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- LATIN AMERICA: Boosting Accountability for Min ...
Guatemala has been accepted as a candidate country by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which aims to strengthen governance by improving transparency and accountability in the sector, and to reduce tensions between mining and oil companies and local people affected by t ...
- OP-ED: Solid Present, Bright Future for Latin ...
Since the 1980s, despite chronic social crisis, Latin America has seen significant advances in economic and industrial development, which have given a boost to the region's film industry.
- Smart Planning for the Global Family
When it comes to population growth, the United Nations has three primary projections. The medium projection, the one most commonly used, has world population reaching 9.2 billion by 2050. The high one reaches 10.5 billion. The low projection, which assumes that the world will quickly m ...
- Q&A: U.S. Immigration Reform Mired in Philosop ...
As Alabama became the latest U.S. state to approve a tough anti-immigration bill last week, concerns are growing that other states will take a similar path.
- BRAZIL: Sugar Cane Fertilises Its Own Soil
The mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting, originally aimed at curbing the pollution caused by the burning of cane fields, has resulted in an added bonus: it has helped to improve soil quality, according to growers and technical experts in the southern state of S�o Paulo, where most of Brazil ...
- Visions of Female Identity in New Egypt
The women of the Muslim Brotherhood played a supporting role in Egypt's revolution, and now they want to have a hand in shaping its democratic future. Although many wear Western clothing under their veils, use Facebook and Twitter, and talk the talk of emancipation, they still seem to be wrestli ...
- Geisha, 84, survives tsunami with help from an ...
The requests to see her perform had dwindled over the years. But when the earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, this city’s last geisha was, fittingly, at home getting ready to sing that night at Kamaishi’s 117-year-old ryotei, an exclusive restaurant featuring fine food and entertainment ...
. - A Space Balloon Mission - Edge of Space - Kiwi ...
AUCKLAND, NZ, 12 APRIL 2011 – KiwiSpace Foundation has successfully launched a helium balloon above the Waikato and recovered its payload of cameras, tracking equipment and breathtaking images from the edge of space. While the MetService launches meteorological balloons regularly, KiwiSpace beli ...
- Iran: Israeli nuclear program destabilizing Mi ...
Israel's nuclear program is endangering the entire Middle East, an Iranian official said on Wednesday, adding that Iran had been advocating a nuclear-free region since before 1979's Islamic Revolution. Speaking at the United Nation's Annual Conference of the Disarmament Commission, Iran's env ...
- The Arab Spring: Quo Vadis ?
What is the “Arab spring” becoming? After three months of upheaval, repression and conflict, the democracy wave in the region, including Iran, is at a crucial stage. openDemocracy authors offer concise perspectives on a complex and fluid political moment.
- Moussa Koussa 'transit lounge' warning
The coalition was accused of turning Britain into a "transit lounge for alleged war criminals" today after it was disclosed that Libyan defector Moussa Koussa had been allowed to leave the country.
- Video: Dramatic footage as Etna erupts
Dramatic footage shows the Italian volcano Mount Etna blasting out lava and plumes of smoke.
- Moussa Koussa travelling to Doha meetings
Moussa Koussa, a former Libyan foreign minister and long-time top aide to Muammar Gaddafi, is going to Doha for meetings with the Qatari government and Libyan representatives, the Foreign Office said today.
- Indonesian politician Arifinto quits over porn row
A Conservative politician who helped to pass an anti-pornography law resigned yesterday after he was caught watching explicit videos on his computer during a parliamentary session.
- Uganda: MPs arrested over fuel price protests
Two leading Ugandan opposition figures and several members of parliament were arrested yesterday during a "walk to work" in protest at high fuel and food prices. Kizza Besigye and Norbert Mao, who were second and third behind President Yoweri Museveni in last month's presidential election, were ...
- Yellowstone volcanic plume much larger than e ...
Now, thanks to an array of sensors funded by the National Science Foundation and some new computing techniques, some researchers have produced a new image of the plume, one that suggests the area of elevated temperatures is much larger than previously suspected.
- Navy Wants Its Drone to Land on a Carrier Wit ...
Take the X-47B experimental killer drone made by Northrop Grumman, the first drone intended to fly off an aircraft carrier. At the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space convention outside Washington, Northrop and the Navy and unveiled new details about the tailless, triangular plane and t ...
- Brave New World among top 10 books Americans ...
Banned in Ireland when it first appeared in 1932, and removed from shelves and objected to ever since, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is still making waves today.
- UN document would give 'Mother Earth' same ri ...
Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country.
- Minsk metro bomb could be work of outsiders, ...
The president of Belarus says a blast that tore through a crowded metro station in the capital of Minsk in the evening rush hour, killing 11 people, was an attempt to destabilise the country.
- Sharing culture
- Targeting tumours
Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- FLASHBACK: Healthy and Green Dry Cleaning
When I was young, I assumed dry cleaning meant that clothing was, somehow magically, cleaned with hot air. It was not until I was older that I began to suspect the chemical smell from freshly dry cleaned clothes. When I learned what dry cleaning really is, I was a bit shocked. I wouldn't say I w ...
- G1-class Geomagnetic Storm in Progress
A G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress, sparked by a high-speed solar wind stream which is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Shawn Malone sends this picture, taken before sunrise on April 12th, from Marquette, Michigan: "I coaxed m ...
- Truce to be followed by wide-scale confrontati ...
Military sources believe relative truce in south will be followed by wide-scale confrontation. 'Hamas has been busy rebuilding its forces for the past two years, and this can only mean we're facing an all-out clash,' says senior officer One round of escalation may be over, but the IDF is alread ...
- Warmongering: France, Britain say NATO must st ...
Tripoli - France and Britain, who first launched air attacks on Libya in coalition with the United States, Tuesday criticized NATO'S bombing campaign, saying it must do more to stop Muammar Gaddafi bombarding civilians. NATO took over air operations from the three nations on March 31 but heavy ...
- Oil price drops more than 3 percent
New York - Oil tumbled more than 3 percent Tuesday after Goldman Sachs warned investors that crude is due for a "substantial pullback." Goldman analyst David Greely noted that global supplies remain "adequate" even though the rebellion in Libya shut down production there. Before fighting broke ...
- I feel dizzy...
Unfuckingbelievable. Auditor General Sheila Fraser has written a scathing letter rebuking the Conservatives for misquoting her in a parliamentary report on the costs of the G8/G20 summits in Toronto last summer, CBC News has learned. The Conservatives' report, presented as a dissenting opinio ...
- Andy checks in . . .
ANDY SINGER
- Words can change perspective . . .
A WONDERFUL little piece (1:48), "The Power of Words". H/T to Helmut, thank-you, sir.
- Creativity persists . . .
IMPROBABLE RESEARCH has a report of interest: research into motorized pogo sticks is alive and well. Delightful site, lots of neat things.No foolin' — and Canada is doing its part, too, with Université de Sherbrooke, Canada and its PSEUS project (Pogo-Stick Extreme of the University of Sherbroo ...
- A week's groceries . . .
GOT THIS E-MAIL last week that's interesting to ponder. The author notes, "Notice how cheap the American diet is compared to that of the Europeans. With all of their meat and junk food, the Yanks spend less than $100 more than the Sicilians. Wonder where an average Canadian diet would fit in? Pr ...
- Right-Wing Media Use Budget Talks To Wage War ...
Right-wing media responded to budget negotiations and the debate over Planned Parenthood funding by making sexist attacks against women and deriding women's health services as, among other things, "non-vital" and "optional."Conservative Media Attack Women And Women's Health Care During Budget D ...
- Follow The Leader: Beck's Rhetoric Has Infecte ...
In the wake of Glenn Beck announcing he will end his Fox News show, Media Matters demonstrates how throughout Beck's tenure at Fox News the false, incendiary, and even violent rhetoric he pushed on his television and radio shows spread�throughout the network. Where Beck leads Fox follows ... bu ...
- WND Founder Joseph Farah Is Right: WND Publish ...
WorldNetDaily founder and editor Joseph Farah reportedly wrote in a recent email exchange with Salon's Justin Elliott, "Admittedly, we publish some misinformation by columnists." Indeed, Farah is right: WorldNetDaily columnists -- and reporters -- have published numerous falsehoods and smears a ...
- Fox Still Pushing Falsehood That Half Of Ameri ...
Fox & Friends�recently�cited data�from the�conservative�National Taxpayers Union to claim that half of Americans pay less than 3 percent of all taxes received by the government. In fact, while the bottom 50 percent of wage earners pay little federal income tax, they still pay payroll and sales ...
- Meet The Fox News Economists
Monday on�Glenn Beck, guest host Andrew Napolitano hosted Art Laffer, Steve Moore, and Charles Gasparino to discuss the coming budget and debt limit debates. All three have a history of making inflammatory statements and advancing blatant falsehoods.ART LAFFER Laffer Supported Raising The Soci ...
- "He Started It" -- Ft. Sumter, the First Shot, ...
A brief thought about the Civil War sesquitennial and the importance, historically, of the moral high ground, especially regarding how wars start. The history of epochal wars, it turns out, isn't so different from children's familiar finger-pointing over who "started it." Not only did the Confed ...
- Funding Nuclear Security: Finding the Money
A year ago this week, the Obama administration brought together 47 world leaders in Washington - the largest such gathering since the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945 - for a Nuclear Security Summit designed to promote practices and create programs to prevent nuclear terrorism. ...
- Stop the Insanity
In 2001, when the anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist said, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub", it was seen as a laugh line. But after Paul Ryan unveiled his budget plan for the next ten yea ...
- Honest Economic Thinking Is More Important Tha ...
Robert Kuttner reports about the dismal prospects for fundamental economic reform from the Institute for New Economic Thinking's conference at Bretton Woods. His note suggests that the situation may be even worse than he realizes. Towards the end of the piece he reports a discussion of the ne ...
- Impulsive Interventionists
Last Friday Peggy Noonan took supporters of the Libya intervention to task for basing US foreign policy on raw emotions and rash impulses. She sees a problem with responding out of a sense of regret over the failure in Rwanda 16 years ago: Rwanda was a real and actual genocide in which, in th ...
- Congress Must Debate the Libya War
The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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- Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
- Winner Chosen for Changing Planet, Changing Health
I've just chosen the winner of this excellent-looking new book, Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It. The winner was chosen randomly using random.org (screenshot below). And the winner is!....
- Brunt Ice Shelf From Space [Photo of the Day]
The Brunt Ice Shelf is located on the coast of northern Coats Land in Antarctica, and is pictured below lying against the Weddel Sea. In the image along with the Brunt Ice Shelf is the ice covered Lyddan Island, which resembles the tail of a whale (right of picture). The image was taken by the.. ...
- Money Pollution: How the U.S. Chamber of Comme ...
Following up on my post yesterday on 350.org's the "U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn't speak for me" campaign, Bill McKibben had an excellent post recently that I've been wanting to cover. McKibben tears into the horrendous lobbying record of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which extends much furt ...
- Planetary Crust Acts Like A Yo-Yo
New research out of The Australian National University has recorded for the first time what was once thought to be only theoretical; yo-yo subduction in the Earth’s crust.
- Fukushima Rated as Bad as Chernobyl
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced that they would be raising the rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to a level 7.
- Vietnam faces severe water shortage
HANOI, Vietnam, March 2 (UPI) — Vietnam, hit by drought, faces a severe nationwide water short
- Get the Oil - Ground Based Weed Control
Pete Raal from the Department of Conservation gave a very informative talk to the Society and local
- Snow, Ice and Salty Water
There’s a LOT of snow up on the passes this week. And what that also means, though, is that there’s
- Delaware River Basin Forum
Delaware River Basin Forum Sulivan County Community College March 10 2011 http://www.delawarebasindr
- Recent updates: a victory, a Greenway Plan, an ...
A Greenway Plan: Adams Flood Control Channel aka Arroyo La Cienega, "on punk rock," to par
- African Union and President Chávez: The Peace ...
Finally, the corporate media reports, "Gaddafi figures prominently on the roadmap for peace," and after fully supporting the criminal attack on Libya by the U.S., England and France, the British Broadcasting Company reports with an egg-smeared face, "Libya: Gaddafi government accepts truce plan, ...
- France helps seize Gbagbo in Ivory Coast - Wor ...
12 April 2011 Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of Ivory Coast, was taken prisoner yesterday and is in the custody of forces loyal to his opponent, Alassaine Ouattara. French ambassador Jean-Marc Simon announced on Monday afternoon that Gbagbo had been captured in the capital ...
- Japan’s nuclear cover-up - Japan
12 April 2011 Yesterday marked one month since the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated much of north-eastern Japan and produced the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. While Japanese politicians, officials and representativ ...
- Corporate Stooges in Ireland, Greece and Portu ...
Iceland Rejects Banksters in April 9 Referendum Way to go Iceland! Voters in Iceland rejected a decision to ruin the population for the next twenty years to pay off the bank fraudsters by a vote of 58 percent to 42. Hopefully next step will be default and the Icelander ...
- Scandinavian and other “neutral” states suppor ...
12 April 2011 Eight Swedish SAAB JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft joined the NATO operation against Libyan government forces last week. Based in Sicily and backed up with a transport aircraft and 130 support staff, it is the Swedish Air Force’s first airborne combat operation since 1963. Th ...
- Ryan vs. Reality: The Liberal Budget Alternative
From now on, the response to President Obama's speeches need to come not from the repugs, who are writing his script, but from the real opposition to Obama's Lords-and-serfs plan: liberals. Digby: Jonathan Cohn makes the good point that Obama's speech on Wednesday is unfortunately going to be se ...
- Lesser Evil Math Doesn't Compute
Sourced from David Swanson's Lesser-Evil Math Doesn't Compute: Freedom Plaza Has the Same Name as Tahrir Square I'm not long on education and I'd certainly like to have more communications skills than I managed to glean in my 50 year career as a working stiff so it's good to find an article or t ...
- Can we at least wait until he actually, ya kno ...
I have been accused of being pragmatic to a fault -- whatever that means -- and I have also taken some flak for agreeing that the deficit is a problem that needs to be addressed rather than just kicking the can down the road to my kids and grandkid. I went nuts when Cheney said that "deficits do ...
- Let's Just Adopt Repug Tactics
See, liberals have been going about this all wrong. Using facts and real numbers and logic and reasoning apparently makes no impression whatsoever on Obama and congressional democrats. Repugs, however, get whatever they want - no matter how horrific and destructive - by making ludicrous threats ...
- Simple Answers to Naive Questions
Ari Berman in The Nation writes "Why President Obama is losing the budget fight." Ari, sweetie: you of all people know that Obama is not losing the budget fight. �He's getting exactly what he wants: massive tax cuts for the rich, free passes from prosecution for corporations, catastrophic cuts i ...
- Which Green Cause Would You Give $100,000 To? ...
Garnier® is donating $100,000 through EarthShare, an organization that represents more than 400 environmental groups around the country. Help us pick the winning cause. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- David Mayer launches new Lion bronze in aid of ...
Not many people know that Africa's Lions are also having a hard time of late. Few people are aware of the illegal killing of these animals and with loss of habitation and depletion of their natural prey adding to the mixture this animals survival hangsSubmitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
- Florida Families Who Let Their Kids Play Outsi ...
KaBOOM!, which is dedicated to saving play for American children, started a petition at Change.org to tell the Persimmon Place HOA to scrap its proposed ban before a final decision is made on April 29. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Alcohol linked to 10% of cancer cases, study finds
Researchers concluded that drinking above recommended alcohol limits was likely to be responsible for the majority of cancer cases linked to alcohol, although for some people even a small consumption may increase the risk.Submitted by Katie Miller to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
- Catching The Breeze
Why do dogs love to stick their heads out of car windows ?Submitted by . to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Rush Limbaugh Crowns Larry Johnson Creator of ...
What are you to make of a former Oxycontin abuser who launches a tirade against you that is wrong on all important facts? I am referring to one Rush Limbaugh who, notwithstanding his self-proclaimed title of “Excellence In Broadcasting,” mangled the truth last Friday during his discussion of Don ...
- I Don’t Think I Can Stomach Another Round **Up ...
Update below the fold. Of Obama campaigning. Yes, he has already started for his re-election. Blech. Oh, he just happened to show up at the Lincoln Memorial after the 11th hour agreement on the budget vote, running around, glad handing, acting like he was the one who wrote the damn thing: Never ...
- Skinny Open Thread [Action Update]
BELOW: An action alert that I hope moves you to call your members of Congress. Original: It’s been a busy day and I didn’t have a chance to do my usual reading ’round the Web. So … I leave it to you to share the latest news and views. If I find something, I’ll add [...]
- ENCORE: The Gulf Oil Spill is SO Yesterday…Or ...
Today when you hear the term “monumental disaster” your mind probably goes right to the devastation caused by the earthquakes in Japan. But it turns out we still have one ravaging here. I just had to pull out my toon from last August 31st as a No Quarter Encore feature. Remember how the oil just ...
- Is Rush Limbaugh Hitting the Oxycontin Again?
What are you to make of a former Oxycontin abuser who launches a tirade against you that is wrong on all important facts? I am referring to one Rush Limbaugh who, notwithstanding his self-proclaimed title of “Excellence In Broadcasting,” mangled the truth last Friday during his discussion of Don ...
- Incredible Oil Paintings Inspired by Nature
Meet Laura Milnor Iverson, an artist from California whose primary theme is to express the soul of nature through beautiful oil paintings. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- New Caledonian Leaf Beetle Species Could Shed ...
In a recent study, two new plant-eating beetle species have been discovered in New Caledonia. This discovery might shed light on this isolated island's evolution. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Intracellular Invasion of Green Algae Inside S ...
A breakthrough in biology: a species of eukaryotic algae has been discovered that lives inside the cells of salamanders. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Eating with Cannibals in Papua New Guinea
Learn how and why some tribes ate human flesh from the people who consumed it in Papua New Guinea's Western Province read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- How Glittering Glacier Caves are Formed
Spectacular images of glittering glacier caves with an explanation of how they formed from an expert glaciospeleologist! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
- LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
- Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
- Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Their Push Is Relentless.
Every once in a while you hear a sound bite of truth. KQED announced this a.m. that Barbara Boxer said that Social Security would be better tweaked now to fix it for later on, but it is not in major difficulty and could continue to pay out for the next quarter century before change is [...]
- Why We the People will win a new American Revo ...
source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not, you are within a new American Revolution. The “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts that expose US political/economic “leadership” crimes center on US wars that are nowhere close to lawful and all based on ...
- You can’t make this sh*t up.
The First Amendment takes it in the shorts in Florida. by Rick Flagg TALLAHASSEE, FLA. –Â There’s a new fashion statement in the halls of the state capitol. It’s a pink button that says “uterus.” It’s a protest against the flood of anti-abortions bills making their way through the legislature. I ...
- Common Sense for a new American Revolution: re ...
source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Fellow Americans: literally for the love of God, it�s time. It�s time to recognize the overwhelming evidence of unlawful and lie-based US Wars of Aggression, rigged-casino economics, and a complicit corporate media that echoes propaganda for our lying sacks of s ...
- The GOP, gutting America day by day
Every single day I read a new story about how the Republicans are gutting [pdf] one program or another and crushing rights for one group or another. Here’s just a small list that I’ve compiled. The GOP guts regulations requiring adequate rest for pilots because the bottom line is all that matter ...
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- It is past time for the USDA/FSIS to deem "the ...
In October 2009 that we filed a “Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 601(m)(1)” with the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). Since I ...
- Rhode Island Health Releases New Numbers on De ...
The Rhode Island Department of Health posted an update in its ongoing investigation of the Salmonella outbreak linked to DeFusco's bakery in Johnston, Rhode Island. The new numbers released today: * 70 Cases Total (69 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) * 29 Hospitalizations (25 Discharged, ...
- DeFranco Hazelnut E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Hit ...
As of April 1, 2011, the CDC reported eight persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli serotype O157:H7 were reported from Michigan (1), Minnesota (3), and Wisconsin (4). Reported dates of illness onset range from December 20, 2010 to February 16, 2011. Ill persons ranged in age from 1 ...
- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Warns of E ...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume raw shelled walnuts described below because these products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The affected raw shelled walnuts, product of USA, were sold from certain retail stores during the specified time p ...
- Second Salmonella Death Linked to DeFusco's Bakery
According to press reports, the Rhode Island Department of Health said today that a second person linked to the DeFusco's Bakery Salmonella outbreak has died. A Health Department spokeswoman said the patient was a man in his 90s from Providence County. He died Thursday. The spokeswoman said t ...
- Quick Spin: Toyota RAV4 EV
Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, Electric, Quick SpinA Solid Electric CUV, For A Prototype Toyota RAV4 EV - Click above for high-res image gallery Ahh, the joys of driving a prototype vehicle. During the annual Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar in San Diego, California this week, Toyota ...
- Milestone Accomplished: Toyota sells one milli ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota 2011 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery California Toyota dealers may or may not be running out of Priuses, but the hybrid is most certainly still popular. How else to explain the news that one million of the ico ...
- Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
- Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
- Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- Egyptian American Mohamed Radwan Released from ...
Egyptian American engineer Mohamed Radwan was arrested in Syria on March 25 and released April 1. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat interviewed him in his family’s home in Cairo on April 5 and filed this report. ANJALI KAMAT: Mohamed Radwan spent one week inside Syria’s notorious d ...
- One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York
On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal court, but through controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Holder blamed members of Congr ...
- Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering ...
On March 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear the death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, se ...
- Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
- Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
- When the Aliens Touch Down, Make for This ...
A software engineer is developing a decommissioned missile base as a bunker for the rich. Condo suite packages start at $900K.
- Making Life Multiplanetary: Elon Musk's G ...
If you look at the evolution of life itself and you say, okay what are the major milestones? There are 6 to 10 major ones on that scale. But on that scale would also fit life becoming multiplanetary. It would be at least as important as life going from the oceans to land...
- Massive Inhabited Planets Could Exist in ...
"Advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei without being visible from the outside." Vyacheslav Dokuchaev at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. We love Russian astrophysicists...
- Why Everyone Loves Yuri Gagarin, the Firs ...
It happened when Earth was still in black and white: 50 years ago we stepped outside our home planet for the first time. This is the tale of the beginning of an adventure that hasn't ended yet, the biggest, most dangerous and rewarding quest ever embarked on by the human race --the fascinat ...
- APOD: 2011 April 12 - 50 Years Ago: Yuri ...
Explanation: On April 12th, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space. His remotely controlled Vostok 1 spacecraft lofted him to an altitude of 200 miles and carried him once around planet Earth. Commenting on the first view from space he reported, "Th ...
- The Avatar is within You
By Les Visible Here is a short blurb about the coming avatar, which Swami Jyoti also calls a prophet; âWHEN THE PROPHETS COME, they trigger or accelerate karmas. Then whatever is inside a person will expose, either good or bad. That which was previously suppressed or hidden is exposed. In Krishn ...
- Dimensions & Angels – Drunvalo Melchized ...
- Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at ...
By Ethan Huff The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the US are testing increasingly high for radioactive elements such as Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137, all of which are being emitted fro ...
- Soundtrack for a Petri Dish
By Les Visible One of the readers was kind enough to post the link to this piece of cultural brilliance at my Zio-book page yesterday and I know how culture starved the reader is, here in these grim ass-end moments of the Fall of Empire, so I thought I’d use it as a sort of [...]
- Israeli Embassy in Cairo Under Siege
Dr. Ashraf Ezzat / Veterans Today Exclusive From Exclusive Video Coverage of The Embassy Seige Editor’s notes: The western press and even Al Jazeera have failed to report today’s demonstrations in Tahir Square, Cairo accurately. Thousands of Egyptians marched from the square to the Israeli Embas ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- A+D’s SOUPERgreen Rethinks the Los Angeles Lan ...
The A+D Museum in Los Angeles recently hosted a panel discussion for their new sci-fi inspired “SOUPERgreen” exhibit. The architects involved wanted to challenge conventional sustainable design trends by adopting an aggressively technological approach to LA’s urban landscape. The featured design ...
- Pakistan to Build First On-Grid Electrical Sys ...
Despite the hot climate, Pakistan has never really embraced solar power, instead always opting to invest heavily in nuclear technology. However it seems that all that is about to change on the heels of news that the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is aiming to build the country’s first on-gri ...
- Piranha Nano Boat is 75% Lighter, 40% Stronger ...
Ohio-based Zyvex Technologies just unveiled the Piranha – a next-gen unmanned boat that is 75% lighter, 40% stronger, and 400% more fuel efficient than similarly-sized aluminum boats. The 54-foot vessel features a high-tech carbon fiber shell that harnesses nanotechnology to yield unparalleled g ...
- Waitakere Civic Centre Serves as a Green Commu ...
Read the rest of Waitakere Civic Centre Serves as a Green Community and Transportation Hubhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable arc ...
- 11 Must-Have Pieces for the Eco-Conscious Exec ...
Making an impression in the boardroom is important — which is why your professional attire should always telegraph decisiveness, assurance, and moxie, as well as creativity. With this in mind weâve scoured our files and made the executive decision to showcase 11 eco chic pieces of business appar ...
- Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box
Sitting on a bench at the University is Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. Don’t worry — the 20-micrometer-wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one ...
- NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes
New York, L.A., Orlando and D.C. will be the new homes of the retired space shuttles, announced NASA administrator Charlie Bolden in a ceremony today at Kennedy Space Center. The ceremony commemorated the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight; after the final shuttle flight in late June, ...
- Antarctic Penguins Run Low on Food
Mr. Popper may have had too many penguins, but today Antarctica seems to have too few. Disruptions in the food supply, caused in part by warming climate, are to blame for shrinking populations of Adélie and chinstrap penguins across the West Antarctic Peninsula, a team of U.S. researchers argu ...
- Book Excerpt: Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop M ...
The following is an excerpt from the new book NASA Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual. Chapter 3: Anatomy of the Space Shuttle Author David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs between 1965 and 1984. He has written more than 80 books on spaceflight techno ...
- Soviet Space Propaganda: Doctored Cosmonaut Photos
See Also: Q&A Human Spaceflight’s 50th: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future Book Excerpt Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual This Day in Tech April 12, 1961: Soviets Orbit Gagarin, First Human in Space See Also: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program Russian Cosmonaut’s Blog Much F ...
- HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
- Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
- Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
- Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
- The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
- On the Torture of Bradley Manning, Obama Ignor ...
In the ongoing scandal regarding the treatment of Pfc Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower responsible for leaking a treasure trove of classified US documents to WikiLeaks, who has been held since last July in a military brig in Quantico, Virginia, a slowly building body of criticism turne ...
- The 9/11 Indictment: The Case We Would Have Se ...
Last Monday, when Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that his dream of prosecuting, in federal court, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, was officially over, derailed by Congressional opposition to the very notion of moving a single prisoner ...
- Battle for Britain: The Government’s Idi ...
Did I miss something here? Check out the following sequence of events, and then tell me if it establishes anything other than the fact that Britain’s Tory-led coalition government is so blinded by its enthusiasm for sweeping ideological change that ministers have failed to think about the implic ...
- Bagram and Beyond: New Revelations About Secre ...
This is the fifth article in âBagram Week” here at Andy Worthington, with seven articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, and ongoing updates to the definitive annota ...
- On Guantánamo and Torture, Campaigners Send A ...
In its tenth year of operations, Guantánamo continues to recede in the news, as though ignoring it will make it go away, rather than continuing to skew America’s moral compass from wherever it is that horrors go when they are hidden. However, while Guantánamo is still a largely unacknowledged ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- Woman Sentenced for Harboring ‘Sovereign ...
A Michigan woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for harboring a sovereign citizen who fired shots at Florida state troopers when they tried to stop him last year, an act that once again shows the danger faced by officers when they encounter extremists from the bizarre world of sovereign c ...
- State Department Advertises Interpreting Servi ...
Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance. Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglot’s language skills on the website of th ...
- New Evidence Trove Found in MLK Day Bomb Attempt
Federal agents investigating the attempted bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane have found a pile of new evidence abandoned in a remote area near the U.S.-Canadian border. Forensic comparison tests are now being conducted at the FBI lab on 75 items to see if they are tie ...
- Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...
- Enraged by Florida Pastor, Afghan Crowds Kill ...
Is Terry Jones a mass murderer? Probably not, under American law. But does he bear moral responsibility for the deaths today of at least a dozen people in Afghanistan, after mobs enraged by his March 20 burning of the Koran stormed a United Nations building and killed men and women inside? Thatâ ...
- New Report Shows Supervalu Still Killing Threa ...
This blog previously referred to the supermarket chain Supervalu as a "villain of the high seas." According to a new Greenpeace report, the store's reputation isn't getting any better. Today, Greenpeace released the fifth edition of its "Carting Away the Oceans" (CATO) report (pdf). The annual r ...
- AP Journalists Plan a Week of Action Ahead of ...
As the Associated Press (AP) gears up for its Annual Meeting in New York this week, the News Media Guild, which represents AP reporters and workers, is gearing up for an exciting week of activism that they hope will break the long standing stalemate in labor negotiations. The contract between AP ...
- New Yorkers, MLK III Support Living Wage Law
Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known as a civil rights crusader who bravely fought against racial injustice in the 1950s and '60s. A perhaps lesser known fact about King is that he was also a tireless supporter of the American labor movement as a whole, and was in fact fighting for a living wag ...
- Equal Pay Day: Women Still Only Making Cents t ...
Sigh ... it's Equal Pay Day again, which means that American women have finally earned as much as their male counterparts for 2010. That's right: because women make only about three-fourths of what men do for the same work, they'd need to work for over fifteen months to earn an equivalent amount ...
- Activists Ask Obama to Send a Special Envoy to ...
Child soldiers have been part of the ongoing war in Congo for decades. Some of these children are too small to carry the large guns that arm older boys. So they're sent into battle on the front lines, armed only with whistles. Their job? Alert their comrades of an impending attack, and then act ...
- Kucinich's Lonely Fight Against Obama's Libya War
Sometimes it seems like Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is carrying the ball all by himself in criticizing President Obama’s misguided war in Libya. Earlier this week, Kucinich warned that Obama was “prolonging a civil war” in Libya by aiding “mysterious ‘rebels’” who rejected an Afric ...
- US-Pakistan Relations Facing Biggest Crisis Si ...
Bitter disputes over covert CIA activities and drone attacks inside Pakistan, lack of progress over peace talks in Afghanistan, and rising Islamist-led opposition to the presence of foreign forces in the region are fuelling the biggest crisis in US-Pakistan relations s ...
- Japan Radiation Fears Grip Town on Edge of Des ...
The debris strewn along the coastal neighborhoods of Minamisoma should be proof enough of the devastation wrought by the tsunami that hit Japan's north-east coast on 11 March. But for the past month this sprawling town in Fukushima prefecture has been confronted by a second, more insidious thre ...
- An Appalachian Radio Voice Threatened From Afar
WHITESBURG, Ky. — Rich Kirby, a part-time producer for WMMT, the community radio station here, was interviewing two local aid officials the other day about the effect of Washington’s proposed budget cuts on this region, in the heart of Appalachia. ...
- Mr. Serious: The Ryan Budget Plan and the Belt ...
NEW YORK - The budget proposal released last week by Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Wisc.) includes tax cuts for the wealthy, tax hikes for the middle class, drastic cuts in spending and a radical restructuring of Medicare that would shift most of the cost of healthcare to seniors. ...
- What's More Important in an App: An Intuitive ...
The best apps have exemplary user experiences where powerful, useful features are paired with beautiful and intuitive interfaces, but most apps don't have such perfect balance. If you had to choose, would you prefer an app with an intuiti ...
- Opera 11.10 Makes Compressed Turbo Browsing Ev ...
Windows/Mac/Linux: The Opera browser has always had its "Turbo" mode in its back pocket, and it's a powerful feature. Now the browser runs even faster on the slowest connections, using Google's WebP technology to downsize images further a ...
- Run Your Home Network Like a Coffee Shop for E ...
Want to open up your Wi-Fi network to easier access for visitors, block the web's nasty stuff from young eyes, and maybe regain some bandwidth, too? Go ahead and unleash your inner coffee shop owner. With free software and no extra hardwar ...
- Consolidate Your Email Accounts and Stop Being ...
If your email inbox is a mess and you dread cleaning it out, know that you're not alone. This kind of "digital hoarding" can be remedied, says Microsoft as they promote Hotmail's clutter-busting tools with a campaign featuring both psychol ...
- Cardnap Is an Ebay for Gift Card Balances [Gif ...
As every store is eager to let you know, gift cards can't be refunded for cash. So what should you do with that nice-but-misguided plastic? Cardnap offers a spot to sell your balance at a slight loss, as well as pick up other, more helpful ...
- Don't 'pee three' our water
It looks like Mission council got the message on the proposed P3 water project and voted against it while Abbotsford council has still yet to vote.
- Mission residents rally against possible priva ...
Mission residents rallied Monday against the possible privatization of the water supply their community shares with Abbotsford.
- Mission residents rally against possible priva ...
Mission residents rallied Monday against the possible privatization of the water supply their community shares with Abbotsford.
- Mair speaks on water, democracy
Rafe Mair speaks to about 80 people at the Williams Lake Secondary School commons area Friday night about democracy and the threat of water privatization.
- Group warns vs hydropower plant privatization
The 33-member Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives (Amreco) has reiterated its warning against government moves to privatize the state-run Agus and Pulangui hydroelectric power plants, saying it could complicate the peace and security in the area.
- Lockerbie families attack UK over Moussa Koussa
British government accused of betrayal over decision to allow Libya's former foreign minister to attend Doha conferenceFamilies of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing have accused the British government of "betrayal" after it allowed Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister, to leave t ...
- Police 'advised G20 pathologist'
Dr Freddy Patel tells inquest he was asked by police at the postmortem to rule out any assault or crush injuriesA senior police officer asked a pathologist whether Ian Tomlinson's injuries were consistent with a baton strike or a dog bite � four days before video footage emerged showing his enco ...
- Ouattara heralds 'dawn of new hope'
Ivory Coast president-elect calls on fighters to lay down their arms and promises dignified treatment for Laurent GbagboThe president-elect of Ivory Coast has heralded "the dawn of a new hope" after the arrest of his rival Laurent Gbagbo.In a television address to the nation, Alassane Ouattara, ...
- London Ambulance to cut 890 jobs
Almost 20% of service jobs to go, including 560 frontline positions, over next five years in effort to save £53mLondon Ambulance Service has announced plans to cut 890 jobs over the next five years in an effort to save £53m.LAS said the reductions would include 560 frontline positions and most o ...
- Switch to AV 'would not boost BNP'
IPPR says research shows influence of BNP would not be enhanced under the alternative vote systemA move to the alternative vote system would not hand undue influence to the BNP, according to research done by the IPPR that looked at results in all constituencies if the last election had been run ...
- Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- FLASHBACK: Romney’s Private Equity Firm ...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) launched a presidential campaign exploratory committee yesterday, complete with a video in which Romney claims that his days in the private sector taught him all about job creation: Across the nation, over 20 million Americans still can’t find a job or h ...
- Rep. Van Hollen: GOP Medicare Reforms Nothing ...
This morning, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) appeared at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and delivered a rebuke of Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget. “At its core the Republican budget is the same old tired formula of extending tax breaks to the wealthy and the powerful at the expense of ...
- Budget Deal Kills Innovation Economy, Slashing ...
The Republican slash-and-burn budget accepted by President Obama to avoid a government shutdown will put our fragile economic recovery in jeopardy. Moreover, the cuts are ideologically motivated, preserving massive subsidies for fossil fuel polluters while knocking out support for a cleaner, mor ...
- Budget Agreement Leaves Defense Spending ̵ ...
The Washington Post reports today that “more than half of the $38 billion in spending cuts” the White House and congressional leaders agreed to last Friday “in the 2011 budget compromise that averted a government shutdown would hit education, labor and health programs.” But it looks like the dea ...
- Bachmann: God Told Me To Introduce Constitutio ...
Potential 2012 presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) stressed her conservative social policy credentials during an appearance in Iowa organized by the anti-gay group The FAMiLY Leader. To the pleasure of her hosts, Bachmann highlighted her support for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (D ...
- Did I Break Dr. Dawg's Blawg?
No I didn't. The morning after the events in question I was able to access it. Strangely enough, the comment that I tried to post and which I thought might be responsible for breaking his blog is still in the comment window, un-posted. What happened is that I was having a discussion with one of ...
- "The Economy" is Another harper Weakness
Here's a depressing story: Canadian voters rank the economy as the top issue in this election campaign, far outpacing the question of ethics and accountability which helped bring down the Harper government Friday, according to a detailed poll conducted for the Toronto Star and La Presse. C ...
- "B-b-but THE LIBRULLSS!!!!"
Here's how pathetic the harpercons' arguments are: While this was admittedly in response to a Liberal blogger's claim that no Liberal has even been suspected of being in contempt of Parliament, "Anonymous" spoke up. In 2002 the Speaker suggested that the issue of whether Lib Defence Minister Ar ...
- Is harper's the Democracy Our Soldiers Died For?
Enough said?
- I Don't Think Women Should Be Allowed to Vote
It's just a bunch of "political games" anyway. Just a bunch of bull-shit, partisan crapola. Whattaya got to lose ladies? Or so stephen harper would say, were he to elaborate on the significance of his absolute contempt for Canada's political scene and the institutions it perpetuates. The reaso ...
- Liveblog: Canadian Federal Leaders Debate
Starting at 7 p.m. Digital Journal is covering the Canadian Federal Leaders Debate live. Join our liveblog play-by-play coverage, join in the discussion and debate and take part in live polls.
- Why the Vancouver Canucks will win the 2011 St ...
The NHL team that led the league in goals scored and fewest allowed goals will take home the Cup in 2011. Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo is playing with poise and the Sedin twins are shaping up to be a potent offensive force. Who can stop them?
- Kobo launches European expansion at London Boo ...
Toronto-based Kobo is moving across the pond launching local content stores in Germany and Spain beginning next month. The ebook company has customers in more than 100 countries with language stores in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Hong Kong.
- Petition started to defend Pride Toronto funding
A new petition was started today on Change.org that is attempting to get 100,000 signatures in support of obtaining City of Toronto funding for Pride Toronto again this year.
- Toronto Police make several handgun related ar ...
Since Sunday Toronto Police took three firearms off of the streets during three separate incidents including an armed robbery this weekend.
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- Use Military Spending for Human Needs: Sign th ...
It's time to reduce military spending, and use the public resources to fund human needs.
- New Afghan mission high risk, low chance of su ...
The government’s plan to extend the Canadian Forces mission in Afghanistan deserves a public debate, argues a new report published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Rideau Institute. “Training Can Be Dangerous: A Realistic Assessment of the Proposed Canadian Mission to Train ...
- Winslow Wheeler on the F-35: News coverage
Winslow Wheeler’s briefings on the planned F-35 purchase (sponsored by the Rideau Institute) led to an additional round of Canada-wide coverage of the controversial purchase, which is becoming one of the hot-button issues of the current election campaign. Key media coverage included: Meagan Fitz ...
- We’re taking action on the F-35 today
Today we are bringing one of the most respected critics of the F-35 stealth fighters directly from Washington to Ottawa.
- Liberals release election platform
The Liberal Party released its latest “Red Book”, its election platform document, on April 3rd (Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, 2011). The foreign and security policy elements of the document for the most part reaffirm the positions the Liberals took in the intern ...
- Jon Rappoport – NoMoreFakeNews.com
Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with investigative reporter, Jon Rappoport, and click here to purchase his new, extended e-book version of The Ownership to All Life. Jon Rappoport on The Kevin Trudeau Show 04/12/11
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-12-11
Today, Kevin welcomes investigative reporter, Jon Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews.com, to the show. Find out how the government is using genetic research to redesign the human being and how Big Pharma searches the market to create and twist normal human tendencies into new diseases. Self Help: Inves ...
- Japan Declares Nuclear Crisis at Level of Cher ...
April 12th, 2011 AOL News By: Ryan Nakashima and Yuri Kageyama Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater. Japane ...
- In Indonesia, Tobacco Smoke Promoted As Cancer ...
April 12th, 2011 RawStory.com By: AFP An Indonesian woman exhales cigarette smoke into the mouth of a gaunt, naked patient at a Jakarta clinic, where tobacco is openly touted as a cancer cure. The Western patient is suffering from emphysema, a condition she developed from decades of smoking. Alo ...
- UFO Enthusiasts Hail FBI’s Official Release of ...
April 12th, 2011 RawStory.com By: Kase Wickman As a treat to history buffs, the FBI has launched a blog called The Vault, displaying old memos and documents that might interest the public. The documents garnering the most attention, however, are about Unidentified Flying Objects. And not just an ...
- Haiti: Supporters in Haiti make ready for Aristide
Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. 'Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the ...
- Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultur ...
After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
- Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of th ...
Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
- March on Washington scheduled for November
The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
- USA: Black community activist faces possible 1 ...
Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
- I won’t give my right arm to become a one-arme ...
When I say War in Context is handmade, that’s not a figure of speech. Typing and cutting-and-pasting involve all sorts of precise flexions, animated by action potentials rippling at high speed down the median nerve which extends from the cervical spine to the hand. For the last two months the r ...
- The fight for Libya
Rebels and NATO strikes repel assault on Ajdabiya Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military forces appeared to falter on Sunday in a second day of assault against the rebel city of Ajdabiya, as opposition fighters aided by heavy NATO airstrikes retook positions through much of the city. Occasional sk ...
- Egypt: revolution under threat from the army
Violent army crackdown on Cairo protesters shocks Egyptians Morning broke on a scene that wasn’t supposed to be in the new Egypt: burned military trucks, skeins of barbed wire, blood in the dirt, one protester dead. In a predawn raid Saturday that stunned the nation, Egyptian soldiers stormed ...
- Intifada update
Western policymakers shouldn’t accept this Saleh spin U.S. halted record aid deal as Yemen rose up As the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, cracks down with increasing violence against peaceful protesters, his regime and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) both repeat the same mantra: ...
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité – unless you choo ...
The Associated Press reports: Police on Saturday arrested 61 people â including 19 women â for attempting to hold an outlawed Paris protest against France’s pending ban on face-covering Islamic veils, a top police official said. Fifty-nine people were detained while trying to demonstrate at Pl ...
- Heated worries? Be alerted about temperature a ...
As many know, I create instrumentation and display systems that do a wide variety of weather monitoring tasks. Usually I focus on weather and climate measurement in situ. Now, I have something useful for alerting you to problems of mission … Continue reading →
- Zeroed out: NOAA Climate Service funding axed ...
From the House Appropriations Committee:Â Summary — Final Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution:Â PDF Page 2:Â Commerce, Justice, Science:Â “This section of the CR also prohibits funding for: the establishment of a Climate Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric … Continue reading →
- Quote of the week – the carbon munchies
Yes, but they didn’t inhale the electricity… From globalwarming.org Pot growers inhale 1% of U.S. electricity, exhale GHGs of 3Million cars â study Colin Sullivan, E&E reporter Indoor marijuana cultivation consumes enough electricity to power 2 million average-sized U.S. homes, … Continue reading →
- California’s giant sucking sound
Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out why Texas is pulling business out of California (cue Ross … Continue reading →
- Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the … Continue reading →
- Amy Goodman: Press Needs To Be 4th Estate Inst ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Japhlet Bire Attias used with permission © All rights reserved UpTakeVideo on Apr 11, 2011 Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman recounts her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota and talks about how the press has sunk to a ...
- Why Iceland Voted ‘No” to the Diktats of the C ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research, April 11, 2011 About 75% of Iceland’s voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government’s proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for the Landsbanki-Ic ...
- Welcome to the United States of Self Interest ...
by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 11, 2011 photo by Dandelion Salad I think it really hit me, so to speak, while I was standing on the street corner Saturday, April 9th, a day for anti war/occupation demonstrations throughout America. It was also a day to protest this ...
- Obama Administration position is regime change ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 11, 2011 African Peace Plan Does Not Oust Gaddafi Rebels, U.S. Say ‘He has to Go’: Where? Starting Another Humanitarian Crisis With the support of the U.S. and the U.S.-backed NATO the “rebels” have rejected ...
- Fight Economic Oppression, Target the Top One ...
by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org April 11, 2011 Massive economic inequality is killing America and we the people. It has already killed American democracy. The rich have captured the political system so they could manipulate the economy and benefit unfairly. ...
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Does This Mean We Can't Torture Mother Earth Anymore? A draft treaty will soon be tabled at the United Nations that will grant "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans : The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" — to t ...
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A stunning view of Earth taken by the Russian satellite Elektro-L : More Earth images here, including a fascinating read on why Russian & American images of Earth from space look so different.
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Why Are TV Reporters Suddenly Speaking Absolute Gibberish On Air? And no, I don't mean the quality of their journalism. An interesting two part CNN investigation into RF (radio frequency) weapons : Part Two :
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Top Cancer Institute Says Cannabis Can Reduce Tumours, Then Changes Its Mind The United States' National Cancer Institute finally comes clean on cannabis : 'The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, ...
- Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box
Sitting on a bench at the University is Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. Don’t worry — the 20-micrometer-wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one ...
- NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes
New York, L.A., Orlando and D.C. will be the new homes of the retired space shuttles, announced NASA administrator Charlie Bolden in a ceremony today at Kennedy Space Center. The ceremony commemorated the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight; after the final shuttle flight in late June, ...
- Antarctic Penguins Run Low on Food
Mr. Popper may have had too many penguins, but today Antarctica seems to have too few. Disruptions in the food supply, caused in part by warming climate, are to blame for shrinking populations of Adélie and chinstrap penguins across the West Antarctic Peninsula, a team of U.S. researchers argu ...
- Book Excerpt: Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop M ...
The following is an excerpt from the new book NASA Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual. Chapter 3: Anatomy of the Space Shuttle Author David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs between 1965 and 1984. He has written more than 80 books on spaceflight techno ...
- Soviet Space Propaganda: Doctored Cosmonaut Photos
See Also: Q&A Human Spaceflight’s 50th: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future Book Excerpt Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual This Day in Tech April 12, 1961: Soviets Orbit Gagarin, First Human in Space See Also: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program Russian Cosmonaut’s Blog Much F ...
- Israel to Turkey: Help us thwart upcoming Gaza ...
Israel's ambassador to Turkey reiterates Jerusalem's opposition to the naval 'provocation,' says Israel would allow the pass of humanitarian aid through other channels. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go ...
- Akiva Eldar: What exactly did Goldstone ‘retra ...
I asked Goldstone to help point out even a single word in the two reports that could justify his vague statement about the non-existence of the policy on harming civilians - while both reports... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Amira Hass: Supreme Court is on wrong side of ...
A recent ruling demonstrates the bureaucratic machinery the state has created to restrict the Palestinians' ability to enter, live and work on land west of the separation fence. IOA Editor: This... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestin ...
- WikiLeaks – Israel
Haaretz' coverage of WikiLeaks documents concerning Israel is very interesting and well worth reading HERE. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
- Gideon Levy: Israel wouldn’t need propaganda i ...
The world knows that this is a battle between the Israeli Goliath and the Palestinian David, and its heart is with the underdog. The world heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak of a two-state... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Income Declines and Inequality Growth in Great ...
A new US2010 research brief defines two unique reasons for the American median income declines and inequality increases during the first two years of the Great Recession. The effects of Unemployment Insurance and Medicaid on the Great Recession are also examined.
- EPA Recognizes NewYork-Presbyterian With ENERG ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will receive an ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management, recognizing the Hospital's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. It is the sixth award for ...
- AANEM Joint Guideline Documents Scientific Bes ...
The American Association of Neuromuscular & and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM), in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR), released a new guideline on the most effective treatments for diabetic ner ...
- Discovery of Two New Genes Provides Hope for S ...
The discovery of two genes that encode copper- and sulfur-binding repressors in the hospital terror Staphylococcus aureus means two new potential avenues for controlling the increasingly drug-resistant bacterium, scientists say in the April 15, 2011 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
- Modest Vitamin/Mineral Deficiencies May Increa ...
An analysis of the essential mineral selenium by Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) suggests that adequate intake of essential mineral selenium may prevent age-related conditions such as cardiovascular disease and cancer.
- I Just Met a Goose Named Maria
The story of a goose who has befriended a retired man in Echo Park.
- Cat and Dolphins Playing Together
A cat makes some new friends off the side of a boat.
- Powerful Demonstrations of How Magnets Can Aff ...
Magnetic fields can improve your memory and even control your behavior and sense of morality. This video shows just how strong they can affect your brain.� New Scientist editor Roger Highfield�s recitation of "Humpty Dumpty" is interrupted by magnetic interference.
- Monsanto Chemical Shown to Cause Infertility a ...
Monsanto’s herbicidal chemical glyphosate could cause infertility or cancer. It may also be speeding the growth of super weeds and causing worrying changes to plants and soil. The chemical, which has long been touted as a safe part of global food production, is now at a crossroads. Regulators i ...
- Would a Raw Milk Cheese Ban Kill Small Dairies?
Earlier this year, it looked like the FDA might sharply limit or even ban the manufacture and sale of raw milk cheese. It would have been a severe blow to many small farms. Milk from 50 cows earns a farmer only $100,000 before expenses -- perhaps just enough to break even. But if the farmer mak ...
- Hombres, actores y artistas I (para todas las ...
Tras una larga espera, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas .COM se complace en presentar esta bonita colección titulada 'Hombres, actores y artistas'. Dedicada especialmente para todas las mujeres del mundo, esta serie incluye fotos de personajes famosos como Aaron Eckhart, Brad Pitt, Colin James, Am ...
- Mujeres casadas y enamoradas - Matrimonio - We ...
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- Rosas de colores para el 10 de mayo X (12 fotos)
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- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.” A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- What the clerk barfed up
Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...
- Kloppenburg trails after ballots found in the ...
Didn’t really want to do a second post but new numbers from Winnebago County have put Prosser on top in Wisconsin. [more] No, they didn’t find any ballots in the trunk of anyone’s car but it’s still super close so a recall will be mandatory. Inevitable is the word I’d pick for the usual whining ...
- Fitzwalkering themselves
JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory with a final tally of 740,090 to 739,886. David Dayen says that if this holds up, Prosser will be only the fifth WI Supreme denied re-election in state history (but the second one in three years). Steve Singiser says Walker blames the hippy scum in Madison ...
- Kloppenburg up, recount unavoidable
The trouble with RSS feeds is that they don’t always update as quickly as you’d like. That and I didn’t check out the Great Orange Satan this morning which was a mistake because they’ve got the best Wisconsin election coverage of anyone. Currently David Nir puts Kloppenburg’s lead at 233 with th ...
- Stink linking good
Picking up where the last post left off: Dictator-loving scum Like mother, like daughter Don Blankenship revisited The gods themselves Paul Ryan’s budget: Milbank on the dogmatism, Harold Meyerson on the pain redistribution, and the Plum Line with more links $900 million for road work: Gov. Brid ...
- Sniffling Season in Arizona: Allergy or Cold?
Sniffling Season in Arizona: Allergy or Cold? Phoenix, AZ – Is it a cold or seasonal allergies? That’s a question many Arizona parents face this time of year when their little ones are sniffling and sneezing. Experts say it’s crucial to know what you are dealing with in order to properly treat i ...
- AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work ...
AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work Remains Phoenix, AZ - A new study finds the United States falling behind in clean energy investments, just as Arizona is becoming a more energy-efficient state. Some say there's room for the Grand Canyon State to become more of a leader. Comments fr ...
- Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart
Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart Phoenix, AZ – Sometimes there’s a big gap between perception and reality when judging your own health. According to a recent American Heart Association (AHA) survey, nearly 40 percent of Americans thought they were in ideal heart health, when in reality, less tha ...
- Triangle Fire Anniversary Today
Triangle Fire Anniversary Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 New York sweatshop workers and led to government-enforced workplace safety rules, as well as strengthening the growing labor movement of the time. Ther ...
- Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for ...
Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for Rural Arizona, Small Biz Phoenix, AZ – A new report says small businesses and uninsured Arizonans living outside the state's metro areas have a huge stake in the one-year old Affordable Care Act. Comments from the report's author, Jon Bailey of the ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
 Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shini ...
US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shining City On A Hill | NEWS JUNKIE POST: "The concept of American exceptionalism is as old as the United States, and it implies that the country has a qualitative difference from other nations. This notion of been “special” gives Americans the sense tha ...
- GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism
Pinkwatching Israel � GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly)”grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates ...
- Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...
Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
- The hypocrisy of military intervention for so- ...
The hypocrisy of military intervention for so-called 'humanitarian assistance': "(FinalCall.com) - The fast moving media discussion concerning the invasion of the North African country of Libya, under the auspices of the creation of a no-fly zone, and the destruction of “military targets” appear ...
- In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- Environmental News 12/04/2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Environmental News 11/04/2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Italian country side
Doesn’t this beautiful view of a traditional Italian village motivate you to travel and discover ancient places? European countries and especially the Mediterranean region are rich in historical buildings, which the local population works hard to protect. The environment can be compared to ...
- Are we smarter than bacteria
Are we really smarter than bacteria? A very clever animation by Lou Petho, Potts Point, NSW! Surely we're smarter than single-cell organisms… right? Watch this and see!
- Environmental News 07/04/2011
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- Intolerance–Then and Now
This post is a bit of a departure for the website. Â While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
- Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
- Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...
- Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...
- Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...
- Natural gas fracking more harmful than coal
Natural gas may be a marginally cleaner fossil fuel than coal, but obtaining it through the processing of fracking turns out to be more damaging to the climate than coal ever was. Fracking is a process that splits deposits of natural gas deep underground, using high pressure chemicals. A new stu ...
- War tax resistance in 2011
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee aided by the venerable War Resisters League and others, is organizing war tax resistance in 2011. This is the deliberate non-payment of some or all of federal income tax in protest against the bloated military budget of the US. Some refuse t ...
- The electric vehicle Superbus lives!
It can go 155 mph while carrying 23 passengers. Love those gull wing doors!
- Fukushima accident assessment raised to maximu ...
Thus the accident level is now the same as Chernobyl was. Plus, another fire broke out at reactor 4. Radiation up to 4 times higher than Chernobyl evac zone found in soil 30 km away from Fukushima; Rice harvest in question All links are from Zero Hedge, who have the consistently best coverage of ...
- Bob vs. dinosaur
I’m *really* happy his big brother didn’t come by too…
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- Nullify NOW Tour comes to Austin TX 4.16.11 &# ...
http://www.nullifynow.com/austin/ National Sponsor: Foundation for a Free Society Founding Sponsor: Common Ground Co-Hosted by: Texans for Accountable Government Young Americans for Liberty Chapters – Texas State, UT-SA, and Longhorn Libertarians at UT Austin Associate Sponsors: Campaign for Lib ...
- Japan Finally Admits… Disaster ranks wit ...
 TOKYO (AP) – Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater. Japanese nuclear regulators said they raised the rati ...
- Memory Hole Video of the Day: The Chemical Dum ...
- Your Letter to Congress about the Libya interv ...
Quote of the Day: “Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.” – Robert Taft (Republican Senator, 1939-53) I sent the following letter to Congress about the Libya intervention. If you agree, please send your own letter to Congress. Will Big Oil Trigger the New Madrid Megaquake?Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:19Â by Zen Gardner www.zengardner.com Something really fishy, as usual, is going on in the oil industry. And again it’s regarding the Gulf. Several newspapers recently announced that BP was being given permission to restart drilling and would even start new wells in th ...
- It’s the magnitude that is hard to ignore
Joe Bastardi on the recent AV post highlighted at WUWT. H/T Reader Keith Grubb
- Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale o ...
Ok I admit it! Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.  There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ . It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
- Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rational of ...
Ok I admit it! Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.  There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ . It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
- Trouble with Thunderbird
I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.  I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials. The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...
- Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
I’ve been thrown out of better.  It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.  Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.  Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...
- Fat as Class War in Arizona
Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
- Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
- A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
- Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
- Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...
- Facebook Updates Comments Box Plugin With Comm ...
Facebook today released several updates to the newest version of its Comments Box social plugin for third party websites that will increase the referral traffic it drives, and give sites API control so they can export, analyze, and re-order comments. The plugin can now publish a full news feed s ...
- Blinq Media’s Ads API Tool to Handle Havas Dig ...
Facebook Ads API tool provider Blinq Media has been selected as global ad agency Havas Digital‘s preferred Facebook advertising partner. Blinq will provide custom white-labeled ad management systems and training to Havas Digital, which serves over 400 clients in more than 40 countries. Havas Dig ...
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: AdParlor ...
There were hires all around this week, from business development to interns, on our new weekly post covering hires among non-gaming companies on the Facebook platform. In particular Buddy Media hired a Director of Business Development and General Manager of Lifestyle brands. Nanigans hired a Vic ...
- Platform Update: User Viewport Info, Per-Post ...
The most recent Facebook Developer Blog’s update announced the ability for developers to pull information about the viewport their application is being displayed in and scroll to a specific point. Pages can now grant access to their per-post impression data to applications. Facebook also recount ...
- Facebook Hasn’t Signed Any Deals to Enter Chin ...
Facebook is close to signing a deal with leading Chinese search engine and web conglomerate Baidu to introduce a version of its site in China, according to a new rash of rumors that broke out late last week and continued to appear through the weekend. Facebook is dismissing the rumors today, wit ...
- David Harris: Israel’s American propagandist
Paul J. Balles highlights the arrogance and hypocrisy of the American Jewish Committee's David Harris, a propagandist of the calibre of Joseph Goebbels, who appears to believe that Israel's victims have neither human nor civil rights.
- The ghost of Joe McCarthy walks the USA
Lawrence Davidson argues that the apathy of, and lack of accurate information available to, the American public is paving the way for a wave of McCarthyism that is threatening to sweep the USA and is seriously eroding "one of the pillars of American freedom, that of free speech".
- Judge Goldstone’s wobble sends wrong signal
Stuart Littlewood explains why judge Richard Goldstone was the wrong person to head the UN fact-finding mission into the conflict in Gaza in the first place, and argues that Goldstone’s latest “wobble” could be the prelude to a new Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza.
- Alternative strategy for liberation of Libya
Nureddin Sabir argues that the time has come for the pro-democracy leaders in Libya to acknowledge that NATO will not help them overcome the Gaddafi tyranny and that, in order to avoid the division of Libya, they must consider inviting another Arab country or Iran to intervene directly against t ...
- Goldstone's rethink: cleansing Israel's war crimes
Jonathan Cook considers what judge Richard Goldstone may or may not have retracted from his original report on Israel's attack on Gaza in 2008, the validity of his apparent retractions and what may lay behind his rethink.
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- Our Hypocrisy Ridden Foreign Policy: Jailed Jo ...
Turkey Is the Country with the Most Imprisoned Journalists Uzbekistan boils activists: we are okay with it. Heck, we even support ‘the Boilers. ’Azerbaijan tortures and murders journalists and activists: we are totally fine with it; in fact, we consider them our great ally . When Syria engages i ...
- Jamiol Presents
- Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April 10
The Conditional Antiwar Movement, FBI’s Mole in the News Business, This Week’s Hillary Clinton Joke, Pepe Escobar & the New Chalabi for Libya & More! Here is a round up with a few noteworthy developments and articles and an absurdity or two. This week Peter B Collins and I will be recording inte ...
- The Left’s Hypocrisy? Dialing Seymour Hersh
If Obama Does ‘It’ … Well, We Simply Won’t Cover It! It is not easy to criticize a solid professional journalist. It is much harder to criticize a Pulitzer Prize Winning and well-respected investigative journalist. And, it is extremely hard to criticize a professional multi award winning invest ...
- Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen Nabs George Bush ...
Fethullah Gulen’s Cosmos Foundation Hires Bush Karen Hughes & Here is Why! Here at Boiling Frogs Post we have been covering the infamous Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen, his $25 Billion network and CIA guardians, his more than 1000 Madrasas in the Balkans, Central Asia, Caucasus and elsewhere, his ...
- “What the World Needs Now…”
I was eleven years old. The riots were still fresh. The “Poor People’s March” had failed to ignite the revolutionary redistribution of wealth. “Soul Brother” graffiti was still plastered on burnt out buildings in DC. The faint smell of tear gas could be conjured by its mere mention. On the radio ...
- Cote D’Ivoire Update: BBC
From the BBC: Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants EU sanctions lifted Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. Mr Ouattara now controls the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, and wants to restart ...
- Cornel West on Aljazeera
- Why I Appreciate the Black Blogosphere and the ...
   Because our voices are local and they are global. Black people are all over the world speaking truth to power in the way that matters to them! And just what are we talking about? And do we have a right to speak “our truths”? Well as I have gone through the black [...]
- Les Twins — Hip Hop Dance Straight Outta ...
At the beginning of the year, I was on Facebook when I noticed a post of young twin hip hop dancers. I was blown away by their talent as I watched the brothers Larry and Laurent start actually dancing. Fantastic doesn’t even begin to describe them! There are many dancers out there and most of [...]
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Ecofeminism: Book by Jytte Nhanenge
Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development Authored by Jytte Nhanenge Sustainability Education Network is doubly honored to announce and review the newly published work of author Jytte Nhanenge, and applauds University Press of America for it ...
- Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
- Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
- Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
- Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
[Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...
- Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
- LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
- Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...
- Palestinian Terror - The Fogel Murders: A Call ...
Incitement to violence, long a secondary issue in Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, has returned to the front burner. About a year ago, the Israeli government began publishing an “incitement index” that tracked Palestinian Authority (PA) statements and publications. Then, on March 11 of this year, ...
- The 2012 Vote - Lugar sitting on $3M campaign ...
Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) raised just over $973,000 in the first quarter of the year, his campaign announced Monday, easily outraising his GOP primary challenger.� The longtime senator, who faces a challenge from the right next year from Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, will report mo ...
- Book Review - Rawhide Down: The Almost-Assassi ...
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. Del Quentin Wilber. Holt. 2011. 320 pages.Thirty years ago, an assassin almost killed Ronald Reagan at the very dawn of what proved to be a long and decisive presidency. We now know that Reagan was more seriously injured than most people bel ...
- The Metal's Edge - Pentagon Balks on Report ab ...
Rare earth metals, a variety of elements that are difficult and costly to extract, are vital for technology and the military. Tiny amounts of the metals and their alloys are used in a plethora of everyday devices, like cell phones, computer memory, and fluorescent lighting. But they are also vit ...
- Egypt After the Revolt - Three Scenarios for E ...
The protestors have gone home and the world's attention has turned to Libya, but the future of the most populous and influential Arab country remains perhaps the most important issue affecting American interests in the Middle East other than Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.�The decision to aba ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- Saudi Arabia, Gulf States Warn "Iran Is Underm ...
By Barry Rubin How sadly ironic. A few years ago, the two previous U.S. presidents were trying to get Gulf Arab states to do more to foster an Arab-Israeli peace settlement and to stand up against Iran. They didn't respond very much. Now they are ready for the battle and the current U.S. ...
- Trump Hubris: If Loses GOP Nod, Will Probably ...
If anything, Donald Trump is sure of himself. After flirting with the crazy side, with his birther claims, Trump is further alienating the GOP voters with a threat to run as an independent if he does not get the GOP nomination.� He told the WSJ today: �I hate what�s happening to the country,� ...
- Newsbusted: Key Member of Glenn Beck Show Off ...
Whether you are a fan of Glenn Beck or not, this is a shocking move.� Newsbusted's Jodi Miller� has learned that following the announcement that Beck was, closing down his daily show on Fox� liberal media outlet, MSNBC offered a three-year-contract to a key component of the Beck team. Othe ...
- LUNACY!! Sports Reporter Kevin Blackistone "Ob ...
Sports Reporter Kevin Blackistone, believes that there is another war going on where President Obama should step in and protect these civilians. No these civilians are not being bombed, beaten or shackled. They don't toil in the fields for no wages like slaves, in fact these ill-treated people ...
- The Conservative Elite And The Media Matters W ...
This article originally ran two months ago.� But because of Glenn Beck's recent move, and the piling on of elitist� Conservative writers, such as George Will, Jenifer Rubin of the Washington Post or Daniel McCarthy, editor of�The American Conservative,�none of whom who have ever watched or liste ...
- New U.S. Data Reveals Billions in Foreign Bailouts
Among bailed-out banks are the Central Bank of Libya, the Bank of China, Societe Generale and JP Morgan By Christopher J. Petherick April 12, 2011 Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul announced on April 4, as head of the powerful House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee, he will be initiating congr ...
- Fukushima is Chernobyl
MyWayNews.com April 12, 2011 Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater. Japanese nuclear regulators said they ra ...
- ‘What are the bees telling us?’
Rady Ananda Activist Post April 11, 2011 While industries continue to pollute the planet with their toxic chemicals, toxic waste and toxic spills, Earth’s pollinators sing a swan song that leaves no doubt as to the folly of modern civilization. Our ability to hear and appropriately respond to t ...
- Arab League to Ask UN for a no-fly zone over Gaza
AFP April 11, 2011 Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa announced Sunday his intention to appeal to the UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Gaza, where repeated Israeli air strikes have left at least 18 people dead since Thursday. Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Sunday the organisa ...
- Globalists, Climate Alarmists Move Forward wit ...
Reuters April 8, 2011 Rich and poor nations overcame deep divisions on Friday to cut a deal that maps out U.N. climate negotiations for 2011, building on last December’s agreement in Mexico and hardening the focus on tougher issues. The deal in Bangkok came after nearly four days of talks that s ...
- Noise, distraction, and litigation: Controvers ...
They�re a colossal sight � towering metal giants with blades as long as airplane wings humming in the rural fields of Central New York. But for residents in Fairfield who already felt they�d been deprived of a fair say in construction, the windmills are nothing but an expensive, loud nuisance. � ...
- SDG&E wind farm scaled back after protests; Co ...
A San Diego Gas & Electric proposal to spend up to $600 million on a Montana wind farm has been pared back after consumer advocates complained it put too much customer money at risk. The Rim Rock wind farm will still be built, but at less than two-thirds the size, and requiring less than half as ...
- Turbine critics come out swinging in Dennis
SOUTH DENNIS â It may only be one of the first steps in the debate over a proposal to place two wind turbines on Dennis Water District property, but it was a doozy. About 100 residents from Dennis, Harwich, Brewster and Falmouth filled the Dennis Senior Center on Monday night to voice their opin ...
- Companies say North Dakota wind turbine accide ...
Experts said a North Dakota wind turbine’s rotor and blades crashed to the ground because they weren’t properly aligned with a power shaft atop the turbine’s steel tower, which caused the rotor’s connecting bolts to fail. The March 14 accident north of Rugby will prompt more frequent inspections ...
- Green energy project poses threat to wildlife ...
Pune: Development projects in the ecologically sensitive region of Western Ghats in Maharashtra have been under the green activists’ scanner for long. Activists allege that this time the culprit is a seemingly innocent wind power project. They state that the 113 MW Andhra Lake Wind Power Project ...
- U.S. “video game” pushbutton murde ...
The Murdering-ass coward scum who remote-control kill human beings from the air-conditioned safety of a command center in Nebraska, and gloat about how their “High Tech” weaponry makes them ever so superior to the Third World impoverished nations of PEOPLE against whom the United States Corporat ...
- Recent rally against Monsanto and a little not ...
At a recent rally in Downtown Colorado Springs… Mark made some good points about Monsanto. Here’s some more. You remember, as do I, how exactly Monsanto got busted back in the late 70s with the Paraquat Pot? Paraquat is one of their signature lines of “weed” killers, herbicides, such as Agent Or ...
- Crime and Punishment and The CSCS Baby Killing ...
Tony wrote a piece about the ambiguous nature of prosecution in America, a DA can decline to prosecute anybody, or so it seeeeeeeems and somebody felt it amusing to write in offering to have sex with him. On the other hand, this month a Mass Murderer is coming to Colorado Springs with warrants f ...
- “Bring your gun to school” day kil ...
Yeah, the ones who keep saying that MORE guns will deter such crimes, they’re on it already. Babbling their retarded shit about how a whole bunch of trigger-happy goons firing into crowds will somehow not get even more accidental victims killed or maimed. The God-Damn Army has rules about that, ...
- Why not sue faith-healers for malpractice?
I know a person who has a partially displaced hip, old compression fractures of the lower spine, walks around in pain every day. Doctor says “use your cane, it will keep the discs from deteriorating further, take pressure off the back and the hip, you’ll have a lot less pain”. But, somebody told ...
- Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing
- Clinton told it like it is...
I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...
- Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader
ae911truth YouTube.com Mar 19, 2011 AE911Truth's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Tom Sullivan - Former Explosives Loader for Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary "9 ...
- Health problems related to 9/11 will be felt f ...
Eric Stevenson 911debunkers.blogspot.com Certainly, living in America, all of our lives were changed nearly 10 years ago on September 11th, 2001. As days moved on, more and more were added to the death toll in the ensuing weeks afterwards. What’s not common knowledge is that some of the effec ...
- The Debunking the Debunkers Exploding Paint Ar ...
It's been two years now since the publishing of the Active Thermitic Material ... paper, and over the last two years the debunkers have gone to great lengths to deny this forensic proof of demolition. We at Debunking the Debunkers have been following the thermite denialists closely, and have w ...
- Times Square Renamed Junk Food Square
This Week, Frito Lay is taking over Times Square with a plethora of marketing activities. The New York Times reports: Frito-Lay plans to spend this week in Times Square with a promotional event featuring a flavor kitchen, which is part of the company’s effort to stimulate sales of its snack bran ...
- Oh My! Mio Water Flavoring Has Nothing Real in It
Kraft, like many big food companies, has a problem. Every 3 months the publicly traded company needs to show rising sales and profits to its Wall Street Investors. But since it sells food, how can it possibly sell any more to a country of already overstuffed consumers? The answer: Innovation. Mo ...
- Interactive Infographic Reveals the Reason We ...
Check out this interactive infographic. It shows a breakdown of our calorie consumption for every year since 1970 til 2008. Hover your mouse from left to right and you’ll see the progression (if it can be called that) of consumption over the past 4 decades. On the year the Beatles broke up, we c ...
- Save America’s Babies from Obesity: Join Dr. G ...
Fooducate recently presented at the Health 2.0 conference in San Diego. On stage, facilitating the discussion on food as a preventive medicine, was Alan Greene, MD, FAAP, pediatrician, author, and Stanford professor. His website, DrGreene.com, has been online since 1995! Dr Greene, who is alarme ...
- Fooducate App v 1.4: Product Search, iPod Scan ...
We’ve just released version 1.4 of the Fooducate iPhone App, and we’re really excited. Most of the features here are based on your requests: Textual Search – Now you don’t need to have a product in front of you to learn about it. Just type in its name or some keywords to get a list [...]
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- Ranchers caught red-handed – from space
Bulldozers used for illegal deforestation, photographed by government investigators © GAT/ Survival Wealthy landowners in Paraguay have been caught red-handed after newly-released satellite images showed their startling destruction of almost 4,000 hectares of forest – which is inhabited by ...
- Ethiopia strikes out at Survival
The Nyangatom people live on the Omo river banks in south Ethiopia. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival Prime Minister Meles Zenawiâs recent outburst against Survival International falls very far short of the mark. He claims organizations like Survival International which are campaigning against th ...
- 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 ...
- BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
- Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- Upcycling clothing: what can I reuse, recycle ...
After yesterday’s post about reusing or recycling old leather coats or jackets, I’ve realised there are a few other clothing related things I’d like to ask about so…. impromptu upcycling clothing week! ;) I’ve got some pretty printed slightly-stretchy cotton vest tops that have either lost their ...
- How can I reuse or recycle bath cubes/bombs?
We’ve had an email from Maggie: I found a box of lavender bath cubes while cleaning out my mum’s bathroom cupboard at the weekend. Mum says she doesn’t like them and I can’t use them because of my sensitive skin. Is there anything I can do with them or should I throw them in the [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle an old leather jack ...
We’ve had an email from Linzi: What can I do with an old leather jacket? It’s really dated now. If it’s really dated, keep it – it’ll probably come back into fashion next week ;) More seriously, someone might want it for a vintage look – or for a fancy dress party – perhaps offer [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle kitchen cupboard doors?
My friend Katherine is getting a new kitchen soon and I’ve unofficially bagsied her (wood or woodish) kitchen cupboard doors – for reusing for other stuff rather than just putting in our kitchen. Lots of still-in-good-condition kitchen cabinets are given away from Freecycle/Freegle or sold on eB ...
- How can I reuse or recycle the metal frame fro ...
Over on the “suggest an item” page, the bookstorebabe said: Broken umbrellas were done a few years back, but most of the suggestions were reuses for the umbrella fabric. How about specifically the metal frame, as is or taken apart? Any clever ideas, anyone? Over on the old umbrella page, Pamela ...
- Mark Blaxill Public Comment to IACC: "A Time t ...
A Time to Lead My name is Mark Blaxill. I am the father of a 15 year old daughter diagnosed with autism, a Director of SafeMinds and editor-at-large of Age of Autism. I am also a co-author of The Age...
- Katie Wright on World Autism Day
By Katie Wright Wednesday April 6 was World Autism Day at the United Nations. It was sponsored, incredibly, by the nation of Bangladesh. The United States was slow to commit to participating but in the end, thanks to the efforts...
- Win Dinner At Autism One Compliments of Dr. Am ...
Thanks to the kindness of our colleagues at Holistic Health International, home of the Dr. Amy Yasko protocol, we have a new contest to share! Holistic Health International is offering 10 additional AutismOne/Generation Rescue 2011 Dinner Gala & Awards Show...
- Twenty Age of Autism Readers to Win Cutting Ed ...
The First Winner is Americo Rodriguez! Nineteen more chances! Our friends at Skyhorse Publishing have given us TWENTY copies of Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism 2011-2012 Edition. That's one a day through the end of this autism ACTION month! Leave...
- Contest is Closed: EO Gift Basket from Age of ...
Congrats to our winners Sandy Lopriore, Sandra Neace and EW. I've sent you an email, please respond with your address. Thanks. EO wants to help you pamper yourself this autism action month. They offered us three gift baskets of their...
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- BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
- Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
- Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
- Trade Unions
The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...
- Fracking nightmare destroys small farmers
As if we didn't have enough problems with the fake food safety bill, a genetically modified food takeover by the USDA's terrorist arm Monsanto, chemtrails dumping aluminum, barium, and strontium on farmland, and Japan's radioactivity spreading across the country, now we have a huge fracking (hyd ...
- Radiation Nation In the Crosshairs!
The EPA once again dupes the public by upping "safe" radiation levels.... Will Monsanto take advantage by developing a plutonium resistance gene?
- The Great Global Warming Swindle
Basic science: Climate warms, life increases, and CO2 goes up. Climate cools, life decreases, and CO2 goes down. Not the other way around like Al Gore claims. What about that does Al Gore not understand? Oh, yeah.... can't tax CO2 users with the truth.
- 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 ...
- Google invests $168 million in solar power plant
Physorg – Google said Monday it has invested $168 million to help complete the construction of one of the world’s biggest solar energy power plants in California’s Mojave Desert. The plant, which is being developed by BrightSource Energy, will generate 392 gross megawatts (MW) of clean solar ene ...
- Debate stirred over 1st major US tar sands mine
Associated Press – Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah’s Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new domestic source of petroleum for the United States. It would be a first-of-its kind project in the count ...
- Fluoride back on agenda
Waikato Times – The policy of adding fluoride to Hamilton’s drinking water is again up for discussion this week, after four councillors’ attempts to remove it earlier this year were defeated. The issue is back as councillors hear presentations canvassing differing opinions on water fluoridation ...
- Yemen: Gulf states demand President Saleh̵ ...
Telegraph – Gulf states demanded the resignation of Yemenâs President Ali Abdullah Saleh at an emergency summit called in response to escalating violence as a first step to the establishment of a national unity government. Read article
- UK: Special Forces scandal as officers are hel ...
Mail Online – Two senior Special Forces officers suspected of leaking details of highly sensitive covert operations have been arrested under the Official Secrets Act, the Daily Mail can reveal. The unprecedented arrests came as members of the SAS and SBS were deployed in Libya in preparation for ...
- California renewable energy gets major boost i ...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a mandate that 33% of electricity in California must come from renewable sources by 2020. Executives at solar, wind and other clean energy companies said the new regulations could help California reclaim its...
- Sea Shepherd documentary, 'Confessions of an E ...
Early in his new documentary film, “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist,” Peter Brown, a 30-year veteran of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, assesses the group’s strategy. “Our job,” he says, “is to manufacture awareness.” Ramming boats, hurling stinky acid at whalers...
- Lake Tahoe logging plan ignites a court battle
Should the scorched forests around Lake Tahoe be logged and replanted, or should they be allowed to regenerate at nature's pace? That's the issue at the heart of a lawsuit filed recently in U.S. District Court in Sacramento by the...
- California farmers, ecologists square off over ...
Should farmers in the Central Valley, California's richest agricultural region, be required to monitor and clean up groundwater pollution from their operations? The issue will be taken up by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board at a three-day...
- The elderberry longhorn beetle: a new endanger ...
The lawsuit points out that the USFWS in 2006 found that the Valley elderberry longhorn beetle was no longer “threatened.” But the federal agency still has not removed it from the list of species fully protected under the Endangered Species Act.
- Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...
- Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
- Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
- Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
- Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- WATCH: brutal arrest of protesters in Nabi Sal ...
The demonstrations been taking place for over one year despite serious military repression. The two leaders of the community, Bassem and Naji Tamimi, have both been arrested by Israeli soldiers along with 12 percent of the total population of the village.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
- Rattling the Cage: Goldstone was never the problem
A JUST war? Operation Cast Lead was about as just as a bullfight. We invaded a foreign land with our ridiculously superior armed forces and decimated it. We racked up a kill ratio of 100-to-one, and a destruction ratio that's immeasurable.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
- Torture the New Black? - How We've Come Accept ...
How "enemy creep" is Guantanamo-izing America. Just in case you thought that �political correctness� had been thoroughly discredited in the culture wars of the 1990s, it�s back -- and this time it�s being treated as a stalking horse for terrorism...Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov' ...
- Scenes from Gaza
Ibrahim Qdieh, a 52-year-old resident of the southern Gaza village of Abassan, never knew that a few minutes' absence from home would rescue him from a possible death but left him gulping the pain of losing wife and daughter for the rest of his life.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...
- Israel wouldn't need propaganda if it changed ...
But after two years of total deadlock, hollow talk, illusions, Israel's unreasonable setting of conditions and the construction of more and more settlements, the world has condemned Israel. No hasbara can change that. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Nepali New Year: Nepalis Gather to Exchange Go ...
On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Nepal and send my warmest wishes for a joyful New Year as you celebrate with family and friends in the coming days.
- Kid Chocolate Played Wild Card as Unbeaten Pet ...
A year ago, undefeated prospect Peter 'Kid Chocolate' Quillin packed his bags and headed West, moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in what can only be described as a culture shock experience.
- United States Recognizes and Strongly Supports ...
I want to begin by thanking UN-HABITAT and congratulating you on your election as President of the Governing Council and to thank you for your leadership and service.
- Winklevoss Twins Lose Facebook Appeal
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, twins, lost an appeal against an earlier settlement with Facebook which gave them $20 million in cash and $45 million in Facebook shares.
- Ceremony At UN Kicks Off The 2011 Rugby World Cup
In a ceremony at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Mr. Ban kicked off the 2011 Rugby World Cup, which will take place at various cities and towns around New Zealand in September and October this year.
- Kathy Griffin to guest star on 'Drop Dead ...
Quick ReadKathy Griffin to mix it up with pal Margaret Cho on third season of 'Drop Dead Diva' (AP) -- Kathy Griffin is looking forward to causing trouble when she guest stars on the Lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva." In an episode of the upcoming third season, Griffin plays the sister of se ...
- Serena Williams gets back on tennis court
— Serena Williams has returned to a tennis court. She says Tuesday is her "first day back" after a series of health...
- Beyonce Working on Music Video for New Si ...
While 's camp is remaining mum on the progress of her forthcoming fourth album, the pop star is rumored to be releasing the disc in June -- and was reportedly shooting a music video for its first single in New...
- Federer starts clay-court season with Mon ...
MONACO - Roger Federer started his clay-court season on Tuesday by dispatching Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-2, 6-1 with precise shot-making at the Monte Carlo Masters. The Swiss star, seeded second after Novak Djokovic's withdrawal because of a knee injury, hit forehand winners, exqui ...
- Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson, Kem join 201 ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Grammy Award winners Chaka Khan and Jennifer Hudson are joining the 2011 lineup for the Essence Music Festival, which will be held over the Fourth of July holiday weekend in New Orleans, festival organizers said Tuesday....
- Kucinich's Lonely Fight Against Obama's Libya War
Sometimes it seems like Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is carrying the ball all by himself in criticizing President Obama’s misguided war in Libya. Earlier this week, Kucinich warned that Obama was “prolonging a civil war” in Libya by aiding “mysterious ‘rebels’” who rejected an Afric ...
- US-Pakistan Relations Facing Biggest Crisis Si ...
Bitter disputes over covert CIA activities and drone attacks inside Pakistan, lack of progress over peace talks in Afghanistan, and rising Islamist-led opposition to the presence of foreign forces in the region are fuelling the biggest crisis in US-Pakistan relations s ...
- Japan Radiation Fears Grip Town on Edge of Des ...
The debris strewn along the coastal neighborhoods of Minamisoma should be proof enough of the devastation wrought by the tsunami that hit Japan's north-east coast on 11 March. But for the past month this sprawling town in Fukushima prefecture has been confronted by a second, more insidious thre ...
- An Appalachian Radio Voice Threatened From Afar
WHITESBURG, Ky. — Rich Kirby, a part-time producer for WMMT, the community radio station here, was interviewing two local aid officials the other day about the effect of Washington’s proposed budget cuts on this region, in the heart of Appalachia. ...
- Mr. Serious: The Ryan Budget Plan and the Belt ...
NEW YORK - The budget proposal released last week by Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Wisc.) includes tax cuts for the wealthy, tax hikes for the middle class, drastic cuts in spending and a radical restructuring of Medicare that would shift most of the cost of healthcare to seniors. ...
- Let’s Messe It Up! Why The US Needs To Host An ...
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- AdAge Article on TEC
Hey TEC community:�Please find a link of interest here http://bit.ly/grItfS.�This article discusses the Oehman post that went viral on TEC.
- A Clean Energy Standard Must Address Peak Load ...
If all a CES does is incentivize the construction of new, clean generation assets and the deployment of additional transmission and distribution infrastructure, it will fail in its essential purpose. Simply building new plants while keeping old polluting ones open creates more environmental deg ...
- Energetics: Year Two
I started this blog about one year ago (actually, Energetics had its inaugural post on March 22, 2010). Since then, I've posted 116 entries, averaging somewhere between 5-15 per month (with the exception of April 2010, which had 47 separate posts, a pace which I apparently could not sustain). En ...
- As Fukushima Gets Moved From 5 to 7, Remember ...
The overreaction and stoked fears about the events at Fukushima continues. One month ago today, I wrote an article titled Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries that exposed my ignorance of the differences between various kinds of containment designs and was a bit too optim ...
- Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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- Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- Willful Ignorance
By Paul Carline Cards on the table. I’ve been a “truther” since early 2002 when I came across the first major challenge to the official 9/11 story in the shape of the wonderful “Hunt the Boeing” site created by French researcher Thierry Meyssan. Until then I’d accepted the standard “Left” ver ...
- Planned Libyan Invasion
by Stephen Lendman In his book, "Winning Modern Wars," General Wesley Clark said Pentagon sources told him two months after 9/11 that war plans were being prepared against Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and Libya. Months earlier, they were finalized against Afghanistan. Clark ...
- The Theory That’s Killing America’ ...
Ian Fletcher I wrote in a previous article how America’s disastrous embrace of free trade is ultimately based on a false theory of how the global economy works: the so-called Theory of Comparative Advantage. This is what economists, from the government on down, believe in. This matters. But I ...
- Avigdor Lieberman to Be Indicted
by Stephen Lendman A previous article profiled him in-depth, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/10/avigdor-lieberman-profile-in.html It explained he represents the worst of Israel's lunatic fringe, sort of a combination Dick Cheney/John McCain/Joe ...
- Fight Economic Oppression, Target the Top One ...
Joel S. Hirschhorn Massive economic inequality is killing America and we the people. It has already killed American democracy. The rich have captured the political system so they could manipulate the economy and benefit unfairly. Economic freedom and opportunity are gone. Greed among the to ...
- Making It Count: CCPA's federal election blog
The CCPA has launched a federal election blog to bring you expert analysis on the issues that will—or should—define the election. Making It Count features timely commentary from CCPA staff and research associates, who will be weighing in everything from the economy and federal finances to the ...
- Are the federal parties putting their money wh ...
On the CCPA federal election blog, research associate David MacDonald takes a look at what the four major national federal parties are saying in their platforms vs. what they actually want to spend money on. For each party he's created two wordles or word charts, to illustrate.� Click here f ...
- The truth about Canada's Afghan training mission
Canada's Afghan training mission has a high risk of casualties and a low chance of success, says new report published by the CCPA and the Rideau Institute. Analysts Michael Byers and Stuart Webb determine that the new training mission, first proposed by the Liberals then adopted by the Conserv ...
- Will the middle class have to learn to do with ...
That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations of millions of Canadians". Read the column here.
- Living Wage 2011: how much does a family need ...
CCPA-BC has just published Working for a Living Wage 2011, which shows that the living wage for Vancouver in 2011 is $18.81 an hour, up from $18.17 last year, and far higher than the $10.25 minimum wage planned for next year. A living wage enables families to pay for necessities, support the h ...
- Scott Walker’s Supporters? Well, Only A ...
Major CEO Donor To Walker Charged With Two Felony Counts Of Illegal Campaign Contributions | Think Progress A top donor to Gov. Scott Walker’s (R-WI) gubernatorial campaign has been charged with multiple violations of campaign finance law, reports the Associated Press. Prosecutors today have cha ...
- You Go Fella: Washington Mayor Arrested During ...
You know something’s rotten in Denmark when politicians start arresting each other. Washington Mayor Arrested in Protest | The New York Times Mayor Vincent C. Gray was arrested for disorderly conduct on Monday while protesting provisions of Friday nightâs budget deal in Congress, his spokeswoman ...
- UN Torture Expert Denied Access To Bradley Manning
U.N. diplomat is denied private meeting with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning | Washington Post A United Nations diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture said Monday that he is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that U.S. defense officials have refused his request for an unmonito ...
- Wake’N'Bake 101: Biology
WWH - Do Cell Phones Unleash Our Inner Rudeness? is the provocative question posed by the hed to this piece on the CNN blog today. Like the blessedly deceased Ronnie Raygun’s last underpants, it dependz. Dr. Woody is not a cell-fone communicant. He basically regards “Tweet” and “Twitter” to be t ...
- Laurence Tribe decries treatment of Wikileaks ...
By josh gerstein | Politico – A prominent consitutional scholar and former official of President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, Laurence Tribe, is decrying the Pentagon’s treatment of Wikileaks suspect Pvt. Bradley Manning in a Virginia brig. Tribe, a Harvard law professor who served as an a ...
- Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
- The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Japan ups crisis level at plant to match Chernobyl
Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater.
- Donald Trump is losing it
At first I thought it was clear that Mr. Donald Trump -- a television star famous for his "billionaire" character who makes a good living licensing his name after failing in the casino business -- was just pretending to run for president in order to drum up publicity for the new season of his ...
- Why we should embrace the end of human spaceflight
This week NASA is announcing where the soon-to-be-retired space shuttles will be displayed as museum relics. On April 19 the space shuttle Endeavor will be launched, on the penultimate mission of the program. The end of the space shuttle program will mean that the U.S. will have to rely on Ru ...
- The birthday Mitt Romney wants you to forget
When he signed Massachusetts' universal healthcare law five years ago on Tuesday, Mitt Romney professed to be unconcerned with the potential political implications.
- What actually happens if the U.S. hits the fed ...
Are you just now recovering from the migraine induced by months of partisan feuding over the 2011 federal budget? Looking forward to a lengthy reprieve before Congress tackles next year's budget? Sorry, but you're in for a rude awakening. (And you might want to reach for some aspirin.) Treasu ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- France’s intolerant face
So much for Liberté, égalité, fraternité. French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative government has just exposed the ugly face of official intolerance by enforcing a pathetic ...
- PM’s bitter G8 harvest
Did Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government pull a fast one on Parliament in the runup to the G8/G20 summits last summer to win approval for a $50-million fund that poured money into dubious projects in a Conservative riding? ...
- If it’s graffiti, get rid of it
Look out ‘taggers’ — Mayor Rob Ford is coming for your graffiti, and we hope he succeeds.
- Better, but not good enough
Former chief justice Patrick LeSage has clarified the rules of conduct between the police and the SIU, but he wasn’t’ asked to overhaul the rules.
- Goar: A door opens for the mentally ill
For the first time, a person who’s been through the psychiatric system is given a voice in decision-making.
- Let’s Messe It Up! Why The US Needs To Host An ...
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- AdAge Article on TEC
Hey TEC community:�Please find a link of interest here http://bit.ly/grItfS.�This article discusses the Oehman post that went viral on TEC.
- A Clean Energy Standard Must Address Peak Load ...
If all a CES does is incentivize the construction of new, clean generation assets and the deployment of additional transmission and distribution infrastructure, it will fail in its essential purpose. Simply building new plants while keeping old polluting ones open creates more environmental deg ...
- Energetics: Year Two
I started this blog about one year ago (actually, Energetics had its inaugural post on March 22, 2010). Since then, I've posted 116 entries, averaging somewhere between 5-15 per month (with the exception of April 2010, which had 47 separate posts, a pace which I apparently could not sustain). En ...
- As Fukushima Gets Moved From 5 to 7, Remember ...
The overreaction and stoked fears about the events at Fukushima continues. One month ago today, I wrote an article titled Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries that exposed my ignorance of the differences between various kinds of containment designs and was a bit too optim ...
- New Yorkers protest US policies
Thousands of Americans have staged a protest rally in New York City to voice concerns over US war and foreign policies as well as the economy and the persisting reduction of social programs. Scores of peace, labor and community activists took to the streets of the major commercial city on Saturd ...
- U.S. Slams Russia on Rights
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the three European countries with the worst record on human rights in 2010, the U.S. State Department said in an annual survey released Friday. The survey, “2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” covered 194 countries worldwide, excluding the United Stat ...
- Blast at Belarus Metro Station leaves 12 dead, ...
Twelve people were killed and 126 were wounded in a blast that struck a metro station in the Belarussian capital Minsk. The authorities said the blast is suspected to be a terrorist act. “126 victims were hospitalized, 22 of them – in serious condition, 30 – are moderately wounded,” said Belarus ...
- Fukushima Radiation ‘No Longer Negligible’ In ...
The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against “risky behaviour,” such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. In respo ...
- Fluoride spill at water facility burns holes i ...
A recent chemical spill at a water treatment facility in Rock Island, Ill., required the assistance of an emergency relief crew decked in the very same type of hazmat suits being worn by workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Except instead of radiation, the leaked chemical at ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Tasini Announces HuffPo Class Action Lawsuit
Jonathan Tasini, a one-time challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and another time challenger to Rep. Charlie Rangel, announced this morning that he is the lead plantiff in a suit against Arrianno Huffington, alleging that the owner of the Huffington Post has wrongly denied compensation to ...
- Arianna Huffington & AOL Sued By Bloggers
Blogger, author and former political candidate Jonathan Tasini filed a class action lawsuit (PDF link) against Arianna Huffington , The Huffington Post and AOL. He explained on his blog : “We live in a time of unrelenting class warfare. We are the richest nation on earthâyet that wealth is flow ...
- Al-Jazeera Video: Inside Story - Prosecuting ...
A VERY GOOD PROGRAM INCLUDING SHARIF ABDEL KOUDOUS (formerly with Democracy Now!) "The Egyptian public prosecutor has issued an order to summon Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, for questioning over allegations of corruption. Just hours earlier Muba ...
- State revenue cap measure advances in House
Voters could have the chance to place a revenue cap in the state Constitution under a bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday. The revenue cap (HJR 7221) is sponsored by Rep. Steve Precourt , R-Orlando, who said an existing revenue cap in state law is not effective. The bill ...
- Northern Lights From San Francisco to France [ ...
YouTuber nbolt shot this awesome video on a flight from San Francisco to Paris on his/her Canon 5D Mk 2. He/she added a totally believable disclaimer for anyone worrying about whether or not he was using an electronic device on take-off and landing. I love the Aurora Borealis but for some reaso ...
- Colorado Judge Is Seething At RighthavenAnd H ...
Controversial copyright-enforcement company Righthaven was already catching a lot of flak for its lawsuit against Brian Hill. Denver alt-weekly Westword was eagerly reporting that its biggest competitor, The Denver Post, was trying to make extra cash off its photos and articles-by working with R ...
- South Dakota Judge Faces Removal for Allegedly ...
Judge A.P. "Pete" Fuller could be the first jurist in the 121-year history of South Dakota's judicial system to be ousted by the state's Supreme Court. What landed the judge in this pickle? [PJ: Way too colorful language for Groklaw, but he said in court that the police there were racist, for ...
- Former Cravath Partner Picked for Treasury Job
President Barack Obama has chosen Timothy Massad, a former corporate partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, to operate the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Program. - BLT
- On Google and censorship
Hugo Roy asked my thoughts about the recent case of Google's employees being convicted in Italy for a video that has been online a few months on Google Video (now YouTube). I have already said so by and large, microblogged extensively on that. My opinion is that the decision is a shame for my C ...
- Google CEO Promotes Engineers in Management Sh ...
The seven known promoted executives-five of whom are software engineers like Mr. Page-include the chiefs of video site YouTube and mobile-device software Android. They will report directly to Mr. Page, a company spokesman said. The move comes the same week Jonathan Rosenberg, a senior vice pres ...
- Natural gas fracking more harmful than coal
Natural gas may be a marginally cleaner fossil fuel than coal, but obtaining it through the processing of fracking turns out to be more damaging to the climate than coal ever was. Fracking is a process that splits deposits of natural gas deep underground, using high pressure chemicals. A new stu ...
- War tax resistance in 2011
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee aided by the venerable War Resisters League and others, is organizing war tax resistance in 2011. This is the deliberate non-payment of some or all of federal income tax in protest against the bloated military budget of the US. Some refuse t ...
- The electric vehicle Superbus lives!
It can go 155 mph while carrying 23 passengers. Love those gull wing doors!
- Fukushima accident assessment raised to maximu ...
Thus the accident level is now the same as Chernobyl was. Plus, another fire broke out at reactor 4. Radiation up to 4 times higher than Chernobyl evac zone found in soil 30 km away from Fukushima; Rice harvest in question All links are from Zero Hedge, who have the consistently best coverage of ...
- Bob vs. dinosaur
I’m *really* happy his big brother didn’t come by too…
- Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...
- U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
- Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
- Open thread, early April 2011
Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
- More on Turkey/Syria
On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
- Challenging global military spending
The Global Day of Action Against Military Spending is being marked today, April 12th. Last year the world military budget was US$1,630 billion, with America well ahead of other nations. It spent US$698 billion, six times its nearest rival China on US$114 billion. Adding to the scandal, the US sp ...
- Improving the latest Earthquake Recovery Bill
We want to give Cantabrians all the help they need to rebuild their earthquake-ravaged city, but the Bill in front of Parliament today doesn’t do the job. There’s too much power vested in too few people for too long. We very cautiously supported the first recovery Bill last year while flagging ...
- It’s only a song, Simon
National MP Simon Bridges says he hopes “we never see Tiki Taane in Tauranga again.” This was after the award-winning singer was arrested while performing at Tauranga’s Illuminati nightclub on Sunday morning. Apparently his “crime” to was provide a musical background – singing the well-known rap ...
- Petrobras activists are heroes
I think the activists, some of them friends of mine, floating in the ocean to stop the Petrobras seismic testing ship are heroes. They are extraordinarily brave to put their bodies, and possibly criminal records, on the line. If the Crown Law experts decide there is some law they’ve broken by sw ...
- Mokau River – March 29, 2011
The Mokau River, in north Taranaki, is a gem of a river. It rises as a spring in the magical Pureora forest south of Te Kuiti, a forest that is home of the last of the ancient totara. Mokau is hidden in a limestone gorge as and rushes down steep rapids before flattening out for [...]
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Smoke and Mirrors Watch
Here's AP reporter Andrew Taylor digging into the $38 billion in spending cuts that Republicans agreed to and finding that an awful lot of it is smoke and mirrors: Instead, the cuts that actually will make it into law are far tamer, including [...] $2.5 billion from the most recent renewa ...
- Is the Economy Turning Sluggish?
From Catherine Rampell: When 2011 began, Macroeconomic Advisers, a forecasting company, expected that America’s economic output would shape up to rise at a 4.1 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the highest pace in over a year....Today, after an especially weak report on February’s ...
- The Public and the Debt Ceiling
Responding to an unconfirmed Wall Street Journal article suggesting that President Obama might be willing to negotiate with Republicans over increasing the debt ceiling limit, Jon Chait says: There's a massive weakness in [the GOP] position that Democrats have not tried to exploit. Republ ...
- The Republican Plan
This is from the LA�Times this morning: Kudos to the Times copy desk for writing an unusually clear and accurate headline. Comments | Post Comment����
- Defunding the Left
Battles over competing priorities are the meat and drink of politics. Conservatives want to defund Planned Parenthood, liberals want to cut defense spending. But Republican strategists have long understood that there's a deeper level to politics, one where the goal isn't merely to fight the ...
- IC 241: We Respect Females
Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...
- IC 240: Shutdown
Topics: People who abuse ‘reply all’ Old lady shuts down an entire country’s Internet service Lebron’s mom gets arrested The politics of the government shutdown Glenn Beck is leaving his daily show…is it really a victory? Share with your friends:
- FacePalm of the Week: Fredrick Douglass and S ...
Just when you thought the anti-abortion movement couldn’t get any worse….Arizona jumps into the fray and shouts “Checkmate Bitches!!!” A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5 Mo ...
- IC 239: I Blame OJ
Topics: Drunk dialing Teacher makes fun of student’s hair on Facebook….but for good reason Snooki gets $32,000 to speak to college kids We’re doing it all wrong Everything is OJ Simpson’s fault Share with your friends:
- IC 238: Student Athletes
Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
- Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
- Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
- Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
- 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
- Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
- Alcohol helps the brain remember, says new study
Drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better, says a new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin. read more
- Maternal stress during pregnancy may affect ch ...
There is increasing evidence from human and animal studies that offspring of parents who were physically or psychologically stressed are at higher risk of developing obesity, and that these offspring may in turn "transmit" that increased risk to the next generation. Now research conducted at the ...
- Moderate exercise improves brain blood flow in ...
Research conducted at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas suggests that it's never too late for women to reap the benefits of moderate aerobic exercise. In a 3-month study of 16 women age 60 and older, brisk walking for 30-50 minutes t ...
- Investigational drug may reduce involuntary mo ...
Results of the first randomized, placebo-controlled long-term clinical trial show the investigational drug safinamide may reduce dyskinesia or involuntary movements in mid-to-late stage Parkinson's disease. The findings will be presented as late-breaking research at the 63rd Annual Meeting of th ...
- Discovery of 2 new genes provides hope for ste ...
The discovery of two genes that encode copper- and sulfur-binding repressors in the hospital terror Staphylococcus aureus means two new potential avenues for controlling the increasingly drug-resistant bacterium, scientists say in the April 15, 2011 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. ...
- Fukushima rated at INES Level 7 – what d ...
Hot in the news is that the Fukushima Nuclear crisis has been upgraded from INES 5 to INES 7. Note that this is not due to some sudden escalation of events today (aftershocks etc.), but rather it is based on an assessment of the cumulative magnitude of the events that have occurred at the site o ...
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear saga – 2 to 9 ...
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi has, alas, now evolved into more of a saga. The last seven days of events has been acted out in slow motion compared to the first dramatic week (dating back to almost a month ago), but there continues to be plenty of headaches for TEPCO — and no clear [...]
- Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese ...
Below is the second piece published on BNC on the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. For an earlier perspective, see: Preliminary lessons from Fukushima for future nuclear power plants. Below is a Guest Post by Dr. William Sacks. Bill is a highly experienced physicist a ...
- Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our ...
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. For another terrific article by Geoff, related to Fukushima and radiation risk read: Cancer deaths in Japan will be from alcohol ...
- Some other perspectives on Fukushima
Apart from getting on with my life (e.g., building a new computer, catching up with my backlog at work, spending time with the family, etc.), I’ve been spending the last few days reading widely on what other people have had to say, in reflection, on the Fukushima crisis. Here are some highlights ...
- US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shini ...
US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shining City On A Hill | NEWS JUNKIE POST: "The concept of American exceptionalism is as old as the United States, and it implies that the country has a qualitative difference from other nations. This notion of been “special” gives Americans the sense tha ...
- GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism
Pinkwatching Israel � GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly)”grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates ...
- Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...
Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
- The hypocrisy of military intervention for so- ...
The hypocrisy of military intervention for so-called 'humanitarian assistance': "(FinalCall.com) - The fast moving media discussion concerning the invasion of the North African country of Libya, under the auspices of the creation of a no-fly zone, and the destruction of “military targets” appear ...
- In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
- Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...
- The Tea Party Traitors
Isn’t it obvious that the tea baggers are working to destroy our nation? I mean obvious to people that aren’t mentally retarded of course….
- The Fix America Plan
Correcting America’s financial problems is easy. We ALL will have to sacrifice some. Including corporations. Including the filthy rich, the rich, the middle class, and the rest of us. Here is the fix America plan that would work. End the Bush tax cuts. Tax corporations a 20% on global income bot ...
- What Do You Mean?
So let me get this straight. Is the middle class waking up? Are they finally starting to figure out that having corporations screw us for our own good isn’t actually good for us? Is having the middle class pay more taxes so corporations don’t have pay any income tax really what’s good for Americ ...
- Shame Shame Shame
Shame shame shame shame shame
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- VIDEO: Gaza Surfing
There is more to life in Gaza than you think…
- Palestinians must reinforce the right to freed ...
The murder of Juliano Mer Khamis was a national tragedy for Palestinians that drew shock and outrage. However, it is imperative that we learn from this horrific event that the rights to freedom of art and expression must be protected and upheld at all costs. Since the beginning of the Palestinia ...
- Are the Awarta raids intended for hostage-taking?
Why do the security forces arrest hundreds of Awarta residents? In 1990, I was serving as an operations sergeant in the Dir El Balah – a town in the Gaza Strip – in the so-called civil administration. On Rosh Hashana of that year, a reservist soldier named Amnon Pomeranz made a fatal error and ...
- Izzie in HolyLand – Part 20: Lieberman & ...
(To fully enjoy this post, YOU MUST first listen to this short 15 second audio clip. The link is for a Hebrew website, but the audio link is clearly visible on the top, with the standard “play” button next to a small picture of Avigdor Lieberman. In this link, you will hear from which [...]
- Refugee “seder” tells modern day P ...
By Nicole Hyman It was in Levinsky Park in South Tel Aviv eating matzah and charoset (traditional Passover food) with a group of non-Jewish men from Eritrea that I finally understood the meaning of Pesach (Passover). But it had nothing to do with the unleavened bread we were eating, the glasses ...
- Working together to care for our country
Proposals for land care and environment projects from across the nation are invited under the Caring for our Country 2011-12 business plan.
- Tasmanian forests interim report tabled
The Gillard Government has today tabled in the Australian Parliament the interim report from Mr Bill Kelty who is facilitating progress on the Statement of Principles agreed between conservation groups, the CFMEU and the timber industry in Tasmania.
- Murray-Darling Basin water purchase rounds an ...
Water Minister Tony Burke today announced a tender for water purchases in the southern-connected Murray system in Victoria and South Australia under the Gillard Government's new approach to recovering water for the environment through smaller, more consistent tenders.
- Product Stewardship Bill introduced
The Gillard Government today introduced into Federal Parliament the landmark Product Stewardship Bill, which will help manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products including televisions and computers.
- Orange City Pipeline project gets go-ahead
The Australian Government and NSW Government today signed off on a plan to deliver the Orange Pipeline project connecting the Macquarie River to Orange.
- OUTRAGE! Of The Day- Forced Place (Insurance)
The banks are jacking Americans every single chance they get. There really is no holding them back. No self-imposed restraint and not a single elected or government official that is standing up to protect consumers. At some point in time, the cumulative effect of all the abuses will build up a ...
- INDYMAC SLAMMED/FOUND IN CONTEMPT BY FLORIDA JUDGE
Judges, especially here in Florida are increasingly making it clear that they are sick and tired of the banks and their abuses. not nearly as tired as consumers and their attorneys, but it’s getting close…..the following Order is a good read…. 110405+Wallace+Sanctions Tweet this! Share and Enj ...
- HOT OFF The Presses! FLORIDA SUPREME COURT WIL ...
The Florida Supreme Court is stepping in to the important debate over whether our courts will continue to permit widespread fraud across the state. In a normal world, the answer would be very clear and this wouldn’t be news. But we live in a crazy Alice and Wonderland world where the normal ...
- OUTRAGE! OF THE DAY!
I field countless emails and phone calls from consumers all across the country who suffer abuses at the hands of the banks. I have given up any hope that our government or regulatory agencies will do anything to stop the abuses…or even slow them down for that matter…they have just grown too po ...
- A Call To Action!
From Lynn Syzmoniak: Dear Friends, After the 60 Minutes Segment on Foreclosure Fraud on April 3, 2011, I was contacted by over 2,000 individuals, seeking help or wanting to help. FOR ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO HELP RESEARCH THE DOCX FORGERY SCHEME: 1. Search the official records of your county and fi ...
- Campaign Insider – Responding To Questions
Campaigns can be difficult because many see them as opportunities for expressing long-held opinions. My development work overseas is well-known, as is my role in Parliament as the International Cooperation critic. And so some send me messages complaining that we should be caring for our own peop ...
- The Crude Art of Thumbing One’s Nose
In speaking with a development expert in France yesterday who is a sage observer of the Canadian scene, having been schooled in Canada, he noted that some in his country wonder what’s going on over here. “How long will your people support a government with high polling numbers when all these r ...
- Campaign Insider – The Lemonade and the Ivey
Sometimes campaign offices get hit with surprises. Today we had a delightful interruption as some students from the Ivey School of Business here in London dropped into the office to sell lemonade as a means of raising funds for the Memorial Boys and Girls Club in the city. It’s also an effort de ...
- Campaign Insider – Everywhere A Sign
It would be great to do some kind of research to figure when political signs during elections campaigns became so prominent. In an age of social media and desktop publishing it seems signs wouldn’t be nearly as vital. Yet they are, becoming more and more prominent. In many ways it seems like a w ...
- No Room For Debate
The post of last week laying out reasons why I believed Elizabeth May should be in the leaders’ debates received a good supply of positive responses, many believing the health of our democracy depended on all key voices being permitted at the table. While I appreciated these many thoughts of aff ...
- No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
- WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
- New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
- Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
- Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
- James Gleick’s Chaos – the enhanced edition
In 1987 I got my Bachelors of Science in physics, Prozac was launched in the US, and James Gleick published Chaos. I don’t think the middle one has any bearing on the other two. But the first and last are tentatively linked because, despite being completely jazzed on physics, I didn’t read i ...
- Larry Brilliant: Enabling sustainable humanity ...
Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog [Transcript] I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here ...
- Questions teens ask about risk – I’m A Scienti ...
I’ve just posted this over on the Risk Science Blog, but deviously thought I would also disrupt 2020 Science readers’ day with it as well! For the past couple of years, a highly addictive and innovative on-line teen science engagement event has been run in the UK. I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of ...
- Should experts engage directly with people on ...
A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out – that Schools of Public [...] ...
- Technology innovation and human health risk – ...
As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively about risk and how we address ...
- The Kill Team Photos and Videos
Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
- Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
- The Kill Team Photos and Videos
Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
- Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
- Email to Walker Suggested Faking Violence
The report begins: "The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana. After praise for Walker, the email - sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill - then took a darker turn." Walker em ...
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.” A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
- Crazy Like a Fox
In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
- Addicted to Contractors
The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
- How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
- Obama's Indecent Interval
Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
- Lower Athabasca Regional Plan
Position:� Participant Initiative:� Consultation on Management Frameworks ...
- 2011 Public Interest Award
Deadline: 13 May 2011 (All day) Organization: Public Interest Alberta Purpose The PIA Public Interest ...
- ELC Brief on Bill 10, Alberta Land Stewardship ...
Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted their comments on Bill 10, the Alberta Land Stewardship Amendment Act. Download or view their brief on the ELC website. While the ELC has consistently supported both t ...
- Pembina reacts to New Democratic Party platform
Pembina Institute 10 Apr 2011 The Pembina Institute's Clare Demerse made the following statement in response to today's release of the NDP's�election platform�and�costing document: ...
- Draft Athabasca Land Use Plan Infringes Treaty 8
First Nations in Oil Sands Region say that the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan does not protect enough land and resources to sustain their traditional livelihood and creates legal risk for Alberta Athab ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 12
==== France, Britain: NATO Must Intensify Bombing Of Libya Washington Post: Use Ivorian Model In Libya, Assassinate Gaddafi Canada To Attend Libyan War Council, NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting Libya, Ivory Coast: NATO, AFRICOM Assault On African Sovereignty Ivory Coast Uncovered: The Untold Story ...
- Stop NATO News: April 11, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 11 ==== Ivory Coast: AFRICOM, NATO Acquire News Base In Gulf Of Guinea French Troops Abduct Ivorian President, Turn Him Over To Rebels Clinton: French Military Intervention, Arrest (And Impending Show Trial) Of Ivorian Leader “Message To Dictators And Tyrants Th ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 11
==== NATO “Incinerates” Libyan Convoy In Most Intensive Day Of Bombing Since Taking Command Commander: NATO “Dismantling” Libyan Military Libyan War Allies, Democratic Confreres: Obama To Welcome Qatar’s Emir To White House Pakistan: Mass Protest Against NATO Threat To Libya, World Peace Uruguay ...
- Stop NATO News: April 10, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 10 ==== United Arab Emirates: NATO’s Outpost In Persian Gulf Pakistan: Mass Protest Against NATO Threat To Libya, World Peace Ivory Coast: French Helicopters Attack Presidential Residence Peru: Humala Wins First Round Of Presidential Elections Afghanistan: NATO’ ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 10
==== NATO’s Libyan War: Nearly 1,500 Sorties With 200 Aircraft NATO Destroys 17 Libyan Government Tanks, Ammunition Depots African Union Calls For End To Conflict In Libya West’s Libyan War Zigzagging Into Blind Alley Edward Herman: Gilbert Achcar’s Defense Of Humanitarian Intervention ==== NATO ...
- EPA Real Time Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitori ...
alexhiggins732 April 12th, 2011 Real Time Radiation Monitoring For Every Major City In The Entire US On One Page! http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/12/real-time-epa-radnet-japan-nuclea… EPA Real Time Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitoring Of Every Major US City on a single page with live clic ...
- Gulf Mom Walks 1,243 Miles to Ask President Ob ...
ProjectGulfImpact April 12th, 2011
- Putting Out Fire With Gasoline In Libya
The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer, former U.S. Intelligence Asset covering Libya and Iraq at the United Nations April 12th, 201 War doesnât work, does it? Best case scenario, NATO’s war against Libya will run 18 to 24 months unless decisive action is taken right nowâthis dayâto end the military co ...
- Bob Tuskin: Knowledge, Darkness, and Light At ...
NotForSale2NWO April 11th, 2011 Bob Tuskin of The Intel Hub Radio delivers an impressive speech at the Free Your Mind Conference. Please share this speech with everyone you know! The Intel Hub http://theintelhub.com http://theintelhubradio.com
- One Year Later EPA Has Done Little To Make BP ...
The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer April 11th, 2011 BP Enbridge Oil Spill victims say that almost a year later the EPA has done little to force BP to clean up the 800,000 gallons of oil they spilled into Michigan waters. They are asking for your help to spread awareness to ...
- India: Rising poverty fuels Maoist movement
newsxlive on Mar 24, 2010 20 crore families live below the poverty line in India. That’s just one of the shocking figures in a new report that has left the government red in the face. This comes at a time when the Indian government says its biggest internal threat is the growing Maoist movement… ...
- US and Israel Police Jointly Train, Exchange, ...
Police training programs twin US-Israeli racism Hira Mahmood and Wafa Azari, The Electronic Intifada, 7 April 2011 The racism of the American “war on drugs,” especially in the south, is notorious. So is the racism faced daily by Palestinians. In Atlanta, a university program allows these two man ...
- Violent army crackdown on Cairo protesters sho ...
Clashes erupt around Cairo’s Tahrir Square AlJazeeraEnglish on Apr 9, 2011 Egypt’s health ministry has confirmed the death of at least one person following clashes between protesters and the military. Hundreds of soldiers stormed Cairo’s symbolic Tahrir square, after demonstrators formed a human ...
- The US as Shepherd of Nepali Peace
US ready to provide ‘limited support’ for combatant rehabilitation The United States has said it is ready to provide” limited support for some aspects of rehabilitation” of the Maoist combatants provided Nepal’s political leadership shows readiness to take the peace process forward. Robert O. Bl ...
- Nepal: Thoroughly rupture with Revisionism, an ...
SAVE THE REVOLUTION! By KJA (email address: kja.2011@hotmail.co.uk) (A long time supporter abroad of the revolution of Nepal) (Originally published in the Nepali language journal Samayabaddha (Modern Times) in November 2010) While everyone who has supported the Nepalese revolution from the begin ...
- Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
- Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
- Just a bit more on Equal Pay Day...
There's more here or here.
- He was born in Hawaii. Get over yourself.
The President's half-sister was asked recently about the location of her half-brother's birth, and Maya Soetero-Ng said: I think that it is time to put that to bed, put it to rest completely. She called the campaign to keep the birther movement alive by would-be Republican presidential candid ...
- Tax the rich
In discussions about lowering the deficit, what's been missing is discussions of increasing taxes. Now, Pres. Obama is talking about it, and he's saying the rich -- like himself, Pres. Obama -- have the�ability to pay more. And so they should. And not that we're all on the same page here -- th ...
- A new Catholic missal meets resistance
A new Roman Missal -- the book that guides Catholics through prayers -- is being met with some resistance. Critics say the book is "unsatisfactory" and "a step back." The book will be introduced in November. You can read more about it here, and you can read samples here.
- The most effective crime-fighter ever
Here's a hint: It's not Batman or Wonder Woman. It's education, and this graphic gives you a glimpse of the importance of early childhood education when it comes to fighting crime. And here's just another glimpse. Though that last�paper's from 2006 and the numbers may have changed, there's no ...
- Fort Sumter Anniversary Begins Civil War Sesqu ...
For the next five years, the landmarks of the Civil War will mark their 150th anniversary. The process, like the war itself, begins at Fort Sumter, which endured the first shots of the conflict 150 years ago today.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Apr 12, 2011
- Top 5 Space Ventures Since Gagarin's Historic ...
April 12 marks the 50th anniversary of the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin. We look at five significant milestones since 1961.Contributor: Randy Hildebrand Published: Apr 12, 2011
- New Email Evidence Against Mark Zuckerberg Rec ...
Paul Ceglia, a man who already laid claim to the Facebook wealth last summer, has resurfaced, claiming he has evidence of more than a dozen emails between himself and Zuckerberg, emails that state he will own half of Facebook.Contributor: Sarah F. Sullivan Published: Apr 12, 2011
- Congress Playing Chicken Again with Debt Ceili ...
The potential consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling are even greater than the recent budget fight that brought us to the brink of government shutdown. The question is, will Congress play another game of chicken?Contributor: Susan Montag Published: Apr 12, 2011
- 11-Year-Wait for 'Scream 4' Nothing Compared t ...
After 11 years of waiting, "Scream 4" will finally be released Friday, April 15. This long wait takes me back to one of my favorite movie series and the long wait I had to endure when I was younger to see the second installment.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Apr 12, 2011
- 'First Comprehensive Gene Map' of the Brain Sh ...
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has completed what it is calling the first comprehensive gene map of the human brain as part of its development of the Allen Human Brain Atlas, a public resource that it hopes will accelerate clinical understandings of how the human brain works. The genetic ...
- GPS- and WiFi-Enabled Asthma Inhaler Sends Epi ...
If your asthma is acting up, you’re probably not the only one. But unless you’re standing next to someone who is also huffing his or her inhaler, you wouldn’t know it. That’s a problem for epidemiologists who do their best work when they’re buried in data, and it’s exactly the problem a former ...
- Five Decades of Secrets, Lies, and Half-Truths ...
Fifty years after the first man went to space, what corporate spaceflight can learn from Yuri Gagarin Human spaceflight was once a race between entire nations, each marshalling their resources to accomplish the nearly impossible. Now, it’s a contest between small corporate teams, such as Space ...
- Science Deals: 23andMe Lowers Personal Genome ...
23andMe, a personal genomics company, offers a way for customers to learn about their DNA--and all the diseases to which they might be vulnerable. Named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a human cell, the company's testing kit was named Time's invention of the year in 2008, which makes this a ...
- Science Deals: 23andMe Lowers Personal Genome ...
23andMe, a personal genomics company, offers a way for customers to learn about their DNA--and all the diseases to which they might be vulnerable. Named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a human cell, the company's testing kit was named Time's invention of the year in 2008, which makes this a ...
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