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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.

Monday, April 18, 2011

18 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
EU tells Italy to keep solar incentives stable
Reuters
- Apr 18, 2011
- 38 minutes ago
EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in a letter to Italy's Industry Minister Paolo Romani he was concerned about consequences of such changes for investment in the renewable energy sector after receiving complaints from sector operators. ...
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Renewable energy, efficiency improvements focus of Salt Lake City conference
CanadianBusiness.com
- Apr 18, 2011
- 3 hours ago
By Josh Loftin SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Organizers of an upcoming renewable energy conference here are working to take their message mainstream, saying that opportunities to tap into power from natural resources at home are no longer reserved for the ...
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Starbucks Exec Dishes on New Corporate Social Responsibility Plan
Earth911.com
- Apr 18, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Improvements include LED lighting initiatives, purchasing renewable energy credits and water reduction. Photo: Gloria Dawson Starbucks first started publishing its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports 10 years ago. Back then, according to Ben ...
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The United States falls behind Germany in renewable energy investment
GlobalPost
- Apr 18, 2011
- 6 hours ago
It's an illustration of how Germany is powering ahead when it comes to investment in renewable energy. Europe's biggest economy doubled its investment last year to reach $41.2 billion. In doing so, it bumped the United States out of second place as an ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Long-haul, costly recovery for ecology
Tampabay.com
- Apr 17, 2011
- 11 hours ago
The lapses in safety, training, equipment and regulation that contributed to last year's BP oil disaster are well known. But it will take years or decades to fully measure the ecological damage from 206 million gallons of oil that flooded into the Gulf ...
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Mitchell plans Earth Day events for Thursday, Friday
TheDay.com
- Apr 18, 2011
- 8 hours ago
From 7 to 8:30 pm Thursday, the college will host a presentation on a five-day field ecology class that brought Mitchell students and faculty members to Bermuda for environmental service learning focused on the human impact on the island's habitats. ...
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Sweet solution: Sugarcane helps cool climate
Times of India
- Apr 17, 2011
- 15 hours ago
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology found the important agro-industrial plants help lower the temperature of the surrounding air by reflecting sunlight back into space and "exhaling" cooler water. ...
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Earth Day Festivities at the Ecology Center
Patch.com
- Apr 18, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By Ryan Kelling | Email the author | 5:45am The Ecology Center celebrated Earth Day Saturday. It hosted a display of educational exhibits, led hands-on workshops and brought in a food truck that offered a vegetarian menu for the day. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's "Elephant" Kiss
The Gossip Girls
- Apr 18, 2011
- 42 minutes ago
After a busy night of schmoozing during the NYC “Water For Elephants” premiere, Robert Pattinson was spotted sharing a kiss with girlfriend Kristen Stewart. The “Twilight” co-stars hopped into their chauffeured vehicle after hitting up an after-party ...
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Harrisburg issues city-wide boil water advisory
abc27
- Apr 18, 2011
- 35 minutes ago
By Myles Snyder - email Officials have announced a boil water advisory for the entire city of Harrisburg due to a main break that has closed the Capitol Complex and several schools and businesses. All residents of the city were advised to boil their ...
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20 Boy Scouts, adult leaders rescued along Potomac
Washington Post (blog)
- Apr 18, 2011
- 4 hours ago
By Justin Jouvenal Twenty Boy Scouts and adult chaperones were rescued early Monday after becoming trapped by rising water along the Potomac River at White's Ferry, Montgomery County fire officials said. The rescue was one of a number of high-water ...
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Corbett vows to keep gas drillers from poisoning water
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Apr 18, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Tom Corbett today said he will not allow Marcellus shale drillers to "poison the water" but defended his decision not to levy a tax on gas extraction. Speaking at the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, Corbett responded to a person ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ZAMBIA: High-Tech Border Post Transforming Trade
    A few weeks ago, a truck driver got the shock of his life when his employer called from South Africa asking why he had siphoned fuel from his vehicle while awaiting clearance at the Kasumbalesa Border Post between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Developing Nations Protest Move to Slash U.N. ...
    The Group of 77 (G77), the largest single coalition of developing countries, has issued a strong letter of protest against a proposal to cut some 155 million dollars from the U.N.'s 2012-2013 biennium budget beginning next January.
  • MEXICO: Recurring Risks from Radioactive Materials
    Mexico needs to take urgent steps to tighten oversight of the storage, handling and disposal of radioactive materials that can threaten the lives and health of its population, experts warn.
  • DEVELOPMENT: Swazi Village Tastes Sweet Succes ...
    The previously impoverished community of Malibeni, previously ravaged by drought, is bustling with farmers who have transformed the area into a bread basket. Lush green fields of sugarcane and vegetables have replaced an expanse of dry shrubs near this community in northeastern Swaziland.
  • SYRIA: Unrest Spreads Further
    Despite scarce official news reports emerging from Syria, information leaking out from activists on the ground describe the situation as deteriorating. While the government remains vague about events unfolding in the country, Friday prayers continue to ignite dissent that seems to be spr ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Public Radio, Conservative Listeners - NYTimes.com
    How cutting funds for US public radio could have hurt conservative listeners, too - a salutary story for those who want to make similar cuts to Radio NZ.
  • The Real Housewives of Wall Street | Rolling Stone
    America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and ..
  • Dr. Michio Kaku: Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb"
    The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level. "Radiation is continuing to leak out of ...
  • TEPCO confirms damage to No. 4 unit's spent nu ...
    The cooling period for 548 of the 1,331 rods was shorter than that for others and the volume of decay heat emitted from the fuel in the No. 4 unit pool is larger compared with pools at other reactor buildings. According to TEPCO, radioactive iodine-131 amounting to 220 becquerels per cubic ce ...
  • AJ: The Shifting Zeitgeist of the 'Arab Spring'
    Welcome to the new Egypt; same as the old Egypt? Has the revolution become merely a transition between dynastic orders, with a collective Pharaoate replacing the recently deposed pharaoh like some postmodern redux of the Third Intermediate Period, the interregnum between the New Kingdom and Late ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically
    As Monday's tax filing deadline nears, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all.
  • Gov't asks high court to take GPS tracking case
    The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up an important privacy case for the digital age, whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements.
  • Swarm of Quakes have Experts Concerned
    Nevada Seismologists are keeping a close eye on an area southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada where hundreds of earthquakes have been detected since Sunday.
  • Obama moves forward with Internet ID plan
    The Obama administration said today that it's moving ahead with a plan for broad adoption of Internet IDs despite concerns about identity centralization, and hopes to fund pilot projects next year.
  • Belarus: Central Bank Halts Sales of Gold for ...
    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.

Innovation Canada

  • Designing consumers
    Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
  • Sharing culture
  • Targeting tumours
    Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
  • Women and science
    Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.

Signs of the times

  • Medicine doesn't work properly in space
    Here's one more unexpected challenge for space travel: drugs crucial for treating everything from a mild headache to a serious infection don't work properly in the radically different environment away from Earth...and yes, radiation might be part of the problem. On Earth, medicine can generally ...
  • Narcissism and Spiritual Materialism: The New ...
    Recently, I went for a walk with a close friend in a nearby town. It was a beautiful day and the town was one of those places where there is an abundance of antique stores, craft shops, book stores and the like. As we walked along I spotted a sign in a window that said "Zen" and "Tai Chi." Curio ...
  • Egypt Archaeology Chief Zahi Hawass to Appeal ...
    Zahi Hawass, Egypt's minister of state for antiquities, said he will appeal a one-year jail sentence imposed on him yesterday. The sentence is related to a lawsuit accusing him of refusing to carry out a court ruling, the state-run Middle East News Agency said today. The court had ordered a h ...
  • Archaeological Survey of India to hold exhibit ...
    The excavation branch of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will organise an exhibition at Khirsara in Kutch on Monday to draw attention towards this site of western Kutch once citadel of Harappan civilisation. "We are holding this exhibition at primary school of Khirsara to mark the World ...
  • A new Clockwork Orange? The marketing gadget t ...
    Would you feel comfortable if market researchers could know your every thought? A headband designed by San Francisco firm EmSense can sense your brainwaves as you have reactions to watching something and then record the data for researchers. The process of measuring your reaction to something ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Conservative Stasi
    Dr. Dawg is chilling. The Harper goons, with the support of the RCMP has created lists of political dissidents. Young voters now find themselves on lists and banned from Harper events for such crimes against the party as visiting Cancun on behalf of a well established mainstream environmental NG ...
  • Dear Liberals, NDP, Greens, and possibly Bloc:
    If these poll projections remain flat throughout this campaign, Stephen Harper could eat a live kitten on TV and still find himself heading a minority government after 2 May. You will, as individual parties, have lost three elections in a row to a gang of thugs whom you found to commit one of th ...
  • Iggy gettin' it?
    "This not about me...this is not about Liberal Party of Canada" means sweet fuck all if Mr. Ignatieff isn't willing to compromise on a coalition with the other parties should the Conservatives find themselves with yet another minority win. If the Liberal leader (and the rest of them for that ...
  • Operation Unified Protector
    DAVID CENCIOTTI'S WEBLOG has a detailed account of the Libyan air adventure, that is worthy of your attention. Apparently, the Armée de l'Air and the RAF were really hot to trot:all of a sudden, while the United Nation Security Council was about to give birth to Resolution 1973, France had alrea ...
  • Conservative campaign: producing 12 metric ton ...
    Unsurprisingly, the Harpercon children have opted to shit the planet by, unlike the other four parties, not purchasing carbon offsets for their campaign air travel. That party is cognitively damaged.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's "Straight News" Wildly Overinflates GOP ...
    Carl Cameron reported that�Rep.�Paul Ryan's budget proposal would "cut�more than�$6 trillion from the federal debt of $14 trillion over the course of the next 10�years." In fact, Ryan's�proposal claims that it would reduce the federal�deficit�by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years -- not reduc ...
  • Serial Health Care Fearmongerers Fox & ...
    After President Obama pointed out cuts in Rep. Paul Ryan's budget to elderly care and education programs, Fox & Friends�reacted by accusing Obama of "playing on the public's fear." But�Fox & Friends�has relentlessly attacked the health care bill by advancing the false "death panels" myth and cr ...
  • Right-Wing Media's History Of Unhinged Attacks ...
    Conservative media have gone to great lengths to portray Planned Parenthood as an organization of "child killers" bent on eliminating entire minority populations. These unhinged claims have led to sexist attacks on women and women's health services.Conservative Media Attack Planned Parenthood A ...
  • Fox Dutifully Adopts GOP Talking Points On Oba ...
    Following the GOP response to President Obama's speech on his budget plan, Fox News figures have repeatedly echoed the idea that it was an "excessively partisan" "campaign speech," along with several other GOP talking points.GOP Responds To Obama's Speech: "Excessively Partisan," All "Campaign ...
  • Eric Bolling Calls Standard Eco ...
    Eric Bolling�deceptively edited President�Obama's remarks on the need to "reduce spending in the tax code" and accused him of using "fuzzy math, Obama math." In comments Bolling excised out of the address, Obama made clear he was comparing "tax expenditures" to spending,�a comparison economis ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Budget Debate, Revealed? Not Yet.
    One of the better sketches of at what's at stake in the budget debate comes from The New York Times' Richard W. Stevenson, who suggests that it's opening the philosophical and political chasm between two camps. Well, sort-of. On one side are conservatives such as Arthur Brooks of the American ...
  • Paul Ryan's $30 Trillion Burden, Where Is Pete ...
    Paul Ryan is proving more useful than any of could have possibly dreamed. His plan, as analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), drives home the simple truth that the long-term budget problem is a health care problem. Ryan radically reduces the cost of Medicare in the decades ahead, ...
  • What Defenders of Obama's Speech Don't Get
    Hannah Arendt characterized politics as a realm of "speech-acts," in which words aren't so divorced from deeds that words become empty and deeds become brutal. Yet our national orchestra of high-minded opinion, from Paul Krugman and the New York Times editorial board to my sometime-friends at T ...
  • Soft Power Rules
    If ever there was an argument that our spending priorities are screwed up, it's this chart from this morning's Times. President Obama wants to cut the Defense budget and the Republicans want to preserve the defense budget and cut taxes on millionaires and eliminate Medicare as we know it. And ...
  • Internet Retailer Taxation Highlights Hypocris ...
    Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) are planning to introduce a bill to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet and other interstate products that currently escape taxation. � As I've described in the past, this will help struggling states close their massive budget gaps (to ...

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
    read more
  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Power Shift 2011 {Videos — Gore, McKibben, DeC ...
    I did a short preview of Power Shift 2011 last week. Unfortunately, living across the pond (and half a continent away), I wasn't able to make it to the event. If you're like me & wish you could have been there, here are a few great videos from the event, videos of wonderful speeches on global wa ...
  • Drought Cold Hamper Carbon Sequestration in US
    A new study supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy has concluded that forests and other terrestrial ecosystems in the contiguous United States of America can sequester up to 40 percent of the nation’s fossil fuel carbon emissions.
  • Surfer Recycling Ocean Garbage into Surfboards
    Individuals that physically interact with their outdoors environment tend to be passionate about preserving it. Hikers, conservationists, fishermen, hunters, rock climbers, and surfers are passionate about keeping their outdoor playgrounds free of pollution.
  • Republicans for the Environment, Really
    "It turns out there are still a small group of die-hard grownups left among the increasingly crazed and raving anti-science radicals of what once was a great political party in America."...
  • Crow Protects Cat… for Life {VIDEO}
    Adorable? Yes Worth a share? Yes Why can't we all just get along? Who knows?

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Joni Mitchell Interview - Music and Entertainment
    ...
  • No surprise Bob Dylan is visiting the ‘neighbo ...
    The Call Bob Dylan Won't Heed: BDS, Bullies, and Blowing Wind "So, will Bob Dylan - the man who wrote "Masters of War" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" in 1963 - heed the call?  Of course not.  Although Dylan would appear to be the perfect political ally, his human...
  • US drones killed 957 Pakistani civilians in 20 ...
    Source: Press TV in Islamabad A total of 957 Pakistani civilians were killed in American drone attacks in the country 2010, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in its annual report Thursday. The report that focused on human rights violations in the country also laid an emphasis on ...
  • Chile to exhume former President Salvador Alle ...
    Editor's Note: Questions about the death of Salvador Allende, former president of Chile after the coup against him and his democratically-elected government in 1973 have always plagued the minds of many of us on the Left. Whether he actually did take his own life or was murdered, it's well known ...
  • Japan eyes state-backed insurer to save TEPCO: ...
    (Reuters) - Japan plans to set up a government-backed insurance fund to put money into Tokyo Electric Power and pay compensation stemming from the disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Nikkei newspaper said. Aimed at saving Tokyo Electric from collapse, the plan would have the ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • White House blogger conference call on Preside ...
    Previously: White House blogger conference call on President Obama's economic speech (April 13, 2011) "....This is about what kind of country we're gonna live in, what kind of country we believe we can, uh, we can make here. And, uh, the notion that somehow we can, uh, you know, cut education by ...
  • It's Hard to Pay Down Debts When There's Less ...
    I came down hard on Ezra Klein when he spouted Villager nonsense, so I want to thank him for exposing one of the biggest budget lies. Via Digby: Ezra Klein takes on the silly trope used by both parties that the government is like a household and has to "tighten its belt" when times are tough. Yo ...
  • Need Any More Proof Of How Disgusting Teapers Are?
    From David Niewert @ C&L: �Republican Tea Partiers just can't seem to get enough of those Obama/black people/chimpanzee jokes I'm not gonna publish the garbage here... just go to the link and check it out for yourself.
  • Where Your Tax Money Really Goes
    Don't file that copy of your W2 yet; you'll need those numbers to calculate your Tax Receipt. It's a quick way to find out just how much you personally are paying for each part of the federal budget. Have you ever wondered how much of your own tax dollars actually go to support foreign aid? T ...
  • A Reality-Based Budget is a People's Budget
    The elephant in the room that both Democrats and Republicans are desperately ignoring and hoping you won't notice is this: President Obama's proposed budget is far to the right of anything resembling a budget that acknowledges economic reality. That reality demands a budget that eschews spending ...

Care 2

  • PERU: Endangered Monkey Survives in Tiny Pr ...
    A conservation area covering a mere 23.5 hectares has become a refuge for a unique and endangered animal species in the northeastern Peruvian region of San Martín: the Andean titi monkey.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Solor Power Systems
    Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) systems use sunlight concentrated on surfaces for photovoltaic electricity generation. Solar concentrators of all varieties can be used and are often mounted on a solar tracker to keep the center of the cell as the sun movSubmitted by Hathawa N. to Science & Tech ...
  • Environmental Issues in the 2011 Canadian Fede ...
    In addition to ensuring a healthy, sustainable future, "environmental concerns are a vital economic issue. Before voting on May 2nd, all Canadians should look at each party�s environmental platform." Submitted by Julie P. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Bags Of Fun Recycling Old JTs
    Because the raw materials are readily available and virtually free, newspaper bags have steadily been becoming more popular, and there are several websites created by both individuals and groups promoting them in this country.Submitted by Naoko I. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • Is an Adjacent Universe Causing the Dark Flow ...
    The unexplained motion has hundreds of millions of stars dashing towards a certain part of the sky at over eight hundred kilometers per second. Not much speed in cosmic terms, but most preferred cosmological models have things moving in all directionsSubmitted by Lilith Cohen to Science & Tech ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Barack Obama Running From Barry Soetoro
    * Bumped Up * While Donald Trump pursues the dead end that Barack Obama was born in Kenya (HE WAS NOT), the actual elephant in the room that most of the media and pundits studiously ignore is the fact that Barack Obama was adopted by Lolo Soetoro and, for most of his life as a [...]
  • Lows (+ Open Thread)
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday night experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. (FYI: The John Batchelor Show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET.) Listen via iTunes (instructions), or go to NYC’s WABC, John’s NYC anchor station, scroll down, and ...
  • Trump on China, Libya, OPEC, Mitt Romney
    Check THIS out. Whatever you think, you have to admit it’s bold and damn refreshing: TRUMP: Look at Libya. Look at Libya. Look at this mess. We go in; we don’t go in; he shouldn’t be removed; we don’t want to remove him; we don’t want to touch him, but he should be removed. Nobody [...]
  • Barack Obama Running From Barry Soetoro
    While Donald Trump pursues the dead end that Barack Obama was born in Kenya (HE WAS NOT), the actual elephant in the room that most of the media and pundits studiously ignore is the fact that Barack Obama was adopted by Lolo Soetoro and, for most of his life as a child and teenager, Barack [...]
  • Union Goon Squads Attack Tea Party Event * Ope ...
    I tell you, the goon squads of union members — as seen most recently in Wisconsin — are as frighteningly aggressive as the vicious Obamabots of ’08 (soon to make a return, no doubt). To these hard-core union protestors, and with all due respect to the First Amendment, their motivation is what co ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Chauvet Cave Paintings: The Oldest Known C ...
    The Chauvet cave paintings are the oldest known paintings in the world. No cave of such size had ever been found in this part of France, and it dates back some 35,000 yea read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • Hairy-Nosed Wombat: The Saddest Looking Marsup ...
    Meet the most melancholy looking animal in the world... the hairy-nosed wombat! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Can a Little Radiation Be Good for You?
    Between reports that tap water and some food in Japan might already be contaminated with radiation, people are more concerned than ever about exposure. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Earliest Green Life on Earth Began Reproducing ...
    Complex life forms have been found, 1 billion year old deposits that could change our understanding of the way green life on Earth developed. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • New Buck Toothed Dinosaur Discovered
    A new species of dinosaur has been found that bridges the gap between the earlier and later predatory prehistoric creatures. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Cornell Gas Study Stirs Heated Debate
    In suggesting that unconventional natural gas production might be worse for the climate than previously thought, critics say, the authors measured the warming potential of leaked methane over an overly short 20-year time frame.
  • For Energy-Starved India, Japan's Crisis Raise ...
    While politicians, scientists and activists are calling for a planned nuclear project to be scrapped, Indian energy officials say the country cannot hope to meet its energy needs without nuclear power being a major part of the mix.
  • Clouds Part for U.S. Solar Industry
    A bipartisan group of lawmakers averts sweeping cuts to a federal loan guarantee program for clean energy development
  • Agency Seeks Again to Delist Great Lakes Wolves
    The proposed rule change, which is likely to be challenged by environmentalists, states that gray wolves are thriving in the region, with more than 4,000 counted in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
  • U.S. Expands Seeding of Biomass
    The departments of Agriculture and Energy announce that up to $30 million will go toward research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy and "high-value bio-based products" over the next three to four years.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
    FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
  • Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
    Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
  • Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
    We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
  • March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
    A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...

Daily Censored

  • Analyzing the defense of groping passengers
    It is important to note that CNN did not have anyone to present a counterargument to the topic of groping small children. If CNN doesn’t bring in anyone from the other side to show people’s concerns about the FAA industry, how unbiased is this report? The anchor on the left also believes that it ...
  • Detroit: Dozen people arrested in direct actio ...
    Detroit Federation of Teachers http://www.youtube.com/dftmembers Smith Radio Show in Pennsylvania http://ricksmithshow.com/statebattles/michigan/cfaocc  Report from BAMN Teacher/Occupier Nicole Conaway http://defendpubliceducation.com/2011/04/16/detroit-students-occupy-catherine-ferguson-academy ...
  • ACTIVIST ALERT: SINS OF OMMISSION
    By Mark Reiners Prelude With the 1848 publication of The Communist Manifesto, in what may be among the most renowned (or notorious, depending on your econo-political persuasions) opening lines in all of social and economic literature, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed to the world that t ...
  • US Revolution unleashes trillions of our dolla ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Under US political and economic Orwellian “leadership,” Americans are told: Our increasing national debt (public and private) is a “money supply.” Government is incapable of creating money to hire unemployed Americans to produce useful work, such as education an ...
  • Are You Ready?
    Remember when we used to say, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty?”  Well, I have a new mantra.  Like Mulder said, “Trust no one.” I was really excited to hear about “Coffee Party USA.”  I signed up.  And then, I went to their site.  It is really polished.  It talks about lots of action and it [...]

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • The Lineup: Week of April 18-24, 2011
    Our Earth Day special edition features three commentaries and a cartoon addressing Obama's "dirty energy" policy and the BP oil disaster, as well as the dangers of nuclear weapons and reactors.
  • Obama's Dirty Energy Fixation
    As radioactivity levels continue to spike in Fukushima, Obama's support for nuclear power is unwavering.
  • What Would Jesus Tax?
    The prophetic Jesus would turn our head in different direction from the place where current budget and taxation decisions are focused.
  • Central America: 'Deadliest Non-War Zone'
    The Department of Defense has announced that Mexico will receive $51 million for fiscal year 2011. According to military officials the drug war has grown to rival the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We ask if throwing more money at the situation, or even more American troops, work? Institute ...
  • How the U.S. is like North Korea
    Much of North Korea's population is starving, yet its government pours money into missile and nuclear programs. Such behavior seems to be the height of irrationality. But North Korea is only following the international community's - especially America's - example.

Equality Trust

  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Is the chicken safe that you bought at your lo ...
    Most consumers would be surprised that USDA/FSIS’s website explains chicken inspections as: All chickens found in retail stores are either inspected by USDA or by State systems, which have standards equivalent to the Federal government. Each chicken and its internal organs are inspected for sig ...
  • DeFusco's Bakery Salmonella Zeppoles now linke ...
    Cases of Illness between March 14 - April 7, 2011 78 Cases Total (77 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) 29 Hospitalizations (27 Discharged, 1 Current) 46 Lab-confirmed Salmonella 2 Salmonella-associated Deaths Reported as of April 15, 2011
  • Multi-drug-resistant Staph Found in ¼ of meat ...
    The internet is abuzz with the findings of a study funding by The Pew Charitable Trusts done by Lance B. Price, Ph.D., senior author of the study and Director of TGen’s Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health Nationwide. The study found that U.S. meat and poultry is widely contamin ...
  • DeFusco's Bakery zeppoles now linked to 75 Ill ...
    On Friday, March 25 HEALTH issued a recall of all baked goods from DeFusco's Bakery in Johnston. The following is a list of food establishments that purchased zeppole (cream or pastry shells) or other baked goods from DeFusco's. If you purchased any of the following baked goods from the food est ...
  • Marler Clark Open House and "Poisoned" Book Si ...
    We will be having an open house at our new offices on May 18 as well as a book signing by author, Jeff Benedict, for his new book "Poisoned" - The true story of the deadly E. coli outbreak that changed the way Americans eat See you then.

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Garage fire claims Chevy Volt and homeb ...
    Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos, Chevrolet, Electric Chevrolet Volt garage fire - Click above to watch video after the jump No one was hurt - but two plug-in vehicles were destroyed - in a fire in a home in the Connecticut town of Barkhamsted last night. The cars were a brand-new 2011 Che ...
  • Quick Spin: Toyota RAV4 EV
    Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, Electric, Quick SpinA Solid Electric CUV, For A Prototype Toyota RAV4 EV - Click above for high-res image gallery Ahh, the joys of driving a prototype vehicle. During the annual Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar in San Diego, California this week, Toyota ...
  • Milestone Accomplished: Toyota sells one milli ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota 2011 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery California Toyota dealers may or may not be running out of Priuses, but the hybrid is most certainly still popular. How else to explain the news that one million of the ico ...
  • Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
  • Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Gulf Coast Fisherwoman "Disrupts the Peace" at ...
    Security officers at BP’s shareholder meeting today in London blocked the entrance of a delegation of four fishermen and women from the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast area heavily damaged by last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Among them was Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherw ...
  • "The Connection Between Energy Use And Politic ...
    Mycle Schneider, a Paris-based consultant on energy and nuclear policy, received the Right Livelihood Award in 1997 for "serving to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to human life." Democracy Now! interviewed him during the 30th anniversary of the Right Livelihood Awa ...
  • Right Livelihood Laureate Alyn Ware On The Glo ...
    Alyn Ware received the Right Livelihood Award in 2009 for leading initiatives in peace education and nuclear abolition in his native New Zealand and around the world for the past twenty-five years. Democracy Now! met up with him at the 2010 Right Livelihood Awards in Bonn, Germany. Alyn Wa ...
  • Barack Obama Must Speak Out On Bahrain Bloodshed
    One month into the pro-democracy uprising in the small Gulf state of Bahrain — where the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based, tasked with protecting “U.S. interests” — Bahrainis are suffering the same violent repression as Libyans. So why does Obama have nothing to say? Read More
  • Voices from the 2011 National Conference for M ...
    More than 2,000 journalists, activists, educators and artists from across the country gathered at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10 to discuss issues ranging from net neutrality and racial diversity to democracy and social justice. Democracy Now! was there. LAU ...

Digg Green

  • EXCLUSIVE: The Day Einstein Died - Photo ...
    Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died 56 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordina ...
  • What will astronomers see a trillion year ...
    We've got to come up with a better name that ‘Milkomeda' to describe what's going to eventually happen when the Milky Way and Andromeda merge.
  • Medicine doesn't work properly in space
    Here's one more unexpected challenge for space travel: drugs crucial for treating everything from a mild headache to a serious infection don't work properly in the radically different environment away from Earth...and yes, radiation might be part of the problem.
  • Scientists want climate change early-warn ...
    A better monitoring network for greenhouses gases is needed to warn of significant changes and to keep countries that have agreed to cut their emissions honest, scientists said in papers published Monday.
  • Must See: TEPCO Releases Video From Unman ...
    "After watching these three clips we fail to see how even the most optimistic of individuals see the situation as resolving with anything but entombment"

Invisible Opportunity

  • Terminally Twisted beyond Recovery or Redemption
    By Les Visible You knew they were sick and disgusting, beyond the comprehension of the general mind but I’ll bet you didn’t know they were this sick. They are and they do it with a straight face (is that a pun?). They want to make sure you have all the facts concerning the important things [...]
  • Love in Disguise in a World of Lies
    By Les Visible I’m not inclined to sell anyone on the idea of Astrology. The science is a pristine and marvelous thing but then you add an astrologer to the mix and you can get problems. This isn’t a knock on the practitioner; it’s just that human limitation and error are a constant in all [...]
  • 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 ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Nissan Unveils Carbon-Bodied LEAF NISMO RC Ele ...
    Nissan is turning its all-electric Nissan LEAF into a zero-emissions race car. The LEAF NISMO RC prototype debuted this week at the New York Auto Show. The vehicle is powered by a lithium ion battery, just like its street-legal cousin, but that’s about the end of the similarities between the two ...
  • INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Koen Olthuis of WaterStud ...
    To wrap up our disaster-resistant design theme this week, we would like to conclude with an interview of an exceptional architect who is paving the way in designing for a future water world. Koen Olthuis of Waterstudio.nl says that despite our civilization’s history of trying to drain and fight ...
  • A4A Design Showcases Its Amazing Recycled Hone ...
    Read the rest of A4A Design Showcases Its Amazing Recycled Honeycomb Cardboard Sculptures in Milanhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: A4A Desi ...
  • Samsung Unveils New Eco-Friendly Replenish and ...
    Samsung has announced that its new line of recyclable smart phones will feature an Android phone called the Replenish and a feature phone called Restore. The Replenish is an energy-efficient phone made of 34.6 percent post-consumer recycled plastics and is 82 percent recyclable itself, also clai ...
  • Mace Group To Build New London Cable Cars to C ...
    A gleaming new cable car system will soon carry 2,500 people across the Thames every hour, doing the work of 40 buses. The new landmark of the east Thames was designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and will be built by the Mace Group, which are also responsible for the London Eye, the British Mus ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • 7 Science-Education Battlegrounds of 2011
    Less than four months into 2011, lawmakers in seven states have proposed nine pieces of legislation designed to undermine public science education. It's a record-breaking pace on schedule to eclipse 11 similar bills proposed in 2009.
  • What Will Happen to All The Shuttle Stuff?
    As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore. “It’s like if you have to move out of your apartment pretty quickly,” sa ...
  • Moth Mutation Explains Classic Example of Evol ...
    The molecular mechanics behind a classic example of evolution that dates back to Darwin’s time may soon be revealed. As soot from coal-fired factories blackened trees and buildings in 19th century England, naturalists noticed that peppered moths were also trading in their light-colored wings ...
  • Listen: The Humpback Whale Songs That Swept th ...
    In a stunning example of animal communication and culture, researchers have described how humpback whale songs sweep across the Pacific in just a few years. “The level and rate of change is unparalleled in any other nonhuman animal and thus involves culturally driven change at a vast scale,” ...
  • Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
    A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundament ...

PakAlert

  • How CIA spies deal death from the skies: Thous ...
    It may well be that whoever was piloting the drones thousands of miles away, sitting at a computer screen somewhere in America, did have reliable intelligence that the men in the car were terrorists. It is probable, say Pakistani security sources, that a GPS chip had been secreted inside the veh ...
  • Obama’s Mother Worked For CIA
    President Obama's step-father, Lolo Soetoro, a reserve Indonesian army officer called back into service in the army in 1965 from his CIA-supplied scholarship at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, was a foot soldier in the putschist cabal of General Suharto, the man who the CIA des ...
  • Russia Warns China Invasion Of Middle East Nea ...
    An apocalyptic report prepared by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov for President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Medvedev is warning that the strategic military agreements signed between China and Pakistan signal that the “end game” between the East and West over th ...
  • 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 think that we do. The truth is that most of ...
  • 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 played havoc wit ...

Andy Worthington

  • US Intelligence Veteran Defends Bradley Mannin ...
    The story of Pfc Bradley Manning, the young US Army intelligence analyst allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, continues to act as a magnet for supporters worldwide, who are appalled by the accounts of his solitary confinement, and the humi ...
  • Syria: On Independence Day, Calls for Freedom ...
    Last month, as brave human rights activists in Damascus held protests calling for the release of political prisoners, picking up on the revolutionary movements sweeping the Middle East, and challenging the iron rule of the Ba’ath party and the emergency laws that have been in place since 1963, I ...
  • Voices from Bagram: Prisoners Speak in Their D ...
    This is the sixth article in “Bagram Week” here at Andy Worthington (although I freely acknowedge that the original seven-day schedule has slipped), with seven articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the v ...
  • The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg Criti ...
    In case readers missed it, I’m cross-posting below (wth my own links) an article about Guantánamo — and accountability for torture — written by Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at the New Yorker, and a man described, on Wikipedia, as the New Yorker’s “principal political commentator,” and by ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and the ...
    Yesterday, it was my great pleasure to speak for over a hour with my friend, the veteran progressive radio show host Peter B. Collins, for his latest podcast, available here, which also features the journalist Robert Parry talking about Luis Posada Carriles and his article covering the jury tria ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William ...
    So who is the suspect accused of building a âweapon of mass destructionâ and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.? The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a âlone wolfââ with a military ordnance background and ...
  • Woman Sentenced for Harboring ‘Sovereign ...
    A Michigan woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for harboring a sovereign citizen who fired shots at Florida state troopers when they tried to stop him last year, an act that once again shows the danger faced by officers when they encounter extremists from the bizarre world of sovereign c ...
  • State Department Advertises Interpreting Servi ...
    Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance. Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglot’s language skills on the website of th ...
  • New Evidence Trove Found in MLK Day Bomb Attempt
    Federal agents investigating the attempted bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane have found a pile of new evidence abandoned in a remote area near the U.S.-Canadian border. Forensic comparison tests are now being conducted at the FBI lab on 75 items to see if they are tie ...
  • Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
    Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...

change: org.

  • Flash Mob Targets Developer of Possible Walmar ...
    A lot of New Yorkers are upset at the prospect of a Walmart opening within the five boroughs, which could destroy jobs and drive down wages. Earlier this week, some of those citizens gathered at the corporate headquarters of the Related Companies, a developer that is reportedly in talks with Wal ...
  • Safety Reforms for Washington State Correction ...
    Correctional officers in Washington state are one step closer to being much safer on the job. The State Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 5907, which is designed to institute the policy recommendations resulting from the National Institute of Corrections review of prison safety. That review ...
  • Young Activists Push for Shark Fin Ban
    Back in February, a group of six students from Eastshore Elementary School in Irvine, California entered the QuikSCience competition. The competition asks middle and high school students from across southern California to submit ocean-related academic curriculum that includes a community service ...
  • Water for Elephants Cruelty to Circus A ...
    In Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel, Water for Elephants, the performing animals in a Depression-era circus are subjected to cruel abuse. Eighty years and a new millennium later, there have been few big changes under the big top. In fact, the movie version of Water for Elephants, which opens next ...
  • Victory! Native American Tribe Gets Georgia Le ...
    With only 150 signatures sent to Georgia legislatures, a local Native American tribe has successfully used Change.org to get a discriminatory bill dropped! One of the Creek Tribes, the Kialegee Tribal Town, wanted to come home. Then the Georgia State Legislators tried to prevent Indian Tribes ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Nuclear Regulator a Policeman or Salesman?
    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission exists to police, not promote, the domestic nuclear industry -- but diplomatic cables show that it is sometimes used as a sales tool to help push American technology to foreign governments. The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and provided to ...
  • Owners of Vermont Yankee File Lawsuit to Keep ...
    MONTPELIER - Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Corp. turned to federal court Monday to try to keep Vermont from shutting down the Vernon nuclear power plant, the company announced this morning. The company filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Vermont. ...
  • GOP Wave Reshapes Nation's Agenda State by State
    COLUMBUS, Ohio – State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November. read more
  • Path to Municipal Privatizaton? Emergency Chie ...
    BENTON HARBOR, Michigan — A state-appointed emergency financial manager has suspended the decision-making powers of Benton Harbor officials in a move that's likely the first act of its kind under a new state law. The Detroit News reports that Friday's order by Joseph Harris means Benton Harbor o ...
  • US Secretly Backed Syrian Opposition Groups, C ...
    The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables. ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week’s Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Aurora Is a More Stable, Bleeding Edge Dev Channel for Firefox - (Windows/Mac/Linux) More��
  • Google's Introducing New Mobile Ad Privacy Set ...
    Google has they're hands in a lot of things nowadays, but they have always been a ad revenue driven company, and the mobile platform is hotter than ever. With this in mind, Google has always been opposed to using a devices identifier code (UDID) to target ads because of securit ...
  • Make a DIY Aquarium Overflow Sensor
    Keeping your fish tanks safe for both your fish, floors, and in some cases the people who live below you is a big thing to keep in mind when you own a fish tank. Even more so if you own a large fish tank with expensive fish and a whole l ...
  • Find Out When To Plant Your Favorite Vegetable ...
    My next door neighbor has already planted her garden for the year, and its already starting to look great. I on the other hand have no idea what to plant and when (or even if its too late). So here is a small guide for all of you soon to ...
  • TuneIn Radio Streams Local Radio Stations on A ...
    Most mobile platforms: TuneIn Radio is an online radio streaming service that brings you favorite local radio stations (commercials and all) to a ton of different platforms. They are on almost every major platform with access to the net, ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
    ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
  • Chamber 'strongly objects' to power rate hikes ...
    The Saipan Chamber of Commerce says it is strongly objecting to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.'s overall increased utility rates for businesses and residents and called on CUC to go after non-paying customers, even as the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission approved on Friday night CUC's ...
  • Delhi: Govt open to privatization of water
    New Delhi Municipal Council has proposed a 24x7 water supply in its areas. With water in such short supply across the capital - many residents go without even a 30-minute supply daily - one would think it criminal to provide continuous water to the VIPs in central Delhi.
  • Terms for city's water utilities sale announced
    A press release Tuesday from Mayor Greg Ballard's office outlined the terms of an agreement transferring control of Indianapolis' water and wastewater systems to Citizens Energy Group , a public charitable trust. The proposed acquisition, negotiated by the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Coun ...
  • Hairston Calls For Privatization Moratorium
    Ald. Leslie Hairston said Thursday the city shouldn't sign a deal to privatize recycling.

Guardian

  • Cameron and Reid make case against change to AV
    Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen11.42am: This has been a good morning for grown-up politics. The speeches at the Yes to Fairer Votes were serious and intelligent, and the Cameron and Reid speeches were solid, heavyweight contributions too. (There was none o ...
  • UN focuses on crisis in Misrata
    Britain to discuss plans to ensure unfettered access for relief effort to besieged city after seven weeks of fightingBritain will press for unfettered access to the besieged Libyan city of Misrata in talks at the UN amid deepening concern at the humanitarian situation in the town, which has been ...
  • Follow the latest on coalition's health reform ...
    Welcome to the first day of our daily live blog covering the most explosive domestic policy issue of the moment: the government's controversial NHS changes11.12am: At 1pm today some of the biggest names in the NHS reforms will be here to answer your questions in a live Q&A.On the panel will be: ...
  • Police used kettling 'too readily'
    Human rights group: There seemed to be "a continual expectation containment would be used" on London TUC marchSenior officers policing protests in London last month focused too heavily on kettling to contain activists, Liberty says. The rights group, which had 120 observers, including two inside ...
  • Finland vote may hit Portugal bailout
    True Finns quadruple share of vote in Finland elections, as party leader says he expects EU to change Portuguese bailout plansThe cost of insuring Portuguese debt against default rose on Monday after a strong election result in Finland for a party opposed to a bailout of Portugal. Greek, Irish a ...

McClatchey

  • North Carolina reels from storms that left 40 ...
    RALEIGH, N.C. — A day after a violent storm system swept across seven states, kicking up tornadoes and flattening much in its path, residents began the painful process of cleaning up and mourning those lost.
  • Amid allegations of mass killings by Iraqi mil ...
    BAGHDAD — The UN has called on Iraq to conduct an independent investigation into the killings of 34 people at an Iranian opposition base after Iraqi authorities, who authorized a raid on the camp, suggested that the group might have executed its own members.
  • North Carolina reels from storms that left 40 ...
    RALEIGH, N.C. — A day after a violent storm system swept across seven states, kicking up tornadoes and flattening much in its path, residents began the painful process of cleaning up and mourning those lost.
  • After accidents, makers ponder how planes age
    The flight of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that blew out a panel this month raises the question of whether airplanes are being kept in service too long.
  • Commentary: With Ryan's Medicare and Medicaid ...
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is more than a year old and more than 800,000 South Carolinians are benefiting from the health reform law, including one young lady in Aynor whom I met last year.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Exploring the 'oceans crisis'
    Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - ...
  • Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
    More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
  • Bees: a sting in the tale
    � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
  • Green tuna goes FAD-free
    Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • MAKE the Women's political strength equal to t ...
    They see the world in a different and better way than we men do. (They ain't perfect. we're still necessary, but the species is diminished enormously by the way we limit their power.)
  • Obama Kicks Off Re-election Bid by Shitting on ...
    I despise that sanctimonious hypocrite. I have for a long time now. But I want to draw people's attention to these two stories: 1. Via Glenn Greenwald and Rachael Maddow - Obama betrays the idealism of US-Americans who believed him when he said he'd close the human rights travesty of the Guanta ...
  • Another reminder: We're winning in Afghanistan
    In case you've forgotten, we're winning in Afghanistan and have been since 2007 at least. Canada is winning the war in Afghanistan and is making significant progress in rebuilding that South Asian country, says the general who commands the Canadian Forces mission in Kandahar. But Lt.-Gen. Mi ...
  • Liberal Bloggers Putting Party Before Country
    Going after NDP incumbents. Confusing voters in British Columbia, the Prairies, Quebec, etc., about who they need to vote for to defeat harper. I'll be voting NDP where I live. A safe Liberal riding. I won't be telling anybody not to vote Liberal though. I'll be trying to get harpercons to swit ...
  • Reply to Scotian
    Scotian left a long, detailed statement in the comments section of this post. I composed an equally lengthy reply, which was subsequently eaten by blogger and since Scotian deserves a reply and I don't have all the time in the world, I thought I'd make my second attempt my post for the day: I ju ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • World Bank president says world 'one shock awa ...
    Speaking in Washington and concerned over rising food prices and lingering instability in the Middle East and Africa, World Bank President Robert Zoellick believes the global economy is 'one shock away' from a major crisis.
  • Federal Election 2011: Candidates for Kitchene ...
    Kitchener-Centre is one of three federal ridings in Kitchener, the last election was very close and saw the incumbent defeated.
  • Iran: Siemens in collusion with US and Israel ...
    Iranian authorities, frustrated by the effectiveness of the Stuxnet cyber worm in attacking their nuclear facilities, has accused Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, of helping the US and Israel in orchestrating the cyber attack.
  • Nations work to share virus samples to help av ...
    With the ongoing threat of a global influenza pandemic as a backdrop, the World Health Organization announced that it is working with a large pool of nations to more readily share viral samples to help avert more widespread infection.
  • CKLN 88.1 FM Toronto goes off the air
    After months of defending their right to remain broadcasting, the Federal Court of Appeal announced on Friday that it will not hear the appeal of CKLN Radio 88.1FM in Toronto.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Manson: Stop ranting!!!
    Retired General Paul Manson, former Canadian Chief of Defence Staff and (in his stealth mode) former Chairman of Lockheed Martin Canada, has slammed Winslow Wheeler’s critique of the planned purchase of the F-35 as a “low credibility rant” sponsored by the “farleft” Rideau Institute (Paul Manson ...
  • More military spending: or deliver aid and fig ...
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HacgnxcmUI
  • Use Military Spending for Human Needs: Sign th ...
    It's time to reduce military spending, and use the public resources to fund human needs.
  • New Afghan mission high risk, low chance of su ...
    The government’s plan to extend the Canadian Forces mission in Afghanistan deserves a public debate, argues a new report published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Rideau Institute. “Training Can Be Dangerous: A Realistic Assessment of the Proposed Canadian Mission to Train ...
  • Winslow Wheeler on the F-35: News coverage
    Winslow Wheeler’s briefings on the planned F-35 purchase (sponsored by the Rideau Institute) led to an additional round of Canada-wide coverage of the controversial purchase, which is becoming one of the hot-button issues of the current election campaign. Key media coverage included: Meagan Fitz ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-16-11
    Today, Kevin explains how chemicals from everyday products can contaminate a woman’s body and even more so, an unborn child. And cancer expert, Dr. Leonard Coldwell, gives you the truth behind curing cancer. Don’t let chemotherapy kill someone you love. Click here to order his revolutionary book ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-14-11
    Today, the fearless Kevin Trudeau talks about the topics they don’t want you to hear!! Plus, the publisher of the One Minute Cure, Maria Veloso, stops by to give you the inside story on how to cure virtually ALL diseases for only a penny a day! Self Help: The Fountain Of Youth Health: Deadly Che ...
  • Jon Rappoport – NoMoreFakeNews.com
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with investigative reporter,  Jon Rappoport, and click here to purchase his new, extended e-book version of The Ownership to All Life. Jon Rappoport on The Kevin Trudeau Show 04/12/11
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-12-11
    Today, Kevin welcomes investigative reporter, Jon Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews.com, to the show. Find out how the government is using genetic research to redesign the human being and how Big Pharma searches the market to create and twist normal human tendencies into new diseases. Self Help: Inves ...
  • Japan Declares Nuclear Crisis at Level of Cher ...
    April 12th, 2011 AOL News By: Ryan Nakashima and Yuri Kageyama Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater. Japane ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...

War in Context

  • Misrata — the new Sarajevo
    A drive down Tripoli Street, Misrata, during Ramadan in August 2010, uploaded to YouTube by HoneyBees1985: Below is a picture of the same street, taken a few days ago by Telegraph photographer, Geoff Pugh. Through his slogan, “God, Muammar and Libya only,” Gaddafi wants to portray himself ...
  • How Libya is making smart people turn stupid
    I have little doubt the Gaddafi regime pays close attention to the views being expressed by Western critics of the intervention in Libya. One of the key lessons the Libyan leadership will have duly noted is that so long as Libyan civilians are killed 10 or 20 at a time, the war’s critics will v ...
  • News roundup for week ending April 15
    For more on why I’m doing reduced news coverage right now, please read this post. — PW With Tripoli’s rebel underground He was rummaging in the boot of his car as we walked past. “Go forward,” he instructed out of the side of his mouth. “I’ll pick you up further on.” The car circled several t ...
  • I won’t give my right arm to become a one-arme ...
    When I say War in Context is handmade, that’s not a figure of speech. Typing and cutting-and-pasting involve all sorts of precise flexions, animated by action potentials rippling at high speed down the median nerve which extends from the cervical spine to the hand. For the last two months the r ...
  • The fight for Libya
    Rebels and NATO strikes repel assault on Ajdabiya Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military forces appeared to falter on Sunday in a second day of assault against the rebel city of Ajdabiya, as opposition fighters aided by heavy NATO airstrikes retook positions through much of the city. Occasional sk ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Another significant land use effect found &#82 ...
    It has long been known that changes in land use can affect local temperatures. Switching from forest to pastureland to a concrete jungle has a measurable effect. Here, we see that the type of crop associated has a dramatic effect: … Continue reading →
  • The current US drought is not a surprise.
    Guest post by David Archibald A large part of the US is currently in drought. A recent paper by Springer et al â âSolar forcing of Holocene droughts in a stalagmite record from West Virginia in east central North Americaâ … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Quote of the Week: “EPA determined in December 2009 that climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases threatens the public’s health and the environment.” EPA “Denial of Petitions…” (Emphasis added) Number of the Week: 22 THIS WEEK: By Ken … Continue reading →
  • Doing it yourself – the latest unsmoothe ...
    One of the great things about WUWT is that it attracts commenters with a wide range of skill sets, who can often contribute far and beyond what we even see from our government sources. I’ve lamented the lack of updates … Continue reading →
  • Atmospheric audio ducting
    Amateur radio operators are very familiar with atmospheric ducting or “skip” as we call it, which (with the help of the ionosphere when the sun is cooperative) enables some very long distance radio communications well beyond line of sight. The … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Throw Out the Money Changers by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig April 18, 2011 These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America. We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temp ...
  • Relying on Misinformation, U.S. Senate Calls o ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal April 17, 2011 The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Goldstone ...
  • The Afghan Drug Trade and the Elephant in the ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal , April 9, 2011 April 17, 2011 Foreign Policy magazine this month features an article entitled “Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade“, which is a decent overview of the opium problem – as far as it goes. Unsurprisingly, ho ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 15th Instal ...
    Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Thirteen can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on TPJmagazine.us April 17, 2011 This is the fifteenth installment of a project that is likely to extend o ...
  • Bahrain: Two men being assaulted by masked pol ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 17, 2011 Manama, Bahrain Photos taken on 30 March, 2011. Two men being assaulted by masked police outside village of Karranah. This kind of attack is happening all the time across Bahrain on Shia population. People are singled out for at ...

Your New Reality

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    Some Saturday poetry : Babelogue by Patti Smith : I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I ...
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    New Zealand director Peter Jackson's 10 minute set visit leading to the 1st day of shooting The Hobbit is more entertaining than most movies released so far this year. All young directors can learn an enormous amount about how to build pre-release interest in their movies from this set visit ...
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    From the Collected Letters of Philip K Dick, 1977-1979 : …since our societies - or rather their governments and big corporations - aren't willing to really go about solving our economic and social and political problems, they have hit upon a simple technique (technique, not solution) by whic ...
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    An excellent portrait of the United States in 2011. Wall Street robs Americans blind of hundreds of billions of dollars, nobody goes to jail. Sellers of single cigarettes on the streets of New York City, which they help keep clear of violent drug dealers, go to Rikers : Itinerant cigarette vendo ...
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    A Louisville man convicted of torturing cats to death explains to police what was going on in his mind at the time : "Do you ever see those television shows where, like, something will happen – okay? – and the audience knows everything that's happening to the main character, but everybody else ...

Wired - Science

  • 7 Science-Education Battlegrounds of 2011
    Less than four months into 2011, lawmakers in seven states have proposed nine pieces of legislation designed to undermine public science education. It's a record-breaking pace on schedule to eclipse 11 similar bills proposed in 2009.
  • What Will Happen to All The Shuttle Stuff?
    As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore. “It’s like if you have to move out of your apartment pretty quickly,” sa ...
  • Moth Mutation Explains Classic Example of Evol ...
    The molecular mechanics behind a classic example of evolution that dates back to Darwin’s time may soon be revealed. As soot from coal-fired factories blackened trees and buildings in 19th century England, naturalists noticed that peppered moths were also trading in their light-colored wings ...
  • Listen: The Humpback Whale Songs That Swept th ...
    In a stunning example of animal communication and culture, researchers have described how humpback whale songs sweep across the Pacific in just a few years. “The level and rate of change is unparalleled in any other nonhuman animal and thus involves culturally driven change at a vast scale,” ...
  • Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
    A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundament ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Goldstone report: Statement issued by members ...
    Many of those calling for the nullification of our report imply that the final report by the follow-up committee ... somehow contradicts the fact-finding mission's report or invalidates it. In the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Recognising Palestine
    UN recognition of a Palestinian make-believe state would be no more meaningful than this fantasy "institution-building", and could push Palestinians even further away from real liberation and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel steps up Jerusalem expul ...
    Hamoked director Dalia Kerstein: "There is clearly a policy to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem and Israel to reduce what is called here the 'Palestinian demographic threat.' It's really a case of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Divestment: A strategy to end the Occupation
    New York University Students for Justice in Palestine's divestment campaign targets predominately U.S. corporations whose products help make the occupation possible. Withdrawing material support from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Charles Glass: Goldstone’s Guide to Gaza
    Critics of Israel, beware. If you don’t have the stomach for a fight, don’t go into the ring. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • For Allergy and Asthma Sufferers, A Change in ...
    An unbalanced diet may be to blame for the sneezing, itch eyes, sneezing, itchy eyes, breathlessness, rashes, and other symptoms during the Spring, says acclaimed author, Dr. Fred Pescatore.
  • Missing the Gorilla: Why We Don't See What's i ...
    University of Utah psychologists have learned why many people experience "inattention blindness" - the phenomenon that leaves drivers on cell phones prone to traffic accidents and makes a gorilla invisible to viewers of a famous video.
  • Limiting Carbs, Not Calories, Reduces Liver Fa ...
    Curbing carbohydrates is more effective than cutting calories for individuals who want to quickly reduce the amount of fat in their liver, report UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.
  • Pelvic-Repair Device Developed by UT Southwest ...
    A device developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons offers precise repair of pelvic fractures with minimal postsurgical scarring, pain and infection risk and is available for broad adoption by the nation's 200 level I trauma centers.
  • Law Professor Available to Comment on Bank Fra ...
    Criminal Law Professor Brian Gallini is available to answer questions and provide expert commentary regarding the Department of Justice's recent indictment of the principals of the three largest internet poker companies.

Natural Health News

  • Mel's Hidden Talent
    Mel was studying abroad in New Zealand when her friends found out that she can imitate animal noises.
  • Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
    In 1993, talk-show host Larry King had an unexpected guest on his program -- David Reynard, who argued that radiation from a cell phone caused or accelerated the growth of a brain tumor in his wife. Susan Reynard died in 1992, just short of her 34th birthday. The Florida Circuit Court that hear ...
  • Jason McElwain, Autistic Basketball Player
    You may recall a testimonial I shared with you several years ago about a young boy's wonderful rebound from autism-related symptoms. Imagine how all that hard work and improvement builds into young adulthood, and you've got the story of Jason McElwain. Diagnosed as autistic, Jason didn't speak ...
  • Nearly Half of U.S. Meat Tainted With Drug-Res ...
    Drug-resistant bacteria may be lurking in your grocery meat aisle. A study found that Staphylococcus aureus, the bacteria that causes most staph infections, was present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at "unexpectedly high rates." Researchers found nearly half of the meat and poult ...
  • 14 Natural Items for Your Alternative First Ai ...
    Matador Network has assembled a list of 14 natural items everyone should have on hand for first aid. Here are a few: Echinacea: It helps support a healthy immune system, and has antibacterial and antibiotic properties. If you start to feel an illness coming on, dosing yourself with a tincture ...

fotoFrontera

  • Los colores de nuestro planeta X (12 paisajes)
    TweetPara ver más, explora nuestro archivo. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10) ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
  • Imágenes del Agua, H2O, Water , L'eau I
    Tweet ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
  • Fotos de nuestros usuarios I (Flor de Maracuyá)
    TweetHe recibido muchísimas imágenes de mis suscriptores, miembros de mi comunidad en Facebook y seguidores en Twitter. Así como lo prometí, Empezaré la publicación de ellas con esta hermosa fotografía de la flor de Mburucuyá, Mburukujá o Maracuyá que me ha enviado María Inés Fontaine. A manera ...
  • Las mejores fotos del Banco de Imágenes XLVIII
    Tweet Para ver más imágenes bonitas, explore nuestro archivo. [1](4)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22) (23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41) (42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48) ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic ...
  • Texturas para diseño gráfico, páginas web, blo ...
    Tweet ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.

Center for a Livable Future

  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
  • Making Health the Default
    A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...

Norwegianity

  • What the clerk barfed up
    Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...
  • Kloppenburg trails after ballots found in the ...
    Didn’t really want to do a second post but new numbers from Winnebago County have put Prosser on top in Wisconsin. [more] No, they didn’t find any ballots in the trunk of anyone’s car but it’s still super close so a recall will be mandatory. Inevitable is the word I’d pick for the usual whining ...
  • Fitzwalkering themselves
    JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory with a final tally of 740,090 to 739,886. David Dayen says that if this holds up, Prosser will be only the fifth WI Supreme denied re-election in state history (but the second one in three years). Steve Singiser says Walker blames the hippy scum in Madison ...
  • Kloppenburg up, recount unavoidable
    The trouble with RSS feeds is that they don’t always update as quickly as you’d like. That and I didn’t check out the Great Orange Satan this morning which was a mistake because they’ve got the best Wisconsin election coverage of anyone. Currently David Nir puts Kloppenburg’s lead at 233 with th ...
  • Stink linking good
    Picking up where the last post left off: Dictator-loving scum Like mother, like daughter Don Blankenship revisited The gods themselves Paul Ryan’s budget: Milbank on the dogmatism, Harold Meyerson on the pain redistribution, and the Plum Line with more links $900 million for road work: Gov. Brid ...

Public News Service

  • Report: 3rd Grade Reading Skills Predict High ...
    Report: 3rd Grade Reading Skills Predict High School Graduation Phoenix, AZ – Students in Arizona and other states who are not reading at grade level by third grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to miss out on a high school diploma. That’s according to a new study over time ...
  • New AZ Budget Ends Low-Income Child Care Help
    New AZ Budget Ends Low-Income Child Care Help Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s newly-enacted state budget eliminates child care assistance for all low-income working parents. More than 13-thousand children and seven-thousand parents will be affected. Comments from Bruce Liggett, director, Arizona Child ...
  • AZ’s National Forests to Get Management ...
    AZ’s National Forests to Get Management Makeover Phoenix, AZ – Planning procedures for the national forests are being updated for the first time in nearly 30 years. The new procedures will affect everything from logging and wildlife protection to recreation. A public forum is being held tomorrow ...
  • Commission Joins Call for New Mining Ban at Canyon
    Commission Joins Call for New Mining Ban at Canyon Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Commission is endorsing a proposal to withdraw some one-million acres near the Grand Canyon from mining for the next 20 years. Commissioners say they are concerned about the impact increased mining would h ...
  • Analysis: SRP Renewable Energy Plans Lagging O ...
    Analysis: SRP Renewable Energy Plans Lagging Other AZ Utilities Phoenix - Arizona's second-largest power producer is lagging behind utilities regulated by the state when it comes to adding renewable energy sources, according to a new analysis. Comments from Salt River Project customer Renee Guil ...

Center for Food Safety

  • CFS and Deepak Chopra–Watch Live Today!
    Genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa has recently been approved by the USDA, even though significant questions remain concerning its effects on consumers and the environment, and the serious contamination risks it poses to non-GMO and organic farmers and to our food supply. In light of this decis ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
     Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will  join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
    The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    “Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • African American Pundit: Haley Barbour, NAACP ...
    African American Pundit: Haley Barbour, NAACP Image Awards and Negro Apologist: "AAP says:I really enjoyed an article by By Elizabeth Weingarten and Chris Wilson on how public officials and celebrities say offensive things every day. Whether you're Kobe Bryant, Rahm Emanuel, or Don Imus, there's ...
  • LIBYA: Uprising Revives Entrenched Racism Towa ...
    LIBYA: Uprising Revives Entrenched Racism Towards Black Africans: "By Simba Russeau BEIRUT, Mar 21 (IPS) – Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s use of African mercenaries to quell the uprising against his autocratic regime has revived a deep-rooted racism between Arabs and black Africans. Though ...
  • Where is Dan Choi when a Gay Soldier really ne ...
    By TheAngryindian [FOTO:Daniel Joseph Barnhart Clark via Wikipedia]These are indeed strange and dangerous times. Especially for those of us in the United States who value the principle of universal human rights. Speaking objectively as a citizen of the world, there can be little doubt th ...
  • Robert Stevens : The Guardian’s hatchet job on ...
    The Guardian’s hatchet job on Julian Assange [wsws.org] WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding, published by the Guardian newspaper, is now being paraded as the “official” account of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. It is in reality a politic ...
  • Poet & Artist, 30 Posters from the Heart
    poet & artist, 30 posters from the heart 30 years of posters and broadsheets by gerald and maas the brecht forum 451 west street, nyc may 1 - may 31, 2011 exhibit dedicated to josé guadalupe posada *************************** gerald and maas editions /atelier 206 sain ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 18/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 13/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • The More The Merrier
    Overpopulation: The More the Merrier? There is growing concern about the levels of population growth around the world especially in relation to the world's ability to sustain more and more people. How do we sustain the 9 BILLION people estimated to be alive in 2050? Where do we dr ...
  • What's On 11 April 2011
    It's school holiday time again - so why not check out some of the family activities: how about a family weekend helping to save Bandicoots from extinction in Sydney or take a look at all the great activities to become a Junior Ranger in Victorian Parks? Or set the kids a challenge to find a way ...
  • Environmental News 08/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Interview with BDS leader Omar Barghouti
    Democracy Now! shared this interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa. Thankfully, the campaign wa ...
  • Intolerance–Then and Now
    This post is a bit of a departure for the website.  While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...
  • Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
    Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tax Day protests today over military budget
    The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee has protests nationwide today for those appalled by the size of the military budget (and if you aren’t you should be.) Our multiple wars, most of which we are losing and are pointless to boot, drain the budget of money we need to spend at ho ...
  • Bassnectar Winter Tour 2011 video
    Amazing band. Thrill to the music and to knives being thrown through pictures of Dick Cheney. bassnectar.net. YouTube channel
  • NATO runs out of ammo in Libya “oil liberation ...
    Zero Hedge sums up the Libya clusterfuck the US has blundered into. Where does one even start with this one: US launches air campaign against oil rich country under pretext of humanitarian intervention (while ignoring comparable events in Syria and Iran). US realizes it does not actually use Lib ...
  • Tax Day surprise. Baby goats
    DJ, who posts here sometimes, raises goats, makes goat cheese, and also does taxes. As usual, several baby goats have shown extraordinarily bad timing and decided to be born right before the tax deadline, further adding to the last minute chaos. He has more photos on his blog, and while you’re ...
  • Google Page Speed now online
    Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates Type in the URL of the site you want to analyze and Google responds with a hugely useful and detailed report o ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – April 18
    1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. 1783 – Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began. 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesi ...
  • First reviews from World Wide Premiere of &#82 ...
    Atlas Shrugged Part 1 — Our Tomorrow April 15, 2011 Libertarian Savvy.com From the opening scenes we see our own dystopia: an awakened few strive for a world of peace and freedom in an age of government control and force. Low-budget, with little spectacle and no major “stars,” the film offers gl ...
  • Libertarian correspondent discusses what is re ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4647913/a-report-from-the-revolution/
  • ‘Prince of Pot’ denied move to Canada
    Canada’s “Prince of Pot” has been denied a prison transfer back to Canada and will likely serve his entire sentence in the United States. Vancouver resident Marc Emery was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in the U.S. on May 24 for selling marijuana seeds online to American ...
  • Three largest online poker sites indicted and ...
    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 and Absolute Poker were charged with bank fraud and money laundering in an indictment unsealed in ...

The Air Vent

  • Ugh!
    I’ve got to let off a little steam.   Currently, in the US, we have a government overspending their income by a gigantic proportion.   Those in charge have no chance of feeling the result of their own policy (while in office) and those who lose office didn’t have the power anyway so — who ca ...
  • Officially in Print
    Sometimes you never expect it to happen.  I’m just glad to have a small part in correcting the record. ——— Dear Dr. O’Donnell, We have completed the editorial process involved with your article, and have included it in the 15 April 2011 issue of Journal of Climate, Vol. 24, No. 8. You may find ...
  • the Unseen Load of Government
    I’ve been trying to think of how to make this point.  The problem seems lost on the government educated of the US and despite starting to write it twice both posts came off as grumpy vents which isn’t what I was hoping. E.M Smith has done a wonderful job explaining economics of the world and [...]
  • It’s the magnitude that is hard to ignore
    Joe Bastardi on the recent AV post highlighted at WUWT. H/T Reader Keith Grubb
  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale o ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...

Focal Point

  • Fat as Class War in Arizona
    Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
  • Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
    Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
  • A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
    I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
  • Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
    Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
  • Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
    @BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...

Inside Facebook

  • Featured Facebook Campaigns: Virgin Atlantic, ...
    Celebrities, videos, check-ins, free food, cartoons and games were used in our featured Facebook campaigns this week, with varying results. The DNA Foundation incorporated celebrities, videos and pulling in a user’s photo to be a part of the campaign. Virgin America compiled check-ins to promote ...
  • Phrases, Dating, Pages, Video, Friends and Spa ...
    Phrases were big on our list of top 20 Facebook applications by monthly active users this week, as were dating apps, Page tool apps, Turkish video apps and friend quizzes in both English and Spanish. The apps on our list grew from about 1.3 million MAU to about 291,000 MAU. Our list is compiled ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, April 11th, 2011 Kiip’s Novel Take on Mobile Gaming Advertising: Rewards When Players Hit Achievements Pocket Gems Passes 28 Mill ...
  • New Jobs This Week on the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Daglow Entertainment, Buffalo Studios, Arkadium, NaturalMotio ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Winklevoss Twins, Canada, Li ...
    Winklevoss Twins Lose Appeal, Facebook Legal Saga Continues – The Winklevoss twins, who had most recently sued Facebook claiming that the company hid information from them when they settled for $65 million, were told by a panel of three U.S. Appeals Court that they must accept that deal. The jud ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Lobbies and the corruption of the USA's electe ...
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the distorting effect of political lobbies on the USA's elected representatives and, using the example of the Israel lobby, shows how the lobbied politicians end up representing the lobby and not their constituents or the national interest.
  • USA - dishonest broker in flawed "peace proces ...
    Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari interviews American Professor Naseer Aruri on a wide range of issues relating to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including the flaws of the Oslo accords, the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby over the US political process and the role of the USA as “dishonest ...
  • Israel steps up Jerusalem expulsions
    Jonathan Cook reports on the case of the famous Jerusalem-based Palestinian bookseller, Munther Fahmi, who has been told by the Israeli authorities to leave the city and country of his birth as part of its policy of ethnic cleansing.
  • David Harris: Israel’s American propagandist
    Paul J. Balles highlights the arrogance and hypocrisy of the American Jewish Committee's David Harris, a propagandist of the calibre of Joseph Goebbels, who appears to believe that Israel's victims have neither human nor civil rights.
  • The ghost of Joe McCarthy walks the USA
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the apathy of, and lack of accurate information available to, the American public is paving the way for a wave of McCarthyism that is threatening to sweep the USA and is seriously eroding "one of the pillars of American freedom, that of free speech".

Amazon Rainforest

  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April17
    The Devolution of the People & Government Czars, Halfhearted Congressional Gestures, Obama’s Drone Obsessions, and More! I am going to list a few noteworthy articles and commentaries from this past week, and I am going to make it very brief. I am sure you have heard that before. Okay, it will be ...
  • Podcast Show #39
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr. Tom Woods Tom Woods joins us to discuss his latest article on the Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers which has triggered intriguing reactions from the media on both sides of the isle. He provides us with historical background and a ‘real’ constitutional ...
  • The Danger of Tranquilized & Docile Youth
    What Is Wrong with This Picture? In February we provided you with coverage of the brutalization and arrest of Veteran Ray McGovern during Hillary Clinton’s speech at George Washington University. McGovern had dared to stand up during the speech, peacefully and silently, in a Gandhi-endorsed way, ...
  • Our Hypocrisy Ridden Foreign Policy: Jailed Jo ...
    Turkey Is the Country with the Most Imprisoned Journalists Uzbekistan boils activists: we are okay with it. Heck, we even support ‘the Boilers. ’Azerbaijan tortures and murders journalists and activists: we are totally fine with it; in fact, we consider them our great ally . When Syria engages i ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Baldwin’s Prophecy
  • Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa & ...
    Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa – Al Jazeera English.
  • Sing It!
    I need some inspiration, a shot of adrenaline. Ladies and gentleman: Dame Shirley BASSEY!
  • “What the World Needs Now…”
    I was eleven years old. The riots were still fresh. The “Poor People’s March” had failed to ignite the revolutionary redistribution of wealth. “Soul Brother” graffiti was still plastered on burnt out buildings in DC. The faint smell of tear gas could be conjured by its mere mention. On the radio ...
  • Cote D’Ivoire Update: BBC
    From the BBC: Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants EU sanctions lifted Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. Mr Ouattara now controls the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, and wants to restart ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Sen4Earth

  • Ecofeminism: Book by Jytte Nhanenge
    Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development Authored by Jytte Nhanenge Sustainability Education Network is doubly honored to announce and review the newly published work of author Jytte Nhanenge, and applauds University Press of America for it ...
  • Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
    Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
    When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
  • Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
    Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
  • Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
    Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
  • Rally to Save the American Dream
    In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
  • UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
    On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
    This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
  • Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
    [Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...
  • Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
    The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
  • LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
    Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
  • Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
    The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Koch’s Web of Influence
    At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from Koch Industries argued that moderate levels of the toxic chemical dioxin should not be designated as a cancer risk for humans.When members of Congress sought higher security at chemical plants to guard against terrorist attacks, Koch Industries ...
  • Iran's Nukes - German Companies Undermine EU S ...
    In Tehran started the Iran Oil Show 2011 on Saturday, April 16. The Oil Show is an industry exhibition for companies that are active in the energy sector. A high number of German companies will participate, presenting their technology for the sanctioned Iranian energy sector. German-based critic ...
  • The Battle for Syria - As Unrest Spreads in th ...
    After three weeks and more than 200 deaths, the uprisings against Syria's Asad regime appear to be gaining momentum. In recent days, the protests spread to the coastal city of Banias and, more important, to Aleppo. Smaller demonstrations have even occurred at Damascus University.The Aleppo prote ...
  • The Way We Are - Sex & Sadness III
    During the Lenten season, many of us stop to consider the spiritual consequences of our consumption habits. Many people give up the foods they most enjoy: meat, sweets, alcohol and coffee. The difficulty of surrendering our habits, even temporarily, reminds us of the weaknesses of which our fles ...
  • Palestinian Terror - Will "Iron Dome" Negate t ...
    Will the Iron Dome Missile Defense System negates the need for Israel to engage in military operations against Hamas in Gaza?The escalation in rocket barrages from terrorists in Gaza against southern Israel in 2011 has forced the Israeli government to rush deployment of the "Iron Dome" missile d ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Counterrevolution 101
    By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
  • No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
    By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
  • Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
    By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
  • What Is True Sustainability?
    By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
  • Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
    By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • Iran Now Blames Stuxnet On Siemens, The US and ...
    Stuxnet is the virus which has infected the computers the Iranian nuclear centrifuges causing them to be damaged. The job of the centrifuge is to purify Uranium so it could be used for reactors and/or weapons. Stuxnet �takes control� of the centrifuge and spins them of control so they burn o ...
  • An Assassin of Anwar Sadat Explains The Law of ...
    By Barry Rubin This is fascinating for a totally unexpected reason. It illustrates the law of unintended consequences, which is perhaps the single most important concept to keep in mind when examining the Middle East right now. Abboud al-Zumar was a leader in the Egyptian Islamic Ji ...
  • Moses Was Screwed! He's In The Movies But Not ...
    Moses was screwed! There is no other way to put it. At sundown April 18th, Jews all across the world will begin the celebration of the holiday of Passover. Outside of Israel, the first two days of the holiday begin with a Seder (Jewish holidays begin in the evening) a family ritual �based o ...
  • Oh Great! Now They Say Ice Cubes Cause Global ...
    See, Now they have gone and done it again! Earlier this week we discovered the global warming moonbats alienated the stoners in their base by declaring that growing pot indoors causes global warming.� Apparently the resulting contribution to greenhouse gas emissions from growing pot indoors equa ...
  • In Memoriam? American Superpower, In Debt and ...
    By Barry Rubin Once one of the world�s most respected and powerful forces, America Superpower has disappeared. Worried friends and relatives are engaging in a desperate search. Rumors abound, including stories that Mr. Superpower has been kidnapped; committed suicide; or merely has gone ...

The Real Agenda

  • Religión Ambientalista de la ONU: La Ecomafia ...
    El valor de la vida humana debe ser igual a la de un árbol o un insecto. Ese es el objetivo de la iniciativa aprobada en Bolivia y que fue elaborada por Evo Morales. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Abril 13, 2011 Bolivia presentará este mes un proyecto a las Naciones Unidas para [...]
  • Wells Fargo Bank adds EMV chips to credit cards
    Bloomberg April 13, 2011 Wells Fargo, the bank with the most branches, is testing microchip-embedded credit cards with frequent travelers to address complaints of customers who have trouble using their cards abroad. The pilot program announced today marks the first effort by a major U.S. bank to ...
  • Banks in Debt?
    Most of this “debt” is part of the purchase and investment on toxic financial products the banks themselves created as well as unpaid real estate mortgages Reuters April 14, 2011 The world’s banks face a $3.6 trillion “wall of maturing debt” in the next two years and must compete with debt-laden ...
  • Terremoto de Japón disminuyó Longitud de la Tierra
    National Geographic Abril 13, 2011 La magnitud 9,0 del terremoto que sacudió Japón el pasado viernes fue lo suficientemente potente como para reducir la longitud terrestre en 17 centímetros haciendo que los días sean 1,8 microsegundos más cortos. Eso no apunta que las ondas de choque  hayan desp ...
  • Obama White House Threatens Journalist with Death
    Following Chicago-style gangster politics a former intelligence officer is told to stop reporting on government corruption or else. Wayne Madsen April 13, 2011 In yet another indication that America’s democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a ...

Wind Watch

  • Noise, distraction, and litigation: Controvers ...
    They�re a colossal sight � towering metal giants with blades as long as airplane wings humming in the rural fields of Central New York. But for residents in Fairfield who already felt they�d been deprived of a fair say in construction, the windmills are nothing but an expensive, loud nuisance. � ...
  • Turbine critics come out swinging in Dennis
    SOUTH DENNIS â It may only be one of the first steps in the debate over a proposal to place two wind turbines on Dennis Water District property, but it was a doozy. About 100 residents from Dennis, Harwich, Brewster and Falmouth filled the Dennis Senior Center on Monday night to voice their opin ...
  • Companies say North Dakota wind turbine accide ...
    Experts said a North Dakota wind turbine’s rotor and blades crashed to the ground because they weren’t properly aligned with a power shaft atop the turbine’s steel tower, which caused the rotor’s connecting bolts to fail. The March 14 accident north of Rugby will prompt more frequent inspections ...
  • Green energy project poses threat to wildlife ...
    Pune: Development projects in the ecologically sensitive region of Western Ghats in Maharashtra have been under the green activists’ scanner for long. Activists allege that this time the culprit is a seemingly innocent wind power project. They state that the 113 MW Andhra Lake Wind Power Project ...
  • Wind farm plan rejected by South Staffordshire ...
    Plans for the first wind farm in the West Midlands have been rejected by planners. Members of the South Staffordshire District Council planning committee described the six-turbine application at King�s Street, near Brineton, as �horrendous� as they rejected the scheme. Campaigners from the Stop ...

Not My Tribe

  • As per usual, Colorado Springs monied class is ...
    Yep, they turned up in their orange tans, diamonds, black gowns and shiny SUVs, to support Christian charter schools and honor “God Bless Him” George Dubya Bush. This was my favorite sign from the protest.
  • Bob Holmes said he cares for Homeless PEOPLE
    …but that homeless women breed like rabbits. And while I wasn’t there at the rally at UCCS or however the hell they put it, it strikes me that it’s incredibly unlikely that he used the PEOPLE noun to modify the “homeless” adjective. I’ve noticed a tendency among the Repub/Tea Potty “leaders” her ...
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom To Say And Do Exactly ...
    parently the Imperialists weren’t lying when they said they were bringing American-style “freedoms” In Bahrain and in Iraq… where the Iraqi Puppet Government PIGS have used American style Police Tactics to break up demonstrations, including, with the United States “Freedom” Army standing ready t ...
  • For Tomorrow Mornings Whore-ship Service to Ge ...
    At least he didn’t choose to ride his sorry Ass into town on Palm Sunday. I do hope the Colorado Springs “christian” Schools feel very proud of being Temple Prostitutes for the Beast. Maybe, just this once, you’ll consider sacrificing one of your OWN babies to him instead of ours? You know, the ...
  • Yes sir, you’re right… it’s ...
    Although there are some similarities. Like the level and amount of two radioactive isotopes of Cesium and one of Iodine that are the best measures, the chemical version of a coal-mine canary… High as or higher than Chernobyl. Ah, but that’s not the best part. The best part, oh boy oh joy, is tha ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Structural Aspects of Building 7’s Collapse: W ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: The Physics of WTC 7 World Trade Center 7: An Engineered Collapse NIST's Admission of Freefall - Does It Matter? The Ultimate proof NIST is lying about WTC7 Re: NIST Report on WTC7 debunked and exposed! Scientists, Schola ...
  • What they've got planned for us next...
    The Projected Al Qaeda Use of Body Cavity Suicide Bombs Against High Value Targets http://www.groupintel.com/2011/04/11/the-projected-al-qaeda-use-of-body-cavity-suicide-bombs-against-high-value-targets/ Page 33: Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically sa ...
  • Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing
  • Clinton told it like it is...
    I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...
  • Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader
    ae911truth YouTube.com Mar 19, 2011 AE911Truth's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Tom Sullivan - Former Explosives Loader for Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary "9 ...

Fooducate

  • Those %@#! Comfort Food Commercials
    This is a guest post by pediatrician, author, and childhood obesity specialist, Dr. Robert A. Pretlow. I was fixing dinner the other night with the TV going in the background. I vaguely caught the end of a commercial. Did I hear what I thought I heard? “What comfort tastes like?” What the heck? ...
  • Matzah, the World’s First Ever Fast Food
    This evening marks the beginning of the 8 day Jewish holiday known as Passover. As with any holiday, there are specific foods associated with Passover. One of them is Matzah, a flatbread made with only 2 ingredients – water and flour. Matzah is the first ever fast food in history, at least accor ...
  • Wendy’s “Natural Cut” Fries. Indeed?
    Wendy’s is touting their new natural cut fries as a tastier alternative to McDonald’s. And the “Natural” with “sea salt” makes it sound really healthy too. But, as always, cheap food comes at a price. BNET’s Melanie Warner spoke with Wendy’s Chief Marketing Officer, Ken Calwell , who had this to ...
  • Coming Soon? Whey Protein Soft Drinks
    The beverage industry, for those of you who aren’t aware, is a multi-billion dollar business. Whether it’s fruit juice, soda pop, or bottled water, consumers spend a lot of money on hydration every day. Beverage marketers spend gazillions advertising their products. It’s competitive as hell too. ...
  • A Fishy Debate: Farmed vs. Wild Seafood
    This blog post is by Erica Melling, who has joined Fooducate as a summer intern. Farmed. In recent years, it has become the “F” word of the seafood industry. However, the issue is more complicated than you may realize and wild-caught fish may not always be the healthier, more sustainable choice. ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a (Clorox) wipe dis ...
    We’ve had an email from Cassondra asking: How can I reuse/recycle clorox wipes containers? I hadn’t heard of Clorox wipes but my friend Google tells me they’re the same type of dispensing containers used for many types of wipes (baby wipes, screen cleaning wipes, etc). Like with all disposable w ...
  • Plastic bottle creations, recycled robot plant ...
    Every now and then I realise I’ve had some great ideas & links sent to my email but not shared them with you yet – this is one of those times! First up, Vernon got into touch to tell us about his plastic bottle creations. He says he’s been making them for 15 years and [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle hair straighters/fl ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Nicole has said: I’ve had two straighteners/flat irons (to straighten hair) die on me. Is there a way to recycle these other than tossing them? As a minimum, they should be collected for electronic/electric waste recycling – either at your local tip/”household w ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers/beauty ...
    Jeri left a question on the Suggest an Item page: I work at a beauty salon and we just got new aprons so I collected all the old black ones and all the old polyester smocks that they were going to throw away. They were just putting them in the trash so I rescued them [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a decorative colour ...
    We’re in the middle of having our bathroom replaced. It’s been a nightmare, never again etc etc – but it has had some upsides. For example, after I mentioned to the main plumber that I’d reuse the side of the old shower enclosure to make a cold frame or something, he brought me six old [...]

Age of Autism

  • The War on PDD-NOS, Pervasive Denial Disorder- ...
    By Lisa Joyce Goes "Imagine you are seated at a table among several people. Right beside you, your child is choking helplessly. You are frantic, doing everything in your power to save him. The clock is ticking. He is turning...
  • More Winners! CuttIng Edge Therapies for Autis ...
    First nine winners, eleven to go. We look at every comment on every posting about this contest to draw the winners, promise!: Sue Morgan Susan Fritz Cody Jordan Tammy McNair Michele Wandrack Janet Leavatin Americo Rodriguez Melissa T Kristine Our...
  • PBS on Autism: Robert McNeil's Grandson's Seve ...
    See full story and comment at PBS HERE. Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. There's much more at the PBS site. Here's an excerpt. Thank you to our good friends Alison and Dave for opening their hearts and...
  • Brandeis Hoot On Jake Crosby's Event with Dr. ...
    The Brandeis hoot wrote this follow up piece to Age of Autism Contributing Editor Jake Crosby's event hosting Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Jon Ostrowsky should know that Dr. Wakefield is still an M.D., his degree is still very much intact. Eembattled...
  • Johns Hopkins Reports More Children Have Infla ...
    From Johns Hopkins University. We know a population that suffers from severe GI problems still mislabeled "autistic behavior." And we know a few brave doctors trying to help. March 28, 2011 -Delays in Diagnosis Common Once a medical rarity in...

Global BDS Movement

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    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • How to Milk a Goat In the Crosshairs!
    Farm Wars Radio: A goat can keep you alive and healthy. This week Barb shares her secrets on how to process goat's milk the right way!
  • 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?

Open Your Eyes News

  • Yemen forces fire on Sanaa protest march, 22 hurt
    Reuters – Yemeni forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh fired at a protest march in Sanaa on Sunday, wounding at least 22 people, doctors said, as opposition leaders met Gulf Arab mediators in Saudi Arabia. Doctors said around 200 more demonstrators were overcome by tear gas during the cla ...
  • Unilever, P&G Fined $457 Million by EU for Det ...
    Bloomberg – Unilever and Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) agreed to pay 315.2 million euros ($457 million) in fines to end a European Union probe into price fixing of laundry detergent. P&G, the maker of Ariel washing powder, was fined 211.2 million euros and Unilever will pay 104 million euros for agr ...
  • Assad pledge fails to quell Syria anger; troop ...
    Reuters – Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, and an announcement that President Bashar al-Assad would lift 48-years of emergency rule failed to quell fury on the streets. Two witnesses said security forces killed three mourners when they open ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – White Ho ...
    Federal News Radio – Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks. The proposal would codify much of the administration’s memo from July 2010 expanding DHS’s cyber responsibilities for civilian networks. Th ...
  • Doctors overusing thyroid cancer treatment: study
    Reuters – Too many patients are getting a thyroid cancer treatment that kills thyroid tissue but can also harm other tissues in the process, according to a new study. The research, published in Cancer, finds that doctors are treating patients with early-stage, low-risk thyroid cancer using radio ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • BP oil spill has lasting effects, one year later
    One year after the Gulf oil spill: A widow learns to adjust to life without her husband. A charter fisherman feels the effect of canceled trips. A well worker considers quitting, but the paycheck proves too enticing. Nearly one year...
  • Discovery Center project won't get a $7-millio ...
    California State Parks authorities have rejected a request for a $7-million grant needed to begin construction on a controversial $22-million, 14,000-square foot Discovery Center at the Whittier Narrows wildlife sanctuary in South El Monte. “We did not fund that project,”...
  • Budget rider would lift wolf protections in no ...
    When Congress passes the federal budget, it’s increasingly likely lawmakers will also be sealing the fate of wolves in the northern Rockies. An unrelated rider quietly attached by legislators from Montana and Idaho to the crucial spending compromise would for...
  • Safeway, Vons top Greenpeace list for seafood ...
    One of the nation's largest supermarket chains has claimed the top spot in the Greenpeace seafood sustainability report, released Tuesday. Safeway, which operates more than 1,700 stores under various names, including Vons, was praised for discontinuing sales of "red-list," or...
  • California renewable energy gets major boost i ...
    Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a mandate that 33% of electricity in California must come from renewable sources by 2020. Executives at solar, wind and other clean energy companies said the new regulations could help California reclaim its...

water.org

  • Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
    Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...
  • Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
    Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
  • Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
    Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
  • Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
    Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
  • Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
    Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Mom walks from New Orleans to Washington to hi ...
    A 38-year-old mother of six and wife of an unemployed oil rig worker from Rayne, who was affected by the BO Gulf Oil Spill walks to Washington in the hope she will be able to speak to her President. HER PRESIDENT!Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Add your voice ours who ask that the war in Af ...
    The Pentagon is pushing hard on President Obama to make the July withdrawal as small as possible. Meanwhile, troops are facing catastrophic injuries despite the military's dubious claims of progress.Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Black September is coming to Jerusalem
    If the prime minister had intended to fulfill his declaration of "two states for two peoples," he would not have required so many words of interpretation and PR spins. He would have presented a diplomatic plan and cut out a working program from it. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note ...
  • Israel's leaders sacrifice the people for thei ...
    For 44 years, the regime in Israel has forced its citizens, the vast majority of whom want peace and do not want the settlements, to continue to die on the front and to be blown up on the home front, simply because it can.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu's West Bank plan reeks of irrational ...
    If the territories are important for Israel, as he has argued up to now, why give them up for a deferral of a U.N. vote or for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama? And if the territories are not important, why hold on to them? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Solar Power Without Solar Cells
    Solar power station graphic courtesy Scientific American As most people know, electromagnetism manifests as both electric fields and magnetic fields. read more
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: SunEdison Meets Ontario FIT Do ...
    SunEdisonâs 9.1 MW First Light 1 was the first utility-scale photovoltaic facility in Canada when it began transmitting power to Ontario Hydro September 30, 2009. It is located in Stone Mill ...
  • Sempra Generation Gets Green Light From Regula ...
    Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), announced that a 20-year power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been approved California regulators. read more
  • Sun Drenched Australia Orders 44 MW Of Solar Power
    French nuclear power developer AREVA Group has announced that its subsidiary, AREVA Solar will build the world's largest solar/coal-fired power augmentation project in Queensland, Australia. read more
  • United States: DOE Backs 250 MW California Sol ...
    The United States Department of�Energy (DOE) announced that it has offered US$1.187 billion loan guarantee to SunPower Corporation (NasdaqNM: SPWRA) for the development of the 25 read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • I'm no hypocrite! Rio Ferdinand hits back ...
    Rio Ferdinand insists he was right to blast Mario Balotelli over his Wembley antics - despite claims the Manchester United star is a hypocrite. The England centre-back was furious with Balotelli for celebrating in front of the United fans at the end of Manchester City's FA Cup semi-final vi ...
  • 'She was an inspiration,' Sir Paul McCart ...
    Sir Paul McCartney has created the ultimate tribute to his late wife Linda, with a book to celebrate her talent. The 68-year-old has picked some of his favourite photographs taken by Linda, who passed away in 1998, for a new book. The former Beatle and his children, including fashion design ...
  • Lyon resigned to losing Hugo Lloris to to ...
    Lloris could be one of a number of players leaving Lyon for pastures new in the summer as club admits it will be tough to keep him on board amid interest elsewhere By Salvatore Landolina Share Share Find the best odds and bet on Ligue 1. Lyon director Bernard Lacombe admits it will be hard ...
  • ‘It's a massive moment for the club’ - Ga ...
    The England midfielder has claimed that the result makes clear the unity within the City squad and refuses to be drawn on Joey Barton branding him a "teacher's pet" By Jonathan Birchall Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League....
  • Robert Pattinson talks the death of a clo ...
    If you run a TV show and want an entertaining guest, it's hard to really look any further than Robert Pattinson. The man is often hilarious and gives great soundbites -- even if many of them come in a way that hardly anyone would expect. For a prime example of this, all you have to do is se ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Losing Weight Can Improve Memory
    A study of obese patients going through bariatric surgery demonstrates that, sometimes, a medication’s or medical procedure’s side effects are beneficial. Dr. John Gunstad and a team of researchers found that bariatric surgery patients exhibited improved memory function 12 weeks after their oper ...
  • Deaf in the Civil War
    While doing some maintenance work on the About.com Deafness site, I stumbled across this little gem: U.S. Civil War Military Service by deaf people.� Coincidentally, this year is the 150th ... Read Full Post
  • How to Watch the Boston Marathon
    The Boston Marathon runs tomorrow (Patriots' Day in Massachusetts) and if can't make it to Beantown to be part of the excitement, you can still catch the action on television or online.... Read Full Post
  • McSleepy Developer Uses "KIS" To Increase Prec ...
    First there was McSleepy™. Now it's time to introduce the first intubation robot operated by remote control. This robotic system named The Kepler Intubation System (KIS), and developed by Dr. Thomas M...
  • Love to golf? Shape up your swing
    Want to avoid golf injuries? Start by thinking through your . . .

Common Dreams

  • US Nuclear Regulator a Policeman or Salesman?
    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission exists to police, not promote, the domestic nuclear industry -- but diplomatic cables show that it is sometimes used as a sales tool to help push American technology to foreign governments. The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and provided to ...
  • Owners of Vermont Yankee File Lawsuit to Keep ...
    MONTPELIER - Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Corp. turned to federal court Monday to try to keep Vermont from shutting down the Vernon nuclear power plant, the company announced this morning. The company filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Vermont. ...
  • GOP Wave Reshapes Nation's Agenda State by State
    COLUMBUS, Ohio – State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November. read more
  • Path to Municipal Privatizaton? Emergency Chie ...
    BENTON HARBOR, Michigan — A state-appointed emergency financial manager has suspended the decision-making powers of Benton Harbor officials in a move that's likely the first act of its kind under a new state law. The Detroit News reports that Friday's order by Joseph Harris means Benton Harbor o ...
  • US Secretly Backed Syrian Opposition Groups, C ...
    The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • SELF and The Quest to Bring Solar to The World
    There are 1.6 billion people living in darkness, without access to electricity. The Solar Electric Light Fund, or SELF, has been trying for decades to bring solar power to off-the-grid places – illuminating the developing world, village by village, clinic by clinic.
  • Arguing with Rocks
    After presenting the ominous evidence inscribed in the rocks about the severity of our climate problem, a more optimistic Lovell argues that the oil industry can also be part of the solution, by deploying its political prowess, financial resources, and technological expertise. He makes the case ...
  • Astro Turf Wars
    It's great having Greenfyre around again. Perhaps he should call his blog Feetfyre instead. He certainly puts matters back into the right ethical perspective. It's easy, in the ivory tower, to lose sight of the urgency of the emergency. Greenfyre doesn't let us forget.
  • Solar Millennium Explain The Key To Making CSP ...
    The move towards CSP yield optimisation has a number of causes and a number of solutions � and the opportunity now exists to give the technology long-term viability.� In the build-up to the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May � 1 June, Seville), Solar Millennium explained to ...
  • Is Mark Hertsgaard a Nuclear Skeptic or a Nucl ...
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Green House - USA Today

  • Feds gives positive eco review to U.S.-Canada ...
    U.S. officials issued a mostly positive environmental review Friday to a controversial, 1,661- mile extension of a U.S.-Canadian private pipeline that will carry heavy crude oi across six U.S. states.
  • Greenest U.S. states? Some may surprise
    In politics, there are red states and blue states. But when it comes to the environment, there are deep green, semi-green and, well, brown states. Which hue is yours?
  • California sets highest green power goal
    Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that set nation's toughest renewable energy mandate, requiring utilities to draw 33% of their power from solar panels,windmills and other sources by 2020.
  • Greenest cars? Gas prices drive interest in fu ...
    As gas prices rise, consumers are more interested in buying cars with better fuel economy and -- good news! -- there's more eco-friendly cars on the market this year, Kelley Blue Book reports Tuesday.
  • Wearable, self-powered batteries in the works
    How cool is this? Replacing or recharging batteries may become a thing of the past if this idea by New Zealand researchers can be commercialized: wearable batteries.

Prior Art

  • Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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  • Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
    By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...

Peoples Voice

  • Oil, water, and America's price priorities
    Mary Shaw As of April 11, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. was $3.79. And I hear people complaining about it all the time. Still, they don't think twice about spending much more per gallon for bottled water. During a recent visit to a local sandwich shop, I noticed that ...
  • Alarming New Fukushima Reports
    by Stephen Lendman Five weeks after Japan's disaster, reports suggest worse, not improved conditions. It portends serious regional and global trouble ahead, besides what's already happened. On April 16, AP headlined, "Radioactivity Rises in Sea Off Japan Nuclear Plant," saying: "Leve ...
  • Remembering Vittorio Arrigoni
    by Stephen Lendman On April 15, International Solidarity Movement (ISM) members grieved for one of their own, their press release headlining, "Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank unite in mourning of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni," saying: "People will gather in Al Manara square in ...
  • Breathing a word of truth about 9/11 will kill ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Kourosh Ziabari, Kevin BarrettKevin Barrett is a renowned American journalist, writer and former university lecturer. He has taught English, French, Arabic, American Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at colleges and universities in ...
  • Prospects for a Palestinian Spring
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article headlined, "Arab Spring Yet to Bloom," explaining that despite months of heroic Middle East/North African uprisings in over a dozen countries from Morocco to Syria to Oman, none so far achieved change. It suggested that months, perhaps years, of sustained s ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Corporate tax cuts don't stimulate investment
    A new CCPA study examines historical data on business investment and cash flow from 1961 through 2010, and, using econometric techniques, finds no evidence in the historical data that lower taxes have directly stimulated more investment. Business fixed capital spending has declined notably as a ...
  • Silencing dissent: The Conservative record
    The CCPA's law-student intern, Maria Gergin, has compiled a comprehensive account of the Harper government's crackdown on oppossing views. Her article, Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record, includes a list of 79 community organizations, agencies, NGOs, research bodies and program ...
  • Putting our money where our mouth is
    The renegotiations of the federal-provincial-territorial health accord are on the horizon, and everyone is looking for a way to save money and improve health.� Sound impossible?� Why don�t we put our money where our mouth is? It�s a strange truth of Canadian public policy: the care of our lips, ...
  • Robin Hood in reverse: The real numbers behind ...
    Earlier this week, the Conservatives announced their first election plank of the campaign: the �Family Tax Cut,� or income splitting for couples with children, selling the plan as a helping hand for middle class and low-income families. In his latest post on the CCPA election blog, Research Ass ...
  • CCPA economists promote a budget that connects ...
    The CCPA released its Alternative Federal Budget Tuesday, promoting a federal budget that connects with Canadians' real financial worries. Watch Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David Macdonald on CBC's Power and Politics here. Watch CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan on CTV's Powe ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Arizona: The New “Show Me” State?
    Arizona Law Says Lack of Foreskin Acceptable Proof of Citizenship | Care 2 Part of the controversial Arizona birther bill passed on Wednesday makes a certificate of circumcision (given to parent of a Jewish child after the religiously significant procedure is performed) acceptable proof of Ameri ...
  • The Planet Strikes Back
    By Michael T. Klare | Tomdispatch - Why We Underestimate the Earth and Overestimate Ourselves In his 2010 book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that it’s no longer recognizable as the ...
  • It’s Official: Truth Is Stranger Than Fi ...
    Dog the Bounty Hunter Bails Out Nicolas Cage | ABC After being arrested on one count of domestic abuse and one count of disturbing the peace, Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage was reportedly bailed out by reality television star Dog the Bounty Hunter. “I am a truly dedicated fan of Mr. Ca ...
  • Rep. Allen West Is A Corporate Tool
    Rep. Allen West Takes Debt Ceiling Hostage For Huge Corporate Tax Cut | Think Progress Republicans have, for months, been laying out various demands that they want in exchange for voting to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, even though failure to do so would have widespread and disastrous consequ ...
  • Anti-government fighters face attacks from Gad ...
    Libyan rebels claim control over Ajdabiya | Al Jazeera Rebel fighters in Libya say they have captured Ajdabiya, but government forces are reported to be pounding the eastern town as battles rage on for control of the country’s coast. The rebels, seeking to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s long ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
    From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
  • The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
    According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...

Salon

  • Three killed at funeral for slain Syrian protester
    Gunmen opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester Sunday, killing at least three people on a day when tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide as part of an uprising against the country's authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said.
  • Revisiting the murder of Dr. George Tiller
    It's been almost two years since George Tiller, who was one of the country's few providers of later-term abortions, was gunned down in his church in Wichita, Kan. His brutal murder was followed by a heated national debate over who and what was responsible for it. Tiller's killer, Scott Roeder ...
  • Japan nuclear firm reveals plan to end crisis
    The operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday to bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes.
  • The Week in Uppers
    While our attention was dominated this past week by heated political debate in Washington and last-minute tax returns back home, the news wasn't all bad. Here are a few of the week's more heart-warming headlines.
  • Our original Libyan misadventure
    History doesn't repeat itself, Mark Twain is famously supposed to have said. But sometimes it rhymes. If so, it's improvising a perfect sonnet in Libya these days. Neither the rebels in Benghazi, desperate for more Western help against Gadhafi, nor the policymakers in Washington, who are desp ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • SELF and The Quest to Bring Solar to The World
    There are 1.6 billion people living in darkness, without access to electricity. The Solar Electric Light Fund, or SELF, has been trying for decades to bring solar power to off-the-grid places – illuminating the developing world, village by village, clinic by clinic.
  • Arguing with Rocks
    After presenting the ominous evidence inscribed in the rocks about the severity of our climate problem, a more optimistic Lovell argues that the oil industry can also be part of the solution, by deploying its political prowess, financial resources, and technological expertise. He makes the case ...
  • Astro Turf Wars
    It's great having Greenfyre around again. Perhaps he should call his blog Feetfyre instead. He certainly puts matters back into the right ethical perspective. It's easy, in the ivory tower, to lose sight of the urgency of the emergency. Greenfyre doesn't let us forget.
  • Solar Millennium Explain The Key To Making CSP ...
    The move towards CSP yield optimisation has a number of causes and a number of solutions � and the opportunity now exists to give the technology long-term viability.� In the build-up to the CSP Yield Optimisation Europe Conference & Expo (31 May � 1 June, Seville), Solar Millennium explained to ...
  • Is Mark Hertsgaard a Nuclear Skeptic or a Nucl ...
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EU Times

  • Nationalist True Finns make gains in Finland vote
    A nationalist party has taken nearly a fifth of votes in Finland’s general election, the electoral commission says. The True Finns finished just behind the conservative NCP and the Social Democrats on around 19%. While the Social Democrats have called for changes on EU bail-outs, including the p ...
  • Croatia: Anger on Streets as ‘National Hero’ G ...
    Up to 30,000 Croats took to the streets of the capital Zagreb over the weekend to protest against the jailing of two generals for war crimes in the Balkans wars on Friday. Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac are considered national heroes in Croatia. General Gotovina was jailed by the war crimes tri ...
  • Black holes hide whole civilizations?
    Vyacheslav Dokuchaev, an employee of the Moscow Institute for Nuclear Research, suggested a sensational hypothesis. He proposed that the so-called “black holes” may contain not only different microparticle matter, but entire planets with living organisms. The scientist suggests that they can rot ...
  • Obama Ordered To Mysterious Area 51 Base As ‘A ...
    A most strange report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Federal Space Agency (FKA/RKA) states that this Sunday past (April 10th) an ФКА Satellite operating in space over North America detected a massive “infrared-magnetic anomaly” emanating under the highly secretive Nevad ...
  • New York, San Diego no longer have white major ...
    New census data confirm that some major metropolitan areas flipped from majority white to majority populations of minorities during the past decade. White people are now in the minority in 46 of the nation’s 366 metro areas, including New York, Washington, San Diego, Las Vegas and Memphis, said ...

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