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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

12 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Veterans Today

  • Evidence for Agent Orange on Okinawa
    In the late 1960s, James Spencer was a United States Navy longshoreman on Okinawa's military docks. "During this time, we handled all kinds of cargo, including these barrels with orange stripes on them. When we unloaded them, they'd leak and the Agent Orange would get all over us. It was as if i ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    Veterans!  Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need… 1. Evidence for Agent Orange on Okinawa.  The Japan Times  In addition to these three veterans interviewed for The ...
  • Susan Lindauer: Putting Out Fire with Gasolin ...
    PUTTING OUT FIRE WITH GASOLINE IN LIBYA By Susan Lindauer STAFF WRITER former U.S. Intelligence Asset covering Libya and Iraq at the United Nations 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 dayâ ...
  • Veterans Village of San Diego Event
    SAN DIEGO-Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD) just completed another successful year operating the Veterans Winter Shelter, serving 361 veterans, the majority of them chronically homeless, during its four months of operation between December 8, 2010 and April 7, 2011.
  • Filner Introduces a Bill of Rights for Injured ...
    Washington, D.C. – Ranking Democratic Member Bob Filner (D-CA) introduced H.R. 805, legislation that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to display an Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights in all prosthetic and orthotic clinics of the VA.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Coldest March globally for 17 years.
    Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
  • An exceptionally dry March
    High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
  • Long range forecasts: The day of judgement nears.
    In the last two days the press have been full of stories about how we are in for a scorching August. Of course, we have been here before. The Met Office may for ever be associated with the phrase 'barbecue summer' following its disastrous forecast for Summer 2009, which amongst other things le ...
  • Biofuels: Some have a higher carbon footprint ...
    Over the last few years there has been a huge drive towards producing more biofuels to replace some of the fossils fuels we consume, which, we've been told, produce lower carbon emissions. Slowly though there is a realisation that in some instances, the carbon footprint of certain biofuels can ...
  • Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
    The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Georgia On Russia's Mind On Latter Joining WTO
    Alike the completion of the Doha Round, another WTO-related possibility that I've covered for as long as this blog has been around--four years already, mind you--is Russia joining the WTO. Actually, Russian efforts to enter the WTO far predate this blog--and even the World Wide Web going mainstr ...
  • Would You Stay in Libya as a Nurse for More Pay?
    The Philippines is widely recognized as one of the world's top labour exporters. Although its Department of Foreign Affairs began evacuations from Libya shortly after the troubles began like many other countries, it appears that one of its main exports have chosen to stay. Among others, Filipino ...
  • How Commodity Boom Killed Georgia's Internet
    Friends, you are looking at the image of a stone-cold Internet killer. I almost forgot about this story which just goes to show you how the commodity boom has resulted in all sorts of crazy activity. Due to the free-money policies of the world's largest economies, funding for speculative activit ...
  • The Sporting Legacy of Clan Gadhafi
    [How's that? It's been too long since I've had a weekend feature, so here's one that's macabre yet fascinating in equal measure--and it's not solely about money. A weird tale in three parts.] (I) Sporting venues the world over hold pride of place in the national firmament. Not only do they ofte ...
  • Moammar, Italy & BRICs: The Battle for Libyan Oil
    A few days ago, we had former UNDP head Mark Malloch Brown talk impressively about global events, especially goings-on at the UN in relation to the Middle East/North Africa. One of the things he pointed out was that perhaps an even worse humanitarian disaster is occurring in Cote d'Ivoire. While ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-04-12 Strongarm Businessman & #Yemen Oppo ...
    TweetThe Washington Post published a cable days ago on Hamid al-Ahmar, Islah Party leader, well-known businessman and de facto leader of Hashid, Yemen’s largest tribal confederation. The cable suggests that al-Ahmar aimed to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power unless he “guaranteed” t ...
  • 2011-04-08 #Bahrain prominent human rights def ...
    TweetWL Central will be updating news on Bahrain, with new items added at the top. All times are ET in USA. You can contact me on twitter @carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. Don't send media when links available. Most email is not encrypted and not anonymous. I cannot guarantee any ...
  • 2011-04-11 Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo arrested
    TweetFrance24 is reporting that former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to acknowledge defeat in the election last November, has been captured and taken to the Abidjan headquarters of rival president Alassane Ouattara, according to "diplomatic sources". Early reports said he was ...
  • 2011-04-11 WikiLeaks Demonstrates Where Citize ...
    TweetA National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) put on by Free Press took place over the weekend. Thousands of attendees gathered to discuss the state of media and democracy in the US and how best to fight for better media. While the discussions tended to be general conversations on policy an ...
  • 2011-04-10 Gadhafi accepts African Union cease ...
    TweetImage from Reuters A delegation of the African Union met today with Muammar Gadhafi and South African president Jacob Zuma announced "We have completed our mission with the brother leader, and the brother leader's delegation has accepted the road map as presented by us." The AU mission, is ...

U N News

  • UN rights expert voices frustration at United ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced his deep disappointment and frustration that the United States has not allowed him unmonitored access to a soldier accused of being the source of large amounts of classified material given to the website Wikileaks.
  • UN-backed small loans help refugees in Ecuador ...
    A United Nations-supported microcredit project is helping vulnerable refugees in Ecuador, especially women who have turned to sex work to support themselves and their families, break out of poverty.
  • Successful polls a sign of Haitians' yearning ...
    The United Nations envoy for Haiti said today that the recent successful electoral process in the Caribbean nation is a demonstration of the resilience of its people and an indication of their determination to build a better country for themselves.
  • Continued US support vital to UN's success, Ba ...
    As United States lawmakers remain embroiled in a heated budget debate, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for continued support from the largest contributor to the United Nations system so that the world body can carry on with its important work.
  • Haiti will continue to need strong internation ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged the continued assistance of the United Nations for Haiti, which, while having made significant gains in recent months, still faces a number of daunting challenges such as reviving its crippled economy and strengthening the rule of law.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Agenda 21... The 'Planned' Depopulation Projec ...
    �It is my intention to give you clips from documents, many from the United Nations that prove there is a plan to depopulate this planet. ~ Stephanie R. Pasco read more
  • 2011 Government Shutdown... 16 Things You Need ...
    �Is it actually going to happen?� Are we actually going to see 'Government Shutdown 2011'?� Will the streets of Washington D.C. soon be eerily quiet as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are temporarily sent home?� read more
  • New 7.4 Earthquake Hits Japan... Tsunami Warn ...
    A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook the northeast of Japan late on Thursday, and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast already devastated by last month's massive quake and the tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant. read more
  • LIVE WEBCAM… BALD EAGLE NEST!
    � What a sight to behold! Absolutely STUNNING! This bald eagle nest is located at the Duke Farms in Decorah, Iowa. Being able to watch this amazing bird is so rare... Watching the chicks grow up is even rarer! Whatever you do, please take a few minutes watch... Seeing this will remind yo ...
  • Highly Contagious 'AIDS-Like' Disease Spreadin ...
    �A poster to promote AIDS awareness ahead of World AIDS Day in Beijing. A highly contagious AIDS-like disease is spreading in China, However, HIV tests come up negative.read more

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

  • 65 Ways That Everything That You Think That Yo ...
    By Michael Snyder Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you.  It is being done purposely and it is being done by design.  Many Americans like to think of themselves as �well off�, but as will be demonstrated below, we don�t �own� nearly as much as we think that we do.  The trut ...
  • PRESIDENT OBAMA, “GET REAL” ON 9/11 AND PHONY ...
    �WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH, SOME OF US ANYWAY� By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor America is in its 10th year of war in Afghanistan and losing.  Everyone there hates us, we haven�t won a single �heart� or �mind.�  We have succeeded in building an empire of opium and heroin on a scale never ...
  • Apathetic Acceptance of Austerity Measures Wil ...
    By Neil Foster � The Sovereign Independent - Whilst looking up the word �austerity� in a few online dictionaries I came across those listed below which seemed to fit in with our current economic climate and the use of the word frequently in relation to government comments on the need for such �a ...
  • Police Brutality in Honduras
    A glimpse  into what the world will look like under the New World Order… by Stephen Lendman On June 28, 2009, a coordinated State Department-Pentagon project allied with Honduran military commanders and top opposition figures ousted President Manuel Zelaya, establishing the current fascist dict ...
  • GMOs Linked to Organ Disruption in 19 Studies
    Jeffrey Smith � A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% of the measu ...

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Energy to Stoke Your Portfolio
    Rising oil prices have been powering share-price increases and profits. These nine stocks are likely to keep the gains coming
  • HP's New and Steady Hand
    The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
  • Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
    The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
  • Merck Tumbles on Texas Verdict
    Autodesk posts strong profits, Gap lowers outlook for the year, and more of Friday's stocks in the news

Enviroblog

  • Obama Must Ensure Safe Gas Drilling
    By Dusty Horwitt, EWG Senior Counsel President Obama contends that natural gas drilling can help meet his goal of reducing U.S. imported oil consumption by a third by 2020. Yet, in a welcome change from his previous position, Obama recently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • Earth Day: If you've done one thing, you've do ...
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Of course it shouldn't take the arrival of Earth Day to spur us to greater greenness. But the truth of it is, it works. Last year, it was on Earth Day that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mor ...
  • New old news: 2004 Industry Tests Found 'Brock ...
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Tap water industry representatives made no mention of their chromium-6 2004 study when they testified alongside EWG at a Feb. 2 Senate environment committee hearing on chromium-6 pollution. Some water utility... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Toxins in Our Kids' Foods: Where is the FDA?
    Guest Post by Laurie David and Robyn O'Brien, EWG Board Member Yesterday, in the face of a just- released report by the National Cancer Institute that showed a 9.4% increase in childhood cancer between 1992 and 2007(1), the FDA let... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic ...
    By Alex Formuzis with Sonya Lunder In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to the United States.... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • A call to copy-geeks
    There's a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis; an irreverent and comic romp through addiction-recovery starring Chris Rock, Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciorra. The whole spirit of the play is a comic sort of realism, is my sense after reading Wayne Hoffman' ...
  • Chris Rock's name tops the marquee, but this s ...
    In the new play Motherfucker with the Hat, Cannavale plays Jackie, a paroled drug dealer trying to start a new life with his longtime girlfriend Veronica, and does it with conviction. In less capable hands, Jackie might seem like a weasel, or a thug, or a l ...
  • The missing number in Sondheim's 'Company'
    There is something central to the work that is false, a cheat. As the critic Julian Budden says about the gnarled revision of the libretto of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, “It is like one of those mathematical games where at one point the player takes away the ...
  • The distinctive look of Raul Barrera, Lady Killer
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Jimmy Breslin writes a history book, still thi ...
    The last thing Jimmy Breslin wanted to be was a history writer. But then apparently there were some people who didn’t know who Branch Rickey was. Didn’t know that he ran the Brooklyn Dodgers and signed Jackie Robinson, integrating professional baseball befo ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Average work hours decline
    Norwegians are spending less time than ever on the job. They worked an average of just 30 hours per week last year, on an annualized basis, according to state statistics bureau SSB. SSB figures produced for news organization Mandag Morgen showed that Norwegians on average worked 1,414 hours in 2 ...
  • State juggles its stock portfolio
    The Norwegian government appears poised to sell off some long-held stakes in key local businesses, while taking part in new share issues at others. A new report that the state may reduce its stake in fish farming firm Cermaq comes just after the trade ministry released a new overall evaluation o ...
  • More churches hit by vandals
    As firefighters were battling the flames that ravaged a 250-year-old church in Porsgrunn early Monday, vandals were attacking three other churches in the area. Police, however, can’t confirm a connection between the fire and the vandalism. Police were investigating a case of attempted arson at t ...
  • Spring has sprung
    PHOTO FEATURE: After one of the longest and coldest winters in the past 20 years, the skies suddenly cleared and temperatures shot up. Most of the snow has disappeared in the Oslo area, and the crocus has started blooming in the gardens along apartment buildings downtown. The crocus always comes ...
  • New bridge to unite old and new
    A bold new pedestrian bridge over the vast expanse of railroad tracks at Oslo’s Central Station opened over the weekend, to literally bridge the gap between one of the capital’s oldest and poorest neighborhoods with one of its newest and most affluent. Real unification may take some time. On the ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Lessons from an Urban Back Yard Food Forest Ex ...
    Editor’s Note: Some of you may remember my Magic in Melbourne post, where I covered the back yard of a certain urban wizard named Angelo, and his sidekick Louie. Well, Angelo gives us a great update on his progress below. It’s a very inspiring read, as I’m sure you’ll discover. In our modern, ...
  • Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
    People who are self-proclaimed "die-hard capitalists" seem to have a very simplistic idea of how capitalism actually works in the real world. They tend to dismiss valid, factual criticisms of the system as temporary problems in a system which will go on to benefit all. Any initial suffering ...
  • The Permie Song by Michelle Morgan
    The Permie Song by Michelle Morgan as heard in the documentary movie Anima Mundi. An innovative new film about climate change, peak oil, permaculture and the Gaia theory featuring David Holmgren, John Seed, Dr Stephan Harding, Michael Reynolds, Michael C Ruppert, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsk ...
  • Geoff Lawton 4-DVD Set – Special Offer
    Click the image to order and get your 10% discount! Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Boo ...
  • Spring Permaculture Tips and Tricks
    by Chuck Burr Here is the Spring collection of permaculture tips and tricks from the Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute. Enjoy. The top photo is the winter Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course students getting a little help from the chickens to establish a block-rotation intense veg ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

  • 65 Ways That Everything That You Think That Yo ...
    By Michael Snyder Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you.  It is being done purposely and it is being done by design.  Many Americans like to think of themselves as �well off�, but as will be demonstrated below, we don�t �own� nearly as much as we think that we do.  The trut ...
  • PRESIDENT OBAMA, “GET REAL” ON 9/11 AND PHONY ...
    �WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH, SOME OF US ANYWAY� By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor America is in its 10th year of war in Afghanistan and losing.  Everyone there hates us, we haven�t won a single �heart� or �mind.�  We have succeeded in building an empire of opium and heroin on a scale never ...
  • Apathetic Acceptance of Austerity Measures Wil ...
    By Neil Foster � The Sovereign Independent - Whilst looking up the word �austerity� in a few online dictionaries I came across those listed below which seemed to fit in with our current economic climate and the use of the word frequently in relation to government comments on the need for such �a ...
  • Police Brutality in Honduras
    A glimpse  into what the world will look like under the New World Order… by Stephen Lendman On June 28, 2009, a coordinated State Department-Pentagon project allied with Honduran military commanders and top opposition figures ousted President Manuel Zelaya, establishing the current fascist dict ...
  • GMOs Linked to Organ Disruption in 19 Studies
    Jeffrey Smith � A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% of the measu ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • How to Live Forever
    Plucked from scientific research, here’s what it takes to lengthen your days. Research by Lauren Streib http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/10/how-to-live-forever.html Filed under: Lifestyles
  • The Beginning of History
    As the communist era vanished, he declared historyâs end. With the Middle East in revolt and China rising, Francis Fukuyama is back. What is he thinking? by Andrew Bast Teru Kuwayama for Newsweek Not long after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Francis Fukuyama was just a green 27-ye ...
  • My Years as Gaddafi’s Nurse
    I checked the dictatorâs heart and lived in luxury. But when revolution came, I realized the cost. by Oksana Balinskaya Joseph Sywenkyj Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s former nurse, 24-year-old Oksana Balinskaya, at her home in central Ukraine. I was just 21 when I went to work for Muammar Gad ...
  • The Gas Revolution
    Amazingly, an era of energy abundance is upon us, unless politicians and environmentalists get their way. By STEVEN F. HAYWARD When Andrew Liveris took over as CEO of Dow Chemical at the end of 2004, the company was in the midst of a wrenching reorganization that saw it shed 7,000 jobsâââ14 perc ...
  • Modern Martyr
    The brief, bohemian transit of Amedeo Modigliani. By MAUREEN MULLARKEY A Life by Meryle Secrest Knopf, 416 pp., $35 I want a short life but a full one. Amedeo Modigliani got his wish. In 1920, at age 35, he died, toothless, of tubercular meningitis in a Parisian pauperâs hospital. It was a sordi ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Guest Post: My Orca Summer
    Orcas near Hanson Island. Photo courtesy of Emily Goldstein. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we�re featuring a guest post by 2009 finalist Emily Goldstein about her summer trip to the OrcaLab in British Columbia. Last summer I was privilege ...
  • Vote for Oceana to Win $100K from Garnier!
    We could win $100,000 - but we need your votes. Garnier is donating $100,000 to EarthShare, an organization that represents over 400 non-profits, including Oceana. Vote for clean water and you could help Oceana win $100,000 to share with two other great organizations, American Rivers and S ...
  • Japan’s Radiation Leak Causes Fishing and Ship ...
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since our first post about the impacts of Japan�s nuclear crisis on the oceans, a lot has happened, but many questions remain and the situation is constantly changing. As the cooling systems for the injured reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle ...
  • Where Are They Now?: Ocean Hero Jay Holcomb
    Jay Holcomb with a pelican patient. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Throughout the nomination period, which ends April 27, I’ll be featuring a few of the past winners and finalists to get you inspired. Last week I updated you on last year’s Junior ...
  • Washington State Passes Shark Fin Trade Ban
    Great news from the Evergreen State: Washington State’s legislature has passed a bill banning the illegal trade of shark fins, an extraordinary step toward shark conservation on the U.S. Pacific coast. The legislation now goes to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. While shark finnin ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • What Ever Happened To The Vikings In North Ame ...
    Viking Ships Forget Moses praying in the Desert, Luther getting temperamental at Wittenberg, the sword of Islam lifting above Medina, the signing of the Bill of Rights, the opening of the Bridgewater Canal and the explosion of Little Boy at Hiroshima. In the last three thousand years by fa ...
  • Please Donate.
    Please Donate On the right sidebar is a Donate PayPal tab. Please help me keep this blog going. Just click on the tab and keep in mind we accept dollars, or anything that has an equivalent in dollars. It takes a lot of research and we are supporting three old pugs, one which is incontinent AND b ...
  • Female Computers
    Click here to view the embedded video.   “… the story of four women ‘computers,’ presenting their exhilarating successes in aiding the war effort and the moral dilemmas they faced. WWII ushered in a new era for women in the workforce, including female mathematicians. In 1942, the United State ...
  • Strange Weapons Confiscated From Iraqis
    Click here to view the [...]
  • More Hot Air Balloons. From X-Planes, Blogroll ...
    “Dignitaries and seamen cheer as Japan’s first military balloon, made of 1,400 yards of paper with a rubber coating, is tested at the naval ministry in 1877” “An American family watches from its bayside terrace as Japanese balloons float over the foreign quarter of Tokyo” (1877 woodcut) “Ascensi ...

Taylor Marsh

  • 2012: Donald Trump Tied With Huckabee for First
    Donald Trump is now tied with Mike Huckabee for first place when Republicans are asked who they support for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, according to a new national poll. But while a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday indicates that the real estate mogul and r ...
  • Working Class Whites Remain Cold on Obama
    Details on the appropriations deal are still hard to come by, but you don’t need the details to know that substantial short-term cuts in domestic discretionary spending will hurt the poor while harming macroeconomic performance. The problem with not agreeing to the deal, of course, is that a go ...
  • Obama Loyalists Make Their Case and It’s Weak
    **UPDATED** Obama continues to anger progressives in his party and has created a huge amount of running room to his left: He abandoned a single-payer health care option, he agreed to extend tax cuts to the rich, he has expanded the war in Afghanistan and, instead of keeping his campaign promise ...
  • My $0.02/Saturday: Cerebral Is as Cerebral Does
    Morning, news junkies. First up… a personal note of congratulations to my blogger friend, Lake Lady, who on Wednesday was elected mayor of her small town in MO. Mayor Lake Lady, you are a true inspiration! Throughout your campaign, I’ve been reminded of this quote from Margaret Mead: “Never dou ...
  • Donald Trump Ties Huckabee
    It’s billed as a “Donald Trump Surprise,” via the latest WSJ/NBC Poll: Among Republican primary voters, Mr. Romney captured the support of 21% in a broad, nine-candidate field. Mr. Trump was tied for second with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, with 17%. House Speaker Newt Gingrich got 11%, ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians Blaming Everyone Else
    Although Hamas has been in full control of the Gaza Strip since 2007 -- and its security forces and militias have been employing an iron fist against any individual or group that defies the Islamist movement's authority -- lately Hamas has lately been
  • Turkey to Mediate Between Hamas and Fatah
    U.S. ANNUAL REPORTS TRACK DECLINE IN FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Freedom of the press in Turkey has been on a constant decline in recent years, human-rights reports published annually by the U.S. State Department have revealed. The first line of the 2010 report
  • An American Academic Supports the Targeting of ...
    The terrorists on the West Bank who murdered the Fogel family and the war criminals from Gaza who aimed sophisticated mortars at a school bus had the support of an American academic who is widely admired by Palestinians, Europeans and radical Americans.
  • Is the English Defense League a Genuine Anti-I ...
    The English Defense League (EDL), a street-protest movement in Britain, purports to be fighting against Islamism in the UK, but is this actually the case? The question of which groups or people one works with among self-described "anti-Islamists" or
  • Taliban Gets Approval to Open Turkish Office
    TALIBAN GETS APPROVAL TO OPEN TURKISH OFFICE The New York Times was told by former Taliban Administration Minister Arsala Rahmani that the Taliban has obtained permission from the Turkish government to open an office in Turkey. As a first step, Rahmani

Urban Survival

  • Painting the Tape Day
    I was busy enough Monday that I didn’t have to bite my tongue to hold back until this morning’s column to say this, but the miscreants down on Wall Street (which we know to be located several miles past the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Personal Motivation Industry
    Somewhere along in our morning chats, I’m sure that I’ve mentioned my “wacked out” theory that a brain is like any other piece of machinery:  It needs to have a certain amount of input of this type and that to … Continue reading →
  • Watch the Metals Week
    First thing out of the bag this morning, gold had dropped about $10 bucks, but silver was trying to hang onto its recent push over $41 – and just a shade under $42 briefly, which gets us to our first … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Input Versus Output Taxes
      I had my nose in a good book long enough this weekend to get some particularly interesting economic insights out of the Panic of 1873, as reported in the 1895 copy of David Ames Wells’ “Recent Economic Changes” and … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Horrible Earthquake Trend
    Every month, spreadsheet job/reader/contributor Tony Ring generously sends us the monthly crunch of long-term earthquake data.  What he does is log into the USGS database and then slices and dices by month, subtotals and figures.  Even he was amazed at … Continue reading →

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    My AntiWar

    • The Army vs. the People?: A Democracy Now! Spe ...
      Two months after the fall of the Mubarak regime, tension between the Egyptian military and the pro-democracy protesters is rapidly increasing. On Friday, Egyptian forces stormed Tahrir Square in Cairo, killing two protesters. On Monday, an Egyptian military court sentenced a pacifist blogger to ...
    • “I Am Willing to Give My Life”: Ba ...
      The Gulf nation of Bahrain is intensifying its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. On Saturday, masked police offers broke into the home of Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, a prominent Bahraini human rights activist. He was beaten and detained. We speak to his daughter, Zainab Alkhawaja, who witnessed th ...
    • Human Rights Concerns Continue After Capture o ...
      Supporters of the internationally recognized Ivory Coast president, Alassane Ouattara, have captured strongman Laurent Gbagbo, ending a four-month standoff that left hundreds dead. Gbagbo had refused to leave office since the country?s presidential election in November, which the United Nations ...
    • Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan ?Not Equal to Che ...
      Japan has raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis from 5 to 7, the highest level, matching the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We go to Tokyo for an update from Thomas Breuer, head of the Climate and Energy Unit for Greenpeace Germany and part of a field of radiation monitors in Japan. ...
    • Headlines for April 12, 2011
      Radiation from Japan Nuclear Crisis ?Could Eventually Exceed Chernobyl?, Ivory Coast Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo Arrested, Libyan Rebels Reject African Ceasefire Proposal, France Calls for More Air Strikes, Egyptian Military Court Sentences Blogger to Three Years in Prison, 117 Syrian Pro ...

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • EGYPT, IRAN, AND THE MIDDLE EAST’S EVOLVING BA ...
      Summary: Egypt protestsWe think that Egypt under a post-Mubarak political order will be strongly inclined to pursue better relations with the Islamic Republic and other members of the Middle East’s “resistance bloc”. (This trend is clearly captured by the various points in Atwan’s opinion p ...
    • Three Mideast Stink Bombs
      Summary: Sharmine Narwani Popular revolts may be spinning through the Arab world with a fervor and determination not seen in decades, but efforts to sidetrack the reform momentum are also gaining strength. Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at ev ...
    • Israeli Official Admits to Tuesday Attack on Sudan
      Summary: 'Not Our First Time There,' Confirms Military Official source: Antiwar.comread more
    • New Iran group to press White House on democracy
      Summary: With democratic revolutions shaking the Middle East, a Democratic think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the pro-democracy group Freedom House are launching a new task force aimed at shifting American policy on its central regional foe, Iran, toward a more aggressive focu ...
    • Four Iranian police killed in border attack: r ...
      Summary: The report said the attack happened Friday night in the city of Marivan. "Unidentified armed people threw a grenade into the police office," it said. On March 25, news agencies reported two policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in two "terrorist" shootings in the ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Google Celebrates 50th Anniversary of 1st Man ...
      As Google logo celebrates, humans have always been fascinated by the idea of space travel. Some of us believe that colonizing new planets is man’s best hope for the future. The popular idea is that we’ll eventually need some fresh,...
    • Image of the Day: Massive Black Hole Unleashin ...
      A black hole at the centre of a galaxy in a remote corner of the Universe some 3.8 billion light years away, unleashed a violent cosmic flare as its gravity tore a star asunder. Astronomers are three of the planet's...
    • New DNA Role in Modifying Gene Function Discovered
      For years, scientists have thought of DNA as a passive blueprint capable only of producing specific proteins through RNA transcription. Now, research led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has shown DNA can also act...
    • From the 'X-File' Dept: FBI Releases Memo -- C ...
      A memo that appears to prove that aliens landed in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI. The bureau has made thousands of files previously available in a new online resource called The Vault. Among them...
    • Image of the Day: A Cosmic Crown of Red and Bl ...
      This NASA image from November 2009 shows the most detailed view of star birth in the nearby spiral galaxy M83, nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel. The "eye" of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters,...

    Natural News

    • Fukushima raised to level 7 Chernobyl event, J ...
      (NaturalNews) The title of this article probably should have been "TOLD YA SO." After all the downplaying, all the denials, all the disinfo and deceptions by both the nuclear industry and the mainstream media, it finally emerges that the amount of radiation released by Fukushima was far, far hig ...
    • Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at ...
      (NaturalNews) 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 ...
    • Public school bans students from bringing lunc ...
      (NaturalNews) Individual responsibility and personal freedom are becoming a thing of the past in the nation's public schools, as strict control over what students can and cannot eat -- or bring to school to eat -- escalates to near-dictatorial levels. The Chicago Tribune reports that for the pas ...
    • Radiation protocols and detoxification
      (NaturalNews) I was having a bowl of miso and dulse soup the other night with my friend, Susan. We were talking about all of the other protocols that we, as West Coasters, were practicing to protect ourselves from any potential radiation toxicity that might incur from Fukushima. I am a long-time ...
    • No end in sight for Fukushima disaster as bure ...
      (NaturalNews) As the famous physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said on April 4th, "The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now... in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one." (http://bigthink.com/ideas/37705). Th ...

    Threat Level

    • Legislation Would Let You Opt Out of Online We ...
      Sens. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) proposed online privacy legislation Tuesday that for the first time would give web users the right to demand they not be tracked online. Still, the measure was met with resistance from privacy advocates who said the Commercial Priva ...
    • Sony Settles PlayStation Hacking Lawsuit
      Sony on Monday dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show. Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, Hotz was a ...
    • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
      Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
    • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
      A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...
    • In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Aut ...
      Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree. Gonzalez, ...

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • In Budget Deal, GOP Handcuffs the IRS. Again.
      Among the $39 billion in spending cuts contained in the budget deal reached last, one stands out as perhaps the most cynical - and counterproductive. Republicans insisted that the Internal Revenue Service receive no additional funding through September, rebuffing President Obama's request for a ...
    • Boehner's Double-Dealing on the Debt Ceiling
      When George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office, Republican majorities in Congress voted seven times to increase the U.S. debt ceiling. That recent history, combined with the inconvenient truth that the national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under Bush, may have prompted then Mi ...
    • Meanwhile in the UK, the Hopelessness of Austerity
      In the aftermath of Friday's budget agreement, it's no longer a question of whether the U.S. is going to slash spending, but where, when and by how much. On the heels of the $38.5 billion in cuts to discretionary, non-defense spending Obama adviser David Plouffe deemed "draconian", President Ob ...
    • Grant and the Enduring Lessons of Appomattox
      On April 12th, Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War. The reenactors will be out in force, though their numbers will be dwarfed by the revisionists pretending the conflict was about anything else but slavery. Even as the ...
    • "Big Abortion" and the GOP's Bogus Budget Battle
      Back in early February, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan presented the Republican leadership's plan to cut $35 billion from the remainder of the fiscal year 2011 budget. As it turns out, that dollar figure is roughly the same one John Boehner, Harry Reid and President Obama have closin ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Positively Orwellian by Dennis Kucinich
      http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 8, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement responding the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion regarding the President’s authority to use military force in Libya: In the leg ...
    • It’s Time To Go To Work For The Solar Initiati ...
      By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 8, 2011 The below is a possible Letter to an elected official. We would urge you to please write one and send it, letting them know this subject is both important to us all, and to our planet. Sadly, due to terrible events, NOW is ...
    • The Empire conducts a war fest (or business as ...
      by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info April 8, 2011 To paraphrase, the first casualty of capitalism is the truth and the outrageous and totally illegal invasion of Libya, launched with so much super-heated air, has degenerated into a vile exposé of the true nature ...
    • From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa T ...
      by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 8, 2011 On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military operations in fellow West African nation Ivory Coast and t ...
    • David Cameron’s Gift of War and Racism, to The ...
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    Public Citizen in Texas

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    Mountaintop Removal

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    China Dialogue

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    • Joining forces on the grasslands
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