12 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• Fukushima: From Bad To Worse
  Fukushima nuclear complex goes from bad to worse by DarkSyde for Daily Kos Tue Apr 12, 2011 at 09:35 AM EDT Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor complex appears to have gone from bad to worse, in part due to continual aftershocks and a small fire Monday morning. That nation’s nuclear safet ...
• Cuts In The 2011 Federal Budget
  A Look at the Cuts in the New, Leaner 2011 Budget Firedoglake-  By: David Dayen Tuesday April 12, 2011 6:35 am he House Appropriations Committee released the final 2011 continuing resolution text, which reflects the agreement between Congressional leaders and the President. You can view a summar ...
• Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
  Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret. Joseph E. Stiglitz | V ...
• China To U.S.: Quit Being Human Rights Judge
  China Tells U.S. To Quit As Human Rights Judge First Posted: 04/10/11 11:55 PM ET Updated: 04/11/11 12:01 AM ET By Chris Buckley BEIJING – The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments’ human rights problems, China said on Sunday, c ...
• President Obama’s Weekly Address: Budget ...

Solari

• Peter Thiel’s Higher Education
  By Sarah Lacy Thiel’s solution to opening the minds of those who can’t easily go to Harvard? Poke a small but solid hole in this Ivy League bubble by convincing some of the most talented kids to drop out of school and try another path. The idea of the successful drop out has been well documente ...
• Japan - Nuclear Alert Level to 7
  By Justin McCurry Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear safety officials had insisted they had no plans to raise the severity of the crisis from five – the same ...
• Supreme Court Rules Prosecutors Can Lie And Fa ...
  COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be held accountable for knowingly or intentionally sending an innocent man to prison and even death row. Washington Post
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• Food Stamp Participation Hits All-Time High
  By Theresa McCabe New York (TheStreet) — Participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, reached an all-time high in January. The number of SNAP recipients nationwide ticked up to 44.2 million in January, 2011, or about one in ...
• Iceland Rejects Debt Deal to Repay UK, Dutch
  By Gudjon Helgason REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ $5 billion worth of deposits in a failed online bank, referendum results showed Sunday - sending the dispute to an international court and plungin ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• More Black Men Now in Prison System Than Were ...
  Law Professor Michelle Alexander says the shocking incarceration rate is due to the War on Drugs, a war waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color.
• Obama's Legal Professor Outraged by 'Torture' ...
  Over 250 of America's leading legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment of Manning
• California's Attempt at Prison Reform Looking ...
  All California has done is shift the burden of the state's corrections overcrowding to the counties, fails to fund crime prevention services like drug treatment, and more.
• My Catholic Conscience Tells Me Congress Is Wr ...
  My Catholic conscience tells me that my pro-choice position is worth fighting for -- and that family planning shouldn’t be a point of contention at all.
• Obama Squanders a Leadership Moment On Militar ...
  At the very moment he needed to inspire the American people, Obama capitulated to authoritarian demands for a military trial even a CENTCOM general thinks is wrong.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• China and America have several similar weaknes ...
  Summary: American’s overflow with criticism and advice for China, unaware of the congruence between China and America.  A closer look reveals as much about us as them. America’s economists, businessmen, and financiers overflow with criticism of China.  Everyday brings new forecasts that China ...
• Why the Libyan War is important to us – ...
  Summary:  The Libyan War will have long-term consequences, no matter who eventually rules Libya.  It’s another precedent.  Another step away from the Second Republic (1788-) towards a new political regime.  One with a far stronger Executive than the Founders wanted.  One as strong as they f ...
• Origins of what may become the 3rd American Re ...
  Summary:  The article excerpted here provides a powerful explanation for the evolution of our political system during the past 35 years to favor the super-rich, becoming in effect a plutocracy.  It even provides an excuse for us, the citizens.  If you consider ignorance and apathy to be excuses. ...
• Money as a weapon in Afghanistan. Like strate ...
  Summary:  Money, provided by CIA bagmen to tribal leaders was our secret weapon to defeat the Taliban in 2001.  Money was supposed to be our decisive weapon in the forging of a new Afghanistan, but the results so far appear disappointing.  This article in the current LRB explains why. “Mon ...
• Tearing the Constitution is a bipartisan sport!
  Summary:  There is no Constitutional Party in America.  The Left and Right take turns shredding the Constitution.  Sometimes they take turns.  Sometimes they work together.  Domestic surveillance withour warrant, quotas for hiring (ignoring that “equal protection” nonsense), administrati ...

Open Your Eyes News

• 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 Saleh’s re ...
  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 ...

The Progressive Realist

• Atlantic Update
  Russia celebrates the 50th anniversary of manned space flight while Libya, the finances of Portugal and Iceland, and terrorist attacks keep most of Europe grounded. HEADLINES: Lukashenko Blames Foreign Forces for Subway Blast (Spiegel) An explosion in a subway station in Minsk has killed 12 p ...
• Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis F ...
  It has been exactly one month since the massive Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Here are some facts and figures about the crisis one month on. Top news today is that Japanese authorities have raised the alert level of the radiation accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant to the highest possible ...
• New Army Chief of Staff
  Gen. Martin Dempsey formally began his term as the Chief of Staff of the Army this week. And we're all very excited about it. Today the Army is in transition, which is not a new phenomenon, Dempsey said in his remarks. The Army is always in transition, but this one is unique because the Army is ...
• And Now, Bahrain Censors the Media
  First they came for the human rights activists. Now, Bahraini authorities are looking to censor the media.  From Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Watch urged Bahraini authorities on Tuesday to allow Al-Wasat newspaper editor Mansur al-Jamri to go back to work and drop what it called politicall ...
• Baghdad and Kurdistan No Closer to Resolving O ...
  In February 2011, Iraq’s central government and the regional government in Kurdistan overcame a spat, allowing the former to export oil once again. The move was considered a major step forward between the two sides, but in fact, it may be just another stopgap measure that fails to resolve the la ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Living and Working in One New York Neighborhood
  One reason that New Yorkers use so much less energy than other people? A lot of us don’t go very far to get to work. In its annual study of New York City housing and neighborhood, New York University’s Furman Center looked for the first time commuting patterns and found that “11.5% of employed ...
• I Hope You've Enjoyed Drinking Water and Eatin ...
  Earlier today, Paul Waldman got into some specifics about what the Republicans' budget proposal would cut over the rest of this fiscal year. It includes cuts to local police-department programs, FEMA first responders, and community health centers -- all things people like. Something else people ...
• Paul Waldman Rules the Media
  The Prospect's own Paul Waldman hopped over to MSNBC yesterday to chat with Cenk Uygur. Check it out below. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
• No Money for Land Conservation
  I wrote back in March that Republicans were unhappy with the administration's "wild lands" policy, which lets the Department of the Interior use public lands for conservation. The policy doesn't put public lands out of commission permanently but provides the option to keep the land wild, instead ...
• 2012 and the Ryan Plan, Cont.
  Mark this as one of the few times when I completely agree with Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker exploring a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, said proposing a major overhaul of entitlement programs was not as politically fraught as it might have been a decade a ...

Buzzflash

• ‘Bleeding Kansas’ Threatened with Bloodshed by ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT During the 19th century, the state became known as ‘Bleeding Kansas,’’ and was a staging ground for abolitionists. Years later it was a stronghold of late-nineteenth century Populism and host to the largest selling socialist newspaper in the country. It r ...
• Nikolas Sarkozy May be a Celebrity for Marryin ...
  PIERRE GUERLAIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT  Recently Le Monde published an article entitled "When America welcomes the 'French George Bush'" ("Quand l'Amérique salue 'le George Bush de la France'", April 9) which dealt with Sarkozy and the supposedly improving image of France in the US. This is ...
• Impound the Private Computer of the Katherine ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Madison Cap Times is calling for a federal probe into the two-day delayed "discovery" of 7,582 votes for David Prosser, just enough to put the election out of the range of a state-funded recount for the "presumptive" winner Joanne Kloppenburg. W ...
• GOP Gets a Thrill Between Their Legs at the Th ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The mere thought is a thrill for Republicans Like leaping off the falls of Niagara Which gives these weenies more excitement Than a year's supply of Viagra.   http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/reid-looks-like-were-headed-for-a-government-shutdown.ph ...
• In the Right-Wing Thought Control Think Tank
    Here's an idea... Instead of the Republican Party acting as the middleman, why not just turn the government over to the Heritage Foundation? It seems to be a rich source of talking points for all segments of the right wing and speaks with great authority on matters of national concern. Whi ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Manning, Obama and U.S. moral leadership
  Leading law professors -- including a key Obama supporter - condemn him for his treatment of the whistle-blower
• The Washington Post's dependence on the govern ...
  How can media corporations be adversarial to the same political officials on whom their profits rely?
• WikiLeaks and the Media
  What accounted for the hostility of the establishment media to WikiLeaks, and why does it matter?
• America's two party system
  An MSNBC discussion of how true political choice is deliberately suffocated; plus: the OLC authorizes the Libya war
• The impotence of the loyal partisan voter
  Rachel Maddow argues the Democratic Party seeks out ways to publicly kick its supporters. How can that be changed?

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
  Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...
• Five more science stories
  Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...
• Young Science Writer of the Year
  Looks like the Guardian and Wellcome Trust are taking up the young science writer gauntlet with a new award. Winning an award like that can be a great start to a career in science communication. If I remember rightly, I first entered the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the year awards in ...
• A year of Materials Today
  I contribute materials science news and editorials to most issues of the journal Materials Today and usually bookmark each item on Sciencebase and Delicious. But, you can subscribe to the electronic edition of Elsevier journal Materials Today for free if you're in the USA. Just fill in the form ...
• Five more science stories
  Sperm condensation – Protamines are small basic proteins that condense the genetic material, the DNA, in mature sperm helping to form the head of the sperm. They are rich in the amino acid arginine whose residues are distributed in a number of stretches separated by neutral amino acids. The amin ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Gray Wolves and Wild Lands Targeted in Federal ...
  Anti-environmental provisions that remove Endangered Species protections for endangered gray wolves and another that seeks to strip the government of its authority to protect some of America’s best undeveloped natural public lands are in the budget bill to be voted on by the end of this week re ...
• Fukushima Equal to Chernobyl
  Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) issued the following public statement in response to Japan’s reassessment of the Fukushima nuclear reactor crisis from a Level 5 to a Level 7 disaster: "Unfortunately, as we experienced in Chernobyl and are now experiencing once again, the planned and e ...
• Budget Deal Kills Program to Improve Health Ca ...
  Statement of U.S. PIRG Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely on the decision to eliminate Free Choice Vouchers in the FY2011 budget deal. “The budget deal to keep the government open ends an innovative health care program, known as Free Choice Vouchers, that uses consumer choice to increase competi ...
• On Equal Pay Day, ACLU Welcomes Reintroduction ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed the reintroduction of the Paycheck Fairness Act in both the Senate and House by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT). The ACLU joined with Rep. DeLauro and other major women’s rights groups in announcing the bill’s reintroduc ...
• Government Warns of Health Risks from Hair Str ...
  The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a health hazard alert to salons nationwide about the risks that popular hair straightening products, including well-known Brazilian Blowout, pose to salon workers and customers. The agency warned that formaldehyde – a common in ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Some Market Discipline for Economists
  Dean Baker Last month, the International Monetary Fund's independent evaluation office issued a remarkable report. The report quite clearly blamed the IMF for failing to recognise the factors leading up to the worst economic crisis since t ...
• GOP's Attack on Child Labor Threatens Our Daug ...
  Susan Feiner It's Equal Pay Day, a time to review the reasons why so many hard working women find themselves chronically running short on cash. Women need to work 15 weeks into 2011 to earn what men earned in 2010. Think about all that wor ...
• 25 Years After Chernobyl: Lessons Learned
  H. Patricia Hynes In the early morning of April 26, 1986, an explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear power reactor #4 released a radioactive plume which by nightfall had hurtled four miles into the atmosphere. An intense fire burned in the reac ...
• Why Antinuclear Belongs in All of Our Movements
  Betsy Hartmann The stakes are getting higher by the day in the radioactive roulette playing out at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. On Monday the Japanese government finally widened the evacuation zone and is raising the threat level ...
• NY Governor Andrew Cuomo: Taking Progressives ...
  Ralph Nader When liberals and progressives have nowhere to go, New York’s new Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo can move toward the corporatist-right of the political spectrum with impunity. Brandishing an inherited $10 billion state defici ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Three Wars, Three Quagmires
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• But They Won't!
  Commentary By Ron Beasley® Matt Yglesias correctly points out that the Obama administration and the Democrats don't have to be held hostage when the rise in the debt ceiling comes up and he has a plan. This isn�t a sudden �shutdown.� Nor is is true that we have to default on obligations t ...
• How Much Are You Paying in Taxes for War This ...
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• How Many Afghan Lives To A Western One?
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• Petraeus "Understands the Frustration" With Sp ...
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus told senators that he understood the frustration with the Afghanistan War, conceding that "we have spent an enormous amount of money." The general has a gift for unde ...

Water Wars

• Erik Rasmussen: Prepare for the Next Conflict: ...
  The planet is facing a 'water bankruptcy' and we are facing a gloomy future where the fight for the 'blue gold' is king.
• "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
  OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said on Sunday.
• Shale gas stirs ecology fears in Karoo
  The Karoo could solve South Africa's energy problems -- but only through an extraction process called fracking that has greens seeing red.
• Southern Africa: Water - Working Together On R ...
  Postwar Angola is keen to expand irrigation for much-needed development, Namibia is prioritising clean drinking water and sanitation, while Botswana wants to preserve the integrity of the world-renowned Okavango Delta for tourism.
• "World Water Day" panel looks at tri-state wat ...
  GAINESVILLE - The City of Gainesville, in conjunction with Brenau University’s Sustainability Task Force, hosted a panel discussion Tuesday afternoon entitled “Tri-State Water Wars” as part of the annual World Water Day observance.

WordPress | Economics

• Obama loses before he starts, again
  by John McMahon What bad news do I wake up to this morning? President Obama plans this week to respo
• FREE AT LAST
  There’s a place in this city that caters for smokers. There’s a few out there I’m
• Nothing is Certain but Debt and Taxes
  This debate on debt and federal spending has me wondering if anyone pays attention to U.S. history.
• Negative railroad, by Frederic Bastiat
  Frederic Bastiat may be the best thing to have ever come out of France. I am currently reading a vol
• Manne and Wright on Search Neutrality
  Josh and I have just completed a white paper on search neutrality/search bias and the regulation of

Electronic Intifada

• Post-Mubarak Egypt may end Gaza closure
  CAIRO (IPS) - Two months since the ouster of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's new transitional government is turning its attention to unpopular Mubarak-era foreign ...
• EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens in ...
  The EU's unwillingness to address the treatment of Palestinians within Israel was exposed in a February report published by Adalah, a human rights organization based in Haifa, ...
• Memoir a microcosm of the Palestinian experience
  Rather than engage with Sami Al-Jundi's actual experience and narrative, Raymond Deane uses his review for a cliched critique of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Deane's a ...
• Resilience in the green fields of Gaza
  A visit to Khuzaa village in the Gaza Strip is a lesson in Palestinian sumoud or steadfastness.
• Corrie lawsuit challenging Israeli impunity
  Several Israeli soldiers testified at the witness stand in the Haifa district court earlier this week, as trial hearings continued in the case of Corrie vs. the State o ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Don’t mention Afghanistan or Libya
  Afghanistan is just the biggest foreign conflict we've been engaged in since WWII and Korea. We're supposed to leave this year -- with the conflict still unresolved -- after 10 years of ...
• Ambushed on Afghanistan's 'Red Mount ...
  Great read David. You’re a damn good reporter. Your story was riveting, I almost felt like I was there working my way around Red Mountain with you cats. A+ It’s wild these cats can call ...
• Drone may have killed U.S. troops in Afghanistan
  (AP) WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is investigating what appears to be the first case of American troops killed by a missile from a U.S. drone.Two senior Pentagon officials said Tuesday the ...
• Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill Several Insurgents
  Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, April 12, 2011 Afghan and coalition forces today killed several insurgents during a security ...
• Canadian Afghan training mission headed for si ...
  Viewed from a passing Canadian Griffon helicopter, Canadian tanks and other military vehicles guard Afghan, American and Canadian crews building an 18-kilometre, $10-million Canadian-funded road to ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Is It Time To Form A 'Rogue' Party Instead Of ...
  We've discussed a few times how important language choices are in the debate over copyright -- something that entire books have been written about. For years, the key term was always around "piracy." It was all about stopping pirates and dealing with piracy. But, some have noticed a gradual s ...
• Senator Wyden: I Will Do Everything In My Powe ...
  Senator Ron Wyden, who has been one of the few elected officials regularly standing up for consumers and citizens rather than just rolling over for what big companies want, has again made it clear that he's immensely troubled both by Homeland Security's domain seizures and the plans for a new CO ...
• ICE Redefines Detainment For Wikileaks Helper: ...
  Earlier this year, we wrote about computer security expert, Tor developer and Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, who was regularly being detained and intimidated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials each time he (a US citizen) traveled into the country. If you follow Jacob's Twitt ...
• Righthaven Dismisses Lawsuit After Judge Slams ...
  It's looking like more and more judges are recognizing that the new found love of copyright trolls, to use the US judicial system as a shotgun to force people to pay settlement fees, is not a proper use of the courts. The company has been losing some important rulings, and has had to drop other ...
• Who Owns The Copyright On A Tattoo?
  Here's a fun hypothetical concerning copyright and tattoos: My question is this, if a tattoo artist creates a unique design for a client, then this is tattooed on to the aforementioned client, does the tattoo artist still own any intellectual property rights (namely copyright) over this piece ...

VacTruth

• What IS the Cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder?
  Autism spectrum disorder, or pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), now affect one percent of the population. What IS the cause?Vactruth.com
• The ‘Unknown’ About Polio Vaccine: SV40 and Cancer
  On September 10, 2003, on the simian virus (SV40) that was included in the original polio vaccine produced and administered to children in the 1950s and 1960s. More than 60 laboratories world wide have documented the presence of SV40 in human tumors.Vactruth.com
• Thimerosal: From the 1930s to 2011
  Healthcare professionals should read this article to get the down and dirty facts about what’s been going on under their closed eyes regarding a neurotoxin Pharma is pushing with such vigor as to make one wonder why. Vactruth.com
• Experts Recommend Delaying Breastfeeding Until ...
  News came in today of a study entitled 'Inhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on Infectivity of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines' advising nursing mothers to delay breast-feeding until after vaccinations.Vactruth.com
• Mother Jailed for Taking Vaccine Damaged Daugh ...
  A mother from Detroit was jailed this week for trying to protect herself and her daughter from the police and the CPS. Maryanne Godboldo's problems began when her daughter aged 13 was given mandatory vaccinations.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

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

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Even Penguins that Don't Live on Ice Feel Impa ...
  Photo: Wikipedia, CC Penguins are an Indicator Species in the Region A new study confirms that a warming planet won't only impact species of penguins that live and feed in icy habitats. "A 30-year field study of Adélie (ice-loving) and chinstrap (ice-avoiding) penguins shows that populati ...
• New Federal Budget Cuts EPA 16%, Removes Wolve ...
  Photo credit: Abeeeer via Flickr/CC BY Late last Friday, with just an hour and a half or so left on the clock, Democrats and the GOP struck a budget compromise that prevented a shutdown of the federal government. The 'debate', if you want to call it that -- though I suppose it was more civ ...
• New Species Classification Identifies World's ...
  Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The white rhino is among the world's rarest species and now, based on a new study, the population may be ready to split. Based on genetic and physical research, scientists believe that the northern and southern white rhino, typically considered related subspe ...
• Google Invests $168 Million in 392MW Mojave De ...
  Photo: Brightsource Energy, promo photo. Google has Invested $250 Million in Clean Energy So Far - Kudos! Google is announcing a $168 million investment in Brightsource Energy's Ivanpah solar power plant in the Mojave desert in California. The solar farm will have a capacity of 392 MW. Acc ...
• Renewable Energy Production May Overtake Nucle ...
  It still may be a relatively small amount of the total US energy supply inasmuch as the shift to clean energy still has a long way to go, but new data from the Energy Information Agency shows that in 2010 all renewable energy sources combined produced roughly 11% of total primary energy supp ...

Biosingularity

• Scientists build Parkinson’s disease in ...
  Until now, there have been no witnesses to the death of brain cells in people with Parkinson’s disease. And like any murder mystery, this has slowed the search for the killer. In a big break in the case, Stanford University scientists say they have re-enacted this tragedy in a petri dish — growi ...
• ‘Can you hear me now?’ Researchers ...
  There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across a crowded room, neurons must figure out the best way to get their message heard [...]
• Making Cells on an Assembly Line
  Researchers have developed a way to create uniformly sized cell membranes, small cellular packages that can be used like tiny terrariums to study the inner workings of the cell and even create new molecules. Sandro Matosevic and Brian Paegel of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, ...
• Pulling an all-nighter can bring on euphoria a ...
  A sleepless night can make us cranky and moody. But a lesser known side effect of sleep deprivation is short-term euphoria, which can potentially lead to poor judgment and addictive behavior, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Ha ...
• Re-creating autism, in mice
  By mutating a single gene, researchers at MIT and Duke have produced mice with two of the most common traits of autism — compulsive, repetitive behavior and avoidance of social interaction. They further showed that this gene, which is also implicated in many cases of human autism, appears to pro ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Main news of April 12
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Russia ends Gagarin events with fireworks extr ...
  Russia's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's 108 minute journey into space finished with coordinated fireworks displays across the capital.
• UN chief to visit Chernobyl next week
  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 19 as a part of his trip through Eastern Europe, Ban's spokesman Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.
• Ukrainian hairdressers create seven-meter high ...
  A record worthy of the Guinness Book of World Records was set on April 10 in Kiev. Ukrainian hairdressers created a hairstyle that resembles the Eiffel Tower for a gala show held during the 10th International Crystal Angel Festival of Hairdressing Art, Fashion, and Design. The festival was stage ...
• Yury Gagarin's flight remembered
  On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union. YouReporter users and bloggers share recollections of that historic day and what it meant for the Soviet people.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Medvedev gives state honors to cosmonauts
  President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight.
• Japan needs to build sarcophagus over Fukushim ...
  Cooling nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools, radioactive dust suppression and building protective encasements are the top priorities for Japan's crippled Fukushima plant, experts said on Tuesday.
• British film on Gagarin's flight posted on YouTube
  A documentary reconstructing Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin's historic journey was posted on YouTube on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight.
• Ex-cosmonaut calls on world to unite for Mars ...
  The world community should cooperate to send the first manned space flight to Mars, Russian ex-cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin said on Tuesday at an event in the Mexican capital celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first man in space.
• 50 years after Gagarin flight Russia still has ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hailed Yury Gagarin's flight into space 50 years as a symbolic, revolutionary event, adding that his country still dreams about "conquering" other planets and flying to distant stars.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• The American Prospect: The Wal-Mart Economy
  The American Prospect has released “The Walmart Economy,” a new special report. Filled with articles by some of the premiere Walmart analysts of our time, this is a must-read for anyone keeping a watchful eye on Walmart. Here’s a sampling of what’s inside: In "How Wal-Mart Shapes the World", Da ...
• Frankenfoods in Your "Natural" Foods Store: Wh ...
  After two decades of biotech bullying by Monsanto and Food Inc., a grassroots movement of organic consumers and farmers is rising up across the United States. Inspired by the success of their European counterparts in driving genetically engineered crops and foods off the market, not through an E ...
• Organic Consumers Association and Food Rights ...
  Leading organic gardening and food safety advocates who oppose growing food in sewage sludge are attending the national BioCycle magazine conference Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in San Diego to demand an apology and retraction from Sally Brown, a columnist and editorial board member of BioCycle maga ...
• Fukushima Radiation Taints US Milk Supplies at ...
  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 from the ongoing ...
• "I Pay, You Pay, Why Doesn't B of A?": Are We ...
  It's April 5, the end of the financial year, and 100 people - mostly strangers - have their arms linked in a massive circle, occupying the heart of Canary Wharf, the hyper-real maze of steel and plate glass that is the home of Britain's financial services industries, banks and corporate law fir ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Self-Publishing Legal Scholarship
  by Roger Alford I read with great interest Professor Bainbridge's post a few weeks ago about self-publishing legal scholarship. The discussion Bainbridge linked to in that post by Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler about self-publishing is even more interesting. (Eugene Volokh's posts from 2009 ar ...
• ASIL Teaching International Law Interest Group ...
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness I am happy to pass along the following announcement for the forthcoming conference at Pace Law School on the use of empirical methods in teaching and writing about international law. Early registration closes this Wednesday, April 6. Here is the messa ...
• P.J. Crowley on the “Difference” B ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It’s amazing what not working for the government can do for one’s ability to tell the truth.  As readers likely know, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was forced to resign last month for the sin of accurately describing Bradley Manning’s abusive ...
• State Department Releases 2010 Human Rights Report
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness On Friday, the State Department issued the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, a mandatory report to the United States Congress on human rights conditions around the globe.  This link to the full report is here,  the remarks of Secretary Cli ...
• Response to Blum Published
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As readers will recall, I wrote a short response to Gabriella Blum’s wonderful essay on IHL and common-but-differentiated responsibilities for our inaugural Opinio Juris-Harvard International Law Journal symposium.  HILJ has now published my much lo ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• Eliminating Weapons of Terror from U.S. Foreig ...
  Antiwar activism starts with the elimination of nuclear weaponsSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Vegan Food Event Is Shut Down At Brock University
  �Where are the hand washing stations?This is the reality that the Brock Animal Rights Club (BARC) was faced with during their annual Vegan Taco Day. BARC�s annual vegan taco day has been a huge success for the past five years, bringing line-ups of people Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wel ...
• In China, the true cost of Britain's clean, gr ...
  This toxic lake poisons Chinese farmers, their children and their land. It is what's left behind after making the magnets for Britain's latest wind turbines-one of a multitude of environmental sins committed in the name of our new green JerusalemSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Not ...
• Dead, missing and jailed BP whistle-blowers -- ...
  From Real Coastal Warriors on Facebook More posted Apr 3 - see main feedSubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)
  Khan describes how remote tutoring his relatives on Youtube exploded into a utility pioneering change in the classroom right in the current school system, teachers using it to pioneer a completely different use of their time as education coordinatorsSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech � ...

Angry Indian News

• Additional dose of hepatitis B vaccine improve ...
  HIV & AIDS Information :: Additional dose of hepatitis B vaccine improves response in patients with HIV: "Hepatitis B vaccination consisting of four doses produces a better response in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Land Destroyer: Exposing the International Arb ...
  Land Destroyer: Exposing the International Arbiters: "Bangkok, Thailand April 10, 2011 - The colorful maps of press freedom, democracy, and other metrics we are told are indicative of a free and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Anti-Cuban Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Acqu ...
  UNITED STATES/TEXAS (APNS) -- A US federal jury in El Paso, TX today acquitted a anti-Castro activist and former CIA operative of perjury and immigration fraud after a 13-week trial. Luis Posada... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Trece detenidos y choques con la Policía en la ...
  Batalla campal en el centro de Madrid - Vídeo Batalla campal en el centro de Madrid - 20minutos.tvAfter the demonstration, which began in the Plaza de Antón Martín and finished at Plaza de Atocha, a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Azerbaijani authorities target opposition rall ...
  Azerbaijani authorities target opposition rally leaders - Amnesty International Australia: "The Azerbaijani authorities must halt a campaign of intimidation against opposition leaders that has seen... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Minsk blast 'an act of terrorism'
  ShareThisMinsk blast 'an act of terrorism' 12 Apr 2011 A rush-hour explosion which tore through an underground station in the Belarus capital Minsk, killing 12 people and wounding 126, was a terrorist act, an official said. President Alexander Lukashenko did not say what caused yesterday's explo ...
• Fukushima Daiichi danger rating raised to high ...
  ShareThisFukushima Daiichi danger rating raised to highest, alongside Chernobyl 13 Apr 2011 Japan yesterday upgraded the severity rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to the same maximum level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union. News of the re-rating of the nuclear crisi ...
• Gas Prices Climbing Toward $5 Per Gallon
  ShareThisGas Prices Climbing Toward $5 Per Gallon --Records set in 2008 could fall. 11 Apr 2011 As of Monday, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the Chicago area is $4.11, compared with $3.71 a month ago, and about $3.10 a gallon at this time a year ago. Some experts ...
• Headley, Rana to admit plotting 26/11 attack a ...
  ShareThisHeadley, Rana to admit plotting 26/11 attack at ISI's behest --Having turned FBI informer, Headley will reveal the blow-by-blow of the Mumbai massacre surveillance scheme. ['Turned.' I am thinking no turning, but FBI from the outset.] 12 Apr 2011 Pakistani-born Canadian citizen Tahawwur ...
• FBI: Man held in Ohio over California synagogu ...
  ShareThisFBI: Man held in Ohio over California synagogue bombing 12 Apr 2011 A man believed to be connected with last week's synagogue bombing in Southern California was in custody in Ohio overnight, the FBI said. Law officers launched a manhunt for 60-year-old Ron Hirsch, wanted in a blast on T ...

Daily Loaf

• Sweetwater Organic Community Farm’s free Raw F ...
  Listen to lectures given by local raw food experts at Sweetwater and watch them prepare some tasty raw recipes as well.
• Charlie Crist is really really sorry his campa ...
  Part of the resolution of the suit was that this video of Crist being extremely apologetic would be released to the masses:
• New music releases out this Tuesday, April 12: ...
  Lots of sweet new music out this week.
• On the Radar: Outdoor delights at Festa Italia ...
  Say ciao to Festa Italiana and take in the sights and sounds of Mainsail Arts Festival.
• The ethics of paying homeless men to be beaten ...
  The St. Petersburg Times broke the story of a local fetish website, SheFights.net, which allegedly recruited homeless men in St. Petersburg to endure beatings by women for fetish videos. According to the Times, the men were  offered between $25 to $50 to withstand various degrees of physical pu ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

• Yes, you can be too nuclear-safe
  Before there was Bruce Carson, there was Maxime Bernier, who left government documents at his girlfriend's house. To put this in context, I don't think that these state documents should be treated with tremendous mystical secrecy - that isn't the point. They are probably mostly banal. The point ...
• Harper and Bribery
  Today's headlines were interesting. Conservatives using the RCMP as their political goon squad to turf people out of events and pre-screen them. But Harper's said he's sorry and, I'm sure, has promised to never do it again. This is a good little quote from the Toronto Star though: read more
• Harper's Foreign Policy
  Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" discusses Harper's foreign policy. It isn't really distinguishable from Liberal foreign policy, except that it is a little more paranoid and secretive. Throughout the West, there is fairly unconditional support for Israel. Some explain this with lobbies, etc. For t ...
• Stephen Harper, Bruce Carson, and the Environment
  The quote of the day is definitely from Stephen Harper about Bruce Carson's fraud convictions: "I did not know about these revelations that we're finding out today. I don't know why I did not know." Anyone who doubts Carson's importance in Harper's team should definitely read Lawrence Martin's " ...
• Harper and the Press
  In Harperland, Lawrence Martin points out how Harper hates the press (you can see it in this campaign, with the 19th century schoolmaster's Five Questions policy). In a chapter on Harper's press policy, called "the Control Fixation", Martin relates this story (pg. 65): read more

treehugger

• Even Penguins that Don't Live on Ice Feel Impa ...
  Photo: Wikipedia, CC Penguins are an Indicator Species in the Region A new study confirms that a warming planet won't only impact species of penguins that live and feed in icy habitats. "A 30-year field study of Adélie (ice-loving) and chinstrap (ice-avoiding) penguins shows that populati ...
• New Federal Budget Cuts EPA 16%, Removes Wolve ...
  Photo credit: Abeeeer via Flickr/CC BY Late last Friday, with just an hour and a half or so left on the clock, Democrats and the GOP struck a budget compromise that prevented a shutdown of the federal government. The 'debate', if you want to call it that -- though I suppose it was more civ ...
• New Species Classification Identifies World's ...
  Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The white rhino is among the world's rarest species and now, based on a new study, the population may be ready to split. Based on genetic and physical research, scientists believe that the northern and southern white rhino, typically considered related subspe ...
• Google Invests $168 Million in 392MW Mojave De ...
  Photo: Brightsource Energy, promo photo. Google has Invested $250 Million in Clean Energy So Far - Kudos! Google is announcing a $168 million investment in Brightsource Energy's Ivanpah solar power plant in the Mojave desert in California. The solar farm will have a capacity of 392 MW. Acc ...
• Renewable Energy Production May Overtake Nucle ...
  It still may be a relatively small amount of the total US energy supply inasmuch as the shift to clean energy still has a long way to go, but new data from the Energy Information Agency shows that in 2010 all renewable energy sources combined produced roughly 11% of total primary energy supp ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• My father would be proud of Karen army unity
  Before he was assassinated, my father Padoh Mahn Sha had long advocated for disparate Karen armies to join to fight the Burmese junta
• Thailand rues refugee ‘burden’, plans return
  National security chief says no date set for deportation of refugees to Burma but is in talks with Burmese government about their return
• Burma arrests ‘dumped’ Rohingya
  80 Rohingya among nearly 150 'boatpeople' dumped by human traffickers on the Irrawaddy shoreline after being told they were in Bangkok
• Released Canadian speaks of ordeal
  Ron Zakreski freed after nearly three weeks in custody in Burma and says he was unaware he had crossed over the border
• Refugees fearful of Thai warning
  Tak governor's comments that Thailand has ditched a refugee screening process and that they may have to return is met with anger

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

National Geographic | Environment

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

Jurist - Legal Research

• Egypt military court convicts blogger for insu ...
  [JURIST] An Egyptian military court convicted blogger Maikel Nabil and sentenced him to three years in prison Monday for criticizing the army and raising questions over reform in the wake of revolution, according to reports from Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website]. The 25-year-old blogge ...
• Ivory Coast leader Ouattara promises legal act ...
  [JURIST] Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara announced in a televised speech Monday that he will ask his justice minister to begin legal proceedings against former president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profiles]. Ouattara guaranteed the security of Gbagbo and his family but stated that Gbagb ...
• Philippines court orders Imelda Marcos to repa ...
  [JURIST] The Philippine anti-graft court, the Sandiganbayan [official website], said Monday that it ordered Imelda Marcos, wife of deceased Philippine ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos [JURIST news archive], to return USD $280,000 in state funds stolen by her husband. The money was stolen from the Na ...
• Syria forces preventing access to medical care ...
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [text] Tuesday that Syrian security forces have stopped medical personnel, sometimes violently, from attending to injured protesters. A spokesperson for the group called the practice "both inhumane and illegal." According to the repor ...
• Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against Arizo ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion, PDF] a lower court decision to enjoin several provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive]. In July, the US District Court for the District of Ar ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Policy Moves in the Budget Deal
  After all the debate over a handful of policy "riders" in the shutdown-averting budget deal reached last Friday, some little-talked about measures have made it into the final bill. Congressional appropriators finalized the specifics of a six-month funding deal Monday night, after the White Hous ...
• Trump's Birther Libel and American History
  Separated at natural birth? Is Donald Trump eligible to be president of the United States? Article II of the Constitution requires that the president be a "natural-born citizen." I will admit Trump's citizenship -- but "natural born"? Could any child born of woman maintain that smirk, ...
• Don't Touch Our Medicare! Group Warns Obama
  President Obama will outline a deficit plan tomorrow, seeking to nip in the bud any steam building behind the GOP's own budget plans, and he's widely expected to say something about future spending on Medicare and Medicaid. Ahead of that speech, the liberal advocates at the Progressiv ...
• Picture of the Day: Obama Surprises Kids From ...
  This picture of the day is actually from a video (you can click on it to view, at the White House Blog), of President Obama surprising school children from Longmont, Colo. during their visit to the White House -- the same students he mentioned in his speech about the budget deal on Friday. Wh ...
• The 2012 Battle for the Welfare State: Will It ...
  The philosophy behind Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan misses the point: first-world states take care of their own Helmut Schmidt, the great West German Chancellor and former Nazi artilleryman, is now, at the age of 92, confined to a wheel chair. He continues to chain-smoke Renos, and has a tendency ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Pravda Identifies New Witness in Abusisi Kidna ...
  The Russian newspaper, Pravda published a major new story (Google Translate version) on the Abusisi kidnapping, in which it identified a new witness to the event who was was sleeping in the bunk just under the victim when he was snatched.  The witness, Andrew Bell Makarenko, also demanded to se ...
• UN General Assembly Campaign for Palestinian S ...
  A new campaign to declare a Palestinian state by the UN General Assembly this coming fall is gathering momentum.  Both supporters and detractors are already in full battle dress.  Israeli president Shimon Peres has already met with Ban Ki-Moon to tell him that such a proposal would be disastrous ...
• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
• Secret Arrests in Awarta Connected to Itamar M ...
  According to an Israeli source, the IDF and Shabak made a major arrest yesterday in the Palestinian village of Awarta of three residents suspected of involvement in the Itamar murders of five members of the Fogel family.  This is connected to, but in addition to the arrest of well over 100 resid ...
• The ‘Herem’ of Judge Goldstone
  Last year, Judge Richard Goldstone revealed that he would not attend his grandson’s South African bar mitzvah because pro-Israel community leaders had let it be known that they would picket the synagogue during the celebration and generally make his life miserable.  There was a general uproar o ...

Ode Magazine

• A new kind of personal wealth
  It turns out money can buy happiness, after allâwhen consumers create a market for mindful consumption. A lot has changed for Rachel Aydt in the past two years. Since the magazine she worked for shut down in 2008, she’s been faced with plenty of financial uncertainty. Aydt ...
• The muse in the moment
  We all know meditation helps you relax. But can it also ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders and improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases? Recent research suggests it can. For those of us who haven’t practiced it, meditation can seem like a ...
• Turn rush hour into peace hour
  By: PeaceCorso I don’t know where I found this quote—maybe in my own brain after a trying commute one day, but here’s a peace idea. Try turning rush hour into peace hour. Now, I only commute two measly days a week, but what a commute it is! I get t ...
• A new food manifesto
  Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
• A business in a box
  Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medai ...

OpEd News

• Obama Violates Law of Pendulum Politics
  Obama, not the rightwing, must take responsibility for violating a generation-old pattern wherein left replaced right when disaster strikes. Carter to Reagan/Bush to Clinton to Bush, now the Obama Violation. Why is this Democrat acting like a Republican, and does this not end his effectiveness?
• Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn't the Problem, ...
  Estimates of how much would be saved by extending Medicare to cover the entire population range from $58-billion to $400-billion a year. More Americans would get quality health care, and the long-term budget crisis would be sharply reduced. Medicare isn't the problem. It's the solution.
• Flacking for Qaddafi: The Price of Silence at ...
  Economics analyst and reporter David Warsh comments on the Harvard Prof. Michael Porter controversy, Porter writing in 2006 that Libya was a democracy, leading former Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 to criticize him during a Faculty meeting last week, Lewis stating that Porter's financial ties to Gaddaf ...
• Trickle-Down, Shock Therapy, Austerity - The ...
  The trickle down idea is one of the great scams of economic policy throughout history. During any disaster, manufactured panic or structured depression you are told to just let "your" politicians give all the remaining money, power, and policy authority to the already super wealthy and powerful.
• Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Obama Still Hammerin ...
  In his latest TomDispatch post, as the paperback of his bestselling book Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War is published, Andrew Bacevich brilliantly explains why it's time to stop spending so much time on official Washington's motives and look instead to its repetitious methods w ...

Switchboard

• The New Intercity Buses: Could Comfortable, Hi ...
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. In all this talk about high speed rail, there’s another form of intercity transportation that’s hardly talked about at all – and in these fiscally stressed times, it might be e ...
• How I Met Your Mother gets into the environmen ...
  Noah Garrison, Project Attorney, Santa Monica When your friends create a hit sitcom, you learn very quickly to be careful how much detail about your life you share with them – let slip something embarrassing and it’s likely to end up on TV. Awkwa ...
• The wolf rider: playing favorites when it come ...
  Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Well, the text of the budget deal is now available and, just as we feared, it includes a rider that will strip wolves of their Endangered Species Act protections in Montana, Idaho, and i ...
• Science and the BP Spill: Lack of Available Da ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Nearly a year after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil isn’t as visible as it once was. It’s not as easy to photograph, and the impacts are often further from human ...
• Pennsylvania continues to lead the pack with n ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Boulder, Colorado Pennsylvania remains the poster child for things that can go wrong when producing oil or gas. There is so much recent bad news from the state, as I've outlined below. Pennsylvania is a beautiful s ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• 2010-11 NHL Playoff Preview: The West
  It’s time for the annual tradition, and since Berube has already spoken it’s time for me to weigh in. I was planing to do a Scocca-like graph except that my rooting interests can pretty much be summed up by “whoever’s playing Vancouver,” a criterion that is all too likely to be relevant througho ...
• You Knew this Was Coming…
  Call me crazy, but I suspect that it’s probably possible to make a case against intervention in Libya without referring to Rice, Clinton, and Power as “the Three Harpies.” UPDATE [SL]: See also.
• Awful
  Several of our commenters called it: Now itâs getting a little clearer: Obama will throw his support behind the bipartisan effort in the Senate to turn the Simpson-Bowles plan into legislation (sidenote: called it). This will raise as many questions as it answers — if Obama is such a fan of this ...
• Happy Treason in Defense of Slavery Day!
  In honor of Treason in Defense of Slavery Day:
• “I don’t care what you believe in, just believ ...
  Although reports that he is insufficiently feminist appear to have been exaggerated, Joss Whedon does appear to be insufficiently Browncoat. Or so it would seem since he recently blocked the first fan-based effort to acquire the rights to a television series by nixing Unstoppable Signals’ moveme ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Strange Green Boat Concept Goes Solar
  The Uboat concept features solar power, a geothermal water-source heat pump, and a green roof, offering a cool green abode, off-grid, for urban water dwellers.
• 1 Million+ Prius Hybrids Sold In USA
  The Toyota Motor Company recently announced that one million Prii (the plural of Prius) have been sold in the United States.
• High Speed Rail Billions Draw Many Suitors
  The U.S. Department of Transportation is now reviewing high-speed rail projects looking to receive part of the $2.4 billion rejected by Florida's governor.
• Orlando Magic Arena Gets LEED Gold
  Orlando's Amway Center Arena--the home of the NBA's Orlando Magic--has taken LEED Gold for its sustainable features, including pedestrian-friendly design.
• 230,000 Green Jobs A Possibility in U.K.
  New analysis from the Carbon Trust shows that the United Kingdom stands to corner 10% of the global market for offshore wind by 2050, adding thousands of jobs.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Auction house prevails in dispute over Jackson ...
  The auction house that had planned to sell more than 2,000 personal items from Neverland Ranch--until Michael Jackson abruptly sued to cancel the event--has won a jury verdict in a breach-of-contract case brought by a man who made online bids on 170 items.
• Can illegal kickbacks underpin False Claims Ac ...
  Whether anti-kickback statute violations can underpin False Claims Act cases was up for debate at oral arguments in two unrelated cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.
• 1st Circuit throws out challenge to Selective ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has ruled that the district court lacked jurisdiction over a constitutional challenge to a federal law barring men who failed to register for the draft by age 26 from federal agency employment.
• Disbarred attorney indicted for embezzlement
  A Middlesex County, Mass., grand jury has indicted disbarred attorney Maureen Pomeroy for allegedly stealing $900,000 from clients.
• Seeds of Discontent
  Last month Monsanto Co. was sued by organic farmers and seed businesses in what may be the broadest and most ambitious legal attack yet on the company's transgenic seed business.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• 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.

environment 360

• Emissions from Shale Gas Exceed Those from Coa ...
  Natural gas extracted from shale deposits by a process known as hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse gas emissions over a 20-year period than conventional gas, oil, and coal, according to a Cornell University study. Researchers said that during the lifespan of the average shale-gas dri ...
• A New Pickens Plan: Good for The U.S. or Just ...
  Three years after unveiling his plan for U.S. energy independence, which won praise from environmentalists for its reliance on wind power, Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is back with a proposal to convert the U.S. trucking fleet to natural gas. But as his new plan gains traction, questions arise ...
• Radioactivity in the Ocean: Diluted, But Far f ...
  With contaminated water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear complex continuing to pour into the Pacific, scientists are concerned about how that radioactivity might affect marine life. Although the ocean’s capacity to dilute radiation is huge, signs are that nuclear isotopes are already movi ...
• Interview: Extolling the Value Of Forests Shap ...
  Susanna Hecht, a political ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been a controversial figure in the conservation community, which is not surprising given her assertion that many of the world’s deforested UCLASusanna Hecht lands are recovering and that forests altered by ...
• A Scientist Extols the Value Of Forests Shaped ...
  Political ecologist Susanna Hecht has incurred the wrath of some conservationists by arguing that the notion of the primeval forest is largely a myth and that disturbed forests play a vital ecological function. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she makes the case for a “new rurality” th ...

Red Ice Creations

• Japan raises nuke crisis severity to match Che ...
  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 rating from 5 to 7 - ...
• White House warns of debt ‘Armageddon’
  The White House warned Republicans on Monday that failing to raise the $14.29 trillion US debt limit would spark "Armageddon-like" consequences for the slowly recovering US economy. As a new political showdown looms over the economy following a defused budget row, aides also said President Barac ...
• Gagarin: The 50th anniversary of human space f ...
  Gagarin’s first space trip celebrated 50 years on By Barry Neild | CNN.com Fifty years after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok spacecraft blasted off from the steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan and into the history books, the epic flight of the first human in space was being celebrated Tuesday. Gagarin ...
• Jesus crucifixion nails discovered, claims fil ...
  From the Turin Shroud to the "Jesus towel", which will arrive at the British museum in June, there are dozens of artefacts claimed to have been part of the Biblical story of Christ. Now a new film suggests that the nails used to crucify Jesus have been found in a Jerusalem tomb. But experts have ...
• Belarus: Blast rocks Minsk metro near Presiden ...
  Belarus’ PresidentLukashenko says 11 people were killed and hundreds injured in an explosion in the metro system of the capital, Minsk. The cause of the explosion is not known. Mr Lukashenko said it was aimed at undermining "peace and stability", and he hinted at foreign involvement...

Russia Today

• ‘Dad was jealous of those who spent more time ...
  As the world marks 50 years since the first man traveled to space, RT spoke to Yury Gagarin’s daughter to get to know the legendary cosmonaut from a different angle.
• Tajik government wages war on SMS-divorces
  SMS-divorces have recently become popular in Tajikistan. The government of the Central Asian state has appealed to the supreme religious body to get rid of such a practice in the hope it will halt the increasing divorce...
• Blast at Moscow bus stop
  There has been an explosion at a bus station in western Moscow on Tuesday evening, reports Interfax news agency citing a police source. Nobody has been injured in the blast.
• Bretton Woods forum: “Plenty of conversations, ...
  The financial dominance of Europe and America is coming to an end, with developing economies taking the leading role. That is one of the main themes of a summit being hosted by billionaire tycoon George Soros in the...
• “If there is no ground operation, Gaddafi has ...
  Orkhan Jemal from the TV channel “Dozhd” has spent 20 days in Libya. He stayed in Benghazi and has been to the combat zone. In his interview with RT, he presented his view on why in this case resolutions create chaos,...

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

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

Tippers News

• Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
  EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
  Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
• Wellington pair adopt three-legged Jimmy
  Jimmy the bearded collie cross who lost a leg after a savage beating has found a new home in Wellington and his happy owners can't wait to start playing with the energetic puppy. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• This Takeover Battle Pits Bureaucrat vs. Burea ...
  “Some methods used to resolve [antitrust disputes between the FTC and Justice Department] belie the stakes involved. In addition to the most recent coin toss—which several people familiar with the matter said the Justice Department won—the agencies have employed the “possession arrow” system bor ...
• Burden of College Loans on Graduates Grows
  “Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year and is likely to top a trillion dollars this year as more students go to college and a growing share borrow money to do so.” (New York Times) Government used to be convinced it was always a good idea to buy a [...]
• Chicago School Bans Some Lunches Brought from Home
  “At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful ...
• Junk Science Smites Craigslist
  Will hysteria or science prevail? I am rooting for science but betting on hysteria.
• CIA Has Slashed Its Terrorism Interrogation Role
  “Under Obama, the CIA has killed more people than it has captured, mainly through drone missile strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas. At the same time, it has stopped trying to detain or interrogate suspects caught abroad, except those captured in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The CIA is out of the deten ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• VOICES: Right-to-work law brings falling wages ...
  By Steven McCloud, Labor Notes Twelve state legislatures are seeking to pass right-to-work bills, which allow workers to get the benefits of union representation without joining or contributing. That weakens the union's ability to advocate, eventually hurting the whole workforce -- including ...
• A year later, BP's oil is still damaging the G ...
  As the one-year anniversary of the BP drilling disaster nears, the American public has largely turned its attention away from the Gulf Coast. But for the people and other living creatures who make the region their home, the oil spill's impacts are still being felt acutely today. In an effort t ...
• WHAT SPILL? Congress has done 'virtually nothi ...
  When BP's Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophically failed nearly a year ago, it unleashed a gusher of wall-to-wall media coverage -- and promises from politicians of reform. Indeed, CNN just won a Peabody Award for its "extensive coverage" of the disaster which pumped over 200 million g ...
• Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
  By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
• VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
  We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• BP oil spill: Dramatic recovery of Gulf of Mex ...
  A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Philip Sherwell travels to Louisiana to find that a striking recovery has happened.
• Alex Salmond dusts off his party's 'It's Scotl ...
  Salmond has begun his campaign to be re-elected as Scotland's First Minister on May 5, writes Alan Cochrane.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• We don't have the luxury of an interventionist ...
  We must work out what our national interest is, and then we must act upon it, writes Simon Heffer.

Ian Welsh

• An update on the effect of the price of shippi ...
  From Skuppers, in comments: In February, the Fuel Surcharge (FSC) on shipments was 26%. It is now 31%. It keeps climbing with no end in sight. It’s not always a straight formula though, as I saw an invoice from the steam line the other day, where the customer’s freight rate is $1400, but the add ...
• Obama to Right Wing
  “I agree with you, now make me do it” (what FDR said to the left, if you aren’t aware.) See, he is the new FDR!
• Lambert and Corrente Need Help
  If you value what Corrente and Lambert do, and you can afford it, consider tossing Corrente some money.  Blogging isn’t free, someone’s labor is always involved.  Corrente punches above its weight, the big dogs in the blogosphere may not link to it, but they definitely do read it, it’s sort of ...
• In Light of the Budget Deal: Obama’s Per ...
  Sometimes our early take on a man is the best.  In 2006, I wrote “I believe Obama“. (Re-repost, because it seems… appropriate.) One of my rules of analysis is that I believe people when they tell me who they are. That doesn’t mean I believe everything they say – I never believed Bush was a [...]
• Obama to Right Wing
  “I agree with you, now make me do it” (what FDR said to the left, if you aren’t aware.) See, he is the new FDR!

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• US budget deal – A (science) first look
  Get out your pencils and pocket calculators, the US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations has posted the text of the 2011 budget bill that reveals the implication for scientists of a deal struck late on 8 April between the Republican-led House, the Democrat-led Senate and the Obam ...
• China adds another satellite to its GPS rival
  China successfully launched the latest satellite of the Beidou (Big Dipper) navigation and positioning network on Sunday, according to a statement published on Beidou Net, the project’s official website. A Long March-3A rocket carrying the satellite took off at 4:47am on Sunday from the Xich ...
• More big pharma moves in the cannabis arena
  Novartis is paying out at least $5 million to get into the cannabinoid arena by linking up with UK company GW Pharmaceuticals. GW, which specialises in cannabis-derived drugs, will get $5 million upfront, royalties on sales, and possible future payments of $28.75m based on its Sativex drug hi ...
• How Fukushima is and isn't like Chernobyl
  This morning, the Japanese government officially upgraded Fukushima on the International Nuclear Events Scale to a 7, or "Major accident". The new rating is the highest on the scale, and puts Fukushima on a par with the worst nuclear accident in history—Chernobyl. Understandably, the press has m ...
• Was Eurasia a stone's throw for early humans?
  Posted on behalf of Nadia Drake. Picture this scene: it’s 1.8 million years ago in the southern reaches of the Caucasus Mountains and a powerful feline, an ancestor of the modern jaguar, has just made a kill. The predator retreats to a secluded gully where it can feed on the bloodied carcass ...

new geography

• A Requiem for "High-Speed Rail"
  In the interest of maintaining some balance and perspective on what the Administration�proudly calls "President Obama's bold vision for a national high-speed rail network," at InnovationBriefs we have tried to offer our readers a range of different points of view. It is in this spirit that w ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Dallas-Fort Worth
  The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area (Note 1), which corresponds to the Dallas-Fort Worth urban area, provides a casebook example of expanding urbanization. Dallas-Fort Worth has been one of the fastest growing major metropolitan areas in the nation for decades. Dallas-Fort Worth was among ...
• China, Detroit, and Houston: How Ghost Propert ...
  Learning about China's property boom and its "ghost" cities has given me a whole new perspective on my four decades in the building, land development and consulting fields. During these periods our economy has had various ups and downs. In ‘up’ times, the rise in construction of new housing an ...
• Local Stakeholders Debate Changes to San Franc ...
  Despite one of the highest population densities in California and a prohibitive cost of living, the San Francisco keeps packing them in. Figures released by the U.S. Census last month show that the City of San Francisco added 28,502 people during the last ten years, a modest population bump of 3 ...
• Cities and the Census: Cities Neither Booming ...
  For many mayors across the country, including New York City’s Michael Bloomberg, the recently announced results of the 2010 census were a downer. In a host of cities, the population turned out to be substantially lower than the U.S. Census Bureau had estimated for 2010—in New York’s case, by ...

GM Watch

• Weed resistance escalating in Iowa and Argentina
• Europe steps closer to real powers to ban GM crops
• Open letter on destruction of small pox virus ...
• Monsanto uses food crisis to push GM corn in M ...
• New study shows GM contamination of maize in U ...

spiked

• The brassnecked hypocrisy of these invaders of ...
  Yes, the News of the World has behaved badly, but for New Labour bigwigs to complain about being snooped on... you couldn’t make it up.
• Why AV won’t make for ‘better poli ...
  The Alternative Vote system will produce MPs who are even more lame and principle-lite than the current bunch.
• Banning the burqa: an assault on freedom
  Unfortunately, both France and some of its critics seem driven by a desire to police people's thoughts.
• Northern Ireland: a zombie IRA and zombie gove ...
  The killing of Ronan Kerr exposes both the moral turpitude of republican dissidents and the opportunism of Northern Ireland's rulers.
• Frankie Boyle: the bastard child of Ofcom
  Ofcom creates precisely the stifling conditions in which an unfunny misanthrope like Boyle can flourish.

Cryptogon

• Chinese Mining Operations in Australia
  So it goes… Via: Guardian: China is leasing huge areas of land in Australia to secure a vital source of mineral resources, the latest sign of its acquisitive approach to the commodities trade. No longer satisfied with buying iron ore and coal from Australian mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP B ...
• French Veil Ban: First Woman Fined for Wearing ...
  Via: Guardian: Police have fined a woman in a shopping centre car park outside Paris for wearing a niqab, or full-face Islamic veil, in the first enforcement of France’s burqa ban. The 28-year-old woman was stopped by police in the car park in Les Mureaux, north-west of Paris, at 5.30pm on Monda ...
• Brave New World Among Top 10 Books Americans M ...
  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Via: Guardian: 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. The novel of a dystopian future was one of the most complained about books in Americ ...
• X-47B Killer Drone: Navy Wants Autonomous, Car ...
  Via: Wired: 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 ...
• Japan May Raise Nuke Accident Severity Level t ...
  Captain Obvious checking in. Via: Kyodo: The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan released a preliminary calculation Monday saying that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been releasing up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour at some point after a massive quake ...

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• PLEASE HELP US TO WIN A CONTEST (Willem VAN CO ...
  WE NEED YOUR URGENT HELP TO WIN “the co-operative” CONTEST FOR OUR PROJECT IN MALAWI “Join the REVOLUTION” is an initiative of The Co-operative. You can vote for our “Container Gardening Project in Malawi“  to help it win the £5,000 … Continue reading →
• CONTAINER GARDENING PROJECT IN MALAWI – ...
    By Patrick Harry Our Container Gardening Project has experienced many challenges during the month of March, due to a robbery problem at the project site. Despite these challenges, there are interesting achievements: (1) Progress of the Container Gardening education … Continue reading →
• Conflicting pieces of evidence about invasive ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110408163917.htm Are Invasive Plants a Threat to Native Biodiversity? It Depends on the Spatial Scale ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2011) â The phrase “invasive plant species” typically evokes negative images such as broad swaths of kudzu smothered ...
• WAVES AND WATER (IISD)
  Read at : Water Issues Announcement List =========================== WAVES by Water for All News Issue 1, March 2011 Sanitation Dialogue 2011 =========================== Online Version – http://www.adb.org/documents/periodicals/water/news-waves/2011/issue1.asp =========== ...
• African indigenous vegetables (Earrthscan / Ag ...
  Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/03/african-indigenous-vegetables-information-published/ African indigenous vegetables information published by LUIGI on MARCH 14, 2011 Notice of the publication of the new book âAfrican Indigenous Vegetables in Urban Agricultureâ by Earthscan allows me to p ...

The Paper Trail

• A new site, a new era
  Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
• Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
  PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
• Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
  When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
• E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
  An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...
• Broadband money flows to House panel that oppo ...
  Broadband and wireless companies contributed $81,500 to members of a key House subcommittee after the Federal Communication Commission in December approved “network neutrality” rules requiring providers to treat all Internet content equally, according to American University’s Investigative Repor ...

backofthebook.ca

• The Cons’ G8 legacy: $100,000 gazebos
  By Alison@Creekside When the G8 leaders stayed for one night at the Deerhurst Resort as part of the G8/G20 $1.2-billion bunfest, their one-night stay probably didn't afford them the opportunity to fully appreciate all the benefits of the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Slush Fund spent in Industry M ...
• Enough with the gay mice
  By Jodi A. Shaw Yet another study of homosexuality has been released, this one suggesting that a neurotransmitter is the remote control for sexual preference in mammals. Yi Rao, a neuroscientist at Peking University, and his collaborators engineered male mice unable to produce serotonin, who ...
• Stephen Harper’s stickhandler
  By Alison@Creekside Five times convicted fraudster Bruce Carson -- currently under RCMP investigation for influence peddling and illegal lobbying of Indian Affairs to obtain a water filtration contract that would have netted his 22-year old fiancee 20% of sales -- was granted a secret securit ...
• Harper’s Facebook police
  By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: "Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and 'u ...
• Canada’s startup scene gains traction
  By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, ...

libcom

• Wave of raids and arrests against anarchist ne ...
  anarco-insurrezionalisti2.jpg 5 arrests in Bologna, 7 banning orders, 60 raids all over Italy On April 6 more than 300 officers were employed in an “anti-terrorism” operation n ...
• Interview with the Romanian Anarcho-Syndicalis ...
  initiativa.gif A few months ago was founded in Romania the „Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative“. The comrades run an actual and very informative Blog and set as an aim, the popularisation of Anarcho-Synd ...
• Community Assembly in Christchurch (NZ): the f ...
  Rally.jpg Summary of a public assembly held in Christchurch, New Zealand, to organise the direction of recovery after the February 22 earthquake and in response to draconian changes in city power. ...
• Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria ...
  Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ~~Please Forward Widely!~~ ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals 4. Festival of Anarchy 5. Volunteers needed! ***************** ...
• Reportback from 2011 Critical Observatory: Cub ...
  social forum.jpg A report from the 5th Observatorio Critico forum in Havana. This year the event was promoted as a Cuban Social Forum bringing together diverse groups and individuals from across Cuba ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• The “Floating Dollar” —- A V ...
  Imagine a world with zero “constancy”.  Imagine the chaos of a world with no standardized weights or measures.  Imagine going shopping in a store where the concept of a pound of steak or 10 ounces of milk changed daily on the whim of the stores “upper management”.  Imagine trying to decide wh ...
• Project Blue Beam Update
  Seeing is NOT synonymous with believing — at least not anymore. Lucifer is synonymous with light – his very name means “the Shining One”.   Today, using LIGHT WAVES  – holograms of incredible detail and design now entertain vast crowds of human beings.  They dance on stage, wiggle their behi ...
• Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
  I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
• New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
• First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
  This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
  President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
• Don Tapscott
  Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
• Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
  She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...

Scotts Contracting

• Using SRECs to Speed Up Your Solar Payback | P ...
  Many states require utilities to provide a certain amount of electricity from renewable sources like solar power.  If a utility is unable to meet these requirements, some states allow utilities to purchase renewable energy credits from individuals or companies who are producing electricity from ...
• Solar Gardens to Bring (d)emocratic Solar Powe ...
  Want to go solar but you have a shady roof?  You rent?  You don’t have $40,000? Last year, Colorado passed the first state law to create “community solar gardens” and the recent release of draft rules for Community Solar Gardens may open the floodgates, turning distributed solar power into dem ...
• When Did Progress Become a Partisan Issue? | R ...
  Political debate over the direction of United States energy and technology policy is obviously nothing new. But in recent weeks, two news items jumped out for me from the usual political cacophony: News item 1: Republicans introduce bills in the House and Senate to repeal the 2007 federal law re ...
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• Weatherization for the Attic
  Attic Insulation-Energy Solutions Part 1 on Home Weatherization Series Attic Insulation-I’ve put a little information to explain Attic Insulation for a Home. It takes a whole house approach to Reduce a Home’s Energy Needs. The Attic Area and Attic insulation being just one area.  When Combined ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• The No-Doctrine President
  Bush had a doctrine, Nixon had a doctrine, even Jimmy Carter had a doctrine. Why doesn't Obama?
• Other Obstacles to Disarmament Exist Besides S ...
  Withholding their nuclear weapons isn't the only way states retard the progress of disarmament.
• Letter from Maguindanao
  For nearly 40 years, a civil war involving Muslim rebels and clan politics has raged in the southern Philippines.
• No Moral Consistency in Obama's Middle East Policy
  In Libya, the U.S. lead role in the military intervention has proved that its advertised intentions and actions clash with reality on the ground.
• How to Break the Deadlock With North Korea
  North Korea can't help but think: "Look what happened to Libya when it gave up its nuclear weapons."

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• ایران: «حرکت شیطنت‌آمیز» در سوریه، کار غربی‌هاست
  سخنگوی وزارت امورخارجه ایران،اعتراض‌های مردم در سوریه را «حرکت شیطنت‌آمیز» خواند و گفت که توسط غرب، آمریکا و صهیونیست‌ها صورت گرفته است. read more
• If Saddam Hussein were still in power, this ye ...
  The most heartening single image of the past month—eclipsing even the bravery and dignity of the civilian fighters against despotism in Syria and Libya—was the sight of Hoshyar Zebariarriving in Paris to call for strong action against the depraved regime of Col.read more
• Egypt's Hosni Mubarak in hospital after 'heart ...
  Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in intensive care after suffering a heart attack, say state media.read more
• زندانيان سياسی زن همچنان دربند قرنطينه اوين نگ ...
  کمتر کسی تصور می کرد که نگهداری زندانيان سياسی زن در يکی از قرنطينه های زندان اوين با نام متادون ماه ها به طول انجامد و اين زندانيان بدون کوچکترين امکانات رفاهی و در چنين شرايط دشواری اين همه مدت در اين بند بمانند.اما آنها ماههاست که در اين بند هستند و انگار هم برای مسوولان، هم read more
• Until next time, stay with us and let the dial ...
  Britain says the European Union is set to impose sanctions on 32 Iranian officials over human rights abuses. Foreign Secretary William Hague said EU foreign ministers would agree visa bans and asset freezes at their meeting in Luxembourg today. "We have agreed sanctions, restrictive measures, on ...

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

• The Mask of la Roche-Cotard
  Continuing with my “strange old things” theme, here we have the Mask of la Roche-Cotard. Unlike our previous rock, this rock has been shaped by human (well, Neanderthal) hands. It’s a piece of flint about 4 inches (10 cm) tall and wide, and through a natural hole under the “nose” a piece of bone ...
• The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
  Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]
• The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
  Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]
• The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
  OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
• NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
  Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]

FourWinds10

• WRAPUP 13: RADIATION LEAKING FROM JAPAN'S QU ...
• EVERYTHING DEAD ! COREXIT FLOATING PLEASE HELP ...
  Five Blocks from my home no LIFE!! 3/6/2011 WERE NEXT! VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAz1jdUp6I4 March 6, 2011
• Ecuador orders Chevron to apologize, pay $8.6 ...
• Gulf of Mexico Women Cry Out in Alarm!
  Kendra Andresen and Vickie Perrin were our guests this past Sunday night Jan 30th. It was a very revealing show. They reported about what is and isn't going on in the Gulf. The Gulf is Dead..
• A Dot on the Map, Until the Earth Started Shaking
  GUY, Ark. — Everybody around here is getting used to the earthquakes, and that does not sit well with Dirk DeTurck. He sent out 600 fliers and made, well, had to be around 100 phone calls, trying to attract people to his meeting on earthquake preparedness. And yet on a recent Tuesday night, he s ...

Crisis Maven

• Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
  … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
• How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
  Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
• Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
  Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...
• Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
  Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
• To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
  … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• A Double Dip Recession? Only If We Are Lucky
  Join the forum discussion on this post Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’r ...
• Speculator’s Political Reserve?
  Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...
• Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around a ...
• Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
• Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
  Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...

Discovery Educator Network

• YouTube - kidsgov's Channel
  Tags: education, government, students, videosby: Fred Delventhal
• YouTube - A Vision of Students Today
  Comments:Playlist by Richard Byrne that includes "Vision of Students Today," etc to use at the beginning of training or conversation starters.  He will be adding to it. - Emily MannTags: video_warmupsby: Emily Mann
• Part 1:Free Classroom Resources That Allow Kid ...
  Tags: technology, resources, free, gaming, learningby: Dean Mantz
• Call :Teachers worldwide are invited to join f ...
  Comments:BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION: - LUCIAN DUMATags: #edtech20, project, teaching, learning, collaboration, Resources, education20by: LUCIAN DUMA
• eTextbooks and Educational Apps: iPads Enter t ...
  Tags: educational, ipad, mlearning, etextbooks, appsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Your gut feeling may be that packing a homemade school lunch for your child would be healthier than a chocolate read more
• Cancer Risk Doubled: Men's Reproductive Health ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Pesticides are a real buzz-kill when it comes to men's below-the-belt health. Mounting research shows certain bug, fungus, and weed killers wreak havoc on guys' hormonal systems, with some chemicals escalating male cancer risk while others sink sperm counts. A new study ...
• Broken Ocean? Here are 25 Ways You Can Help Fix It
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As we've been pointing out all Ocean Week, anyone who enjoys seafood, fishing, snorkeling, or breathing oxygen (the ocean produces up to 70 percent of the world's O2) needs to be concerned about the endangered state of the world's oceans. But as author and ocean activist ...
• Radiation from Full-Body Scanners Minimal, Stu ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the world waits nervously to see what happens with the nuclear reactors in Japan, many people are worried about nuclear radiation drifting across the Pacific and contaminating food, air, and water here. But last November and December, the American public was much more ...
• "Everything You Do Makes a Difference": How Oc ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You may not live near the coastline, but rest assured, everyone's health rides on our oceans' well-being. To learn more about the interconnectedness of everyday live and our sprawling seas, we turned to third-generation explorers and ocean activists, siblings Philippe an ...

big think

• Shakespeare on Trial
  Every years since 1994, the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. presents mock trials, often based on characters from Shakespeare's plays. On April 10 this year, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Samuel Alito Jr. and Sonia Sotomayor presided over a trial involving characters from Oscar Wil ...
• Tuesday Tidbits: Measuring the Yellowstone plu ...
  First off, a big thank you to James Reynolds who took questions from my Volcanoes class here at Denison today. It was a great chat with the students! Now, we have news from the volcanic front, some of which I hope to tackle with more depth later: Yellowstone: All sorts of articles about yet ...
• Cote D'Ivoire: Another UN Success
  If anyone imagined that the act of intervention by itself is always enough for the United Nations to emerge unscathed, one only need to look at the chequered history of the various UN attempts to hold the line in post colonial Congo-Kinshasa, better known today as the Democratic Republic of Cong ...
• The Great Shakespeare Conspiracy
  Early this year a top NASA scientist dubbed Roland Emmerick's disaster epic 2012 "the most scientifically flawed film of all time." No matter, the German director is taking a temporary departure from science fiction and entering the genre of conspiracy theory films. � The storyline of Em ...
• Indefinite Longevity and Immortality--Part 1
  These days, it seems like the reasonable promise of biotechnology has become INDEFINITE LONGEVITY.�� Actually, that goal was first articulated by the French enlightenment thinker Condorcet.� In order for our pursuit of happiness to be turned into real happiness and for our longings to be undisto ...

Information Liberation

• Chicago school bans homemade lunches, students ...
  We're from the government, we're here to steal your lunch. Nanny-state lunatics in Chicago have banned bringing home lunches to school, forcing all students to eat government sludge instead. The students are so angry they're leading rallying crie...
• Cop Brandishes Gun After Strangers Insult Him ...
  An ex-alcoholic cop who fell off the bandwagon allegedly brandished his gun after some strangers insulted him for leaving his baby alone in his car. WRTV Indianapolis reports: The residents accused Dine of leaving his 8-month-old daughter alone i...
• Cops Say the Darnedest Things
  Over the past few years myself and Pete Eyre have done projects, such as the Motorhome Diaries and Liberty On Tour, and activism all across the country. Sadly, when attempting to educate your fellow man or while standing up for individual rights we...
• Public Employee Union Boycott Threat Backfires
  It*s not often we get a real market test of the popularity of public employee unions, so this recent experience from Wisconsin provides an interesting peek at the real public*s perception. If a harbinger of broader public opinion, members of public e...
• Feeling Safe?: 6 Year Old Girl Groped By TSA
  A government goon gropes a 6-yr-old to keep America safe....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Liberté, Égalité, Sororité
  Today marks the official introduction of France’s new law banning the burqua and niqab in public places. Police officers encountering a person wearing this garment are forbidden to forcibly remove it, but if she refuses their request to lift her … Continue reading →
• Inferno
  The scene: a desolate, barren moonscape. Lightning bolts flash occasionally across a blackened sky. Boiling, bubbling lava pools dot the ground as far as the eye can see, sending plumes of reeking smoke into the gloom. The only sounds are … Continue reading →
• What Is Libertarianism Part II
  Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
• It’s Just A Jump To The Left
  …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →
• McLurg’s Law
  I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
  Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...