22 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• The Mysterious Well
  Kak Kohzad 21 April 2011 In Afghanistan, there is a mysterious and ancient well.� Nobody knew how deep it was, or what might be down there, but some locals thought it might contain bones of their ancestors.� My friend Steve Shaulis came upon the well while working in Farah Province, and decide ...
• After Action Report - Visit Columbia March 2011
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• Alexander the Great
  Sunrise over Farah 07 April 2011 Afghanistan contains many treasures of ancient history.�� Climate conditions here preserve old structures whose origins often remain a mystery. Alexander stormed through here a thousand years before the Arabs introduced Islam.� Today, after travelling arou ...
• Last Man Standing
  Kuchi Girl in Farah 05 April 2011 Many Provinces, Afghanistan As the Afghan war wears on and politicians, diplomats and generals thrust and parry about an endgame, one thing is clear: The outcome of this war will be decided by the last man standing. Who that will be, and what has to happen be ...
• There is a Right, and a Wrong
  Mark Bieger with Farah 04 April 2011 In war, the closer you get to blood, the closer you get to truth.� One day in Iraq there was a car bomb. It was like any other day at that time.� Several American Soldiers were wounded. In addition to hitting American Soldiers, this bomb hit children.� ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• MPs blocked from cyclone victims
  Members of Arakan party told they cannot go on fact-finding mission in Myebon town where 10,000 homes were destroyed last year
• Chinese dam-builders ‘risking conflict&# ...
  Activists describe Chinese companies as 'reckless' and lament lack of transparency and consultation over dam-building in countries like Burma
• Migrant ‘slaves’ freed
  Migrant 'slaves' freed
• Burma shuns Dhaka migrant conference
  Government officials absent from major conference on migrant-sending nations, despite 10 percent of Burma travelling abroad to work
• Family fears ex-army captain torture
  Parents of Nay Myo Zin claim mental trauma as whereabouts and condition of army captain-turned-charity worker are withheld by police

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

National Geographic | Environment

• Scientists "See" Ocean Floor via Sonar
  Scientists use cameras and sonar to 'see' what lies and lives on the ocean floor near the U.S. Virgin Islands. Video.
• China's Electric Car Drive: Impressive, But No ...
  China's electric vehicle program is the world's most ambitious, but a new World Bank report raises questions on sustainability.
• BP Well to Stay Sealed After Gulf Spill, Exper ...
  Although the same cannot be said of all abandoned oil wells in the Gulf, experts believe BP’s Macondo well is sealed for good.
• Migrating Birds Escaped Worst of Gulf Oil Spill
  Though predictions of mass bird die-offs in the Gulf never materialized, crude is still oozing into some bird habitats, experts say.
• Drexel Students Take On the Solar Car Challenge
  Drexel University students knew that solar energy would increase the costs and risks of their bid for a fuel-efficient car design prize. They decided to go for it.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Utah AG asks Supreme Court to rule on memorial ...
  [JURIST] Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff [official website] on Wednesday asked [cert. petition, PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website] to decide whether crosses placed beside highways as memorials to deceased Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) [official website] troopers is an unconstitutional ...
• Idaho governor blocks implementation of federa ...
  [JURIST] Idaho Governor CL "Butch" Otter (R) [official website] issued an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [HR 3590 materials] in the state. Executive Order 2011-03 [text] bars "every executive branch depart ...
• Syria ends 48-year emergency rule
  [JURIST] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [Al Jazeera profile] on Thursday ended the country's 48-year-old state of emergency, following the legislature's approval of the bill [JURIST report] earlier this week. In several decrees [text] issued Thursday, al-Assad also abolished the Supreme State ...
• Oklahoma governor signs bill banning abortions ...
  [JURIST] Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin [official profile] on Tuesday signed into law [press release] House Bill 1888 [materials], prohibiting abortions [JURIST news archive] after 20 weeks. The law allows abortions past the 20-week mark only in certain extenuating circumstances where the mother ...
• Accused USS Cole bomber to be tried in militar ...
  [JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced Wednesday that high-value Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [JURIST news archive] will be subject to capital charges and tried in a military court [press release]. According to the Pentag ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Fred Karger Could Have Trouble Getting Into Pr ...
  From the outset of his unlikely campaign for president, Fred Karger's goal has been to get onstage at a televised Republican debate. News outlets are reporting that Karger has taken one step closer to success: The South Carolina Republican Party sent Karger an email inviting him to participat ...
• Chris Hondros: Remembering a Slain War Journal ...
  Chris Hondros, a war photographer slain in Misrata, Libya, on Wednesday, was renowned for a lifetime of work covering deadly conflict zones. He was less well-known -- outside of political journalism circles, perhaps -- for his coverage of the American political scene, where candidates "blast" ...
• What Gary Johnson Brings to the GOP Presidenti ...
  Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has just announced his candidacy for president, and, finally, a Republican is actually running. Johnson didn't announce an exploratory committee, or that he's thinking about running. He announced that he's a candidate for president. "I'm ready for a differe ...
• Donald Trump and Our Piratical President
  Jonathan Chait over at The New Republic thinks he has discovered the "real" Obama scandal--that the president, far from being a Kenyan-born, anti-colonialist whatever, is in fact a rapacious, anti-capitalist pirate, as evidenced by the recently surfaced photo over there on the right. This unassa ...
• More on the Michelle Obama 'Close Call' That W ...
  Taiwan's challenger to the Onion, Next Media Animation, has a solution to the problem of U.S. air traffic controllers dozing off because of overnight work shifts. Just outsource the jobs to China, as with so many other jobs! One of the advantages is listed in the subtitle below. NMA also ha ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Abusisi Story in Truthout
  I’ve just published my first piece in Truthout, which is a comprehensive account of the Dirar Abusisi extraordinary rendition.  This is the first account of its kind published anywhere outside the Ukraine (there have been previous earlier accounts by AP, the NY Times, and Der Spiegel which were ...
• Bibi’s Futile Divide and Conquer Strategy Betw ...
  Some of you may’ve erroneously thought Bibi Netanyahu was the leader of Israel’s Likud party.  But you’d be wrong.  He’s actually a Republican representing the U.S.’s 51st state, Israel.  How else to explain the fact that Bibi has given up on having any relationship or impact on Pres. Obama a ...
• Rightist Attacks Peace Now’s Director in TV St ...
  You know something’s dreadfully wrong when a well-known Israeli professor says to a peace activist the equivalent of “up against the wall, mother-fucker.” A week ago Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheim was slapped in the face before the airing of a TV interview which was supposed to include an Is ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• Eminent Israeli Historian, Israel Prize-Winner ...
  Yes, it took me aback too when I first read it, but the most distinguished living Israeli historian, Yehudah Bauer, says that the current Israeli government, in its attempt to maintain the Occupation and its refusal to recoginze a Palestinian state, is “anti-Zionist:” “I am speaking from a Zioni ...

Ode Magazine

• Q&A: Philipp Blom
  During the 18th century, intellectuals laid the foundation for modern Western society, in which reason and social progress rule. Many of the thinkers came together in a Parisian salon that is the décor of German historian Philipp Blomâs new book, A Wicked Company: The Forgotten ...
• In praise of pessimism
  What’s an intelligent optimist to do with a book that glorifies pessimism, a book by a philosopher known for his ultra-conservative views? Certainly, reading The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope is enough to raise your hackles. But Roger Scruton deserves to ...
• The look (and smell) of love
  Listen to your basic instincts when you think youâre falling for someone. Michael is a well-known New York psychotherapist. He’s 45 and recently divorced. Since he’s a therapist and understands the importance of positive thinking, he describes himself as “in between re ...
• Beauty amid destruction
  By: Anne Thomas I thought my last letter would be my final one until after my move. But some people have asked me to kindly keep up these epistles. So since I will be off line for about a month starting Sunday, I realized I should get one more out befo ...
• How a smarter life makes for a better planet
  By: EmilyAviles Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day in 1970 with the intention of inspiring appreciation of natural resources. For over 40 years, Earth Day (April 22) has mobilized individuals and organizations worldwide to demonstrate their commitment to ...

OpEd News

• President Obama Condemns Bradley Manning's Con ...
  At a fundraiser for President Barack Obama at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, a group of progressive supporters of Bradley Manning paid tens of thousands of dollars to attend and disrupt the event. Someone with the group managed to confront President Obama on Manning.
• Barbara Boxer: Champion in the Senate Against ...
  The establishment of a fixed end date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops could be crucial to the success of peace talks to end the war.
• Would This Video Make You Stop Eating Beef? Fu ...
  Once again Big Food is "appalled" by the video -- which shows sick and injured calves killed with hammers, workers standing on calves' necks and barely alive calves on "dead piles" -- while working to make publicizing such videos illegal.
• The Death of Bipartisanship
  At the beginning of the 112 th Congress, a Bay Area Congresswoman was invited to a Washington gathering of new Representatives, mostly Republicans. When she mentioned that, in previous eras, the two Parties had often worked together, a Republican barked, "We were sent here to shrink government, ...
• Is the Pen Mightier Than the Sword? Or is Obje ...
  That famous phrase about the power of the pen, coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, has been used time and again to describe how the presentation of rational, intelligent solutions to disputes is more effective than military force or other forms of violent actions. In the past ...

Switchboard

• PlaNYC to Dirty Buildings: Clean Up Your Heati ...
  Rich Kassel, Senior Attorney and Director, Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg released the long-awaited update to PlaNYC 2030 yesterday.  Among the plan’s 132 initiatives and more than 400 milestones is a p ...
• NRDC agrees with the oil and gas industry on s ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Boulder, Colorado Earlier this week�there was a dangerous natural gas well accident in�Bradford County, Pennsylvania, when a well blew out during a fracking operation. According to news reports, thousands of gallon ...
• For Earth Day: the majesty of the northern lights
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent a week taking an incredible 22,000 photos of the sky from and near�Kirkenes and Pas National Park�in Norway, near ...
• The Best Earth Day Haikus
  Alice Henly, Associate Editor, New York In honor of National Poetry Month and Earth Day we called for your most inventive, environmentally-inspired haikus during the week leading up to Earth Day, April 22nd. Today we are publishing our top picks f ...
• The Determined Face of a Clean Energy Revolution
  Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC Several of us at NRDC spent last weekend meeting some pretty amazing people at the Power Shift 2011 conference, which brought 10,000 young people to Washington to strategize and fight for an end to ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• entangle me in hopelessness and prayers for rain
  Gov. Perry would apparently like his fellow Texans to listen to more of The Cure.
• The Worst Justices Since McReynolds
  I have a new Prospect article up on how Roberts and Alito aren’t as bad as Scalia and Thomas…they’re worse. To make one more point about the remarkable Stuart Taylor article I discuss, consider his assertion that Alito will be able to “keep his political preferences out of his legal rulings.” Le ...
• A meme is born
  I awoke this morning with a notion of ridiculing the marginal voices on the intertubes who’d begun winding themselves into knots over a new German “study” claiming that compact fluorescent lights will transform our skulls into husks of cauliflower-sized tumors. Now, however, I see that Reynolds ...
• France Rides to the Rescue?
  I have also been hearing some arguments to this effect: Let’s make something clear, the civil war in Libya will not end in a stalemate. The French will likely intervene with ground forces and topple the Gaddafi regime, and they will probably do it within a month. It is quite possible that they w ...
• Pleasant Surprise of the Day
  Gail Collins. More of this, please.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Solar Power Without Solar Cells?
  A group of researchers at the University of Michigan uncover the magnetic energy potential in light and develop a method of harnessing it.
• Cleantech Capital Fund Targets Louisiana
  A private capital fund from SAIL Capital Partners believes Louisiana could be a hotbed for new cleantech business development.
• Going Green With An Airport Hanger
  Is it possible to green an airport hanger? If you look at Hanger 25 in California, completely powered by solar, the answer is yes. We find out more about it.
• Genovation G2 Comes In Electric Or Hybrid
  Genovation has released details about its electric and plug-in hybrid car called the G2, noting it goes 0 to 60 in 7.5 seconds or so.
• Backpack Design Provides Power On The Trail
  A new backpack concept design converts mechanical energy obtained while walking into power for portable devices in the outback.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Federal Circuit dismisses veterans' case over ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has dismissed a petition in a case originally brought by Vietnam veterans more than 30 years ago.
• New deans at Loyola, South Carolina and Kansas
  María Pabón López, Robert Wilcox, and Stephen Mazza are all among the new law dean announcements coming fast and furious as the academic year draws to a close.
• Fisher & Phillips acquires Cleveland labor shop
  Fisher & Phillips has opened its 25th office by absorbing Cleveland labor and employment boutique Millisor + Nobil.
• E-DISCOVERY: A SPECIAL REPORT
  Until the next rules change, recent case law is the best standard for preservation obligations; state e-discovery rules are all over the map. Other topics covered in this special report include native production, proportionality, "Big Data" and concept searching.
• Jury awards MGA $88.5 million in Bratz doll re ...
  A federal jury has rejected Mattel Inc.'s claims that MGA Entertainment Inc. stole the idea for the wildly profitable Bratz dolls, and instead awarded $88.5 million to MGA for trade secrets theft by Mattel.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Video: Natural gas blow back in Bradford county
  Frac fluid spills from well for 20 hours at Chesapeake site near Canton. Fluid flowed into a creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna. For more details, see http://www.wnep.com/wnep-brad-leroy-gas-drillingemergency20110420,0,1884646.story
• Do not discuss the chemicals – Lessons f ...
  So, I’m posting this email I received from the RDA (responsible Drilling Alliance) out of Williamsport, PA because it is full of all the things that I’ve been certain of since the gas companies and their land men showed up, but now there is actually some proof. At least it is proof enough for me ...
• PennFuture workshop: Gas and Our Water
  Gas and Our Water: Legal tools for watershed advocates dealing with drilling in the Marcellus Shale Saturday, April 16 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre This workshop will give grassroots conservation and watershed groups, concerned citizens and volunteers the legal tools necessary to protect our wat ...
• Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
  Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
• Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...

News Blaze

• New START Treaty Sets Stage for Further Limit ...
  At the United States Naval Academy, Ms. Rose Gottemoeller stated that two years ago in Prague, President Obama spoke about his vision of a world without nuclear weapons, and recognized the need to create the conditions to bring about such a world.
• UN Calls for Intensified Efforts to Conquer Ma ...
  'First, scaling up the life-saving and cost-effective interventions that have already produced such dramatic results,' he said in a message marking the Day. 'We need to ensure universal coverage for all people at risk.
• Cedric Kushner Recovering From Spinal Surgery
  Veteran boxing promoter Cedric Kushner, President of New York City-based Gotham Boxing, is recovering from spinal surgery yesterday that took nearly seven hours.
• Secretary Hillary Clinton Participates in 'Con ...
  The two secretaries talked about today's issues, the philosophical framework for decision-making, the changing world and new realities.
• Measles Cases Surge Across Europe
  At least 6,500 cases have been reported already, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday, with significant outbreaks observed in 30 countries, including Belgium, France, Serbia, Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Sp

environment 360

• What’s With the Weather? Is Climate Change to ...
  One of the thorniest questions facing climate scientists is whether human-induced climate change is leading to more heat waves, floods, and extreme weather events. Now, employing increasingly sophisticated methods of studying weather extremes, climatologists say they are closer to answering that ...
• 657 New Barrier Islands Identified in Global S ...
  A new global survey of the world’s barrier islands has identified 657 more islands than previously thought, including a 54-island chain that runs along the edges of mangrove forest off the Brazilian coast. Using satellite NASABrazil's Gurupi River delta images, topographical maps and navigationa ...
• Extreme Soil ‘Liquefaction’ Is Key Factor in J ...
  Extreme soil liquefaction over hundreds of miles was responsible for much of the damage in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, according to a new report. While it is common for major earthquakes to produce some liquefaction — a phenomenon in which soils lose their strength and act ...
• Global Market for E-Scooters and E-Motorcycles ...
  The global market for electric motorcycles and scooters is expected to surge, with the number of vehicles projected to jump from 17 million in 2011 to more than 138 million by 2017, according to a new report. The two-wheel electric vehicles, which are already popular across Asia, will become inc ...
• Reserve to Save Asian ‘Unicorn’ Established in ...
  The government of Vietnam has created a 39,000-acre reserve to protect the elusive saola, a critically endangered two-horned antelope-like mammal known locally as the “Asian unicorn.” The saola, or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which is described as a primitive AP/WWFA saola member of the bovine fa ...

Red Ice Creations

• Pluto’s Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers
  Recent observations of Pluto reveal that the icy orb’s atmosphere has expanded dramatically since 2000, and for the first time researchers have detected carbon monoxide. The findings may be evidence of seasonal changes in climate linked to Pluto’s most recent close approach to the sun, but scien ...
• Hundreds of dead fish found in Ventura Harbor, ...
  Hundreds of fish have been found dead in Ventura Harbor. This is the second large fish kill in Southern California this year. This time, hundreds of dead fish are floating in Ventura Harbor. The phone calls started coming into the Ventura Harbor Patrol around 6 a.m. Monday. Boaters were already ...
• Last chance for residents around nuke plant
  Residents rushed back into the 12-mile evacuation zone around Japan’s radiation-spewing nuclear power plant Thursday, grabbing whatever belongings they could before an order went into effect legally banning entry to the area.
• Lady Gaga fan kills cat for blood
  A Lady Gaga fan has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing her cat and using its blood to complete an outfit she planned to wear to a Gaga concert. Twenty-year-old Angelina Barnes had reportedly smeared her face and arms in the cat’s blood and was about to leave her Oklahoma City ...
• Libyan War Gets Weird: Defending the Indefensible
  A macabre, suspicious article is trying to excuse reports indicating that the Libyan rebels, who themselves admit ties to Al-Qaeda, are reportedly butchering, beheading, and mutilating captured govt troops and now guilty of employing the same weapons and tactics NATO has accused Qaddafi of using ...

Russia Today

• UN ignores its own resolution on Libya - polit ...
  Russia insists the UN resolution is being violated by allied forces, but these are not purely Russian concerns. There is widening frustration over how the operation in Libya is being conducted, according to political...
• Al-Qaeda terrorist commander killed in Chechnya
  Chechen police have killed a prominent militant leader from Saudi Arabia, who co-ordinated the supply of Al-Qaeda money to gangs in southern Russia.
• Anna Chapman’s next mission: State Duma infilt ...
  Anna Chapman, the famous Russian spy, who was the eye-catching center of last summer’s spy scandal in the US, is now aiming to infiltrate the State Duma as one of the candidates from the dominant United Russia party.
• Software mogul's son released after ransom paid
  Ivan Kaspersky, the son of multimillionaire software developer Evgeny Kaspersky, has been reportedly released after kidnappers received a ransom, some media report. No official info about whether the young man was...
• Region of many peoples, of harmony and legends
  The Zabaikalsk Region in Eastern Siberia resembles a motley patchwork. Located some 6,000 kilometers from Moscow, it is home to a wide range of ethnic groups that live side by side, with their cultures intertwined.

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

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

Tippers News

• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

• Americans’ Pessimism Deepens
  “Americans are more pessimistic about the nationâs economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obamaâs first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News pol ...
• Budget Task Force Struggles to Get Traction
  “A congressional task force launched by President Obama last week to help cut the federal deficit is off to a rocky start, with some members complaining that the agenda is destined to provide political theater, not a sweeping rewrite of spending and tax policy.” (Washington Post) More political ...
• Budget-Cutting Resistance
  If libertarians are to expand the sphere of freedom while shrinking the sphere of force, they first need to be understood.
• Debt Ceiling Shattered April 15
  Much attention is directed to the approaching congressional vote on raising the debt limit, which makes the following mysterious. According to the U.S. Treasury, the $14.294 trillion limit was exceeded on April 15.  See it for yourself here. Here are the latest figures to the penny: Total Public ...
• Imposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Re ...
  Liberalism comes in two varieties, classical and modern. All liberals support limitations on government power, but modern liberalism favors, while classical liberalism opposes, significant interference with private property rights. N. Scott Arnold’s book on the classical-modern liberal debate fo ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• A REGULATORY DISASTER
  Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...
• POISONED IN THE GULF
  A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are o ...
• VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
  Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...
• VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
  By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
  The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• A GIS analysis of the number of people living ...
  I've published in Nature tonight a GIS analysis I did with the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center operated by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), looking at how many people live within certain distances of each of the world's nu ...
• White House science office reports mixed progr ...
  The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has reported on the progress of the scientific integrity initiative that began with a stirring memo issued by US President Barack Obama in 2009. It says that fully 30 agencies have responded to a December 17, 2010 memo by OSTP direct ...
• Evacuations are now mandatory at Fukushima plant
  Today the Japanese government took steps to prevent people from re-entering the 20km exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new measure, announced by chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano, makes it illegal for members of the roughly 27,000 households affected ...
• Research wins in draft EU budget
  The European Commission has proposed an increase in Europe’s research budget next year of 13.3% to €7.6 billion. The potential windfall for research was announced in the Commission’s draft EU budget for 2012, published yesterday. The draft budget proposes total spending rises of 4.9% on 2011 ...
• VIDEO: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
  The partial meltdown of nuclear fuel at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has created a crisis in Japan. Nature Video provides a brief summary of events at the plant, and what lies ahead for the damaged reactors. For full coverage of the Fukushima disaster, go to Nature's news special. ...

new geography

• Here’s Comes the Bus: America’s Fastest Growin ...
  Travel by intercity bus is growing at an extraordinary pace: reflecting a rise in travel demand, escalating fuel prices, and investments in new routes. This confluence of factors has propelled scheduled bus service between cities to its highest level in years and has made the intercity bus t ...
• Downtown China
  In Downtown: It's Rise and Fall, 1880-1950, Robert M Fogelson says that downtowns are a uniquely American phenomenon. He refers to downtown as the commercial cores with high building densities that form "canyons" that, in some smaller urban areas, might be only a block long to a mile or more ...
• Life and Death in the Labor Market
  The Wall Street Journal recently listed the Top 10 Dying Industries, via research firm IBISWorld. Some industries didn�t just see temporary decline during the recession � some won�t recover and will slowly (or quickly) disappear. IBISWorld�s data format is a little different than ours, and it ...
• Malthusian Delusions Grip Australia
  Entrepreneur Dick Smith wants Australian families to be subject to China-like population doctrine. Families should be limited to just two children, the father of two and grandfather of six says, because our population growth is something like ‘a plague of locusts.’ Yet in reality, as in ma ...
• Getting Married Naked
  One of my girlfriends just invited me to attend her wedding ceremony next month. In our short conversation, I learned that she and her husband have already moved into their brand new, three-bedroom condo (we barely have any detached houses, called villas, in China), purchased a new car, and ...

GM Watch

• Gates' GM mozzies now heading for Mexico
• Labeling GMO food - New ballot initiative in t ...
• Monsanto helped fund bill to stifle whistleblo ...
• Important developments on national bans in the EU
• Gates' GM mozzies now heading for Mexico

spiked

• This Easter, try to avoid the Gospel of Grayling
  The underlying message of the New Atheists’ ‘secular bibles’ is far more soul-destroying than anything in the original Good Book.
• The art of pissing off Christians
  By attacking Andres Serrano’s artwork ‘Immersion (Piss Christ)’, French Christian fundamentalists play into the artist’s hands.
• Turning football fans into snitches
  It’s time Old Firm fans stopped telling tales on one another and united against the authorities’ behaviour police.
• What the undead tell us about the living
  New series The Walking Dead makes a good Zombie drama of contemporary society’s fear and self-doubt.
• After the Day of Rage, the months of repr ...
  The leader of the Bahrain Freedom Movement tells spiked that the situation in his country is grim. But is Western intervention the solution?

Cryptogon

• Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
  Eileen sent $80 and AS sent $20. Thank you.
• Both Apple and Google Receive Smartphone Users ...
  Via: Wall Street Journal: Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journalâintensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in persona ...
• China: Thousands of Truck Drivers Riot in Shan ...
  ZeroHedge is right: China is now between a rock and a hard place: will it continue happily importing Bernanke’s inflation exports or finally retaliate. Unfortunately for its economy, the appropriately called “nuclear option” of revaluation, will leave it export economy flailing. So the real ques ...
• China Halts Fuel Exports to Ensure Domestic Supply
  Some context is necessary on this story. China is a huge net oil importer. This is from the U.S. Department of Energy: China’s net oil imports reached about 4.3 million bbl/d in 2009, making it the second-largest net oil importer in the world behind the United States and for the first time surpa ...
• Pesticide Exposure in Pregnancy Linked to Lowe ...
  Via: U.S. News and World Report: Three new studies draw a link between prebirth exposure to a class of pesticides widely used on food crops and lower intelligence scores in children. The effect is especially noticeable in kids from a California farming region where they and their mothers were al ...

The Economic Collapse

• 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America
  The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline and it is getting really hard to deny it.  Over the past year I have included literally thousands of depressing statistics in my articles about the U.S. economy.  I have done this in order to make an ...
• Even Ben Stein Is Warning That An Economic Col ...
  He sure has come a long way since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".  During a recent television segment for CBS, Ben Stein declared that "the tea leaves are ominous" and he warned that an economic collapse may be coming.  In particular, Ben Stein is deeply concerned about inflation.  ...
• Political Theater: It Turns Out That The Repub ...
  Guess what?  The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again.  So what else is new?  The truth is that the great "budget crisis" which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater.  Even the Associated Press is ...
• The Japanese Economy Is In Much Bigger Trouble ...
  Now that nearly a month has gone by since the horrific tsunami in Japan on March 11th, it is starting to become clear just how much economic damage has been done.  The truth is that the Japanese economy is in much bigger trouble than most people think.  This is almost certainly ...
• How To Find A Job: Just Be Willing To Flip Bur ...
  Do you want to know how to find a job in America today?  It's easy.  Just be willing to flip burgers, wait tables or welcome people to Wal-Mart.  You must also be willing to work for close to minimum wage with no health benefits.  It's not that complicated.  On April 19th, McDon ...

Desertification

• Nourishing the Planet highlights agriculture a ...
  Read at : http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/earth-day-agriculture-state-of-the-world-food-security/ Agriculture: The Unlikely Earth Day Hero For over 40 years, Earth Day has served as a call to action, mobilizing individuals and organizations around the world to address these chall ...
• Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in t ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92550 FOOD: Home-grown nutrition research for Africa JOHANNESBURG, 21 April 2011 (IRIN) – A group of international academic institutions and an NGO backed by the European Union (EU) have launched Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in ...
• Genetic changes are not always bad (Science Daily)
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110420143616.htm Scientists Prove New Technology to Control Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) â Scientists at Imperial College London and the University of Washington, Seattle, have taken an important step towards deve ...
• Finding food should nevermore be a nightmare: ...
  Every time I read about hunger and malnutrition, with a mention of high food prices being the cause of all these problems, my heart shrinks a bit more. Knowing that it is possible to grow food crops anywhere, even in … Continue reading →
• Finding food becoming a nightmare in Uganda (I ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92541 UGANDA: Christine Amony, âFinding food for the whole family is becoming a nightmareâ GULU, 21 April 2011 (IRIN) – The sudden rise in food and fuel prices in the past four months in Uganda is raising … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
  by Eric Pettifor iPhones log date and location of every call they make. This is true of phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is ...
• Dmitri Soudas in “Con the Waterfront”
  By Montreal Simon Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee. But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal. An investigation by Radio-Canada su ...
• Surprise! You’re not voting!
  By Alison@Creekside Updated below You really have to wonder what was going through the head of Michael Sona, communications director for Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke, when he barged into the special advance ballot arranged by Elections Canada for students at Guelph University, ...
• Amusing videos to conquer sex-trafficking!
  by Rachel Krueger I love youtube videos and am opposed to sex trafficking.  I think it’s safe to say these two sentiments extend to a large percentage of the population.  So why am I baffled by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s hilarious "Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ videos?"  They feature foxy ...
• Debate: By not losing, Harper won
  By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn't, so I can't. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, ...

libcom

• France: occupations of secondary, primary and ...
  infant school occupation.jpg Since the very end of March, there have been increasing amounts of schools occupations throughout France. Provoked by the suppression of nearly 16,000 teaching posts, the ...
• Christchurch: A Class Quake
  christchurch-earthquake-3.png Tragically, a major earthquake hit Christchurch on 22 February. Much of the city has been destroyed, including about one-third of the Central Business District. At the t ...
• Lawlessness and crisis in Greece while Portuga ...
  tumblr_lgah1b2Rz91qaqd5eo1_500.jpg As the Greek government struggles to enforce austerity on its protesting citizens, Europe's bankers whisper about the possibilities of never getting their money bac ...
• Professional Carpet Cleaning - DIY Tips
  Regardless if you seek the services of a professional or whether you do it yourself the most important thing to take into account is to go slowly enough that you eradicate as much moisture as you can. Regardless if you seek the servi ...
• Death toll mounts after defeat of 2009 Ssangyo ...
  SsangYong.jpg Two years after the brutal crushing of the Ssangyong Motors strike and occupation in South Korea, an increasing number of sacked workers have died prematurely. It ...

Free Range International

• Victory Day
  Well, here we are, a week away from Victory Day, the third annual national holiday celebrating the martial history of Afghanistan.  There is Independence Day in August, which celebrates running the Brits out of the country in the 1800’s. Then, there is Liberation Day, in February, which mark ...
• Poppy Time
  It is Saturday, the 9th of April here in the sunny paradise of Afghanistan and both Kandahar and Kabul are in UN declared “White City” status as the locals brace for another round of anti American protests in response to the Koran burning in Florida.  I’m in Kandahar where all is quiet after   ...
• Afghanistan Gone Wild
  The killings in Mazar-i Sharif followed by rioting in Kandahar, Jalalabad and towns across the country are more than a little troubling. Joshua Foust posted on the topic expressing concern about the viability of internationals remaining outside the wire which makes concerned too because Joshua ...
• Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
  Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
• Rant Time
  Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...

The Story Behind the Story

• T – EL – EVIL – SION = TELEV ...
  It starts with the Tau – the cross.  Then it honors El – another name for the Serpent Demon God Set — which of course is the ultimate anti-Christian EVIL, all culminating in the vision of SION — aka ZION. T-El-EVIL-SION — what’s in a name?  Everything!! Discovered by Mormon Philo Farnsworth af ...
• Brother Nathaniel Speaks Out on Glenn Beck
  Ok folks, here it is.  I am NOT a Glenn Beck fan.  In my opinion he is a narcissistic, blind and ignorant Mormon blow-hard.  However, he is learning the hard way it would appear.  Perhaps now he understands who actually has paid his exorbitant salary the last couple of years.  Perhaps now he rea ...
• WHAT IS GOING ON??
  I have noticed that many “mainstream media” reporters are suddenly speaking a very weird form of gibberish.   Strangely, it sounds like some form of hidden language ala the fictional (?) TV series V. Or, is this just ordinary humans suffering from low blood sugar and migraines?   At the very ...
• The Power of Words
  We have a wonderful country…..a beautiful country…..and we need to save it.  We need to restore all that made it great for the last 250 years.      
• The “Floating Dollar” —- A V ...
  Imagine a world with zero “constancy”.  Imagine the chaos of a world with no standardized weights or measures.  Imagine going shopping in a store where the concept of a pound of steak or 10 ounces of milk changed daily on the whim of the stores “upper management”.  Imagine trying to decide wh ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design
  Initial Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design-4/17/2011 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have found that the biggest hurdles to overcome are: Total Costs of the System (Thousands of dollars that do not produce as reasonable return ...
• Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design
  Initial Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design-4/17/2011 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have found that the biggest hurdles to overcome are: Total Costs of the System (Thousands of dollars that do not produce as reasonable return ...
• Just a Few of the Reasons I Choose to Offer We ...
  Racking, Wiring, Grounding and Inverter are built into a larger-format 235-watt panel (AC Power), thereby delivering higher performance and lower installed cost. Westinghouse Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEST), a designer and manufacturer of solar power systems, today announced the release of their secon ...
• Call Today for Missouri Renewable Energy
  Missouri Renewable Energy Bill moves to the House Floor Your Calls Needed NOW! HCS HB 613 which reinstates portions of the voter enacted Renewable Electricity Standard will be heard on the Floor of the Missouri House of Representatives this week. After many hours of hard work by the Renewable En ...
• MO Officials Enact Legislation that opposes Vo ...
  Missouri lawmakers outsource renewable energy, jobs to other regions of the country PRESS RELEASE February 23rd, 2011 Contact: PJ Wilson, co-director of Renew Missouri pj Jefferson City (February, 23rd 2011) – Missouri lawmakers have rolled back key provisions of the voter-approved Renewable Ele ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Gulf of Mistrust: Iran and the Gulf Protests
  The Gulf regimes are using the threat of Iran as an excuse to crack down on democratic protests -- and the United States is going along.
• Obama and Gates Disagree to Agree on Military ...
  Tension between President Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates over military spending may have been scripted.
• Smearing Japan
  A State Department official resigned after describing Okinawans as "extortionists" and "lazy." Here's the story behind the story.
• Could "Virtual Deterrence" Actually Increase t ...
  "Virtual deterrence" may sound like a step in the right direction to disarmament advocates, but it could actually grease the skids to nuclear war.
• Worshiping the Sacred Pig
  Is Pentagon pork, which has been off the table for decades, finally on the budget-cutting menu?

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• مملکت دست اراذل و اوباش است
  خب حتما خبر دارید که دادستان کل کشور آقای محسنی اژه ای گفته بودند که آقای تاجیک رو دستگیر کردند اما یکی دو روز بعد سایت روز مصاحبه ای با خود آقای تاجیک داشت که در اون نه تنها خبر آزادی خودش رو اعلام کرده بود بلکه با تکرار فحاشی به شما و خانواده تان، گفته بودند اگر باهاشون برخورد بشه بچه حزب الله ...
• .انتشار نامه حمایت آیت الله خامنه‌ای از مصلحی
  "از شما می خواهم بیش از پیش در انجام مأموریت های مهم داخلی و خارجی وزارت اطلاعات اهتمام به خرج داده... و با حمایت دولت خدمتگزار و همکاری سایر نهادهای اطلاعاتی، اجازه ندهید کوچکترین فترت و سستی در انجام وظایف قانونی آن دستگاه مهم پیش آید".
• مشکل مجاهدین خلق
  تقریبا هیچ ایرانی مذهبی بالاتر از پنجاه سال را نمی توان یافت که در طول زندگی اش حداقل یک بار هواداری از مجاهدین خلق نکرده باشد و تقریبا هیچ ایرانی را نمی توان یافت که اگر هوادار مجاهدین خلق نبوده باشد، حداقل یک ربع در حزب توده عضو نشده باشد. با یک تعریف سازمان مجاهدین خلق یکی از اتفاقات مهم پنجا ...
• US cracks down on N. Korean bank, cites Iran ties
  WASHINGTON — The United States slapped sanctions on a North Korean bank on Tuesday, accusing it of having ties to the arms trade and Iran, the Treasury Department said. Treasury sanctions czar David Cohen said the Bank of East Land was linked to North Korea's intelligence agencies, as well a ...
• Keeping 'impure' dogs may be banned in Iran
  Pampered pooches may not be everyone's idea of "man's best friend", but a bill proposed by politicians in Iran could take this sentiment to a new extreme � by criminalising dog ownership. � read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Infiltrating the Single Payer Movement
  http://www.healthcare-now.org/ My own knowledge of left gatekeepers stems from 14 years as a single payer activist (1988-2002)  in Washington State. Our local single payer movement was launched by a group of doctors belonging to Physicians for a National Health Program. Our goal was to reduce he ...
• Leftgatekeepers Infiltrate the Progressive Mov ...
  Wesbster Tarpley, in Barrack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography, uses the example of the Ford Foundation to outline how left gatekeeper foundations, often backed by CIA funding, have taken over some of the Cointelpro-type counterinsurgency functions of the US government. It’s really impossible ...
• The “Cointelpro” Role of Left Ga ...
  The two most prolific contemporary writers regarding foundation funded Cointelpro-style counterinsurgency tactics are historian and journalist Webster Tarpley (in Barack H Obama: the Unauthorized Autobiography) and Australian-born academic researcher Michael Barker. A list and link to all Bark ...
• The Nation Magazine and the CIA
  Bob Feldman’s unraveling of the indirect CIA funding received by the Nation and Radio Nation is the most instructive in demonstrating how “pass-through” funding works (see http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/nation_ned_1.html). According to their tax returns, the Nation Institute receives ...
• The Ford Foundation and the CIA
  Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the first, in 1967, to investigate the use of the Ford Foundation and other foundations as “conduits,” “pass-throughs,” and “fronts” to disguise CIA funding for domestic operations (it’s technically illegal for the CIA to operate on US soil under federal law). ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

• Environmental Devastation: The Gulf Oil Spill ...
  While the Japanese nuclear crisis might upstage the Gulf crisis, it hasn't gone away. As the Wall Street Journal notes today: Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency… compared the contamination of seawater by the Fukushima complex with an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...
• WRAPUP 13: RADIATION LEAKING FROM JAPAN'S QU ...
• EVERYTHING DEAD ! COREXIT FLOATING PLEASE HELP ...
  Five Blocks from my home no LIFE!! 3/6/2011 WERE NEXT! VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAz1jdUp6I4 March 6, 2011
• Ecuador orders Chevron to apologize, pay $8.6 ...
• WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!
  I took a walk along the beach Feb. 09, 2011. I had seen the many ads placed on your TV and news outlets all over the world paid for by BP proclaiming“The oil is gone and our beaches are clean”. The one that really gets me is how safe the seafood can be when this is what our beaches look like.   ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• I Can’t Take Donald Trump Seriously
  Join the forum discussion on this post I am constantly amused by the views of presidential candidates on energy policy. Their views are either so disingenuous or so naive that I often find it difficult to vote for a candidate. In the 2008 election, I could have voted for Barack Obama, who decl ...
• ‘Price Signal’ can be a Weapon for Managing Hi ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Steep Cost of Sudden Price Spikes One of my recent essays discussed the relationship between high oil prices and recession. Consumers who suddenly find themselves paying more for fuel are hit with the equivalent of a stealth tax, leaving less money av ...
• Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent article in the Washington Post on Five Myths About Gas Prices, I received several inquires for additional commentary on the story. Below is an interview that I did with KSL NewsRadio in Utah that allowed me to expand upon the points fro ...
• A Double Dip Recession? Only If We Are Lucky
  Join the forum discussion on this post Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’r ...
• Speculator’s Political Reserve?
  Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...

Discovery Educator Network

• [video] Habemus Satrianum
  Comments:Questa è la storia dell’antica e la nuova Satriano di Lucania, fazzoletto di terra in cui lo spettro delle discariche, permessi di ricerca petroliferi e “strane” recinzioni energivore, minacciano l’integrità dei luoghi. Il ricorso della Tyke Srl ( interessata al progetto di discarica) d ...
• [video] Satriano, il gallo e l’uovo solare
  Comments:Correva l’anno 2009 quando al bivio di Calle – Tricarico (Mt) qualcuno lanciava un appello al mondo dell’agricoltura. Oggi, anno 2011 la “veggenza” prende forma a Satriano di Lucania (Pz), in cui galli tibetani annunciano l’era delle uova solari. A bordo della navicella a lievitazione m ...
• myUdutu - sign in
  Tags: elearning, software, scorm, Tools, E-learning, myudutu, authoring, web2.0by: Dean Mantz
• Rita101+ diretta su Ola Channel per dire SI al ...
  Comments:Rita101+ intende coinvolgere le migliaia di ricercatrici italiane che operano nel nostro Paese e coloro che sono andate all’estero: l’obiettivo è quello di creare una rete di 102 ricercatrici – come gli anni dell’amatissima professoressa – che possano raccontare le loro storie e proporr ...
• [video] Saluti da Irsina
  Comments:Un viaggio verso luoghi integri i cui colori e i profumi di paesaggi unici, accompagnano gli occhi del viaggiatore nell’immensità della valle del Bradano. Con una superfcie territoriale di 262 kmq, Irsina (Mt) è una delle cittadine lucane più antiche della Basilicata. - OLA ChannelTags: ...

Rodale News

• Bite-Sized Tips from a Green Cleaning Guru
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—John Vlahakis received a lesson in standing up for what he believes in at a very young age. read more
• How You Can Stand Up Against GMOs
  RODALE NEWS, NEW YORK, NY—This year is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which first hit the scene way back in 1981. And Monsanto, Syngenta, and other chemical companies that develop GMOs marked the occasion with successful U.S. Department of Agr ...
• 10 Unusual Earth-Friendly Habits to Start on E ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You recycle your plastic, your turn off the lights when you leave the room, and you buy organic vegetables…and that's all great. If you're ready to take your ecofriendly activities to the next level, here's a batch of some more…unique ideas to mull over and try out on Ea ...
• Truly Healthy Eggs: A Quick and Easy Guide
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Easter is right around the corner, so naturally, eggs are on the mind. read more
• Take an Invasive Species to Dinner
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâYou may not realize it, but we're being invaded. Since 1999, the National Invasive Species Council (www.invasivespecies.gov) has identified more than 110 nonnative species (29 animals, 46 plants, and 39 aquatic species) that threaten our health or environment, and cost o ...

big think

• GVP Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for April ...
  It has been a couple weeks since I posted the USGS and Smithsonian Institute's Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report - being busy with work every day for the last 2 weeks will do that. Things are a little more settled, so I thought I'd highlights some of the activity wor ...
• How to Avoid Plagiarism (and the Future of Hig ...
  So the�third suggestion of Hacker and Dreifus in HIGHER EDUCATION concerns avoiding PLAGIARISM.� Plagiarism is easier than ever these days--thanks to the abundant resources on the web.� And the ingenuity of the plagiarist is typically a step or more ahead of the development of the software desig ...
• Hungry or Guarded?
  What is the Latest Development? It's the idea that every cause, every candidate and every marketer faces the following situation:�Either you're selling to people who are hungry for what you offer, who are open to hearing what you have to say, who are�fans...�Or you're selling to people who are ...
• Who Are Your Pride Builders?
  What is the Latest Development? “Pride Builders”—staff who intuitively know how to ignite a “feel good” attitude in their colleagues and pride in their day-to-day activities—can play a big role in mobilizing the kind of emotional commitment that makes behavior change happen. Pride Builders are ...
• Look For Your Hidden Biases
  What's the Latest Development? Sean Silverthorne says every hiring manager should be following the ongoing class action lawsuit between Walmart and female workers, the largest civil rights class action in history. "It should have you thinking about the role that your company’s corporate cultur ...

Information Liberation

• 10 Examples That Should Convince Anyone That W ...
  Do you know people that still believe that America is a free country?* Do you have friends or family that are proud to live in "the land of the free and the home of the brave"?* If you do, just show them this article.* The things that you are about t...
• Keeping the plebs on their toes: Military chop ...
  Residents in the neighborhood saw and heard several military-style, *pitch-black* helicopters flying around and hovering on top of Brickell buildings Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. Turns out that it was a training exercise by the Sou...
• Cuban and American Socialism
  The disastrous failure of Cuba*s socialist economic system provides valuable clues to the American people as to why the United States is mired in economic woes. While total socialism has led Cuba into the depths of economic despair, the partial socia...
• Man Shows Joe Arpaio Copy of Constitution -- T ...
  There's a video applauded in the Conservative blogosphere of a man showing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio a copy of the Constitution as the sheriff rants, raves, and pats himself on the back for his crusade to rid stock rooms at retail stores o...
• Police Officer Breaks Reporters Camera For Fil ...
  Milwaukee Police Officer Joseph Anderer did not want any recording of his colleagues ticketing a victim who was broadsided April 5, 2011 by a speeding police car that exited an alley without stopping. So he twisted the camera from reporter Geoff...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Libertarianism And Immigration
  I was going to wait a while before tackling this issue, but it has become topical in so many countries, including those of most of you reading this, that it’s appropriate we look at it today. It isn’t a cut … Continue reading →
• The Missing Fifty Million
  Fifty million peopleâthe equivalent population of Burma, South Korea, Spain or South Africaâthey’ve gone. Vanished. Or perhaps, more precisely, they’ve been disappeared. That’s the number of âclimate refugeesâ by 2010 that the United Nations Environment Programme forecast in its 2005 report, … ...
• Gaia Rights
  For those of you wondering why I expend so many words banging on about rights, here’s a story which illustrates the point nicely. You may have read about it yourselves in the last few days; I did, but dismissed it … Continue reading →
• Carbonomics
  I promised myself that I’d stay away from Global Warming, at least until some new wrinkle turned up that promised some sort of interesting discussion. But seeing as GE is away, surfing apparently (you’ll forgive my antipodean snickering as I … Continue reading →
• Liberté, Égalité, Sororité
  Today marks the official introduction of France’s new law banning the burqua and niqab in public places. Police officers encountering a person wearing this garment are forbidden to forcibly remove it, but if she refuses their request to lift her … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

• Critical Infrastructure for Ocean Research and ...
  National Research Council (download of prepublication version with free registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13081 [Recommendation] Federal ocean agencies should establish and maintain a coordinated national strategic plan for critical shared ocean infrastructure investment, ma ...
• Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab C ...
  World Bank | League of Arab States http://bit.ly/i6nrPk [From Website] We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) regional Climate Change Flagship Report, “Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries.”  The report, currentl ...
• Energy-Water Nexus: Amount of Energy Needed to ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-225 [From Summary] As the demand for water increases, the energy demands associated with providing water services are similarly expected to grow. GAO was asked to describe what is known about (1) the energy needed for the urb ...
• National Forest System (NFS) Roadless Area Ini ...
  Congressional Research Service CRS-roadless-lands_03 Roadless areas in the National Forest System (NFS) have received special attention for decades. Many want to protect their relatively pristine condition; others want to use the areas in more developed ways. Two different roadless area policies ...
• How Dirty is Your Data? A Look at the Energy C ...
  Greenpeace International http://bit.ly/hyYgOd [Environmental Leader.com] Apple gets the worst ratings in a Greenpeace report that claims cloud computing companies are perpetuating the use of fossil fuels. The report, How Dirty is Your Data?, compares energy choices made by Apple, Google, Faceboo ...

Scientific American - News

• Deep Freeze: Mars Orbiter Finds Massive Stores ...
  Buried under the south pole of Mars are the makings of one heck of a Halloween party. [More]
• Gulf Seafood Officially Safe, But Questions an ...
  COCODRIE, La.--Eating at North America's southern rim, where the land fades into the water, demands a stomach for seafood particularly shrimp, crab and fish, such as sea bass. After all, Louisiana alone pulls in some six million metric tons of seafood per decade, and Terrebonne Parish, which enc ...
• Searches for Human Remains Combine High-Tech w ...
  FBI aircraft are performing flyover imaging runs of an area on Long Island where local authorities have already discovered 10 sets of human remains . The bones and bodies appear to be the work of a serial killer--and perhaps multiple killers--who dumped the bodies in brush near the island's sou ...
• A Bicycle Built for None: What Makes a Riderle ...
  Be kind to your bicycle, for you may need it more than it needs you. [More]
• Coast Benefits: NASA Announces Retirement Home ...
  The launching and landing of space shuttles has always been a fairly coastal affair: The shuttles take off from Florida and almost always touch down in Florida or California. (Once, in 1982, a shuttle landed at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor.) NASA is continuing that coastal tradition wit ...

First Truths

• Under Construction
  First Truths is in transition, though what it is in transition both�from and to remain something of a mystery. In the meantime, visit the Center for a Stateless Society for your market anarchism/D'Amato fix. My Center for a Stateless Society archive. My Ludwig von Mises Institute archive.
• The Real Terrorists
  I commented on the Iraq hostage situation among other things: Terrorist attacks, if indeed they are disproportionately directed at the U.S. and its surrogates, are, while monstrous and morally detestable, the desperate convulsions of a people trapped and oppressed by the weight of empire. As Gre ...
• For Our Own Good
  I discuss the regulatory state for C4SS: Well, if they’re our last hope, then there really isn’t any way out of state capitalism’s shrewd schemes to bleed us dry and sell us poison. Barrett never bothers to consider, though, what it is that enables corporations to “cut corners” against the inter ...
• Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
  The Empire couldn't care less about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, I argue in a commentary for C4SS: For the novel’s superpower Oceania, then, as for the United States, defeat of an enemy that is “unconquerable” by design is neither possible nor even desired. Since Afghanistan, in and of itself ...
• "Meritocracy" in the Middle East
  For C4SS, I examine the substance of statist "meritocracy" in Bahrain: Free market anarchists regard the meritocratic credo of the state capitalism as an integral organ of that oppressive system not because we see all people as possessed of the same abilities, but because it is not through any a ...

Media Co-Op

• Revolt and Crisis in Greece
  Organization, insurrection and control; past, present and future Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. They spoke i ...
• Plundering & Pollution Conference: Niobium min ...
  Speech by Ellen Gabriel Niobium mining is taking place in Kanehsatake, near the recent field exploited by the St-Lawrence Colombium. Niobium is a rare ore, more and more sought, which is used in many high technology products. Its extractio ...
• Nova Scotia’s Tar Sands
  âShale gas is the fossil fuel industryâs latest suicide missionâ After years of learning about climate change and oil and gas development in other places, Michael Jenson was upset, but not surprised, to learn that natural gas exploration m ...
• Human Oil Spill Slickens the Streets of Downto ...
  Climate Justice organizers mark 1 year anniversary of BP oil spill targetting Enbridge Trailbreaker Pipeline Project Montreal - Around 50 people braved sub-zero temperatures and pouring rain as a lively torrent of 'human oil' rushed throug ...
• Théâtre de rue pour la journée d'action contre ...
  sur le jour du 1er anniversaire du déversement de pétrole dans le Golfe. Climate-Justice Montréal:  Partout autour du monde, des communautés sont menacées par des industries d’extraction qui empoisonnent nos familles, tuent nos proch ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Is SuperSize Documentary Really Accurate?
  Most people thought the documentary SuperSize Me was an expose of what the fast food industry was doing to waistlines around the world. But comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton didn't buy it. Can you actually lose weight on a diet of burgers and fries?
• How Supermodel Gisele Bundchen "Infuriated Can ...
  Researchers at the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based nonprofit, released their annual report claiming nearly half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A and it ...
• The Shocking Collapse of the Middle Class
  Law scholar Elizabeth Warren is an outspoken critic of America's credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. As Warren discusses a possible collapse of the middle-class, this AlterNet article, written by former economist David Korten for YES ...
• Hands-Free Faucets Can Harbor Nasty Germs
  Faucets that electronically sense the presence of a hand without a touch are sometimes used to cut down on the risk of bacterial contamination. But researchers who ran bacterial tests discovered that half of water samples taken from the electronic faucets grew Legionella, the type of bacteria th ...
• Destroy Urinary Tract Infections Without Antib ...
  The effect of cranberry proanthocyanidins (PACs) is dependent on the dose. Higher doses are significantly more effective at maintaining urinary health. A new study supports the theory that at least 36 milligrams of proanthocyanidins (PAC) are needed to reduce the adhesion of E. coli bacteria t ...

JAMA

• Supplementing Creatinine-Based Estimates of Ri ...
• Whole-Genome Sequencing: A Step Closer to Pers ...
• ICD Implantation and Evidence-Based Patient Se ...
• ICD Implantation and Evidence-Based Patient Se ...
• ICD Implantation and Evidence-Based Patient Se ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Wave of child deaths strikes indigenous commun ...
  Warao child and baby, Amacuro delta, Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/Survival Six children in one Warao indigenous community in Venezuela have reportedly died within the space of ten days in April, as a result of malnutrition, disease, and poor health care. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, respiratory ...
• Jumma villages burned to ashes
  Jummas, Bangladesh © Mark McEvoy/Survival Six indigenous Jumma villages have reportedly been burned to ashes and many Jumma people attacked by Bengali settlers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Violence erupted when Jumma landowners discovered settlers clearing their land and bu ...
• Ross Thomas models for Survival
  Ross Thomas modeling Survival's T-Shirt by Richard Long. © Survival Hollywood actor Ross Thomas, whose new movie ‘Soul Surfer’ has just opened, models two new T-shirts for human rights organization Survival International. The two T-shirts are available from Survival’s online store. Richa ...
• US human rights report shines spotlight on Pen ...
  Under Chief Minister Taib, the Penan's forests have been ravaged for 30 years. © Survival International A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging. The US State Department docum ...
• Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Dis ...
  The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode ...

Montreal Gazette

• What have the Liberals done for anglos?
  "" Re: "Majority needed to beat separatism, Harper says" (Gazette, April 18).
• Layton's unexpected surge gives hope to federa ...
  The polling trend had suggested for some time that the major federal parties were rolling along in roughly the same ruts they had carved themselves in the previous two electoral outings. The major uncertainty was whether the Conservatives would pay the price of some of their Quebec City-area sea ...
• A dreadful accident, a wake-up call on street ...
  A 17-year-old high-school student got off an STM bus near the corner of Rachel and Frontenac Sts., got on his skateboard in the Rachel bike path, and, on a green light, proceeded straight through the Rachel-Frontenac intersection. At exactly the same time, the bus he'd just got off turned at the ...
• Editorial: The profound malaise at Montreal ci ...
  Another conclusion that one can't help but draw is that if Mayor Gérald Tremblay was, as he has repeatedly maintained, unaware of the goings-on, he is so out of touch with his own administration's activities that it amounts to dereliction of duty.
• NDP platform betrays its centralizing instincts
  An Angus Reid poll conducted April 4 and 5 found him with 36-per-cent popular support in this province, more than Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper (15 per cent) and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (11 per cent) put together. Layton is seen as sympathetic to Quebec nationalist aspiration ...

Food World Order

• 3/24 binge & purge: scares, shares, rallies, a ...
  codex alimentarius & food irradiation in US* russia bans food from 6 japanese prefectures* store-brand food eating up market share* junk-food oxymoron: frito-lay tries all-natural chips* free-range egg ban shuts prince edward island bed & breakfast* worst texas drought in 44yrs er ...
• 4/21 binge & purge: tests, deaths, laced, dates
  fda refuses to test fish for radioactivity* organic growers v. monsanto: lawsuit filed to protect against contamination* mcdonald's warns of higher food inflation* ugandan food protests grow violent* pietro ferrero, food company scion, dies at 47* new british beer is laced with ...
• major farm animal cloning project canceled due ...
  from free from harm: After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died. AgResearch is a New Zealand based company that has spent more than a decade trying to perfect the cloning of animals for ...
• high bacteria levels in meat at US stores: report
  from reuters: Meat found on grocery store shelves often contains high levels of bacteria, with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, a study released on Friday said. The meat is still safe to eat but consumers should take precautions especially in handling an ...
• 4/14 binge & purge: hunger hormones & the dang ...
  study finds hunger hormone helps you sniff out food* extreme weather taking huge toll on global food production* world bank chief says food prices in 'danger zone'* arsenic & toxic metals found in baby foods* greens call for new zealand ban on japanese food imports* monsanto modifi ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America
  The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline and it is getting really hard to deny it.  Over the past year I have included literally thousands of depressing statistics in my articles about the U.S. economy.  I have done this in order to make an ...
• Even Ben Stein Is Warning That An Economic Col ...
  He sure has come a long way since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".  During a recent television segment for CBS, Ben Stein declared that "the tea leaves are ominous" and he warned that an economic collapse may be coming.  In particular, Ben Stein is deeply concerned about inflation.  ...
• Political Theater: It Turns Out That The Repub ...
  Guess what?  The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again.  So what else is new?  The truth is that the great "budget crisis" which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater.  Even the Associated Press is ...
• The Japanese Economy Is In Much Bigger Trouble ...
  Now that nearly a month has gone by since the horrific tsunami in Japan on March 11th, it is starting to become clear just how much economic damage has been done.  The truth is that the Japanese economy is in much bigger trouble than most people think.  This is almost certainly ...
• How To Find A Job: Just Be Willing To Flip Bur ...
  Do you want to know how to find a job in America today?  It's easy.  Just be willing to flip burgers, wait tables or welcome people to Wal-Mart.  You must also be willing to work for close to minimum wage with no health benefits.  It's not that complicated.  On April 19th, McDon ...

CASSE

• Missed Opportunity in the Budget Debacle
  Even though Congress missed a golden opportunity, we still need to fight for a budget that aligns with our values.
• How Chicken Farming, Murder and Eugenics Spark ...
  With groundless accusations hanging in the air, Mike Freedman asks, "Who's the misanthrope here?"
• Hooray for the Underdog
  CASSE being named the Best Green Think Tank of 2011 is a testament to underdogs everywhere.
• Sir Thomas Enough: Utopia and the Steady State
  With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
• Another Bite out of Life
  As the economy bloats with bigger and bigger bites taken from the biosphere, what's the 21st century response?

The Talking Clock

• Lord Monckton on Alex Jones: Fighting the anti ...
  Headline: Lord Monckton calls for Hungarian Foreign Minister to be brought to Britain to stand trial at Old Bailey on charges of torture over case of Jason McGoldrick.
• Sunday Paper Review: 10th April 2011
  So, Sunday has rolled around again. Time to find out what misery the global political elite are inflicting upon the peoples of Planet Earth again... For those passing by this way for the first time, we did used to try to take all of these politics and current affairs matters seriously - but t ...
• Quote of the Day: 9th April 2011
  "The failure of the euro will signify the failure of the European ideal, and that is why eurocrats fight so hard for it. What should have been a club of free-trading nations over-reached itself, and sought to unite people with little or no common culture, politics, language or economic history i ...
• And when former East Germans accuse Theresa Ma ...
  I really can't be bothered to write any more about this beastly character than has already been written in the title of this post. Foul woman. Resign in shame, Theresa May. Read the story HERE, HERE and HERE. You can't trust the Tories on national sovereignty. (nor can you trust Lab ...
• Census stand-off: Round 1
  Just had a ring on the chimes of the Clock Tower. Eeek! A door-to-door gestapo agent, wanting to know where my census form is ("Well, I did post it...") Good grief. Either I'm getting old, else the evil state is now using twelve year olds to do it's dirty work, knowing we'd find it more di ...

Facing South

• A REGULATORY DISASTER
  Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...
• POISONED IN THE GULF
  A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are o ...
• VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
  Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...
• VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
  By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
  The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Indonesia on High Alert After Large Bomb Found Near Church Indonesian security police are on high alert Friday after police say that terrorism suspects arrested Thursday, now numbering 19, led them to either to a large bomb or series of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Pentagon to Seek Death Penalty for Guantanamo Detainee Nashiri The Defense Department announced new charges on Wednesday against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee accused of involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Khadr’s Lawyers Challenge Pentagon Witness in Plea for Clemency Defense lawyers for Omar Khadr, who in October pleaded guilty to five war crimes at a military commission at Guantanamo and received an 8-year sentence, are challenging the qualifications of a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal from Chinese Uighurs The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from five Chinese Uighurs who have been detained at Guantanamo for nearly nine years. The detainees, who are not considered a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Attack on Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Kills Two A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry said Monday that a would-be suicide bomber wearing an Afghan Army uniform got past several layers of security and opened fire inside the ministry … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Immersive view of shuttle before its final flight
  he space shuttle Endeavour is tasked with delivering a machine that will search for unusual matter in space. New Scientist takes an immersive view
• Schizophrenic brain cells created in the lab
  Researchers have developed a new model for schizophrenia by coaxing stem cells from patients with the condition into living neurons
• World's biggest human brain map unveiled
  Researchers have completed their four-year task of mapping the brain based on all known parts of the genome
• Today on New Scientist: 15 April 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: evolutionary Babel located, nocturnal dinos, more mind control, and Japan's trauma
• James Watson menaced by hoodies shouting 'racist!'
  The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA was menaced by stick-wielding protesters shouting "racist!" as he prepared to deliver a lecture in Greece

Tech Drive In

• IE9 Day 1 - 2.3 Million Downloads, Firefox 4 - ...
  You all must aware of the fact that both IE9 and Firefox 4 was released within a span of two weeks and both of them are considered highly improved versions their predecessors. Now here are some interesting download statistics of both the browsers.� source: firefox wallpapers Firefox 4 ...
• Mozilla F1 Firefox 4 Extension Just Got Sexier
  Mozilla F1 extension is a product of Mozilla Labs which is behind such incredible concepts like Seabird Mobile Phone.�F1 is a simple Firefox browser extension that allows you to share links fast and easy. Share links from within the browser, from any webpage, using the same services you already ...
• Everyone's Favorite Hotot Twitter Client Now A ...
  Hotot is undoubtedly one among the very best Twitter desktop client for Linux and that was exactly why we included Hotot in our list of 18 must have applications for Ubuntu. Now, if you don't want a separate desktop client for a primary web application like Twitter, Hotot is now available in Chr ...
• How About Firefox 4's Panorama Like Workspace ...
  Unity is the new improved Ubuntu interface which is all set to debut in another month or so when Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is officially released. A lot of ideas keeps coming in from users on how to improve Unity interface even further. Tweak Center and Launchpad + Ubuntu Sowftare Center inte ...
• 31 Useful Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Keyboard/Mouse Sh ...
  Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' will be released in another 8 days or so. We have followed the development of Ubuntu 11.04 very closely. In fact, we have reviewed all the previous developmental releases of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal so far including�Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Alpha 3 and Beta 1�releases. In ...

Case About Bird Flu

• WHY WE NEED A NEW MILITARY DESIGNED TO DEFEND ...
  German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere has said that he wants to establish a dialogue with the people about the future of the country’s military. http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/politik/minister-sucht-neues-konzept-1.602659 The initiative comes as a debate is raging about what shape the Germ ...
• AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR WARNS FINANCIAL S ...
  Vienna University Economics Professor Franz Hörmann, talks in this interview about why the eurozone is set to collapse soon under the weight of debt (hyperinflation), and about why we need a new money system that gives value not to material things but to creativity and intelligence. He points ou ...
• EU PREPARES FOR GROUND INVASION OF LIBYA
  Alex Jones On EU Ground Invasion Of Libya Infowars.com April 19, 2011 Alex Jones addresses the cynical, pre-planned announcement by the EU to officially launch ground forces in Libya, a policy set in place since late February / early March when U.S. and British originally deployed special forces ...
• NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PLANS BIG VACCINATION P ...
  By Katherine Smith, New Zealand. “On March 24, 2011, the Report of the Health Select Committee’s Inquiry into “How to improve [increase] immunisation [vaccination] completion  rates” in New Zealand which was published on the parliamentary website. The government has six weeks to respond to th ...
• Austria’s new People’s Party coali ...
  They were ill prepared, ill equipped and composed of the very young, the very old, and among them were very many women. They were drafted in to fight on in a hopeless situation and they fought with fanatical determination until doom struck. This description applies not only to Adolf Hitler’s Vol ...

Invisible Opportunity

• George Carlin – We Like War
• Akira Kurosawa’s “Dreams” & ...
  This is too eerie.  This film was made 20 years before the Fukushima disaster.  Coincidence or agenda? You decide…
• Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side
  by Mark H. Gaffney February 11, 2011 In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on Japan and US foreign policy, writes that as much as 40% of the Pentagon budget is “black,” ...
• How the GMC framed Doctors Wakefield, Walker-S ...
  1. Introduction In 1998 the Lancet published a short case series of 12 autistic children admitted to the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) in London for treatment of bowel symptoms. The paper was one of the first to bring to the medical community’s attention an unexplained association between autism and ...
• No Arabs On The 4 Hijacked 911 Airliners
  by horse237 There are two conspiracy theories of what happened on 9-11. The government side has been told by the Bush and Obama administrations and by all five Democrats and all five Republicans on the 911 Commission as well as the corporate news media. Their version is well known. But there is ...

Veterans Today

• 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 ...

electric politics

• Industrial Beginnings
  In the absence of a strong industrial base, says Dr. Jefferson Cowie, it's still possible to build a healthy labor movement. I disagree. But it's complicated. So this is a somewhat frustrating exchange for me because, first, I can see that Jeff's heart is in the right place and, second, a lot o ...
• An Anthropologist At Large
  This one meanders. We start with Japan's nuclear power crisis, commiserate over America's political failures, and end up talking about the risks inherent in maintaining large inventories of nuclear weapons. An anthropologist specialized in nuclear culture — but with very widely-ranging interest ...
• Imperfect (Nuclear) Implementation
  Humans cannot engineer a perfect technology for nuclear power, one that presents zero risk. Nor can humans engineer a political process that enforces constant, rigorous, indefinitely long-term oversight on imperfect nuclear power solutions. The choice, therefore, is stark: use nuclear power and ...
• Tell Me About the Future
  Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
• What is Religion Good For?
  In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...

PR News

• Unisys taps Lewis PR as AOR
  BLUE BELL, PA: Unisys, an IT products and service provider, has hired Lewis PR as its AOR for both corporate and federal government relations, following a two-pronged review that began in February.
• Hill & Knowlton creates position to handle cri ...
  NEW YORK: Hill & Knowlton has appointed Chris Gidez to the newly created position of global practice leader, in which he'll coordinate crisis work for the company around the world.
• Publicis reports robust Q1 revenue
  PARIS: Publicis Groupe has reported that first-quarter 2011 revenue is up about 11% year-on-year, including net new business of nearly $2 billion.
• 'Relevance' key to customer choices, Brodeur s ...
  BOSTON: Brodeur Partners released its findings from a survey that combined communications and behavioral science to gauge the importance of product relevance in consumer choices.
• PepsiCo unleashes talent shifts across comms f ...
  PURCHASE, NY: PepsiCo revamped various roles within the communications department.

The Story Behind the Story

• T – EL – EVIL – SION = TELEV ...
  It starts with the Tau – the cross.  Then it honors El – another name for the Serpent Demon God Set — which of course is the ultimate anti-Christian EVIL, all culminating in the vision of SION — aka ZION. T-El-EVIL-SION — what’s in a name?  Everything!! Discovered by Mormon Philo Farnsworth af ...
• Brother Nathaniel Speaks Out on Glenn Beck
  Ok folks, here it is.  I am NOT a Glenn Beck fan.  In my opinion he is a narcissistic, blind and ignorant Mormon blow-hard.  However, he is learning the hard way it would appear.  Perhaps now he understands who actually has paid his exorbitant salary the last couple of years.  Perhaps now he rea ...
• WHAT IS GOING ON??
  I have noticed that many “mainstream media” reporters are suddenly speaking a very weird form of gibberish.   Strangely, it sounds like some form of hidden language ala the fictional (?) TV series V. Or, is this just ordinary humans suffering from low blood sugar and migraines?   At the very ...
• The Power of Words
  We have a wonderful country…..a beautiful country…..and we need to save it.  We need to restore all that made it great for the last 250 years.      
• The “Floating Dollar” —- A V ...
  Imagine a world with zero “constancy”.  Imagine the chaos of a world with no standardized weights or measures.  Imagine going shopping in a store where the concept of a pound of steak or 10 ounces of milk changed daily on the whim of the stores “upper management”.  Imagine trying to decide wh ...

k2p blog

• The Art of Motivation
  In human behaviour, motivation can be considered to be a force. It is brought to bear when performing actions. Where actions have no purpose motivation is undefined.
• A lack of courage in environmentalism today
  As environmentalism has moved away from its simple goals of cleaning up the world we live in it has adopted intangible goals which are addressed by the politics of fear and represents a movement lacking courage.
• Ryanair fails the ethics test
  Ryanair guilty of discrimination and uncivilised behaviour but is appealing the court’s decision, blaming what happened on Luton airport.
• Time-pass
  http://www.247mahjong.com/Mahjong.swf created by Mahjong
• He is the cow
  This is the cow. The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch.

Left Foot Forward

• Vote 2011 – Could Scotland, Wales & Northern I ...
  Ed Jacobs looks at the likely impact the votes of Scots, Welsh and North Irish voters are likely to have on the referendum on the Alternative Vote on May 5th.
• Despite calls for “wholly elected” ...
  David Cameron has been criticised for packing the Lords with new peers. Despite his calls for a "wholly elected" second chamber, Nick Clegg endorses the practice.
• Right-wing hate campaign clouds debate on benefits
  Sue Marsh from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger, reports on a concerted effort in the right-wing press to prevent any real debate over benefits.
• Unhappy Munday: “Climate getting worse d ...
  A pro-Lansley GP admits the climate is getting worse for his failing health bill, while the Daily Mail claim there is a "great cuts myth", reports Dominic Browne.
• Is the government really “losing sleep&# ...
  Will Straw looks at whether the government are really "losing sleep" over the cuts to university places.

Consumerist

• Morning Deals
  ClothingKohl's: [Apparel] 20% Off $100 Purchase w/ Coupon SAVEME20 + One More CouponEsprit: [Apparel] 40% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon BUNNYSALE11Payless: [Shoes] Save An Additional 20% Off Your Order with coupon code 44745.Sierra Trading Post: [Clothing & Accessories] Hanes T-Shirts from $2 + ...
• PlayStation Network Goes Down, Sony Says It Co ...
  It's been a rough month for the PlayStation Network, which buckled under attacks from hackers earlier this month, and now has gone down again for an extended period. On the PlayStation Blog Thursday, a Sony rep said the company is working on the problem, but it could take a "day or two" to get ...
• When GPS Suction Cup Won't Suck, TomTom's Cust ...
  To be fair, it's not that the customer service agents that Dave spoke to at TomTom were unfriendly. It's just that their RMA process is needlessly complicated. He received a defective suction cup thingy with his GPS unit, and called up the company so they could send him a new one. He spent mor ...
• Regulators Hatch Plan To Pay Back Victims Of B ...
  It's no secret that foreclosures in America have been a royal mess. Missing paperwork, faked documents, turbo-charged courts that just rubberstamp foreclosure orders, robosigners, the list goes on. Along the way, a number of homeowners have gotten foreclosed on improperly and, in some cases, ev ...
• Attorney General Forms Team To Look Into Oil P ...
  Someone at the Attorney General's office must have finally looked at how high gasoline prices are right now and thought, "Maybe there's something more than meets the eye here," because President Obama announced earlier today that the AG is gathering his forces to see what, if any, behind-the-sc ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Elizabeth Warren for Senator
  by Brent Budowsky I support the movement to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. If she runs, the race would be one of the most closely watched and potentially transformative campaigns of 2012. A Warren candidacy for the Senate seat currently held by Scott Bro ...
• Tax War!
  by Tina Dupuy Americans used to buy savings bonds to support the war effort. These were securities liquidated after the war was over which ideally would spur an economic boom. During World War II, Defense Bonds, War Bonds and what was called Series E Savings Bonds offset the massive costs. The g ...
• Extortion Politics: Why Won’t American Busines ...
  As the government approaches its borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion, Republicans are seeking political advantage over what conditions should be attached to raising that limit. This is a scandal — or should be. Raising the debt limit shouldn’t be subject to party politics. Economic extortion shoul ...
• GITMO Proceedings Will Be “Stalinist Show Tria ...
  The future trials planned for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be “Stalinist show trials” as their preliminary proceedings “have already proven them to be Travesties of Justice,” a distinguished international law authority warns. “Even worse yet,” says Francis Boyle, professor at ...
• ‘Spillionaires’: Profiteering and Mismanagemen ...
  by Kim Barker, ProPublica A version of this story was co-publishedwith The Washington Post. The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money. Some people profiteered from the spill by charging ...

NewsAlert

• Trial could tarnish Gov. Deval Patrick’s star
  The Boston Herald reports:Gov. Deval Patrick’s skyrocketing political star could come crashing down in the mud if he’s forced to reveal damaging testimony at the upcoming corruption trial of former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, experts and political foes say. “It’s the worst of all possibl ...
• States’ new GOP majorities, governors have mad ...
  The Washington Post
• Senator Graham Puts Heat on William Daley and ...
  The National Review
• Donald Trump's Eminent-Domain Empire
  Michelle Malkin
• California Dreamin'—of Jobs in Texas : Hounded ...
  The Wall Street Journal reports:It wasn't your usual legislative hearing. A group of largely Republican California lawmakers and Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled here last week to hear from businesses that have left their state to set up shop in Texas. "We came to learn why they would ...

JoNova

• Heartland International Climate Change Confere ...
  Heartland is offering people the chance to see and possibly meet some of the heroes of the skeptic world in Washington in June 30 – July 1, 2011, Washington D.C. (I hear this may possibly be the last of the Heartland Climate conferences. I hope not!) Unfortunately I won’t be able to get there, b ...
• Heartland International Climate Change Confere ...
  Heartland is offering people the chance to see and possibly meet some of the heroes of the skeptic world in Washington in June 30 – July 1, 2011, Washington D.C. (I hear this may possibly be the last of the Heartland Climate conferences. I hope not!) Unfortunately I won’t be able to get there, b ...
• Cheap Influence in National Politics: How Pana ...
  Tim Blair broke the story of Tim Flannery claiming to be working for Panasonic. (But wait, I hear you say, how could that be,  we thought he was working for the Australian people?!) If you are a foreign multinational and you want to influence national Australian policies, you don’t need to spen ...
• Is it possible our new chief scientist has dou ...
  The last chief scientist of Australia, Penny Sackett, was disappointed not to be invited to the cabaret at Copenhagen. She quit after she she felt “ignored” . Possibly she belated realized that the government may have appointed her to just so she would not disagree inconveniently with any of the ...
• Cheap Influence in National Politics: How Pana ...
  Tim Blair broke the story of Tim Flannery claiming to be working for Panasonic. (But wait, I hear you say, how could that be,  we thought he was working for the Australian people?!) If you are a foreign multinational and you want to influence national Australian policies, you don’t need to spen ...

ReNew America

• Mormon Church backs illegal immigration
  (Center for Immigration Studies) - In the wake of Utah's passage of a guest worker/amnesty bill, the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that effort, and the stance of the Church on immigration issues generally, has come under scrutiny...
• Pat Buchanan: Show the birth certificate!
  (WorldNetDaily) - Two-time GOP presidential candidate and longtime political analyst Pat Buchanan says Barack Obama should just show his birth certificate to put an end to questions over his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office...
• Taxing the rich won't increase revenues
  (Michael Barone) - Did Barack Obama take Tax 1 in law school? I did, and I remember the first day of classes, when mild-mannered Prof. Boris Bittker asked a simple question, "What is income?" I was pretty confident I could come up with a quick answer, and so were a lot of other students...
• Fallin signs law banning late-term abortions
  (Reuters) - Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Wednesday signed into law a prohibition on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making it the fourth state to ban such late term abortions. She also signed a law preventing health insurers from covering elective abortions...
• Bold moves by new GOP governors spur a politic ...
  (Washington Times) - Impeach Scott Walker? Recall Rick Scott? Although it's highly unlikely either first-year governor will be booted from office anytime soon, both are among a list of tea party-backed Republican state leaders who are facing significant public backlash after less than four month ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Nyiragongo / Comet Elenin
  This is a photo from National Geographic, of a volcano you perhaps have not heard of: Nyiragongo. It is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is 2 miles high, and is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. This is unfortunate for the 1 million people who live at the base of [...] Rel ...
• 100 Days of Disaster – VIDEO UPDATE
  I’ve got no idea if this will be on YouTube for a day, a week, or forever, but here’s the documentary for non-Aussies to see: 100 Days of Disaster My understanding is that it had 335,000 viewers which is average for 10PM on a Monday. I’m particularly happy with the overall 2012 angle that was [. ...
• Baigong Pipes / Antikythera Device / Arctic Forest
  This is great fodder for Ancient Astronaut theorists. Over in China is a pyramid that has iron pipes within it, and heaps of pipes laying about outside. Like many such mysteries, the pipes could actually be naturally occurring – and Wikipedia cites similar, natural examples. But combined with a ...
• 100 Days of Disaster
  I’m one of the interviewees for an Australian documentary, 100 Days of Disaster, screening tomorrow (Monday) on Channel 10 at 10pm. Patrick Geryl was also interviewed, plus I believe a few orthodox scientists, some religion experts and I think an astrologer. All being asked if we should expect t ...
• New Alien Art Unearthed
  The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes. If you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancien ...

Facing South

• A REGULATORY DISASTER
  Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...
• POISONED IN THE GULF
  A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are o ...
• VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
  Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...
• VOICES: Walking for truth in the Gulf
  By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. I've faced tornadoes, rainstorms, heat exhaustion and countless blisters. But here I am, and I walked the ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Who should bear the burden of ...
  The current legal limit on borrowing by the U.S. government: $14.3 trillion Month when the Treasury is expected to surpass that limit: 7/2011 Amount by which a deficit-reduction plan offered this week by President Obama would cut the nation's debt over the next 12 years: $4 trillion ...

One News Page

• Samsung counter sues Apple over iPhone, iPad
  SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung's smartphones and tablets 'slavishly' copied its products.
• Graft shadow over Lokpal panel; Civil society ...
  As corruption allegations cast a shadow over the Lokpal Bill drafting panel, within days of its victorious formation, with demands that panel members Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant quit, social activists Thursday came out in support of the duo and urged them not to resign even as another ...
• Good Friday weekend drives tourists to Himachal
  With fresh snow on the higher reaches and a long weekend owing to Good Friday, Himachal Pradesh is teeming with tourists.
• Sathya Sai Baba's condition still very critical
  Spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba's condition continues to be very critical, doctors said Friday.
• Here's the eligibility for Jolie-Pitt nanny job

Global Research TV

• Chinese Inflation Continues to Rise
• Honduran Teachers Get Shock Treatment
• Pentagon Opened Doors to 9/11 Attack
• American Authorities Accused of Torturing Wiki ...
• Lies and Excuses: Military Spending out of Control

Daily Tech

• UPDATE: Chevrolet Malibu ECO, Hyundai Accent, ...
  One hybrid, and two conventional autos aim for 40MPG
• Apple is Tracking iPhone, iPad Users' Location ...
  Apple users -- big brother Jobs is watching you
• 4/20/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Wednesday
• UPDATED: U.S. Police Begin Warrantless Phone D ...
  Cops in Mich., Wisc., and Calif. can inspect ANYTHING on your cell phone -- pictures, call history, and more
• EU Launches Investigation Into ISPs' Internet ...
  Net neutrality debate continues

Oriental Review

• Can BRICS Soften Dollar Crisis?
  On April 10, in an interview with a CNN host and political observer Fareed Zakaria, the former secretary of state James Baker, when he was speaking about the current global changes, said the following: “The biggest challenge facing the U.S. isn’t turmoil in the Arab world. It’s our debt bomb”. H ...
• Muammar Gaddafi And Sober Media
  “The first casualty of war is the truth” said American Senator Hiram Johnson. “In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies” – Winston Churchill. If nothing else the world’s media have proved those two aphorisms in spades as the coverage of the Libya “rev ...
• Al-Qaeda Front May Emerge on Europe’s So ...
  Hopes by the Western anti-Libya military coalition that Gadhafi’s regime would fall quickly have been replaced by fears of a prolonged stalemate. The direst predictions are beginning to come true, particularly those by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan: that the Libyan crisis may go th ...
• Geopolitical Implications of the World Economi ...
  Introduction The world economic depression is a dire threat to the national security of the United States. To date, little or nothing has been done to address the causes of the depression and rebuild the economy. With the lack of leadership and vision in the western world, the depression will co ...
• The BRICS Reality Has Come To Stay
  It is possible to exaggerate the substantive outcome of the summit meeting of the BRICS countries last week in Sanya, China, and, equally, it may seem expedient to underplay its meaning and consequence. But three things stand out. First, it is no more possible to ignore the BRICS; simply put, it ...

BlogHer

• American Idol Recap: The Top 7 Finally Get To ...
  Thank God we get to hear new-fangled music, am I right? Last night's American Idol finally emerged from the 70s, and we not only survived, we thrived. I, for one, have been waiting to see these contestants as current pop stars over cover band karaoke singers for weeks now. Now, the evening s ...
• Writing an iTunes App Description
  Getting an app out the door can be a mad dash to the finish. After the beta testing, bug fixing, and feature�decisions�have taken�place � the creator of the app is faced with the next step: uploading the app to iTunes Connect and filling out the metadata�for the iTunes App Description. The iTu ...
• Teaching Chivalry: We Are Doing It
  As soon as W began to properly form words, I began the introduction of manners. I didn't care how well he was able to say the word but I wanted to emphasize the intention. If he wanted an object I wanted him to say "please." Upon receiving the object, I wanted him to say "thank you." If he hurt ...
• To Sex or Not To Sex
  As I�m writing this, I�m a little amused that my girlfriends and I are still discussing when to have sex with a new guy. But the other night, I had a long conversation with a good friend who was near tears because the man she slept with a couple of weeks ago has not called since. Yep, at th ...
• If Women Aren't Funny, Then Why Do We Hang Aro ...
  As the story goes, during the 70�s Gilda Radner would perch on producer Lorne Michael�s lap and coo into his ear during writer�s meetings at Saturday Night Live. And since it was difficult for any member of the highly competitive cast to get their sketches on the air, it was no surprise that Gi ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• The Medical Paradigm Is Fatally Flawed
  When one is entrenched in a paradigm, it is difficult for those involved or simply outside observing to pinpoint its makings. A major example, why do the common medical practices touted to help us actually ...
• Technology Diet? Tweets, Apps, Updates Can Dra ...
  A news report once boasted that because of the information highway, we have more knowledge than someone from the Enlightenment period, including Sir Isaac Newton himself. I highly doubt that all the many tidbits, bleeps, ...
• Resistant Staph Infected Meat? Oh, About Half
  ” Industrial food producers continue to think of their items as product, not food for others’ consumption. And with that mindset, the holy dollar is the capital by which all rules bay.” We can see ...
• Video Games Help Stroke Victims?
  Upon seeing this and related stories about video games aiding stroke victims, the first thought was “there is no way that Resident Evil and other zombie apocalyptic slash ‘em ups are going to help elderly ...
• Thought Crime Drugs: Pills to Manipulate Morals
  What do you think about drug-induced altruism? Scientists are busy developing new field of drugs that can impact thoughts, feelings, and morals. Do you lack empathy? Are you homophobic or racist? Stingy and insensitive to ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Judge upholds fine in near-disaster at Quecreek
  An administrative law judge at the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld a $55,000 fine for the coal company involved in the near-disaster in July 2002 at the Quecreek Mine near Somerset, Pa. I’ve posted a copy of Chief Administrative Law Judge Robert Lesnick’s ruling here ...
• MSHA announces latest ‘impact inspection ...
  This just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 134 citations, orders and safeguards during special impact inspections conducted at eight coal mi ...
• AP: Blankenship’s pay cut in half in 2010
  In case you missed it in today’s Gazette, AP had a story outlining now-retired Massey CEO Don Blankenship’s pay picture last year: Retired Massey Energy Co. chief Don Blankenship’s total compensation fell 48 percent in 2010 as he tried to right the struggling company following the nation’s dead ...
• Corps pulls plug on Massey permit prior to hearing
  Interesting news came in  last night … The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a permit for a new Massey Energy surface mine, the Reylas Surface Mine in Logan County, W.Va. Lawyers for the Corps filed a motion with U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers, seeking a “voluntary remand” of t ...
• Update on search for Idaho silver miner
  A Lucky Friday miner is positioned at the front entrance of the mine in Mullan, Idaho on Monday, April 18, 2011. He was keeping out the general public while crews worked to free trapped miner Larry Marek. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka) This just in from The Associated Press: BOIS ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Happy Earth/Good Friday!
  Earth Day: A Billion Acts of Green® | Earthday.org This year, Earth Day’s theme is A Billion Acts of Green: our people-powered campaign to generate a billion acts of environmental service and advocacy before Rio +20. More… Good Friday | Wikipedia Good Friday (from the senses pious, holy of the ...
• Wake ‘N’ Bake 101: Snacks
  WWH – I believe this is a uniquely Santa Fe culinary invention: the Frito Pie. Most “old” Santa Feans believe it was invented at the Woolworths’ lunch-counter, on the south side of the Plaza, by a noon-time fry-cook named Betty, sometime in the late 50s. In the day of the 15-cent burger, they so ...
• Noam Chomsky, Who Owns the World?
  Noam Chomsky | tomdispatch – Military bases R U.S. Or so it seems. After the invasion of 2003, the Pentagon promptly started constructing a series of monster bases in occupied Iraq, the size of small American towns and with most of the amenities of home. These were for a projected garrison of 30 ...
• Top Ten Reasons Jewish Mothers are like Stoners
  The Stoned Family Robinson | Heeb Magazine To celebrate the release of her book, The Stoned Family Robinson, writer Joselin Linder took some time between bong-rips, book signings, and the requisite Passover family visits to ponder exactly how your average yiddishe mama is not that far removed fr ...
• Pittsburgh in the 60′s: Plans and scheme ...
  I’ve been trying to settle on one topic for this week but everything seems to be interconnected in some fashion. It’s like a big old knitted sweater that’s itchy and smells of something faintly nasty but you aren’t sure exactly what the smell is. Things are going bad all over. There are plans af ...

reference frame

• ATLAS memo: 4-sigma diphoton bump at LEP's 115 GeV
  An expectedly light Higgs boson could be showing up unexpectedly early at the LHC Jester at Resonaances discusses a leaked internal memo of the ATLAS Collaboration at the LHC. If the internal note is authentic, which is not guaranteed, ATLAS has analyzed 63.5/pb of data from ...
• Portugal's bailout: panic is suddenly gone
  José Sócrates, an obnoxiously politically correct leader of Portugal with a somewhat arrogant surname, has changed his mind. His country needs a bailout, after all. The European Union, led by an equally Portuguese José Manuel Barroso and similar chaps, is reacting in a typical ...
• Busch Campus suicide catalyzer indicted
  Between Fall 1997 and Fall 2001, I lived in a dormitory at the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey - in greater New Brunswick. That's where an act that is effectively a murder took place in September 2010. Chances are nonzero that the key events have occurred i ...
• Fermilab: CDF "new force" seminar tonight
  A new Z' gauge boson near 144 GeV is the most straightforward interpretation of a new bump if it is real However, an Israeli physicist and TRF reader has already pointed out a problem with the data. Others have pointed out that the would-be discovery goes away if the energy of jets is ...
• Nature Climate Change: a new useless journal h ...
  Nature readers such as Gordon were told that Nature has just started to publish a new "excellent" sub-journal, Nature Climate Change (click)You may also check the current issue - April 2011 Vol 1 Issue 1. It is such a pathetic pile of lies, old propagandistic clichés, and misundersta ...

No Frakking Consensus

• Clueless New IPCC Policy Ignores Advocacy Lite ...
  Proposed new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines single out blogs - declaring that they are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC Reports. Yet these same guidelines contain not one word about literature published by advocacy groups such as Greenpeace.
• Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
• Citizen Audit Anniversary
  A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
• The Missing Map
  In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.
• A View from Portugal
  Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?

Tarpley

• Austerity Psychosis Grips Washington, D. C.
  Webster G. Tarpley Guns & Butter April 20, 2011 Obama’s budget speech at George Washington University on April 13th, 2011; the Fiscal 2011 Budget Resolution causes a revolt in DC; the Independent Payment Advisory Board as Death Panel; House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s genocidal Budget ...
• Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia Gets Pakistani M ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars April 20, 2011 download file
• العربية
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخابرات الأمريكية الأمريكي Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab ...
• Tarpley in Press TV Debate with Libyan Rebel S ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 15, 2011 This April 6th interview just recently became available. — webmaster
• باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخا ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab Legion; Benghazi Rebel Council Stages Massacres of Black Africans; African Union Mediation Spurned by Western Imperialists; Qaddafi Forces Superior to Rebels; NATO aims at Partition of Libya, wh ...

Modern Survivalism

• Top 10 Best Weather Radios, 2011
  List of Top 10 best selling Weather Radios in 2011 The list of ‘best’ weather radios has been updated for 2011 and chosen based on data available through Amazon.com.  The order is sorted by way of popularity. Especially during times of the year when severe storms, tornadoes, or hurricanes are l ...
• Grocery Store Sale Items Cleaned Out
  Only because I was driving right by due to another errand, that I decided to stop at one of my usual grocery stores strictly for some sale items. I wanted to share this trip with you to heighten the awareness that inflation is now being recognized by the masses. I have noticed people taking adva ...
• Survivalists Motto
  A survivalist motto could read, “If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.” These two sentences actually are credited to Gerald Celente, words that he spoke during a recent interview. It really does sum it up though, t ...
• Nevada Earthquake Swarm, Precursor?
  Hundreds upon hundreds of earthquakes have suddenly rumbled beneath an area 6 miles to the southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada, just during the past few days. Seismologists are expressing concern of this sudden activity partially because it is occurring on a previously unknown fault – similar to what ...
• Why UT Took Delivery of 1 Billion in Gold
  The University of Texas just took delivery of 33 tons of gold, which according to World Gold Council statistics and the International Monetary Fund list of countries – gold holdings, would put UT at No. 49 in the world, just behind the country of Brazil. The keyword phrase here is ‘took delivery ...

Fast Company

• What Privacy? Roughly 55% Of Smartphone Users ...
  You can't download an app these days without it asking for your location--and not just on check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Google Maps, Instagram, Twitter, Square, MenuPages, Shazam--they all want to know exactly where you are whenever you're using the app. Heck, services like Go ...
• Google Launches Groupon Competitor, Groupon Po ...
  After dangling a reported $6 billion offer in front of daily deal site Groupon (which it ultimately rejected), Google is pressing on with its own service. Today Google unveiled Offers, a new feature that will allow local businesses to show off deep discounts to consumers. Seemingly a direc ...
• Visa Preps For NFC, Does Location Offers Low-T ...
  Visa is trying out a low-tech location-based offers system with Gap that doesn't require check-ins or even a smartphone. It's clever, but basically is a testing ground for the coming wave of NFC purchases.Visa's system, dubbed Gap Mobile 4 U, has been in testing since late 2010, but is rolling o ...
• The State Of Our Robot Overlords, On The Day S ...
  "The Skynet missile defense system goes online April 19th 2011, declares war on mankind, and triggers a nuclear apocalypse two days later." So says James Cameron in the Terminator story, anyway. Bearing this in mind, here's a sample of the cutting edge tech of our real robot overlords. You may b ...
• In An Apple-Dominated World, Amazon's Rumored ...
  New data suggests that in Europe, iOS is twice as big a market as Android, and the news comes as rumors resurface about Amazon's Android tablet hopes. It would seem the bookselling giant has an uphill struggle ahead.ComScore's new report covers online mobile platforms in Europe, and the company ...

Jadaliyya

• زمن عربي جديد [A New Arab Era]
  �م �تمر�ز ا�س�ر��� �� احد� ساحات دمش� �� �بدأ�ا م��ا ا�ت�اضت�م. �ا�ت ا�بدا�ة �� مد��ة درعا عاصمة م�ط�ة ح�را�� ثم اتخذت ش�� تحر�ات مت���ة م� ا��اذ��ة ا�� حمص ا�� ا��امش�� ا�� با��اس ا�� دمش� ا�� د�ما... ا�مش�د ا�س�ر� �خت�� ع� ا�مش�د �� ت��س ا� مصر ا� ا�بحر�� ا� ا��م� ا� ��ب�ا. �� ب�د ��ت ...
• Revolutionary Tremors in Central Asia?
  On April 3rd, 2011 Kazakhstan held presidential elections. Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1991, called these elections a year early after scrapping a plan to hold a national referendum that would do away with the inconvenience of regular presidential contests and which was to exten ...
• Jordan's New Opposition and the Traps of Ident ...
  There are two major tribulations in Jordan from which all other issues stem. The first is the autocratic authority that dominates the role of all �state institutions� (i.e., the Cabinet, the Parliament, and the Judiciary). This autocratic domination is legally sanctioned by the Jordania ...
• The Ongoing War; Lebanese Leaders Against the ...
  It has been 21 years since the end of the Lebanese civil war. 21 years since the last spasms of violence reverberated through the country’s cities, towns and villages. More than two decades ago, a country torn apart, in ruins and in rubble, suddenly found itself at “peace.” Almost immedi ...
• Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor ...
  This is a two-part interview (10 minutes total) conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Monday, April 19, in reference to what amounts to be an escalation in the regime-protesters confrontation in the city of Homs. The interview also addresses the question of infiltrators and ...

mediagazer

• Where the New 'TV' Shows Are Being Born (Mike ...
  Mike Henry / AdAge: Where the New ‘TV’ Shows Are Being Born  —  Multiplatform Production Strategies Are Driving a New Breed of Creator  —  The online video story has so far been taking place on two separate playing fields: one dominated by Hulu and the content and ad dollars that started out in ...
• Nevada Lawyer Launches Patent Assault Over Med ...
  Joe Mullin / paidContent: Nevada Lawyer Launches Patent Assault Over Media Companies' Websites  —  A Nevada attorney and former tournament blackjack player says he invented—and patented—most forms of targeted online advertising.  Now, Sheldon Goldberg has filed a lawsuit demanding royalties fr ...
• Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sect ...
  Lucian Cionca / Google News Blog: Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sections in Google News  —  Last summer we redesigned Google News with new personalization features that let you tell us which subjects and sources you'd like to see more or less often.  Starting today — if you're logg ...
• Journal-Register's Brady: Local Advertisers Ha ...
  David Hirschman / Street Fight: Journal-Register's Brady: Local Advertisers Have a Tech Gap  —  Jim Brady made a name for himself turning WashingtonPost.com into a serious player on the Web before he went to TBD.com last year, going all in on hyperlocal.  But when TBD shifted its strategy last ...
• How James Salter Wrote an Eleven-Page Biograph ...
  Adam Sternbergh / The 6th Floor: How James Salter Wrote an Eleven-Page Biography of A.J. Liebling  —  Great books are easy to track down — there are plenty of people pointing you toward them — but great introductions to books are, almost by definition, difficult to discover.  You pretty much ha ...

Chemtrail News

• ContrailsChemtrails is it all just conf ...
  I have just finished watching the Weather show on the BBC news channel and I was surprised to say the least when they explained chemtrailscontrails and the ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread692716/pg1
• Chemtrails | Facebook
  Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Chemtrails, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Chemtrails.www.facebook.com/pages/Chemtrails/110761535618801?ref...
• Photos and Videos of Chemtrails over Sw ...
  Action is happening in Sweden in terms of public interest in chemtrail info via sites like chemtrailmonitor.com and Chemtrail Truth Sweden.aircrap.org/photos-and-videos-of-chemtrails.../331310/
• Mythcluescom – Free Access To World Class Cons ...
  who is doing it Airforce pilots thats whono it is not weather modificationThe reason for the chemtrails is that it is chemicals falling down on usChemtrails ...www.mythclues.com/2011/04/21/chemtrails-pt1/
• Chemtrail or contrail you be the judge? ...
  These do not look like normal contrails to me?? This is almost daily over Missouri. They are covering up the sun. It starts early in the morning and goes ...chemtruth.ning.com/video/chemtrail-or-contrail-you-be

World News - Top Stories

• Japan to build 100,000 homes for tsunami ...
  TOKYO - Japan's prime minister says the country plans to build as many as 100,000 temporary homes to house the...
• China conducts DNA tests on Siberian tige ...
  2011-04-22 16:27:42.0China�conducts DNA tests on�Siberian tigerSiberian,tigers,DNA1158963Society2@webnews/enpproperty--> HARBIN - Siberian tigers in a Northeast China breeding center will soon obtain special "ID...
• Real Madrid's Sami Khedira doubtful for C ...
  The Germany international has picked up a muscular injury in the Copa del Rey final and consequently faces a brief spell on the sidelines By Stefan Coerts Share Share Find the best odds and bet on La Liga. Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho will probably have to make do without the services of ...
• POSCO Q1 profit misses forecast as raw ma ...
  SEOUL: POSCO, the world's No. 3 steelmaker, reported a 36 percent fall in quarterly operating profit, missing forecasts, hit by high raw materials costs and low demand. The...
• Samsung sues Apple back claiming patent i ...
  Samsung Electronics Co. said it sued Apple Inc. (AAPL) claiming patent infringement, a week after the iPhone maker filed a complaint in U.S. federal court alleging the South...

no frakking consensus

• Clueless New IPCC Policy Ignores Advocacy Lite ...
  Proposed new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines single out blogs - declaring that they are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC Reports. Yet these same guidelines contain not one word about literature published by advocacy groups such as Greenpeace.
• Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
• Citizen Audit Anniversary
  A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
• The Missing Map
  In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.
• A View from Portugal
  Portugal's economy is a mess. Might that have something to with its enthusiastic embrace of expensive, inefficient renewable energy?

Pointman's

• America is throwing another Tea party.
  For those of you not aware of it, there is a grass-roots movement in America called the Tea party that in its two scant years of existence has become significantly influential. It is not as such a political party but rather a loose collection of diverse individuals. It seems to me that they repr ...
• Food for the Wolf
  Once upon a time there was a mangy old wolf who liked to eat a pig once in a while. People blamed the poor devil terribly for what was after all, just his nature. They made up horrible stories about him eating piglets, cats, dogs, barns, little girls and anything else they could think of … Read more
• So, where are we now with global warming?
  Politicians world-wide got into the âsave the planetâ business for two reasons; electorates were convinced the planet needed saving and would vote for candidates who said theyâd do just that and wouldnât vote for candidates who said it was all hysteria, which it was and which most of them knew i ...
• Living with ghosts.
  This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
• Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
  I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Fishers gather to Commemorate Anniversary
  On the Anniversary of the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon that marked the beginning of the BP Drilling Disaster, fishers and advocates gathered in Palquemines Parish to send the message that recovery for them and their communities is still a long way away. Among those at the gathering were B ...
• Guestworkers Win Victory in US Department of L ...
  From our friends at the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity: Proposed DOL regulations move guestworkers one step closer to inclusion in basic labor protections, civil rights, and the right to organize Statement by the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity on the Department of Labor’s Proposed H ...
• Native American Student Suspended for Refusal ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: In a fight for religious freedom, the ACLU of Louisiana has enrolled to represent a Native American student at Juban Parc Junior High School in Denham Springs, LA. Seth Chaisson, a member of the United Houma Nation, grows his hair long for cultural and ...
• Justice Department Report, Released Today, Cal ...
  An earlier version of this article originally appeared on ColorLines.com Eve is a transgender woman living in rural southern Louisiana. She was molested as a child and left home as a teenager. Homeless and alone, she was forced to trade sex for survival. While still a teenager, she was arrested ...
• US Department of Justice Report Finds NOPD "Ha ...
  The US Department of Justice announced the results today of their year-long investigation of the NOPD. Below is their statement: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in patterns of ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Let's have a look at the Jewboi Travis' "reading list", it's quite telling. Travis' 'book list' is a hodge-podge of pro-jew, leftist material. A.J.P. Taylor for instance, was an avowed member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, a supporter of the Soviet Union, and slimeball who urged ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  But this is quite rich coming from a bonafide multi-cult pushing JEWISH CULTURAL MARXIST, such as yourself Travis. Of course, like a typical Hasbarat, you will attempt to smear any nationalist, Pro-White people because we are your deadliest enemies in your struggle to turn the West into a M ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  The ironic thing is that they claim to oppose Jews and the Jewish agenda, yet all their leftist egalitarian racial views ORIGINATED FROM JEWS. You can't really oppose the Jews while at the same time supporting a vital part of their agenda. Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:25 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Wow it took you a whole month to come up with this pathetic Jewish drivel ROFL Evidently I am on your mind every waking hour of every day, isn’t that right, Travis? Silly Jewboi I think you should change the title of the thread to “TIU has been overrun by Jewish Cultural Marxists, namely ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  What's particularly ironic is that this entire forum is based on attacking Jews and their religion and their culture. And nobody bats an eye. But as soon as someone points out inconvenient facts about other races or ethnicities, then that's not cool, man! That's quite a double standard there ...

TVNZ

• Newsmakers join pop stars on Time 100 list
  Previously unknown newsmakers have joined politicians on Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world.
• Egypt orders 'pharaoh' Mubarak's name stripped off
  Egypt today took another step towards erasing the legacy of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
• Gaddafi targeting civilians with cluster bombs ...
  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have continued their "vicious attacks".
• Supporters of WikiLeaks soldier heckle Obama
  Protesters broke into song to interrupt President Barack Obama at a fundraiser today.
• Egypt orders 'pharaoh' Mubarak's name stripped off
  Egypt today took another step towards erasing the legacy of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

environment 360

• What’s With the Weather? Is Climate Change to ...
  One of the thorniest questions facing climate scientists is whether human-induced climate change is leading to more heat waves, floods, and extreme weather events. Now, employing increasingly sophisticated methods of studying weather extremes, climatologists say they are closer to answering that ...
• 657 New Barrier Islands Identified in Global S ...
  A new global survey of the world’s barrier islands has identified 657 more islands than previously thought, including a 54-island chain that runs along the edges of mangrove forest off the Brazilian coast. Using satellite NASABrazil's Gurupi River delta images, topographical maps and navigationa ...
• Extreme Soil ‘Liquefaction’ Is Key Factor in J ...
  Extreme soil liquefaction over hundreds of miles was responsible for much of the damage in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, according to a new report. While it is common for major earthquakes to produce some liquefaction — a phenomenon in which soils lose their strength and act ...
• Global Market for E-Scooters and E-Motorcycles ...
  The global market for electric motorcycles and scooters is expected to surge, with the number of vehicles projected to jump from 17 million in 2011 to more than 138 million by 2017, according to a new report. The two-wheel electric vehicles, which are already popular across Asia, will become inc ...
• Reserve to Save Asian ‘Unicorn’ Established in ...
  The government of Vietnam has created a 39,000-acre reserve to protect the elusive saola, a critically endangered two-horned antelope-like mammal known locally as the “Asian unicorn.” The saola, or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which is described as a primitive AP/WWFA saola member of the bovine fa ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Openhand | "Catalysing our Spiritual Evolution"
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• LobeLog.com
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• So What Did I Miss?
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backofthebook

• iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
  by Eric Pettifor iPhones log date and location of every call they make. This is true of phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is ...
• Dmitri Soudas in “Con the Waterfront”
  By Montreal Simon Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee. But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal. An investigation by Radio-Canada su ...
• Surprise! You’re not voting!
  By Alison@Creekside Updated below You really have to wonder what was going through the head of Michael Sona, communications director for Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke, when he barged into the special advance ballot arranged by Elections Canada for students at Guelph University, ...
• Amusing videos to conquer sex-trafficking!
  by Rachel Krueger I love youtube videos and am opposed to sex trafficking.  I think it’s safe to say these two sentiments extend to a large percentage of the population.  So why am I baffled by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s hilarious "Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ videos?"  They feature foxy ...
• Debate: By not losing, Harper won
  By Montreal Simon I wish I could say that the three opposition leaders smoked Great Ugly Leader last night, and that they were still hoovering him off the floor. But they didn't, so I can't. Because at this point delusion could kill us. They held their own, they landed some good blows, ...

Daily Beast

• Grief and Strife at La'Shanda Armstrong's Funeral
  Nine days after she drove her minivan into the Hudson River, killing herself and three of her children, La'Shanda Armstrong's family is grieving-and battling. They say that even in death, the father of her kids is controlling her by burying her...
• Inside Tyler Perry's Tantrum
  The Madea mogul lashed out at Spike Lee this week, two years after his rival's stinging criticism of his work. Allison Samuels on the not-so-secret battle raging in Black Hollywood. Just this past Wednesday, radio shows, entertainment blogs, and...
• Morgan Spurlock's Juicy Movie Sponsor
  The director's product-placement movie hits the silver screen Friday with POM Wonderful as title sponsor. POM founder Lynda Resnick explains how Spurlock sold her on The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. On Friday, April 22, POM Wonderful hits the silver...
• Steve Jobs, Come Clean!
  Sen. Al Franken wants to know why Apple's iPhone has been spying on users with its location-tracking software. So far, Apple and its CEO have nothing to say, Dan Lyons reports. U.S. Sen. Al Franken is seeking answers from Apple after a pair of...
• Pakistan's Gang-Rape Verdict Travesty
  A high court set free several of the men accused of the shocking gang-rape of Mukhtar Mai. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on why the activist for women's rights now fears for her life. Pakistan's Supreme Court has ended Mukhtar Mai's quest for legal justice...

Loonwatch

• Piss Christ Art Work Destroyed by Protesting C ...
  Robert Spencer's co-religionists slash Andres Serrano's "artwork."
• Christopher Hitchens: No “Arab Spring&#8 ...
  The Arab Revolutions are a unique moment in the history of the world for a number of reasons. Chief amongst these important reasons is the shattering of age old Orientalist myths that Arabs and Muslims are impervious to Democracy, the language of rights, etc. These talking points are usually fur ...
• [UPDATED: KFI Radio To Get Davenport] Racist O ...
  This hatred and rhetoric against Obama needs to stop.
• In Muslim community, Lee Baca wins support thr ...
  The L.A. County sheriff, a Republican with a strong reputation as a crime fighter, believes in building trust within minority communities.
• Terry Jones: Mustachioed Yosemite Sam Going to ...
  Jones wants to protest in Dearborn.

Energy News

• State of Arizona found I-131 in Phoenix milk a ...
  MILK SAMPLES FROM THE PHOENIX AREA, State ...Read More
• Nuclear reactor 150 miles from Atlanta shuts d ...
  Nuclear Reactor In Ga. Shuts Down Abruptly, ...Read More
• Nulear Expert: “TEPCO data suggest that ...
  After 5 Halflives, I-131 Higher than Cs-134/137 ...Read More
• Fairewinds: US news outlets said there’s ...
  Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing, Discusses Global Radiation ...Read More
• New EPA data shows iodine-131 in Los Angeles t ...
  Drinking Water RadNet Laboratory Analysis, EPA, April ...Read More

Japan Times

• Latest word from Mahathir
  Before the prime ministry of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, not that many people had ever heard of Malaysia, outside of adjacent Singapore, which shared a common border as well as an intense mutual antipathy that entertained the rest of Southeast Asia for decades. But by the late 1990s the land of the ...
• Small amounts of iodine found in breast milk
  A citizen's group concerned about the impact on mothers and babies of the radioactive leaks from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday that small amounts of radioactive iodine have been found in the breast milk of four women living east or northeast of Tokyo. Of the samples provi ...
• Setsuden
  Dear Alice, Everywhere I go now I see signs for setsuden (conserving electricity). There's a notice at my local convenience store explaining that the lights are down for setsuden. My post office has shortened its hours for setsuden. And the subway is running with fewer trains — you guessed it ...
• How debt, tax hike will affect reconstruction
  To finance reconstruction in areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, ideas have been floated for issuing debt or raising the consumption tax . Below are questions and answers about the proposals. What is the idea behind issuing state debt for reconstruction?
• Ringo Deathstarr
  Mashing together Ringo Starr and the Death Star from "Star Wars" to create their name, noise-pop group Ringo Deathstarr were one the "buzz" bands at last month's South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. With 2,000 acts performing over the heralded bash's five day ...

Alexander Higgins

• On the Radar: Good Friday, Earth Day, Texas fi ...
  Good Friday – Non-Orthodox Christians are observing Good Friday, the solemn commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Pope Benedict XVI will lead a "Way of the Cross" ceremony at 3:15 p.m. ET at the Colosseum in Rome, followed by Mass at the Vatican at 5 p.m. ET. A prosecutor and a publi ...
• Friday’s live video events
  Watch CNN.com Live for continuing coverage on the government spending battle in Washington. Today's programming highlights... 8:15 am ET - Papal question-and-answer session - For the first time in history, a pope will participate in a televised question-and-answer session.  Pope Benedict XVI wil ...
• Japan faces lengthy recovery from Fukushima ac ...
  The shadow cast by Fukushima Daiichi has inflicted yet-unknown losses on farmers, fishermen and shopkeepers. And looming compensation costs have darkened the future of Tokyo Electric, a $157 billion company that may be driven into some form of ...See a...
• Fukushima Fallout
  The article further states that Vetter says fallout in our area from the Fukushima disaster is nothing to worry about, and that "the extremely low levels of both iodine and cesium he measured should reassure people that there is little danger in the .....
• This Man Is Not an Agent of Self-Aware Killer ...
  Dick Stottler is the 47-year old founder of a California software company specializing in artificial intelligence. The Air Force wants him to teach its drones to anticipate the movements of human pilots. Which raises an obviou...

Macleans - Central

• Ignatieff’s pitch
  I have a story in this week’s print edition about Michael Ignatieff’s position going into…
• ‘The government’s parameters’
  The Conservative party has issued a statement from Bev Oda. The Canada-led Muskoka Initiative, introduced…
• Quebec’s Orange not-quite-yet-Revolution
  YGRECK, Journal de Montréal A moderately big surprise here in Quebec: Jack Layton is the…
• Direct appeal
  The Liberals will air a half-hour program on Sunday afternoon showcasing Mr. Ignatieff and the…
• ‘Still reviewing’
  Conservative incumbent Brad Trost boasts that anti-abortion advocates convinced the government to defund Planned Parenthood.…

Making It Count - CCPA

• No More Tough-on-Crime
  About 40% of the Harper government’s recent legislative agenda was devoted to crime laws. Most of these would have created new offences and mandated longer sentences. The Conservative government said this was the way to get violent, repeat offenders off the streets and to fight “guns, gangs and ...
• Electing to House Canadians – or Not?
  Little has been said by the political parties about housing in the lead up to the federal election on May 2. This is surprising, considering that approximately 1.27 million households (or 12.4 percent of Canadian households) live in housing that requires major repairs, is overcrowded, and/or cos ...
• Courting the Women’s Vote in 2011
  Every party is courting the womenâs vote. They are The Undecided – more women than men are still parking their vote. Thatâs typical of most elections.  Women listen for longer, decide later in an election campaign. When the time comes, they will be the kingmakers, if youâll pardon the term. It ...
• Harper’s Record on Immigration – L ...
  The following is cut and pasted from an email that is in circulation to lawyers, practitioners and academics regarding the Harper record on immigration.  It does not address the rapid growth in the issuing of temporary foreign worker permits, particularly since the recession began. Harper’s rec ...
• The Treasury Transfer Effect – You Read ...
  Munir Sheikh, former head of Statistics Canada and of tax policy at Finance Canada, has an op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail entitled, “A Canada-U.S. tax gap means a Canada-U.S. tax transfer.” As he notes, “any U.S. citizen, resident or company earning income in Canada is subject to U.S. tax, with ...

ReDress

• Middle East peace process: dead as Monty Pytho ...
  Stuart Littlewood considers the possible scenarios open to the Palestinians in the coming months in view of the death - some would say the stillbirth - of the "peace process", from UN membership to the collapse of the Palestinian National Authority and "new openings and possibilities, a new logi ...
• BBC governing body hails "pretentious propagan ...
  Richard Lightbown is surprised to learn from the BBC Trust - the governing body of Britain's state broadcaster - that it considered Panorama's "Death in the Med" documentary to have "performed a valuable public service".
• Transformed by truth: Richard Forer's journey ...
  Paul J. Balles charts the journey of Richard Forer, an American Jew brought up on Israeli propaganda, who had his early beliefs challenged by friends and, consequently, embarked on an honest study of the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As a result, he underwent a monumental transforma ...
• Lobbies and the corruption of the USA's electe ...
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the distorting effect of political lobbies on the USA's elected representatives and, using the example of the Israel lobby, shows how the lobbied politicians end up representing the lobby and not their constituents or the national interest.
• USA - dishonest broker in flawed "peace proces ...
  Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari interviews American Professor Naseer Aruri on a wide range of issues relating to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including the flaws of the Oslo accords, the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby over the US political process and the role of the USA as “dishonest ...