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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 III

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • 10 Fair Trade Coffee Companies Offering an Eco ...
    Photo: mattb4rd/Creative Commons Can't get moving in the morning without your daily coffee fix? Switch to a Fair Trade brand and sip easy knowing beans are grown and harvested by workers making a living wage -- more often than not by companies focusing on sustainability. TransFair USA wh ...
  • The Hangers in Your Closet Could Make You a Su ...
    Images Courtesy of Joey Zeledón We've seen a lot of chairs made from interesting, unexpected materials: coffee grounds, window blinds, even oil drums. As time goes on, it becomes clear that rather than exhausting the possibilities, these works' designers have opened up the field. The latest ...
  • The GreenShows Pop Up at Bloomingdale's SoHo f ...
    Photo: courtesy The GreenShows With Earth Day just around the corner, there's bound to be a bevy of green fashion coverage hitting the mainstream media outlets; eco-friendly fashion on Earth Day? How original. But really, putting sarcasm aside, I am excited about green initiatives--literall ...
  • Milan Furniture Fair 2011 - Lapin Kulta Solar ...
    First days in Milan. Via Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant on Facebook Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that celebrates the sun, clean energy, good food, b ...
  • The Volvo Challenge: Or How We Attempted to Dr ...
    All images by Leonora Oppenheim - Mark Ronson DJing at Volvo Ice Camp So this is where we ended up last week, dancing like crazy in our ski boots, on a blazingly sunny mountain top in the Tirolean mountains - Mark Ronson DJing in consummate style at Volvo's Ice Camp, igloo and all. But how d ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • What really threatens our future?
    The real sustainability challenge and threat concerns government intervention in the name of “sustainability,†because it is political and bureaucratic intervention that reduces the availability, reliability and affordability of energy.
  • EPA's Clean Air Act: Pretending air pollution ...
    Despite historically low levels of air pollutants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking to enforce air quality regulations that are increasingly strict and burdensome. These regulations cost the economy billions of dollars by the EPA's own admission.
  • Is it time to sell federal lands?
    Faced with a soaring federal deficit and a slumping economy, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have hit on an idea to deal with both: They want the federal government to begin selling off some of its vast estate.
  • Congress bickers over biodegradable forks
    CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto to discuss congressional Democrat's fight for biodegradable forks, knives, and spoons in the congressional cafeteria.
  • Saving lives in Japan: search, rescue & recovery
    CFACT helped send this SAR team to Japan where they are now hard at work saving lives and easing suffering.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • A photo tour with RIA Novosti. Nashville, Tenn ...
    Science and music go hand in hand in Nashville, Tennessee, which is known both as Music City, U.S.A. and as a rival to California’s Silicon Valley because it provides so many IT jobs, particularly in health care.
  • VTB Capital values Russian Helicopters at $2.5 ...
    VTB Capital, the investment business of Russia's second largest lender VTB, has valued Russian Helicopters, which designs and manufactures civil and military helicopters, at $2.5-3 billion ahead of the company's initial public offering (IPO) in London and Moscow, a source close to the IPO lead m ...
  • Police flush out immigrants from Moscow bomb s ...
    Police in West Moscow have raided a bomb shelter at a local industrial enterprise and found hundreds of illegal immigrants living there.
  • Russian filmmakers push for law to protect rig ...
    The Association of Television and Film Producers of Russia on Thursday came up with a set of legislative initiatives aimed to protect intellectual property from internet piracy.
  • Russia regrets Finnish ruling in 'kidnap mom' case
    Russia regrets a Finnish court's refusal to restore a Russian mother's custody rights over her son and prosecute her former husband, a Finnish national, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 12-Apr-2011
    Lots coming up starting this weekend. OCSEA has a list of places to get training here. More details to come. For those near Shaker Heights:Thursday, April 145:00 - 7:00 pmShaker HeightsRally for Our RightsWhere: 12601 Shaker BoulevardOur Lady of Peace ChurchNorth side of Shaker Blvd just 4 bl ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Some views from over there here, here and here. Just because we aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean no one else is.Combat operations ha ...
  • Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
    (Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Pfc. Dustin J. Feldhaus, 20, of Glendale, AZ.Pfc. Michael C. Mahr, 26, of Homosassa, FL.Pvt. Jeremy P. ...
  • Tuesday, April 5 - Invest in Ohio's Future Rally
    12:00 - 5:00 pmColumbusOne Ohio Now is holding an “Invest in Ohio’s Future Rally” rally at the Ohio StatehouseWhere: North Plaza: Broad St., 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215.Contact: Andrea Fejes at andrea (at) oneohionow.org or RSVP Online.Due to the large turnout expected, we are moving to ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Stop the Corporate Takeover of Organics! Comme ...
    The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which advises the Secretary of Agriculture on organic policy and rulemaking, is considering several changes to the USDA’s organic standards that would water down organics, catering to corporate interests. We cannot allow corporate-backed members of t ...
  • Power Shift Will be Biggest Organizer Training ...
    Power Shift 2011, the biennial national summit of the youth climate movement, begins this Friday in Washington, D.C. The dirty-energy economy poses seemingly insurmountable challenges to the millenial generation: the destruction of our planet's atmosphere, the poisoning of our political discours ...
  • Hungry Kids and the Environment Hit Hard by US ...
    The House Appropriations Committee has released a detailed list of budget cuts as part of the deal to avoid a government shutdown, and it looks like agriculture and food programs are getting hit pretty hard. The USDA budget will be cut by $2.6 billion, down from the $108 billion the department h ...
  • How Nuclear Apologists Mislead the World Over ...
    Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly that a nuclear event of this size and catastrophic potential could present a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events have proven this observation to be true despite the nuclear industry's campaign about the "minimal" healt ...
  • The Dark Side of the Rainbow of Food Dyes Bein ...
    The bright colors of grocery store foods are often the result of artificial food dyes, which are now being applied not just to candies and snack foods, but also to products such as pickles, salad dressing and even oranges.Click here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The Interplay of Chevron Deference and Charmin ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Assume that a U.S. agency modifies its interpretation of a federal statute to respond to an adverse WTO decision. In so doing, consistent with the Charming Betsy doctrine, its interpretation is brought into conformity with WTO jurisprudence with respect to one ...
  • Detention and Interrogation in the LA Times, a ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The LA Times has a good story on the complete backing away of the CIA from any new detentions or interrogations in counterterrorism under the Obama administration (though it started back under the Bush administration).  It describes a general paralysis ...
  • Guest-Post: Anna Dolidze on the ICJ Judgment i ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Anna Dolidze, a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. In 2007-08, Dolidze was
 an Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk at New York University Law
 School and a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute.  She has wor ...
  • OLC Issues Libya War Powers Opinion
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Office of Legal Counsel has released an opinion asserting the constitutionality of President’s Obama’s use of force against Libya.  Here’s how it frames the question: [T]he Presidentâs legal authority to direct military force in Libya turns on two questions: ...
  • David Bernstein Misrepresents Human Rights Wat ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller This time concerning the Goldstone Report and whether Israel intentionally targeted civilians during Operation Cast Lead as a matter of policy.  You know a post is in trouble when it's entitled "Human Rights Watch Lies re: Goldstone Retraction" but then states, three para ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

  • Democracy Now! | Detained Blogger Dies in Bahrain
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for April 13, 2011 A key Bahraini opposition figure has died while in custody of the U.S.-backed regime in Bahrain. Blogger Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri died under... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israeli warplanes launch mock raids on Gaza | ...
    Israeli warplanes launch mock raids on Gaza | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: "GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli warplanes launched a series of mock raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.The mock... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Additional dose of hepatitis B vaccine improve ...
    HIV & AIDS Information :: Additional dose of hepatitis B vaccine improves response in patients with HIV: "Hepatitis B vaccination consisting of four doses produces a better response in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Land Destroyer: Exposing the International Arb ...
    Land Destroyer: Exposing the International Arbiters: "Bangkok, Thailand April 10, 2011 - The colorful maps of press freedom, democracy, and other metrics we are told are indicative of a free and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Anti-Cuban Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Acqu ...
    UNITED STATES/TEXAS (APNS) -- A US federal jury in El Paso, TX today acquitted a anti-Castro activist and former CIA operative of perjury and immigration fraud after a 13-week trial. Luis Posada... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto
    This week we will talk with Percy Schmeiser about his fight with Monsanto over the contamination of his crop, and the subsequent lawsuit filed by Monsanto for growing their patented seed without a license.
  • USDA Certified Organic Milk NOT Tested for Rad ...
    There is no required testing for radioactive particles in organic milk, and no plans to test in the future.
  • Fracking nightmare destroys small farmers
    As if we didn't have enough problems with the fake food safety bill, a genetically modified food takeover by the USDA's terrorist arm Monsanto, chemtrails dumping aluminum, barium, and strontium on farmland, and Japan's radioactivity spreading across the country, now we have a huge fracking (hyd ...
  • Radiation Nation In the Crosshairs!
    The EPA once again dupes the public by upping "safe" radiation levels.... Will Monsanto take advantage by developing a plutonium resistance gene?
  • The Great Global Warming Swindle
    Basic science: Climate warms, life increases, and CO2 goes up. Climate cools, life decreases, and CO2 goes down. Not the other way around like Al Gore claims. What about that does Al Gore not understand? Oh, yeah.... can't tax CO2 users with the truth.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Militant attacks kill 5 in Afghanistan
    ShareThisMilitant attacks kill 5 in Afghanistan 14 Apr 2011 Violence has once again gripped Afghanistan as militants target Afghan and US-led forces in separate attacks across the war-ravaged country, claiming at least five lives. At least two people were killed and three others injured in a bom ...
  • S. African Vets in Talks on How to Manage Bird ...
    ShareThisS. African Vets in Talks on How to Manage Bird Flu Outbreak 13 Apr 2011 South African veterinarians are trying to find ways of managing an outbreak of bird flu in the Western Cape province, said Wouter Kriel, a spokesman for the provincial agricultural ministry. Hong Kong’s Center for F ...
  • Obama Urges Cuts and Taxes on the Rich
    ShareThisObama Urges Cuts and Taxes on the Rich 14 Apr 2011 President Obama called for cutting the nation’s budget deficits by $4 trillion over the next 12 years on Wednesday, countering Republican budget plans with what he said was a more balanced approach that relies in part on tax increases f ...
  • Fed penalizes 10 banks on mortgage practices
    ShareThisFed penalizes 10 banks on mortgage practices 13 Apr 2011 The Federal Reserve said it's taken enforcement action against 10 banks over "a pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing. These deficienc ...
  • Tepco Wants to Hasten Restart of Kashiwazaki K ...
    ShareThisTepco Wants to Hasten Restart of Kashiwazaki Kariwa Reactor 13 Apr 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. wants the government to hasten approvals for the restart of a reactor shut by an earthquake in 2007 as Japan grapples with power shortages after last month’s disaster. Three of seven reactor ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • I went over my twitter limit...
    So I'm just going to make a few notes: -Ignatieff was right when he says Harper's offering "fantasy economics". He also answered the financial question directly. And Harper seemed to make eye contact for the first time. And then went back to the camera. Harper: "Every credible economic analyst" ...
  • Cancer is sexy
    I don't have a TV, so I just checked if my livestreaming CBC is working and it seems to be, so I will be able to watch the debate tonight. Two chapters left to go in Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" and I also just picked up Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power" yesterday and have read chapter 1. A ...
  • Yes, you can be too nuclear-safe
    Before there was Bruce Carson, there was Maxime Bernier, who left government documents at his girlfriend's house. To put this in context, I don't think that these state documents should be treated with tremendous mystical secrecy - that isn't the point. They are probably mostly banal. The point ...
  • Harper and Bribery
    Today's headlines were interesting. Conservatives using the RCMP as their political goon squad to turf people out of events and pre-screen them. But Harper's said he's sorry and, I'm sure, has promised to never do it again. This is a good little quote from the Toronto Star though: read more
  • Harper's Foreign Policy
    Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" discusses Harper's foreign policy. It isn't really distinguishable from Liberal foreign policy, except that it is a little more paranoid and secretive. Throughout the West, there is fairly unconditional support for Israel. Some explain this with lobbies, etc. For t ...

treehugger

  • 10 Fair Trade Coffee Companies Offering an Eco ...
    Photo: mattb4rd/Creative Commons Can't get moving in the morning without your daily coffee fix? Switch to a Fair Trade brand and sip easy knowing beans are grown and harvested by workers making a living wage -- more often than not by companies focusing on sustainability. TransFair USA wh ...
  • The Hangers in Your Closet Could Make You a Su ...
    Images Courtesy of Joey Zeledón We've seen a lot of chairs made from interesting, unexpected materials: coffee grounds, window blinds, even oil drums. As time goes on, it becomes clear that rather than exhausting the possibilities, these works' designers have opened up the field. The latest ...
  • The GreenShows Pop Up at Bloomingdale's SoHo f ...
    Photo: courtesy The GreenShows With Earth Day just around the corner, there's bound to be a bevy of green fashion coverage hitting the mainstream media outlets; eco-friendly fashion on Earth Day? How original. But really, putting sarcasm aside, I am excited about green initiatives--literall ...
  • Milan Furniture Fair 2011 - Lapin Kulta Solar ...
    First days in Milan. Via Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant on Facebook Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that celebrates the sun, clean energy, good food, b ...
  • The Volvo Challenge: Or How We Attempted to Dr ...
    All images by Leonora Oppenheim - Mark Ronson DJing at Volvo Ice Camp So this is where we ended up last week, dancing like crazy in our ski boots, on a blazingly sunny mountain top in the Tirolean mountains - Mark Ronson DJing in consummate style at Volvo's Ice Camp, igloo and all. But how d ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Ontario court finds Canada medical marijuana l ...
    [JURIST] A judge for Ontario's Superior Court of Justice [official website] ruled Wednesday that the country's marijuana laws are unconstitutional. Justice David Taliano invalidated [Globe & Mail report] the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) [text], finding that the program's mechanism ...
  • Alleged Nazi guard requests suspension of tria ...
    [JURIST] The lawyer for alleged Nazi concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk [NNDB profile, JURIST news archive] requested Wednesday that Demjanjuk's trial for accomplice to murder be suspended in order to investigate an Associated Press report [text] stating that a recently declassified FBI fie ...
  • Spain court turns over Guantanamo torture inve ...
    [JURIST] Spanish Judge Eloy Velasco announced Wednesday that the National Court would not investigate six Bush administration officials pursuant to torture claims from Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], in response to a letter [text, PDF] from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official webs ...
  • Kansas governor signs abortion restriction leg ...
    [JURIST] Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) [official website] on Tuesday announced the signing of two pieces of legislation restricting abortions [JURIST news archive] in the state. The Abortion Reporting Accuracy and Parental Rights Act [HB 2035, PDF] requires unemancipated minors to obtain not ...
  • Uruguay senate votes to overturn 1986 amnesty law
    [JURIST] Uruguay's Senate [official website, in Spanish] voted 16-15 Tuesday to overturn a 1986 law [press release, in Spanish] granting amnesty to members of the military junta that ruled the country between 1973 and 1985. The decision [AP report] to repeal Uruguay's Expiry Law [text, in Spanis ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Why Barry Bonds Never Came Before Congress
    Disgraced San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has been found guilty of obstruction of justice by a grand jury in his steroids trial. One slightly odd footnote to Bonds's story is that he never appeared before Congress alongside other soon-to-be disgraced sluggers like Mark McGwire, Rafael P ...
  • On Obama's Debt-and-Deficit Speech
    The Atlantic's Clive Crook, whom I ran into in the office coffee shop immediately after he posted his opinions, didn't much like Obama's deficit speech today. "Waste of breath," etc. I felt differently. I am still preoccupied with the phishing/cyber-security fire drill from earlier today, not y ...
  • The Obama 2012 Stump, Version 1.0
    The president used the occasion of a midday policy speech to begin to lay out his vision and sketch the contours of the ideas he will run against In his speech at George Washington University on the deficit, President Obama joined the 2012 race with a robust defense of the philosophy underlyi ...
  • Obama's Speech Was a Waste of Breath
    Obama had a difficult assignment in this speech, partly because of the exaggerated hopes for it (see previous post). Even allowing for that, it was weak both politically and substantively. My instant unguarded reaction, in fact, was to find it not just weak but pitiful. I honestly wondered w ...
  • Obama Makes It Clear: No Bush Tax Cuts, No to ...
    Amid some undefined policy strokes, President Obama made one thing certain in his deficit speech Wednesday afternoon: He will not keep tax cuts for the rich. Focusing on taxes as he laid out a broad framework for lowering the deficit, Obama made some of the most direct and forceful statements w ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Frank Gaffney: Radical Plant Out to Destroy Re ...
    After reading this post at Think Progress, and the absolute wackiness it attributes to Frank Gaffney, it occured to me that either he’s a radical plant out to destroy the Republican Party from within, or he’s the Party’s worst nightmare.  This guy is waging global jihad against, of all people, ...
  • Tarabin’s Nakba in the Negev
    Neve Gordon reports on a new Nakba organized by the wealthy Jewish residents of the Beersheva neighborhood of Omer, which absorbed (that is, “stole”) the lands of the Bedouin village of Tarabin as it expanded.  The new goal of the Jews of Omer is to make the area Bedouinrein by removing the las ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Secret Arrests in Itamar Murder Case, IDF Pogr ...
    Yesterday, I reported that Israel had secretly arrested three Palestinian suspects in the murder of the Fogel family in Itamar.  The arrests were under a blanket gag designed to deny access to Israelis (or Palestinians) of the news.  The gag was issued by military judge, Maj. Yariv Navon of ...

Ode Magazine

  • Every little Dripp counts
    These days, instead of gushing jets of water, what comes out of the bathroom faucets at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Hellendoorn, a small town in the eastern part of the Netherlands, are showers of tiny drops. That’s because the firm has installed 26 Dripps. Inv ...
  • In Bb 2.0: You conduct the concert
    By: Sam_Rosenzweig This collection of sonic poetics, played in any order, transforms into a musical odyssey in B flat, highlighting the spontaneity and interconnectivity of the world's YouTube musicians. It takes us on a journey into sound. Listen he ...
  • Whatever lies in your heart
    By: Anne Thomas Wednesday was very bright and sunny. The winds were high, which somehow made it be a perfect March day. It snowed a bit, too, adding to the dramatic flavor of this new season. Also a few plum trees in sheltered areas were bravely shiver ...
  • Buy now, pay later
    Be grateful for all lifeâs second chances. The Sibyllines, witches capable of foretelling the future, lived in ancient Rome. One fine day, one of them appeared at Emperor Tiberius’ palace with nine books. She said that therein lay the future of the Empire and asked for ...
  • A new kind of personal wealth
    It turns out money can buy happiness, after allâwhen consumers create a market for mindful consumption. A lot has changed for Rachel Aydt in the past two years. Since the magazine she worked for shut down in 2008, she’s been faced with plenty of financial uncertainty. Aydt ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Gulf Residents; Please Take our Dolphins and T ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Laurel Lockamy was upset that a dolphin had been lying dead in the sand near Pass Christian, MS, for more than five days. It had been painted orange after being counted by the Institute for M ...
  • Why is the Auto Industry Repeating Discredited ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco It’s a different world. Gasoline is fast approaching $4 gallon natiowide and consumer demand for fuel-efficient cars is skyrocketing. So why are the automakers continuing to use their ol ...
  • New data shows that more Chileans are against ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC A new nation-wide poll released today by international public opinion group Ipsos shows that 61.1% of Chileans are against large hydroelectric plants in the Patagonia – more than ever before.  ...
  • Great News: Yellowstone's Bison Get More Room ...
    Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana The furry beast of the plains can finally dance a little jig, and – for the first time in many decades – it can bust those moves north of Yellowstone National Park.  Yesterday, the federal, ...
  • CBS News: Oil & gas industry spills happen "al ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Boulder, Colorado Last night CBS Evening News aired a report on oil and gas spills. After a six-month in-depth investigation, they found that: "spills of crude oil and toxic chemicals last year alone were three tim ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Speech
    Teaching all day, and then watching Rangers/Mets getting right to my grading.   Apparently it was much better than expected? …useful round-up of reactions. Text is here.
  • Tricking Toddlers for Fun and Profit
    Something else I’ve discovered; when “Come here, Miriam” results in “No no no!”, I ask “Bring me that [book/toy/cup/etc.],” with which she dutifully complies, inadvertantly bringing herself as well.  Once I asked “Bring me Elisha,” which confused Miriam. When Elisha remained defiant, Miriam com ...
  • On the Conviction of History’s Greatest ...
    On this, I think Sheehan gets it right:  “The best use of $55 million since Darren Dreifort.” Slightly longer version here.  
  • Brain Food.
    Alcohol.
  • HA HA HA NOT FUNNY.
    Only, it is.  I feel like with all that’s going on, I’m becoming a bit like a self-absorbed teacher providing comic relief, but whatever — it’s Spring Quarter, I’m exhausted and everything seems awful, so comic relief it is.  That said, when I finish teaching students how Scott McCloud thinks ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • The Cerrado: Brazil’s Other Biodiverse Region ...
    While Brazil touts its efforts to slow destruction of the Amazon, another biodiverse region of the country is being cleared for large-scale farming. But unlike the heralded rainforest it borders, the loss of the cerrado and its rich tropical savanna so far has failed to attract much notice. BY ...
  • U.S. Congress Strips Wolves of Endangered Stat ...
    For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress has intervened to remove an animal from the Endangered Species List, attaching a rider to the federal budget that ends federal protection for gray wolves in the northern Rocky U.S. Fish & Wildlife Mountains. The new provisions would instead put manag ...
  • Interview: Forging a Defense for Rhinos in Tro ...
    Zimbabwe ranks number 4 on Foreign Policy magazine’s “Failed State Index,” with its shattered economy, pervasive hunger, and entrenched dictator. And that makes it all the more surprising that Raoul du Rick BarongiRaoul du Toit Toit, who was awarded the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize for Af ...
  • Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
    For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s ec ...
  • Emissions from Shale Gas Exceed Those from Coa ...
    Natural gas extracted from shale deposits by a process known as hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse gas emissions over a 20-year period than conventional gas, oil, and coal, according to a Cornell University study. Researchers said that during the lifespan of the average shale-gas dri ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Kings of the Apocalypse: Secret end times mess ...
    When the next king of England is crowned, he will go through the same sacred ceremonies as his illustrious predecessors. Like them, just before being crowned, he will be anointed with oil from the Holy Land. This takes place under a canopy that is lowered over the monarch’s head so that the publ ...
  • Europeans warned to avoid drinking milk or eat ...
    The radiation risk from Fukushima is "no longer negligable," says CRIIRAD, the French research authority on radioactivity. It is now warning expectant mothers and young children to avoid drinking milk or rainwater. They should also avoid certain types of vegetables and cheese due to the dangerou ...
  • Why isn't Wall Street in jail?
    Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even hav ...
  • Migration Of The Black Swans
    The phrase "Black Swan" is really making the rounds these last few months. Uttering the term a year ago would have earned you a collection of confused looks and a general attitude of disinterest. Now, people behave as if they had learned about economic shockwave events and the global domino effe ...
  • Nuclear Crisis Creates Ghost Town
    Rare video shot inside the town of Futaba in Japan, showing the evacuated town following the tsunami and nuclear power plant crisis. Reminiscent of scenes from Chernobyl, another ghost town. Video from CNN.

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Do-Nothing Congress as a Cure
    “A trick question: If Congress takes no action in coming years, what will happen to the budget deficit?” (New York Times) Trick question is right. FEE Timely Classic “In Praise of ‘Train Wrecks’” by Doug Bandow
  • Lobbyists Won Key Concessions in Budget Deal
    “But in the end, a handful of relatively small-bore line items affecting particular industries attracted some of the most aggressive lobbying behind the scenes, as business interests, health care providers and others fought to hold on to, or kill, proposals that affected their bottom line.” (New ...
  • CIA’s Brain Drain: Since 9/11, Some Top Offici ...
    “In many quarters in Washington, government officials decamp for the private sector as a matter of course. Defense consultancies routinely hire generals retiring from the Pentagon; the city’s lobbying firms are stacked with former members of Congress and administration officials.” (Washington Po ...
  • “Sustainability” Isn’t Sustainable
    Government can no more save the economy by transferring resources to industries that can't stand on their own than the U.S. armed forces could save Vietnam by bombing it into the Stone Age.
  • This Takeover Battle Pits Bureaucrat vs. Burea ...
    “Some methods used to resolve [antitrust disputes between the FTC and Justice Department] belie the stakes involved. In addition to the most recent coin toss—which several people familiar with the matter said the Justice Department won—the agencies have employed the “possession arrow” system bor ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Texas oil refinery pollution activist wins pre ...
    By Michael May, Texas Observer This week, Hilton Kelley, one of the activists the Observer honored as a 2010 Tyrant's Foe, won the most prestigious award given to environmental activists -- the Goldman Environmental Prize. Kelley will receive much-deserved recognition for his work -- and the ...
  • VOICES: Right-to-work law brings falling wages ...
    By Steven McCloud, Labor Notes Twelve state legislatures are seeking to pass right-to-work bills, which allow workers to get the benefits of union representation without joining or contributing. That weakens the union's ability to advocate, eventually hurting the whole workforce -- including ...
  • A year later, BP's oil is still damaging the G ...
    As the one-year anniversary of the BP drilling disaster nears, the American public has largely turned its attention away from the Gulf Coast. But for the people and other living creatures who make the region their home, the oil spill's impacts are still being felt acutely today. In an effort t ...
  • WHAT SPILL? Congress has done 'virtually nothi ...
    When BP's Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophically failed nearly a year ago, it unleashed a gusher of wall-to-wall media coverage -- and promises from politicians of reform. Indeed, CNN just won a Peabody Award for its "extensive coverage" of the disaster which pumped over 200 million g ...
  • Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Budget and Obama’s Speech
    Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]
  • The Budget and Obama’s Speech
    Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]
  • An update on the effect of the price of shippi ...
    From Skuppers, in comments: In February, the Fuel Surcharge (FSC) on shipments was 26%. It is now 31%. It keeps climbing with no end in sight. It’s not always a straight formula though, as I saw an invoice from the steam line the other day, where the customer’s freight rate is $1400, but the add ...
  • An update on the effect of the price of shippi ...
    From Skuppers, in comments: In February, the Fuel Surcharge (FSC) on shipments was 26%. It is now 31%. It keeps climbing with no end in sight. It’s not always a straight formula though, as I saw an invoice from the steam line the other day, where the customer’s freight rate is $1400, but the add ...
  • Obama to Right Wing
    “I agree with you, now make me do it” (what FDR said to the left, if you aren’t aware.) See, he is the new FDR!

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • UPDATE: Yale student dies in chemistry lab acc ...
    A Yale University student died late Tuesday in an accident at the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut. The New Haven Register reports that Michele Dufault was killed when her hair was pulled into a lathe in the machine shop, where students can build their own scientific equip ...
  • Fukushima's "red alert" sparks questions abou ...
    Every day the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been putting out reports that describe the situation at Fukushima as 'serious, with signs of recovery'. It seems like a very appropriate way of putting it: there are indeed some positive signs, but the situation leaves much to be desire ...
  • European politicians question independence of ...
    Europe’s budgetary oversight committee has taken the European Medicines Agency to task over the independence of its experts by recommending that Parliament refuse to sign off the regulator’s 2009 accounts. The European Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control says that there is “no proper gu ...
  • Human brain atlas debuts
    A genetic and anatomic ‘atlas’ of the human brain was officially released yesterday by the research institute bankrolled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The $55 million project, sponsored by the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, charts gene expression patterns across ...
  • How Fukushima is and isn't like Chernobyl
    This morning, the Japanese government officially upgraded Fukushima on the International Nuclear Events Scale to a 7, or "Major accident". The new rating is the highest on the scale, and puts Fukushima on a par with the worst nuclear accident in history—Chernobyl. Understandably, the press has m ...

new geography

  • Yuri Gagarin’s Brave, Brilliant Leap into the Dark
    Yuri Gagarin was my hero. For a child just nine years old on 12 April 1961, the day he flew into space, he appeared intrepid, unassuming, and cool. Above all, he appeared in black and white. This was not the glossy, sunlit, bright blue Florida-sky ethic of American efforts in space, all ...
  • Los Angeles: The MTA's Bus Stop Strategy
    Those who run the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority evidently believe that, since the Consent Decree that forced it to improve service to its bus riders has expired, they are free to rewrite history to justify Metro's elimination of nine bus lines, its reductions in service on e ...
  • A Requiem for "High-Speed Rail"
    In the interest of maintaining some balance and perspective on what the Administration�proudly calls "President Obama's bold vision for a national high-speed rail network," at InnovationBriefs we have tried to offer our readers a range of different points of view. It is in this spirit that w ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Dallas-Fort Worth
    The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area (Note 1), which corresponds to the Dallas-Fort Worth urban area, provides a casebook example of expanding urbanization. Dallas-Fort Worth has been one of the fastest growing major metropolitan areas in the nation for decades. Dallas-Fort Worth was among ...
  • China, Detroit, and Houston: How Ghost Propert ...
    Learning about China's property boom and its "ghost" cities has given me a whole new perspective on my four decades in the building, land development and consulting fields. During these periods our economy has had various ups and downs. In ‘up’ times, the rise in construction of new housing an ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • New Zealand: Controversial Internet Piracy Bil ...
    If at first you don’t succeed, try again under urgency. Via: Stuff: A bill that could see internet users have their access cut off if they repeatedly share copyright material has been passed by Parliament. The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which aims to stamp out internet p ...
  • Arnie Gundersen: “This is about a thousa ...
    Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to ’7′: Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
  • Fukushima: Temperatures Rise in Spent Fuel Sto ...
    Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates how Fukushima’s fuel rods melted and shattered from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Via: NHK: The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says the water temperature in the spent fuel storage pool at the No. 4 reactor in the crippled Fukushima nuclear ...
  • 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. If Ousama Abushagur is ...
  • Facebook’s New Realtime Analytics System ...
    Via: High Scalability: The need for such a high powered analytics system is driven by Facebook’s brilliant plan for world wide web domination via the viral propagation of social plugins, all tying the non-Facebook web back into Facebook and the Facebook web back into the non-Facebook web. Basica ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • To biofuel or not to biofuel, that’s &#8 ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/jatropha-biofuels-green-fuel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 Debunking the âGreenâ Biofuel Myth Arwa Aburawa Is biofuel from the Jatropha tree- which Jordan is experimenting with- really as ...
  • Ethiopia has plans to grab hold of a bigger sh ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/04/ethiopia-nile-dam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 Defiant Ethiopia To Proceed With Massive Dam On The Nile River Tafline Laylin Waterfalls on the Blue Nile. Ethiopia has plans to grab hold ...
  • Great Man Made River project endangered from o ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/04/great-man-made-river-revolution-libya/ Libyaâs âGreat Man Made River Projectâ Could Stop Flowing Maurice Picow When embattled Libyan leader Muamar Gadaffi completed the first major stage of his Great Man Made River project, many heralded it as âthe 8 ...
  • Farming caviar in Abu Dhabi’s desert (Green Pr ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/04/cavair-abu-dhabi-desert/ Abu Dhabi Farms Caviar In The Desert With Gusto Tafline Laylin Whatâs weirder that eating slimy fish eggs? Farming them in Abu Dhabiâs desert. Because we have had a multiple-decade infatuation with eating slimy fish eggs, … C ...
  • Egypt and the Nile Water Rights (Green Prophet)
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/04/nile-water-rights/ Egypt Holds On Tight To Nile Water Rights Tafline Laylin As its grip on the Nile river slips away, Egypt reframes the tone of its negotiations. Egypt has announced a final effort to re-negotiate the terms … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Center staff honored with awards
    Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
  • A new site, a new era
    Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
  • Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
  • Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
    When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
  • E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
    An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Amusing videos to conquer sex-trafficking!
    by Rachel Krueger I love youtube videos and am opposed to sex trafficking.  I think it’s safe to say these two sentiments extend to a large percentage of the population.  So why am I baffled by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s hilarious "Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ videos?"  They feature foxy ...
  • Debate: By not losing, Harper won
    By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn't, so I can't. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, ...
  • The Cons’ G8 legacy: $100,000 gazebos
    By Alison@Creekside When the G8 leaders stayed for one night at the Deerhurst Resort as part of the G8/G20 $1.2-billion bunfest, their one-night stay probably didn't afford them the opportunity to fully appreciate all the benefits of the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Slush Fund spent in Industry M ...
  • Enough with the gay mice
    By Jodi A. Shaw Yet another study of homosexuality has been released, this one suggesting that a neurotransmitter is the remote control for sexual preference in mammals. Yi Rao, a neuroscientist at Peking University, and his collaborators engineered male mice unable to produce serotonin, who ...
  • Stephen Harper’s stickhandler
    By Alison@Creekside Five times convicted fraudster Bruce Carson -- currently under RCMP investigation for influence peddling and illegal lobbying of Indian Affairs to obtain a water filtration contract that would have netted his 22-year old fiancee 20% of sales -- was granted a secret securit ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
    He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
  • Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov ...
    The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
  • Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
    Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • کلینتون: کشورهای عربی از سرنوشت انقلاب ایران د ...
    یلاری کلینتون، وزیر خارجه‌ آمریکا، سران و مردم کشورهای عرب را به اصلاحات واقعی سیاسی و اقتصادی فراخواند و از آنان خواست که از سرنوشت انقلاب ایران درس بگیرند. به گفته‌ وی، این انقلاب به یک «دیکتاتوری بی‌رحم» انجامید.read more
  • Parliament ignores concerns of independent civ ...
    Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and nine human and labour rights organizations today expressed dismay at parliamentary proceedings in Iran which look set to pass into law a bill which appears intended to wipe out independent civil society in the country, in violation of international standards ...
  • Top PEN Prize to Honor Nasrin Sotoudeh, Jailed ...
    New York City, April 13, 2011—PEN American Center today named Nasrin Sotoudeh, a writer, lawyer, and leader of the women’s and children’s rights movement in Iran, as the recipient of its 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.Sotoudeh was arrested on September 4, 2010, and is now serv ...
  • بازداشت همزمان هشت نفر از دراويش گنابادی در شه ...
    ماموران اطلاعات صبح امروز ۲۴ فروردين ماه هشت نفر از دراويش طريقت نعمت‌اللهی گنابادی در شهرستان‌های بيدخت، قوچان و گناباد را همزمان بازداشت کردند.
  • شرح وضعيت وخيم مهدی محموديان افشاگر بازداشتگاه ...
    مهدی محموديان، در تاريخ ۲۶ شهريور ۸۸ بازداشت و به زندان اوين منتقل شد. اولين دادگاه محموديان در تاريخ ۱۳ اسفند ۸۸ برگزار شد. وی نقش عمده ای را در افشای حقايق پيش آمده در فاجعه کهريزک داشته است. گفتنی است، مهدی محموديان که در ارديبهشت ۸۹ به زندان رجائی شهر منتقل read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Ford Foundation and the CIA
    Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the first, in 1967, to investigate the use of the Ford Foundation and other foundations as “conduits,” “pass-throughs,” and “fronts” to disguise CIA funding for domestic operations (it’s technically illegal for the CIA to operate on US soil under federal law). ...
  • The Role of Left Gatekeeping Foundations in Su ...
    Since the October 2008 economic collapse, American workers have faced an unprecedented “austerity cuts,” with major hits on their livelihoods and labor and pension rights. Yet Americans, unlike the rest of the world, don't respond by taking to the street in the millions. Why is this? Many prog ...
  • Bill Ayers: Obama’s Ex-Terrorist Pal
    In 1984, Obama left Business International Corporation (BIC), a known CIA front engaging in economic espionage (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/04/02/the-president-with-no-past-obamas-electability-in-2012/), to move to Chicago, where he became a civil rights lawer. From that po ...
  • The President with No Past – Part IV
    All in the Family Although many official records of Obama’s extended family are sealed, there is sufficient information in the public domain to suggest that his stepfather Colonel Lolo Soetoro and both maternal grandparents also had links to the CIA. Colonel Lolo Soetoro Following her return to ...
  • The President with No Past – Part III
    Obama’s Fictional Autobiography The scenario Obama lays out in Dreams from My Father about his parents’ background differs markedly from limited information available from school and other public school records. Some commentators attribute this to his embarrassment over his father’s multiple mar ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The lessons of the King’s Cross Fire, or ...
    The King’s Cross Fire was a fire on an escalator in a subway in London in 1987. 31 people died, more than 60 were injured. It made the news of course, and I’m sure many of my older readers remember it. And if they were like me, they recall that the fire was on a [...]
  • The Mask of la Roche-Cotard
    Continuing with my “strange old things” theme, here we have the Mask of la Roche-Cotard. Unlike our previous rock, this rock has been shaped by human (well, Neanderthal) hands. It’s a piece of flint about 4 inches (10 cm) tall and wide, and through a natural hole under the “nose” a piece of bone ...
  • The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
    Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]
  • The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
    Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]
  • The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
    OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent article in the Washington Post on Five Myths About Gas Prices, I received several inquires for additional commentary on the story. Below is an interview that I did with KSL NewsRadio in Utah that allowed me to expand upon the points fro ...
  • A Double Dip Recession? Only If We Are Lucky
    Join the forum discussion on this post Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’r ...
  • Speculator’s Political Reserve?
    Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...
  • Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around a ...
  • Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Games the Future for Innovation
    What's the Big Idea? People in the "gamification" industry forecast that by 2015, more than 50% of organizations that manage innovation will use game-like processes to do so. In fact Gartner goes so far as to predict that, "By 2014, a gamified service for consumer goods marketing and customer ...
  • Standardize Science to Help Robot Researchers?
    What's the Big Idea? Adam, the van-sized robot, is in the spotlight again. After an update to its software, the robot scientist has recycled its previous research to make a new biological discovery.�Adam is the vanguard of an era of computers not just being research tools, but researchers. Ada ...
  • Why the Hype on Kinect?
    What's the Big Idea? Wired reports on Microsoft's release this week of�an SDK (software development kit) for its motion-controlled gaming system Kinect. After launching in November 2010 on the Xbox, Kinect became the fastest-selling electronics device ever, even beating the iPad in units sold ...
  • Top New World-Changing Technologies
    What's the Big Idea? The Monitor is examining five technologies destined (or likely) to change the world. On its list: a cellphone chip that allows monthly battery charge, using satellite 'spy' cameras for proof and prevention of human rights abuses, how villages leapfrog the grid with biometr ...
  • German Discount Grocer Invades Thrifty America
    What's the Big Idea? In 30 years ultra-cheap German supermarket chain Aldi�has slowly ventured into the land of opportunity. But now that cheaper shopping has become a necessity (and lower pay a reality) for many Americans,�Aldi has seized the chance, opening about 100 (non-union) stores throu ...

Information Liberation

  • Stormtroopers and Child-Snatchers
    Ariana Goldboldo, a mentally handicapped 13-year-old, was abducted from her home at gunpoint on March 24. Her captors have systematically poisoned her through injections of a dangerous psychoactive drug. There is also reason to believe that Aria...
  • Putting Prosecutors Above the Law
    The Supreme Court has again upheld the principle that prosecutors are above the law. Connick v. Thompson is the newest peak into the gross corruption of American criminal justice, and a reminder of what government power means. John Thompson was...
  • 65 Ways That Everything That You Think That Yo ...
    Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you.* It is being done purposely and it is being done by design.* Many Americans like to think of themselves as "well off", but as will be demonstrated below, we don't "own" nearly as much as we...
  • Reminder: 2053 Nuclear Bombs Have Been Detonat ...
    With all the controversy surrounding the nuclear event in Japan, people should know governments around the world have blown up at least 2053 nuclear bombs all over the planet, releasing massive amounts of nuclear radiation throughout the earth, no ...
  • The Regime's 150th Birthday
    Today marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. This event, more than the Declaration of Independence, Constitution or the American Revolution, signifies the true birth of the modern American nation-state. It was on this day that...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Carbonomics
    I promised myself that I’d stay away from Global Warming, at least until some new wrinkle turned up that promised some sort of interesting discussion. But seeing as GE is away, surfing apparently (you’ll forgive my antipodean snickering as I … Continue reading →
  • Liberté, Égalité, Sororité
    Today marks the official introduction of France’s new law banning the burqua and niqab in public places. Police officers encountering a person wearing this garment are forbidden to forcibly remove it, but if she refuses their request to lift her … Continue reading →
  • Inferno
    The scene: a desolate, barren moonscape. Lightning bolts flash occasionally across a blackened sky. Boiling, bubbling lava pools dot the ground as far as the eye can see, sending plumes of reeking smoke into the gloom. The only sounds are … Continue reading →
  • What Is Libertarianism Part II
    Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
  • It’s Just A Jump To The Left
    …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • A year of Materials Today
    I contribute materials science news and editorials to most issues of the journal Materials Today and usually bookmark each item on Sciencebase and Delicious. But, you can subscribe to the electronic edition of Elsevier journal Materials Today for free if you're in the USA. Just fill in the form ...

RFF Library

  • Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Res ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://opencrs.com/document/RL33861/2011-03-18/?26232 …Under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), four federal agencies have responsibility for long-term earthquake risk reduction: the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Science Foundatio ...
  • U.S. Tsunami Programs: A Brief Overview
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41686/2011-03-18/?26206 The NWS operates the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) at Ewa Beach, HI, and the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/AKTWC) at Palmer, AK. The National Tsunami Hazards Mitigation Program (NTHMP) assi ...
  • Battery Manufacturing for Hybrid and Electric ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://opencrs.com/document/R41709/2011-03-22/?26212 The United States is one of several countries encouraging production and sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to reduce oil consumption, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. The Ameri ...
  • Energy Taxation: Commission Promotes Energy Ef ...
    European Commission http://tinyurl.com/6437px5 EU Energy Taxation (PDF of press release) The European Commission has today presented its proposal to overhaul the outdated rules on the taxation of energy products in the European Union. The new rules aim to restructure the way energy products are ...
  • Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA)
    IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (May 19-20, 2008, San Francisco) / by Timothy Gutowski, Amanda Taplett, Anna Allen, Amy Banzaert, Rob Cirinciore, Christopher Cleaver, Stacy Figueredo, Susan Fredholm, Betar Gallant, Alissa Jones, et al. http://web.mit.edu/ebm/www/P ...

Scientific American - News

  • Coast Benefits: NASA Announces Retirement Home ...
    The launching and landing of space shuttles has always been a fairly coastal affair: The shuttles take off from Florida and almost always touch down in Florida or California. (Once, in 1982, a shuttle landed at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor.) NASA is continuing that coastal tradition wit ...
  • Looking Down on Deforestation: Brazil Sharpens ...
    Brazil's clear-cut deforestation rate led the world just five years ago. And between 1995 and 2006 an average of 19,497 square kilometers of forest was cleared in the Amazon annually, or an area equal to that covered by roughly 14,700 American football fields.Starting in 2006, however, this tren ...
  • Peruvian Gold Comes with Mercury Health Risks
    PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru -- On a busy, dusty street beside a huge open-air market, signs reading “oro” mark shops that trade in gold. The customers, mostly men in work clothes and rubber boots, have just arrived from the mining camps to sell their gold and wire money home.Inside, shopkeepers heat ...
  • A Lovely Swirl: Orbiter Spots a Shifting Vorte ...
    Venus is Earth's closest sibling, in terms of size and proximity, but it remains relatively little explored compared with Earth's other planetary neighbor, Mars. For instance, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) currently have three working Mars orbiters and one active Mars rover between ...
  • Defending the Body Corporate: Appeals Court Pu ...
    The latest chapter in the legal battle over gene patenting unfolded this week during oral arguments (MP3) made in a Washington, D.C., courtroom. A year after a somewhat surprising victory in a New York federal district court, a group of plaintiffs led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACL ...

First Truths

  • Iran and the Culture of Fear
    For C4SS, I opined: Forever in search of a new and foreboding ghost against which to leverage the permanent war economy, the ruling class must constantly defend — in the perfidious wording of Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — "the security commitments we have made." In Ninetee ...
  • The Drug War: Growing the Green
    I write: Everyone has skin in the game, from Wall Street banks and huge prison companies like Corrections Corp. of America and Geo Group to drug companies like Pfizer, and the green they care about isn’t marijuana. From top to bottom the Drug War is shaped perfectly for big government and for co ...
  • Shutdown Can't Come Soon Enough
    My take on shutdown hysteria: Besides its protective functions, defined by its monopoly on the use of force, the need for a state is often asserted on the basis of its role as a “safety net.” But although few would disagree that individuals need some hedge against sickness, unemployment and the ...
  • The Free Market's Regulatory Model
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that a truly free market doesn't require an EPA to protect the environment, that in fact Big Business welcomes the state's regulations: And companies that are, due to the lack of competitive pressures, unwieldy in their largeness are inherently acc ...
  • The Foreclosure Mess: Another Crisis of State ...
    My take on the ongoing housing disaster: Where everything the banks lost was recouped through bailouts and the Fed’s consumption of bad debt with play money, the common man gets to watch his home — probably the only real wealth he had — become another corporate welfare payment. There’s nothing r ...

Media Co-Op

  • Mayday 2011, The Federal Election, and Anarchy
    In the spirit of Mayday and soapbox style agitation, a small pamphlet has been made for mass distribution throughout the Lower Mainland. It is intended to be handed out as much as possible until May1st (International Workers Day) and May ...
  • Ed Mead and Men Against Sexism Part one
    The Story of a Revolutionary Queer Prison Group Check out more interviews at: Earfulofqueer.wordpress.com **TRIGGER WARNING: discusses topics and stories around rape and sex slavery within prisons.**** Part One Part Two Part Three Ed Mead ...
  • The national demonstration against the propose ...
    Reactions to March 31st national demonstrarion against the proposed raise of tuition hikes which resulted in a confrentation with the police. � Jarod is a student who took part in the demonstrarion, and he talked about this reactions.
  • A Brief Note on Voting
    I am not going to vote in the upcoming election. I take no pride in this nor do I think it is a stance which is effective per se. How can I reconcile these two statements? To begin with let's start with the obvious facts. There are differ ...
  • Media Slammed at Rally for Democracy in Halifax
    While Elizabeth May slammed the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission -- and specifically the continued corporatization of Canadian media -- for invoking a "new, invented" rule to keep her out of tomorrow's English national leaders debates, those who "rallied for democracy" in ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (r ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, but it seems even more relevant today than it did way back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He y ...
  • Solidarity: the talk and the walk
    What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn�t seem to stand for anything in particular?(...) Mr. Obama is conspicuously failing to mount any kind of challenge to the philosophy now ...
  • Repent! The end is near... or maybe not
    Administration officials said that nearly 800,000 federal workers would probably be told to stop working if a deal was not reached in the next two days. Small business loans would stop. Tax returns filed on paper would not be processed. Government Web sites would go dark. And federal loan guaran ...
  • Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on yo ...
    Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly ...
  • Libya for Dummies: the lipstick doctrine
    The Lipstick DoctrineIn the Victorian age, the British once sang � �We don�t want to fight, but by Jingo if we do/ We�ve got the ships, we�ve got the men, we�ve got the money too.� The Libyan intervention feels like a last reprise of that old tune, rather than a bold statement for a new age. Gid ...

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • New Science of Living Longer and How to Achieve It
    The new book The Immortality Edge: Realize the Secrets of Your Telomeres for a Longer, Healthier Life is a unique longevity regimen based on Nobel Prize-winning research. The book was written by Dr. Michael Fossel, Greta Blackburn, and Dr. Dave Woynarowski. The Immortality Edge explains how tel ...
  • How to Overcome Fear and Negativity Almost Ins ...
    New research suggests that putting on a fake smile to mask your unhappiness or displeasure may have unexpected consequences. It can actually worsen your mood and cause you to withdraw from tasks. Scientists examined what happened when people engaged in fake smiling, an activity also known as "s ...
  • The Controversial Trick for Blasting Away Up t ...
    More than 50 years after a doctor at a Roman clinic began promoting hCG as a dieting aid, it is as popular as ever, even though there is scant evidence that it makes any difference. The regimen combines daily injections with a near-starvation diet, and patients, mostly women, are often enticed b ...
  • The Dark Side of the Rainbow of Food Dyes Bein ...
    The bright colors of grocery store foods are often the result of artificial food dyes, which are now being applied not just to candies and snack foods, but also to products such as pickles, salad dressing and even oranges. But according to scientific studies, these dyes are causing behavioral p ...
  • Seva Cafe
    Seva, or service, is the selfless giving of oneself for the betterment of others and the world. At Seva Cafe, this takes the form of a "pay it forward" restaurant, where every meal is cooked and served with love.

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Uncontacted Indians: report exposes ‘untold st ...
    Kichwa Indian children from a village close to Repsol's project © Survival Oil giant Repsol-YPF could be threatening the existence of two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to a damning new report by Survival (pdf). The Spanish-Argentine oil company has been targeted for its ...
  • 'Poisonous red mud' pours from Vedanta refinery
    Government pollution inspectors previously criticized Vedanta's environmental record at the refinery. © Survival Toxic sludge has poured out of FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ waste pond at its controversial alumina refinery in Orissa, east India, according to local reports. The toxic slurry r ...
  • Borneo tribe denied vote in crucial elections
    Thousands of Penan will have no vote in Saturday's elections © Survival International Thousands of Penan tribespeople will be unable to vote in crucial elections on Saturday in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, because they do not have identity cards. The elections in Sarawak state ...
  • Ranchers caught red-handed – from space
    Bulldozers used for illegal deforestation, photographed by government investigators © GAT/ Survival Wealthy landowners in Paraguay have been caught red-handed after newly-released satellite images showed their startling destruction of almost 4,000 hectares of forest – which is inhabited by ...
  • Ethiopia strikes out at Survival
    The Nyangatom people live on the Omo river banks in south Ethiopia. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival Prime Minister Meles Zenawiâs recent outburst against Survival International falls very far short of the mark. He claims organizations like Survival International which are campaigning against th ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Analysis: Mayor Gérald Tremblay 'circling the ...
    Maybe it was one scandal too many in a city - and a province - where allegations of corruption and collusion have prompted several police investigations in the last two years.
  • Editorial: The G8/G20 report: let’s see the fi ...
    Federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser is technically correct in maintaining that it would be improper for her to release a report her office compiled on government spending on last summer’s G8 and G20 summit meetings while Parliament is dissolved for the duration of the election campaign.
  • The profound malaise at Montreal city hall
    Judging by the latest in a staggering succession of scandals to erupt at Montreal city hall, due process is something of an alien concept in the upper ranks of the civic administration
  • Potholes strike again
    On March 21, you published my letter regarding pothole damage ("One pothole story"). A week later, my husband Ed was driving on Décarie Blvd. and had a blowout on the opposite tire because of the numerous potholes on that road.
  • Why not ferries?
    The letter urges a new bridge. I have a much cheaper solution. Start a ferry service on two locations until the bridges are repaired. You cannot repair a bridge properly while using it. The ferries would cost a fraction of the cost of a new bridge.

Food World Order

  • frankenfoods in you 'natural' foods store
    whole foods or whole hypocrisy? from organic consumers dot org: After two decades of biotech bullying by Monsanto and Food Inc., a grassroots movement of organic consumers and farmers is rising up across the United States. Inspired by the success of their European counterparts in driving ge ...
  • gmo's linked to organ disruption in 19 studies
    from responsible technology: A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% ...
  • 4/7 binge & purge: easter, grocer, toxic, addi ...
    oregon salmonella case brings easter chick warning* bpa ban advances in oregon legislature* north portland grocer charged with food stamp fraud* trouble in the bat world means trouble for US food supply?* 14 die after eating toxic sardines in madagascar* processed food from stone ...
  • conagra broadens campaign to feed hungry kids
    update: conagra ceo on customers & rising prices... from nytimes: ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest campaign ever, including a television special, to spur more grass-roots inv ...
  • mcdonald's launches plan to (soylent) green it ...
    world wildlife fund gets into bed with mcdonald's, gives birth to darling 'sustainability program' from grist: McDonald's is going to be less bad for the future of life on Earth, it promises. With the help of the World Wildlife Fund, the 32,000-store chain has pledged to do the following t ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
    COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
  • A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
    A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
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    We Need Your Help Urgently Please so That Robert Green Can Stand for Parliament on the Hollie Greig Establishment Abuse Case Do you live in the constituency of Aberdeen South? The wards are: Queens Cross, Gilcomston, Langstane, Hazelhead, Peterculter, Murtle, Cults, Mannofield, Ashley, Holburn, ...
  • Please join the Hollie Campaign during the UK ...
    What is the point of knowing what is going on if we then do nothing about it! ‘Paedophilia within the British establishment is rife.  Up and down the country, innocent children are being sexually abused by people holding positions of trust in ways that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The Conservative and (European) Unionist Party ...
    This morning, we ran an April Fool gag claiming that 'Call Me Dave' Cameron had agreed to an 'In-Out Referendum' after pressure from the 1922 Committee. Although we did make it clear in the same post that it was a joke, we would like to apologise to anybody who got their hopes up. That sai ...
  • Dave's Immigration Dishonesty
    Call Me Dave is all over the news with his big on rhetoric pledge to curb the out-of-control levels of immigration. There is no doubt that David Cameron and his advisers have hit upon a popular point of policy - many people in this country, of all political persuasions and affiliations, are e ...
  • We should thank Gaddafi, for taking our rose t ...
    You know, I think the madman dictator of Libya - the murderous Colonel Gaddafi - has done us all a favour, though probably an unintended one on his part. Before this unjustified military action in Libya, most people had not been exposed to the truth about Al Qaida. We had the rather strang ...
  • I can't speak on behalf of UKIP but...
    I can't speak on behalf of UKIP - I'm just a supporter of the party and have no authority or claim to anything UKIP whatsoever. However... ...I'm sure if Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell, Bill Cash and John Redwood were to see the futility of the situation and chose to come defect to the fu ...
  • Keiser: Now the Globalists are Going to Try Ta ...
    11m 30s onward, but watch the entire thing. Now then, United States... consider this in the context of the scene from the first (but fourth) Star Wars film, where Luke Skywalker encounters R2D2 for the first time and triggers the recorded message from Princess Leia. This episode of the Kei ...

Facing South

  • Texas oil refinery pollution activist wins pre ...
    By Michael May, Texas Observer This week, Hilton Kelley, one of the activists the Observer honored as a 2010 Tyrant's Foe, won the most prestigious award given to environmental activists -- the Goldman Environmental Prize. Kelley will receive much-deserved recognition for his work -- and the ...
  • VOICES: Right-to-work law brings falling wages ...
    By Steven McCloud, Labor Notes Twelve state legislatures are seeking to pass right-to-work bills, which allow workers to get the benefits of union representation without joining or contributing. That weakens the union's ability to advocate, eventually hurting the whole workforce -- including ...
  • A year later, BP's oil is still damaging the G ...
    As the one-year anniversary of the BP drilling disaster nears, the American public has largely turned its attention away from the Gulf Coast. But for the people and other living creatures who make the region their home, the oil spill's impacts are still being felt acutely today. In an effort t ...
  • WHAT SPILL? Congress has done 'virtually nothi ...
    When BP's Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophically failed nearly a year ago, it unleashed a gusher of wall-to-wall media coverage -- and promises from politicians of reform. Indeed, CNN just won a Peabody Award for its "extensive coverage" of the disaster which pumped over 200 million g ...
  • Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. Official: Three Detainees Released By Obama Have Engaged in Terrorism or Insurgency During testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, State Department official Dan Fried, special envoy for Guantanamoâs closure, said that U.S. intelligence agencies believe three of … Cont ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Man Linked to Would-Be Times Square Bomber to Be Deported A man arrested last year for links to Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber who is serving a life sentence, pleaded guilty to immigration and illegal money transfer charges … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Bomb in Belarus Subway Station Kills 12 During Monday Evening Rush Hour A bomb exploded in a crowded subway station next to the office of the Belarusian president in the capital of Minsk during Mondayâs evening rush hour, killing at … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Trying 9/11 Writing in the Sunday Washington Post, CLS Executive Director Karen Greenberg argues that while she is disappointed with the decision to hold a military commission at Guantanamo for several accused 9/11 suspects, ât is time to give up … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    AP: Terror Suspects in Afghanistan Can Be Held for Weeks in Secret The AP reports Friday that suspected terrorists in Afghanistan continue to be held in secret, U.S. military-run detention facilities where they can be interrogated for up to nine … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Flock 'Social Media' Browser is No More
    Flock Web Browser was once a darling of the web. It was among my favorite web browsers out there until a few years ago. But then Google Chrome happened which raised the bar much higher eventually changing the whole internet space once and for all. Mozilla Firefox suddenly became *old* and had to ...
  • Faenza Variants Icon Theme Now Include Boxee, ...
    When we listed our favorite icon themes for Ubuntu, Faenza Variants were among the ones that stole the limelight. Faenza Variants version 0.20 is a more complete package with a number of new icons and more polish.� Faenza Variants Icon Theme for GNOME Latest Faenza Variants version 0.20 c ...
  • Beautiful Looking LibreOffice Splash Screen, A ...
    As you all should know by now, LibreOffice is already the new default office suite for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. You can even install latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid easily via LibreOffice PPA by following the instructions here. Now, here is a very good looking and very creative L ...
  • Faenza 0.9 Released - Brings More Polish, New ...
    Faenza icon theme is arguably *the* most beautiful icon theme for GNOME and also has support for the widest range of applications in Ubuntu GNOME. Faenza 0.9 was released a day ago and it brings in a number of major upgrades including a new "darkest" theme and many other openly visible as well a ...
  • Celebrating 20 Years of the Linux
    The Linux Foundation has released a video commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System. The video, aptly named 'The Story of Linux' quickly depicts the growth of Linux over the years(though any reference to the GNU project is entirely omitted for some reason). One other collection of vid ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • AUSTRIAN JUSTICE MINISTER STUNS COUNTRY BY TUR ...
    When Justice Minister Dr Claudia Bandion-Ortner appeared before camera crews on Monday, and announced she intended to clean up the countless corruption scandals plaguing Austria by supervising investigations in person, the stunned journalists did not know what quite to make of the way the famous ...
  • Iceland Rejects Bankster Shakedown, by Kurt Ni ...
    Infowars.com April 11, 2011 Unlike Americans, the people of Iceland were allowed to vote on bailing out the banksters. They voted overwhelmingly against the proposal on Saturday despite the intimidation tactics of the globalist loan sharking operation, the International Monetary Fund. For a seco ...
  • Swedish study links swine flu vaccine to narco ...
    The Local A new Swedish study shows an increased risk of developing the sleeping disease narcolepsy for children vaccinated with swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, a drug manufactured by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The study, presented Tuesday by the Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket ...
  • Guttenberg and the Faust syndrome
    If every national literature has its own distinctive characteristics, Geothe’s “Faust” is surely the archetypal story in German literature, exploring as it does a character torn between the will to power and the will to truth. The impoverished academic Faust flip flops between his desire to âha ...
  • The vultures on Burg Guttenberg
    Check out the vultures and other birds of prey on Burg Guttenberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-S4KnFer8&feature=related

Invisible Opportunity

  • If it isn’t Israel then it must be Space ...
    By Les Visible Well, the signs are fairly overwhelming and, as has been mentioned, whenever Israel has a religious holiday coming up, there’s a good chance a whole lot of people will die, as they have on many an Israeli holiday. As per usual, my mentioning the upcoming Passover, I hope that sayi ...
  • CIA Veteran says Bin Laden is a diversion and ...
  • YEARS OF DECEIT: US OPENLY ACCEPTS BIN LADEN L ...
    By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Conservative commentator, former Marine Colonel Bob Pappas has been saying for years that bin Laden died at Tora Bora and that Senator Kerry’s claim that bin Laden escaped with Bush help was a lie. Now we know that Pappas was correct. The embarrassment o ...
  • $38 Billion In Cuts? Make That $353 Million
    By Tyler Durden Yesterday the media had a field day when it was uncovered that the hard fought $38 billion in budget “cuts” which almost caused America to shut down were in reality $14 billion. We, thus, can’t wait to find out what the response will be when it is uncovered that the actual cuts [...]
  • Sarah Palin Baby Hoax
    Henry Blodget An interesting footnote has emerged to a theory that raged around the Internet during Sarah Palin’s candidacy for Vice President: The theory is that Sarah Palin is actually the grandmother of her purported son Trig, not the mother, and that she staged a gigantic hoax during the cam ...

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.

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • VIDEO: FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Chats With C ...
    Earlier today, Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz visited the Consumer Reports compound in Yonkers, NY. While there, Consumerist's Executive Editor Meghann Marco managed to score a sit-down interview with him. The two discussed an array of topics, including impostor scams, the fa ...
  • Chase Rep Thinks Deaf People Can't Have Credit ...
    Dheeraj's father is a silent partner in the business that they own together. They made him the personal guarantor when applying for a new business credit card from Chase recently, not realizing how many problems it would cause while trying to get the father's card activated. See, Dheeraj's fath ...
  • T-Mobile Announces $80 Unlimited Voice, Text & ...
    T-Mobile has announced a new unlimited plan for cellphone customers. For $80 per month, subscribers can sign up for an Even More two-year contract that offers unlimited voice, text, and data for any smartphone in its stable. But there is one slight catch. Among the contract's wording, T-Mobile ...
  • I Lost Priceline Hotel Reservation Because My ...
    Josh doesn't have a lot of money. When he and his girlfriend went to check in to the Crowne Plaza hotel room they reserved on Priceline, he handed over his credit card to confirm the reservation, and his card was declined. They wouldn't accept his girlfriend's card to put on file for incidental ...
  • Consumerist On Bloomberg TV's Taking Stock Wit ...
    It's Wednesday, which means you can catch Consumerist's own Ben Popken on "Taking Stock with Pimm Fox" tonight on Bloomberg TV, where he'll be talking about the week's biggest stories. Tune in to Bloomberg TV, or watch online at Bloomberg.com/tv, at 5:35 p.m. ET and again at 9:35 p.m. See you t ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Loud, Bold and Wrong
    by Tina Dupuy We must love boisterous blowhards. As Americans, we are fixated on people who make loud, definitive declarations so we can stand behind them waving our oversized number-one foam-fingers chanting: “Go team! Win!” If you take away all the nebbishy number-crunching and bureaucracy – w ...
  • Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Natio ...
    When I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother had packed in my lunchbox, or, they said, they’d beat me up. After a close call in the boy’s room, I paid up. Weeks later, they [...]
  • Pa.’s New Jobs Czar Fought Enviro Regs for Years
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica A version of this story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For years C. Alan Walker, a coal industry mogul and wealthy donor to Pennsylvania’s Republican Party, clashed with environmental officials who tried to regulate his companies. He descri ...
  • Cuts in Pentagon Spending Possible, Authoritie ...
    Americans can begin to hope that the current recession, coupled with the politics of debt reduction in Washington, may yet result in cuts in that runaway Pentagon budget, The Nation magazine says in its April 11th issue. “War-weary Americans have turned decisively against the conflicts in Afghan ...
  • US Government Looting Social Security To Wage Wars
    “As long as the $1.2-trillion annual budget for the military-security complex is off limits (to cutting), nothing can be done about the US budget deficit except to renege on obligations to the elderly, confiscate private assets or print enough money to inflate away all debts,” warns Paul Craig R ...

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JoNova

  • Fairyland economics — Labor invents perp ...
    It’s fairy-land economics out there. In a big economic advance, the Labor Party realized  that they can solve world poverty: the secret is to take money from the big producers, and hand it to anyone and everyone — it will not only keep our national economy productive and efficient, but millions ...
  • Bolivia gets stoneage legal system
    UPDATED: See below It’s the ultimate in pre-cambrian law. Gaia in the courtroom. Shh. The Statutory Spirits are at work. It’s not just the right to life for amoeba, it’s the right not to have your cellular structure modified. Looks like salad is off the menu. So is meat, fruit, tea and coffee, a ...
  • Unthreaded
    I’ve been with our five year old in hospital overnight (with asthma), and there is no time to post… thanks to all the people who have donated to Tim Ball’s case (and you can donate through Dr Ballâs website via paypal http://drtimball.com/), and to commenters and moderators here too. Lubos has a ...
  • Fairyland economics — Labor invents perpetual ...
    It’s fairy-land economics out there. The Labor Party put a neuron or two to work, and in a big economic advance realized they can solve world poverty: the secret is to take money from the big producers, and hand it to anyone and everyone — it will not only keep our national economy productive an ...
  • Bolivia gets stoneage legal system
    It’s the ultimate in pre-cambrian law. Gaia in the courtroom. Shh. The Statutory Spirits are at work. It’s not just the right to life for amoeba, it’s the right not to have your cellular structure modified. Looks like salad is off the menu. So is meat, fruit, tea and coffee, and no you can’t eat ...

ReNew America

  • Conservatives' criticism of budget compromise ...
    (Washington Examiner) - With the 2011 budget battle nearly behind them, Republicans are eager to begin pressing for their 2012 budget blueprint, which would cut spending by more than $4 trillion over the next decade and revamp Medicare and Medicaid...
  • Budget tricks helped Obama save programs from cuts
    (Associated Press) - The historic $38 billion in budget cuts resulting from at-times hostile bargaining between Congress and the Obama White House were accomplished in large part by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs President B ...
  • God's Ten Commandments stand for freedom
    (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - For those Americans who live where there are four distinct seasons, during the winter months you're probably tuned into your local radio or television station so you'll know the weather forecast. Our meteorological forecasters have ways to determine if our days will be ...
  • Conservative vs. conservative: a fair fight, d ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - What would "Silent Cal" do? In his time, debt in the billions would have been considered beyond the scope of sanity; forget trillions. So how would Calvin Coolidge have assessed the budget deal just agreed to by 21st century Republican House Speaker John Boehner? Let's ...
  • Bachmann voted against $39 billion deal
    (NewsMax) - House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama are hailing Friday night's last-minute budget deal that averted a government shutdown. But Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is not a fan of the agreement that will slice $38.5 billion in spending, calling it a "disappointment"...

Truth Offering

  • Poll: Will the US military end up occupying Libya?
    I know you're not stupid. You know our military. You know the recent history of our never-ending military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan; the countless billions of dollars wasted. And prior to that, it was Korea and Vietnam. It never ends. So this week, we asked: Only roughly 3% of responde ...
  • Civilization: The Biggest Bubble
    One thing I'm certain of is that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know that much. That's the irony of knowledge. It's like, as you open one door of knowledge, there are ten more to explore. And to be honest, I love that about life; I love learning more and more about our ever-changing ...
  • The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
    Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
  • US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
    CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
  • Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
    In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...

2012 Blog

  • Fingers on the Pulse
    I’ve not expressly promoted other websites or blogs until today, because most that belong to the 2012 meme do not get my approval. These do, and they might even be pivotal if something eventful unfolds. I regularly find amazing information at these sites, and I recommend them for your perusal an ...
  • Swine Flu + Bird Flu / Vivos in UK / London 2012
    Not a surprise, but lab tests indicate that we need to watch out for a nasty super flu: What do you get if you cross bird flu with the 2009 pandemic human virus, widely known as swine flu? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t funny. A new study predicts that swapping genes between the avian and human ...
  • Dormant Volcanoes No Longer Exist
    New research suggests that there is no such thing as a dormant volcano, so if you live near anything volcanic, now you have an excuse to move away. Until now it was thought that once a volcano’s magma chamber had cooled down it remained dormant for centuries before it could be remobilized by fre ...
  • CRE Superbug in the USA
    Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is the new concern. Carbapenem is an antibiotic, that is losing its powers rapidly, and there is no alternative yet: Carbapenems are one of the antibiotics of last resort for many bacterial infections, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiell ...
  • Tsunami Underestimation – When Will We L ...
    The reason behind the whole Japanese tsunami nuclear disaster is simple – they doubted a tsunami could be that big. Doomsday researchers know that in the distant past tsunamis have been as high as half a mile, yet the Japanese even chose to ignore relatively recent records: In postulating the ma ...

Facing South

  • Texas oil refinery pollution activist wins pre ...
    By Michael May, Texas Observer This week, Hilton Kelley, one of the activists the Observer honored as a 2010 Tyrant's Foe, won the most prestigious award given to environmental activists -- the Goldman Environmental Prize. Kelley will receive much-deserved recognition for his work -- and the ...
  • VOICES: Right-to-work law brings falling wages ...
    By Steven McCloud, Labor Notes Twelve state legislatures are seeking to pass right-to-work bills, which allow workers to get the benefits of union representation without joining or contributing. That weakens the union's ability to advocate, eventually hurting the whole workforce -- including ...
  • A year later, BP's oil is still damaging the G ...
    As the one-year anniversary of the BP drilling disaster nears, the American public has largely turned its attention away from the Gulf Coast. But for the people and other living creatures who make the region their home, the oil spill's impacts are still being felt acutely today. In an effort t ...
  • WHAT SPILL? Congress has done 'virtually nothi ...
    When BP's Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophically failed nearly a year ago, it unleashed a gusher of wall-to-wall media coverage -- and promises from politicians of reform. Indeed, CNN just won a Peabody Award for its "extensive coverage" of the disaster which pumped over 200 million g ...
  • Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...

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Oriental Review

  • Mu’ummar Qaddafi: Recollections Of My Life
    OR Note: Please listen to a person widely portrayed as tyrant and make up your own mind. ‘For 40 years, or was it longer,I canât remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food, I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, ...
  • Côte d’Ivoire: Say Soodbye to International Law
    The West is dealing shortly and brutally with African intellectual, who tried to build a European-like social state. Given the civil war and NATO operation in Libya, the situation in another African country — Côte d’Ivoire — doesn’t draw much attention of the world media. In the meantime, these ...
  • The BRICS nations say ‘no’ to Liby ...
    Foreign ministries of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are busy arranging their agendas ahead of the third BRICS summit in Chinese Sanya on April, 14th. Global events are developing at such a high pace that plans are being corrected on the go. Commenting on the s ...
  • Forces Regrouped in World Politics?
    The BRICS summit will convene in China’s Sanya beach resort on April 14.For the first time in the alliance’s relatively short history, South Africa will participate in the forum as a member along with Brazil, Russia, India, and China, while the disquieting political settings of the early 2011 re ...
  • Libya: ‘Winged Democracy’ in Criti ...
    Global war-mongers are seemingly in deep frustration. Despite huge investments in ‘people opposition movement’, disinformation campaign and eventual direct foreign intervention in Libya, the ‘anti-Gaddafi project’ has come to obvious deadlock. That looks quite surprising. Regular Libyan army bea ...

BlogHer

  • Extreme Couponing: Ethics and Etiquette
    Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 25528 13 When I decided to give this extreme couponing thing a try, one of the biggest surprises was just how seriously couponers take couponi ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, April 13: Angie W ...
    Angie Wynne from Baby Cheapskate has a book expected to hit the shelves around Mothers' Day 2012 from NAL, an imprint of Penguin.� The book's working title is Save, Baby Save, and it's based on her money-saving blog BabyCheapskate.com. Denise Woodward of Chez US won the SAVEUR Sandwich Photo Con ...
  • Classes Parents *Should* Take
    It was a good 5 minutes or so before I realized that the reason the grilled cheese sandwich wasn't cooking was because I never turned on the burner. Usually it's the other way around -- I turn it up high to heat it up fast, then burn the damn thing because I am flitting around the kitchen to one ...
  • J. Crew, Boys and Pink Nail Polish
    Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 22 You may have heard of the Fox News doctor/consultant who is taking issue with the current J. Crew catalog photo featuring the president of the company painting her son's toenails pin ...
  • Dirty Hands: Digging Up the Past in Caleb's C ...
    Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 13 The idea for Caleb's Crossing grew out of a notation on a map of the island of Martha's Vineyard. It marked the birthplace of the first Native American graduate of Harvard. I immedi ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Why U.S. School Kids Are Flunking Lunch
    Healthy food guru Jamie Oliver of “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” TV series, runs into roadblocks when he tries reform school cafeterias. Even though parents and administration in L.A. were yearning for him to revolutionize their ...
  • Monsanto Cash Helped Fund Bill to Stifle Whist ...
    As if Monsanto isn’t a big enough giant, they constantly throw money to influence serious legislation! Oh, but this isn’t an act of pretentious altruism for farmers. They have a vulnerable hide to cover if ...
  • Blueberries Beat Fat
    Another super-fruit super power. Texas Woman’s University researchers found that blueberry consumption might ward off the development of fat cells, referred to as adipogenesis. While this study was only tested in mice, there is promising ...
  • 19 Foods to Naturally Detox Radiation
    When disaster strikes, many rush out and buy the saving grace without exactly knowing its proper use or why they are buying it. We often don’t think of something like radiation exposure until there is ...
  • WHO Blames Drugs for Losing Superbug Battle & ...
    “Drugs are to blame, we need stronger drugs!” is essentially the new double speak from the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding all the augmenting worldwide resistant superbug threats. Rising resistant “bugs” include CRKP, MRSA, strains ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Plea deal provides details on Massey miner&#82 ...
    Thomas Harrah, the former Massey Energy employee charged with faking a foreman’s certificate and lying to investigators, appeared in federal court in Beckley today to enter a guilty plea to federal charges. (See previous coverage here, here and here). In reading the court documents filed with t ...
  • NY Times profiles the disappearance of Lindytown
    Photo by Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition The New York Times has a lengthy article out that profiles the Boone County community of Lindytown. Reporter/columnist Dan Barry writes: … The coal that helped to create Lindytown also destroyed it. Here was the church; here was its ...
  • MSHA puts two mines on ‘pattern of viola ...
    This just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that it has issued a notice of a pattern of violations to two coal mining operations under Section 104(e) of the federal Mine Safety and Health A ...
  • EPA finalizes two key mountaintop removal studies
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its water quality guidance for Appalachian coal-mining permits to the White Office Office of Management and Budget for further review (See here and here). But, EPA officials have finalized two key studies about mountaintop removal. One report is ...
  • Why coal miners die on the job
    Photo of Reconstructed Accident Scene from MSHA. This hour, the West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety is reviewing a report on the Jan. 27 accident at Baylor Mining’s Jims Branch No. 3-A Mine in Wyoming County. As regular readers may recall, that accident took the life of 19-year-o ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Instagram: The Cleanest, Most Functional Mobil ...
    It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr – it’s all as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented. Oh yeah, did we mention [...]
  • Barracuda Ravaged by SQLi
    At RSA 2011 in San Francisco the company publicized that they were sparing no expense to rent a strip club for an invitation-only “VIP” party. Although they did their best to promote the event as exclusive and posh, little could be done to hide the fact that the club is known locally for its $5 ...
  • Untitled
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartTypography Deconstruction Letterpress PosterThis is a ProblemObjections from the Left vs. RightSword & Sworcery for iPad
  • Gyroscopes Rock
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSun Melts RockSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAlone in the WildernessEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.DroneThe Gift
  • Sword & Sworcery for iPad
    via arstechnica.com If I had an iPad I’d be playing this game. I just haven’t found a good enough reason to buy one yet. Maybe once my house is perfect it can be the ideal ‘sit on couch’ device. But for now I think it’s going to be mobile device / laptop. Posted via email [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Muslims take to the streets of Paris in protes ...
    Muslim women protest on first day of France’s face veil ban | Guardian Kenza Drider stood defiantly outside Notre Dame, adjusting her niqab to reveal only a glimpse of her eyes. Scores of police with a riot van and several lorries stood by as she and another woman in a niqab staged a peaceful pr ...
  • First look into genetic underpinnings of bee&# ...
    thehindu – A new study of bumble bees, honey bees, stingless bees and solitary bees has offered a first look at the genetic underpinnings of their differences in lifestyle. Most people have trouble telling them apart, but these bees have home-lives that are as different from one another as a mon ...
  • Hippie Art Prices Soar Amidst Controversy
    Richard Prince Fetes Hippies, Beatniks, Punks in Paris: Jorg von Uthmann | Bloomberg An unfortunate coincidence or a PR agent’s dream? Ten days before the opening of Richard Prince’s first major exhibition in Paris, a New York judge ruled that he violated the law by creating a series of collages ...
  • An Agonizing Reappraisal
    WWH - There needs to be an agonizing reappraisal of many issues confronting this country. However, since it’s tax time, it’s time to reassess your personal finances and your massive wealth! OK… your pittance of an income? Whatever your financial status, tax time for me is an opportunity to reass ...
  • Decriminalization Bills Die in Maine
    Maine Marijuana Decriminalization Bills Die | Stop The Drug War A pair of bills that would have decriminalized the possession of up to five ounces of marijuana or six pot plants died last week when the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to kill them. Maine has already ...

reference frame

  • Sheldon Cooper will confront Brian Greene
    On Thursday, April 7th, 2011, CBS will air another, 04x20 episode of The Big Bang Theory. It's called "The Herb Garden Germination." Amy and Sheldon will try to spread rumors and Howard will act to upgrade his relationship with Bernadette. More importantly, Brian Greene will star as hi ...
  • Václav Klaus and pen in Chile
    I am a great Klaus fan but let me admit that this video - that became a hit in the Czech Republic after it attracted hundreds of thousands of views in one day and overshadowed the "Public Affairs"-driven government crisis - has made me laugh out loud. There even exists a version ...
  • Debbi: Touch the Sun
    Just watching the Second Czecho Slovak Pop Idol. Shocked to hear that this song is not coming from abroad. This song has won the "Song of the Year" award - and appeared in a Metaxa ad. Moreover, Debbi, the singer, is not only Czech but she was also the first eliminated g ...
  • Talk by top Czech nuclear safety watchdog
    Your humble correspondent has just returned from a talk by Dr Dana Drábová who came to Pilsen - the Mother of Cities - to explain lasting as well as current issues surrounding nuclear energy. She is the chair of the Czech State Nuclear Safety Authority. And I was extremely impressed. I ...
  • UK press complaint commission defends free spe ...
    Lawrence Solomon of the Financial Post has brought the happy news to us: James Delingpole, one of Britain's most articulate and candid climate skeptics, has been defended against the attempts by the University of East Anglia to silence him. UEA either wanted Delingpole to get quie ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
    Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
  • Foul Play on Facebook
    Climate skeptic pages on Facebook have recently been targeted. Our posts were alleged to be "abusive" and the ability to share them was temporarily blocked.
  • The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
    Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
  • Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
    Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.
  • The IPCC’s Activist Chairman
    Rajendra Pachauri does not display the aloof, dispassionate demeanour traditionally evoked by the term "scientist." Instead, he repeatedly lends the good name of the scientific body he chairs to activist endeavours.

Tarpley

  • باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخا ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab Legion; Benghazi Rebel Council Stages Massacres of Black Africans; African Union Mediation Spurned by Western Imperialists; Qaddafi Forces Superior to Rebels; NATO aims at Partition of Libya, wh ...
  • “Wrap the World in Flames” — The US-Russ ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 Who was our friend when the world was our foe. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 18711 � At the point of maximum war danger between Great Britain and the United States, the London satirical publication Punch published a vicious caricature of US P ...
  • Türk
    International Main Menu Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén AL QAEDA: LİBYA’DAN YEMEN’E CİA AYAKLANMASININ PİYONLARI Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 3 Nisan 2011 Washington DC, 3 Nisan – İki haftalık NATO hava saldırıları, cruise ...
  • 中文
    International Main Menu Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén 基地组织——美国中情局在利比亚和也门引发暴乱的走卒 作者：韦伯斯特-塔普利 博士 ( Dr Webster G. Tarpley ) （赵帅 译） 华盛顿特区， 2011年4月3日。 在连续两周的帝国主义攻打后，利比亚仍被基地组织恐怖分子、内战、北约空袭、巡航导弹、捕食者无人飞机和C-130炮舰无情的摧残着。美国、英国、法国、以及荷兰军官 ...
  • Svenska
    International Main Menu Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén Al-Qaida: CIA´s verktyg i upproren frÃ¥n Libyen till Jemen Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 3 april 2011 Washington DC, 3 april – Efter tvÃ¥ veckor av imperialistisk ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Buy your Canned Tuna, Now?
    Long term radiation effects, in Tuna? With many of the long term effects from the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster still ahead of us, a serious consideration should be made regarding the food chain and the possible radioactive contamination thereof. In this example, let’s ...
  • Dog Compassion and Loyalty after Tsunami
    More than 10 million viewers have already seen this incredible video of a compassionate and protective pet dog after the tsunami in Japan, but in the event that you haven’t, it’s worth 2 minutes of your time to have a look. Watch the video and then put it in context with your own day-to-day live ...
  • Dorcy LED Cyber Light Flashlight Review
    I’ve owned the Dorcy LED Cyber Light flashlight for awhile now (several), and I’ve been so impressed with it that I decided to do a short video review and comparison with another flashlight that I own, and like, the Streamlight Ultra-Stinger. Flashlights are one of those gadgets that I happen to ...
  • Terrorist Brigades of 6-year old Girls
    At least in America, this is the apparent future. Does this government agency, the TSA and Homeland Security really believe that the potential enemies (‘terrorists’) are perhaps brigades of 6-year old girls? When I see this, and other videos like this, it makes my blood boil. It is so wrong. Wha ...
  • Pole Shift, Southeast U.S. Worst Affected
    Magnetic Pole Shift: The annual rate of change of magnetic pole shift, as calculated by the British Geological Survey Geomagnetism Team and the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, indicates that the southeast United States is evidently affected the most each year (calculations through 2015) a ...

Fast Company

  • IBM Will Go All Watson On Your Commute, Keep Y ...
    Imagine a world where no one ever gets stuck in traffic--where cars have built-in sensors that can predict where and when future accidents will occur, keeping commuters out of harm's way. That's never going to happen. But IBM, Caltrans, and the University of California at Berkeley are working ...
  • Highway To Health: Rock Health Wants To Make W ...
    Halle Tecco, who founded the new health-care startup incubator Rock Health, is bringing in visionaries like the founder of Guitar Hero to help creative, innovative, and--dare we say it--fun health-care startups get off the ground. Halle Tecco was working last year for the Apple App Store when sh ...
  • New App To Fix Android's Privacy And Data-Secu ...
    Android phones have many good qualities, but privacy protection and personal data security aren't high on the list. Enter a new app that enables privacy mode.Researchers at North Carolina State University tackled the emerging concerns about user-data privacy protection in Android smartphones. To ...
  • Is Noah Glass Twitter's Long Lost Winklevoss?
    Is the founding of Twitter the stuff of "The Social Network 2"? You probably know the story by now. Years back, entrepreneurs Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone began developing an idea called Twitter, a mobile microblogging platform. Before long, the company grew and grew: spreading de ...
  • GE Hoaxed, Says It Won't Be Paying Back Taxes ...
    Today, GE appeared to put out a press release noting that it had decided to do the right thing and pay the $6.3 billion taxes that it owed for 2010. And all the thanks it got was a quick drop in its stock price. If GE's paying the government, that's less money for shareholders. We can't have tha ...

Jadaliyya

  • Roundup on the Goldstone Controversy
    While the impact of Justice Goldstoneâs op-ed on accountability and justice remains to be seen, one thing has already been made clear: his contentious and vague editorial has worked to place Israelâs Winter 2008/09 offensive back on center stage. Like Israelâs fatal attack on the Mavi Ma ...
  • In the Shadow of Words: Le Trio Joubran in Mem ...
    It is inevitable that a dancer watching a dance performance, a film-maker watching a film, a musician watching a concert will take notice of details and little tricks that are not available to most others. A skilful camera movement, a new interpretation of a well-known choreography, a no ...
  • At the Table: Sharif Waked's Khumus
    Just outside a Palestinian restaurant, named âal-Baytâ in the recently recognized village of Ayn Hawd southeast of Haifa, a table and two chairs stand precariously balanced on a steep slope. From a distance it is a pretty scene that promises the serenity of a picnic. On closer look, ther ...
  • Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising
    Since the beginning of the Egyptian uprising in January 25th a new grand-narrative about this so-called �revolution� and more broadly the Arab world is being constructed by the media (international and local), academics, politicians, and the local elite.[1]�This narrative appears to be r ...
  • Saudi Hegemony vs. the Arab Spring
    The day the Bahraini authorities demolished the Pearl monument at the center of Bahrain�s �Tahrir Square� on March 18th, the state-run Bahrain News Agency announced to a puzzled public that the �GCC monument� had been removed for a �facelift� in order to get rid of "bad memories.� Amidst ...

mediagazer

  • Local Is Focal: Street Fight Gives The Local I ...
    Rip Empson / TechCrunch: Local Is Focal: Street Fight Gives The Local Industry A Source For News And Analysis  —  I'm beginning to think that the old phrase “think globally, act locally” has become an appropriate slogan for Web 2.0. (Or perhaps an alternative might be “think global, try to mon ...
  • Third senior News of the World journalist arre ...
    Amelia Hill / Guardian: Third senior News of the World journalist arrested  —  James Weatherup in custody as further searches of News of the World offices are expected  —  Profile: who is James Weatherup?  —  The police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World has taken a drama ...
  • Rolling Stone's Will Dana on long-form: 'Quali ...
    Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News: Rolling Stone's Will Dana on long-form: ‘Quality will win out in the end’  —  The mobile consumption of long-form journalism has become something of a trend lately.  And where trends in journalism go, panel discussions are sure to follow.  —  There was one last month, ...
  • Six Lessons for News Publishers from Seth Godi ...
    Ken Doctor / Newsonomics: Six Lessons for News Publishers from Seth Godin  —  Seth Godin is the marketer's marketer, somewhere beyond guru.  —  He's now poking the edges of publishing.  After 13 bestsellers, manufactured and sold through the traditional industry, he's causing quite a stir in th ...
  • Journalism's new wave: the world in a tweet (M ...
    Mark Colvin / ABC News: Journalism's new wave: the world in a tweet  —  One steamy night in February 1974, I went with friends to hear the great blues guitarist B B King in concert at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion.  —  All went well until, an hour or so in, King collapsed on stage and had to be ca ...

Chemtrail News

  • Post Your ChemTrail Pictures Here!, page 1
    I wanted to go ahead and get a thread going where we can simply post our chemtrail pictures. Let me go first and share some of mine. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread688487/pg1
  • Does this proove the ( chemtrail) theor ...
    i have pretty impressive proof that chemtrails are…answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...
  • UFO clearly seen observing a chem trail ...
    I personally have never seen footage of a UFO inspecting a chem-trail, this is very interesting to me because of the recent wave of UFOs across the world, this could have something to do with the use of chemtrails and HAARP etc ...AboveTopSecret.com Hot Topics - http://feeds.abovetopsecret.com/t ...
  • UFO clearly seen observing a chem trail ...
    This footage actually strikes me as being very strange I personally have never seen footage of a UFO inspecting a chemtrail this is very interesting to me ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread687647/pg1
  • Chemtrail Fibers Raining On Phoenix, Ar ...
    David Icke - Exposing the dreamworld we believe to be real.www.davidicke.com/.../47121-chemtrail-fibers-raining-on-ph...

World News - Top Stories

  • 24-hour command posts to help motorists o ...
    MANILA, PhilippinesThe gateway to the south has announced a red alert on the Skyway road network starting Saturday in time for the Holy Week exodus of travelers coming from Metro Manila. Skyway vice...
  • Two sentenced for prostitution in Napervi ...
    Two women have been sentenced after being caught up late last year in an ongoing, anti-prostitution crackdown by Naperville police. DuPage County Circuit Court Judge William I. Ferguson on April 4 convicted Emily L. Dudasik of a misdemeanor charge of...
  • Putin: Russia vows to stop polar bear hun ...
    MOSCOW - An program tied to Vladimir Putin says no polar bears will be hunted in Russia this year. A Russian-U.S. commission last year agreed to restrict polar bear hunting to 29 animals per year for each country. But Russia's polar bear program, established under Putin's patronage, said th ...
  • Sony joins James Bond rescue
    Sony joins up again with MGM in financing and distribution deal that seems to secure resurrection of 007 spy series Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko in the last James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. Photograph: Allstar...
  • Syrian leader meets group from heart of u ...
    BEIRUT - A Syrian official says a delegation from the southern province at the epicenter of mass protests against the regime has met with President Bashar Assad. The official says Thursday's meeting shows there are efforts to calm the situation in Daraa, an impoverished province where the u ...

no frakking consensus

  • Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
    Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
  • Foul Play on Facebook
    Climate skeptic pages on Facebook have recently been targeted. Our posts were alleged to be "abusive" and the ability to share them was temporarily blocked.
  • The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
    Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
  • Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
    Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.
  • The IPCC’s Activist Chairman
    Rajendra Pachauri does not display the aloof, dispassionate demeanour traditionally evoked by the term "scientist." Instead, he repeatedly lends the good name of the scientific body he chairs to activist endeavours.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Long History of Targeting Black Elected Officials
    In the aftermath of our coverage of Waterproof Louisiana, we've gotten many comments from around the US. One longtime New Orleans activist wrote that Waterproof reminds her of a 30-year old case from rural Mississippi. She sent us the following excerpt from an article about the struggle. From 1 ...
  • Race and Politics in a Rural Louisiana Town At ...
    A legal dispute in the rural Louisiana town of Waterproof has attracted the attention of national civil rights organizations and activists. Color Of Change, an online activist group that helped garner national attention for the Jena Six Case, and recently rallied their members in support of Wate ...
  • LJI Director Tracie Washington Among Stars of ...
    The eighth annual PATOIS Film Festival opens tonight with a short film made by the Al Jazeera international television news network that profiles the response of a number of New Orleans and Gulf Coast activists, organizers, and community leaders to the BP Drilling Disaster. The film, called In D ...
  • Louisiana Health Department Told Mother No Bir ...
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: ACLU Asks Louisiana To Clarify That New Mothers Do Not Need To Sacrifice Privacy To Obtain Birth Certificates The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana called on the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) today to clari ...
  • Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Louisian ...
    From our friends at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Joint Statement from Plaintiffs and Counsel on Recent Decision in Road Home Case: Today a federal court of appeals issued a ruling explaining its decision to set aside preliminary injunctions previously granted against th ...

Information Underground

  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: What's the matter, too lazy to get the other socks going? People who constantly accuse other people of using sock puppets are usually the ones using sock puppets. Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:19 am
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Yo Mama wrote: CrackSmokeRepublican wrote:Y.M. do you want to change the title to "Confirmed Mossad Agent Adnan Khashoggi" and just drop 'AJ' from the title of this? I think that would be wise, considering there's no evidence linking Adnon Khashoggi to Alex Jones. What's the matter, too laz ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    mchawe wrote: Actually the majority of the audio is well worth listening to, you might learn something Yes I too thought quite a good interview. It is a pity MCP sees fit to make personal attacks on Bollyn who was one of the first to expose Israel in 911. Aslo saying Bollyn is some kind of cr ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Nuclear engineer: Enormous amount of plutonium at No. 4 spent fuel pool in danger of catching fire; Pool is cracked and leaking (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-eno ... king-video 'Worst-case scenario: Fukushima fuel pool with plutonium catches fire' iframe http://www.youtub ...
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to '7': Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data by Fairewinds Associates plus [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22352930[/vimeo] http://vimeo.com/22352930Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:52 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • The Cerrado: Brazil’s Other Biodiverse Region ...
    While Brazil touts its efforts to slow destruction of the Amazon, another biodiverse region of the country is being cleared for large-scale farming. But unlike the heralded rainforest it borders, the loss of the cerrado and its rich tropical savanna so far has failed to attract much notice. BY ...
  • U.S. Congress Strips Wolves of Endangered Stat ...
    For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress has intervened to remove an animal from the Endangered Species List, attaching a rider to the federal budget that ends federal protection for gray wolves in the northern Rocky U.S. Fish & Wildlife Mountains. The new provisions would instead put manag ...
  • Interview: Forging a Defense for Rhinos in Tro ...
    Zimbabwe ranks number 4 on Foreign Policy magazine’s “Failed State Index,” with its shattered economy, pervasive hunger, and entrenched dictator. And that makes it all the more surprising that Raoul du Rick BarongiRaoul du Toit Toit, who was awarded the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize for Af ...
  • Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
    For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s ec ...
  • Emissions from Shale Gas Exceed Those from Coa ...
    Natural gas extracted from shale deposits by a process known as hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse gas emissions over a 20-year period than conventional gas, oil, and coal, according to a Cornell University study. Researchers said that during the lifespan of the average shale-gas dri ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Amusing videos to conquer sex-trafficking!
    by Rachel Krueger I love youtube videos and am opposed to sex trafficking.  I think it’s safe to say these two sentiments extend to a large percentage of the population.  So why am I baffled by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s hilarious "Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ videos?"  They feature foxy ...
  • Debate: By not losing, Harper won
    By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn't, so I can't. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, ...
  • The Cons’ G8 legacy: $100,000 gazebos
    By Alison@Creekside When the G8 leaders stayed for one night at the Deerhurst Resort as part of the G8/G20 $1.2-billion bunfest, their one-night stay probably didn't afford them the opportunity to fully appreciate all the benefits of the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Slush Fund spent in Industry M ...
  • Enough with the gay mice
    By Jodi A. Shaw Yet another study of homosexuality has been released, this one suggesting that a neurotransmitter is the remote control for sexual preference in mammals. Yi Rao, a neuroscientist at Peking University, and his collaborators engineered male mice unable to produce serotonin, who ...
  • Stephen Harper’s stickhandler
    By Alison@Creekside Five times convicted fraudster Bruce Carson -- currently under RCMP investigation for influence peddling and illegal lobbying of Indian Affairs to obtain a water filtration contract that would have netted his 22-year old fiancee 20% of sales -- was granted a secret securit ...

Daily Beast

  • The Year of Waitlist Hell
    As college acceptance gets tougher, more applicants are put on waitlists or offered deferred admissions, which only prolongs the waiting game. And only a lucky few ever get in, writes Kristina Dell. Most high school seniors have received their college...
  • Bieber's Clash With Bib
    The pop sensation was supposedly to have a summit with Netanyahu on a trip to the Holy Land, but it was just hype. Saving puppies might be closer to the teen idol's heart, writes Tricia Romano. If you came across an article yesterday that contained...
  • Robert Redford's Daring Lincoln Movie
    The Conspirator, Robert Redford's bold new feature about the Lincoln assassination, the first movie from the American Film Company, is out April 15. Eleanor Clift catches an early screening. With all that's been written about the Lincoln...
  • How China Could Help Obama Win the Budget Battle
    Obama's budget speech mixed a Clinton-style defense of Medicare with an ingenious play on Americans' worries about losing their edge to China, writes Peter Beinart. Ususally in American politics, arguing that we should be like other countries is a...
  • American Idol Live Chat
    After careful consideration, American Idol columnist Richard Rushfield wrote this week that the season is a failure. Do you agree, or do you still like the new judges? Join Rushfield and other pundits for a live chat about the season so far. The chat...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • The Sky Tree phenomenon
    Sky Tree, the new tower going up in Tokyo, has become a fixture in Japan's mass media. Each week brings another spectacular photo in the photogravure section of a weekly magazine, and newspapers breathlessly report each new benchmark passed on the way to its final height of 634 meters in the spr ...
  • Enlightened year to revive autism research
    NEW YORK — The theory that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine was responsible for causing autism has, since it was first elaborated, been a hindrance to a proper assessment of the autism problem. The theory, based on a study led by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, published in The Lancet in 199 ...
  • Hedging the glad hand to China
    HONG KONG — The joint statement released during the state visit to the United States by Chinese President Hu Jintao is in some ways strikingly different from a similar joint statement issued in November 2009 during American President Barack Obama's state visit to China. On the surface, they ap ...
  • End of 'dam theory' means Japan badly needs pa ...
    This year's annual "shunto" labor-management wage talks appear to be proceeding on a subdued note. There can be three major reasons why. One is that Japan's official unemployment rate has topped 5 percent for three years in a row. This is still much lower than the United States and much of Eur ...
  • Nature's eruptions
    News of Mount Shinmoe in Kyushu has produced striking images of children cleaning dust at their school, people with high-caliber masks and footage of massive, expanding billows of volcanic ash from a crater — as well as volcanic lightning and lava. The volcanic eruption is another reminder, if a ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Thursday’s live video events
    The budget battle doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon in Washington.  Watch CNN.com Live for continuing coverage on this developing story. Today's programming highlights... 10:00 am ET - House to vote on budget deal - A spending plan for the rest of this fiscal year was reached late last we ...
  • On the Radar: NATO meetings, rough weather, Do ...
    NATO meetings: Foreign ministers from NATO's 28 member nations begin a two-day meeting in Berlin, Germany on Thursday with the alliance's military operations over Libya expected to be the first topic of discussions. The 28 member states and six partner countries are enforcing United Nations Secu ...
  • Russia Today Says Japan Fukushima Nuclear Disa ...
    Russia today calls the Japan nuclear disaster Chernobyl on steroids as nuclear expert Arnold Gundersen says Japan has waited 3 1/2 weeks to late to raise the disaster to a level 7 event on par with Chernobyl.
  • Nuclear expert: Fukushima 1000 times Worse Tha ...
    Arnold Gundersen discusses the Fukushima Accident Severity Level Being Raised to Level 7, saying the Fukushima disasters is 1,000 times worse than the nuclear engineers who built the plant ever anticipated.
  • Did Jimmer become too popular for class?
    College basketball standout and BYU senior Jimmer Fredette certainly has star power, collecting player-of-the-year awards after leading the nation in scoring this past season. And if his father is to be believed, he became too popular on his own campus to attend class. Al Fredette, Jimmer's fath ...

Macleans - Central

Mohawk Nation

CONFEDERACY OF INDIGENOUS ARAB NATIONSMNN. Feb. 24, 2011. If the Arab Indigenous nations can bring down the dictators, can they unite? Indigenous are united by blood to our families, clans, communities, nations and tribes. Our natural affiliation can’t be erased. Colonial relationships are artificial, changeable and will die ou
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