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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

14 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

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  • Two hospitalized following Awarta raid
    Despite Israeli media claims that a breakthrough in the murder investigation of the Fogel family is close, the village of Awarta continues to experience collective punishment. At about 2 AM on the night of 13 April dozens of soldiers entered Awarta as they have been for the past month. Soldiers ...
  • The Bieber diaries: “Isreal sucks soooo bad”
    I wish I never came to this god forsaken armpit of the world. All I wanted to do was have some falafel, meet BeeBee, see where Jesus walked on water and then did that fish miracle thingy. Or was it with bread. Damn, maybe if the paparazzi would leave me alone for two seconds I [...]
  • J Street’s new campaign: funny but oh so sad
    I gotta hand it to J Street for the video they just disseminated as part of its new campaign encouraging its younger constituency to “have the (Israel) talk at home.” It’s pretty funny, I must admit.  The acting is superb. And to be honest, I wish conversations in my family would go that smooth ...
  • No point listening to UN on Palestinians, says ...
    The Supreme Court had a nice verdict today, deeming as illegal the Interior Ministry’s policy of deporting anyforeign worker who had a child three months after she gave birth. Retiring Justice Ayala Procaccia, sitting on her last case for the court, called the Interior Ministry’s policy “discrim ...
  • VIDEO: Gaza Surfing
    There is more to life in Gaza than you think…

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Petaling Bias
    Election campaigns are what partisans dream of – red meat time when ideologists can sink their teeth into issues and somehow be excused for their lack of factual basis or objectivity. With millions of dollars of ads, promotional literature galore, and candidates preferring the simple over the co ...
  • Campaign Insider – Responding To Questions
    Campaigns can be difficult because many see them as opportunities for expressing long-held opinions. My development work overseas is well-known, as is my role in Parliament as the International Cooperation critic. And so some send me messages complaining that we should be caring for our own peop ...
  • The Crude Art of Thumbing One’s Nose
      In speaking with a development expert in France yesterday who is a sage observer of the Canadian scene, having been schooled in Canada, he noted that some in his country wonder what’s going on over here. “How long will your people support a government with high polling numbers when all these r ...
  • Campaign Insider – The Lemonade and the Ivey
    Sometimes campaign offices get hit with surprises. Today we had a delightful interruption as some students from the Ivey School of Business here in London dropped into the office to sell lemonade as a means of raising funds for the Memorial Boys and Girls Club in the city. It’s also an effort de ...
  • Campaign Insider – Everywhere A Sign
    It would be great to do some kind of research to figure when political signs during elections campaigns became so prominent. In an age of social media and desktop publishing it seems signs wouldn’t be nearly as vital. Yet they are, becoming more and more prominent. In many ways it seems like a w ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
  • WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
  • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
  • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...

2020 Science

  • James Gleick’s Chaos – the enhanced edition
    In 1987 I got my Bachelors of Science in physics, Prozac was launched in the US, and James Gleick published Chaos.  I don’t think the middle one has any bearing on the other two.  But the first and last are tentatively linked because, despite being completely jazzed on physics, I didn’t read i ...
  • Larry Brilliant: Enabling sustainable humanity ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog [Transcript] I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here ...
  • Questions teens ask about risk – I’m A Scienti ...
    I’ve just posted this over on the Risk Science Blog, but deviously thought I would also disrupt 2020 Science readers’ day with it as well! For the past couple of years, a highly addictive and innovative on-line teen science engagement event has been run in the UK. I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of ...
  • Should experts engage directly with people on ...
    A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out – that Schools of Public [...] ...
  • Technology innovation and human health risk – ...
    As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively about risk and how we address ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
  • Making Health the Default
    A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
  • How much meat do we eat, anyway?
    Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question.  The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry.  But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more.  So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News: April 13, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 13 ==== Berlin: NATO Assembles 50 Foreign Ministers On Libyan, Afghan Wars Afghanistan: U.S. Combat Mission Until 2015, Continued Involvement Afterward U.S.-Pakistan Tensions Reaching Boiling Point Pakistan Condemns Resumption Of Deadly U.S. Missile Attacks Paki ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 13
    ==== NATO’s Libyan Air War: 2,038 Sorties, 832 Combat Missions Video And Text: NATO Using Depleted Uranium In Libya Pentagon Provides Continued Support For NATO’s War Against Libya U.S. Confident Of NATO “Success” In Libya Italian Foreign Minister: Libyan Rebels Ask NATO For Arms Ex-U.S. State D ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 12, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 12 ==== Ivory Coast: France Accused Of Staging Coup D’Etat NATO Rotates U.S. Marine-Trained Georgian Troops In Afghanistan Berlin: NATO-Georgia Commission Meeting To Be Held During Foreign Ministers Meeting Obama, European Union Hail French Toppling Of Ivorian G ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 12
    ==== France, Britain: NATO Must Intensify Bombing Of Libya Washington Post: Use Ivorian Model In Libya, Assassinate Gaddafi Canada To Attend Libyan War Council, NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting Libya, Ivory Coast: NATO, AFRICOM Assault On African Sovereignty Ivory Coast Uncovered: The Untold Story ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 11, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 11 ==== Ivory Coast: AFRICOM, NATO Acquire News Base In Gulf Of Guinea French Troops Abduct Ivorian President, Turn Him Over To Rebels Clinton: French Military Intervention, Arrest (And Impending Show Trial) Of Ivorian Leader “Message To Dictators And Tyrants Th ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Record Levels of Fukushima Japan Nuclear Radia ...
    The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins - Contributing Writer April 13th, 2011 Record levels of japan nuclear radiation have been found in the Pacific Ocean off the Fukushima, Japan Coast. The radiation is expected carried toward the US by fast-moving currents. NHK news reports record levels of radia ...
  • Eugenics and the Still Unsolved Murder of Jane ...
    The Intel Hub By Stefan M. Stanford April 13th, 2011 “Father, serve humanity,” is what Stanford’s recently deceased son, Leland Stanford, Jr., uttered to him in a dream hours after the boy’s death. More than 105 years ago, one of the first matriarchs of early 20th century America was murdered in ...
  • Real Experts Speak! Japanese Radiation Risk In ...
    The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas April 13th, 2011 On March 11th, 2011 an earthquake and ensuing tsunami rocked Japan, killing thousands and causing upwards of three partial or full meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Corporate experts and nuclear industry shills have continuously ...
  • Temperature Rise To Over 200% Normal Levels At ...
    The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer April 13th, 2011 A temperature rise in Fukushima Japan Nuclear Reactor #4 to over 200% normal levels and the new discovery of elements produced only during nuclear fission in the fuel ponds fuel fears that the spent fuel rods may be meltin ...
  • Fukushima Falling Apart, Large Scale Nuclear D ...
    lucaswhitefieldhixson.com April 12th, 2011 Almost thirty years ago, when I worked in an industrial setting, I came across my first pop off valve. We’d had a call that steam was escaping in an area, and were dispatched to go inspect it. My mentor explained that pop off valves were installed in th ...

FRS

  • Syrian protesters defy attempts at intimidation
    By Borzou Daragahi and Meris Lutz, Los Angeles Times April 13, 2011 BEIRUT â The women and children blocking a roadway outside the north Syrian coastal village of Bayda shook olive branches as symbols of peaceful protest and demanded the release of their sons, brothers and husbands. “We want the ...
  • Haiti Before and After Aristide’s Return
    Counterpunch, April 11, 2011 by Robert Roth On April 4th, Haiti’s electoral council announced that, according to preliminary results, Michel Martelly had been selected Haiti’s new president. A kompa singer and long-time proponent of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Martelly worked with the dreaded FRAPH de ...
  • GM Workers in India on Strike: Appeal for Soli ...
    Nearly 1,600 workers at the General Motors Halol plant in India have been on strike for the last three weeks.  Workers manufacturing the popular GM Cruze and Aveo vehicles are paid just 47 to 92 cents an hour.  There is no collective contract.  Management is unilaterally demanding a 20 percent i ...
  • ECOWAS defends France’s role in Gbagbo’s ...
    Apr 11, 2011 President of ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Victor Gbeho, has cleared France of any wrongdoing in the capture of embattled Former President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo. Reports remain unclear over who actually captured Mr. Gbagbo. Earlier reports in sections of the media had indic ...
  • India: Rising poverty fuels Maoist movement
    newsxlive on Mar 24, 2010 20 crore families live below the poverty line in India. That’s just one of the shocking figures in a new report that has left the government red in the face. This comes at a time when the Indian government says its biggest internal threat is the growing Maoist movement… ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Muslims: My fellow American
    Unity Productions Foundation is sponsoring a My Fellow American campaign to upload YouTube videos about Muslims, made by their fellow Americans. If media can damage a people's reputation, media can repair it, too. You can read more about Unity here.
  • Divorce shortens lives
    DickG. sends this, a story about a study of divorce, and its effects on a long life. Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin looked at results of an eight-decade long study, and found that children of divorce on average died five years earlier than children from intact families -- and divorce w ...
  • Today in Courtroom 3B
    The first of a series of civil trials against St. Francis Hospital continued in Waterbury Superior Court in Courtroom 3B, with Judge Dan Shaban presiding. It was the fifth day of testimony. At issue is whether St. Francis can be held responsible for the sexual abuse perpetrated by their head o ...
  • What if God was one of us...
    ...would God like our pop music, or would God be offended? Lady Gaga has a new video coming out, and some religious-types are up in arms, as they were at Madonna's "Like a Prayer," as they were over R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion," etc.Which, as always, raises the eternal question: Is it art?� Or ...
  • If Moses had the internet
    And thanks, Carole, for the link.

Associated Content

  • Women's Rights, Participation Must Be More Tha ...
    In a speech to the 2011 U.S.-Islamic World Forum, Clinton decried the sidelining of women's rights and participation in Egypt and Tunisia after recent revolutions.Contributor: E.E.Evans Published: Apr 13, 2011
  • What We Can Remember, Learn 150 Years After th ...
    The 150th anniversary of the beginning of America's Civil War presents an opportunity to remember, learn, and teach.Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 13, 2011
  • Pennsylvania to Begin Extensive Testing on Pos ...
    State officials are requesting thorough testing be done to make sure fracking water isn't contaminating other water sources.Contributor: Rachel Krech Published: Apr 08, 2011
  • Conviction of Massachusetts Mother in Death of ...
    A jury finds Kristen LaBrie guilty of attempted murder. The case fits a trend in court cases over the years involving parents held accountable and charged in the death of their children.Contributor: Valerie Baldowski Published: Apr 13, 2011
  • Civil War Milestones for April 1861 Begin Sesq ...
    April 12, 1861, was the start of the first Civil War battle at Fort Sumter, S.C.. What were the other milestone events that occurred in the month of April 1861? April 2011 is the 150-year anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Apr 13, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Clouds of 'Impenetrable Gas' Bounce Off Each O ...
    Strange gases could model processes in neutron stars Gases, as we all know, don’t generally offer a lot of resistance. That is, if you try to walk through a cloud of gas, you’ll pass right through it. The same is true for two clouds of gases that meet each other: they pass right through each ot ...
  • World Health Officials Debate Whether To Destr ...
    Humanity’s worst scourge, the smallpox virus, may finally wind up on death row in May if health officials decide to destroy the last known samples. The virus was eliminated in human populations more than 30 years ago, but several international groups want to kill any remaining virus samples sto ...
  • Fresh From Jeopardy, Artificial Intelligence F ...
    It’s entertaining to watch IBM’s Watson make mincemeat of its human counterparts on Jeopardy, but the computing techniques that helped the computer best humans at trivia could soon be saving lives in the ICU. Artemis, a software program built on the back of IBM analytics software similar to tha ...
  • 'First Comprehensive Gene Map' of the Brain Sh ...
    The Allen Institute for Brain Science has completed what it is calling the first comprehensive gene map of the human brain as part of its development of the Allen Human Brain Atlas, a public resource that it hopes will accelerate clinical understandings of how the human brain works. The genetic ...
  • GPS- and WiFi-Enabled Asthma Inhaler Sends Epi ...
    If your asthma is acting up, you’re probably not the only one. But unless you’re standing next to someone who is also huffing his or her inhaler, you wouldn’t know it. That’s a problem for epidemiologists who do their best work when they’re buried in data, and it’s exactly the problem a former ...

Veterans Today

  • ISRAEL LOBBYIST FUNDS US PRESIDENTS, ISRAELI N ...
    Israel Lobbyist Abraham Feinberg�s FBI File Released � FBI files released under the Freedom of Information Act unveil new details about the life of influential lobbyist Abraham Feinberg (1908-1998). Feinberg is best known for funding President Harry S Truman�s �whistle stop� campaign, saving Tru ...
  • UPCOMING ACTION : MOVE OVER AIPAC! Time for a ...
    EXPOSE AIPAC AND USHER IN A NEW FOREIGN POLICY! âNo lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from the American national interest⦠while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical.â – John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt â keynote spe ...
  • Beheading the Flight Lieutenant
    Execution of an Australian pilot by the Japanese – New Guinea, 29 March 1943 – by a Japanese Eye Witness When I found this article there was no source listed for the above title, so I was not sure it was for real. This is the first time I had run across a written Japanese report. I started [...]
  • Spreading Some Bad Seeds?
    Alongside corporate giants like Philip Morris and Wal-Mart, Monsanto Co. is locked in the crosshairs of consumer criticism with nowhere to run.
  • EU lawmakers vote to widen proposed GM crop bans
    (Reuters) - European Union governments should be allowed to ban the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops based on environmental concerns including the prevention of "super weeds," EU lawmakers said on Tuesday.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Post Fukushima, French Still [Heart] Nuclear Power
    Just when a nuclear power revival was supposedly in full flower, troubles with the technology at Japan's Fukushima facility are prompting a global reassessment of its costs and benefits. Yes, it's a virtually carbon-free technology. Yes, it weans you somewhat from importing fossil fuel from perp ...
  • The UN Should Be Anywhere But New York
    Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or offi ...
  • Euro Mideast Intervention = Own the Refugees?
    We've heard this story before. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is usually credited for applying the Pottery Barn principle to foreign intervention. For international readers, Pottery Barn is a housewares retailer in the US. Instead of breaking what the Brits call "crockery," Powell ass ...
  • GOP & Dems Agree: Whack Agricultural Subsidies
    I will soon have more on the shameful budgetary shenanigans being waged Stateside, but something international trade followers can probably cheer is this: both parties' much-ballyhooed fiscal plans involve major rollbacks to American agricultural subsidies. As you would expect, states with large ...
  • Is the US Really More £$%*ed Up Than the UK?
    With the US heading towards a government shutdown by Friday lest they feed the whole unsavoury enterprise more scraps, let's just say that the UK at least has this one over its erstwhile wayward North American insurrectionists. (As if cutting a measly $73 billion from a trillion-plus dollar defi ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Political Theater: It Turns Out That The Repub ...
    Guess what?  The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again.  So what else is new?  The truth is that the great "budget crisis" which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater.  Even the Associated Press is ...
  • Gold, Silver And Oil Are All Skyrocketing And ...
    The following is one statement that you should get used to seeing: "The price of gold set another record today."  Today, spot gold reached a new all-time record of $1461.91 an ounce before settling back a little bit.  Silver is also skyrocketing.  At one point today silver hit $ ...
  • 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The H ...
    Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems.  When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our ...
  • The G-7 Forex Intervention Is A Perfect Exampl ...
    What do governments and central banks do when they don't like what is happening in the financial markets?  They directly intervene and they manipulate the financial markets of course.  On Friday, the central banks of the G-7 acted in concert to drive down the value of the surgin ...
  • Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy ...
    Is the U.S. government on the verge of a massive debt problem?  For years, the U.S. government has been able to borrow all the money that it has wanted to at extremely low interest rates.  But now many of the lending sources that the U.S. government has been depending on are dry ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US Inflation near 10% if old measure is used
    Inflation is still calculated using a “market basket” to determine prices. But since 1980, other factors have been added to reflect a changing economy. Still, it might be useful to measure today’s rate of inflation using 1979 methods. CNBC’s Fast Money gives us the bad news: “Inflation, using th ...
  • EU: ‘Disappointment and anger’ prompted Italia ...
    Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday said comments made by a fellow minister about dropping out of the European Union were made during the heat of the moment amid a spat over illegal immigration. “I don’t think he said anything about leaving Europe. He expressed strong disappointm ...
  • Made in Australia tag is frayed and falling off
    While most pundits – and some senior politicians – stare in wonder at the size of the mining industry’s windfall profits, they are missing a great tragedy happening under their noses. The mining boom has pushed the Australian dollar to historic highs and this, in turn, has pushed manufacturing t ...
  • China praises African Union’s efforts to end L ...
    China on Tuesday voiced its appreciation of the efforts made by the African Union (AU) to end the crisis in war-torn Libya. “We have noted the diplomatic efforts by the AU mediators in Libya in the recent days and the roadmap they proposed to end the crisis,” Hong Lei, a Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
  • Obama to recognise Palestinian state with 1967 ...
    A reported willingness by the White House to vote for the creation of a Palestinian state in the UN signals unprecedented trust issues with Netanyahu’s government and will likely exacerbate US-Israeli relations. US President Barack Obama announced a decision to recognise the creation of a Palest ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-04-13 Doha summit supports Libyan rebels
    TweetThey are starting to celebrate in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi as the news of the decisions taken at the meeting of the Libya International Contact Group earlier today in Doha, Qatar began to filter in. They see most of the decisions taken are supportive of their struggle to overthrow t ...
  • 2011-04-13 Future and Freedom in #Turkey - cab ...
    TweetTurkey is a land of many lands. A checkpoint, a bridge between the East and the West used by many cultures and civilizations across the history of humankind. In many ways, however, the country is not only divided by the classical dichotomy between Europe and Asia, as it is a nation made up ...
  • 2011-04-13 State Dept and Its Openness to Scru ...
    TweetActing Deputy Department Spokesman Mark C. Toner was confronted during a briefing with a few members of the press, who chose to confront the State Department on its handling of human rights especially the current detention and treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning on April 11. In a video of the ...
  • 2011-04-12 Hosni Mubarak and Sons Detained for ...
    TweetFormer Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be detained for 15 days, according to the facebook page of Egypt's prosecutor general, on accusations of corruption and abuse of authority. The facebook statement says the investigation will cover the orders to open fire on demonstrators (covered ...
  • EFF Petition: Who Has Your Back?
    Tweet Petition from EFF On Monday, April 11, 2011, EFF launched a petition to the largest Internet companies asking them to stand with their users and be transparent in their practices. Here's a chart showing how they think each of the companies is doing right now — a gold star indicates that th ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 2012 Election... The Gun Owner's Guide
  • Agenda 21... The 'Planned' Depopulation Projec ...
    �It is my intention to give you clips from documents, many from the United Nations that prove there is a plan to depopulate this planet. ~ Stephanie R. Pasco read more
  • 2011 Government Shutdown... 16 Things You Need ...
    �Is it actually going to happen?� Are we actually going to see 'Government Shutdown 2011'?� Will the streets of Washington D.C. soon be eerily quiet as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are temporarily sent home?� read more
  • New 7.4 Earthquake Hits Japan... Tsunami Warn ...
    A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook the northeast of Japan late on Thursday, and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast already devastated by last month's massive quake and the tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant. read more
  • LIVE WEBCAM… BALD EAGLE NEST!
    � What a sight to behold! Absolutely STUNNING! This bald eagle nest is located at the Duke Farms in Decorah, Iowa. Being able to watch this amazing bird is so rare... Watching the chicks grow up is even rarer! Whatever you do, please take a few minutes watch... Seeing this will remind yo ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

  • China Calls it a Western Plot
    Tony Cartalucci Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion people most certainly is a grievous act of war. Add to that operations unfolding across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and you have a recipe for World War III. W ...
  • Jesse Ventura on Coast to Coast AM 4-11-2011
  • Now, your life is being “bet” on&# ...
    Marti Oakley Activist Post Those medical records that are now available to anyone and everyone who might have a financial interest in your �health� (the same records about you that you yourself can no longer gain access to in most cases),  are for sale to stakeholders, investors and interested p ...
  • Homeopathic skeptics turn ardent supporters
    by: Madeleine Innocent The history of homeopathy is littered with eminent medical doctors who, in their desire to debunk it, have become some of its most ardent supporters. To debunk it, first they had to study it. After an in depth study, they became homeopaths themselves, leaving medicine behi ...
  • Will Big Oil Trigger the New Madrid Megaquake?
    by Zen Gardner Something really fishy, as usual, is going on in the oil industry. And again it’s regarding the Gulf. Several newspapers recently announced that BP was being given permission to restart drilling and would even start new wells in the explosive Macondo region where the last catastro ...

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Energy to Stoke Your Portfolio
    Rising oil prices have been powering share-price increases and profits. These nine stocks are likely to keep the gains coming
  • Giant Steps for China's Net
    Huge valuations given to Baidu and the proposed Yahoo-Alibaba deal show the market for Chinese Web outfits may have reached a turning point
  • Do Online MBAs Make the Grade?
    Their popularity is soaring, but some are diploma mills, making recruiters wary of virtual degrees. Here are tips for picking a good program
  • Don't Count the U.S. Consumer Out
    Despite higher energy prices, we expect consumers to continue spending and the U.S. economy to grow

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Lashaun Pierre tells his horrific story, but o ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Chuck Schumer and the 80 percent principle
    Today, Chuck Schumer had some more friendly advice for John Boehner: “The Speaker seems to be testing out how far he can venture onto a frozen lake before the ice breaks. He should listen to business leaders who are telling him to watch his step. Messing ar ...
  • Lindsay Lohan goes Gotti; prosecutors go Bonannos
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • A mission on earth, thwarted by love, valour a ...
    Toward the beginning of David Greenspan’s Go Back To Where You Are, you might think you’ve stumbled into a Terrence McNally play. The group of good-looking people milling about on the deck of a vacation house seem straight out of Lips Together, Teeth Apart ...
  • Model citizen: Composer Eric Whitacre, dashing ...
    His hair—shoulder-length, dyed blond, and carefully styled, giving the effect of a buttoned-up former surfer dude—takes up its own substantial part of his thoughts. “My hair has become this thing we joke about sometimes, that it has a career of its own," he ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Peace conference draws thousands
    As many as 4,000 people are expected to attend a peace conference in Oslo this weekend sponsored by Islam Net, Norway’s largest muslim organization that researchers claim resembles the Christian missionary movements. The group opposes violence and promotes fundamental muslim values, not to be co ...
  • Royal guards apologize to king
    A few members of Norway’s elite military unit known as the King’s Guards had some explaining to do this week, after they hid during an emergency drill to avoid reporting for duty. They have since apologized to both the king and the country. The alarm rang at the end of the day on Monday, and Dag ...
  • Bondevik’s peace center loses support
    Several of Norway’s biggest companies are dropping their financial support for a peace and human rights center founded by Kjell Magne Bondevik, a former prime minister and head of the Christian Democrats party. Their refusal to renew their sponsorships has prompted Bondevik to apply for state fu ...
  • Grocery store owners fight back
    Norway’s grocery store owners are refusing to take the blame for the country’s high food prices and relatively poor selection of goods. A state commission delivered its long-awaited report on the highly debated issue Wednesday and, as expected, held the retailers largely responsible, but they’re ...
  • State boosts support for Hurtigruten
    Transport Minister Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa announced Wednesday that Norway’s famed coastal shipping line Hurtigruten will continue to call at all its 34 ports between Bergen and Kirkenes, all year long. The “status quo” service comes only after Kleppa agreed to boost taxpayer support for the hi ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Fukushima Nuclear Crisis – Chronicle of a Disa ...
    Fukushima is just one among many similar disasters waiting to happen worldwide; governments and regulators have systematically downplayed the risks and hidden the real costs of nuclear power; there is no place for nuclear in a truly green energy portfolio; furthermore, there is a lot we can do t ...
  • Why You Should Grow and Produce Your Own Food
    by Elisabeth Fekonia There is a definite trend for people to question the quality of shop bought food — that is, food grown with chemical inputs. Younger mothers of small children, in particular, are getting very conscious of the chemical residues, low nutritional status and additives in our mo ...
  • Sustainable Agriculture Urgently Needed, UN Ag ...
    There is now widespread recognition that a rapid shift from industrial monoculture to sustainable farming is needed to save the climate and guarantee food security for all. by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. Photo � Craig Mackintosh A rapid and significant shift from conventional, industrial, monoculture ...
  • Smart Planning for the Global Family
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute When it comes to population growth, the United Nations has three primary projections. The medium projection, the one most commonly used, has world population reaching 9.2 billion by 2050. The high one reaches 10.5 billion. The low projection, which assu ...
  • Lessons from an Urban Back Yard Food Forest Ex ...
    Editor’s Note: Some of you may remember my Magic in Melbourne post, where I covered the back yard of a certain urban wizard named Angelo, and his sidekick Louie. Well, Angelo gives us a great update on his progress below. It’s a very inspiring read, as I’m sure you’ll discover. In our modern, ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Burqa ban turns a right into a crime
    The ban imposed by French President Sarkozy on wearing a face-covering veil, or niqab, is simply dangerous gesture politics, representing little more than pandering to the far right in France. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pet rescuers brave Fukushima danger zone
    The image was horrific: A whimpering beagle, ribs showing through its fur, tethered to a post inside the no-go zone around the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 10 Weirdest Ways that People Manage Stress
    Stress is a normal human reaction to life's pressures and challenges. We spend most of our lives trying to figure out the best ways to avoid stress and keep it under control with exercise, sleep, a balanced diet and deep breathing exercises. ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • Loch Fossils Show Life Harnessed Sun and Sex E ...
    A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield, the University of Oxford and Boston College, who are exploring rocks around Loch Torridon, have discovered the remarkably preserved remains of organisms that once lived on the bottom of ancient lake..Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 15 Most Famous Cafes in the Literary World
    Some of the most famous novels and literary moments of all time were written and inspired by cafes in Europe. From the American ex-pat writers in Paris to Henrik Ibsen's continental travels, cafes were a place to work while socializing, building stories, Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

  • China Calls it a Western Plot
    Tony Cartalucci Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion people most certainly is a grievous act of war. Add to that operations unfolding across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and you have a recipe for World War III. W ...
  • Jesse Ventura on Coast to Coast AM 4-11-2011
  • Now, your life is being “bet” on&# ...
    Marti Oakley Activist Post Those medical records that are now available to anyone and everyone who might have a financial interest in your �health� (the same records about you that you yourself can no longer gain access to in most cases),  are for sale to stakeholders, investors and interested p ...
  • Homeopathic skeptics turn ardent supporters
    by: Madeleine Innocent The history of homeopathy is littered with eminent medical doctors who, in their desire to debunk it, have become some of its most ardent supporters. To debunk it, first they had to study it. After an in depth study, they became homeopaths themselves, leaving medicine behi ...
  • Will Big Oil Trigger the New Madrid Megaquake?
    by Zen Gardner Something really fishy, as usual, is going on in the oil industry. And again it’s regarding the Gulf. Several newspapers recently announced that BP was being given permission to restart drilling and would even start new wells in the explosive Macondo region where the last catastro ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Picasso’s Erotic Code
    A major new exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery tracks the affair between Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, who became his mistress at 17, bore him a child, and committed suicide after his death, 50 years after they met. John Richardson tells the love story behind Walterâs encoded appearances i ...
  • How Did Dinosaurs Have Sex?
    Dino-style. By Brian Palmer The American Museum of Natural History in New York will unveil an exhibition of the world’s largest dinosaurs this Saturday. Some visitors may wonder how the creatures could ever eat enough to sustain their size, but the Explainer’s mind is in the Jurassic gutter. How ...
  • Mark Zuckerberg Invented Facebook
    Get over it. By Farhad Manjoo Cameron (center) and Tyler Winklevoss (right) Who came up with the idea for Facebook? It’s always been a shady story. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s wunderkind CEO, has said that the social network was his own creation, something he designed and built while he was a ...
  • E-Mails Prove Zuck Stole 50 Percent of Faceboo ...
    By Ryan Singel A businessman who claims Mark Zuckerberg scammed him out of a $2,000 controlling interest in Facebook has amended his federal lawsuit, in an attempt to cash in on a company now valued at $65 billion. Paul Ceglia, a New York businessman with a sketchy past, says he owns half of Fac ...
  • Unpaid Blogger Hits ‘Slave Owner’ ...
    By Sam Gustin Arianna Huffington appears as a panelist for Tavis Smiley’s America’s Next Chapter in January in Washington. Photo: Earl Gibson III/AP Arianna Huffington is like a âslave owner on a plantation of bloggers,â according to the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit that seeks more t ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
    Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
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    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
  • The legacy of Phineas Gage
    FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Leon Ashby on the Carbon Tax
    Leon Ashby, President of the Australian Climate Sceptics, is playing a pivotal role in the furious debate over the planned introduction of a Carbon Tax by the Gillard Labor government, scheduled to go into effect on 1st July 2012. Carbon Tax protests have been scheduled across the nation on 23 ...
  • TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
    There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...
  • Duelling carbon tax rallies in Sydney - 2nd Ap ...
    Hereward Fenton reports on pro and anti carbon tax rallies held in Sydney on 2 April 2011. Some observations about the events: the anti-carbon tax protest was composed of a wide demographic in terms of age, education and occupation, whereas the pro carbon tax group appeared to be mainly co ...
  • Goldstone’s shameful U-turn
    Judge Richard Goldstone in the Gaza Strip, June 2009. (UN Photo) "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone's much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might ...
  • The 9/11 truth movement needs leaders
    The 9/11 truth movement in Australia desperately needs YOUR help. We need YOU to take charge, step up and LEAD. The truth is, while a handful have exhausted both their energy and finances, thousands of others have just looked on and done NOTHING to help us. If you are one of those people, th ...

Beacon

  • Studies Begin to Reveal Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
    Caesar grunts, damselfish and amberjacks in the Gulf of Mexico. � Oceana/Carlos Suarez A week from today marks the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and the effects of the spill on the gulf�s ecosystems and wildlife are beginning to come into view, though the full effects won�t be u ...
  • Guest Post: My Orca Summer
    Orcas near Hanson Island. Photo courtesy of Emily Goldstein. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we�re featuring a guest post by 2009 finalist Emily Goldstein about her summer trip to the OrcaLab in British Columbia. Last summer I was privilege ...
  • Vote for Oceana to Win $100K from Garnier!
    We could win $100,000 - but we need your votes. Garnier is donating $100,000 to EarthShare, an organization that represents over 400 non-profits, including Oceana. Vote for clean water and you could help Oceana win $100,000 to share with two other great organizations, American Rivers and S ...
  • Japan’s Radiation Leak Causes Fishing and Ship ...
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since our first post about the impacts of Japan�s nuclear crisis on the oceans, a lot has happened, but many questions remain and the situation is constantly changing. As the cooling systems for the injured reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle ...
  • Where Are They Now?: Ocean Hero Jay Holcomb
    Jay Holcomb with a pelican patient. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Throughout the nomination period, which ends April 27, I’ll be featuring a few of the past winners and finalists to get you inspired. Last week I updated you on last year’s Junior ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Aegates Islands Ambush. The End Of The Fir ...
    Rome and Carthage, two great seagoing nations with huge armies and tremendous wealth both existed within each others sphere of influence. Corvus The three major wars fought between them was inevitable. The outcomes were not. But the first war went to the Romans. This was the last battle. Carthag ...
  • Great Old Photos Of X Planes From Edwards AFB
    F-94 Protoytype X-3 Supersonic Vehicle Prototype
  • What Ever Happened To The Vikings In North Ame ...
    Viking Ships Forget Moses praying in the Desert, Luther getting temperamental at Wittenberg, the sword of Islam lifting above Medina, the signing of the Bill of Rights, the opening of the Bridgewater Canal and the explosion of Little Boy at Hiroshima. In the last three thousand years by fa ...
  • Please Donate.
    Please Donate On the right sidebar is a Donate PayPal tab. Please help me keep this blog going. Just click on the tab and keep in mind we accept dollars, or anything that has an equivalent in dollars. It takes a lot of research and we are supporting three old pugs, one which is incontinent AND b ...
  • Female Computers
    Click here to view the embedded video.   “… the story of four women ‘computers,’ presenting their exhilarating successes in aiding the war effort and the moral dilemmas they faced. WWII ushered in a new era for women in the workforce, including female mathematicians. In 1942, the United State ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Fool Me Once… Fool Me Twice
    Howard Fineman, a political veteran, in his most seriously impressed voice, said on MSNBC yesterday that when he was at the White House everyone was in a “feisty, almost angry mood.” Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow said that Pres. Obama’s speech was “perhaps an unexpectedly satisfying spee ...
  • Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Disembowels Jon Kyl
    #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement If you’re confused about the hash tag above, I refer you to Stephen Colbert. Also see Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator from the great state of New York. Compliments of the New York Observer: “For my friends and colleagues, this is a factual statement â current ...
  • Don’t Be Desperate, Reject
    Paul Krugman isn’t the only one “disheartened”. He even offered up a part 3, complete with cat snark. Meanwhile, the Republicans celebrate.Why did Tea Partiers win such a major victory? Money, for starters. The Tea Party’s generously funded by billionaires like the Koch Brothers, and ultra-cons ...
  • If Only Jawboning Was Currency
    Update: I should probably say, I could live with this as an end result. If this becomes the left pole, and the center is halfway between this and Ryan, then no â better to pursue the zero option of just doing nothing and letting the Bush tax cuts as a whole expire. – Paul KrugmanThe [...]
  • The Sunday Early Bird Round-Up
    Good morning and welcome to Sunday. On this day in history, April 10, 1912, the ill-fated Titanic set out on it’s maiden voyage. I’ve rounded up some news so you don’t have to: ~The GOP continues to put its thumb on the scales in favor of big business. Because, you know, if they don’t look out ...

Hudson New York

  • France: Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect
    France's much-debated "burqa ban" entered into force on April 11. The new law, which prohibits the wearing of Islamic body-covering burqas and face-covering niqabs in all public spaces in France, comes amid rising frustration that the country's estimated
  • Israel Asks Turkey to Stop Gaza-Bound Flotilla
    ISRAEL URGES TURKEY TO STOP CONVOY TO GAZA Israel has urged Turkey not to allow a human-rights organization to dispatch another aid convoy to Gaza, in a move to avert a repetition of last year's crisis on the Mavi Marmara aid ship. "We have explained our
  • The Middle East Mindset
    It is now clear why Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have refused negotiations with Israel for more than a year, even after Israel agreed to freeze Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem: they have been busy working behind the
  • Iran's Ties With Venezuela: US Concerned, and ...
    The head of the US Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser, said - in a hearing at the US Senate Armed Services Committee on April 5th - the US is concerned about the weekly direct flights between Iran and Venezuela. There are good reasons to worry.
  • Turkey Prepares New Gaza Flotilla
    NEW GAZA FLOTILLA 'MUST BE STOPPED' ISRAELI PM SAYS The planned dispatch of a flotilla of ships attempting to break the blockade on Gaza "must be stopped," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of European representatives Monday.

Urban Survival

  • Dead Cat Bounce or Champion Bull?
    Pappy used to say “You can’t do a good job of something, unless you have the right hat…”  So, for working on the car he had a mechanics hat, work-work was a red fire helmet, fishing was a baseball cap … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Wednesday at the WuJo
    About midweek, seems like my “things I’ve been meaning to mention” file begins to look a bit overstuffed and should be cleared out.  Much of it deals with the WuJo – the dojo where material reality meets with sober observation … Continue reading →
  • Painting the Tape Day
    I was busy enough Monday that I didn’t have to bite my tongue to hold back until this morning’s column to say this, but the miscreants down on Wall Street (which we know to be located several miles past the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Personal Motivation Industry
    Somewhere along in our morning chats, I’m sure that I’ve mentioned my “wacked out” theory that a brain is like any other piece of machinery:  It needs to have a certain amount of input of this type and that to … Continue reading →
  • Watch the Metals Week
    First thing out of the bag this morning, gold had dropped about $10 bucks, but silver was trying to hang onto its recent push over $41 – and just a shade under $42 briefly, which gets us to our first … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Mike Rivero : Assets are more important than you
    Mike Rivero : Assets are more important than you Mike Rivero : ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.trends2012.co.cc for the full story ]]
  • Fukushima now officially as bad as Chernobyl
    Just a month after the disaster of Fukushima now the authorities... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.trends2012.co.cc for the full story ]]
  • Gerald Celente The Ballot box is rigged
    Gerald Celente on The Nutrimedical Report with Dr. Bill Deagle 07 Apr... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.trends2012.co.cc for the full story ]]
  • Links for 2011-04-09 [del.icio.us]
    Tim Alexander and Gerald Celente on Dr Deagle Show - 07 Apr 2011 Donald Trump 2012 White House Race Underway Lindsey Williams The Gold and Silver Bull Run just started Peter Schiff on The Government shutdown April 9th 2011 Marc Faber : Everybody wants to rip off the system in America Moha ...
  • Links for 2011-04-08 [del.icio.us]
    The Fall of America - 2012 begins a Trajectory of No Return Marc Faber on Goldseek Radio - April 6, 2011 Mohamed El-Erian on Pimco the decision to dump U.S. treasuries Nassim Taleb : Individuality in a Mass Age Gold jumps to a new record and Silver crosses $40/oz Which Silver ETFs are bet ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Wells Fargo Tests Microchip Credit Cards for ...
    Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), the U.S. bank with the most branches, is testing microchip-embedded credit cards with frequent travelers to address complaints of customers who have trouble using their cards abroad.
  • One Fat-Cat Corporation at a Time
    The answer is by systematically boycotting and replacing them with local alternatives. You can actually start today, by boycotting corporations you may not have even considered part of this nefarious agenda and corporations you not only can certainly live without, but would be better off for it ...
  • Police Increasingly Peeping at E-Mail, Instan ...
    Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher.
  • Rebels Hijack Gadhafi’s Phone Network
    Read, U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators for context and then you tell me who you think pulled this off. While the story below describes a much different technical solution than what’s described in the latter story, there’s a lot happening that’s spooky.
  • US-backed Bahrain Regime Tortures, Murders Cr ...
    The regime of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in Bahrain, which the Obama administration backs to the hilt, is continuing its violent repression of political opposition. The Khalifa regime imposed a state of emergency, after its security forces, backed by troops from Saudi Arabia and the United A ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • EU calls sanctions on Iranian officials
    Summary: The European Union has imposed a new round of sanctions, including asset freeze and travel bans, against 32 Iranian officials over what they claim as human rights abuses. source: PressTVread more
  • Iran to Build Four or Five Nuclear Research Re ...
    Summary: Tehran ReactorIranian AEO chief Fereydoon Davani has announced today that the Iranian government intends to build four or five nuclear research reactors over the “next few years.” The hope is that one of the reactors will be online within five years. source: AntiWar.comread more
  • EGYPT, IRAN, AND THE MIDDLE EAST’S EVOLVING BA ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsWe think that Egypt under a post-Mubarak political order will be strongly inclined to pursue better relations with the Islamic Republic and other members of the Middle East’s “resistance bloc”. (This trend is clearly captured by the various points in Atwan’s opinion p ...
  • Three Mideast Stink Bombs
    Summary: Sharmine Narwani Popular revolts may be spinning through the Arab world with a fervor and determination not seen in decades, but efforts to sidetrack the reform momentum are also gaining strength. Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at ev ...
  • Israeli Official Admits to Tuesday Attack on Sudan
    Summary: 'Not Our First Time There,' Confirms Military Official source: Antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Supernova Shockwaves in Interstellar Clouds Di ...
    The European Space Agency's Herschel observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Astronomers were fascinated to discover that each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that they may result from interstellar sonic booms...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' April Contest -Win a Free $ ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
  • NASA's New Ability to Measure Age of Stars a H ...
    NASA's Kepler space telescope has taken a huge step towards measuring the ages of 500 sun-like stars, which will be a huge help to determines whether a star's planets are old enough for intelligent life to have evolved. Stars vibrate...
  • Antarctica Telescope Finds Most Massive Distan ...
    Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientists have discovered the most massive distant cluster known, SPT-CLJ2106-5844, weighing in at 1.3 thousand trillion solar masses (more than about a thousand times the Milky Way's mass). This makes it the most massive object currently...
  • Weekend Feature: 40-Year-Old Mystery of Massiv ...
    Studies have shown that neutron stars often exist as pairs on the fringes of galaxies, and that they collide frequently, sometimes involving a black hole, also a stellar remnant but one that is much more dense. Neutron stars are often...

Natural News

  • Super bug breakthrough -- manuka honey may rev ...
    (NaturalNews) In less than a week, three different research studies have been released about antibiotic-resistant super bugs. Two were issued as nothing less than dire warnings. For example, as NaturalNews covered earlier, UK scientists are calling for the "urgent need for global action" due to ...
  • CI files legal complaint against Herbruck's Po ...
    (NaturalNews) The growing popularity of organic food over the past several decades has positively led to both increased availability and affordability. It has also, however, led to the emergence of "organic" factory farm imposters trying to take advantage of the system by cutting corners and sel ...
  • Choose organics to avoid artificial dyes, pest ...
    (NaturalNews) The US food supply is riddled with petroleum-based, artificial food dyes and synthetic chemical pesticides, both of which have been linked to causing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other behavioral problems in children. So in order to avoid them, the Organic Tr ...
  • Woman convicted of murder could face life in p ...
    (NaturalNews) The US justice system has turned over a new leaf in judicial insanity with the recent murder conviction of Kristen LaBrie, a 38-year-old woman whose autistic son died of cancer in 2009. According to Essex District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts, LaBrie was found guilty on all c ...
  • Public outcry leads to passage of amended SB 3 ...
    (NaturalNews) Last week, NaturalNews broke the story about what appeared to be a covert attempt at further restricting health freedom in North Carolina. The original version of Senate Bill 31 would have increased the penalty for in-state, non-licensed practitioners of alternative medicine from a ...

Threat Level

  • With Court Order, FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botn ...
    Updated 4:30 p.m. with information about the late-afternoon filing from the government, and with comment from EFF. In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of pri ...
  • Legislation Would Let You Opt Out of Online We ...
    Sens. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) proposed online privacy legislation Tuesday that for the first time would give web users the right to demand they not be tracked online. Still, the measure was met with resistance from privacy advocates who said the Commercial Priva ...
  • Sony Settles PlayStation Hacking Lawsuit
    Sony on Monday dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show. Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, Hotz was a ...
  • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
    Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
  • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
    A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Real Standard for Seriousness on the Debt
    Last week, the political chattering classes praised Republican Paul Ryan's "serious" budget proposal to slash $4.3 trillion in spending in order to fund yet another round of upper-income tax cuts. But over just the past few days, the New York Times' David Leonhardt, Slate's Annie Lowery and Ezr ...
  • In Budget Deal, GOP Handcuffs the IRS. Again.
    Among the $39 billion in spending cuts contained in the budget deal reached last, one stands out as perhaps the most cynical - and counterproductive. Republicans insisted that the Internal Revenue Service receive no additional funding through September, rebuffing President Obama's request for a ...
  • Boehner's Double-Dealing on the Debt Ceiling
    When George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office, Republican majorities in Congress voted seven times to increase the U.S. debt ceiling. That recent history, combined with the inconvenient truth that the national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under Bush, may have prompted then Mi ...
  • Meanwhile in the UK, the Hopelessness of Austerity
    In the aftermath of Friday's budget agreement, it's no longer a question of whether the U.S. is going to slash spending, but where, when and by how much. On the heels of the $38.5 billion in cuts to discretionary, non-defense spending Obama adviser David Plouffe deemed "draconian", President Ob ...
  • Grant and the Enduring Lessons of Appomattox
    On April 12th, Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War. The reenactors will be out in force, though their numbers will be dwarfed by the revisionists pretending the conflict was about anything else but slavery. Even as the ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Pity the Poor Tea Partier!
    Rep. Paul Ryan's budget vows to eliminate today's Medicare, a "cause" some Tea Partiers may live to regret, warns Robert Parry. April 12, 2011
  • Reviving Ghosts of a 'Free-Market' Past
    The United States appears determined to relive the mistakes of Charles Dickens's bleak era, observes Lawrence Davidson. April 12, 2011
  • Will NATO's War in Libya Save Lives?
    President Obama justified the bombing of Libya to save civilian lives but a protracted war could cause more death, says Ivan Eland. April 12, 2011
  • More Twists and Turns in Wisconsin
    The mystery of the Wisconsin judicial election deepens as a Democratic vote counter questions the official story, notes Lisa Pease. April 12, 2011
  • Why Americans Are So Easily Conned
    Many Americans are manipulated into accepting their own impotence toward changing the dark fate ahead, warns Phil Rockstroh. April 11, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Radioactive Waste Could Be Rumbling Through Yo ...
    With the passage of SB 1504 in the Texas Senate, radioactive waste could soon be barreling down Texas highways and through our neighborhoods by way of Interstate 10 through Houston, San Antonio and El Paso; I-20 and I-30 though Dallas and Forth Worth, Midland and Odessa ; and I-27 though Lubbock ...
  • Texas nuclear plants’ ability to handle a blackout
    A 2003 Nuclear Regulatory Commission report shows the susceptibility of US nuclear power plants to blackouts that could lead to core damage. Click here to read the 2003 NRC report and click here to read the 2005 re-evaluation report.  Draw your own conclusions but be warned, these are not user f ...
  • Environmental Hypocrisy
    Over the past year, there have been big battles in our big State of Texas over Texans’ right to keep the feds out of our business. Governor Perry’s allies in the state’s leadership and his appointed commissioners are fighting the EPA’s Clean Air Act, and the Governor recently released a book cal ...
  • TLR protesters [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • TLR has dancing H. Simmons [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Jesus crucifixion nails discovered
    Simcha Jacobovici believes he has located two of the nails used in the crucifixion of Jesus. In a new film entitled "The Nails of the Cross", Jacobovi...
  • Did the Exodus really happen ?
    Did Moses really lead the Israelites out of Egypt and were there really ten plagues ? One religious author has provided textual proof that the Israeli...
  • Georgian ancient stone mystery solved
    Proof has been found to suggest that native Puerto Ricans and Cubans once lived in North America. Ancient rock paintings once thought to be of Native ...
  • 50th anniversary of the first man in space
    50 years ago today cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history when he became the first ever human in space. Limited to a single orbit due to not knowing the ...
  • Is alien life being deliberately discreet ?
    Could extraterrestrial life be geared towards an evolutionary tendancy for inconspicuousness ? Scientists have debated about possible reasons we have ...

Grassroots

  • Attacks on Gaza: Global silence as civilians l ...
    3408052880_70534aab52_b.jpg After a relatively quiet few months in Gaza, conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians have erupted anew, with each side claiming retaliation rights. Flexing its superior military might�and causing mighty dama ...
  • Haitians Still Seek to Lead Reconstruction Efforts
    4752513083_4efa842e78_b.jpg Last year, significant international donors (including several nations and financial institutions) gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss the massive reconstruction task ahead of them ...
  • The Coming Global Food Fight
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Robin Broad is a Professor of International Development at American University in Washington, D.C. and has worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Congress. John Cavanag ...
  • Closure in Beit Ommar violates resource rights
    4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b.jpg This article, Israel lays Gaza-like siege on West Bank village, highlights many threats to resource rights in Palestine, as the people living there have diminishing access to land, water, and food. These develop ...
  • Mourning the death of a colleague, and fearing ...
    juliano.jpg Sometimes the work we engage in as people who believe in a just peace in the face of a brutal world is quite simply heart breaking. Today is such a day.read more

Climate

  • U.S. Govt to Review Plans to Develop Oil Shale ...
    Source:� Reuters The Obama administration said on Wednesday it will "take a fresh look" at plans issued under the prior Bush administration to develop commercial oil shale and tar sands in three U.S. states.
  • Republicans Push Bills to Boost Offshore Oil D ...
    Source:� Reuters Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House on Wednesday pushed a trio of bills through a congressional committee that would boost offshore oil drilling and ease some regulations on oil companies.
  • Fracking for Natural Gas With Diesel Violated ...
    Source:� GreenWire Oil and gas drillers who injected diesel fuel during hydraulic fracturing without a permit broke the law, a U.S. EPA official said.
  • U.S. on Track to Meet 1 Million Plug-In Autos ...
    Source:� Reuters President Barack Obama's goal of having 1 million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015 is on its way to being met, a Department of Energy official said on Wednesday.
  • BP Given More Time for Arctic Deal
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Oil major BP said that it has agreed with Rosneft to extend the deadline for its troubled $16 billion deal to explore for oil in the Russian Arctic agreement to May 16.

GreenBiz

  • Timberland Cuts GHGs 38%, Falls Short on Aggre ...
    Record temperatures and an increase in business travel as the economy recovered crimped the outdoor gear company's plans to halve its 2006 carbon footprint by 2010.
  • 4 Reasons Why You Can't Afford Not to Curb Ene ...
    This nation's energy policy has long been disjointed, shortsighted and largely ineffective. We know it, we say it, but we continue to ignore it. It's well past time to continue doing so, and we need to pursue solutions like practical environmentalism to tackle the problem.
  • WBCSD Tool Helps Companies Assess Value of Eco ...
    The new Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (CEV) helps companies understand the benefits of the ecosystem services their companies depend on.
  • Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation
    A framework to enhance business understanding of the benefits and value of ecosystem services, such as fresh water, food, fiber and natural hazard protection.
  • Avon, Dunkin' Among Firms Enlisting in EDF's C ...
    Avon, Dunkin' Brands, Citigroup and Facebook are the among the 49 firms participating in the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps this summer as the program that brings fresh eyes to energy efficiency challenges enters its fourth year.

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • Earthquakes and Climate Change
    One would not necessarily assume that the recent earthquake activity around the globe these past few years is in any way, shape or form related to climate change. It just seems implausible that warming seas and a warming atmosphere, the drivers of climate change, would have any effect on the sl ...
  • A Nod is as Good as a Wink...
    There is logic in advocating for policies that don't have any realistic chance of being enacted in the short-term. It's never wrong to ask politicians to the do the right thing, whether it is to free the slaves, give women the vote, end the war in Vietnam, or to close the prison in Guantanamo. ...
  • Obama's Budget Speech
    Wow. The president basically got Paul Krugman to shut the eff up and applaud. I didn't think it was possible. As for me, I did catch the speech but I was packing up to run to the doctor's office, pharmacy, etc., and so I couldn't really concentrate on the substance. Sylistically, it seemed l ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Lindsey Graham
    I have to agree with Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler. Sen. Lindsey Graham does sound like a petulant child for complaining about a $50,000 cut in the budget that eliminates funding for a study on deepening Charleston's port. "If it's that important to his state, perhaps Senator ...
  • Radiation in our Milk and Water
    This report is a bit alarmist, but they do have a point. Iodine-131 may have a half-life of eight days, but it is not the only radioactive particle invading our food supply. You can see how this is reported here, where the government acknowledges that Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 have been discov ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Does Seasonal Sneezing Lower Your Mood?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers at the University of Maryland discovered a link between seasonal allergies and depression. Allergies can cause a host of symptoms, including sleeplessness, which lower a person’s feeling of wellbeing. In addition, allergies are known to cause the relea ...
  • When to Share What
    By Susanne M. Dillmann, Psy.D., Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susanne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile We, the human species, are a social bunch; which is of course a wonderful, important and vital component to our existence, however our soci ...
  • The Angry Bus
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile My yogi friend Leila told me this story: It was a horrible cold rainy day in New York City, and Leila was waiting for the bus. Suddenly a woman came up to her ...
  • “There’s a Bully in All of Us” – Free Web Conf ...
    A GoodTherapy.org Announcement Are you interested in the topic of bullying? Worried about how bullying is affecting you or your kids? Wondering what can be done about bullying? This Friday, April 15th at 4:00 p.m. Pacific (7:00 p.m. Eastern), GoodTherapy.org will be hosting There’s a Bully in Al ...
  • Should Women Act Like Men to Get Ahead?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research explores the effects of women who display male behavior in the workplace. “Sometimes you need to be more extreme, depending on the situation. It’s not that aggressive women need to scale it back and act like a lady — in certain situations they need to ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop removal ban dies in Tenn. Senate - ...
    Mountaintop removal ban dies in Tenn. Senate BusinessWeek This year's effort to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee has failed in a Senate committee. The Senate Environment and Conservation Committee voted 6-2 against the bill sponsored by Sen. Eric Stewart of Winchester after a ne ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA ...
    Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next ... Huffington Post (blog) "Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement" is a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia lead ...
  • Susan Sarandon Asks Banks To Stop Funding Moun ...
    Care2.com (blog) Susan Sarandon Asks Banks To Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal (Video) Care2.com (blog) Last year, a study published by the Sierra Club and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) revealed nine major banks that had provided almost $4 billion in loans and underwriting to companies en ...
  • As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes ...
    As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes Pittsburgh Post Gazette This includes mountaintop removal -- or, as the industry prefers to call it, mountaintop mining -- a now-commonplace technique that remains startling in its capacity to change things. Various government regulations require t ...
  • National Problem Deserves National Answer: Vir ...
    National Problem Deserves National Answer: Virginia Leader Kathy Selvage on ... AlterNet Editor's Note: The following is part of �Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement,� a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, inc ...

Memeorandum

  • Share of population working (Dennis Cauchon/US ...
    Dennis Cauchon / USA Today: Share of population working  —  Roll over each state to see the share of the population working in 2010:  —  Sources: USA TODAY, Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics  —  The share of the population that is working fell to its lowest level last year since women started ...
  • Fireworks expected as Gov. Walker heads to Hil ...
    Kevin Bogardus / The Hill: Fireworks expected as Gov. Walker heads to Hill to talk unions  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) could be in for a rowdy welcome from unions and liberal groups when he comes to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify about his work on reducing the state's budget deficit.
  • In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Fi ...
    New York Times: In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures  —  It is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted?
  • Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise; Inflation Pr ...
    CNBC: Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise; Inflation Pressure Grows  —  New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, bouncing back above the key 400,000 level, while core producer prices clumbed faster than expected in March, government reports showed on Thursday.
  • The Presidential Divider - Obama's toxic speec ...
    Wall Street Journal: The Presidential Divider  —  Obama's toxic speech and even worse plan for deficits and debt.  —  Did someone move the 2012 election to June 1?  We ask because President Obama's extraordinary response to Paul Ryan's budget yesterday—with its blistering partisanship and mult ...

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China Dialogue

  • Zijin’s poisoned legacy
    A toxic spill last year blackened the name of Chinese metals giant Zijin Mining. But, in Fujian, its broken promises and environmental failures have a longer history, writes Yang Chuanmin, joint winner of the in-depth reporting category at the 2011 China Environmental Press Awards.A serious poll ...
  • A world of seven billion (1)
    This year, planet Earth will reach a new population milestone. Environmental thinkers say the real problem isn’t so much the extra people, but the accompanying boom in consumption. Leo Hickman reports.Later this year – on 31 October, to be precise – a boy will be born in a rural village in the I ...
  • A world of seven billion (2)
    A rising population brings opportunities and challenges. “Best-performing” Istanbul – a megacity spanning two continents -- believes itself to be a beacon of both successful and rapid growth, writes Leo Hickman.Rotating spotlights illuminate the heavy rain clouds above a former coal-fired power ...
  • Diversity in the food system
    Pests and diseases thrive in monocultures. But even in small areas, say Vanessa Arcara and Jules Pretty, a mixture of crops can produce a range of benefits -- and remarkable synergies.The following extract, published with permission, is from the Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2011: In ...
  • Joining forces on the grasslands
    Cooperative herding in Inner Mongolia embodies the spirit of traditional nomad culture – it is also a path to economic development and grassland protection, writes Zhou Wei.This winter, continuous snows covered the pastures of Inner Mongolia’s East Ujumchin Banner. On the phone to Hobshalt, I co ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • State Legislative Trends: Hostility to Abortio ...
    Written by Rachel Gold and Elizabeth Nash for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. Through the end of March, legislators have introduced 916 measures related to reproductive health and rights in the 49 legislatures that have convened their regu ...
  • Getting Real on Budgets—and Who Won’t Budge
    If you’re like me, the word “budget” brings to mind a nice nap. Still, it’s those snoozers that invariably have the most profound consequences for all of us. And now, with the federal debt debate raging, is the time to make a strong cup of coffee, rub your eyes, and focus. Here’s a new [...] ...
  • What Crucial Environment and Health Programs W ...
    Essentially, the environment, endangered species, the sick, and the poor all lose out -- and corporations and the wealthy win.
  • The Racist Anti-Abortion Group That Criminaliz ...
    Groups like "Life Always" don't care about black people -- certainly not about what happens to black babies after they are born.
  • Tax Day Is Less Than a Week Away. How Much Wil ...
    This Monday, April 18, is Tax Day 2011. Considering all the noise coming from Washington, D.C., about deficits and debt, you might think youâd be paying less this year for wars you donât support. Youâd be wrong. Take a look at Rethink Afghanistanâs War Tax Calculator and see just how much youâre ...

Threat Level

  • With Court Order, FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botn ...
    Updated 4:30 p.m. with information about the late-afternoon filing from the government, and with comment from EFF. In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of pri ...
  • Legislation Would Let You Opt Out of Online We ...
    Sens. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) proposed online privacy legislation Tuesday that for the first time would give web users the right to demand they not be tracked online. Still, the measure was met with resistance from privacy advocates who said the Commercial Priva ...
  • Sony Settles PlayStation Hacking Lawsuit
    Sony on Monday dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show. Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, Hotz was a ...
  • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
    Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
  • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
    A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Q+A-Risks at each reactor of Japan's stricken ...
    TOKYO, April 14 (Reuters) - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the centre of Japan's crisis has six reactors. The plant is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
  • Gaddafi's forces hit Misrata amid diplomatic d ...
    BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces fired a hail of rockets into the besieged city of Misrata on Thursday, rebels said, as diplomatic disputes over Western bombing in Libya shadowed the fighting on the ground.
  • Deal struck to try to calm restive Syrian city
    AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian authorities sought to defuse tensions in Banias by agreeing to withdraw the feared secret police from the restive coastal city replacing them with army patrols and to free imprisoned pro-democracy protesters.
  • BRICS demand global monetary shake-up, greater ...
    SANYA, China (Reuters) - The BRICS group of emerging-market powers kept up the pressure on Thursday for a revamped global monetary system that relies less on the dollar and for a louder voice in international financial institutions.
  • UPDATE 1-Geithner says Congress will pass debt ...
    WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that Congress will allow the country to borrow more by agreeing to increase the $14.3 trillion debt limit.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #497
    Interview with Finnish ex-counterespionage officer. European Union sent intelligence officers to Libya. Talks aimed at mending rift between CIA and ISI. Continue reading →
  • West German defector dies in Moscow
    A senior West German counterintelligence official, whose 1985 defection to the Soviet bloc shocked Western intelligence, has died in Moscow. Continue reading →
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  • Australian Labour Party leader worked for Sovi ...
    One of Australiaâs leading intelligence historians has said that Herbert V. Evatt, who led the Australian Labour Party in the 1950s, operated as a secret agent for the Soviet Union. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Mistreatment of Manning Criticized by UN Tortu ...
    Retired Colonel: “Obama could end torture with one phone call." For Immediate Release For Further Information Jeff Paterson Kevin Zeese Bradley Manning Support Network press@bradleymanning.org 1-202-640-4388 Mistreatment of Manning Criticized by Leading Law Professors & UN Torture Investig ...
  • Goldstone Commission Members Affirm Study Findings
    Goldstone Commission Members Affirm Study Findings - by Stephen Lendman A previous article addressed chairman Richard Goldstone's fall from grace, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/richard-goldstones-fall-from-grace... It discussed his shameless retractio ...
  • The Battle Over PTSD
    By John Grant The battle over the meaning of a traumatic experience is fought in the arena of political discourse, popular culture and scholarly debate. The outcome of this battle shapes the rhetoric of the dominant culture and influences future political action. --Kali Tal, Worlds Of Hurt: ...
  • The Israelis Mount a Diplomatic Offensive to S ...
    While IDF attacks Gaza, Israeli Diplomats Furiously Attempting to Halt the Gaza Freedom Flotilla By Ann Wright Israeli Diplomats Urged Countries to Stop the Gaza Flotilla While the Israeli military pounded Gaza in the past month killing 14 Palestinians and wounding 52 including 19 children, Isra ...
  • German Parliament Writes to Obama About Abuse ...
    On April 12th, the Human Rights Commission of the German Parliament (Bundestag) wrote to President Obama criticizing the treatment of Bradley Manning. On April 14th, they issued a press statement and published the letter to Obama on the Website of the German Parliament. Press Release: http:/ ...

Grist - News

  • Military miracle turns fuel exhaust into water
    by Jess Zimmerman. Man, if there's two things you don't have enough of when you're deployed in the desert and insurgents keep blowing up your fuel runs, it's beer and Wii. Wait no, it's diesel and water. Luckily researchers have devised a way for soldiers to turn one into the other. Membr ...
  • This is what mountaintop-removal mining looks like
    by Jess Zimmerman. This series of photographs from NASA's Landsat 5 satellite, taken over 26 years from 1984 to 2010, shows the toll mountaintop-removal mining takes on a landscape. You can watch the bombed-out area expand, and see that the "restored" scars never look quite the same. ...
  • Recycling robot is Terminator for trash
    by Jess Zimmerman. Finnish company ZenRobotics has developed a robot that can sort out recyclables from construction trash ... about half the time. Doesn't sound exciting? That's because you haven't seen the company's awesomely over the top trailer. IN A WORLD ... WHERE CONSTRUCTION ...
  • How some Iowa farmers keep the land fertile, w ...
    by Christopher Mims. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has a new study out about the sexiest subject ever -- soil erosion! Wait, don't go, this is important: Topsoil takes forever to make, so as it washes off of fields, it's literally taking our ability to feed ourselves with it. ...
  • Get ready for GOP baloney on gas prices
    by Jess Zimmerman. Politico is reporting this morning that House Republicans are gearing up to blame high gas prices on Obama. His offshore drilling moratorium, they say, is to blame for pump costs rocketing towards $5 a gallon. The GOP hasn't specified yet whether this is not intended to ...

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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Wall Street Execs Warn Boehner On Debt Ceiling ...
    Report: Wall Street execs warn Boehner on debt ceiling brinksmanship by Jed Lewison for Daily Kos Wed Apr 13, 2011 at 12:40 PM EDT Politico: Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about the impact a bruising fight over raising the nation’s $14.29 trillion debt ceiling could have on U.S. ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox: Bad Romance
    Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
  • Pakistan Demands U.S. Cut Drone Strikes, CIA A ...
    Pakistan demands U.S. cut drone strikes, CIA agents By Agence France-Presse via: Raw Story Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 — 10:41 am WASHINGTON â Pakistan has told the United States to sharply cut the number of CIA agents and special forces operating there, and to rein in drone strikes against milita ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Now IMF Is Warning About ETFs
    By Izabella Kaminska International regulator conspiracy? Unfortunate coincidence for the ETF industry? Or are regulators finally on to something via the power of group think? We ask because hot on the heels of the Financial Stability Board’s warning about exchange traded funds on Tuesday comes ...
  • Is Sugar Toxic?
    By Gary Taubes On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minu ...
  • I Didn’t F*ck It Up - Katie Goodman of B ...
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  • Restoring Glass-Steagall
    H.R.1489 Latest Title: To repeal certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner provided in the Banking Act of 1933, the so-called “Glass-Steagall Act”, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Kaptur, ...
  • The Real Housewives of Wall Street
    By Matt Taibbi Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs? America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fi ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Why do Rep Ryan and the Republicans want to gu ...
    Summary:  Ryan’s proposal means drastic reductions in spending on national defense.  Like most of the plan’s key details, it’s hidden in the shadows.  Like a magician, he distracts us with the right hand while left does the dirty work. From The Path to Prosperity: Restoring Americaâs Promise ...
  • Leading a weak people by feeding them disinfor ...
    Summary:  Why do political regimes die?  Perhaps because of accumulated false memories, incidents in the past with which they cannot bring themselves to see.  Too many of these can cripple a people’s OODA loop (observation-orientation-decision-action loop) and hence their ability to cope ...
  • 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. ...

Open Your Eyes News

The Progressive Realist

  • Less War = More Money
    With President Obama set to unveil his deficit reduction plan this afternoon, it's worth noting the extent to which actual deficit hawks could find real savings within our massive military budget. To give you a sense of its size, here's a chart from the Stockholm International Peace Research In ...
  • Obama Must Not Delay in Brokering a New Mideas ...
    The ‘Arab Spring’ that is flowering in fits and starts in most countries of the Middle East has significantly altered the geopolitical situation in the region, and is likely to have a profound effect on American interests. No one knows how or when the region will settle down, and there is little ...
  • Drone Warfare and Social Distance
    One of the arguments you often hear against drone warfare is that it has a “video-game-like quality” that mocks the gravity of war and makes it easier to kill. I don’t personally find this argument very compelling as a rationale against drones per se, since it’s basically the same critique of ev ...
  • F-16s for Taiwan, Dialogue for China
    Taiwan has an "urgent" need for a new fleet of F-16s, at least according to Senator Richard Lugar. On April 1, he wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton warning that "Taiwan has legitimate defense needs and its existing capabilities are decaying." A National Defense Authorization A ...
  • Feeding Pakistan's Paranoia
    Behind all the talk of a strategic dialogue and strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan lurks the reality of a persistent transactional relationship, based on short-term objectives that intrude rudely into the limelight every time a drone attack kills civilians inside Pakist ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Boldly Going, Once Your Grandson Explains Whic ...
    If I were a member of Congress, I might just introduce a bill mandating that at least 33 percent of all government videos feature cast members from Star Trek. Behold: This program needs to be expanded across all federal government departments. Just think of the possibilities. Commander Data, ...
  • The Cost of Cutting Family Planning Abroad
    One area where Republicans were looking to trim fat from the budget was international family planning. When the House passed H.R.1, their ideal budget, at the end of March, they slashed family planning assistance by $200 million, a 30 percent reduction. In the final budget, that number has been ...
  • Obama's Progressive Rhetoric
    I've had many critical things to say about President Obama's rhetoric over the last two years, in particular the way he often seems to go out of his way to avoid making an explicit case for progressive values. But his speech on the deficit was full of just the kind of value-based argument libera ...
  • The Little Picture: Japan's Nuclear Threat
    The severity level of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station crisis has been raised from 5 to the highest level of 7, Japan's government announced yesterday, putting it on the same level as the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986. Though the radiation released was one-tenth that of Chernobyl, the ...
  • Quick Reactions to the President's Speech
    FlashFlash Rhetorically, President Obama is at his best when he has a foil, and part of the problem of the last two years is that he hasn't had a Hillary Clinton or John McCain; that is, a particular opponent who crystallizes the difference between his approach and the opposition. In that sense ...

Buzzflash

  • Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to AG Eric Holder ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR AT TRUTHOUT Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, who represents the Madison, Wisconsin, area may have read the BuzzFlash at Truthout commentary, "Impound the Private Computer of the Katherine Harris of Wisconsin and Bring in the Feds." That is because Baldwin wrote to Atto ...
  • Milton Friedman's Legacy: The Suppression of I ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Is Milton Friedman, the father of modern anarchistic capitalism and the economic "shock doctrine" a "true hero of freedom"? That's how George W. Bush praised Friedman in a White House ceremony a few years back. (Ronald Reagan bestowed the Presidenti ...
  • Exclusive: Unaccustomed to Hot Seat, ALEC Talk ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This is the third part of an exceptional Bill Berkowitz series on the shadowy right-wing organization known as ALEC.  The first two BuzzFlash at Truthout columns on ALEC are "Is the Shadowy World of ALEC and the Koch Brothers Leading the GOP's Charge to S ...
  • Scott Walker is Strongly Rebuked by Milwaukee ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory over incumbent pro-Scott Walker State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.  There will likely be a state-paid-for recount. The winner, who is currently Kloppenburg, will be ...
  • If You Don't Fight for Democracy and Justice, ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT AT BUZZFLASH If you don't fight for democracy and justice, then what you get may not be worth having. That became clear as I saw an advance screening of a PBS documentary (to air within the next few weeks) on the "Freedom Riders." It was 1961, and led by the C ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Recent science news roundup
    Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
  • Five more science stories
    Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Planet Strikes Back
    Michael T. Klare In his 2010 book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that it’s no longer recognizable as the Earth we once inhab ...
  • Autocratic Deafness
    Robert C. Koehler The Arab Spring — which indeed is a global spring — is a struggle, an upheaval, for fundamental justice and humanity. That’s the problem. We —the Washington Consensus, the post-colonial West, the world’s military and econ ...
  • Endless War and Empire: Your Tax Dollars at Work
    Medea Benjamin Charles Davis Death and taxes are the only certainties in life. And these days, they go hand in hand.read more
  • Interstates and States of Grief
    Phil Rockstroh Angela Tyler-Rockstroh I’m in Atlanta, Georgia, at present, among the scent of pine trees and the reek of southern denial. The moribund economy has thwarted the city’s manic drive t ...
  • Frankenfoods in Your “Natural” Foods Store: Wh ...
    Ronnie Cummins “The reality is that no grocery store in the United States, no matter what size or type of business, can claim they are GE-free. While we have been and will continue to be staunch supporters of non-GE foods, we are not going ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan, Turkey vow to support Afghan peace moves
    Pakistan and Turkey have vowed to support peace efforts in Afghanistan amid statements by Afghan officials that Turkey is preparing to host a Taliban office to facilitate Afghan reconciliation talks.
  • Pakistan forces attack Taliban hideouts, kill 18
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces, backed by helicopter gunships and warplanes, targeted Taliban positions in the tribal region of Mohmand near the Afghan ...
  • Taliban suicide squad kills Afghan police
    At least three Afghan policemen were killed when suicide bombers attacked a police training centre in the east of the country, officials say. Police said two bombers also died in the raid on the ...
  • Afghan game of carcasses and power
    SHAMALI PLAIN, Afghanistan (AFP) – In a muddy field outside Kabul, 50 sweating men on horseback are battling for possession of a beheaded calf's carcass during a game of ...
  • 1-10 dead as bomber hits Afghan elders .....
    ASADABAD: A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials ...

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

  • NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
    On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
  • For Sale: Donated Front Row Washington Nationa ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center received a generous donation of front row tickets to ten Washington Nationals games. The view from these seats is truly amazing. If you don’t believe me, just look at the pictures below. The NWC is selling the tickets for face value on StubHub.com. The tickets ...
  • 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 ...

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 Infringement To Get Your Favorite Sports ...
    Interesting time. Just after we were discussing the copyright implications of tattoos, jprlk points us to a recent issue of The Straight Dope, in which Cecil Adams takes on the question of the legality of tattooing your favorite sports team logo on your body somewhere. He goes over both the tr ...
  • DRM Accused Of Sending Personal Info To Help W ...
    DRM. Is there nothing evil it can't do? Between installing rootkits and propping open back doors, DRM is a copyright enforcer's best friend. Miguel Pimentel, a Boston-area architect, believes he's stumbled across its latest trick: extracting $150,000 from your wallet via a quick unannounced " ...
  • Latest Issue Of Newsweek Down To Just Six Ads
    There have been a number of attempts over the past few years to revive the sagging news weekly magazine Newsweek (including an amusing attempt to stop being thought of as a news weekly, despite the name). There's also the still confusing merger with the website The Daily Beast. Still, old media ...
  • Geohot Supporters Angry He Settled With Sony
    Via Slashdot, comes the news that a bunch of George Hotz' (geohot) supporters are angry he decided to settle with Sony, as we recently discussed. Part of this is due to some of Geohot's own bluster during the lawsuit, including this statement: "What if SCEA tries to settle? Let's just say, I ...
  • DailyDirt: Weapons Of Some Destruction
    Projectile weapons are so old school. There are so many other kinds of weapons to choose from nowadays. Some are non-lethal, but others are just as lethal -- even though they only send out electromagnetic waves. Here are some examples of new weapons under development that could cause some dam ...

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

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 ...
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