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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, April 16, 2011

16 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Indigenist Opinion

  • Rudy Giullani abandons 9/11 Responders
  • 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, ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • 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
    Shame shame shame shame shame

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • “2Pac tortured by Jewish gangsters using Tel A ...
    Recently revealed details about autopsy of murdered rapper suggest he suffered torture by EMR, a violent technique used by south Tel Aviv gangs, which causes heart attacks in the space of hours More revelations are surfacing from the FBI files recently released about murdered rapper Tupac Shak ...
  • ISM volunteer Vittorio Arrigoni killed in Gaza
    by Jared Malsin Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian Palestine solidarity activist and journalist, was killed this evening after being kidnapped hours earlier by a little-known fringe Salafi group in Gaza. It was the first kidnapping of an international in Gaza in the nearly four years since Hamas too ...
  • Jerusalem court slams police for illegitimate ...
    This article was originally published in Haaretz Illegitimate arrests of Israeli protesters is on the rise. This is a tactic often used by the police and army to keep activists away from demonstrations for a substantial period of time, effectively stripping them of their right to protest and wea ...
  • Reform synagogue desacration hardly a surprise
    So much for a safe haven. We came from the lands of Kristallnacht to create a Jewish homeland, and look what happens: Haaretz reports tonight that the reform synagogue in Ra’ananah, a high-middle-class northern suburb of Tel-Aviv, has been desacrated, most likely by Jews. (Hebrew link here) Ra’a ...
  • PM Netanyahu is cornerd, and the US shouldn&#8 ...
    Putting an American peace plan on the table would enable Netanyahu and his government to escape the September deadline at the UN, and won’t bring an end to the occupation. Instead, the US should take a step back and let Europe lead the way Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is cornered. N ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Environment Minister meets with fishing and e ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke is meeting with Western Australia's conservation and environment groups, recreational fishing and boating and commercial fishing industries as the Gillard Government develops a draft plan for marine reserves in the south-west region.
  • Affordable student accommodation eases pressu ...
    Five new housing projects in Western Australia, providing 1000 new affordable rental homes for university students will be backed by the Gillard Government.
  • Queensland Lower Balonne catchment water purc ...
    Water Minister Tony Burke today announced a tender for water purchases in the Queensland Lower Balonne catchment under the Gillard Government's new approach to recovering water for the environment through smaller, more consistent tenders.
  • Secure water future for Australia's National ...
    The Australian National Botanic Gardens will be irrigated with water from Lake Burley Griffin, saving up to 170 million litres of Canberra's drinking water each year.
  • Getting Adelaide's gardens right
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water Senator Don Farrell and South Australian Minister for Water Paul Caica today launched an innovative web tool to help Adelaide gardeners conserve water.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Campaign Insider – Off the Street
    Campaigns are great because you get to meet people who you would not normally encounter. Victoria is one such person. She is married and has just joined her husband here in London. She has Political Science in her background, providing her enough of a context to convince her that democracy is in ...
  • Petaling Bias
    Election campaigns are what partisans dream of – red meat time when ideologists can sink their teeth into issues and somehow be excused for their lack of factual basis or objectivity. With millions of dollars of ads, promotional literature galore, and candidates preferring the simple over the co ...
  • Campaign Insider – Responding To Questions
    Campaigns can be difficult because many see them as opportunities for expressing long-held opinions. My development work overseas is well-known, as is my role in Parliament as the International Cooperation critic. And so some send me messages complaining that we should be caring for our own peop ...
  • The Crude Art of Thumbing One’s Nose
      In speaking with a development expert in France yesterday who is a sage observer of the Canadian scene, having been schooled in Canada, he noted that some in his country wonder what’s going on over here. “How long will your people support a government with high polling numbers when all these r ...
  • Campaign Insider – The Lemonade and the Ivey
    Sometimes campaign offices get hit with surprises. Today we had a delightful interruption as some students from the Ivey School of Business here in London dropped into the office to sell lemonade as a means of raising funds for the Memorial Boys and Girls Club in the city. It’s also an effort de ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Why we don’t need a regulatory definition for ...
    I‘ve just posted a piece over on the Risk Science Blog on regulatory definitions of engineered nanomaterials.  What may come as a surprise to many readers given my comments over the years is the title – “Why we don’t need a regulatory definition for nanomaterials”!  Have I flipped, lost my sen ...
  • James Gleick’s Chaos – the enhanced edition
    In 1987 I got my Bachelors of Science in physics, Prozac was launched in the US, and James Gleick published Chaos.  I don’t think the middle one has any bearing on the other two.  But the first and last are tentatively linked because, despite being completely jazzed on physics, I didn’t read i ...
  • Larry Brilliant: Enabling sustainable humanity ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog [Transcript] I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here ...
  • Questions teens ask about risk – I’m A Scienti ...
    I’ve just posted this over on the Risk Science Blog, but deviously thought I would also disrupt 2020 Science readers’ day with it as well! For the past couple of years, a highly addictive and innovative on-line teen science engagement event has been run in the UK. I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of ...
  • Should experts engage directly with people on ...
    A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out – that Schools of Public [...] ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News: April 15, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 15 ==== NATO Dictates Ukrainian Fiscal, Monetary, Tax, Investment Policies U.S. Tests Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile Interception For First Time Pentagon Completes “Most Challenging” Star Wars Test To Date New NATO Partners: “Any Nations(s) Across The Glob ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 15
    ==== NATO Strikes Libyan Town With Missiles For Second Day NATO Chief Expects More Warplanes As Libyan War Nears Second Month NATO’s Cargo Delivery May Be Excuse For Ground Invasion Of Libya Russian Foreign Minister: UN Resolution Doesn’t Authorize Ground Operations In Libya NATO’s Air War Again ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 14, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libya war: April 14 ==== Human Rights Commission: U.S. Drone Missile Attacks Killed Almost 1,000 Pakistani Civilians In 2010 Video And Text: Obama Praises Qatari Emir For Support Of NATO’s War Against Libya, Promotion Of “Democracy In The Middle East” Qatar Ready To Step Up Armin ...
  • Updates on Libya war: April 14
    ==== Civilian Casualties Reported As NATO Warplanes Bomb Libyan Capital NATO Chief Requests More Warplanes For Ground Attacks France: Increase NATO Bombing Of Libya Despite BRICS Nations’ Concerns Libya, Ivory Coast: Russia Warns Of Dangerous Tendency NATO’s Libya War: Over 2,100 Air Missions, N ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 13, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 13 ==== Berlin: NATO Assembles 50 Foreign Ministers On Libyan, Afghan Wars Afghanistan: U.S. Combat Mission Until 2015, Continued Involvement Afterward U.S.-Pakistan Tensions Reaching Boiling Point Pakistan Condemns Resumption Of Deadly U.S. Missile Attacks Paki ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • FBI Pays Visit to Federaljack
    Federaljacktube4 April 15th, 2011
  • Why Does FDA Tolerate More Radiation Than EPA?
    Forbes Blog By Jeff McMahon April 15th, 2011 Since the Environmental Protection Agency began detecting radiation in rainwater and milk at levels above its maximum contaminant level, government officials have been downplaying the importance of EPA’s maximum contaminant level. They would much pref ...
  • Showmebby’s Rant at the Waco Tea Party
    TheShowmebby April 15th, 2011 Thanks Waco Tea Party. I will enjoy my Rodney Carington tickets. Every time I go out I meet new people. We share opinions, because politics and religion are interesting. If you had a chance. How would you affect the world around you? If you think you can talk the ta ...
  • Sinaloa Drug Cartel Controlled and Protected b ...
    DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE Recent testimony by captured drug cartel leader Vicente Zambada in Federal Court points to DEA and FBI protection and collaboration with one of the most dangerous and powerful criminal organizations in the world: the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. South of the border, a brave Mexic ...
  • Flashback: A Nuclear Incident “Worse Than Thre ...
    The Intel Hub April 15th, 2011 This is further proof that nuclear disasters and radiation releases have happened in America and have been covered up each and every time. This disaster that happened in 1959 was covered up for over forty five years! Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, this part ...

FRS

  • Yes, Zionism is racism: “Israeli town ra ...
    Eilat is home to thousands of refugees and their lives in the small town are often marred by open hostility. Mya Guarnieri, 13 Apr 2011 African refugees, and the misconceptions that come with them, have become a major issue in the Israeli town of Eilat, inspiring the “red flag” campaign against ...
  • Revolutionary Intellectual–Cultural Forum in N ...
    Let us condemn the state terror on the oppressed people of India by Indian reactionary government. Let us unite in support of the Great People’s War of India. First of all we would like to express our strong solidarity to the International Campaign in support of Peopleâs War in India. At present ...
  • Historic background on the revolutionary movem ...
    The contemporary Manipuri Society is a Colonial and semi-feudal under the modification form of control and exploitation in the name of Democracy. The fact derives from an objective study of the development of the socio-economic and political system ever since the British colonial period to the p ...
  • Syrian protesters defy attempts at intimidation
    By Borzou Daragahi and Meris Lutz, Los Angeles Times April 13, 2011 BEIRUT â The women and children blocking a roadway outside the north Syrian coastal village of Bayda shook olive branches as symbols of peaceful protest and demanded the release of their sons, brothers and husbands. “We want the ...
  • Haiti Before and After Aristide’s Return
    Counterpunch, April 11, 2011 by Robert Roth On April 4th, Haiti’s electoral council announced that, according to preliminary results, Michel Martelly had been selected Haiti’s new president. A kompa singer and long-time proponent of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Martelly worked with the dreaded FRAPH de ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Have Peeps? Go crazy.
    Because Peeps are from the Devil, and because I have really...interesting...friends, I offer this challenge to you: Create a diorama using Peeps (As you can see from above, Susannah has created Peepsephone, complete with scary underworld). Take a photo of your creation, and send it to me. I'll ...
  • Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement
    See what John P. Avlon has to say about pesky facts. And thanks, Sharon, for the link.
  • Save Memphis' Mid-South Coliseum
    The Beatles played there, as did Elvis. Jerry Lawler wrestled Andy Kaufman there. And when it was built in the '60s, it was the first Memphis building built without segregated bathrooms. And thanks, Cynical, for the link.
  • Given our hearty discusson about what caused t ...
    ...HC Here just earned his second Still Small Voice correspondent's check (which he can have as soon as he learns to fly and retrieves said check from atop the rainbow) by sending a detailed analysis of the Titanic passenger list, including who survived and who didn't. According to the list, fr ...
  • Just in time for Easter: Does the resurrection ...
    Matt J. Rosano writes, at Huffington Post: Because it is something entirely new, it cannot represent a violation of natural law as understood by science. Which always leads me to a question that nags me, but maybe not you. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead as some of us were taught in Sunday ...

Associated Content

  • Superman Reboot Relying on Characters, Not Rec ...
    After much speculation, Warner Brothers has officially announced the villain who will be facing off against Superman in the upcoming film, as well as the actor who will play the role.Contributor: Nathaniel Wayne Published: Apr 12, 2011
  • Mediapocalypse Now: What Happens After Convent ...
    The current technological shift is exciting, but it brings unexpected challenges like rampant online theft and the loss of connectivity between sellers and buyersContributor: Peter Hanson Published: Mar 11, 2011
  • Yellowstone Supervolcano, by the Numbers
    A recent study from the University of Utah reveals that the Yellowstone Supervolcano is much larger than previously reported.Contributor: Lana Bandoim Published: Apr 15, 2011
  • Oklahoma City Bombing Facts and Figures
    Sixteen years after the Oklahoma City Bombing, here are some facts and figures regarding the tragedy.Contributor: Steven Bryan Published: Apr 15, 2011
  • Robert Redford Conspires to Teach Us a Lesson
    Critic Robert Denerstein says Robert Redford's "The Conpsirator," boasts a strong cast, but doesn't always spring fully to life.Contributor: Robert Denerstein Published: Apr 14, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, April 11-15, 2011
    Brazilian police are surveilling you. Big Brother is watching you breathe. Hoteliers are tracking you through those towels you stole. And you're keeping an eye on the zebras. At least, that's the message we're getting from this week's Baarbarian illustration--an illustration you might win on a ...
  • Letter From the Editor, May 2011
    Two years ago, I sat with roughly 1,500 fellow attendees of the annual TED Conference and listened as one of the world’s greatest explorers explained why we must stop plundering the oceans and start protecting them—immediately. “Business as usual means that in 50 years, there may be no coral re ...
  • Twelve Ocean Experts Tell Us How to Begin to S ...
    With so many problems with our oceans--and solutions to them--it can be tricky to know where to start. So we asked the experts We asked 12 of the world's foremost ocean experts--from scientists to policymakers to a sea captain--how they would begin to save the seas. Their answers ranged from po ...
  • Gallery: Ocean Experts Tell Us Their Ocean-Sav ...
  • Amateur Photo Displays a Full Day's Worth of C ...
    Photographer shoots and assembles an entire day of skies Amateur photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos created this continuous image of the sky over Sounio, Greece, a town near his home. Late last December, he recorded the sun’s path across the sky during the day and an 11-hour star trail at night. W ...

Veterans Today

  • Now Israel Is Free to Declare Its Innocence be ...
    United States Congress has once again jumped to the fore as defender of the beleaguered state of Israel by writing a letter to the UNHRC Let us present this case as objectively as we can… A few photos of Israeli use of white phosphorus will accompany this article if possible. William A. Cook / S ...
  • ALLEN L ROLAND: Sally And Frank Discuss Taxes
      Only a animated cartoon can do justice to the absurd reality of our current tax code where General Electric made 14 billion dollars profit and not only paid no taxes but got a 3 billion dollar refund: Allen L Roland   Click on this 3 minute video and enjoy. Video   Happy tax day, [...]
  • MAKOW: BETRAYAL OF BRITISH AGENTS IN WWII
    Treason! Illuminati Betrayed British Agents in WWII April 14, 2011 The war was just a pretext to destroy the genetic elite: the natural leaders, the patriots and the idealists. by Henry Makow Ph.D.  In the wake of D-Day June 6, 1944, hundreds of acts of sabotage were committed by the French Resi ...
  • U.S. #1 Axiom “There Is No Argument For ...
    U.S. #1 Axiom “There Is No Argument For Success”  Veil Pierced America’s #1 axiom “‘There Is No Argument For Success” is pierced and it’s facade becomes invalid. Subsequently, by disguising and obscuring, racist hatreds, eternal war, infinte budget debts, and Israel.  The U.S. sirens a c ...
  • FRANKLIN LAMB : Why the “Obama Doctrine” won’ ...
    What Khalidi remains critical of��  is what he sees as the Obama administration�s claimed �American values imperative� being made a mockery of whenever American �interests� are brought up to justify cherry picking which brutal despots get the �moderate� or �reformer� label while others are no-fl ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • American Hypocrisy on Libya & Int'l Criminal Court
    I read with no small amount of amusement the grandiosely titled op-ed "Libya's Pathway to Peace" by Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy. One way or another, none are free from hypocrisy to keep things lively. When the Libya mess erupted, Cameron was on a junket to the Middle East se ...
  • Inevitable Reform Candidate for FIFA President?
    Governance of sport should be of considerable interest to its followers given how much attention and money fans devote to sporting events. At the same time, let's just say that global governance of sport often fails the smell test on justifiable grounds. If there ever were institutions that coul ...
  • Mapping Chinese Investment in Africa
    Like in practically every other continent, China has made itself a force to reckon with in Africa. I have thus had a very long string of posts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] examining its role and the views other have of China investing there. These range from the helpful and benign ("South-South coop ...
  • Bailout Fatigue, Casual Racism & EU Tea Parties
    For obvious reasons, yours truly is particularly attuned to shifting political sentiment towards migration here in Europe. Earlier on, I had a post on the electoral gains made by parties with openly xenophobic agendas. Sour times breed sour sentiments; that much is obvious. While far-right parti ...
  • The PR Art of Selling Authoritarian Regimes?
    Here we go again with the alleged dark arts of the marketing trade. Flipping through the London dailies, there's apparently a new cause celebre here in Britain. And no, I'm not talking about fish pedicures--that's so 2010, dahling. As a business major from days long gone, I think of marketing co ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is ...
    In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have ...
  • Corrupted!: 5 Shocking Examples Of Government ...
    At times it really is breathtaking how corrupted the U.S. government has become.  Government corruption has become so endemic in our society that most people have just kind of accepted it as "normal".  But shouldn't we all get hopping mad when we learn that the Federal Reserve s ...
  • Money Problems That Never Seem To End: 25 Reas ...
    It seems like wherever you turn there is bad news for the U.S. economy.  Unemployment is rampant, the cost of gasoline is going up, the cost of food is going up and American families are getting poorer.  Millions of jobs continue to leave the country and everyone is wondering wh ...
  • Shut It Down?
    If the U.S. government were to shut down for a while, would that really be such a bad thing?  Right now everyone in the mainstream media is freaking out as if the world is going to end, but the truth is that there have been government shutdowns before.  The apocalypse is not goi ...
  • Good Economic Numbers? Don’t Be Fooled B ...
    The U.S. financial system is like a junkie that needs continually increasing amounts of "junk" to get the same "buzz".  So what is the U.S. financial system addicted to?  It is addicted to money and debt.  For many years, whenever the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates o ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Mobile phones powered by the mind take hands-f ...
    It seems even dialling a mobile number is becoming too time consuming for our fast-paced time precious society. But researchers in America have come up with a solution – a mobile phone which uses the power of thought to make a call – and you do not have to lift a finger. Users wear a [...]
  • Chicago School Bans Home Lunches
    The Chicago Tribune reports that a school in Chicago has banned students from bringing packed lunches from home – unless they have a medical excuse. Principal Elsa Carmona said her goal is protect students from their own unhealthful food choices, stating: “Nutrition wise, it is better for the ch ...
  • Wombat diagnosed with depression from ‘lack of ...
    Handlers at an animal sanctuary in north-east Australia were mystified when their star attraction was brought low by a mystery illness. Tonka the wombat shed 20 percent of his body weight after Cyclone Yasi devastated his home at the Billabong Sanctuary, near Townsville, Queensland, closing it t ...
  • Iran wants to Ban Dogs from Society because th ...
    Not long ago, Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products but now it seems that they want to take it even further, as far as bannings dogs from society. Dogs are “unclean” and should be banned from society. That is what 39 Iranian legislators have ...
  • Hosni Mubarak arrested in bed after collapsing ...
    Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was under arrest last night as prosecutors launched an investigation into alleged corruption and abuses of power during his hardline 30-year rule. The 82-year-old one-time ally of Britain and the United States is in hospital after a suspected heart attack, ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-04-15 European Court of Justice opines th ...
    TweetThe European Court of Justice, the highest court in Europe, today gave its preliminary opinion on the appeal case between artists’ rights agency Sabam (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs) and ISP Scarlet Extended. Sabam won a court order in 2007 in Brussels Court which woul ...
  • 2011-04-15 Extradition and Canada's Sovereignt ...
    Tweet But actually the terrible affront to Canadian sovereignty began long before this refusal or Marc's extradition. Extradition between the US and Canada was changed in 1999 to allow simply a request from a prosecutor to enable extradition from Canada to the US, while still requiring the full ...
  • 2011-04-15 Supreme Court decides that Elmer's ...
    TweetFollowing a lengthy legal battle, Zurich prosecutors now have to look into claims that in 2004 Julius Baer hired private investigators to intimidate and harass Rudolf Elmer and his family. So far, only Elmer himself and the alleged perpetrators had been heard. According to the Supreme Court ...
  • 2011-04-15 UPDATE Australian minister for immi ...
    Tweet [2011-02-22 UPDATE The Catch 22 of Australian Immigration for child refugees like Seena] The online investigative unit of ABC News Australia has obtained information of severe overcrowding at the refugee detention facility on Christmas Island. A planned capacity of 200 is now being utilise ...
  • 2011-04-15 New US Gov't Strategy for "Identity ...
    TweetThe National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), which some believe could establish and require Internet users to have ID on the Internet, was unveiled today at the US Chamber of Commerce. NSTIC aims to establish "identity ecosystems," what the National Institute for Stan ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
    In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things.  As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
  • Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
    “I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
  • Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
    The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist.  Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers.  Only a handful of still-work ...
  • Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
    From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
  • Conservation News Brief
    Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tatumba 2.0

  • Did you buy silver yet? You still have time be ...
    I hope so because you have taken 1 giant step to protecting your wealth as global economic collapse is imminent. How much higher will it go? At least to $100 but $500 is not out of the question before total dollar collapse. If you are still in the RRSP / 401K game and you refuse [...] Relat ...
  • Leonard Cohen exposes the New World Order thro ...
      It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the [ ...
  • I can prove that the Canadian Government Suppo ...
    First off Kadhafi Duck is a looney-toon thug. He has always been a tyrant but we, as a Western Civilization, have tolerated his evil because he sold his oil to the world. With a brief history lesson of the area, unbeknownst to the bulk of you mindless drones who know no better, Libya has been [. ...
  • Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
    This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
  • The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
    The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...

Truth About Our World

  • Keiser Report: You Can’t Negotiate with ...
    I love this guy, LOL � http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/keiser-report-you-cant-negotiate-with.html
  • Corrupted!: 5 Shocking Examples Of Government ...
    The Economic Collapse   At times it really is breathtaking how corrupted the U.S. government has become.  Government corruption has become so endemic in our society that most people have just kind of accepted it as “normal”.  But shouldn’t we all get hopping mad when we learn that the Federal ...
  • Prediction of severe weather in the Midwest in ...
    More proof HAARP is definitely “playing” with the weather. This is probably just a “practice exercise”…. And it happened … 2 People Killed As Storms Tear Through Oklahoma http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=135431041     http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/47286-prediction-of-sev ...
  • Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams of Nuclear Meltdown – ...
    How interesting… THEY do “warn” us in advance, supposing the english subtitles are really what they’re saying… Foreword by Neil Foster â The Sovereign Independent - This little video clip below is interesting in light of current events taking place in Japan and the efects now being felt world wi ...
  • Total Collapse – The Build up to World W ...
    For more details on this subject watch : Chossudovsky: US will start WW3 by attacking Iran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4p1kD8CZX8 The Total Collapse of the U.S. Economy is inevitable – Here’s why:     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnteMtJt73k The Economic Collapse of America – The New No ...

Bloomberg

  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same
  • HP: Exiting from Network Gear?
    The computer maker may soon sell its ProCurve unit to one or more private-equity firms as part of an ongoing refocusing effort
  • Giant Steps for China's Net
    Huge valuations given to Baidu and the proposed Yahoo-Alibaba deal show the market for Chinese Web outfits may have reached a turning point
  • Do Online MBAs Make the Grade?
    Their popularity is soaring, but some are diploma mills, making recruiters wary of virtual degrees. Here are tips for picking a good program
  • Don't Count the U.S. Consumer Out
    Despite higher energy prices, we expect consumers to continue spending and the U.S. economy to grow

Enviroblog

  • Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
    By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Safe Chemicals Act ...
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst Once again, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is leading the effort to try to contain the constant onslaught of dangerous industrial chemicals on our bodies. This week, Lautenberg, along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Obama Must Ensure Safe Gas Drilling
    By Dusty Horwitt, EWG Senior Counsel President Obama contends that natural gas drilling can help meet his goal of reducing U.S. imported oil consumption by a third by 2020. Yet, in a welcome change from his previous position, Obama recently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • Earth Day: If you've done one thing, you've do ...
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Of course it shouldn't take the arrival of Earth Day to spur us to greater greenness. But the truth of it is, it works. Last year, it was on Earth Day that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mor ...
  • New old news: 2004 Industry Tests Found 'Brock ...
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Tap water industry representatives made no mention of their chromium-6 2004 study when they testified alongside EWG at a Feb. 2 Senate environment committee hearing on chromium-6 pollution. Some water utility... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Williamsburg community board braves mockery to ...
    Nearly two hours into Tuesday’s Community Board 1 meeting in Williamsburg, board chair Chris Olechowski addressed the issue of the night, which was also the reason the Swinging Sixties Senior Center was packed with people who don’t usually attend these type ...
  • One horrifying crime story bumps another; plus ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • 'Rabies': Israel makes its slasher-film debut, ...
    A brother and a sister with a dark secret are fleeing their past through the forest. Four nubile teens on their way to a tennis match (the girls in little white tennis skirts, the boys in white sweaters) go into the forest to pee, and get separated. A fores ...
  • 'The Conspirator': Robert Redford's latest mov ...
    Robert Redford’s career as a director has become defined not by what his films prove that he can accomplish but rather what they promise to deliver. His works range in quality from the excellent Quiz Show to the abysmal The Legend of Bagger Vance. Redford’s ...
  • What's wrong with Donald Trump and 'the blacks'
    In one of the most memorable moments in the recent history of Albany-area radio,birther-themed presidential proto-candidate Donald Trump told New York Post columnist Fred Dicker this morning, "I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a g ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Young director still on a roll
    Norwegian film director Anne Sewitsky has had quite a winter, winning awards on two continents and enjoying box office success especially with a children’s film that won acclaim at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival. Now, at a time when Norwegian film is very much in the news, she’s also won a ...
  • Late Easter trims annual exodus
    Thousands of Norwegians were beginning their traditional Easter holidays this weekend, but fewer were heading for the hills for a final fling of spring skiing. The Red Cross would still be out in force, even though the late Easter and a sudden spurt of warm weather last week spoiled the snow all ...
  • Fatal fall on Hurtigruten gangway
    A Norwegian woman in 70s stumbled while walking down the gangway of the Hurtigruten ship Trollfjord, after the vessel berthed at Tromsø earlier this week. She ended up falling along the entire length of the gangway, and later died in hospital. It was the first time Norway’s famed coastal shippi ...
  • Thousands gather for a ‘Sensation’
    An estimated 20,000 party-minded people were expected to gather at the Telenor Arena outside Oslo on Saturday for “Sensation Norway,” a Dutch-organized showcase for club and electronic music featuring loud sound and lightshows. The Sensation crowd is told to come dressed in white if they expect ...
  • Large firm caught in bribery concerns
    One of Norway’s most international companies, fertilizer and industrial concern Yara, has alerted state authorities to concerns that Yara may have paid bribes in connection with its investment in a plant in Libya. Yara has launched its own investigation into the matter. Demands for what Yara has ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A Solar Powered Life, Part V – Living Within Y ...
    Editor’s Note: This is Part V of a series. To see all parts, click here. Mick Jagger sang “I can’t get no satisfaction”, and that’s exactly what will happen if you use more than you produce in any renewable self sufficient system. It’s exactly the same for both energy or food as anyone who has w ...
  • Fukushima Nuclear Crisis – Chronicle of a Disa ...
    Fukushima is just one among many similar disasters waiting to happen worldwide; governments and regulators have systematically downplayed the risks and hidden the real costs of nuclear power; there is no place for nuclear in a truly green energy portfolio; furthermore, there is a lot we can do t ...
  • Why You Should Grow and Produce Your Own Food
    by Elisabeth Fekonia There is a definite trend for people to question the quality of shop bought food — that is, food grown with chemical inputs. Younger mothers of small children, in particular, are getting very conscious of the chemical residues, low nutritional status and additives in our mo ...
  • Sustainable Agriculture Urgently Needed, UN Ag ...
    There is now widespread recognition that a rapid shift from industrial monoculture to sustainable farming is needed to save the climate and guarantee food security for all. by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. Photo � Craig Mackintosh A rapid and significant shift from conventional, industrial, monoculture ...
  • Smart Planning for the Global Family
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute When it comes to population growth, the United Nations has three primary projections. The medium projection, the one most commonly used, has world population reaching 9.2 billion by 2050. The high one reaches 10.5 billion. The low projection, which assu ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

  • Humanitarian work most dangerous in last 10 years
    The last 10 years has been the deadliest on record for humanitarian workers, according to a new United Nations study. The report, commissioned by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, states "In the last decade, lethal attacks against..Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...
  • 9 hidden man-made wonders of the world
    Not all of the world's wonders get the attention they deserve. We searched the globe to find nine marvels that are so awe-inspiring, you'll find it hard to believe that they were crafted by human hands -- and so far off the beaten path, chances are.......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • The 15 Best Food Festivals in the World
    A region�s culture is reflected in its cuisine. In this way, food has the amazing ability to illustrate certain intricacies about a country�s culture to those on the outside.Attracting all different kinds of epicurean stars and enthusiasts, food festivalsSubmitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cult ...
  • World's Smallest Wedding Rings: Interlocking R ...
    DNA nanotechnology makes use of the ability of natural DNA strains' capacity for self asssembly. Prof. Alexander Heckel and his doctoral student Thorsten Schmidt of Goethe University were able to create two rings of DNA only 18 nanometers in size,........Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 50 Blogs You Should Bookmark for Autism Awaren ...
    April is Autism Awareness Month, a time set aside to learn about the condition of autism. In this month, those affected by autism, including health professionals, teachers, parents, and autistic children and adults themselves share their experiences......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

  • Keiser Report: You Can’t Negotiate with ...
    I love this guy, LOL � http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/keiser-report-you-cant-negotiate-with.html
  • Corrupted!: 5 Shocking Examples Of Government ...
    The Economic Collapse   At times it really is breathtaking how corrupted the U.S. government has become.  Government corruption has become so endemic in our society that most people have just kind of accepted it as “normal”.  But shouldn’t we all get hopping mad when we learn that the Federal ...
  • Prediction of severe weather in the Midwest in ...
    More proof HAARP is definitely “playing” with the weather. This is probably just a “practice exercise”…. And it happened … 2 People Killed As Storms Tear Through Oklahoma http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=135431041     http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/47286-prediction-of-sev ...
  • Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams of Nuclear Meltdown – ...
    How interesting… THEY do “warn” us in advance, supposing the english subtitles are really what they’re saying… Foreword by Neil Foster â The Sovereign Independent - This little video clip below is interesting in light of current events taking place in Japan and the efects now being felt world wi ...
  • Total Collapse – The Build up to World W ...
    For more details on this subject watch : Chossudovsky: US will start WW3 by attacking Iran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4p1kD8CZX8 The Total Collapse of the U.S. Economy is inevitable – Here’s why:     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnteMtJt73k The Economic Collapse of America – The New No ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • ‘Great Soul,’ a Gandhi biography
    A new biography looks beyond the mythmaking to establish Gandhi’s achievements in the context of his time. Mohandas Gandhi in 1947. (Associated Press) By Jonathan Kirsch Special to the Los Angeles Times "I do not accept the claim of saintliness," said Mohandas Gandhi in 1920, when he had not yet ...
  • Civil war lit
    How the War between the States changed American literature (Greg Klee/Globe Staff) By Craig Fehrman One April night in 1861, almost exactly 150 years ago, Walt Whitman decided to go to the opera. After watching a performance of Verdi, he walked into the New York air â and into a world that had c ...
  • Godless in Tumourville
    The writer, polemicist and devout atheist Christopher Hitchens talks about his memoirs, Hitch-22, and his fight against cancer Christopher Hitchens in May 2010 Photo: Rex Features By Mick Brown Writing in his memoirs, Hitch-22, of the numerous perils that he has faced as a reporter around the gl ...
  • Adidas Unveils World’s Lightest Basketba ...
    By Kyle Stack NBA Most Valuable Player candidate Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls was spending time with adidasâ footwear-development teams one weekend in 2009 when he saw the shoe that heâll wear in the NBA playoffs tomorrow. Rose clamored for the shoe to be made available immediately, but adi ...
  • Google Still Pulling Ahead in Search
    According to New comScore Numbers By Ryan Singel Googleâs still sitting pretty at the top of the U.S. search heap, handling nearly two-thirds of all domestic searches, according to March data from comScore that contradicts a recent report showing Bing closing in on the search giant. Like Google, ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
    Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted.  Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
  • Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
    Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
  • No title
    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
    WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
  • It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
    WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
  • Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
    LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
  • Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
    WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
  • Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
    LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
  • Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
    Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...
  • Interview with filmmaker Kevin P. Miller
    On today's show filmmaker Kevin Miller joins us to discuss his recent work and the ongoing controversy over his seminal 2009 film Generation Rx which we covered on TNRA. From Kevin P. Miller's bio: Kevin P. Miller is an international award winning Writer, Producer and Director whose films LE ...
  • TSA harassing and searching a 9 year old
    This video depicts the TSA flagrantly violating the civil rights of disembarking train passengers in Savannah, Georgia. It is a sign of things to come. "The only bad thing on our trip was TSA was at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building an ...
  • Lockerbie Diary: Gadhaffi, fall guy for CIA dr ...
    For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia. His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high flyers in U.S. Intelligence, has been a reward for silence on t ...

Beacon

  • Victory! Belize Bans All Forms of Trawling
    English Caye in Belize. After six months of negotiations and with support from Sir Thomas Moore, Oceana bought out the Belize's last two trawlers as part of a government-backed move to ban all forms of trawling in Belizean waters. Belize joins Venezula and Palau as the third country to ban ...
  • Team Oceana Joins Nautica in South Beach
    This past weekend, Oceana joined Nautica at Lummus Park for the Nautica South Beach Triathlon. It was the third time we teamed up at the SoBe Tri to raise money for Oceana and raise awareness about ocean conservation...and it certainly seemed charmed. First, there were the conditions – and I do ...
  • What If an Oil Spill Happened Near You?
    It�s been one year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, but the explosion and subsequent months-long spill has largely faded from public consciousness.�And if people do think about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, they think about it happening �somewhere else,� to �someone else�s� ...
  • Oceana’s Florida Debut
    Hostess Kimberly Pero, Oceana�s Florida representative Dustin Cranor, hostess Teresa Fitzsimmons, Oceana�s Executive Vice President Jim Simon and and Zasha Langer. � Oceana/Redmund On Friday, April 1, Teresa Fitzsimmons and Kimberly Pero hosted Oceana�s first Florida event at their home in ...
  • Studies Begin to Reveal Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
    Caesar grunts, damselfish and amberjacks in the Gulf of Mexico. � Oceana/Carlos Suarez A week from today marks the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and the effects of the spill on the gulf�s ecosystems and wildlife are beginning to come into view, though the full effects won�t be u ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Excerpts From President’s Speech
    President Barack Obama “….A belief that we are all connected; and that there are some things we can only do together, as a nation. We believe, in the words of our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, that through government, we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves. ...
  • The Aegates Islands Ambush. The End Of The Fir ...
    Rome and Carthage, two great seagoing nations with huge armies and tremendous wealth both existed within each others sphere of influence. Corvus The three major wars fought between them was inevitable. The outcomes were not. But the first war went to the Romans. This was the last battle. Carthag ...
  • Great Old Photos Of X Planes From Edwards AFB
    F-94 Protoytype X-3 Supersonic Vehicle Prototype
  • What Ever Happened To The Vikings In North Ame ...
    Viking Ships Forget Moses praying in the Desert, Luther getting temperamental at Wittenberg, the sword of Islam lifting above Medina, the signing of the Bill of Rights, the opening of the Bridgewater Canal and the explosion of Little Boy at Hiroshima. In the last three thousand years by fa ...
  • Please Donate.
    Please Donate On the right sidebar is a Donate PayPal tab. Please help me keep this blog going. Just click on the tab and keep in mind we accept dollars, or anything that has an equivalent in dollars. It takes a lot of research and we are supporting three old pugs, one which is incontinent AND b ...

Taylor Marsh

  • My $0.02/Saturday: The “smartest men” in DC vs ...
    Morning, news junkies. As you probably know, the April 15th tax deadline is pushed back to April 18th this year because of Emancipation Day. My roundups are usually jampacked with headlines–it’s out of control, I know–but since it’s tax season and nobody needs any more homework, I’m going to co ...
  • Donald Trump’s Sharpie Marker Missive
    **UPDATED** Following on Donald Trump’s op-ed in response to Gail Collins’ column, “Trump Gets Weirder,” this latest reaction to another writer, this time it’s Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair, is just too precious not to post, if only for posterity’s sake. At least Trump isn’t boring. He’s also a ...
  • Progressive Infusion Amidst ‘Disgust’
    Because it’s Friday and a little sanity is called for amidst the Democratic Party’s cratering to Republican economic models. It should make people understand why many progressive and Democratic activists and lawmakers have had it with Pres. Obama. Rank and file Democrats still support him, bu ...
  • Dealmakers: Dems Pay $1 Billion for Tea Party ...
    Numerous GOP and Democratic sources on and off Capitol Hill tell National Journal that the outline of the deal is as follows: up to $39 billion in cuts from the 2010 budget, $514 billion in spending for the defense budget covering the remainder of this fiscal year, a GOP agreement to abandon co ...
  • Trump Leads, Labor Leaders Blast Dems
    “… But [it] creates, I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He– he doesn’t have hornsâ¦we’re not really worrying about conspiracy theories or– or birth certi ...

Hudson New York

  • Is the Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt F ...
    Those who had hoped that the pro-democracy revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak would not affect relations between Egypt and Israel now need to realize that they were wrong.. In the post-Mubarak era, many Egyptians who helped bring down
  • Hizballah in Venezuela: The Man Who Knows Too Much
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's biggest problem was named Walid Makled. The Colombian government just confirmed, however, in an announcement from its Minister of the Interior and Justice, Hermán Vargas, that Venezuelan drug trafficker Walid Makled --
  • Next Steps in the Middle East
    Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar recently set out what Israel faces when he noted: "We do not recognize the State of Israel or its right to control any of the land of Palestine. Palestine is holy Islamic land. Our national problem is not related only to the
  • Turkish PM Says U.S. State Dept Made His Daugh ...
    TURKEY GIVES CONTRADICTORY MESSAGE ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS On Wednesday the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Francis J. Ricciardone, strongly criticized the lack of freedom of the press in Turkey by using a Turkish idiom. His comments drew a quick, harsh
  • France: Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect
    France's much-debated "burqa ban" entered into force on April 11. The new law, which prohibits the wearing of Islamic body-covering burqas and face-covering niqabs in all public spaces in France, comes amid rising frustration that the country's estimated

Urban Survival

  • CPI: Nothing to See Here…
    ...juss move along, sit-zen…everything is fine… This as the new CPI myth has been rolled out for public adoration and respect: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Voting on the Airplane
    Since Elaine and I are just about split on the question of an airplane, I thought we’d see what “democracy in action” could come up with by throwing it up for a vote.  Should we get a simple, single-engine plane … Continue reading →
  • Big Story of the Day!
    Sorry, I forgot to put this one in earlier today – the government has announced a big move on mortgage servicing companies and here’s the press release from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency – my highlights added: … Continue reading →
  • Pre-Guessing The (Somewhat Mythical) CPI Report
    Even before the U.S. CPI figures come out tomorrow, the world markets were reeling on speculation that commodities were going to threaten profits; i.e.. the commodities go up, profits would go down, and the Greater Fool theory of pricing which … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Rethinking the Business (Plane)
    Being a realist, I’ve once again decided to put off buying an airplane until at least this fall.  One of the reasons is that I am continuing to lose weight, but I’ve put that one hold to reestablish ‘normal’ for … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 'EU's anti-Iran bid, publicity ploy
    Summary: Alaeddin Boroujerdi A senior Iranian lawmaker slams the latest round of EU sanctions against Iran, saying the West is making efforts to ward off responsibility for its silence towards “actual human rights violations.” source: Press TVread more
  • I want to occupy you forever
    Summary: US troops in IraqEvery time Iraqi nationalist Shi'ite cleric/politician Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaces with a bang, the United States establishment shakes like a willow tree, while US corporate media duly dusts off the usual "radical, anti-American, Iran-friendly firebrand cleric" rheto ...
  • EU calls sanctions on Iranian officials
    Summary: The European Union has imposed a new round of sanctions, including asset freeze and travel bans, against 32 Iranian officials over what they claim as human rights abuses. source: PressTVread more
  • Iran to Build Four or Five Nuclear Research Re ...
    Summary: Tehran ReactorIranian AEO chief Fereydoon Davani has announced today that the Iranian government intends to build four or five nuclear research reactors over the “next few years.” The hope is that one of the reactors will be online within five years. source: AntiWar.comread more
  • EGYPT, IRAN, AND THE MIDDLE EAST’S EVOLVING BA ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsWe think that Egypt under a post-Mubarak political order will be strongly inclined to pursue better relations with the Islamic Republic and other members of the Middle East’s “resistance bloc”. (This trend is clearly captured by the various points in Atwan’s opinion p ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @'The Daily Galaxy' ...
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  • First Galaxies of the Universe Discovered With ...
    Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. The team spotted the galaxy in recent observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, verified it with observations from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and...
  • Galactic Danger Zone: Rogue, Solar-System Devo ...
    Could the galaxies of the Universe be stalked by rogue, all-devouring black holes? It looks that way. A recent simulation of black holes merger revealed that there could be literally hundreds of rogue black holes scattered across the Milky Way...
  • Is an Adjacent Universe Causing the Dark Flow ...
    Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very limits of the known universe -- kind of where you'd expect...
  • NASA's Hunt for the Milky Way's Most Massive Stars
    NASA observatories have located strong infrared signals near the plane of the Milky Way, suggesting the possible presence of massive stars. In their stellar search through our Galactic backyard, astronomers have used powerful telescopes sensitive to X-ray and infrared radiation...

Natural News

  • US meat and poultry widely contaminated with b ...
    (NaturalNews) How would you like a big, juicy burger loaded with onions, mustard, ketchup -- and a big helping of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases?If you find that dish stomach-churning instead of appetizing, then maybe you sho ...
  • Groups, individuals petition NRC to suspend al ...
    (NaturalNews) The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has sparked an uprising against nuclear energy production due to concerns about its safety. Recently, 45 groups and individuals from across the US banded together to ask that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) cease all licensing for 2 ...
  • GSK study suggests its antidepressant drugs ca ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study released by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) suggests that its very own antidepressant drug Paxil (paroxetine) is linked to an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and tendencies among adult patients. The findings appear to confirm those of previous studies and cases tha ...
  • The Maryanne Godboldo question: When do parent ...
    (NaturalNews) The story of Maryanne Godboldo and how armed government agents broke down her door and attempted to kidnap her daughter because she wouldn't feed her psychiatric drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/032089_antipsychotic_drugs_health_freedom.html) brings to light an important question: ...
  • Armed agents kidnap child from mother who used ...
    (NaturalNews) Maryanne Godboldo of Detroit, Mich., recently learned the hard way that freedom of choice in medicine is no longer tolerated by the medical mafia in the supposed "land of the free." Recently, armed officers from the Special Response Team (SRT) of the Detroit Police Department (DPD) ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Shuttering Online Gambling Sites
    Federal authorities unsealed indictments against the operators of some of the world’s largest online gambling sites and moved Friday to seize their U.S domains. The U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, charged Isai Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars, and Raymond Bitar, the founder of F ...
  • Obama Calls for Secure Online-Identity System
    President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious proposal Friday urging the private sector to create a trusted identity system to boost consumer security in cyberspace.
  • WikiLeaks Associates Hit Back Over U.S. Twitte ...
    Three WikiLeaks associates fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the prosecutors lobbed the latest volley in a contentious legal battle with the Justice Department on Thursday, charging in a court filing that the government’s argument “trivializes both the Parties’ an ...
  • With Court Order, FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botn ...
    Updated 4:30 p.m. with information about the late-afternoon filing from the government, and with comment from EFF. In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of pri ...
  • Legislation Would Let You Opt Out of Online We ...
    Sens. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) proposed online privacy legislation Tuesday that for the first time would give web users the right to demand they not be tracked online. Still, the measure was met with resistance from privacy advocates who said the Commercial Priva ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • House GOP Delivers Tax Day Windfall for the We ...
    If nothing else, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan has unfortunate timing. On April Fool's Day 2009, Ryan rolled out the first incarnation of his Roadmap for America's Future, the document which served as the basis for the 2012 GOP budget proposal. Now on Tax Day 2011, House Republicans ...
  • The Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement Party
    Over the past few days, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl has become a national laughingstock. Not because of his 30-fold error in claiming on the Senate floor that "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" is related to abortion, but because he later insisted his lie was "not intended to be ...
  • The Real Standard for Seriousness on the Debt
    Last week, the political chattering classes praised Republican Paul Ryan's "serious" budget proposal to slash $4.3 trillion in spending in order to fund yet another round of upper-income tax cuts. But over just the past few days, the New York Times' David Leonhardt, Slate's Annie Lowery and Ezr ...
  • In Budget Deal, GOP Handcuffs the IRS. Again.
    Among the $39 billion in spending cuts contained in the budget deal reached last, one stands out as perhaps the most cynical - and counterproductive. Republicans insisted that the Internal Revenue Service receive no additional funding through September, rebuffing President Obama's request for a ...
  • Boehner's Double-Dealing on the Debt Ceiling
    When George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office, Republican majorities in Congress voted seven times to increase the U.S. debt ceiling. That recent history, combined with the inconvenient truth that the national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under Bush, may have prompted then Mi ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

  • "Mother Earth" to be given human rights
    A new UN treaty is being drafted that would see planet Earth being granted the same rights as humans. Bolivia are behind the move which is aimed at gr...
  • Philippine priest in battle with demons
    Father Jose Francisco Syquia speaks out about his efforts to exorcise people possessed by demons. Head of the Manila Archdiocese's Office of Exorcism ...
  • Language spoken by only two people
    The indigenous Mexican language Ayapaneco is dying out with only two people left alive who can speak it. To make matters worse neither will speak to t...
  • Scientists settle perception debate
    If a person blind from birth was suddenly able to see would he be able to visually distinguish objects ? Its a puzzle that was posed over 300 hundred ...
  • How old is Serpent Mound ?
    Archaeologists are set to determine the age of the oldest earthen mound in Ohio. Using remote radar sensing of the earthwork as well as core samples f...

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International Partners Take Action ...
    lucha-peasant_day.jpg The Via Campesina declared April 17 as "International Day of Peasants' Struggles." This day commemorates the 1996 slaughter by the Brazilian police of 19 peasants of the Landless Worker Movement (MST) while they mobil ...
  • Bury the corporate food system!
    Below is an article from Grassroots International partner, the Via Campesina, in preparation for the International Day of Peasants� Struggles. The Via is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenou ...
  • "Victory comes only with struggle": Brazilian ...
    mcp.jpg April 17 commemorates the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle for land, water, food and justice.read more
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Celebrates Intern ...
    usfsa-turn_tables.jpg As part of our commitment to engage in advocacy to challenge US policy and corporations that are often the root causes of resource rights violations around the world, Grassroots International has been proud to be an a ...
  • Carbon Credit Plan Implementation Halts Medica ...
    At the request of the community assembly of Amador Hernández in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots International along with the Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Carbon Trade Watch, the Global Forest Coalition, the Timberwatch Coalition, Grassroots G ...

Climate

  • TVA Phasing Out Hundreds of Jobs at Coal Plants
    Source:� AP The Tennessee Valley Authority board is phasing out 300 to 400 jobs at its oldest coal plants and will pay a $10 million penalty in a clean air agreement with the EPA, several states and green groups.
  • Drought Grows More Dire in Southwest, Farms Hit
    Source:� Reuters Conditions for crops and livestock are growing more dire by the day in the U.S. Southwest as drought continues to grip the region.
  • German Nuclear Exit 'Would Cost Up to $2 Bln'
    Source:� AFP German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said Friday that a switch from nuclear power to alternative forms of energy could cost Europe's top economy up to $2.9 billion per year. �
  • New Mexico Looks to Expand Nuclear-Waste Business
    Source:� Reuters Community officials in southeast New Mexico want to expand a nuclear-waste storage facility deep inside an ancient salt bed to play a bigger role in handling spent fuel from U.S. reactors.
  • Siemens Rethinks Nuclear Ambitions
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Siemens is having second thoughts about its goal of becoming a major player in nuclear energy in the wake of Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis.

GreenBiz

  • 3M, GE, Sylvania Among Firms Honored with Top ...
    One-hundred-eleven companies received Energy Star honors from the U.S. EPA this week in the annual awards program that recognizes the most the energy efficient businesses in a national program that now has more than 20,000 members.
  • Timberland Cuts GHGs 38%, Falls Short on Aggre ...
    Record temperatures and an increase in business travel as the economy recovered crimped the outdoor gear company's plans to halve its 2006 carbon footprint by 2010.
  • 4 Reasons Why You Can't Afford Not to Curb Ene ...
    This nation's energy policy has long been disjointed, shortsighted and largely ineffective. We know it, we say it, but we continue to ignore it. It's well past time to continue doing so, and we need to pursue solutions like practical environmentalism to tackle the problem.
  • WBCSD Tool Helps Companies Assess Value of Eco ...
    The new Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (CEV) helps companies understand the benefits of the ecosystem services their companies depend on.
  • Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation
    A framework to enhance business understanding of the benefits and value of ecosystem services, such as fresh water, food, fiber and natural hazard protection.

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan vs U.S. Dumbing down the drones debate
    The use of drone missile attakcs in Pakistan's tribal areas work only with good intelligence on the ground.
  • Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, a deterrent ...
    Pakistan's nuclear weapons are meant to counter India's conventional military superiority but they may also be aimed at deterring a U.S. attack should relations break down completely.
  • Gbagbo and the crocodiles — can the cycl ...
    Isn't it poignant to recall, then, as Ouattara's forces, aided and abetted by the former colonial power France, besiege Gbagbo in his bunker that Ivory Coast's first post-colonial ruler Houphouet-Boigny also was considered a progressive in his day?
  • India and Pakistan: practising peace
    The latest attempt at peacemaking between India and Pakistan has the advantage of combining political leadership with more structured dialogue between bureacrats.
  • Nigeria’s non-vote: Incompetence or sabotage?
    A Nigerian vote delay has inevitably put another question mark over the credibility of a series of elections seen as a chance for a break from a history of ballots where fraud and thuggery have been the order of the day.

Booman Tribune

  • DFW's Addiction to Self-Help Books
    I really enjoyed reading this Maria Bustillos piece on David Foster Wallace's heavily annotated collection of self-help books. One surprise was the number of popular self-help books in the collection, and the care and attention with which he read and reread them. I mean stuff of the best-sel ...
  • Frivolous Friday Open Thread
    Seen in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania today around 2:00pm. So I guess all this political stuff doesn't really matter. What are you doing this weekend? Discuss
  • The 2012 Race Could Be a Cakewalk
    William Galston, the issues director of Walter Mondales 1984 presidential campaign, takes a look at President Obama's reelection prospects and finds that he's vulnerable to a "credible" Republican challenger. Given the economy, I don't think this is news, but the question is whether the Republic ...
  • Day of Silence: Support LGBT Youth
    For those of you who may not of heard, today is more than just the last day to file your tax returns. It is a day that has a far greater significance. Today is a Day of Silence in support for LGBT youth. On the National Day of Silence hundreds of thousands of students nationwide take a vow ...
  • Not Enough Has Changed
    It's just weird to see what sick twisted bastards we were dealing with when the southern part of this country refused to acknowledge the moral bankruptcy of human bondage. James Loewen looks at five myths about why the South seceded from the Union. Here's the first mythbusting: 1. The Sout ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Are Images of Thin Bodies Harmful or Helpful?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Media’s focus on images of thin bodies may actually improve how young women feel about themselves, according to a new study led by Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, associate professor of communication at Ohio State University. Overweight women who were dieting were ask ...
  • Loving Your Abuser
    By Roni Weisberg-Ross, LMFT, Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Roni and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Recognizing you are being abused is difficult when you love the person who is abusing you. This is true for both children and adults. The mind will g ...
  • Bottoming Out Twice
    By Daniel Goldin, LMFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Daniel and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile It has been said in AA, “An addict needs to bottom out twice to get better. First from alcohol, and later emotionally.” Most people who struggle with add ...
  • Quality of Client-Therapist Relationship May E ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers in London point to evidence underscoring the necessity for a positive mental health professional to client relationship in therapy. Data from a number of studies indicates that this relationship is directly linked to a client’s progress when undergoing ...
  • Art Psychotherapy Art
    By Barbara ‘Basia’ Mosinski, LCAT, ATR-BC, MA, MFA Art Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Basia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Whenever I am asked what I do for a living I start by saying that I am a Psychotherapist, an Art Psychotherapist. The person will often make ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Northern Pass's true mission: corporate profit ...
    Northern Pass's true mission: corporate profit Concord Monitor There, in what is termed "mountaintop removal," coal companies are accessing the coal seams by blasting hundreds of feet of dirt and stone off the tops of mountains and pushing it into the valleys below. In this process, which cover ...
  • Beshear Visits Mountaintop Removal Sites - WFPL
    Beshear Visits Mountaintop Removal Sites WFPL Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear spent part of Thursday visiting mountaintop removal coal mining sites in Eastern Kentucky. Beshear's trip was the fulfillment of a promise he made to a group of activists who staged a protest in his office in February ...
  • MTR Is Just One Symptom of Systemic Oppression ...
    MTR Is Just One Symptom of Systemic Oppression: TN Activist Ash-Lee Henderson ... AlterNet "Issues about land ownership, self-determination, labor justice, and so many others are intimately related to our struggle to end mountaintop removal." Henderson at mountaintop removal rally, photo courte ...
  • Speak Now Against the Day: TN Activist Ash-Lee ...
    Speak Now Against the Day: TN Activist Ash-Lee Henderson on Next Steps for ... AlterNet (blog) “Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement” is a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo W ...
  • See you at Power Shift - Natural Resources Def ...
    See you at Power Shift Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) You'll be able to take action on mountaintop removal and fracking, record a video message to the president, and meet the friendly NRDC crew. I'm psyched to be facilitating some trainings this weekend--if you're attending, perhaps I ...

Memeorandum

  • Political Circus: Barney Frank in Playboy (Ed ...
    Ed Hornick / CNN: Political Circus: Barney Frank in Playboy  —  Washington (CNN) — Politics is serious business — but not all the time.  —  He's baring it all — in interview  —  Rep. Barney Frank, the openly gay Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, is featured in the May edition of Playboy.
  • President Obama Issues "Signing Statement" Ind ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch: President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won't Abide by Provision in Budget Bill  —  In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill - and in one case simply says he will not abide by it.
  • Obama signs bill to keep government open, but ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Obama signs bill to keep government open, but protects ‘czars’  —  President Obama signed into law on Friday the hard-fought legislation to fund government and keep it running through the end of September.  —  The president signed the legislation he negotiated last w ...
  • Three largest online poker sites indicted and ...
    Tiffany Hsu / Money & Company: Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI  —  The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to a thriving industry.  —  Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absol ...
  • Ballots are now totaled: Prosser wins by 7,316 ...
    JSOnline: Ballots are now totaled: Prosser wins by 7,316  —  By Mike Johnson and Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel  —  State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser emerged as the winner Friday over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in an election that drew national attention because of the fight …

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China Dialogue

  • The birdwatching lama of Qinghai
    Monks say he had wings in a previous life; in this one, Tibetan lama Tashi Sange devotes himself to the study, painting and protection of birds. Geng Dong, winner of the “best profile” category at the 2011 China Environmental Press Awards, got to know him.Tashi Sange, a Qinghai-based lama, has b ...
  • A green paper tiger?
    Stone-based paper became a much-fêted “environmentally friendly” product in China. But how green is it? Southern Weekend reporters Lu Zongshu, Wang Qing and Wang Xiaoye won the investigative journalism prize at this year’s China Environmental Press Awards for this report.Last year, China’s elite ...
  • Burned by the sun
    An ambitious scheme to boost China’s solar market through state support – Golden Sun – has backfired, threatening to destroy the businesses it aimed to help, writes Yuan Ying, winner of the “biggest impact” category at the China Environmental Press Awards. “Golden Sun” is a Chinese solar subsidy ...
  • Zijin’s poisoned legacy
    A toxic spill last year blackened the name of Chinese metals giant Zijin Mining. But, in Fujian, its broken promises and environmental failures have a longer history, writes Yang Chuanmin, joint winner of the in-depth reporting category at the 2011 China Environmental Press Awards.A serious poll ...
  • A world of seven billion (1)
    This year, planet Earth will reach a new population milestone. Environmental thinkers say the real problem isn’t so much the extra people, but the accompanying boom in consumption. Leo Hickman reports.Later this year – on 31 October, to be precise – a boy will be born in a rural village in the I ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Michael Moore: The Execs at GE Are Laughing at ...
    The joke's on us, folks. GE and tons of other corporations will have a tax bill for 2010 of ZERO.
  • Our Phony Budget Battles Are All Smoke and Mirrors
    Both parties in Washington have supported and sustained massive ongoing deficits propping up a crippled, state-dependent capitalism.
  • Time For Obama To Join the Fight
    Obama’s punching below his weight class again. That was Gary Younge’s metaphor, a boxing analogy that makes more sense if you consider the weight a politician carries to be the support for their policies around the country. Obama won office in the midst of economic meltdown, with applause lin ...
  • This Tax Day, Take Action to Stop Corporate Ta ...
    This Tax Day will be the largest day of action against corporate tax cheats in American history.
  • State Legislative Trends: Hostility to Abortio ...
    Written by Rachel Gold and Elizabeth Nash for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. Through the end of March, legislators have introduced 916 measures related to reproductive health and rights in the 49 legislatures that have convened their regu ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Shuttering Online Gambling Sites
    Federal authorities unsealed indictments against the operators of some of the world’s largest online gambling sites and moved Friday to seize their U.S domains. The U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, charged Isai Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars, and Raymond Bitar, the founder of F ...
  • Obama Calls for Secure Online-Identity System
    President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious proposal Friday urging the private sector to create a trusted identity system to boost consumer security in cyberspace.
  • WikiLeaks Associates Hit Back Over U.S. Twitte ...
    Three WikiLeaks associates fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the prosecutors lobbed the latest volley in a contentious legal battle with the Justice Department on Thursday, charging in a court filing that the government’s argument “trivializes both the Parties’ an ...
  • With Court Order, FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botn ...
    Updated 4:30 p.m. with information about the late-afternoon filing from the government, and with comment from EFF. In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of pri ...
  • Legislation Would Let You Opt Out of Online We ...
    Sens. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) proposed online privacy legislation Tuesday that for the first time would give web users the right to demand they not be tracked online. Still, the measure was met with resistance from privacy advocates who said the Commercial Priva ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Mom given 10 years for playing on Facebook as ...
    DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado woman who admitted her 13 month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she played on Facebook was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said.
  • Israel strikes Hamas targets after rocket fire
    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel responded to Palestinian rocket fire with two air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Friday, officials said, ending a lull in violence since an informal ceasefire took effect earlier in the week.
  • High bacteria levels in meat at U.S. stores: r ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meat found on grocery store shelves often contains high levels of bacteria, with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, a study released on Friday said.
  • Tornadoes, storms across South kill at least 10
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - Violent storms ripped across the southern U.S. overnight and Friday, killing at least 10 people including three children, and cutting a path of destruction through Little Rock, Ark. and Jackson, Miss., authorities said.
  • Misrata under bombardment, West seeks regime c ...
    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi bombarded the besieged rebel city of Misrata and battled their way into its center, and U.S., British and French leaders redefined the aim of their air war to regime change.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #498
    US claims Iran helping Syria crackdown. Frenchmen arrested in Pakistan. Did US blow up its old spy satellite? Continue reading →
  • CIA losing scores of officers to private secto ...
    An extensive report on intelligence outsourcing in the United States has revealed that dozens of senior CIA officials have migrated to the private sector in the years since 9/11, usually taking with them decades of experience and training, paid for by the US taxpayer. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #497
    Interview with Finnish ex-counterespionage officer. European Union sent intelligence officers to Libya. Talks aimed at mending rift between CIA and ISI. Continue reading →
  • West German defector dies in Moscow
    A senior West German counterintelligence official, whose 1985 defection to the Soviet bloc shocked Western intelligence, has died in Moscow. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #496
    US secretly collaborating with Chinese spies on North Korea. Cuba denounces acquittal of ex-CIA agent. Analysis: US spy agencies struggling to adjust to Middle East changes. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Arab Spring Yet to Bloom
    Arab Spring Yet to Bloom - by Stephen Lendman Despite months of heroic Middle East/North African uprisings in over a dozen countries from Morocco to Syria to Oman, none so far achieved changed, suggesting months, perhaps years, of sustained struggles lie ahead. Media commentators first used term ...
  • WTF: CNN Notices Wars Cost Money and Asks Sena ...
    Reid chats about the cliff he's driving us over as if he's just a spectator:
  • War News Radio: Miscommunications
    April 15th, 2011 - This week on War News Radio, we investigate media coverage of the protests in Afghanistan, Next, we learn about communications in the Libyan conflict. Finally, we hear from a journalist who was kidnapped in Afghanistan. All this, and the week's news. � read more
  • The People's Budget Halts "Voodoo" Economics
    Thank you Rep. Grijalva and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) for submitting the People's Budget. �Now, what is it? It's a lot to go through, but it's important to summarize the main points. �Slogging through the slightly wonkish language of CPC's summary the question can be answered i ...
  • Diane Wilson Arrested in London Trying to Atte ...
    The story.

Grist - News

  • Can genetic engineering save the redwoods?
    by Jess Zimmerman. A group of tree-lovers wants to save giant redwoods by cloning existing trees, reports The New York Times. There are a couple of problems with this plan: Giant redwoods are three things: red, wood, and GIANT. Where are you going to put them? (The group say ...
  • Climate change kills our buzz, and vice versa
    by Jess Zimmerman. Grist’s offices are in Seattle, so we take this one really seriously: Climate change is threatening Costa Rica’s coffee crops. Coffee’s a fussy little plant, and it can’t handle extreme temperatures, so yields are going way down as temperature inches up. And if you th ...
  • FedEx’s Republican CEO wants you to buy ...
    by Christopher Mims. Clean energy: not a partisan issue, says FedEx's CEO. That's why he commissioned this slick little promo, which sums up everything that's wrong with our current transportation infrastructure but stops just short of mentioning peak oil. That's OK, because the fact ...
  • The rallying anthem for the new green movement ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Okay, maybe we're a little late on this one, but seriously: If you saw it already and you don't want to see it again, GET OUT because it is amazing. Everyone else, take a listen -- NOT AT WORK, it is chock-full of swears. Clap your hands! Sing along! Help unf*ck it ...
  • Nearly half of supermarket meat is tainted, sa ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Now would be a good time to go vegetarian, or demitarian, or just find a reputable butcher. A new study from the Translational Genomics Research Institute has found that 47 percent of tested samples of supermarket meat and poultry were infected with Staphylococcus aureu ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • Fork in the Road
    This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
  • The Declensionist Diet
    We continue with the ‘big picture’ of food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. This is the second of three excerpts. The first can be found here. We argued the causes of our ongoing, and oncoming, food crises are manifold, rooted in present-day policies as well as humanity’s ...
  • The Born Identity
    With Richard Kock and Robyn Alders I co-authored the following review of food and forest crises. Richard presented an earlier version at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Global Conference on Wildlife held in Paris in February. Over the next few days we will publish three slightly e ...
  • From Reactor to Plate
    âJapan’s PM vows to win battle against nuke plantâ reads one recent headline. It is unclear which possibility is worse, that Naoto Kan has failed to grasp the plant at Fukushima Dai-ichi has already defeated Japan, or that he knows full well and broadcasts a ânecessary lieâ protecting an industr ...
  • Evolutionary Investigations
    1.1 A particular kind of evolutionary biology—lost in its capitalist devotionals—uses the failures of its mortal enemies—say, creationist science—to defend itself against all other kinds of critiques. 1.1.1 “But you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy…” is a common refrain, devoid of substan ...

Suzie-Q

  • ISM confirms the death of Vittorio Arrigoni
    ISM Posted on: April 15, 2011 The International Solidarity Movement is shocked and deeply saddened by the killing of our friend and colleague Vittorio Arrigoni. Vik was an inspiring activist and generous soul. Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts. We will post more information her ...
  • Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase ...
    During Bush Presidency, Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion Think Progress- By Travis Waldron at 11:49 am After pushing the government to brink of shutdown last week, Republican Congressional leaders are now preparing to push America to the edge of default by ...
  • Wall Street Execs Warn Boehner On Debt Ceiling ...
    Report: Wall Street execs warn Boehner on debt ceiling brinksmanship by Jed Lewison for Daily Kos Wed Apr 13, 2011 at 12:40 PM EDT Politico: Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about the impact a bruising fight over raising the nation’s $14.29 trillion debt ceiling could have on U.S. ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox: Bad Romance
    Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
  • Pakistan Demands U.S. Cut Drone Strikes, CIA A ...
    Pakistan demands U.S. cut drone strikes, CIA agents By Agence France-Presse via: Raw Story Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 — 10:41 am WASHINGTON â Pakistan has told the United States to sharply cut the number of CIA agents and special forces operating there, and to rein in drone strikes against milita ...

Solari

  • Here’s the Setup for the Con of the Decade
    By Charles Hugh Smith The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely. I described The Con of the Decade last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religion of Hyperinflation. I consider myself an agnostic about the destruction of the U.S. dollar and hyp ...
  • On Shunning Goldman
    If I were managing a pension fund, I wouldn’t get within a 50 mile radius of anyone from Goldman Sachs, or their spouses, or their kids, or their dogs. ~ Remaining Nameless (for obvious reasons) Related reading: Matt Taibbi on Vampire Squids and Griftopia Yahoo Finance(23 Nov 10) Solari Report B ...
  • Goldman P***s Off the “Oil Card” R ...
    By James Herron The world of investment bank research is more often defined by consensus rather than confrontation. Radically conflicting opinions over the outlook for a particular company or commodity can sometimes be hard to come by, at least among the more conservative analysts who populate ...
  • President Signs Repeal of Expanded 1099 Requir ...
    On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 (HR 4; 1099 Act), which repeals both the expanded Form 1099 information reporting requirements mandated by last year’s health care legislatio ...
  • Did Goldman Sachs Lie?
    By Leo Kolivakis If you missed CNN’s In The Arena on Thursday evening, then you missed the fireworks. Eliot Spitzer challenged investment banker Goldman Sachs: “Sue me. You lied to the public. You should be prosecuted” during an interview with Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate subcommittee ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Update on the inflation hysteria. This invisi ...
    Summary:  The boomers lust for inflation.   Conservatives fan this fear for political gain.  The government hopes for gentle inflation to deleverage the US economy.  Evidence suggests that disappointment lies ahead for all. Most were too young, too poor, too inexperienced to get rich during ...
  • Why do Rep Ryan and the Republicans want to gu ...
    Summary:  Ryan’s proposal means drastic reductions in spending on national defense.  Like most of the plan’s key details, it’s hidden in the shadows.  Like a magician, he distracts us with the right hand while left does the dirty work. From The Path to Prosperity: Restoring Americaâs Promise ...
  • Leading a weak people by feeding them disinfor ...
    Summary:  Why do political regimes die?  Perhaps because of accumulated false memories, incidents in the past with which they cannot bring themselves to see.  Too many of these can cripple a people’s OODA loop (observation-orientation-decision-action loop) and hence their ability to cope ...
  • China and America have several similar weaknes ...
    Summary: American’s overflow with criticism and advice for China, unaware of the congruence between China and America.  A closer look reveals as much about us as them. America’s economists, businessmen, and financiers overflow with criticism of China.  Everyday brings new forecasts that China ...
  • Why the Libyan War is important to us – ...
    Summary:  The Libyan War will have long-term consequences, no matter who eventually rules Libya.  It’s another precedent.  Another step away from the Second Republic (1788-) towards a new political regime.  One with a far stronger Executive than the Founders wanted.  One as strong as they f ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Indonesia Merapi Sees New Lava Dome
    VIVAnews – Indonesia’s most active volcano Merapi has seen a new lava dome formation at a diameter of 400 meters recently. “The dome is resulted from the latest eruption which has expanded to 400 meters in diameter,” said Subandriyo, Chief of Volcanology Technology Research and Development Agenc ...
  • China growth sizzles, inflation bubbles
    Reuters – China’s turbo-charged growth eased just a touch in the first quarter, while its inflation jumped to a 32-month high, putting pressure on the government to do more to rein in prices and keep the economy on an even keel. China’s gross domestic product increased by 9.7 percent in the firs ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Sunlight intensity a ...
  • UK: Kettling of G20 protesters by police was i ...
    Guardian – The high court has ruled that the Metropolitan police broke the law in the way they “kettled” protesters at the G20 demonstrations in 2009. In a landmark judgment on Thursday, high court judges found for protesters who had claimed police treated them unfairly. It also criticised the u ...
  • Australia: Running away is not resisting police
    ABC – Police in Victoria are considering challenging a court ruling that determined a man who led police on a chase through Melbourne’s CBD was not guilty of resisting police. The police union says the decision will encourage others to run away from police rather than assist them and means polic ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Whither NATO?
    Steve Metz concludes a sharp piece on NATO thusly: It is time for this debate over NATO�s viability to take place. While NATO may serve as an institutional reminder of the shared democratic values of the Atlantic community (and NATO�s not-so-Atlantic new members) and help with interoperability ...
  • Benghazi, Libya: What Were the Signs?
    Why did the Obama administration really intervene in Libya? Andrew Sullivan and Steve Walt both reject the administration's claims (again) that we were on the verge of a mass slaughter in Libya if Qaddafi's forces had been allowed to move into Benghazi. Walt also wants us to read Alan Kuperma ...
  • Iran Cleanses Universities of Political Dissent
    Editor’s note: Ali is a student activist at Amir Kabir University in Tehran. Hamid is a former student at a provincial university. They spoke to Arash Aramesh of InsideIRAN.org about the situation in Iran’s universities. Q: Hamid, why were you expelled from college? Hamid: I was active with the ...
  • “A Very Highly Systematized and Orchestrated C ...
    It has been five days since the arrest of Cote D'Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo.  We are now beginning to get a more complete picture of the scope of the violence that was unleashed after the disputed election late last year. I just spoke with Jonathan Elliot, the Africa Advocacy Director of ...
  • Libya — Four Weeks In
    We’re approaching the one month mark of the Libyan intervention. I think it should be clear at this point that it is unlikely to end soon. The Libyan rebels seem to lack the capacity to unseat Gaddafy even with NATO air power, and the reverse is true as well. Sustained military operations to def ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Chart of the Day
    From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Relatedly, it's nice to see high-ranking Democrats voice their support for higher marginal tax brackets; I support higher middle-class taxes, but there's also no reason why the tax code shouldn't make a distinction between someone making $350,0 ...
  • Donald Trump and the Birthers
    According to the latest survey from Public Policy Polling, Donald Trump is doing incredibly well with the Republican primary electorate: Trump's broken the perpetual gridlock we've found at the top of the Republican field, getting 26% to 17% for Mike Huckabee, 15% for Romney, 11% for Newt Gi ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    David Dayen writes that a new enforcement order from federal regulators will leave it up to banks to monitor for themselves how they process mortgages. Veronica Beebe shows how Donald Rumsfeld is using public support for popular uprisings in the Middle East to make the case for Bush's intervent ...
  • The Little Picture: Operation Desert Sky
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County has created a collection of 30 private planes to track illegal immigrants and drug smugglers in what he calls Operation Desert Sky. Private pilots have been flying over central Arizona for two weeks, and though arrests have yet to be made, Sherif ...
  • Not Meeting in the Middle
    Brian Beutler of Talking Points Memo got Sen. John Cornyn to admit that what Rep. Paul Ryan is proposing in his Medicare privatization scheme "is exactly like Obamacare." Say again, Senator? "It is. It's exactly like it. Which strikes me as bizarre that you're seeing so much pushback [from Democ ...

Buzzflash

  • Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to AG Eric Holder ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR AT TRUTHOUT Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, who represents the Madison, Wisconsin, area may have read the BuzzFlash at Truthout commentary, "Impound the Private Computer of the Katherine Harris of Wisconsin and Bring in the Feds." That is because Baldwin wrote to Atto ...
  • Milton Friedman's Legacy: The Suppression of I ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Is Milton Friedman, the father of modern anarchistic capitalism and the economic "shock doctrine" a "true hero of freedom"? That's how George W. Bush praised Friedman in a White House ceremony a few years back. (Ronald Reagan bestowed the Presidenti ...
  • The Donald Trump Screech from Libya
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Aisha Gadhafi was angry and shrill and defiant Like a crazy Donald Trump screech Or, now that I think of it, she also sounded like A Michele Bachmann stump speech.read more
  • If You Don't Fight for Democracy and Justice, ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT AT BUZZFLASH If you don't fight for democracy and justice, then what you get may not be worth having. That became clear as I saw an advance screening of a PBS documentary (to air within the next few weeks) on the "Freedom Riders." It was 1961, and led by the C ...
  • Despite Her Checkered Partisan History and Inc ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The anger at County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus Shows no sign of abatement; Tellingly, her claim of not going anywhere Was in a written statement.   Hiding from public scrutiny like this is something For which she should also be taken to task. No one looks innocen ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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Sciencebase

  • Recent science news roundup
    Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
  • Five more science stories
    Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
  • Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
    Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...
  • Five more science stories
    Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...
  • Young Science Writer of the Year
    Looks like the Guardian and Wellcome Trust are taking up the young science writer gauntlet with a new award. Winning an award like that can be a great start to a career in science communication. If I remember rightly, I first entered the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the year awards in ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Breaking: Arab Democracy Protests in D.C.
    Several hundred people are now protesting at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. and plan to march to the White House. Organizers expect between one and two thousand people to take part today. The rallies protest the Bahrain regime’s crackdown against the pro-democracy movement there as well a ...
  • Vote on Extreme House Republicans’ Budget Show ...
    After the House of Representatives passed the Republican budget resolution, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: �read more
  • House Budget a Very Bad Deal for the Public
    Statement of Gary Kalman, U.S. PIRG Legislative Office Director, on the House Budget Plan, which passed the House of Representatives this afternoon by a vote of 235 to 193. “While preying upon genuine concerns about our nation’s fiscal future, the House today passed a budget plan that is a boon ...
  • House Budget Slashes Oil-Saving Forms of Trans ...
    Statement of Dan Smith, U.S. PIRG Federal Transportation Associate, on the Transportation provisions of Chairman Paul Ryan’s FY12 Budget Legislation. “The House budget proposal would disproportionately cut key 21st century transportation investments at a time when America needs them most – ta ...
  • Amnesty International Urges Restraint by Iraqi ...
    Amnesty International has warned Iraqi authorities against taking any unnecessary military action that would put civilian lives in danger, amid reports of a military build-up inside a camp for Iranian exiles north of Baghdad. Amnesty International has received reports that new troop movement ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Hey, Media! Stop Blacking Out Progressive Protests
    A sparsely attended Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., on March 31 in support of federal spending cuts received generous media attention. One report (Slate, 3/31/11) suggested there was "at least one reporter for every three or four activists," and a Republican politician joked that there migh ...
  • What if Your President's Just Not That Into You?
    Bill McKibben Tomorrow in Washington, at the sprawling and wonderful�Power Shift, a few of us are on a panel titled "What If Your President's Just Not That Into You?" Funny title, serious question. read more
  • This Tax Day, Make THEM Pay
    Michael Moore Friends, Do you wonder (like I do) what the tax accountants and executives are doing over at GE this weekend? Frantically rushing to fill out their IRS returns like the rest of us?read more
  • The Hypocrisy of "Informed Consent" Abortion Laws
    Angi Becker Stevens Like most people, I don’t spend much time going through my state’s legislative website, reading the actual language of our state laws. When researching the recently proposed abortion restrictions here in Michigan, thoug ...
  • Fukushima on a Punch-Drunk Planet
    Tom Engelhardt Last Monday, Yukio Edano, chief cabinet secretary, defended the Japanese government’s response to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, insisting that the plant complex is in “a stable situation, relatively speaking.”  That’s s ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban claims it launched Afghan bomb attack
    The Taliban has admitted to being involved in a suicide attack that killed the police chief of Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
  • EU rebukes Pakistan for going slow against Taliban
    The European Parliament has rebuked Pakistan for the slow progress in the fight against Taliban militancy in the country and directed the European Commission to appropriate financial aid to Islamabad based on its sincere efforts to eradicate terrorist groups.
  • Obama Says Afghanistan Troop Drawdown Not a &# ...
    In other news Friday, President Obama promised the troop drawdown in Afghanistan will be more than symbolic. The president discussed the pullout, which begins this summer, in an interview with The ...
  • 4 Taliban killed, two ANA soldiers injured
    GHAZNI (AIP): Seven Taliban were killed and two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) wounded during separate clashes in Sarkh district of Logar province, ISAF and Afghan official said Friday. ...
  • Russia finalises deal with NATO to supply copters
    MOSCOW (Agencies): Russia has finalised a deal with NATO to supply two dozen combat helicopters to Afghanistan and train local pilots. Russia and NATO will set up a trust fund for the supply and ... 
    ( Black Ops will be able to use them to sow confusion as to their identity. If I know that, you can figure the Russians do too. Swords cut both ways : the Russians will be able to claim incursions were by NATO personnel.  )

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