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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 III

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Get Ready for World Food Day Actions 10/16/11
    On Sunday, October 16, 2011, the Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign is calling for World Food Day action to get genetically engineered organisms out of our food.Click here to read this article
  • Action Alert: Texas Raw Milk and Local Foods B ...
    Action alert: Raw Milk and Local Foods Bills go to hearing. The House Public Health Committee will hear the raw milk bill, cottage foods bill, and local foods omnibus bill on Wednesday, April 20.Click here to read this article
  • Keep Organics a Safe Haven from Unsafe/Unneces ...
    Organic foods provide a refuge from the toxins, synthetics, and chemically processed ingredients that masquerade as food in the conventional food supply.Click here to read this article
  • The Food Movement's Multiple-Personality Disor ...
    The food movement has a case of multiple-personality disorder. One of its personalities is the foodie, who approaches the movement as a vehicle to increase sensual-aesthetic pleasure.Click here to read this article
  • Is Sugar Toxic?
    On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth," which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minute discussion of ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Guest-Post: Anna Dolidze on the ICJ Judgment i ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Anna Dolidze, a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. In 2007-08, Dolidze was
 an Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk at New York University Law
 School and a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute.  She has wor ...
  • OLC Issues Libya War Powers Opinion
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Office of Legal Counsel has released an opinion asserting the constitutionality of President’s Obama’s use of force against Libya.  Here’s how it frames the question: [T]he Presidentâs legal authority to direct military force in Libya turns on two questions: ...
  • Council of Europe Calls on Congress to Pass Av ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness The Council of Europe continues to monitor death penalty practices around the world and call out friendly states that fall short of full abolition.  Last week the Council passed a resolution (full text here) reiterating its support for abolition and cal ...
  • Self-Publishing Legal Scholarship
    by Roger Alford I read with great interest Professor Bainbridge's post a few weeks ago about self-publishing legal scholarship. The discussion Bainbridge linked to in that post by Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler about self-publishing (and expanded upon here) is even more interesting. (Eugene Vo ...
  • Detention and Interrogation in the LA Times, a ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The LA Times has a good story on the complete backing away of the CIA from any new detentions or interrogations in counterterrorism under the Obama administration (though it started back under the Bush administration).  It describes a general paralysis ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Teenage Mutant Theocrats
    Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights reports racist "birther" attacks on President Obama, discussions of the conspiracy behind the problem facing America (complete with anti-Semitic illustration), Christian nationalism, anti-environmentaliSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • TOP U.S. MIL OFFICER TELEGRAPHED COVERT INTEL ...
    A position paper written by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen in January 2009 candidly advocates the use of covert U.S. military power as a means to overcome political opposition to what he terms "overt" intervention.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Not ...
  • World Health Day Awareness Campaign for Anti ...
    The main aim of World Health Day, this year is "Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread" and focuses on the need for governments and stakeholders to implement the policies, prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellne ...
  • The Heavy Cost of Nitrogen Pollution
    Nitrogen pollution costs Europe between 70 and 320 billion euros ($100bn-$460bn) per year in its impact on health and the environment, according to a major European study launched in Britain on Monday.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Antigravity! Trumps "Dark Energy" for the Acce ...
    An exciting new theory says that antimatter could exist in the voids between galaxy clusters and superclusters and that some kind of repulsive gravity �- antigravity �- is pushing the Universe apart. The new theory is a direct challenge to the acceptedSubmitted by Lilith Cohen to Science & Tech ...

Angry Indian News

  • Michigan Authorities Seek To Curtail Fundament ...
    Michigan Authorities Seek To Curtail Fundamentalist Christian Anti-Islamic Protest In Dearborn UNITED STATES/MICHIGAN -- (APNS) - In the United States a Michigan county prosecutor has filed a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Bait and switch behind Libya intervention | So ...
    Bait and switch behind Libya intervention | SocialistWorker.org: "By Alan J. KupermanApril 14, 2011EVIDENCE IS now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • OECD: U.S. Has Highest Incarceration Rate, 9th ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for April 18, 2011: "New figures show the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world, while ranking ninth worst in social spending. According... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US Intelligence Veteran Defends Bradley Mannin ...
    US Intelligence Veteran Defends Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks | Andy Worthington: "The story of Pfc Bradley Manning, the young US Army intelligence analyst allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ANG Statement Concerning the Execution of Vitt ...
    ANG Statement Concerning the Execution of Vittorio Arrigoni | ANG: "With immense remorse, the Aboriginal News Group (ANG) offers its condolences to the family, friends and associates of Vittorio... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Warning of a 'new Vietnam' in Libya as British ...
    ShareThisWarning of a 'new Vietnam' in Libya as British military advisers go in --Ten strong team will help set up opposition headquarters to fight Gaddafi --Government forced to deny claims of 'mission creep' --Officials admit they are sending advisers because war is not going to plan --MPs dem ...
  • Afghan blast leaves 10 NATO casualties
    ShareThisAfghan blast leaves 10 NATO casualties 20 Apr 2011 Taliban-linked militants have attacked US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, killing and wounding ten foreign troops in the war-torn country. The militant attack took place on Wednesday when a car bomber hit US-led forces' a convoy in B ...
  • Japan consumers may bail out nuke plant owner
    ShareThisJapan consumers may bail out nuke plant owner --Government looks at tax hikes to pay for damages, rebuild quake-stricken region 19 Apr 2011 Japanese consumers would be on the hook for nuclear damage payments and earthquake reconstruction costs under two tax plans the government is consi ...
  • Four killed, hundreds injured in Yemen
    ShareThisFour killed, hundreds injured in Yemen 19 Apr 2011 Yemeni regime forces have killed at least four anti-government protesters during fresh nationwide rallies demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation. At least three people were killed in the capital city of Sana'a and another ...
  • NATO strikes Tripoli, Aziziyah, Sirte
    ShareThisNATO strikes Tripoli, Aziziyah, Sirte 19 Apr 2011 NATO warplanes have launched airstrikes on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the city of Aziziyah in the north and Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirt in the east. In Brussels, NATO said alliance warplanes have attacked comman ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
  • Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
    Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
  • I went over my twitter limit...
    So I'm just going to make a few notes: -Ignatieff was right when he says Harper's offering "fantasy economics". He also answered the financial question directly. And Harper seemed to make eye contact for the first time. And then went back to the camera. Harper: "Every credible economic analyst" ...
  • Cancer is sexy
    I don't have a TV, so I just checked if my livestreaming CBC is working and it seems to be, so I will be able to watch the debate tonight. Two chapters left to go in Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" and I also just picked up Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power" yesterday and have read chapter 1. A ...
  • Yes, you can be too nuclear-safe
    Before there was Bruce Carson, there was Maxime Bernier, who left government documents at his girlfriend's house. To put this in context, I don't think that these state documents should be treated with tremendous mystical secrecy - that isn't the point. They are probably mostly banal. The point ...

treehugger

  • What Do Corporate 'Best Practices' Look Like i ...
    Image credit:Business Roundtable. Sustainable Growth Initiative Report This guest post is by Marian Hopkins of the Business Roundtable. It's admittedly been a while since my last post on TreeHugger.com, but it's not for a lack of news. On the contrary, the members of Business Roundtable ...
  • Robots On Steroids: Recycled Trash Sculptures ...
    Photos: Giuseppe Fogarizzu, courtesy of Andrea Petrachi. Above: Rec, 2010. Camera lens, lighthouse, VCR Heads, audio connectors, lamp sockets, headphones. Artists who get creative with so-called "junk" never cease to fascinate us here at TreeHugger, and Milan-based artist Andrea Petrachi (a.k ...
  • Cocoa and Black Bean Brownies with Raspberry Sauce
    Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch This recipe was created exclusively to pair with the 2009 Late Harvest Mourvèdre from Cline Cellars. The wine has deep notes of espresso, dark chocolate and lush berries. It never feels heavy due to its surprise hint of eucalyptus. In fact, eucalyptus is present in all ...
  • How to Make the Simplest Vegetarian Soup Ever ...
    Image credit: CHOW From how to make tofu to a video about why eating guts, brains and genitalia is green, I've become a huge fan of the foodie-centric video content provided by CHOW. It's not all green related, but there is a strong bias toward real food, fresh, seasonal ingredients, and a ...
  • Transit's New Tools: Avon Ladies, Tech, and Te ...
    Avon advertisement via theotherwayworks via flickr and Creative Commons license. There's nothing like a quick trip to Disneyland to lighten the wallet, and reinforce the dominance of our car-centric culture. The entire fun complex in Anaheim is surrounded by 12-lane...well, super streets. I ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN rights expert urges Algeria to guarantee fr ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression Frank LaRue on Tuesday called on Algeria [press release] to "guarantee the right to freedom of opinion and expression" including decriminalizing defamation. LaRue noted that, despite significant progress since the 1 ...
  • Supreme Court rules federal court may hear sta ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 6-2 Tuesday in Virginia Officer for Protection and Advocacy v. Stewart [Cornell LII backgrounder] that a state agency can sue state officials in federal court to remedy a violation of federal law. The Virginia Office for Prote ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments in global warmin ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website, JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] regarding whether electric utilities contributed to global warming [JURIS ...
  • Tunisia court drops charges in case that trigg ...
    [JURIST] A Tunisian court on Tuesday dropped charges against a police officer who incited protests in several Arab countries when she allegedly slapped a local fruit vendor. Police woman Fedia Hamdi was accused of slapping Mohamed Bouazizi [TAP report] in December in a dispute during which Bouaz ...
  • House files motion to defend federal marriage law
    [JURIST] The Republican-led US House of Representatives [official website] filed a motion [text, PDF] Monday with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] seeking to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Michelle Obama's Plane Was Not in 'Danger'
    What is up with the WaPo's scare coverage of aviation? A story on line just now leads this way, emphasis added: "A White House plane carrying Michelle Obama came dangerously close to a 200-ton military cargo jet and had to abort its landing at Andrews Air Force Base on Monday as the result of an ...
  • 'In Financial Circles, It's Pretty Well Known ...
    Everybody knows that Donald Trump is a showman, and that's helped rocket him to a level of political celebrity most people wouldn't have imagined. But it looks to me like Trump is about to experience the downside of sudden political fame. That downside is scrutiny. Trump doesn't seem to mind--in ...
  • James O'Keefe Can Kind of Moonwalk
    I can honestly say I don't know what to make of this. Background info: O'Keefe was arrested outside the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu in January 2010 for attempting to infiltrate her office, with accomplices dressed as phone-company guys. At first, it seemed like he was there to tap her p ...
  • How Donald Trump Will Kill Birtherism
    A hopeful theory about politics, information, and mass culture Donald Trump is now king of the birthers. On its face, this is a good thing for birtherism. The phenomenon has long wanted for a popular figure to carry its banner forward, from the musty corners of conspiracy theory, into ...
  • The Least Dangerous Criminals in America
    Why are some federal prosecutors and senators so eager to waste resources on lawbreakers who do us no harm? Should the agency charged with stopping terrorists, human traffickers, and international street gangs spend time going after online poker sites? That's what the FBI has done. How many m ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Eminent Israeli Historian, Israel Prize-Winner ...
    Yes, it took me aback too when I first read it, but the most distinguished living Israeli historian, Yehudah Bauer, says that the current Israeli government, in its attempt to maintain the Occupation and its refusal to recoginze a Palestinian state, is “anti-Zionist:” “I am speaking from a Zioni ...
  • Israeli TV Exposes Suppressed Video of Botched ...
    **for the English subtitles, watch the video on Youtube and click on the Closed Caption icon located to the right of the Flag icon. The Only Democracy in the Middle East™ has yet another event (Hebrew) for which it should be proud tonight.  Channel 2 news has exposed a shattering video recorded ...
  • Which of the Four Sons are You?
    First, let’s get out of the way the little problem of there being Four Sons in the Passover haggadah instead of Four Children or–God forbid–Four Daughters.  Let’s just say I’m going to make an editorial decision and use “sons” as interchangeable with “children,” and including “daughters,” in th ...
  • Hebron Settler Leader: ‘Burn Awarta to Ground, ...
    The settlers of Hebron are a particularly nasty bunch, the meanest of the mean, most vicious of the vicious.  For many of them, the only good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian.  As if to prove my point, the chief propagandist media-whore of the Hebron community released a statement about the I ...
  • Shabak Removes Gag Order Concerning Alleged Na ...
    The Israeli Shabak, those crackerjack sleuths, have broken, if they are to be believed, a major Nazareth terror cell composed of three boys, aged 18-19, who’d been planning unsuccessfully for two years to create weapons to kill Israeli police and soldiers.  I’ve already reported the arrest of A ...

Ode Magazine

  • Learning to cope with the unpredictable
    By: Anne Thomas Last night Izumi came home and told us frogs were all over the road below her mother’s house. They usually appear in the heat of summer and croak they joyous songs all night. But there they were in mid-April and on a rather cool night a ...
  • Wonder wall
    wonder wallPhoto: urbanarbolismo You can take in San Vicente del Raspeig’s main square at a glance: town hall, library, concert hall. The only thing the center of this rural town near Valencia, Spain, was missing was plant life. Or so thought Jose Maria Chofre, of the ...
  • The spirit of "gambatte" in Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas I thought my most recent letter would be one of the last. But I am finding that writing my impressions and feelings allows me to put small frames around the enormity of life now. A story here, an image there, a sign of hope and courage ...
  • Prevailing in Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas The following letter was written before last night’s strong earthquake. But even so, much of it still applies. Last night’s quake was very forceful. We either dove under tables or braced ourselves in door frames until the major tremblin ...
  • How words create the world we live in
    By: Anne Thomas Recently I have been writing a lot, using words to put a circumference around my experiences here in tsunami-damaged Japan. In doing so, I realize how much words do create the world we choose to live in. Just as the Talmud says, "We do ...

OpEd News

  • "From Steel Gray to Green"
    Oped from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Business Forum about the necessary requirements to make Pittsburgh the green city of the future.
  • Mad World
    Anti-depressants and other psychiatric medications are uniquely and universally prescribed to treat theoretical causation. The already corrupt prescription drug racket functions at it's most base in the field of psychiatry, preying on the most vulnerable and defenseless among us.
  • The Cure for Plutocracy: Strike!
    Burns argues that for the last 30 years, since 1980, the labor movement has sought ways to succeed without employing the fundamental tool required, and that employing that tool is a choice available to the labor movement and to all workers immediately without waiting for anyone's approval.
  • Don't Go Near the Water
    Pro-corporate forces from Washington to Wall Street want you to believe that the chemical stew has magically disappeared without adverse impact, leaving healthy coastal communities, pristine beaches, unharmed ecosystems, undisturbed wildlife, and perfectly safe seafood.
  • BP anniversary: Toxicity, suffering and death
    The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster has caused the biggest chemical poisoning crisis in US history, experts say.

Switchboard

  • How American Ingenuity Can Reduce Our Pain at ...
    Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco How can we reduce our pain at the gasoline pump, clean up the air, and spark American ingenuity? This week, leaders from industry, government, and non-governmental organizations are all ...
  • A Golden Future for the Renewable State
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco While Congress stalls on America’s clean energy future, California is already making renewable energy the resource with which we’ll power our way to the future. Just last month, the California Legislat ...
  • Media scan 4/19: Gulf oil disaster, carbon pol ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide With tomorrow marking the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil disaster, Frances Beinecke was interviewed on the nationally syndicated Diane Rehm Show, emphasizing that greater oversight and safegu ...
  • Oil Spill Amnesia Bills Pass House Natural Res ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC As the 1-year anniversary of the BP Gulf oil disaster approaches, it appears that many members of the House Natural Resources Committee are suffering from amnesia.  Indeed, on April 13, the Committ ...
  • Though No Dirty Water Riders Passed, New Budge ...
    David Beckman, Senior Attorney & Director, Water Program, Los Angeles Over the course of the grueling budget process, NRDC and our partners managed to beat back harmful policy riders that had little to do with cutting the deficit and everything to ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Unity of Command
    Awesome. The first question the British will face is “Whose army?” For they will find themselves advising a ragtag rebel force that cannot even agree on who its top officer is, amid squabbling between two generals who both come with unsavory baggage. The dysfunction was on full display here this ...
  • Theology
    I’m an atheist, and this isn’t really what I hear when I listen to people debate theology.  Indeed, I quite enjoy theological debates when they’re held at a level that I can understand.  The process of working forward from premises to find unusual or surprising implications is altogether enjoy ...
  • Today at the Court
    Anytime a “sovereign immunity” claim loses, I’m happy. It’s interesting to see that Scalia wrote the majority opinion.   As I’ve said before, the whole line of sovereign immunity cases are a particular embarrassment to Scalia’s “textualism.”   Say what you will about conservative commerce cla ...
  • Today In Unconvincing Economic Reductionism
    I find this paper interesting for a different reason than Matt does; namely, that it’s a classic example of “drawing inferences far beyond what your data can actually support.”   Even if we assume arguendo that the GOP increased its vote share by 2.25% in 1864 because manufacturing interests w ...
  • Uh…
    Post-Lawrence, I don’t really understand what it means to say that some states still “outlaw” sodomy.   But the text of, say, the dead Michigan law does give a reminder of the sheer level of wingnuttery involved in the former prohibitions.  .

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE PRACTICE: The abandonment of Dodd-Frank
    Outright repeal remains unlikely, but regulatory subversion may leave the act a hollowed-out shell.
  • OPINION: Obama's U.N. Authority?
    Only the elected representatives of Congress, not the U.N., can authorize the United States to use military force against another nation.
  • Federal Circuit: Reissue applications can be u ...
    The Federal Circuit reversed a holding by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. That board had ruled in December 2009 that filing a reissue patent application that kept all the initial patent claims and only differed from the original by adding narrowe ...
  • Justices give global warming case a chilly rec ...
    Seven of the eight justices participating in oral arguments in the case of American Electric Power v. Connecticut offered comments or questions that appeared critical of the scope or concept of a suit against major utilities that claims their output of greenhouse gases is a public nuisance under ...
  • Inmate who computer-hacked guards must pay res ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld a lower court's order requiring a detainee convicted of hacking a prison computer system to pay for credit-monitoring services for prison employees.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Do not discuss the chemicals – Lessons f ...
    So, I’m posting this email I received from the RDA (responsible Drilling Alliance) out of Williamsport, PA because it is full of all the things that I’ve been certain of since the gas companies and their land men showed up, but now there is actually some proof. At least it is proof enough for me ...
  • PennFuture workshop: Gas and Our Water
    Gas and Our Water: Legal tools for watershed advocates dealing with drilling in the Marcellus Shale Saturday, April 16 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre This workshop will give grassroots conservation and watershed groups, concerned citizens and volunteers the legal tools necessary to protect our wat ...
  • Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
    Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
  • Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
    Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...
  • Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
    Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...

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.

environment 360

  • Reserve to Save Asian ‘Unicorn’ Established in ...
    The government of Vietnam has created a 39,000-acre reserve to protect the elusive saola, a critically endangered two-horned antelope-like mammal known locally as the “Asian unicorn.” The saola, or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which is described as a primitive AP/WWFA saola member of the bovine fa ...
  • Mining Threatens Grand Canyon and Other Landma ...
    Mining companies have exploited outdated U.S. laws to stake claims for gold, uranium, and other minerals at 10 national parks and wilderness areas, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, according to a report by National Park ServiceThe Grand Canyon the Pew Environment Group. While mining ...
  • Invasive Mussels Trigger Major Ecological Shif ...
    The rapid spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused an unprecedented ecological shift in lakes Michigan and Huron, stripping the massive freshwater lakes of life-supporting algae, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers. While Michigan Sea GrantA qua ...
  • Threats from Mekong Dam Highlighted as Constru ...
    As the governments of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia prepare to decide next week whether to proceed with construction of a massive dam on the Mekong River, a new report from the conservation group WWF warns that the dam could have a devastating impact on fish in the river and threaten the ...
  • The Cerrado: Brazil’s Other Biodiverse Region ...
    While Brazil touts its efforts to slow destruction of the Amazon, another biodiverse region of the country is being cleared for large-scale farming. But unlike the heralded rainforest it borders, the loss of the cerrado and its rich tropical savanna so far has failed to attract much notice. BY ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The E.U. Cracks Up - Finns Against Portugal Eu ...
    Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it’s merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead. The core issue is whether Finland ought to be paying for bailouts for other EU states. In reaction to establishment support for the bailout, voters ousted the pro-bailout ruling party and gave an upset v ...
  • EU Prepares To Invade Libya With Ground Troops ...
    The United Nations is set to rubber stamp an EU invasion force of ground troops that would be sent into Libya under the cooked up pretense of “humanitarian aid” and empowered to fight if Gaddafi forces threatened to impede their mission to “secure sea and land corridors inside the country,” anot ...
  • Dr. Zahi Hawass, Fake Chamber Scandal
    Only days after being sentenced to a year’s jail sentence, former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities "Zahi Hawass" could be in trouble yet again, evidence has emerged that he may have staged a false project, live on T.V. to fool the people of Egypt, and the world! In 2002 a robot was sent to explo ...
  • "The Way Back" is Hollywood's first film about ...
    The Way Back is a unique and groundbreaking film: It represents Hollywood's first attempt, ever, to portray the Soviet Gulag in meticulously researched detail. I know this to be true because I was a historical consultant to Weir. He asked me for advice because I wrote a book about the Gulag, but ...
  • Scientists Teleport Light
    Researchers from Australia and Japan have successfully teleported wave packets of light, potentially revolutionizing quantum communications and computing. The team, led by researchers at the University of Tokyo, say this is the first-ever teleportation, or transfer, of a particular complex set o ...

Russia Today

  • EU instructors will teach Libyan rebels
    European members of the NATO-led coalition bombing Libya are sending military instructors to the rebel capital, Benghazi.
  • Sukhoi Superjet systems can make up for any pi ...
    With the first Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 jet delivered, RT caught up with the man charged with leading the project, United Aircraft Corporation company chief Mikhail Pogosyan.
  • Living below poverty line in Georgia
    Georgian authorities claim the fight against poverty is one of their top priorities. But even foreign help does not appear to be making a dent in the deep desperation experienced by many Georgians.
  • Campaigning heats up in Egyptian elections
    The next chapter in Egypt's handbook on democracy will see free elections held in September. Rather than a path towards open democracy, radical Islamic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are gaining ground in the polls.
  • America only one step away from recession
    Global finance chiefs are warning that swift action is urgently needed to escape a new wave of economic crisis. And the annual spring gathering about the world economy produced a dreadful financial forecast.

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

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

Tippers News

  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...

The Freeman

  • The Mainstream Media and the Bonds Case
    If the Bonds case tells us anything, it's that the media watchdogs are foxes guarding the henhouse.
  • S&P Issues Negative Outlook for U.S.
    “Wall Street sent Washington officials a concrete signal that itâs worried about long-term deficits on Monday, with Standard & Poorâs unveiling of a new ‘negative’ outlook on U.S. debt.” (The Hill) Warning. Warning. FEE Timely Classic “What Spending and Deficits Do” by Henry Hazlitt
  • Online Poker Bankers Feel Government Heat
    “Federal prosecutors are using aggressive new tactics against online poker companies based abroad — charging the people who provide U.S. banking and financial services to them with multibillion-dollar money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy, and seizing the websites they operate.” (Washington ...
  • Closing Social Distance
    The free market, in the large and the small, not only closes social distance, it also helps form connections that we could never have imagined.
  • Closing Social Distance
    The free market, in the large and the small, not only closes social distance , it also helps form connections that we could never have imagined.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
    Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...
  • VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
    By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
    The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...
  • VOICES: TVA's Bellefonte plant is a nuclear Fo ...
    By Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com ...
  • NC senator pushing to end campaign finance law ...
    Perhaps more than any other North Carolina politician, Sen. Jim Davis owes his place in the state legislature to Republican millionaire donor Art Pope. And now, Davis is the lead sponsor of a bill that Pope and his network of conservative groups have made a top priority this year: to dismantle ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The profits of local instability
    A “reasonable” amount of localized political instability in major oil-exporting nations is an extremely profitable situation for relatively stable oil exporters.  Saudi Arabia, among other, oil exporting nations is seeing the value of their oil exports increase dramatically as the civil war in ...
  • A bit more on hedonic adjustments
    Hedonics, in economics, is essentially the idea that if something is better than it used to be, it is effectively cheaper, so inflation is less than it seems. In comments, BDBlue posted this: In Queens, New York, on Friday, William Dudley was bombarded with questions about food inflation, and hi ...
  • Core CPI is exactly the wrong thing to watch
    Our lords and masters (h/t Americablog): Those trends came as real income dropped 0.5 percent for the month. The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent after rising by the same margin in February. That was in line with economists expectations. Core CPI is vindicatio ...
  • The Budget and Obama’s Speech
    Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]
  • The Budget and Obama’s Speech
    Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Serbian scientists campaign to save science mi ...
    Posted on behalf of Mico Tatalovic. Serbian scientists are up in arms after the science and education ministries were merged in a restructuring of the government last month. Within a day of the announcement a Facebook group formed, currently with close to 4,000 members, and then a website ...
  • Amazing ancient arachnids appear again
    The world’s largest fossil spider has been unearthed in Mongolia. Nephila jurassica sp. nov. dates from the Middle Jurassic, some 165 million years ago. Paul Selden, ChungKun Shih and Dong Ren of the Capital Normal University in Beijing describe the beastie in this week’s Biology Letters. ...
  • Mekong River Commission defers Xayaburi dam de ...
    Posted on behalf of Jane Qiu. Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam gathered today in the Laotian capital Vientiane to discuss whether to approve the Xayaburi dam which the Laotian government has proposed to build on the Mekong river. Following concerns over the dam’s ecological and social ...
  • Disappointment and surprise as promising HIV d ...
    A major clinical trial on promising anti-HIV drug Truvada has been ended early after it became clear it would be “highly unlikely” to prove effective in preventing new infections. Family Health International (FHI), the non-profit overseers of the phase III trial, described the development as ...
  • Embryo DNA swaps appear safe so far, commitee ...
    Britain is a step closer to allowing DNA swaps that, when combined with in vitro fertilization, may spare children from inherited mitochondrial diseases. The techniques - which involve transferring chromosomes from an egg containing faulty mitochondria to one without mutations - could be allo ...

new geography

  • Life and Death in the Labor Market
    The Wall Street Journal recently listed the Top 10 Dying Industries, via research firm IBISWorld. Some industries didn�t just see temporary decline during the recession � some won�t recover and will slowly (or quickly) disappear. IBISWorld�s data format is a little different than ours, and it ...
  • Malthusian Delusions Grip Australia
    Entrepreneur Dick Smith wants Australian families to be subject to China-like population doctrine. Families should be limited to just two children, the father of two and grandfather of six says, because our population growth is something like ‘a plague of locusts.’ Yet in reality, as in ma ...
  • Getting Married Naked
    One of my girlfriends just invited me to attend her wedding ceremony next month. In our short conversation, I learned that she and her husband have already moved into their brand new, three-bedroom condo (we barely have any detached houses, called villas, in China), purchased a new car, and ...
  • The Census’ Fastest-Growing Cities Of The Decade
    Over the past decade urbanists, journalists and politicians have hotly debated where Americans were settling and what places were growing the fastest. With the final results in from the 2010 Census, we can now answer those questions, with at least some clarity. Not only does the Census tell us ...
  • Yuri Gagarin’s Brave, Brilliant Leap into the Dark
    Yuri Gagarin was my hero. For a child just nine years old on 12 April 1961, the day he flew into space, he appeared intrepid, unassuming, and cool. Above all, he appeared in black and white. This was not the glossy, sunlit, bright blue Florida-sky ethic of American efforts in space, all ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Gold Futures Top $1,500 on Outlook for Escalat ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Gold futures rose to a record $1,500.50 an ounce as U.S. debt concerns weighed on the dollar, boosting demand for the precious metal as an alternative investment. Silver surged to a 1980 high. The greenback dropped against the euro on speculation that the European Central Bank wi ...
  • Florida: State Investigates Campaign to Provid ...
    Via: Orlando Sentinel: State labor officials asked their inspector general Monday to investigate why a Central Florida agency wants to spend public money to furnish the unemployed with capes. Dubbed the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge,” a $73,000 public-relations campaign by Workforce Central Florida f ...
  • JFK Directives Regarding Sensitive UFO Informa ...
    Even as complex as the JFK assassination milieu is, over about 25 years of personal interest and investigation into the event, I never thought it would go there. Click through for the source documents. Via: AOL News: Do you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here’s one for you. And it’s ongo ...
  • Britain: Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil ...
    Via: Independent: 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 Brit ...
  • U.S. Government Printing Office Needs 350,934 ...
    Update: U.S. Government Printing Office Deletes Solicitation Page and “Jacket Number” Specification Document I thought that might happen, but not after just a few minutes. So: Here’s a screenshot of www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=chicago before it was taken down: It’s also still v ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is ...
    In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have ...
  • Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
    Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing.  Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months.  Now those price increases are ...
  • 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
    If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while.  New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
  • Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
    Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
  • 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
    How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...

Desertification

  • Investment strategies aimed at helping smallho ...
    INVESTING IN AGRICULTURE KEY TO ENDING EXTREME RURAL POVERTY IN SOUTH ASIA â UN New York, Apr 19 2011  3:05PM South Asia continues to have the largest concentrations of poor rural populations despite the fact that the wider Asia-Pacific region … Continue reading →
  • Opuntia (nopal) to combat desertification (Wil ...
    One of the most interesting plants to combat desertification is the spineless prickly pear (in Spanish NOPAL) : conservation of the soil, production of biomass, food, fruits (tuna), juice, jam, fodder, medicine, construction materials, … Learn some basic things on … Continue reading →
  • Iran and Iraq to fight desertification and san ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.presstv.ir/detail/175298.html Iran, Iraq to fight sandstorms Iran’s Environment Protection Organization (IEPO) says the country will sign a contract with Iraqi environment officials to fight desertification and sandstorms. âIraq, Saudi Arabia a ...
  • Desertification processes (Google / Vaisala)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification vn179_Research_on_desertification_processes Research on desertification processes Marikka Nevamäki / Editor in chief / Vaisala / Helsinki, Finland. Research on desertification processes. About 41 percent of the world’s land surface is dry … http://www.va ...
  • Anti-desertification (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification Anti-Desertification | Facebook Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Anti-Desertification, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Anti-Desertification. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anti-Desertification/166661360039118

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Surprise! You’re not voting!
    By Alison@Creekside Updated below You really have to wonder what was going through the head of Michael Sona, communications director for Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke, when he barged into the special advance ballot arranged by Elections Canada for students at Guelph University, ...
  • Amusing videos to conquer sex-trafficking!
    by Rachel Krueger I love youtube videos and am opposed to sex trafficking.  I think it’s safe to say these two sentiments extend to a large percentage of the population.  So why am I baffled by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s hilarious "Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ videos?"  They feature foxy ...
  • Debate: By not losing, Harper won
    By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn't, so I can't. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, ...
  • The Cons’ G8 legacy: $100,000 gazebos
    By Alison@Creekside When the G8 leaders stayed for one night at the Deerhurst Resort as part of the G8/G20 $1.2-billion bunfest, their one-night stay probably didn't afford them the opportunity to fully appreciate all the benefits of the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Slush Fund spent in Industry M ...
  • Enough with the gay mice
    By Jodi A. Shaw Yet another study of homosexuality has been released, this one suggesting that a neurotransmitter is the remote control for sexual preference in mammals. Yi Rao, a neuroscientist at Peking University, and his collaborators engineered male mice unable to produce serotonin, who ...

libcom

  • Christchurch: A Class Quake
    christchurch-earthquake-3.png Tragically, a major earthquake hit Christchurch on 22 February. Much of the city has been destroyed, including about one-third of the Central Business District. At the t ...
  • Lawlessness and crisis in Greece while Portuga ...
    tumblr_lgah1b2Rz91qaqd5eo1_500.jpg As the Greek government struggles to enforce austerity on its protesting citizens, Europe's bankers whisper about the possibilities of never getting their money bac ...
  • Professional Carpet Cleaning - DIY Tips
    Regardless if you seek the services of a professional or whether you do it yourself the most important thing to take into account is to go slowly enough that you eradicate as much moisture as you can. Regardless if you seek the servi ...
  • Death toll mounts after defeat of 2009 Ssangyo ...
    SsangYong.jpg Two years after the brutal crushing of the Ssangyong Motors strike and occupation in South Korea, an increasing number of sacked workers have died prematurely. It ...
  • GE returns billions to public... Not
    general.jpg USA Today and the Associated Press fall for a prank article by activist group US Uncut, causing General Electric stock to plummet billions. US Uncut, a burgeoning g ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
    Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.

Scotts Contracting

  • Call Today for Missouri Renewable Energy
    Missouri Renewable Energy Bill moves to the House Floor Your Calls Needed NOW! HCS HB 613 which reinstates portions of the voter enacted Renewable Electricity Standard will be heard on the Floor of the Missouri House of Representatives this week. After many hours of hard work by the Renewable En ...
  • MO Officials Enact Legislation that opposes Vo ...
    Missouri lawmakers outsource renewable energy, jobs to other regions of the country PRESS RELEASE February 23rd, 2011 Contact: PJ Wilson, co-director of Renew Missouri pj Jefferson City (February, 23rd 2011) – Missouri lawmakers have rolled back key provisions of the voter-approved Renewable Ele ...
  • 3rd Congressional Voting Report
    Kudos to MO Senator McCaskill in Cancelling out MO Sen Roy Blunts Votes and the Big Business he supports!!! April 18, 2011In this MegaVote for Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District: Recent Congressional Votes Senate: Fiscal 2011 Health Care Overhaul Funding Senate: Fiscal 2011 Planned Parenthood ...
  • Tax Day for US-Payday for Big Oil.
    Dear Scotts Contracting, It may be tax day for you and me, but it’s payday for Big Oil. In fact, many oil companies will get paid twice today. Exxon, for example, despite making billions in profit last year, paid no taxes and actually received more than $150 million in rebates from the IRS. Like ...
  • EPA Admin and Ag Sec to Travel to Iowa-Meeting ...
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 901 N. Fifth St., Kansas City, KS 66101 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations EPA Administrator and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to Travel to Iowa April 19 for Meetings with Farmers and Renewable Energy Leaders Contact Informati ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • NGOs: $100 million/yr investment spreads democ ...
    WASHINGTON — Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American government-financed organizations were promoting democracy in authoritarian Arab states. read more
  • آزادی اینترنت؛ ایران، رتبه‌ی اول از آخر
    هرگاه سخن از محدودیت دسترسی به اینترنت و چرخش آزاد اطلاعات و فهرستی از ناقضان حقوق کاربران اینترنتی به میان می‌آید، چین نخستین کشوری است که از او آن به عنوان بزرگترین «دشمن اینترنت» یاد می‌شود. اما شاید کمتر کاربری انتظار یافتن نام کشورهای دموکرات را هم در این فهرست داشته باشد. read more
  • کارگردان "ظهور بسیار نزدیک است" دستگیر شد
    رنا: در پی پرداخت به مستند منحرف ˝ظهور بسیار نزدیک است˝ در برنامه ˝به سوی ظهور˝ و انتشار مصاحبه‌های گوناگون در اینباره علی‌اصغر سیجانی روز گذشته دستگیر شد.read more
  • انتقاد شورای همکاری خلیج فارس از "مداخله ایران ...
    شورای همکاری خلیج فارس خواستار توقف "مداخله ایران" در امور داخلی بحرین شده است.read more
  • پافشاری وزیراطلاعات به برکناری یکی ازمعاونان،ب ...
    به گزارش خبرنگار پارلمان نیوز ارگان فراکسیون خط امام مجلس شورای اسلامی در پی عزل عبداللهیان معاون حقوقی و امور مجلس وزارت اطلاعات از سوی حجت الاسلام حیدر مصلحی وزیر اطلاعات ،احمدی نژاد با این تصمیم وزیر مخالفت کرد و تاکید نمود تا معون برکنار شده ابقا گردد.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Leftgatekeepers Infiltrate the Progressive Mov ...
    Wesbster Tarpley, in Barrack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography, uses the example of the Ford Foundation to outline how left gatekeeper foundations, often backed by CIA funding, have taken over some of the Cointelpro-type counterinsurgency functions of the US government. It’s really impossible ...
  • The “Cointelpro” Role of Left Ga ...
    The two most prolific contemporary writers regarding foundation funded Cointelpro-style counterinsurgency tactics are historian and journalist Webster Tarpley (in Barack H Obama: the Unauthorized Autobiography) and Australian-born academic researcher Michael Barker. A list and link to all Bark ...
  • The Nation Magazine and the CIA
    Bob Feldman’s unraveling of the indirect CIA funding received by the Nation and Radio Nation is the most instructive in demonstrating how “pass-through” funding works (see http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/nation_ned_1.html). According to their tax returns, the Nation Institute receives ...
  • The Ford Foundation and the CIA
    Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the first, in 1967, to investigate the use of the Ford Foundation and other foundations as “conduits,” “pass-throughs,” and “fronts” to disguise CIA funding for domestic operations (it’s technically illegal for the CIA to operate on US soil under federal law). ...
  • The Role of Left Gatekeeping Foundations in Su ...
    Since the October 2008 economic collapse, American workers have faced an unprecedented “austerity cuts,” with major hits on their livelihoods and labor and pension rights. Yet Americans, unlike the rest of the world, don't respond by taking to the street in the millions. Why is this? Many prog ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

big think

  • Private Ventures to Replace Space Shuttles
    What's the Latest Development? N.A.S.A. has turned to private industry in order to maintain America's presence on the International Space Station (I.S.S.). Recently awarding $269 million in contracts to four companies, the government space agency is seeking a national solution to ferrying ...R ...
  • The B.P. Oil Spill, One Year Later
    What's the Latest Development? One year after B.P.'s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, "The oil isn't gone; it's just not where we can see it," says�Samantha Joye, a University of Georgia researcher. During five�sea floor�expeditions since the spill, Joye has has found oil coating coral ecosyst ...
  • Money Is Not King in Climate Debate
    What's the Latest Development? A new report out of American University in Washington D.C. says that environmental lobbies have closed the financial gap with their opponents. Author of the study and Big Think blogger, Matthew Nisbet said that with the pro-environmental lobby's ultra-wealthy don ...
  • How Will the World End?
    What's the Latest Development? There are at least seven ways the Earth could be�pulverized�even before our Sun turns into a red giant 5 billion years from now. Hypervelocity stars are one. The literal shooting star, these balls of fire millions of miles across have such a high velocity that th ...
  • 657 New Barrier Islands Discovered
    What's the Latest Development? Using satellite images, topographical maps and navigational charts, researchers have identified a total of 2,149 barrier islands—657 more than the 1,492 previously thought to exist. "This provides proof that barrier islands exist in every climate and in every tid ...

Information Liberation

  • "Minor Mistake" by Police Leaves Man Paralyzed ...
    A non-criminal who consumed and sold non-state-sanctioned drugs is now paralyzed and rotting in a jail cell after state-sanctioned criminals in uniform tazed him while fleeing for his freedom, causing him to fall 8-feet and break two vertebrae leavin...
  • Cop Who Shot Pace Uni. Student Named 'Officer ...
    NEW YORK (PIX11) - As the investigation continues into the shooting of Danroy "D.J." Henry, the popular Pace University football player shot by police last year, a police union decided to give the "Officer of the Year" award to the man who gunned him...
  • Video: Cop Pepper Sprays Baby Squirrel
    Shocking video of Officer MASING a baby squirrel on Kimbrough Middle School Campus....
  • TSA Threatened Parents Before 6-Yr-Old was Gro ...
    The parents of a six year old girl who was subjected to an enhanced pat-down at the hands of the TSA appeared confused and disturbed in an interview on ABC News* Good Morning America today as they called for a change in security procedures. Sel...
  • Update: YouTube Musician Evan Emory Sentenced ...
    Evan Emory*s cunning attempt at musical comedy turned very serious, very quickly. The 21-year-old Michigan man won*t be laughing as he spends the next two months in the Muskegon County Jail. The whole nightmare for Emory began when he posted a vid...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Climate Change Partisanship, Understanding, an ...
    Carsey Institute http://bit.ly/eYF4BW [From Press Release] Most Americans now agree that climate change is occurring, but still disagree on why, with opinions about the cause of climate change defined by political party, not scientific understanding, according to new research from the Carsey Ins ...
  • Federal Agencies’ Sustainability and Ene ...
    Council on Environment Quality  | Office of Management and Budget http://1.usa.gov/ha5Uyh EPA Scorecard (for example) On April 19, 2011, 24 Federal agencies and departments released, for the first time, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Sustainability and Energy Scorecards. These scoreca ...
  • Gaining Traction: Will Consumers Ride the Elec ...
    Deloitte http://www.deloitte.com/electricvehicle [Green Car Congress] Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Global Manufacturing Industry group conducted a global survey to explore consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The online survey captures the views of more than 12,000 consumer ...
  • Direct Impacts on Local Climate of Sugar-cane ...
    Nature Climate Change  (Published online before print: April 17  2011)  doi:10.1038/nclimate1067 / by Scott R. Loarie, David B. Lobell, Gregory P. Asner, Qiaozhen Mu& Christopher B. Field http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1067.html [Green Car Congress] A new study ...
  • Governing Geoengineering Research: A Political ...
    Rand Corp. / by Robert J. Lempert and Don Prosnitz http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR846.html Geoengineering, the deliberate altering of the earth’s climate, represents a risky and, for many, a frightening proposition. But the concept has attracted increasing interest in recent years ...

Scientific American - News

  • Searches for Human Remains Combine High-Tech w ...
    FBI aircraft are performing flyover imaging runs of an area on Long Island where local authorities have already discovered 10 sets of human remains . The bones and bodies appear to be the work of a serial killer--and perhaps multiple killers--who dumped the bodies in brush near the island's sou ...
  • A Bicycle Built for None: What Makes a Riderle ...
    Be kind to your bicycle, for you may need it more than it needs you. [More]
  • Coast Benefits: NASA Announces Retirement Home ...
    The launching and landing of space shuttles has always been a fairly coastal affair: The shuttles take off from Florida and almost always touch down in Florida or California. (Once, in 1982, a shuttle landed at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor.) NASA is continuing that coastal tradition wit ...
  • Looking Down on Deforestation: Brazil Sharpens ...
    Brazil's clear-cut deforestation rate led the world just five years ago. And between 1995 and 2006 an average of 19,497 square kilometers of forest was cleared in the Amazon annually, or an area equal to that covered by roughly 14,700 American football fields.Starting in 2006, however, this tren ...
  • Peruvian Gold Comes with Mercury Health Risks
    PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru -- On a busy, dusty street beside a huge open-air market, signs reading “oro” mark shops that trade in gold. The customers, mostly men in work clothes and rubber boots, have just arrived from the mining camps to sell their gold and wire money home.Inside, shopkeepers heat ...

First Truths

  • The Real Terrorists
    I commented on the Iraq hostage situation among other things: Terrorist attacks, if indeed they are disproportionately directed at the U.S. and its surrogates, are, while monstrous and morally detestable, the desperate convulsions of a people trapped and oppressed by the weight of empire. As Gre ...
  • For Our Own Good
    I discuss the regulatory state for C4SS: Well, if they’re our last hope, then there really isn’t any way out of state capitalism’s shrewd schemes to bleed us dry and sell us poison. Barrett never bothers to consider, though, what it is that enables corporations to “cut corners” against the inter ...
  • Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
    The Empire couldn't care less about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, I argue in a commentary for C4SS: For the novel’s superpower Oceania, then, as for the United States, defeat of an enemy that is “unconquerable” by design is neither possible nor even desired. Since Afghanistan, in and of itself ...
  • "Meritocracy" in the Middle East
    For C4SS, I examine the substance of statist "meritocracy" in Bahrain: Free market anarchists regard the meritocratic credo of the state capitalism as an integral organ of that oppressive system not because we see all people as possessed of the same abilities, but because it is not through any a ...
  • Removing Obstacles or Erecting Them?
    European Union insanity comes under my fire for the first time during my C4SS tenure: Worse still, like other “free trade” treaties across national boundaries, EU membership requires accession not just to these suffocating rules, but also to many more related to intellectual property. The marque ...

Media Co-Op

  • First radio segment of the Montreal Media Co-o ...
  • Traduction française d'un texte important : L ...
    Tiré du magazine when women attack! Traduction française trouvée dans la Mauvaise Herbe En tant qu’anarchiste, je suis pour confronter l’oppression directement et physiquement, peu importe ou et quand elle se présente. Je ne suis pa ...
  • Revolt and Crisis, from Athens to Vancouver
    Comrades from Occupied London to speak in Vancouver tomorrow Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London, just arrived in Vancouver for the final stop on their North American tour, prom ...
  • Tar Sands development edging closer in Trinida ...
    RBC appears at Trinidad government forum extolling their record in Canada's tar sands In December of 2010, Rainforest Action Network [RAN], issued a press release that was full of praise for the Royal Bank of Canada adopting a new framewor ...
  • Droit au but !
    Film documentaire Nouveau film d’Ãve Lamont – auteure primée de Squat ! et Pas de pays sans paysans – L’imposture aborde la prostitution par les témoignages des premières concernées. Elles démolissent le mythe qu’il s’agirait d’un «  ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Globalization and its discontents: a new paradigm
    I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
  • The world crisis as it develops
    David Seaton's News LinksThe other day we went shopping at a huge hypermarket of the French, "Carrefour" chain on the outskirts of Madrid. We hadn't been there for about a year and we were struck by how the quality of the store-brand, discount merchandise had deteriorated in that time. Not that ...
  • Too bad Obama can't talk like Ricky Gervais
    David Seaton's News LinksI wasn't really paying attention, but I read that there was this big hoohah about Ricky Gervais presentation of the 2011 Golden Globe awards, so out of idle curiosity I dialed it up on YouTube. I was ravished. It was wonderful. All these fat egos of today's overbloated ...
  • "A Hard Day's Night" remembered
    David Seaton's News LinksI saw this film one sultry, summer night in Dalton Georgia, of all places, and two days later I joined a crowd of university students that were playing and singing the songs from the film in Washington Square in New York. Not long after that I saw the Beatles perform the ...
  • The Nephew from Hell: Edward Bernays and the s ...
    David Seaton's News LinksA couple of summers ago I read a lovely book called "The Metaphysical Club - A Story of� Ideas in America", a Pulitzer Prize winner, by Louis Menand.� The book is about a group of philosophers: William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Destroy Urinary Tract Infections Without Antib ...
    The effect of cranberry proanthocyanidins (PACs) is dependent on the dose. Higher doses are significantly more effective at maintaining urinary health. A new study supports the theory that at least 36 milligrams of proanthocyanidins (PAC) are needed to reduce the adhesion of E. coli bacteria t ...
  • Crafty Food Labeling Tricks the Industry Hopes ...
    What's the first thing you need to know about reading food labels? Too often, people with the best of intentions don't realize that unless you read the entire label, you're not going to get a true idea of the food's ingredients. Even then, you have to know how to interpret what the label says to ...
  • The Power of Words
    A short film that illustrates the power of words to radically change your message and your effect upon the world.
  • Your Gut Bacteria Linked to Your Risk for Hear ...
    A new mechanism has been discovered that connects phosphatidyl choline (also called lecithin), a common dietary fat, along with intestinal microflora, to an increased risk of heart disease. The study shows that the heart risk of people with a diet high in the lipid depends on how the micro-organ ...
  • One of the Most Promising Anti-Aging Breakthro ...
    Thousands of studies have been published on telomeres and telomerase. They are known to maintain genomic stability, prevent the inappropriate activation of DNA damage pathways, and regulate cellular aging. In humans, telomere length and integrity plays a role in diseases, disease susceptibility ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • End the Russian roulette on bridges
    I would like to make a prediction: the one-kilometrelong section of the Turcot Interchange that was cordoned off this past weekend ("Turcot traffic to get worse: one lane closed; inspection finds cracks in concrete," Gazette, April 16) will be propped up from below over the next few weeks, and r ...
  • Jones's victims deserve prompt action from taxman
    It's been a long hard slog for victims of Earl Jones's Ponzi scheme as they attempt to get some of their own back from the losses they incurred.
  • The PQ isolates itself from ordinary Quebecers
    There's small comfort to be taken from the backtracking that delegates to the Parti Québécois convention did on a motion to have a PQ government revert to obligatory French-only commercial signs.
  • The Parti Québécois and its tired arguments
    "" I wish I could be a fly on the wall at a PQ convention. It must have a very Orwellian feel to it. They pull out the old dusty list of groups they could attack and check them off one by one. Let's see: This morning's agenda is deride ethnics and money; next on the checklist, religions that don ...
  • The federal election campaign
    "" As one of the organizers of Thursday's vote mob at McGill University, I would like to thank The Gazette for its editorial about youth voter turnout ("An admirable push to get out the youth vote," April 16). However, I disagree with the statement that "all it takes is setting aside a little ti ...

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is ...
    In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have ...
  • Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
    Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing.  Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months.  Now those price increases are ...
  • 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
    If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while.  New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
  • Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
    Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
  • 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
    How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 9th April 2011
    "The failure of the euro will signify the failure of the European ideal, and that is why eurocrats fight so hard for it. What should have been a club of free-trading nations over-reached itself, and sought to unite people with little or no common culture, politics, language or economic history i ...
  • And when former East Germans accuse Theresa Ma ...
    I really can't be bothered to write any more about this beastly character than has already been written in the title of this post. Foul woman. Resign in shame, Theresa May. Read the story HERE, HERE and HERE. You can't trust the Tories on national sovereignty. (nor can you trust Lab ...
  • Census stand-off: Round 1
    Just had a ring on the chimes of the Clock Tower. Eeek! A door-to-door gestapo agent, wanting to know where my census form is ("Well, I did post it...") Good grief. Either I'm getting old, else the evil state is now using twelve year olds to do it's dirty work, knowing we'd find it more di ...
  • Shock, as David Cameron finally does something ...
    My goodness. It's taken a while, but David Cameron has - or will, depending on the report you read - done something that we can all support. He will BLOCK Gordon Brown from landing the top job at the IMF. That the IMF would even consider Gordon Brown as their top man tells you all you need ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th April 2011
    "Those who remember their Charles Dickens will remember exactly why Madame Defarge knits: she is recording in code the names of those members of the elite whom she will ensure are killed when the revolution comes. So I offer this as fair warning to the LibDem MEP Andrew Duff: I can knit." ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
    Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...
  • VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
    By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
    The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...
  • VOICES: TVA's Bellefonte plant is a nuclear Fo ...
    By Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com ...
  • NC senator pushing to end campaign finance law ...
    Perhaps more than any other North Carolina politician, Sen. Jim Davis owes his place in the state legislature to Republican millionaire donor Art Pope. And now, Davis is the lead sponsor of a bill that Pope and his network of conservative groups have made a top priority this year: to dismantle ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khadr’s Lawyers Challenge Pentagon Witness in Plea for Clemency Defense lawyers for Omar Khadr, who in October pleaded guilty to five war crimes at a military commission at Guantanamo and received an 8-year sentence, are challenging the qualifications of a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal from Chinese Uighurs The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from five Chinese Uighurs who have been detained at Guantanamo for nearly nine years. The detainees, who are not considered a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Attack on Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Kills Two A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry said Monday that a would-be suicide bomber wearing an Afghan Army uniform got past several layers of security and opened fire inside the ministry … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In New Video, al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Weighs in on Egypt, Libya In a one-hour online video apparently recorded before the NATO intervention in Libya, al Qaedaâs Ayman al-Zawahiri celebrates the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and calls upon Muslims … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. Official: Three Detainees Released By Obama Have Engaged in Terrorism or Insurgency During testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, State Department official Dan Fried, special envoy for Guantanamoâs closure, said that U.S. intelligence agencies believe three of … Cont ...

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 31 Useful Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Keyboard/Mouse Sh ...
    Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' will be released in another 8 days or so. We have followed the development of Ubuntu 11.04 very closely. In fact, we have reviewed all the previous developmental releases of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal so far including�Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Alpha 3 and Beta 1�releases. In ...
  • Community Wallpapers for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Re ...
    Community contributed wallpapers collection for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is finally released. The collection include 17 brand new wallpapers and this latest set of community contributed wallpapers for Ubuntu is definitely the best so far in my opinion. We will feature a few of the wallpapers ...
  • AriOS Review - Yet Another Ubuntu Derived Linu ...
    Recently, the distribution AriOS made it to DistroWatch's database. I had read Dedoimedo's review of AriOS earlier, where he said that it is a user-friendly and very pleasant distribution to use, and it is much better than its predecessor mFatOS. Intrigued, I decided to try it out. AriOS Re ...
  • Nautilus Elementary is Back! PPAs for Ubuntu 1 ...
    Nautilus Elementary is perhaps one of the most talked about projects in the Linux world last year. Later in the year 2010 though, Nautilus Elementary project was discontinued and the developers decided to concentrate on an entirely new file browser project called Marlin, which will eventually fi ...
  • HTC Flyer Official Presentation Video - A Good ...
    HTC Flyer is among the most keenly awaited Android based tablets for 2011. HTC Flyer is also going to be the first ever Android based tablet offering from HTC. One of the highlights of this tablet device is that, it comes with a Scribus. But don't worry, the device does have a capacitive touchsc ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • SINNING AGAINST ZIONISM : TRAITOR TO COUNTRY
    �Hell is where many false commitments must be unlearned.� (Ricardo J. Quinones, Dante Alighieri) � Prof. William A. Cook / STAFF WRITER � Richard Goldstone�s journey from Justice to Sinner represents the spiritual act of dying in the Zionist world. By recanting his own report he has attempted to ...
  • David Miliband’s Afghan Endgame Slightly off Mark
    By Khalil Nouri Staff Writer / Editor It is typical to scoff at David Miliband’s position for his post-political career. But in a recent New York Times article the former U.K Foreign Secretary showed that his intellect and judgment on a number of key issues, including how to bring the Afghan War ...
  • AMERICAN RADICAL: The Trials of Norman Finkels ...
    AMERICAN RADICAL The trials of Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein. A revealing documentary about the scholar and the ardent advocate for Palestinian rights and world justice.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need 1. Europe’s brigades remain a contentious issue.  Just last year, Adm. James Stavridis, commander of U.S. Europe ...
  • VA/DOD Smart Phone App Helps Veterans Manage PTSD
    WASHINGTON – Veterans dealing with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can turn to their smart phones for help anytime with the PTSD Coach application created by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense. “This is about giving Veterans and Servicemembers ...

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

  • A lack of courage in environmentalism today
    As environmentalism has moved away from its simple goals of cleaning up the world we live in it has adopted intangible goals which are addressed by the politics of fear and represents a movement lacking courage.
  • Ryanair fails the ethics test
    Ryanair guilty of discrimination and uncivilised behaviour but is appealing the court’s decision, blaming what happened on Luton airport.
  • Time-pass
    http://www.247mahjong.com/Mahjong.swf created by Mahjong
  • He is the cow
    This is the cow. The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch.
  • zu Googleberg lives on: Guttenberg wants to su ...
    The University of Bayreuth has nearly finished its investigation into the plagiarism allegations that cost Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg his job as defense minister. He doesn't want the university to publish its findings.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Morning Deals
    ClothingLee Jeans: [Apparel] 30% Off Entire Purchase + Free Shipping EventLane Bryant: [Apparel] 30% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon 30APRLBEddie Bauer : [Apparel] [Free Shipping]Victoria's Secret: [Clothing & Accessories] Free Tote w/Swimwear Purchase use coupon code SWIM11.Macy's: [Jewelry] Mac ...
  • FTC Cracks Down On Fake News Sites Shilling Fo ...
    The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is taking a harsh legal stand against 10 companies and individuals marketing acai berry weight-loss products online by using fake news websites which imply endorsement from major media outlets -- including our sibling publication Consumer Reports. According to ...
  • Always Wanted To Be A Mystery Shopper? Consume ...
    UPDATE: Consumer Reports had technical difficulties with the email used in this ad, so please resend your application to CDeLena@consumer.org. Yep! That's right! A legit mystery shopping job! (Don't worry, you don't need to wear a mask!) Interested? Read on... Would you like to be part of a g ...
  • White House: Docs Need Training Before Prescri ...
    Too many doctors are writing unnecessary prescriptions for painkillers like OxyContin and fentanyl, says the White House. That's why the administration is looking to push through legislation that would require training for physicians who wish to write prescriptions for these drugs. The goal is ...
  • An iPad 2 Smart Cover Is Much Less Entertainin ...
    Jeremy's iPad 2 has been backordered, and he has to wait another month or so to receive it. That's okay, though. They sent along his Smart Cover in advance, and he's found at least as many uses for the cover as he would have had for the iPad. Kind of. My New iPad2...Smart Cover! [YouTube]

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Extortion Politics: Why Won’t American Busines ...
    As the government approaches its borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion, Republicans are seeking political advantage over what conditions should be attached to raising that limit. This is a scandal — or should be. Raising the debt limit shouldn’t be subject to party politics. Economic extortion shoul ...
  • GITMO Proceedings Will Be “Stalinist Show Tria ...
    The future trials planned for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be “Stalinist show trials” as their preliminary proceedings “have already proven them to be Travesties of Justice,” a distinguished international law authority warns. “Even worse yet,” says Francis Boyle, professor at ...
  • ‘Spillionaires’: Profiteering and Mismanagemen ...
    by Kim Barker, ProPublica A version of this story was co-publishedwith The Washington Post. The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money. Some people profiteered from the spill by charging ...
  • Using Blacks for “Saving America from the Bond ...
    No faith community knows better than the Black Church how religion-based bigotry shapes prejudicial attitudes many white Americans once held toward African Americans in this country. Religious texts have been interpreted to justify some of this country’s worst crimes against our community, resul ...
  • President Obama’s Real Proposal (And Why It’s ...
    Paul Ryan says his budget plan will cut $4.4 trillion over ten years. The President says his new plan will cut $4 trillion over twelve years. Let’s get real. Ten or twelve-year budgets are baloney. It’s hard enough to forecast budgets a year or two into the future. Between now and 2022 or 2024 t ...

NewsAlert

  • For many grads, the old college try's not enough
    The Chicago Tribune reports on college graduates who work in the mall:Nationwide, about 1.94 million graduates under age 30 were mal-employed between September and January, according data compiled by Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. Sum sai ...
  • The Myth of Debt-Free Living
    Gary North
  • Poll: Finances dictating college, career choices
    AP
  • United Farm Workers Fight Dwindling Membership
    The Sacramennto Bee reports on the dream of card check for some:Experts also say such a system would boost the union's membership, which has fallen from more than 70,000 in the 1970s to what officials say is about 27,000 today. That's based on the number of people who work under union contract a ...
  • Blago: Axelrod asked him to mull pres. run
    UPI reports:Barack Obama's top campaign strategist and senior adviser asked Rod Blagojevich to mull a 2008 presidential run, the disgraced ex-Illinois governor claims. "David Axelrod, who works for Obama and very correctly picked the right horse, after the 2004 presidential election, he called ...

JoNova

  • Cheap Influence in National Politics: How Pana ...
    Tim Blair broke the story of Tim Flannery claiming to be working for Panasonic. (But wait, I hear you say, how could that be,  we thought he was working for the Australian people?!) If you are a foreign multinational and you want to influence national Australian policies, you don’t need to spen ...
  • Is it possible our new chief scientist has dou ...
    The last chief scientist of Australia, Penny Sackett, was disappointed not to be invited to the cabaret at Copenhagen. She quit after she she felt “ignored” . Possibly she belated realized that the government may have appointed her to just so she would not disagree inconveniently with any of the ...
  • The sleepers awake: the siege begins
    The zeitgeist of the anti-tax revolt in Australia is beginning to gather momentum. In the last month I’ve met a dozen mining and business leaders, 6 elected members of parliament, and I’ve spoken to 450 pastoralists in remote Australia. Each time the theme is the same: businesses are afraid of t ...
  • The sleepers awake: the seige begins
    The zeitgeist of the anti-tax revolt in Australia is beginning to gather momentum. In the last month I’ve met a dozen mining and business leaders, 6 elected members of parliament, and I’ve spoken to 450 pastoralists in remote Australia. Each time the theme is the same: businesses are afraid of t ...
  • Ten more faulty assertions from Climate Minist ...
    Ten more faulty assertions from Climate Minister Combet Carter, Evans, Kininmonth, Franks Bob  Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks & Bill Kininmonth (Also on Quadrant, here and here.) In a speech given at the National Press Club on April 13th, Climate Minister Combet has yet again revealed that ...

ReNew America

  • Muslim Brotherhood proclaim true intentions in ...
    (Frank Gaffney) - The Muslim Brotherhood's mask is slipping in Egypt. Small "d" democrats there and elsewhere are alarmed by top Brotherhood officials who now aver openly what has been utterly predictable...
  • Investors express no confidence in Obama
    (Washington Times) - Wall Street doesn't believe Washington will get its act together and address the growing debt crisis. Markets tumbled Monday after the Standard & Poor's ratings agency raised a red flag over the deficit, going negative on the outlook for the U.S. economy...
  • Book review: Pointing a finger at the rogues
    (Wes Vernon, RA Analyst) - Andrew Breitbart is a rebel with a conservative cause. He grew up in the Hollywood atmosphere, was raised in a household of the conventional Hollywood mindset, used his pop-culture smarts to undercut much of the pop culture's political message, deployed "60 Minutes" go ...
  • Trump profits at Romney's expense
    (Washington Times) - Donald Trump isn't officially in the Republican presidential sweepstakes yet, but he's easily dominating the GOP stage -- taking another swipe over the weekend at would-be rival Mitt Romney, panning President Obama's budget speech and drawing a big crowd at a tea party rally ...
  • GOP, Obama battle for advantage on debt ceiling
    (Newsmax) - Who is in the catbird seat when it comes to dealing with the government debt ceiling? Republicans say that as the party of spending cuts, they are the ones, especially as polls show voters don't want to see the debt limit raised. But the White House thinks it has the advantage, The H ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • 100 Days of Disaster – VIDEO UPDATE
    I’ve got no idea if this will be on YouTube for a day, a week, or forever, but here’s the documentary for non-Aussies to see: 100 Days of Disaster My understanding is that it had 335,000 viewers which is average for 10PM on a Monday. I’m particularly happy with the overall 2012 angle that was [. ...
  • Baigong Pipes / Antikythera Device / Arctic Forest
    This is great fodder for Ancient Astronaut theorists. Over in China is a pyramid that has iron pipes within it, and heaps of pipes laying about outside. Like many such mysteries, the pipes could actually be naturally occurring – and Wikipedia cites similar, natural examples. But combined with a ...
  • 100 Days of Disaster
    I’m one of the interviewees for an Australian documentary, 100 Days of Disaster, screening tomorrow (Monday) on Channel 10 at 10pm. Patrick Geryl was also interviewed, plus I believe a few orthodox scientists, some religion experts and I think an astrologer. All being asked if we should expect t ...
  • New Alien Art Unearthed
    The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes. If you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancien ...
  • Fingers on the Pulse
    I’ve not expressly promoted other websites or blogs until today, because most that belong to the 2012 meme do not get my approval. These do, and they might even be pivotal if something eventful unfolds. I regularly find amazing information at these sites, and I recommend them for your perusal an ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
    Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...
  • VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
    By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
    The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...
  • VOICES: TVA's Bellefonte plant is a nuclear Fo ...
    By Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com ...
  • NC senator pushing to end campaign finance law ...
    Perhaps more than any other North Carolina politician, Sen. Jim Davis owes his place in the state legislature to Republican millionaire donor Art Pope. And now, Davis is the lead sponsor of a bill that Pope and his network of conservative groups have made a top priority this year: to dismantle ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Al-Qaeda Front May Emerge on Europe’s So ...
    Hopes by the Western anti-Libya military coalition that Gadhafi’s regime would fall quickly have been replaced by fears of a prolonged stalemate. The direst predictions are beginning to come true, particularly those by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan: that the Libyan crisis may go th ...
  • Geopolitical Implications of the World Economi ...
    Introduction The world economic depression is a dire threat to the national security of the United States. To date, little or nothing has been done to address the causes of the depression and rebuild the economy. With the lack of leadership and vision in the western world, the depression will co ...
  • The BRICS Reality Has Come To Stay
    It is possible to exaggerate the substantive outcome of the summit meeting of the BRICS countries last week in Sanya, China, and, equally, it may seem expedient to underplay its meaning and consequence. But three things stand out. First, it is no more possible to ignore the BRICS; simply put, it ...
  • BRICS and the Mission of Reconfiguring the World
    More than ever over the past decade, geopolitics watchers whose approach to international developments is – in line with the projections made by founders of the school of thought N.Ya. Danilevsky, O. Spengler, and A.J. Toynbee – premised in the assumption that distinct civilizations will oversha ...
  • Mujahedin Fighting for ‘Democracy’
    Iran’s Foreign Ministry is demanding that the European Union stop supporting the terrorists carrying out attacks against the Islamic Republic. Iran’s Foreign Ministry press secretary, Mehmanparast Ramin, said that the EU should stop providing asylum for terrorist organizations like Mujahedin-e K ...

BlogHer

  • Women’s Sports in the Media and Women in Sport ...
    Throughout the Women�s Final Four earlier this month in Indianapolis, a number of special interest events took place. Of particular note were two panels that addressed women, sports and the media. Women Talk Sports was fortunate to be able to host a town-hall style discussion April 2nd at the ...
  • Dancing with the Stars Recap: The Top 8 "Celeb ...
    It's Americana Week!!!! And no, I have no idea why. Now yesterday, it was tax day...which is often accompanied by anti-American government protests, but I'm guessing that's not why it was Americana Week. I'm still waiting for the explanation, and if they explained it, and I somehow missed it ...
  • What Defines a Runner?
    I just recently laid to rest my trail runners. Unfortunately, the smell, the worn-out hole, and missing sole was enough to put them to pasture. They were a good shoe and sturdy companion throughout this winter. I can say with sadness that they will be dearly missed. However, in times passing li ...
  • Become More of a Change-Maker for Yourself
    “Don’t wait until you are out of work or laid off to change. If we have learned one huge lesson from the current employment scenario, its pay attention to and keep changing with change.”
  • Study Finds Drug Resistant Bacteria in US Meat ...
    On Friday I heard a quick mention on the news about a study showing that much of the meat sold in the United States is tainted by drug resistant bacterias. This is from an article in the Seattle Times -- Tests Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Meat: Meat in the United States may be widely conta ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Thought Crime Drugs: Pills to Manipulate Morals
    What do you think about drug-induced altruism? Scientists are busy developing new field of drugs that can impact thoughts, feelings, and morals. Do you lack empathy? Are you homophobic or racist? Stingy and insensitive to ...
  • 13 Surprising Causes of Constipation
    Many who suffer from chronic constipation want help but are tired of chugging down fiber drinks or taking both herbal and over the counter stimulants. What if you could pinpoint and avoid some common routines ...
  • NY Times Asks, Is Sugar Toxic? The Bitter Trut ...
    The second half of the New York Time’s “Is Sugar Toxic?” focuses on previous studies in metabolic syndrome, or insulin resistance and how it relates to weight, liver fat processing, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Feeding ...
  • NY Times Asks, Is Sugar Toxic? The Bitter Trut ...
    Dr. Robert Lustig’s online lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” is rapidly gaining hits on YouTube, which might explain the New York Time’s irresistible urge to question the information. Lustig is a specialist on pediatric hormone ...
  • Vitamin D May Prevent AMD
    When a doctor determines macular degeneration, it might come with a suggestion to purchase equipment that the blind use to guide themselves. Almost a half-million of British people are partially blind due to the destructive ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Do W.Va. political leaders believe in science?
    The Gazette’s political staff asked the Democratic gubernatorial candidates  a pretty straight-forward question about global warming: Do you accept the science that global warming is occurring, and is largely caused by the emissions from coal-fired power plants? If so, what specifically would ...
  • UMWA backs Sierra Club suit to put Blair Mount ...
    More legal news that I didn’t get to on Friday: The United Mine Workers of America union has filed a motion asking to have its say in the Sierra Club’s lawsuit seeking to put Blair Mountain back on the National Register of Historic Places. In their motion, lawyers for the UMWA explain the signi ...
  • 4th Circuit tosses appeal of Judge Chambers&#8 ...
    Catching up on some legal action from Friday: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed the appeal of a November 2009 ruling that concluded federal regulators wrongly did not give the public enough input into the review of mountaintop removal mining permits. U.S. District Judge Robert ...
  • Search continues for worker at Idaho silver mine
    A sign for the Lucky Friday Mine is posted outside the mine in Mullan, Idaho, Saturday, April 16, 2011. An official with the Hecla Mining Company says a rescue operation is under way Saturday at the mine in northern Idaho. One miner reportedly is missing. (AP Photo/KHQ-TV) MULLAN, Idaho (AP) — ...
  • New report out on longwall damage in Pennylvania
    The Citizens Coal Council has a new report out today detailing the damage from longwall mining in Pennsylvania: Key among the Schmid & Company findings is the disproportionately large number of damaging impacts from the longwall mining method compared to the room-and-pillar technique. Longwall ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Don’t Be a Cryptic Ass
    via i.imgur.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsObama and Jesus | ImgurHalley’s CometAnatidaephobiaReaganomicsThis is my Favorite PictureMilitant AtheistsGrades Perspective
  • Burp Intruder Payload Methods Explained
    If you use Burp a good bit you’ve likely run into the question of what precisely the various Intruder Payload Methods do. Specifically, what are the differences between them? To refresh the memory, they are Sniper, Battering Ram, Pitchfork, and Cluster Bomb. The manual has good explanations, but ...
  • The iPhone is the World’s #1 Camera
    via thenextweb.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsElection Issues Infographic | TheNextWebThe MacTard Satisfaction MeterDon’t Be a Cryptic AssBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyFaith PalmXKCD Radiation Dose Chart
  • The Economist magazine pension issue | Philip ...
    How about the example of the one successful country full of smart people? Among rich nations, the only example the magazine could find is the Netherlands. They have “a higher ratio of pension assets to GDP than any other country”, with 100% funding, basically, for the actuarially predicted costs ...
  • The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going T ...
    You used to have a limited number of reasonably practical choices presented to you, based on what bookstores carried, what your local newspaper reviewed, or what you heard on the radio, or what was taught in college by a particular English department. There was a huge amount of selection that to ...

Fitwatch

  • Liberty condone policing and condemn protesters.
    It’s not surprising, or in the least unexpected, but in a report they released yesterday, Liberty have made it quite clear their sympathies lie far more with the police than with any protester engaging in civil disobedience. The policing of the demonstration on the 26th March, said Liberty, was ...
  • Warning – Police Surveillance is Big Bus ...
    This is the second of a couple of posts written by Kevin Blowe in advance of the ‘Standing Up To Surveillance’ conference hosted by Fitwatch and Netpol on Sunday. It is reproduced by permission from his blog Random Blowe In January, I idly speculated in a piece for Red Pepper that groups who inc ...
  • Rethinking the politics of kettling
    This is the first of two articles written by Kevin Blowe in preparation for the 'Standing up to Surveillance' conference tomorrow, at which he is speaking. Reproduced from his blog Random Blowe with permission. An online campaign calling for a ban on kettling seems, on the face of it, like a com ...
  • Political Policing, UKUncut and 26 March
    Last Saturday the police charged 138 people for peacefully occupying Fortnum and Masons with aggravated trespass. Most were kept for over 24 hours, had their clothing and phones seized, and were given bail conditions preventing them attending the royal wedding or Mayday. Many commentators have c ...
  • Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
    The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...

Worldwide 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 ...

reference frame

  • Bill McKibben's sermon at Power Shift
    Bill McKibben gave a 16-minute speech in front of the most fanatical and brainwashed children of the English-speaking world. I find it pretty amazing. Power Shift is an annual conference at which thousands of deluded young climate bigots engineer their chaotic plans to overtake t ...
  • Hopes for a U.S. government shutdown
    The U.S. debt ceiling has been USD 14.294 trillion - since last February when it was raised by unprecedented USD 1.9 trillion - and the actual debt is just USD 0.095 trillion lower than this value. The U.S. government shutdown is becoming a real possibility. It could come as early as ...
  • Why is the Earth so fat?
    Loop quantum gravity crackpots can be smelled from miles away The Earth resembles an oblate spheroid - an ellipsoid that is flattened towards a disk-like shape: the points on the equator are further from the center of the planet than the poles - by about 20 kilometers. Just ...
  • Feminazis assassinate the president of U.S. su ...
    The feminist Gestapo would love to deny top U.S. surgeons the right to conclude e.g. that semen is good for female health Dr Lazar Greenfield of the University of Michigan is a giant of surgery. In 1968, he invented a metal filter - the Greenfield filter - that prevented clots from tra ...
  • Did MEG see muons decaying to electrons?
    The MEG experiment, named after "muons", "electrons", and "gamma", tries to observe muons that decay to an electron and a photon. It's been initiated in Japan but it is currently running in Switzerland. μ- � e- + γ � or � μ+ � e+ + γ So far, no reliable evidence of such a flavor-chang ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
  • Citizen Audit Anniversary
    A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
  • The Missing Map
    In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.
  • A View from Portugal
    Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?
  • Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
    Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.

Tarpley

  • العربية
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخابرات الأمريكية الأمريكي Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab ...
  • Tarpley in Press TV Debate with Libyan Rebel S ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 15, 2011 This April 6th interview just recently became available. — webmaster
  • باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخا ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab Legion; Benghazi Rebel Council Stages Massacres of Black Africans; African Union Mediation Spurned by Western Imperialists; Qaddafi Forces Superior to Rebels; NATO aims at Partition of Libya, wh ...
  • “Wrap the World in Flames” — The US-Russ ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 Who was our friend when the world was our foe. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 18711 � At the point of maximum war danger between Great Britain and the United States, the London satirical publication Punch published a vicious caricature of US P ...
  • Türk
    International Main Menu Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén AL QAEDA: LİBYA’DAN YEMEN’E CİA AYAKLANMASININ PİYONLARI Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 3 Nisan 2011 Washington DC, 3 Nisan – İki haftalık NATO hava saldırıları, cruise ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Nevada Earthquake Swarm, Precursor?
    Hundreds upon hundreds of earthquakes have suddenly rumbled beneath an area 6 miles to the southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada, just during the past few days. Seismologists are expressing concern of this sudden activity partially because it is occurring on a previously unknown fault – similar to what ...
  • Why UT Took Delivery of 1 Billion in Gold
    The University of Texas just took delivery of 33 tons of gold, which according to World Gold Council statistics and the International Monetary Fund list of countries – gold holdings, would put UT at No. 49 in the world, just behind the country of Brazil. The keyword phrase here is ‘took delivery ...
  • 241 Twisters in 3 Days
    NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged a total of 241 tornado reports Thursday through Saturday, April 16,2011. 23 on Thursday 113 on Friday 105 on Saturday According to Dr. Jeff Masters, Ph.D. and Director of Meteorology of Weather Underground, these preliminary tornado reports are typically an ...
  • What in the Sky is Google Hiding?
    The following Google Sky coordinates evidently contain something very interesting – interesting enough to hide?? Having just researched a bit on recent asteroid discoveries (36 newly discovered near-Earth asteroids in the first four months of 2011 !), I came across this interesting anomaly durin ...
  • Asteroid Flyby, just discovered 7 days ago
    A 160 foot diameter asteroid named ’2011 GP59′ was just discovered days ago on April 8 by astronomers in Spain. It zipped past earth today, April 15th, at a distance slightly further away than the moon at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour. This is the type of thing that exemplifies some of the [...]

Fast Company

  • Meet Frida, The Robot That'll Staff The 24-Hou ...
    Swiss manufacturer ABB has revealed a prototype robot called Frida that's designed to be dexterous enough to replace a human being on a production line. It's a good thing that'll alleviate employee shortages, not subjugate the human race.Frida stands for Friendly Robot for Industrial Dual-arm As ...
  • How Foursquare's Improved Photo Sharing Does C ...
    Much-hyped and criticized startup Color is the high-school prom service of photo-sharing apps. Color lets partygoers kick the disposable camera habit--all photos can be shared in real-time, without having to get photos developed or wait for digital pics to be uploaded and tagged on Facebook. ...
  • MIT Creates The One Video Game You'll Be Thril ...
    "As game designers," MIT's Scot Osterweil says, "we're convinced that game playing is a lot like science: There is problem-solving, exploration, collaboration, hypothesizing, testing and learning from your failures.”Osterweil, research director of MIT’s Education Arcade, is one of the mastermind ...
  • The Big Thirst: The Secret Revolution In U.S. ...
    Fact: The United States uses more water in a day than it uses oil in a year. In four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year. Imagine if water got anything like the attention that oil gets--would we figure out how to take bette ...
  • Electronic Cigarette Maker Develops The Smoker ...
    The founder of Blu Cigs, battery-powered electronic cigarettes that mimic the look and feel of traditional cigs and deliver vaporized nicotine to users, believes he's discovered an innovation that could help his company compete with R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.Jason Healy, president of the C ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Ongoing War; Lebanese Leaders Against the ...
    It has been 21 years since the end of the Lebanese civil war. 21 years since the last spasms of violence reverberated through the country’s cities, towns and villages. More than two decades ago, a country torn apart, in ruins and in rubble, suddenly found itself at “peace.” Almost immedi ...
  • Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor ...
    This is a two-part interview (10 minutes total) conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Monday, April 19, in reference to what amounts to be an escalation in the regime-protesters confrontation in the city of Homs. The interview also addresses the question of infiltrators and ...
  • Jadaliyya Launches Culture Section
    Today�Jadaliyya launches its culture section;�an open space for creative, original, and critical texts about culture(s) in Arabic and English. We�seek to support cultural expression in a wide variety of sites and contexts, media and genres. To this end, we are interested in contributions ...
  • Independence, Nakba, and the Visual Archive
    As part of our recognition of the life, work and tragic death of Juliano Mer-Khamis (1958-2011), we are publishing an excerpt from Ella Shohatâs recent postscript chapter to the new edition of Israeli Cinema: East /West and the Politics of Representation (IB Tauris, London), which featur ...
  • Sultana: A Chapter from a Novel by Ghalib Halasa
    Ghalib�Halasa�was an author of seven novels, two short story collections, and several works of journalism, literary criticism, translation and political analysis. He was born in a Jordanian village near Madaba in 1932 and died in Damascus in 1989. He lived in Baghdad, Cairo, Beirut and D ...

mediagazer

  • CNN App launches for Android phones (Mohan Ram ...
    Mohan Ramkumar / The Next Web: CNN App launches for Android phones  —  Following on from the launch of its Android tablet app, CNN has unveiled an official app for Android smartphones.  —  For those wondering what the big deal is about launching the same app again, unlike iOS, Android tablets ...
  • The Pulitzer Eddie Adams Didn't Want (Donald R ...
    Donald R. Winslow / Lens: The Pulitzer Eddie Adams Didn't Want  —  For a long time after Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for “Saigon Execution,” he wouldn't speak of it.  He turned away questions about the picture, grumbling some dismissive rebuff like, “Everything's already been said about i ...
  • Coming Monday: First Knight-Mozilla innovation ...
    Marika Lynch / KnightBlog: Coming Monday: First Knight-Mozilla innovation challenge launches  —  On Monday, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership will launch its first innovation challenge.  The contest (one of three running through May) aims to accelerate media innovation by solving t ...
  • 'Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus': Breakfast ...
    Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer: ‘Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus’: Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart … Over crème brûlée oatmeal on Monday, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart talked sting videos.  Mr. Breitbart explained to the Transom that Breitbart blog protocol requires undercover vide ...
  • News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed By B ...
    Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed By Big Publishers, Gets Ready To Launch  —  News.me, Bit.ly's social news iPad app, was supposed to launch by the end of 2010.  But developers didn't submit it for Apple's approval until about a month ago.  —  Now it looks as i ...

Chemtrail News

  • help me find chemtrail photos
    Discussion about help me find chemtrail photos at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1450134/pg1
  • Mythcluescom – Free Access To World Class Cons ...
    Sunday was a massive spraying day in the Dallas area Chemtrails filled the sky for most of the day and I even filmed a notoriousblack chemtrail before ...www.mythclues.com/.../black-chemtrails-in-dallas-w-alex-jone...
  • Former Secret Chemtrail Facility Reveal ...
    In early 2010, Shepard Ambellas interviewed a whistleblower from inside the Evergreen Air Facility. For those who do not know, many researchers believe that ...bbnworldnews.com/.../former-secret-chemtrail-facility-reveale...
  • Mayday Chemtrails | Paranominal
    All things strange, weird and slightly unimportant. An examination of UFO's, paranormal activity, ghosts and unexplained phenomena.www.paranominal.com/unexplained.../mayday-chemtrails/
  • Chemtrail secret revealed by drunken pi ...
    Chemtrail secret revealed by drunken pilot. Submitted by Americandodo on Tue, 04 /12/2011 - 17:44. in. Off Topic. 1 vote. Just saw this article....not sure ...www.dailypaul.com/.../chemtrail-secret-revealed-by-drunken-...

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
  • Citizen Audit Anniversary
    A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
  • The Missing Map
    In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.
  • A View from Portugal
    Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?
  • Hansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
    Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AtR_BVSOuwStatistics: Posted by Travis — Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:48 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Wimpy wrote: Yo Mama wrote:Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote:Get lost, troll. We all no Wimpy is you. Yes. We all "no" Wimpy is me. Hey, Wimpy, how do you feel now that your buddy has accused you of being me? About the same as you. Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Tue Apr 19, 2011 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMzgEmrvs4Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:26 pm
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Yes. The Diamonds/Crude Oil comparison has become one of my new talking points. This also explains the wars in the middle east. If crude oil is not scarce, then it must get its value by being made scarce. Anyplace known to have a large amount of oil production must be controlled. Though I am ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Yo Mama wrote: Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote:Get lost, troll. We all no Wimpy is you. Yes. We all "no" Wimpy is me. Hey, Wimpy, how do you feel now that your buddy has accused you of being me? About the same as you.Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:35 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Reserve to Save Asian ‘Unicorn’ Established in ...
    The government of Vietnam has created a 39,000-acre reserve to protect the elusive saola, a critically endangered two-horned antelope-like mammal known locally as the “Asian unicorn.” The saola, or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which is described as a primitive AP/WWFA saola member of the bovine fa ...
  • Mining Threatens Grand Canyon and Other Landma ...
    Mining companies have exploited outdated U.S. laws to stake claims for gold, uranium, and other minerals at 10 national parks and wilderness areas, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, according to a report by National Park ServiceThe Grand Canyon the Pew Environment Group. While mining ...
  • Invasive Mussels Trigger Major Ecological Shif ...
    The rapid spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused an unprecedented ecological shift in lakes Michigan and Huron, stripping the massive freshwater lakes of life-supporting algae, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers. While Michigan Sea GrantA qua ...
  • Threats from Mekong Dam Highlighted as Constru ...
    As the governments of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia prepare to decide next week whether to proceed with construction of a massive dam on the Mekong River, a new report from the conservation group WWF warns that the dam could have a devastating impact on fish in the river and threaten the ...
  • The Cerrado: Brazil’s Other Biodiverse Region ...
    While Brazil touts its efforts to slow destruction of the Amazon, another biodiverse region of the country is being cleared for large-scale farming. But unlike the heralded rainforest it borders, the loss of the cerrado and its rich tropical savanna so far has failed to attract much notice. BY ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Surprise! You’re not voting!
    By Alison@Creekside Updated below You really have to wonder what was going through the head of Michael Sona, communications director for Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke, when he barged into the special advance ballot arranged by Elections Canada for students at Guelph University, ...
  • Amusing videos to conquer sex-trafficking!
    by Rachel Krueger I love youtube videos and am opposed to sex trafficking.  I think it’s safe to say these two sentiments extend to a large percentage of the population.  So why am I baffled by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s hilarious "Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ videos?"  They feature foxy ...
  • Debate: By not losing, Harper won
    By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn't, so I can't. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, ...
  • The Cons’ G8 legacy: $100,000 gazebos
    By Alison@Creekside When the G8 leaders stayed for one night at the Deerhurst Resort as part of the G8/G20 $1.2-billion bunfest, their one-night stay probably didn't afford them the opportunity to fully appreciate all the benefits of the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Slush Fund spent in Industry M ...
  • Enough with the gay mice
    By Jodi A. Shaw Yet another study of homosexuality has been released, this one suggesting that a neurotransmitter is the remote control for sexual preference in mammals. Yi Rao, a neuroscientist at Peking University, and his collaborators engineered male mice unable to produce serotonin, who ...

Daily Beast

  • Do Literary Gimmicks Work?
    From Steve Martin's art world games to a novel constructed like a dictionary, there's a slew of gimmicky new novels. Caryn James wonders if they equal good fiction. Those live-action newspapers from the Harry Potter books and films-with moving and...
  • Gov. Jan Brewer's Sanity Attack in Arizona
    The Republican governor's startling vetoes of "birther" and gun bills backed by the Tea Party have not upset her conservative base, and Democrats say it's all part of a plan to appease extremist voters. Terry Greene Sterling reports. A year ago,...
  • Murder Charge Latest Twist for Duke Lacrosse A ...
    Former exotic dancer Crystal Mangum has been charged with murder five years after falsely claiming three Duke lacrosse players raped her. The latest twist in her case forces the district attorney to walk a legal tightrope, writes David A. Graham. Just...
  • Facebook Woos Washington
    Obama hosts a town-hall at Facebook headquarters today, a sign of the social media giant's growing political power and its oddly symbiotic relationship with the president-he needs Facebook for reelection, it needs him to stay in Congress' good...
  • Nobel Laureate's U.N. Letter Warns of Ethnic U ...
    Shirin Ebadi asks the U.N.'s top rights official to aid Sunni minorities being killed and arrested in Iran's Khuzestan province, saying their repression by the government could trigger more violence in the country. Plus, Babak Deghanpisheh reports on...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Asia nuclear reactors face deadly tsunami risk
    The skeleton of what will soon be one of the world's biggest nuclear plants is slowly taking shape along China's southeastern coast — right on the doorstep of Hong Kong's bustling metropolis. Three other facilities nearby are up and running or under construction. Like Japan's Fukushima No. 1 p ...
  • In the battle with smart phones is i-mode dead?
    Ever since 1999, when the Web-service/portal known as "i-mode" first appeared on Japanese keitai (cell phones), Japan has been hailed as the world leader in mobile phone technology — until recently that is. For those of you who may not know, i-mode is the mobile Internet-access service built i ...
  • DPJ eyes sales tax hike for quake aid
    Prime Minister Naoto Kan's ruling Democratic Party of Japan is considering raising the consumption tax to 8 percent for three years in order to raise money for reconstruction of the Tohoku region from the devastation of the March 11 mega-quake and tsunami, DPJ senior lawmakers said Tuesday. If ...
  • Indict Chinese trawler skipper in Senkakus run ...
    The Chinese skipper who was arrested and released last September after ramming his trawler into two Japan Coast Guard cutters trying to shoo him away from the Senkaku Islands should be indicted, an independent judicial panel has concluded. The panel said in its Monday conclusion that the capta ...
  • A personal letter from a Miyagi hinanjo ...
    I never thought at my age, that I would be in this spot. But this is where I am at 74, in the taiikukan (ä½è²é¤¨ gymnasium) of a middle school in Miyagi Prefecture, now known as a hinanjo (é¿é£æ evacuation center) for people who lost their homes to the earthquake and tsunami that hit the regio ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Government implements new terror alert system
    The federal government on Wednesday implements a new terror alert system that will replace the color-coded terror alerts put in place after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "The National Terrorism Advisory System, which was developed in close collaboration with our federal, state, loca ...
  • Wednesday’s live video events
    President Obama pays a visit to Facebook headquarters today for a town hall meeting, and CNN.com Live will be there for all your coverage. Today's programming highlights... 12:30 pm ET - U.N. briefing on Libya - The United Nations humanitarian chief will speak with reporters on her trip to strif ...
  • On the Radar: Robot pitcher, Obama at Facebook ...
    It may not be able to break into what many consider the best pitching rotation in baseball, but PhillieBot will certainly be a major-league phenom when it throws out the first pitch at Wednesday afternoon's Philadelphia Phillies game. PhillieBot, a combination Segway, robotic arm and jai-alai-li ...
  • Heart Stopping Adventure
    wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.Turn down the volume on your computer for the next video:He's free-climbing, without ropes:
  • Heart Stopping Adventure
    wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.Turn down the volume on your computer for the next video:He's free-climbing, without ropes:

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