- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Some Good News From Fukushima At Last. And Som ...
Anton Goryunov writes from Tokyo: Well, it’s good and bad news all at once coming from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the one that is still leaking radiation, ever since it had been hit by the tsunami more than a month ago. A month and one week actually, if you like your facts precise
- B. Hussein Obama Hosts Boss of Terror Channel ...
President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Amir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar in the Oval Office, April 14, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Photo located at White House blog . Obama Hosts Boss of Terror Channel Al-Jazeera Obama on Thursday hosted Emir Hamad bin ...
- Should Labour's AV agnostics vote against Cleg ...
It would be great if every referendum was decided on the merits of the issue on the ballot. Ed Miliband makes that appeal in The Independent today. "It is not a referendum on Nick Clegg nor David Cameron. It is a referendum on AV." But the comparative evidence shows that doesn't always happen - ...
- POMED Notes: âU.S. Leadership on Democracy and ...
On Thursday, Freedom House, in partnership with the Democracy Coalition Project and the Open Society Foundations, hosted a briefing on the importance of U.S. engagement at the United Nationsâ Human Rights Council. Â Advocacy Director at Freedom House Paula Schriefer moderated the event and intr ...
- Final Result in Finland
It is too close to call on the policies of the resultant Government, read here, with the True Finns slipping back into third place, since my last post yesterday evening, but only by the slimmest margin as may be seen in this chart: Final Results: National Coalition Party: 20.4% Social Democrati ...
- Historic Supreme Court Oral Argument: Lotus v. ...
The Supreme Court took up a case involving ownership of computer technology in this 1996 case. Lotus Development Corporation copyrighted a computer spreadsheet program called "Lotus 1-2-3." Borland International, a competing software company, released a similar program called "Quattro," that co ...
- Video: Richard Stallman - A Free Digital Socie ...
Download and watch Richard Stallman's speech recorded on April 11, 2011. The video is only available in Ogg Vorbis format. We recommend the free VLC media player. - Cyberlaw, Stanford U
- YouTube: Fair Use is Why Conan Can Make Fun of ...
Hitler parodies aside, YouTube announced today that it would be holding a Q&A with "leading experts from the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Anthony Falzone and Julie Ahrens" on the topic of "fair use." If you have questions, you can submit them until April 21 and they will be answere ...
- FAA says another air traffic controller fell a ...
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said that as a result of the seventh instance this year when he has suspended a controller for allegedly sleeping on the job, he would end a scheduling system that often puts controllers back on the job after just eight hours off...."We are taking swift action to ...
- How to Catch a Liar: The Cognitive Clues to Deceit
Vrij ran an experiment in which half the liars and truth-tellers were instructed to recall their stories in reverse order. When observers later looked at videotapes of the complete interviews, they detected more clues to deceit in the liars who were burdened by this mental task. Indeed, observer ...
- 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 ...
- Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...
- U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
- Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
- Open thread, early April 2011
Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
- More on Turkey/Syria
On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
- Restoring the Kaipara Harbour
I was really inspired when taking part in a hui at Puatahi Marae on Sunday, an open day for the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group. The group’s title is a mouthful, but there is nothing complicated about the vision they share, which is to restore the Kaipara, its mauri, its quality ...
- No plan for New Zealand forests
Statistics released last week by the Ministry of Forestry shows that the Government has no plan for the future of forestry. New Zealand planted a net 4300 hectares for the year ended April 1st 2010 (6000 hectares of new plantations and 1700 hectares deforested) which is a small increase, but a w ...
- Succession rules a right royal mess
It’s good that John Key, on TVNZ’s Breakfast programme, committed New Zealand to changing royal succession rules that discriminate against a female heir. British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg restarted the constitutional debate over the weekend by saying that “If Prince William and Catherine ...
- Waituna Lagoon in the Emergency Dept
April 9, 2011. One of the principles that I try to follow in my job is that I don’t change the message depending on the audience; maybe change the emphasis or they way I tell it, but I aim not to change the fundamentals. With this in mind I found myself recently sitting in a small community ...
- Act’s Hilary Calvert on the “Skyne ...
No, the Act Party’s rising star Hilary Calvert didn’t actually make this speech on this Bill: But she may as well have done. I presume she was told to shut up, for fear of causing further embarrassment. But here’s National’s Katrina Shanks: And National’s Jonathan Young: Clueless! Surely, Rodney ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Tax Day Charts!
Courtesy of Dave Gilson, here's a whole bunch of handy charts for tax day to show you who's paying how much to whom. For example, the chart below shows average effective tax rates for various income levels. Note that the federal tax system as a whole (including both payroll and income taxes) ...
- Saying Goodbye to George Bush's Holiday From H ...
If we just left the tax code completely alone, a big chunk of our deficit problem would go away. This is not my preferred policy; I support allowing all the Bush tax cuts to expire, but allowing the Alternative Minimum Tax to blindly hit more and more families over the next couple of decades ...
- American Exceptionalism
Europe, it turns out, wasn't really ready for the war in Libya they were so anxious to get into: Less than a month into the Libyan conflict, NATO is running short of precision bombs, highlighting the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relative ...
- Czars and Signing Statements
The recently passed budget deal includes a bunch of policy riders, including one that defunds several "czar" positions in the White House. Czars have become a tea party hot button for some reason, so I guess a few of them had to get the axe. President Obama, however, thinks that Congress has ...
- Friday Cat Blogging - 15 April 2011
I like this picture of Inkblot a lot. So much, in fact, that I'm running it bigger than usual and turning over the entire day to him. But all is not lost for Domino lovers: if you look closely, you can see her snoozing in the background. But that's not all! Today I have a special shoutout f ...
- Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
“Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
- Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
- Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
- Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
- 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
- L-lysine may help schizophrenia sufferers cope
Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that currently affects about one in every 200 people. Most patients find some relief from their symptoms by treatment with antipsychotics, however they may still suffer from cognitive and negative symptoms. These include poor concentration and memory, a ...
- Ancestors of land plants revealed
It was previously thought that land plants evolved from stonewort-like algae. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that the closest relatives to land plants are actually conjugating green algae such as Spirogyra. read more
- Study links social environment to high attempt ...
In the wake of several highly publicized suicides by gay teenagers, a new study finds that a negative social environment surrounding gay youth is associated with high rates of suicide attempts by lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth. The study, "The Social Environment and Suicide Attempts in a ...
- Study: Parents likely to embrace predictive ge ...
Parents offered genetic testing to predict their risks of common, adult-onset health conditions say they would also test their children. That is the finding of a new study published in the May issue of Pediatrics (published online April 18). The study authors note these and other findings shou ...
- Minorities born with heart defects at higher r ...
Hispanic black infants born with heart defects are more likely to die within the first five years of life than their non-Hispanic white and Hispanic peers. For certain types of congenital heart abnormalities, Hispanic children as well as non-Hispanic black children fare worse than non-Hispanic ...
- Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
- Open Thread 15
The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...
- Anti- to Pro-Nuclear, Pro- to Anti-, who’ ...
Today I was speaking to a colleague about Fukushima and its implications on public attitudes to nuclear as a way to mitigate climate change. After I mentioned George Monbiot’s recent investigative journalism on anti-nuclear claims, he responded by asking: Okay, sure, that’s one person, but conv ...
- Fukushima rated at INES Level 7 – what d ...
Hot in the news is that the Fukushima Nuclear crisis has been upgraded from INES 5 to INES 7. Note that this is not due to some sudden escalation of events today (aftershocks etc.), but rather it is based on an assessment of the cumulative magnitude of the events that have occurred at the site o ...
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear saga – 2 to 9 ...
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi has, alas, now evolved into more of a saga. The last seven days of events has been acted out in slow motion compared to the first dramatic week (dating back to almost a month ago), but there continues to be plenty of headaches for TEPCO — and no clear [...]
- 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 ...
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- Passover: Why did god harden the Pharaoh’ ...
If the pharaoh is not allowed to repent, why go through with the charade of giving him an option? If the point is a display of divine power, why does one need to go through the pharaoh at all? Tonight marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover, commemorating the Israelites’ exodus fro ...
- WATCH: Channel 2 reveals killing, abuse, of Pa ...
This is really hard to watch: A search in prisoners cells and tents in Ktziot, a huge prison for Palestinians near the Egyptian border, ended up with the guards shooting prisoners in their quarters, killing one and injuring others. The whole operation was unnecessary, intended to promote self-co ...
- The battle over Labor: Who gives a hoot?
If thereâs anything more pathetic than leadership battles in a dead political party – itâs leadership battles between two guys who donât even have a chance of winning the leadership of that dead party. One can only wonder what Haaretz was thinking when they gave their lead headline – twice! – ...
- Solving the Itamar case does not justify the m ...
Now that Israel has in custody two people who admitted to committing the murder in Itamar a month ago, I received several comments demanding I “update” my post on Awarta, meaning retract on the allegations in its last few paragraphs. I really don’t see a reason why. Hundreds of Palestinians w ...
- Military court orders Palestinian protest orga ...
Prominent Palestinian protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, was ordered to stay in jail indefinitely by an Israeli military judge this afternoon at the Ofer military court in the occupied West Bank. His politically motivated trial will open on May 8th despite problematic evidence. Tamimi has helped ...
- A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms. It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
- THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions. Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
- The Banks Can’t Count…
Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing. I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
- The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
- Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story. The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...
- The UnCivil War
For the last four months I’ve been writing a book on peace – not the kind where governments negotiate settlements but where average people find innovative and courageous ways to bring people together despite military conflicts. I’ve worked in enough armed conflicts at the citizen level to see th ...
- Transcending Politics
Three events having nothing to do with politics, and a fourth that transcends it altogether. The weekend was busy with my campaign team choosing to put politics aside for a morning and clean up a park that had collected lots of debris over the winter. Then it was off picking up food for the Lond ...
- Campaign Insider – Off the Street
Campaigns are great because you get to meet people who you would not normally encounter. Victoria is one such person. She is married and has just joined her husband here in London. She has Political Science in her background, providing her enough of a context to convince her that democracy is in ...
- Petaling Bias
Election campaigns are what partisans dream of – red meat time when ideologists can sink their teeth into issues and somehow be excused for their lack of factual basis or objectivity. With millions of dollars of ads, promotional literature galore, and candidates preferring the simple over the co ...
- Campaign Insider – Responding To Questions
Campaigns can be difficult because many see them as opportunities for expressing long-held opinions. My development work overseas is well-known, as is my role in Parliament as the International Cooperation critic. And so some send me messages complaining that we should be caring for our own peop ...
- No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
- WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
- New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
- Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
- Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
- Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in this Nanower ...
- A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
- Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog. Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
- Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life. But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
- The Kill Team Photos and Videos
Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
- Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
- The Kill Team Photos and Videos
Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
- Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
- Email to Walker Suggested Faking Violence
The report begins: "The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana. After praise for Walker, the email - sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill - then took a darker turn." Walker em ...
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- 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 ...
- Stop NATO News: April 17, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 17 ==== Raytheon, Lockheed Compete For $5 Billion, 33,000-Missile Contract Pentagon Developing Rapidly Deployable ICBM Killer NATO Loses Three More Soldiers In Afghanistan Afghanistan: NATO Death Toll At 130 Rising Number Of NATO Soldiers Killed By Afghan Securi ...
- Romain Rolland: Above The Battle
==== A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) (1946) Part 1 Part 2 ==== Above the Battle (1915) Romain Rolland Preface Translated by C.K. Ogden A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the halluc ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 17
==== NATO Warplanes Unleash Attacks Near Libyan Capital NATO’s Air War Over Libya: 2,734 Sorties, 1,146 Air Strikes Libya: Rhetoric Of War And Domination Versus Call For Peace And Harmony Video And Text: Russia Accuses NATO Of Exceeding And Violating UN Resolution On Libya Libyan Insurgents Rece ...
- Stop NATO News: April 16, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 16, 2011 ==== Pentagon Recruiting Sweden Into NATO 530 Troops Under NATO Command: In Secret Visit, Swedish King Presides Over Opening Of New Base In Afghanistan Five NATO, Four Afghan Soldiers Killed In Base Attack NATO To Hold North Atlantic Council Meeting In ...
- Henri Barbusse: Under Fire
==== Shapes of Things (1936) Part 1 Part 2 ==== Under Fire (Le Feu) Henri Barbusse Translated by Fitzwater Wray (1917) Extract We are waiting for daylight in the place where we sank to the ground. Sinister and slow it comes, chilling and dismal, and expands upon the livid landscape. The rain has ...
- High Level Forecast Of Cesium-137 Not Shown To ...
The Intel Hub The forecast that was not shown to the public was possibly a worse case scenario but it makes one wonder which prediction turned out to be more accurate. The simple fact is that every single government that has ever been involved with a radiation release before the current Japanese ...
- Short Life Expectancy for BP Whistleblowers?
American Free Press By Pat Shannan April 17th, 2011 The investigation, if it can properly be so called, of the unsolved murder of the former high ranking Pentagon official and presidential advisor John P. Wheeler III, who was also an expert on chemical and biological weapons, may be taking a tur ...
- Masters Of The World Meet To Play God With The ...
“If we could experiment with the atmosphere and literally play God, it’s very tempting to a scientist.” By Michael Edwards Activist Post April 17th, 2011 On a secluded estate in England, a small group from the elite UK think-tank, The Royal Society, are openly discussing control over the planet’ ...
- Mystery illnesses In Louisiana linked to BP Oi ...
The Intel Hub By Michelle Jones April 17th, 2011 According to a recent RSOE report, there is an unidentified disease in the state of Louisiana. When you take a closer look at this report you can see that of the large percent of people are suffering from this unidentified illness, the one thing t ...
- Dr. Mark Sircus: Iodine and Radiation Insanity ...
The Intel Hub By Dr. Mark Sircus – Contributing Writer April 17th, 2011 The news is so bad this Sunday morning that I donât know what to do or write. I could try screaming but I am not the type⦠or crying, well that comes almost too easily. Perhaps I am crazy. After all, Ann [...]
- India: As growing numbers challenge the legit ...
[....liberal and Gandhian groups and NGOs have mounted anti-corruption campaigns against the state. They have urged mass appeals, petition drives, and hunger strikes against corruption and for more accountability--and debates on the focus, and effectiveness, of such appeals and tactics have bro ...
- Yemen: Anti-government protests have grown muc ...
Yemen sees huge rival protests AlJazeeraEnglish on Apr 15, 2011 Hundreds of thousands gather in Yemen’s capital Sanaa to show support for President Ali Abdullah Saleh. But protests opposing his continuing rule reportedly draw millions to the streets of 16 provinces around the country, after reli ...
- All female protest erupts in Syria
Video of an earlier protest by Syrian women, blocking a road in Baniyas —————————————————————— REUTERS, Apr 16, 2011 AMMAN – MORE than 1,000 women marched on Saturday in the Syrian city of Banias in an all female pro-democracy protest, a rights campaigner said. ‘Not Sunni, not Alawite. Freedom i ...
- Africa: Africom And the ICC – Enforcing ...
[The International Criminal Court (ICC), which the USA has never joined nor recognised its authority, is now slated to use the US' AFRICOM forces as the enforcement arm of the ICC in Africa. This article traces how this will enable the US to further camoflage its imperialist interests and inter ...
- US media activists blast corporate media’ ...
Stop Blacking Out Progressive Protests Media focus on tiny Tea Party rally, ignore antiwar march FAIR, 4/14/11 A sparsely attended Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., on March 31 in support of federal spending cuts received generous media attention. One report (*Slate*, 3/31/11) suggested there ...
- Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
- Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
- Happy Tax Day!
Think everyone is scrambling to get their returns filed on time? Think again. And yet again. Michael Moore suggests everyone -- corporations, included -- be a part of that shared sacrifice we hear so much about. Oh, and why do we keep saying we've been taxed to death? That ain't necessarily so ...
- Apple's It Gets Better video
And thanks, Susan, for the link.
- Chorale Connecticut is having their spring concert
Chorale Connecticut will present "Voices in Praise," an evening of celebration of several faiths, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, at 7:30 p.m. May 14 at Wesleyan University's Crowell Art Center in Middletown. The evening, which was arranged with help from Cantor Dorothy Goldberg and ...
- A little more reading with Sunday's column...
To read Sunday's column, go here. To read more about St. Francis de Sales, go here. To read more about the proposed changes to Connecticut's statute of limitations bill, go here or here. To read more about Travelers' CEO, go here or here.To read about the insurance industry's fight against cha ...
- Have Peeps? Go crazy.
Because Peeps are from the Devil, and because I have really...interesting...friends, I offer this challenge to you: Create a diorama using Peeps (As you can see from above, Susannah has created Peepsephone, complete with scary underworld). Take a photo of your creation, and send it to me. I'll ...
- Civil War Milestones for April 1861 Begin Sesq ...
April 12, 1861, was the start of the first Civil War battle at Fort Sumter, S.C.. What were the other milestone events that occurred in the month of April 1861? April 2011 is the 150-year anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Apr 13, 2011
- Bay of Pigs Failure Reaches 50th Anniversary
Communism has governed Cuba for over 50 years, despite the best efforts of America. Their more notorious effort was 50 years ago today, when the Bay of Pigs invasion met with an historic defeat.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Apr 17, 2011
- 'Spider-Man' Musical Turns Off Until May 12
Broadway audiences won't have "Spider-Man" to kick around for a little while, as the musical has its last performance in its current, infamous form tonight. On May 12, previews resume for a brand new, supposedly less embarassing version.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Apr 17, 2011
- Jesse Jackson Jr. Denounces the iPad for Destr ...
It is very rare in the 21st Century for an American politician to embrace ludditism. But Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. , Democrat of Illinois and son of the more famous Reverend, did just that when he condemned the IPad.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 17, 2011
- Will 'Scream 4' Be Another 'Indiana Jones and ...
"Scream 4" comes 11 years after the last installment in the franchise, which is making fans as nervous and excited as Indiana Jones fans were when "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" dropped in 2008.Contributor: Vanessa Evans Published: Apr 13, 2011
- SAMI JADALLAH : Netanyahu, King of the Hill
Of course Netanyahu knows he is the Boss in the American Knesset and he wants Barack Obama to know that very well. When it comes to the American Knesset, it is Bibi, the Israeli Prime Minister and not the President of the United States that has a say so. SAMI JAMIL JADALLAH / STAFF WRITER [...]
- CPT MAY: The Birther Nation of Ghost Troop
By Captain Eric H. May, GT CO HOUSTON, 4/17/11 — Ambitious and arrogant Donald Trump has focused the nation on the eligibility of Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) for the presidency, and with every new interview his growing accusations inspire the Right, and enrage the Left. The questions Trump ...
- Legal Scholar Compares Gitmo Court to Stalinis ...
The future trials planned for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be “Stalinist show trials” as their preliminary proceedings “have already proven them to be Travesties of Justice,” a distinguished international law authority warns.
- JB Campbell: The American Problem
There is something wrong in the American make-up. A fatal flaw in the American mentality. It’s always been there, from the very beginning, and it’s still there, as we see in bootleg videos from Iraq, from Guantanamo Bay, from American airports and from the dashboard cameras of police cars. But h ...
- Letters Home from Vietnam – Chapter 9, S ...
By Steve Crandall, Staff Writer More and more we are being scrutinized in one way or another by the upper command and it’s beginning to feel like the battle is between headquarters and us, and not the enemy. Outside inspection teams have been brought in to review our loading procedures and with ...
- Coldest March globally for 17 years.
Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
- An exceptionally dry March
High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
- Long range forecasts: The day of judgement nears.
In the last two days the press have been full of stories about how we are in for a scorching August. Of course, we have been here before. The Met Office may for ever be associated with the phrase 'barbecue summer' following its disastrous forecast for Summer 2009, which amongst other things le ...
- Biofuels: Some have a higher carbon footprint ...
Over the last few years there has been a huge drive towards producing more biofuels to replace some of the fossils fuels we consume, which, we've been told, produce lower carbon emissions. Slowly though there is a realisation that in some instances, the carbon footprint of certain biofuels can ...
- Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...
- How to Spend $1B+; Not Win Champions League
It's time for another weekend feature! Having just visited Battersea Park by crossing Chelsea Bridge, my associational memory was jogged about a brace of articles I read in the Evening Standard that pretty much sum up the elusive quest of Roman Abramovich for a Champions League title for loathso ...
- China's Material Girls II: No Home, No Marriage
Numerous studies in anthropology, social psychology, sociology and so forth corroborate findings that men value physical appearance most in their partners, while women value financial security most among theirs. This phenomenon generally holds across cultures. As it turns out, China's economic b ...
- Gotcha! US Faulted by WTO on Susidizing Boeing
Today, the WTO finally released its panel report on the EU's complaint against the United States regarding American subsidies for Boeing (case # DS353). This, of course, is the countersuit launched by the EU in the wake of the US launching a case against Airbus on launch subsidies (DS316). I hav ...
- Japan Says Don't Overreact to 'Nuked' Foodstuffs
With alarming news reports coming out of Japan on a nearly daily basis about how various foodstuffs are exhibiting raised radioactivity levels--whether the bulk of them are true or not I cannot ascertain for obvious reasons--its trading partners are becoming understandably wary of importing Japa ...
- The Hugo Chavez - Formula One Connection
It seems colourful regimes and Formula One go hand in hand given that the latter is already populated with several colourful characters. From S&M fetishists to crash artists, F1 has all the shenanigans going on. Given that it is one of if not the world's most-watched sport depending on who you'r ...
- 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 ...
- Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
- Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
- Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
- Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
- Who’s Looking After The Children?
“Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
- 2011-04-17 50th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs ...
TweetThe National Security Archive has, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to force the release of the CIA’s “Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation.” The lawsuit charges the CIA has “wrongfully withheld” a multi-volume stud ...
- 2011-04-17 #Iran Minister of Intelligence, He ...
TweetWL Central will be updating news on Iran, with new items added at the top. All times are ET in USA. You can contact me on twitter @carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. Don't send media when links available. Most email is not encrypted and not anonymous. I cannot guarantee anyon ...
- 2011-04-16 This Week in WikiLeaks Podcast - Ed ...
TweetThis week's episode will be recorded LIVE at 3 pm New York Time. This episode’s guest will be Edward Fox, who is with Colombia Reports. He has been editing and organizing releases of the US State Embassy cables that deal with Colombia. On the show, we will talk about how the cables are imp ...
- 2011-04-15 European Court of Justice opines th ...
TweetThe European Court of Justice, the highest court in Europe, today gave its preliminary opinion on the appeal case between artists’ rights agency Sabam (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs) and ISP Scarlet Extended. Sabam won a court order in 2007 in Brussels Court which woul ...
- 2011-04-15 Extradition and Canada's Sovereignt ...
Tweet But actually the terrible affront to Canadian sovereignty began long before this refusal or Marc's extradition. Extradition between the US and Canada was changed in 1999 to allow simply a request from a prosecutor to enable extradition from Canada to the US, while still requiring the full ...
- Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
- 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
- The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
- CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
- Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things. As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
- Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
“I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
- Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist. Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers. Only a handful of still-work ...
- Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
- Conservation News Brief
Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
- Did you buy silver yet? You still have time be ...
I hope so because you have taken 1 giant step to protecting your wealth as global economic collapse is imminent. How much higher will it go? At least to $100 but $500 is not out of the question before total dollar collapse. If you are still in the RRSP / 401K game and you refuse [...] Relat ...
- Leonard Cohen exposes the New World Order thro ...
It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the [ ...
- I can prove that the Canadian Government Suppo ...
First off Kadhafi Duck is a looney-toon thug. He has always been a tyrant but we, as a Western Civilization, have tolerated his evil because he sold his oil to the world. With a brief history lesson of the area, unbeknownst to the bulk of you mindless drones who know no better, Libya has been [. ...
- Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
- The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
- Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Safe Chemicals Act ...
By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst Once again, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is leading the effort to try to contain the constant onslaught of dangerous industrial chemicals on our bodies. This week, Lautenberg, along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- Obama Must Ensure Safe Gas Drilling
By Dusty Horwitt, EWG Senior Counsel President Obama contends that natural gas drilling can help meet his goal of reducing U.S. imported oil consumption by a third by 2020. Yet, in a welcome change from his previous position, Obama recently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
- Earth Day: If you've done one thing, you've do ...
By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Of course it shouldn't take the arrival of Earth Day to spur us to greater greenness. But the truth of it is, it works. Last year, it was on Earth Day that I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mor ...
- New old news: 2004 Industry Tests Found 'Brock ...
By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Tap water industry representatives made no mention of their chromium-6 2004 study when they testified alongside EWG at a Feb. 2 Senate environment committee hearing on chromium-6 pollution. Some water utility... [[ This is a content summary only ...
- Williamsburg community board braves mockery ov ...
Nearly two hours into Tuesday’s Community Board 1 meeting in Williamsburg, board chair Chris Olechowski addressed the issue of the night, which was also the reason the Swinging Sixties Senior Center was packed with people who don’t usually attend these type ...
- A Capital week in review: The Knicks, Chuck, D ...
Here's what happened this week. More
- Williamsburg community board braves mockery to ...
Nearly two hours into Tuesday’s Community Board 1 meeting in Williamsburg, board chair Chris Olechowski addressed the issue of the night, which was also the reason the Swinging Sixties Senior Center was packed with people who don’t usually attend these type ...
- One horrifying crime story bumps another; plus ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- 'Rabies': Israel makes its slasher-film debut, ...
A brother and a sister with a dark secret are fleeing their past through the forest. Four nubile teens on their way to a tennis match (the girls in little white tennis skirts, the boys in white sweaters) go into the forest to pee, and get separated. A fores ...
- Oslo becoming ‘like Manhattan’
The leader of the Oslo City Council has expressed concern that the center of Norway’s capital city is “becoming like Manhattan” where “only the richest can afford to live,” as new figures detailed rising costs of living within the city. Stian Berger Røsland, a Conservative Party politician, tol ...
- Police investigate two more rapes
Rapists attacked two more women in downtown Oslo over the weekend but police are unsure whether the assaults are connected to a series of rapes two weeks ago. One victim described her attacker as blond and pale, and that doesn’t fit the descriptions given by three earlier victims. As in the case ...
- Deported refugee cleared for return
UPDATED: She’s back. Madina Salamova, also known as Maria Amelie, has been granted working permission back in Norway, three months after she was deported as an illegal alien. Amelie, who was in Krakow to work on a book when the clearance came, returned to Norway over the weekend. “Now I look for ...
- Young director still on a roll
Norwegian film director Anne Sewitsky has had quite a winter, winning awards on two continents and enjoying box office success especially with a children’s film that won acclaim at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival. Now, at a time when Norwegian film is very much in the news, she’s also won a ...
- Late Easter trims annual exodus
Thousands of Norwegians were beginning their traditional Easter holidays this weekend, but fewer were heading for the hills for a final fling of spring skiing. The Red Cross would still be out in force, even though the late Easter and a sudden spurt of warm weather last week spoiled the snow all ...
- Seeking Donations for Sustainable Classroom at ...
We are helping to collect funds to build a sustainable classroom for one of our best performing schools in Malawi. The classroom will be built with mud and thatch technologies that are easy to maintain (to look like the picture here). The funds will pay for a team of builder-trainers to come to ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part V – Living Within Y ...
Editor’s Note: This is Part V of a series. To see all parts, click here. Mick Jagger sang “I can’t get no satisfaction”, and that’s exactly what will happen if you use more than you produce in any renewable self sufficient system. It’s exactly the same for both energy or food as anyone who has w ...
- Fukushima Nuclear Crisis – Chronicle of a Disa ...
Fukushima is just one among many similar disasters waiting to happen worldwide; governments and regulators have systematically downplayed the risks and hidden the real costs of nuclear power; there is no place for nuclear in a truly green energy portfolio; furthermore, there is a lot we can do t ...
- Why You Should Grow and Produce Your Own Food
by Elisabeth Fekonia There is a definite trend for people to question the quality of shop bought food — that is, food grown with chemical inputs. Younger mothers of small children, in particular, are getting very conscious of the chemical residues, low nutritional status and additives in our mo ...
- Sustainable Agriculture Urgently Needed, UN Ag ...
There is now widespread recognition that a rapid shift from industrial monoculture to sustainable farming is needed to save the climate and guarantee food security for all. by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. Photo � Craig Mackintosh A rapid and significant shift from conventional, industrial, monoculture ...
- 'Universal' cancer jab: Vaccine that stops all ...
A 'universal' vaccine that could revolutionise the treatment of cancer could be available in just two years.The TeloVac jab is part of a new generation of drugs that use the body�s own defences to fight the disease, stopping tumours in their tracks.Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness � ...
- The 10 Biggest Tax Cheats in U.S. History
Tax Day is looming, and procrastinating yet law-abiding Americans are scrambling to prepare and submit their income tax returns to the federal government. Let�s face it, no one likes to give a portion of their hard-earned money to a group of people.......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Nails Tied to Jesus' Crucifixion Found?
Two Roman nails dating back 2,000 years, found in the burial cave of the Jewish high priest who handed Jesus over to the Romans, may be linked to the crucifixion, an Israeli filmmaker has claimed.Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Kanishtha wins Pantaloons Femina Miss India Wo ...
The 22-year-old Kanishtha Dhankhar from Mumbai won the Pantaloons Miss India World 2011 title at a glittering function in Mumbai tonight. She had earlier won the Pantaloons Femina Miss Body Beautiful. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Priceless Egyptian Treasures Returned
A statue of King Tutankhamun, which was looted during Egypt's anti-government protests, has been returned to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo along with three other pharaonic artifacts, Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities. Submitted by Anna Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
- 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
- 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
- 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
- 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
- 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
- Made in China: Our Toxic, Imported Air Pollution
Mercury, sulfates, ozone, black carbon, flu-laced desert dust. Even as America tightens emission standards, the fast-growing economies of Asia are filling the air with hazardous components that circumnavigate the globe. by David Kirby iStockphoto âThere is no place called away.â It is a statemen ...
- Dear Editors of the Oxford English Dictionary
Time to get your shittle together. By Paul Collins Dear Editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, In my more hopeful moments, I like to think that drunken frat brothers everywhere are quoting Beat poetry to each other. It would be a fine vindication of our educational system. And it seems to be ...
- Is a geothermal heat pump right for you?
By George Musser I’ve tried it all: caulking cracks, blowing in insulation, replacing drafty windows andâI’m especially proud of this oneâinstalling a mail-slot cover so airtight it could be used in a space shuttle docking module. Yet my home heating bill remains an object of fear and loathing. ...
- Too Hard For Science? Creating Naked Singularities
Neutrino beams might create such enigmas, but dare we risk making anything so unpredictable? In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don’t think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibi ...
- Antipsychotics for Schizophrenia Associated Wi ...
Patients with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic medications appear to lose a small but measurable amount of brain tissue over time, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Schizophrenia affects 1 percent of the worldwid ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
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FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches. Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
- Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
- Gr8 expectations
FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
- New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
- It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
- Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
- Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
- Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Letter From America
Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
- Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
- Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...
- Victory! Belize Bans All Forms of Trawling
English Caye in Belize. After six months of negotiations and with support from Sir Thomas Moore, Oceana bought out the Belize's last two trawlers as part of a government-backed move to ban all forms of trawling in Belizean waters. Belize joins Venezula and Palau as the third country to ban ...
- Team Oceana Joins Nautica in South Beach
This past weekend, Oceana joined Nautica at Lummus Park for the Nautica South Beach Triathlon. It was the third time we teamed up at the SoBe Tri to raise money for Oceana and raise awareness about ocean conservation...and it certainly seemed charmed. First, there were the conditions – and I do ...
- What If an Oil Spill Happened Near You?
It�s been one year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, but the explosion and subsequent months-long spill has largely faded from public consciousness.�And if people do think about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, they think about it happening �somewhere else,� to �someone else�s� ...
- Oceana’s Florida Debut
Hostess Kimberly Pero, Oceana�s Florida representative Dustin Cranor, hostess Teresa Fitzsimmons, Oceana�s Executive Vice President Jim Simon and and Zasha Langer. � Oceana/Redmund On Friday, April 1, Teresa Fitzsimmons and Kimberly Pero hosted Oceana�s first Florida event at their home in ...
- Studies Begin to Reveal Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
Caesar grunts, damselfish and amberjacks in the Gulf of Mexico. � Oceana/Carlos Suarez A week from today marks the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and the effects of the spill on the gulf�s ecosystems and wildlife are beginning to come into view, though the full effects won�t be u ...
- Don’t Negotiate with Hostage Takers
Now the battle moves to the debt ceiling increase and Paul Ryan’s new 2012 budget later this year, and there are lessons from this fight to keep in mind. One is to focus on spending and budget issues, not extraneous policy fights. Republicans have the advantage when they are talking about the o ...
- Donald Trump and ‘The Blacks’
**UPDATED AFTER HANNITY INTERVIEW** “…I do worry… I have a lot of respect for Paul Ryan. I do worry that he’s a little bit far out in front… And I will tell you, me, I’m protecting, I don’t care what plan the Republicans put–I’m protecting the seniors. ..” – Donald Trump, with Sean Hannity on F ...
- Fool Me Once… Fool Me Twice
Howard Fineman, a political veteran, in his most seriously impressed voice, said on MSNBC yesterday that when he was at the White House everyone was in a “feisty, almost angry mood.” Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow said that Pres. Obama’s speech was “perhaps an unexpectedly satisfying spee ...
- Tax Increases Mixed with Death Blow for Progre ...
Coming off a scene reminiscent of Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday (see video above), Pres. Obama has made some momentous decisions that will take us where we’ve never gone before. Inspired by the traditional media fanfare of Paul Ryan’s “brave” budget proposal, Pres. ...
- Will Trump Tornado Pull Palin In?
**UPDATED – BUMPED** Real estate mogul Donald Trump touted his net worth as a selling point over likely presidential contender and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. âI’m a much bigger business man and have (a) much, much bigger net worth. I mean, my net worth is many, many, many times Mitt ...
- Building a North African Coalition to Save Libya
While NATO forces pummel Libyan targets, and rebels are make territorial gains one day, only to lose ground the next, devising an end-game strategy for the West remains an urgent problem without an easy answer. The US army is overextended. Appetites are
- U.N. Vote on Palestinian Statehood Hazardous t ...
In September, the UN General Assembly will decide on whether to welcome the Palestinian Authority as a member state, such a move will inflict serious harm on the Palestinians themselves, unlike what their leaders are promoting, as it would cut the
- Canada Promotes "The Mullahs' Voice"
While the Canadian International Council is set to sponsor an Ottawa event on May 5th, entitled, "Iran in Context: Global and Regional Implications" ostensibly to focus on "political and security issues," the event has drawn a strong protest letter that
- Why Jupiter?
Jupiter, the biggest planet, contains 75% of all the non-solar matter in our solar system. Is it a star that failed to become big enough to ignite, or is it a planet that was too big to solidify? Is the Gas Giant an essential protector of life on Earth,
- Is the Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt F ...
Those who had hoped that the pro-democracy revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak would not affect relations between Egypt and Israel now need to realize that they were wrong.. In the post-Mubarak era, many Egyptians who helped bring down
- Tax Day!
Mondays are always taxing, but this one is especially so. Got to hand it to the daily UrbanDictionary for our word of the day around here: Intaxication which they define as getting all happy about getting a refund, until you … Continue reading →
- Coping: No Plane
You may remember last week I was tossing around whether Elaine & I should buy an air machine and take to the wild blue yonder for a next “Big Adventure” in life. But, it was proving a difficult decision since … Continue reading →
- CPI: Nothing to See Here…
...juss move along, sit-zen…everything is fine… This as the new CPI myth has been rolled out for public adoration and respect: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, … Continue reading →
- Coping: Voting on the Airplane
Since Elaine and I are just about split on the question of an airplane, I thought we’d see what “democracy in action” could come up with by throwing it up for a vote. Should we get a simple, single-engine plane … Continue reading →
- Big Story of the Day!
Sorry, I forgot to put this one in earlier today – the government has announced a big move on mortgage servicing companies and here’s the press release from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency – my highlights added: … Continue reading →
- From “Meh” to We
More people are paying attention to politics during this election than in the 2008 election. Still, the majority doesn’t seem to much care about the big, life-shaping political issues that lie just below the surface of this election – the increasingly blatant attacks on our democratic institutio ...
- The Consequences of Austerity
With the federal Tories vowing to enact billions in spending cuts in a bid to eliminate the deficit a year earlier than forecast, it might be a good time to ask what the consequences of all this austerity might have on the Canadian economy. Thankfully, we have a concrete example of what austerit ...
- From The Missing Issues File: Climate Change
Did I miss something, or did the two-hour English election debate go by with only one passing reference to climate change, the most urgent issue of our time? There seems to be an inverse relationship at play between the severity of the crisis and its place on the political radar. The issue is r ...
- Who Benefits From Low Voter Turnout?
Right now people in other parts of the world are laying their lives on the line in the fight to bring democracy to their country in the hope they might one day cast a ballot in a free and fair election. In Canada, increasing numbers of us aren’t voting. Politics are boring. I don’t like any [...]
- Debt By 1000 Tax Cuts
Stephen Harper knows he can’t come right out and reveal his radical agenda to downsize government. But if he gets his majority, expect Harper to slash and burn on the pretext that the federal debt and deficit requires massive an evisceration of government. Since he welcomes a future fiscal squee ...
- Libya
Some thoughts on why the invasion of Libya is not such a hot idea.
- Saudis Slash Oil Output; Say Market Oversupplied
Saudi Arabia's oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March due to oversupply, sending the strongest signal yet that OPEC will not act to quell soaring prices.
- IRS,CPA bureaucracy cost tax payers $431 bill ...
Tax compliance employs more workers than Wal-Mart, UPS, McDonald’s, IBM and Citigroup combined
- With superbugs contaminating fresh meat, the ...
Remember all the hubbub about the S.510 “Food Safety Bill” and how it would make your food safe to eat? Well, it turns out those expanded FDA powers do absolutely nothing to even address the safety of fresh meat products, and yet new research reveals that nearly half of all fresh meat and poult ...
- A new Clockwork Orange? The marketing gadget ...
The process of measuring your reaction to something is known as ‘quantitative neurometrics’ and it can be carried out as you watch a computer or television screen.
- All those tweets, apps, updates may drain brain
There's growing concern among scientists that indulging in these ceaseless disruptions isn't good for our brains, in much the way that excessive sugar or fat - other things we evolved to crave when they were in shorter supply - isn't good for our bodies.
- STOP THE BOMBING OF LIBYA NOW: PROTEST 19 APRIL
Summary: Britain France and the US have now come clean. The article signed by Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama, and published today in Washington, Paris and London, makes clear the war on Libya is not about protecting civilians but about regime change. Having ignored peace moves from the Afric ...
- Chinese firms dominate Iran oil exposition
Summary: TEHRAN (AFP) – Chinese companies, widely present in Iran thanks to the vaccum created by the departure of Western firms, dominated the Iranian oil, gas and petrochmemical exhibition that began Friday, an AFP reporter said. source: AFPread more
- 'EU's anti-Iran bid, publicity ploy
Summary: Alaeddin Boroujerdi A senior Iranian lawmaker slams the latest round of EU sanctions against Iran, saying the West is making efforts to ward off responsibility for its silence towards “actual human rights violations.” source: Press TVread more
- I want to occupy you forever
Summary: US troops in IraqEvery time Iraqi nationalist Shi'ite cleric/politician Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaces with a bang, the United States establishment shakes like a willow tree, while US corporate media duly dusts off the usual "radical, anti-American, Iran-friendly firebrand cleric" rheto ...
- EU calls sanctions on Iranian officials
Summary: The European Union has imposed a new round of sanctions, including asset freeze and travel bans, against 32 Iranian officials over what they claim as human rights abuses. source: PressTVread more
- "Darwin's Extraterrestrials" - A New Theory fo ...
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations. As Enrico Fermi asked if the Universe is condusive to...
- Supernova Shockwaves in Interstellar Clouds Di ...
The European Space Agency's Herschel observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Astronomers were fascinated to discover that each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that they may result from interstellar sonic booms...
- 'The Daily Galaxy' April Contest -Win a Free $ ...
Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
- Massive Inhabited Planets Could Exist in Weird ...
"Advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei without being visible from the outside." Vyacheslav Dokuchaev at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. We love Russian astrophysicists...
- "Was It the Origin of Life"? Biologists Create ...
It's paradoxical that as our leading microbiologists look to create the building blocks of life in Earth-bound labs, our Universe is alive with the building blocks for DNA and RNA. The giant gas nebula in outer space are rife with...
- With superbugs contaminating fresh meat, the t ...
(NaturalNews) Remember all the hubbub about the S.510 "Food Safety Bill" and how it would make your food safe to eat? Well, it turns out those expanded FDA powers do absolutely nothing to even address the safety of fresh meat products, and yet new research reveals that nearly half of all fresh m ...
- New documentary investigates war being waged b ...
(NaturalNews) In order to maintain its massive charade of deception in claiming that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are the safe, practical solution to the world's food problems, the biotechnology industry has had to silence and destroy the lives of many in the scientific community. In th ...
- Rising food costs spur massive US theft of pro ...
(NaturalNews) Forget diamonds and cash. Rapid inflation and the tanking US economy have birthed a whole new wave of organized crime involving food. The New York Times (NYT) reports that a group of highly-sophisticated scam artists recently pulled off a massive food heist involving eight tractor- ...
- US meat and poultry widely contaminated with b ...
(NaturalNews) How would you like a big, juicy burger loaded with onions, mustard, ketchup -- and a big helping of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases?If you find that dish stomach-churning instead of appetizing, then maybe you sho ...
- Groups, individuals petition NRC to suspend al ...
(NaturalNews) The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has sparked an uprising against nuclear energy production due to concerns about its safety. Recently, 45 groups and individuals from across the US banded together to ask that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) cease all licensing for 2 ...
- U.S. Shuttering Online Gambling Sites
Federal authorities unsealed indictments against the operators of some of the world’s largest online gambling sites and moved Friday to seize their U.S domains. The U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, charged Isai Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars, and Raymond Bitar, the founder of F ...
- Obama Calls for Secure Online-Identity System
President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious proposal Friday urging the private sector to create a trusted identity system to boost consumer security in cyberspace.
- WikiLeaks Associates Hit Back Over U.S. Twitte ...
Three WikiLeaks associates fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the prosecutors lobbed the latest volley in a contentious legal battle with the Justice Department on Thursday, charging in a court filing that the government’s argument “trivializes both the Parties’ an ...
- With Court Order, FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botn ...
Updated 4:30 p.m. with information about the late-afternoon filing from the government, and with comment from EFF. In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of pri ...
- Legislation Would Let You Opt Out of Online We ...
Sens. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and John McCain (R-Arizona) proposed online privacy legislation Tuesday that for the first time would give web users the right to demand they not be tracked online. Still, the measure was met with resistance from privacy advocates who said the Commercial Priva ...
- GOP Recycles Failed 1993 Talking Points on Taxes
It is often said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. But sometimes, as with the predictable GOP opposition to small tax increases for wealthy Americans, the farce is double. After all, every single Republican in the House and Senate voted against Bill Clinto ...
- Republicans Were Against Ryan Plan Before They ...
In a telling moment during the run-up to the midterm elections last fall, Congressman Paul Ryan declared of his proposed Roadmap for America's Future, "My plan is not the Republican Party's platform and was never intended to be." Not, it turned out, until after Election Day. Because while 235 ...
- House GOP Delivers Tax Day Windfall for the We ...
If nothing else, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan has unfortunate timing. On April Fool's Day 2009, Ryan rolled out the first incarnation of his Roadmap for America's Future, the document which served as the basis for the 2012 GOP budget proposal. Now on Tax Day 2011, House Republicans ...
- The Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement Party
Over the past few days, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl has become a national laughingstock. Not because of his 30-fold error in claiming on the Senate floor that "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" is related to abortion, but because he later insisted his lie was "not intended to be ...
- The Real Standard for Seriousness on the Debt
Last week, the political chattering classes praised Republican Paul Ryan's "serious" budget proposal to slash $4.3 trillion in spending in order to fund yet another round of upper-income tax cuts. But over just the past few days, the New York Times' David Leonhardt, Slate's Annie Lowery and Ezr ...
- Positively Orwellian by Dennis Kucinich
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 8, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement responding the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion regarding the President’s authority to use military force in Libya: In the leg ...
- It’s Time To Go To Work For The Solar Initiati ...
By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 8, 2011 The below is a possible Letter to an elected official. We would urge you to please write one and send it, letting them know this subject is both important to us all, and to our planet. Sadly, due to terrible events, NOW is ...
- The Empire conducts a war fest (or business as ...
by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info April 8, 2011 To paraphrase, the first casualty of capitalism is the truth and the outrageous and totally illegal invasion of Libya, launched with so much super-heated air, has degenerated into a vile exposé of the true nature ...
- From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa T ...
by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 8, 2011 On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military operations in fellow West African nation Ivory Coast and t ...
- David Cameron’s Gift of War and Racism, to The ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House www.johnpilger.com April 08, 2011 The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West’s response to popular uprisings in strategi ...
- How I View the American Crisis
As Republicans move to dismantle the New Deal, Americans must take stock of how the nation got here, writes Robert Parry. April 17, 2011
- Israel's 'Lobbification' of Congress
Israeli hardliners explained the Middle East crisis to a House panel with nary a skeptical word spoken, notes Lawrence Davidson. April 17, 2011
- The Civil War and Founding Principles
The 150th anniversary of the Civil War coincides with a drive to revive the old issue of states' rights, observes Rev. Howard Bess. April 17, 2011
- Interstates and States of Grief
At the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the South is leading a new rebellion as pointless as the last, observes Phil Rockstroh. April 15, 2011
- Twenty Years Ago, a Lost Opportunity
Two decades ago, the U.S. political/media system had a chance to get Ronald Reagan's history right, but didn't, says Robert Parry. April 15, 2011
- Grassroots International Partners Take Action ...
lucha-peasant_day.jpg The Via Campesina declared April 17 as "International Day of Peasants' Struggles." This day commemorates the 1996 slaughter by the Brazilian police of 19 peasants of the Landless Worker Movement (MST) while they mobil ...
- Bury the corporate food system!
Below is an article from Grassroots International partner, the Via Campesina, in preparation for the International Day of Peasants� Struggles. The Via is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenou ...
- "Victory comes only with struggle": Brazilian ...
mcp.jpg April 17 commemorates the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle for land, water, food and justice.read more
- US Food Sovereignty Alliance Celebrates Intern ...
usfsa-turn_tables.jpg As part of our commitment to engage in advocacy to challenge US policy and corporations that are often the root causes of resource rights violations around the world, Grassroots International has been proud to be an a ...
- Carbon Credit Plan Implementation Halts Medica ...
At the request of the community assembly of Amador Hernández in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots International along with the Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Carbon Trade Watch, the Global Forest Coalition, the Timberwatch Coalition, Grassroots G ...
- People Should Listen to Me
I said that getting involved in a civil war in Libya in support of the weaker side was a for shit idea, and I was right. AJDABIYA, Libya Rebel fighters fled this city Sunday after a rocket and artillery attack by government forces that were reportedly on the western outskirts. Scores of ...
- Serious Question
Do they believe their own bullshit or do they just care less about being mocked by liberals than having some kind of spell-binding influence on morons? Discuss
- Geithner Tries to Cut Off the Nonsense
Here's an interesting gambit: Appearing on This Week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said: "Well, I want to make it perfectly clear that Congress will raise the debt ceiling." When asked by Christiane Amanpour whether he was sure about that, Geithner responded: "Absolutely. And they recogniz ...
- This Gang of Six is a Waste of Effort
I wonder how Dick Durbin and Saxby Chambliss plan on convincing the House of Representatives to vote for tax increases as part of their deficit reduction plan. I mean, it's nice that Chamblss (and apparently Tom Coburn and Mike Crapo, too) realizes that that they have to give on taxes in return ...
- GOP Comedian's Joke About Obama as Ape
Liberals are upset with President Obama because we wish he had fought harder for our issues, not depended on Wall Street cheerleaders to form his economic team, and been the President we all dreamed he would be on Election night in 2008. Republicans, when it comes right down to it just hate h ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- Are Images of Thin Bodies Harmful or Helpful?
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Media’s focus on images of thin bodies may actually improve how young women feel about themselves, according to a new study led by Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, associate professor of communication at Ohio State University. Overweight women who were dieting were ask ...
- Loving Your Abuser
By Roni Weisberg-Ross, LMFT, Abuse / Survivors of Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Roni and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Recognizing you are being abused is difficult when you love the person who is abusing you. This is true for both children and adults. The mind will g ...
- Bottoming Out Twice
By Daniel Goldin, LMFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Daniel and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile It has been said in AA, “An addict needs to bottom out twice to get better. First from alcohol, and later emotionally.” Most people who struggle with add ...
- Quality of Client-Therapist Relationship May E ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers in London point to evidence underscoring the necessity for a positive mental health professional to client relationship in therapy. Data from a number of studies indicates that this relationship is directly linked to a client’s progress when undergoing ...
- Art Psychotherapy Art
By Barbara ‘Basia’ Mosinski, LCAT, ATR-BC, MA, MFAÂ Art Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Basia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Whenever I am asked what I do for a living I start by saying that I am a Psychotherapist, an Art Psychotherapist. The person will often make ...
- Full Frame honors films - News & Observer
News & Observer Full Frame honors films News & Observer Special jury and honorable mention awards went to "The Interrupters," about Chicago gang violence, and "The Last Mountain," which chronicles environmentally devastating "mountaintop removal" mining in West Virginia. Juror Clay Farland, in ...
- Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effo ...
Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effort to reduce mountaintop removal ... Charleston Gazette (blog) You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. One Response to �Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA ...
- Rich Copley: The villains of 'Justified' - Lex ...
Lexington Herald Leader Rich Copley: The villains of 'Justified' Lexington Herald Leader Martindale should get an Emmy nomination for the scene in which she gave a fiery denunciation of mountaintop-removal mining at a meeting held by a relatively minor-league bad gal this season, Carol (Rebecca ...
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GOP wants big environmental budget cuts The Tennessean EPA policies to ensure that mountaintop removal coal mining doesn't pollute streams and destroy aquatic life in Appalachia may be affected by GOP plans. / JEFF GENTNER / FILE / ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON � Congressional Republicans, swept ...
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- M 5.2, Bonin Islands, Japan region
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- M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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- Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
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Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- For Sale: Donated Front Row Washington Nationa ...
The National Whistleblowers Center received a generous donation of front row tickets to ten Washington Nationals games. The view from these seats is truly amazing. If you don’t believe me, just look at the pictures below. The NWC is selling the tickets for face value on StubHub.com. The tickets ...
- Whistleblowers host book signing party for Ste ...
Fourteen whistleblowers hosted a book signing party last night for Stephen Kohn's new book, The Whistleblower's Handbook. Pictured here are:� Jane Turner, Jim Murtagh, Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Bill Sanjour, Russell Tice, Kiki Ikossi, Jim Bobreski, Dr. David L. Le ...
- IRS issues $4.5 million reward to tax whistleb ...
The Associated Press is reporting that the IRS has issued a whistleblower reward to an in-house accountant at a financial services firm. This accountant became a whistleblower for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), providing inside information about the firm's lapse in tax compliance. The tip r ...
- Citizen activism does the impossible: One WPEA ...
Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement on this bill: In December of 2010, the National Whistleblower ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Latest Domain Seizures May Come Back To Bite O ...
Well, this is amusing. With last Friday's seizure of top online poker site domain names, some are noticing that this might come back to haunt one of the biggest supporters of these domain seizures. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which has been an incredibly aggressive player when it com ...
- If You Thought YouTube's Copyright Lesson Was ...
If you thought YouTube's ridiculous copyright lesson was bad, you haven't seen anything. Copyright lawyer Ray Dowd points us to this hysterically awful copyright "public service announcement" that appears to have been put together by a schoolteacher, but which gets a bunch of basic things wrong ...
- Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
Let's get right to it. I have to admit, this is kind of funny. The comment voted most insightful is by Hephaestus and involves a suggestion that a bunch of tech companies team up and buy the record labels. While it was actually posted on Wednesday, I have to admit that I hadn't actually seen ...
- Jay's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
This week's "favorites" post comes courtesy of regular commenter Jay. Welcome to one and all to Jay's favorites of the week! Unfortunately, there were a lot of great stories to look at this week, with triumphs and pitfalls all throughout. With so many choices, I had to form a few committ ...
- Why Does The Entertainment Industry Seek To Ki ...
The LA Times recently had a good article about Hulu's struggles with its corporate parents, the various TV companies. While Hulu itself has been massively successful, the TV companies are suddenly claiming it's a threat (even though they own it) and are seeking to cripple the service in a misgu ...
- The Big Show
Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend? Â I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office. Â In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget. Â Ahem. ...
- Clarity Through Microcosm
I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
Sorry for skipping my usual Thursday post last week. My social life seems to be getting in the way of writing and the next couple weeks are busy. Guess I’ll have to skip work or something. Thanks to @db0 for the heads up on this post about the men’s rights people. You have probably already [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
- Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
- Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- 13 Green Lifestyle Experts Tell Us Their Earth ...
If you thought Earth Day was just about picking up a little trash and planting a few seeds, think again. The 13 green lifestyle experts here will mark the day with activities ranging from vegetarian lunches and kitesurfing to filmmaking, rowing across the ocean, photographing animals, and ...
- The Environmental Impact of Backyard Chickens: ...
Image credit: Sami Grover Those of us who spend a significant portion of our time thinking about our environmental impact often dream of magic solutions to cut our carbon footprint drastically. For a long time, in my head, chickens were one of those solutions. And it seems I am not alone. B ...
- Green Festival SF: John Perkins Interviews Syl ...
New York Times bestseller John Perkins speaks with Sylvia Mendez in this exclusive interview at Green Festival in San Francisco. On February 15, 2011, President Barack Obama presen...Read the full story on TreeHugger
- Cube Project Is A 97 Square Foot Psychology Ex ...
Image Credit Nick Edwards Jetson Green shows us the Cube Project, where Dr Mike Page of the University of Hertfordshire designed and built " a compact home, no bigger than 3x3x3 metres on the inside, in which one person could live a comfortable, modern existence with a minimum impact on the ...
- Using Photoshop To Fight Wind Turbines
We reported a few months back on how residents of one UK community seemed to be actively welcoming a new wind development. There was, of course, a vocal opposition group to the proposed wind park but—if surverys were to be believed—NIMBYs were in a minority, and a majority of residents in th ...
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