- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
- Corn Panic
By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
- Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.” A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 22
==== NATO’s Aerial Onslaught In Libya: 3,300 Sorties, 1,373 Air Strikes U.S. Introduces Armed Predator Drones For Libyan War Benghazi: McCain Hails Rebels As “Heroes” As Drones Are Deployed Libya: On The Eve Of A Ground Invasion? Libya: NATO Air Attack Kills Nine Including Utility Workers Video ...
- Stop NATO News: April 21, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan War: April 21 ==== Will Ongoing Conflicts Lead To World War? Clinton: NATO Will Remain A Nuclear Alliance U.S. Interceptor Missiles In Europe: Threat Of The Fourth Phase French Marine Killed, Nine Wounded In Afghanistan Afghanistan: Child Among 17 Killed In NATO Air Strike ...
- Roger Martin du Gard: From Nobel Prize in Lite ...
Roger Martin du Gard From speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm December 10, 1937 I should like to conclude with a more sombre hypothesis, although I am embarrassed to disturb this festive mood by arousing those painful thoughts that haunt all of us. However, perhaps the Swed ...
- Updates on Libyan War: April 21
==== NATO’s North African War: 3,148 Air Missions, 1,311 Air Strikes Like Afghanistan And Iraq: Libyan War Has Economic, Geopolitical Motives British Fighter Jets, Nuclear Submarine Target Libya NATO Warplanes Bomb Libyan Capital, Kill Seven Civilians New Suez Intervention: Britain Returns To No ...
- Stop NATO News: April 20, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 20 ==== Global Missile Shield: Two New U.S. Warships Equipped With Interceptors Britain Loses Another Soldier In Afghan War NATO’s Chemical Warfare In Afghanistan Report: NATO Backed Cyprus Coup, Turkish Invasion Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Belarus Nuclear Powe ...
- Radioactive Fukushima Plutonium And Strontium ...
By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer April 21st, 2011 Lucas Hixton Whitefield tips us off to the fact that the EPA has been detecting Plutonium and Strontium along the entire US West Coast since March 18th. EPA RADnet Reports Show Plutonium in US since March 18th We found a more complete R ...
- Mystery Illness Confirmed By Doctor In Louisia ...
The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas April 21st, 2011 A mystery illness that has plagued citizens in the Gulf of Mexico has now been confirmed by Dr. Mike Robichaux, a doctor based out of Raceland, Louisiana. “What’s been really unique about it is that patients have come in with a severe amount of memor ...
- Silver Liberation Army: In The Bunker at JP Morgan
Dont-tread-on.me By Silver Shield April 21st, 2011 What would a crisis be with out a good Hitler freak out video? Get inside the bunker of JP Morgue as the Silver Liberation Army over runs them. This video deserves to go viral. //
- Billboard Campaign and Protest Event: Seattle ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21st, 2011 Billboard campaign and protest event: Seattle supports Equal Rights for Palestinians Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) has launched a billboard campaign as part of a continuing effort to expose the misuse of U.S. taxpayer money to support Israel’s ...
- Dr. Steven Wing And Arnie Gundersen Discuss Gl ...
NotForSale2NWO April 21st, 2011 Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing and nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen, discuss the consequences of the Fukushima radioactive fallout on Japan, the USA, and the world. What are the long-term health effects? What should the government(s) do to protect citizens? Fair ...
- India: At least 20 injured in protests over Ja ...
By Danish Siddiqui Tue Apr 19, 2011 – MUMBAI (Reuters) – People protesting against a planned nuclear power plant at Jaitapur attacked a hospital and torched buses on Tuesday and at least 20 people were injured a day after an anti-nuclear activist was killed in police firing. Protests led by oppo ...
- Nepal: 3 articles on the strategic transition ...
Dahal swings back to peace, constitution KATHMANDU, April 20: Ditching the official party line of revolt, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has swung back to the line of peace and constitution floated by Vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai. In his three-page political document presented at the ...
- Bloomberg News: “Mideast Unrest Spurs Bu ...
April 21, 2011 By Tamara Walid April 21 (Bloomberg) — Business-jet operators say Middle East demand has jumped as much as six-fold as political unrest prompts companies and wealthy individuals to flee trouble zones. Abu Dhabi-based charter carrier Al Jaber Aviation has added 500 percent more fli ...
- On baiting the trap: recruiting troops for the ...
[US imperialism has had a hypocritical history regarding immigration. While hyping xenophobic anti-immigrant campaigns, (blaming "the outsiders" for the capitalist economic crisis), there are ongoing large-scale corporate and government moves to utilize migrants. These range from the superexpl ...
- Greece: Determined people’s resistance t ...
Firebombs fly in fierce clashes over Greece dump site Apr 15, 2011 Firebombs exploded and clouds of tear gas filled the air as helmeted riot police moved in on protesters on the edge of small Greek town Keratea, which is gripped by a rebellion against state plans to place a rubbish dump in the a ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
- Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- I am going on vacation, and you should, too
I am stepping away from the keyboard -- save for a blog post to go with Sunday's column, when it runs -- until Tuesday. I trust you, too, will have a fabulous weekend, and that you'll come back here next week and share stories of your adventures. Feel free to comment, though I don't anticipate ...
- Politics and Holy Week
Melissa Harris-Perry writes at The Nation: This year’s Palm Sunday was the first that I worshipped at my husband’s Catholic church in New Orleans where they observe the day with a brass band, enormous palms, a parade into the church and a spirit of enthusiastic reverence. There is no denying t ...
- The words for today...
...are from, as usual, the Dalai Lama, who says, via his Twitter account: Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever.
- That chocolate cross for Easter has nothing on ...
Sherry thoughtfully sent this link, in reply to this. I mean...chocolate crucifix lollipops? I really need to get out more, I think.
- Is this strange?
I found this chocolate Easter cross at my local pharmacy, and I think it's strange.
- Do 'Real' Activities Every Day, Not Just for T ...
Television was never a big part of my life growing up. As a parent, I aim to ensure that television doesn't become a big part of my own children's lives.Contributor: Samantha Van Vleet Published: Apr 19, 2011
- A Universalist's Celebration of Passover
Passover is a holiday that can include people of many faiths.Contributor: Tara M. Clapper Published: Apr 19, 2011
- How Should I Feel about Joining McDonald's Hir ...
April 19 is a national hiring day for McDonald's and its franchises. The company is going to hire 50,000 new employees including crew members, assistant managers and managers for many of its 14,000 stores and franchises across the US.Contributor: Summer Johnson Published: Apr 19, 2011
- Technology Gurus Make the 2011 TIME List of 10 ...
Wael Ghonim, Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg all made the 2011 TIME 100 list. The three have used technology in their own ways to empower, divide and connect people globally.Contributor: Marcia Robinson Published: Apr 21, 2011
- Frank McCourt May Need to Divorce Dodgers Afte ...
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has become a laughingstock, as his divorce from co-owner Jamie has put the team in a hole. With McCourt $400 million in debt, baseball had to go so far as to take over the Dodgers until he finally sells them for good.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Apr 21, 2011
- To Curb Malaria, Researchers Create Gene That ...
Scientists have taken a big step toward curbing the impact of malaria across the globe, but the breakthrough didn’t occur in a pharmaceutical lab. A collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Washington has produced a gene that the team was able to effect ...
- New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Ti ...
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have created a new material that is lighter, less dense, harder, and stronger than steel. But this material isn’t one of those breakthroughs that only sounds good on paper. It is paper, and it could be a game-changer for materials science if it ...
- Lasers Could Replace Spark Plugs, Making Engin ...
The spark plugs driving combustion in your car may soon be getting an optical upgrade, thanks to a team of Japanese researchers. Laser ignition systems, which are exactly what they sound like, could replace spark plugs as the primary means to ignite the fuel-air mix in engines, boosting fuel ef ...
- FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the ...
- Gallery: Urine Therapy
Is it ever OK to drink your own urine? No, but you can splash it on your face
- Libya: another neocon war
Liberal supporters of this 'humanitarian intervention' have merely become useful idiots of the same old nefarious purposes
- CPT MAY: BP Horizon, Sieg Heil!
By Captain Eric H. May, GT CO HOUSTON, 4/21/11 – It’s obvious that some virulent variant of the Nazi Partly is responsible for the BP Horizon disaster. It is obsessed with the obscure and occult, as well as with Hitler and the Holocaust. It is unmistakable and unmentionable, as well as maniacal ...
- Libya and hindsight
Hindsight can be a troublesome thing. I distinctly remember ranting on this very blog about Gaddafi’s barbaric treatment of his own people. I never went so far as to suggest that we should send in the gunboats, so to speak, but rest assured, I thought it. When I read David Cameron’s words to the ...
- GORDON DUFF: GADDAFI – BRIBERY, BLACKMA ...
ON EVERY SIDE AND YET NO SIDE, EVERYONE’S FRIEND AND ENEMY “WMD” STOCKS NEVER DESTROYED, LIBYA AN “ARSENAL OF LIQUID DEATH” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When Egypt’s Mubarak felt his grip on Egypt loosening, he called his friends in Tel Aviv. Three planeloads of riot gear and ‘oth ...
- Gilad Atzmon: The Israeli So-Called ‘Left’
We learned today that some 300 prominent Israeli left-wingers, including some cultural leaders, gathered in Tel Aviv to call for the Jewish state to embrace the creation of a Palestinian state. Among the petition’s  signatories were 17 winners of the Israel Prize and other leding intellectuals ...
- Yorkshire Water confident of no hosepipe bans ...
Yorkshire Water have told BBC Yorkshire that even if the rest of spring and summer turns out to be as dry as 1995, there will be no water restrictions in Yorkshire. 1995 was a disastrous year for the company. Reservoirs were full at the end of March, but a pipe network that was badly in need o ...
- Will the warm sunshine last for Easter?
We've had mixed fortunes at Easter over the years. Despite what we all might hope for, or think we remember, it is much more common for Easter weather to be poor rather than good. The last fine and warm Easter was in 2007. In fact April 2007 turned out to be the warmest on record - with April 20 ...
- March global temperature update
The global temperature anomaly for March according to NASA/GISS was 0.57c, up from 0.44c in February. Adjusted to the 1961-90 time period this is approx 0.46c compared to 0.33c last month. The Hadcrut3 global anomaly figure for March showed a smaller increase at 0.318c, up from 0.264c last mo ...
- Coldest March globally for 17 years.
Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
- An exceptionally dry March
High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
- Post Fukushima, French Still [Heart] Nuclear Power
Just when a nuclear power revival was supposedly in full flower, troubles with the technology at Japan's Fukushima facility are prompting a global reassessment of its costs and benefits. Yes, it's a virtually carbon-free technology. Yes, it weans you somewhat from importing fossil fuel from perp ...
- Euro Mideast Intervention = Own the Refugees?
We've heard this story before. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is usually credited for applying the Pottery Barn principle to foreign intervention. For international readers, Pottery Barn is a housewares retailer in the US. Instead of breaking what the Brits call "crockery," Powell ass ...
- Shorting America: $ Swoon Chronicles, 2011 Edn
[NOTE: It's time for rubbish collection again, and today's point of collection is familiar to all.] I am rather incredulous about others' fixation on the minimal movement on Treasury yields since S&P dropped its credit warning on the unsuspecting American public. First, it's early days--other ag ...
- GOP & Dems Agree: Whack Agricultural Subsidies
I will soon have more on the shameful budgetary shenanigans being waged Stateside, but something international trade followers can probably cheer is this: both parties' much-ballyhooed fiscal plans involve major rollbacks to American agricultural subsidies. As you would expect, states with large ...
- Is the US Really More £$%*ed Up Than the UK?
With the US heading towards a government shutdown by Friday lest they feed the whole unsavoury enterprise more scraps, let's just say that the UK at least has this one over its erstwhile wayward North American insurrectionists. (As if cutting a measly $73 billion from a trillion-plus dollar defi ...
- The iPhone, recording your movements wherever ...
It’s not just the iPhone 4 that records your movements, but all iPhones updated to iOS 4+. Two security researchers in the UK have uncovered a disturbing truth. It appears iPhone 4′s everywhere have been tracking their users movements with startling accuracy (unbeknownst to the users) and what i ...
- Why The US Is Totally Finished
Capitalism Fixes Problems & Preserves Democracy: Capitalism is what we should be relying on to fix our problems. Capitalism has it’s own ecosystem, just like biology’s ecosystem. An economic ecosystem that weeds out the weak, has parasites that eat the failures and new bacteria that evolves and ...
- Yellowstone Supervolcano Bigger Than Thought
The gigantic underground plume of partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano might be bigger than previously thought, a new image suggests. The study says nothing about the chances of a cataclysmic eruption at Yellowstone, but it provides scientists with a valuable new perspectiv ...
- Boy Demanded Sex from School Secretary to Keep ...
The 14-year-old pupil who outed a school secretary for leading a secret double-life as a porn star demanded sex from the woman to keep quiet, her legal team has claimed. The Canadian boy was suspended from school in March for creating a fake Facebook page in her name with a racy profile picture ...
- ‘More will die’: Mexico drug wars claim U.S. lives
The Mexican drug cartel issue is not a marginalized thing in the US, most drugs in the US come from South American drug cartels and now it’s not only the drug issue but crimes as well. More and more Americans are getting in the middle of gang conflicts, David Hartley’s case is only one example [...]
- Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
- Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
- Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
- Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
- Who’s Looking After The Children?
“Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
- 2011-04-21 Interview with Terry Holdbrooks, fo ...
TweetThis is our second interview in a series of interviews with former Guantanamo Bay detention camp guards and detainees. Several current and former U.S. soldiers have expressed interest in speaking publicly about their experience at Guantanamo: including a CIA psychologist, interrogators, gua ...
- 2011-04-21 Syrian government lobbies for seat ...
Tweet"We don’t believe the government anymore. All their decisions are just ink on paper for us." - Omar Ali, a Kurdish-Syrian activist. Thirteen human rights groups have signed a press release condemning the Arab League's support of Syria's bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. The reg ...
- 2011-04-21 WikiLeaks Notes: Tim Hetherington a ...
TweetTim Hetherington was a photojournalist and Oscar-nominated documentary maker who was killed, along with his equally acclaimed colleague Chris Hondros, on Wednesday, 20 April, as they worked to cover a group of rebels against the Gadhafi regime in Misrata, Libya. In January 2009, Hetheringt ...
- 2011-04-19 Khadr defense accuse Guantanamo pro ...
Tweet Defense attorneys for Canadian child soldier Omar Khadr, filed a motion yesterday requesting that Khadr's sentence be reduced from eight years to four. Defense claims that prosecutors had misled the defense into believing Khadr's plea bargain would be thrown out if defense challenged the p ...
- 2011-04-20 Will Pentagon's Transfer to Ft. Lea ...
TweetThe Pentagon’s decision to transfer the alleged whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, caught Manning’s defense by surprise. Manning’s move was not reported to his defense counsel until “twenty minutes before the Pentagon’s press briefing.” The way his defense learned of the move was ...
- Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
- 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
- The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
- CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
- Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...
- Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
Itâs the Gobi Desert. Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage. Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage. Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]
- Around the Campfire with Dave Foreman – What T ...
In 1974, physicist John P. Holdren and biologist Paul Ehrlich, then both at Stanford University, set down in Science the key scientific formula of our time: I=PAT. Paul and Anne Ehrlich later spelled out what it means, “The impact of any human group on the environment can be usefully viewed as t ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things. As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
- Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
“I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
- Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist. Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers. Only a handful of still-work ...
- Nuclear Engineer Exposes Fukushima Tepco Cover-Up
Why is mainstream media not covering this? Why is this a cover-up? Why do we live in la la land? If you can afford it.. drop them a donation.. if we all send a little.. it adds up to a lot! Nuclear explosion, and meltdown discussed by Fairewinds associates. www.fairewinds.com they deserve any he ...
- Ride with The Mad Ape and AC/DC down the Casin ...
Here AC/DC joins me, The Mad Ape, on a journey down the Casino Gulag Highway as Bon Scott sings It’s A Long Way To The Top If You Want To Rock And Roll. Notice that I am passing every damn thing in sight. Come get me coppers! Follow along if you are bored. I dedicate [...] Related posts:Rob ...
- Michael Ruppert – Collapse – Peak Oil and Peak ...
Disclose.tv – Collapse (part 1) Video Disclose.tv – Collapse (part 2) Video Collapse COLLAPSE (DVD MOVIE) Can this man predict when your world will crumble?The Explosive New Documentary From The Director Of THE YES MEN and AMERICAN MOVIEÂ It’s the shattering documentary that has been called supe ...
- A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion – Communi ...
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- “Let the pitch forks do their job”
Andrew Cockburn, producer of American Casino Pt2: From Greenspan’s “faulty ideology” to today’s Fed Video Rating: 4 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Max Keiserism of the Day: You can not cram ten pounds of shit into a 5 pound ...
- Fast Food Follies
By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Around this time last year the health-conscience crew at KFC headquarters gave the American consumer the Double Down chicken sandwich - 540 calories of bacon and cheese with no veggies, smashed... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Watch "Bag It," Then Just Bag It
By Rebecca Sutton, Phd, EWG Senior Scientist Plastic pollution: it's everywhere, from the gigantic garbage patch swirling in the Pacific Ocean to the cells of our bodies, a point EWG's President, Ken Cook, makes so well in this recent TEDx... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
- Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Safe Chemicals Act ...
By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst Once again, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is leading the effort to try to contain the constant onslaught of dangerous industrial chemicals on our bodies. This week, Lautenberg, along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- Obama Must Ensure Safe Gas Drilling
By Dusty Horwitt, EWG Senior Counsel President Obama contends that natural gas drilling can help meet his goal of reducing U.S. imported oil consumption by a third by 2020. Yet, in a welcome change from his previous position, Obama recently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
- Real-life variations on the theme of family: ' ...
Three very different documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival deal with the concept of family, which is often in the news these days in the context of efforts by regressive groups to define what "family" means. More
- Keeping Foursquare 'good': In 15 months, the s ...
For the past 15 months, Chrysanthe Tenentes has been part of the team working on one of New York’s most prominent and exciting start-ups: the mobile-social application Foursquare. In January of last year, when she joined, there were about 250,000 Foursquare ...
- Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, and Kate M ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- 'Cairo Exit': The movie that outlasted Hosni M ...
Considering the fact that Egyptians are freshly off toppling their long-entrenched government, Egyptian-American director Hesham Issawi's Cairo Exit may be the most timely film in the entire Tribeca Film Festival. More
- F.A.Q.: What is everyone watching this summer ...
Josh: "When we have to, we do crap. Crap pays. And we do it in order to do this sort of film." Sara: I totally wish every actor in the world was so honest. Though I guess it helps when you are Christopher Plummer and 81 years old. More
- Boat disappears, four found dead
A family of four set off early Thursday afternoon in a small boat from Melbu in northern Norway. They failed to return, and two persons were found dead Friday morning in the chilly local waters where the boat disappeared. Two more were found later. Emergency crews had continued to search Friday ...
- Grete Waitz to receive state funeral
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced on Thursday that the late Grete Waitz will be honoured with a state funeral, but it will remain a private affair. Waitz herself wanted only her closest friends and family in attendance. State funerals in Norway are reserved for former heads of state or “ ...
- Spring skiing over for the season
This was the scene this week on a lake in the hills north of Oslo, where spring skiing is usually in full swing during Norway’s long Easter holiday. Not this year. Even King Harald and Queen Sonja abandoned their traditional Easter skiing holiday in the mountains and many Norwegians have been fl ...
- Grocery boss got hefty pay
At a time when government and consumer officials are sharply criticizing the power and profits of Norway’s four major grocery retailers, comes news that the recently retired boss of one of them received relatively whopping pay over the past three years. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported ...
- Shipowners eye Duke partnership
Norwegian shipowners are among the most internationally oriented of the country’s business leaders, but many in shipping still lack high levels of formal education. Now the Norwegian Shipowners Association has chosen a university partner in the US to develop a top leadership program aimed at Nor ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part VI – The Ideologica ...
The series, A Solar Powered Life, is intended for those that have an interest in the generation and storage of electricity using solar panels. I’ve tried to write the series in such a way that it is accessible for everybody and not just for those that are technically minded. By the end of the se ...
- The Future of Architecture
by Ãyvind Holmstad While the corporations and the starchitects (walking hand in hand) try to sell us “freedom” through techno-utopia, using images of anti-nature-architecture as the future of sustainability, like Masdar City, we still have teachers showing us the Timeless Way back to Earth. One ...
- Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced Blueprints for ...
It has been made clear that heavy machinery can help set up permaculture systems. Bobcats, excavators, tractors, save our backs and allow for earthworks that would have otherwise not been possible. The pros of water harvesting abilities outweigh the cons (i.e. pollution). Well, in this video you ...
- Britain’s Private Militias
The Ratcliffe miscarriage of justice shows that we need a sweeping reform of the police. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom Here, so far, are the results of the undercover surveillance operation the police conducted against ...
- Superadobe Earthbag Building Workshop with Bil ...
Find out more and book here! Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post thi ...
- Scotland's First Marine Reserve Already Produc ...
Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 10 Underrated Picks for This Years NFL Draft
A team's draft fortune is often determined by its least celebrated selections. Every football fan is familiar with the stories of Tom Brady, Rodney Harrison and Donald Driver, each of whom were late-round draft picks not expected to make significant .....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Genes Causing Antimalarial Drug Resistance Ide ...
Using a pair of powerful genome-search techniques, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard University, and the Broad Institute have identified several genes that may be implicated in the malaria parasite's notorious ability...Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
- Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Tied to Lower IQ i ...
In a new study suggesting pesticides may be associated with the health and development of children, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health have found that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides...........Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellne ...
- Dhoni listed among TIME's 100 Most Influential ...
Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MSD) has been listed among top 100 most influential people in 2011 by TIME Magazine. Dhoni is considered as the most successful Indian skipper after winning the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup and 2011 Cricket....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- 4/21/11 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should peo ...
vegetarian.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should people become vegetarian? - In 2010, each person in the US ate an average of 57.5 pounds of beef, 46.5 pounds of pork, and 82 pounds of chicken. Vegetarians, about 3.2% of the US population, do not eat meat (including poultry and seafood). ...
- 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
- 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
- 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
- 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
- The Victorian art of murder
The Victoriansâ thirst for murder â their fascination with the details, their poring over and feasting on it â mirrors our own culture Jonathan Barnes Late one afternoon in the winter of 1836, a man boarded a London omnibus, carrying a soft, round object, approximately the size of a football, âw ...
- Nature’s Noblemen
A paean to the prophets of beauty and culture. By J.E. LENDON Kenneth Clark, 1966 Popperfoto / Getty Images The play of light through a glass of Château dâYquem; the soaring terribilità of a nuclear aircraft carrier; the gleam in the eye of a John Singer Sargent beauty; the crunch of Charunâs ...
- What Defines a Meme?
Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve By James Gleick With the rise of information theory, ideas were seen as behaving like organisms, replicating by leaping from brain to brain, interacting to form new ideas and evolving in ...
- A Night at the New York Public Library
By Michael Andersen On May 20, 500 people will spend the night at the New York Public Library for an exclusive, invitation-only event designed to bring players in contact with some of the many inspirational artifacts housed at the library as part of a game called Find the Future. The New York Pu ...
- Scion FR-S Concept Is So Hot, We Can Taste It
By Jalopnik By Justin Hyde, Jalopnik After the most difficult gestation since someone decided âSpidermanâ needed to be a musical, the Scion FR-S Concept finally appeared at the New York Auto Show, carrying the hopes for a true compact rear-wheel-drive sports car â actually coated in candy. The l ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
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FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches. Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
- Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
- Gr8 expectations
FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
- New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
- It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
- Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
- Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
- Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Letter From America
Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
- Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
- Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...
- Kate Walsh on Offshore Drilling
Check out Kate Walsh explaining her support of Oceana's campaign to end offshore drilling at yesterday's event. Kate has been a fantastic spokeswoman for us and we can't thank her enough for joining us at the Capitol. �
- A Close Call With a Manta Ray
Photographer Tony Wu has a cool story up on his blog today. While shooting a large manta ray near Sri Lanka earlier this week, he was suddenly accosted by the normally-peaceful animal. The manta ray emitted a weird screeching noise as it headbutted him, telling him in no uncertain terms to back ...
- Marking the Oil Spill Anniversary In Washington DC
Oceana was joined by longtime supporters Kate Walsh ("Private Practice" and "Grey's Anatomy") and Aaron Peirsol (gold medal-winning swimmer) in Washington, D.C. today to remember the one-year anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. We were also joined by Patty Whitney, a Louisiana resident- ...
- A Year Since the Spill, the Push to Drill Cont ...
Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and triggering the largest accidental oil spill in history. When all was said and done in July, it had spewed more than 200 millio ...
- Ted Danson And Mark Bittman On Ocean Conservation
On the anniversary of the oil spill, New York Times columnist and author Mark Bittman sat down with Ted Danson to talk about Ted's book, "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them." I can't embed the video here, but be sure to hop over to the Times' site to watch the clip! Enjoy.
- Ah, Nature
Clearing out plant and tree overgrowth, readying the yard for the wonderful floral extravaganza to come, which of course means bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Have a chat, garden tales anyone?
- Fox Shills for the Super Wealthy
Fox News analysts want taxes on the middle class instead. What’s wrong with a little working class warfare? Russ Douthat tried a similar track today and got his ass handed to him: Ross Douthat struck another blow against fact-based arguments when he told readers that the median family of four ha ...
- Trump Leads, Labor Leaders Blast Dems
“… But [it] creates, I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He– he doesn’t have hornsâ¦we’re not really worrying about conspiracy theories or– or birth certi ...
- Happy Tax Day, Suckers
Read it and weep, then remember that Pres. Obama and the Democrats are a big part of this problem today, beyond what the graph illustrates. They’re the ones who not only initially caved on extending the Bush tax cuts, but adopted the Republican economic model of cutting spending and taxes, takin ...
- Barack Obama Doesn’t Like Being Confronted by ...
Boy, it sure is tough when the voters actually expect you to keep at least some of your campaign promises!In addition to getting testy with a Texas reporter the other day (and announcing said reporter will never interview him again), Obama seems to not like to come out of his bubble and mix with ...
- Wimpy Warfare: Obama's "Bay of Libya" Fiasco
While the Cuban government marked the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs' fiasco with parades and marches, Cuban exiles gathered in an emotion-filled event in Miami to remember those who courageously died in combat during the U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs
- The "Merchants of Peace" Racket
A "peace activist" based in Jerusalem this week sent out the following email to friends: "For my birthday on May 2, I'm asking my friends and family for a special gift: help me raise $5,000... It's a great cause that advances peace –two states for two
- Turkey Got Tired
TURKEY GOT TIRED The Supreme Board of Election's (YSK's) cancelling the candidacies of 12 independent applicants caused tension both in politics and on the streets. Courts have eventually confirmed that the vetoes were unfair. The YSK is expected to take
- Britain vs. Muslim Immigration
Islamic jurisprudence is spreading throughout Britain at an astonishing rate. At least 85 Islamic Sharia courts are now operating in the country, almost 20 times as many as previously believed. A recent think tank study titled "Sharia Law or One Law for
- Danish Show Trial: Inquisition Judicial Procedures
On April 26 my colleague, the Danish author and historian Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society and The International Free Press Society, will be back in court accused of "racism" for comments he made during a conversation on the
- GlobalRev – Ongoing
Every once in a while, I have panoramic, better than HD TV or Panavision dreams, and this morning’s was disturbing. It was about a crowd of people in a middle eastern nation near some kind of sporting event/stadium being attacked … Continue reading →
- Coping: With Human Navigation
The story in the UK Telegraph about how humans in prehistoric (pre royal takeover times we assume) figured out how to get around. The article “Sat-Nav: Prehistoric man ‘used crude stat nav’” is an interesting read, but seems to give … Continue reading →
- That $5 Silver Move Nears?
A chat earlier this week with Clif of www.halfpasthuman.com, about the way things are lining up for silver here shortly, bears mentioning about here. You may remember in some of the predictive linguistics work, there was and expectation that we … Continue reading →
- Coping: With “the Dry Coffee” Mystery
We continue to pile up reports of highly strange things – things that shouldn’t happen, yet objectively they do.  Take this email, for example: “I checked into a hotel for a business seminar this week, and decided to brew a … Continue reading →
- DUCK!
I figure there’s enough thunderstorm crap firing off that we might as well grab the computer off the desk and huddle under it to read this morning’s report. A kind of warm & cozy read, for a change. The details … Continue reading →
- A TRUTH THAT WILL COST YOU YOUR LIFE
A lot of us want to inherit the kingdom of God, but we have no idea about what it is going to cost us. We haven’t given it much thought because we have been led to believe that it is an easy process that requires responding to an “altar call” and confessing Jesus as our [...]
- LIFE IN THE NAIJA GHETTO
Every country has within its walls, different types of species. Humans of different natures; perceiving reality in their own unique ways. Some ways, are more dangerous than others. Some see the outside world as a place that works to help them achieve their goals. Others see the world as a place ...
- BLINDING LIGHTS – By: Akinlolu Osinbajo
The world awaits; the lights are flashing, the fans are screaming, the photographers franctically yelling, the stars posing according to their directions, and the security guards, seemingly calm outwardly, but furtively glancing left, right, up and down behind their pitch black wraparound sungla ...
- MIND CONTROL 30
Paul claimed that at as a result of his experience at Damascus Road, he suddenly discovered that he was Christ. Donât take my word for it; the self-proclaimed divinity of Paul is evident in such writings as this: Galatians 1:15-16 15 When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb an ...
- NEW ENGLISH
The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had s ...
- Big Pharma set to take over medical marijuana ...
Just as the federal government is clamping down on medical marijuana dispensaries, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) may be set to give Big Pharma the clearance to take over the market.
- BRICS Plot to Challenge U.S. Dollar
New eras do not announce themselves with billboards or welcoming brochures. They arrive by way of many disparate events. Last week we witnessed one: the gathering in southern China of leaders from the world’s most dynamic emerging economies --the nations we now call the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, I ...
- UFED 2.0 Arrives: Gadget gives cops quick acc ...
The "Universal Forensic Extraction Device" sounds like the perfect cell phone snooping gadget. Its maker, Israel-based Cellbrite, says it can copy all the content in a cell phone -- including contacts, text messages, call history, and pictures -- within a few minutes. Even deleted texts and oth ...
- Pesticide Use Tied to Lower IQ in Children
A Columbia University study followed low-income black and Hispanic families. Here, each additional 4.6 picrograms of chlorpyrifos per gram of blood in a woman during pregnancy correlated with a drop of 1.4 percent in her youngster’s IQ and 2.8 percent in a measure of the child’s working memory.
- Silver Surges Over $46.25/oz As Rumours Of A ...
Gold and silver have surged to new record nominal highs in dollar terms (all time and 31-year) with the dollar falling sharply on international markets. Silver has continued to surge in all currencies and has surged to a new record nominal high of $46.25/oz (£27.85/oz and €31.54/oz) on growing ...
- ElBaradei: US, Europe Weren’t Interested in Co ...
Summary: Officials Withheld Key Info From IAEA Chief in Push for Regime Change source: Antiwar.comread more
- ElBaradei: US and EU3 only interested in regim ...
Summary: On Iran's nuclear standoff with the West: "I adhere strictly to the facts, and part of that is that the Americans and the Europeans withheld important documents and information from us. They weren't interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change -- by an ...
- US Secretly Funding Syrian Dissidents, Cables Show
Summary: Newly released State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that the State Department had funneled millions of dollars secretly into funding Syrian dissident groups. The effort included some $6 million given to the Movement for Justice and Development. source: AntiWar.comrea ...
- Ex-MKO members recount ordeal in Iraq
Summary: Rajavi and SaddamThree defected members of the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have given an account of their ordeal during their stay at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. source: PressTVread more
- THE ARAB SPRING AND THE SAUDI COUNTER-REVOLUTION
Summary: On the regional front, the Saudis are discombobulated by what they see as a rising tide of Iranian influence across the Middle East. The Islamic Republic’s allies have been winning, politically, in key venues—Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine. Historically, the Saudis have never been big f ...
- The Human ‘Super-Brain’ --New Evidence for Its ...
There is mounting archaeological evidence for the evolution of a human "super-brain" no later than 75,000 years ago that spurred a modern capacity for novelty and invention, according to John Hoffecher, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado. While the...
- Mars' Atmosphere: Dramatically Altered by Tilt ...
A buried deposit of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- near the south pole of Mars contains about 30 times more carbon dioxide than previously estimated to be frozen near the pole. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered the...
- Could Dwarf Galaxies Yield Clues to Dark Matter?
"These dwarf galaxies are not much to look at, but they may really alter our fundamental views on the nature of dark matter and, perhaps, even gravity." Mario Mateo, University of Michigan The Chandra image of NGC 1569 above, a...
- Blasts of Brightest X-rays Ever Sighted Spewed ...
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered an enormous but previously unrecognized "gamma-ray bubbles" centered in the Milky Way. The pair of massive gamma ray bubbles appear to be spewing from the black hole at the center of othe Milky Way...
- Image of the Day: Closest Exploding Star to Ea ...
Supernova 1987A, discovered in 1987, is the closest exploding star to Earth to be detected since 1604 and resides in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way Galaxy. In addition to ejecting massive...
- Japanese government censors Fukushima reports ...
(NaturalNews) Censorship of the truth about what is really going on at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility has been taken to a whole new level of corruption. According to a recent report from the Shingetsu News Agency, the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIAC ...
- Three new studies reveal children are dumbed d ...
(NaturalNews) Does it ever seem like the population is being "dumbed down"? Maybe that is literally happening -- even before birth. And at least one of the culprits appears to be organophosphate pesticides that are widely used on food crops throughout the U.S.The evidence for the intelligence ro ...
- Drug injection delays puberty
(NaturalNews) Children with supposed "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID), a rare condition involving sexual confusion, that are having a hard time deciding whether they want to be male or female can now choose to artificially delay puberty while they figure it out. A recent report in The Telegraph ...
- Cultural, spiritual causes of Fukushima disast ...
(NaturalNews) In cooperation with NaturalNews, David Rainoshek, creator of www.JuiceFeasting.com has authored an important new report called We Are All Fukushima. This report delivers "an integral perspective on the meanings and promises of disaster." It is an advanced look at the cultural and s ...
- Nuclear weather worsens
(NaturalNews) Every day the news gets worse. Today it was robots telling us that radiation is so hot inside the nuclear plant in Japan that workers will have a hard to impossible time to work in certain areas to recover the plant from worst case scenarios. Radiation levels are just heading up ac ...
- Neo-Nazi Freed, Online Speech Protected
A neo-Nazi found guilty of  jury intimidation over a web post was released from custody this week after a federal judge reversed his conviction, a ruling his attorney said Thursday buttresses online free speech “no matter who says it.” William A. White, the operator of now-defunct Overthrow.com ...
- Protesters Interrupt Obama to Sing Support for ...
Protesters supporting WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning managed to infiltrate a private fundraiser for President Obama on Thursday morning in San Francisco, interrupting his remarks with a song. As Obama was speaking at the $5,000-a-plate breakfast fundraiser, a California activist named Naomi ...
- Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Mi ...
A hacker and carder has pleaded guilty to trafficking in more than half a million stolen card numbers that resulted in $36 million in fraud losses. Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Virginia to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. The ha ...
- Top Federal Lab Hacked in Spear-Phishing Attack
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was forced to disconnect internet access for workers on Friday after the federal facility was hacked, and administrators discovered data being siphoned from a server. Only a “few megabytes” of data were stolen before the lab discovered the breach and cut intern ...
- EFF Decries ‘Sham’ Copyright-Troll Legal Tactics
The copyright litigation factory known as Righthaven has been exposed as making what the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Monday were bogus claims to judges that it “holds the exclusive right” to news articles at the center of its infringement lawsuits. Las Vegas company Righthaven begun sui ...
- Business Leaders Warn GOP on Debt Ceiling Dis ...
Nothing focuses the mind, it is said, like the sight of the gallows. So it is for the American business community as the clock ticks down on the looming deadline to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. Over the past few days, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street executives, the National Associati ...
- Republicans Violate Their "Seniors' Bill of Ri ...
That didn't take long. As the battle over health care reform reached a fever pitch in the fall of 2009, the Republican National Committee rolled out a "Seniors' Bill of Rights." But with the midterms safely won, the GOP has predictably turned its back on its pledge of "no cuts to Medicare to p ...
- 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts
As Tax Day 2011 arrives, the distance between the tax debate and tax reality has perhaps never been larger. New data from the IRS revealed that over since the mid-1990's, the richest 400 taxpayers saw their incomes double and their tax rates halved. Overall, the gilded-class has seen its effec ...
- GOP Recycles Failed 1993 Talking Points on Taxes
It is often said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. But sometimes, as with the predictable GOP opposition to small tax increases for wealthy Americans, the farce is double. After all, every single Republican in the House and Senate voted against Bill Clinto ...
- Republicans Were Against Ryan Plan Before They ...
In a telling moment during the run-up to the midterm elections last fall, Congressman Paul Ryan declared of his proposed Roadmap for America's Future, "My plan is not the Republican Party's platform and was never intended to be." Not, it turned out, until after Election Day. Because while 235 ...
- How I View the American Crisis
As Republicans move to dismantle the New Deal, Americans must take stock of how the nation got here, writes Robert Parry. April 17, 2011
- Israel's 'Lobbification' of Congress
Israeli hardliners explained the Middle East crisis to a House panel with nary a skeptical word spoken, notes Lawrence Davidson. April 17, 2011
- The Civil War and Founding Principles
The 150th anniversary of the Civil War coincides with a drive to revive the old issue of states' rights, observes Rev. Howard Bess. April 17, 2011
- Interstates and States of Grief
At the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the South is leading a new rebellion as pointless as the last, observes Phil Rockstroh. April 15, 2011
- Twenty Years Ago, a Lost Opportunity
Two decades ago, the U.S. political/media system had a chance to get Ronald Reagan's history right, but didn't, says Robert Parry. April 15, 2011
- Rolling Blackouts – NEVER AGAIN! – well at lea ...
An unusual weather event and rolling blackouts – what lessons were learned? Apparently none. A report from the Public Utility Commission of Texas is clear in its analysis of what went wrong and what needed to be done to prevent another such event: The winter freeze greatly strained the ability ...
- TLR protester taking a break [Flickr]
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- WCS and Texas Wildfires
As fires rage throughout Texas, we should remember that besides brush, farm land and homes, wildfires are a danger to many industrial sites. According to today’s Texas Forest Service incident management situation report, a wildfire designated the Frying Pan Ranch fire in Andrews Co. has been c ...
- Nuclear Power: Poll shows a spike in U.S. oppo ...
A recent ABC News-Washington Post poll shows Americans oppose building more nuclear power plants in the United States, by a margin of 2-1. This is an 11-point increase in opposition, up from a few years ago. In the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear plant crisis, 64 percent in this ABC News/Washin ...
- Is fracking worse for the climate than coal?
A new study from Cornell Professor Robert Howarth shows that natural gas from shale beds extracted through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has the same effect on the climate as burning coal, tarnishing one of the natural gas industry’s major claims of being a less polluting and more climate f ...
- Grassroots International Partners Take Action ...
lucha-peasant_day.jpg The Via Campesina declared April 17 as "International Day of Peasants' Struggles." This day commemorates the 1996 slaughter by the Brazilian police of 19 peasants of the Landless Worker Movement (MST) while they mobil ...
- Bury the corporate food system!
Below is an article from Grassroots International partner, the Via Campesina, in preparation for the International Day of Peasants� Struggles. The Via is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenou ...
- "Victory comes only with struggle": Brazilian ...
mcp.jpg April 17 commemorates the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle for land, water, food and justice.read more
- US Food Sovereignty Alliance Celebrates Intern ...
usfsa-turn_tables.jpg As part of our commitment to engage in advocacy to challenge US policy and corporations that are often the root causes of resource rights violations around the world, Grassroots International has been proud to be an a ...
- Carbon Credit Plan Implementation Halts Medica ...
At the request of the community assembly of Amador Hernández in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots International along with the Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Carbon Trade Watch, the Global Forest Coalition, the Timberwatch Coalition, Grassroots G ...
- We Won't Have Ensign to Kick Around
Sen. John Ensign has finally, finally, finally decided to resign in disgrace. It took him so long that Eliot Spitzer practically rehabilitated his career in the interim. Ensign strikes me as a near-perfect politician. He looks the part. And he's probably the worst hypocrite possible. He rem ...
- A Small Measure of Hope
The fact that the Republican Party was basically evil dawned on me very slowly. I mean, I've never voted for a Republican in my life. Wait. No, that's not true. The first time I voted, I cast a ballot for a friend of mine's father who was running for some local office. It was only because I ...
- A Sickening Class War Assault
You know? I'm basically ready for a sickening class war assault against Republicans. Where can I sign up for that? I wonder if the Republicans really understand what a class war would look like. Maybe we could have them study the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Forget medieval, I ...
- It's Not a Bug...
David Frum tries to pass for reasonable, but he's got no solutions either. The question he should be trying to answer is not how to defeat Donald Trump, but why any of the other candidates are less crazy, or why their policies and conspiracies are any less snake-oily. It's not just Tim Pawlent ...
- Negotiation Strategies
Maybe someone can translate these two negotiating positions into NFL terms. Republicans are floating a wide range of major structural reforms that could be attached to the debt limit vote, including statutory spending caps, a balanced budget amendment and a two-thirds vote requirement for t ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- Gay Teens Feel Less Support in Conservative Co ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In politically conservative communities with very little gay support programs, there is a higher rate of suicide attempts among homosexual teens. According to a study by Mark Hatzenbuehler, a Columbia University psychologist and researcher, gay teens are bullied a ...
- Vulnerability and Eating Disorders
By Jodie Barley, MA, RCC, CHRP Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jodi and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Vulnerability is an emotion that affects individuals suffering from eating disorders in a multitude of ways. It is the opposite of being in control and a ...
- Psyche’s Nature is Playful
By Mary Alice Long, PhD Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mary Alice and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “The Egyptians highly valued their animals, turning them into gods and goddesses” -Neil Russack, Animal Guides: in Life, Myth and Dreams Imagine a perch ...
- Three Ways to Avoid Sex Addiction Relapse
By Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAS, Sex Addiction Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Janie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Did you know that according to Patrick Carnes, Sex Addiction Expert, he reports that relapse happens for most individuals who struggle with sex addiction in t ...
- Children with ADHD – Is it all in the Genes?
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Children diagnosed with ADHD may have a genetic predisposition, according to new research. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology conducted a study that singles out a gene responsible for excitability and impulse control. When researchers altered t ...
- Mountaintop Removal, an American Tragedy (VIDE ...
Mountaintop Removal, an American Tragedy (VIDEO) Huffington Post (blog) Thanks to mountaintop removal coal mining, more than 500 mountaintops in Appalachia have been destroyed... permanently. However, the impact of mountaintop removal mining is hidden from most us. If you don't live in Appalach ...
- Ireland releases 11-point policy plan - Charle ...
Charleston Gazette (blog) Ireland releases 11-point policy plan Charleston Gazette (blog) The plan shows Ireland's support for charter schools and for mountaintop removal mining. Her proposal is framed as a jobs plan, but Ireland also touches on social issues. Her 11th point is �Defend our Valu ...
- Crucified Creation and the Hope of Eco-nomics ...
Crucified Creation and the Hope of Eco-nomics Huffington Post (blog) A few years ago, when I first learned about Mountain Top Removal operations (MTR) during a cultural immersion experience in West Virginia, I became so numb and overwhelmed with disgust, I imagined myself incapable of doing any ...
- Earth Day 2011: Reflections on Ralph Nader - H ...
Earth Day 2011: Reflections on Ralph Nader Huffington Post ... I often feel overwhelmed by the daily onslaught of bad news: the nuclear disaster in Japan, the mysterious "white nose syndrome" killing bats at an alarming pace, and mountaintop removal coal mining is still devastating Appalachia. ...
- Reverend Billy and His Crusade Against Consume ...
Forbes (blog) Reverend Billy and His Crusade Against Consumerism Forbes (blog) It involves Pocahontas pajamas and it involves mountaintop removal and hydro-fracking. We consider consumerism and its twin evil militarism to be the fundamentalist church of the US culture. You've toned down the sat ...
- Nation's Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Po ...
New York Times: Nation's Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows — Americans are more pessimistic about the nation's economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama's first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared ...
- 'Don't say gay' bill clears Senate panel (Tom ...
Tom Humphrey / Knoxville News-Sentinel: 'Don't say gay' bill clears Senate panel — Register or log in using your account on these websites. — Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH — NASHVILLE - After some convoluted maneuvers, a Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill that will prohibit ...
- ENSIGN TO RESIGN FROM OFFICE (Jennifer Cooper/ ...
Jennifer Cooper / John Ensign, United States Senator of Nevada: ENSIGN TO RESIGN FROM OFFICE — Washington, D.C. - Senator John Ensign today announced his resignation as the 24th United States Senator from the state of Nevada. In a letter to Vice President Joe Biden tomorrow, Senator Ensign w ...
- Trump's view: Obama, come clean (Donald J. Tru ...
Donald J. Trump / USA Today: Trump's view: Obama, come clean — On any given day, I receive hundreds of requests from television, radio and newspapers to provide comments on various topics. There is not one interview when the “birther” issue is not raised multiple times during the conversation.
- Nevada Sen. John Ensign to resign (Washington ...
Washington Post: Nevada Sen. John Ensign to resign — Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign is expected to resign from office in the near future. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar) Embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) announced Thursday night that he will resign from office in ...
- M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Thursday, April 21, 2011 08:18:14 UTCThursday, April 21, 2011 05:18:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 27.80 km (17.27 mi)
- M 5.3, offshore Valparaiso, Chile
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 05:50:44 UTCTuesday, April 19, 2011 01:50:44 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.20 km (6.34 mi)
- M 5.0, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 04:04:34 UTCTuesday, April 19, 2011 02:04:34 PM at epicenterDepth: 48.00 km (29.83 mi)
- M 5.9, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Sunday, April 17, 2011 01:58:50 UTCSaturday, April 16, 2011 10:58:50 PM at epicenterDepth: 562.70 km (349.65 mi)
- M 5.3, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Sunday, April 17, 2011 01:24:33 UTCSaturday, April 16, 2011 10:24:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 569.60 km (353.93 mi)
- The conscientious carnivores
In San Francisco, Ian Monroe sampled a range of vegetarian and vegan food. He and his girlfriend have cut back on meat, hoping they’re improving their -- and the planet’s -- health.There’s certainly a lot green in front of us: glistening mounds of fried Szechuan green beans, steaming Chinese bro ...
- A taste of Chinese vegetarianism
As non-meat restaurants proliferate in China, diners are flocking to them for many reasons: flavour, nutrition, ethics, faith, culture, fashion, food safety and environmental concerns. Zhou Wei reports.The roast imitation meat is all gone, but the waitress points at our leftovers. “Coriander’s t ...
- Snubbing the seal trade
Blocked from trading in 30 other countries, Canada’s seal industry has set its sights on China, to the fury of local animal welfare campaigners. Meng Si reports.On March 29, the Canadian authorities finally responded to months of criticism from Chinese animal-protection groups, angered by the co ...
- A warning from Gansu
A tragic mudslide in northwest China held lessons for the authorities about urbanisation, disaster response and the environment. By Gong Jing, Wang Heyan and Zhang Ruidan, winners of the “best in-depth report” category at the 2011 China Environmental Press Awards.In the early hours of August 8, ...
- Mekong at the crossroads
Commotion is growing over a planned dam on the Mekong River. As the deadline for a decision on the project approaches, R Edward Grumbine and Xu Jianchu urge governments to support a construction freeze.Editor’s note: This week, a crucial decision will be made over the fate of the Mekong River in ...
- Neo-Nazi Freed, Online Speech Protected
A neo-Nazi found guilty of  jury intimidation over a web post was released from custody this week after a federal judge reversed his conviction, a ruling his attorney said Thursday buttresses online free speech “no matter who says it.” William A. White, the operator of now-defunct Overthrow.com ...
- Protesters Interrupt Obama to Sing Support for ...
Protesters supporting WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning managed to infiltrate a private fundraiser for President Obama on Thursday morning in San Francisco, interrupting his remarks with a song. As Obama was speaking at the $5,000-a-plate breakfast fundraiser, a California activist named Naomi ...
- Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Mi ...
A hacker and carder has pleaded guilty to trafficking in more than half a million stolen card numbers that resulted in $36 million in fraud losses. Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Virginia to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. The ha ...
- Top Federal Lab Hacked in Spear-Phishing Attack
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was forced to disconnect internet access for workers on Friday after the federal facility was hacked, and administrators discovered data being siphoned from a server. Only a “few megabytes” of data were stolen before the lab discovered the breach and cut intern ...
- EFF Decries ‘Sham’ Copyright-Troll Legal Tactics
The copyright litigation factory known as Righthaven has been exposed as making what the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Monday were bogus claims to judges that it “holds the exclusive right” to news articles at the center of its infringement lawsuits. Las Vegas company Righthaven begun sui ...
- 2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt
2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt - by Stephen Lendman In her book, "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law," Marjorie Cohn quoted a former CIA agent saying: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them tortured, you s ...
- Poisoning Mother Earth: Fukushima and America' ...
Poisoning Mother Earth: America's Gulf and Fukushima - by Stephen Lendman As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people everywhere are unaware how calamitously they' ...
- Poisoning Mother Earth: Fukushima and America' ...
Poisoning Mother Earth: America's Gulf and Fukushima - by Stephen Lendman As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people everywhere are unaware how calamitously they' ...
- Cal State Students Stage Sit-In to Protest Bud ...
by Allison Kilkenny | April 21, 2011 www.thenation.com Many people assume Americans are prone to apathy and oftentimes diffident to hit the streets in protest. To this, I reply that labeling US citizens as impassive requires completely overlooking the rich tradition of activism on campuses nati ...
- "We Paid Our Dues. Where's Our Change?"
People give Obama $76,000 in order to sing him a brief song protesting his torture of Bradley Manning Here. To protest me for a mere $75,500 click DONATE above.
- Texas governor launches bold prayer-based clim ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Texas is facing unprecedented droughts and wildfires that have consumed more than a million acres. Taking action to combat climate change could mean staving off conditions that would make droughts and fires on this scale much more common. So Rick Perry, the Texas govern ...
- Choosing a school? Here are the most bike-frie ...
by Jess Zimmerman. College acceptance letters should be piling up right about now, and the League of American Bicyclists has put out a list of the country's most bike-friendly universities. Here's the top 12 (the ones they rated Platinum, Gold, or Silver): Platinum: Stanford Univer ...
- Rachel Maddow helps us all feel more informed, ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here's Rachel Maddow last week, having a conversation with an anthropomorphic personification of human malevolence known as Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement d ...
- American teens smarter about climate change th ...
by Christopher Mims. More American teens than adults believe climate change is caused by humans, 57 percent versus 50 percent, says a new survey from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. Yet American teens also tend to know slightly less than adults on the subject of climat ...
- Google antes up $100 million (more) for advanc ...
by Christopher Mims. Google's latest investment in wind power is much more than just the latest chapter in the company's support for renewable energy. It's part of a larger strategy that could see the search giant turn into a (very profitable) behemoth in the world of energy. According to ...
- Fork in the Road
This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
- The Declensionist Diet
We continue with the ‘big picture’ of food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. This is the second of three excerpts. The first can be found here. We argued the causes of our ongoing, and oncoming, food crises are manifold, rooted in present-day policies as well as humanity’s ...
- The Born Identity
With Richard Kock and Robyn Alders I co-authored the following review of food and forest crises. Richard presented an earlier version at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Global Conference on Wildlife held in Paris in February. Over the next few days we will publish three slightly e ...
- From Reactor to Plate
âJapan’s PM vows to win battle against nuke plantâ reads one recent headline. It is unclear which possibility is worse, that Naoto Kan has failed to grasp the plant at Fukushima Dai-ichi has already defeated Japan, or that he knows full well and broadcasts a ânecessary lieâ protecting an industr ...
- Evolutionary Investigations
1.1 A particular kind of evolutionary biology—lost in its capitalist devotionals—uses the failures of its mortal enemies—say, creationist science—to defend itself against all other kinds of critiques. 1.1.1 “But you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy…” is a common refrain, devoid of substan ...
- “Palin Was Practically Booed Back to Was ...
“Palin Was Practically Booed Back to Wasilla” By Pro-Union Protesters in Madison, Wisconsin MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT Submitted by mark karlin on Wed, 04/20/2011 – 9:32pm. Why do Tea Party rallies get so much media attention, even when their gatherings appear to be shrinking ...
- Evening Jukebox: Boom Boom Pow
The Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
- Russell Pearce Gets Belligerent With Reporter ...
. Russell Pearce gets belligerent with reporter who wants him to produce Fiesta Bowl invoices Crooks and Liars- By David Neiwert April 21, 2011 07:00 AM Our favorite Nazi-coddling nativist politician, Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, just can’t seem to escape the corruption scandal that’ ...
- Chris Hedges: Throw Out the Money Changers
truthout Monday 18 April 2011 by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America. We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temple where greed ...
- Democrats Target John Boehner With Mocking Med ...
Democrats Target John Boehner With Mocking Medicare Ad (VIDEO) HuffPost- Michael McAuliff First Posted: 04/20/11 09:37 AM ETÂ Updated: 04/20/11 11:13 AM ET This story has been updated to include additional reporting. WASHINGTON — After getting mocked by GOP operatives for launching an “offensive ...
- See You at the Plumsted Farm Races - April 24, ...
Photo courtesy of Martha Fuller by Catherine Austin Fitts I am headed to Pennsylvania for a wonderful Easter weekend with my cousins from the National Bank of Malvern. The big event is the Plumsted Farm Races, at the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup Course, Newark Road or Rte 926, Unionville, PA. This is ...
- Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.21.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ...
- State and Local Pension Plans and Fiscal Distr ...
By Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorney Congressional Research Service (31 Mar 11) This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and how these governments incorporate borrowing into their budget. The second section reports data on state and local government ...
- Federal Reserve Enforces Against 10 Banks for ...
Release Date: April 13, 2011 For immediate release The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosu ...
- Passover Remembered
A meditation by Alla Renee Bozarth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pack nothing. Bring only your determination to serve and your willingness to be free. Do not wait for the bread to rise Take nourishment for the journey, but eat standing. Be ready to move at a moment’s notice. Do not hesitate to leave your o ...
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- A note about the obvious that’s seldom m ...
Summary:  We could publish a newspaper with nothing but old analysis that would tell us more about the world than does the New York Times, because our intelligensia has become lost in its myths — unable to see obvious trends in the world. Here’s a brief example from the always insightful Er ...
- Speak up! Let’s all benefit from the sc ...
Summary: Here’s an opportunity to pressure the government to open up the research we fund, rather than letting the benefits flow to well-connected scientists and corporations. This would make a long-term difference in a dozen different fields, including climate science. Tell The White House ...
- Our tactics are an obstacle to victory in the ...
Summary: Our wars in the Middle East show the rapid development of military theory. Unfortunately, most of this takes place in the minds of our enemies — while we recycle differenent tactics from Vietnam and the many other defeats since WWII of foreign armies by local insurgents. Here we ...
- The limit to America’s power is our abil ...
Summary: Today one of the two major credit agencies fired a warning shot across the bow of the American ship of state. Feckless borrowing for decades plus an inability to make simple, obvious reforms have put at risk a credit rating forged by hard actions by the Founders. For more information ...
- Status report on our intervention in Libya. H ...
Summary: Our mission in Libya expands while the original rationale for the war stands exposed as falsehoods. It’s just another typical war for America in the waning days of the Second Republic. This post gives a status report, with excerpts from relevant articles. A review of Obama’s speec ...
- Yemen’s Saleh remains defiant
PressTV – Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has remained defiant against the Yemeni opposition’s calls for his resignation, arguing that a power shift should only occur âbased on the constitutional legitimacy.â Read article
- Libya: France and Italy to send officers to ai ...
BBC -Â France and Italy have said they are to send small teams of military officers to advise Libyan rebels who are seeking to topple Col Muammar Gaddafi. French officials said fewer than 10 would be sent, while Italy’s defence minister announced that 10 would go. The UK said on Tuesday it was s ...
- Award-winning photojournalists killed in Libya
ABC - Oscar-nominated director and photojournalist Tim Hetherington and war photographer Chris Hondros both died after a mortar strike in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata overnight. Vanity Fair, for which Hetherington was working, confirmed the death of the 41-year-old Briton who covered nume ...
- Afghan bank to be split in bid to protect economy
Boston Globe – In an attempt to protect Afghanistanâs precarious financial system, the countryâs central bank said yesterday that it will break Kabul Bank into two parts to isolate hundreds of millions of dollars in bad loans and create a new bank that guarantees customersâ deposits. The Afghan ...
- Pakistan court frees five alleged attackers in ...
Guardian – Human rights groups have expressed outrage after most of those accused of the gang rape of Mukhtaran Mai, who was assaulted on the orders of a village council, were freed by Pakistan’s supreme court. Nine years after the gang rape, Mai’s struggle for justice ended with the court order ...
- Armed Drones Next: The Libyan Minnow Is Becomi ...
At the beginning of the Libya intervention debate, President Obama said he thought America's involvement would "be limited to days and not weeks." Now, it seems that we will have to update that 'hope' to be "months if not years." The Libya situation is worsening for the US and its allies -- at l ...
- Libya: Running Things...It Ain't All Gravy
This Frederic Wehrey piece in Foreign Affairs explores some of the cleavages and divisions in Libya's population/power structures that could come to the fore if and when the Qaddafi regime is toppled - as well as some of the challenges in rebuilding (or building anew) a society left dilapidated ...
- India: Choosing between America and Iran
India appears to be continuing to shift its West Asia policy away from a once budding partnership with Iran, which aimed among other things to stabilize Afghanistan. It is rumored that in late March, the Indian National Security Adviser, Shiv Shanker Menon, delicately delivered a message to the ...
- Rebel War Crimes in Libya
Yesterday, I noted how two top UN Officials aired some very serious accusations of war crimes committed by Qaddafi loyalists. This includes, among other things, the alleged use of cluster munitions in Misrata — a crowded city — and the deliberate targeting of hospitals and other civilian str ...
- Israel-Palestine Plate Heating Up
Helene Cooper of the New York Times has published a great what's up story on the new behind the scenes scramble by the Obama administration, Prime Minister Netanyahu and various Palestinian officials to act as if they have some plan to move the peace process forward -- when in fact, most of it i ...
- The Little Picture: Say Hello to Your New Over ...
On April 19, 2011 it was foretold that Skynet would become self-aware in the blockbuster movie Terminator. Two days later, Judgment Day would mark the annihilation much of the human population. While the machines have yet to take over, they're getting closer to being able to track our every ...
- How About We Pray for Better Politicians?
Stand back, folks. the governor has everything under control (via Ben Smith): NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday ...
- "Soverign Immunity" and Conservative Jurisprudence
To follow-up on my article today, I should make clear that in saying that Alito and Roberts are even worse that I don't mean to let Scalia and Thomas off the hook for their role in creating the "sovereign immunity" monster -- the�doctrine�that the state is immune from being sued for violating it ...
- S&P Continues to Discredit Itself
This week Standard & Poor’s provoked what amounted to a non-event when it lowered its outlook on the U.S. debt from “stable” to “negative,” based on its expectation that Congress isn’t going to reach a meaningful compromise on deficit reduction in the near future. The downgrade came just days af ...
- Tomorrow's Democratic Capitulation Today
The debate on the debt ceiling could take one of two courses: Option 1: The White House and congressional Democrats take a firm position that a vote on the debt ceiling must be "clean," i.e. not with any attached provisions on budget cuts Republicans want. With the business community begging Re ...
- Planet Earth: Don't Expect the Corporations to ...
JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Oil spills do not discriminate. They can equally pollute expensive real estate as well as low income communities, rendering the property uninhabitable for decades. Once upon a time, before the oil lobbyists bribed congressional representatives for ...
- 72% of Americans Support Raising Taxes on Thos ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you live on a street that is full of potholes and the town mayor tells you that the only way that the village can repave the road is to cut taxes on the wealthy - because of a deficit in the local budget - you are caught between a rock and, wel ...
- The Hair Apparent: Donald Trump is the New Cha ...
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He says this crazy stuff all the time. He's impulsive and abrasive and mean. He's the latest go-to celebrity lunatic: Donald Trump is the new Charlie Sheen.read more
- Screw the Deficit: Let's Get Back to the Work ...
RICHARD STITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Personally, I don't see our country's deficit as the most pressing priority. Although it didn't take watching the History Channel's startling revelation, The Crumbling of America, to convince me that rebuilding our infrastructure is an imminent ...
- What if Obama Fired State Governments, As GOP ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Governor Rick Snyder delivers his inaugural remarks in Lansing, MIchigan, January 1, 2011. (Photo: Corvair Owner) What if President Obama appointed "emergency financial managers" to oversee states in economic distress? What if the president also was ...
- 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 ...
- Targeting Environmentalists
WILL POTTER, will at willpotter.comread more
- Texan Takes Fight Against Tar Sands Pipeline t ...
David Daniel is traveling 1,500 miles from the Piney Woods of East Texas to midtown Manhattan this week with a message for Citigroup, the nation’s third-largest bank: Don’t help a Canadian oil pipeline company endanger my community.read more
- With Proposed Merger, AT&T Hopes to ‘Monopoliz ...
On Thursday, AT&T formally filed its application with the Federal Communications Commission to transfer spectrum licenses from T-Mobile to AT&T, officially beginning the merger review process. Both the FCC and the Department of Justice will be charged with evaluating the proposed merger's potent ...
- Nuclear Power After Fukushima
The future of nuclear power was bleak even before the Fukushima disaster, said energy expert Mycle Schneider Wednesday at a press conference in Berlin, where he previewed an upcoming Worldwatch Institute report on the outlook of nuclear power. To obtain a free copy of the draft report, click her ...
- Shocking Revelations From State Police on Dang ...
The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (Brady Campaign) brought together state legislators, gun violence victims and law enforcement at the Thompson Center today to send an urgent plea to state lawmakers to oppose HB 148, a dangerous b ...
- Quarter-Million Dead and Not Counting
Donna Smith After this past weekend of horrific storms and tornadoes, it was clearly appropriate for our elected officials to declare a federal disaster in some areas. With the designation comes some federal money and help for the storm-ra ...
- How Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unaut ...
Catherine Traywick Too often, the immigration debate in this country ignores the role U.S. foreign policy plays in fueling unauthorized immigration. But as the Obama administration continues to stall on immigration reform in the United Sta ...
- Is the World Too Big to Fail?
Noam Chomsky The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces -- coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of workin ...
- Don’t Get Fooled Again: Writing Our Own Econom ...
Sarah Byrnes Common Security Clubs are local groups that practice mutual aid, learn about the economic issues that face them, and take collective action. Click here for more blog entries.read more
- One Year After BP Oil Spill: Communities Lead ...
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins One year ago today, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit exploded in the Gulf of Mexico — a catastrophe that most Americans will never forget.read more
- Tribal Water Wars Could Be Looming for Africa
For many tribes and communities in Africa, Earth Day is not a special time to think about green acts and water conservation; its is a struggle to find enough water for their crops, livestock, and families.
- BC-AP Interactive & Graphics Digest
For editorial questions, call Bernadette Tuazon, (800-845-8450, ext. 1901). For technical and service questions, call the AP Global Customer Support at 877-587-6180 or email apcustomersupport (at) ap.org. Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 7 p.m. GRAPHICS CHINA DAMS: Map shows dams affecting the Mekong ...
- Water wars loom in Asia
BAHIR JONAI, India (AP) -- The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate t ...
- Pattaya Mail
Fun City once again turned wet and wild for the annual water wars known as Songkran.
- Water wars: Laporte residents to face off agai ...
Landowners Mary Humstone, right, and George Burnette walk along the historic Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad where the Bellvue water pipeline is expected to be located near Laporte, which is in northwest Fort Collins. The city of Greeley hopes to complete the pipeline by the summer of 2013.
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
- Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- For Sale: Donated Front Row Washington Nationa ...
The National Whistleblowers Center received a generous donation of front row tickets to ten Washington Nationals games. The view from these seats is truly amazing. If you don’t believe me, just look at the pictures below. The NWC is selling the tickets for face value on StubHub.com. The tickets ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Feds Plan To Temporarily Turn Poker Sites Back ...
When the feds seized three poker domains, one of the big concerns was if players would be able to get back their money. When the initial questions were raised, the Justice Department made some statements about how they didn't want people to be able to claim money that was obtained through illeg ...
- More Video Game Makers Fear The Free Market An ...
Here we go again. Remember a few months ago when Nintendo's President Reggie Fils-Aime was bitching about the fact that people were buying video games on mobile phones for a buck or two, rather than spending many, many multiples that for his games? Apparently, he's got friends. Epic Games pr ...
- Google Loses Patent Case Filed By Patent Attor ...
A bunch of folks have been passing on variations of the story that Google has lost the patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Bedrock Computer Technologies, concerning patent 5,893,120. The jury has ordered Google to pay $5 million for that infringement. $5 million is pocket change t ...
- Hard Drive For Border Crossings: Will Self-Des ...
We've discussed a few times how Homeland Security has aggressively (and successfully) claimed the right to search laptop harddrives at the border without probable cause (sometimes without any known cause). The response from some has been to now encrypt your drive, but it appears that technologi ...
- Court Says Gov't Can't Double Dip And Charge E ...
Orin Kerr has an interesting blog post, discussing how the government has been rejected in an attempt to turn a misdemeanor email hacking case into a felony, by finding two overlapping laws to charge the guy with for the single action. Kerr nicely summarizes the issue as follows: Federal cri ...
- Selling Social (In)Justice
Last week, I was invited to an awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center. The event was put on by an organization called Vital Voices, an NGO that “trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.” Sunitha Krishn ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Sorry for disappearing last week. My schedule has been hectic. I haven’t had too many days or nights off the last few weeks. Not enough time for reading and writing. I did; however, have time to go to the New York Anarchist Book Fair. Â Aside from meeting with people I never get to see (or [...]
- The Big Show
Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend? Â I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office. Â In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget. Â Ahem. ...
- Clarity Through Microcosm
I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
- Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
- Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- How Does Earth Day Fit Into Your Plan? (Cartoon)
Click to enlarge "Earth Day Planning" by Option-G This the first in a series of daily cartoons we'll be running on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual art....Read the full story on TreeHugger
- Give a Buck on Earth Day to Help 8 Great Charities
Image via Philanthroper You know Groupon? Or Woot? Or maybe Netted? Those daily deal sites that give you something new and awesome to buy (or think about) every morning? Well, that's what Philanthroper is only instead of taking part in mass consumerism, you take part in making the world jus ...
- UNEP & TreeHugger Announce World Environment D ...
Image: World Environment Day logo, Courtesy of UNEP Are you a blogger, photographer, journalist or adventurer interested in covering the most important global environmental event for the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and TreeHugger? If so, get excited! Last year, we were prou ...
- PETA VP Defends VegNews Over Non-Vegan Vegan M ...
Depending on who you speak to, the scandal over vegan magazine VegNews passing photos of meat off as vegan recipes is either a total outrage, or a distraction from the bigger picture. Given that the editors have now issued a full and frank apology, and are even laying out plans for the first ...
- The Week in Animal News: Invasive Species Atta ...
It may be cold and inhospitable in Antarctica, but that hasn't stopped a whole host of invasive species from settling there -- a fact that has biologists quite concerned. We also have protected "unicorns," squids bothered by noisy oceans, thriving sardines, gorillas in war-torn Congo, ra ...
- Can Hobbyists and Hackers Transform Biotechnology?
For most of us, managing our health means visiting a doctor. The more serious our concerns, the more specialized a medical expert we seek. Our bodies often feel like foreign and frightening lands, and we are happy to let someone with an MD serve as our tour guide. For most of us, our own DNA [...]
- Seaweed Fiber in Liquid Meals May Cut Hunger
Adding a dietary fiber derived from seaweed to a meal-replacement drink may reduce feelings of hunger by 30%, a team of industry researchers reports. Researchers from Unilever’s Research and Development in the Netherlands compared the effects on hunger after drinking a meal-replacement drink wit ...
- Learning to tolerate our microbial self
The human gut is filled with 100 trillion symbiotic bacteriaâten times more microbial cells than our own cellsârepresenting close to one thousand different species. “And yet, if you were to eat a piece of chicken with just a few Salmonella, your immune system would mount a potent inflammatory r ...
- Pesticide Exposure in Womb Linked to Lower IQ
Children exposed to pesticides in the womb are more likely to have measurable problems with intelligence, memory, and attention, three new studies show. The pesticides in question, a class of chemicals called organophosphates, have long concerned both scientists and regulators because they work ...
- Scientists observe single gene activity in liv ...
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time observed the activity of a single gene in living cells. In an unprecedented study, published in the April 22 online edition of Science, Einstein scientists were able to follow, in real time, the proc ...
- 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. ...
- Studies Link Low IQ to Prenatal Pesticide Exposure
High levels of pesticide exposure in pregnant women have been linked to lower IQs in their children, according to three separate US studies.Click here to read this article
- Obama to Thousands of Young Climate Activists: ...
Bring to Washington, DC, 10,000 political organizers who are willing to play hardball, and you can get serious face time with the president of the United States. Even if you aren't yet 25 years old.Click here to read this article
- Atlantic Turtles Threatened by Pesticides and ...
Loggerhead turtles could be under threat from man-made chemicals, research has revealed. A team from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, used hi-tech satellite transmitters to track migrant loggerhead turtles from Florida, up and down the U.S. Atlantic coast.Click here to read this article
- Got Milk? Got Drugs? Got Both?: State Responds ...
The Food and Drug Administration is worried about what it calls an "important potential public health issue." It could be in your latte or your child's bowl of breakfast cereal. It could be in your refrigerator or freezer. At the very least, the FDA wants to make certain that it's not in any of ...
- Supermarkets, Tomatoes and Farmworker Justice
Last November, the previously unthinkable happened - farmworkers and representatives of the $620 million Florida tomato industry announced an end to their decade-long labor conflict with a symbolic handshake and signed accord. Click here to read this article
- Mark Martins at Harvard Law School
by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Jack Goldsmith notes at Lawfare: Last Monday Harvard Law School conferred its medal of freedom on one of its graduates, General Mark Martins, Commander of the Rule of Law Field Force -Afghanistan. The Harvard National Security Journal has just posted t ...
- Drones Over Libya
by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The US has now deployed armed drones over Libya, according to press reports. Drone systems have been operating as surveillance systems for weeks now, but acting on a NATO request, the US has now put up at least two weaponized drones in the Libya confli ...
- The Course of International Law, Through HLS Exams
by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro For the students among you ramping up for your international law exams, you’re probably glad that you won’t have to face this kind of question (which appeared on Professor Beale’s 1905 exam at Harvard Law School): Indictment for larceny. The defendant was an offi ...
- Faculty Positions at Melbourne Law School
by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller My school is once again advertising for new faculty at all levels, from Lecturer to Professor. Note the short deadline: applications must be in by April 27. Here is the job description: Melbourne Law School, Australia’s first all-graduate law facult ...
- Transparency and the Closure of Gaza
by Sari Bashi by Sari Bashi Sari Bashi is the Executive Director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO that protects the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. While many in the international community were unsure how to interpret Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op ed earlier ...
- White House readies 'US Shake Out' to prepare ...
ShareThisHAARP hell: White House readies 'US Shake Out' to prepare citizens for earthquakes --Participants will be told how to react [?!?] in the event of an earthquake. 21 Apr 2011 The Departments of Homeland Security and Education are reaching out to millions of people in central U.S. states t ...
- Attack of the drones: Obama approves use of un ...
ShareThisAttack of the drones: Obama approves the use of unmanned aircraft in Libya conflict 22 Apr 2011 America turned up the heat on Colonel Gaddafi last night by approving the use of killer Predator drones in Libya. The first U.S. drone attack on pro-government forces was aborted last night b ...
- Report on Sheriff Arpaio's top aides subpoenae ...
ShareThisReport on Sheriff Arpaio's top aides subpoenaed by feds 21 Apr 2011 The U.S. Attorney's Office has subpoenaed the sensitive investigative report detailing findings about alleged misconduct involving Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's three top commanders, The Arizona Republic has lear ...
- Nevada Sen. John Ensign to resign
ShareThisNevada Sen. John Ensign to resign 21 Apr 2011 Embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) will resign from office as soon as Friday according to two senior Republican sources, a move that comes amid an ongoing ethics investigation into his conduct. Ensign’s resignation, which was first report ...
- Russia: Nato has overstepped UN mandate on Libya
ShareThisRussia: Nato has overstepped UN mandate on Libya (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia) 21 Apr 2011 As Nato members met to rally forces in the Libya operations, Russia kept up pressure on the alliance to adhere to its UN mandate. Old concerns about missile defences were close behind. At a Berlin ...
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