18 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Biosingularity

• Omega-3s May Cut Risk of Postpartum Depression
  Eating fatty fish or other foods rich in healthy omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy may help lower your risk of developing symptoms commonly seen in postpartum depression, a small study suggests. The findings are slated for presentation at the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting in Washington, D ...
• Mapping the brain: New technique poised to unt ...
  Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to develop a computer model of the brain after developing a technique to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time. A new area of research is emerging in the neuroscience known as ‘connectomics ...
• Blueberries may inhibit development of fat cells
  The benefits of blueberry consumption have been demonstrated in several nutrition studies, more specifically the cardio-protective benefits derived from their high polyphenol content. Blueberries have shown potential to have a positive effect on everything from aging to metabolic syndrome. Recen ...
• Accelerated lab evolution of biomolecules coul ...
  Scientists at Harvard University have harnessed the prowess of fast-replicating bacterial viruses, also known as phages, to accelerate the evolution of biomolecules in the laboratory. The work, reported this week in the journal Nature, could ultimately allow the tailoring of custom pharmaceutica ...
• Big picture of how interferon-induced genes la ...
  When viruses attack, one molecule more than any other fights back. Interferon triggers the activation of more than 350 genes, and despite the obvious connection, the vast majority have never been tested for antiviral properties. A team of researchers, led by scientists from Rockefeller Universit ...

CFACT

• Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
  Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
• Welcome to the Third World
  Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
• Fearing EPA's carbon tax
  The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers’ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else’s.
• More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
  A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.
• Krugman flunks food and history
  Krugman is trying to frighten us about what’s very likely the finest weather humanity has ever seen. We’re still getting heat waves, blizzards and some hurricanes, but fewer of them. Still, you are three times as likely to read about the severe weather we do get because the media is seeking ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• Historical regatta of four ancient maritime re ...
  Last weekend the Italian city of Gaeta hosted a historical regatta event attended by representatives of the four ancient Italian Maritime Republics of Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice.
• Sponsor, motives in Minsk terrorist attack sti ...
  Although Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Wednesday, April 13, that the case of the terrorist attack in Minsk had been solved, the investigation is still in full swing.
• Giant amoebas, huge single cells and conspirin ...
  A giant amoeba, a giant single cell model and artificial intelligence are showcased at the exhibition Life: The Scientific Version held in Moscow.
• Cherry blossoms in quake-stricken Japanese regions
  Cherry blossoms, which symbolize nature’s renewal, have started to bloom in regions in Japan that were hit by the earthquake. The event has taken on special significance for the Japanese this year.
• EU seeks explanation from France over Tunisian ...
  The EU is asking for an explanation from French authorities for the recent refusal to allow trains carrying Tunisian refugees and European human rights activists into the country, a spokesman for EU Commissioner said on Monday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• India starts countdown for launch of 3 satellites
  The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday began a 54-hour countdown for the launch of three satellites, an ISRO press secretary said.
• Russian cosmonaut to celebrate birthday on boa ...
  Russian cosmonaut Andrei Borisenko, a flight engineer of the 27th International Space Station (ISS) expedition, will celebrate his 47th birthday on board of the station on Sunday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control center said.
• Chinese shops may soon offer 'human-like' milk ...
  Milk from genetically engineered cows, which is similar to human breast milk, may hit shelves of Chinese shops in about two years.
• Mars flight possible after 2035 - Roscosmos chief
  An interplanetary spacecraft for a flight to Mars will be created no earlier than 2025, and the maiden flight to the red planet is possible only after 2035, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov said on Wednesday.
• Russian space industry 'falling short' of stat ...
  Russia's space chief says its rocket industry is falling short of the goals set by the state arms procurement program.

Pruning Shears

• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Joseph A. Kennedy, 25, of St. Paul, MN.Army Spc. Donald L. Nichols, 21, of Shell Rock, IA.Ar ...
• 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 12-Apr-2011
  Lots coming up starting this weekend. OCSEA has a list of places to get training here. More details to come. For those near Shaker Heights:Thursday, April 145:00 - 7:00 pmShaker HeightsRally for Our RightsWhere: 12601 Shaker BoulevardOur Lady of Peace ChurchNorth side of Shaker Blvd just 4 bl ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Some views from over there here, here and here. Just because we aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean no one else is.Combat operations ha ...
• Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
  (Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Pfc. Dustin J. Feldhaus, 20, of Glendale, AZ.Pfc. Michael C. Mahr, 26, of Homosassa, FL.Pvt. Jeremy P. ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Miles of Confusion Over What 'Locally Grown' Means
  WASHINGTON - The No. 2 official at the U.S. Agriculture Department got a real-life lesson in the loose definition of the trendiest word in groceries: "local."Click here to read this article
• Ranchers Struggle Against Giant Meatpackers an ...
  A sea of cream-colored cowboy hats, the kind ranchers wear on their days off, fills a sterile conference room at the Fort Collins Marriott. Banners from groups like the Ranchers-Cattlemen Legal Action Fund and the Western Organization of Resource Councils add bright slashes of color, and warn th ...
• In Minnesota Copper Mining Runs Afoul of Wild Rice
  Wild rice is sacred to the Ojibwe of Minnesota, but that may not be enough to protect it from the promise of jobs that a new copper-nickel mining industry would bring to the state.Click here to read this article
• Beyond BPA: Could 'BPA-Free' Products Be Just ...
  Bisphenol A (BPA)-the once-obscure chemical building block of polycarbonate plastics, the epoxy resins that line many food and beverage cans, and of the coatings that make inks appear in most cash register receipts-is now almost a household word. But familiarity with the chemical has grown not b ...
• Diablo Canyon Nuke Power Plant: Reemergence of ...
  The revived anti-nuclear movement has promise, for the people coming together to volunteer and take on tasks are experienced. Those who are not veterans of the 1980s protests are dedicated and energetic. They're all ready for a fight to the finish: victory over allowing more Fukushimas, Chernob ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Israel’s Changes in Response to the Goldstone ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Publicly, Israel has been nothing but critical of the Goldstone Report.  Netanyahu responded to Goldstone’s recent partial retraction, for example, by calling for the “twisted and nonfactual” Report to be thrown “into the dustbin of history.” Behind th ...
• State Department Releases 2010 Human Rights Report
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness On Friday, the State Department issued the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, a mandatory report to the United States Congress on human rights conditions around the globe.  This link to the full report is here,  the remarks of Secretary Cli ...
• Response to Blum Published
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As readers will recall, I wrote a short response to Gabriella Blum’s wonderful essay on IHL and common-but-differentiated responsibilities for our inaugural Opinio Juris-Harvard International Law Journal symposium.  HILJ has now published my much lo ...
• Israel’s Changes in Response to the Gold ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Publicly, Israel has been nothing but critical of the Goldstone Report.  Netanyahu responded to Goldstone’s recent partial retraction, for example, by calling for the “twisted and nonfactual” Report to be thrown “into the dustbin of history.” Behind th ...
• Hastings Law De-Sponsors Palestinian Conferenc ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The San Francisco Chronicle has the story: The conference, titled “Litigating Palestine,” took place at the San Francisco campus March 25 and 26. The 13 speakers - four of them Jewish, according to a school official - discussed legal issues and court ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• Antigravity! Trumps "Dark Energy" for the Acce ...
  An exciting new theory says that antimatter could exist in the voids between galaxy clusters and superclusters and that some kind of repulsive gravity �- antigravity �- is pushing the Universe apart. The new theory is a direct challenge to the acceptedSubmitted by Lilith Cohen to Science & Tech ...
• Extracting Uranium from Phosphates
  Tech analysis showing real 'weapons threat' of yellowcake : if or whether used in Syria, Iraq or Iran. The substance lay all over Iraq. 'Purchases' from Nigeria were part of the Iraqi 'WMD Threat' leading the coalition to invade and occupy IraqSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �| ...
• United unrest to release global energy revolution
  The societal problems we face today are global in scope, and in their essence, have a distinct possibility of derailing humanity from the tracks heretofore labeled as progress. We are on a path toward our own destruction. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Let Me Bomb You in Peace
  As far as United States quagmires go, Libya is bigger than Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. But any possible �targets� concentrate in a few cities along the Mediterranean coast.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Gawker and Your Password
  I had a Gawker password used elsewhere. Lucky I had changed it and mostly use unique passwords via LasPass. Here's a reminder and illustration of what one man does.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• ANG Statement Concerning the Execution of Vitt ...
  ANG Statement Concerning the Execution of Vittorio Arrigoni | ANG: "With immense remorse, the Aboriginal News Group (ANG) offers its condolences to the family, friends and associates of Vittorio... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Orange County CA Republican Leader Send Racist ...
  Journal de la Reyna: "Today’s installment of “heinous, unacceptable racism disguised as ‘jokes’” features a Republican official on Orange County, California, President Obama, and monkeys in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• [Press Release] Libya: MSF Evacuates Dozens of ...
  [Press Release] Libya: MSF Evacuates Dozens of War-Wounded from Misrata | AidNews: "ZARZIS, TUNISIA/GENEVA, April 16, 2011 – The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute ...
  Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute US Torturers | Scoop NewsThe letter then argues that bad apples (a couple of private contractors) have been prosecuted or investigated, that the CIA... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Four Wounded, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Tear Ga ...
  Four Wounded, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Tear Gaza Inhalation In Bil’in - International Middle East Media Center: "Resident Samir Burnat, 35, was shot in his shoulder and foot by rounds of the “Tutu”... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• How to Milk a Goat In the Crosshairs!
  Farm Wars Radio: A goat can keep you alive and healthy. This week Barb shares her secrets on how to process goat's milk the right way!
• Truth Squad Radio: Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto
  This week we will talk with Percy Schmeiser about his fight with Monsanto over the contamination of his crop, and the subsequent lawsuit filed by Monsanto for growing their patented seed without a license.
• USDA Certified Organic Milk NOT Tested for Rad ...
  There is no required testing for radioactive particles in organic milk, and no plans to test in the future.
• Fracking nightmare destroys small farmers
  As if we didn't have enough problems with the fake food safety bill, a genetically modified food takeover by the USDA's terrorist arm Monsanto, chemtrails dumping aluminum, barium, and strontium on farmland, and Japan's radioactivity spreading across the country, now we have a huge fracking (hyd ...
• Radiation Nation In the Crosshairs!
  The EPA once again dupes the public by upping "safe" radiation levels.... Will Monsanto take advantage by developing a plutonium resistance gene?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• S.Korea: Distributors Install Radiation Detect ...
  ShareThisS.Korea: Distributors Install Radiation Detectors in Stores 18 Apr 2011 Radiation detectors are finding their way into stores as public concern grows over potential radioactive food contamination. Hanaro Club run by Nonghyup or the National Agricultural Cooperative Foundation placed det ...
• UN: Afghan poppy crop up in north, northeast
  ShareThisMission accomplished! UN: Afghan poppy crop up in north, northeast 18 Apr 2011 The United Nations on Monday predicted a strong increase in poppy cultivation in north and northeastern parts of Afghanistan. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the top official for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Afgh ...
• New breed of gagging order could send journali ...
  ShareThisNew breed of gagging order could send journalists to jail, MP claims --Birmingham Yardley Lib Dem MP John Hemmings fears reporters could face imprisonment simply for asking questions, creating a 'recipe for hiding miscarriages of justice' 17 Apr 2011 An MP who is launching an inquiry in ...
• Libya denies firing cluster bombs
  ShareThisLibya denies firing cluster bombs 17 Apr 2011 Libya has denied reports by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi have used internationally banned cluster bombs against revolutionaries in the Libyan city of Misrata. "Absolutely no. We can't do this. Mo ...
• Regulators shut 6 banks in Ala., Ga., Minn., Miss.
  ShareThisRegulators shut 6 banks in Ala., Ga., Minn., Miss.; makes 34 US bank failures in 2011 15 Apr 2011 Regulators on Friday shut down a total of six banks in Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota and Mississippi, boosting the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 34. There were 157 bank closures i ...

Daily Loaf

• Tampa Bay area fresh markets guide
  Local produce is abundant (and not to be passed up) at these open air fresh markets.
• Lesbionic escapades: A successful disaster
  It’s probably not a good thing when after sleeping with a woman, she says, “You know, this would make a great blog post.” Such is my life with women. But at least we were laughing by that point. “Emily” and I had been flirting for almost a year. We’d been friends with benefits for four or fi ...
• Theater Review: Rent at American Stage in the Park
  Jonathan Larson was a prescient book-writer, an impressive lyricist, and a drab, drab composer.
• Do It Today: DigiMazing and photography at USF ...
  The collaborative exhibition DigiMazing transforms USF's Centre Gallery into a techno dreamscape through the use of televisions, projectors, computers, videos and audio.
• Can’t win ‘em all: Rays fall to Twins 4-2
  Tampa Bay fell a game short of sweeping the visitors from the North and may have temporarily lost the services of one Johnny Damon.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

• Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
  Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
• I went over my twitter limit...
  So I'm just going to make a few notes: -Ignatieff was right when he says Harper's offering "fantasy economics". He also answered the financial question directly. And Harper seemed to make eye contact for the first time. And then went back to the camera. Harper: "Every credible economic analyst" ...
• Cancer is sexy
  I don't have a TV, so I just checked if my livestreaming CBC is working and it seems to be, so I will be able to watch the debate tonight. Two chapters left to go in Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" and I also just picked up Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power" yesterday and have read chapter 1. A ...
• Yes, you can be too nuclear-safe
  Before there was Bruce Carson, there was Maxime Bernier, who left government documents at his girlfriend's house. To put this in context, I don't think that these state documents should be treated with tremendous mystical secrecy - that isn't the point. They are probably mostly banal. The point ...
• Harper and Bribery
  Today's headlines were interesting. Conservatives using the RCMP as their political goon squad to turf people out of events and pre-screen them. But Harper's said he's sorry and, I'm sure, has promised to never do it again. This is a good little quote from the Toronto Star though: read more

treehugger

• 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Suu Kyi ‘cautiously optimistic’ on ...
  Opposition leader says new US envoy to Burma, Derek Mitchell, is an ally and hopes he will bring about democratic reform in the country
• EU suspends visa ban on Burmese FM
  Statement says Wunna Maung Lwin will be a 'key interlocutor' as EU signifies a push for greater engagement with new Burmese government
• Lifting the veil on Burma’s military
  Despite decades of vilification of the Burmese army, we really know so little about it. Understanding the mindset of the junta is key to unlocking Burma's crisis
• Obama nominates US envoy to Burma
  Pentagon official and Asia veteran Derek Mitchell will await approval from the Senate before US deploys a new face to help shape Burma policy
• My father would be proud of Karen army unity
  Before he was assassinated, my father Padoh Mahn Sha had long advocated for disparate Karen armies to join to fight the Burmese junta

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climate change activists invited to appeal aft ...
  A group of climate change activists who plotted to shut down Britain's second largest power station have been invited to launch appeals against their convictions.
• Met Office chief receives death threats from c ...
  Met Office chief says threatening emails were from climate sceptics.
• What happens when the great fantasies, like wi ...
  There's a pattern in the unravelling of make-believe projects, whether it's wind power or the euro, says Christopher Booker.
• Arctic meltwater could lower temperatures at h ...
  Average temperatures in Britain could fall by several degrees due to a massive pool of melted ice water heading south from the arctic, scientists have warned.
• Eton student in bid to become youngest person ...
  A 16-year-old boy is set to make his second bid to be the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.

National Geographic | Environment

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

Jurist - Legal Research

• Syria emergency laws to be lifted: president
  [JURIST] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] on Saturday announced in a televised speech that he will lift emergency laws [UPI report] that have been in place for 48 years. For the past four weeks, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets e ...
• Egypt court dissolves Mubarak's National Democ ...
  [JURIST] An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered that the political party of former president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] be dissolved. It would be illogical [Reuters report] for Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which took control in 1978, to remain an entity, the c ...
• Algeria president announces constitutional ref ...
  [JURIST] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika [official profile, in French] on Friday declared an initiative for sweeping constitutional and political reforms in order to increase the role of democracy in the African nation. The announcement, which came in a nationally televised address , was ...
• Kazakhstan president fires six supreme court j ...
  [JURIST] Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev [official website, in Kazakh; BBC profile] on Thursday discharged six justices of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan [official website] for corruption. The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office [official website] has opened criminal cases ...
• UN rights office urges probe into Iraq militar ...
  [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday denounced a deadly Iraqi military raid [press release] on a camp housing Iranian exiles. At least 34 people, including women, were shot to death or trampled by military vehicles during the Iraqi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• More on the Ryan Plan, Medicare, and the 'Deat ...
  I mentioned yesterday Merrill Goozner's contention that Rep. Paul Ryan's "serious" plan to undo Medicare should be considered the real "death tax." Now, some readers' views. From reader AS: >>We [already] have that de facto "death tax" in connection with nursing care. Every family that do ...
• Undoing Medicare: The Real 'Death Tax'
  From my days as a school kid I remember the original debate over creating Medicare. At the time, my dad -- a small-town doctor and at that stage a conservative -- was, like most doctors and the AMA as a whole, strongly against the plan, as a step toward "socialized medicine." After all, ...
• Did Sen. Inhofe Get Off Easy? Chapter and Vers ...
  I mentioned yesterday that, thanks to The Smoking Gun's FOIA request, the FAA records of Sen. James Inhofe's unauthorized landing in Texas last October have been released. They show him landing on a closed runway full of men doing repair work; "sky-hopping" over the work crew and machinery and t ...
• Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan: 'Obamacare' for Sen ...
  In its basic methods of supplying seniors with health care, TPM's Brian Beutler points out, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan works just like the new health care law President Obama signed last year: The long-term Republican budget plan proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman ...
• House Passes Paul Ryan's Budget Plan
  In a partisan vote, Republicans approve the 2012 spending plan that would cut trillions and gradually end Medicare as a health coverage provider   The Republican-led House passed on Friday its fiscal 2012 budget resolution, which cuts $5.8 trillion from current spending levels over the next ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Hebron Settler Leader: ‘Burn Awarta to Ground, ...
  The settlers of Hebron are a particularly nasty bunch, the meanest of the mean, most vicious of the vicious.  For many of them, the only good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian.  As if to prove my point, the chief propagandist media-whore of the Hebron community released a statement about the I ...
• Shabak Removes Gag Order Concerning Alleged Na ...
  The Israeli Shabak, those crackerjack sleuths, have broken, if they are to be believed, a major Nazareth terror cell composed of three boys, aged 18-19, who’d been planning unsuccessfully for two years to create weapons to kill Israeli police and soldiers.  I’ve already reported the arrest of A ...
• Shabak Removes Gag Order on Itamar Arrests, ID ...
  The Shabak removed the gag order about the suspects it arrested (one 12 days ago and one 7 days ago) in the Itamar murders.  It revealed that it charged two boys from the extended Awad family (though not directly related): Israeli security forces have arrested two teenage residents of the West B ...
• NY Times Nonsense on Arrigoni Murder
  The NY Times’ Israel correspondents, always eager to get in a shot against Hamas when they can, fill their report on the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni with nonsense and near-nonsense.  Of course, they published a picture of a bloodied Vittorio shortly before his death.  Better to dramatize his g ...
• Shabak Reconstructs Itamar Murders With Detain ...
  A major break in the case of the Itamar murders indicating the Shabak has arrested the individuals it believes perpetrated the crime.  The Israeli paper, Inyan Merkazi, published news that the intelligence service yesterday did a “reconstruction” of the crime.  When they do this, they generall ...

Ode Magazine

• From dirt to shirt
  When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas b ...
• The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
  While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for ma ...
• Shaking it up for charity
  By: Ode Very few good stories end with the characters grungy and exhausted, outdoors in Times Square at 5:18 a.m. in freezing weather, but this is one of them. After months of training and preparation, two hardy teams were the last men standing in a re ...
• Make your own money
  Local currencies can help create sustainable growth and healthy communities. In Detroit, cheer dollars are helping restore local economic confidence.Photo: AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates Communities have long needed a more sensible means to create money. To dat ...
• Management as meditation
  How meditation helps managers make better business decisionsâand why itâs good for the bottom line. Your mind is like a wild buffalo.” This comment from a Buddhist meditation leader in Sri Lanka struck a chord. When I first heard it years ago, though, it didn’t work fo ...

OpEd News

• Solving the debt crisis without raising taxes ...
  I sent the following email off to a couple of reporters at CNBC - that right-wing in-the-box bastion of capitalism. It had to be short, pithy and succinct. If we even get the solution mentioned in the email on the air, even to be ridiculed, it'll still be a major victory over what passes for s ...
• 7 New Expressionistic Paintings by OEN's Own M ...
  Merlin Flower is an OEN member and an artist. Merlin is very good, as well as prolific, spontaneous, and OEN's original "How I Painted This" artist.
• Congressman Wants Citizens of ALL Religions to ...
  It's that time of year once again - time for some theocratic member of Congress to push for a resolution proclaiming the first weekend of May "Ten Commandments Weekend."
• Sounds of Resistance Blasts Wall Street with P ...
  On APril 15 a Sounds of Resistance Concert and Protest of BoA was held. Bank of America has red, white and blue on their signs, but it paid no taxes for two years despite billions in profits. They are not patriots.
• Outraged CItizens OCCUPY BANK of AMERICA, on T ...
  similar events occurring around the nation today

Switchboard

• Power Shift; Where Youth Fights for Our Future
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC This weekend, the Woodstock of the environmental movement is on full display, not in a remote farm in New York, but deep in the heart of the nation's capitol. That’s where more than 10,000 y ...
• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile On Monday, HidroAysén began the fourth and likely final round of the environmental review process for the five dams it is proposing to build in on two rivers in Patagonia.  Public agenc ...
• Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery: Conne ...
  David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco In Wednesday’s Washington Post, you can find four articles on energy efficiency policies and economic recovery. But the authors apparently don’t see the big picture, and are missing an opp ...
• Rio Tinto Shareholders Face Pressure on Pebble ...
  Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA The international campaign against the proposal to build the massive Pebble Mine above Bristol Bay in southwest A ...
• New Yorkers: Tell Your Reps to Support the New ...
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Here's your opportunity to tell New York State's elected officials that we want more clean energy opportunities to strengthen the New York State economy and clean our environment.� Less than ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Poppies for Pain Relief
  Millions of individuals worldwide suffer from acute or chronic pain without adequate access to pain medication. The problem is particularly acute in the developing world, as Time Magazine chronicled last year: Whether you will have access to pain treatment depends largely upon where you live. Af ...
• Sprezzatura Could Not be Reached For Comment
  Reader “Mary Rosh” writes in to assure us that Scott Adams is a true, non-sexist genius whose comic remains almost as relevant as Mallard Fillmore. [via]
• Poor Bobo
  Krugman can’t resist the ball he put up on a tee after leaving the Appebee’s salad bar: At the beginning of last week, the commentariat was in raptures over the Serious, Courageous, Game-Changing Ryan plan. But now that the plan has been exposed as the cruel nonsense it is, what weâre hearing a ...
• Happy Bay of Pigs Day!
  Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the US supported invasion of Cuba, an operation which solved that Castro problem once and for all.  In support of my COIN seminar this semester, Patterson screened both ends of Steven Soderbergh’s Che, which was exceedingly long and not really all that good. ...
• Least Contrarian Contrarianism Ever
  I have no idea if the jacket copy is an accurate description of the contents, and the book seems interesting anyway, but this made me laugh when I came across it in a bookstore recently: In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Linc ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• New iPad 2 Case Made From Greener Leather
  The Eco-Vue iPad 2 Case from Mareware works as a stand and a cover and is made from leather that conforms to Restrictions of Hazardous Materials guidelines.
• Del Webb Adds Solar To Arizona Homes
  Del Webb has announced that all homes in its two new Arizona developments will come with a 1.8 kilowatt solar power system and other green features standard.
• 2 Million Smart Meters Planned In Canada
  BC Hydro is partnering with Itron on a $270 million program to rollout two million smart meters in Canada over the next two years.
• Big Oklahoma Wind Farm Being Planned
  Daewoo subsidiary Dewind has won the rights to provide wind turbines for a 160 MW portion of the anticipated 370 MW Novus project in the Oklahoma panhandle.
• Remote Temp Control Phone Activated
  Thermostat maker Venstar offers a voice-controlled thermostat add-on that allows the user to adjust their heating and cooling settings from an phone.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• COMPLEX LITIGATION: Courts search for class ce ...
  Increasingly, they are stressing the necessity of ascertaining who the actual plaintiffs are.
• SPECIAL REPORT: MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS
  The NLJ profiles 34 lawyers in 10 categories — ADR, financial capital markets, government affairs, health care, in-house lawyers at private companies, law firm leadership, media and entertainment, real estate, trusts and estates, and white-collar crime — whose work has been so consequential that ...
• LEGAL AID: A SPECIAL REPORT: The Power of Hope
  As Congress considers deep cuts in legal assistance to the poor, The National Law Journal presents an in-depth report examining the impact of legal aid programs on clients and the politics surrounding funding.
• THE PRACTICE: The abandonment of Dodd-Frank
  Outright repeal remains unlikely, but regulatory subversion may leave the act a hollowed-out shell.
• OPINION: Obama's U.N. Authority?
  Only the elected representatives of Congress, not the U.N., can authorize the United States to use military force against another nation.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• U.S. Embassy Renders Extraordinary Service to ...
  At the meeting, Ms. Clinton said she was honored to be in Tokyo. She thanked all her friends and colleagues in all consular offices throughout Japan.
• U.S. to Continue Partnership and Friendship Wi ...
  Ms. Clinton sent her best best wishes from President Obama who is very committed to provide whatever assistance the United States can extend to the region.
• Somali Parliament Term Extension is Undisputable
  Mogadishu: - Member of Somali members of the parliaments told the media that the decision of the parliament's mandate extension by three years was indeed undisputable.
• Hindus Laud Ukraine for Initiating Interfaith ...
  According to reports, the Ukraine Forum will reportedly address global and local humanitarian conflicts through dialogue and mutual respect.
• U.S. Committed to Ratify Korean Free Trade Agr ...
  Ms. Clinton stated that the United States are also working hard on the trans-Pacific partnership, a cutting edge regional free trade agreement that would eventually cover an area responsible for over 40 percent of global trade.

environment 360

• One Year Later: Assessing the Lasting Impact o ...
  On the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst fears about the long-term damage from the oil spill have not been realized. But the big challenge is more fundamental: repairing the harm from the dams, levees, and canals that are devastating the Mississippi Delta and the Louisian ...
• TVA to Close 18 Coal Units in Settlement of A ...
  The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will shut down 18 of its dirtiest coal-burning units over the next six years as part of a legal settlement with four U.S. states and three environmental groups that claimed the utility’s air emissions violated the Clean Air Act. The agreement, announced by th ...
• U.S. Congress Strips Wolves of Endangered Stat ...
  For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress has intervened to remove an animal from the Endangered Species List, attaching a rider to the federal budget that ends federal protection for gray wolves in the northern Rocky U.S. Fish & Wildlife Mountains. The new provisions would instead put manag ...
• Interview: Forging a Defense for Rhinos in Tro ...
  Zimbabwe ranks number 4 on Foreign Policy magazine’s “Failed State Index,” with its shattered economy, pervasive hunger, and entrenched dictator. And that makes it all the more surprising that Raoul du Rick BarongiRaoul du Toit Toit, who was awarded the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize for Af ...
• Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
  For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s ec ...

Red Ice Creations

• Goldman Sachs Chief Blankfein Could Face Crimi ...
  Goldman Sachs executives deceived clients in order to profit off the brewing financial crisis and then misled Congress when asked to explain their actions, concluded a top lawmaker who led a two-year investigation into Wall Street's role in the meltdown.
• UN document would give "Mother Earth" same rig ...
  Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans - having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country. The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a livi ...
• Will Earthbound Comet Elenin Fulfill 2012 Prop ...
  It's nearly 300 million miles away and barreling toward us. The intruder from deep space, called called comet Elenin, crosses Earth's orbit on its inbound leg and again on its outbound swing around the sun later this year. Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin discovered the innocuous little comet on ...
• 3 Very Large Objects In Space Flying To Earth
  SETI Astrophysicist Craig Kasnov has announced the approach to the Earth of 3 very large, very fast moving objects. The length of the "flying saucers" is in the range of tens of kilometers. Landing, according to calculations of scientists, should be in mid-December 2012. Date coincides with the ...
• Britain should follow France and act against t ...
  There is a mosque in the East Midlands, an impressive building, exuding a sort of muscular serenity. Almost next door, is a private girls’ secondary school, an offshoot of the mosque, where, from the age of 11, the niqab is a compulsory part of school uniform. Just across the street is an advice ...

Russia Today

• Finns vote for nationalists over EU bailouts row
  Parliamentary election in Finland ended up with the nationalist True Finns party making big gains by winning 19 per cent of the votes.
• Armored knights clash swords in Russia
  Fans of medieval martial arts have gathered near Tula in central Russia for a knightly tournament.
• “We’ve saved wellbeing of millions of Russians ...
  The Russian economy looks pretty good compared to most developed countries that have either come close to or gone beyond the acceptable limit of national debt and entered the risk zone, Russia's Finance Minister Aleksey...
• Five-year-old kills newborn sister to watch TV ...
  Russian police were shocked to discover that a newborn girl who died in Russia’s northern city of Norilsk may have been beaten to death by her brother because he wanted to watch TV.
• Militant leader among four killed in Dagestan
  A major militant leader has been killed by security forces in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, says Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee.

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

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

Tippers News

• Israelis Risk Jail to Smuggle Palestinians
  Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. By Jonathan Cook Submitted by Ellyn S. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• MASSIVE AWAKENING NEEDED NOW..
  This isn't surprising..that only a few will consider this ACT, is surprising...this,existence it is not Life..it is an insult to REAL LIFE..this is the land of the DEATH,and a massive awakening IS NEEDED TO BECOME THE LAND OF THE LIVINGSubmitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• PLEASE HELP FREE GHILAD SHALIT...THANK YOU
  It is news in HEBREW and you may not understand what it is written, but please go to "The petition site\human rights\peace and nonviolence,activist, and please sing.Also:human rights\international justice,activist IT IS URGENT! THANK YOU. Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• A Legislative Proposal for Monetary and Fiscal ...
  Draining the Swamp, originally written as an academic exercise, has become a crusade. This fascinating story sets the stage for a worldwide Monetary Rights Movement. People concerned about the consequences of continued politics-as-usual owe themselves, thSubmitted by Evelyn J. to Business �|� � ...
• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

• Skills for journalists: The basics
  Jennifer Peebles — a self-described “old geezer who used to work at a newspaper” — wrote a post at the SPJ Net Worked blog titled Digital media skills every young journalist needs. Like a lot of old geezers (I say that with affection!), she started with the fundamentals: Be honest, accurate, fai ...
• A great Flash infographic
  This might be the best interactive information graphic ever. What do you think? I love the simplicity of the rollovers. The multiple information (timeline, map) delivered in the top image below is delightful. Tapuiassauro, o novo dinossauro do Brasil won a gold medal at this year’s Malofiej (se ...
• 10 useful resources about data visualization
  These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization. (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-wor ...
• Timelines in journalism: A closer look
  You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
• Teaching about storytelling
  As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• A bit more on hedonic adjustments
  Hedonics, in economics, is essentially the idea that if something is better than it used to be, it is effectively cheaper, so inflation is less than it seems. In comments, BDBlue posted this: In Queens, New York, on Friday, William Dudley was bombarded with questions about food inflation, and hi ...
• Core CPI is exactly the wrong thing to watch
  Our lords and masters (h/t Americablog): Those trends came as real income dropped 0.5 percent for the month. The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent after rising by the same margin in February. That was in line with economists expectations. Core CPI is vindicatio ...
• The Budget and Obama’s Speech
  Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]
• The Budget and Obama’s Speech
  Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]
• An update on the effect of the price of shippi ...
  From Skuppers, in comments: In February, the Fuel Surcharge (FSC) on shipments was 26%. It is now 31%. It keeps climbing with no end in sight. It’s not always a straight formula though, as I saw an invoice from the steam line the other day, where the customer’s freight rate is $1400, but the add ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• William Lipscomb, chemistry Nobel Laureate, dies
  William Lipscomb, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on chemical bonding, died last week. Lipscomb was born in Cleveland in 1919 and won the 1976 Nobel in chemistry for “studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding”. His work helped elucidate the bonding betwe ...
• Robots enter Fukushima
  Over the weekend, remote-controlled robots entered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The robots took the first photos inside the units 1 and 3 reactors (right) and assessed radiation levels. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs the plant, sent Packbots, from the Americ ...
• Fukushima stable, but radioactive water proble ...
  Water problems continue to plague the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. According to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, the water level in a trench near the Unit 2 reactor is back to where it was on 13 April. This news comes despite days of work to move 660 tons of water from the trench into p ...
• Chinese science ministry reveals budget
  Posted on behalf of Hepeng Jia Facing strong public pressure for fiscal transparency, China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has become the first government ministry to reveal in detail how it plans to spend its budget. Chinese ministries and local governments began to publish t ...
• LEGO DNA sculpture unveiled
  The X Prize foundation has taken time out from promoting spacefaring, and unveiled what it claims is the largest LEGO DNA sculpture in the world. “Just as each brick plays an important part in holding the sculpture together, each gene within the human genome helps us understand more about our ...

new geography

• Getting Married Naked
  One of my girlfriends just invited me to attend her wedding ceremony next month. In our short conversation, I learned that she and her husband have already moved into their brand new, three-bedroom condo (we barely have any detached houses, called villas, in China), purchased a new car, and ...
• The Census’ Fastest-Growing Cities Of The Decade
  Over the past decade urbanists, journalists and politicians have hotly debated where Americans were settling and what places were growing the fastest. With the final results in from the 2010 Census, we can now answer those questions, with at least some clarity. Not only does the Census tell us ...
• Yuri Gagarin’s Brave, Brilliant Leap into the Dark
  Yuri Gagarin was my hero. For a child just nine years old on 12 April 1961, the day he flew into space, he appeared intrepid, unassuming, and cool. Above all, he appeared in black and white. This was not the glossy, sunlit, bright blue Florida-sky ethic of American efforts in space, all ...
• Los Angeles: The MTA's Bus Stop Strategy
  Those who run the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority evidently believe that, since the Consent Decree that forced it to improve service to its bus riders has expired, they are free to rewrite history to justify Metro's elimination of nine bus lines, its reductions in service on e ...
• A Requiem for "High-Speed Rail"
  In the interest of maintaining some balance and perspective on what the Administration�proudly calls "President Obama's bold vision for a national high-speed rail network," at InnovationBriefs we have tried to offer our readers a range of different points of view. It is in this spirit that w ...

GM Watch

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

spiked

• Up the Yid Army!
  The campaign to cleanse Britain’s football terraces of the Y-word is a patronising assault on Tottenham Hotspur fans’ pride and identity.
• Making a meal of school kids’ diet
  A survey hailing the impact of healthy school dinners on kids’ capacity to learn is not as smart as it thinks.
• ‘We will sacrifice quality if necessary& ...
  An unguarded comment by the new NUS president shows how denigrated university education has become.
• Attack on Libya: a war led by no one
  As the various bombers of Libya disavow responsibility for the overall military mission, there’s no telling how this will end.
• The busybody war on packed lunches
  A US school’s ban on parents giving their kids packed lunches reeks of ‘we know best’ condescension.

Cryptogon

• U.S. Secretly Backed Syrian Opposition
  Via: Reuters: The State Department has secretly funded Syrian opposition groups, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million since 2006 to a group of Syrian exiles to op ...
• The True Finns: Finnish Anti-Euro Party Sees L ...
  Via: Reuters: The True Finns, the anti-euro party voted into a powerful role in the Helsinki parliament at the weekend, expect the European Union to change plans for a bailout of Portugal, its leader said on Monday. “Of course there will have to be changes,” Timo Soini told reporters a day after ...
• Texas University Takes Delivery of Nearly $1 B ...
  That’s a lot of shiny. Which other funds are going to ask COMEX to cough it up? Via: Bloomberg: The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. academic endowment, took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion and is storing the bars in a New York vault, according ...
• 7 Million Afghans Will Go Hungry Without Aid
  In other news: Afghanistan: U.S. Spends $20 Billion Per Year for Air Conditioning in Tents Via: Reuters: The United Nations warned on Friday of a looming food aid shortage in Afghanistan that could leave more than 7 million people hungry unless it received urgent cash donations of over $250 mill ...
• Jingle Mail: Morgan Stanley Failed to Make $3. ...
  Via: Reuters: A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan. It marks the latest fallout fr ...

The Economic Collapse

• Political Theater: It Turns Out That The Repub ...
  Guess what?  The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again.  So what else is new?  The truth is that the great "budget crisis" which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater.  Even the Associated Press is ...
• The Japanese Economy Is In Much Bigger Trouble ...
  Now that nearly a month has gone by since the horrific tsunami in Japan on March 11th, it is starting to become clear just how much economic damage has been done.  The truth is that the Japanese economy is in much bigger trouble than most people think.  This is almost certainly ...
• How To Find A Job: Just Be Willing To Flip Bur ...
  Do you want to know how to find a job in America today?  It's easy.  Just be willing to flip burgers, wait tables or welcome people to Wal-Mart.  You must also be willing to work for close to minimum wage with no health benefits.  It's not that complicated.  On April 19th, McDon ...
• Feeling Depressed? 27 Depressing Statistics Ab ...
  If you know someone that believes that the U.S. economy is in great shape, just show that person the following statistics.  But please don't show these statistics to anyone that is feeling depressed or that has just lost a job - it might push such a person over the edge.  The sa ...
• Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
  The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those ...

Desertification

• Climate change will impact on food security wo ...
  Read at : http://icardablog.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/food-security-and-climate-change-2/ foodsecurityandclimatechange1 Food security and climate change Climate change will impact on food security worldwide â but especially in the dry areas. This book contains papers presented at a conference in ...
• Iran : “unprecedented” sandstorms ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ill_62s-0jl6DPIoe0BnDLxVIqWw?docId=CNG.81e3f073a7ff60182e936e010de882cd.151 ‘Red’ sky worries Iran as sandstorms wreak havoc (AFP) TEHRAN â Iranians are worried by crippling air pollution as “unprecedente ...
• Jordan : Green Corridor to combat desertificat ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=11886 âGreen Corridorâ Initiative in Jordan aims to combat desertification from Irbid to Aqaba By Jessica Watkins AMMONNEWS – In a region faced with chronic water shortages, Jordan could become a leader in … ...
• A global development model to achieve sustaina ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37784&Cr=sustainable+development&Cr1= Deputy Secretary-General urges action to achieve sustainable development 16 March 2011 â Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today called for a global development model that tackles poverty reducti ...
• Expansion of the European forest area and incr ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37845&Cr=forest&Cr1= Forests expand in Europe and North America, but still vulnerable to climate change â UN 21 March 2011 â Forested areas in Europe, North America, the Caucasus and Central Asia have been increasing steadily, growing by … C ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• Professional Carpet Cleaning - DIY Tips
  Regardless if you seek the services of a professional or whether you do it yourself the most important thing to take into account is to go slowly enough that you eradicate as much moisture as you can. Regardless if you seek the servi ...
• Death toll mounts after defeat of 2009 Ssangyo ...
  SsangYong.jpg Two years after the brutal crushing of the Ssangyong Motors strike and occupation in South Korea, an increasing number of sacked workers have died prematurely. It ...
• GE returns billions to public... Not
  general.jpg USA Today and the Associated Press fall for a prank article by activist group US Uncut, causing General Electric stock to plummet billions. US Uncut, a burgeoning g ...
• Workers' struggles continue in 'post-revolutio ...
  Egypt-port-workers.jpg As the reshuffling of leaders continues, Egyptian workers are still trying to push forward their own agenda. Textile workers Last week (7th April) worke ...
• Wave of raids and arrests against anarchist ne ...
  anarco-insurrezionalisti2.jpg 5 arrests in Bologna, 7 banning orders, 60 raids all over Italy On April 6 more than 300 officers were employed in an “anti-terrorism” operation n ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
• Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
  Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
  Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
• Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
  She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...

Scotts Contracting

• Is this why our Gasoline Costs are Sky Rocketing?
  Oil and Gas: Lobbying Background For Months I have been preaching about Dirty Energy Politics and quoting information I’ve been viewing from http://opensecrets.org yet for some reason I’ve not received many responses to the Article Posts on the Sustainable Building Blogs I operate http://stlouis ...
• Do Dirty Environmental Polluters Speak For You?
  They don’t speak for me either. So Join me in the battle to reduce Climate Change created by the Biggest Polluters and the Lobbying Organizations that buy off the Politicians in office. Sign up for "The U.S. Chamber Doesn’t Speak for Me" campaign. Hereâs how you can help right now, in four easy ...
• Let’s meet in St Louis, MO
  Scotts Contracting just posted a comment: "Seeking Like Minded Individuals to join me in the Fight against the biggest Polluters of the World. Join the largest organization attempting to reduce Climate Change. 350.org" Read and reply to comments here: http://www.meetup.com/350/350-of-St-Louis/97 ...
• A new Meetup has been posted in the 350 of St ...
  On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Scotts Contracting wrote: Here are the details for "Let’s meet in Saint Louis, MO": When: TBD Where: Provide a venue for this Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/350/350-of-St-Louis/97166/t/bn1_l2/?ed=venue Let others know about this Meetup! Send t ...
• Congress 2011-IT’S ONLY A DREAM
  Subject: Congress 2011-IT’S ONLY A DREAM Guest Post by: Russ Hacker IT’S ONLY A DREAM The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, before e-mail, before cell ph ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• New Nuclear Project Distracts From Existing Sa ...
  Earthquake concerns not only also exist for U.S. nuclear energy plants, but for nuclear-weapons facilities too.
• Nuclear Disarmament Can Be a Very Disarming Ex ...
  Reaching Global Zero might be less impossible than we think.
• Want to Die in a Fire? No? Then You're Opposed ...
  It's too easy to forget that, for millions of us, nuclear war means death by fire.
• African Solutions for Cote d'Ivoire: The Decep ...
  The prospect of a new civil war looms on the Ivoirian horizon.
• Postcard from...Libya
  What goes around comes around with arms exports, as the war in Libya demonstrates.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• پافشاری وزیراطلاعات به برکناری یکی ازمعاونان،ب ...
  به گزارش خبرنگار پارلمان نیوز ارگان فراکسیون خط امام مجلس شورای اسلامی در پی عزل عبداللهیان معاون حقوقی و امور مجلس وزارت اطلاعات از سوی حجت الاسلام حیدر مصلحی وزیر اطلاعات ،احمدی نژاد با این تصمیم وزیر مخالفت کرد و تاکید نمود تا معون برکنار شده ابقا گردد.read more
• Iran: Tehran announces new 'halal' Islamic int ...
  (AKI) - Iranian authorities have announced they intend to launch an Islamic internet to counter the influence of the US-dominated World Wide Web. "Iran will soon create an internet that conforms to Islamic principles, to improve its communication and trade links with the world," the head of econ ...
• اعتصاب کارگران پتروشیمی ماهشهر در اعتراض به دس ...
  کارگران مجتمع پتروشیمی ماهشهر که از ۲۰ فروردین ماه در اعتراض به دستمزد کم دست به اعتصاب زدند، همچنان با گذشت هشت روز در اعتصاب به سر می برند. براساس گزارش های رسیده کارگران معترض هر روز در محل کار خود حاضر می شوند اما کار نمی کنند و با تجمع در مقابل دفتر مرکزی مجتمع شعار می دهند.
• Unexpected passing of our dear and cherished f ...
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• رییس مرکز پیش بینی‌های نظامی روسیه: آمریکا ا ...
  سرهنگ آناتولی تسیگانوک رییس مرکز پیش بینی‌های موسسه تحلیل‌های سیاسی- نظامی روسیه، اعلام کرد: توانمندی دفاعی ارتش ایران عامل مهم بازدارنده تهاجم خارجی به این کشور است.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The “Cointelpro” Role of Left Ga ...
  The two most prolific contemporary writers regarding foundation funded Cointelpro-style counterinsurgency tactics are historian and journalist Webster Tarpley (in Barack H Obama: the Unauthorized Autobiography) and Australian-born academic researcher Michael Barker. A list and link to all Bark ...
• The Nation Magazine and the CIA
  Bob Feldman’s unraveling of the indirect CIA funding received by the Nation and Radio Nation is the most instructive in demonstrating how “pass-through” funding works (see http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/nation_ned_1.html). According to their tax returns, the Nation Institute receives ...
• The Ford Foundation and the CIA
  Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the first, in 1967, to investigate the use of the Ford Foundation and other foundations as “conduits,” “pass-throughs,” and “fronts” to disguise CIA funding for domestic operations (it’s technically illegal for the CIA to operate on US soil under federal law). ...
• The Role of Left Gatekeeping Foundations in Su ...
  Since the October 2008 economic collapse, American workers have faced an unprecedented “austerity cuts,” with major hits on their livelihoods and labor and pension rights. Yet Americans, unlike the rest of the world, don't respond by taking to the street in the millions. Why is this? Many prog ...
• Bill Ayers: Obama’s Ex-Terrorist Pal
  In 1984, Obama left Business International Corporation (BIC), a known CIA front engaging in economic espionage (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/04/02/the-president-with-no-past-obamas-electability-in-2012/), to move to Chicago, where he became a civil rights lawer. From that po ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Fukushima Lies
  Well, as was obvious almost immediately, the nuclear power lobby and their supporters went into overdrive to downplay and obfuscate the seriousness of the Fukushima crisis in Japan. No, this isn’t another Chernobyl. And World War Two wasn’t the same as World War One, that doesn’t mean World War ...
• The lessons of the King’s Cross Fire, or ...
  The King’s Cross Fire was a fire on an escalator in a subway in London in 1987. 31 people died, more than 60 were injured. It made the news of course, and I’m sure many of my older readers remember it. And if they were like me, they recall that the fire was on a [...]
• The Mask of la Roche-Cotard
  Continuing with my “strange old things” theme, here we have the Mask of la Roche-Cotard. Unlike our previous rock, this rock has been shaped by human (well, Neanderthal) hands. It’s a piece of flint about 4 inches (10 cm) tall and wide, and through a natural hole under the “nose” a piece of bone ...
• The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
  Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]
• The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
  Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]

FourWinds10

• CARS, WHOLE HOUSES AND EVEN SEVERED FEET IN SH ...
• New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet
• NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE AND MORE
• Mystery as greenish-yellow goo falls from the ...
• ALERT: Louisiana Senator Concerned that Corex ...
  I emailed the Senator to confirm he wrote the letter and got this response: Yes it is my letter. I am deeply concerned about the health and welfare of our citizens. I have been collecting data and research since the disaster began. Since the commission did not adequately address this “second” ma ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• ‘Price Signal’ can be a Weapon for Managing Hi ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Steep Cost of Sudden Price Spikes One of my recent essays discussed the relationship between high oil prices and recession. Consumers who suddenly find themselves paying more for fuel are hit with the equivalent of a stealth tax, leaving less money av ...
• Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent article in the Washington Post on Five Myths About Gas Prices, I received several inquires for additional commentary on the story. Below is an interview that I did with KSL NewsRadio in Utah that allowed me to expand upon the points fro ...
• A Double Dip Recession? Only If We Are Lucky
  Join the forum discussion on this post Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’r ...
• Speculator’s Political Reserve?
  Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...
• Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around a ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Bald Eagles - WDFW
  Comments:Oly non-profit that uses cameras to catch wildlife in action! - Janet OttTags: critterzoomby: Janet Ott
• Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets a ...
  Comments:Multiple 3D views of the solar system.scie - Dean MantzTags: science, astronomy, interactive, space, 3d, solarsystemby: Dean Mantz
• LEGO.com : Comic Builder
  Tags: comics, lego, digitalstorytelling, comic, writing, web2.0, toolsby: Dean Mantz
• YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
  Tags: copyright, digitalcitizenshipby: Emily Mann
• SnapMaze QR Code Generator, QR Code Reader | S ...
  Comments:Generate QR Codes of URLs, Text, SMS, Contact Info, etc. - Doug ButchyTags: QR, generator, code, mobile, qr-code, snapmaze, qrcode, tools, technology, web_2.0by: Doug Butchy

Rodale News

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

big think

• PHIVOLCS increasingly concerned about Taal as ...
  Activity at the Philippine caldera Taal continues to increase. The latest update on Taal from PHIVOLCS reports 21 earthquakes under the volcano in the 24 hours between April 17-18, meaning the frequency of these events is still rising since it began to kick up a few weeks ago. Combined with the ...
• Access to the Web is a Human Right: How to Mak ...
  Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, in a speech at an MIT symposium,�Tim Berners-Lee said that "access to the web is now a human right". Probably not many people know, however, that only 25.6% of the world population has internet access. This means there are 5 billion people ...
• Democracy, Transparency Key to Free Burma
  What's the Latest Development? Five months after her 15 years of house arrest ended,�Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's tireless political campaigner, reflects on freedom, the importance of art and the revolutionary power of social media. What's the Big Idea? "Human beings want to be free and howev ...
• What if Greece says "Can't Pay, Won't Pay"?
  What's the Latest Development? Ordinary Greek citizens are becomingly increasingly vocal and pessimistic about their country's�financial abyss and fears they have been forced into an era of futile�austerity. There has been violence on the streets as the backlash grows.�Last week, a man shot a ...
• U.N.: "Sri Lanka Slew Its Civilians"
  What's the Latest Development? A U.N. report—which Sri Lanka says is "fundamentally flawed"—claims there are ''credible'' reports of war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Tamil Tiger movement (finally defeated in May 2009 after a 30-year insurgency). The governme ...

Information Liberation

• Police arrest man INSIDE his house for taking ...
  Wow, this video is scary. The guy is recording some police officers from his own garage and some thug cop out of nowhere walks up to him and tries to steal his phone under the obvious lie it's supposedly "evidence." "I'ma take the phone... 'cuz...
• Police committed 21 counts of perjury during c ...
  A COURT has heard that a police officer committed "21 counts of perjury" while giving evidence against a Sydney man who his lawyer says was subject to a brutal police assault. Benedetto Sorbello, 41, was charged with offensive language, resisting ...
• An afternoon with the NYPD
  Here's the scene: We were enjoying the nice spring weather from our balcony. A friend was visiting on his bike, and he rode up on the sidewalk from the street to our front door. In NYC this is illegal. You are supposed to stop in the street, get off...
• Fondlers, Your Country Calls
  Ramesh Advani and Noel Alexandre Bertrand must be two flummoxed felons. Both men allegedly assaulted passengers in aviation*s gulag; both now endure Leviathan*s fury and might, with arrests and charges, trials and punishment * "up to thr...
• Complaining About TSA Molestation Will Get You ...
  According to*CNN, the government considers "arrogant complaining" about TSA Gestapo tactics at the nation's airports to be an indication of terrorist behavior. Objecting to TSA goons molesting your*six year old daughter is characterized as "contem...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Missing Fifty Million
  Fifty million peopleâthe equivalent population of Burma, South Korea, Spain or South Africaâthey’ve gone. Vanished. Or perhaps, more precisely, they’ve been disappeared. That’s the number of âclimate refugeesâ by 2010 that the United Nations Environment Programme forecast in its 2005 report, … ...
• Gaia Rights
  For those of you wondering why I expend so many words banging on about rights, here’s a story which illustrates the point nicely. You may have read about it yourselves in the last few days; I did, but dismissed it … Continue reading →
• Carbonomics
  I promised myself that I’d stay away from Global Warming, at least until some new wrinkle turned up that promised some sort of interesting discussion. But seeing as GE is away, surfing apparently (you’ll forgive my antipodean snickering as I … Continue reading →
• Liberté, Égalité, Sororité
  Today marks the official introduction of France’s new law banning the burqua and niqab in public places. Police officers encountering a person wearing this garment are forbidden to forcibly remove it, but if she refuses their request to lift her … Continue reading →
• Inferno
  The scene: a desolate, barren moonscape. Lightning bolts flash occasionally across a blackened sky. Boiling, bubbling lava pools dot the ground as far as the eye can see, sending plumes of reeking smoke into the gloom. The only sounds are … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Five feisty science books on David’s desk
  Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
• Recent science news roundup
  Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
• Five more science stories
  Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
• Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
  Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...
• Five more science stories
  Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...

RFF Library

• Five Reasons Carbon Markets Won’t Work for Agr ...
  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy http://www.iatp.org/iatp/publications.cfm?refid=107994 Carbon markets are viewed as the primary source of climate financing. The experience to date demands a reevaluation of their ability to exact real, sustainable change, particularly in relation to ag ...
• Small Batteries, Big Sales: The Unlikely Winne ...
  Lux Research (free information only available in press release; full report is fee-based) https://portal.luxresearchinc.com/research/document_excerpt/7785 [Green Car Congress]    The overall market for energy storage technologies that power electric vehicles is set to grow from $13 billion in 20 ...
• Ten Treasures at Stake: New Claims and an Old ...
  Pew Environment Group http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899358707 [Yale Environment 360] Mining companies have exploited outdated U.S. laws to stake claims for gold, uranium, and other minerals at 10 national parks and wilderness areas, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, ...
• The Japanese Nuclear Incident: Technical Aspects
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41728.pdf While some radioactive material from the Japanese incident may reach the United States, it appears most unlikely that this material will result in harmful levels of radiation. In traveling thousands of miles between the tw ...
• Nuclear Power Plant Sites: Maps of Seismic Haz ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41729.pdf Currently, 104 commercial nuclear power plants operate on 64 sites in the 48 contiguous United States. 1 Sixty-nine of the 104 are pressurized water reactors (PWR) and the 35 remaining are boiling water reactors (BWR). The ...

Scientific American - News

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

First Truths

• For Our Own Good
  I discuss the regulatory state for C4SS: Well, if they’re our last hope, then there really isn’t any way out of state capitalism’s shrewd schemes to bleed us dry and sell us poison. Barrett never bothers to consider, though, what it is that enables corporations to “cut corners” against the inter ...
• Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
  The Empire couldn't care less about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, I argue in a commentary for C4SS: For the novel’s superpower Oceania, then, as for the United States, defeat of an enemy that is “unconquerable” by design is neither possible nor even desired. Since Afghanistan, in and of itself ...
• "Meritocracy" in the Middle East
  For C4SS, I examine the substance of statist "meritocracy" in Bahrain: Free market anarchists regard the meritocratic credo of the state capitalism as an integral organ of that oppressive system not because we see all people as possessed of the same abilities, but because it is not through any a ...
• Removing Obstacles or Erecting Them?
  European Union insanity comes under my fire for the first time during my C4SS tenure: Worse still, like other “free trade” treaties across national boundaries, EU membership requires accession not just to these suffocating rules, but also to many more related to intellectual property. The marque ...
• Capitalism: Unfortunately Alive and Well
  For C4SS, I distinguish "free markets" from "capitalism": It may seem to many to be all too precious a quibble, but market anarchists take exception to Doyle’s use of the word “capitalism” to mean “free markets.” Our umbrage at the C-word, instead of an idiosyncratic dislike of the word itself, ...

Media Co-Op

• Voices of Wet'suwet'en Resistance
  No compromise in defense of the people and the land On April 16th, people from many generations came together at Rhizome Café in Vancouver to celebrate the launch of The Dominion's special issue on Climate Justice. There were great present ...
• BC Hydro-St'át'imc Authority Agreement Creates ...
  Deal isn't just about past impacts, say critics A new agreement between BC Hydro, the province of BC, and the St'át'imc Chiefs Council was approved in a nation-wide vote last weekend, but a group of community members say they're still det ...
• Vigil in Memory of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
  On 13th April, 1919 the supporters of passive resistance movement were brutally murdered by the British troops at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. The massacre on the Vaisakhi day became a turning point in the freedom struggle. A group of 50 people gathered on the evening of 13 April 2011 at Ho ...
• Feminism FOR REAL
  Jessica Yee on being real and telling the truth Has ”capital F Feminism” become its own form of oppression? Jessica Yee would argue so. She is the editor of a anthology ”Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of ...
• NSGEU Local 47 on Strike for Pay Parity
  Come show your support for the striking workers of NSGEU Local 47 Monday to Friday at the corner of Cornwallis and Gottingen from 7:30- 9am. ------------------ Press Release Employees of Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority o ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Nephew from Hell: Edward Bernays and the s ...
  David Seaton's News LinksA couple of summers ago I read a lovely book called "The Metaphysical Club - A Story of� Ideas in America", a Pulitzer Prize winner, by Louis Menand.� The book is about a group of philosophers: William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John ...
• An Easter Meditation
  David Seaton's News LinksThe other day, a small child, let us call her "Virginia", asked me a pair of� searching questions: "where does the Easter Bunny get his Easter eggs?" and "do rabbits lay eggs?". At a loss as to what to tell her, It occurred to me that the framing of her questions themse ...
• A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (r ...
  I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, but it seems even more relevant today than it did way back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He y ...
• Solidarity: the talk and the walk
  What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn�t seem to stand for anything in particular?(...) Mr. Obama is conspicuously failing to mount any kind of challenge to the philosophy now ...
• Repent! The end is near... or maybe not
  Administration officials said that nearly 800,000 federal workers would probably be told to stop working if a deal was not reached in the next two days. Small business loans would stop. Tax returns filed on paper would not be processed. Government Web sites would go dark. And federal loan guaran ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• One of the Most Promising Anti-Aging Breakthro ...
  Thousands of studies have been published on telomeres and telomerase. They are known to maintain genomic stability, prevent the inappropriate activation of DNA damage pathways, and regulate cellular aging. In humans, telomere length and integrity plays a role in diseases, disease susceptibility ...
• Hysterical Twin Babies Talking
  Whatever they’re saying, it seems very important.
• Do You Practice These 4 Habits of Some of the ...
  Eating a "Mediterranean diet" could prevent or even reverse metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. Scientists believe that a Mediterranean-style diet has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on your body. A review of 35 clinical trials found that fait ...
• You Will Suffer - If You Carelessly Make This ...
  In this video, Dr. Gabriel Cousens and I discuss the merits and flaws of a wholly vegetarian or vegan diet.
• Are New 'Healthier' Potato Chips Really Any Be ...
  Frito-Lay, as part of a push to use natural ingredients in its chips, is adding beet juice, purple cabbage and carrots to the recipe. These natural vegetable dyes will replace ingredients such as FD&C Red 40. By the end of the year, Frito-Lay intends to make half its snacks sold in the U.S. wit ...

JAMA

• Conceptualizing Physician Professionalism--Rep ...
• Intravesical Bacille Calmette-Guerin in Patien ...
• Studies Probe New Anti-HIV Strategy, Long-term ...
• 10-Year National Vaccine Plan Aims to Harness ...
• Research Provides New Insights on How Hygiene ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

• Hydro remains an environmentally sound power s ...
  The article "Hydro power's dirty side" (Gazette, April 9) contains a number of what we consider factual errors and presents a one-sided argument. We would like to provide a more balanced perspective on Hydro-Québec's hydro-power projects.
• There's a sameness about our leaders
  Aside from the set's stunningly ugly backdrop, did you find anything visually jarring when you tuned in to the federal leaders' debate last week?
• Bob Benedetti, 72, tech blogger
  Bob Benedetti flew CF-100 fighter jets for the old Royal Canadian Air Force in the late 1950s before embarking on a 35-year career in broadcasting. He is best known publicly for his work as a reporter and later executive producer with CFCF-TV, now CTV Montreal. For four years, until November 200 ...
• A lost dog and a kind act
  One recent night, just after I had given her pills to my old, deaf, blind-in-the-dark, six-pound Maltese named Lillie, she somehow got loose and found her way out the gate. This little one had never been alone since we fostered and then adopted her, and she rarely walks more than 20 or 30 feet b ...
• An admirable push to get out the youth vote
  A new mob is arising in Canada, and this one should be heartily encouraged. It's the "vote mob" movement that in recent days has been spreading to universities across the country, including McGill in Montreal, and consists of young people urging their peers to get out and vote in the coming fede ...

Food World Order

• major farm animal cloning project canceled due ...
  from free from harm: After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died. AgResearch is a New Zealand based company that has spent more than a decade trying to perfect the cloning of animals for ...
• high bacteria levels in meat at US stores: report
  from reuters: Meat found on grocery store shelves often contains high levels of bacteria, with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, a study released on Friday said. The meat is still safe to eat but consumers should take precautions especially in handling an ...
• 4/14 binge & purge: hunger hormones & the dang ...
  study finds hunger hormone helps you sniff out food* extreme weather taking huge toll on global food production* world bank chief says food prices in 'danger zone'* arsenic & toxic metals found in baby foods* greens call for new zealand ban on japanese food imports* monsanto modifi ...
• frankenfoods in you 'natural' foods store
  whole foods or whole hypocrisy? from organic consumers dot org: After two decades of biotech bullying by Monsanto and Food Inc., a grassroots movement of organic consumers and farmers is rising up across the United States. Inspired by the success of their European counterparts in driving ge ...
• gmo's linked to organ disruption in 19 studies
  from responsible technology: A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Political Theater: It Turns Out That The Repub ...
  Guess what?  The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again.  So what else is new?  The truth is that the great "budget crisis" which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater.  Even the Associated Press is ...
• The Japanese Economy Is In Much Bigger Trouble ...
  Now that nearly a month has gone by since the horrific tsunami in Japan on March 11th, it is starting to become clear just how much economic damage has been done.  The truth is that the Japanese economy is in much bigger trouble than most people think.  This is almost certainly ...
• How To Find A Job: Just Be Willing To Flip Bur ...
  Do you want to know how to find a job in America today?  It's easy.  Just be willing to flip burgers, wait tables or welcome people to Wal-Mart.  You must also be willing to work for close to minimum wage with no health benefits.  It's not that complicated.  On April 19th, McDon ...
• Feeling Depressed? 27 Depressing Statistics Ab ...
  If you know someone that believes that the U.S. economy is in great shape, just show that person the following statistics.  But please don't show these statistics to anyone that is feeling depressed or that has just lost a job - it might push such a person over the edge.  The sa ...
• Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
  The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those ...

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

• Alan Johnson's masterclass in Orwellian double ...
  Labour's Alan Johnson has just been on Sky News, arguing in favour of the switch to AV. His argument, to a perplexed John Reid? That AV will produce an elected representative with majority support. Oh, hang on... What he actually said was: "...a majority of not necessarily fifty perc ...
• There is hope.... thank you Finland!
  A message to the people of Finland and the True Finns party who have exceeded all expectations in the country's election, expressed here by UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage:
• Criminal acts against the people: Portugal ask ...
  If a comment on the highly respected Open Europe blog is accurate, then it would appear that the people of Portugal have just been subjected to one of the most wicked lootings of all time. Just yesterday, (our emphasis below) the Open Europe blog noted that: Portugal held another short ter ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 17th April 2011
  A strange set of Sunday newspapers this week - a sign that the politicians are on yet another jolly long holiday. Poor overworked things. The Observer reports on "a breakdown of the rule of law" in Greece with people there being rightly annoyed at the amount of hardship that they're enduring ...
• Oi! Anti-cuts protestors... a BILLION quid do ...
  So... anti-cuts protestors. Guessing you'd like some money spent on you, huh? Well, you can't have the £50 million a day we give to the European Union. Nor can you have the tens of billions we're giving to Greece and Ireland. And we've got to keep another few billions back in case Po ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Attack on Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Kills Two A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry said Monday that a would-be suicide bomber wearing an Afghan Army uniform got past several layers of security and opened fire inside the ministry … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  In New Video, al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Weighs in on Egypt, Libya In a one-hour online video apparently recorded before the NATO intervention in Libya, al Qaedaâs Ayman al-Zawahiri celebrates the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and calls upon Muslims … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S. Official: Three Detainees Released By Obama Have Engaged in Terrorism or Insurgency During testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, State Department official Dan Fried, special envoy for Guantanamoâs closure, said that U.S. intelligence agencies believe three of … Cont ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Man Linked to Would-Be Times Square Bomber to Be Deported A man arrested last year for links to Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber who is serving a life sentence, pleaded guilty to immigration and illegal money transfer charges … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Bomb in Belarus Subway Station Kills 12 During Monday Evening Rush Hour A bomb exploded in a crowded subway station next to the office of the Belarusian president in the capital of Minsk during Mondayâs evening rush hour, killing at … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 11 April 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: eight new tools to boost your brain, aloe vera gives rats tumours, and UFOs from the Vault
• UFO search engine for those who want to believe
  The FBI's Vault contains documents released under FOIA rules and could spawn a raft of UFO theories
• Fukushima update: evacuation zone set to widen
  The evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is to be expanded, nearly a fortnight after the IAEA recommended the move
• Halve your meat intake to stem nitrogen damage
  Nitrogen pollution from agriculture, vehicle exhausts and power stations is costing Europeans up to £650 per year each, says landmark report
• Black hole unleashes enduring cosmic blast
  A trio of telescopes is tracking the unusual, long-lived glow of a star torn asunder by a supermassive black hole

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• ANTI EURO PARTY TRIUMPHS IN FINLAND’S EL ...
  The stunning success of an anti-euro party in Sundayâs election in Finland could result in the country vetoing the next proposed EU and IMF loan for Portugal and even in Finland preparing to leave the eurozone before what the party’s leader sees as the euro’s âinevitable collapseâ. http://www. ...
• Anti-corruption laws put on ice by banker pupp ...
  Tougher laws to tackle the rampant corruption in Austria have been dropped by the new leadership of the People’s Party (ÃVP). The new laws were drafted by Justice Minister Dr Claudia Bandion-Ortner last month following a scandal where Austrian MEP and former ÃVP Interior Minister Ernst Strasser ...
• It is time to invade Europe in economic war, s ...
   Gene Kerrigan: Let’s get this horror show on the road We should bring the battle for our futures right to the door of the EU bully boys, says Gene Kerrigan Sunday April 17 2011 It’s time to invade Europe. Last week, the EU goons — led by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi and Jürgen Stark — became [...]
• EU-IMF BAILOUT IMPOVERISHING IRISH: 210,000 pe ...
   April 15th, 2011 Newstalk A new survey shows just how badly Irish people are struggling to make ends meet. The research from the Irish League of Credit Unions has found one in five have just 70 euro left each month after paying bills, and a third see no future for themselves or their family in ...
• Bretton Woods II — The Final Enslavement of Ma ...
  Sartre Infowars.com April 18, 2011 “The rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system in order to ensure that they will be active supporters.” – George Soros Charges of a conspiracy theory are a convenient pretext to dismiss criticism when the global financial elites meet to s ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Terminally Twisted beyond Recovery or Redemption
  By Les Visible You knew they were sick and disgusting, beyond the comprehension of the general mind but I’ll bet you didn’t know they were this sick. They are and they do it with a straight face (is that a pun?). They want to make sure you have all the facts concerning the important things [...]
• Love in Disguise in a World of Lies
  By Les Visible I’m not inclined to sell anyone on the idea of Astrology. The science is a pristine and marvelous thing but then you add an astrologer to the mix and you can get problems. This isn’t a knock on the practitioner; it’s just that human limitation and error are a constant in all [...]
• Visible’s Primer on Basic Economics and ...
  By Les Visible There’s something that goes through my mind a lot and I don’t think I have to be Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill or Milton Freidman to understand it. Certain things have happened in the United States that caused serious problems for the general population and for most of the coun ...
• The Seven Day Mental Diet
  By Emmet Fox The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. It is the thoughts you allow yourself to think, the subjects that you allow your mind to [...]
• Detroit SWAT team assaults African American mo ...
  By Mike Adams The medical police state is alive and well in Detroit today, where Child Protective Services (CPS) called in the police to aid in their kidnapping of a 13-year-old daughter from an African American mother who refused to medicate her with dangerous psychiatric drugs. As this case is ...

Veterans Today

• 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 ...

electric politics

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

PR News

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

• Time-pass
  http://www.247mahjong.com/Mahjong.swf created by Mahjong
• He is the cow
  This is the cow. The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch.
• zu Googleberg lives on: Guttenberg wants to su ...
  The University of Bayreuth has nearly finished its investigation into the plagiarism allegations that cost Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg his job as defense minister. He doesn't want the university to publish its findings.
• TEPCO shares recover – somewhat – ...
  TEPCO shares recover - somewhat - as short sellers get nervous.
• Sandstorm in Germany kills 8 on the autobahn!
  At least eight people died Friday in a huge blaze on a motorway in eastern Germany after a freak sandstorm caused pile-ups.

Left Foot Forward

• New research: Plural British voters are “happy ...
  New research from ippr shows that "UK voters are happy to express a range of preferences when voting". It reflects a 50 year trend from tribalism to pluralism.
• Scottish Lib Dem Leader “not particularly comf ...
  Ed Jacobs with the latest news north of the border: the Lib Dem Scottish leader Tavish Scott's PR campaign to distance himself from the Westminster coalition.
• The sickening PFI profiteerers leeching funds ...
  Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, exposes the sickening tax-dodging companies ripping off the taxpayer by leeching funds out of the public sector.
• Progressive politics and the purple peril: The ...
  By Dr Robert Ford and Dr Matthew Goodwin look at the real threat UKIP pose to the three main parties in next month's local elections.
• The No campaign’s silly sporting analogi ...
  Will Durnan takes on and takes apart the silly sporting analogies put about by No2AV by their rag tag band of sports "stars".

Consumerist

• The Insanely Wealthy Keep Finding Ways To Pay ...
  You probably don't get to have one the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes in the U.S. without having a clever accountant -- and probably an entire law firm -- at your disposal. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the folks who have attained that level of wealth are paying less incom ...
• Government Goes All-In Against Online Poker
  If you were planning on making your fortune on your sofa, taking fools' money in online poker, it's probably time to think of a plan B. Feds are making like Eliot Ness in an effort to shut down offshore companies that let Americans subvert in the nation's online gambling laws. G-men have filed ...
• Morning Deals
  Clothing6pm.com: [Apparel] [Up to 75% Off Diesel, Retro Sneakers, Marc Ecko, and More at 6pm.comUp to 75% Off Diesel, Retro Sneakers, Marc Ecko, and More]Rocawear: [Apparel] [Take an Additional 40% Off Select Sale Items] Computers and Electronics Buy.com: [External Hard Drive] [Seagate Free ...
• FAA Makes Changes To Keep Air Traffic Controll ...
  Following a rash of incidents -- like this one and this one -- where air traffic controllers were caught snoozing on the job, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued some new rules that will hopefully give the controllers more rest and more supervision. The main changes: * Instead of t ...
• The Worst Company In America Final Death Match ...
  This year's Worst Company In America final death match between BP and Bank of America received the highest number of votes of any WCIA championship ever -- it was also the closest final in the tournament's history. We're not releasing the results until noon ET on Monday, but we can say that th ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• GITMO Proceedings Will Be “Stalinist Show Tria ...
  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. “Even worse yet,” says Francis Boyle, professor at ...
• ‘Spillionaires’: Profiteering and Mismanagemen ...
  by Kim Barker, ProPublica A version of this story was co-publishedwith The Washington Post. The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money. Some people profiteered from the spill by charging ...
• Using Blacks for “Saving America from the Bond ...
  No faith community knows better than the Black Church how religion-based bigotry shapes prejudicial attitudes many white Americans once held toward African Americans in this country. Religious texts have been interpreted to justify some of this country’s worst crimes against our community, resul ...
• President Obama’s Real Proposal (And Why It’s ...
  Paul Ryan says his budget plan will cut $4.4 trillion over ten years. The President says his new plan will cut $4 trillion over twelve years. Let’s get real. Ten or twelve-year budgets are baloney. It’s hard enough to forecast budgets a year or two into the future. Between now and 2022 or 2024 t ...
• Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn’t the Problem, ...
  I hope when he tells America how he aims to tame future budget deficits the President doesn’t accept conventional Washington wisdom that the biggest problem in the federal budget is Medicare (and its poor cousin Medicaid). Medicare isn’t the problem. It’s the solution. The real problem is the so ...

NewsAlert

• Chipping Away at the Health Care Law
  The National Journal
• Petition to Redistribute GPA Scores
  Fark
• Ticking Time Bomb: Ongoing Labor Dispute Shows ...
  Red State
• Violent criminals expand into cigarettes
  USA Today reports:A recent wave of state tobacco tax increases, designed to pump revenue into cash-strapped local governments, is inspiring an increasingly dangerous cigarette smuggling industry where big profits lure violent criminal gangs and drug traffickers into the booming illegal market, a ...
• Silicon Valley see most profitable year in history
  The San Jose Mercury News

JoNova

• Ten more faulty assertions from Climate Minist ...
  Ten more faulty assertions from Climate Minister Combet Carter, Evans, Kininmonth, Franks Bob  Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks & Bill Kininmonth (Also on Quadrant, here and here.) In a speech given at the National Press Club on April 13th, Climate Minister Combet has yet again revealed that ...
• Monckton returns to Australia: help needed
  David Evans and I are honoured to  have been asked to tour with Christopher Monckton, and Ross McKitrick. July (and the Green controlled Senate) is not far off, and there is much to do to make the tour happen, but details are coming together quickly. Where there is a will… Thanks to The Climate ...
• Professor points out, it’s a less-than-nobel c ...
  Garth Paltridge is an Australian atmospheric physicist with 45 years experience. He worked with CSIRO, the WMO, NOAA, and as Professor and Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies. He has explained why he’s skeptical of the theory of man-made global warming in his book ...
• Fairyland economics — Labor invents perp ...
  It’s fairy-land economics out there. In a big economic advance, the Labor Party realized  that they can solve world poverty: the secret is to take money from the big producers, and hand it to anyone and everyone — it will not only keep our national economy productive and efficient, but millions ...
• Bolivia gets stoneage legal system
  UPDATED: See below It’s the ultimate in pre-cambrian law. Gaia in the courtroom. Shh. The Statutory Spirits are at work. It’s not just the right to life for amoeba, it’s the right not to have your cellular structure modified. Looks like salad is off the menu. So is meat, fruit, tea and coffee, a ...

ReNew America

• Point of order, Mr. Speaker!
  (Joseph Farah) - House Speaker John Boehner says there is no daylight between his position on budget negotiations and the position of the tea party. But Boehner must be referring to some tea party his wife, Debbie, is organizing -- not the tea-party movement that made him speaker...
• FEC investigators digging into Obama's 2008 ca ...
  (NewsMax) - Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign's records and transactions...
• House passes Ryan's '12 budget; conservatives ...
  (The Hill) - The House on Friday approved a fiscal year 2012 budget resolution from Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that seeks to drastically limit government spending next year and in years to follow...
• Obama: Republicans will make US 'Third World' ...
  (Agence France-Presse) - US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign...
• Obama: incorrigible statist and debt menace
  (David Limbaugh) - In my book "Crimes Against Liberty," I described President Barack Obama as dishonest, hyperpartisan, a bully, a narcissist, and a hardcore left-wing ideologue. Anyone who thinks my description is exaggerated or too harsh didn't hear his Wednesday speech on the budget...

Truth Offering

• Civilization: The Biggest Bubble
  One thing I'm certain of is that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know that much. That's the irony of knowledge. It's like, as you open one door of knowledge, there are ten more to explore. And to be honest, I love that about life; I love learning more and more about our ever-changing ...
• The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
  Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
• US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
  CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
• Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
  In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...
• A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
  Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...

2012 Blog

• Baigong Pipes / Antikythera Device / Arctic Forest
  This is great fodder for Ancient Astronaut theorists. Over in China is a pyramid that has iron pipes within it, and heaps of pipes laying about outside. Like many such mysteries, the pipes could actually be naturally occurring – and Wikipedia cites similar, natural examples. But combined with a ...
• 100 Days of Disaster
  I’m one of the interviewees for an Australian documentary, 100 Days of Disaster, screening tomorrow (Monday) on Channel 10 at 10pm. Patrick Geryl was also interviewed, plus I believe a few orthodox scientists, some religion experts and I think an astrologer. All being asked if we should expect t ...
• New Alien Art Unearthed
  The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes. If you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancien ...
• Fingers on the Pulse
  I’ve not expressly promoted other websites or blogs until today, because most that belong to the 2012 meme do not get my approval. These do, and they might even be pivotal if something eventful unfolds. I regularly find amazing information at these sites, and I recommend them for your perusal an ...
• Swine Flu + Bird Flu / Vivos in UK / London 2012
  Not a surprise, but lab tests indicate that we need to watch out for a nasty super flu: What do you get if you cross bird flu with the 2009 pandemic human virus, widely known as swine flu? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t funny. A new study predicts that swapping genes between the avian and human ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• 'Goa offers a superb setting to Dum Maaro Dum'
  Rohan Sippy and Abhishek Bachchan discuss books, Bollywood and their latest film Dum Maaro Dum.
• Brooke Mueller back in rehab after week of binging
• Arundhati walks with different comrades in Kat ...
• Kate Middleton's grandaunt thinks her niece is ...
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Global Research TV

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

Daily Tech

• Intel, AMD Talk USB 3.0 Chipset Support
  Intel support coming next year, AMD support much sooner
• Wendy's New "Natural" Fries Caught Using Chemi ...
  Process of making tasty fries is more laboratory than garden patch
• Ten-Year-Old, 2 Million PC Botnet Finally Kill ...
  Complaint has been issued against 13 foreign nationals, but there's no promises they won't get away with the loot
• Amazon Meets with Record Labels Over Cloud Drive
  Amazon released a letter to record labels on Monday saying that the Cloud Drive is legal, but is willing to meet with record labels today to discuss licensing rights
• Maine to Spend $200K on iPads for Kindergarteners
  Brings whole new meaning to the phrase "early adopters"

Oriental Review

• The BRICS Reality Has Come To Stay
  It is possible to exaggerate the substantive outcome of the summit meeting of the BRICS countries last week in Sanya, China, and, equally, it may seem expedient to underplay its meaning and consequence. But three things stand out. First, it is no more possible to ignore the BRICS; simply put, it ...
• BRICS and the Mission of Reconfiguring the World
  More than ever over the past decade, geopolitics watchers whose approach to international developments is – in line with the projections made by founders of the school of thought N.Ya. Danilevsky, O. Spengler, and A.J. Toynbee – premised in the assumption that distinct civilizations will oversha ...
• Mujahedin Fighting for ‘Democracy’
  Iran’s Foreign Ministry is demanding that the European Union stop supporting the terrorists carrying out attacks against the Islamic Republic. Iran’s Foreign Ministry press secretary, Mehmanparast Ramin, said that the EU should stop providing asylum for terrorist organizations like Mujahedin-e K ...
• Open Letter to President Gaddafi
  Yesterday ORIENTAL REVIEW has received a fundamental comment on Mu’ummar Qaddafi’s Recollections of My Life from Mr. Iqbal Alimohamed, a former senior UN official who served as the UNHCR Regional Representative in Malaysia, Japan, Australia and the Sudan. We believe this very important document ...
• Mu’ummar Qaddafi: Recollections Of My Life
  OR Note: Please listen to a person widely portrayed as tyrant and make up your own mind. ‘For 40 years, or was it longer,I canât remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food, I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, ...

BlogHer

• Can You Prevent Your Child's Eating Disorder?
  Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 22 I've worried before that writing again and again about eating disorders on BlogHer and on my personal blog could turn me into a one-trick pony. I've said I don't want to be ED Girl. ...
• Running (or Watching) the 2011 Boston Marathon
  Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 174 If you've ever trained for, or considered running a marathon, then you know that Monday marks the 115th annual Boston Marathon, one of the world's oldest and venerated racing events ...
• 12 Tips on Overcoming Heartbreak from Athletes ...
  Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� 19 174 Own Your Beauty is a groundbreaking, year-long movement bringing women together to change the conversation about what beauty means. O ...
• Show & Tell: NieNie Asks -- What Gadgets Do Yo ...
  What electronic device do your children steal from you? Me: Ollie takes my iPad any chance he can get. Now your turn: Show me a picture of your kids with your gadgets -- or tell me in the comments. I want to know!
• Loving, or Right? Loving AND Right?
  At the risk of getting into the kind of theological debate I once ended a thriving career in order to avoid, let�s talk. There�s a new book floating around Evangelical circles, Rob Bell�s Love Wins. I have not read this book, but I adore Rob Bell. He�s one of the only preachers I still sometimes ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Vitamin D May Prevent AMD
  When a doctor determines macular degeneration, it might come with a suggestion to purchase equipment that the blind use to guide themselves. Almost a half-million of British people are partially blind due to the destructive ...
• More Bills to Criminalize Naturopathy
  Medical Monopoly is becoming a more finely tuned machine every day. It is no coincidence that other states are suddenly creating bills to criminalize naturopathic practices and other holistic modalities like ayurvedic, midwifery, aromatherapy, and ...
• GPs Must Return Flu Vaccines Over Narcolepsy R ...
  Earlier this year, we brought news about research that linked the swine flu vaccine to debilitating narcolepsy, especially among youth. In Finland, where the original findings stem, health officials disregarded the concerns, essentially saying the risk ...
• More States Create Anti-Whistleblower Bills
  Here we go again! If you thought the recent legislation to criminalize those who film or photograph farm activity in states like Florida and Iowa is coincidental, it’s not. Similar bills are in process in ...
• J&J Avoids Bribery Trouble by Paying Federal Gov
  This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Johnson and Johnson (J&J) for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) after it was discovered that J&J bribed doctors in several European countries and paid kickbacks to Iraq for business under ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• More on Massey execs moving to Alpha
  While I was busy on Friday evening scrambling to read more of the MSHA internal audits that Joe Main dumped on us late in the day (see our print story from today’s paper for details), NPR’s Howard Berkes was putting together a piece about the Massey Energy officials who are apparently moving in ...
• Meetings, leadership set for Alpha-Massey deal
  The Associated Press is reporting on a joint Alpha Natural Resources-Massey Energy news release that announces: Alpha Natural Resources Inc. and Massey Energy Co. say Alpha’s proposed takeover of Massey could be completed within seven weeks. The companies said in a joint news release Friday that ...
• Friday roundup, April 15, 2011
  In this April 5, 2010 file photo taken off the coast of Rockhampton, Australia, a ribbon of oil snakes away on the surface from the Chinese-registered bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1 after it ran aground at Douglas Shoals on the Great Barrier Reef Saturday April 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, ...
• Document dump: MSHA releases internal audits
  Well, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and MSHA chief Joe Main promised transparency … so now, at 5 p.m. on a Friday, MSHA issues this press release: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced it has posted on its website audit reports by the agency’s Office ...
• Byrd mine safety legislation re-introduced
  This just in: Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Nick Rahall, D-WV, Friday joined Rep. George Miller, D-CA, in introducing the Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act of 2011, legislation aimed at bolstering the national effort to protect the health and safety of miners. “We owe it to our ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Core of Atheism
  Jews, Muslims, and Christians claim that their holy books are so profound, and so prescient of humanity’s needs, that they could only have been written at the direction of an omniscient diety. An atheist is simply someone who has considered the claim, read the books, and found the claim to be ri ...
• The Methuselah Generation Trailer
  via vimeo.com This is a documentary that I look forward to seeing. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDigital DJ UIStrong Vim FuDigital GraffitiPlaying With LightSpace BattlesCloud Surfing with NikonSF to Paris, With Northern Lights
• BeerSec.org: Abusing ASP.NET Forms Authenticat ...
  So you found an web site vulnerable to the ASP.NET Padding Vulnerability, used Minded Security’s web.config bruter and now you have the applications web.config file. Now what? Here’s a burp plugin to decrypt FormsAuthentication tokens, allowing you to edit them as a plain-text cookie changing “A ...
• iPhone 4 About To Be Flickr’s Top Camera
  What’s the most popular camera used in terms of pictures taken that are uploaded to Flickr? Right now, it’s the Nikon D90. But in about a month or so, it will be Apple’s iPhone 4. What’s amazing is that D90 is nearly three years old. The iPhone 4 is not even a year old. Just [...]
• Labelass | Scott Adams
  Labelass: A special kind of idiot who uses labels as a substitute for comprehension. We also need a name for people who believes that everyone who has a different point of view has the same opinion as everyone else who also has a different point of view. Example:Person 1: “I don’t think we shoul ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• America: Once A Great Nation
  Are Americas Best Days Behind Us? | Fareed Zakaria As an immigrant, I love the special and, yes, exceptional nature of American democracy. I believe that the Constitution was one of the wonders of the world — in the 18th century. But today we face the reality of a system that has become creaky. ...
• Arizona: The New “Show Me” State?
  Arizona Law Says Lack of Foreskin Acceptable Proof of Citizenship | Care 2 Part of the controversial Arizona birther bill passed on Wednesday makes a certificate of circumcision (given to parent of a Jewish child after the religiously significant procedure is performed) acceptable proof of Ameri ...
• The Planet Strikes Back
  By Michael T. Klare | Tomdispatch - Why We Underestimate the Earth and Overestimate Ourselves In his 2010 book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that it’s no longer recognizable as the ...
• It’s Official: Truth Is Stranger Than Fi ...
  Dog the Bounty Hunter Bails Out Nicolas Cage | ABC After being arrested on one count of domestic abuse and one count of disturbing the peace, Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage was reportedly bailed out by reality television star Dog the Bounty Hunter. “I am a truly dedicated fan of Mr. Ca ...
• Rep. Allen West Is A Corporate Tool
  Rep. Allen West Takes Debt Ceiling Hostage For Huge Corporate Tax Cut | Think Progress Republicans have, for months, been laying out various demands that they want in exchange for voting to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, even though failure to do so would have widespread and disastrous consequ ...

reference frame

• Back from AFO 2011
  Hi! Sorry for the week of absence. I am back from AFO 2011, International Festival of Science Documentary Films, in the historical Moravian city of Olomouc - where I was a Czech jury member. They kindly picked me "because they didn't understand a word in my 2009 stringy lecture after 'The E ...
• Sheldon Cooper will confront Brian Greene
  On Thursday, April 7th, 2011, CBS will air another, 04x20 episode of The Big Bang Theory. It's called "The Herb Garden Germination." Amy and Sheldon will try to spread rumors and Howard will act to upgrade his relationship with Bernadette. More importantly, Brian Greene will star as hi ...
• Václav Klaus and pen in Chile
  I am a great Klaus fan but let me admit that this video - that became a hit in the Czech Republic after it attracted hundreds of thousands of views in one day and overshadowed the "Public Affairs"-driven government crisis - has made me laugh out loud. There even exists a version ...
• Debbi: Touch the Sun
  Just watching the Second Czecho Slovak Pop Idol. Shocked to hear that this song is not coming from abroad. This song has won the "Song of the Year" award - and appeared in a Metaxa ad. Moreover, Debbi, the singer, is not only Czech but she was also the first eliminated g ...
• Talk by top Czech nuclear safety watchdog
  Your humble correspondent has just returned from a talk by Dr Dana Drábová who came to Pilsen - the Mother of Cities - to explain lasting as well as current issues surrounding nuclear energy. She is the chair of the Czech State Nuclear Safety Authority. And I was extremely impressed. I ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Citizen Audit Anniversary
  A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
• The Missing Map
  In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.
• A View from Portugal
  Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?
• Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
  Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
• Foul Play on Facebook
  Climate skeptic pages on Facebook were recently targeted. Our content was alleged to be "abusive" and the ability of readers to share it was temporarily blocked.

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• 241 Twisters in 3 Days
  NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged a total of 241 tornado reports Thursday through Saturday, April 16,2011. 23 on Thursday 113 on Friday 105 on Saturday According to Dr. Jeff Masters, Ph.D. and Director of Meteorology of Weather Underground, these preliminary tornado reports are typically an ...
• What in the Sky is Google Hiding?
  The following Google Sky coordinates evidently contain something very interesting – interesting enough to hide?? Having just researched a bit on recent asteroid discoveries (36 newly discovered near-Earth asteroids in the first four months of 2011 !), I came across this interesting anomaly durin ...
• Asteroid Flyby, just discovered 7 days ago
  A 160 foot diameter asteroid named ’2011 GP59′ was just discovered days ago on April 8 by astronomers in Spain. It zipped past earth today, April 15th, at a distance slightly further away than the moon at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour. This is the type of thing that exemplifies some of the [...]
• Solar Event Risk to Power Grid
  The electrical power grid has only existed for a sliver of time in human history. A solar SuperStorm of the size and duration of the 1859 Carrington Event has not happened in that time, and there is a general assumption that something of this magnitude (or worse) will never happen again. This as ...
• Solar Cycle 24 SkyRockets
  The 24th solar cycle, solar cycle No. 24, has been one of the four ‘latest’ since records began tracking the approximate 11 year cycles of sunspot activity. On several occasions NASA scientists had adjusted and pushed forward their estimate of the progression of cycle No. 24, but during the mont ...

Fast Company

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

Jadaliyya

• Indictment
  The following poem is by Muhammad Farhat al-Shaltami (1945-2010), one of the leading figures of Libyan dissident literature. Born in Benghazi in the wake of Italyâs bloody colonial rule, al-Shaltami was a teacher by occupation. He was first imprisoned in the 1960s under the monarchy â fo ...
• الجاليات العربية والمسلمة في ألمانيا بين الإند ...
  � ��ذا ا�ب�د� �� ب�د ذ� طابع ���م مس�ح�ة-غرب�ة ممتدة عبر عص�ر� �أتم�� أ� ���� �ذا أمرا� �اضحا� �ا ش� ���.� ب��مات ��ذ� أراد �ز�ر ا�داخ��ة ا�أ�ما�� �ا�س ب�تر �ر�در�ش (ع� ا�حزب ا�إجتماع� ا�مس�ح� ا�با�ار�) �ضع ا���اط ع�� ا�حر�� �� إ�تتاح �ا�مؤتمر ا�إس�ام� ا�أ�ما��� ا�سادس ا�ذ� ع�د �� ا�تاس ...
• مسودة الخطوط العامة لبرنامج حزب التحالف الشعبي ...
  �جحت ث�رة 25 ��ا�ر بما طرحت� م� شعارات ت��ائ�ة م�حازة ا�� ا�حر�ة � ا�عدا�ة ا�اجتماع�ة� � محاربة ا��ساد ا�ذ� استشر� �� جسد ا��ط�� �� م�اج�ة تحا�� ا�رأسما��ة �ا�استبداد ا�س�اس� ا�ذ� ح�م مصر ع�� مد� ع��د. �ما بشرت ا�ث�رة بم��اد �ط�� جد�د �ح�م� �ا��� �سا�� ب�� اب�ائ� بصر� ا��ظر ع� ا�ج�س أ� ا ...
• Prospects for the Sectarian Terrain (Part II)
  Read Part I here.� On the afternoon of 17 March there was a government-supported demonstration in Baghdad's Karada neighborhood. About 100 demonstrators were provided with police escorts who closed the road on their behalf, unlike the police resistance protestors usually face in Iraq. P ...
• Urge (to Keep) Going
  Urge for Going. By Mona Mansour. Directed by Hal Brooks. Through April 17, Public LAB, The Public Theater, New York, NY. Urge for Going, Mona Mansour�s new work in development, is a coming-of-age story built from the outside in. Her 90-minute play follows Jamila, a seventeen-year-old Pa ...

mediagazer

• WSJ Editor Preempts Pulitzers: We Aready Won ' ...
  Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: WSJ Editor Preempts Pulitzers: We Aready Won ‘the Greatest Prize’  —  Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife  —  Who needs a Pulitzer Prize?  Not the Wall Street Journal's managing editor, Robert Thomson.  In keeping with the anti-elitism of his boss, Ru ...
• Adweek editor: Michael Wolff 'saved' the magaz ...
  Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News: Adweek editor: Michael Wolff ‘saved’ the magazine (but don't call it a trade)  —  On Saturday night, Michael Wolff, the pugnacious Vanity Fair columnist and editorial director of Adweek, hosted a dinner party for the magazine's employees and their loved ones at his sw ...
• Demand Media Downplays Impact Of Latest Google ...
  Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent: Demand Media Downplays Impact Of Latest Google Changes  —  Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) says changes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made to its search algorithm have in fact reduced traffic to its sites, including its flagship eHow.  However, the company is downplaying the ove ...
• The New Yorker gains 16,000 new fans during Fa ...
  Simon / Bloggasm: The New Yorker gains 16,000 new fans during Facebook experiment  —  A week ago, the New Yorker released a free Jonathan Franzen essay that would have normally resided behind its paywall.  The only catch?  You had to “like” its Facebook page and access the story through the soc ...
• Hey, Cancer: Go Stand in the Corner (Sidney Ha ...
  Sidney Harman / Newsweek: Hey, Cancer: Go Stand in the Corner  —  NEWSWEEK's executive chairman received a dire diagnosis.  In his own words, here's how he faced it.  —  Sidney Harman at the Newsweek Office, 2010. … I have just learned that I have acute myeloid leukemia, or AML.

Chemtrail News

• Mayday Chemtrails | Paranominal
  All things strange, weird and slightly unimportant. An examination of UFO's, paranormal activity, ghosts and unexplained phenomena.www.paranominal.com/unexplained.../mayday-chemtrails/
• Chemtrail secret revealed by drunken pi ...
  Chemtrail secret revealed by drunken pilot. Submitted by Americandodo on Tue, 04 /12/2011 - 17:44. in. Off Topic. 1 vote. Just saw this article....not sure ...www.dailypaul.com/.../chemtrail-secret-revealed-by-drunken-...
• Sources for chemtrail information - JRE ...
  Sources for chemtrail information General Skepticism and The Paranormal.forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=206246
• UFO Welcome to the Chemtrail Matrix ~ B ...
  Tags ufo chemtrails illuminati 911 nwo 2012 false flag 77 new world ... httpvdopalungjitcomvideo1119652UFOWelcometotheChemtrailMatrixBringyourownplanes ...vdo.palungjit.com/.../UFO--Welcome-to-the-Chemtrail-Matrix...
• Florida Gulf Skywatch: Chemtrail Sunset ...
  Chemtrail Sunset Over Panama City Beach, Florida Tonight. Posted by Florida Gulf Skywatch at 9:09 ... This Afternoon Geoengineering Chemtrail Sky Over P.. ...floridagulfskywatch.blogspot.com/.../chemtrail-sunset-over-pa...

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

• Citizen Audit Anniversary
  A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
• The Missing Map
  In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.
• A View from Portugal
  Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?
• Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
  Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
• Foul Play on Facebook
  Climate skeptic pages on Facebook were recently targeted. Our content was alleged to be "abusive" and the ability of readers to share it was temporarily blocked.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Guestworkers Win Victory in US Department of L ...
  From our friends at the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity: Proposed DOL regulations move guestworkers one step closer to inclusion in basic labor protections, civil rights, and the right to organize Statement by the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity on the Department of Labor’s Proposed H ...
• Native American Student Suspended for Refusal ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: In a fight for religious freedom, the ACLU of Louisiana has enrolled to represent a Native American student at Juban Parc Junior High School in Denham Springs, LA. Seth Chaisson, a member of the United Houma Nation, grows his hair long for cultural and ...
• Justice Department Report, Released Today, Cal ...
  An earlier version of this article originally appeared on ColorLines.com Eve is a transgender woman living in rural southern Louisiana. She was molested as a child and left home as a teenager. Homeless and alone, she was forced to trade sex for survival. While still a teenager, she was arrested ...
• US Department of Justice Report Finds NOPD "Ha ...
  The US Department of Justice announced the results today of their year-long investigation of the NOPD. Below is their statement: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in patterns of ...
• First National Conference of Formerly Incarcer ...
  From our friends at Black Agenda Report: A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the spirit of those brave and selfless Georgia prisoners who stood up for their human rights last December, formerly incarcerated people from across the country ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  IQ and the Wealth of Nations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the ... of_Nations IQ and the Wealth of Nations is a controversial 2002 book by Dr. Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Polit ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  KentishBoy wrote: May you please hasten up these proceedings(Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyit !!!!!!!!!!!! ). Ugggh, Ugggh Ugggh. Where the money at ????? !!!!! KentishBoy, nobody unerstan yo fukked up muthafuggin shit. U be sounin' like sum crack head 'n shit. Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Leuren Moret is a Nuclear Power whistleblower who is telling all who will listen about the dangers of Nuclear Power. Like playing with fire... mankind has not learned as can be seen in the engineering mistakes made in building the Fukushima Plant in Japan. Nuclear radiation is very dangerous a ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  The official HAARP website is completely gone...can't even google it...like it never exIsted. Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:55 am
• Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Pills t ...
  How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil? Michael Arrington Jul 15, 2008 Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I’ve spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is ...

TVNZ

• Donald Trump launches stinging attack on Obama ...
  Celebrity billionaire Donald Trump says the US has become a "laughing stock" under Obama's presidency.
• Australian girl, 11, impregnated by step-dad
  A Brisbane man, described by his lawyer as an "awesome dad", is facing seven years in jail for impregnating his 11-year-old step-daughter
• Fears Japan nuclear operation could be derailed
  Japan faces hurdles in its plan to shut down its crippled nuclear reactors in six to nine months.
• Libyan forces shell Misrata, 17 killed - rebels
  Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have bombarded Misrata with rockets and artillery.
• Death toll at 45 as tornadoes, storms rake Ame ...
  Three days of severe storms and tornadoes in the southern United States have killed at least 45 people.

environment 360

• One Year Later: Assessing the Lasting Impact o ...
  On the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst fears about the long-term damage from the oil spill have not been realized. But the big challenge is more fundamental: repairing the harm from the dams, levees, and canals that are devastating the Mississippi Delta and the Louisian ...
• TVA to Close 18 Coal Units in Settlement of A ...
  The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will shut down 18 of its dirtiest coal-burning units over the next six years as part of a legal settlement with four U.S. states and three environmental groups that claimed the utility’s air emissions violated the Clean Air Act. The agreement, announced by th ...
• U.S. Congress Strips Wolves of Endangered Stat ...
  For the first time ever, the U.S. Congress has intervened to remove an animal from the Endangered Species List, attaching a rider to the federal budget that ends federal protection for gray wolves in the northern Rocky U.S. Fish & Wildlife Mountains. The new provisions would instead put manag ...
• Interview: Forging a Defense for Rhinos in Tro ...
  Zimbabwe ranks number 4 on Foreign Policy magazine’s “Failed State Index,” with its shattered economy, pervasive hunger, and entrenched dictator. And that makes it all the more surprising that Raoul du Rick BarongiRaoul du Toit Toit, who was awarded the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize for Af ...
• Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
  For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s ec ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Mansur Khan Mahsud: Greg Mortenson Is a Liar
  As a 60 Minutes report blows the lid off of Mortenson's humanitarian memoir, Mansur Khan Mahsud recalls the author's trip to Pakistan-and the outrageous kidnapping allegation that he spun out of it. Plus, Lloyd Grove and Mike Giglio report on the media...
• Kanye Storms Coachella
  The polarizing hip-hop titan closed California's wild music festival with a thumping late-night set that redeemed some of his past live follies-but it wasn't quite a triumph. Chris Lee reports. Hailed as a grandstanding musical genius by critics and...
• Pakistan Plays Hardball With U.S.
  After a public dispute over drone strikes, relations with Washington are on the skids. But if the alliance really goes south, only Al Qaeda wins. Relations with Washington are on the skids. But if the alliance really goes south, only Al Qaeda...
• My Ordeal Reporting Sexism Truth
  Italian police came for an American journalist when she wrote about the prime minister's "girl problem" and the country's sexist TV. Barbie Latza Nadeau recounts her ordeal. Last year, I wrote a Newsweek cover story titled "Berlusconi's Girl Problem"...
• Andrew Breitbart's Righteous Indignation Towar ...
  The conservative bomb-thrower's new book, out on Tax Day, is part memoir, part how-to manual. In an interview with Shushannah Walshe, he disses Glenn Beck and Katie Couric, revisits the Shirley Sherrod case, and makes his 2012 presidential...

Loonwatch

• Robert Spencer Desperate to tie Brazilian Mass ...
  Robert Spencer magically makes the Brazilian shooter a Muslim in order to smear Islam even more. His hatred has no boundaries.
• Sue Myrick’s Hearing on the Muslim Broth ...
  Rep. Sue Myrick of Muslim Mafia fame held hearings on the threat of the MB to the USA.
• Texas GOP Rep. Pushes Anti-Sharia Bill
  Texas Rep. Leo Berman heard Sharia was bad on the radio, decides to pass bill outlawing use of Sharia in Texas state courts. Yea, you can't make this stuff up.
• Catholic Nun Forcibly Removed From Plane for W ...
  A Catholic nun gets taken off a plane and...
• Burning the myths about Islam
  Violent protests in Afghanistan - a reaction to the burning of the Quran by a small USA church last month - recalled an inescapable reality.

Energy News

• N. Korea TV: Fukushima “is getting more ...
  N. Korea TV reports seriousness of radioactive ...Read More
• NOW: Smoke/steam rising from Fukushima, April ...
  TEPCO Fukushima webcam, April 18, 2011 at 6:00 am in Japan ...Read More
• Melbourne, Florida had highest iodine-131 read ...
  Radionuclide Station 72 (USA Sud-Ost) in Melbourne, Florida is the light blue line with triangles ...Read More
• Power supply to common spent fuel pool ‘ ...
  Read more:COMMON spent fuel pool ...Read More
• Engineers fear yesterday’s 5.9 quake may ...
  Fresh leak fears as Japan rocked by ...Read More

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

• Monday’s live video events
  Congress is on a two-week recess, but that doesn't mean news is lacking from Washington.  Watch CNN.com Live for continuing coverage of the government spending fight in Washington. Today's programming highlights... 12:00 pm ET - White House briefing – The battle over government spending is e ...
• Bomb kills seven Afghan police officers, offic ...
  A roadside bomb explosion killed seven police officers in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan on Monday, the provincial governor Musakhan Ajmalzada said. The blast happened in the province's Khogiani district.
• On the Radar: Tax filing day, sleepy controlle ...
  Tax Day: Today is the deadline to file your federal income taxes for 2010. The Internal Revenue Service has a free electronic filing service available for those who make less than $58,000 a year. Get details on that service here. Other electronic filing options are also available from the IRS as ...
• Breaking: Radiation Spike Causes Workers To Be ...
  NHK news is reporting the radiation levels have spiked after smoke and steam was seen rising from all 4 nuclear reactor causing all workers to be evacuated from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
• It’s Not Over
  Lana Duncan of Save the Gulf sent me the following video, with a beautiful - and I think powerful - song written by Steve Bartlett and Joe Monto (and sung by Mr. Monto):For background, see this and this.

Macleans - Central

• What it sounds like
  Last night, preceded to the stage by Paul Martin, Michael Ignatieff addressed a crowd of…
• He says, she says
  When Mr. Harper announced last April that Helena Guergis was the subject of serious allegations,…
• State Dept. gives good news to oil sands
  I have a story in this week’s magazine about why Alberta’s energy minister was wrong…
• The Constitution: what should have been said
  My heart warmed a little the other night when the issue of the constitution came…
• TV: Is It Better To See People You Haven&#8217 ...
  This season saw a ridiculous number of “three couples at different stages in their relationships”…

Mohawk Nation

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

Suite 101

• Margaret Sanger and the Formation of Planned P ...
  Planned Parenthood arose out of the sexual revolution of the 1920's and 1930's as part of the birth control movement associated with Margaret Sanger.
• Easy Ways to Spice Up Hummus
  Make garbanzos all your own with these easy tips on how to personalize your hummus for any and every occasion with spices, cheeses, and roast vegetables.
• Pidgin and Creole in Perspective
  Natural languages with origins prior to written evidence or more recent ones born under special circumstances share many features.
• How to Find Cheap Baby Items
  In these rough times, we often wonder how we would ever afford a baby. It's not as hard as it seems. There are many places to get a great deal.
• Portland Oregons Best Hamburgers
  If you are in Portland, Oregon looking for a burger try one of these burgers that are "the best" in Portland and have the reviews to back them up.