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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

20 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Renewable energy making headway in Utah
BusinessWeek
- Apr 20, 2011
- 4 hours ago
By JOSH LOFTIN Renewable energy will expand as an industry by combining natural resources and embracing research, attendees at an industry conference were told Tuesday. Often, multiple resources are available at the same location, such as wind farms ...
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Boeing announces solar plan for SC assembly plant
BusinessWeek
- Apr 20, 2011
- 4 hours ago
By BRUCE SMITH Boeing Co. announced Tuesday that the roof of its new 787 jet assembly plant will be covered with solar panels and its South Carolina operation will be powered entirely with renewable energy. South Carolina Electric & Gas will install ...
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Google Teams Up with US Government for Electric Vehicle Efforts
DailyTech
- Apr 20, 2011
- 35 minutes ago
To reach this goal, the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is partnering with Google to provide "up-to-date information about electric vehicle charging stations in communities worldwide." This initiative will build upon the ...
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Italy to Focus on Renewable Energy, Extend Halt on New Nuclear Plants
Bloomberg
- Apr 20, 2011
- 49 minutes ago
By Andrew Davis and Alessandra Migliaccio - Wed Apr 20 13:01:18 GMT 2011 Italy will extend a moratorium on its nuclear program indefinitely and overhaul its energy strategy to focus on traditional and renewable sources because of concerns sparked by ...
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Human Habitat

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US Ecology Announces Schedule for Its First Quarter 2011 Earnings Release and ...
Marketwire (press release)
- Apr 19, 2011
- 15 hours ago
BOISE, ID--(Marketwire - Apr 18, 2011) - US Ecology, Inc. ( NASDAQ : ECOL) today announced that it will release financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 prior to the market open. Management will conduct an ...
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Kansas high school nets honors for native prairie grass restoration, Monarch ...
The Republic
- Apr 19, 2011
- 23 hours ago
For an ecology science course, students at the school about 12 miles west of Wichita conducted field research in botany, aquatic life, biology, migratory studies and water pollution. They helped restore a 4000-square-foot area of native prairie grasses ...
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Boat turbulence kills zooplankton
BBC News
- Apr 19, 2011
- Apr 19, 2011
Zooplankton play a crucial role in water ecology and their death may have hitherto unknown impacts. Details of the discovery are published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. "A number of studies have been performed that looked ...
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Cameron: An Ecology Club thug confesses
Denver Post
- Apr 19, 2011
- Apr 19, 2011
Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. (We appealed to the principal, who agreed with us ...
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Water Power

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West Virginia water rates to hike by 4.4 percent
BusinessWeek
- Apr 20, 2011
- 4 hours ago
By BRITTANY ERSKINE The state Public Service Commission rejected a 15.13 percent rate increase sought by West Virginia American Water Co. on Monday. Instead, the commission granted the utility a lower 4.4 percent rate hike. The company's revenue is ...
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NH Marine Patrol warns of cold water danger
Boston Globe
- Apr 20, 2011
- 4 hours ago
CONWAY, NH—The New Hampshire Marine Patrol is warning early-season boaters about the dangers of cold water. "Ice-out" on Lake Winnipesauke was declared on Tuesday, but even before that there have been an influx of anglers and at least one kayaker on ...
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Thompson: Harrisburg turns corner in water emergency
PennLive.com
- Apr 20, 2011
- 38 minutes ago
By CHARLES THOMPSON, The Patriot-News Harrisburg officials have begun restoring water pressure to lines in the western end of the city and Mayor Linda Thompson expects the system to return to normal levels "within an hour or so. ...
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Removal of Radioactive Water Starts
Wall Street Journal
- Apr 20, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By MITSURU OBE TOKYO—Workers began removing highly radioactive water from one of the reactors at the earthquake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex Tuesday, a long-delayed step that could prevent further toxic ocean spills and make it easier for ...
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(  As a boy raised in the Canadian branch of the Church of England { in the U.S. - Episcopalian} and a Preacher's Kid { which personally occasioned some mirth at those who turned out to be pirates } mother was at pains that I should follow Biblical  'dress code' in church ; which runs in the vein 'women shall cover their adornment' { hair } and men shall appear bare headed before their Lord { no marks of Rank }. So the following is a special WTF ? moment at the harassment of those who honour Jesus as a Prophet/Teacher of the One God rather than as God Incarnate - a strange proposition for one who purportedly said 'My kingdom is not of this world' and denied Divinity as a formal requirement of his own native Religious Theocracy of Judea ; where his rabbanical instruction was construed as menacing formal state tyranny by his espousal of  "Ruth'' and religious tolerance. The actuality of his life and times is that it becomes an avatar of the people as the instruction of the state shouts the warning of Roman legalese - new or old - torture and death to freedom of thought. )

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Headscarf Is Also a Scarf Over the Head
    While Belgium's politicians, academics, business leaders and feminists grapple with the concept and reality of a law banning headscarves in public institutions and beyond, two entrepreneurial women have joined forces to rescue the headscarf from the country's political debate. Inge Romba ...
  • No Homecoming for Bhutanese Refugees
    A knock on the door of his home in Bhutan one midnight turned middle-level government official Balaram Paudyal into a fugitive overnight, after he managed to elude policemen arresting him for "anti-government activities", and then fled the country.
  • EGYPT: Silence Shrouds New Security Agency
    In mid-March, Egypt's transitional government formally dissolved the hated State Security Investigations (SSI) apparatus, meeting a longstanding demand of the opposition. But in the month since, authorities have remained tight- lipped about the SSI's planned successor agency, raising fear ...
  • Q&A: ‘Common Concern, Not Common Action'
    The summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries showed up both the strengths and the limitations of the caucus of emerging economies, says former Indian foreign minister Shyam Saran in an interview to IPS.
  • CUBA: Raúl Castro Proposes Change from Wi ...
    Accompanied unexpectedly by Fidel Castro, his brother Ra�l brought the sixth congress of Cuba's Communist Party (PCC) to a close Tuesday with a call to "change everything that should be changed," but without abandoning the socialist path taken on Apr. 16, 1961.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • 35 Statistics That Show The Average American ...
    The economic statistics that you are about to read are incredibly shocking, but they are also very, very real.  Tonight there are going to be millions of men and women all across America that cannot sleep because they are consumed with anxiety about their financial problems.
  • Millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids releas ...
    The first bundle of data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has been released giving viewers across the Internet a chance to see hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars, and asteroids.
  • NASA awards $270 million in spaceship contracts
    NASA on Monday announced it has awarded nearly 270 million dollars to four companies, including Boeing and SpaceX, to help their pursuit of making a spacecraft to replace the US space shuttle.
  • Geithner Certain Debt Ceiling Will Be Raised
    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed confidence Sunday that feuding US political parties will reach an agreement to lift the country's debt limit before its is forced into default.
  • Koch Industries buying ads to refute news sto ...
    Koch Industries has launched a website and is buying advertisements on Google and Facebook to counter news stories critical of the politically-active company.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster that killed 11 BP workers. If you have not heard about the earlier blowout, it's because BP has ...
  • DOJ Argues For Rehearing in Dick Cheney's Secr ...
    Denver -- The U.S. Department of Justice has sided with attorneys for two Secret Service agents who were sued after arresting a man who confronted former Vice President Dick Cheney. The department argues that the law protects agents when they're making split-second decisions while protecting th ...
  • Koch Industries buying ads to refute news stories
    Koch Industries has launched a website and is buying advertisements on Google and Facebook to counter news stories critical of the politically-active company. Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries, were principle financiers of Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker and the tea ...
  • Pluto, Electrified! Another "Anomalous" Observ ...
    Recent observations of Pluto reveal that the icy orb's atmosphere has expanded dramatically since 2000, and for the first time researchers have detected carbon monoxide. The findings may be evidence of seasonal changes in climate linked to Pluto's most recent close approach to the sun, but scien ...
  • Fidel Castro resigns as head of Cuba's Communi ...
    Havana - Fidel Castro confirmed his exit from the Communist Party leadership on Tuesday, ceding power to his brother Raul as delegates prepare to vote on changes that could bring term limits to key posts. The move came after the sixth Communist Party Congress approved a flurry of measures on ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Creep apologises for creeping
    Yeah, perhaps it dawned on him that it looks very bad to have party operatives looking at the facebook pages of young women for evidence of contrarian politics. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is apologizing to anyone who has been removed from his party's campaign rallies, three days after ...
  • Omar's crib . . .
    IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF that nobody has asked our candidates about getting Omar out of Gitmo. Last week, Wikileaks released the operating manual for Omar's world, and according to Ryan Singel at WIRED, it's not pretty, organized by the same gang who set up Abu Ghraib:The manual also includes ins ...
  • Mop & Pail spots emperor walking streets naked
    That bastion of Marxism and vanguard of the glorious revolution of the proletariat, The Globe and Mail, �today brings us a story so shocking, a truth so revealing that it if absorbed by the general populace, will shake our economic and political firmament for years to come. Corporate tax cuts do ...
  • What a way to go . . .
    The Euthanasia Coaster. “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements tha ...
  • Way cool . . .
    $5,800.00, unfortunately.

Media Matters for America

  • Dead Horse: Fox & Friends Continu ...
    On April 19,�Fox & Friends co-hosts and guest radio host Neil Boortz again pushed the claim that an increase in domestic drilling would lower gas prices in the near future. However, as Media Matters has previously documented, experts have repeatedly said that increased drilling would have no im ...
  • Varney Still Pushing Falsehood That Obama Refu ...
    On�Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney falsely claimed President Obama's "speech on Wednesday was a direct attack on anybody who wanted to cut spending at all" and that he "has refused to look at even modest spending cuts of any kind." But Obama's deficit plan does include spending c ...
  • O'Reilly Distorts Ryan's Proposal To Cut Tax R ...
    Bill O'Reilly distorted Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) proposal to lower income tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, claiming that Ryan "stated he simply wants to keep the tax rate where it is." In fact, Ryan has proposed cutting the tax rate on upper income levels from 35 percent to 25 percent.O'R ...
  • Fox & Friends Celebrates Tax Day ...
    Fox & Friends marked Tax Day by repeatedly complaining that the wealthy pay a significant portion of federal income taxes, while claiming that President Obama's deficit reduction plan amounts to "soak[ing] the rich." Fox & Friends also ignored proposed spending cuts to suggest Obama's deficit p ...
  • Fox Adopts GOP Talking Point That Deficit Is A ...
    In the past week, Fox News figures have adopted the GOP talking point that the nation's deficit is a "spending problem, not a revenue problem." But numerous economic experts have said that decreased revenue is a major cause of the deficit.GOP Talking Point: "Washington Has A Spending Problem, N ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • He Just Can't Help It
    Thus, there has always been a fan base for the abrasive rich man. There has always been a market for books by people like George Steinbrenner, Ross Perot, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Knight, Howard Stern and George Soros. --- David Brooks, New Yo ...
  • He Just Can't Help It
    Thus, there has always been a fan base for the abrasive rich man. There has always been a market for books by people like George Steinbrenner, Ross Perot, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Knight, Howard Stern and George Soros. --- David Brooks, New Yo ...
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  • Questions for S&P on Its Potential Downgrade o ...
    S&P managed to capture the headlines yesterday when it announced that it had a negative outlook for the credit rating of the United States. After all, an actual credit downgrade for the United States government would be big news. While the immediate response was a boost to the deficit hawks' eff ...
  • Really Long Form Birth Certificate
    I don't think the Arizona birth certificate bill goes far enough. I mean, this is really important. We're talking about the qualifications of candidates to be president -- we have to make sure. That's why the following information should be documented for someone's birth before they can be liste ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Lonesome Whale of the Pacific, ‘Alice’, May Be ...
    Following some strange migratory pattern of its own design, and emitting a plaintive call-song that is never answered, a solitary whale roams the depths of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The call-song has been tracked through NOAA's underwater, sound surveillance system since 1989, when a resea ...
  • Are You Funding Koch Climate Denial?.. No? You ...
    David and Charles Koch might not be household names, but as major funders of climate denial organizations, they’re directly disrupting clean energy innovation and the future of our climate with your dollars. Let us explain....
  • A Chance to Win a New Genesis Bike for a Bette ...
    Following up on a post last week from Genesis Bikes, the company is promoting bicycling this year -- and in Bike Month, May, especially -- with an innovative social media campaign and bike giveaway that I thought was worth sharing.
  • {Quote of the Week} Frank Lloyd Wright
    Last week, I did a "quote of the day." While I may end up getting to one quote per day, I think that one per week makes more sense for now. Here's a great one by Frank Lloyd Wright one of my sisters shared with me recently.
  • “Beyond Coal” Underwear Line & Underwear Activ ...
    This Earth Day, the Sierra Club and underwear company PACT have teamed up to fight coal-powered campuses with college student activism... in underwear, of course.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Obama lied about Gaddafi's bloodbath? - Libya
    President Obama said that Gaddafi's regime was going to cause a bloodbath in Libya. Professor Alan J Kuperman of the University at Texas argues, however, that the president's claims were exaggerated and that the civil war should be over by now. One month after they intervened, NATO and the US...
  • Bahrain hunger strikes spread amid crackdown a ...
    More Bahraini students in UK ordered home for protesting as military court trial ordered for seven activists in Manama Bahrain's government has intensified its crackdown against its citizens protesting in Britain by cancelling the scholarships of at least a dozen more students who ...
  • Secret memos expose link between oil firms and ...
    Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over ...
  • Imperialist Agenda in Haiti Exposed - World News
    After a deadly earthquake rocked Haiti 15 months ago, most Canadians worried about uncovering those trapped, getting survivors water, and connecting family members. It seems they were concerned about something very different in the halls of power. According to internal documents examined by t ...
  • Cuba braces for sweeping economic changes - Wo ...
    The reforms will see more than a million government jobs and subsidies slashed over the next couple of years. Cuba's communist party delegates have endorsed sweeping economic changes designed to turn around the country's struggling economy. The delegates also voted in a ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Yemen crackdown rises to level of UN concern. "Security forces in Yemen have killed at least four people and wounded hundreds more after opening fire on demonstrations in the capital Sanaa and the town of Taiz, as the UN met to discuss the crisis for the first time. In Sanaa, three people were r ...
  • The republicans want to get rid of Medicare? T ...
    And wear it not so well. [Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care...] You missed a spot. [Because Republicans voted to End Medicare.] Did someone call the fire department? Because it's about to get hot in here. [How will You pay?] The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is re ...
  • Tax Cuts Uber Alles
    The budget "debate" in a nutshell, from Digby: Let's be honest about what's happening here and deal with it directly: the owners are demanding that average people give up their security and their futures so the top 1% can pay even less in taxes --- or else. Whether it comes in the form of "tax r ...
  • Dispatch #2 from the nexus of the "War on Drug ...
    Forty years ago, when the U.S. Government declared "war" on drugs, the prohibition era and the bloodshed and criminality that accompanied it was still in living memory, and some of the people who remembered that time -- people like my grandmother -- pointed out the obvious parallels and consiste ...
  • Dispatch #2 from the nexus of the "War on Drug ...
    Forty years ago, when the U.S. Government declared "war" on drugs, the prohibition era and the bloodshed and criminality that accompanied it was still in living memory, and some of the people who remembered that time -- people like my grandmother -- pointed out the obvious parallels and consiste ...

Care 2

  • Japan to END Whaling ... Have a look.
    The top spokesperson for the Japanese government announced that Japan will no longer hunt and kill whales for research......Submitted by James Howie to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tell-Tale Signs Your Date is a Liar
    First off, everybody is a liar. We all lie sometimes, even if it is for the best of intentions, and will not hurt anybody. However, when you date someone, you don�t want them to be stepping-out behind your back, telling you things that aren�t true, and geSubmitted by Carlos Darnell to Offbeat � ...
  • The Power of Words, to change your world!
    This short film illustrates the power of words to radically change your message and your effect upon the world. Submitted by HenrietteNoMail Matthijssen to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • America or Fascist Corporatism?
    See 1st comment.Submitted by Tom S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Madeline Goes To Washington
    She delivered the 70,000 letters and emails we sent to her to take to the government to Save The Mustangs. Go Madeline go you have a lot of people behind you!! She asked we sent!!Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Uncle Sugar Bot Rules (& Open Thread)
    Bizarre competition emerges in the TEPCO fairy tale of cleaning up and shutting down the six wrecked units at Fukushina Daichi Nuclear, when the bot that is sent in to text radiation level (very high) is revealed to be a US bot. Japanese grumble, since this is the land of the bots. Does it signi ...
  • Barack Obama, Cry Baby
    If you’ve seen Drudge (and now Hot Air) you have probably seen Obama’s meltdown under the “grueling” questioning of a local Texas TV reporter. Steel yourselves boys and girls, this is brutal: Man, did you notice the dozens of times that asshole of a reporter interrupted? Nope. Me neither. The gu ...
  • Why Barack Was Not Born in Kenya
    Not trying to fan the flames here, but the legions who insist that Barack was born in Kenya have failed to account for key evidence that would exist if such a claim were true. Here are the flaws in the Barack was born in Kenya theory: Flaw 1–There is not a shred of evidence that [...]
  • Barack Obama, No Honor and No Shame
    The litany of Barack’s broken promises is stacking up and, if measured in feet, would exceed the height of the World Trade Centers back in the day. So there he was last Friday using a signing statement to respond to a duly passed law cutting off funding for several of his ad hoc policy czars [...]
  • Behold! The Trumpet Blows!
    Despite the fact that his ego is the size of Uranus, Despite the fact that I would not support him as a Presidential candidate, and Despite the fact that drawing his hair is as much fun as playing with puppies while on absinthe, The fact remains that I kind of like this guy, Donald Trump. [...]

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • The Chernobyl Disaster – 25 Years Later
    “I feel that at least several hundred scientists trained in the biomedical aspect of atomic energy – myself included – are candidates for Nuremberg-type trials for crimes against humanity for our gross negligence and irresponsibility. Now that we know the hazard of low-dose radiation, the crime ...
  • CENSORED IN 1978: SPACE POLLUTION HITS HOME
      CENSORED IN 1978: SPACE POLLUTION HITS HOME    Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space. NASA’s current agenda alone calls for domestic communications satellites, weather satellites, new military communications a ...
  • El Cortito Haunts California Again
    The short-handled hoe is alive and well and living in California’s hotels.  The hoe has been reincarnated as flat sheets, instead of fitted, and scrub brushes instead of longer handled scrubbers that permit maids to get up off of their hands and knees. Hotel mattresses, which can weigh up to 150 ...
  • Standardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The ...
    Writing about standards-driven education reform in her Releasing the Imagination, Maxine Greene explains: “The wilderness has many aspects, of course; the demons have many faces. What is happening makes me wish, more and more desperately, for authentic dialogue among educators. It is time our ow ...
  • Analyzing the defense of groping passengers
    It is important to note that CNN did not have anyone to present a counterargument to the topic of groping small children. If CNN doesn’t bring in anyone from the other side to show people’s concerns about the FAA industry, how unbiased is this report? The anchor on the left also believes that it ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International ...
    As NATO continues its campaign against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and to their attacks on Libyan civilians, Great Britain announced today it will send military officers to advise rebels fighters.
  • An Eye-Opening Window into America's Executive ...
    A cutting-edge new Web site, from the nation's labor movement, offers working Americans the information we need to understand CEO pay excess - and the tools we need to fight it.
  • Worshiping the Sacred Pig
    Is Pentagon pork, which has been off the table for decades, finally on the budget-cutting menu?
  • Seven Innovative Mechanisms of Development Finance
    As governments look for new options for public revenue stream, this table by IPS Global Economy project director Sarah Anderson shows which options can be considered, their potential revenue, and their administrative and political feasibility.
  • The Lineup: Week of April 18-24, 2011
    Our Earth Day special edition features three commentaries and a cartoon addressing Obama's "dirty energy" policy and the BP oil disaster, as well as the dangers of nuclear weapons and reactors.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Survey of Seattle Chickens finds Bacterial Con ...
    We decided to fund yet another bacterial test on retail meet – this time chicken. All the chicken in the 100 Chicken IEH Labs survey, which included whole fryers and packages of chicken parts, was collected and tested from March 1 to April 4 from Seattle area grocery stores. The chicken was pu ...
  • DeFusco's Salmonella Zeppoles now linked to 79 ...
    Cases of Illness between March 14 - April 7, 2011 * 79 Cases Total (78 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) * 30 Hospitalizations (2 Discharged, 1 Current) * 48 Lab-confirmed Salmonella * 2 Salmonella-associated Deaths
  • Is the chicken safe that you bought at your lo ...
    Most consumers would be surprised that USDA/FSIS’s website explains chicken inspections as: All chickens found in retail stores are either inspected by USDA or by State systems, which have standards equivalent to the Federal government. Each chicken and its internal organs are inspected for sig ...
  • DeFusco's Bakery Salmonella Zeppoles now linke ...
    Cases of Illness between March 14 - April 7, 2011 78 Cases Total (77 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) 29 Hospitalizations (27 Discharged, 1 Current) 46 Lab-confirmed Salmonella 2 Salmonella-associated Deaths Reported as of April 15, 2011
  • Multi-drug-resistant Staph Found in ¼ of meat ...
    The internet is abuzz with the findings of a study funding by The Pew Charitable Trusts done by Lance B. Price, Ph.D., senior author of the study and Director of TGen’s Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health Nationwide. The study found that U.S. meat and poultry is widely contamin ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Standing up to Big Pharma in Bangladesh: Right ...
    Democracy Now! talks to Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, co-founder of Bangladeshi charity Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK, The People’s Health Center) which provides education, job opportunities and low-cost, locally-produced essential drugs to rural Bangladeshis. GK received the Right Livelihood Award ...
  • Environmental Activists Occupy Interior Dept. ...
    2:15pm EDT Tim DeChristopher , activist and founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising, called Democracy Now! with an update from the U.S. Department of Interior, where 300-400 people are outside protesting and another 50 people are inside and refusing to leave. The march c ...
  • Gulf Coast Fisherwoman "Disrupts the Peace" at ...
    Security officers at BP’s shareholder meeting today in London blocked the entrance of a delegation of four fishermen and women from the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast area heavily damaged by last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Among them was Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherw ...
  • "The Connection Between Energy Use And Politic ...
    Mycle Schneider, a Paris-based consultant on energy and nuclear policy, received the Right Livelihood Award in 1997 for "serving to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to human life." Democracy Now! interviewed him during the 30th anniversary of the Right Livelihood Awa ...
  • Right Livelihood Laureate Alyn Ware On The Glo ...
    Alyn Ware received the Right Livelihood Award in 2009 for leading initiatives in peace education and nuclear abolition in his native New Zealand and around the world for the past twenty-five years. Democracy Now! met up with him at the 2010 Right Livelihood Awards in Bonn, Germany. Alyn Wa ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Japan Earthquake, Fukushima, HAARP and Stuxnet
    Leuren Moret is a Nuclear Power whistleblower who is telling all about what happened at Fukushima.  She explains how HAARP and the Stuxnet virus had a part in the disaster in Japan…
  • The Power of Words
  • Finally!! Goldman Sachs and Executive Charged ...
    By Alexander Higgins Finally, after years of robbing and scamming the American people for their live savings… The SEC has announced it has charged Goldman Sachs and one of its executive with fraud over the subprime mortgage scandal. I have a feeling the charge won’t stick, just a dog and pony sh ...
  • CT scans used to monitor success of cancer tre ...
    by Jonathan Benson Men diagnosed with testicular cancer often choose to undergo regular computed tomography (CT) scans that monitor progress after treatment. But a new study published in the journal Cancer explains that these CT scans actually cause secondary cancers, and suggests that doctors c ...
  • Mystery illnesses In Louisiana linked to BP Oi ...
    By Michelle Jones April 17th, 2011 According to a recent RSOE report, there is an unidentified disease in the state of Louisiana. When you take a closer look at this report you can see that of the large percent of people are suffering from this unidentified illness, the one thing these patients ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Pabellon Desconectados: Brilliant Recycled Pav ...
    Read the rest of Pabellon Desconectados: Brilliant Recycled Pavilion Lights Up Like a Jewelhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable ar ...
  • Loaded: Heavyweight Craft Exhibit Showcases De ...
    Read the rest of Loaded: Heavyweight Craft Exhibit Showcases Designs Made From Iron and Sugarhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: craft, green ...
  • The Marcus House is a Breezy Beach Bungalow Th ...
    Read the rest of The Marcus House is a Breezy Beach Bungalow That Needs No Air Conditioninghttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bark, bark arch ...
  • World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Kicks Off Second ...
    Did you know that the world’s largest rooftop farm is located in NYC? That’s right, called the Brooklyn Grange, the 40,000 square foot elevated garden is located on top of a six-story warehouse, and grows everything from tomatoes to peppers to fennel to salad greens and much, much more. The g ...
  • New Binary Circuit Chairs Are Clad in Old Moth ...
    Also known as BNR011000110110100001100001011010010111001001-00110001, the Binary Chair 01 really know how to speak our language (we’re nerds, in case you couldn’t tell). Designed by Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, the 01 chair and its counterpart, the Binary Chair 02 are made from old electronics par ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Scorpions, Spiders and Sharks: Electron-Micros ...
    See Also: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year 35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography Snowflakes Under an Electron Microscope Tiny Spheres Turn Regular Microscopes Into Nanoscopes
  • Biggest Spider Fossil Ever Found
    Scientists have unearthed the largest spider fossil ever found. The spider, a new species called Nephila jurassica, stretches about two inches from end to end. It was found in a fossil-rich rock formation near Daohugou village in northeastern China. The fossil dates back to the Middle Jurassic, ...
  • Humpback Whales May Be Migratory Astronomers
    An eight-year project that tracked humpback whale migrations by satellite shows the huge mammals follow uncannily straight paths for weeks at a time. The results suggest a single migratory mechanism isn’t responsible. Instead, humpbacks may use a combination of the sun’s position, Earth’s magn ...
  • Look Up: Spectacular Space Station Flybys This ...
    The International Space Station will make several flybys over Europe and North America this week. The flybys will be brief, lasting about five minutes at most. But while it’s overhead, the space station will outshine everything in the evening sky except the moon. While the ISS constantly circle ...
  • Fresh Evidence Adds Weight to Human Ancestor’s ...
    MINNEAPOLIS — Fossils described last year as representatives of an ancient species critical to human evolution have reentered the scientific spotlight and set off a new round of debate over the findsâ true identity. Researchers described analyses of new and previously recovered remains of a ...

PakAlert

  • Is A False Flag Nuke On the Table?
    The “mini-nuke terror threat on America” war drums are pounding louder by the day. Last year it was Obama and other stooge politicians warning us, then Homeland Insecurity, and now it’s threat letters in Chicago. (Remember the false flag anthrax letters?) Obama was particularly clear almost exac ...
  • How CIA spies deal death from the skies: Thous ...
    It may well be that whoever was piloting the drones thousands of miles away, sitting at a computer screen somewhere in America, did have reliable intelligence that the men in the car were terrorists. It is probable, say Pakistani security sources, that a GPS chip had been secreted inside the veh ...
  • Obama’s Mother Worked For CIA
    President Obama's step-father, Lolo Soetoro, a reserve Indonesian army officer called back into service in the army in 1965 from his CIA-supplied scholarship at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, was a foot soldier in the putschist cabal of General Suharto, the man who the CIA des ...
  • Russia Warns China Invasion Of Middle East Nea ...
    An apocalyptic report prepared by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov for President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Medvedev is warning that the strategic military agreements signed between China and Pakistan signal that the “end game” between the East and West over th ...
  • 65 Ways That Everything That You Think That Yo ...
    Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you. It is being done purposely and it is being done by design. Many Americans like to think of themselves as "well off", but as will be demonstrated below, we don't "own" nearly as much as we think that we do. The truth is that most of ...

Andy Worthington

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

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Traditional Values Coalition Jumps on Anti-Sha ...
    The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), long listed as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of its demonizing and false propaganda directed at LGBT people, is casting its net of hate even wider. The organization has created a new grassroots campaign called âThe Task ...
  • Anti-Immigrant Oklahoma State Rep Accused of T ...
    Oklahoma State Rep. Randy Terrill is in the press again, this time for reportedly cursing and threatening Oklahoma House Speaker Kris Steele, a fellow Republican. Terrill, who is rabidly anti-immigrant and a prominent member of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), the main organizatio ...
  • White Nationalist Report Guesses That Immigran ...
    Just in time for tax day, the white nationalist Social Contract Press has released a special report claiming that immigrants â legal and undocumented alike â are manipulating the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to cheat taxpayers out of billions. The report, “Defrauding the American Taxpayer â T ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activists Gingerly Deplore Jones’ ...
    Anti-Muslim activists are walking an ideological tightrope, condemning the actions of the Florida pastor whose burning of the Koran on March 20 set off murderous riots last weekend in Afghanistan, while condemning President Obama for not emphatically reaffirming the pastor’s right to do what he ...
  • Alaska Congressman Seeks Distance From Accused ...
    A Republican congressman from Alaska, who also is on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, now is attempting to distance himself from a Fairbanks militia leader accused in a high-profile firearms, murder and kidnapping plot. In April 2009, with a video camera rolling, Rep. Do ...

change: org.

  • Norwegian Labour Party Votes to Shut Down Fur ...
    In a major victory for animal lovers, members of the Norwegian Labour Party voted to�shut down Norway's fur industry. According to Views and News from Norway, Popular Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg "will be under marching orders from his party members to urge fur farmers into other lines of wor ...
  • King & Spalding: The Law Firm that Will Defend ...
    Imagine if years from now, history books had this to say about your business: when discrimination needed a champion, "x" business was there to make sure anti-gay laws were defended. The law firm of King & Spalding better be careful, or this is what folks will be saying about it a few years down ...
  • Progress! California's Ventura County Rescinds ...
    California's Ventura County almost let a cancer-causing neurotoxin onto its crop fields — almost. An Oxnard-area farmer recently applied for a permit to use methyl iodide, a fumigant pesticide so poisonous it's been linked to cancers, miscarriages, neurological disorders, and other health issues ...
  • Progress! NYC Council Member Agrees to Sponsor ...
    New York City's carriage horse industry would have you believe their horses lead the equine equivalent of a pampered Manhattan life, complete with a retirement plan to look forward to. In reality, we don't know what happens to the horses when their carriage-pulling days are over, since dispositi ...
  • Change.org Immigration Blogger Placed in Remov ...
    Last year during my first round of law school final exams, Congress was getting ready to vote on the federal DREAM Act, which would have given undocumented youth in the United States a pathway to citizenship. This year, during another set of final exams, President Obama has decided to send me a ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Japan Consumers May Bail Out Nuke Plant Owner
    VIENNA — Japanese consumers would be on the hook for nuclear damage payments and earthquake reconstruction costs under two tax plans the government is considering, officials said Tuesday. The Kyodo News agency said one plan would raise electricity customers' charges to help cover claims against ...
  • Wikileaks: 'US Helped Israel with UN Gaza War ...
    NEW YORK - The US worked behind the scenes to help Israel contain United Nations probes into possible war crimes committed during the 2008/'09 Gaza war, Foreign Policy reported today. The online foreign affairs magazine cited exclusive WikiLeaks cables, detailing moves by Washington's UN ambassa ...
  • Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms and ...
    Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. Graphic: Iraq's burgeoning oil industry ...
  • Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes ...
    WASHINGTON — Alarmed by rising national debt and increasingly downbeat about their country's course, Americans are clear about how they want to attack the government's runway budget deficits: raise taxes on the wealthy and keep hands off of Medicare and Medicaid. At the same time, they say that ...
  • Top US Court Declines Plea by Uighurs at Guant ...
    WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by the five remaining Chinese Muslims being held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. The detainees wanted the court to consider whether a US judge could order them released on to American soil. The Chinese Muslims had previous ...

Lifehacker

  • Make a Mail Sorting Station with a Toy Chest a ...
    Having a dedicated spot near the entrance of your home for processing your snail mail can definitely reduce clutter...but shredders, trash cans, and recycling bins aren't really great decor. Unclutterer offers a neat DIY solution for a mai ...
  • Use Dock Cleats to Manage Long Cables and Cord ...
    Dock cleats help keep ships' ropes in tidy order at the harbor. Use them in your (dry and higher-elevated) home, garage, or office to tie off long cables and cords. More��
  • Be Less Strict About Tossing Food Based on Pri ...
    If there's mold growing on it, or it has a funky look or smell, go ahead and toss it. But if you're adding to the 14 percent of food wasted by U.S. households due only to a very conservative "Best used by" date, think twice. More�� ...
  • Moleskine Turns iOS Devices into Classic Journ ...
    iOS: Free Moleskine app for iOS devices allows iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users to have a digital version of the classic leather-bound journal. Users can add images, sketches, and geotags to their notes, as well as share them with frien ...
  • How to Create a Custom Windows Installation DV ...
    When you need to reinstall Windows, you shouldn't have to spend an entire day installing years of updates, drivers, and necessary software along with it. Here's how to create a Windows installation disc (or USB stick) that's up to date, cu ...

Water Privatization

  • Earth Day films feature water
    Water is the topic of an Earth Day documentary films event running from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 22, at the Butte Public Library, 226 W. Broadway St.
  • P3 water project will cause neighbour issues
    At first, support from Abbotsford Mayor George Peary for the proposed P3 water project may appear to be in bad taste. But we need to be mindful that the Conservative government has not provided him with any choice.
  • PM gathers ministers for privatization talks
    Prime Minister George Papandreou began a series of meetings on Tuesday aimed at finalizing the government’s privatization plans and which PASOK hopes will also divert attention from the constant speculation about whether Greece will have to restructure its public debt.
  • Chamber 'strongly objects' to power rate hikes ...
    The Saipan Chamber of Commerce says it is strongly objecting to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.'s overall increased utility rates for businesses and residents and called on CUC to go after non-paying customers, even as the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission approved on Friday night CUC's ...
  • Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
    ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.

Guardian

  • Gaddafi regime proposes free elections in six ...
    Abdul Ati al-Obeidi says regime prepared to consider interim government before elections six months after conflict endsLibya could hold free elections, supervised by the United Nations, within six months of the end of the conflict engulfing the country, its foreign minister has told the Guardia ...
  • Radioactive waste spilled in UK
    Leaked report details incidents at three plants during February that were serious enough to be reported to ministersThere have been two spillages of radioactive waste and a breakdown in an emergency cooling system at Britain's nuclear plants in the past three months, according to a report to min ...
  • ISPs fail in filesharing appeal
    Internet service providers' claim that new law infringes web users' 'basic rights and freedoms' rejected by high courtGovernment plans to curb illegal filesharing received a significant boost on Wednesday, as a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act failed to halt the legislati ...
  • Parcel bombs target Celtic figures
    Police said to be linking timing of incidents to media coverage of Old Firm controversies involving Celtic and Glasgow rivals RangersParcel bombs intended to kill or maim have been sent to the Celtic manager, Neil Lennon, and two other prominent fans of the club � the manager's lawyer and a seni ...
  • FSA wins PPI battle in high court
    Britain's banks fail in challenge to overturn regulations regarding the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) policiesBritain's banks will be forced to re-open thousands of claims over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) and pay up to £3bn in compensation following ...

McClatchey

  • A year after BP blowout, Gulf lawmakers say drill
    WASHINGTON — A year after the BP oil spill put the brakes on full-bore domestic production, it's back to "drill, baby, drill" as federal lawmakers, anxious about rising gasoline prices, push legislation to open offshore leases and make it easier to drill domestically.
  • Libya campaign enters new month, with little c ...
    BENGHAZI, Libya — The NATO-led bombing campaign that Western leaders hope will topple Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi marked its first month Tuesday, still seemingly no closer to its goal.
  • Romney, Huckabee take early lead for 2012 GOP nod
    WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are the strongest potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama at this time, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
  • Syria ends emergency law after five decades - ...
    BEIRUT — The Syrian government ended a 48-year emergency law Tuesday just hours after its security forces dispersed a sit-in with gunfire and its Interior Ministry announced that anyone protesting could be arrested.
  • Family's saga highlights kinks in immigrant de ...
    WASHINGTON — Logan Guzman likes to pretend he's a superhero. One week he's Spiderman. The next he's Batman. Whichever hero he embodies, the 4-year-old's goal is always the same: He wants to save his father.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Re-homing nature: A step too far?
    Sir Richard Branson's plan to introduce lemurs to islands he owns in the Caribbean, which I reported on Saturday, has thrown into new light a real dilemma facing conservation scientists as they struggle to contain and reverse the loss of species and ecosystems across the world. The red-ruffed l ...
  • Exploring the 'oceans crisis'
    Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - ...
  • Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
    More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
  • Bees: a sting in the tale
    � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Smokestack Lightning
    Where has the time gone? Here's my post for the day.
  • Apologies to Steve V
    I left a comment to this post from Steve V of "Far and Wide." I guess it rubbed him the wrong way because this was his reply to me: What an asinine comment. Seriously. In all honesty Steve V. I meant for that comment to be provocative. You see, I've been reading a LOT of Liberal bloggers latel ...
  • MAKE the Women's political strength equal to t ...
    They see the world in a different and better way than we men do. (They ain't perfect. we're still necessary, but the species is diminished enormously by the way we limit their power.)
  • Obama Kicks Off Re-election Bid by Shitting on ...
    I despise that sanctimonious hypocrite. I have for a long time now. But I want to draw people's attention to these two stories: 1. Via Glenn Greenwald and Rachael Maddow - Obama betrays the idealism of US-Americans who believed him when he said he'd close the human rights travesty of the Guanta ...
  • Another reminder: We're winning in Afghanistan
    In case you've forgotten, we're winning in Afghanistan and have been since 2007 at least. Canada is winning the war in Afghanistan and is making significant progress in rebuilding that South Asian country, says the general who commands the Canadian Forces mission in Kandahar. But Lt.-Gen. Mi ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • CKLN 88.1 FM Toronto goes off the air
    After months of defending their right to remain broadcasting, the Federal Court of Appeal announced on Friday that it will not hear the appeal of CKLN Radio 88.1FM in Toronto.
  • Killing of Italian activist in Gaza may signal ...
    After appeals by Hamas to release abducted Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, the Islamist captors sympathetic to Al Qaeda murdered him, an action that, coupled with ongoing rocket fire from Gaza, may signal a weaker Hamas.
  • Charlie Sheen in Toronto - mixed reviews, winning?
    Charlie Sheen performed his first of two concerts Thursday at Massey Hall in Toronto (My Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour) and although Thursday was sold out, tickets are still available for Friday.
  • Runaway tractor slams into cars, building in W ...
    Police in the Toronto area are asking the public to help ID a suspect who started a John Deer tractor at a Richmond Hill Walmart last week. The unattended vehicle caused thousands of dollars in damage.
  • Toronto's alternative school facing staff cuts
    Director Chris Spence of the Toronto District School Board has announced that there will be staff cuts to Toronto's Oasis Alternative Secondary School. The Oasis program operates three schools including the Triangle Program that works with LGBT youth.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-19-11
    Today, Kevin turns the show over to you, the listener. Hear the inspirational true stories of how the Global Information Network has touched real people’s lives and why YOU should consider becoming a part of this extraordinary club. If you have a story to share, click here to leave a comment.   ...
  • Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found In 1/4 of US Mea ...
    April 19th, 2011 The Raw Story By: AFP A sampling of grocery store meat in five US cities has shown a type of drug-resistant bacteria is contained in about one quarter of beef, chicken, pork and turkey for sale, a study said Friday. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can cause skin infection ...
  • U.S. Debt Concerns Weigh on Global Stocks
    April 19th, 2011 Daily Finance By: AP A warning from Standard & Poor’s that the agency might lower its rating on U.S. government debt sent stocks on their steepest slide in a month Monday. S&P said there is a 33 percent chance it would lower the country’s credit rating from AAA in the next two [...]
  • New York Health Officials Ignore Own Fluoride ...
    April 19th, 2011 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Twelve million New Yorkers, 8.4 million of which live in New York City (NYC), continue to involuntarily consume fluoridated water regularly, despite a report issued from the New York State Department of Health (DoH) back in 1990 which warned that t ...
  • Computer Programmer Under Oath Admits Computer ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • News roundup — April 19
    New cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the United States’ heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N. In the aftermath of Israel’s 2008-2009 intervention into the Gaza Strip, Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, led a vigorous campaign to stymie an independent U.N. inv ...
  • Misrata — the new Sarajevo
    A drive down Tripoli Street, Misrata, during Ramadan in August 2010, uploaded to YouTube by HoneyBees1985: Below is a picture of the same street, taken a few days ago by Telegraph photographer, Geoff Pugh. Through his slogan, “God, Muammar and Libya only,” Gaddafi wants to portray himself ...
  • How Libya is making smart people turn stupid
    I have little doubt the Gaddafi regime pays close attention to the views being expressed by Western critics of the intervention in Libya. One of the key lessons the Libyan leadership will have duly noted is that so long as Libyan civilians are killed 10 or 20 at a time, the war’s critics will v ...
  • News roundup for week ending April 15
    For more on why I’m doing reduced news coverage right now, please read this post. — PW With Tripoli’s rebel underground He was rummaging in the boot of his car as we walked past. “Go forward,” he instructed out of the side of his mouth. “I’ll pick you up further on.” The car circled several t ...
  • I won’t give my right arm to become a one-arme ...
    When I say War in Context is handmade, that’s not a figure of speech. Typing and cutting-and-pasting involve all sorts of precise flexions, animated by action potentials rippling at high speed down the median nerve which extends from the cervical spine to the hand. For the last two months the r ...

Watts Up With That?

  • NASA takes AIM on noctilucent clouds
    From AIM. High up in the sky near the poles some 50 miles above the ground, silvery blue clouds sometimes appear, shining brightly in the night. First noticed in 1885, these clouds are known as noctilucent, or “night shining,” clouds. … Continue reading →
  • Democrats and Republicans increasingly divided ...
    Gosh, we never would have figured this out on our own. The conclusion is stunning: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION In response to our first research question, we find a sizable political divide between liberals/Democrats and conservatives/Republicans in the American public on … Continue reading →
  • Why it seems that severe weather is “get ...
    Dr. Roger Pielke Jr  on his Blog, April 18th writes: A new analysis of floods around the world has been called to my attention. The new analysis is contrary to conventional wisdom but consistent with the scientific literature on global … Continue reading →
  • US Greenhouse gas emissions drop to lowest lev ...
    As first highlighted by World Climate Report and later by WUWT last week:  Now its your electric ice maker in your fridge thatâs killing the planet, meanwhile CO2 emissions fall significantly in the USA …this Financial Times story citing the same … Continue reading →
  • Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus I ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale THE INDIAN AND ATLANTIC OCEANS INTRODUCTION This post is a continuation of Part 1 â Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections.  It examines the differences between multi-model mean of the IPCC 20C3M (Hindcast)/SRES A1B (Projection) … Conti ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Kucinich to Introduce Legislation to End the W ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 19, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced plans to introduce legislation that will assert Congress’ constitutional responsibility to make decisions about declaring war. He made the announcement in ...
  • Kucinich Responds to Defense Department Moving ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 19, 2011 Demands Written Assurances of Protection of Rights and of Person Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement in response to a report by the Associated Press that the Depart ...
  • Kucinich Downgrades Rating of Standard & Poor’s
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 19, 2011 Credit Rating Agencies Have No Authority to Dictate Terms to Congress Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threatened the fiscal heal ...
  • Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ tedtalks Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write a ...
  • Thousands Marched In NYC Demanding End To Wars ...
    photo by WxMom Dandelion Salad PeoplesVideo on Apr 19, 2011 Thousands Marched In NYC Demanding End To Wars At Home & Abroad On April 9, 2011 *** Workers World Contingent on April 9th 2011 PeoplesVideo on Apr 16, 2011 A view of one strong fighting contingent at the April 9th UNAC march against wa ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Utter PR Fiction This is the URL for a UK Independent story on how a jelly bean that looked like royal baby maker Kate Middleton sold for more than $800 : http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/utter-PR-fiction-but-people-love-this-shit-so-fuck-it-lets-just-print-it-2269573.html
  • No title
    Some Saturday poetry : Babelogue by Patti Smith : I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I ...
  • No title
    New Zealand director Peter Jackson's 10 minute set visit leading to the 1st day of shooting The Hobbit is more entertaining than most movies released so far this year. All young directors can learn an enormous amount about how to build pre-release interest in their movies from this set visit ...
  • No title
    From the Collected Letters of Philip K Dick, 1977-1979 : …since our societies - or rather their governments and big corporations - aren't willing to really go about solving our economic and social and political problems, they have hit upon a simple technique (technique, not solution) by whic ...
  • No title
    An excellent portrait of the United States in 2011. Wall Street robs Americans blind of hundreds of billions of dollars, nobody goes to jail. Sellers of single cigarettes on the streets of New York City, which they help keep clear of violent drug dealers, go to Rikers : Itinerant cigarette vendo ...

Wired - Science

  • Scorpions, Spiders and Sharks: Electron-Micros ...
    See Also: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year 35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography Snowflakes Under an Electron Microscope Tiny Spheres Turn Regular Microscopes Into Nanoscopes
  • Biggest Spider Fossil Ever Found
    Scientists have unearthed the largest spider fossil ever found. The spider, a new species called Nephila jurassica, stretches about two inches from end to end. It was found in a fossil-rich rock formation near Daohugou village in northeastern China. The fossil dates back to the Middle Jurassic, ...
  • Humpback Whales May Be Migratory Astronomers
    An eight-year project that tracked humpback whale migrations by satellite shows the huge mammals follow uncannily straight paths for weeks at a time. The results suggest a single migratory mechanism isn’t responsible. Instead, humpbacks may use a combination of the sun’s position, Earth’s magn ...
  • Look Up: Spectacular Space Station Flybys This ...
    The International Space Station will make several flybys over Europe and North America this week. The flybys will be brief, lasting about five minutes at most. But while it’s overhead, the space station will outshine everything in the evening sky except the moon. While the ISS constantly circle ...
  • Fresh Evidence Adds Weight to Human Ancestor’s ...
    MINNEAPOLIS — Fossils described last year as representatives of an ancient species critical to human evolution have reentered the scientific spotlight and set off a new round of debate over the findsâ true identity. Researchers described analyses of new and previously recovered remains of a ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Chasing Ghosts: Questioning t ...
    Vittorio Arrigoni, killed Friday, April 15 is the first international activist killed by Palestinians in the history of the conflict. Mystery surrounding his kidnapping and death leaves... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Moshé Machover: Comrade Oded (Odik) Pilavsky
    In memoriam: Moshé Machover remembers his close friend, Matzpen co-founder Oded Pilavsky. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Adam Keller: Oded Pilavsky – 1932-2011
    Oded Pilavsky: I finally started to comprehend what was happening there. A collectivist bunch imbued with socialist ideals, equipped with the best of agricultural machinery purchased on credit from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Goldstone report: Statement issued by members ...
    Many of those calling for the nullification of our report imply that the final report by the follow-up committee ... somehow contradicts the fact-finding mission's report or invalidates it. In the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Recognising Palestine
    UN recognition of a Palestinian make-believe state would be no more meaningful than this fantasy "institution-building", and could push Palestinians even further away from real liberation and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • With Buzz Over Biological Drugs, Psoriasis Pat ...
    U-M doctors stress a balanced approach, but note older therapies can offset risks, costs of 'biologics'.
  • Can Biochar Help Suppress Greenhouse Gases?
    Scientists conducted an experiment over an 86-day period to determined the effect of incorporating biochar into the soil on nitrous oxide emissions from the urine patches produced by cattle.
  • Researchers Find Link Between Brain Molecule a ...
    The brain's hypothalamus plays a key role in obesity and one of its major complications - type 2 diabetes. Nerve cells in the hypothalamus detect nutrients and hormones circulating in the blood and then coordinate a complex series of behavioral and physiological responses to maintain a balance b ...
  • Solar Power without Solar Cells: a Hidden Magn ...
    A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells.
  • Wang Elected to the American Academy of Arts & ...
    Jean Yin Jen Wang, PhD, professor of medicine and biology in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, was elected today with 211 other distinguished scientists, scholars, writers, artists, business and civic leaders to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Natural Health News

  • Popular Alzheimer's Drug Proven Ineffective
    A popular drug used to treat Alzheimer’s patients appears to provide no benefit to those who may be in the early stages of the disease, CNN reports. Although the drug is approved by the FDA for only moderate to severe cases, many physicians have been prescribing it off-label for milder cases. Bu ...
  • What Are America's Most Popular Drugs?
    Last year 10 of the most popular medicines were generic – grim news for pharmaceutical companies that are always looking out for a blockbuster drug through patented brands that aren’t eligible yet for generic compositions. The top 10 include Vicodin, Zocor, Lisinopril, Synthroid, Norvasc, Prilos ...
  • Tips to Make Family Mealtime More Pleasant
    Mealtimes can be a struggle for busy families with multiple schedules, places to go and things to do, but it’s still important to sit down and eat together. If for no other reason, mealtime is a time when parents and kids can connect and show that they care for each other. It’s also important be ...
  • How to Make Sure You Burn Calories for Hours a ...
    Is there an afterburn effect from a workout? The New York Times reports that a recent paper in the Journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise says that, yes, you do get a good return on vigorous exercise. The study was small, on just 10 men who spent two periods of 24 hours each in a specia ...
  • Is Your Peanut Butter Full of Carcinogens?
    When it comes to choosing a peanut butter, it may be best to stick with a product that has been strictly organically-grown, according to OrganicAuthority.com. That�s because the soft-shells on peanuts can allow outside contaminants such as pesticides and naturally-occurring fungi to reach the nu ...

fotoFrontera

  • 12 wallpapers de huevos de pascua - Eastern Eggs 2
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  • Imágenes para facebook, blogger, hi5, sonico y msn
    Haz clic aquí o sobre las imágenes para ver todas las fotografías Únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook | Síguenos en Twitter Únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook | Síguenos en Twitter Únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook | Síguenos en Twitter Únete a nuestra comunidad en Fac ...
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  • Fotos de nuestros usuarios 2 (Playa y Palmeras)
    Haz clic aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar esta fotografíaContinuando con la publicación de las fotografías que nos han enviado nuestros usuarios, hoy presentamos esta hermosa imagen de la playa con sus enormes palmeras. La foto nos la mandó Guillermo Salas desde Cali, Colombia. Usted también ...
  • Puestas de sol, amaneceres y atardeceres 2 (pc ...
    Únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook | Síguenos en Twitter Únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook | Síguenos en Twitter ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...

Norwegianity

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

Public News Service

  • Child Abuse Prevention Month: Concerns about A ...
    Child Abuse Prevention Month: Concerns about AZ Kids' Safety Phoenix, AZ — April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Arizonans on the front line who deal with the issue are concerned that government budget cuts are so deep that they threaten child safety. Calls are going out to Congress ...
  • Stink Bugs Spread Wings, Reach Arizona
    Stink Bugs Spread Wings, Reach Arizona Phoenix, AZ – The first stink bug sighting has been reported in Arizona, one of eight states where the pest has spread since last fall. The bugs are now in 33 states, everywhere except the Rockies and Plains states. Why they're thriving and how to potentia ...
  • Report: 3rd Grade Reading Skills Predict High ...
    Report: 3rd Grade Reading Skills Predict High School Graduation Phoenix, AZ – Students in Arizona and other states who are not reading at grade level by third grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to miss out on a high school diploma. That’s according to a new study over time ...
  • New AZ Budget Ends Low-Income Child Care Help
    New AZ Budget Ends Low-Income Child Care Help Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s newly-enacted state budget eliminates child care assistance for all low-income working parents. More than 13-thousand children and seven-thousand parents will be affected. Comments from Bruce Liggett, director, Arizona Child ...
  • AZ’s National Forests to Get Management ...
    AZ’s National Forests to Get Management Makeover Phoenix, AZ – Planning procedures for the national forests are being updated for the first time in nearly 30 years. The new procedures will affect everything from logging and wildlife protection to recreation. A public forum is being held tomorrow ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...
  • The Right to Forget
    Ahmed Timol died when my mother was still young. She knew him- they all did, she said- he had gotten himself involved in politics and things had changed for him. 'But weren't you horrified? Didn't it scare you? Weren't you sad?' I was in school, and I had just read the article of him in ...
  • Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberat ...
    Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberation - English pravda.ru: "In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the 'Downing Street Memo,' Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that 'the United Stat ...
  • Misratah: the spiralling human cost in a city ...
    Misratah: the spiralling human cost in a city under fire at Livewire – Amnesty International blogging for human rights By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s crisis researcher. Here in Misratah, Libya’s third city, we have just experienced four more days of relentless shelling by Colonel ...
  • IMEU: Casualties of US Aid to Israel: Jawaher ...
    IMEU: Casualties of US Aid to Israel: Jawaher Abu Rahmah: "WHO WAS JAWAHER ABU RAHMAH?

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • facebook might just Save the Planet from Clima ...
    A lack of privacy online may be the best thing we've ever done for our environment! Exploiting new social networking technology and our mobile online lifestyle to help reduce environmental impacts…
  • Environmental News 19/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • What's On 18 April 2011
    The end of this week delivers a super-long long weekend with the traditional 4-day Easter weekend combining with Anzac Day to give a 5-day weekend. But did you know it's also Earth Day this long, long weekend? You can do your bit (however small) and contribute to a Billion Acts of Green for Worl ...
  • Environmental News 14/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Miranda Kerr: Blooming Natural Beauty Queen
    What is it that really made her stand out amongst countless other âskin and bonesâ in an ever-increasingly competitive modelling industry at the age of 13? Miranda reveals reveals her green secrets…

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • The techie toilet. Only $6,300
    The Kohler Numi has “has a motion-activated lid and seat; integrated air dryer; a heated seat; feet warmers; ambient lighting; built-in speakers with FM radio and an MP3 player input jack… all controlled by a detachable touch screen remote that can save settings for up to six users.” What, no wi ...
  • Two Prius batteries in an electric motorcycle
    It did the quarter mile at a speed equal to a Tesla Roadster. Autobloggreen has more.
  • Britain jails extremist who burned Koran
    A convicted racist who burned a Koran in front of city centre shoppers has been jailed for 70 days after a judge described the act as “theatrical bigotry”. He is a member of the virulently racist and arguably fascist English Defence League. Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, who is Scottish and part of ...
  • Small bank exec indicted for money laundering. ...
    The vice chairman of SunFirst Bank, a small bank with four branches in southern Utah, was released from jail Monday after surrendering his passport. He will stand trial on federal money laundering charges for using the bank to process money from online poker sites in exchange for a $10 million i ...
  • Guilty of thought crimes at Daily Kos
    A diarist on Daily Kos, tmax, dared to suggest that Obama should start his own party, a Progressive Party, no less, one that would be free of party insiders and actually Get Stuff Done. He was of course forced to meekly apologize for his heresy in advocating for a third party. And here I thought ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – April 20
    1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord. 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory. 1861 – American Civil War: R ...
  • Border Patrol Banned From Top Smuggler Routes
    For the third time in a few months a federal report exposes how the U.S. government prioritizes environmental preservation over national security by keeping Border Patrol agents out of wildlife refuges that are heavily transited by Mexican drug and human smugglers. Among them is a popular smuggl ...
  • Deadline Live – April 19 2011
  • WAC-OK activists hold street action during 16t ...
    By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor Posted: April 19, 2011 reddirtreporter@gmail.com OKLAHOMA CITY – Activists with WeAreChange Oklahoma spent Tuesday morning handing out literature to members of the public before, during and after a memorial was held on the 16th anniversary of the Alfr ...
  • Memory Hole Videos of the Day: Oklahoma City B ...

The Air Vent

  • Who is the Enemy of Whom
    A news article recently caught my attention. U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether ‘Mother Earth’ Deserves Human Rights Status I suppose this is the official step for conversion of the global warming science group to the status of religion. The dangers of this stupidity should be obvious but leave me ...
  • Ugh!
    I’ve got to let off a little steam.   Currently, in the US, we have a government overspending their income by a gigantic proportion.   Those in charge have no chance of feeling the result of their own policy (while in office) and those who lose office didn’t have the power anyway so — who ca ...
  • Officially in Print
    Sometimes you never expect it to happen.  I’m just glad to have a small part in correcting the record. ——— Dear Dr. O’Donnell, We have completed the editorial process involved with your article, and have included it in the 15 April 2011 issue of Journal of Climate, Vol. 24, No. 8. You may find ...
  • the Unseen Load of Government
    I’ve been trying to think of how to make this point.  The problem seems lost on the government educated of the US and despite starting to write it twice both posts came off as grumpy vents which isn’t what I was hoping. E.M Smith has done a wonderful job explaining economics of the world and [...]
  • It’s the magnitude that is hard to ignore
    Joe Bastardi on the recent AV post highlighted at WUWT. H/T Reader Keith Grubb

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Makes Badoo Change Its Viral Mechanic ...
    Developers don’t have to explicitly violate Facebook’s policy to feel the wrath of the site’s enforcement team, as we’re reminded in a dramatic case today. Last month we covered how social quiz app Badoo had gained 2 million daily active users in a few weeks using aggressive viral tactics such ...
  • Facebook Adds Two Factor Authentication for Lo ...
    This morning Facebook announced the release of several new tools to help users stay safe while using the site. Soon, users will be able to enable two factor authentication to add an additional layer of security to logins. HTTPS browsing has been improved, and the anti-bullying social reporting t ...
  • Facebook Studio: A Guide to Facebook’s Marketi ...
    Last night, Facebook launched Facebook Studio, which showcases what the company considers to be successful marketing campaigns and explains Facebook’s marketing products. The stand-alone site’s goal is to foster a community where ad agencies can be inspired to develop marketing strategies that ...
  • Facebook’s Traffic, Advertising, and Trends by ...
    Facebook added over 10 million additional monthly active users across all countries and regions in the month of March, growing its total audience by 3.7%. The site posted notable gains throughout its maturing markets in Europe, while also increasing traffic in its emerging markets in Latin Ameri ...
  • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Context ...
    Syncapse made some big hires this week in our roundup of Facebook platform hires. The company brought on a Director of Strategy, Chief Service Officer and Vice President of Program Delivery. Context Optional and Wildfire also made some hires. If your company is hiring new people or making a nota ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Transformed by truth: Richard Forer's journey ...
    Paul J. Balles charts the journey of Richard Forer, an American Jew brought up on Israeli propaganda, who had his early beliefs challenged by friends and, consequently, embarked on an honest study of the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As a result, he underwent a monumental transforma ...
  • Lobbies and the corruption of the USA's electe ...
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the distorting effect of political lobbies on the USA's elected representatives and, using the example of the Israel lobby, shows how the lobbied politicians end up representing the lobby and not their constituents or the national interest.
  • USA - dishonest broker in flawed "peace proces ...
    Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari interviews American Professor Naseer Aruri on a wide range of issues relating to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including the flaws of the Oslo accords, the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby over the US political process and the role of the USA as “dishonest ...
  • Israel steps up Jerusalem expulsions
    Jonathan Cook reports on the case of the famous Jerusalem-based Palestinian bookseller, Munther Fahmi, who has been told by the Israeli authorities to leave the city and country of his birth as part of its policy of ethnic cleansing.
  • David Harris: Israel’s American propagandist
    Paul J. Balles highlights the arrogance and hypocrisy of the American Jewish Committee's David Harris, a propagandist of the calibre of Joseph Goebbels, who appears to believe that Israel's victims have neither human nor civil rights.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Court Case Against Generals Behind Turkey’ ...
    CIA: The Dark Force Behind the Bloodiest Takeover in Turkish History By ‘The Insider from Turkey’ It took some time, but now it won’t be long anymore before the lawsuit begins against the military junta behind the 12 September coup in 1980, the bloodiest takeover in Turkish history. For many yea ...
  • Is Israel the Sole Determinant of US President ...
    They Say They Are… Are the elections results of US presidential elections determined by 2% of the population? Can the five million or so Jewish population be counted as the US majority? Does the Israel lobby shape the majority of US voters’ decisions? Is Israel the main determinant of political ...
  • Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April17
    The Devolution of the People & Government Czars, Halfhearted Congressional Gestures, Obama’s Drone Obsessions, and More! I am going to list a few noteworthy articles and commentaries from this past week, and I am going to make it very brief. I am sure you have heard that before. Okay, it will be ...
  • Podcast Show #39
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr. Tom Woods Tom Woods joins us to discuss his latest article on the Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers which has triggered intriguing reactions from the media on both sides of the isle. He provides us with historical background and a ‘real’ constitutional ...
  • The Danger of Tranquilized & Docile Youth
    What Is Wrong with This Picture? In February we provided you with coverage of the brutalization and arrest of Veteran Ray McGovern during Hillary Clinton’s speech at George Washington University. McGovern had dared to stand up during the speech, peacefully and silently, in a Gandhi-endorsed way, ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • Irony Alert! Red Tape Challenge a Breach of Na ...
    I’ve just come off the phone after speaking to a nice person at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She sounded a little concerned, or maybe that was just bemusement, after I pointed out that the UK Government’s latest brain-busting measure – known, all chummily, as the Red Ta ...
  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Book Review - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: ...
    Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Amy Chua. Penguin Press. 2011. 256 pages.As a teacher and book reviewer, it's my default setting to try to find something positive to say about any writing I assess. Partly this is a matter of simple decency; partly it's an acknowledgment that writing is hard wor ...
  • The Race for CNG - Study Shows Hydraulic Fract ...
    Cornell University professors will soon publish research that concludes natural gas produced with a drilling method called “hydraulic fracturing” contributes to global warming as much as coal, or even more. The conclusion is explosive because natural gas enjoys broad political support – includin ...
  • Edge on Energy - Serious Environmental Concern ...
    Environmental groups blasted an updated environmental analysis released on April 15 by the State Department of a proposed oil pipeline project that would stretch from Alberta, Canada to Texas.The updated review offered largely the same conclusions as a draft environmental impact statement issued ...
  • Edge of Art - New Exhibit Offers a Slice of th ...
    Two thousand years ago, on the west coast of what is now Italy, the Roman seaport of Pompeii was thriving. Twenty thousand people farmed and traded in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. They made beautiful objects, worshipped their gods, and enjoyed wine from grapes grown in the fertile volcanic soil ...
  • Battle for Bahrain - Iran Casts Shadow over Re ...
    On April 11, President Obama dispatched his national security advisor, Tom Donilon, on a three-day trip to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). During the trip, the United States will likely discuss the crises in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, as well as the situation in Bahrain, wh ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Guess What: Sanctions on Iran Achieve (Almost) ...
    By Barry Rubin It's becoming an open secret--though not open enough--that the U.S.-led, UN-approved�sanctions on Iran are having no serious strategic�effect and only a limited economic effect on the country. The reasons are clear: 1. To get the sanctions through the UN, the U.S ...
  • Does Glenn Beck Steal My Stuff? Why Did DC Ign ...
    I read with interest Matthew Boyle's "exclusive" in the Daily Caller this morning "TheDC Exclusive: Conservatives hit Beck for taking content without attribution.� In the article Boyle gives a list of bloggers who have had their work "ripped off" by Radio and TV host, used without retribution. ...
  • What Kind Of Holiday Will My Grandchildren Cel ...
    Even though my kids are older now (one's 16 and the other is 20)� I still go into their rooms� to watch them sleep. When they were babies, I would run into their rooms and make sure that they were breathing. But these days when I look at my kids sleeping in their beds� looking so innocent I worr ...
  • Iran Now Blames Stuxnet On Siemens, The US and ...
    Stuxnet is the virus which has infected the computers the Iranian nuclear centrifuges causing them to be damaged. The job of the centrifuge is to purify Uranium so it could be used for reactors and/or weapons. Stuxnet �takes control� of the centrifuge and spins them of control so they burn o ...
  • An Assassin of Anwar Sadat Explains The Law of ...
    By Barry Rubin This is fascinating for a totally unexpected reason. It illustrates the law of unintended consequences, which is perhaps the single most important concept to keep in mind when examining the Middle East right now. Abboud al-Zumar was a leader in the Egyptian Islamic Ji ...

The Real Agenda

  • Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
    Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care ...
  • Dark Legacy: The Murder of John F. Kennedy
    A thoroughly documented criminal indictment establishing beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of George H W Bush as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.  The evidence relies primarily on government documents and public records. The center piece of the evidence is a memo ent ...
  • CIA usa Redes Sociais para Publicar Propaganda
    RT Abril 18, 2011 Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Wayne Madsen tem escrito sobre as agências de inteligência dos Estados Unidos durante décadas. Ele foi um oficial da Marinha desse país e depois tornou-se jornalista investigativo. No passado, ele tem escrito sobre o programa carnívoro do FBI para moni ...
  • Wikileaks: EUA Financia oposição na Síria
    Departamento de Estado financia um canal de televisão por satélite contra o governo sírio. UK Telegraph Abril 18, 2011 Adaptação Luis R. Miranda O Departamento de Estado dos Estados Unidos financiou e continua financiando os adversários do presidente sírio, Bashar Assad, diz o Washington Post, c ...
  • CIA utiliza Redes Sociales para Publicar Propa ...
    RT Abril 18, 2011 Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Wayne Madsen ha escrito acerca de las agencias de inteligencia en Estados Unidos por décadas, después de ser oficial naval y convertirse en la periodista, especializado en periodismo de investigación. En el pasado ha escrito sobre el programa carnívor ...

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

  • You read banned books, but by whom?
    By which I mean: BANNED by whom? Looking online for a definitive listing of most-often banned or censored books yields a panoply of titles not necessarily candidates for the pantheon. At right I’ve stacked the heavyweights most often resisted for being obscene, here a quality strangely inseparab ...
  • “rule of law” and “American ...
    The extrem(ist)e lack of the first puts any claim of the latter as the very essence of arrogant falsehood. We’re told that America, and ONLY America, actually deserves to run the entire world because we’re better than them. What’s that sound? Damn, I just heard every Right Wing Jingoist my-count ...
  • Right Wing lunatic fringe Blogster serr8d show ...
    This is the only response, so far, from the so-called “Christian” Fascist Party about my pointing out the utter blasphemy of their Whoreship service for George W Beast the other day… The more than slightly unhinged Nazi “serr8d” starts out with “How the heathen do rage” then offers to sodomize m ...
  • As per usual, Colorado Springs monied class is ...
    Yep, they turned up in their orange tans, diamonds, black gowns and shiny SUVs, to support Christian charter schools and honor “God Bless Him” George Dubya Bush. This was my favorite sign from the protest.
  • Bob Holmes said he cares for Homeless PEOPLE
    …but that homeless women breed like rabbits. And while I wasn’t there at the rally at UCCS or however the hell they put it, it strikes me that it’s incredibly unlikely that he used the PEOPLE noun to modify the “homeless” adjective. I’ve noticed a tendency among the Repub/Tea Potty “leaders” her ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • 10 Things to Know About Horseradish [Like how ...
    1. Horseradish is the ugly brother of the crowd favorite condiment triumvirate (ketchup, mustard, and mayo). It has been around for thousands of years. 2. Horseradish is the root of the Armoracia rusticana plant. Its cousins are wasabi, mustard, broccoli and cabbage. 3. When the root is peeled a ...
  • A Million Scans, Apple Love, Prizes and More [ ...
    One Million Scans! The million mark is an exciting milestone in a company’s life. Last week, one of you used the Fooducate app to scan the one millionth product. Curious to know what it was? Cheddar cheese from Sargento, pictured above. Prizes and Giveaways If you’re using the Fooducate app, you ...
  • Those %@#! Comfort Food Commercials
    This is a guest post by pediatrician, author, and childhood obesity specialist, Dr. Robert A. Pretlow. I was fixing dinner the other night with the TV going in the background. I vaguely caught the end of a commercial. Did I hear what I thought I heard? “What comfort tastes like?” What the heck? ...
  • Matzah, the World’s First Ever Fast Food
    This evening marks the beginning of the 8 day Jewish holiday known as Passover. As with any holiday, there are specific foods associated with Passover. One of them is Matzah, a flatbread made with only 2 ingredients – water and flour. Matzah is the first ever fast food in history, at least accor ...
  • Wendy’s “Natural Cut” Fries. Indeed?
    Wendy’s is touting their new natural cut fries as a tastier alternative to McDonald’s. And the “Natural” with “sea salt” makes it sound really healthy too. But, as always, cheap food comes at a price. BNET’s Melanie Warner spoke with Wendy’s Chief Marketing Officer, Ken Calwell , who had this to ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Ross Thomas models for Survival
    Ross Thomas modeling Survival's T-Shirt by Richard Long. © Survival Hollywood actor Ross Thomas, whose new movie ‘Soul Surfer’ has just opened, models two new T-shirts for human rights organization Survival International. The two T-shirts are available from Survival’s online store. Richa ...
  • US human rights report shines spotlight on Pen ...
    Under Chief Minister Taib, the Penan's forests have been ravaged for 30 years. © Survival International A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging. The US State Department docum ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and se ...
  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle mixed/MDF sawdust?
    We’ve had an email from Paul: We’ve got an extraction system at our joinery shop which produces big bags of sawdust but we use a lot of MDF and other particle boards so it can’t be used for animal bedding. Do you know how they could be recycled? We’ve covered wood shavings recycling before but [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle bath cubes/bombs?
    We’ve had an email from Maggie: I found a box of lavender bath cubes while cleaning out my mum’s bathroom cupboard at the weekend. Mum says she doesn’t like them and I can’t use them because of my sensitive skin. Is there anything I can do with them or should I throw them in the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old leather jack ...
    We’ve had an email from Linzi: What can I do with an old leather jacket? It’s really dated now. If it’s really dated, keep it – it’ll probably come back into fashion next week ;) More seriously, someone might want it for a vintage look – or for a fancy dress party – perhaps offer [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle kitchen cupboard doors?
    My friend Katherine is getting a new kitchen soon and I’ve unofficially bagsied her (wood or woodish) kitchen cupboard doors – for reusing for other stuff rather than just putting in our kitchen. Lots of still-in-good-condition kitchen cabinets are given away from Freecycle/Freegle or sold on eB ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle the metal frame fro ...
    Over on the “suggest an item” page, the bookstorebabe said: Broken umbrellas were done a few years back, but most of the suggestions were reuses for the umbrella fabric. How about specifically the metal frame, as is or taken apart? Any clever ideas, anyone? Over on the old umbrella page, Pamela ...

Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Reader Asks Brian Deer Questions ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to an AofA reader who sent us this report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health endorsement of/invitation to Brian Deer. Katie Wright tried her best (see HERE) to convince the school to...
  • Call Bloomberg School of Public Health to Resc ...
    Managing Editor's Note: The Department of Marketing and Public Affairs: Politely ask them to reschedule with Katie Wright or another autism/GI parent in the near future rather than give Deer carte blanche for his fallacies and fantasies. 410-955-6878 410-955-7619 410-614-6029...
  • Is Autism Speaks Giving Poul Thorsen the Old T ...
    Ginger Taylor posted an interesting entry at Adventures in Autism called Autism Speaks is Scrubbing Their Ties to Poul Thorsen From Their Web Site. Here's a preview. Pop over to AinA to read the rest and comment. Thanks to our...
  • Indicted Researcher Poul Thorsen: Autism Speak ...
    Poul Thorsen, indicted last week (HERE) by US Attorneys for embezzling tax payers money via the Centers for Disease Control, also received $1 Million in funding through an Autism Speaks grant in 2008 (HERE). Now Autism Speaks is trying to...
  • Is Autism Speaks Giving Poul Thorsen the Old H ...
    Ginger Taylor posted an interesting entry at Adventures in Autism called Autism Speaks is Scrubbing Their Ties to Poul Thorsen From Their Web Site. Here's a preview. Pop over to AinA to read the rest and comment. In 2008, Autism...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Mexico’s drug war bloodshed escalates
    Reuters – Mexico’s drug war heats up after 11 die in Monterrey and authorities arrest 13 suspected members of Sinaloa drug cartel. Jessica Gray reports. Source
  • Australian, N.Z. Dollars Fall for Second Day o ...
    Bloomberg – The Australian and New Zealand dollars weakened for a second day versus the greenback as a slide in Asian stocks and debt concerns in the Europe and U.S. damped demand for higher-yielding assets. Australiaâs currency fell for a fourth day against the yen after Standard & Poorâs cut t ...
  • Bahrain escapes censure by West as crackdown o ...
    Independent – Bahraini government forces backed by Saudi Arabian troops are destroying mosques and places of worship of the Shia majority in the island kingdom in a move likely to exacerbate religious hatred across the Muslim world. “So far they have destroyed seven Shia mosques and about 50 rel ...
  • Cuba’s party congress agrees to allow pr ...
    BBC – Cuba says it will allow people to buy and sell their homes for the first time since the communist revolution in 1959. For the past 50 years, Cubans have only been allowed to pass on their homes to their children, or to swap them through a complicated and often corrupt system. Read article
  • Iran says German firm involved in worm
    UPI – An Iranian official accused a German engineering firm Saturday of helping Israel and the United States create a destructive computer worm.Gholam-Reza Jalali, head of one of Iran’s defense agencies, said Siemens AG provided information on the software used at Iranian industrial sites, the I ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Wasteful packaging: do consumers care?
    The number of consumers who think they should be responsible for recycling has declined, according to a study released Wednesday. In 2010, 38% of Americans said consumers should take responsibility for recycling product packaging, down from 42% in 2009. Consumers...
  • Gulf oil spill redux: nine books on the BP dis ...
    A year after millions of barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well, much ink has been spilled on the "second draft" of history. None of the nine books (and counting) published thus far...
  • California's carbon market: Will cap-and-trade ...
    Nine months before California is set to finalize a trading system aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, participants have the jitters. Litigation threatens to delay the start of the multibillion-dollar program, and industry executives worry that its regulations will fall...
  • Riverside County solar project gets $2.1-billi ...
    Yet another California renewable energy project will get financial support from the federal government, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday. The first two parts of the Blythe Solar Power Project in Riverside County were awarded a...
  • BP oil spill has lasting effects, one year later
    One year after the Gulf oil spill: A widow learns to adjust to life without her husband. A charter fisherman feels the effect of canceled trips. A well worker considers quitting, but the paycheck proves too enticing. Nearly one year...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Stand Against Child Marriage - TAKE ACTION TOD ...
    25,000 girls as young as 8 years old will become child brides today. Take a stand now and show the world that each and every one of these girls deserves the right to her childhood. Please sige the petition !!Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • "A Beautiful Soul, a Big Heart": Italian Peace ...
    36-yr-old Italian Vittorio Arrigoni found dead after captors posted video of bloodied peace activist. Had vowed to kill him unless Hamas govt freed their leader. Member of InternationalSolidarityMovement, Palestinian-led NGO opposing Israeli occupation,..Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to Wo ...
  • Tea Party Jesus: Koch's Americans For Prosperi ...
    Please read and share!Submitted by Laura H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Reform synagogue desecration hardly a surprise
    So much for a safe haven. We came from the lands of Kristallnacht to create a Jewish homeland, and look what happens: Haaretz reports tonight that the reform synagogue in Ra�anana, an upper middle-class northern suburb of Tel-Aviv, has been desecrated...Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • A Palestinian State by September? The Impact f ...
    Recognition of a new Palestinian state would alter the dynamic between Israel, Palestine and the international community Talks between Israel and the Palestinians would take place on a state-to-state basis for the first time.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Eco-Terrorism, The Green Threat
    Radical environmental and animal rights groups known as, Eco-terrorists have been responsible for hundreds of criminal acts like, arson, bombings, vandalism and harassment. These terrorist acts have caused more than $100 million in damage.
  • NASA Invests in Innovation in America's Small ...
    The proposals are included in Phase II of NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program. The agency's Office of the Chief Technologist manages the program as part of its focus on emerging technologies and efforts to advance technological
  • U.S. Pledges $123M for Chornobyl's Transition ...
    The United States has already contributed $240 million for the international effort for a lasting nuclear safety in the region.
  • Ban Outlines Five-Step Plan to Enhance Nuclear ...
    Mr. Ban said that the recent power plant accident in Japan, like the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago, calls for 'deep reflection' on the future of nuclear energy.
  • Pallavi Chakraborty: A Passion To SaveTigers L ...
    The young woman from Shillong, Meghalaya, joined WWF-India as a volunteer after her Diploma in Wildlife Management from Assam's Gauhati University in December 2010.

Worldnews

  • James Franco and Winona Ryder cast in 'Th ...
    James Franco (Your Highness) and Winona Ryder (Black Swan) have signed on for the psychological thriller The Stare. The story follows a playwright whose mind is doing tricks on her when she stages a new production....
  • App brings voice to Facebook messages
    Facebook users who have been instant messaging, poking, and friending each other are now able to use the social network to communicate via plain old voice phone calls - with a service provided by Natick-based company Vivox Inc. Vivox said yesterday that it was partnering with wireless servi ...
  • Nuggets turn up heat in practice for Game ...
    OKLAHOMA CITY — The Nuggets practiced with a playoff intensity Tuesday. They hope it carries into tonight's game. Tuesday's practice featured focus from the players, notably Kenyon Martin, quarterbacking the defense with a Peyton Manning bark and bite. "I'd say it was an A-minus practice. I ...
  • India launches three satellites
    New Delhi - India on Wednesday launched a rocket carrying three satellites into space, officials said. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-16 took off without incident from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota, an island off...
  • When Religion and American Business Becam ...
    Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world..." -From the best seller "The Man Nobody Knows," 1920's "Moses was one of the greatest salesmen and real-estate ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Japan Consumers May Bail Out Nuke Plant Owner
    VIENNA — Japanese consumers would be on the hook for nuclear damage payments and earthquake reconstruction costs under two tax plans the government is considering, officials said Tuesday. The Kyodo News agency said one plan would raise electricity customers' charges to help cover claims against ...
  • Wikileaks: 'US Helped Israel with UN Gaza War ...
    NEW YORK - The US worked behind the scenes to help Israel contain United Nations probes into possible war crimes committed during the 2008/'09 Gaza war, Foreign Policy reported today. The online foreign affairs magazine cited exclusive WikiLeaks cables, detailing moves by Washington's UN ambassa ...
  • Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms and ...
    Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. Graphic: Iraq's burgeoning oil industry ...
  • Poll: Best Way to Fight Deficits: Raise Taxes ...
    WASHINGTON — Alarmed by rising national debt and increasingly downbeat about their country's course, Americans are clear about how they want to attack the government's runway budget deficits: raise taxes on the wealthy and keep hands off of Medicare and Medicaid. At the same time, they say that ...
  • Top US Court Declines Plea by Uighurs at Guant ...
    WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by the five remaining Chinese Muslims being held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. The detainees wanted the court to consider whether a US judge could order them released on to American soil. The Chinese Muslims had previous ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • The Catastrophic Downside Risk of Nuclear, Oil ...
  • Seeing Our Footprint
    I know I've commented before on the number of PR lists that I'm on as a blogger. Every day brings emails touting some new process or product, a must-go conference, or a new book on energy or the environment to review. Even the subset of these that truly interests me and that I have every intenti ...
  • BPA continues not to have a new plan for handl ...
    Michael Giberson From The Oregonian, “BPA, wind developers argue over looming problem of too much power from renewables.” In sum: “The BPA has backed away from formally implementing the wind-curtailment plan, a move that renewables advocates applauded. But it hasn’t come up with an alternative. “
  • Congress Passes a Budget That Invests in Inter ...
    The long drama of whether or not the US Congress would invest in international efforts to curb global warming pollution or gut these investments is finally over � at least for the rest of this fiscal year.� Last week President Obama signed into law a budget for the rest of this fiscal year (fisc ...
  • ANS Student Members Express Excitement About N ...
    From April 14-16, I spent time with some amazing people getting reenergized about nuclear energy technologies. The occasion was the American Nuclear Society (ANS) 2011 Student Conference, held in Atlanta, GA, right in the heart of the continuing nuclear energy revival movement in the United States.

Green House - USA Today

  • EBay pays for broken iPads, iPhones, iPods
    In celebration of Earth Month, online auctioneer eBay will pay consumers for small broken Apple electronics (up to $150 for iPads, $100 for iPhones, and $50 for iPods) until April 30.
  • Asian 'unicorn' gets nature reserve in Vietnam
    "The loveliest of all" animals, the late Shel Silverstein once wrote in a popular children's song, is the unicorn. He would probably have been pleased that a nature reserve has been set aside in central Vietnam for the critically endangered saola, also known as the Asian "unicorn."
  • 10 best green buildings? Architects pick 2011 ...
    Buildings that use little water and energy and mostly recycled, non-toxic materials don't have to look like boring boxes. To see jaw-dropping possibilities, check out the American Institute of Architects 2011 winners for sustainable architecture.
  • Feds gives positive eco review to U.S.-Canada ...
    U.S. officials issued a mostly positive environmental review Friday to a controversial, 1,661- mile extension of a U.S.-Canadian private pipeline that will carry heavy crude oi across six U.S. states.
  • Greenest U.S. states? Some may surprise
    In politics, there are red states and blue states. But when it comes to the environment, there are deep green, semi-green and, well, brown states. Which hue is yours?

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • HAPPY TAX DAY: The biggest bank in America pai ...
    By Kevin Zeese Who’s Economy? Its Our Economy! On April 15th, a concert and protest against Bank of America was held in Union Square Park. This was the first event organized by Its Our Economy, and it was co-sponsored by 16 other groups concerned about hunger, health care, housing, economic ...
  • S & P's Downgrade Targets Entitlements
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed the dirty game, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/republican-plan-to-end-social-security.html It explained bipartisan support for incrementally ending Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, no m ...
  • Israel will not collapse peacefully but it wil ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Dr. Franklin Lamb is Director of the Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace, Beirut-Washington DC, Board Member of The Sabra Shatila Foundation, and a volunteer with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign, Lebanon. He is the author of "The Price We Pay: A Quarter-Ce ...
  • When War Games Go Live: "Staging" a "Humanitar ...
    By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Military operations of this size and magnitude are never improvised. The war on Libya as well as the armed insurrection were planned months prior to the Arab protest movement... Libya, 19 March 2011. "No Fly Zone" under UN Security Council Resolution 1973: A ...
  • What Next in Libya?
    by Stephen Lendman So far, weeks of conflict produced more stalemate than resolution, policy disagreement among NATO partners, and hawkish US broadsheets like The New York Times and Washington Post calling for escalated conflict to oust Gaddafi. In its April 14 editorial headlined, "Stop ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Making It Count: CCPA's federal election blog
    The CCPA has launched a federal election blog to bring you expert analysis on the issues that will—or should—define the election. Making It Count features timely commentary from CCPA staff and research associates, who will be weighing in everything from the economy and federal finances to the ...
  • Are the federal parties putting their money wh ...
    On the CCPA federal election blog, research associate David MacDonald takes a look at what the four major national federal parties are saying in their platforms vs. what they actually want to spend money on. For each party he's created two wordles or word charts, to illustrate.� Click here f ...
  • The truth about Canada's Afghan training mission
    Canada's Afghan training mission has a high risk of casualties and a low chance of success, says new report published by the CCPA and the Rideau Institute. Analysts Michael Byers and Stuart Webb determine that the new training mission, first proposed by the Liberals then adopted by the Conserv ...
  • Will the middle class have to learn to do with ...
    That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations of millions of Canadians". Read the column here.
  • Living Wage 2011: how much does a family need ...
    CCPA-BC has just published Working for a Living Wage 2011, which shows that the living wage for Vancouver in 2011 is $18.81 an hour, up from $18.17 last year, and far higher than the $10.25 minimum wage planned for next year. A living wage enables families to pay for necessities, support the h ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Muslim model upsets family by posing nude for ...
    Sila Sahin Poses For Playboy | Mail Online Sila Sahin, a 25-year-old Turkish German living in Berlin, had until now been regarded as a glowing example of how a modern Muslim girl should behave in a multicultural society. A successful actress starring in German television soap opera Good Times, B ...
  • Racist GOP Leader Refuses To Step Down
    GOP Leader Putting Obama’s Face on a Chimp in E-mail Might Be Racist, But it’s Definitely Ignorant | LAist Orange County GOP official Marilyn Davenport is refusing to step down from her elected post today after she was outed as the sender of an email of a digitally-altered “family portrait” of P ...
  • Florida Mugshots: Stay Classy, Florida
    Who’s in Trouble Now? | FloridaArrests.org Everyone screws up sometime. Some just get caught doing it. Florida.Arrests.Org is the Largest collection of Mug Shots on the internet. With over 3 million bookings and arrest records searchable and browsable. See your friends, co-workers, ex’s and who- ...
  • When Divorce Hurts
    WWH - Jay W. sat at a conference table with ten or more parents. They gather once a month to support one another. Jay sat, nervously stirring creamer into his coffee. Today was his birthday and he was hoping that one of his three children would call him. But that call never came. “It feels [...]
  • Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt
    WWH T-shirts. Only $12, + $3 shipping. Kick in another $5 and we’ll throw in a Bumpersticker. Or, you can buy the Bumpersticker separately: M and L SOLD OUT Limited Time Offer T-Shirt $12.00 T-Shirt + Bumpersticker $17.00 Bumpersticker $5.00 Specify Size (s,m,l,xl) Now’s the time to show ‘em you ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • S&P's outlook downgrade is a lesson in what we ...
    Standard and Poor's decision Monday to lower its outlook on U.S. sovereign debt told us what we already know: We're in rough shape. No big news there.
  • How common is Alzheimer's disease, really?
    Those opening up the science section of their newspapers this morning may have been shocked to read that diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease could double under new guidelines approved today by the Alzheimer's Association and U.S. National Institute of Aging. But there's little reason to worry ab ...
  • The farce that is Donald Trump
    Well, if we're forced to endure a potential presidential run by Donald Trump, at least journalists can try to pay attention to his crazy, contradictory political statements over the last decade or so. That process has belatedly begun. Trump is being challenged over his flip-flops: from pro-ch ...
  • The rich don't realize they're rich
    The New York Times’ Economix blog makes an important and interesting point: "Rich people don’t realize they’re rich."
  • Priorities in the Land of the Free
    Millions of Americans are without jobs and are having their homes foreclosed. �The�U.S. is currently fighting three out-in-the-open wars�(or, if you prefer, one war, one occupation, and one kinetic humanitarian intervention) and several other covert ones. �Financial and political elites are p ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • For an end to ‘potted plants’
    All the “real work” on Parliament Hill is done in private, away from public scrutiny. Members of Parliament have little say in their parties’ positions and often don’t even know wh ...
  • Waterfront board works
    Now that Waterfront Toronto is in fully in gear and doing an effective job, the Fords want to risk ruining it. What a mistake.
  • PM’s cynical scare tactics
    If Harper weren't scrambling for a majority he wouldn't inflate the separatist threat.
  • Not another wimp out
    This country can’t afford to see its leading stock exchange taken over by foreign interests
  • Many questions, few real answers
    Unanswered questions dog the Conservatives at the midpoint of the campaign.

Energy Collective

  • The Catastrophic Downside Risk of Nuclear, Oil ...
  • Seeing Our Footprint
    I know I've commented before on the number of PR lists that I'm on as a blogger. Every day brings emails touting some new process or product, a must-go conference, or a new book on energy or the environment to review. Even the subset of these that truly interests me and that I have every intenti ...
  • BPA continues not to have a new plan for handl ...
    Michael Giberson From The Oregonian, “BPA, wind developers argue over looming problem of too much power from renewables.” In sum: “The BPA has backed away from formally implementing the wind-curtailment plan, a move that renewables advocates applauded. But it hasn’t come up with an alternative. “
  • Congress Passes a Budget That Invests in Inter ...
    The long drama of whether or not the US Congress would invest in international efforts to curb global warming pollution or gut these investments is finally over � at least for the rest of this fiscal year.� Last week President Obama signed into law a budget for the rest of this fiscal year (fisc ...
  • ANS Student Members Express Excitement About N ...
    From April 14-16, I spent time with some amazing people getting reenergized about nuclear energy technologies. The occasion was the American Nuclear Society (ANS) 2011 Student Conference, held in Atlanta, GA, right in the heart of the continuing nuclear energy revival movement in the United States.

EU Times

  • Deadly HAARP Attack Caught On Screen!
    Death toll at 22; 130 injured in NC storms Twenty-two people were killed and more than 130 injured by tornadoes and severe storms that struck at least 20 counties in North Carolina Saturday, state officials said Sunday. Source The full CONUS image [3400x1600-2.7MB] of National Loop is below: Enl ...
  • Syria protests: 48-year state of emergency lif ...
    The Syrian government yesterday lifted the country’s 48-year-old state of emergency to try to appease anti-government protesters. But demonstrations continued as opposition leaders dismissed the historic move as an attempt by President Bashar Assad to make out he was making reforms while maintai ...
  • Secret memos expose link between oil firms and ...
    Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain’s involvement ...
  • Israel Threatens to Destroy 150 Lebanese Villa ...
    A security source from the Northern Israeli command warned 150 villages in southern Lebanon that the Jewish state would destroy “every house or building from where missiles are launched.” Israel has evidence that Hizbullah is continuing to prepare for war, the official said. He stated that Israe ...
  • Fidel Castro resigns from top leadership of Cu ...
    After a staggering five decades in power, Fidel Castro has confirmed his resignation from the leadership of the Communist Party in Cuba today, paving the way for a raft of economic and political reforms. The unprecedented news follows his brother Raul’s announcement yesterday that senior officia ...

Stonecipher News

  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • (Reuters) Libya oil stuck in legal limbo as U. ...
    Western powers eager to help Libyan rebels sell oil from territories they control are ignoring the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee, leaving Libyan crude in legal limbo, envoys and analysts say. Without definitive guidance on the legal status of Libyan oil from the politically divide ...
  • Is Libya slowly turning into a Vietnam-style c ...
    The announcement that we’re sending 10 or 12 “experienced military officers” to Benghazi, it should be clear, changes precisely nothing on the ground in Libya. Ever since the passing of the UNSC 1973, or even possibly before, there will have been special forces/spooks in the country doing simil ...
  • Egypt, Iran and the Requirement of a New Forei ...
    Not at all a good sign – from the Wall Street Journal : Iran and Egypt’s new government signaled Monday they were moving quickly to thaw decades of frosty relations, worrying the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia that the overtures could upset the Mideast’s fragile balance of power
  • Yemeni Police Shoot Their Own People, Mirrorin ...
    targets in Yemen (photo: Al Jazeera English) Syria was not the only country where security personnel shot protesters today. In Yemen , the police did the same exact thing, killing three: Yemeni security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters Tuesday, killing at least three amid rising ...
  • BlackBerry PlayBook Sales: Steady, but No Frenzy
    By Satish Sarangaranjan and Melissa Korn Research in Motion Ltd.âs PlayBook went on sales in stores in the U.S. and Canada Tuesday, with little of the frenzy that accompanied Apple Inc.âs iPad launches, but several retailers reported a relatively steady stream of walk-in purchases. Reuters Boxe ...

Groklaw

  • Historic Supreme Court Oral Argument: Lotus v. ...
    The Supreme Court took up a case involving ownership of computer technology in this 1996 case. Lotus Development Corporation copyrighted a computer spreadsheet program called "Lotus 1-2-3." Borland International, a competing software company, released a similar program called "Quattro," that co ...
  • Video: Richard Stallman - A Free Digital Socie ...
    Download and watch Richard Stallman's speech recorded on April 11, 2011. The video is only available in Ogg Vorbis format. We recommend the free VLC media player. - Cyberlaw, Stanford U
  • YouTube: Fair Use is Why Conan Can Make Fun of ...
    Hitler parodies aside, YouTube announced today that it would be holding a Q&A with "leading experts from the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Anthony Falzone and Julie Ahrens" on the topic of "fair use." If you have questions, you can submit them until April 21 and they will be answere ...
  • Which Stocks Are in Bill Gates' Portfolio? Part 2
    In part two of our series on Bill Gates, here are the remaining positions in his portfolio:... # Monsanto Company (MON): Monsanto provides agricultural products to farmers in the U.S. and abroad. The company recently entered into a deal with the Germany-based BASF to collaborate on a cropping sy ...
  • The Document Foundation is open for members
    With the last months the community around LibreOffice and The Document Foundation worked hard to establish policies, processes, infrastructure and all the things you need to deliver a high quality software. One of our basic principles is that we will acknowledge this merit and allow all the cont ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The techie toilet. Only $6,300
    The Kohler Numi has “has a motion-activated lid and seat; integrated air dryer; a heated seat; feet warmers; ambient lighting; built-in speakers with FM radio and an MP3 player input jack… all controlled by a detachable touch screen remote that can save settings for up to six users.” What, no wi ...
  • Two Prius batteries in an electric motorcycle
    It did the quarter mile at a speed equal to a Tesla Roadster. Autobloggreen has more.
  • Britain jails extremist who burned Koran
    A convicted racist who burned a Koran in front of city centre shoppers has been jailed for 70 days after a judge described the act as “theatrical bigotry”. He is a member of the virulently racist and arguably fascist English Defence League. Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, who is Scottish and part of ...
  • Small bank exec indicted for money laundering. ...
    The vice chairman of SunFirst Bank, a small bank with four branches in southern Utah, was released from jail Monday after surrendering his passport. He will stand trial on federal money laundering charges for using the bank to process money from online poker sites in exchange for a $10 million i ...
  • Guilty of thought crimes at Daily Kos
    A diarist on Daily Kos, tmax, dared to suggest that Obama should start his own party, a Progressive Party, no less, one that would be free of party insiders and actually Get Stuff Done. He was of course forced to meekly apologize for his heresy in advocating for a third party. And here I thought ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
    Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...
  • U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
    Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
  • Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
    Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
  • Open thread, early April 2011
    Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
  • More on Turkey/Syria
    On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...

frogblog

  • All about National’s infatuation with he ...
    First we had the Tolleychopper.  Yep, that’s right!  Education Minister Anne Tolley’s idea of getting a “helicopter view” of tertiary education providers in Auckland (before she was relieved by PM John Key of her Tertiary Education portfolio) was to go up in  a chopper and have a look from th ...
  • Time for another inquiry into ACC medical asse ...
    The NZ Herald today reports on orthopaedic surgeon Brian Otto who featured in an ACC appeal judgment from the District Court recently: Liangfang Lu, 48, was awarded about $5000 after Auckland District Court Judge Martin Beattie found ACC wrongly suspended payments to him on the basis that his ba ...
  • Family Court review must keep kids in mind
    I’m pretty concerned at the announcement of a major review of the Family Court. While I acknowledge that the court is not perfect, I’m sceptical that this review will be about identifying areas where it can be improved. It seems to be much more about identifying areas from which to cut. Any revi ...
  • Greens’ concern over Parliamentary urgency gai ...
    Last year, around the time the shameful Hobbit Bill was being rammed through Parliament in two days and without Select Committee scrutiny, Russel Norman posted here and here about his increasing concern over the National-led Government’s use of Parliamentary urgency to bypass normal Parliamentar ...
  • Will Auckland ever get new trains?
    While Auckland’s public transport systems are getting seriously overcrowded, we are still waiting to find out which company has been awarded the $500 million contract to build the new Auckland electric rail cars (aka Electric Multiple Units or EMUs). The trains, themselves, won’t be operationa ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Our Ongoing Medicare Follies
    Everybody agrees we need to restrain the growth of Medicare. Unless, of course, someone proposes an actual way to restrain the growth of Medicare. We are ruled by idiots. Bipartisanly, of course. Comments | Post Comment����
  • It's Not Just Rude, It's Ruining Your Brain
    Is it rude to be constantly checking messages while you're socializing with someone else? That's a matter of opinion. But a professor friend emails to remind me that rudeness is actually the least of the problems with the perpetual multitasking of the smartphone generation: This is the wa ...
  • Non-Boots, Meet Non-Ground
    So about those ground troops in Libya: A rebel official in Libya's besieged city of Misrata pleaded desperately on Tuesday for Britain and France to send troops to help fight strongman Moamer Kadhafi's forces, saying "if they don't, we will die." In the first request by any insurgents for ...
  • The Future of China, Take 2
    A couple of weeks ago I linked to a paper predicting that China's growth would start to slow down in about five years, when its per capita income reaches $17,000. The authors based this on a comparison to a set of other countries that had also experienced high growth rates but eventually slo ...
  • Who's Afraid of Standard & Poor's?
    It's not like Paul Krugman needs my help in spreading his opinions, but people really ought to be paying a little more attention to the fact that right after S&P's warning yesterday morning about U.S. debt, interest rates on U.S. debt.....fell. Why? Because demand for U.S. securities rose an ...

Insanity Report

  • Activist “Denounce” Obama’s Environmental Inaction
    WASHINGTON — Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Air Act, stop taking money from corporate polluters, and invest in a clean energy economy. The rally was the culmination of a three-day climate summi ...
  • IC 242: Fuck Freedom
    Topics: Rod from the ‘Black Guy Who Tips’ has a rough day People are so sensitive these days California GOP lady sends an email with a picture of the President as a monkey…but she’s not racist Successful men don’t like nor want successful women Steve Harvey’s book to be made into a movie Tyler P ...
  • IC 241: We Respect Females
    Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...
  • IC 240: Shutdown
    Topics: People who abuse ‘reply all’ Old lady shuts down an entire country’s Internet service Lebron’s mom gets arrested The politics of the government shutdown Glenn Beck is leaving his daily show…is it really a victory? Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Fredrick Douglass and S ...
    Just when you thought the anti-abortion movement couldn’t get any worse….Arizona jumps into the fray and shouts “Checkmate Bitches!!!” A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5 Mo ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
    “Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
  • Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
    By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
  • Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
    Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
  • 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
    Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.

e!Science News

  • Can biochar help suppress greenhouse gases?
    Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas and a precursor to compounds that contribute to the destruction of the ozone. Intensively managed, grazed pastures are responsible for an increase in nitrous oxide emissions from grazing animals' excrement. Biochar is potentially a mitigation option for r ...
  • Contemporary climate change alters the pace an ...
    Local extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold in the last 10 years, and the rate at which the climate-sensitive species is moving up mountain slopes has increased 11-fold, since the 20th century, according to a study soon to be published in Global Change Biology. The ...
  • ESHRE sets standards for cross-border reproduc ...
    The Guide aims to ensure high-quality assisted reproduction treatment as defined by the European Union criteria for good quality medical treatment and the ESHRE position paper on Good clinical treatment in Assisted Reproduction. read more
  • ACE inhibitors may increase risk of recurrence ...
    ACE inhibitors, commonly used to control high blood pressure and heart failure in women, may be associated with an increased risk of recurrence in women who have had breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. read more
  • Different views of God may influence academic ...
    Belief in God doesn't deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as a mean, punishing one, researchers say. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
  • Open Thread 15
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...
  • Anti- to Pro-Nuclear, Pro- to Anti-, who&#8217 ...
    Today I was speaking to a colleague about Fukushima and its implications on public attitudes to nuclear as a way to mitigate climate change. After I mentioned George Monbiot’s recent investigative journalism on anti-nuclear claims, he responded by asking: Okay, sure, that’s one person, but conv ...
  • Fukushima rated at INES Level 7 – what d ...
    Hot in the news is that the Fukushima Nuclear crisis has been upgraded from INES 5 to INES 7. Note that this is not due to some sudden escalation of events today (aftershocks etc.), but rather it is based on an assessment of the cumulative magnitude of the events that have occurred at the site o ...
  • Fukushima Daiichi nuclear saga – 2 to 9 ...
    The nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi has, alas, now evolved into more of a saga. The last seven days of events has been acted out in slow motion compared to the first dramatic week (dating back to almost a month ago), but there continues to be plenty of headaches for TEPCO — and no clear [...]

Indigenist Opinion

  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...
  • The Right to Forget
    Ahmed Timol died when my mother was still young. She knew him- they all did, she said- he had gotten himself involved in politics and things had changed for him. 'But weren't you horrified? Didn't it scare you? Weren't you sad?' I was in school, and I had just read the article of him in ...
  • Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberat ...
    Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberation - English pravda.ru: "In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the 'Downing Street Memo,' Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that 'the United Stat ...
  • Misratah: the spiralling human cost in a city ...
    Misratah: the spiralling human cost in a city under fire at Livewire – Amnesty International blogging for human rights By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s crisis researcher. Here in Misratah, Libya’s third city, we have just experienced four more days of relentless shelling by Colonel ...
  • IMEU: Casualties of US Aid to Israel: Jawaher ...
    IMEU: Casualties of US Aid to Israel: Jawaher Abu Rahmah: "WHO WAS JAWAHER ABU RAHMAH?

Republicans are a Disease

  • 80% of Americans Want the Safety Net Left Alon ...
    Numbers don’t lie. Even the treasonous teabaggers don’t want their social security and medicare voucherized….
  • Republicans Plan to Kill Grandma
    Once grandma runs out of money the “new” medicare voucher system will not cover her treatment. Grandmother will die. Republicans plan on handing more $$ to the wealthy by killing grandma when she gets sick.
  • Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
    Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...
  • The Tea Party Traitors
    Isn’t it obvious that the tea baggers are working to destroy our nation? I mean obvious to people that aren’t mentally retarded of course….
  • The Fix America Plan
    Correcting America’s financial problems is easy. We ALL will have to sacrifice some. Including corporations. Including the filthy rich, the rich, the middle class, and the rest of us. Here is the fix America plan that would work. End the Bush tax cuts. Tax corporations a 20% on global income bot ...
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