MP3) made in a Washington, D.C., courtroom. A year after a somewhat surprising victory in a New York federal district court, a group of plaintiffs led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACL ...
• U.S. Collider Offers Physicists a Glimpse of a ...
  Physicists sifting through data generated by the Tevatron particle collider in Illinois have uncovered a signal that neither they nor the long-standing Standard Model of particle physics can explain. [More]
• Lofting Aspirations: SpaceX Plans to Launch Wo ...
  Come 2013, the burliest rocket in the world may belong not to NASA, Boeing or any of the other traditional heavy-hitters in the aerospace field. It will belong to a relative newcomer, if start-up spaceflight firm SpaceX has its way. [More]
• Radioactive Omission: Where Are the Anti-Radia ...
  Despite the wide availability of potassium iodine to mitigate ingestion exposure to radioactive iodine in the air, food or beverages, there is still no magic medicine to give to people who have been--or will be--exposed to high levels of direct radiation. [More]

First Truths

• Shutdown Can't Come Soon Enough
  My take on shutdown hysteria: Besides its protective functions, defined by its monopoly on the use of force, the need for a state is often asserted on the basis of its role as a “safety net.” But although few would disagree that individuals need some hedge against sickness, unemployment and the ...
• The Free Market's Regulatory Model
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that a truly free market doesn't require an EPA to protect the environment, that in fact Big Business welcomes the state's regulations: And companies that are, due to the lack of competitive pressures, unwieldy in their largeness are inherently acc ...
• The Foreclosure Mess: Another Crisis of State ...
  My take on the ongoing housing disaster: Where everything the banks lost was recouped through bailouts and the Fed’s consumption of bad debt with play money, the common man gets to watch his home — probably the only real wealth he had — become another corporate welfare payment. There’s nothing r ...
• Self-Determination and Ivory Coast
  On the violence in�Côte d'Ivoire: Naturally it hasn�t occurred to the international consortium of criminal bands we call the UN that the people of Ivory Coast might wish to escape Africa�s arbitrary political boundaries themselves. It certainly doesn�t comport with the statist worldview that �se ...
• Syria's Old Boy Network
  On events in Syria, I wrote: Whether the ties are rooted in blood or class interests, the state, everywhere and at all times, is characterized and defined by nepotism; its rules are geared to wring the rewards out of the productive and to wall in certain industries, allowing a chosen few to domi ...

Media Co-Op

• Why Bonuses?
  A study by Iris about bonuses in Quebec's public sector We at IRIS have recently finished a study about bonuses in Quebec's public sector. Not only did we look at figures from the six organizations we focussed on (the health sector, Hydro- ...
• A Lot of Empty Promises
  VANCOUVER - Social housing advocates cut the ribbon�on another broken promise today - an unbuilt BC Housing project at a lot on�Alexander street. The City-owned site�was approved for�100 units of social housing five years ago. The mock opening promised and delivered "a free BBQ & ribbon cutting ...
• DNC Chinatown Heights Fight at City Hall
  For Immediate Release April 5, 2011 CHINATOWN AND DTES RESIDENTS FIGHT CONDO HEIGHTS WITH MUSIC! VANCOUVER: Chinatown and Downtown Eastside residents took over city c ...
• Anti-War Protests Continue as Canada's Role In ...
  As Canada's role in the 'Libya-adventure' becomes increasingly aggressive in nature, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) organized a weekend of protests, at the foot of Barrington and Spring Garden, as well as at the Spring G ...
• Resourced & A PEOPLE'S FORECAST -- Montreal La ...
  PART 1: A speakers panel regarding climate justice mobilizations The Just Seeds Resourced portfolio can be viewed at http://justseeds.org/resourced/ Featuring music by Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Civilization" from the album "Quiet Places" (1973) ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Repent! The end is near... or maybe not
  Administration officials said that nearly 800,000 federal workers would probably be told to stop working if a deal was not reached in the next two days. Small business loans would stop. Tax returns filed on paper would not be processed. Government Web sites would go dark. And federal loan guaran ...
• Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on yo ...
  Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly ...
• Libya for Dummies: the lipstick doctrine
  The Lipstick DoctrineIn the Victorian age, the British once sang � �We don�t want to fight, but by Jingo if we do/ We�ve got the ships, we�ve got the men, we�ve got the money too.� The Libyan intervention feels like a last reprise of that old tune, rather than a bold statement for a new age. Gid ...
• The shooting in Tucson: the sound and the fury
  A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing Monday on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. - Associated PressDavid Seaton's News LinksThe obligatory ...
• Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney". ...
  David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well.� From one moment to the next, this poor m ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• NEW! Self-Funded Study Found HUGE Tumors from ...
  Victoria Inness-Brown conducted a personal two and a half-year experiment on the effects of aspartame, probably the worst of the artificial sweeteners on the market. Her experiments resulted in the book, My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, as well as the shorter summary vers ...
• A Lesson Learned in Haiti Reveals a Deeper, Si ...
  A new study has taken a look at how the Haitian cholera outbreak is likely to evolve. It found that clean water and hygiene education measures are likely to be more effective at reducing the spread of the disease than a vaccination campaign. The researchers created disease dispersion models for ...
• Is Vitamin D Deficiency Connected to Parkinson ...
  Researchers report that there is a correlation between insufficient levels of vitamin D and the development of early Parkinson's disease. A study of more than 150 Parkinson's patients found that a high percentage of subjects had vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. Almost 70 percent had vitam ...
• Lack of Sleep Linked To Childhood Obesity
  New studies show a direct connection between obesity and insufficient sleep. Children with inadequate nightly rest are at higher risk for obesity than those who are getting the proper amount of sleep. If a child has likelihood to be obese, proper sleep will help protect him or her against future ...
• An Unusual Way of Detecting This Early Stage C ...
  Research shows that some dogs have an uncanny ability to detect impending seizures, cancer, and even when people will die. Some examples of these extraordinary animals can be seen in the two videos above. In one new study, a Labrador retriever has been trained to detect colon cancer nearl ...

JAMA

• Physical Activity and Weight Gain Over 20 Year ...
• Physical Activity and Weight Gain Over 20 Year ...
• Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvi ...
• Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvi ...
• Characteristics of Opioid Prescriptions in 200 ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• Election 2011: Viewpoints
  WHICH PARTY/PARTY LEADER HAS MOST/LEAST IMPRESSED YOU SO FAR DURING THE CAMPAIGN?
• Vote subsidies vs. tax credits
  The Gazette's most recent editorial on political-party funding ("Subsidies for parties, for and against," April 5) shows an encouraging shift. The Gazette once took the line that the $2-per-vote subsidy should be ended because public money is paid to parties that some voters do not support, like ...
• After a tragic death, a moral debate
  controversy that continues to sweep the media, the artistic community, the court of public opinion, the National Assembly and even federal politics.
• A school board that needs to grow up
  There's a new circus in town, and you can watch it free at emsb@ canadacast.ca. That's the website of the English Montreal School Board, where you see school commissioners at work during regular and special meetings. Get past the dull bits and you'll see the chest-beating antics, the shouting, t ...
• Estelle Vallières, 37, suburban mom
  A mother of four, Vallières lives in the South Shore town of Ste. Julie. In the 2007 Quebec general election, the Action démocratique du Québec won every single poll in every single polling station in Ste. Julie, thus establishing the suburb of 30,000 as the municipality in Quebec that most want ...

Food World Order

• 4/7 binge & purge: easter, grocer, toxic, addi ...
  oregon salmonella case brings easter chick warning* bpa ban advances in oregon legislature* north portland grocer charged with food stamp fraud* trouble in the bat world means trouble for US food supply?* 14 die after eating toxic sardines in madagascar* processed food from stone ...
• conagra broadens campaign to feed hungry kids
  update: conagra ceo on customers & rising prices... from nytimes: ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest campaign ever, including a television special, to spur more grass-roots inv ...
• mcdonald's launches plan to (soylent) green it ...
  world wildlife fund gets into bed with mcdonald's, gives birth to darling 'sustainability program' from grist: McDonald's is going to be less bad for the future of life on Earth, it promises. With the help of the World Wildlife Fund, the 32,000-store chain has pledged to do the following t ...
• the price of food is at the heart of this wave ...
  from independent: Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew more serious in Iraq... And it's not just the Middle East. This is an African crisis: Tunisia, where it started, is an African cou ...
• mouse-pig & super-fish seek approval for human ...
  from toronto sun: The federal government is refusing to say whether it is close to approving genetically modified animals for human consumption. But if they do, you may never know it. So far, groups have applied to get approval for fish that grow twice as fast as normal, and pigs with mice ...

CrusadeWatch

• Militant Christianity - Evangelical Christiani ...
  source: DNA India, March 27, 2011 In his explosive new book The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US evangelism as a f ...
• Suspected religious conversion racket busted i ...
  source:  DNA India, Apr 4, 2011 Social welfare department officials on Sunday busted an alleged religious conversion racket in Haleyangadi gram panchayat limits in Mangalore city police limits.
• 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
  source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
• Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
  source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
• Caste divide
  source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...

Whole Truth Coalition

• Retiring State Representative to New Hampshire ...
  Henry W. McElroy, Jr, retiring State Representative to New Hampshire, declared this week that former U.S. President Eisenhower was briefed about the presence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings on Earth. McElroy also said that the document he viewed while at the State Legislature made referre ...
• News Release: Hollie Demands Justice
  Hollie and Anne Greig have recently been on holiday with friends, during which time their knowledgeable supporters advised Anne to serve Shropshire County Council with a ‘Notice of Claim of Right’ under Common Law. This was done on May 20th and has since caused Shropshire Social Services ’serio ...
• The Elephant In the Room Needs A Good Slap. ...
  Today another 19 people lie dead, murdered by an outrageous military massacre on neutral vessels of an humanitarian flotilla in international waters; yet more unarmed innocent victims of yet more Israeli aggression. These brave people had joined others from no less than 50 countries to try to br ...
• The Exopolitical Revolution continues at the U ...
  The european leg of the global exopolitics initiative comes to the Yorkshire city of Leeds on August 7th 2010.
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The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• Sir Thomas Enough: Utopia and the Steady State
  With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
• Another Bite out of Life
  As the economy bloats with bigger and bigger bites taken from the biosphere, what's the 21st century response?
• Fitting the Name to the Named
  To some, "steady state" sounds pessimistic. But to many, "steady state" is a sincere name for our best bet at an exceptional economy.
• Surely We Can Do Better than Nuclear Socialism
  Brent Blackwelder suggests that you don't have to worry about a solar or wind "spill" contaminating the air, land and water.
• The Green Transition Scoreboard: How to Invest ...
  The Green Transition Scoreboard is a useful tool to direct investment decisions in the 21st century economy.

The Talking Clock

• Sunday Paper Review: 10th April 2011
  So, Sunday has rolled around again. Time to find out what misery the global political elite are inflicting upon the peoples of Planet Earth again... For those passing by this way for the first time, we did used to try to take all of these politics and current affairs matters seriously - but t ...
• Quote of the Day: 9th April 2011
  "The failure of the euro will signify the failure of the European ideal, and that is why eurocrats fight so hard for it. What should have been a club of free-trading nations over-reached itself, and sought to unite people with little or no common culture, politics, language or economic history i ...
• Our Poll: Only 11% intend to fill in census ho ...
  Before entering into the main thrust of this post, we are probably duty-bound to state that it is a requirement by law (statute actually) for you to complete and return your census form. However, over the last two weeks, we've run a poll on this site to find out exactly how many of you intend ...
• And when former East Germans accuse Theresa Ma ...
  I really can't be bothered to write any more about this beastly character than has already been written in the title of this post. Foul woman. Resign in shame, Theresa May. Read the story HERE, HERE and HERE. You can't trust the Tories on national sovereignty. (nor can you trust Lab ...
• Census stand-off: Round 1
  Just had a ring on the chimes of the Clock Tower. Eeek! A door-to-door gestapo agent, wanting to know where my census form is ("Well, I did post it...") Good grief. Either I'm getting old, else the evil state is now using twelve year olds to do it's dirty work, knowing we'd find it more di ...

Facing South

• Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
  By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
• VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
  We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Did Massey miners die in vain?
  Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29 Year in which Congress passed a landmark mine safety law in response to a mine explosion in Fairmont, W.Va. that killed 78 miners: 1969 Year in which Congress passed ...
• Legal action seeks to slow rush to build new n ...
  A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South. Filed directly with the NRC's five ...
• Latino South Rising
  It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 perc ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  AP: Terror Suspects in Afghanistan Can Be Held for Weeks in Secret The AP reports Friday that suspected terrorists in Afghanistan continue to be held in secret, U.S. military-run detention facilities where they can be interrogated for up to nine … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  NY State Senator’s Terror Hearing Draws Criticism New York State Senator Gregory Ball (R-District 40) plans to hold a hearing Friday in Manhattan on New Yorkâs terrorism preparedness, but his plan to examine the threat of radical Islam has drawn … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  White House Report Suggests Pakistan Making Little Headway Against Militants A semiannual White House report to Congress suggests that Pakistan is making little progress against militants and that the country has âno clear path toward defeating the insurgency,â according to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Four Accused 9/11 Plotters to Face Military Tribunal Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators will be tried at a military tribunal at Guantanamo rather … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Suicide Bombers Kill More Than 40 at Sufi Shrine in Pakistan A pair of suicide bombers killed more than 40 people and wounded 100 others on Sunday when they attacked an important Sufi shrine in Pakistanâs Punjab province, according to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• SpaceX plans world's most powerful rocket
  The company says its planned Falcon Heavy rocket will be able to lift 53 tonnes of material to low Earth orbit, and could one day send humans to Mars
• Today on New Scientist: 5 April 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: evolution going nowhere fast, doodles of discovery, and why the Earth is like a lumpy potato
• Black hole unleashes enduring cosmic blast
  A trio of telescopes is tracking the unusual, long-lived glow of a star torn asunder by a supermassive black hole
• Today on New Scientist: 8 April 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: A mystery signal at Fermilab's Tevatron, the return of Commodore 64, and the eel that travels light
• Twin Martian volcanoes rise above a cratered l ...
  A new image from the Mars Express orbiter maps the elevations of two dormant volcanoes in the northern hemisphere

Tech Drive In

• Clementine Steadily Improving - PPA for Ubuntu ...
  Clementine Music Player version 0.7.1 was released few days back and the venerable Amarok 1.4 fork continues its steady improvement it�received�during the last year. Clementine 0.7.1 is largely a bug fix release for Clementine 0.7 which came out with a number of major new features. Clementine PP ...
• Ubo Icons Theme - Not Glossy, Drawn With Ballp ...
  When we featured this collection of top 10 most popular icon themes for Ubuntu GNOME some time ago, Ubo Icons was probably one among the most promising set of icons for GNOME in that list, though it was still a project yet to be completed back then. Well, the first alpha release of Ubu Icons is ...
• Osmo - Simple, Easy to Use Personal Organizer ...
  Osmo is a handy personal organizer application for Linux. Feature list includes calendar, tasks manager, address book and notes modules. Osmo is comprehensive in its set of functionalities yet very easy to use and configure. In many ways, Osmo is as good or even better than�Getting Things GNOME ...
• Elementary OS Review: Delight to Use, Few Issu ...
  Elementary OS is unlike many other Ubuntu derivative distros out there. Instead of simply rearranging applications in a different order to create a new distro, Elementary project concentrates on actually building a full blown Linux distro with a consistent user interface that include custom appl ...
• Calibre - Really Good E-Book Management Tool f ...
  Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application for Windows, Mac and Linux.�Important functionalities include library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion and even e-book reader�synchronization�features. Calibre E-book Management Tool for Win ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Threatened shutdown of US government a bank op ...
  Lyndon LaRouche and Alex Jones discuss how the Globalists have been using the weapon of national debt to try to close down the US government in an interview on Infowars. http://www.infowars.com/lyndon-larouche-exposes-the-face-of-evil/ The US national debt – just like the sovereign debt of the e ...
• Who is the better leader? Prince Harry or Karl ...
  When Die Welt newspaper reported on Prince Harry’s “tour” of the Artic, they played down the fact that he went to the North Pole to support soldiers wounded in Afghanistan in an action that was refreshing in its  idealism. http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article13106695/Prinz-Harry-sit ...
• German university says ex Defence Minister Gut ...
  Former German Defence Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg has failed in his bid to block the publication of a report by Bayreuth University that concluded that the plagiarism of his doctorate was a deliberate and systematic act, according to local media. Guttenberg’s lawyers had argued that the ...
• First Iceland bank crash prison sentence hande ...
  First Iceland bank crash prison sentence handed down as country prepares to vote on new bank debt repayment package. Posted on07 April 2011.  Icenews. Reykjavik District Court has today passed sentence on the first case by the special prosecutor into the banking crash. Baldur Gudlaugsson has bee ...
• IRISH DOCTORS ORDERED TO RETURN SWINE FLU VACC ...
   GPs must return flu vaccine over narcolepsy fears Scientists have linked drug to sleep disorder By JEROME REILLY, Irish Independent Sunday April 03 2011 The Heath Service Executive (HSE) will remove all stocks of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix from GPs’ surgeries, the Sunday Independent has l ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

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 ...

electric politics

• Imperfect (Nuclear) Implementation
  Humans cannot engineer a perfect technology for nuclear power, one that presents zero risk. Nor can humans engineer a political process that enforces constant, rigorous, indefinitely long-term oversight on imperfect nuclear power solutions. The choice, therefore, is stark: use nuclear power and ...
• Tell Me About the Future
  Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
• What is Religion Good For?
  In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...
• Booker T. Washington
  White supremacy was never a good cornerstone upon which to build a union. A pact with the devil, we're still not done dealing with its implications. For a look at how an earlier generation of Black Americans attempted to cope, I turned to Dr. Raymond W. Smock, former official historian of the U ...
• Korea, Korea
  Remembering, forgetting, never knowing. Dr. Bruce Cumings, in his recently published book, The Korean War: A History, examines how willingly America intruded into Korea after the Second World War and how difficult it's been for us ever afterward to deny ourselves any real understanding of Korea ...

PR News

• Marina Maher hires CBS veteran for media role
  NEW YORK: Marina Maher Communications has hired former CBS senior producer and investigative reporter Susan Bean as EVP, practice leader of its media relations division.
• Rubenstein adds Magnolia Bakery to roster
  NEW YORK: Rubenstein PR signed several new accounts, including Magnolia Bakery, photographer Fadil Berisha, documentary Discover the Gift, and solar energy provider Solar Rainbow.
• PR Newswire backs Investor Uprising
  NEW YORK: PR Newswire is sponsoring the launch of Investor Uprising, a community website from parent company United Business Media aimed at the individual investor.
• Coyne boosts toy practice with two accounts
  PARSIPPANY, NJ: Coyne Public Relations has added two AOR accounts to its toy and juvenile products division: Nuk USA and Playmobil USA.
• WPIX-TV's Haunss moves to WestGlen
  WPIX-TV reporter Allison Haunss has joined WestGlen Communications as a producer at the broadcast and Internet PR and production firm's New York HQ.

The Story Behind the Story

• Project Blue Beam Update
  Seeing is NOT synonymous with believing — at least not anymore. Lucifer is synonymous with light – his very name means “the Shining One”.   Today, using LIGHT WAVES  – holograms of incredible detail and design now entertain vast crowds of human beings.  They dance on stage, wiggle their behi ...
• Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
  I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
• New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
• First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
  This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
• Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
  Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...

k2p blog

• zu Googleberg lives on: Guttenberg wants to su ...
  The University of Bayreuth has nearly finished its investigation into the plagiarism allegations that cost Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg his job as defense minister. He doesn't want the university to publish its findings.
• TEPCO shares recover – somewhat – ...
  TEPCO shares recover - somewhat - as short sellers get nervous.
• Sandstorm in Germany kills 8 on the autobahn!
  At least eight people died Friday in a huge blaze on a motorway in eastern Germany after a freak sandstorm caused pile-ups.
• Book promotion > Light blogging
  After much discussion the publisher Springer has agreed to class my book "Essence of a Manager" as a book for practitioners rather than as a text book. Just a small change but it dropped their price by almost 50%!
• Massive 7.4 quake again in Japan – as pr ...
  Japan has just experienced another massive 7.4 magnitude quake - as predicted on 5th April from events on the sun.

Left Foot Forward

• Daily Mail heaps bank debt on nation’s shoulders
  The media’s attempt to batter the public into a state of economic illiteracy has been ramped up by the Daily Mail’s attempt to conflate bank bail-outs with the government deficit.
• Getting to the roots of far right xenophobia
  Dr Matthew Goodwin, lecturer at the University of Nottingham, provides analysis on the roots of modern far right ideology and its sympathisers.
• Look Left – Will the government change course ...
  The major political issue this week has been the debate over the coalition's health reforms, with Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Andrew Lansley seeking to reassure voters the NHS is safe in their hands.
• Nick Clegg’s Welsh discomfort
  Ed Jacobs with the latest on the Liberal Democrats' electoral prospects after all their coalition discomfort.
• Government ploughs on regardless with cuts to ...
  Councillor Neil Coyle, director of policy for the Disability Alliance, reports on the government's refusal to act on public concerns over disability allowance reforms.

Consumerist

• U.S. Airways: You Know Those Free Miles We Gav ...
  Isn't it so nice when your favorite airline e-mails you to let you know that, because they love to see you so happy, you're getting 1,000 frequent flier miles in your account. You know what's not so nice? When that same airline writes you a few days later to snatch those miles right back out o ...
• Phone Tips For People Who Hate Phones
  For people who'd rather live their lives by email and text messages, pressure to participate in actual phone calls can be an unreasonable burden. Lifehacker offers valuable tips to neutralize the annoyances phones can foist upon you: *Disable your voicemail. Notifications do nothing other than ...
• Reasons New Cars May Be Better Buys Than Used
  Because new cars lose a sizable chunk of their resale value once you drive them off the lot, conventional wisdom says it's wiser to buy used. Money Crashers bucks that line of thinking, suggesting several advantages new cars have over used models. Here's a sampling of the reasoning in the pos ...
• BofA Charges Fee After 3 Withdrawals To Discou ...
  Here's a funny fee that I just found out about, even though it's been in place for at least a year. So, Federal regulation, Regulation D, prohibits more than six withdrawals per month from a savings account (ATM withdrawals don't count towards the 6). Most banks will just charge an "excess acti ...
• Analysis: T-Mobile Gives You More For Your Dol ...
  As AT&T prepares to head into the regulatory review of its pending purchase of T-Mobile USA, the telecom giant's CEO has stated, however noncommittally, that existing T-Mobile customers should not see their rates go up. And according to a comparison done by our number-crunching cousins at Consu ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Armenians and Gays Together
  The Armenian Apostolic Church found itself coupled with gays and lesbians on the pages of the April 2, 2011, LAEXTRA section of the Los Angeles Times. While it wasn’t, necessarily, a match made in heaven, and certainly not Church sanctioned, the juxtaposition of the two articles was logical. The ...
• REPORTED: 23 Dead, 200+ Injured in Overnight C ...
  BREAKING: The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has issued a number of emergency statements overnight detailing an assault on refugee Camp Ashraf by Iraqi troops assisted by Iranian QOD security forces. Using 100+ vehicles they overran and destroyed the camp’s northern fence killing ...
• Southwest Airlines Incident Highlights Cracks ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica The five-foot tear in the roof of a Southwest 737 last week has brought renewed attention not only to the problem of aging planes, but also to problems in oversight of the airline industry. In a report that received limited attention when it was released in December, t ...
• If The First Amendment Had To Be Ratified Today…
  by Tina Dupuy Republicans will tell you they’re the sole Constitutional purists in the country; they worship the document more/better than you do. But imagine if the First Amendment had to be voted on today. It would need two-thirds majority in both Houses just to be proposed. Consider it: “Cong ...
• Paul Ryan’s Plan, the Coming Shutdown, and Wha ...
  I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor Department’s 15,600 employees to go home and not return the next day. I also had to tell them I didn’t know when they’d next get a paycheck. There were two shutdowns, actually, rolling [ ...

NewsAlert

• Japanese citizens turning in cash found in tsu ...
  CNN
• Palin's on Obama’s Birth Certificate: Obviousl ...
  Gateway Pundit
• Unions Protest Reforms in Europe
  Breitbart T.V.
• Mayor Menino Issues Order to End Sugary Drink ...
  Here's an official press release from the city of Boston:Citing a link between the consumption of sugary beverages and rising obesity rates and healthcare costs, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today issued an executive order requiring City departments to take steps in the next six months to phase out ...
• Most Major Cities Grew Slower in Population
  USA Today

JoNova

• Legal warfare against skeptics: one win, one n ...
  The Big Scare Campaign is desperate, when they can’t win with reason, they can always find a reason to sue and hope to silence their critics. Their deep pockets make them an ominous foe, and the legal battles are running hot. Actions are running against Andrew Bolt, and Tim Ball (see below), and ...
• Legal warfare against skeptics: one win, one n ...
  The Big Scare Campaign is desperate, when they can’t win with reason, they can always find a reason to sue and hope to silence their critics. Their deep pockets make them an ominous foe, and the legal battles are running hot. Actions are running against Andrew Bolt, and Tim Ball (see below), and ...
• Patrick Moore takes on another Greenpeace Guru
  Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace way back in 1971. He abandoned them in 1986 so he could pursue his environmental passions. As you would. Last November he published a tempting book: Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. And not surprisingly s ...
• Greenpeace: witchhunters with $280m dollars to ...
  UPDATE: It appears ANZ is not feeling apologetic or likely to cave in to green threats. ANZ chief executive Mike Smith, has delivered a savage attack on Julia Gillard, declaring her party was part of the “weak government club” of the world. Greenpeace have produced a hit job on the ANZ Bank: a ( ...
• Poll Wars: Lying with loaded questions
  The Carbon Tax is melting down Australian politics. The spin is running wild and the falsity of “carbon pollution” (sic) preys on yet another political leader. Two polls met head to head today, one showing 59% of Australians don’t want the tax, and other saying that 72% of Australians want gover ...

ReNew America

• GOP, Obama make 'historic' deal to avoid gover ...
  (NewsMax) - 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...
• Fox News survey shows 62% opposed to raising d ...
  (WorldNetDaily) - A Fox News poll of Americans' attitudes toward raising the debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion shows 62 percent opposed -- with a whopping 79 percent of Republicans against a move being promoted by Republican House Speaker John Boehner, despite widespread and growing discontent am ...
• Schumer: Senate will 'never, never, never' def ...
  (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed yesterday that the provision to defund Planned Parenthood that passed the House earlier this year is "never, never, never going to pass the Senate"...
• Thanks for raising my taxes -- what else can I ...
  (Ann Coulter) - When Wisconsin Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on splendiferous public sector union contracts, did they happen to notice that the rest of the country is in the midst of a massive recession? For years, Democrats have been using taxpayer money so that their buddie ...
• Two George Soros events aim to remake the fina ...
  (Fox News) - Apparently, megalomaniacs need schedulers. Just ask George Soros. The left-wing billionaire is helping fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. God created the ...

Truth Offering

• Our Over-Dependence on GPS...and Why That's Bad
  Remember when you had to get directions prior to going somewhere? You'd call and ask the person you were visiting, jot them down and pay close attention the entire trip. And because of that close attention to detail, you'd ultimately remember how to get there from then on out. And over time, we ...
• Truth Offering Podcast with Matt Gordon - Feb. ...
  Good friend of TruthOffering.com and �ber (yeah, I said "�ber!) talented musician, Chris Phenom, is back to chat with Matt Gordon. �This week's topics range from WikiLeaks, peak oil, and Agenda 21, to genetically modified foods, geoengineering (chemtrails), Libertarianism, and the question of th ...
• Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
  Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
• Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
  It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
• US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
  The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...

2012 Blog

• CRE Superbug in the USA
  Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is the new concern. Carbapenem is an antibiotic, that is losing its powers rapidly, and there is no alternative yet: Carbapenems are one of the antibiotics of last resort for many bacterial infections, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiell ...
• Tsunami Underestimation – When Will We L ...
  The reason behind the whole Japanese tsunami nuclear disaster is simple – they doubted a tsunami could be that big. Doomsday researchers know that in the distant past tsunamis have been as high as half a mile, yet the Japanese even chose to ignore relatively recent records: In postulating the ma ...
• Chandra Wickramasinghe Dismissed
  This totally sucks. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a superstar astronomer (in my opinion) and will most likely be acknowledged (one day) as the most progressive comet researcher of his era. He has given us the concept of dark comets, and greatly helped publicize the study of  panspermia, which he co ...
• New 2012 Doco / 2012 Robot Film
  According to CNBC (USA): “APOCALYPSE 2012″ will premiere on Thursday, April 7th at 9pm. The documentary will repeat that evening at 10pm, 12am and 1am. Meanwhile, here’s a robot 2012 short film: Don’t Kill Me, Now from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo. Related posts:New 2012 Social Network Great Pyramid Ai ...
• UPDATE: Zahi Hawass Quits?
  UPDATE: Mar 30 2011: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass, as the new Minister of State for Antiquities. On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. Whi ...

Facing South

• Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
  By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
• VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
  We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Did Massey miners die in vain?
  Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29 Year in which Congress passed a landmark mine safety law in response to a mine explosion in Fairmont, W.Va. that killed 78 miners: 1969 Year in which Congress passed ...
• Legal action seeks to slow rush to build new n ...
  A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South. Filed directly with the NRC's five ...
• Latino South Rising
  It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 perc ...

One News Page

• LeBron's Mom -- Hear the 911 Call
  Filed under: Gloria James, 911 Call, Celebrity Justice The 911 call made on the night LeBron James ' mom allegedly slapped a valet was very calm and very relaxed ... but did identify the people involved as 'two males.' Whoops! As we previously reported, Gloria James was busted early Thursday ...
• 'Essex' Amy Childs lands reality show?
  ITV reportedly signs up The Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs for her own fly-on-the-wall series.
• British royal wedding guest list details emerge
  LONDON (AP) -- Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish. And the Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala will be there too, probably one of the few guests at the wedding of the year wearing orange and burgundy Buddhist robes ...
• Kimberley Walsh wants kids in 'a couple years'
  Kimberley Walsh admits that she is planning to work for a couple more years before starting a family.
• Tim Robbins - Folk Singer Robbins Dies
  Actor Tim Robbins has paid tribute to his folk star dad Gil Robbins, who died on Tuesday (05Apr11) at the age of 80 Gilbert Lee Robbins, a folk singer and member of the early 1960s group the Highwaymen, passed away at his home in Esteban Cantu,...

Global Research TV

• US Orchestrates Regime Change in Libya Using S ...
• The Unreported Facts About Libya
• New Data Indicates Chain Reaction at Fukushima ...
• US Goal to Break Up Libya like Yugoslavia
• Brutal Repression in Honduras Targets Teachers ...

Daily Tech

• Atari Greatest Hits App Now Available for iOS
  Apple's App Store received an Atari's Greatest Hits app that features 100 of Atari's most popular games
• New Disc Gas Engine Looks to Challenge Traditi ...
  Engine will likely offer in excess of 100 mpg
• 4/07/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
• Google to Spend $100M on Original YouTube Content
  The popular video-sharing site will compete with network and cable.
• (COMPLETE)NASA Administrator Announces Mars Mi ...
  NASA plans to explore Mars sometime in the 2030's

Oriental Review

• Libya: ‘Winged Democracy’ in Criti ...
  Global war-mongers are seemingly in deep frustration. Despite huge investments in ‘people opposition movement’, disinformation campaign and eventual direct foreign intervention in Libya, the ‘anti-Gaddafi project’ has come to obvious deadlock. That looks quite surprising. Regular Libyan army bea ...
• How Is Gadhafi Going to Hit Back?
  Throughout the past week, the theme of Gadhafi’s options for counterstrikes in response to the Western coalition’s air raids against Libya and of the instigation of the insurgency in the country has been constantly popping up in the media headlines.The British intelligence agencies, British amba ...
• ‘Empires Only Fall When They Have to Pay Their ...
  When I read this by Oscar Wilde I thought that surely one couldn’t characterize such cataclysmic events with a simple one liner but on reflection one can usually add that the financial catastrophe is ignored by those in charge proving again Mair’s Axiom I – you make a serious mistake assuming th ...
• Dismantlement of the International Law as a Ne ...
  While the war against Libya is raging, another aggression possibly marking a new phase in the history of the international law is beginning to unfold. On April 5, the French forces launched an offensive supposed to lead to the seizure of Ivory Coast’s legitimate president Laurent Gbagbo. Accordi ...
• Libya: Distractions and Diversions
  “This is pure hypocrisy and demagogy, they are already giving weapons to the rebels, and not only that: they are interfering in the struggle of the Libyan people,” he said, adding that âthis action is against international law and the United Nations Charter.â– Miguel D’Escoto One thing should su ...

BlogHer

• Delayed Again? Your Flight Survival Kit
  No one likes it when their airplane gets opened like a tuna can mid-flight. Just ask the passengers on Southwest who recently went through that harrowing scenario. To add insult to injury, Southwest grounded dozens of planes and canceled hundreds of flights while they scrambled to check for saf ...
• Menopause: The Pregnant Pause
  I am blogging today about a topic that has been written about and talked about by baby-boomer women ad nauseum… menopause. My apologies to my male readers…and young women for that matter. Today’s blog is for my sisters out there that are between 40-55 years of age. I can’t believe I am in that g ...
• Run Like a Mother!
  Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� Sports On Saturday I ran my third half-marathon. Now, this may not be a big deal for most people but considering I just started running April of last year and I ran my first half marath ...
• BlogHer Network Member News, April 8:
  Issa of You Want to Be Rich was quoted in the March 2011 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Christina Skretkowicz from Nathan's Fight started a business with a friend that sells stuff to make life with Cystic Fibrosis easier. Heather Mann from Dollar Store Crafts was interviewed at the nrelate blog ...
• We're the Real Beastie Boys: Fight for Your Ri ...
  Watch out for Will Ferrell. Or is that Ad-Rock? "We bring a super-fresh, old-school throwdown dance contest from the future," Ferrell's Ad-Rock says in "Fight for Your Right Revisited," a trailer for the 30-minute Beastie Boys film of the same name, accompanying the long-awaited new record "Hot ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes More Co ...
  If after perusing the news, you think to yourself, “Why are more young people dropping dead after a sporting event?” then you are on to something. Most recently it was basketball player Wes Leonard of ...
• Rising Rates of Tubal Pregnancies Cause Concern
  Ectopic pregnancies (often means conception in the fallopian tube) are becoming more common but the medical profession is unsure why. It can lead to tubal rupture and hemorrhaging. The problem was thought to be on ...
• Garden as if Your Life Depended On It, Because ...
  It is time to take your nourishment into your own hands. In the wake of the recent passing of the Food Safety Modernization Act and the rash of recent GM crop approvals for spring planting by the ...
• Neural Activity Linked to Food Addiction
  Setting down a chocolate milk shake in front of a food addict isn’t much different than setting down drugs before a substance addict according to a new study to be published in the Archives of ...
• Jennie-O Turkey Recall: Resistant Salmonella O ...
  Not Jennie-O’s all natural turkey too! It seems we are hearing of more recalls and Salmonella outbreaks then ever. This strain, Salmonella Hadar, is particularly troubling due to its resistance to many typical antibiotics like ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, April 8, 2011
  Betty Harrah sister of deceased miner Steven Harrah attends a vigil following the Upper Big Branch Memorial Service Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in Whitesville, W.Va. The memorial was for the 29 coal miners who were killed in an explosion at the mine one year ago today in Montcoal, W.Va. (AP Photo/Je ...
• Obama’s mountaintop removal crackdown am ...
  This just in from The Hill: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Friday morning that provisions on mountaintop-removal coal mining are among the sticking points in the down-to-the-wire federal spending-bill talks. “Curiously enough, mountaintop mining was put on the table ...
• Coal industry still lags on communications gear
  My buddy Larry Messina over at The Associated Press moved an interesting story earlier from today’s sessions at Wheeling Jesuit University’s 4th Annual International Mining Health and Safety Symposium. Larry reports: U.S. coal mine operators fall well short of meeting a 5-year-old congressional ...
• New study adds to evidence about the need for ...
  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has gotten a bit of attention lately for his statements that there’s no need for tougher federal coal-dust regulations because, the good senator claims, the coal industry has already done “a pretty good job” of reducing the incidence of black lung. But a soon-to-be publi ...
• Reality TV check: MSHA cites Cobalt Coal
  Here’s the latest from Vicki Smith at The Associated Press: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The first episode of a reality show in a southern West Virginia mine had real-world results: Inspectors cited Cobalt Coal for two activities they say endangered miners. Spike TV’s new series “Coal” was filmed a ...

Daniel Miessler

• Gyroscopes Rock
  via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSun Melts RockSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAlone in the WildernessEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.DroneThe Gift
• Sword & Sworcery for iPad
  via arstechnica.com If I had an iPad I’d be playing this game. I just haven’t found a good enough reason to buy one yet. Maybe once my house is perfect it can be the ideal ‘sit on couch’ device. But for now I think it’s going to be mobile device / laptop. Posted via email [...]
• What we can learn from procrastination | The N ...
  Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.” A two-stage experiment provides a classic illustration: In the first stage, people are offered the cho ...
• How to Get a Real Education at College II | WS ...
  Combine Skills. The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable. It’s unlikely that any average student can develop a world-class skill in one particular area. But it’s easy to learn how to do several different things fairly well. I succeeded as ...
• How to Get a Real Education at College | WSJ.com
  One day the managers of The Coffee House had a meeting to discuss two topics. First, our Minister of Employment was recommending that we fire a bartender, who happened to be one of my best friends. Second, we needed to choose a leader for our group. On the first question, there was a general con ...

Fitwatch

• Political Policing, UKUncut and 26 March
  Last Saturday the police charged 138 people for peacefully occupying Fortnum and Masons with aggravated trespass. Most were kept for over 24 hours, had their clothing and phones seized, and were given bail conditions preventing them attending the royal wedding or Mayday. Many commentators have c ...
• Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
  The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...
• Serious violence by police at protest party.
  Forget what the mainstream media are saying about the black block, the most serious violence yesterday was probably the attack by police on partying crowd that was gathered in Trafalgar square. Senior police officers had warned in the run up to the March 26 protests that any occupation of Trafal ...
• Surveillance policing and the TUC march
  On the eve of what will probably be the biggest demonstration seen in the UK for many years, it is probably a good time to give a little blog space over to looking at the role of Forward Intelligence Teams and the various intelligence gathering strategies that will operate on such massive events ...
• Top Ten Nasty FIT cops – Nos 1&2 Discombe and ...
  Unlike many FIT cops, who only take on FIT duties at major events, these two are full time intelligence officers for CO11, the public order unit of the Metropolitan police. For this reason alone they warrant being top of the table. Discombe and Cowlin lead and direct FIT teams, making sure they ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Wake ‘N’ Bake 101: Capitulation
  WWH – You know that great, ol’ Dr. John samba/shuffle, “(I was in) The Right Place“? I started hearing it when I was reading Robert Reich on Friday. As usual, Robert Reich is right, but it’s about the wrong thing, and he’s also therefore wrong about his central prescription: “…But if the shutdow ...
• Mystery of the ‘naked’ penguin chi ...
  By DAILY MAIL REPORTER – Scientists are baffled by a wildlife mystery: Why are some penguin chicks losing their feathers? The illness known as feather-loss disorder has hit colonies on both sides of the South Atlantic and no one knows what is causing the condition. Researchers from Washington, S ...
• Hippie.TV
• Herb Caen Column: Sept. 2, 1969
  Herb Caen: Much ado about something, Sept. 2, 1969 | SF Gate Clift-hanger: Don’t get me wrong. I love the Clift Hotel, standing four-square for Mom, Gott und apfel strudel there at the corner of Geary and Taylor. The Clift’s unswerving devotion to the past in these days of flux can only be viewe ...
• Sidney Lumet, RIP
  Director Sidney Lumet Dies at 86 | Hollywood Reporter Sidney Lumet, who directed such impassioned, often furious, movies as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Network, died Saturday morning at his home in New York City. He was 86. The cause of death was lymphoma, his stepdaughter Leslie Gimbel told ...

reference frame

• CMS will stop operations in September 2011
  You must have already heard the news. The LHC has created black holes, thus demonstrating that Walter Wagner and other experts who have been warning the world about a possible doomsday at the European collider have been right. Dr Walter Wagner explains how it was possible for him ...
• Yuri Gagarin: 50 years ago
  On Tuesday, April 12th, it will have been 50 years from what was arguably the most impressive achievement of the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia was the first country after the USSR that Gagarin visited after he returned - and my positive emotions about his famous journey have survived fr ...
• UAH AMSU: global anomaly -0.10 °C
  Roy Spencer has released the March 2011 UAH AMSU global satellite data. The anomaly dropped on both hemispheres; the tropics stayed constant. The global anomaly was -0.10 °C. It's been negative in each of the three months of 2011. It's not hard to see that the anoma ...
• The Zarnecki Incursion
  In my opinion, Penny was the main hero of the yesterday's episode of The Big Bang Theory, 04x19 "Zarnecki Incursion". Sheldon's World of Warcraft is hacked and everything, including all the gold and the battle ostrich, is stolen. Police turns out to be useless, despite Sheldon's ...
• Are ET aliens shy?
  The Physics arXiv Blog has been intrigued by an extraterrestrial paper by Adrian Kent: Too Damned Quiet?Science rejected the paper in 2005 but it's fun, so why wouldn't he submit it to the arXiv in 2011? ;-) There are three typical answers to Fermi's question - Where a ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Foul Play on Facebook
  Climate skeptic pages on Facebook have recently been targeted. Our posts were alleged to be "abusive" and the ability to share them was temporarily blocked.
• The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
  Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
• Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
  Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.
• The IPCC’s Activist Chairman
  Rajendra Pachauri does not display the aloof, dispassionate demeanour traditionally evoked by the term "scientist." Instead, he repeatedly lends the good name of the scientific body he chairs to activist endeavours.
• The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality
  Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded - but that's not how it behaves.

Tarpley

• Ελληνικά
  English Deutsch Français Italiano Îλληνικά Other ÎÎ-ÎÎÎÎΤÎ: ΠÎÎÎÎΠΤΩΠÎÎÎÎÎΡΣÎΩΠΤÎΣ CIA ÎΠΠΤΠÎÎÎΥΠÎÎΧΡΠΤÎΠΥÎÎÎÎÎ Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 3 ÎÏÏιλίου Ïου 2011 ÎεÏά αÏÏ Î´Ïο ÎµÎ²Î´Î¿Î¼Î¬Î´ÎµÏ Î¹Î¼ÏεÏιαλιÏÏÎ¹ÎºÎ®Ï ÎµÏίθεÏηÏ, Ïο ...
• Al Qaeda: Pawns of CIA Insurrection from Libya ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 3, 2011 After two weeks of imperialist attack, Libya is being mangled by al Qaeda terrorists, civil war, NATO air raids, cruise missiles, Predator drones, and C-130 gunships – all made possible by the CIA-backed al Qaeda rebels of Cyrenaica. US, Briti ...
• خبير أمريكي: ما يجري في ليبيا والعالم العربي م ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 1, 2011 English Translation: U.S. Expert: What is happening in the Middle East is pre-planned Tarpley interviewed on Russia Today’s Arabic division http://arabic.rt.com/prg_hadis/66675/video/
• Tarpley on Alex Jones Show: Bush and Cheney us ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 31, 2011 download file
• The Libya Rebels: A CIA Secret Army of al Qaed ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net March 30, 2011

Modern Survivalism

• How to make Simple Bread in a Solar Oven
  There are all kinds of recipes for making homemade bread. While thinking of survival preparedness skills, and simplicity when it comes to bread making, you can’t get much simpler than this bread recipe while using free energy from the sun with a solar oven. All you need is flour, salt, sugar, ye ...
• Arkansas, New Madrid, Rock-n-Roll
  During Thursday, April 7, a concentrated area of earthquakes began popping off near Greenbrier, Arkansas, and up to the time of this post 24 quakes have been recorded in a short period of time. Several magnitude 3.9′s and a 3.5 is enough shaking to get your attention, and strong enough to cause ...
• Government Shutdown, a Soros Diversion, Bretto ...
  Conspiracy? Yes, maybe… but, where have you heard reported in the main-stream-media of the George Soros sponsored Bretton Woods II economic conference, taking place this weekend at the Omni Mount Washington Resort – Bretton Woods New Hampshire, with a conference them, “Crisis and Renewal: Intern ...
• Practical, Portable, Drinking Water Storage
  Awhile back I had researched and checked reviews while looking for a good quality drinking water storage container, about 5 gallons (this one is 7 gallons), that would fit in the back of each of our vehicles to compliment our 72-hour emergency kit that we keep. We live in the heart of earthquake ...
• Gerald Celente at his most passionate ever!
  Gerald Celente, of Trends Research Journal, is a man who speaks his mind, and has been accurate about many world changing trends over the years. He’s the kind of guy you either like for his straight-talk, or he may simply be too abrasive for your pallet. I happen to be one that likes this guy [...]

Fast Company

• National Volunteer Week
  Gym reimbursements and lavish company parties may be going the way of the dinosaur, but paid time for volunteering is one employee perk not yet in danger of extinction. Take UnitedHealthcare, whose company attorneys recently donated 600 hours of pro bono legal service. Or Target, whose w ...
• Work Smart: 5 Rules for Remembering Names
  Forgetting someone's name in a social situation is embarrassing, but in a business setting it can be disastrous. In this week's episode of Work Smart, I talk with memory expert Bob Gray about how to remember the names of the people you meet.[video_twistage 1]Here's a quick recap -- watch the vid ...
• The Solar Industry Responds to Claims of Suppl ...
  After we wrote about how many solar panel makers fared badly on The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's 2011 Solar Scorecard, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) nearly fell over itself to respond, telling us that the solar industry is cleaning up its act--and fast. The scorecard--whi ...
• Apple Round-Up: Hybrid Connectors, Smart Bezel ...
  A lot of Apple news and rumors have popped up this week, so we've gathered them all together for you in one convenient place--dip in and imagine what Steve Jobs and Co. have been working on for the future of those iDevices.Hybrid ConnectorApple released its new Thunderbolt protocol with the rece ...
• Kayak Says DOJ Mandates on Google's ITA Acquis ...
  It appears the Department of Justice has heard the cries of travel companies and consumer watchdogs, who threw a fit over Google's planned $700 million acquisition of ITA Software. Many travel sites, from Microsoft's Bing to Kayak to Expedia, use ITA's technology, which helps enable consumers ...

Jadaliyya

• The Role of Workers and Labor Unions in the Eg ...
  Jadaliyya�is hereby presenting the first�(deliberately belated) installment in a series called "A Portrait of a Revolutionary," featuring interviews with an Egyptian journalist and activist who was at the forefront of the Egyptian protest movement, Hossam Hamalawy. Below is the first pa ...
• Update from Islamophoberia
  Islamophoberia, a place millions of Americans call home, will get a lot colder come 2012 because the main gasbag is being shut down in December. The decision of Fox News to cancel The Glenn Beck Show will leave the idiosphere scrambling for a new source of fuel to motor anti-Muslim ranti ...
• إنتفاضة البحرين حتى التدخل السعودي [The Bahra ...
  �ع�دما بدأت ا�إ�ت�اضة �� ا�بحر�� �٠14�م� شباط/�برا�ر� تد�� ا�آ�ا� م� ا�م�اط��� إ�� ا�ش�ارع ��مطا�بة با�إص�احات� بما �� ذ�� إص�اح ا�دست�ر� ا�تح��� �� سر�ة ا�أراض� ا�عامة �ا�ذ� ���� خز��ة ا�د��ة م��ارات ا�د��ارات� �إ��اء ا�تم��ز ا�م�ظم. �سارعت ا�ح��مة بإط�ا� ��ات�ا ��تصد� ��إحتجاجات. ��� خ ...
• Essential Readings: Counterinsurgency
  [Editors' Note: This is the�second in a series of "Essential Readings,"� in which we ask contributors to choose a list of must-read books, articles, and new media sources on a variety of topics. These are not meant to be comprehensive lists, but rather starting points for readers who�w ...
• Interview with Juliano Mer Khamis (2005)
  This is an interview I conducted with Juliano Mer Khamis about his remarkable documentary, Arna's Children, in 2005. It was aired on "Voices of the Middle East and North Africa" on KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California.

mediagazer

• Going against the conventional wisdom - Pay at ...
  Sarah Frier / Talking Biz News: Going against the conventional wisdom  —  Pay attention when things don't make sense.  —  That's how New York Times investigations editor for the business and finance desk Walt Bogdanich comes up with his story ideas.  If a source says something unexpected in co ...
• Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement B ...
  Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot  —  Ad.ly thinks there's big money to be made getting celebrities to sell stuff using social media platforms.  But it says Facebook won't let it set up shop.  —  Ad.ly says that at Facebook's insistence, it ...
• The Amazing Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds (He ...
  Henry Blodget / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider: The Amazing Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds  —  Kids are leading the world's transition to digital media.  —  This is in part because kids aren't afraid of technology, and in part because kids haven't spent years getting use to anything else.  —  So i ...
• WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, NY Times Feud at Lo ...
  MediaShift: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, NY Times Feud at Logan Symposium  —  BERKELEY, CALIF. — I am at the 5th Annual Reva and David Logan Investigative Reporting Symposium, a gathering of the top investigative journalists that happens each year at University of California at Berkeley.
• Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A ...
  Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A Good Thing)  —  A few weeks ago, when the NYTimes' Bill Keller bizarrely compared Arianna Huffington to a Somali pirate, we noted that journalism is a form of aggregation as well.  After all, you're taking content from the p ...

Chemtrail News

• Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Un ...
  Registered: 05/19/09. Posts: 3568. Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Uncovered, Congress Exceeds Billions To Spray Populace Like Roaches? ...globalskywatch.com/chemtrails/ubbthreads.php?ubb...3956
• Chemtrails back : Aliens & UFOs
  So after a beatifull clear last few days seems they have replenshed their stocks and have resumed the spraying, out side here in manchester its ...www.disclose.tv/forum/chemtrails-back-t48822.html
• Andy Hirst: Stranger things have happened ... ...
  He's a supporter of the chemtrail conspiracy theory that believes it's something to do with population control. Well if it is, it sure isn't working. ...
• YouTube - Chemtrail Conspiracy or Contrail?
  Contrails (short for "condensation trails") are vapour trails of visible condensed water vapour clouds created by an aircraft engine's exhaust.www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFCItjTJUSg
• Chemtrail SKYWATCHER (Chemtrails_818) o ...
  Chemtrail SKYWATCHER (Chemtrails_818) is on Twitter. Sign up for Twitter to follow Chemtrail SKYWATCHER (Chemtrails_818) and get their latest updates.twitter.com/chemtrails_818

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

• Foul Play on Facebook
  Climate skeptic pages on Facebook have recently been targeted. Our posts were alleged to be "abusive" and the ability to share them was temporarily blocked.
• The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
  Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
• Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
  Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.
• The IPCC’s Activist Chairman
  Rajendra Pachauri does not display the aloof, dispassionate demeanour traditionally evoked by the term "scientist." Instead, he repeatedly lends the good name of the scientific body he chairs to activist endeavours.
• The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality
  Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded - but that's not how it behaves.

Pointman's

• So, where are we now with global warming?
  Politicians world-wide got into the âsave the planetâ business for two reasons; electorates were convinced the planet needed saving and would vote for candidates who said theyâd do just that and wouldnât vote for candidates who said it was all hysteria, which it was and which most of them knew i ...
• Living with ghosts.
  This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
• Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
  I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 23
  Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...
• Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
  In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Louisian ...
  From our friends at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Joint Statement from Plaintiffs and Counsel on Recent Decision in Road Home Case: Today a federal court of appeals issued a ruling explaining its decision to set aside preliminary injunctions previously granted against th ...
• DeSoto Parish Middle School Student Punished f ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Last week, student Dawn Henderson of DeSoto Middle School wore a shirt to school bearing the message “Some Kids are Gay. That's OK.” In return for her support of the gay community, the school's principal ordered her to change her shirt or go home, censor ...
• Defense Rests in Trial of Police Accused of Ki ...
  Lawyers for the two officers accused in the beating death of Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old handyman from the Treme neighborhood, rested their case today. It's expected that on Monday jurors will hear two rebuttal witnesses called by prosecution, as well as closing arguments. Although Robair's d ...
• Jena, LA, Correction Officer Pleads Guilty to ...
  From a US Department of Justice Press Release: The Justice Department announced today that Joseph Taunton, 31, from Jonesville, La., a former corrections officer at the LaSalle Parish Detention Center in Jena, La., pleaded guilty in federal court for engaging in a sexual act with a federal de ...
• Robin Hood in Reverse in US: Seven Examples
  By Bill Quigley The rich have been getting richer and the poor and middle have been getting poorer in the US recently. Here are seven examples that show how the US is going through Robin Hood in Reverse. Between 1948 and 1979, the richest 10 percent of families in the US claimed 33 percen ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Zionist Takeover ...
  if Israel doesn't like Hagel ... enough said ! http://www.issues2000.org/senate/Chuck_Hagel.htm * Our current Iraq policy is not worthy of soldiers' sacrifice. (Jul 2007) * Engage with Iran & Syria; follow Baker-Hamilton. (Jul 2007) * Internationalize Iraq or we'll be seen as occu ...
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  CraigsList generally doesn't allow links. having a link in a post is sufficient to get it flagged & taken down. has CraigsList changed their policy ? only a Talmud-worshipper like Craig Newmark would use the Peace Sign as a business trademark - and be one of the largest military recruiters i ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Well sometimes you need it spelt out for you yet the sheep will ignore it or just not understandStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:26 pm
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  CSR, check this out: To ensure this, Kimche assembled a colorful cast of characters to initiate the operation. There was Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi petro-billionaire, with a habit of eating caviar by the pound and an eye for the current cover girls; Manacher Thorbanifer, a former agent in the ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: 2. The group which probably planned and set-up the attack on the World Trade Center was most likely a mix of Russian/Israeli Mafiya, ex-KGB and Israeli secret service, with the assistance of David Kimche (Mossad agent), Meir Dagan (head of the Israeli Mossad), Adnan ...

TVNZ

• Icelanders reject deal to repay debt to Britis ...
  Icelanders rejected for a second time a plan to repay $US5 billion to Britain and the Netherlands from a bank crash, results showed today.
• Increased NATO strikes help rebels beat Misrat ...
  Libyan rebels beat off a new assault by Muammar Gaddafi's forces on the besieged western city of Misrata.
• Egypt's army 'ready to use force' to clear Cai ...
  Egypt's ruling generals said today they were ready to use force to end protests in Tahrir Square after troops cracked down on demonstrators overnight.
• Dutch gunman kills six, injures 10, in mall sh ...
  A lone gunman shot dead six people with an automatic weapon as he walked calmly through a Dutch shopping mall, witnesses and authorities said, before turning the gun on himself
• Gbagbo's forces attack Ouattara's base in Ivor ...
  Forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo stepped up a counter-attack on presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara last night.

environment 360

• Flaring of Natural Gas Wastes Five Percent of ...
  About 5 percent of the world’s natural gas production is squandered each year through gas flaring, a process in which unused gas is burned while drilling for oil, a new analysis by General Electric has found. In addition to wasting a potentially valuable energy resource — roughly 30 percent of t ...
• Record-Low Arctic Ozone Leads to High UV Radia ...
  The effects of record low ozone over the Arctic have reached southern Scandinavia, where large ozone-depleted air masses have produced higher ultraviolet radiation levels in Finland this week, scientists say. Click to enlarge WMOArctic ozone cover, March 30 While ozone levels above Finland i ...
• A Scientist Extols the Value Of Forests Shaped ...
  Political ecologist Susanna Hecht has incurred the wrath of some conservationists by arguing that the notion of the primeval forest is largely a myth and that disturbed forests play a vital ecological function. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she makes the case for a “new rurality” th ...
• Tree-killing Pine Beetles Moving East, Canadia ...
  The mountain pine beetle that has decimated large swaths of lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests across western North America in recent years is migrating eastward, according to report by Canadian researchers. iStockA mountain pine beetle Scientists at the University of Alberta say they have ...
• Funding Limits on Coal Plants Proposed in New ...
  The World Bank is planning to limit its funding for coal-fired power plants to the world’s poorest nations, bowing to pressure from environmental groups and governments that have criticized the bank’s record on funding fossil fuel projects, according to published reports. Under proposed new regu ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The Opte Project
  Tags: visualization maps web network mapping opte internet
• Otherways: Home Education Network
  Tags: education Homeschooling otherways
• The Well-Trained Mind Forums (aka Hive Mind) - ...
  Tags: mind trained forums
• Low Level Radiation Campaign
  Tags: radiation safe level nuclear low level radiation effects
• Gleeful Spiritual Cove of Heavenly Booty!
  Tags: news whistleblowers conspiracy resources Illuminati

backofthebook

• Harper’s Facebook police
  By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: "Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and 'u ...
• Canada’s startup scene gains traction
  By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, ...
• Stephen Harper, funny guy
  By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper's June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term" "the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegra ...
• CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
  By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
• The Pacioretty effect
  By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...

Daily Beast

• Ghosts of the Sahara
  Andrew McConnell memorably captures the desert-dwelling Sahrawi Bedouins exiled for over 35 years. View the images that earned first prize in the 2011 World Press Photo Awards. Irish photographer Andrew McConnell began taking arresting, on-the-ground...
• Zodiac Beast
  With Pluto in retrograde and a big-deal cosmic formation called the Grand Cross making its way through the skies, you'll need our guidance to navigate the cosmos' complexity this week. BORN THIS WEEK Seth Rogen (April 15, 1982) Aries self-starter...
• Brazil's School Shooting: What Happened Inside
  A public school in Brazil became a killing field last week as a young man killed 12, targeting girls. Dom Phillips reports on the bloodbath-and how Brazil imported a first-world problem. Crowds watch crying as children are buried. Shell-shocked...
• Hollywood's Hottest Baby Name: Henry
  The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers just named his newborn Henry, following in the footsteps of stars from Julia Roberts to Meryl Streep. Baby name expert Pamela Redmond Satran, co-author of Beyond Ava & Aiden, explains Henry's popularity. Plus,...
• The War in Libya: What Will Come of Gaddafi?
  With Libya locked in turmoil, Allan Dodds Frank talks to the former deputy CIA director who's been tracking Gaddafi for decades about the despot's next move, his similarities to Milosevic-and why he may end up in Venezuela. During the four decades...

Loonwatch

• Peter King Proud of his Bigoted Partner, Greg Ball
  Peter King is happy to know that his politically expedient hatred is spreading.
• Wajahat Ali: Understanding Sharia Law
  Wajahat Ali takes on the lunacy and misunderstanding being pushed by the anti-Sharia crowd.
• Legislators introducing anti-Sharia bills don& ...
  Salon.com's Justin Elliot exposes the ignorance of many state legislators who are introducing anti-Sharia bills, but don't know anything about Sharia.
• Geert Wilders: Racist Gets Crazier with Articl ...
  Wilders yucks it up about Muhammad to try and get more attention as his trial for "hate incitement" continues.
• France’s ruling party discusses Islam
  UMP members hold criticized debate about Islam's place in secular France, days before ban on face veils is implemented.

Energy News

• Human embryos in US likely bioaccumulating rad ...
  "Fukushima reactors are still out of control and hold 10 times more nuclear fuel than there was at Chernobyl" ...Read More
• Fukushima worker transported to hospital in &# ...
  Yomiuri Shimbun, April 10, 2011 ...Read More
• Local official in BC, Canada connects with pre ...
  No-drink order in Old Massett, following radiation increase, Queen Charlotte Islands Observer, April 8, 2011 ...Read More
• TEPCO now investigating possible leak from rea ...
  ITN News, April 9, 2011 ...Read More
• Uranium-234 detected in Hawaii, Southern Calif ...
  EPA RadNet Air Concentration Measurement Data - Uranium, Plutonium, Strontium, Released April 6, 2011 ...Read More

Japan Times

• Ready for English?
  Fifth- and sixth-grade teachers will have one new worry starting this month — teaching English. All elementary schools must introduce compulsory foreign language lessons. Despite the difficulties of implementing this national strategy for English education, it is high time Japan took its English ...
• Giants to buy own power generator
  The Yomiuri Giants will purchase a private power generator so they can play night games at Tokyo Dome this summer, Kyodo News learned on Saturday. The Tokyo Dome eats up as much as 6,000 kw of electricity during games in the summer.
• Japan's seismic nerve center
  The Earthquake Phenomena Observation System, located inside the Japan Meteorological Agency in Tokyo's central Otemachi district, is usually operated by five teams of seven who work in rotating shifts that span every minute of the year. But at 2:46 p.m. on March 11 this year, all that changed. I ...
• EU lowers food radioactivity limits
  BRUSSELS (AP) The European Union is lowering the maximum acceptable levels of certain radioactive elements in food and animal feed imported from areas of Japan to conform with temporary levels imposed by Tokyo. The European Commission said all checks so far by member countries "demonstrate neg ...
• Giteau guides ACT to Super 15 win
  CANBERRA (AP) Flyhalf Matt Giteau kicked four penalties as the ACT Brumbies edged the Wellington Hurricanes 17-16 in a lackluster match between two strugglers in Super 15 rugby on Saturday. Leading 11-10 at halftime, the Brumbies got two more penalties from Giteau to clinch the match. ...

Alexander Higgins

• Ongoing Scandal – Obama Lying About Japa ...
  Ongoing Scandal - Obama Lying About Japan Nuclear Radiation In US. Obama's Lies About Japan Nuclear Radiation Revealed.
• 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 Ph...
• Scan It – Pass It On – Use Their Tricks Agains ...
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas April 10, 2011 Please Share This With Everybody! Scan It With Your Smart Phone!
• Japan Nuclear Radiation 4 Times Chernobyl Leve ...
  Independent scientists find radiation levels beyond Japan evacuation zone are 4 times higher than Chernobyl levels beyond the 30km evacuation zone and higher than official government reported numbers.
• Japans Refuses To Certify Exported Food Radiat ...
  If you think food imported from Japan is safe, they you should think again. Australia, India, China and a host of other nations banned food imported from Japan while the US pushes propaganda that Japan food is safe to the public. I find it ironic that the US government constantly accuses China o ...

Macleans - Central

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