powered by | | | |  - Young Cubans Unsure Where to Turn for Decent Jobs
In the throes of Cuba's economic "reorganisation," young people are walking a tightrope towards an uncertain employment future. They are finding it increasingly difficult to find jobs that meet both their professional aspirations and their salary expectations.
- Vast Majority of Stillbirths Found in Developi ...
According to a special series in the medical journal The Lancet presented in New York Wednesday at the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, over 2.6 million stillbirths occur worldwide annually, affecting mostly African and Asian women who lack proper access to health care and facilities.
- Wrestling Over ICC's Role in Africa
On its face, Kenya's failed bid to defer International Criminal Court cases against alleged organisers of post-election violence in 2007-2008 was a story of changing positions. But to argue that either the U.S. or Africa has switched sides in the debate over the appropriate role of the ICC is ...
- PHILIPPINES: Pulling Children Out of the Tunne ...
At the tender age of 10, Rodel Morozco was working in a goldmine and crawling inside tunnels, until one day he fell 200 feet underground because his father had blasted the tunnel with dynamite.
- Emerging Powers Harnessing Neighbours' Hydroel ...
Emerging countries like Brazil and China are building numerous hydroelectric dams at home and abroad to help drive their economic growth. But while in Latin America the phenomenon is touted as an integration process, in Asia it has generated tension over the shared use of rivers.
- U.S. Economic Optimism Plummets in March
Americans' optimism about the future direction of the U.S. economy plunged in March for the second month in a row as the percentage of Americans saying the economy is "getting better" fell to 33% -- down from 41% in January. Optimism declined across
- Middle-earth according to Mordor
A newly translated Russian novel retells Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" from the perspective of the bad guys
- Plundering the Shire: The Last Ring-bearer
A few months ago, a Russian writer made freely available online an English translation of his rewrite of The Lord of the Rings, as told from the vantage point of the losers in Mordor. In this account, Mordor was actually a realm of human reason and secular science, until it came under attack by ...
- Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking? | ...
Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank - this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal: I have never before heard of a central bank being creat ...
- Caldicott: Monbiot 'Misinforms' over Radiation
GeorgeMonbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy
- Parents of 6-Year-Old Girl Pat Down at Airpor ...
The family of the 6-year-old girl who received a pat down at airport security in New Orleans said today there needs to be a different screening process for children.
- Brazilian police to use 'Robocop-style' glass ...
A small camera fitted to the glasses can capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing up to 13 million faces.
- Belarus Says Suspects Confessed to Subway Bom ...
The president of Belarus, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, announced Wednesday that the security services had caught the perpetrators of a subway bombing that killed 12 people, saying that two suspects had confessed to the crime.
- Yellowstone volcanic plume much larger than e ...
Now, thanks to an array of sensors funded by the National Science Foundation and some new computing techniques, some researchers have produced a new image of the plume, one that suggests the area of elevated temperatures is much larger than previously suspected.
- Navy Wants Its Drone to Land on a Carrier Wit ...
Take the X-47B experimental killer drone made by Northrop Grumman, the first drone intended to fly off an aircraft carrier. At the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space convention outside Washington, Northrop and the Navy and unveiled new details about the tailless, triangular plane and t ...
- Designing consumers
Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
- Sharing culture
- Targeting tumours
Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- Canada: Hundreds gather to protest Mayor Ford' ...
Several thousand demonstrators participated in the "Rally for Respect" at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto on Saturday. CTV Toronto's Zuraidah Alman reports that the rally was organized by various labour and community groups, who say that Mayor Rob Ford has cut away at the city's publ ...
- US, Kansas: Cold front on the way
After a toasty Tuesday, complete with gusty winds and abundant sunshine, another cold front will be pushing into western Kansas Wednesday afternoon. The front will bring a cooler temperatures and a wind shift back to the north. Northwest Kansas will see highs in the low to mid 60s with lower 70s ...
- US: 10 tornadoes hit Wisconsin on Sunday
The storm system that hit northern and central Wisconsin on Sunday now has a place in the record book, with the 10 tornadoes tying the April record set in 1984, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday. Eight of the 10 tornadoes were the weakest category, EF1. However, an EF2 tornado with ...
- Dust storm halts Kuwait oil traffic
A severe dust storm paralyzed Kuwait Wednesday, suspending air traffic and oil exports, authorities said. The Kuwait Petroleum Corp. also advised incoming ships to hold off on docking, the official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported. A top oil official, Sheik Talal al-Khaled, said some maintena ...
- US: Accused serial killer eyed in unsolved 'Do ...
The unsolved strangulations of three young upstate New York girls in the early 1970s could have ties to a suspected serial killer arraigned Wednesday in northern California. New York State Police are eyeing Joseph Naso, 77, as a person of interest in Rochester's cold-case "Double Initial" murd ...
- Song for Stephen
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- Ignatieff vs Harper moderated by Rick Mercer?
Oh yes please. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has accepted an offer from comedian Rick Mercer to take part in a one-on-one debate with Conservative Leader Stephen Harper... Harper had earlier spoken about the possibility of a one-on-one debate, but then distanced himself from the idea and ...
- Dear undergrads,
Many of you are or soon will be lining-up outside a office doors and sending emails to your professors and TAs about your grades on various exams, term papers, and assigments. Some of you will rudely or politely demand an improved grade "because I need good grades," or "worked hard so I deserve ...
- Punish Canada
The title of this post represents the best way I can come up with of understanding the Harper Conservative approach to governance.� Harper and his minions and base are people living in a country, a state, an imagined community of people that consistently reject their worldview in enough number ...
- Quick thoughts on last night's Leader's Debate
I didn't see the whole thing as this is exam and paper grading season in universities,� but from what I did catch, the camera seemed to be directly in front of Harper but generally had inclined views of Ignatieff, Duceppe and Layton. What the hell is up with that (did someone receive a briefcase ...
- Beck Continues Neverending Quest To Prove "Dea ...
Despite hard evidence showing otherwise, Glenn Beck has continued to claim that a "death panel" -- a myth introduced by Sarah Palin during the debate over health care reform in 2009 -- is "coming." Indeed, Beck twice repeated the false claim on his radio show recently, and he has been pushing t ...
- Fox Vs. Fox: Debt Ceiling Edition
In the past week, Fox hosts have contradicted each other and even themselves in their rush to opine on the upcoming vote to raise the debt ceiling. Economists and experts across the board agree that failure to raise the debt ceiling could have catastrophic consequences.Napolitano, Hannity Agree ...
- Morris Falsely Claims Obama "Created A Giganti ...
On�Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dick Morris falsely claimed that President Obama "created a gigantic deficit" through government spending in order to "justify tax increases" later. In fact, the primary drivers of the deficit are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economic downturn, an ...
- REPORT: Fox Gave 88 Seconds To Debunking Of Th ...
In the fifteen days following Megyn Kelly's June 30, 2010, interview hyping the unsubstantiated allegations of right-wing activist J. Christian Adams, six Fox News shows devoted 95 segments and more than eight hours of airtime to the phony New Black Panthers scandal. By contrast, those shows ha ...
- Right-Wing Media Use Budget Talks To Wage War ...
Right-wing media responded to budget negotiations and the debate over Planned Parenthood funding by making sexist attacks against women and deriding women's health services as, among other things, "non-vital" and "optional."Conservative Media Attack Women And Women's Health Care During Budget D ...
- The Sky-Writer Has Crashed
President Obama drew luminous lines in the heavens in his speech on deficit reduction today, vowing to defend Medicaid as we know it and to re-open the unmentionable-in-Washington expectation that rich people give back "a little," as he put it, to the society that enabled them to become rich. ...
- Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn't the Problem, ...
I hope when he tells America how he aims to tame future budget deficits the President doesn't accept conventional Washington wisdom that the biggest problem in the federal budget is Medicare (and its poor cousin Medicaid). Medicare isn't the problem. It's the solution. The real problem is ...
- What is Hard to Understand About Firing Econom ...
Last month, the International Monetary Fund's Independent Evaluation Office issued a remarkable report. The report quite clearly blamed the IMF for failing to recognize the factors leading up to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to provide warning to its members so that pr ...
- "He Started It" -- Ft. Sumter, the First Shot, ...
A brief thought about the Civil War sesquitennial and the importance, historically, of the moral high ground, especially regarding how wars start. The history of epochal wars, it turns out, isn't so different from children's familiar finger-pointing over who "started it." Not only did the Confed ...
- Funding Nuclear Security: Finding the Money
A year ago this week, the Obama administration brought together 47 world leaders in Washington - the largest such gathering since the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945 - for a Nuclear Security Summit designed to promote practices and create programs to prevent nuclear terrorism. ...
- Congress Must Debate the Libya War
The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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- Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
- New Photos From Fukushima
The Tokyo Electric Power Company has released new images from Fukushima, depicting the current problem and photos of the day of the tsunami.
- It’s Time for a Direct Action Comeback! (Now)
The internet has made communicating with politicians and corporations easier than ever, right? Just pop on your computer and send them an email or sign a few petitions. But I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s questioned how effective this cyber communication is in politics. We can easily send em ...
- 350.org & Power Shift 2011 Take Aim at U.S. Ch ...
Continuing on with our continuing coverage of and commentary on 350.org's “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Doesn’t Speak for Me” campaign, news is that 350.org is partnering with the 10,000-strong Power Shift 2011 youth climate conference on Monday, April 18 in Washington, DC. You can reserve your ...
- Google Invests Big Money into World’s Largest ...
Google’s product portfolio has now expanded from search engine power to solar power.
- Spring into Gear with These Tune-Up Bike Tips ...
You know we love biking here on Planetsave -- it's one of the greenest thing you can do (and a ton of fun). Here's a great guest post from those in the know when it comes to biking, Genesis Bicycles. Enjoy!
- Death toll rises to 116 in Mexican massacre - ...
The toll of murder victims buried in a series of mass graves in northern Mexico has risen to 116, Mexico's Attorney General, blaming the atrocity on the brutal Zetas drug cartel. Soldiers found the corpses last week in San Fernando, in Tamaulipas state near Texas, and ini ...
- Detroit mayor outlines plan to gut services, a ...
13 April 2011 In a budget address Tuesday morning, Detroit’s Democratic mayor, David Bing, outlined a program of savage cuts in public services. He demanded that the city’s 10,000 municipal workers pay a large portion of their health care and pension benefits, a year after he forced them to ...
- Venezuela Remembers the 2002 Coup Against the ...
Editor's Note: Today, Venezuelans remembered the attempted coup and kidnapping of President Chavez nine years ago and celebrated their victory over those who committed the crime. Manuel Rosales was one of those who signed the infamous Carmona Decree and participated in the coup. He is former gov ...
- US-European backed Bahrain regime tortures, mu ...
The US-European Crime Syndicate The Crime All photos added and related comments by Axis of Logic. 13 April 2011 US-backed Bahrain regime to ...
- Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters hav ...
Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited ...
- Nightowl Newswrap
Syrian protests spread and escalate "Syrian students have demonstrated in the country's second-largest city of Aleppo in the first protests there since a wave of pro-reform demonstrations broke out in mid-March, an activist has said. Radif Mustafa, the president of the Kurdish Committee for Huma ...
- Number 101
Kentucky's 101st sacrifice to the maw of the Afghanistan-Iraq clusterfuck - and the first since September 30 - is a 21-year-old from Northern Kentucky. Pvt. Brandon T. Pickering, 21, of Fort Thomas, Ky., died April 10 in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds suffere ...
- Negotiating By Dummies
So you're haggling over the price of a car. You absolutely have to sell the car before May 15, because you need the money to make a mortgage payment to stave off foreclosure. So you're willing to come down on the price some, even though you need every dime you can get if you're going to make tha ...
- White House blogger conference call on Preside ...
We received notice earlier today that the White House would be holding a blogger conference call with David Plouffe, Dan Pfeiffer and Brian Deese from the National Economic Council this afternoon after the President's speech on the economy. David Plouffe's remarks at the beginning of today's con ...
- Not Bad, But How Much Will He Bargain Away?
Krugman nails it: Overall, way better than the rumors and trial balloons. I can live with this. And whatever the pundits may say, it was much, much more serious than the Ryan "plan". Update: I should probably say, I could live with this as an end result. If this becomes the left pole, and the c ...
- Pet rescuers brave Fukushima danger zone
The image was horrific: A whimpering beagle, ribs showing through its fur, tethered to a post inside the no-go zone around the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- A few tricks for getting the most nutrients ou ...
The way you prepare your food can be just as important as what you eat. Is there any point in eating broccoli, for example, if you cook the life out of its natural carcinogen killers? On the other hand, some foods, such as tomatoes, may offer more..Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Health & Wellness ...
- The Mighty Blueberry
According to a new study from Texas Woman's University (TWU) in Denton, TX, blueberries have a positive effect on aging, metabolism, and inhibiting the development of fat cells.Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 27 Awesome Android Apps That Will Inspire You ...
Inspiration can come in many forms - so why not on a smart phone? These 27 Android apps will certainly inspire you each day.Submitted by Kristena W. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 10 Weirdest Ways that People Manage Stress
Stress is a normal human reaction to life's pressures and challenges. We spend most of our lives trying to figure out the best ways to avoid stress and keep it under control with exercise, sleep, a balanced diet and deep breathing exercises. ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �| ...
- Bed Bugs and Islam (Updated)
* Bumped Up * I don’t know who this guy is, but he is compelling. His comments regarding Pakistan are particularly interesting in light of the recent news that our “friends” are pressing to end Predator drone strikes against terrorist targets and to reduce the presence of CIA and military Specia ...
- Who Visits the White House and Why? (Answer: ...
On his first day of office, President Obama made the following statement: My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. ...
- Evening Open Thread
This is quick and dirty because I’ve been out most of the day … so enjoy!
- Barack’s Magic Economic Miracle
I don’t have to tell you about it. All you need to do is watch the Joe Biden video to understand how powerful, how effective Barack Obama was in responding to Paul Ryan’s proposed Federal budget. Yep. Oral ambien. That’s what Barack offered. Nothing but a verbal sleeping pill. So what did Repres ...
- Bed Bugs and Islam
I don’t know who this guy is, but he is compelling. His comments regarding Pakistan are particularly interesting in light of the recent news that our “friends” are pressing to end Predator drone strikes against terrorist targets and to reduce the presence of CIA and military Special Ops personne ...
- The Endangered Macaws of Central America and S ...
Some macaw species are endangered, partly because these beautiful natives of the Central and South American rainforests are prized as pets. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Aye-aye: An Ugly Yet Adorable Endangered A ...
The Aye-aye is at risk of becoming extinct. Humans have destroyed this fascinating and bizarre creature's habitats and hunted it due to superstition. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Why the Clouded Leopard is Under Threat
Not only are Clouded leopards facing the destruction of their forest habitat; they are also the victims of illegal fur-trading activities. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Animals Quenching their Thirst from Inside an ...
Incredible photographs taken from the middle of a watering hole, as ace wildlife photographer Greg du Toit goes through it trying to get the perfect lion shot. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Incredible Oil Paintings Inspired by Nature
Meet Laura Milnor Iverson, an artist from California whose primary theme is to express the soul of nature through beautiful oil paintings. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
- LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
- Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
- Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Public Flagship University, The University of ...
In a stunning show of courage, public workers from SB Local #1072 of College Park, Maryland at the University of Maryland rallied on April 13th to demand their rights and express their grievances. Alongside them were university students, aligning their interests in tandem with those of the univ ...
- It can’t happen here? Hope Academy Char ...
In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came [...]
- ForeclosureGate Deal – The Mandatory Cov ...
By Michael Collins The Federal government is about to settle the ForeclosureGate affair, according to a report in the New York Times on April 9. The Times noted that twelve million homes will be lost by 2012. Home equity values are down by $5.6 trillion since the real estate crash. The draft agr ...
- Prison Phone Rates Exploit Prisoners’ Families ...
Press Release from Prison Legal News Nationwide Research Finds Excessive Prison Phone Rates Exploit Prisoners’ Families Brattleboro, VT – Prison Legal News (PLN), a monthly publication that covers criminal justice-related issues, released a report this past weekend at the National Conference for ...
- USA and NATO Are Terrorists? The Story of Raym ...
Was Raymond Davis organizing terrorist activities in Pakistan for the United States government? If so then this begs the question are the US government and NATO behind other terrorist acts we hear about in the press? Dave Lindorff reports in ‘Counter Punch’ that American Raymond Davis was a CIA ...
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
- Sign up to our email newsletter
Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Marler Clark Open House and "Poisoned" Book Si ...
We will be having an open house at our new offices on May 18 as well as a book signing by author, Jeff Benedict, for his new book "Poisoned" - The true story of the deadly E. coli outbreak that changed the way Americans eat See you then.
- Real Raw Milk Facts Presents The Parent Food S ...
From the people who brought you Real Raw Milk Facts, please download the Parent Food Safety Guide for Raw Milk.
- It is past time for the USDA/FSIS to deem "the ...
In October 2009 that we filed a “Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 601(m)(1)” with the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). Since I ...
- Rhode Island Health Releases New Numbers on De ...
The Rhode Island Department of Health posted an update in its ongoing investigation of the Salmonella outbreak linked to DeFusco's bakery in Johnston, Rhode Island. The new numbers released today: * 70 Cases Total (69 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) * 29 Hospitalizations (25 Discharged, ...
- DeFranco Hazelnut E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Hit ...
As of April 1, 2011, the CDC reported eight persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli serotype O157:H7 were reported from Michigan (1), Minnesota (3), and Wisconsin (4). Reported dates of illness onset range from December 20, 2010 to February 16, 2011. Ill persons ranged in age from 1 ...
- Quick Spin: Toyota RAV4 EV
Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, Electric, Quick SpinA Solid Electric CUV, For A Prototype Toyota RAV4 EV - Click above for high-res image gallery Ahh, the joys of driving a prototype vehicle. During the annual Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar in San Diego, California this week, Toyota ...
- Milestone Accomplished: Toyota sells one milli ...
Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota 2011 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery California Toyota dealers may or may not be running out of Priuses, but the hybrid is most certainly still popular. How else to explain the news that one million of the ico ...
- Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
- Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
- Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- Barack Obama Must Speak Out On Bahrain Bloodshed
One month into the pro-democracy uprising in the small Gulf state of Bahrain — where the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based, tasked with protecting “U.S. interests” — Bahrainis are suffering the same violent repression as Libyans. So why does Obama have nothing to say? Read More
- Voices from the 2011 National Conference for M ...
More than 2,000 journalists, activists, educators and artists from across the country gathered at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10 to discuss issues ranging from net neutrality and racial diversity to democracy and social justice. Democracy Now! was there. LAU ...
- Prosecuting Mubarak: _Democracy Now!_'s Sharif ...
Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous was a guest Monday on "Inside Story" when the Al Jazeera English program reported that the Egyptian public prosecutor has issued an order to summon Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, for question ...
- Egyptian American Mohamed Radwan Released from ...
Egyptian American engineer Mohamed Radwan was arrested in Syria on March 25 and released April 1. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat interviewed him in his family’s home in Cairo on April 5 and filed this report. ANJALI KAMAT: Mohamed Radwan spent one week inside Syria’s notorious d ...
- One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York
On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal court, but through controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Holder blamed members of Congr ...
- Brain nerve stimulation could speed up le ...
In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, researchers have found that brain nerve stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests. Another major finding of the study involves the positive changes detected after stimulation and ...
- Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud: AP ...
Dust clouds and embedded newborn stars glow at infrared wavelengths in this tantalizing false-color composition from WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The cosmic canvas features one of the closest star forming regions, part of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex some 400 light-years ...
- Algae genes could restore sight in the bl ...
Blind people may have their sight returned thanks to a light sensitive gene taken from algae, claims scientists.
- How to Make Seed Bombs (and Not Get in Tr ...
Image credit: urbanfoodie33, used under Creative Commons license. I've always like the idea of seed bombs. Little nuggets of clay, compost and appropriately-selected seeds that can be used to help green wasteland and otherwise neglected areas. Kimberley already showed
- Making temporary changes to brain could s ...
In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that brain nerve stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests.
- 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 ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- Former Renault Factory In France Becomes An Un ...
Read the rest of Former Renault Factory In France Becomes An Undulating Green-Roofed Schoolhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Chartier Dalix, ...
- Ford Releases List of Top 25 Electric Vehicle ...
Ford Motor Company just released a list of the top 25 electric vehicle (EV) friendly cities in anticipation of the release of their Ford Focus Electric later this year. The list was compiled by researchers at the company and digs deep into what makes one place more EV friendly than the next. The ...
- The Safe House is a Transforming Fortress of S ...
Read the rest of The Safe House is a Transforming Fortress of Sustainable Solitudehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Eco Archit ...
- Grow Your Own Basil In The World’s Smallest Ur ...
We’ve featured vertical gardens, rooftop gardens, urban gardens and a bevy of other kinds of gardens, but this is the first time we’ve ever seen teensy weensy bottlecap gardens! Spotted over at Springwise, these adorable miniature gardens come from the Japanese Merry Project. At just JPY 158, th ...
- SAE World Congress Goes Green: Alternative Fue ...
This year’s SAE World Congress in Detroit has gone green, honoring the design of electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt and focusing on technologies that bring better efficiencies to new and existing vehicles. Everything was on the table this year, from alternative fuel advances to Ford’s EcoB ...
- Robot Scientist Developer Wants to Standardize ...
After an update to its software, a robot scientist has recycled its previous research to make a new biological discovery. Named Adam, the van-sized robot came to scientific fame after autonomously investigating gene function in yeast. Those findings anticipated an era when computers wouldn’t ju ...
- South Pole Neutrino Detector Comes Up Empty
After years of waiting, the world’s biggest and best neutrino detector has started its search for the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays that constantly bombard the Earth’s atmosphere. And it’s seen exactly zilch. In 13 months of observing with the half-complete IceCube detector at the Sout ...
- Fukushima: Chernobyl Rating, But Not Chernobyl Bad
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Yesterday, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency revised its preliminary rating of the Fukushima crisis, upgrading it to the highest level on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. That places it on par with Chernobyl, the only other ...
- Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box
Sitting on a bench at the University is Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. Don’t worry — the 20-micrometer-wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one ...
- NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes
New York, L.A., Orlando and D.C. will be the new homes of the retired space shuttles, announced NASA administrator Charlie Bolden in a ceremony today at Kennedy Space Center. The ceremony commemorated the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight; after the final shuttle flight in late June, ...
- HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
- Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
- Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
- Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
- The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
- How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo
Last Monday, on the very same day that the Obama administration gave up on Guantánamo, so too did the Supreme Court. As far as we know, it was not a choreographed climbdown — nor had money been offered by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to rehabilitate their legacies — but the effect was the [...]
- On the Torture of Bradley Manning, Obama Ignor ...
In the ongoing scandal regarding the treatment of Pfc Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower responsible for leaking a treasure trove of classified US documents to WikiLeaks, who has been held since last July in a military brig in Quantico, Virginia, a slowly building body of criticism turne ...
- The 9/11 Indictment: The Case We Would Have Se ...
Last Monday, when Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that his dream of prosecuting, in federal court, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, was officially over, derailed by Congressional opposition to the very notion of moving a single prisoner ...
- Battle for Britain: The Government’s Idi ...
Did I miss something here? Check out the following sequence of events, and then tell me if it establishes anything other than the fact that Britain’s Tory-led coalition government is so blinded by its enthusiasm for sweeping ideological change that ministers have failed to think about the implic ...
- Bagram and Beyond: New Revelations About Secre ...
This is the fifth article in âBagram Week” here at Andy Worthington, with seven articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, and ongoing updates to the definitive annota ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William ...
So who is the suspect accused of building a âweapon of mass destructionâ and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.? The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a âlone wolfââ with a military ordnance background and ...
- Woman Sentenced for Harboring ‘Sovereign ...
A Michigan woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for harboring a sovereign citizen who fired shots at Florida state troopers when they tried to stop him last year, an act that once again shows the danger faced by officers when they encounter extremists from the bizarre world of sovereign c ...
- State Department Advertises Interpreting Servi ...
Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance. Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglot’s language skills on the website of th ...
- New Evidence Trove Found in MLK Day Bomb Attempt
Federal agents investigating the attempted bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane have found a pile of new evidence abandoned in a remote area near the U.S.-Canadian border. Forensic comparison tests are now being conducted at the FBI lab on 75 items to see if they are tie ...
- Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers Asks Supermarke ...
As part of their ongoing efforts to fight the exploitation, abuse, and slavery of farmworkers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Student Farmworker Alliance have launched campaigns on Change.org asking leading grocery chains to stand with them in the fight for fair food. Find out how you ca ...
- Victory! Maryland Passes Critical Anti-Traffic ...
This week, the Maryland General Assembly passed not one, not two, but three critical pieces of anti-trafficking legislation, which will help further the fight against human trafficking in the state. Congratulations to anti-trafficking organization Polaris Project, who initiated this campaign and ...
- County Executive Responds to Pleas to Save Nic ...
It's been more than a month since Maryland's Montgomery County informed organic farmer Nick Maravell that he will need to vacate the land he's tilled for more than 30 years. The County wants the farmland to build soccer fields, a move that will kill a thriving agricultural operation that produce ...
- Victory! After a Year in Legal Limbo, Californ ...
Thanks to Edita Moreno’s Change.org petition and action by two U.S. Congresswomen, the mother of four received news last month that she had been awaiting for over a year: her husband, Miguel Angel Moreno Badillo, is coming home. The Moreno family has lived in limbo ever since Miguel traveled to ...
- Temple Grandin to Smithfield Foods: Gestation ...
Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, recently produced a series of slick, whitewashed videos claiming to "take the mystery out of pork production." In reality, the videos aren't so much about solving a mystery as they are a response to the undercover footage, released late last y ...
- US Keeps Quiet over Repression
WASHINGTON - If President Barack Obama wanted to place Washington "on the right side of history" during the ongoing "Arab Spring", his reaction to recent events in Bahrain will likely make that far more difficult, according to a growing number of analysts and commentators here. ...
- Protesters Target BP Annual Meeting
LONDON - BP executives faced angry protesters as shareholders prepared to vote at its annual meeting in London, which is taking place a few days before the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Fishermen and women from the Gulf coast affected by the spill, some of whom had bought ...
- Yemen Opposition Sets Deadline for Saleh Exit
Yemen's opposition has set a two-week deadline for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside, rejecting a Saudi-brokered, Gulf-backed�initiative to end the country's political turmoil. "We have renewed our emphasis on the need for speeding the process of (Saleh) standing down within two weeks. ...
- Criminal Charges Loom For Goldman Sachs After ...
A Senate panel released a damning report accusing the likes of Goldman Sachs of engaging in massive conflicts of interest, contaminating the U.S. financial system with toxic mortgages and undermining public trust in U.S. markets in the months leading up to the financial crisis. ...
- Report: Big Profits Drove Faulty Ratings at Mo ...
WASHINGTON — Analysts who reviewed complex mortgage bonds that ultimately collapsed and ruined the U.S. housing market were threatened with firing if they lost lucrative business, prompting faulty ratings on trillions of dollars worth of junk mortgage bonds, a Senate report said Wednesday. The 6 ...
- Send a Photo Postcard for $0.99 via Postagram ...
Digital photo sharing is nice and everything, but nothing beats a printed memory delivered to your home. Postagram, from the makers of the popular photo sharing Instagram app, makes it easy to send photo postcards from your iPhone or the w ...
- What Is the .NET Framework, and Why Do I Need ...
Dear Lifehacker, What is the "Microsoft .NET Framework" and why do I need it? I've been trying to install BlackBerry Desktop, but it fails and states I'm missing the Framework. For some reason I can't download it from Microsoft. What could ...
- How to Fail Successfully [Success]
We've said it before a few times: failure is inevitable and also the highway to success. Marketing expert/entrepreneur Seth Godin offers tips to help you "fail better" so you end up profiting — or at least learning — from your failures. ...
- Follow Us on Twitter to Fix Our Worst Tweet Ha ...
The line at the bank, neighbors who are noisy, Foursquare check-ins—these are the stuff that Twitter un-follows are made of. Follow Lifehacker's writers, and Lifehacker itself, on the micro-message service, and you'll inspire us to keep aw ...
- Coralrift Is a Ridiculously Simple and "I ...
As we covered in our lessons on how to create a web site, getting your site online can take a little effort. Coralrift, on the other hand, lets you pick a name for your site, drag your site onto a drop area, and click a button to upload ...
- Water privatization raises concerns in Fraser ...
Out here in the Fraser Valley, specifically Mission and Abbotsford, we are faced with the spectre of private control of our water supply.
- Farmington schools' unions rally against priva ...
Bus drivers, custodians, food service workers and other support staff of the Farmington Public School District made a bold statement this evening outside of North Farmington High School, where the school board is meeting.
- For the People
Sonoma County's resident water drinkers and film lovers can celebrate Earth Week at the benefit premiere of Even the Rain , a film starring Gael Garcia Bernal ( Amores Perros, The Motorcycle Diaries ), April 17 at Summerfield Cinemas.
- Rally supports water decision
More than 50 people held a rally outside municipal hall Monday afternoon in support of council’s decision last week not to construct an additional water source at Stave Lake for Mission and Abbotsford under a public private partnership (P3).
- Don't 'pee three' our water
It looks like Mission council got the message on the proposed P3 water project and voted against it while Abbotsford council has still yet to vote.
- Third senior News of the World journalist arrested
James Weatherup in custody as further searches of News of the World offices are expectedThe police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World has taken a dramatic turn with the surprise arrest of James Weatherup, a senior journalist at the paper.He is the third current or former N ...
- Cable: PM 'unwise' over immigration
Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen.11.25am: Downing Street has come back to me. They don't want to escalate the fight with Cable - there's no question of him being sacked, I'm told - instead the source I spoke to was keen to point out that David Cameron addre ...
- Gaza report team turn on Goldstone
Exclusive: Three mission members say calls to recant UN report disregard the rights of Palestinian and Israeli victims Read the full statement by Jilani, Chinkin and TraversThree members of the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza war of 2008-09 have turned on the fourth member and chair of the g ...
- Goldman accused of fooling clients
Goldman Sachs accused of selling mortgage-linked derivatives at inflated prices and trying to cause 'maximum pain' to investors The report by the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations (pdf)In a frenzy to protect its interests at the start of the credit crisis, Goldman Sachs sold mortg ...
- Live coverage of Tomlinson inquest
Today's developments as Dr Freddy Patel begins the third day of his evidence at the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests11.30am: When paramedics arrived at the scene on Cornhill, the defibrillator indicated "pulseless electrical activity" (PEA). This would support the find ...
- Commentary: France's misguided Islamic veil ban
Decades of low native birth rates in France have transformed the face of the nation, and many fear what that means for the future.
- Senate panel rebukes Goldman, others over risk ...
WASHINGTON — Goldman Sachs, which paid $550 million last summer to settle federal fraud charges from an offshore mortgage deal, failed to tell investors in a second, $2 billion bundle of risky mortgage securities that it was secretly betting on their default, a Senate panel charged Wednesday.
- Report: Big profits drove faulty ratings at Mo ...
WASHINGTON — Analysts who reviewed complex mortgage bonds that ultimately collapsed and ruined the U.S. housing market were threatened with firing if they lost lucrative business, prompting faulty ratings on trillions of dollars worth of junk mortgage bonds, a Senate report said Wednesday.
- Rate drops for ex Guantanamo detainees labeled ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that three of the 68 Guantanamo detainees released since Barack Obama became president have engaged in terrorism or insurgency, a senior administration told Congress Wednesday.
- Obama borrows time with deficit reduction plan
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's proposal to cut projected budget deficits is an attempt to buy time — for the government, for the economy and for himself.
- Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- harpercon Candidate in Ajax-Pickering
He's Chris Alexander, and he was once Canada's Ambassador to Afghanistan. And he says that the detainee controversy was overblown. Why does he think that? Check out this logic: Canadian soldiers never knowingly handed detainees over to a high risk of torture though he admitted the Afghan system ...
- Five Questions For stephen harper
Do you really think the legislature has no right to know about what the government is planning? When are we going to see the report from the two-year investigation into the alleged rape of Afghan children at the hands of Afghan security forces? Do you really think that the government has the r ...
- Oh Jesus Christ
Liberal Bloggers who are creaming themselves over Ryan Dolby (the former NDP candidate for Elgin-Middlesex-London)'s decision to withdraw and prevent a split-vote from giving the riding to the harpercons, ... could you please take the five seconds of thought necessary to not make this another ep ...
- On Some of harper's Points ...
He's tired of the personal attacks ... I couldn't believe that he'd actually said that. Of all the monumental hypocrisies! He's managed to govern for five years in a minority situation ... Hey fat fuck; did you remember when you had to prorogue Parliament to avoid being defeated back in 2008? ...
- While We're Asking harper About his Coalition ...
This comes via "Impolitical" - "Harper then and now on costing of legislation" Mr. Stephen Harper (Calgary West, Ref.): Mr. speaker, it is a pleasure today to debate Bill C-214, the program cost declaration act tabled by the hon. member for Durham. Let me take a few minutes to outline the pur ...
- Liveblog: Canadian Federal Leaders Debate
Starting at 7 p.m. Digital Journal is covering the Canadian Federal Leaders Debate live. Join our liveblog play-by-play coverage, join in the discussion and debate and take part in live polls.
- Why the Vancouver Canucks will win the 2011 St ...
The NHL team that led the league in goals scored and fewest allowed goals will take home the Cup in 2011. Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo is playing with poise and the Sedin twins are shaping up to be a potent offensive force. Who can stop them?
- WWE's World Heavyweight Champion Edge retires ...
He's at the peak of the company and has been one of the WWE's most popular figures for over a decade. On Monday night's edition of WWE Raw, however, Edge's legacy came to an end.
- London Contemporary Burlesque At Its Best
The Hurly Burly Show at London's Garrick theatre is a combination of erotic moves and graceful artistry. It is a fusion of cabaret with modern day fashion and popular music.
- Anti-war demonstrations take place ahead of Ca ...
A peaceful anti-war demonstration took place Saturday in front of the United States Consulate in downtown Toronto. Dozens urged the government of Canada and the international community to end the war in Afghanistan and Libya.
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-13-11
Today, Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet stops by the show to explain exactly how deer antler velvet can act as the fountain of youth and turn back the hands of time! Click here to find out why professional athletes buy this product in bulk! Self Help: Gluten Allergy Cure Protect Your Body Maximize Y ...
- You Are What You Eat
Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel, your energy, your sleep, your skin, and your digestion. So, a lot of people come up to me and ask, “Kevin, what should I eat? What do YOU eat?” The simplest answer is number one; always avoid high fructose corn ...
- Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches, The Late ...
April 12th, 2011 Yahoo! News By: Liz Goodwin Students who attend Chicago’s Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food–or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to brin ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-7-11
Today, Kevin answers YOUR questions! Find out why the government is going after him if he’s the one who creates his own reality, and why someone would want to work full-time internally within the Global Information Network instead of becoming financially free as a member. Self Help: Stand Up For ...
- How to Pay Down the Federal Deficit: Sell Amer ...
April 7th, 2011 Daily Finance By: Douglas McIntyre For most Americans, it is unimaginable that the U.S. could put its iconic properties on the market. But as the nation struggles to balance its balance sheet, should the federal government take a look at selling some of its most valuable assets? ...
- Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
- Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
- Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
- Break the Silence Congo week
The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
- Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
- I won’t give my right arm to become a one-arme ...
When I say War in Context is handmade, that’s not a figure of speech. Typing and cutting-and-pasting involve all sorts of precise flexions, animated by action potentials rippling at high speed down the median nerve which extends from the cervical spine to the hand. For the last two months the r ...
- The fight for Libya
Rebels and NATO strikes repel assault on Ajdabiya Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military forces appeared to falter on Sunday in a second day of assault against the rebel city of Ajdabiya, as opposition fighters aided by heavy NATO airstrikes retook positions through much of the city. Occasional sk ...
- Egypt: revolution under threat from the army
Violent army crackdown on Cairo protesters shocks Egyptians Morning broke on a scene that wasn’t supposed to be in the new Egypt: burned military trucks, skeins of barbed wire, blood in the dirt, one protester dead. In a predawn raid Saturday that stunned the nation, Egyptian soldiers stormed ...
- Intifada update
Western policymakers shouldn’t accept this Saleh spin U.S. halted record aid deal as Yemen rose up As the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, cracks down with increasing violence against peaceful protesters, his regime and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) both repeat the same mantra: ...
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité – unless you choo ...
The Associated Press reports: Police on Saturday arrested 61 people â including 19 women â for attempting to hold an outlawed Paris protest against France’s pending ban on face-covering Islamic veils, a top police official said. Fifty-nine people were detained while trying to demonstrate at Pl ...
- An insiders view of Caltrans, efficiency, and ...
A reaction comes via email from a Caltrans employee to the story: Caltrans abandons weather, embraces âclimate changeâ as the reason for washed out roads I’ve redacted the name and other identifying information, to protect the employee identity. This inside view … Continue reading →
- Second BEST
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Professor Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is always interesting, but he just keeps digging his personal hole deeper. He recently gave an interview titled “Scientists Often Pigeonholed By Political Debates“ and answered questions … ...
- Adventures in journalism: from llama fish to c ...
Louise Gray, who wrote this amazing piece of journalism in the Telegraph the other day… Fish carried up a mountain on backs of llamas to escape global warming …has boobed given us yet another story worthy of discussion here. The … Continue reading →
- Stockwell asks: Is the Atmosphere Still Warming?
Guest post by Dr. David Stockwell I suspect that the only really convincing evidence against global warming is a sustained period of no global warming or cooling — climate sensitivity and feedbacks are too esoteric. I have followed the recent … Continue reading →
- Socialists of the World Unite for Youth Climat ...
Guest Post by Ryan Maue: Starting Friday, April 15 in Washington DC, we will be able to witness an absolutely surreal public display of anti-capitalist, extreme far-left community organizing, all wrapped in the cloak of climate change / clean energy … Continue reading →
- Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking? by ...
by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 13, 2011 Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank – this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic ...
- Michel Collon: Five Objectives of the United S ...
Dandelion Salad with Michel Collon Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter April 13, 2011 The African strategy; five goals of the US war against Libya; the five principles of war propaganda; NATO as the policeman of the world; Africom; Gaddafi’s rein in Libya; the Libyan opposition; Israel; Yemen and B ...
- Amy Goodman: Barack Obama Must Speak Out On Ba ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! April 13, 2011 One month into the pro-democracy uprising in the small Gulf state of Bahrain — where the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based, tasked with protecting “U.S. interests” — Bahrainis are suffering the same violent repression as Libyans. S ...
- Gerardo Torres: The Growing Honduran Repressio ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! April 13, 2011 Workers, students and activists have held a month-long general strike in Honduras to protest repression by the government of President Porfirio Lobo. Lobo came to power following elections under the regime of Roberto Micheletti, ...
- Support Our Troops ‘Cause They Fight to Keep U ...
by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer April 13, 2011 Support our troops ‘cause they fight to keep us free! They’re sent throughout the world, in air, on land, and sea, To bomb and strafe and kill, restoring liberty! So support our troops ‘cause they fight to keep us free! Told to kill al ...
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From the Collected Letters of Philip K Dick, 1977-1979 : …since our societies - or rather their governments and big corporations - aren't willing to really go about solving our economic and social and political problems, they have hit upon a simple technique (technique, not solution) by whic ...
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An excellent portrait of the United States in 2011. Wall Street robs Americans blind of hundreds of billions of dollars, nobody goes to jail. Sellers of single cigarettes on the streets of New York City, which they help keep clear of violent drug dealers, go to Rikers : Itinerant cigarette vendo ...
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A Louisville man convicted of torturing cats to death explains to police what was going on in his mind at the time : "Do you ever see those television shows where, like, something will happen – okay? – and the audience knows everything that's happening to the main character, but everybody else ...
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14 Years Ago, US Department Of Defence Announced "International Terrorists" Were Developing Earthquake Weapons A surreal DoD press conference from 1997, with Secretary of Defense William Cohen : "...some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would b ...
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Mother Nature : The Ultimate Terrorist Mainstream Media Finally Realises Nature's War On Humans Is Real By Darryl Mason Probably the strangest newspaper front page on the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami published anywhere in the world : The Gold Coast Bulletin is, of course, a Rupert ...
- Robot Scientist Developer Wants to Standardize ...
After an update to its software, a robot scientist has recycled its previous research to make a new biological discovery. Named Adam, the van-sized robot came to scientific fame after autonomously investigating gene function in yeast. Those findings anticipated an era when computers wouldn’t ju ...
- South Pole Neutrino Detector Comes Up Empty
After years of waiting, the world’s biggest and best neutrino detector has started its search for the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays that constantly bombard the Earth’s atmosphere. And it’s seen exactly zilch. In 13 months of observing with the half-complete IceCube detector at the Sout ...
- Fukushima: Chernobyl Rating, But Not Chernobyl Bad
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Yesterday, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency revised its preliminary rating of the Fukushima crisis, upgrading it to the highest level on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. That places it on par with Chernobyl, the only other ...
- Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box
Sitting on a bench at the University is Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. Don’t worry — the 20-micrometer-wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one ...
- NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes
New York, L.A., Orlando and D.C. will be the new homes of the retired space shuttles, announced NASA administrator Charlie Bolden in a ceremony today at Kennedy Space Center. The ceremony commemorated the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight; after the final shuttle flight in late June, ...
- Goldstone report: Statement issued by members ...
Many of those calling for the nullification of our report imply that the final report by the follow-up committee ... somehow contradicts the fact-finding mission's report or invalidates it. In the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Ali Abunimah: Recognising Palestine
UN recognition of a Palestinian make-believe state would be no more meaningful than this fantasy "institution-building", and could push Palestinians even further away from real liberation and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
- Jonathan Cook: Israel steps up Jerusalem expul ...
Hamoked director Dalia Kerstein: "There is clearly a policy to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem and Israel to reduce what is called here the 'Palestinian demographic threat.' It's really a case of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- Divestment: A strategy to end the Occupation
New York University Students for Justice in Palestine's divestment campaign targets predominately U.S. corporations whose products help make the occupation possible. Withdrawing material support from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Charles Glass: Goldstone’s Guide to Gaza
Critics of Israel, beware. If you don’t have the stomach for a fight, don’t go into the ring. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
- Brazil to decide on Russian helicopter supplie ...
The Brazilian Defense Ministry will decide by the end of the month whether its contract on the supply of Russian helicopters will be affected by planned massive military budget cuts, a ministry source said.
- Russia aims to expand presence on Latin Americ ...
The arms market in Latin America, especially in Brazil, show a great potential for exports of Russian weaponry, a senior Russian defense industry official said.
- Russian Helicopters plan to raise $500 mln in IPO
Russian Helicopters, which designs and manufactures civil and military helicopters, plan to place Global Depositary Receipts representing existing shares in both London and Russia to raise $500 million in an initial public offering, the firm said on Tuesday.
- Russia, Brazil discuss joint production of arm ...
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Monday it was holding talks with Brazil on setting up a joint venture for manufacturing light-armor police vehicles.
- Georgia takes part in NATO exercises
Georgia is taking part in computer-assisted war games as part of the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, the Georgian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
- Nationwide Children's Hospital Accepted to Neo ...
Nationwide Children's Hospital has been accepted to join an elite group of research centers dedicated to studying neonatal medicine. The Neonatal Research Network, developed by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), is comprised of 18 research centers focused around one ...
- Anti-Aging Hormone Klotho Inhibits Renal Fibro ...
A natural hormone known to inhibit aging can also protect kidneys against renal fibrosis, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have demonstrated.
- Invasive Mussels Causing Massive Ecological Ch ...
The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused "massive, ecosystem-wide changes" throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet's largest freshwater lakes, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.
- University of Pennsylvania Researcher Awarded ...
A Pennsylvania researcher will receive $240,000 to continue his study of impaired vision and fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), through the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and American Academy of Neurology Foundation Clinician-Scientist Development Award. Salim Chahin, MD, a p ...
- Challenges in Stemming the Spread of Resistant ...
A new research study of the effect of a commonly used strategy to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital intensive care units (ICU) shows that the strategy had no significant effect. That's the surprising finding of a multisite study led by Mayo Clinic investigators.
- Maria the Goose, Revisited
More Maria the Goose!� Dominic explains how Maria protects him.
- Time-Lapse Video of Aurora Borealis
SF to Paris in Two Minutes from Beep Show on Vimeo.A passenger on a flight from San Francisco to Paris set up his camera on a tripod and attached a timelapse controller.
- This OTC Pain Reliever Can Increase Your Blood ...
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) has long been advertised as a safer alternative to aspirin for people with cardiovascular disease who need pain relief. But a study has shown it may not be all that safe. The research team set out to test the effect of acetaminophen on blood pressure among people with co ...
- Half of Americans Use Supplements
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that more of half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements such as multivitamins, minerals or herbs. The number has risen from just 42 percent in 1988 to 53 percent in 2006. The most popular supplements are multivitamins, which were us ...
- This Animal Fat Found to Prevent Pregnancy Dep ...
Postpartum depression can affect a quarter of new mothers, but there may be an easy way to lower that number. Researchers have shown that women who take omega-3 supplements during pregnancy had fewer symptoms of postpartum depression. In the third trimester of pregnancy, fatty acids like omega- ...
- Hermosa flor de mi jardín en varios tamaños
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- Peces, corales y arrecifes en el fondo del mar V
TweetPara ver más peces, corales y arrecifes, explora aquí. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Fotos de insectos más cerca de lo que tú te im ...
TweetExplora y descubre más insectos. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Fondos abstractos en imágenes de colores (10 a ...
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- Vistas nocturnas de la ciudad cerca del mar VI ...
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- Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.” A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What the clerk barfed up
Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...
- Kloppenburg trails after ballots found in the ...
Didn’t really want to do a second post but new numbers from Winnebago County have put Prosser on top in Wisconsin. [more] No, they didn’t find any ballots in the trunk of anyone’s car but it’s still super close so a recall will be mandatory. Inevitable is the word I’d pick for the usual whining ...
- Fitzwalkering themselves
JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory with a final tally of 740,090 to 739,886. David Dayen says that if this holds up, Prosser will be only the fifth WI Supreme denied re-election in state history (but the second one in three years). Steve Singiser says Walker blames the hippy scum in Madison ...
- Kloppenburg up, recount unavoidable
The trouble with RSS feeds is that they don’t always update as quickly as you’d like. That and I didn’t check out the Great Orange Satan this morning which was a mistake because they’ve got the best Wisconsin election coverage of anyone. Currently David Nir puts Kloppenburg’s lead at 233 with th ...
- Stink linking good
Picking up where the last post left off: Dictator-loving scum Like mother, like daughter Don Blankenship revisited The gods themselves Paul Ryan’s budget: Milbank on the dogmatism, Harold Meyerson on the pain redistribution, and the Plum Line with more links $900 million for road work: Gov. Brid ...
- White Mountain Tribe Offers Wilderness Tours
White Mountain Tribe Offers Wilderness Tours Whiteriver, AZ – Arizona’s White Mountain Apache Tribe has begun offering week-long eco-tours, offering opportunities for people to view wildlife while learning about tribal history and culture. The first tours are scheduled for June. Comments from K ...
- Equal Pay Day: AZ Women Play Catch-up
Equal Pay Day: AZ Women Play Catch-up Phoenix, AZ - Today (Tuesday) is Equal Pay Day, the point during a year at which a woman's pay equals a man's income – starting from the previous year. Workers' and women's rights groups commemorate it annually to point out the continuing gender disparities ...
- Plans Dropped to Scuttle Senator McCain’ ...
Plans Dropped to Scuttle Senator McCain’s Old Aircraft Carrier Phoenix, AZ – Four U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, including Arizona Senator John McCain’s old ship, will not be sunk at sea. The Navy has confirmed the carriers will be recycled, instead. The result could be significant taxpayer savin ...
- Center Vows Suit Over AHCCCS Cuts
Center Vows Suit Over AHCCCS Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers and the Governor are moving to cut up to a quarter million low-income adults from AHCCCS (Access) health care, the state’s Medicaid program. But a Phoenix public interest law firm is poised to file a lawsuit as soon as a budget co ...
- Court Considers Class Action Suit Against AZ's ...
Court Considers Class Action Suit Against AZ's Biggest Employer Phoenix, AZ - The U-S Supreme Court is considering a massive class action lawsuit against Arizona's largest employer, Walmart. Plaintiffs in the suit claim gender discrimination in the workplace. Oral arguments were heard yesterday ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
 Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
- Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War
Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War: "One of the most remarkable features of the Brand Israel campaign is the marketing of a modern Israel as a gay-friendly Israel. Stand With US, a self-declared Zionist organisation, has been quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying: “We decided to ...
- ei: EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens ...
ei: EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens in Israel | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 12 April 2011 Answering questions from YouTube viewers over the past few weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu depicted Israel as an oasis of interracial harmony in a region of stri ...
- Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or ...
Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or the Reinvention of a Life? | Black Agenda Report: "There is a growing sense among those who have read it that Manning Marable’s latest book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is itself a reinvention, or worse. From reviewers, journalists and scholars, ...
- US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shini ...
US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shining City On A Hill | NEWS JUNKIE POST: "The concept of American exceptionalism is as old as the United States, and it implies that the country has a qualitative difference from other nations. This notion of been “special” gives Americans the sense tha ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- Environmental News 14/04/2011
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- Miranda Kerr: Blooming Natural Beauty Queen
What is it that really made her stand out amongst countless other âskin and bonesâ in an ever-increasingly competitive modelling industry at the age of 13? Miranda reveals reveals her green secrets…
- Environmental News 12/04/2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Environmental News 11/04/2011
Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Italian country side
Doesn’t this beautiful view of a traditional Italian village motivate you to travel and discover ancient places? European countries and especially the Mediterranean region are rich in historical buildings, which the local population works hard to protect. The environment can be compared to ...
- Interview with BDS leader Omar Barghouti
Democracy Now! shared this interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa. Thankfully, the campaign wa ...
- Intolerance–Then and Now
This post is a bit of a departure for the website. Â While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
- Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
- Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...
- Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...
- DURT puts hurt on California
California continues to struggle economically even as other states may be starting to slightly recover. Sure, these are tough times, but Bill Watkins at Newgeography says California’s problems are made worse by DURT: Delay, Uncertainty, Regulation, and Taxes. Such impediments put California at a ...
- Why gas mileage drops in cold weather
Primary among the reasons are additives added during the winter which lower the temperature at which gas freezes. They hinder the combustion process. Plus lubricants thicken, lessening engine performance.
- World’s fastest electric motorcycle. 190 mph i ...
The Swigz Pro Racing bike set an unofficial world’s record for electric motorcycles at Mojave recently reaching over 190 mph in one mile. They’d been hoping for 200+ mpg, but crosswinds slowed them down.
- The carbon footprint of indoor marijuana produ ...
Cannabis production results in energy expenditures of $5 billion each year, with electricity use equivalent to that of 2 million average U.S. homes. This corresponds to 1% of national electricity consumption or 2% of that in households. A single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of CO2 emis ...
- Fed rescue program too bizarre to be true
Michael Lewis To naive critics this came as just more evidence that the Fed had mistaken the wants of a handful of rich people for the needs of the wider society. The documents and “assets” used as collateral by the Fed include - a vault in the Fed basement filled with young women, who claimed, ...
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- It’s the magnitude that is hard to ignore
Joe Bastardi on the recent AV post highlighted at WUWT. H/T Reader Keith Grubb
- Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale o ...
Ok I admit it! Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.  There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ . It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
- Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rational of ...
Ok I admit it! Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.  There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ . It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
- Trouble with Thunderbird
I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.  I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials. The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...
- Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
I’ve been thrown out of better.  It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.  Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.  Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...
- Fat as Class War in Arizona
Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
- Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
- A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
- Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
- Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...
- Facebook Careers Posts: Commercial Transaction ...
Illustrating Facebook’s increasing focus on monetization, the company’s Careers job listings page now includes two positions for Commercial Transactions Counsel, one in New York and one in Palo Alto, Calif. Both will handle contracts and other legal matters for ad sales, business development, m ...
- Facebook Pages Can Now Sort Their Likes to Rem ...
When Facebook Page admins click the Like count beneath their Page’s profile picture, they’ll now see the option to sort those who Like their brand into people, Pages, admins and banned users. From this interface, admins can remove Pages they don’t want to be affiliated with, and unban users who ...
- TBG Digital’s Ads API Tool Gains Multivariant ...
Ads API managed spend service provider TBG Digital has added two new features to its ONE Media Manager. SmartPages is a multivariant Facebook Page landing tab optimization tool which lets admins test different creative sets to find the best performing version. Daily Deals is a Page tab applicati ...
- New Jobs This Week on the Inside Network Job B ...
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Arkadium, NaturalMotion, TinyCo, Spooky Cool Labs, Buf ...
- Mobile, Causes, Twitter, Photos, Connect and M ...
Several mobile applications made our list of fastest growing apps by daily active users this week; Causes, Twitter, Windows, Yahoo, photos, video and Page administrator tools were among those on our list. Apps on the list grew from between 62,200 DAU and 428,800 DAU this week. We compile the lis ...
- Israel steps up Jerusalem expulsions
Jonathan Cook reports on the case of the famous Jerusalem-based Palestinian bookseller, Munther Fahmi, who has been told by the Israeli authorities to leave the city and country of his birth as part of its policy of ethnic cleansing.
- David Harris: Israel’s American propagandist
Paul J. Balles highlights the arrogance and hypocrisy of the American Jewish Committee's David Harris, a propagandist of the calibre of Joseph Goebbels, who appears to believe that Israel's victims have neither human nor civil rights.
- The ghost of Joe McCarthy walks the USA
Lawrence Davidson argues that the apathy of, and lack of accurate information available to, the American public is paving the way for a wave of McCarthyism that is threatening to sweep the USA and is seriously eroding "one of the pillars of American freedom, that of free speech".
- Judge Goldstone’s wobble sends wrong signal
Stuart Littlewood explains why judge Richard Goldstone was the wrong person to head the UN fact-finding mission into the conflict in Gaza in the first place, and argues that Goldstone’s latest “wobble” could be the prelude to a new Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza.
- Alternative strategy for liberation of Libya
Nureddin Sabir argues that the time has come for the pro-democracy leaders in Libya to acknowledge that NATO will not help them overcome the Gaddafi tyranny and that, in order to avoid the division of Libya, they must consider inviting another Arab country or Iran to intervene directly against t ...
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- The Danger of Tranquilized & Docile Youth
What Is Wrong with This Picture? In February we provided you with coverage of the brutalization and arrest of Veteran Ray McGovern during Hillary Clinton’s speech at George Washington University. McGovern had dared to stand up during the speech, peacefully and silently, in a Gandhi-endorsed way, ...
- Our Hypocrisy Ridden Foreign Policy: Jailed Jo ...
Turkey Is the Country with the Most Imprisoned Journalists Uzbekistan boils activists: we are okay with it. Heck, we even support ‘the Boilers. ’Azerbaijan tortures and murders journalists and activists: we are totally fine with it; in fact, we consider them our great ally . When Syria engages i ...
- Jamiol Presents
- Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April 10
The Conditional Antiwar Movement, FBI’s Mole in the News Business, This Week’s Hillary Clinton Joke, Pepe Escobar & the New Chalabi for Libya & More! Here is a round up with a few noteworthy developments and articles and an absurdity or two. This week Peter B Collins and I will be recording inte ...
- The Left’s Hypocrisy? Dialing Seymour Hersh
If Obama Does ‘It’ … Well, We Simply Won’t Cover It! It is not easy to criticize a solid professional journalist. It is much harder to criticize a Pulitzer Prize Winning and well-respected investigative journalist. And, it is extremely hard to criticize a professional multi award winning invest ...
- Sing It!
I need some inspiration, a shot of adrenaline. Ladies and gentleman: Dame Shirley BASSEY!
- “What the World Needs Now…”
I was eleven years old. The riots were still fresh. The “Poor People’s March” had failed to ignite the revolutionary redistribution of wealth. “Soul Brother” graffiti was still plastered on burnt out buildings in DC. The faint smell of tear gas could be conjured by its mere mention. On the radio ...
- Cote D’Ivoire Update: BBC
From the BBC: Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants EU sanctions lifted Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. Mr Ouattara now controls the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, and wants to restart ...
- Cornel West on Aljazeera
- Why I Appreciate the Black Blogosphere and the ...
   Because our voices are local and they are global. Black people are all over the world speaking truth to power in the way that matters to them! And just what are we talking about? And do we have a right to speak “our truths”? Well as I have gone through the black [...]
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Ecofeminism: Book by Jytte Nhanenge
Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development Authored by Jytte Nhanenge Sustainability Education Network is doubly honored to announce and review the newly published work of author Jytte Nhanenge, and applauds University Press of America for it ...
- Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
- Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
- Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
- Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
[Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...
- Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
- LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
- Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...
- Edge of Terror - How to Tell if Your Neighbor ...
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the�fifth edition of its English-language jihadist magazine �Inspire� on March 30. AQAP publishes this magazine with the stated intent of radicalizing English-speaking Muslims and encouraging them to engage in jihadist militant activity. Since it ...
- The Metal's Edge - Pentagon Balks on Report ab ...
Rare earth metals, a variety of elements that are difficult and costly to extract, are vital for technology and the military. Tiny amounts of the metals and their alloys are used in a plethora of everyday devices, like cell phones, computer memory, and fluorescent lighting. But they are also vit ...
- Egypt After the Revolt - Three Scenarios for E ...
The protestors have gone home and the world's attention has turned to Libya, but the future of the most populous and influential Arab country remains perhaps the most important issue affecting American interests in the Middle East other than Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.�The decision to aba ...
- Edge on Environment - Peruvian Presidential El ...
The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an issue of contention for Peru due to the number of indigenous tribes that inhabit it. As early as the 16th century, the Peruvian Amazon has been linked to the world market, providing such products ...
- America on Edge - Closing America’s Playground ...
On a Tuesday morning in late December 2010, for the first time ever, the gates closed at Disneyland. The reason was simple enough—holiday crowds had overwhelmed the magic kingdom. Yet shutting down Disneyland could be a metaphor for a far broader and more troubling phenomenon occurring in Los An ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- How They Read Ahmadinejad in Riga
By Barry Rubin There�s nothing like having to explain a complex subject to people to improve one�s own understanding of the issues. And when you must tailor the briefing for a specific cultural and historical background, this new angle is also conducive to learning more. Whenever I have ...
- Congressman Ryan to Obama, "Have You No Sense ...
This afternoon while everyone was expecting President Obama to explain his plan for getting the United States out of its serious deficit problem they got the first speech of his reelection campaign.� The president claimed his proposal would cut $4 trillion from the deficit in 12 years or less b ...
- Hell Freezes Over! Sen. Kerry Gets Something A ...
Its not very often that Senator John Kerry gets something correct especially about the Middle East. Lets face it this is the guy who, when running for President in 2004 tried to get the Jewish vote by announcing that he would make Jimmy Carter or James "F**k the Jews they won't vote for us an ...
- Class Action Lawsuit Against Huffington, Shoul ...
Interesting "goings on" within the blog world. Yesterday a class action lawsuit, was filed by labor activist and former Huffington Post blogger Jonathan Tasini. He seeks at least $105 million in damages from the Huffington Post and AOL for approximately the 9,000 bloggers who wrote for Huffpo ...
- Uh-Oh Moonbats Say Marijuana Causes Global Warming
Uh-oh now they've gone and done it! After claiming that just about everything causes Global Warming (unless Al Gore does it), now the Church of Global Warming Moonbats are saying the indoor production of wacky weed causes global warming. This has to alienate the "stoner" set across the world, es ...
- Terremoto de Japón disminuyó Longitud de la Tierra
National Geographic Abril 13, 2011 La magnitud 9,0 del terremoto que sacudió Japón el pasado viernes fue lo suficientemente potente como para reducir la longitud terrestre en 17 centímetros haciendo que los días sean 1,8 microsegundos más cortos. Eso no apunta que las ondas de choque hayan desp ...
- Obama White House Threatens Journalist with Death
Following Chicago-style gangster politics a former intelligence officer is told to stop reporting on government corruption or else. Wayne Madsen April 13, 2011 In yet another indication that America’s democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a ...
- A Silent Killer in Times of War and in Times o ...
April 12, 2011 It was used in both Gulf War I and II; in Kuwait, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and now in Libya. Even though it is widely known how dangerous this toxic substance is, the United States and Britain have refused to sign a ban that prevents aggressors from using it when involved in military ...
- United Nations Religion: Fake Environmentalism ...
The value of a human life will be equaled to that of a tree or an insect. The core of the initiative enacted already in Bolivia was drafted by its communist leader Evo Morales. Canada.com April 12, 2011 Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same ri ...
- In their own words: “Banks are Governmen ...
Reuters April 12, 2011 Big banks like Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc should be reclassified as government-sponsored entities and have their activities restricted, a senior Fed official said on Tuesday. The 2008 bank bailouts at the height of the financial crisis and other implicit guaran ...
- Wind turbines producing far less energy than c ...
Wind farms produce far less energy than previously claimed, according to a new report. Wind-energy output at wind farms metered by the national grid was less than 10% capacity for one third of the time during the two-year study. Low output also sometimes coincided with periods of peak demand. Th ...
- Rare sea eagle killed by wind turbine
A white-tailed sea eagle introduced to the Killarney National Park from Norway three years ago has been killed after colliding with a wind turbine near Kilgarvan, an area designated as suitable for wind farms in the Kerry county development plan. Although such collisions are common in Europe and ...
- Resistance mounts to Germany’s ambitious ...
The German government plans to replace nuclear reactors with thousands of wind turbines and thousands of kilometers of high-voltage “monster masts” in a move that will deface vast swathes of territory. Germans, though desperate to phase out atomic energy, are gearing up to protest against the gr ...
- Wind-farm boom stirs up wildlife concerns
The unregulated wind-energy industry is expanding rapidly across Oklahoma, causing concern among wildlife officials about the location of wind farms and towering turbines. Oklahoma is among several states with few or no regulations regarding wind-energy development, officials said. With hundreds ...
- Supervisors reject ‘wind prospectingR ...
PRESCOTT – The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors on Monday unanimously rejected a proposed meteorological tower project that could have led to the construction of a wind farm on a ranch northwest of Prescott. Pacific Wind Development, Inc., sought permission to construct the tower, intended to ...
- Given the recent city council and Chamber of C ...
And endorsement… How, for instance, does Steve Bach afford signs plastered all over town the very minute he announces his candidacy? Princess Lisa Czeladtko, Jim Leigh? Supposedly non-politicians, right? “Business” men and women, right? Seems mighty coincidental. Also that they’re part of a so-c ...
- Colo. College guest Donald Gregg: the man who ...
He administered OPERATION PHOENIX during the Vietnam War, the CIA counterinsurgency operation which sought to pacify Vietnam with the targeted assassination of thousands of potential insurgents. For Vice President George H. W. Bush’s office, he coordinated the funding of the illegal US covert wa ...
- Brand New Rope Syndrome.
The simple part of this is that before being elected, one of our New Royal Court in City Hall, one Councilman Leigh, had an accident in a parking lot where he hit two people, one of them an INFANT And then in court was given a ticket, which initially had two insurance points (higher rate) [...]
- U.S. “video game” pushbutton murde ...
The Murdering-ass coward scum who remote-control kill human beings from the air-conditioned safety of a command center in Nebraska, and gloat about how their “High Tech” weaponry makes them ever so superior to the Third World impoverished nations of PEOPLE against whom the United States Corporat ...
- Recent rally against Monsanto and a little not ...
At a recent rally in Downtown Colorado Springs… Mark made some good points about Monsanto. Here’s some more. You remember, as do I, how exactly Monsanto got busted back in the late 70s with the Paraquat Pot? Paraquat is one of their signature lines of “weed” killers, herbicides, such as Agent Or ...
- What they've got planned for us next...
The Projected Al Qaeda Use of Body Cavity Suicide Bombs Against High Value Targets http://www.groupintel.com/2011/04/11/the-projected-al-qaeda-use-of-body-cavity-suicide-bombs-against-high-value-targets/ Page 33: Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically sa ...
- Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing
- Clinton told it like it is...
I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...
- Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader
ae911truth YouTube.com Mar 19, 2011 AE911Truth's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Tom Sullivan - Former Explosives Loader for Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary "9 ...
- Health problems related to 9/11 will be felt f ...
Eric Stevenson 911debunkers.blogspot.com Certainly, living in America, all of our lives were changed nearly 10 years ago on September 11th, 2001. As days moved on, more and more were added to the death toll in the ensuing weeks afterwards. What’s not common knowledge is that some of the effec ...
- Organic Junk Food is Healthier !?
When it comes to health halos, arguably the biggest one is “Organic”. Please don’t get us wrong, the organic food movement is fantastic, and eating organic food has a multitude of benefits – health, social, and ecological. However, the term “organic” has been hijacked by the processed food indus ...
- All Calories are Equal. But Some are More Equa ...
This is a guest blog post by Janet Helm, MS, RD. It originally appeared in Cooking Light. Last summer, Mark Haub, Ph.D, an associate professor of nutrition at Kansas State University, made headlines when he lost 27 pounds after two months of living on Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Little Debbies, and other ...
- Times Square Renamed Junk Food Square
This Week, Frito Lay is taking over Times Square with a plethora of marketing activities. The New York Times reports: Frito-Lay plans to spend this week in Times Square with a promotional event featuring a flavor kitchen, which is part of the company’s effort to stimulate sales of its snack bran ...
- Oh My! Mio Water Flavoring Has Nothing Real in It
Kraft, like many big food companies, has a problem. Every 3 months the publicly traded company needs to show rising sales and profits to its Wall Street Investors. But since it sells food, how can it possibly sell any more to a country of already overstuffed consumers? The answer: Innovation. Mo ...
- Interactive Infographic Reveals the Reason We ...
Check out this interactive infographic. It shows a breakdown of our calorie consumption for every year since 1970 til 2008. Hover your mouse from left to right and you’ll see the progression (if it can be called that) of consumption over the past 4 decades. On the year the Beatles broke up, we c ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- 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 ...
- BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
- Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- How can I reuse or recycle baby sleeper suits/ ...
We’ve already talked about baby clothes in general but CD, who writes the Canadian Doomer blog, has sent over such an excellent reuse idea for worn out baby sleepers/romper suits that I thought it was worth featuring these in particular: I just posted this on my blog, and one of my readers thoug ...
- How can I reuse or recycle old glazed doors?
We’ve had an email from Sandra: We’ve replaced some old fashioned doors with glass in them. What can we do with them now? I’ve got an eBay saved search which looks for cheap big used home/garden stuff in my local area – and there are always doors on there. Most don’t sell for a lot [...]
- How can I reduce my use of single serving milk ...
We’ve had an email from Leann: I have to travel a lot to work and in a day can easily get through a dozen single serving milk pots – on the train, at meetings, at hotels etc. I’m not interested in recycling them, I want to stop needing to use them! Any ideas? Good question [...]
- Upcycling clothing: how can I reuse or recycle ...
Continuing on our impromptu upcycling clothing week here at Recycle This, I was wondering what could be done with long-sleeved/dress shirts — we’ve already talked about recycling or reusing the ties, so why not the shirt as well? The fabric is usually lighter than for t-shirts and the like, so t ...
- How can I reuse or recycle waterproof clothing?
The wonderful Alice in Blogland sent me an email last week: Thought of another recycle that I could use some help with! I’ve taken some waterproof trousers, jackets and cycling gear from someone who didn’t want to just dump them in landfill. I thought there would be loads of things I could make ...
- Katie Wright on NYT Review of Panic Virus
By Katie Wright Last month's cloying review of “The Panic Virus” HERE reads as if it were written by Seth Mnookin’s Mom. Truly it is the kind of “review” I give my 7 years old’s work “unbelievable! You are the...
- Win the 2012 Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism ...
First three winners, seventeen to go. We look at every comment on every posting to draw the winners, promise!: Americo Rodriguez Melissa T Kristine Our friends at Skyhorse Publishing have given us TWENTY copies of Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism...
- "Danish Study" CDC Doctor who "Debunked" Autis ...
We have written several articles about Dr. Poul Thorsen (4th from the left in the back row with his CDC colleagues), whose research known as "The Danish Study" is quoted extensively to "debunk" the autism vaccine connection. The mainstream media...
- Vaccine Epidemic Author Louise Kuo Habakus on ...
The John Gambling Show, WOR 710 April 12, 2011 Louise Habakus Author of "Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children," will discuss her new book which discusses why...
- Meet a Single Mom with a Severely Autistic Dau ...
From Janet Grillo: AN EXCITING MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TOWARDS FOR YEARS IS NOW HERE! FLY AWAY by Janet Grillo tells the poignant yet humor filled story of a single mother of a teenager with severe autism, as she...
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- BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
- Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
- Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
- Trade Unions
The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...
- 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.
- Japan’s government downgrades its outloo ...
BBC – The Japanese government has downgraded its assessment of the economy in the wake of the devastation caused by last month’s earthquake and tsunami. It said key areas of the economy would suffer, including industrial production and exports. The decision marks the first time in six months tha ...
- Earth to get very close look at a huge asteroid
MSNBC – Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid thatâs one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens â in terms of smacking the Earth in the future. Itâs the case of asteroid 2005 YU55, a round mini-world that is about 1,300 feet in diameter. I ...
- ‘Worst-case scenario: Fukushima fuel pool with ...
- Despite over 30 years of water fluoridation Au ...
News.Com.Au – AUSTRALIAN children have terrible teeth and their oral health is getting worse, despite billions of dollars being spent on fixing the problem, Adelaide University researchers say. Dental researchers from Adelaide University have been awarded $1.3 million to find out why the system ...
- Thermal Cameras Show Too Much?
CBS – A thermal imaging project in the city of Boston has been put on hold because of privacy concerns. Boston officials had hoped to have aerial and street-level photos taken across about four square miles of the city this winter using infrared cameras that would show heat loss in the city home ...
- Budget rider would lift wolf protections in no ...
When Congress passes the federal budget, it’s increasingly likely lawmakers will also be sealing the fate of wolves in the northern Rockies. An unrelated rider quietly attached by legislators from Montana and Idaho to the crucial spending compromise would for...
- Safeway, Vons top Greenpeace list for seafood ...
One of the nation's largest supermarket chains has claimed the top spot in the Greenpeace seafood sustainability report, released Tuesday. Safeway, which operates more than 1,700 stores under various names, including Vons, was praised for discontinuing sales of "red-list," or...
- California renewable energy gets major boost i ...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a mandate that 33% of electricity in California must come from renewable sources by 2020. Executives at solar, wind and other clean energy companies said the new regulations could help California reclaim its...
- Sea Shepherd documentary, 'Confessions of an E ...
Early in his new documentary film, “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist,” Peter Brown, a 30-year veteran of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, assesses the group’s strategy. “Our job,” he says, “is to manufacture awareness.” Ramming boats, hurling stinky acid at whalers...
- Lake Tahoe logging plan ignites a court battle
Should the scorched forests around Lake Tahoe be logged and replanted, or should they be allowed to regenerate at nature's pace? That's the issue at the heart of a lawsuit filed recently in U.S. District Court in Sacramento by the...
- Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...
- Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
- Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
- Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
- Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- Whale that killed trainer returns to SeaWorld show
The killer whale that drowned a female trainer at Orlando's SeaWorld flawlessly performed Wednesday for the first time since last year's death, wowing thousands amid heightened safety that included a steel bar protecting the orca's trainers. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Catching Cancer With Carbon Nanotubes: New Dev ...
A Harvard bioengineer and an MIT aeronautical engineer have created a new device that can detect single cancer cells in a blood sample, potentially allowing doctors to quickly determine whether cancer has spread from its original site. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �| ...
- 40 Amazing iPad Apps for the Learning Disabled
The iPad is a device that many lust after as a shiny new toy, but many people with disabilities can benefit from what it has to offer as a functional tool. Students with learning disabilities can enhance and develop their communication skills.............Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- Newly Discovered Natural Arch in Afghanistan O ...
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have stumbled upon a geological colossus in a remote corner of Afghanistan: a natural stone arch spanning more than 200 feet across its base. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 54 Beneficial Compounds Discovered in Pure Map ...
University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram has discovered 34 new beneficial compounds in pure maple syrup and confirmed that 20 compounds discovered last year in preliminary research play a key role in human health. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- Sun Drenched Australia Orders 44 MW Of Solar Power
French nuclear power developer AREVA Group has announced that its subsidiary, AREVA Solar will build the world's largest solar/coal-fired power augmentation project in Queensland, Australia. read more
- United States: DOE Backs 250 MW California Sol ...
The United States Department of�Energy (DOE) announced that it has offered US$1.187 billion loan guarantee to SunPower Corporation (NasdaqNM: SPWRA) for the development of the 25 read more
- Google Invests $168 Million In World's Largest ...
In 2013, when construction is slated to be complete, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in southern California, is expected to be the world's largest solar farm. read more
- E•BOOM CAPITAL: Ivanpah Gets $1.6 Billion Loan ...
BrightSource Energy, Inc. said Monday it has finalized U.S. federal government loan guarantees of $1.6 billion and has received a $168 million equity investment from Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) for its proposed 392-megawatt (MW) Ivan ...
- United States Solar Market Poised to Double In ...
The global solar market exploded in 2010 and while uncertain policy regarding feed-in tariffs and government subsidies are leaving investors wary in Europe this year, across the ocean the forecast looks bright in the United States. ...
- 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 ...
- Experimental Alzheimer’s Disease Drugs M ...
Compounds helped nerve extensions re-grow faster in mouse studies. Drugs already in development to treat Alzheimer’s disease may eventually be tapped for a different purpose altogether: re-growing the ends of injured nerves to relieve pain and paralysis. According to a new Johns Hopkins study, e ...
- Closely Monitoring Low-Risk Prostate Cancer, W ...
A Johns Hopkins study of 769 men from across the United States recently diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer shows that forgoing immediate surgery to remove the tumor or radiation poses no added risk of death. Delaying treatment is fine, the results show, so long as the cancer’s progression ...
- Heart Drug Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk - 4/03/11
Johns Hopkins scientists and their colleagues paired laboratory and epidemiologic data to find that men using the cardiac drug, digoxin, had a 24 percent lower risk for prostate cancer. The scientists say further research about the discovery may lead to use of the drug, or new ones that work th ...
- Study Finds Drop in Deadly V.A. Hospital Infec ...
An effort to reduce the spread of infections is showing good results and may have broad implications nationwide.
- Japan Nuclear Crisis Raised To Chernobyl Level
Japanese authorities have revised the severity of the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to the highest level possible, putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl accident. NPR's Richard Harris provides an update on the condition of the Japanese reactors.� E-Mail This���� � Add to ...
- US Keeps Quiet over Repression
WASHINGTON - If President Barack Obama wanted to place Washington "on the right side of history" during the ongoing "Arab Spring", his reaction to recent events in Bahrain will likely make that far more difficult, according to a growing number of analysts and commentators here. ...
- Protesters Target BP Annual Meeting
LONDON - BP executives faced angry protesters as shareholders prepared to vote at its annual meeting in London, which is taking place a few days before the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Fishermen and women from the Gulf coast affected by the spill, some of whom had bought ...
- Yemen Opposition Sets Deadline for Saleh Exit
Yemen's opposition has set a two-week deadline for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside, rejecting a Saudi-brokered, Gulf-backed�initiative to end the country's political turmoil. "We have renewed our emphasis on the need for speeding the process of (Saleh) standing down within two weeks. ...
- Criminal Charges Loom For Goldman Sachs After ...
A Senate panel released a damning report accusing the likes of Goldman Sachs of engaging in massive conflicts of interest, contaminating the U.S. financial system with toxic mortgages and undermining public trust in U.S. markets in the months leading up to the financial crisis. ...
- Report: Big Profits Drove Faulty Ratings at Mo ...
WASHINGTON — Analysts who reviewed complex mortgage bonds that ultimately collapsed and ruined the U.S. housing market were threatened with firing if they lost lucrative business, prompting faulty ratings on trillions of dollars worth of junk mortgage bonds, a Senate report said Wednesday. The 6 ...
- Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
- Overview of New Jersey Solar Incentives
Everyone seems to know that California currently leads in the nation in installed solar capacity. Many, however, do not know that New Jersey is the second largest solar state in the U.S.
- Budget Deal Cuts Innovation Investments
A budget compromise to fund the government through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 would reduce federal energy innovation investments by 10 percent relative to 2010 funding levels. At the same time, the Continuing Resolution would make across the board cuts to each of the major non-defense res ...
- Still Not Worse Than Coal
At the end of last year I examined assertions by a professor from Cornell University, based on his unpublished paper, that leakage from natural gas production and transportation systems in the US resulted in lifecycle emissions for gas that were actually worse than those from coal. From what I s ...
- Public Sector Clean Energy Innovation at Work: ...
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- California sets highest green power goal
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that set nation's toughest renewable energy mandate, requiring utilities to draw 33% of their power from solar panels,windmills and other sources by 2020.
- Greenest cars? Gas prices drive interest in fu ...
As gas prices rise, consumers are more interested in buying cars with better fuel economy and -- good news! -- there's more eco-friendly cars on the market this year, Kelley Blue Book reports Tuesday.
- Wearable, self-powered batteries in the works
How cool is this? Replacing or recharging batteries may become a thing of the past if this idea by New Zealand researchers can be commercialized: wearable batteries.
- USDA offers incentives to boost E-85 flex fuel use
The Obama administration announced Friday that it will give gas stations financial incentives to install pumps for a higher blend of corn-based ethanol fuel.
- House nixes EPA climate rules but Senate prote ...
The GOP-led House of Representatives moved Thursday to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, but its effort was largely negated by Senate rejection of such a measure a day earlier.
- Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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- Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- Egypt's Islamists: The Big Bad Wolf
Eric Walberg The revolution and the turmoil in the Arab world have their origins in the tortuous history of British and American domination of the Middle East. The implications for Egypt of its colonial past Just as during the Cold War the communists were reviled by liberals (not to mention ...
- Border and Community Vigilantism
by Stephen Lendman Founded by long-time human rights activist/former baseball executive Enrique Morones in 1986, Border Angels.org tries to save lives by "stop(ping) unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert (and mountain) areas....surrounding San Diego C ...
- Obama’s Deficit Plan Starts at the Cente ...
By Kevin Zeese President Obama announced the outlines of his deficit plan, leaving a lot up for negotiation. He planted his poll at the center right and where he ends up, with his history of compromising to bring right wing Republicans and Democratic corporatists together, can only be worse. ...
- Police State Terror in Bahrain
by Stephen Lendman Last summer sporadic protests began. By mid-February, major ones erupted. Demonstrators held firm against King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa's regime. Repression and several deaths were reported from live fire. Anti-government protesters occupied Manama's Pearl Roundabout ...
- Hold Both Parties Responsible for Bankrupting ...
By Timothy V. Gatto Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Those words should be the next mantra for this American nation. The actions of NATO and the United States are certainly absurd. The statement by Obama that we are involved in Libya on “Hu ...
- Corporate tax cuts don't stimulate investment
A new CCPA study examines historical data on business investment and cash flow from 1961 through 2010, and, using econometric techniques, finds no evidence in the historical data that lower taxes have directly stimulated more investment. Business fixed capital spending has declined notably as a ...
- Silencing dissent: The Conservative record
The CCPA's law-student intern, Maria Gergin, has compiled a comprehensive account of the Harper government's crackdown on oppossing views. Her article, Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record, includes a list of 79 community organizations, agencies, NGOs, research bodies and program ...
- Putting our money where our mouth is
The renegotiations of the federal-provincial-territorial health accord are on the horizon, and everyone is looking for a way to save money and improve health.� Sound impossible?� Why don�t we put our money where our mouth is? It�s a strange truth of Canadian public policy: the care of our lips, ...
- Robin Hood in reverse: The real numbers behind ...
Earlier this week, the Conservatives announced their first election plank of the campaign: the �Family Tax Cut,� or income splitting for couples with children, selling the plan as a helping hand for middle class and low-income families. In his latest post on the CCPA election blog, Research Ass ...
- CCPA economists promote a budget that connects ...
The CCPA released its Alternative Federal Budget Tuesday, promoting a federal budget that connects with Canadians' real financial worries. Watch Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David Macdonald on CBC's Power and Politics here. Watch CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan on CTV's Powe ...
- 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 ...
- Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
- The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Time to play ball
By any rational standard, President Obama ought to have the Republicans exactly where he wants them in the upcoming budget fight. The public, as opposed to professional pundits, largely sided with the White House during last week's made-for-TV government shutdown melodrama.
- Barry Bonds found guilty of obstruction of justice
Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury in 2003 when he specifically denied that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone.
- That's what it means to be a Democrat
I'm glad I waited for President Obama's heralded budget speech Wednesday before criticizing it (such a novel idea); there was much to praise in it and little to challenge. The best news: Obama laid out the kind of sweeping "story" of American democracy, and the bold vision of how we grow toge ...
- Obama's "base" problem doesn't actually exist
Here we go again. A few days after he agreed to a compromise with Republican leaders to keep the government open -- and just as he's about to deliver a major speech on his long-term deficit reduction priorities -- President Obama is being confronted with warnings that he's at risk of losing h ...
- Liberty University blocks newspaper website fo ...
Last month, the Lynchburg News & Advance reported that Liberty University, the evangelical private school founded by Jerry Falwell and run by Jerry Falwell Jr., received almost half a billion dollars in federal financial aid money last year. After we pointed out that that was more federal mon ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Food cart program — take off your jacket
It’s time to toss out Toronto’s dismal “a la carte” street food program and make a fresh start.
- Better options for foster kids
When children are removed from troubled homes and made Crown wards the government is, in effect, saying it can do a better job than their parents of raising them.
- Step up peace efforts in Libya
Libya’s democratic reformers have inspired the world with their heroic bid to topple Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year autocracy. But the bloodiest of the Arab Awakenings is settling into a nasty standoff. Neither side seems likely to defeat the other ...
- Voters lose when politicians hedge their bets
Municipal politicians campaigning for higher office should do the right thing and quit their cozy city hall jobs.
- France’s intolerant face
So much for Liberté, égalité, fraternité. French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative government has just exposed the ugly face of official intolerance by enforcing a pathetic ...
- Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
- Overview of New Jersey Solar Incentives
Everyone seems to know that California currently leads in the nation in installed solar capacity. Many, however, do not know that New Jersey is the second largest solar state in the U.S.
- Budget Deal Cuts Innovation Investments
A budget compromise to fund the government through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 would reduce federal energy innovation investments by 10 percent relative to 2010 funding levels. At the same time, the Continuing Resolution would make across the board cuts to each of the major non-defense res ...
- Still Not Worse Than Coal
At the end of last year I examined assertions by a professor from Cornell University, based on his unpublished paper, that leakage from natural gas production and transportation systems in the US resulted in lifecycle emissions for gas that were actually worse than those from coal. From what I s ...
- Public Sector Clean Energy Innovation at Work: ...
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- US Inflation near 10% if old measure is used
Inflation is still calculated using a “market basket” to determine prices. But since 1980, other factors have been added to reflect a changing economy. Still, it might be useful to measure today’s rate of inflation using 1979 methods. CNBC’s Fast Money gives us the bad news: “Inflation, using th ...
- EU: ‘Disappointment and anger’ prompted Italia ...
Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday said comments made by a fellow minister about dropping out of the European Union were made during the heat of the moment amid a spat over illegal immigration. “I don’t think he said anything about leaving Europe. He expressed strong disappointm ...
- Made in Australia tag is frayed and falling off
While most pundits – and some senior politicians – stare in wonder at the size of the mining industry’s windfall profits, they are missing a great tragedy happening under their noses. The mining boom has pushed the Australian dollar to historic highs and this, in turn, has pushed manufacturing t ...
- China praises African Union’s efforts to end L ...
China on Tuesday voiced its appreciation of the efforts made by the African Union (AU) to end the crisis in war-torn Libya. “We have noted the diplomatic efforts by the AU mediators in Libya in the recent days and the roadmap they proposed to end the crisis,” Hong Lei, a Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
- Obama to recognise Palestinian state with 1967 ...
A reported willingness by the White House to vote for the creation of a Palestinian state in the UN signals unprecedented trust issues with Netanyahu’s government and will likely exacerbate US-Israeli relations. US President Barack Obama announced a decision to recognise the creation of a Palest ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- White iPhone 4 This Month! iPhone 5 In Septemb ...
Apple will release the long-awaited white iPhone 4 by the end of this month on Verizon and AT&T, and the iPhone 5 in September, Bloomberg reports citing sources familiar. The white iPhone 4 has been delayed for ten months now after manufacturing difficulties. Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller ...
- Goldman Sachs and the US Congress
HedgeFundLIVE.com -- Well here we go again as Michigan Senator Carl Levin stated today that a subcommittee has found that Goldman Sachs misled investors on more than one occasion in regards to investments similar to the packaged mortgages they created for John Paulson & Co
- BlackBerry PlayBook finally goes on sale April ...
BlackBerry PlayBook finally goes on sale April 19th The long-awaited BlackBerry PlayBook finally goes on sale April 19th, with a starting price of $499. Featuring the all-new BlackBerry Tablet OS, the PlayBook sports a 7″ display that makes this tablet more portable for everyday use than Apple’ ...
- The tsunami, the fear of God, & inspired compa ...
This is a video of the tsunami which struck Japan a month ago. Warning: The last couple minutes are hard to watch. Patrick Madrid calls it "by far the most chilling, the most horrifying video I have yet seen of the devastation ..." The more so if you understand everything they're saying. This w ...
- The Siege of Pakistan Continues
NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, conventional forces used to besiege an enemy country in order to defeat it or to fulfill their strategic aims. But in the modern era of globalization and technology, a rival country can be besieged through some different tactics which include various su ...
- Positive Developments for Fortinet in a Patent ...
Despite Trend Micro's history of patent aggression, reliable sources are indicating that Trend's patents at issue may be invalid which is a positive development for Fortinet. - Patrick Bedwell, Fortinet Blog
- Mission Accomplished: SCO Loses, Groklaw Closes
Enter Pamela Jones, a Linux-loving paralegal who hated what SCO was trying to do, and so she started to methodically poke holes in SCO's claims in a legal analysis blog she called Groklaw. For the next eight long years, Pamela "PJ" Jones used her legal research skills, and the help of numerous ...
- Pamela Jones and Groklaw: An Appreciation
If you're a regular reader of The Standards Blog, there's an excellent chance that you already know that Pamela Jones - "PJ" to one and all - announced on Saturday that she would post her last article at Groklaw on May 16. Certain aspects of the site will remain available indefinitely. It's diff ...
- It was fun...
Posted Apr 11, 2011 0:28 UTC (Mon) by tridge In reply to: It was fun... by tgall Parent article: Groklaw shutting down in May PJ is most definitely a real person. I've spoken to her on the phone, and she is very much a genuine person. I really admire the fantastic work she has done. Cheers, ...
- China accuses US of human rights double standards
The Chinese government has attacked the US for targeting WikiLeaks while campaigning for internet freedom overseas. Beijing has a doctrine of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs, but the State Council Information Office releases an annual report on the US human rights record ...
- DURT puts hurt on California
California continues to struggle economically even as other states may be starting to slightly recover. Sure, these are tough times, but Bill Watkins at Newgeography says California’s problems are made worse by DURT: Delay, Uncertainty, Regulation, and Taxes. Such impediments put California at a ...
- Why gas mileage drops in cold weather
Primary among the reasons are additives added during the winter which lower the temperature at which gas freezes. They hinder the combustion process. Plus lubricants thicken, lessening engine performance.
- World’s fastest electric motorcycle. 190 mph i ...
The Swigz Pro Racing bike set an unofficial world’s record for electric motorcycles at Mojave recently reaching over 190 mph in one mile. They’d been hoping for 200+ mpg, but crosswinds slowed them down.
- The carbon footprint of indoor marijuana produ ...
Cannabis production results in energy expenditures of $5 billion each year, with electricity use equivalent to that of 2 million average U.S. homes. This corresponds to 1% of national electricity consumption or 2% of that in households. A single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of CO2 emis ...
- Fed rescue program too bizarre to be true
Michael Lewis To naive critics this came as just more evidence that the Fed had mistaken the wants of a handful of rich people for the needs of the wider society. The documents and “assets” used as collateral by the Fed include - a vault in the Fed basement filled with young women, who claimed, ...
- Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...
- U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
- Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
- Open thread, early April 2011
Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
- More on Turkey/Syria
On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
- Digital copyright debated in the House and online
It was a privilege to speak in Parliament last night and oppose the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill that passed this morning under urgency. It was also a fun debate, with some hilarious gaffes made by National MPs who got their inter-webs mixed up with their Skynets that have ...
- Pink Shirt Day
I believe that naming bullying behaviour should be a top priority, especially in schools. Ros Noonan from the Human Rights Commission said that all bullying in schools should be reported to the parents of victims and of perpetrators, and I agree. We cannot stop bullying if we keep it covered up ...
- Autism awareness breakfast
World Autism Awareness Day falls on 2 April each year, but as that was on a weekend, we held a breakfast to acknowledge this last week in Parliament. It was an honour to be asked by Autism New Zealand to host the event, which was well attended by MPs from across the political spectrum. The [...]
- Green amendments to Christchurch legislation
The Green Party is trying to improve the Christchurch Earthquake Recovery legislation through a series of amendments that will be considered today. We are hoping the Government will pick some of them up, but it is not looking good at this stage. Gerry Brownlee seems pretty keen on a lot of power ...
- Proxy voting for Hone Harawira
The Green Party has agreed to cast proxy votes for Te Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira. A formal agreement takes affect from today, although we have served as Hone’s proxy on an ad-hoc basis in recent weeks. We are currently casting a proxy for Te Atatū MP Chris Carter as well and the rationale is [...]
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Chart of the Day: How to Get Parole
Via Andrew Sullivan, here's a peek into the criminal justice system that's either fascinating or appalling depending on your temperament. Ed Yong explains: The graph above [...] summarises the results of 1,112 parole board hearings in Israeli prisons, over a ten month period. The vertical axi ...
- Itemizing Obama's Savings
So how much does President Obama's deficit reduction plan save? For some reason he's chosen a 12-year timeframe, and here's how things add up: Domestic discretionary: $770 billion Defense: $400 billion Healthcare: $480 billion Mandatory spending: $360 billion Tax expenditures: ...
- No More Tax Cuts for Millionaires and Billionaires
More on the Obama speech later, but my initial reaction is that there wasn't a lot new here. He's talked about limiting discretionary spending before. He's talked about letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire before. He's talked about cutting spending on prescription drugs before. The ...
- Should We Gut Medicare Like a Trout?
Ezra Klein point us to the latest Gallup poll on Medicare, and he's gobsmacked that among Republicans the most popular position is that Medicare shouldn't be touched at all. They don't think we should even try to control costs, let alone gut it the way Paul Ryan is proposing. But I think I'd ...
- Spy Games
What's behind the recent Pakistani demand that the CIA essentially shut down its entire operation in the country? The proximate cause is the shooting of two Pakistani citizens by a CIA employee last January. But as Joe Klein summarizes things, there's a bit more to it: It seems there may ...
- IC 241: We Respect Females
Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...
- IC 240: Shutdown
Topics: People who abuse ‘reply all’ Old lady shuts down an entire country’s Internet service Lebron’s mom gets arrested The politics of the government shutdown Glenn Beck is leaving his daily show…is it really a victory? Share with your friends:
- FacePalm of the Week: Fredrick Douglass and S ...
Just when you thought the anti-abortion movement couldn’t get any worse….Arizona jumps into the fray and shouts “Checkmate Bitches!!!” A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5 Mo ...
- IC 239: I Blame OJ
Topics: Drunk dialing Teacher makes fun of student’s hair on Facebook….but for good reason Snooki gets $32,000 to speak to college kids We’re doing it all wrong Everything is OJ Simpson’s fault Share with your friends:
- IC 238: Student Athletes
Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
- Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
- Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
- Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
- 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
- Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
- A chance discovery may revolutionize hydrogen ...
Producing hydrogen in a sustainable way is a challenge and production cost is too high. A team led by EPFL Professor Xile Hu has discovered that a molybdenum based catalyst is produced at room temperature, inexpensive and efficient. The results of the research are published online in Chemical Sc ...
- MIT physicists create clouds of impenetrable g ...
When one cloud of gas meets another, they normally pass right through each other. But now, MIT physicists have created clouds of ultracold gases that bounce off each other like bowling balls, even though they are a million times thinner than air — the first time that such impenetrable gases have ...
- Birds inherited sense of smell from dinosaurs ...
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- Making temporary changes to brain could speed ...
In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that brain nerve stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests. read more
- Invasive mussels causing massive ecological ch ...
The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused "massive, ecosystem-wide changes" throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet's largest freshwater lakes, according to a new University of Michigan-led study. read more
- Plugs for Two Excellent Websites
Two of my favorites for your viewing pleasure; these really are great (and green) Proposed roadless area in Virginia Forgive me if you already know all abou ...
- Anti-Salmon Mood in Congress Worries Fishermen
Despite surge in fall chinook run, Sacramento fish protections still needed Sacramento River salmon The excitement for the return of wild king salmon to res ...
- Death by a Thousand (Budget) Cuts
Congress avoided a shutdown, but at what cost to protecting our air and water? We avoided a government shutdown with last minute deals that seemed to please bo ...
- Lawmakers Probe Impacts of Gas Drilling Boom
Fracking-fueled gas rush is cause for concern Waste pond at fracking site. Photo courtesy citizenscampaign.org In a hearing, today, lawmakers on Capitol Hil ...
- Clean Air Crosses The Partisan Divide
Former Republican senator defends the Clean Air Act Clean air isn't a partisan issue, although that's admittedly easy to forget if you're following the ongoing ...
- Fukushima rated at INES Level 7 – what d ...
Hot in the news is that the Fukushima Nuclear crisis has been upgraded from INES 5 to INES 7. Note that this is not due to some sudden escalation of events today (aftershocks etc.), but rather it is based on an assessment of the cumulative magnitude of the events that have occurred at the site o ...
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear saga – 2 to 9 ...
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi has, alas, now evolved into more of a saga. The last seven days of events has been acted out in slow motion compared to the first dramatic week (dating back to almost a month ago), but there continues to be plenty of headaches for TEPCO — and no clear [...]
- Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese ...
Below is the second piece published on BNC on the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. For an earlier perspective, see: Preliminary lessons from Fukushima for future nuclear power plants. Below is a Guest Post by Dr. William Sacks. Bill is a highly experienced physicist a ...
- Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our ...
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. For another terrific article by Geoff, related to Fukushima and radiation risk read: Cancer deaths in Japan will be from alcohol ...
- Some other perspectives on Fukushima
Apart from getting on with my life (e.g., building a new computer, catching up with my backlog at work, spending time with the family, etc.), I’ve been spending the last few days reading widely on what other people have had to say, in reflection, on the Fukushima crisis. Here are some highlights ...
- Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
- Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War
Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War: "One of the most remarkable features of the Brand Israel campaign is the marketing of a modern Israel as a gay-friendly Israel. Stand With US, a self-declared Zionist organisation, has been quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying: “We decided to ...
- ei: EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens ...
ei: EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens in Israel | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 12 April 2011 Answering questions from YouTube viewers over the past few weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu depicted Israel as an oasis of interracial harmony in a region of stri ...
- Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or ...
Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or the Reinvention of a Life? | Black Agenda Report: "There is a growing sense among those who have read it that Manning Marable’s latest book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is itself a reinvention, or worse. From reviewers, journalists and scholars, ...
- US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shini ...
US Empire: American Exceptionalism Is No Shining City On A Hill | NEWS JUNKIE POST: "The concept of American exceptionalism is as old as the United States, and it implies that the country has a qualitative difference from other nations. This notion of been “special” gives Americans the sense tha ...
- Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...
- The Tea Party Traitors
Isn’t it obvious that the tea baggers are working to destroy our nation? I mean obvious to people that aren’t mentally retarded of course….
- The Fix America Plan
Correcting America’s financial problems is easy. We ALL will have to sacrifice some. Including corporations. Including the filthy rich, the rich, the middle class, and the rest of us. Here is the fix America plan that would work. End the Bush tax cuts. Tax corporations a 20% on global income bot ...
- What Do You Mean?
So let me get this straight. Is the middle class waking up? Are they finally starting to figure out that having corporations screw us for our own good isn’t actually good for us? Is having the middle class pay more taxes so corporations don’t have pay any income tax really what’s good for Americ ...
- Shame Shame Shame
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