16 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
• For Sale: Donated Front Row Washington Nationa ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center received a generous donation of front row tickets to ten Washington Nationals games. The view from these seats is truly amazing. If you don’t believe me, just look at the pictures below. The NWC is selling the tickets for face value on StubHub.com. The tickets ...
• Whistleblowers host book signing party for Ste ...
  Fourteen whistleblowers hosted a book signing party last night for Stephen Kohn's new book, The Whistleblower's Handbook. Pictured here are:� Jane Turner, Jim Murtagh, Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Bill Sanjour, Russell Tice, Kiki Ikossi, Jim Bobreski, Dr. David L. Le ...
• IRS issues $4.5 million reward to tax whistleb ...
  The Associated Press is reporting that the IRS has issued a whistleblower reward to an in-house accountant at a financial services firm. This accountant became a whistleblower for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), providing inside information about the firm's lapse in tax compliance. The tip r ...
• Citizen activism does the impossible: One WPEA ...
  Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement on this bill: In December of 2010, the National Whistleblower ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Why Does The Entertainment Industry Seek To Ki ...
  The LA Times recently had a good article about Hulu's struggles with its corporate parents, the various TV companies. While Hulu itself has been massively successful, the TV companies are suddenly claiming it's a threat (even though they own it) and are seeking to cripple the service in a misgu ...
• TSA Says 'You Might Be A Terrorist If... You C ...
  Ah, the TSA. Apparently among the "behavioral factors" that the TSA uses in determining who might be a criminal or a terrorist is... if you complain about the TSA. I guess that means I'm in line for some extra scrutiny. Honestly, though, this sounds a lot more like punitive action against peo ...
• Guy Who Sued Huffington Post For Not Paying Bl ...
  Incredible. Jonathan Tasini, the guy who filed that ridiculous lawsuit against the Huffington Post for not paying the bloggers who volunteered to write for free, apparently has a blog where he seeks out contributions from writers... and then, no, he doesn't pay them. John Cook at Gawker called ...
• DailyDirt: I Believe That Robots Are The Futur ...
  Robots are incredibly useful machines that are becoming more and more important for everyone. Kids are building them. Robots are building more robots. Pretty soon, we'll be surrounded by robots... oh sorry Roomba, we already are. Here are some cool videos and some examples of robots that are ...
• Microsoft's Bizarre And Misleading Statement A ...
  You may recall the interesting case from late last year, in which Google sued the government, claiming that the Department of the Interior set up a bid for a cloud-based apps service in a way that only Microsoft could win. However, recently, Microsoft made a big stink on its blog, claiming that ...

VacTruth

• What Everyone Needs To Know About Kids Vaccina ...
  This article contains basic information regarding specifics that parents, in particular, may want to know about and/or need regarding vaccines and vaccinating their children.Vactruth.com
• What IS the Cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder?
  Autism spectrum disorder, or pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), now affect one percent of the population. What IS the cause?Vactruth.com
• The ‘Unknown’ About Polio Vaccine: SV40 and Cancer
  On September 10, 2003, on the simian virus (SV40) that was included in the original polio vaccine produced and administered to children in the 1950s and 1960s. More than 60 laboratories world wide have documented the presence of SV40 in human tumors.Vactruth.com
• Thimerosal: From the 1930s to 2011
  Healthcare professionals should read this article to get the down and dirty facts about what’s been going on under their closed eyes regarding a neurotoxin Pharma is pushing with such vigor as to make one wonder why. Vactruth.com
• Experts Recommend Delaying Breastfeeding Until ...
  News came in today of a study entitled 'Inhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on Infectivity of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines' advising nursing mothers to delay breast-feeding until after vaccinations.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Report from Vienna: A Firsthand View of the Ba ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 15, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 15
• Prepare for Challenges of the Coming Epoch! Op ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 15, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 15
• The LPAC Campaign Doctrine: A U.S. National St ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 15, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 15
• All of the ‘Bad Banks’ Are Now Doomed! Playing ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 15, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 15
• LaRouche To Hold Webcast April 19
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• One In Three US Citizens Live 50 Miles Or Less ...
  Wind rose plot. Image credit:Wikipedia All manner of wonderful graphics are being created from the newly-available 2010 US Census data. A new sort of nuclear family, for example, is portrayed with this mouse-over map showing the population density inside 10 and 50 mile evacuation radii aro ...
• Stands for Change Design: The Hinge for iPad
  Prototypes for foldable iPad holder by Stands for Change. Photo courtesy of William Tang At a Sustainability Summit in Los Angeles this week, I listened to a report about a Multifamily Rooftop Solar Project and took notes. (I'll report further on it and the conference this weekend). The soc ...
• How Open Source Ecology Created a "Civilizatio ...
  Image credit: TED "A newly relevant DIY culture can transcend the boundaries of artificial scarcity." Marcin Jakubowski graduated with a degree in fusion energy. Discovering that it was little use in the real world, he took up farming. And his tractor broke. Twice. Realizing that the app ...
• Best of Inhabitots on Treehugger: 7 Eco Easter ...
  Instead of getting little ones 'hopped' up on sugar, opt for this sweet 100% wool felt chocolate Easter Bunny from Lilly Bean Market. Bibliophile babes will delight in this festive Peter Rabbit Peek-a-Boo Board book made from 100% recycled board and printed with vegetable inks. These u ...
• Extinct Plants of New York City
  Photo Credit: Eva Abreu, Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License. Of the 1,357 plant species that once thrived in New York City, only 771 are still found there. The main reasons behind the loss of most plants from the area are human-related: habitat destruction and the introduction of pes ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• Fears & facts about nuclear power
  Lessons from Fukushima for America’s already safe nuclear plants.
• Virginia eyes eminent domain reform
  Six years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its highly controversial Kelo v. City of New London decision, efforts to reign in the power of eminent domain continue to roll across the nation.
• The anti-energy EPA
  Proposed EPA rules will do more harm than good for human health, especially for minorities.
• The Japan nuclear emergency in context
  The Fukushima nuclear power plants survived the onslaught well, and we learned a great deal. The lessons learned will be shared with the rest of the world to the betterment of all. Current designs could withstand even this worst-case scenario. Nuclear power remains, safe, viable and vital.
• I have a dream for a prosperous Uganda
  Developing Uganda’s oil and gas resources will create opportunity and prosperity.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Suicide bomber attacks Afghan army base, 4 rep ...
  A suicide bomber dressed in an Afghan army uniform walked up to a military base near the eastern city of Jalalabad on Saturday morning and blew himself up.
• Moscow to close roads near cemeteries for Easter
  Traffic police in Moscow will block streets near the capital's main cemeteries as many Muscovites mark Easter by visiting the graves of loved ones.
• Inside a volcanic eruption
  A volcanic eruption is the ejection of molten rock, or lava, with ash, hot water, rock fragments, gases, and cliff soil through an opening in the Earth’s surface
• Russia reports radiation normal despite Japan ...
  Experts conducting round-the-clock monitoring of radiation in Russia's Far East say levels do not exceed natural background despite the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant in March.
• Kudrin vows to quit boards of VTB bank, diamon ...
  Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says he will step down as chairman of the boards of directors of VTB bank and diamond producer Alrosa next week.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Chinese shops may soon offer 'human-like' milk ...
  Milk from genetically engineered cows, which is similar to human breast milk, may hit shelves of Chinese shops in about two years.
• Mars flight possible after 2035 - Roscosmos chief
  An interplanetary spacecraft for a flight to Mars will be created no earlier than 2025, and the maiden flight to the red planet is possible only after 2035, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov said on Wednesday.
• Russian space industry 'falling short' of stat ...
  Russia's space chief says its rocket industry is falling short of the goals set by the state arms procurement program.
• Foreign experts get right to teach in Russian ...
  A new law passed on Wednesday allows the employment of foreign experts as teachers at Russian colleges and universities.
• Russia's Medvedev gives state honors to cosmonauts
  President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Beyond BPA: Could 'BPA-Free' Products Be Just ...
  Bisphenol A (BPA)-the once-obscure chemical building block of polycarbonate plastics, the epoxy resins that line many food and beverage cans, and of the coatings that make inks appear in most cash register receipts-is now almost a household word. But familiarity with the chemical has grown not b ...
• Diablo Canyon Nuke Power Plant: Reemergence of ...
  The revived anti-nuclear movement has promise, for the people coming together to volunteer and take on tasks are experienced. Those who are not veterans of the 1980s protests are dedicated and energetic. They're all ready for a fight to the finish: victory over allowing more Fukushimas, Chernob ...
• National Research Council Disavows GM Wheat
  Update. Thursday, April 7, 2011: The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) issued a statement to clarify that it has no plans to research genetically modified (GM) wheat. Click here to read this article
• Minnesota Next Up to Pass Law Banning Undercov ...
  NPR had a report today on the anti-whistleblower laws in Florida and Iowa that would make it illegal to take photos or undercover videos of livestock facilities. (It's always nice to be NPR's assignment editor!)Click here to read this article
• Choose the Right Sweetener with this Handy Flo ...
  Click here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Faculty Positions at Melbourne Law School
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller My school is once again advertising for new faculty at all levels, from Lecturer to Professor.  Note the short deadline: applications must be in by April 27.  Here is the job description: Melbourne Law School, Australia’s first all-graduate law facult ...
• Transparency and the Closure of Gaza
  by Sari Bashi by Sari Bashi Sari Bashi is the Executive Director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO that protects the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. While many in the international community were unsure how to interpret Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op ed earlier ...
• The Irritating ICC Prosecutor
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Luis Moreno-Ocampo wants to formally investigate crimes against humanity in Cote D’Ivoire.  Cote D’Ivoire consented to the ICC’s jurisdiction over crimes committed there eight years ago.  So what’s Moreno-Ocampo waiting for?  Apparently, a state refe ...
• The Interplay of Chevron Deference and Charmin ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Assume that a U.S. agency modifies its interpretation of a federal statute to respond to an adverse WTO decision. In so doing, consistent with the Charming Betsy doctrine, its interpretation is brought into conformity with WTO jurisprudence with respect to one ...
• Detention and Interrogation in the LA Times, a ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The LA Times has a good story on the complete backing away of the CIA from any new detentions or interrogations in counterterrorism under the Obama administration (though it started back under the Bush administration).  It describes a general paralysis ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

• Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute ...
  Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute US Torturers | Scoop NewsThe letter then argues that bad apples (a couple of private contractors) have been prosecuted or investigated, that the CIA... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Four Wounded, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Tear Ga ...
  Four Wounded, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Tear Gaza Inhalation In Bil’in - International Middle East Media Center: "Resident Samir Burnat, 35, was shot in his shoulder and foot by rounds of the “Tutu”... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Khadafi praises President for defeating terrorism
  Sri Lanka News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers: "President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is in Sharm El Sheik in Egypt to attend the 15th Non-Aligned Nations’ Heads of States... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Angryindian Radyo 04-14-2011 Radio Pax Africana
  Angryindian Radyo 04-14-2011 Radio Pax AfricanaSeries: Aboriginal Press News Service Public Radio (APNSPR)Summary:Intelligent Aboriginal Radyo speaks with DJ Fusion of FuseBox Radio &... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in ...
  Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in Prison | Black Agenda ReportCivil rights activist Catrina Wallace, who received national acclaim for her central role in organizing protests around the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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

• Three largest online poker sites indicted and ...
  ShareThisThree largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI 15 Apr 2011 The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted by the FBI on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to the thriving industry. Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Pok ...
• Obama signs budget deal that averted shutdown
  ShareThisObama signs budget deal that averted shutdown 15 Apr 2011 President Obama has signed the compromise budget agreement [surrender] to fund the government for the remaining six months of the fiscal year. He said he signed the bill despite "strong objections" to restrictions on his authorit ...
• Melted nuclear fuel likely settled at bottom o ...
  ShareThisMelted nuclear fuel likely settled at bottom of crippled reactors 15 Apr 2011 Nuclear fuel inside the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has partially melted and settled in granular form at the bottom of pressure vessels, according to an analysis by the Atomic Energy ...
• Radioactive strontium detected more than 30 km ...
  ShareThisRadioactive strontium detected more than 30 km from Fukushima plant 13 Apr 2011 Minute amounts of radioactive strontium have been detected in soil and plants in Fukushima Prefecture beyond the 30-kilometer zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the science min ...
• With Obama's signature, wolf hunts resume
  ShareThisThe day ends in 'y,' so it's time for another Obama betrayal of the Left: With Obama's signature, wolf hunts resume 15 Apr 2011 Political analysts expect President Obama to sign the budget reconciliation bill Congress recently passed. When he does, he’ll open the door to wolf hunting ag ...

Daily Loaf

• Hot-hitting Rays top Twins 5-2
  Can you really say who led the way? Damon with 2 RBI, Shoppach with a 2-run homer, Fuld and Joyce each with 3-hit nights; seems like a nice predicament in which to be.
• Lightning beat Fleury early and often, crush P ...
  Despite all the hype surrounding him after game one, the Tampa Bay Lightning proved that Marc-Andre Fleury is in fact human Friday night. The Bolts got that crucial first goal against Fluery early in game one, and then they got several more on their way to a 5-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pengui ...
• Ask Dream Momma: A white batmobile tells a story
  Childlike imagery collides with Biblical symbolism.
• Soave for spring: Veni, vidi, vino from the Veneto
  This spring, think Soave. This refreshing and food friendly wine from northeast Italy is affordably priced and not your ordinary wine white. From the fun Sí Soave DOC with its crooked neck bottle to the more serious Re Midas DOC, Soave is this season's sipping sensation.
• DVD Review: Peter Miller’s Jews and Baseball: ...
  Jewish baseball players played a major role in shaping the game and expanding its audience as seen in Peter Miller's documentary film, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• One In Three US Citizens Live 50 Miles Or Less ...
  Wind rose plot. Image credit:Wikipedia All manner of wonderful graphics are being created from the newly-available 2010 US Census data. A new sort of nuclear family, for example, is portrayed with this mouse-over map showing the population density inside 10 and 50 mile evacuation radii aro ...
• Stands for Change Design: The Hinge for iPad
  Prototypes for foldable iPad holder by Stands for Change. Photo courtesy of William Tang At a Sustainability Summit in Los Angeles this week, I listened to a report about a Multifamily Rooftop Solar Project and took notes. (I'll report further on it and the conference this weekend). The soc ...
• How Open Source Ecology Created a "Civilizatio ...
  Image credit: TED "A newly relevant DIY culture can transcend the boundaries of artificial scarcity." Marcin Jakubowski graduated with a degree in fusion energy. Discovering that it was little use in the real world, he took up farming. And his tractor broke. Twice. Realizing that the app ...
• Best of Inhabitots on Treehugger: 7 Eco Easter ...
  Instead of getting little ones 'hopped' up on sugar, opt for this sweet 100% wool felt chocolate Easter Bunny from Lilly Bean Market. Bibliophile babes will delight in this festive Peter Rabbit Peek-a-Boo Board book made from 100% recycled board and printed with vegetable inks. These u ...
• Extinct Plants of New York City
  Photo Credit: Eva Abreu, Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License. Of the 1,357 plant species that once thrived in New York City, only 771 are still found there. The main reasons behind the loss of most plants from the area are human-related: habitat destruction and the introduction of pes ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Lifting the veil on Burma’s military
  Despite decades of vilification of the Burmese army, we really know so little about it. Understanding the mindset of the junta is key to unlocking Burma's crisis
• Obama nominates US envoy to Burma
  Pentagon official and Asia veteran Derek Mitchell will await approval from the Senate before US deploys a new face to help shape Burma policy
• My father would be proud of Karen army unity
  Before he was assassinated, my father Padoh Mahn Sha had long advocated for disparate Karen armies to join to fight the Burmese junta
• Thailand rues refugee ‘burden’, plans return
  National security chief says no date set for deportation of refugees to Burma but is in talks with Burmese government about their return
• Burma arrests ‘dumped’ Rohingya
  80 Rohingya among nearly 150 'boatpeople' dumped by human traffickers on the Irrawaddy shoreline after being told they were in Bangkok

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

National Geographic | Environment

• Eyes Made of Rock Really Can See, Study Says
  Sea creatures called chitons can use beadlike structures made of rock to distinguish shapes of approaching predators, a new study says.
• Maya Mystery Solved by "Important" Volcanic Di ...
  Even at Maya sites far from volcanoes, ash fell frequently, an "important" find that could explain some cities' survival, experts say.
• Yellowstone's Volcanic Plume Even Bigger Than ...
  The plume of hot rock feeding Yellowstone's supervolcano is bigger than thought, according to a new study of the plume's electric properties.
• Is Armenia's Nuclear Plant the World's Most Da ...
  Japan's earthquake-triggered crisis has focused attention on the seismic risk to Armenia's aging Soviet-style nuclear plant.
• Is Armenia's Nuclear Plant the World's Most Da ...
  Japan's earthquake-triggered crisis has focused attention on the seismic risk to Armenia's aging Soviet-style nuclear plant.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Fifth Circuit strikes order to put names of ga ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] en banc against same-sex adoptive parents seeking an amended Louisiana birth certificate that listed both unmarried men as the parents of the child. In 2006, Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith a ...
• Former Guantanamo detainee suing Egypt regime ...
  [JURIST] A former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee announced Friday that he is suing members of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's regime over allegations that he was tortured by the government while in Egyptian custody. Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen, was arrested in P ...
• ICTY finds Croatia military leaders guilty of ...
  [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Friday found former Croatian Colonel General Ante Gotovina [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] guilty [judgment summary, PDF; materials] of several counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes ...
• Delaware House passes same-sex civil unions bill
  [JURIST] The Delaware House of Representatives [official website] voted 26-15 on Thursday in favor of a bill [SB 30 text] allowing same-sex civil unions [JURIST news archive] within the state. According to the legislation, individuals entering into a civil union "shall enjoy all the same rights, ...
• Georgia legislature passes Arizona-style immig ...
  [JURIST] The Georgia General Assembly [official website] passed an Arizona-style immigration bill [HB 87 text; materials] on Thursday that requires police to check the immigration [JURIST news archive] status of anyone they have probable cause to believe has committed a criminal offense and requ ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Did Sen. Inhofe Get Off Easy? Chapter and Vers ...
  I mentioned yesterday that, thanks to The Smoking Gun's FOIA request, the FAA records of Sen. James Inhofe's unauthorized landing in Texas last October have been released. They show him landing on a closed runway full of men doing repair work; "sky-hopping" over the work crew and machinery and t ...
• Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan: 'Obamacare' for Sen ...
  In its basic methods of supplying seniors with health care, TPM's Brian Beutler points out, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan works just like the new health care law President Obama signed last year: The long-term Republican budget plan proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman ...
• House Passes Paul Ryan's Budget Plan
  In a partisan vote, Republicans approve the 2012 spending plan that would cut trillions and gradually end Medicare as a health coverage provider   The Republican-led House passed on Friday its fiscal 2012 budget resolution, which cuts $5.8 trillion from current spending levels over the next ...
• The Man Behind Paul Ryan's Budget Plan Got the ...
  Ayn Rand fanboy and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) appears to have baffled the entire Beltway of blabbers into muttering monosyllabic loops of the words "brave" and "bold." Yes, the House Budget Committee Chairman released his plan, The Path to Prosperity, and it is a shocker... especially if you' ...
• Why Obama Can Call for Tax Hikes
  In this case, it isn't terrible politics. Really. Much has been made of President Obama's attempts to emulate Ronald Reagan. But in his flag-planting deficit-reduction speech this week, Obama sounded a lot more like Walter Mondale, Reagan's 1984 opponent, who famously and disastro ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Shabak Reconstructs Itamar Murders With Detain ...
  A major break in the case of the Itamar murders indicating the Shabak has arrested the individuals it believes perpetrated the crime.  The Israeli paper, Inyan Merkazi, published news that the intelligence service yesterday did a “reconstruction” of the crime.  When they do this, they generall ...
• Italian Peace Activist Murdered in Gaza
  “A man does what he has to do, whatever the personal consequences, whatever the obstacles, the dangers or the pressure. This is the basis of all human morality“. (Giovanni Falcone)* I don’t know how to write this post.  There are some things about this conflict that make no sense.  There are s ...
• IDF Arrests Suspected Itamar Killers
  UPDATE: I just contacted a Maan reporter about the story below and he pointed out that the article they published about the Darawshe arrest was based on an IDF press statement.  Since the entire Itamar story and the search for suspects is under gag it would be highly unlikely the army would make ...
• Frank Gaffney: Radical Plant Out to Destroy Re ...
  After reading this post at Think Progress, and the absolute wackiness it attributes to Frank Gaffney, it occured to me that either he’s a radical plant out to destroy the Republican Party from within, or he’s the Party’s worst nightmare.  This guy is waging global jihad against, of all people, ...
• Tarabin’s Nakba in the Negev
  Neve Gordon reports on a new Nakba organized by the wealthy Jewish residents of the Beersheva neighborhood of Omer, which absorbed (that is, “stole”) the lands of the Bedouin village of Tarabin as it expanded.  The new goal of the Jews of Omer is to make the area Bedouinrein by removing the las ...

Ode Magazine

• Beauty amid destruction
  By: Anne Thomas I thought my last letter would be my final one until after my move. But some people have asked me to kindly keep up these epistles. So since I will be off line for about a month starting Sunday, I realized I should get one more out befo ...
• A cure for Nature-Deficient Disorder
  By: eisnerish The new film Echoes of Creation is an orgiastic nature experience from award-winning film director Jan Nickman. It's currently being aired on public television as a pledge drive program across the nation - check your local listings - and ...
• To those who pray for peace
  By: PeaceCorso The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer and the esoteric techniques and meanings of late m ...
• Voss’ ark
  At his Florida farm, Jeff Voss provides a home to the Watusi (pictured here) and many other exotic animal species.Photo: Jeff Voss By day, Jeff Voss manages portfolios and analyzes cash flows; by night, he tends exotic animal species at Briley Farm, a private 60-acre p ...
• Wonder wall
  wonder wallPhoto: urbanarbolismo You can take in San Vicente del Raspeig’s main square at a glance: town hall, library, concert hall. The only thing the center of this rural town near Valencia, Spain, was missing was plant life. Or so thought Jose Maria Chofre, of the ...

OpEd News

• It Is Time For The Warmongers to Resign...
  The UN resolution that was passed was simply for a "no fly zone." It said nothing about replacing or "ousting" Qaddafi. Also, it turns out the Arab League did not have a full quorum, but voted to support this attack on Qaddafi in error. The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, is now sorry ...
• Does the CIA Fund Both the Right and the Left?
  The Deep State, Peter Dale Scott's term for shadowy network of government officials and corporate elite that secretly steers foreign and domestic policy, seems to rely on two main strategies in suppressing opposition to their agenda. The first involves rigid censorship of public information by t ...
• Enough About Cutting Entitlements-Cut the Mili ...
  We have a situation where we spend more on our military than all the other nations on Earth combined. We are doing it today, and what are our fearless leaders talking about in Congress? How to reduce the average Americans entitlements!
• TEPCO's Bad Management is the CAUSE of Worseni ...
  Distrust is mounting in countries around the world over the Japan's handling of the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis for good reason - poor management.
• Channeling Rumsfeld/Bush/Cheney: Now the Gadda ...
  The New York Times and Human Rights Watch have revealed that the Gaddafi Regime is using cluster bombs indiscriminately in Misrata, weapons that over one hundred nations signed a treaty against in December, 2008. Unfortunately, this did not include countries like Russia, China, the United States ...

Switchboard

• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile On Monday, HidroAysén began the fourth and likely final round of the environmental review process for the five dams it is proposing to build in on two rivers in Patagonia.  Public agenc ...
• Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery: Conne ...
  David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco In Wednesday’s Washington Post, you can find four articles on energy efficiency policies and economic recovery. But the authors apparently don’t see the big picture, and are missing an opp ...
• Rio Tinto Shareholders Face Pressure on Pebble ...
  Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA The international campaign against the proposal to build the massive Pebble Mine above Bristol Bay in southwest A ...
• New Yorkers: Tell Your Reps to Support the New ...
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Here's your opportunity to tell New York State's elected officials that we want more clean energy opportunities to strengthen the New York State economy and clean our environment.� Less than ...
• NRDC's Legislative Priorities for New York in ...
  Richard Schrader, New York Legislative Director, New York Now that Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature have worked out an on-time new budget (an event as likely to happen as a spate of alien abductions in the Legislative Office Build ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• No Good Answers…
  How much would somebody have to pay you to watch Atlas Shrugged?
• Nancy is the new Lucy…
  …and just this once, the Republicans are Charlie Brown: UPDATE: Credit where it’s due: it was Hoyer, not Pelosi, but all that matters is who Lucy’s pulling for.
• Friday Nugget Blogging
  “I wonder what humans taste like.” Though curiosity about this point can apparently sometimes be attributed to bad parenting, in my daughter’s case I blame Bones.
• Greenspan shrugged
  One thing I feel ever so slightly-guilty about (in what is apparently a very non-Objectivist way) is that I’ve never been able to summon the energy to read any Ayn Rand. Given the salience of her views to a large wing of the contemporary GOP, I feel this involves a certain dereliction of intelle ...
• Why the Innocent Get Convicted
  Very much worth reading.

Desert Research Institute

• DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
  The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
• DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
  NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
• Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
  The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...
• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
  By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.

Earth Techling

• What The H*** Is Sponsored Content?
  We don’t know about you, but as consumers we’re tired of being advertised to… vs. businesses engaging us in a conversation about their products, ideas, and sustainable practices.  Successful branded content campaigns from BMW to Frito Lay have demonstrated the vast potential of this advertising ...
• Wind Power A Washington Tourist Hot Spot
  Puget Sound Energy's Wildhorse Wind and Solar facilty features a tourist center that offers several attractions and is now open to visitors seven days a week.
• Gold Makes Solar Power A Richer Deal
  University of Warwick researchers have developed a process that deposits an ultra-thin film of gold on glass and is potentially useful for organic solar cells.
• Mad Scientists Cooks Up Energy Harvester
  Researchers at Siemens have developed a new self-adapting motion energy device that converts vibrations, big or small, into electricity.
• Clothing As Your New Cell Phone Power
  Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute say they've made a breakthrough which could lead to clothing that generates power from body movement.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Disbarred attorney indicted for embezzlement
  A Middlesex County, Mass., grand jury has indicted disbarred attorney Maureen Pomeroy for allegedly stealing $900,000 from clients.
• Seeds of Discontent
  Last month Monsanto Co. was sued by organic farmers and seed businesses in what may be the broadest and most ambitious legal attack yet on the company's transgenic seed business.
• Isolated DNA: patentable?
  In a a closely watched gene-patent case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is weighing whether an isolated gene is substantively different from DNA itself.
• 2011: THE APPELLATE HOT LIST
  Our annual Appellate Hot List recognizes firms that made exemplary contributions to appellate practice during the past year. We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate victory since January 2010 and that had demonstrated an impressive track record overall. We ...
• Regulators largely spared budget ax
  The 2011 budget, which covers the remaining five months of the fiscal year, is only the first skirmish, but it gives a sense of where the battle lines are being drawn.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• UN Voices Concern Over Number of Deaths in The ...
  The agency voiced alarm at the growing number of deaths in the Gulf of Aden this year.
• EPA Regulates Discharge of Stormwater From Con ...
  Stormwater discharges during construction activities can contain sediment and pollutants that harm aquatic ecosystems, increase drinking water treatment costs and pollute waters that people use for fishing, swimming and other recreational activities
• Food Aid Runs Short in Afghanistan
  The agency announced that it urgently needs $257 million to suffice the needs of the Afghans who are mostly women and children.
• Unique Hindu Baccalaureate Service Enters 4th ...
  It will start with 'Gayatri Mantra' recitation by Rajan Zed and traditional lamp lighting before the statue of goddess Saraswati, the patron of learning and the arts. It will include blessing the upcoming graduates with wisdom from Vedas, Upanisha
• Business as Usual Will Collapse Medicare, Medicaid
  The Ryan proposal aims to save Medicare and Medicaid by putting them on a sound financial foundation. It reverses the growing trend of doctors refusing to treat Medicare patients...

environment 360

• Threats from Mekong Dam Highlighted as Constru ...
  As the governments of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia prepare to decide next week whether to proceed with construction of a massive dam on the Mekong River, a new report from the conservation group WWF warns that the dam could have a devastating impact on fish in the river and threaten the ...
• EU Biofuel Targets Encourage Unethical Practic ...
  European biofuel targets are encouraging unethical practices worldwide, from human rights violations to deforestation, and should be suspended until better safeguards are in place, a new report says. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, an independent organization that studies ethical issues in m ...
• Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
  For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s ec ...
• Emissions from Shale Gas Exceed Those from Coa ...
  Natural gas extracted from shale deposits by a process known as hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse gas emissions over a 20-year period than conventional gas, oil, and coal, according to a Cornell University study. Researchers said that during the lifespan of the average shale-gas dri ...
• Cambodia Halts Large Mine, Sparing A Vital Thr ...
  The Cambodian government has canceled a controversial titanium mining project in one of the last remaining intact rainforests in Southeast Asia, citing environmental concerns. In an unexpected announcement, Prime Minister Hun Sen withdrew a concession already granted to the United Khmer Group to ...

Red Ice Creations

• Accused Malcolm X killer implicated in new boo ...
• Genetically modified cows produce ’human’ brea ...
• Is Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama More Brutal ...
• Ivory Coast massacre kills 1,000: agency
• Malcolm X Biographer Dies on Eve of a Revealin ...

Russia Today

• US dollar should be replaced by new global res ...
  With the US economy remaining weak, and with budget woes hitting confidence in the US dollar, talk about a new global reserve currency is mounting.
• Furry orphans: baby bears need home
  When workers at a zoo in Russia's Far East arrived one morning, the last thing they expected to find were two baby bears in a box at the entrance, waiting to be taken care of.
• US creates problems not solutions for Pakistan
  Relations between the US and its ally Pakistan in the fight against Al-Qaeda seem to be on the brink of collapse.
• Rare disease and lack of money – death sentenc ...
  Many Russian children suffering from rare forms of hereditary illnesses die because their treatment is too expensive for their families. But it seems there is now hope of free treatment for such seriously ill kids.
• Vladimir Putin orders United Russia to calm do ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has asked members of the United Russia party not to get too “excited” about the 2012 presidential elections just yet.

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

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

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
  Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
• Wellington pair adopt three-legged Jimmy
  Jimmy the bearded collie cross who lost a leg after a savage beating has found a new home in Wellington and his happy owners can't wait to start playing with the energetic puppy. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Budget Deal: CBO Analysis Shows Initial Spendi ...
  âThe findings from the budget office warned that the deal may never come close to delivering on its promises. The analysts found that $13 billion to $18âbillion of the cuts involve money that existed only on paper and was unlikely to be tapped in the next decade.â (Washington Post) Fishy budget ...
• Georgia Passes Immigration Bill Similar to Ari ...
  “Let me ask you a question,” [Atlanta immigration attorney Charles] Kuck said. “Do you think any white people are going be taken in for an immigration background check if they forgot their wallet at home?” (L.A. Times) By no means the only issue with the immigration controversy.  Just the nastie ...
• New York School Districts Challenge State Mandates
  “By their count, [suburban New York school] officials say, they are forced to abide by more than 250 unfunded state mandates a year, many of which can no longer be sustained. . . . They have compiled a spreadsheet showing that to comply with state and federal mandates, they spend a combined $94. ...
• Saving the Warfare-Welfare State
  The problem in Washington isn't excessive partisanship but excessive unity.
• The Freeman Plugged @ Reason Site
  Reason magazine’s Hit & Run blog gives a brief plug to our special Freeman issue on the Civil War. See it here.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
  By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
  The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...
• VOICES: TVA's Bellefonte plant is a nuclear Fo ...
  By Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com ...
• NC senator pushing to end campaign finance law ...
  Perhaps more than any other North Carolina politician, Sen. Jim Davis owes his place in the state legislature to Republican millionaire donor Art Pope. And now, Davis is the lead sponsor of a bill that Pope and his network of conservative groups have made a top priority this year: to dismantle ...
• Texas oil refinery pollution activist wins pre ...
  By Michael May, Texas Observer This week, Hilton Kelley, one of the activists the Observer honored as a 2010 Tyrant's Foe, won the most prestigious award given to environmental activists -- the Goldman Environmental Prize. Kelley will receive much-deserved recognition for his work -- and the ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.
• BP oil spill: 30 pictures of the Deepwater Hor ...
  30 pictures of the oil spill on the first anniversary of the disaster.
• BP oil spill: Dramatic recovery of Gulf of Mex ...
  A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Philip Sherwell travels to Louisiana to find that a striking recovery has happened.
• Alex Salmond dusts off his party's 'It's Scotl ...
  Salmond has begun his campaign to be re-elected as Scotland's First Minister on May 5, writes Alan Cochrane.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Fukushima stable, but radioactive water proble ...
  Water problems continue to plague the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. According to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, the water level in a trench near the Unit 2 reactor is back to where it was on 13 April. This news comes despite days of work to move 660 tons of water from the trench into p ...
• Chinese science ministry reveals budget
  Posted on behalf of Hepeng Jia Facing strong public pressure for fiscal transparency, China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has become the first government ministry to reveal in detail how it plans to spend its budget. Chinese ministries and local governments began to publish t ...
• LEGO DNA sculpture unveiled
  The X Prize foundation has taken time out from promoting spacefaring, and unveiled what it claims is the largest LEGO DNA sculpture in the world. “Just as each brick plays an important part in holding the sculpture together, each gene within the human genome helps us understand more about our ...
• The science of the royal wedding
  As the United Kingdom prepares for the wedding of its future king - along with the celebrations around the extra public holiday that it brings - the marriage of William Mountbatten-Windsor (Homo sapiens) and Catherine Middleton (Homo sapiens) has made a rare appearance in the scientific literatu ...
• Britain to ban export of lethal injection drugs
  Britain will ban the export of drugs destined for use in lethal injections and is pushing other European nations to do the same, business secretary Vince Cable said today. The UK already has an ‘emergency export control’ in place on sodium thiopental. This was brought in amid widespread uneas ...

new geography

• The Census’ Fastest-Growing Cities Of The Decade
  Over the past decade urbanists, journalists and politicians have hotly debated where Americans were settling and what places were growing the fastest. With the final results in from the 2010 Census, we can now answer those questions, with at least some clarity. Not only does the Census tell us ...
• Yuri Gagarin’s Brave, Brilliant Leap into the Dark
  Yuri Gagarin was my hero. For a child just nine years old on 12 April 1961, the day he flew into space, he appeared intrepid, unassuming, and cool. Above all, he appeared in black and white. This was not the glossy, sunlit, bright blue Florida-sky ethic of American efforts in space, all ...
• Los Angeles: The MTA's Bus Stop Strategy
  Those who run the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority evidently believe that, since the Consent Decree that forced it to improve service to its bus riders has expired, they are free to rewrite history to justify Metro's elimination of nine bus lines, its reductions in service on e ...
• A Requiem for "High-Speed Rail"
  In the interest of maintaining some balance and perspective on what the Administration�proudly calls "President Obama's bold vision for a national high-speed rail network," at InnovationBriefs we have tried to offer our readers a range of different points of view. It is in this spirit that w ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Dallas-Fort Worth
  The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area (Note 1), which corresponds to the Dallas-Fort Worth urban area, provides a casebook example of expanding urbanization. Dallas-Fort Worth has been one of the fastest growing major metropolitan areas in the nation for decades. Dallas-Fort Worth was among ...

GM Watch

• Weed resistance escalating in Iowa and Argentina
• Europe steps closer to real powers to ban GM crops
• Open letter on destruction of small pox virus ...
• Monsanto uses food crisis to push GM corn in M ...
• Seed saving, seed banks, Monsanto and Gates

spiked

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

Cryptogon

• Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions in April
  Thank you. Pookie $75 AnotherBrotherMark $20 BS CA$20
• March Earnings
  March earnings came to a total of $1315.93. That’s a great result! Cryptogon supporter activity on Amazon U.S. alone represented 53% of earnings. Ten readers sent cash contributions, which included an extremely generous $200 from JH. Thanks very much to everyone who supported Cryptogon in March.
• Fukushima: Fuel Rod Fragments at Bottom of Rea ...
  Flashback: Arnie Gundersen: How Fukushimaâs Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered And now… Via: Japan Times: Melted fuel rod fragments have sunk to the bottoms of three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant and could theoretically burn through the pressure vessels if emergency water-pumping opera ...
• U.S. Meat Widely Contaminated with Drug-Resist ...
  Via: Los Angeles Times: Meat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers reported Friday after testing 136 samples of beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased at grocery stores. Nearly half of the samples — 47% — contained strains of Staphylococcus ...
• Belarus: Central Bank Halts Sales of Gold for ...
  This is what the beast looks like when the mask finally comes off. Via: Reuters: Belarus’ central bank has stopped selling gold to local retail customers for Belarussian roubles, it said on Friday, after demand for precious metals soared due to expectations of a currency devaluation. The bank di ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• Iran : “unprecedented” sandstorms ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ill_62s-0jl6DPIoe0BnDLxVIqWw?docId=CNG.81e3f073a7ff60182e936e010de882cd.151 ‘Red’ sky worries Iran as sandstorms wreak havoc (AFP) TEHRAN â Iranians are worried by crippling air pollution as “unprecedente ...
• Jordan : Green Corridor to combat desertificat ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=11886 âGreen Corridorâ Initiative in Jordan aims to combat desertification from Irbid to Aqaba By Jessica Watkins AMMONNEWS – In a region faced with chronic water shortages, Jordan could become a leader in … ...
• A global development model to achieve sustaina ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37784&Cr=sustainable+development&Cr1= Deputy Secretary-General urges action to achieve sustainable development 16 March 2011 â Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today called for a global development model that tackles poverty reducti ...
• Expansion of the European forest area and incr ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37845&Cr=forest&Cr1= Forests expand in Europe and North America, but still vulnerable to climate change â UN 21 March 2011 â Forested areas in Europe, North America, the Caucasus and Central Asia have been increasing steadily, growing by … C ...
• Partnership to save Mediterranean forests (UN ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38023&Cr=forests&Cr1= UN forms partnership with Mediterranean countries to save regionâs forests 6 April 2011 â In an effort to save forests in the Mediterranean region from damage exacerbated by the impact of climate change, the United Nati ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• Death toll mounts after defeat of 2009 Ssangyo ...
  SsangYong.jpg Two years after the brutal crushing of the Ssangyong Motors strike and occupation in South Korea, an increasing number of sacked workers have died prematurely. It ...
• GE returns billions to public... Not
  general.jpg USA Today and the Associated Press fall for a prank article by activist group US Uncut, causing General Electric stock to plummet billions. US Uncut, a burgeoning g ...
• Workers' struggles continue in 'post-revolutio ...
  Egypt-port-workers.jpg As the reshuffling of leaders continues, Egyptian workers are still trying to push forward their own agenda. Textile workers Last week (7th April) worke ...
• Wave of raids and arrests against anarchist ne ...
  anarco-insurrezionalisti2.jpg 5 arrests in Bologna, 7 banning orders, 60 raids all over Italy On April 6 more than 300 officers were employed in an “anti-terrorism” operation n ...
• Interview with the Romanian Anarcho-Syndicalis ...
  initiativa.gif A few months ago was founded in Romania the „Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative“. The comrades run an actual and very informative Blog and set as an aim, the popularisation of Anarcho-Synd ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
• Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
  Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
• James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
  He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
• Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat ...
  She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.

Scotts Contracting

• Letter Opposing MO Sen Robin Wright-Jones Nucl ...
  Missouri Senator Robin Wright-Jones I strongly urge you to stop the Support of Ameren UEs Nuclear Agenda. The past does repeat itself and Missouri can do better than Nuclear Energy for Clean Energy Production. Here are my top 10 reasons-with examples on why I I do not support Ameren UE’s Nuclear ...
• MO Senator Robin Wright-Jones Nuclear Agenda
  Nuclear plant site bill delayed (AUDIO) by Bob Priddy on April 14, 2011 emphasis added by Scotty cross-posted from: http://www.missourinet.com/2011/04/14/nuclear-plant-site-bill-delayed-audio/ Time is running short for the bill letting Missouri’s next nuclear power plant project move ahead..Secr ...
• Example-GOP Out of Touch With America
  I ask myself what is the big deal with stopping Pollution from Fossil Fuels and GHG’s? ? Doesn’t everyone want to be healthy? Why is it wrong to Protect the Environment? ? Do the Republicans understand that when they cut health care and then Remove Environmental Safe Guards that “We the People” ...
• EPA-Protecting America + Creating JOBS
  the E.P.A. will continue to do its job, which is to protect the health of the American people jobs are being produced through this environmental clean-up work   17,500 properties have been cleaned up recently, creating 70,000 jobs 60 percent of Americans believe the E.P.A. “needs to hold pollute ...
• Washington Climate Change Debate- Watch Al Gor ...
  Dear Scotty, Tomorrow, thousands of young leaders will gather here in Washington to help solve the climate crisis: the greatest challenge the world has ever faced. At the Power Shift 2011 Conference, they’ll learn how to build the clean energy future that is essential to our planet’s survival. A ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Nuclear Disarmament Can Be a Very Disarming Ex ...
  Reaching Global Zero might be less impossible than we think.
• Want to Die in a Fire? No? Then You're Opposed ...
  It's too easy to forget that, for millions of us, nuclear war means death by fire.
• African Solutions for Cote d'Ivoire: The Decep ...
  The prospect of a new civil war looms on the Ivoirian horizon.
• Postcard from...Libya
  What goes around comes around with arms exports, as the war in Libya demonstrates.
• Robert Kaplan Continues to Flog His Tribal Rul ...
  Robert Kaplan thinks that Gaddafi, Gbagbo, and Saleh refuse to back down out of fealty to their tribes.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Fashion Icon Bijan Suffers a Stroke
  Fashion designer Bijan Pakzad is hospitalized after suffering a stroke at his Beverly Hills home. According to sources Bijan was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medial Center Thursday evening. On a Facebook post Friday night, Bijan's son Nicolas said his father had "a stroke." The 67-year old remain ...
• The storm in Syria
  Yesterday was supposed to be the first day of what Syrian despot Ba shar al-Assad had dubbed "social calm"; he hoped his mixture of promises and repressive measures would silence the pro-democracy uprising that has shaken the Ba'athist regime. Instead, the opposition mounted a "Friday of Resolut ...
• Croatians convicted of war crimes
  Two Croatian military leaders have been convicted of atrocities against Serbs during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, after a trial at The Hague.read more
• US condemns 'renewed atrocities' in Libya
  The Obama administration has condemned what it says are "renewed atrocities" by Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. read more
• Well-meant but flawed niqab law will hurt thos ...
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Most Revolutionary Act

• The Nation Magazine and the CIA
  Bob Feldman’s unraveling of the indirect CIA funding received by the Nation and Radio Nation is the most instructive in demonstrating how “pass-through” funding works (see http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/nation_ned_1.html). According to their tax returns, the Nation Institute receives ...
• The Ford Foundation and the CIA
  Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the first, in 1967, to investigate the use of the Ford Foundation and other foundations as “conduits,” “pass-throughs,” and “fronts” to disguise CIA funding for domestic operations (it’s technically illegal for the CIA to operate on US soil under federal law). ...
• The Role of Left Gatekeeping Foundations in Su ...
  Since the October 2008 economic collapse, American workers have faced an unprecedented “austerity cuts,” with major hits on their livelihoods and labor and pension rights. Yet Americans, unlike the rest of the world, don't respond by taking to the street in the millions. Why is this? Many prog ...
• Bill Ayers: Obama’s Ex-Terrorist Pal
  In 1984, Obama left Business International Corporation (BIC), a known CIA front engaging in economic espionage (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/04/02/the-president-with-no-past-obamas-electability-in-2012/), to move to Chicago, where he became a civil rights lawer. From that po ...
• The President with No Past – Part IV
  All in the Family Although many official records of Obama’s extended family are sealed, there is sufficient information in the public domain to suggest that his stepfather Colonel Lolo Soetoro and both maternal grandparents also had links to the CIA. Colonel Lolo Soetoro Following her return to ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

• WRAPUP 13: RADIATION LEAKING FROM JAPAN'S QU ...
• EVERYTHING DEAD ! COREXIT FLOATING PLEASE HELP ...
  Five Blocks from my home no LIFE!! 3/6/2011 WERE NEXT! VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAz1jdUp6I4 March 6, 2011
• Ecuador orders Chevron to apologize, pay $8.6 ...
• Keiser Report: Eco-Eco Disasters (E120)
  This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about eco-eco disasters, JP Morgan taking gold as collateral and Rand Paul's call for ending welfare to Israel. In the second half of the show, Max talks to investment adviser, Joshua Brown, about investing for freak weather and a dictator-fr ...
• Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: "The Gul ...
  *** FULL LENGTH 45 MINUTE EPISODE *** (Season 2, Episode 7) "The Gulf Oil Spill" The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has led to devastation along Louisiana's coast and in its fishing and tourism industries. But was it deliberate? Jesse Ventura leads his team into the bayou where they inves ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

• YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
  Tags: copyright, digitalcitizenshipby: Emily Mann
• SnapMaze QR Code Generator, QR Code Reader | S ...
  Comments:Generate QR Codes of URLs, Text, SMS, Contact Info, etc. - Doug ButchyTags: QR, generator, code, mobile, qr-code, snapmaze, qrcode, tools, technology, web_2.0by: Doug Butchy
• Council proposes state teacher evaluation syst ...
  Comments:Student growth makes up 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation score, but council members say they want it to be from assessments taken throughout the school year, not just one day. - Heather SullivanHighlights and Sticky Notes:The recommendations state that teachers should be evaluated ...
• Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities ...
  Comments:Museum of science, art, and human perception provides hands-on activities, online exhibits, articles, and videos. - Dean MantzTags: science, resources, activities, Education, explore, websites, discover, playby: Dean Mantz
• Solar Car Racing Game - TryEngineering
  Comments:Create, test, race your own solar powered race car. - Dean MantzTags: game, solar, racing, science, interactive, engineering, carby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Bacteria-Infused Meat found in Grocery Stores
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Previous studies have detected nasty, food-poisoning bacteria in supermarket meat, but a read more
• The Week in Review: Live Eagles, Illegal Lunch ...
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• Fracking Update: Dirtier Than Coal, Natural Ga ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It's becoming very clear that unconventional natural gas drilling and the hydraulic fracturing, or read more
• 8 New Green Products You'll Love
  RODALE NEWS, NEW YORK, NY—On Wednesday, Rodale.com attended the Green Products Expo, a sneak peek at new green goods and gadgets debuting this spring. We got a good look at green products that ranged from the totally cool (energy-saving cookware that lets you cook without water or oil) to the s ...
• The Nickel Pincher: 3 Easy Homemade Laundry De ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In an age of 24-hour supermarkets and convenience stores on every corner, it seems a bit archaic to be talking about homemade laundry detergent. Unless you're looking to be liberated from petroleum-based chemicals, chlorine bleach, artificial fragrances, and "optical bri ...

big think

• How Does Radiation Affect the Body?
  What's the News? This week Japan raised the severity of the Fukushima meltdown to a 7, the highest on the international scale, and admitted that the total amount of radiation emitted from the still-leaking reactors could ultimately surpass that of Chernobyl. They also disclosed the news that 2 ...
• Are Organics A Healthier Option? Perceptions a ...
  In a guest post today, Samantha Miller probes the relation between perceptions and reality in the organic food marketplace. �Miller is an undergraduate majoring in Journalism at American University. �She is a student in this semester's "Science, the Environment and the Media" course -- MCN. ...R ...
• The US Budget
  It is a rare day when the US budget, or US domestic politics at all for that matter, is featured on Waq al-waq.� But today is that day.� Over at Abu Muqawama, Andrew Exum has a short post arguing that the teaching of languages like Arabic, Farsi and so forth should be considered a national sec ...
• Teamwork? Good, Until It’s Not: When Working A ...
  Teamwork. Support. Group (there's that word) synergy. These are all hallmarks of positive business-speak and, one would assume, business practice. They've become the modern calling cards of businessmen who want to appear non-hierarchical, hip, in touch with the new spirit of entrepreneurship. Bu ...
• The Budget Is a Moral Document
  “The budget is a profoundly moral document,”  former Clinton advisor Paul Begala told Greg Sargent. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be.” Budgets, after all, reflect our priorities. That’s why it shouldn’t be surprising that the recent budget negotiations in Congress were not ...

Information Liberation

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

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Gaia Rights
  For those of you wondering why I expend so many words banging on about rights, here’s a story which illustrates the point nicely. You may have read about it yourselves in the last few days; I did, but dismissed it … Continue reading →
• Carbonomics
  I promised myself that I’d stay away from Global Warming, at least until some new wrinkle turned up that promised some sort of interesting discussion. But seeing as GE is away, surfing apparently (you’ll forgive my antipodean snickering as I … Continue reading →
• Liberté, Égalité, Sororité
  Today marks the official introduction of France’s new law banning the burqua and niqab in public places. Police officers encountering a person wearing this garment are forbidden to forcibly remove it, but if she refuses their request to lift her … Continue reading →
• Inferno
  The scene: a desolate, barren moonscape. Lightning bolts flash occasionally across a blackened sky. Boiling, bubbling lava pools dot the ground as far as the eye can see, sending plumes of reeking smoke into the gloom. The only sounds are … Continue reading →
• What Is Libertarianism Part II
  Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...

RFF Library

• The Japanese Nuclear Incident: Technical Aspects
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41728.pdf While some radioactive material from the Japanese incident may reach the United States, it appears most unlikely that this material will result in harmful levels of radiation. In traveling thousands of miles between the tw ...
• Nuclear Power Plant Sites: Maps of Seismic Haz ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41729.pdf Currently, 104 commercial nuclear power plants operate on 64 sites in the 48 contiguous United States. 1 Sixty-nine of the 104 are pressurized water reactors (PWR) and the 35 remaining are boiling water reactors (BWR). The ...
• Rare Earth Elements in National Defense: Backg ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41744.pdf Some Members of Congress have expressed concern over U.S. acquisition of rare earth elements that are used in various components of defense weapon systems. Rare earths are a collection of 17 elements on the periodic tabl ...
• Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Res ...
  Congressional Budget Office http://opencrs.com/document/RL33861/2011-03-18/?26232 …Under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), four federal agencies have responsibility for long-term earthquake risk reduction: the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Science Foundatio ...
• U.S. Tsunami Programs: A Brief Overview
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41686/2011-03-18/?26206 The NWS operates the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) at Ewa Beach, HI, and the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/AKTWC) at Palmer, AK. The National Tsunami Hazards Mitigation Program (NTHMP) assi ...

Scientific American - News

• A Bicycle Built for None: What Makes a Riderle ...
  Be kind to your bicycle, for you may need it more than it needs you. [More]
• Coast Benefits: NASA Announces Retirement Home ...
  The launching and landing of space shuttles has always been a fairly coastal affair: The shuttles take off from Florida and almost always touch down in Florida or California. (Once, in 1982, a shuttle landed at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor.) NASA is continuing that coastal tradition wit ...
• Looking Down on Deforestation: Brazil Sharpens ...
  Brazil's clear-cut deforestation rate led the world just five years ago. And between 1995 and 2006 an average of 19,497 square kilometers of forest was cleared in the Amazon annually, or an area equal to that covered by roughly 14,700 American football fields.Starting in 2006, however, this tren ...
• Peruvian Gold Comes with Mercury Health Risks
  PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru -- On a busy, dusty street beside a huge open-air market, signs reading “oro” mark shops that trade in gold. The customers, mostly men in work clothes and rubber boots, have just arrived from the mining camps to sell their gold and wire money home.Inside, shopkeepers heat ...
• A Lovely Swirl: Orbiter Spots a Shifting Vorte ...
  Venus is Earth's closest sibling, in terms of size and proximity, but it remains relatively little explored compared with Earth's other planetary neighbor, Mars. For instance, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) currently have three working Mars orbiters and one active Mars rover between ...

First Truths

• International Crime Syndicate Targets Libya
  Of the situation in Libya, I write: One can be sure that, whenever world “leaders” convene to negotiate “solutions” to the problems facing ordinary, working people, the outcome will mean the imposition of faceless hierarchies designed to serve ruling class interests. When disturbances in places ...
• Iran and the Culture of Fear
  For C4SS, I opined: Forever in search of a new and foreboding ghost against which to leverage the permanent war economy, the ruling class must constantly defend — in the perfidious wording of Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — "the security commitments we have made." In Ninetee ...
• The Drug War: Growing the Green
  I write: Everyone has skin in the game, from Wall Street banks and huge prison companies like Corrections Corp. of America and Geo Group to drug companies like Pfizer, and the green they care about isn’t marijuana. From top to bottom the Drug War is shaped perfectly for big government and for co ...
• Shutdown Can't Come Soon Enough
  My take on shutdown hysteria: Besides its protective functions, defined by its monopoly on the use of force, the need for a state is often asserted on the basis of its role as a “safety net.” But although few would disagree that individuals need some hedge against sickness, unemployment and the ...
• The Free Market's Regulatory Model
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that a truly free market doesn't require an EPA to protect the environment, that in fact Big Business welcomes the state's regulations: And companies that are, due to the lack of competitive pressures, unwieldy in their largeness are inherently acc ...

Media Co-Op

• NSGEU Local 47 on Strike for Pay Parity
  Come show your support for the striking workers of NSGEU Local 47 Monday to Friday at the corner of Cornwallis and Gottingen from 7:30- 9am. ------------------ Press Release Employees of Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority o ...
• Fire Sale on Nova Scotia's Forests
  Natural Resources Minister Parker Calls for Patience, Protesters' Patience Wears Thin “Today we ask for the strength, and the wisdom, to put all our voices together. To make sure that each and every one of us will put our efforts forward t ...
• Big Fish, Big Business
  The Atlantic longline swordfish fishery may be certified as sustainable, despite excessive bycatch of endangered species The Ecology Action Centre (EAC) and David Suzuki Foundation along with 33 other conservation groups oppose the sustain ...
• Excuses, Excuses...
  MLPC Candidate Tony Seed Excluded from 'All' Candidates Debate Tony Seed is a little upset, and under the circumstances, who wouldn't be? After raising the necessary 1000$ deposit, getting an auditor, and an agent, and gathering 100 signat ...
• Chinatown Towers Up in the Air
  VANCOUVER - The hearings on relaxing the historic building height restrictions in Chinatown are finally over. By the end, 112 speakers had been heard over five nights. The final meeting�was enlivened when�DNC organizer Ivan Drury turned the tables on�the mayor and Council by directly addressing ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• You Will Suffer - If You Carelessly Make This ...
  In this video, Dr. Gabriel Cousens and I discuss the merits and flaws of a wholly vegetarian or vegan diet.
• Are New 'Healthier' Potato Chips Really Any Be ...
  Frito-Lay, as part of a push to use natural ingredients in its chips, is adding beet juice, purple cabbage and carrots to the recipe. These natural vegetable dyes will replace ingredients such as FD&C Red 40. By the end of the year, Frito-Lay intends to make half its snacks sold in the U.S. wit ...
• The Surprising Benefits of Drinking This 'Unhe ...
  Ori Hofmekler, author of The Warrior Diet, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat, and the upcoming book Unlocking the Muscle Gene is an expert on how to improve your health with foods. In this interview, Ori shares his insights about caffeine.
• Want to Burn Away Those Excess Pounds? Heed Th ...
  Physician Kevin Patterson noticed something during his work as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Afghan soldiers, police and civilians he treated had very different bodies from those of the Canadians he treated in his home country. T ...
• Obesity Surgery Even Worse than Previously Thought
  A study has found that nearly half of a group of patients who received gastric band surgery for weight loss over ten years ago had the bands removed because of medical complications. The study is the first to track laparoscopic gastric band surgery outcomes over a long period. The bands eroded ...

JAMA

• Development of Antidrug Antibodies Against Ada ...
  Context Short-term data on the immunogenicity of monoclonal antibodies showed associations between the development of antidrug antibodies and diminished serum drug levels, and a diminished treatment response. Little is known about the clinical relevance of antidrug antibodies against these drug ...
• Management of Sepsis: A 47-Year-Old Woman With ...
  Severe sepsis is the term used to describe the host response to infection when complicated by acute organ dysfunction. Severe sepsis occurs in more than 750�000 individuals in the United States each year, with a hospital mortality of about 30%. Although the classic presentation is of florid sho ...
• Health Care-Associated Infections in Children ...
• Infection Prevention and Comparative Effective ...
• Epigenetics--The Link Between Infectious Disea ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Dis ...
  The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode ...
• Uncontacted Indians: report exposes ‘untold st ...
  Kichwa Indian children from a village close to Repsol's project © Survival Oil giant Repsol-YPF could be threatening the existence of two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to a damning new report by Survival (pdf). The Spanish-Argentine oil company has been targeted for its ...
• 'Poisonous red mud' pours from Vedanta refinery
  Government pollution inspectors previously criticized Vedanta's environmental record at the refinery. © Survival Toxic sludge has poured out of FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ waste pond at its controversial alumina refinery in Orissa, east India, according to local reports. The toxic slurry r ...
• Borneo tribe denied vote in crucial elections
  Thousands of Penan will have no vote in Saturday's elections © Survival International Thousands of Penan tribespeople will be unable to vote in crucial elections on Saturday in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, because they do not have identity cards. The elections in Sarawak state ...
• Ranchers caught red-handed – from space
  Bulldozers used for illegal deforestation, photographed by government investigators © GAT/ Survival Wealthy landowners in Paraguay have been caught red-handed after newly-released satellite images showed their startling destruction of almost 4,000 hectares of forest – which is inhabited by ...

Montreal Gazette

• Let's find out the truth about city hall
  Mayor Gérald Tremblay was in high dudgeon upon learning by way of news reports that the provincial government had sicced its new anti-corruption squad on Montreal city hall to investigate Tremblay's scandalridden administration.
• A school board that needs to grow up
  There's a new circus in town, and you can watch it free at emsb.canadacast.ca.
• Vote subsidies vs. tax credits
  The Gazette's most recent editorial on political-party funding ("Subsidies for parties, for and against," April 5) shows an encouraging shift. The Gazette once took the line that the $2-per-vote subsidy should be ended because public money is paid to parties that some voters do not support, like ...
• Analysis: Mayor Gérald Tremblay 'circling the ...
  Maybe it was one scandal too many in a city - and a province - where allegations of corruption and collusion have prompted several police investigations in the last two years.
• Editorial: The G8/G20 report: let’s see the fi ...
  Federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser is technically correct in maintaining that it would be improper for her to release a report her office compiled on government spending on last summer’s G8 and G20 summit meetings while Parliament is dissolved for the duration of the election campaign.

Food World Order

• 4/14 binge & purge: hunger hormones & the dang ...
  study finds hunger hormone helps you sniff out food* extreme weather taking huge toll on global food production* world bank chief says food prices in 'danger zone'* arsenic & toxic metals found in baby foods* greens call for new zealand ban on japanese food imports* monsanto modifi ...
• frankenfoods in you 'natural' foods store
  whole foods or whole hypocrisy? from organic consumers dot org: After two decades of biotech bullying by Monsanto and Food Inc., a grassroots movement of organic consumers and farmers is rising up across the United States. Inspired by the success of their European counterparts in driving ge ...
• gmo's linked to organ disruption in 19 studies
  from responsible technology: A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% ...
• 4/7 binge & purge: easter, grocer, toxic, addi ...
  oregon salmonella case brings easter chick warning* bpa ban advances in oregon legislature* north portland grocer charged with food stamp fraud* trouble in the bat world means trouble for US food supply?* 14 die after eating toxic sardines in madagascar* processed food from stone ...
• conagra broadens campaign to feed hungry kids
  update: conagra ceo on customers & rising prices... from nytimes: ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest campaign ever, including a television special, to spur more grass-roots inv ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• How Chicken Farming, Murder and Eugenics Spark ...
  With groundless accusations hanging in the air, Mike Freedman asks, "Who's the misanthrope here?"
• Hooray for the Underdog
  CASSE being named the Best Green Think Tank of 2011 is a testament to underdogs everywhere.
• Sir Thomas Enough: Utopia and the Steady State
  With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
• Another Bite out of Life
  As the economy bloats with bigger and bigger bites taken from the biosphere, what's the 21st century response?
• Fitting the Name to the Named
  To some, "steady state" sounds pessimistic. But to many, "steady state" is a sincere name for our best bet at an exceptional economy.

The Talking Clock

• Not-so-vital statistics: The census rebellion
  Interesting couple of stories on the Daily Express today regarding the census. First up: "Seven million households... have failed to fill in and return the census in England and Wales." All of those are about to be subjected to non-stop door knocking and threats of fines and so on. B ...
• Quote of the Day: #RonPaul2012 Edition
  "Believers in human liberty have played along with this game for too long. They’ve done this for decades. Sometimes they tack right and sometimes they tack left. What they should be doing is upending the game board itself. They need boldly to make that fundamental claim of the old liberal tradit ...
• As Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama admit regime cha ...
  So, the truth - which we, the people knew all along - is now out in the open. Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama have signed up to a letter admitting that regime change in Libya is their aim and the end game. From both ends of the political divide, here's the story in both the Daily Telegraph and ...
• Oh, Betty! Is Paul Nuttall taking the hotpot?
  It's not too often I read a news story involving UKIP and blush or cringe. Yet that was my response to a story in the Daily Express concerning an attempt to give Lancashire Hotpot 'protected' status under EU law. Protected status? Sure, Betty might need to retire from the Rover's Return on ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 3rd April 2011
  Many of you will have seen the satirical political observation on the internet, an assertion that the initials 'CIA' stand for 'Cocaine Import Agency'. It's not actually the CIA at the centre of our first story, but the revelations are of a similarly ground-shattering proportion. It is a r ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
  By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
  The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...
• VOICES: TVA's Bellefonte plant is a nuclear Fo ...
  By Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com ...
• NC senator pushing to end campaign finance law ...
  Perhaps more than any other North Carolina politician, Sen. Jim Davis owes his place in the state legislature to Republican millionaire donor Art Pope. And now, Davis is the lead sponsor of a bill that Pope and his network of conservative groups have made a top priority this year: to dismantle ...
• Texas oil refinery pollution activist wins pre ...
  By Michael May, Texas Observer This week, Hilton Kelley, one of the activists the Observer honored as a 2010 Tyrant's Foe, won the most prestigious award given to environmental activists -- the Goldman Environmental Prize. Kelley will receive much-deserved recognition for his work -- and the ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  In New Video, al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Weighs in on Egypt, Libya In a one-hour online video apparently recorded before the NATO intervention in Libya, al Qaedaâs Ayman al-Zawahiri celebrates the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and calls upon Muslims … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S. Official: Three Detainees Released By Obama Have Engaged in Terrorism or Insurgency During testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, State Department official Dan Fried, special envoy for Guantanamoâs closure, said that U.S. intelligence agencies believe three of … Cont ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Man Linked to Would-Be Times Square Bomber to Be Deported A man arrested last year for links to Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber who is serving a life sentence, pleaded guilty to immigration and illegal money transfer charges … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Bomb in Belarus Subway Station Kills 12 During Monday Evening Rush Hour A bomb exploded in a crowded subway station next to the office of the Belarusian president in the capital of Minsk during Mondayâs evening rush hour, killing at … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Trying 9/11 Writing in the Sunday Washington Post, CLS Executive Director Karen Greenberg argues that while she is disappointed with the decision to hold a military commission at Guantanamo for several accused 9/11 suspects, ât is time to give up … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Halve your meat intake to stem nitrogen damage
  Nitrogen pollution from agriculture, vehicle exhausts and power stations is costing Europeans up to £650 per year each, says landmark report
• Black hole unleashes enduring cosmic blast
  A trio of telescopes is tracking the unusual, long-lived glow of a star torn asunder by a supermassive black hole
• Today on New Scientist: 8 April 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: A mystery signal at Fermilab's Tevatron, the return of Commodore 64, and the eel that travels light
• Schizophrenic brain cells created in the lab
  Researchers have developed a new model for schizophrenia by coaxing stem cells from patients with the condition into living neurons
• World's first human brain map unveiled
  Researchers have completed their four-year task of mapping the brain based on all known parts of the genome

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• Deutsche Bank knowingly deceived clients in su ...
  US Senate names culprits in financial crisis Gretchen Morgenson & Louise Story, The New York Times, April 14, 2011 A voluminous report on the financial crisis by the United States Senate — citing internal documents and private communications of bank executives, regulators, credit ratings agencie ...
• Evidence of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank su ...
  Friday 15 April 2011, The Telegraph US Senate panel urges Goldman ‘mis-selling’ investigation A US Senate Subcommittee has called on authorities to examine whether Goldman Sachs mis-sold mortgage related securities and misled Congress, as it released the findings of a two-year investigation into ...
• US DEBT ORGY: GOVERNMENT SPENT EIGHT TIMES MOR ...
  - US Government Spent More than Eight Times its Monthly Revenue - US Govermnent paid $1.0528 trillion in monthly bills on only $128.179 in monthly tax revenue Roni Deutsch blog According to new data from the Treasury Department, the federal government grossed $194 billion in March, paid out near ...
• TAX PAYERS OF EUROPE SET TO FOOT BILL FOR GREE ...
  German government economic advisor Lars Feld has warned that the tax payers of Europe, and not private creditors, will have to foot the bill for the upcoming default of Greece because the European Central Bank (ECB), in the meantime, holds so many Greek souvereign bonds in another bit of bad new ...
• Senate chairman says Goldman Sachs ‘misl ...
   Senate chairman says Goldman Sachs ‘misled’ clients and Congress Apr 14, 2011 By Charles Dharapak, AP The chairman of a bipartisan Senate panel investigating the financial crisis says Goldman Sachs “misled” their clients and the Congress and called the tactics used by the Wall Street firm in i ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Visible’s Primer on Basic Economics and ...
  By Les Visible There’s something that goes through my mind a lot and I don’t think I have to be Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill or Milton Freidman to understand it. Certain things have happened in the United States that caused serious problems for the general population and for most of the coun ...
• The Seven Day Mental Diet
  By Emmet Fox The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. It is the thoughts you allow yourself to think, the subjects that you allow your mind to [...]
• Detroit SWAT team assaults African American mo ...
  By Mike Adams The medical police state is alive and well in Detroit today, where Child Protective Services (CPS) called in the police to aid in their kidnapping of a 13-year-old daughter from an African American mother who refused to medicate her with dangerous psychiatric drugs. As this case is ...
• Eugenics and the Still Unsolved Murder of Jane ...
  By Stefan Stanford Who Killed Jane Stanford? New investigations confirm she was poisoned by strychnine, but the case will never be solved. Someone got away with murder. “Haunting the hallowed halls of Stanford for almost a century is a hushed-up whodunit that has reared its head only from time t ...
• Climate change affects tectonic plate movement ...
  Yes, I believe this says that Japan’s earthquakes are caused by global warming!?!?!? Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement in findings that could provide a valuable insight into why huge tremors occur. Understanding why pl ...

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 ...

electric politics

• An Anthropologist At Large
  This one meanders. We start with Japan's nuclear power crisis, commiserate over America's political failures, and end up talking about the risks inherent in maintaining large inventories of nuclear weapons. An anthropologist specialized in nuclear culture — but with very widely-ranging interest ...
• Imperfect (Nuclear) Implementation
  Humans cannot engineer a perfect technology for nuclear power, one that presents zero risk. Nor can humans engineer a political process that enforces constant, rigorous, indefinitely long-term oversight on imperfect nuclear power solutions. The choice, therefore, is stark: use nuclear power and ...
• Tell Me About the Future
  Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
• What is Religion Good For?
  In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...
• Booker T. Washington
  White supremacy was never a good cornerstone upon which to build a union. A pact with the devil, we're still not done dealing with its implications. For a look at how an earlier generation of Black Americans attempted to cope, I turned to Dr. Raymond W. Smock, former official historian of the U ...

PR News

• T-fal ActiFry joins 5W Public Relations' roster
  NEW YORK: T-fal ActiFry, a manufacturer of non-stick cookware and small electrical appliances appointed 5W Public Relations to manage an integrated PR program.
• Alliance Memory taps Wall Street Communications
  SAN FRANCISCO: Alliance Memory, a semiconductor company, appointed Wall Street Communications to handle its public relations globally.
• Rubenstein adds Magnolia Bakery to roster
  NEW YORK: Rubenstein PR signed several new accounts, including Magnolia Bakery, photographer Fadil Berisha, documentary Discover the Gift, and solar energy provider Solar Rainbow.
• Coyne boosts toy practice with two accounts
  PARSIPPANY, NJ: Coyne Public Relations has added two AOR accounts to its toy and juvenile products division: Nuk USA and Playmobil USA.
• Corporate reputation plays increasing role in ...
  Amazon.com's recent rise to the top of the Most Reputable Companies list seems to indicate that corporate communicators are placing an increased value on the role of reputation on consumer behavior.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• zu Googleberg lives on: Guttenberg wants to su ...
  The University of Bayreuth has nearly finished its investigation into the plagiarism allegations that cost Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg his job as defense minister. He doesn't want the university to publish its findings.
• TEPCO shares recover – somewhat – ...
  TEPCO shares recover - somewhat - as short sellers get nervous.
• Sandstorm in Germany kills 8 on the autobahn!
  At least eight people died Friday in a huge blaze on a motorway in eastern Germany after a freak sandstorm caused pile-ups.
• Book promotion > Light blogging
  After much discussion the publisher Springer has agreed to class my book "Essence of a Manager" as a book for practitioners rather than as a text book. Just a small change but it dropped their price by almost 50%!
• Massive 7.4 quake again in Japan – as pr ...
  Japan has just experienced another massive 7.4 magnitude quake - as predicted on 5th April from events on the sun.

Left Foot Forward

• 4,214 per cent APR. Interested?
  Byron Orme takes the short term loan lenders to task for their ridiculous interest rates.
• Look Left – Target Gaddafi: Allies lay down th ...
  Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy injected fresh momentum into the Libya campaign today, saying there can be no peace with Colonel Gaddafi still in charge.
• Labour NO to AV: Roses growing on a thorn bush
  Dominic Browne reports on the Labour NO to AV campaign and the support they receive from Tory donors.
• Arab Spring: Latest news and analysis
  Left Foot Forward's Dominic Browne brings us the latest news and analysis from the uprisings taking place throughout the Arab world.
• Lethal exports: Urgent message to Cable on exe ...
  Vince Cable is to announce a ban within days on the export from the UK of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride lethal injection execution drugs.

Consumerist

• Always Wanted To Be A Mystery Shopper? Consume ...
  Yep! That's right! A legit mystery shopping job! (Don't worry, you don't need to wear a mask!) Interested? Read on... Would you like to be part of a great organization whose only goal is to work for a fair, just and safe marketplace for all consumers? Consumer Reports, published by Consumer ...
• Block Cuts Electricity Use By 15% By Chalking ...
  Residents of one block in Brighton in the UK are tracking their electricity usage via a giant infographic graffitied onto the street. In the three weeks the project has been running, electricity use has dropped 15%. Amazing the great good a little bit of feedback can do! In America people would ...
• Complaining About Airport Security Could Tag Y ...
  Almost anyone who has been stuck in the airport security screening line has at least mumbled to themselves about the process, but a new report from CNN says that such behavior could lead to travelers being singled out for further screening. The news channel says that complaining is one of arou ...
• Bank Of America Posts 36% Drop In Profits
  Perhaps hoping to garner sympathy votes in our Worst Company in America contest, Bank of America today reported a 36% drop in profits for the first quarter. One of the big drags on business continues to be the toxic landfill of mortgages the bank gobbled up when it bought Countrywide Home Loans ...
• USPS Puts Wrong Statue Of Liberty On Stamp, Do ...
  You almost have to respect the USPS for screwing up this royally. First, they go and put the wrong Statue of Liberty on a postage stamp. Then, when told about it, they just shrug it off like a postal worker eating a sandwich at their closed window while a line of customers waits. First, the La ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Using Blacks for “Saving America from the Bond ...
  No faith community knows better than the Black Church how religion-based bigotry shapes prejudicial attitudes many white Americans once held toward African Americans in this country. Religious texts have been interpreted to justify some of this country’s worst crimes against our community, resul ...
• President Obama’s Real Proposal (And Why It’s ...
  Paul Ryan says his budget plan will cut $4.4 trillion over ten years. The President says his new plan will cut $4 trillion over twelve years. Let’s get real. Ten or twelve-year budgets are baloney. It’s hard enough to forecast budgets a year or two into the future. Between now and 2022 or 2024 t ...
• Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn’t the Problem, ...
  I hope when he tells America how he aims to tame future budget deficits the President doesn’t accept conventional Washington wisdom that the biggest problem in the federal budget is Medicare (and its poor cousin Medicaid). Medicare isn’t the problem. It’s the solution. The real problem is the so ...
• Loud, Bold and Wrong
  by Tina Dupuy We must love boisterous blowhards. As Americans, we are fixated on people who make loud, definitive declarations so we can stand behind them waving our oversized number-one foam-fingers chanting: “Go team! Win!” If you take away all the nebbishy number-crunching and bureaucracy – w ...
• Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Natio ...
  When I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother had packed in my lunchbox, or, they said, they’d beat me up. After a close call in the boy’s room, I paid up. Weeks later, they [...]

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JoNova

• Monckton returns to Australia: help needed
  David Evans and I are honoured to  have been asked to tour with Christopher Monckton, and Ross McKitrick. July (and the Green controlled Senate) is not far off, and there is much to do to make the tour happen, but details are coming together quickly. Where there is a will… Thanks to The Climate ...
• Professor points out, it’s a less-than-nobel c ...
  Garth Paltridge is an Australian atmospheric physicist with 45 years experience. He worked with CSIRO, the WMO, NOAA, and as Professor and Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies. He has explained why he’s skeptical of the theory of man-made global warming in his book ...
• Fairyland economics — Labor invents perp ...
  It’s fairy-land economics out there. In a big economic advance, the Labor Party realized  that they can solve world poverty: the secret is to take money from the big producers, and hand it to anyone and everyone — it will not only keep our national economy productive and efficient, but millions ...
• Bolivia gets stoneage legal system
  UPDATED: See below It’s the ultimate in pre-cambrian law. Gaia in the courtroom. Shh. The Statutory Spirits are at work. It’s not just the right to life for amoeba, it’s the right not to have your cellular structure modified. Looks like salad is off the menu. So is meat, fruit, tea and coffee, a ...
• Unthreaded
  I’ve been with our five year old in hospital overnight (with asthma), and there is no time to post… thanks to all the people who have donated to Tim Ball’s case (and you can donate through Dr Ballâs website via paypal http://drtimball.com/), and to commenters and moderators here too. Lubos has a ...

ReNew America

• 2011 spending bill clears Congress
  (Washington Times) - Crossing the finish line more than six months late, Congress on Thursday finally cleared a spending bill to fund government through the rest of the fiscal year, approving a hard-fought compromise that left neither side happy and that presaged more bruising fights ahead on de ...
• Budget cuts too small for many conservatives
  (Washington Times) - They don't want to undermine the work of their congressional allies, but leading conservatives and Republican presidential hopefuls are already voicing their displeasure with the spending-cut and budget deals taking shape on Capitol Hill...
• GOP congressional aide compares 59 principled ...
  (Richard Viguerie) - Earlier Thursday, the Republican establishment showed their true colors towards conservative dissenters when an internal email sent from a top aide to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became public. According to the National Journal, McCarthy's aide, Pete Meachum, f ...
• An open letter to John Boehner
  (Joseph Farah) - Dear Mr. Speaker: Recently you met with Barack Obama and concluded he is not serious about making meaningful spending cuts and budgeting reforms that are desperately needed to the nation's economic challenges. I am surprised it took you this long to recognize a reality so obviou ...
• Tea partiers eye debt-cap filibuster
  (Politico) - The Senate's Tea Party Caucus will face a tough decision when it comes time to vote to raise the national debt limit: Fall in line behind Republican leadership or go rogue. The founding members of the new caucus -- freshman Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and second-te ...

Truth Offering

• Civilization: The Biggest Bubble
  One thing I'm certain of is that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know that much. That's the irony of knowledge. It's like, as you open one door of knowledge, there are ten more to explore. And to be honest, I love that about life; I love learning more and more about our ever-changing ...
• The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
  Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
• US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
  CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
• Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
  In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...
• SoCal Fun: The Radioactive Plume and the "Big One"
  Radioactive plume heads for US west coastMan, what a week. Not that my paranoia comes anywhere close to what people are going through in Japan, I must say that all this talk about nuclear 'plumes' sweeping across the Pacific and wiping across the shores is scaring the hell out of me. I'm a healt ...

2012 Blog

• New Alien Art Unearthed
  The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes. If you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancien ...
• Fingers on the Pulse
  I’ve not expressly promoted other websites or blogs until today, because most that belong to the 2012 meme do not get my approval. These do, and they might even be pivotal if something eventful unfolds. I regularly find amazing information at these sites, and I recommend them for your perusal an ...
• Swine Flu + Bird Flu / Vivos in UK / London 2012
  Not a surprise, but lab tests indicate that we need to watch out for a nasty super flu: What do you get if you cross bird flu with the 2009 pandemic human virus, widely known as swine flu? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t funny. A new study predicts that swapping genes between the avian and human ...
• Dormant Volcanoes No Longer Exist
  New research suggests that there is no such thing as a dormant volcano, so if you live near anything volcanic, now you have an excuse to move away. Until now it was thought that once a volcano’s magma chamber had cooled down it remained dormant for centuries before it could be remobilized by fre ...
• CRE Superbug in the USA
  Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is the new concern. Carbapenem is an antibiotic, that is losing its powers rapidly, and there is no alternative yet: Carbapenems are one of the antibiotics of last resort for many bacterial infections, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiell ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
  By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
  The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...
• VOICES: TVA's Bellefonte plant is a nuclear Fo ...
  By Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com ...
• NC senator pushing to end campaign finance law ...
  Perhaps more than any other North Carolina politician, Sen. Jim Davis owes his place in the state legislature to Republican millionaire donor Art Pope. And now, Davis is the lead sponsor of a bill that Pope and his network of conservative groups have made a top priority this year: to dismantle ...
• Texas oil refinery pollution activist wins pre ...
  By Michael May, Texas Observer This week, Hilton Kelley, one of the activists the Observer honored as a 2010 Tyrant's Foe, won the most prestigious award given to environmental activists -- the Goldman Environmental Prize. Kelley will receive much-deserved recognition for his work -- and the ...

One News Page

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Global Research TV

• American Authorities Accused of Torturing Wiki ...
• Lies and Excuses: Military Spending out of Control
• Architect analyses 9/11 Explosive Evidence
• How Much Did YOU Pay for War This Year?
• Obama Libya Action Unconstitutional and Costly

Daily Tech

• TSA Patdown Leaves 6-Year Old in Tears, Gov't ...
  Big Brother is touching you
• Windows Phone 7 to Get Mango Update
  Microsoft hopes WP7 will bear fruit
• Android Hits 350K Daily Activations, But Overs ...
  Android is outselling everybody, but the investors are disgruntled
• International Game Developers Association Disa ...
  The International Game Developers Association fire back with an e-mail that accuses Amazon of attempting to achieve a "near monopoly" by selling games made on Android software
• 4/15/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews -- CM Storm E ...
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Oriental Review

• Mujahedin Fighting for ‘Democracy’
  Iran’s Foreign Ministry is demanding that the European Union stop supporting the terrorists carrying out attacks against the Islamic Republic. Iran’s Foreign Ministry press secretary, Mehmanparast Ramin, said that the EU should stop providing asylum for terrorist organizations like Mujahedin-e K ...
• Open Letter to President Gaddafi
  Yesterday ORIENTAL REVIEW has received a fundamental comment on Mu’ummar Qaddafi’s Recollections of My Life from Mr. Iqbal Alimohamed, a former senior UN official who served as the UNHCR Regional Representative in Malaysia, Japan, Australia and the Sudan. We believe this very important document ...
• Mu’ummar Qaddafi: Recollections Of My Life
  OR Note: Please listen to a person widely portrayed as tyrant and make up your own mind. ‘For 40 years, or was it longer,I canât remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food, I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, ...
• Côte d’Ivoire: Say Soodbye to International Law
  The West is dealing shortly and brutally with African intellectual, who tried to build a European-like social state. Given the civil war and NATO operation in Libya, the situation in another African country — Côte d’Ivoire — doesn’t draw much attention of the world media. In the meantime, these ...
• The BRICS nations say ‘no’ to Liby ...
  Foreign ministries of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are busy arranging their agendas ahead of the third BRICS summit in Chinese Sanya on April, 14th. Global events are developing at such a high pace that plans are being corrected on the go. Commenting on the s ...

BlogHer

• VegNews Photo Controversy Outrages Vegan Community
  Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 15 This week, QuarryGirl of QuarryGirl.com launched into a rant against VegNews, a vegan magazine that has been using photos that contained meat and other non-vegan-friendly ingredients ...
• BlogHer Network Member News, April 15: Carmen ...
  Carmen Staicer of mom to the screaming masses was profiled in the March issue of Redbook, discussing if we should put our children on diets. Jamie Ivey from Dreaming Big Dreams was chosen to be the next DJ on Austin's 98.1 KVET. Erica Schlaefer of Parenthood For Me and Dr. Eberhard Muechler spea ...
• BlogHer Conference Update -- April 15, 2011
  Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 11 Happy Friday! I'm happy to say that today is "not" Tax Day but the 18th is -- so hint hint, wink wink, make sure to get them done this weekend (I'm talking more to me than anyone els ...
• My Husband Likes My Fat
  My husband is much too practical to patronize me. Practical non-patronizer wasn’t exactly on my twenty-three point, “What I want in a husband list,” but it has proved invaluable when it comes to making important decisions. Such as dressing myself. Complaints about my weight or the amount of e ...
• Overthinking the Magic Bra
  Sandra and I were shopping for bras in what is still called -- in this day and age! -- the "Intimates" department when I saw it: the Maidenform Ultimate Push Up Bra. Have you seen this thing? "Add two cup sizes!" it promises, as well it should, since it seems to contain a small throw pillow's wo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• More Bills to Criminalize Naturopathy
  Medical Monopoly is becoming a more finely tuned machine every day. It is no coincidence that other states are suddenly creating bills to criminalize naturopathic practices and other holistic modalities like ayurvedic, midwifery, aromatherapy, and ...
• GPs Must Return Flu Vaccines Over Narcolepsy R ...
  Earlier this year, we brought news about research that linked the swine flu vaccine to debilitating narcolepsy, especially among youth. In Finland, where the original findings stem, health officials disregarded the concerns, essentially saying the risk ...
• More States Create Anti-Whistleblower Bills
  Here we go again! If you thought the recent legislation to criminalize those who film or photograph farm activity in states like Florida and Iowa is coincidental, it’s not. Similar bills are in process in ...
• J&J Avoids Bribery Trouble by Paying Federal Gov
  This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Johnson and Johnson (J&J) for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) after it was discovered that J&J bribed doctors in several European countries and paid kickbacks to Iraq for business under ...
• Arsenic & Toxic Metals Found in Baby Foods
  Significant levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and uranium have been found in baby foods; even organic baby foods. Researchers found that babies eating twice a day on store-bought baby foods like porridge would have increased ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Meetings, leadership set for Alpha-Massey deal
  The Associated Press is reporting on a joint Alpha Natural Resources-Massey Energy news release that announces: Alpha Natural Resources Inc. and Massey Energy Co. say Alpha’s proposed takeover of Massey could be completed within seven weeks. The companies said in a joint news release Friday that ...
• Friday roundup, April 15, 2011
  In this April 5, 2010 file photo taken off the coast of Rockhampton, Australia, a ribbon of oil snakes away on the surface from the Chinese-registered bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1 after it ran aground at Douglas Shoals on the Great Barrier Reef Saturday April 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, ...
• Document dump: MSHA releases internal audits
  Well, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and MSHA chief Joe Main promised transparency … so now, at 5 p.m. on a Friday, MSHA issues this press release: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced it has posted on its website audit reports by the agency’s Office ...
• Byrd mine safety legislation re-introduced
  This just in: Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Nick Rahall, D-WV, Friday joined Rep. George Miller, D-CA, in introducing the Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act of 2011, legislation aimed at bolstering the national effort to protect the health and safety of miners. “We owe it to our ...
• A day in coal news: Are West Virginia’s ...
  Yesterday was one of those days where news developments illustrated clearly what I was talking about when I started this blog: That there are really two different discussions going on in this country about coal: One of them is out there in the broader world. Scientists, policymakers and even in ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human ...
  To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren’t specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now arc ...
• Global City Indexes | Wikipedia
  A global city (also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center) is a Specialized City deemed to be an important node point in the global economic system. The concept comes from geography and urban studies and rests on the idea that globalization can be understood as largely create ...
• The differences between IDA Pro, ImmDBG and Ol ...
  In this blog post we will look at some of the differences between a several of the most widely used Debuggers/Disassemblers.� This post is by no means exhaustive.� It is meant as a brief overview to give people new to reversing a �quick start� guide. via securityaegis.com My buddy Jason just put ...
• White Girl Slays Busta Rhymes Cover
  via youtube.com Impressive. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsExit Music (For A Film) – Radiohead (Cover)Swords vs. ShadowsGyroscopes RockJan-Ove Waldner ServesAlone in the WildernessEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.Drone
• Steak in Texas
  Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsTexas BBQVegetarian Mexican Food in SFBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartTypography Deconstruction Letterpress PosterThis is a Problem

Fitwatch

• Warning – Police Surveillance is Big Bus ...
  This is the second of a couple of posts written by Kevin Blowe in advance of the ‘Standing Up To Surveillance’ conference hosted by Fitwatch and Netpol on Sunday. It is reproduced by permission from his blog Random Blowe In January, I idly speculated in a piece for Red Pepper that groups who inc ...
• Rethinking the politics of kettling
  This is the first of two articles written by Kevin Blowe in preparation for the 'Standing up to Surveillance' conference tomorrow, at which he is speaking. Reproduced from his blog Random Blowe with permission. An online campaign calling for a ban on kettling seems, on the face of it, like a com ...
• Political Policing, UKUncut and 26 March
  Last Saturday the police charged 138 people for peacefully occupying Fortnum and Masons with aggravated trespass. Most were kept for over 24 hours, had their clothing and phones seized, and were given bail conditions preventing them attending the royal wedding or Mayday. Many commentators have c ...
• Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
  The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...
• Serious violence by police at protest party.
  Forget what the mainstream media are saying about the black block, the most serious violence yesterday was probably the attack by police on partying crowd that was gathered in Trafalgar square. Senior police officers had warned in the run up to the March 26 protests that any occupation of Trafal ...

Worldwide Hippies

• How will the Trump 2012 presidential campaign ...
  Enter the Donald, Take Two | Slate Let’s take a journey back to the last time Donald Trump went on an extended bender of White House hallucination. The year was 1999. Pets.com stock was trading at $11 per share. Nobody was all that interested in Bill Clinton’s birth certificate. More important, ...
• Selling $31 of Marijuana Gets a Mother 10 Year ...
  Family copes after mom’s incarceration | Oklahoma Watch Holding back tears by using a whisper of a voice, 9-year-old Koby LeBlanc uses words like âmadâ and âsadâ when talking about his mother. Patricia Spottedcrow, LeBlancâs mother, was sentenced on Oct. 21 to 10 years in prison after selling $3 ...
• Weekly Hippie Trivia
  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! “Cocksucker, cunt, fuck, motherfucker, piss, shit, tits.” Who is he? Answer to last weeks question – Ri ...
• Chronic Art
  Cannabis Portraits as Chronic Art | Wrong Dream Chronic Art, splendid spliff – based portraits, is a series by cannabis-smoking, Pittsburgh-based artist Cliff Maynard, hand-crafted and quite stunning. 39-year-old Cliff. a tattoo artist by trade, this ex art student devised up his unique choice o ...
• Does Obama Fear the War Complex?
  The Unmaking of a “Peacemaker” | Counterpunch Obama won the Presidency campaigning as a peacemaker but has approved $40 billion for arms sales to other countries in his first year in the White House compared to the $34.5 billion President G.W. Bush approved in his last year in office according t ...

reference frame

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

No Frakking Consensus

• A View from Portugal
  Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?
• Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
  Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
• Foul Play on Facebook
  Climate skeptic pages on Facebook were recently targeted. Our content was alleged to be "abusive" and the ability of readers to share it was temporarily blocked.
• The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
  Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
• Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
  Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.

Tarpley

• Tarpley in Press TV Debate with Libyan Rebel S ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 15, 2011 This April 6th interview just recently became available. — webmaster
• باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخا ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab Legion; Benghazi Rebel Council Stages Massacres of Black Africans; African Union Mediation Spurned by Western Imperialists; Qaddafi Forces Superior to Rebels; NATO aims at Partition of Libya, wh ...
• “Wrap the World in Flames” — The US-Russ ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 Who was our friend when the world was our foe. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 18711 � At the point of maximum war danger between Great Britain and the United States, the London satirical publication Punch published a vicious caricature of US P ...
• Türk
  International Main Menu Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén AL QAEDA: LİBYA’DAN YEMEN’E CİA AYAKLANMASININ PİYONLARI Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 3 Nisan 2011 Washington DC, 3 Nisan – İki haftalık NATO hava saldırıları, cruise ...
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  International Main Menu Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén 基地组织——美国中情局在利比亚和也门引发暴乱的走卒 作者：韦伯斯特-塔普利 博士 ( Dr Webster G. Tarpley ) （赵帅 译） 华盛顿特区， 2011年4月3日。 在连续两周的帝国主义攻打后，利比亚仍被基地组织恐怖分子、内战、北约空袭、巡航导弹、捕食者无人飞机和C-130炮舰无情的摧残着。美国、英国、法国、以及荷兰军官 ...

Modern Survivalism

• Asteroid Flyby, just discovered 7 days ago
  A 160 foot diameter asteroid named ’2011 GP59′ was just discovered days ago on April 8 by astronomers in Spain. It zipped past earth today, April 15th, at a distance slightly further away than the moon at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour. This is the type of thing that exemplifies some of the [...]
• Solar Event Risk to Power Grid
  The electrical power grid has only existed for a sliver of time in human history. A solar SuperStorm of the size and duration of the 1859 Carrington Event has not happened in that time, and there is a general assumption that something of this magnitude (or worse) will never happen again. This as ...
• Solar Cycle 24 SkyRockets
  The 24th solar cycle, solar cycle No. 24, has been one of the four ‘latest’ since records began tracking the approximate 11 year cycles of sunspot activity. On several occasions NASA scientists had adjusted and pushed forward their estimate of the progression of cycle No. 24, but during the mont ...
• Iceland Fires a Shot at World Banksters
  A salute to a free Iceland for boldly telling the international mob banksters to go stuff it. “The state did not shoulder the responsibility of the failed private banksâ Iceland President Olafur Grimsson told Bloomberg Television. âTaxpayers should not be responsible for paying the debts of a pr ...
• Buy your Canned Tuna, Now?
  Long term radiation effects, in Tuna? With many of the long term effects from the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster still ahead of us, a serious consideration should be made regarding the food chain and the possible radioactive contamination thereof. In this example, let’s ...

Fast Company

• TED Goes "American Idol," Holding First-Ever O ...
  You may not be a CEO, a billionaire philanthropist, a tech whiz kid or a saintly fighter for the rights of humanity, but you--yes, you--have a shot at the TED stage in 2012. The conference which formerly stood for Technology, Entertainment, Design is holding its first-ever open auditions before ...
• Microchip-Embedded Credit Cards Coming To Amer ...
  Two companies kick off a race to market with EMV chip cards, long a staple in Europe. But with NFC payments on the rise, this seems less like innovation and more a stopgap measure.American credit card companies may be taking a page from Europeans. At least two companies say they plan to to exper ...
• Work Smart 3: How Camera+ Clicked iPhone App S ...
  Mobile apps are the future of the Web. But what does it take to stay innovative and competitive in the over-crowded app store world?�Lisa Bettany, the creator of the iPhone app�Camera+, says it takes a whole lot of TLC -- and a great team of developers. That, along with your desert island app pi ...
• Wanted: A Smarter Alternative To Flipboard
  Taptu's brand new iPad app brings us one step closer to the future of perfectly personalized news.Sure, it's nice to have an RSS reader that looks good. And it's even better to have one that brings in your social news. But a killer reader does something else: it pulls from new sources you wouldn ...
• New Google Search Updates Seem To Be Putting T ...
  In February, we predicted that Demand Media IPO'd just in time. New data about Google's search changes suggest we might have been right.When Google released anti-spam updates (codename �Panda�) to its U.S. search algorithms this year, eHow seemed doomed. Content farm masters Demand media years a ...

Jadaliyya

• On the Re-Mythification of the Arab
  Accompanying the ongoing events in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and Libya has been an emerging narrative of an �Arab awakening� that has been launched by so-called Arab revolutionaries. One can see this slogan, �the Arab Awakening,� promoted through various media, not least by t ...
• Essential Readings: Reading Pakistan
  Here are the stripped down facts: Pakistan is roughly 165 million people. Most of us are young: 69 percent of the population is under age 30.�And we�re poor. Almost a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. As I write, the quarter-finals for the cricket world cup are unde ...
• Deposed Tyrants Retirement Home
  What is to become of already-deposed dictators? And who will follow? Khalil Bendib portrays some of the issues implicated in these questions and more. � �
• On the Re-Mythification of the Arab
  Accompanying the ongoing events in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and Libya has been an emerging narrative of an �Arab awakening� that has been launched by so-called Arab revolutionaries. One can see this slogan, �the Arab Awakening,� promoted through various media, not least by t ...
• Roundup on the Goldstone Controversy
  While the impact of Justice Goldstoneâs op-ed on accountability and justice remains to be seen, one thing has already been made clear: his contentious and vague editorial has worked to place Israelâs Winter 2008/09 offensive back on center stage. Like Israelâs fatal attack on the Mavi Ma ...

mediagazer

• Leaving in a Huff: or how AOL killed a beloved ...
  Eric D. Snider / VentureBeat: Leaving in a Huff: or how AOL killed a beloved movie blog  —  One thing you may not know about me is that I am a writer.  More specifically, I'm a freelance writer.  This means I can have several clients at once, work from home in my underwear, and set my own hours.
• Michael Wolff on the Upcoming Changes at Adwee ...
  Ujala Sehgal / FishbowlNY: Michael Wolff on the Upcoming Changes at Adweek  —  Michael Wolff, Editorial Director of Adweek, sent an email to subscribers about the news that Brandweek and Mediaweek have published their final print versions, and are being folded into Adweek.  —  The new Adweek, ...
• Four Phone-Hacking Cases to Be Tests for Furth ...
  Sarah Lyall / New York Times: Four Phone-Hacking Cases to Be Tests for Further Claims, Judge Says  —  LONDON — Confronted with the prospect that dozens more potential phone-hacking victims might emerge and sue the News of the World tabloid, a High Court judge said on Friday that he would procee ...
• LA Times, TechCrunch introduce Facebook commen ...
  Damon Kiesow / Poynter: LA Times, TechCrunch introduce Facebook comments, but it's not for everyone  —  Facebook added some features to its commenting system this week, but for publishers the tool is still a work in progress.  —  Launched in March, the system lets readers use their Facebook log ...
• Daily News Owner Spars With Trump Over Claims ...
  Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Daily News Owner Spars With Trump Over Claims That He ‘Saved’ The Paper  —  NEW YORK — Real estate mogul Donald Trump swung back Friday at Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman for refuting his claim that he once prevented the New York City newspaper from goin ...

Chemtrail News

• CHEMTRAILS BLANKET THE SKY TODAY!!!! - ...
  I soon find out why… as I went outside this morning I saw tons of chemtrails blanketing the metropolitan area! As I was filming for about five minutes I got ...www.mythclues.com/.../chemtrails-blanket-the-sky-today-this-...
• Timelapse - Chemtrails in Bangor, Maine ...
  Ladybug colonies died during heavy chemtrail spraying. ... #3982 - Yesterday at 04:22 AM Timelapse - Chemtrails in Bangor, Maine, April 11, 2011 (video) ...globalskywatch.com/chemtrails/ubbthreads.php?ubb...3982
• Post Your ChemTrail Pictures Here!, page 1
  I wanted to go ahead and get a thread going where we can simply post our chemtrail pictures. Let me go first and share some of mine. ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread688487/pg1
• Does this proove the ( chemtrail) theor ...
  i have pretty impressive proof that chemtrails are…answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...
• UFO clearly seen observing a chem trail ...
  I personally have never seen footage of a UFO inspecting a chem-trail, this is very interesting to me because of the recent wave of UFOs across the world, this could have something to do with the use of chemtrails and HAARP etc ...AboveTopSecret.com Hot Topics - http://feeds.abovetopsecret.com/t ...

World News - Top Stories

• Fielding lapses cost us the match: Tendul ...
  Mumbai, April 16: Fielding lapses, including a first-ball dropped catch off Brendon McCullum who smashed his way to 81, cost Mumbai Indians the match against IPL debutants Kochi Tuskers Kerala on Friday, said home team captain Sachin Tendulkar. "They fielded better. In bowling and batting w ...
• IPL teams will take us seriously now: Jay ...
  Mumbai, April 16: Debutantes Kochi Tuskers Kerala on Friday roared back into the Indian Premier League with an upset victory over Mumbai Indians and skipper Mahela Jayawardene hoped the rivals team will take them more seriously now. The Kochi tuskers chased down an imposing 182-2, set by Mu ...
• Social Networking Phase II: Socializing O ...
  An overdependence on technology is dangerous. Technology can never take the place of a teacher, teaching methodology or true learning. However, not using technology to fully engage students of today and the future is absolutely negligent. Young learners use instruments of technology every d ...
• Israel raids Gaza after rocket attacks
  JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli warplanes launched raids against targets in Gaza overnight after two rockets were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, Palestinian security officials said on Saturday. No one was hurt in the air...
• Vettel fastest in final China GP practice
  Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel continued to set the pace at the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix by clocking the fastest time in Saturday's pre-qualifying practice session. Vettel...

no frakking consensus

• A View from Portugal
  Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?
• Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
  Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
• Foul Play on Facebook
  Climate skeptic pages on Facebook were recently targeted. Our content was alleged to be "abusive" and the ability of readers to share it was temporarily blocked.
• The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
  Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
• Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
  Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.

Pointman's

• Food for the Wolf
  Once upon a time there was a mangy old wolf who liked to eat a pig once in a while. People blamed the poor devil terribly for what was after all, just his nature. They made up horrible stories about him eating piglets, cats, dogs, barns, little girls and anything else they could think of … Read more
• So, where are we now with global warming?
  Politicians world-wide got into the âsave the planetâ business for two reasons; electorates were convinced the planet needed saving and would vote for candidates who said theyâd do just that and wouldnât vote for candidates who said it was all hysteria, which it was and which most of them knew i ...
• Living with ghosts.
  This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
• Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
  I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 23
  Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Questions on NOPD's Respect for First Amendment
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Interference With Photographing Police Action Prompts Request for Public Records Concerned about repeated interference with the public's right to photograph police conduct, the ACLU of Louisiana has send a request to Superintendent Ronal Serpas seeking ...
• Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in ...
  Civil rights activist Catrina Wallace, who received national attention for her role in organizing protests around the Jena Six case, was convicted today of three counts of distribution of a controlled substance. Wallace, who is 30, became an activist after her brother, Robert Bailey, was arr ...
• Wrongfully Convicted Urge Action in Wake of Su ...
  From our friends at Innocence Project New Orleans: After Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Thompson v. Connick granting prosecutors' even greater immunity for their misconduct, the Innocence Network released a letter signed by 19 innocent people who were wrongfully convicted in ...
• LJI Co-Director Tracie Washington Named One of ...
  The Root, a daily online magazine published by Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive, has named Louisiana Justice Institute Co-Director Tracie Washington as one of it's twenty Leading Black Women Advocating Change. The list, published this week in commemoration of Women's History Month, aims to " ...
• Two Grandmothers, Two Priests and a Nun go ont ...
  By Bill Quigley Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun were sentenced in federal court in Tacoma, WA Monday March 28, 2011, for confronting hundreds of US nuclear weapons stockpiled for use by the deadly Trident submarines. Sentenced were: Sr. Anne Montgomery, 83, a Sacred Heart sister f ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Homosexuality should be reclassified as "paraphilia" and placed back on the DSM immediately...the condition is obviously a dangerous one... http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/f ... glgbpb.pdfStatistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:29 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Homosexuals die alone!?!? Oh, man! No way!!!! Disparities: Illness More Prevalent Among Older Gay Adults By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: April 1, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE Older lesbian, gay and bisexual adults in California are more likely to suffer from chronic p ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Wimpee and Timothee - like two turds in a toilet bowl. Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:32 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Sorry, "MoeFoe", but the races are not equal, despite what the Jews in the mass media have told you all your life. I'm sorry to have to break this terrible news to you, but you had to find out some time. Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:28 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  There's an App.. for Jew Soccer moms... http://www.getjar.com/mobile/33470/the- ... l-thunder/Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:27 am

TVNZ

• Libya's Misrata under bombardment, West seeks ...
  Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi bombarded the besieged rebel city of Misrata.
• Aid workers in war zones are becoming increasi ...
  New Zealand aid workers in war zones around the globe are increasingly finding themselves the target of hostility.
• Protests flare across Arab world, spread to Sy ...
  Mass protests have spread to the capital of Syria for the first time.
• Suicide bomber kills Afghan police chief in hi ...
  A suicide bomber killed the police chief of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, the second assassination this year of a top official in an area that is the Taliban's heartland and the focus of a US military surge
• Obama says Gaddafi will go eventually despite ...
  US President Barack Obama says he still expects the air campaign in Libya to succeed in ousting Muammar Gaddafi eventually.

environment 360

• Threats from Mekong Dam Highlighted as Constru ...
  As the governments of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia prepare to decide next week whether to proceed with construction of a massive dam on the Mekong River, a new report from the conservation group WWF warns that the dam could have a devastating impact on fish in the river and threaten the ...
• EU Biofuel Targets Encourage Unethical Practic ...
  European biofuel targets are encouraging unethical practices worldwide, from human rights violations to deforestation, and should be suspended until better safeguards are in place, a new report says. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, an independent organization that studies ethical issues in m ...
• Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
  For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s ec ...
• Emissions from Shale Gas Exceed Those from Coa ...
  Natural gas extracted from shale deposits by a process known as hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse gas emissions over a 20-year period than conventional gas, oil, and coal, according to a Cornell University study. Researchers said that during the lifespan of the average shale-gas dri ...
• Cambodia Halts Large Mine, Sparing A Vital Thr ...
  The Cambodian government has canceled a controversial titanium mining project in one of the last remaining intact rainforests in Southeast Asia, citing environmental concerns. In an unexpected announcement, Prime Minister Hun Sen withdrew a concession already granted to the United Khmer Group to ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• People's Food Policy | Canada's National Food ...
  Launching Apr 18 Some info now on site - still some blank links 4/15/2011 Tags: regulations news food nutrition policy
• Federal Jack
  Tags: federal jack nwo blog news
• Activist Post
  Tags: activist news blog
• Niagara At Large | An Independent Site For New ...
  Tags: blog
• Dead-Missing-Jailed BP WHISTLEBLOWERS
  Tags: whistleblowers BP dead jailed

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Picasso's Greatest Muse
  The love affair of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Th�r�se Walter forms a captivating new exhibit at Gagosian Gallery, curated in part by the couple's granddaughter. Raphael had La Fornarina and Rembrandt his Saskia, but there's no more...
• Budget Fight: Obama Needs to Stop Playing Politics
  Instead of posturing for his 2012 campaign, the president needs to offer some bold ideas for the budget-and so do Republicans. Mark McKinnon on how the parties' stubborn battle hurts Americans. As a fiscal tsunami imminently hurtles this way, our...
• Ivory Coast: Let's Stop the Bloodbath
  On the heels of the capture of Laurent Gbagbo in Ivory Coast, Daily Beast Africa correspondent Leymah Gbowee, a survivor of Liberia's civil war, on how to save the country-and why it won't work without women. I felt mixed emotions when I learned of...
• Jon Huntsman: The Only Cool Republican?
  Jon Huntsman is finishing up as Obama's ambassador to China, but his supporters are already crafting his "hip" persona-his motorcycle, cover band, youthful indiscretions. McKay Coppins on whether it'll be enough in 2012 to win Huntsman crucial under-40...
• 2012 Presidential Election Polls' Dirty Secret
  As the 2012 campaign gets under way, we are starting to toss around presidential poll numbers like they mean something. But Jack Germond says may Americans surveyed know nothing about political issues. This is high season for the poll-takers. In the...

Loonwatch

• Sue Myrick’s Hearing on the Muslim Broth ...
  Rep. Sue Myrick of Muslim Mafia fame held hearings on the threat of the MB to the USA.
• Texas GOP Rep. Pushes Anti-Sharia Bill
  Texas Rep. Leo Berman heard Sharia was bad on the radio, decides to pass bill outlawing use of Sharia in Texas state courts. Yea, you can't make this stuff up.
• Catholic Nun Forcibly Removed From Plane for W ...
  A Catholic nun gets taken off a plane and...
• Burning the myths about Islam
  Violent protests in Afghanistan - a reaction to the burning of the Quran by a small USA church last month - recalled an inescapable reality.
• Kareem Salama: America’s Muslim Cowboy A ...
  American Muslim Cowboy Ambassador's state sponsored trip raises troubling questions.

Energy News

• Japan report: “Nuclear fuel has melted i ...
  "If too many of the melted fuel fragments puddle at the bottom, they can generate enough concentrated heat to bore a hole in the pressure vessel, which would result in a massive radioactive release to the environment" ...Read More
• Experts: “Fukushima is going to kill 200 ...
  Three Mile Island expert: Fukushima could kill ...Read More
• Nuclear Expert: Iodine-131 in No. 4 pool sugge ...
  "As workers pour water into unit 4... they might essentially be creating a nuclear reactor" ...Read More
• April 16 forecast shows radioactive cloud stre ...
  Fukushima Potential Releases, Xe-133 Total Column for April 15-April 19, 2011, Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), April 15, 2011 ...Read More
• EPA: Florida rain has third most Cs-134 and fi ...
  Precipitation, EPA RadNet Laboratory Data, April 13, 2011 ...Read More

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

• US Government Caught Smuggling Guns To Mexico ...
  The US Federal Government caught smuggling guns to Mexican drug cartels which are being used to murder US Border Patrol and other federal agents.
• 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 ...
• Vegan magazine passes off pictures of meat as ...
  Many salivate over the mere image of a juicy hamburger or a glistening rack of ribs, but vegetarians aren't usually among them. But apparently, that's what the readers of VegNews, the nation's leading vegan magazine, have been doing for years without their knowledge. With the help of an anonymou ...
• DRC gorillas increase despite war, census finds
  Despite years of chaotic warfare in and around their habitat in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the population of a group of Grauer's gorillas has grown, researchers say. Researchers from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society ventured into the DRC's Kahuzi-Biega National Park recent ...

Macleans - Central

• Voter engagement (II)
  The Conservative campaign has issued the following statement. The Conservative Party encourages all Canadians to…
• The Ontario accord
  David Peterson and Bob Rae talk to The Mark about the Liberal-NDP accord in Ontario…
• Hey look: Which one was Reuben Kincaid?
  From the magazine, my written-on-deadline column about Tuesday’s English-language leaders’ debate. It ends more seriously…
• Voter engagement
  The Conservatives are challenging ballots collected at a University of Guelph polling station, this after…
• Jack Layton knows where he stands, even when h ...
  A new advert from the New Democrats. A companion piece is here.…

Mohawk Nation

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