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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

26 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

A train in Salt Lake City similar to what Omah...Image via Wikipedia

treehugger

  • For Approximately 12 Hours, Speaker John Boehn ...
    Just a few months ago, the Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, voted alongside a unified Republican party to keep doling out multi-billion dollar oil subsidies to corporations that have recently seen record-breaking profits. But just yesterday, Boehner explained to an interviewer that h ...
  • superkül Niagara Winery Uses Passive Tech, Sim ...
    superkül sounds like a frivolous name for an architectural firm, but the work of Andre D'Elia and Meg Graham is anything but. Their Laneway House has been everywhere, including TreeHugger and the World's Greenest Homes, But their Fielding Estate Winery is lower key....Read the full story on ...
  • Innards of iPhone 4 Shown Off with New Transpa ...
    Image via iFixit The motto for the repair community is "If you can't open it, you don't own it." In other words, if your device can't be opened, repaired, upgraded or otherwise hacked, is it really yours or are you borrowing it from the maker? Perhaps part of the reason we're so uncomfortab ...
  • Greely McCar Has Built-in Electric Trike, Inve ...
    Image Credit Greely Chinese car maker Greely proposes a new kind of spare: an electric trike that rolls out of the back of the car. It is hard to think of why any able-bodied person would want such a thing, although Dvice admires it because "One of the problems with driving in a big city, i ...
  • Gorgeous Satellite Images Show Earth As Other- ...
    Images via USGS via Flickr CC Our planet is beautiful. But while we may be used to breathtaking panoramics, satellites often catch a beauty that is completely foreign to us. The USGS has put together a gallery titled Earth As Art 3 that is on display in the Library of Congress, and the "p ...

Biosingularity

  • Fantastic embryonic stem cell animation
  • Immortal Jellyfish Provides Clues for Regenera ...
    The search for the fountain of youth has been ongoing ever since man decided that dying wasn’t all that appealing. And now, it appears that this elusive holy grail has been found, albeit by a species that is not ours! So who is the lucky winner of the everlasting life sweepstakes? None other tha ...
  • Periodic Fasting May Cut Risk of Heart Disease ...
    Occasional water-only fasts may lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes, according to new research presented at the annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans. The study was conducted in Salt Lake City, where two-thirds of the residents are Mormons who ...
  • Researchers use virus to improve solar-cell ef ...
    Researchers at MIT have found a way to make significant improvements to the power-conversion efficiency of solar cells by enlisting the services of tiny viruses to perform detailed assembly work at the microscopic level. In a solar cell, sunlight hits a light-harvesting material, causing it to r ...
  • Reasonable quantities of red pepper may help c ...
    Spicing up your daily diet with some red pepper can curb appetite, especially for those who don’t normally eat the popular spice, according to research from Purdue University. “We found that consuming red pepper can help manage appetite and burn more calories after a meal, especially for individ ...

CFACT

  • Power for the people
    You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty.
  • Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
    Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
  • Welcome to the Third World
    Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
  • Fearing EPA's carbon tax
    The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers’ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else’s.
  • More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
    A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • 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. By the way, want to know why I link to the Iranian state news agency for drone reporting? Because it’s less biased than the New York Time ...
  • 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:Army Spc. Joseph A. Kennedy, 25, of St. Paul, MN.Army Spc. Donald L. Nichols, 21, of Shell Rock, IA.Ar ...
  • '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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Ramps: When is Local not Kosher?
    This spring more than a million plants of wild leek or ramps will be harvested and consumed by individuals, ramp festivals, and especially the culinary industry. Ramps are one of the first harbingers of spring in the forest and for wild food enthusiasts a special treat. Recent demand and consump ...
  • Food Rights Network to Hollywood: Stop Greenwa ...
    We have been investigating how, across the nation, sewage sludge is being dumped on farms and gardens, deceptively labeled as "organic compost," "natural fertilizer," or sometimes the PR term "biosolids." Our investigation has discovered that EMA has -- unknowingly -- made an alliance with a ...
  • THE SCOOP - April 2011 Organic Center Newsletter
    The April edition of the Organic Center Newsletter.Click here to read this article
  • Food Prices: World Bank Warns Millions Face Po ...
    The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty.Click here to read this article
  • Eliminating Packaged Foods Can Lower BPA Exposure
    The endocrine-disrupting chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) is in the news again following the release of a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. This time it is good news. 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

  • DOMA, Gitmo, and False Equivalences
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At Lawfare today, Ben Wittes criticizes King & Spalding for refusing to help the House of Representatives defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.  His argument turns on an analogy between representing the House and representing Gitmo detaine ...
  • Drones Over Libya
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The US has now deployed armed drones over Libya, according to press reports.  Drone systems have been operating as surveillance systems for weeks now, but acting on a NATO request, the US has now put up at least two weaponized drones in the Libya confli ...
  • The Course of International Law, Through HLS Exams
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro For the students among you ramping up for your international law exams, you’re probably glad that you won’t have to face this kind of question (which appeared on Professor Beale’s 1905 exam at Harvard Law School): Indictment for larceny. The defendant was an offi ...
  • Council of Europe Calls on Congress to Pass Av ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness The Council of Europe continues to monitor death penalty practices around the world and call out friendly states that fall short of full abolition.  Last week the Council passed a resolution (full text here) reiterating its support for abolition and cal ...
  • International Law Association Regional Confere ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Our friends at the International Law Association pass along the following registration information for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Conference in Taipei, which features a terrific line-up of speakersi: The 2011 International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Paci ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BBC caught financially supporting climate chan ...
    What is being called a "shadowy" climate change lobby organisation turns out to have had an undeclared conflict of interest after one of its members was outed in connection with a Climategate inquiry whitewash. ANd it also turns out to...
  • Justice system in denial over controversial ne ...
    MEDIA RELEASE NZ JUSTICE SYSTEM IN DENIAL OVER NEW BOOK (radio ad available here Badlands1 ) A new book on the failings of New Zealand’s justice system is provoking major controversy before it has even hit shop shelves. BADLANDS: NZ...
  • New Badlands book shatters myths on NZ crime p ...
    MEDIA RELEASE PUBLIC KEPT IN DARK ABOUT NZ'S TRUE CRIME PROBLEMS A new book by a British crime expert says New Zealanders have been kept in the dark about the true nature of our crime problem, because politicians and academics...
  • 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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My Care2 Picks

  • I See You - Avatar
    can we forgive one another for all our differences and honour the light of the soul? Do we really see one another? I See You... Submitted by EarthSpirit A. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wolves, political stupidity, and fear-mongerin ...
    345 people had been killed in Canada and the U.S. between 1989 and 2009 by domestic dogs. At that point, only one person in the same vast geographic area had been killed by wolves � Kenton Carnegie. Yet Idaho is saying wolves kill people!Submitted by Maggie S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Thinking like an Avon Lady to get suburban w ...
    Lisa Margonelli writes about a program at a suburban California office park that has had huge success in encouraging workers to leave the car at home Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mosaic sells solar panels to people who dont ...
    Community microfunding energy cooperativesSubmitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Military's Secret Shame
    When men in the military rape other men in the ranks, no one wants to talk about it. Why the sexual assault of males in the service is finally being confronted. Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'hero of Palestine' | ...
    Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'hero of Palestine' | Pennie Quinton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Hearing of the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni, a committed peace activist who for the last 10 years... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Malcolm X’s Daughter Disputes Sexuality Claims ...
    Malcolm X’s Daughter Disputes Sexuality Claims - COLORLINES: "Gender Matters columnist Akiba Solomon wrote weeks ago that the allegations in question appear on only two pages of a 600 word book. And... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US project planning to sterilise HIV+ women in SA
    Health-e News Service – The award winning non-profit South African online health news agency providing news on public health issues.: "A controversial US project that pays drug users and alcoholics... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Prof. James Petras: Capitalism and Class Struggle
    Capitalism and Class Struggle: [globalresearch.ca] "Introduction-The class struggle continues to play a central role in the process of capitalist accumulation, albeit it takes different forms... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Maan News Agency: International activists harv ...
    Maan News Agency: International activists harvest on Gaza border: "GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Just a kilometer from the 'security fence' separating Israel and Gaza, international solidarity activists and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Afghan prison break 'inside job'
    ShareThisAfghan prison break 'inside job' 26 Apr 2011 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said on Tuesday that there were signs of "cooperation and facilitation from inside" in a huge Afghan prison break in which hundreds of Taliban inmates escaped. "The escape of all inmates through the tunn ...
  • Seize DC: Citizens For Legitimate Government
    ShareThisSeizeDC.org��--Major protest announcment and organizational materials from Citizens For Legitimate Government to follow shortly.
  • Tepco Workers Agree to Up to 25% Pay Cut After ...
    ShareThisTepco Workers Agree to Up to 25% Pay Cut After Fukushima Nuclear Accident 26 Apr 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers agreed to a management proposal to cut their pay by as much as 25 percent out of a sense of responsibility for the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, their ...
  • Death-row's ex-Black Panther granted new hearing
    ShareThisDeath-row's ex-Black Panther granted new hearing 26 Apr 2011 A US appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing Tuesday death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, without overturning the guilty verdict of the man who has become a cause celebre for death penalty opponents. The court in Pennsylva ...
  • Police Concern Over Royal Wedding Protests
    ShareThisPolice Concern Over Royal Wedding Protests --Military personnel to be part of�massive security operation 26 Apr 2011 Police are concerned about two extreme groups which are planning protests during the Royal Wedding... Military personnel will be part of the massive security operation ar ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

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

  • The Mysterious Well: Part II of II
    Axe Handle Cam Events from Farah Province, Afghanistan Published 24 April 2011 The previous dispatch ended with Kris LeBoutillier lowering his camera into the mysterious well at Kafir Qala, which is believed to be more than 2,000 years old. The depth and contents of the ancient well were unkn ...
  • Important Message From Libya
    22 April 2011 I�ve been reading traffic from a private worldwide group regarding the sad loss of journalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington in Libya.� The people discussing the loss include names you sometimes see on national television, in books, and so on and so forth.� The bylaws of the ...
  • The Mysterious Well
    Kak Kohzad 21 April 2011 In Afghanistan, there is a mysterious and ancient well.� Nobody knew how deep it was, or what might be down there, but some locals thought it might contain bones of their ancestors.� My friend Steve Shaulis came upon the well while working in Farah Province, and decide ...
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • Today's election thoughts
    Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
  • Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
    Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • For Approximately 12 Hours, Speaker John Boehn ...
    Just a few months ago, the Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, voted alongside a unified Republican party to keep doling out multi-billion dollar oil subsidies to corporations that have recently seen record-breaking profits. But just yesterday, Boehner explained to an interviewer that h ...
  • superkül Niagara Winery Uses Passive Tech, Sim ...
    superkül sounds like a frivolous name for an architectural firm, but the work of Andre D'Elia and Meg Graham is anything but. Their Laneway House has been everywhere, including TreeHugger and the World's Greenest Homes, But their Fielding Estate Winery is lower key....Read the full story on ...
  • Innards of iPhone 4 Shown Off with New Transpa ...
    Image via iFixit The motto for the repair community is "If you can't open it, you don't own it." In other words, if your device can't be opened, repaired, upgraded or otherwise hacked, is it really yours or are you borrowing it from the maker? Perhaps part of the reason we're so uncomfortab ...
  • Greely McCar Has Built-in Electric Trike, Inve ...
    Image Credit Greely Chinese car maker Greely proposes a new kind of spare: an electric trike that rolls out of the back of the car. It is hard to think of why any able-bodied person would want such a thing, although Dvice admires it because "One of the problems with driving in a big city, i ...
  • Gorgeous Satellite Images Show Earth As Other- ...
    Images via USGS via Flickr CC Our planet is beautiful. But while we may be used to breathtaking panoramics, satellites often catch a beauty that is completely foreign to us. The USGS has put together a gallery titled Earth As Art 3 that is on display in the Library of Congress, and the "p ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Egypt prosecutor orders Mubarak to prison hospital
    [JURIST] Egyptian public prosecutor Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud on Sunday ordered ousted president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] transferred from a private hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh to a prison hospital in Cairo. Mahmoud ordered the transfer [AP report] after Mubarak's docto ...
  • Federal judge denies challenge to Virginia pri ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court of the Western District of Virginia [official website] has ruled [opinion, PDF] that the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) [official website] did not violate the rights of a Muslim inmate by not allowing him to grow a beard. The VDOC grooming po ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments on class certifi ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website, JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Monday in Erica P John Fund v. Halliburton [oral argument transcript, PDF; JURIST report]. The court will determine whether investor losses need to be proven by a preponderanc ...
  • Sudan to hold Darfur referendum in July
    [JURIST] The Sudan National Elections Commission (NEC) [official website, in Arabic] announced on Sunday that an administrative referendum is set for July 1 for residents to determine whether Darfur [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] should continue to be separated into three states or retu ...
  • Supreme Court rejects Virginia petition for ex ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday denied [order list, PDF] Virginia's request for the court to rule on the constitutionality of the health care reform law [HR 3590 text; JURIST news archive] on an expedited basis. The writ was filed [JURIST report] i ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Picture of the Day: The 'Draft Trump' HQ
    This is Google's streetview image of the headquarters for Draft Trump, the organization dedicated to promoting Donald Trump's potential 2012 White House candidacy. One might imagine a Trump-backing group to be based in a giant, luxurious tower, or some imposing office building. Not so. A ...
  • Waste in the War on Terrorism
    Millions have been squandered on "homeland security" over the past decade. The costs to our liberty have also been too high. Earlier this year, a reporter at a small community newspaper got the answer to a question she'd been asking for months: "Are there really 33 terrorist organizations in ...
  • Passports and Freedom to Leave
    If the State Department has its way, it will become extraordinarily difficult for some U.S. citizens to get permission to travel abroad  What if I told you that a cadre of "birther" Republicans want to prevent President Obama from appearing on Election 2012 ballots unless he fills out a for ...
  • Ron Paul Will Form Presidential Exploratory Co ...
    Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during two previous presidential campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he's going to try a third time. Sources close to Paul, who is in his 12th term in the House, said he will unveil an exp ...
  • No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide The Gitmo Det ...
    Whatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation's inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-revealed documents remind us again of the wide gulf between what Bush administration officials consistently told us about the prisoners and what was ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • Court Proceedings in Rape Case Under Gag Revea ...
    Well-known Israeli journalist Yoav Yitzhak, writing at News1, attacks the spinelessness of the media in protecting Channel 2 news reporter, Yoav Even, accused of brutally raping and injuring a woman in late February.  Yitzhak wonders at the oddness of the Israeli media, whose wont is to clamor ...
  • Support Tikun Olam
    I’m delighted that by the end of today 15,000 visitors will be visiting this site to learn about the charges of rape levelled against Israel’s Channel 2 reporter, Yoav Even.  I’m also proud of the cooperation among bloggers and activists and myself which led to uncovering this story.  This is ...
  • Israeli TV Reporter Accused of Rape, Alleged C ...
    Hannah Beit Halachmi, one of Israel’s leading feminist bloggers who has written passionately about crimes against women in her country, reports on the case of Yoav Even (Hebrew), Channel 2 TV’s health (his field is ironic in the extrme) reporter, who’s been accused by a co-worker of a violent ra ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...

Ode Magazine

  • “The washing machine has changed society more ...
    Ha-Joon Chang, a Cambridge economist, turns conventional wisdom about the free market on its head in his new book, 23 Things They Donât Tell You About Capitalism. In it, he argues that the washing machine was more revolutionary than the Internet. Wait a minute. Has the In ...
  • Make your own money
    Local currencies can help create sustainable growth and healthy communities. In Detroit, cheer dollars are helping restore local economic confidence.Photo: AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates Communities have long needed a more sensible means to create money. To dat ...
  • Management as meditation
    How meditation helps managers make better business decisionsâand why itâs good for the bottom line. Your mind is like a wild buffalo.” This comment from a Buddhist meditation leader in Sri Lanka struck a chord. When I first heard it years ago, though, it didn’t work fo ...
  • Finding your way back to life
    Photo by Seyed Mostafa Zamani “A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.” Believing in the wisdom of this old proverb, German tour operator TUI partnered with Private Trauer Akademie, a German “mourning academy” founded by undertaker and grief counselor Fritz Roth, to off ...
  • The age of endarkenment
    Donât leave your shadow behind when pursuing enlightenment. It’s been commonplace in the Far East for millennia, but the search for enlightenment has been snowballing recently in the West. Since “flower power” in the 1960s and the New Age movement that followed, we’ve been ...

OpEd News

  • Taco Bell Plans to Sue the Law Firm That Sued It
    Taco Bell plans to turn the tables on the Alabama law firm that sued it.
  • Has Donald Trump Voted In Past Elections? Was ...
    in 2004, in what was supposed to be a puff piece, Donald Trump didn't know where he was supposed to go to vote. He showed up with camera crew and entourage in tow, precinct workers fawning, but they couldn't let him vote. He was at the wrong precinct location. It would seem that Donald T ...
  • WHY WALL STREET IS WINNING
    How Wall Street is raking in the big bucks while the Administration remains complicit and teh left silent. Danny Schechter dissects.
  • America's Historical Illiteracy: A Review of T ...
    In an unfortunaely disorganized new book, the esteemd historian, John Lukacs looks at the sad state of historical understanding in the United States and offers prescriptions for its improvement, if not its very salvation.
  • Needed: A Disruptive Donald On the Left
    What Trump does to the right -- force some issues -- is what a challenger on the left must do to 1) keep the Dems from more capitulation, and 2) shake up this White House so it doesn't blow its chances as the Dems got overwhelmed in 2010.

Switchboard

  • The rousing success of DC's Capital Bikeshare
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC   Capital Bikeshare, Washington’s wildly popular bikesharing program, now claims to have nearly 11,000 members and 1100 bikes in circulation from “over 110” self-ser ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile With the latest round of HidroAysén’s environmental impact review underway, the proposed large hydroelectric power complex is making headlines.  The Minister of Energy and Mining announ ...
  • EPA releases new greenhouse gas inventory for ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Boulder, Colorado The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just released its�"Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2009." One of the categories reviewed is "Natural Gas Systems," which i ...
  • Veteran Reporter: Journalists should report on ...
    Bob Keefe, Senior press secretary, Washington, DC There’s a rule of thumb they used to teach in journalism school. For every story, find at least three different sources, representing three different viewpoints, and make sure you give each of the ...
  • The collapse of the "key assumptions" of sprawl
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC   For today’s entry I am happy to return to Washington Post commentator Roger Lewis, whose April 23 column analyzed market forces now favoring walkable neighborhoods ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Nails/McCourt!
    Between his gross misogyny and rampant financial fraud, the only remaining question is whether Dykstra gears up for a 2016 run at the GOP nomination or waits until 2020.
  • The Right Talk
    The point that Chait makes here about how a lot of the nonsense about how tax cuts invariably lead to pony and unicorn explosions is borne out of the necessity of finding a politically palatable way of defending the principle that extremely wealthy people should have their taxes kept low is born ...
  • The Tyranny of the President Choosing His Own ...
    It indeed doesn’t get much more grimly hilarious than Dick Cheney’s lawyer pretending to be aghast at the “kingly power” what would result from the president being able to appoint the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without congressional collaboration. Matt is als ...
  • Appalling Example of Bush-era Capitalism of th ...
    Frank McCourt.
  • The triumph of Mr. Pink?
    Goodbye waiters? Well not exactly. Somebody still has to bring you your food: Suri stresses that the console is not designed to replace waiters. “You still need people to bring the food, to fill up the glasses, for customers to [interact with] if they want to make, like, a really complicated bur ...

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Blind win easier access to law school applicat ...
    After two years of legal wrangling, the Law School Admission Council and the National Federation of the Blind have reached a settlement--with the help of the Justice Department--over the accessibility of the Web site nearly every U.S. law school uses to accept student applications.
  • Jones Day leads the pack in U.S.-based attorneys
    With 3,738 lawyers in 43 offices, Baker & McKenzie once again topped the NLJ 250--The National Law Journal's list of the largest 250 U.S.?based firms by attorney headcount.
  • Protecting America's intellectual property assets
    World Intellectual Property Day serves as a reminder of the dangers posed by infringement, counterfeiting, theft, espionage and other IP crimes.
  • E-DISCOVERY: A SPECIAL REPORT
    Until the next rules change, recent case law is the best standard for preservation obligations; state e-discovery rules are all over the map. Other topics covered in this special report include native production, proportionality, "Big Data" and concept searching.
  • China: The 'fastest growing legal market in th ...
    China was the second most-popular foreign location for large U.S.-law firms during 2010. According to the latest NLJ 250, 70 firms maintained offices in China and had posted 2,055 lawyers there.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Video: Natural gas blow back in Bradford county
    Frac fluid spills from well for 20 hours at Chesapeake site near Canton. Fluid flowed into a creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna. For more details, see http://www.wnep.com/wnep-brad-leroy-gas-drillingemergency20110420,0,1884646.story
  • Do not discuss the chemicals – Lessons f ...
    So, I’m posting this email I received from the RDA (responsible Drilling Alliance) out of Williamsport, PA because it is full of all the things that I’ve been certain of since the gas companies and their land men showed up, but now there is actually some proof. At least it is proof enough for me ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

  • Infant Found in Running Vehicle
    Investigators explained that no adults were in the area and the child was taken into police custody. Also, the baby was taken to Memorial Hospital for evaluation before being turned over to family members.
  • UN Deplores Attacks on Aid Workers in Southern ...
    A UN staff member was killed over the weekend. Ms. Amos urged the authorities in southern Sudan to ensure the safety of humanitarian personnel.
  • Libya Receives $47 Million for Humanitarian As ...
    The US $47 million worth of assistance to Libya comprised of the $13 million alloted to the International Organization of Migration to support the humanitarian air evacuation; $10 million to the World Food Program for various food operations; anothe
  • Whistle-Blowers Reveal Criminal Activity At UC ...
    A whistleblower from within the University of California (Davis) has disclosed dozens of unnecessary deaths due to negligence by lab staff, according to records obtained by research watchdog group SAEN. One primate at the lab who was found dead with
  • U.S. Voices Concern on Escalating Tensions Alo ...
    Ms. Clinton stated that the United States support the efforts of Indonesia in their role as chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to work with both countries to reach a resolution.

environment 360

  • Outsourced Emissions Dwarf CO2 Cuts in Develop ...
    Carbon emission reductions achieved since 1990 by the world’s developed nations were canceled out many times over by the increase of imported goods from nations without binding emissions targets, including China, according to a new report. While climate policies, including the Kyoto Protocol, st ...
  • Future Water Stress Detailed In U.S. Report on ...
    A new U.S. government report on water in the American West in the 21st century forecasts that temperatures in the region will soar by 5 to 7 degrees F., major rivers such as the Rio Grande and Colorado could Click to enlarge U.S. Department of InteriorProjected precipitation change, 2070-2099 ...
  • Steep Decline in Migratory Birds Likely Caused ...
    UK scientists say that a steep decline in the number of migratory birds arriving each spring from Africa — including cuckoos, nightingales and turtle doves — is likely the result of land pressures on both ends of the RSCBA nightingale birds’ annual migrations. Since 1995, the number of turtle d ...
  • Video of Town Hall on Science and Impact of Cl ...
    A town hall forum on climate change filmed at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will be broadcast tonight on the Weather Channel as part of its NBC LearnVIDEO: Town hall forum on climate Earth Day coverage. The discussion, which is moderated by veteran NBC journalist Tom Bro ...
  • Nearly Half of Amazon Is Protected But Vulnera ...
    While nearly 44 percent of the Brazilian Amazon has protected status, poor management and limited oversight make many areas susceptible to human encroachment and development, including logging and Click to enlarge ISA/ImazonAmazon deforestation mining, according to a new report. As of late 2010 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Last Supper was a day earlier, scientist claims
    Christians have long celebrated Jesus Christ’s Last Supper on Maundy Thursday but new research released Monday claims to show it took place on the Wednesday before the crucifixion. Professor Colin Humphreys, a scientist at the University of Cambridge, believes it is all due to a calendar mix-up ...
  • Vatican embarrassed by error-filled catechism book
    The Vatican has again been embarrassed by a botched translation of its teachings, with the launch of an error-plagued book that implies the Holy See approves of contraception and euthanasia. The errors came to light during a Vatican press conference launching "Youcat: Youth Catechism of the Cath ...
  • Controversial Photos of Kids Reenacting Abu Gh ...
    Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin’s series In the Playroom is guaranteed to make you uncomfortable. Hobin calls these photos "tableau-vivant re-enactments" of current events, "a metaphor for the impossibility of a protective space safe from the reach of modern media." Risque as it sounds in p ...
  • ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
    Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil servant, the Nobel-winning Egypti ...
  • Laboratory Beauty vs. Homegrown Beauty
    Every morning millions of women wake up and enhance their looks by applying make-up. How many of these women actually know what it is they are rubbing into their skin, lips and around their eyes? For if they knew, would they feel differently about it? Many make-up companies do not list the ingre ...

Russia Today

  • Fears Fukushima crisis will worsen as world re ...
    While TEPCO is removing contaminated water from reactor 2 of the troubled Fukushima-1 nuclear plant and after successful tests has started spraying resin to prevent the spread of radioactive dust, experts fear...
  • Two homemade bombs discovered in southern Russia
    Police in the city of Volgograd in southern Russia are investigating cases of two homemade bombs planted on Tuesday morning near law enforcement facilities. Nobody was harmed by the devices.
  • Facebook founder invited to “Facebook Island”
    The mayor of the Croatian island of Hvar wants to lure tourists including Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the world’s most popular social networking site Facebook, by renaming one of the nearby islands after the online...
  • Road vigilante caught for crashing into reckle ...
    If you ever wanted swift retribution for that guy who just took the free lane you wanted for yourself, you are not alone. A minibus driver from Russia seems to have turned his road rage into revenge on his own terms.
  • EU troops would guard aid throughout Libya – r ...
    German newspaper Bild has given a sneak peek of operation EUFOR Libya, the plan to use EU ground troops to protect humanitarian convoys on the request of the UN.

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

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...

The Freeman

  • Dependence on Government Hits All-Time High
    “Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nationâs history, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. The trend shows few signs of easing, even though the economic recovery is nearly 2 years old. A record 18.3% of the nationâs total personal income ...
  • People Feel the Pinch of Higher Gas Prices
    “Soaring gasoline prices are biting into household incomes and nibbling at Americansâ fuel consumption â and support for President Obama, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.” (Washington Post) Déjà vu. FEE Timely Classic “How Not to Respond to Higher Gasoline Prices” by David N. Laba ...
  • Government Employee Pensions Are on the Table
    “Conventional wisdom and the laws and constitutions of many states have long held that the pensions being earned by current government workers are untouchable. But as the fiscal crisis has lingered, officials in strapped states from California to Illinois have begun to take a second look, to see ...
  • Silence: One Way Truth Loses
    The Duke lacrosse suits are a rare opportunity to lift the veils that protect academic, police, and court misconduct from public view.
  • Silence: One Way Truth Loses
    What can be said about a criminal case in which the mainstream media became a lynch mob, the district attorney’s maneuvering led to his disbarment, the left screamed âracism!,â political candidates ran on the promise of justice, and dozens of faculty members at an elite college publicly demanded ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Skills for journalists: The basics
    Jennifer Peebles — a self-described “old geezer who used to work at a newspaper” — wrote a post at the SPJ Net Worked blog titled Digital media skills every young journalist needs. Like a lot of old geezers (I say that with affection!), she started with the fundamentals: Be honest, accurate, fai ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Environmental justice communities bear ...
    By Robert J. Bullard, OpEdNews It has been one year since the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster created an environmental nightmare on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The oil disaster killed 11 workers. And for three months the nation watched and held its breath as the busted BP well spewed ...
  • CHRONIC EXPOSURE
    Along the Gulf Coast, the oil industry's harm to communities' health goes far beyond the BP disaster. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis In the offices of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots nonprofit in Mid-City New Orleans, a large map of the state and the Gulf of Mex ...
  • Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
    For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
  • A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
  • A REGULATORY DISASTER
    Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed F ...
    In this interview, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop talks about the Senegal military's effort to integrate women into its armed forces, the many facets of that challenge, and how Senegal is one African country that has been able to avoid a coup.
  • 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.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • A blast from the past and a reminder about the ...
    Courtesy of the Black Agenda Report: As election year 2008 began, Obama took the most pro-banker, laissez faire capitalist position on home foreclosures of the three major Democratic presidential candidates. John Edwards backed a mandatory moratorium on foreclosures and a freeze on interest rate ...
  • The profits of local instability
    A “reasonable” amount of localized political instability in major oil-exporting nations is an extremely profitable situation for relatively stable oil exporters.  Saudi Arabia, among other, oil exporting nations is seeing the value of their oil exports increase dramatically as the civil war in ...
  • A bit more on hedonic adjustments
    Hedonics, in economics, is essentially the idea that if something is better than it used to be, it is effectively cheaper, so inflation is less than it seems. In comments, BDBlue posted this: In Queens, New York, on Friday, William Dudley was bombarded with questions about food inflation, and hi ...
  • Core CPI is exactly the wrong thing to watch
    Our lords and masters (h/t Americablog): Those trends came as real income dropped 0.5 percent for the month. The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent after rising by the same margin in February. That was in line with economists expectations. Core CPI is vindicatio ...
  • 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 [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Fleeing fish could skew scuba surveys
    Much of our knowledge of coral reefs is based on surveys by scuba divers. But what if those divers are scaring away the fish they’re trying to count? A new study in PLoS One suggests that the so-called ‘diver effect’ drives away an average of half the fish in a given area, with 70% of individ ...
  • 25th anniversary of Chernobyl accident
    Today marks the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the explosion in 1986 of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine - a bitter irony given the ongoing Fukushima-Daichii nuclear disaster. Nature's news editor, Mark Peplow, was on his way to Chernobyl to ...
  • SETI scope suspends search
    There is a new answer to the Fermi Paradox ¬– which asks why, if the universe is vast and the basic ingredients life plentiful, have we not yet discovered another civilization? The answer may be: because we can’t afford to. Last Friday, the SETI Institute in Mountainview, California, sent o ...
  • Research board calls for Gulf Coast proposals
    The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) research board today announced its long-awaited request for proposals from researchers who want to use British Petroleum (BP) funds to study the effects of last year’s Gulf Coast Oil spill. Interdisciplinary teams of researchers may now apply for fund ...
  • Hauser Science publication replicated
    The journal Science has published a replication of results from a 2007 publication coauthored by Marc Hauser. The paper, "The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates”, found that cotton-top tamarins, rhesus macaques, and chimpanzees can each infer the intentions underly ...
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