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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, April 24, 2011

24 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Shining the light on solar projects
The Desert Sun
- Apr 24, 2011
- 9 hours ago
The projects help California and the country provide domestic sources of clean energy, meet renewable energy goals, reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases and combat climate change. • Solar development potentially provides thousands of ...
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State energy fund invests $1.98M in solar projects
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
- Apr 24, 2011
- 1 hour ago
April 23--The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund has agreed to invest $1.98 million in 14 solar energy projects that will provide churches, public buildings, schools and businesses with renewable energy. The projects selected for the funding under the Clean ...
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Phl urged to consider use of renewable energy
Philippine Star
- Apr 24, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Iris C. Gonzales (The Philippine Star) Updated April 25, 2011 12:00 AM 0 LISBON, Portugal - The Philippines and other developing countries should seriously consider the extensive use of renewable energy as sources of power to help the country adapt ...
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Human Habitat

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Ann Arbor Ecology Center moving to new home in downtown Ann Arbor
AnnArbor.com
- Apr 23, 2011
- Apr 23, 2011
Recycle Ann Arbor is the largest arm of the Ecology Center.Angela Cesere | AnnArbor.com With scientists making ... Melissa Combs, the Ecology Center's director of development, stands inside the organizations new office space under construction on East ...
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Beachwood Middle School Ecology Club Learns About Rainwater
Patch.com
- Apr 22, 2011
- Apr 22, 2011
By Nikki Ferrell | Email the author | April 22, 2011 Students in Beachwood Middle School's Ecology Club cleaned up and planted in the school's courtyard. Beachwood Middle School is working to teach the next generation about environmental sustainability ...
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Erikka Askeland: Bonuses beat ecology among shareholders' grievances
Scotsman
- Apr 22, 2011
- Apr 22, 2011
By Erikka Askeland TheY are at it again. Activists for Greenpeace yesterday climbed up and attached themselves to the oil rig rented by Cairn Energy to undertake exploratory drilling off the icy shores of Greenland. Lucky for the climbers, ...
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Russia's ecology activists concerned over new Khimki Forest clearing
RIA Novosti
- Apr 23, 2011
- 23 hours ago
Russia's ecology activists, standing against the construction of the highway through the Khimki Forest near Moscow, have spotted new unauthorized forest clearings, one of the activists, Yaroslav Nikitenko said on Saturday. "There is a large number of ...
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Ala. Fishing Captain Back on the Water, Optimistic
ABC News
- Apr 24, 2011
- 2 hours ago
"Arrrrrrgh!" Shaver sneered loudly across the water in his best pirate growl. Everybody laughed. Shaver's bad-guy act is for fun these days, just like it has been for decades around here. But not many people were laughing last year as the oil started ...
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Did Robert Pattinson Diss 'Twilight' In A 'Water For Elephants' Interview?
Hollywood Life
- Apr 24, 2011
- 12 minutes ago
Robert Pattinson has been doing endless interviews for Water for Elephants, but we've never heard him utter ill will to the Twilight franchise — until now! Rob, 24, was asked by OnTheRedCarpet.com if he liked doing publicity for Water for Elephants ...
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Box Office: Easter moviegoers choose 'Rio' over Tyler Perry's latest 'Madea ...
Los Angeles Times
- Apr 24, 2011
- 57 minutes ago
"Water for Elephants," a romantic drama starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, got off to a better-than-expected start, grossing $17.5 million. The weekend's other new wide release, the wildlife documentary "African Cats," did $6.4 million in ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • OP-ED: Still no Escape from Killer Chernobyl
    The accident could have served as a wake-up call to the whole of humanity. Twenty-five years ago, on Apr. 26 1986, disaster struck at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear complex in the Ukrainian state of the former Soviet Union.
  • Arab Refugees Suffer Mind Disorders
    Amidst the political upheavals across the Arab world, a new U.N. study highlights the need for neurological health services to monitor brain disorders among displaced people.
  • MIDEAST: Nablus Stands Beautiful and Unvisited
    Palestine experiences a boom in tourism, as herds of tourists storm the cities of Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem. Meanwhile, the West Bank city of Nablus, rich in historic and religious sites, hardly attracts visitors.
  • Arab Spring Stalls as U.S. Defers to Saudi "Co ...
    As the so-called Arab Spring enters its sixth month, it appears to have run into seriously wintry headwinds.
  • PERU: Guardians of the Dry Forest
    Half-shouting over the roar of the old truck we are riding in, Peruvian farmer Pablo Escudero points to a green wall that rises up in the distance and says, "That's our ‘rain caller', the place we have fought so hard to create, which will be our legacy to our children."

Scoop - NZ

  • Israel annexed by West Bank | Avnery
    The other day, the almighty General Security Service (Shabak, formerly Shin Bet) needed a new boss. It is a hugely important job, because no minister ever dares to contradict the advice of the Shabak chief in cabinet meetings. There was an obvious candidate, known only as J. But at the last m ...
  • Camden ban on anti-royal party faces lawsuit ...
    The anti-monarchy group Republic said it was taking legal advice today after Camden Council in London rejected its application for a republican street party that would not celebrate the royal wedding. They say Camden council is discriminating on the grounds of political belief for banning the ...
  • Toy with familiar ring gets jittery makeover - ...
    A new generation of what were known as chatter rings a couple of decades ago and which still have firm fans, will be launched in Hawke's Bay' at a chatter rings "reunion" in Hastings this afternoon. The event is being staged at Apple Activities Educational Toys between noon and 2pm. "All old rin ...
  • How the financial class legally robs American ...
    Reports out from the secretive Federal Reserve show for example a $220 million loan to the wives of Wall Street executives merely for speculative purposes. A win-win gift from our central bank as a thank you for leading the nation into this economic ditch. Do you have access to cheap and plent ...
  • Public Radio, Conservative Listeners - NYTimes.com
    How cutting funds for US public radio could have hurt conservative listeners, too - a salutary story for those who want to make similar cuts to Radio NZ.

Independent - London

  • Syria could face human rights probe
    An international human rights group called today for a UN inquiry into Syria's crackdown on opposition protesters that has left more than 120 dead people in recent days.
  • British nationals urged to leave Syria
    The Foreign Office today urged all British nationals to leave Syria in the wake of the latest unrest unless they have a pressing need to remain in the country.
  • Thai-Cambodian border fighting enters third day
    Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged artillery fire on Sunday in a third day of fighting that has killed 10 soldiers and uprooted thousands of villagers from their homes.
  • Pope leads Easter Mass in packed Vatican square
    Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, packed with about 100,000 pilgrims and tourists and ablaze in the bright colors of spring flowers as the faithful marked the church's most joyous day of the year.
  • Tribal leaders to negotiate Misrata exit for r ...
    Libyan tribal leaders are trying to get rebels in the city of Misrata to lay down their arms within 48 hours, a government official said early on Sunday, after a day of fierce clashes between opposition fighters and Moammar Gaddafi's forces.

Rogue Government.com

  • Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS ...
    The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.
  • Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto to Protect again ...
    A coalition of organic farming interests have sued Monsanto in what they say is a preventive measure to stop the corporation from unfairly litigating them over the spread of patented seeds.
  • GE Profits Jump 77%
    General Electric Co. reported a 77% increase in first-quarter earnings, lifted by marked improvement at its GE Capital financing arm and gains at most of its industrial units.
  • Apple named 'least green' tech company
    Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on "dirty data" centres.
  • Soros Event Sets in Motion New Attacks on Dollar
    It’s been two weeks since George Soros bought himself a major economic conference designed to remake the entire global economy. Just because the event received little major news attention, it still had an impact Americans might be reeling from for years.

Innovation Canada

  • Manitoba gets physical
    Jonathan McGavock is unequivocal and unapologetic. He’s seriously worried about the next generation of Canadian kids. “Ninety percent are physically inactive, with 25 to 30 percent being overweight or obese,” says the University of Manitoba researcher. “Chronic medical conditions like type 2 dia ...
  • Designing consumers
    Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
  • Sharing culture
  • Targeting tumours
    Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...

Signs of the times

  • Propaganda Alert! New Irish terror groups are ...
    Intelligence officials say dissidents are capable of mounting mainland attack, as fears grow of 'Easter offensive' in Ulster Dissident republicans have developed the capability to mount an attack on the British mainland, according to the latest security assessment. Senior counter-terrorism sour ...
  • Evil Banksters: ECB threatened to collapse Iri ...
    Economist Colm McCarthy has said that there are "widespread suspicions" that the European Central Bank fostered a run on Irish banks to force the last Government to seek a bailout from the EU-IMF. In the Sunday Independent today, Mr McCarthy says that the ECB behaved in a "bullying fashion" tow ...
  • Radioactive Iodine In Phoenix Arizona Milk 160 ...
    Japan nuclear radiation in Phoenix, Arizona milk samples show radioactive Iodine contamination levels up to 1600% above EPA drinking water limits. To make matters worse those contamination levels of radiation do not even include Caesium or other radioactive isotopes which were not even reported ...
  • How To Remove Radioactive Iodine-131 From Drin ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency recommends reverse osmosis water treatment to remove radioactive isotopes that emit beta-particle radiation. But iodine-131, a beta emitter, is typically present in water as a dissolved gas, and reverse osmosis is known to be ineffective at capturing gases. A ...
  • Dispite the evidence - Pediatric Society again ...
    The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society recently issued a position statement that "opposes any legislation or regulation that would allow children to be exempted from mandatory immunizations based simply on their parents', or in the case of adolescents, their own, secular personal beliefs." I ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • s*%tharperdid . . . .
    The definitive record of stevie in one place. Spread the word . . . . H/T "drf"
  • Harper win?
    The the NDP surge in popularity is a game changer. There are some who are very worried that this will create the circumstances that will lead to a Harper majority because of the non-Con vote split. There are some who think that we'll end up with a Con minority and a Dipper official opposition. T ...
  • Hmmm . . . could happen
    According to Bizarro. We Canadians know all about 'em, we got the Cootie Party of Canada, after all.
  • NDP disasters
    Last night as I was grading finals, I started wondering what an NDP led government might do. Like any government stepping into the breach for the first time or the last time, they could well fuck it all up. But they might not. And even if they did, their disasters won't look like more than a t ...
  • Night shifts...
    I've been following the dozing air traffic controller issue in the US a bit. Mr Babbitt announced on Wednesday that the FAA would place an additional air traffic controller on the midnight shift at 27 control towers across the country; previously, they had been staffed with only one controll ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox & Friends Cherry-Picks, Disto ...
    A Fox & Friends graphic purporting to show gas prices in selected states all over the country featured the seven states and areas with the country's highest average gas prices and displayed prices that were significantly above each state's respective average.Fox & Friends Displays "Soaring Gas ...
  • Fox Falsely Claims It Has "Confirmed" That "Fe ...
    Despite repeated denials from government officials, Fox claims to have "confirmed" that federal law enforcement officials have been ordered not to arrest undocumented immigrants, supposedly as a way for the government to lessen apprehension numbers at the border. In fact, the weak U.S. economy ...
  • Right-Wing Media Celebrate Earth Day By Mockin ...
    In the lead-up to Earth Day, members of the right-wing media have ridiculed conservation efforts and downplayed the concerns of environmentalists. This is nothing new for conservative media figures who have, in the past, used the Earth Day to attack conservationists by urging audiences to cut d ...
  • Right-Wing Media Return To Fearmongering About ...
    Right-wing media have recently revived the falsehood that the Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the health care law will lead to health care rationing. In fact, the law specifically prohibits the Advisory Board from making "any recommendations to ration health care ... or otherwise ...
  • Another Day, Another Obama Speech Fox Takes Ou ...
    Following President Obama's April 20 Facebook town hall meeting, Fox News jumped on his remarks, accusing Obama of "class warfare" while again deceptively editing portions of Obama's speech to accuse him of calling Republicans "selfish."Obama Cited His Past Personal "Benefit" From Social Progra ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Other Secret To Donald Trump's Rise
    It's pretty obvious that the main reason Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls (among Republicans) is that he is openly appealing to racism. Say what you will about the other GOP "hopefuls," none of them (not even Palin, Bachmann, or Santorum) is openly using the President's race as the ce ...
  • 1967 Borders: Disruptive Innovation
    Suddenly, it seems a forgone conclusion that the White House will be presenting a plan of some sort in advance of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress in May. For those of us who have been advocating for something along these lines, this should be welcome news. But all of t ...
  • Budget Deficits, Accounting Identities, and Ch ...
    In the movie Philadelphia, the lawyer played by Denzel Washington is shown repeatedly telling his clients to explain their case to him as though he were a 9-year-old. This is a good rule to follow in explaining issues to economists and policy analysts, since they seem to get confused easily in d ...
  • An Oped Co-written by Obama & UAE Crown Prince ...
    President Obama's recently co-written oped, done with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, asserted Transatlantic concerns about affairs in Libya -- and intentionally or not, proclaimed ownership of the conflict. Whether the Libya intervention succeeds or f ...
  • Beware the "Middle Ground" of the Great Budget ...
    How debates are framed is critical because the "center" or "middle ground" is supposedly halfway between the two extremes. We continue to hear that the Great Budget Debate has two sides: The President and the Democrats want to cut the budget deficit mainly by increasing taxes on the rich and ...

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • BP Getting $13 Billion Tax Break? {TAKE ACTION}
    Last Wednesday, it was determined that BP would be getting $13 billion in tax credits. It is not clear if BP is even going to pay any taxes at all or if it will actually get money from the government after this. Why is BP getting so much money? Because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Drink Tea, Plant a Tree
    Honest Tea, one of my favorite tea companies, recently partnered up with the National Forest Foundation to get a whole lot of trees planted. And you can help decide where.
  • Greenpeace Gives Us Updates on Facebook Unfrie ...
    Greenpeace wrote an update on the Facebook Unfriend Coal campaign, its progress to date, and how Facebook has responded yesterday. Here are some highlights
  • Endangered Animal Watch (Update): Wolves, Tige ...
    As it is Earth Day, my natural inclination is took look at the current state of Nature....specifically, the status of certain animal species that are either holding on, currently threatened, or "on the brink"....here are just four such cases (wolves, tigers, bats and penguins)...
  • Origins of Earth Day {VIDEO}
    Ever wonder exactly how Earth Day started? Organic Bouquet, a "mission-based florist and the largest online provider of eco-friendly and organic gifts," put together the video below, including footage from an oil spill off the California coast over 30 years ago (and oil-covered birds like we saw ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • US: 37 Arrested at Hancock Air Base near Syrac ...
    DEWITT, NY -- Dozens of war protesters were arrested Friday afternoon outside the main entrance of the New York Air National Guard’s base at Hancock Field. Thirty seven protesters, draped with red-spattered sheets, had lain themselves in the main entrance roads to the base, off East ...
  • 'Deadliest day' in Syria uprising - World News
    At least 75 people are reported to have been killed in Syria in the bloodiest day since the uprising began, as security forces use live ammunition and tear gas to quell anti-government protests across the country, according to Amnesty International, the London-based rights group. Syrian activ ...
  • China Answers Report by the U.S. with Document ...
    The following is the third part of the text of the Human Rights Record of the United States of 2010, published in Beijing by the Information Office of the State Council (China’s cabinet): III., on economic, social, and cultural rights. America is the wealthiest country in the world, but the.. ...
  • Venezuela to Use Oil Revenues in Socio-Economi ...
    Caracas, Apr 22 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced an executive decree for increasing the socio-economic investments from the current high prices of oil, which exceed $100 USD per barrel. It is about a special contribution to the internal revenue due to the exorbitant ...
  • Egypt orders ex-energy minister, former offici ...
    Editor's Note: The fact that the U.S. propped up and supported the corrupt Mubarak machine for decades shall not be forgotten. - LMB "Israel gets 40 percent of its natural gas from Egypt under an arrangement put in place after a 1979 peace deal. "Opposition groups have long ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Missing the Obvious Answer
    Here's an idea: stop killing your brain cells with stupid superstitions. Amazing how much easier it is to make ethical decisions based on reason and humanity once you abandon superstition. Steve Benen: THEOLOGICAL RIGOR.... The New York Times' David Brooks saw "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway, a ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    There is no organized political opposition in Syria - for two MPs to resign over government action is huge. "Two Syrian legislators have resigned their posts in parliament as outrage grows over the security force's ongoing crackdown on anti-government protests. Nasser al-Hariri and Khalil al-Rif ...
  • The Rat Bastards Are Truly Unhinged
    Man, I'm running out of words to describe these goddamned people. �Even using the world "people" rankles because it implies some thread of connection to the human race... something to which this whole new species of white, upright hairless ape can only aspire. What kind of idiot stands up in pub ...
  • Natural Gas Will Save Our Energy Ass! Eh, Not ...
    Here's a good rule of thumb that never, ever fails: If it's a fossil fuel, it kills people. Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars: So pumping millions of gallons of carcinogenic liquid into the earth in order to get out natural gas deposits is not looking like such a sustainable energy policy. Thank ...
  • Yet More Proof the Debt/Deficit Hyenas are Lying
    Even if the deficit and debt were significant enough to be of concern - which the article below proves they are not - they would still be irrelevant in light of high unemployment demanding massive government spending to create 10 million jobs. Next time somebody starts hyperventilating about the ...

Care 2

  • Zimbabwe: Elephant Meat for Hungry Prisoners
    Prisoners in the country's overcrowded jails may soon be fed with elephant meat if a proposal by the Justice and Legal Affairs ministry to curb the shortage of protein in prisons is accepted by government.Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wolves Call to Us on Earth Day - Howling For J ...
    When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.~~~Lakota Submitted by Krista T. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Urge Gov. John Kasich to Ban Ex ...
    With some of the weakest exotic pet laws in the nation, Ohio had become a haven for breeders and dealers of wild animals. Keeping exotics as pets in backyards and basements has ended in tragedy time and time again. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • WildEarth Guardians River Restoration
    Check out this video which shows how WildEarth Guardians is restoring rivers in the Southwest US through their Stream Team program - and find out how you can get involved!Submitted by Chris Otahal to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Vegas, from the chain to the shelter....waitin ...
    Los Angeles, CA� At times, an owner may feel guilty because they don�t walk their dog frequently enough. Or they regret that they cannot afford the best dog food available. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Vegas, from the chain to the shelter....wSubmitted by Sophia P. to Animals ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Law Broke (& Open Thread)
    Am stumped. Need legal reading. Does POTUS mean to wreck the deal-brokering prosecution of Bradley Manning by making public statement of conclusion to the US Army? Is this purposeful subversion, brain-fogged chit-chat, ignorant office-holdin? For POTUS to comment to public baiter on a military j ...
  • Never Underestimate the Stupidity of Voters
    This is brain candy for Friday night. This is a bit from Howard Stern’s show in 2008. Listen and then you’ll understand the roots of our predicament. Here’s the key question–will 2012 be different?
  • What The Hell Is Wrong With These People?
    I know, I know, that can cover a wide variety of issues, and these days there seems to be no shortage of ones that would merit such a response. But in this case, I am referring to Jack Stuef at Wonkette writing a particularly egregious piece directed at – wait for it – Trig Palin. [...]
  • Fresh Juice Drones (& Open Thread)
    – From the blog for the nightly, syndicated John Batchelor Show. Spoke Carla Maranucci, SFC, re the mocking opera serenade of POTUS at the San Francisco glamorous St. Regis breakfast, where the wealthy paid $5000 a chair and enjoyed the Fresh Juice Party theatrics. POTUS was stumped and snookere ...
  • Getting Real About Social Security and Medicare
    Are you part of the “Entitlement” crowd? What do I mean? Do you believe that you are entitled to full Social Security and Medicare benefits regardless of what you have paid in? I suspect most would answer no. So let me make this a bit more uncomfortable–we are not paying enough individually to a ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Are We At The Start Of A New Mass Extinction?
    With the decline of many different species, scientists fear we are in the middle of a new mass extinction read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Garden at Night: An Interview with Nightti ...
    An interview with nocturnal photographer Linda Rutenberg. Linda has spent most of her nights capturing the stunning beauty of the garden at night. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Reintroducing Once Eradicated Giant Tortoi ...
    Introducing a new species of tortoise to an area where they have gone extinct has helped germinate critically endangered ebony trees. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Akuntsu: The Tribe with Only 5 Individuals Lef ...
    Due to invasion by loggers and ranchers,today just 5 surviving individuals are left,who are representing the entire Akuntsu community,in the Brazilian rainforests. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • How Cloning Vanilla Could Cut its Price
    Vanilla is popular but expensive, partly because this orchid often needs help to reproduce. Researchers in Malaysia hope to help this familiar spice. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Sizing Up the Greenest Colleges
    A free online listing of the 311 eco-friendliest colleges in the country is meant to help environmentally conscious students choose a school that reflects their principles.
  • Free Rain Barrels for New Yorkers
    With summer approaching, the city is distributing 1,000 55-gallon barrels to homeowners to help conserve water and reduce pressure on the sewer system.
  • In Texas, Questions of Drought and Climate Change
    Some are wondering whether the severe drought affecting the oil and gas hub of Midland, Tex., is related to global warming. In Texas, that's a delicate question.
  • Saudi Cut in Oil Production Stirs Speculation
    Some analysts agreed with Saudi Arabia that the world was amply supplied with oil, but others wondered whether the Saudis were able to increase their production at all.
  • For a Few, Focus on Green Products Pays Off
    While big consumer-product companies have struggled with environmentally oriented brands, some niche manufacturers have bounced back from the recession.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • New 2008 Republican National Convention docume ...
    Posted originally at Twin Cities Indymedia By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia -- A new documentary on the 2008 Republican National Convention, Better This World, screens at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival on Sunday and next Wednesday, and on PBS POV nationwide on Sep ...
  • Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
    FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
  • Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
    Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
  • Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
    We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...

Daily Censored

  • Who Will Chart Our Course?
    I don’t know how much longer I can continue to write this blog of mine.  To read more and more of the direction we are headed is despairing.  Ryan would return this country to the 1700s.  By removing women’s health, by eliminating $$$ for education, eliminating the teaching of history, indeed an ...
  • Rachel Maddow show covers Detroit Schools and ...
    With the fight to keep public schools public, Detroit Federation of Teachers along with By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) have engaged in direct action.  The little coverage in the corporate press has been limited to Michigan but with the controversy over the Cahterine Ferguson Academy fight and occ ...
  • Questioning the Dream Act: A Latina Speaks Out
      This is a very insightful critical analysis from Ms. Andrea Zamudio regarding the Dream Act and a very dubious provision within it—-the military provision. This provision is one that aims to refuel America’s Imperialist Military Machine, all the while using Latinos to engage in war acts agains ...
  • What Do You Think?
    At sixty-eight, I can only pretty much sit and watch this country come apart.  In 1965, I marched on Washington D.C. to end the war in Viet Nam.  In 1968 I helped organize busses to go to Wisconsin to stump for McCarthy in the Greater Milwaukee area.  Today I can only watch and write about [...]
  • Beyond ForeclosureGate – It Gets Uglier
    Michael Collins The ForeclosureGate scandal poses a threat to Wall Street, the big banks, and the political establishment. If the public ever gets a complete picture of the personal, financial, and legal assault on citizens at their most vulnerable, the outrage will be endless. (Image) Foreclosu ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Daydreaming of Cuba for Dollars
    Academics making money, terrorists roaming free, and the reinvention of "Cuban Civil Society."
  • Obama's Dirty Energy Fixation
    As radioactivity levels continue to spike in Fukushima, Obama's support for nuclear power is unwavering.
  • Talking The Talk
    President Obama seems to be shifting his message but not his actions when it comes to reducing military spending and reigning in the Bush tax cuts.
  • Tax Loopholes and the GE Hoax
    On tax day, millions of Americans paid their taxes, but GE was not among them. WNYC interview commenting on the US Uncut hoax on General Electric.
  • U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International ...
    As NATO continues its campaign against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and to their attacks on Libyan civilians, Great Britain announced today it will send military officers to advise rebels fighters.

Equality Trust

  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Another Salmonella Recall - this time Cucumbers
    L&M Companies, Inc. of Raleigh, NC is issuing a voluntary recall of one lot (1590 cartons) of whole cucumbers because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. No illnesses have been reported in association with this recall, and no other products are involved. The recalled produc ...
  • Salmonella Risk - Jonathan's Recalls Sprouts - ...
    The 35-year-old Rochester, MA-based sprout farm said the recall was based on routine sampling by the USDA Microbiological Data Program that indicated possible Salmonella contamination. No illnesses have yet been reported. The recall does not include any of the company's organic products. The r ...
  • Willie Nelson Stricken by African Dwarf Water ...
    No, the other Willie Nelson. Patti Singer of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in her piece today “Water frog hazards prompt warning,” told the story of 4-month-old, Willie Nelson II and his illness brought on by Salmonella typhimurium from African dwarf frogs. Young Willie, According to th ...
  • KCTS - "How Safe is your Burger" nominated for ...
    In an odd sense of coincidence on the timing of the release of the book “Poisoned” – The True Story of the E. coli Outbreak that changed the way American’s Eat (pre-order at Amazon)– KCTS’s - "How Safe is your Burger" has been nominated for Emmy.  Another story I was involved in got the New York ...
  • A Two Year Salmonella Typhimurium Frog Outbrea ...
    Why the mystery about the frog breeder who has been selling Salmonella-tinted frogs to kids for two years? What is the possible rationale for not telling the public? Setting aside for a moment whether it is a good or bad idea to market in African Water Frogs, perhaps parents and pet shop owner ...

AutoblogGreen

  • New York 2011: Honda Civic Hybrid scores 44 mp ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Honda 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not 50 miles per gallon (rest, easy Prius), but the mpg numbers for the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid impress us nonetheless: 44/44/44. That's city/highway/combined, and it's ...
  • New York 2011: Mitsubishi sets price of all-el ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi i - Click above for high-res image gallery Some bits of good news come with a head scratcher. At the New York Auto Show today, Mitsubishi announced that the all-electric i will start at just $27,990 in the U.S. Once ...
  • New York 2011: Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concep ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Suzuki Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery For a car that doesn't exist - yet - the Suzuki Kizashi hybrid certainly rears its head an awful lot. The rumor had been that Suzuki wanted to release the car in 2011, b ...
  • New York 2011: 2012 Nissan Versa offers 33 mpg ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Budget, Sedan, Nissan 2012 Nissan Versa - Click above for high-res image gallery Revealed "simultaneously" as the new Tiida in Shanghai, the 2012 Nissan Versa drove onto the stage here at the 2011 New York Auto Show spouting some impressive numbers: 33 miles ...
  • Toyota Plug-In Prius reservations start on Ear ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Plug-in Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery If the idea of getting around 83 or 87 miles per gallon in a plug-in Toyota Prius suits your fancy, then get ready to give Toyota your pertinent details on Earth Day. That's t ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Vandana & Mira Shiva on Corporate Malpractice ...
    On Earth Day, Democracy Now! revisits a 2010 conversation with world-renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva and her sister, Dr. Mira Shiva, about multi-national malpractice in India, from the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal to Monsanto GMOs that are destroying biodiversity.
  • ‘Restrepo’ Director Tim Hetherington and Photo ...
    Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, director and producer of the documentary film “Restrepo,” and photojournalist Chris Hondros were killed in the Libyan city of Misurata on Wednesday when a group of four photojournalists were attacked. Photographer, Guy Martin, suffered severe inj ...
  • Amy Goodman's New Column: "Renewed Energy For ...
    More than 10,000 people converged in Washington, DC, this past week to discuss, organize, mobilize and protest around the issue of climate change. While tax day Tea Party gatherings of a few hundred scattered around the country made the news, this massive gathering, Power Shift 2011, was largel ...
  • Standing up to Big Pharma in Bangladesh: Right ...
    Democracy Now! talks to Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, co-founder of Bangladeshi charity Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK, The People’s Health Center) which provides education, job opportunities and low-cost, locally-produced essential drugs to rural Bangladeshis. GK received the Right Livelihood Award ...
  • Environmental Activists Occupy Interior Dept. ...
    2:15pm EDT Tim DeChristopher , activist and founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising, called Democracy Now! with an update from the U.S. Department of Interior, where 300-400 people are outside protesting and another 50 people are inside and refusing to leave. The march c ...

Digg Green

  • The Cat s Eye Nebula from Hubble: APOD Ap ...
    Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. A classic planetary nebula, the Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced t ...
  • Rumor Sweeping Science Community that CER ...
    A rumor has gone viral in the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the...
  • Jurassic spider from China is largest fos ...
    With a leg span of more than five inches, a recently named Jurassic period spider from China is the largest fossil specimen discovered, and one that has modern relatives in tropical climates today.
  • Because it's not already awkward standing ...
    Still...cool idea
  • Flaming the fire of the solar vs nuclear ...
    Proponents on both sides of the fence will argue feverishly about how the benefits of their chosen energy preference are better for the environment and the economy. Fukushima put a damper on the arguments for nuclear and the solar community is coming out full force to remind everyone about ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • George Carlin — Earth Day
    Happy Earth Day!!!
  • What do HAARP, Chemtrails, and Global Warming ...
    By Barbara Peterson In a nutshell, we can see that HAARP is intended to do the following: * Destroy, deflect, or confuse missiles or aircraft * Modify the weather * Change the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, by increasing or decreasing ozone, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon mono ...
  • Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Tra ...
    The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can be used to extract information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan last Wednesday demanded that state officials stop stonewa ...
  • Fluoridation makes us stupid and unhealthy
    By Paul Fassa A recent Chinese study concluded that low dose sodium fluoride in drinking water diminishes IQ, especially among children. This is the twenty-fourth such international study with the same conclusion. Sodium fluoride has also been linked to reduced fertility and lower sperm counts. ...
  • Protect yourself from increasing radiation lev ...
    by: T.M. Hartle Growing concerns about radiation from Fukushima has led many Americans to take precautionary actions to protect themselves against rising radiation levels. Radiation has now been detected in the drinking water of over a dozen U.S. cities. As the radiation levels continue to rise ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Enter to Win a SAYL Task Chair from Herman Mil ...
    HAPPY EARTH THURSDAY INHABITAT READERS! If you’ve been reading Inhabitat, you know that we’re celebrating Earth Day in a big way with our Earth Week Giveaway. In addition to offering up a super cleaning package from Method and Casabella, a luxe Eco-Wise wool throw from Pendelton and a super plu ...
  • Solar-Powered Mobile Eco Shelter for the Swiss ...
    Read the rest of Solar-Powered Mobile Eco Shelter for the Swiss Alpshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cimini Architettura, eco cabin, green ...
  • How Can Fashion Designers Reduce the Disposabi ...
    While it’s easy to get sucked into bargains at the likes of H&M and Forever 21, the current disposability of clothing is a growing issue leading to poorly distributed resources and excess waste worldwide. Driving this problem has been the fact that many of us have allowed ourselves to become ac ...
  • RoboCop-Like Glasses Will Scan and ID 400 Face ...
    While the World Cup certainly means heightened excitement for its host country, rightly so it also brings forth a considerable number of concerns for spectator security. To ensure that soccer fans are keps safe during the 2014 games, the Brazilian police have decided to take a law-enforcement cu ...
  • 10 Futuristic Inventions in Wearable Tech
    Just a few years ago, things like camera-equipped glasses and clothes that double as cellphones were reserved for Bond boys and girls only, but nowadays they’re available for almost anyone to wear. From LED-lit outerwear to solar-powered coats, it seems like wearable technology is the future. Re ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Rumor: LHC Sees Hint of the Higgs Boson
    A leaked internal memo from physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva reports a whiff of the Higgs boson, the long-sought theoretical particle that could make or break the standard model of particle physics. The preliminary note, which is still under review, was posted April 2 ...
  • Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Futur ...
    Hundreds of lawsuits have flowed from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, filed by citizens, states and the federal government. And someday, perhaps, the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems will also file suit. Environmental philosophers and other people say that biological communities — ecosystems, hab ...
  • Happy Easter: Pygmy Rabbits Reintroduced to Wild
    By Alice Vincent, Wired UK Rare pygmy rabbits are being reintroduced to their native Columbia Basin in the United States, bringing them back from the brink of extinction. It will be the first time that the endangered species has been seen in the wild since 2004, after a mere 16 of the remaining ...
  • Video: Robo-Camera Rig Animates the Night Sky
    Under cover of night for three weeks in March and April, farmer Randy Halverson trudged out to his South Dakota fields to make this video of the evening sky.
  • Best Sun Images From Solar Space Telescope’s F ...
    NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope charged with watching the sun in unprecedented detail, revealed its first look at the sun to the world one year ago today.

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • Former Guantánamo Prisoner Khaled Ben Mustapha ...
    I’m delighted to cross-post below an interview with Khaled Ben Mustapha, one of seven French citizens held at Guantánamo, who was released in March 2005, and who recently spoke to Arnaud Mafille, an intern for Cageprisoners. This is a fascinating interview for a number of reasons; primarily, be ...
  • More Judicial Interference on Guantánamo
    Last week, in my article, How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo, I explained how, given the option of addressing complaints made by prisoners in Guantánamo regarding the basis of their ongoing detention, the Supreme Court chose not to, leaving the final decisions regarding the prisoners no ...
  • US Intelligence Veteran Defends Bradley Mannin ...
    The story of Pfc Bradley Manning, the young US Army intelligence analyst allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, continues to act as a magnet for supporters worldwide, who are appalled by the accounts of his solitary confinement, and the humi ...
  • Syria: On Independence Day, Calls for Freedom ...
    Last month, as brave human rights activists in Damascus held protests calling for the release of political prisoners, picking up on the revolutionary movements sweeping the Middle East, and challenging the iron rule of the Ba’ath party and the emergency laws that have been in place since 1963, I ...
  • Voices from Bagram: Prisoners Speak in Their D ...
    This is the sixth article in “Bagram Week” here at Andy Worthington (although I freely acknowedge that the original seven-day schedule has slipped), with seven articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the v ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • FAIR Shares Founder’s Views
    The New York Times ran a good front-page story yesterday that detailed the racism of John Tanton, the architect of the modern anti-immigration movement, something we have been writing about since 2002 (here, here and here). But the Times’ story gave the organizations Tanton founded, including th ...
  • Woman Sentenced for Harboring ‘Sovereign ...
    A Michigan woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for harboring a sovereign citizen who fired shots at Florida state troopers when they tried to stop him last year, an act that once again shows the danger faced by officers when they encounter extremists from the bizarre world of sovereign c ...
  • Student Group Leader Tied to White Supremacist ...
    A white supremacist just arrested on federal firearms charges in the state of Washington had ties to a university student leader of a new chapter of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). Jeremiah Daniel âJDâ Hop, previously convicted of child rape in California, is accused in a federal indictme ...
  • State Department Advertises Interpreting Servi ...
    Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance. Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglotâs language skills on the website of th ...
  • New Evidence Trove Found in MLK Day Bomb Attempt
    Federal agents investigating the attempted bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane have found a pile of new evidence abandoned in a remote area near the U.S.-Canadian border. Forensic comparison tests are now being conducted at the FBI lab on 75 items to see if they are tie ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Home for Easter Town Halls, GOP Faces Backlash ...
    HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. — Standing in a brightly lit bingo hall, GOP Rep. Charles Bass should have felt a long way from the pressure-cooker of budget politics in Washington. But as he opened a town hall meeting in Hillsborough, N.H., last week, it was clear the pressure had followed him to American L ...
  • Pakistanis Rally Against Drone Strikes, Block ...
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan -�- The main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan was temporarily closed on Sunday after thousands of people blocked a key highway in Pakistan to protest against U.S. drone strikes, officials said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, ho ...
  • Much Corporate Political Spending Stays Hidden
    WASHINGTON — Despite mounting calls for greater transparency, only a few of the country's 75 leading energy, healthcare and financial services corporations fully disclose political spending, according to a review of company records and state and federal campaign finance reports. ...
  • Two-Faced Arab League Losing Ground
    CAIRO - As the Cairo-based Arab League continues to back western military intervention in support of the popular rebellion in Libya, the League's failure to back similar uprisings in other Arab countries - most notably Bahrain - has led to charges of double standards. ...
  • US Launches First Predator Drone Attack in Libya
    WASHINGTON  – The United States carried out its first drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said, two days after approving the use of pilotless aircraft to aid rebels fighting Moamer Kadhafi's forces. "The first Predator strike in Libya occurred today in the early afternoon local time ...

Lifehacker

  • Recyclebank Takes Your Recyclables and Gives Y ...
    Recyclebank is an innovative rewards program that turns your everyday recyclables into points redeemable for gift certificates and discounts at retailers. You can also earn points by taking on challenges, playing green-themed games, and mo ...
  • Amazon Kindle App for Android Updated for Hone ...
    Android: Amazon's Kindle app for Android devices has been updated to make full use of Honeycomb tablets, with specific layouts added for newspaper and magazine subscriptions. More��
  • Treat Bruises and Other Ailments with Mouthwas ...
    Mouthwash's antiseptic properties make it a great multipurpose solution for over a dozen household and health and beauty needs, from reducing the appearance of bruises to rescuing plants. More��
  • Add "Places" Menu Functionality to U ...
    Ubuntu's Unity interface is a sleek, simple, and effective at keeping things uncluttered on your desktop, but some users may not be so keen on having to jump through hoops just to open one of their home folder's subdirectories in a real fi ...
  • Grid Size File Manager Shows You What's Taking ...
    Android: Grid Size File Manager quickly analyzes your Android device's SD card to show you a visual representation of what's taking up the most space. More��

Water Privatization

  • Activist highlights importance of protecting c ...
    By: Breanne Van Nostrand The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...
  • LETTER: Full public debate on water
    I am writing to respond to the open letter published in the Abbotsford News on March 31. The Canadian Union of Public Employees respectfully disagrees with Mayor Peary’s assertion that Mission and Abbotsford councils have no plan to privatize drinking water treatment.
  • Privatization a non-issue vs Mindanao power sh ...
    DALWANGAN, Malaybalay City (MindaNews/5 April) – The privatization of the Agus-Pulangi hydroelectric power complexes is a secondary issue compared to Mindanao’s power shortage, Sen. Teofisto Guingona III said here today. Guingona said the deferment of the privatization has been the recommendatio ...
  • Around the Water Cooler: Supporting privatizin ...
    THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: "Would you support privatizing Medicare and Medi-Cal?" " Yes: 4 No: 6 ■ Karen Anderson: "Don't get me started! We paid taxes for Medicare for many years and now are looking at having it taken away to benefit the obscenely wealthy. The tax code needs to be revamped to encour ...
  • Water topic of film series Friday at Butte Pub ...
    Water is the topic of an Earth Day documentary films event running from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 22, at the Butte Public Library, 226 W. Broadway St.

Guardian

  • Libyan forces 'pull back from siege'
    Tribal leaders given 48 hours to strike deal with Libyan rebels and failure could lead to bloody conflict, deputy minister saysLibyan forces have pulled back from their military siege of Misrata to let tribal leaders in the area attempt to negotiate a political resolution, according to the Libya ...
  • Yemeni leader agrees to step down
    Deal to hand power to deputy within 30 days accepted by opposition parties, but with reservationsYemen's embattled president has agreed to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution.A coalition of seven opp ...
  • Clegg accuses Tories of lies over AV
    Row over comments by prime minister that appear to contradict his deputy's policy on internshipsNick Clegg laid bare his anger at David Cameron last night, accusing the Conservative party of peddling lies in the run-up to the referendum on the alternative vote on 5 May.The deputy prime minister ...
  • Japan resumes search for bodies
    Two-day operation involving aircraft, boats, divers and robots will scour towns and areas up to 12 miles out to seaThousands of Japanese troops are to resume the search for the bodies of people killed in last month's earthquake and tsunami, although hopes are fading that many will be recovered.A ...
  • Israeli killed at West Bank holy site
    Four others injured in shooting after Jewish worshippers entered Joseph's tomb in Nablus without Palestinian permissionA Palestinian police officer shot an Israeli man dead and injured four other people after they entered a holy West Bank site without permission, the Israeli military said.The gr ...

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BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Giant tortoise brings slow salvation
    In a week when the introduction of species to islands has been under discussion for other reasons, news comes from Mauritius of a new inhabitant that is restoring a vital piece of long-extinct ecology. And it centres on a tortoise. � Several hundred years ago, settlers wiped out the big wildli ...
  • Re-homing nature: A step too far?
    Sir Richard Branson's plan to introduce lemurs to islands he owns in the Caribbean, which I reported on Saturday, has thrown into new light a real dilemma facing conservation scientists as they struggle to contain and reverse the loss of species and ecosystems across the world. The red-ruffed l ...
  • Exploring the 'oceans crisis'
    Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - ...
  • Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
    More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...

The Wonk Room

  • Bill O’Reilly Endorses Power Shift 2011: ...
  • Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In ...
  • Mexico May Sue U.S. Gun Makers
    At this point, it’s no secret that thousands of U.S. guns have illegally made their way across the U.S. – Mexico border and into the hands of deadly drug cartel operatives. State Department Secretary Hillary Clinton has indicated in the past that she feels âvery stronglyâ that the U.S. and Mexic ...
  • Sponsor Of Tennessee’s ‘Don’ ...
    On Wednesday, the so-called âDonât Say Gayâ bill advanced out of the Tennessee Senate Education Committee. The measure, which has been introduced multiple times since 2005, would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in grades K through 8, even with students who may be gay or have gay ...
  • NOM’s Attempts To Portray Marriage Equal ...
    Ex-anti-gay strategist Louis Marinelli, who recently defected from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), continues to spill details about the inner-workings of the organization. (NOM has apparently threatened legal action.) Today, Marinelli confirmed suspicions that on the “Summer for Ma ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Is harper's the Democracy Our Soldiers Died For?
    Enough said?
  • Listen Liberals ...
    This ain't a dig. I'm working on something to explain partisan attitudes in Canada (it's currently in an incomplete form about two posts down). This is, rather, an important reason why the NDP might have a genuine surge in Quebec and why the Liberals are struggling. Chantel Hebert once decided ...
  • Do the RIGHT Thing Patrick Ross!
    I can't resist the pile-on! I will pay Patrick Ross the respect of saying that he can string together three sentences at a time that make a point. As such, he's probably treated as the second coming of Socrates among his shit-head, right-wing peers, and it went to his head. Ross had the unfortu ...
  • Democracy Wins A Round Against the Banksters i ...
    This is really good news. Inspiring news! (via Dead Wild Roses: "Iceland tells EU and Banks – “No”) “I know this will probably hurt us internationally, but it is worth taking a stand,” Thorgerdun Asgeirsdottir, a 28-year-old barista said after casting a “no” vote at the Reykjavik city hall. ...
  • cons, dippers, and libs (work in progress)
    Maybe we Canadians are going to get the government we deserve. Part of the reason for this, ... a very important reason for this, ... is because the habitual voting preferences of those Canadians who do vote, has revolved around two parties that have no interest in dismantling an electoral syste ...

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Digital Journal

  • All-candidates debates — off-limits to Canadia ...
    Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper have already declined to attend their riding's all-candidates debates. New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton was the latest to announce that he won't be attending either.
  • Dancing with life, the dangers of photojournalism
    A few steps ahead. That's how Anderson Cooper described slain photojournalist Tim Hetherington today on CNN. Those describing the man mentioned over and over of his talent and commitment to bring a face to the wars and stories he covered.
  • Romney: Libyan action now amounts to 'mission ...
    As the civil war in Libya continued to intensify on Thursday, former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned that NATO's Libyan mission appeared to be creeping and muddled.
  • Canada Election: 5 Questions with Liberal Cand ...
    William Hogg is the Liberal Party candidate for the riding known as Compton-Stanstead, an area unique in Quebec's Eastern Townships because of a large concentration of anglophone and bilingual voters.
  • Ontario Government partners with Samsung for g ...
    The Government of Ontario has "turned a corner" for the province's economy. The province announced Wednesday that it has partnered with Samsung and SMA Solar Technology to develop industrial-size solar inverters.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Party platforms on peace issues
    With the notable and limited exception of the proposed F-35 purchase, the issues of war and peace have been almost entirely absent from the current federal election campaign, even though the country is now involved in two on-going wars. The major parties have all published election platform docu ...
  • F-35 documentary on CPAC
    F-35: The Politics of Procurement, a new documentary on the proposed F-35 purchase hosted by Scott Taylor, will air on CPAC on Thursday and Friday (it also aired on Wednesday). Showtimes: Thursday, April 21st at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT Friday, April 22nd at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Information from [...]
  • Manson: Stop ranting!!!
    Retired General Paul Manson, former Canadian Chief of Defence Staff and (in his stealth mode) former Chairman of Lockheed Martin Canada, has slammed Winslow Wheeler’s critique of the planned purchase of the F-35 as a “low credibility rant” sponsored by the “farleft” Rideau Institute (Paul Manson ...
  • More military spending: or deliver aid and fig ...
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HacgnxcmUI
  • Use Military Spending for Human Needs: Sign th ...
    It's time to reduce military spending, and use the public resources to fund human needs.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Skip the Doctor – Use ‘Grandma’s H ...
    April 22nd, 2011 Mercola.com By: Dr. Mercola When you look at the science, it turns out your grandmother wasn’t so far off on some of those home remedies she used to talk about. For example, it’s really true that olives can help stave off motion sickness â but only if you eat them when the [...]
  • Teen Builds Backyard Death Ray
    April 22nd, 2011 Geeky Gadgets By: Glenn Santos If 19 year-old Eric Jacqmain could travel back in time with his invention, why, he can change history. Holy Cow, that’s a Hollywood movie right there! You read it here first, boys and girl—we’re gonna start on the script ASAP. Also, James Cameron i ...
  • The 10 Most Counterfeited Products Sold in America
    April 22nd, 2011 DailyFinance By: Douglas McIntyre American consumers love bargains. But that zest for getting a coveted product at the lowest price also has an economic downside: It creates a giant opportunity for the scads of shady operators — especially from China — that specialize in pumping ...
  • Gasoline Prices Up 40% This Summer, U.S. Says
    April 22nd, 2011 Market Watch By: Ruth Mantell Retail prices for a gallon of regular-grade gasoline will average $3.86 from April through September, up from $2.76 for the comparable period last year, said the Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Department of Energy. In s ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-20-11
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
    Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
  • Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
    Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
  • Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
    Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • News roundup — April 23
    Syrian security forces fire on mourners in several towns Syrian security forces fired their weapons into crowds of mourners in at least three towns on Saturday as tens of thousands of people buried protesters who were killed a day earlier in the worst bloodshed since the uprising began last mon ...
  • American Radical — The trials of Norman Finkel ...
    Watch part one here.
  • Syria — protests tilt towards revolution
    Syrian army deployed near Daraa (Egyptian Chronicles). Anthony Shadid reports: Security forces in Syria met thousands of demonstrators with fusillades of live ammunition after noon prayers on Friday, killing at least 81 people in the bloodiest day of the five-week-old Syrian uprising, accord ...
  • News roundup — April 22
    Drones can be used by Nato forces in Libya, says Obama The White House has approved the use of missile-armed Predator drones to help Nato target Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. Coalition commanders have been privately urging the Americans to provide the specialist unmanned aircraft, which h ...
  • Israel, extraordinary rendition and the strang ...
    Richard Silverstein reports: On a cold Ukrainian winter night in mid-February 2011, a Gaza civil engineer named Dirar Abu Sisi was lying in bed in a railroad sleeper car traveling to Kiev to visit his brother, Yousef, whom he hadn’t seen in 15 years. Abu Sisi had come to Ukraine as a refugee a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Telegraph “gets it” about Clim ...
    Excerpt: Lord Oxburgh, the organisation’s director, was called in to head an internal inquiry into the leaked emails which included one infamous message referring to a “trick” to “hide the decline” in global temperatures. The peer’s investigation cleared the scientists … Continue reading →
  • Sunday Silliness
    Here’s a hilarious green/AGW spoof of the opening theme of the 60′s TV show Green Acres, which was itself a spoof of the famous painting, American Gothic, one of the few paintings to reach the status of cultural icon (like … Continue reading →
  • Upcoming Anonymous Poll on Anonymity
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Why do people not sign their own names to what they write on the internet, and in particular on this blog? I thought I’d ask people this in the form of an anonymous poll. But … Continue reading →
  • On ocean heat content, Pinatubo, Hansen, Bulld ...
    Self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link), the blogger known as “Tamino” loves to bloviate his views about imagined cherrypicking whenever he thinks we aren’t showing everything we are supposed to, … Continue reading →
  • Clouds, radiative forcing, and climate models ...
    As most readers know, clouds are still poorly understood and under-represented in climate models. This new research may help. From: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Effect of cloud-scattered sunlight on earth’s energy balance depends on wavelength of light Accounting for wavelength … Co ...

Dandelion Salad

  • N. T. Wright: Did Jesus Really Rise From The ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ rfvidz on Mar 9, 2011 Dr. N. T. Wright speaks on the historical reliability of Jesus’ resurrection. Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead? (NT Wright) *** What does the Resurrection mean? N. T. Wright explains. VeritasForum on Nov 9, 2010 What does the Resurrec ...
  • Slavoj Žižek: Maybe We Just Need a Different C ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ pdxjustice on Apr 23, 2011 Sociologist and philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, discusses politeness and civility in the function of contemporary ideology. Dr. Žižek spoke at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, as part of the speaker tour for his latest boo ...
  • The Divine Rights of the US Federal Government ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post April 23, 2011 Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. –- Herbert Spencer Once upon a time there was ‘the divine right of kings,’ a political and religious doctrine o ...
  • Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (repost)
    Dandelion Salad Happy Easter to those who are celebrating. Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 Anglo-Italian television miniseries dramatizing the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament Gospels. … The total runtime is nearly six hours, twe ...
  • And This Year’s Oscar Goes To… Barack Obama by ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writers Dandelion Salad April 23, 2011 If Ronald Reagan was known as the actor who became a president, then perhaps Barack Obama should become known as the president who became an actor. For every facial movement evinced, every gesture of the hand, every word enunci ...

Your New Reality

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    Without a doubt, one of the more effective pieces of US government propaganda at the start of World War 2, seen by tens of millions of Americans before the start of Saturday afternoon at the movies :
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    The United States Of Stoned Presidents If you've spent most of your life seeing only the classic black & white portrait of Abraham Lincoln, this coloured one from the WhiteHouseMuseum is startling : Abraham Lincoln : "Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of ...
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    George Carlin celebrates Earth Day :
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    Tens Of Millions Of Americans Are Now The Working Poor American families with both working mums & dads, living frugally, with the only American dream left being winning the lottery, are now finding it impossible to make ends meet : ...many of the jobs in retail, hospitality and home health car ...
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    Libya = Pentagon Vs China China's interests in Libya, which supplies 3-5% of its oil, also act as a gateway to its tens of billions of dollars worth of investments across Africa in mining, infrastructure development and oil & gas. Asia Time's Pepe Escobar : "The Muslim Brotherhood is a weap ...

Wired - Science

  • Rumor: LHC Sees Hint of the Higgs Boson
    A leaked internal memo from physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva reports a whiff of the Higgs boson, the long-sought theoretical particle that could make or break the standard model of particle physics. The preliminary note, which is still under review, was posted April 2 ...
  • Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Futur ...
    Hundreds of lawsuits have flowed from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, filed by citizens, states and the federal government. And someday, perhaps, the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems will also file suit. Environmental philosophers and other people say that biological communities — ecosystems, hab ...
  • Happy Easter: Pygmy Rabbits Reintroduced to Wild
    By Alice Vincent, Wired UK Rare pygmy rabbits are being reintroduced to their native Columbia Basin in the United States, bringing them back from the brink of extinction. It will be the first time that the endangered species has been seen in the wild since 2004, after a mere 16 of the remaining ...
  • Video: Robo-Camera Rig Animates the Night Sky
    Under cover of night for three weeks in March and April, farmer Randy Halverson trudged out to his South Dakota fields to make this video of the evening sky.
  • Best Sun Images From Solar Space Telescope’s F ...
    NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope charged with watching the sun in unprecedented detail, revealed its first look at the sun to the world one year ago today.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Oded Pilavsky: How I arrived to Matzpen
    Matzpen co-founder Oded ("Odik") Pilavsky died last week in Tel Aviv at the age of 79. Three years ago he wrote about how and why he had arrived to the left margin of the Israeli political spectrum.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Gaza: Israel’s war and the Goldstone Report
    A panel discussion dedicated to examining the reality and consequences of Israel's war and siege of Gaza. The panelists are Norman Finkelstein, Rashid Khalidi, and Peter Weiss. Columbia... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Souad Amiri: Closing speech at TEDx, Ramallah ...
    Souad Amiri's inspiring, and hilarious, closing speech at the TEDx, Ramallah meeting on 16 April 2011. A Must-Watch two-part video! The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more... ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Is the world too big to fail?
    The US and its Western allies are sure to do whatever they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. To understand why, it is only necessary to look at the studies of Arab opinion... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Richard Silverstein: Israel, extraordinary ren ...
    We are left to speculate regarding the reasons for Abu Sisi's detention. The number of possibilities includes ... that he had helped refine a new fuel system that made the plant far less dependent on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Chicago Teens Spring Forward With Hospital Ted ...
    13 year olds donate hundreds of new teddy bears to Loyola hospital for Peds program, beginning on Good Friday.
  • NASA Voyager Panel to Feature BU Astronomer Me ...
    Experts review Voyager program's findings as the twin probes approach interstellar space.
  • Institute of Food Technologists Announces 2011 ...
    Professionals in food science and food technology work diligently to help ensure the world's food supply is safe, abundant, nutritious and affordable. To highlight this important commitment, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) recognizes outstanding achievements in food science and technol ...
  • AERA Honors Education Researchers at Annual Me ...
    The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has presented Catherine E. Snow, the Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at Harvard University, its Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award.
  • Institute of Food Technologists Selects 2011 F ...
    The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is proud to announce its 2011 Fellow award recipients. Fellow is a unique professional distinction given to individuals with outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience for their contributions to the food science and technology field.

Natural Health News

  • Useful Dog Tricks
    Jesse loves helping around the house!
  • Is this the Best Body Weight Exercise to Get i ...
    Acquiring a “V” shape -- wide through the shoulders and narrow at the hips -- is one of the most common goals of a weight training or exercise program. One of the best exercises you can use to reach it is the pull-up, a common and fundamental exercise. A well-rounded program requires some varia ...
  • Whey Protein Shown Superior to Other Milk Prot ...
    Loss of muscle mass with age (sarcopenia) may be caused by a reduction of muscle protein synthetic response to food intake. A group of researchers set out to find which milk protein was the best for muscle protein accretion, and would therefore help stave off sarcopenia. Three groups of older m ...
  • Omega-3 Fats Shown to Decrease Risk of Dying f ...
    Omega-3 fats can regulate inflammatory processes and responses. Researchers recently investigated omega-3’s and other fats (such as omega-6 fats and alpha linolenic acid) to see if their consumption was associated with a reduction in mortality due to inflammatory diseases. More than 2500 partic ...
  • Four Minutes of PURE Terror -- Watch Mountain ...
    Mountain climber Uli Steck does a solo speed climb of the Eiger.

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Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

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

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Please Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe as a 'Libyan rape victim' without the 'alleged' added as is done with Black African women and others not politically valuable to the inter ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...

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

Green Times

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    Why not use more colour? Be inspired by these houses on the island of Burano, in the northern part of the Venetian Lagoon. Surrounding yourself with beautiful colours makes you happy. But make sure you’re using natural paint (housing-building/painting-au-naturel.html) if you decide to give your ...
  • Use public transport
    Using public transport, like this train, helps us to reduce pollution (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/pollution-reduction.html ). Read more about transport in the article Transport Evolution (technology/transport-evolution-the-new-black.html )Transport section (directory/categories/Transpo ...
  • Climate Action Rally, Sydney NSW
    No prizes for guessing who has got their Head in the Sand! See our images from the Climate Action Rally in Sydney on 2 April 2011…
  • Environmental News 06/04/2011
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The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • RIP Vittorio, z”l
    I was scheduled to be interviewed by Ashley Bates, whose work we have reposted here. Instead she got word of the death of her friend, Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni at the ends of self-proclaimed “Salafists,” an Islamist faction and rival to Hamas. While of course internationals’ death ...
  • Interview with BDS leader Omar Barghouti
    Democracy Now! shared this interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa. Thankfully, the campaign wa ...
  • Intolerance–Then and Now
    This post is a bit of a departure for the website.  While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • In praise of Marx
    The Chronicle of Higher Education There is a sense in which the whole of Marx’s writing boils down to several embarrassing questions: Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, ex ...
  • Flying Burrito Brothers. Sin City (L.A.) 1969
    “A friend came around tried to clean up this town His ideas made some people mad He trusted his crowd So he spoke right out loud And they lost the best friend they had”
  • Boeing to build 787′s entirely with renewable ...
    Boeing’s new 787 plant in South Carolina will be powered primarily by 18,000 solar panels on the roof of the mammoth facility. They will use renewable energy credits to purchase any needed renewable energy. Production will start this summer.
  • KPFA cancels Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now
    KPFA, part of the listener-supported Pacifica chain that includes WBAI in New York and KPFK in Los Angeles, is also now taking corporate money. Both these decisions were done with no input from listeners, local boards, or anyone else. Democracy Now is a hugely popular show as well as major fundr ...
  • Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture
    “We’re not promoting Islam, we’re not saying the Koran is the Bible,” said Scott Dalgarno, the church’s pastor. “We’re just saying that if people are curious, if they want their consciences informed on this issue … then let them pick up a copy on us and read it and decide for themselves what to ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Heroes Villainized: FBI to investigate 9/11 fi ...
    A provision in a new draft of the 9/11 healthcare bill will force the FBI to investigate tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others for ties to terrorism by comparing names to those on the Terrorism Watch List. Survivors of 9/11 who risked their lives to help others ...
  • Zeta Leader Involved in Mexican Mass Graves Li ...
    By Mark Morey and David Lester Yakima Herald-Republic YAKIMA — A man who Mexican authorities say is a leader in a violent drug cartel responsible for the deaths of more than 200 people once lived in Yakima County in the Tieton area, friends and acquaintances said Tuesday. The man, identified as ...
  • Confirmed: Los Zetas go on rampage; burn polic ...
    themonitor.com A convoy of armed gunmen allegedly belonging to the Zetas attacked the city Thursday shooting at, vandalizing and torching the headquarters of the Tamaulipas State Police, the local transit police headquarters and nearly a dozen buildings in Miguel Alemán, authorities said. The at ...
  • DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Los Zetas Outmaneuver ...
    By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info April 22, 2011 Yesterday, the criminal organization known as Los Zetas, managed to outmaneuver the Mexican military and penetrated Gulf Drug Cartel territory. In what appeared to be a carefully planned operation, Los Zetas lured the military outside the border ...
  • Soros’ Bretton Woods Conference Accelera ...
    Fox news It’s been two weeks since George Soros bought himself a major economic conference designed to remake the entire global economy. Just because the event received little major news attention, it still had an impact Americans might be reeling from for years. When the anti-American Soros spe ...

The Air Vent

  • Reply to a Believer
    Kim Oyhus placed a YouTube video on line which Steve McIntyre highlighted a why climategate wasn’t a scandal repeating the excuses of the scientists involved which makes it somewhat interesting.  She quoted them claiming that using certain techniques was the problem in the data.  Of course she ...
  • Who is the Enemy of Whom
    A news article recently caught my attention. U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether ‘Mother Earth’ Deserves Human Rights Status I suppose this is the official step for conversion of the global warming science group to the status of religion. The dangers of this stupidity should be obvious but leave me ...
  • Ugh!
    I’ve got to let off a little steam.   Currently, in the US, we have a government overspending their income by a gigantic proportion.   Those in charge have no chance of feeling the result of their own policy (while in office) and those who lose office didn’t have the power anyway so — who ca ...
  • Officially in Print
    Sometimes you never expect it to happen.  I’m just glad to have a small part in correcting the record. ——— Dear Dr. O’Donnell, We have completed the editorial process involved with your article, and have included it in the 15 April 2011 issue of Journal of Climate, Vol. 24, No. 8. You may find ...
  • the Unseen Load of Government
    I’ve been trying to think of how to make this point.  The problem seems lost on the government educated of the US and despite starting to write it twice both posts came off as grumpy vents which isn’t what I was hoping. E.M Smith has done a wonderful job explaining economics of the world and [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the stories last week from Inside Mobile Apps, Inside Social Games and Inside Facebook. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile applications, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, April 18 Apple May Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Making Downloads Matt ...
  • New Jobs This Week on the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at, and wooga, lolgames, Breaktime Studios, NaturalMotio ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Stock, Vietnam, Oregon Datac ...
    Facebook Unblocked in Vietnam? – Vietnamâs telecom company, FPT, signed a partnership with Facebook this week wherein the company will help promote and sell ads, as well as consulting developing Vietnamese apps for Facebook. The news was reported in PC World Vietnam, which hints that Facebook ...
  • Facebook Canvas Apps Vs Facebook Connect for W ...
    Facebook offers two parts of its platforms for developers, brands, and media publishers to build on. One is the Facebook canvas — the pages on Facebook.com where apps are located — and the other is Facebook Connect, the catch-all name for a variety of ways to integrate Facebook off the site. We’ ...
  • Facebook Ads Can Now Include or Exclude Existi ...
    In Facebook’s latest monthly Facebook Ads Newsletter, it announced that advertisers now have the option to include or exclude existing fans of their Page, users of their app, or attendees of their Event in ads targeted to “Friends of Connections” — friends of existing fans, users, or attendees. ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • US weapons to Israel are disincentives to peace
    Against the background of Israel's contempt for international law and violations of Palestinian human rights, and as Washington now considers raising the debt ceiling and making even more substantial cuts to the 2012 budget, Josh Ruebner argues that "the moral, financial and political costs of a ...
  • Pro-Israel pressure on law conference threaten ...
    Cecilie Surasky highlights the threat to freedom of speech in the United States posed by mainstream Jewish organizations who are going all out to silence all criticism or debate of Israeli policies, even by Jews and Israelis.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Divine Rights of the US Federal Government
    Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. – - Herbert Spencer Once upon a time there was âthe divine right of kings,â a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy asserting that kings are subject to no earthly authority, deriving their right to r ...
  • Podcast Show #40
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Grant Smith Grant F. Smith joins us to discuss Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, a 2009 Council on Foreign Relations book authored by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. He tells us about rarely discussed “massive non-market subsidies and distortions” d ...
  • On Your Warnings: “One if by Land, Two if by S ...
    I’m Every Woman & Here is How To my good friends and supporters who have been warning and preparing me for the ‘siege to come’ after writing my last post on the Israel Lobby: Here I am still standing, stronger than ever, after speaking the ‘unspeakable.’ Granted some of those warnings were anyth ...
  • The Court Case Against Generals Behind Turkey’ ...
    CIA: The Dark Force Behind the Bloodiest Takeover in Turkish History By ‘The Insider from Turkey’ It took some time, but now it won’t be long anymore before the lawsuit begins against the military junta behind the 12 September coup in 1980, the bloodiest takeover in Turkish history. For many yea ...
  • Is Israel the Sole Determinant of US President ...
    They Say They Are… Are the elections results of US presidential elections determined by 2% of the population? Can the five million or so Jewish population be counted as the US majority? Does the Israel lobby shape the majority of US voters’ decisions? Is Israel the main determinant of political ...

Afro Spear

  • easter riddymz
    “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1: 18 
  • Baldwin’s Prophecy
  • Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa & ...
    Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa – Al Jazeera English.
  • Sing It!
    I need some inspiration, a shot of adrenaline. Ladies and gentleman: Dame Shirley BASSEY!
  • “What the World Needs Now…”
    I was eleven years old. The riots were still fresh. The “Poor People’s March” had failed to ignite the revolutionary redistribution of wealth. “Soul Brother” graffiti was still plastered on burnt out buildings in DC. The faint smell of tear gas could be conjured by its mere mention. On the radio ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • A Billion Acts of Greenwash
    Tomorrow is Earth Day – whoopee doo! It’s that time of year that all the environmental NGOs and countless businesses work towards in order to bring about a sudden upsurge in pointless symbolic actions and purchases of “green” things like (I’ll just have a look in my Deleted Items folder) LED can ...
  • Irony Alert! Red Tape Challenge a Breach of Na ...
    I’ve just come off the phone after speaking to a nice person at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She sounded a little concerned, or maybe that was just bemusement, after I pointed out that the UK Government’s latest brain-busting measure – known, all chummily, as the Red Ta ...
  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How to Design Fast, Interactive Maps Without Flash
    Until recently if you wanted to create a fast interactive map to use on your website you had two main options - design it in Flash, or use Google. With the prevalence of mobile devices, for many users Flash isn't an option, leaving Google and a few competitors (like Bing). But we are developing ...
  • Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
    This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
  • Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
    [Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...
  • Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
    The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
  • LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
    Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Pepco Broke my Computers With Outages
    I work in Rockville, Maryland and the historic outages that Pepco inflicted on the DC area were so numerous, so prolonged, and so punishing when the on-off on-off nightmare sequences began, that I lost two new�computers. No one will pay me for these. It cost me thousands. The new legislation wil ...
  • Arrogant Hawaiian Tourism Officials Too Much f ...
    I can empathize with the content of your article on the arrogant sleepy heads running the tourism offices in Hawaii (see Sustained Drop in Japanese Visitors Has Befuddled Hawaiian Tourism Officials At a Loss, Page One April 18, 2011). My family tried to visit last year, and received so�many dodg ...
  • Keystone Cops Running Hawaii Tourism
    Your excellent coverage of the bust in Hawaii's tourism (see Sustained Drop in Japanese Visitors Has Befuddled Hawaiian Tourism Officials At a Loss, Page One April 18, 2011) only confirmed to me that Keystone Cops abound in government funded or allied agencies. We have seen it here in Detroit wh ...
  • Hawaiian Airlines Difficult to Deal With
    I was not surprised by your reporter's comment that Hawaiian�Airlines does not return calls (see Sustained Drop in Japanese Visitors Has Befuddled Hawaiian Tourism Officials At a Loss, Page One April 18, 2011). Earlier this year we had a less than happy experience with them. Our hopes to fly to ...
  • ElBaradei is the Advance Man for the Muslim Br ...
    I am glad that someone is bringing out the fact that the media darling, Mohammad ElBaradei, despite his Nobel Prize and his prior status as the obstructionist former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is at this time a mere advance man for the Muslim Brotherhood (see Increasing Conc ...

High Country News

  • Welcome, Todd; goodbye, Ellen
    High Country News welcomes new outreach director Todd Chamberlin and says goodbye to Ellen Kraus, our subscriber services staffer; writerly readers come to call; Tara Waters Lumpkin launches online magazine Izilwane.
  • This Earth Day, it's all about the air
    If you can take a nice deep breath and enjoy a clear blue sky, thank the Clean Air Act.
  • Journeys we take at home
    There’s nothing like an imaginative, lively 3-year-old boy to make a person slow down and remember how to play.
  • Covering the issues that matter
  • The SWOP letter
    The letter sent 20 years ago by the SouthWest Organizing Project sparked a reaction from the big greens, who have sought to partner with more diverse groups and include more people of color in their staffs, boards and membership.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Obama Channels Casablanca "Round Up All of the ...
    As Ronald Reagan once said, "Well, there he goes again!"� President Obama is incredibly adept and shifting blame to those evil demons who run big corporations in America. During the health care debate it was those nasty insurance companies. When he was trying to negotiate a deal giving the au ...
  • Newsbusted: Jerry Brown Has Secret Plan To Rai ...
    California Governor Jerry Brown has put raising taxes up for voter referendum. According to Jodi Miller of Newsbusted, Brown has a secret plan to to raise taxes whether the vote goes his way or not. Other stories covered include, why the IRS is encouraging Ozzie Osborne to become a tax preparer ...
  • Hillary Stamps Her Foot; Dictators Laugh
    By Barry Rubin "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday condemned violence in Syria and said the Syrian government must stop the arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of prisoners." There's a problem with that word "must." See, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot help ...
  • Tomorrow is Earth Day...Where's My Money!!!
    I am constantly getting screwed out of money.� According to the Anti-Semites I am being paid by the world-wide Jewish conspiracy who controls the media.� To date, I have not received one penny!� According to the radical progressives the Billionaire Koch Brothers are funding everybody on the righ ...
  • A Libyan Mobile Phone Dealer Explains Qadhafi- ...
    By Barry Rubin An Australian reporter writes the following from Libya: "Gaddafi's forces have had the upper hand in the desert battle that has raged for more than a month. "Rebels say this is because of black magic. They invoke Satan. `These are magic papers,' said mobile phone d ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Aerial Bombing of Libya Resumes
    Reuters April 23, 2011 The United States launched its first Predator drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Defense Department said in a statement. It did not provide details on the target of the strike, saying only that it occurred in the early afternoon local time in Libya. Gates announced on ...
  • Lâmpadas fluorescentes compactas contêm produt ...
    Temores sobre a segurança das lâmpadas compactas reapareceram após que um grupo de cientistas advertiram que as mesmas contêm substâncias químicas que causam câncer. Adaptação Luis R. Miranda London Telegraph 23 de abril de 2011 O relatório recomenda que as lâmpadas não sejam deixadas acesas por ...
  • Iphone Espia e Registra dados de localização d ...
    O aparelho da Apple grava em tempo real o paradeiro das pessoas Adaptação de Luis R. Miranda The Guardian 23 de abril de 2011 Pesquisadores de segurança descobriram que o iPhone da Apple mantém um registro de onde os usuários vão e têm a capacidade de estabelecer com alto grau de precisão o loca ...
  • How Humans Manipulate the Planet For The Sake ...
    Corporations have been engineering the Earth’s weather with remote-controlled clouds, artificial snow, and trained monkeys — without regards for human health. PopSci April 22, 2011 It only takes one rained-out Little League game to make a sports lover resent Mother Nature. Now some of todayâs sc ...
  • Radiation from Japan affects food safety in th ...
    By Dr. Robert J. Gilbert Ph.D. April 21, 2011 “Dr. Robert J. Gilbert has a multi-faceted background in both spiritual and scientific studies. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps Instructor in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Warfare Survival; since leaving the service in 1985 he has conducted independen ...

Wind Watch

  • 200 hear of wind turbines’ noise; Expert ...
    RIGA, Mich. — For 200 area residents immersed in southeastern Lenawee County’s contentious battle over wind turbines and their anticipated noise, a dueling lecture in audiology was disguised as a special Riga Township meeting Tuesday night. A-weighted decibels. C-weighted decibels. Infrasound vs ...
  • Once-dead bill on eminent domain OK’d by ...
    The divisive issue of �eminent domain� stormed back to prominence at the Legislature Tuesday, as the state Senate revived and then endorsed a once-dead bill that gives a Canadian company the power to condemn property along its route for a power line in north-central Montana. After more than two ...
  • Legislative push continues for moratorium on w ...
    HARTFORD � Movement continues on the legislative front regarding wind turbines. Robin Stein, acting chairman of the Connecticut Siting Council, has had his nomination for council chairman moved before the full State Senate. Mr. Stein, the longtime Land Use Bureau chief in Stamford, was appointed ...
  • State marches toward more wind power
    More than three years ago, Gov. Deval Patrick set a goal for the state to have 2,000 megawatts of wind energy, enough to power 800,000 homes, by 2020. By the end of this year, there will be enough turbines operating in the state to produce at least 30 megawatts, according to state officials. Wit ...
  • Cash won’t blow island’s way
    The politics of wind power are taking their toll on Amherst Island. Islanders are deeply divided over the 75-megawatt project proposed for their community and Loyalist Township councillors and staff are feeling powerless in the face of provincial laws and regulations governing the project. Now i ...

Not My Tribe

  • While their Political Servants are pushing Aus ...
    But not for their Political Backers, who bailed out their industry at public expense, a pair of Rich-Bitch Investment Bankers from New York took a joyride in a taxi to Las Vegas and Los Angeles“on a whim”. Take that, Peasants! We’re cutting off your grandma’s Social Security and your pension and ...
  • Anti-Police Brutality March in Denver May 6
    The execution in a Jail Cell in Denver, unacceptable… except, of course, to the Police and Judiciary and Social “leaders” in Denver. And the Feds who would have the task of prosecuting Civil Rights violations like, say, tasering and beating a handcuffed victim to death. If the FBI and the “justi ...
  • Like a Chicken Voting for Colonel Sanders. on 9/11
    Military, Cops, Laborers, Firefighters, anybody, really, who isn’t the Money Class voting Republican in any form. Dig this. The First Responders Health Care bill…has a clause built in that any of the workers poisoned while trying to find survivors or remains, to clean up The Pile that was the Tw ...
  • Sarah Palin and the Republican Lie of “s ...
    Since she makes so much political hay over having sacrificed “her own” son to the Military Establishment, maybe she should have a short tutorial on the word Sacrifice. First, stolen goods, stolen money and humans aren’t viewed as Clean for the Temple. Just like Caiphas couldn’t spend the thirty ...
  • Annual Good Friday Sermon– The Police St ...
    If Jesus had come to Colorado Springs last Sunday instead of GW riding his sorry ass into town on Sabbath, He would be sitting in a cell at CDC awaiting execution today. Nowadays the police state doesn’t make a huge public spectacle of torturing somebody to death. They just go ahead and do it, i ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 5 No-planer Claims Refuted
    This is for anyone who still thinks the no-plane theories have any credibility. Please consider this my public statement about no-plane theories: They have no merit and are all wrong. Related Info: Debunking "September Clues" and "No Plane" Theories The plane does decelerate: Interpreting ...
  • Structural Aspects of Building 7’s Collapse: W ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: The Physics of WTC 7 World Trade Center 7: An Engineered Collapse NIST's Admission of Freefall - Does It Matter? The Ultimate proof NIST is lying about WTC7 Re: NIST Report on WTC7 debunked and exposed! Scientists, Schola ...
  • What they've got planned for us next...
    The Projected Al Qaeda Use of Body Cavity Suicide Bombs Against High Value Targets http://www.groupintel.com/2011/04/11/the-projected-al-qaeda-use-of-body-cavity-suicide-bombs-against-high-value-targets/ Page 33: Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically sa ...
  • Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing
  • Clinton told it like it is...
    I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...

Fooducate

  • About Those Colorful Easter Candies
    Easter, the holiday of spring and renewal, is also the holiday of brightly colored eggs and candies. Today, millions of kids will gorge on sweets. And some, as a result, will start bouncing off the walls. It could be the sugar, but perhaps a sensitivity to artificial food dyes is the trigger. Ye ...
  • Join Fooducate’s Easter Egg Hunt Today
    Happy Easter everyone! Join the Fooducate Easter Egg Hunt for a chance to win a $20 gift card. We’ve hidden 3 mystery products (Easter eggs) in our product database. Can you find them? Contest Details: Use your Fooducate iPhone App to scan products in your pantry or the supermarket Scanning a my ...
  • Does Your Microwave Have a “Heat Junk Food” Bu ...
    Appliance makers must be working with the food industry to make our lives as easy as, well, pushing a button. The microwave pictured above has a setting for “Chicken Nuggets” [conveniently to the left of the start button] . What can be simpler than picking up a bag of frozen fake food, tossing i ...
  • Snapple’s Amazing Race to Make More Money
    Snapple keeps innovating with new flavors and snazzy marketing. A new, limited edition Mango Papaya Tea is out: When The Amazing Race™ told us they were going to India we thought, “Brilliant! India is steeped in rich tea tradition that is over 2000 years old! We should make a special, limited ti ...
  • Campbell’s Soup Has a Math Problem
    Here’s an interesting read from the Consumerist Blog. Several moms from New Jersey are suing Campbell’s for misleading labeling. You’d think that the soup on the right has 25% less sodium than the one on the left, but in fact, they both have 480mg. So why the big bold statement? If you read the ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle baby sleeper suits/ ...
    We’ve already talked about baby clothes in general but CD, who writes the Canadian Doomer blog, has sent over such an excellent reuse idea for worn out baby sleepers/romper suits that I thought it was worth featuring these in particular: I just posted this on my blog, and one of my readers thoug ...
  • Upcycling clothing: how can I reuse or recycle ...
    Continuing on our impromptu upcycling clothing week here at Recycle This, I was wondering what could be done with long-sleeved/dress shirts — we’ve already talked about recycling or reusing the ties, so why not the shirt as well? The fabric is usually lighter than for t-shirts and the like, so t ...
  • How can I reduce my use of single serving milk ...
    We’ve had an email from Leann: I have to travel a lot to work and in a day can easily get through a dozen single serving milk pots – on the train, at meetings, at hotels etc. I’m not interested in recycling them, I want to stop needing to use them! Any ideas? Good question [...]
  • Upcycling clothing: what can I reuse, recycle ...
    After yesterday’s post about reusing or recycling old leather coats or jackets, I’ve realised there are a few other clothing related things I’d like to ask about so…. impromptu upcycling clothing week! ;) I’ve got some pretty printed slightly-stretchy cotton vest tops that have either lost their ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle waterproof clothing?
    The wonderful Alice in Blogland sent me an email last week: Thought of another recycle that I could use some help with! I’ve taken some waterproof trousers, jackets and cycling gear from someone who didn’t want to just dump them in landfill. I thought there would be loads of things I could make ...

Age of Autism

  • Inner Strength for Autism, For Life
    By Cathy Jameson This has been a tough weekend despite the Easter celebrating my children are looking forward to on Sunday morning. My very best friend is going through one of the most traumatic experiences I would never wish upon...
  • Holiday Wishes from Age of Autism
    To all of our readers, we wish you a happy Spring, Passover and Easter. Kim had an Easter miracle - Bella said, "on" on command several times. Miss Bella Stagliano has a new word! What has been your Spring miracle?
  • Dan Olmsted on The Robert Scott Bell Show
    I was on the Robert Scott Bell Show on Natural News Network this past week. I had just gotten back from England and was too jet-lagged to couch my comments in the usual niceties -- in other words, I pretty...
  • Read the Indictment of CDC Autism Researcher P ...
    We have a pdf of the indictment of Dr. Poul Thorsen the Danish researcher held in highest esteem for having "debunked" the autism vaccine connection many years ago. As Dr. Max Wiznitzer said about another doctor recently, "If you can't...
  • Kim Stagliano Blogging for TodayMoms
    I'm pleased to tell you I'm now writing for TodayMoms, a group blog site of from MSNBC, along with a group of talented women from all walks of life. My first post was about the texting bus driver in CT...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • How wide does this go? Now Google devices &#82 ...
    Daily Mail – The row over the privacy of mobile phone users escalated today as it was revealed that Google devices regularly transmit user locations back to the company. The new revelations come after Apple was this week slammed by several Congress members for the way user locations are being st ...
  • Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS M ...
    Wired – The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspectsâ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department, saying âa person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements (.pdf) from one ...
  • U.S. court reinstates Blackwater Iraq shooting ...
    Reuters – A U.S. federal judge erred in dismissing all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007, an appeals court ruled on Friday. The unanimous three-judge panel reinstated the charges and sent the case back to the judge for more pr ...
  • “Happiest” places have highest sui ...
    University of Warwick – The happiest countries and happiest U.S. states tend to have the highest suicide rates, according to research from the UKâs University of Warwick, Hamilton College in New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The new research paper titled Dark Contrasts: The ...
  • Thousands displaced in tense Nigeria
    Reuters – Thousands remain in temporary housing in northern Nigeria after Monday’s deadly riots following the presidential elections. Sunita Rappai reports.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Biodegradable plastics: Plant symbol chosen as ...
    The bioplastics industry may have a new symbol to slap on its products and packaging – an abstract plant to denote plastics made without petroleum. More than 1,500 designers submitted entries into a contest seeking an icon to represent plastics...
  • Are Americans recycling more electronic waste ...
    Each year, Americans throw out 400 million units of high-tech trash – and they’re on track to toss another 50 billion over the next decade, according to a study released just before Earth Day. Constant upgrades caused by improving technology...
  • Confess your eco-sins on Earth Day!
    Admit it: You buy your lunch in foam takeout containers. A lot. You drive an 8-cylinder truck. Alone. You don't print on both sides of your copy paper. You left the computer on all night. You can't stand those compact...
  • Wasteful packaging: do consumers care?
    The number of consumers who think they should be responsible for recycling has declined, according to a study released Wednesday. In 2010, 38% of Americans said consumers should take responsibility for recycling product packaging, down from 42% in 2009. Consumers...
  • Gulf oil spill redux: nine books on the BP dis ...
    A year after millions of barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well, much ink has been spilled on the "second draft" of history. None of the nine books (and counting) published thus far...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Israeli public figures to sign document suppor ...
    "Israel is acting this way out of the delusion that it's possible to continue its colonialist behavior, which is built on anti-democratic racism that contradicts [Israel's own] declaration of independence," he added.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mom walks from New Orleans to Washington to hi ...
    A 38-year-old mother of six and wife of an unemployed oil rig worker from Rayne, who was affected by the BO Gulf Oil Spill walks to Washington in the hope she will be able to speak to her President. HER PRESIDENT!Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How an Advertiser Boycott Campaign Helped Push ...
    How much sooner would Fox have been forced to drop Beck if the media had done its job and forced News Corp to explain why it was propping up someone who's bad for business?Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Add your voice ours who ask that the war in Af ...
    The Pentagon is pushing hard on President Obama to make the July withdrawal as small as possible. Meanwhile, troops are facing catastrophic injuries despite the military's dubious claims of progress.Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Black September is coming to Jerusalem
    If the prime minister had intended to fulfill his declaration of "two states for two peoples," he would not have required so many words of interpretation and PR spins. He would have presented a diplomatic plan and cut out a working program from it. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: SDG&E Signs 156 MW Wind Power ...
    San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) said Tuesday it has signed a 20-year contract for up to 156 megawatts (MW) from the first phase of Sempra Generation’s Energía Sierra Juárez wind project in Baja California, Mexico. Both SDG& ...
  • Boeing Plant Going Solar
    Aviation giant Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) was recently awarded an US$89 million contract with the United States Defense Advance read more
  • DOE Backs Another California Solar Project Wit ...
    The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded its second loan guarantee to a California solar project in just five days. read more
  • Solar Power Without Solar Cells
    Solar power station graphic courtesy Scientific American As most people know, electromagnetism manifests as both electric fields and magnetic fields. read more
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: SunEdison Meets Ontario FIT Do ...
    SunEdisonâs 9.1 MW First Light 1 was the first utility-scale photovoltaic facility in Canada when it began transmitting power to Ontario Hydro September 30, 2009. It is located in Stone Mill ...

News Blaze

  • Renewed Fighting Erupts on Cambodian-Thai Border
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said he is troubled by reports of renewed fighting over the past two days between Cambodian and Thai troops along the two countries' border.
  • NATO Tries to Sweet-Talk Failure
    Whilst TCG Giresun was guarding MV Hanjin Tianjin, another distress call was made by the master of an Italian Motor Vessel, Rosalia D� Amato, who reported that his ship was under attack. As the MV Hanjin Tianjin looked stable and the ship was know
  • Hindus Ask Miley Cyrus to Raise Roma Apartheid ...
    Cyrus' 'Gypsy Heart' tour, from April 29 to July two, will take her to Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Philippines, and Australia. The live show will feature music from Cyrus' latest solo
  • UNESCO Calls for Debate to Examine Trends in B ...
    Ms. Bokova said new technologies are transforming the industry and having an impact on publishers, authors and readers.
  • Ban Condemns Ongoing Violence Against Demonstr ...
    Media reports stated that dozens of people were killed on Friday when thousands of people took to the streets in several Syria cities to call for political reforms. More violence was reported in the country in further protests today and there are re

Worldnews

  • Microwave ovens; Why do we have them?
    Their have been a lot of great innovative inventions in the last 40 years in the kitchen, and the microwave oven is at the top of the list. Whether you need a hot dog heated up in less than a minute, defrost a roast or want to make a quick meal, the microwave has changed the way we eat as a ...
  • Javier Hernandez: The Premier League's Mi ...
    By GABRIELE MARCOTTI View Full Image Associated Press Javier Hernandez has a knack for scoring late goals for Manchester United, one of four Champions League semifinalists. English soccer has two versions of the Footballer of the Year award, the equivalent of a Most Valuable Player honor. T ...
  • Kubica leaves hospital
    14:45, Apr 24 2011 � Formula One driver Robert Kubica has been released from hospital in Italy to continue his rehabilitation from serious injuries sustained in a rallying accident in February. Kubica has spent the past 10 weeks at the Santa Corona Hospital in Pietra Ligure after sustaining ...
  • South Sudan clashes between army and mili ...
    At least 57 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and a rebel militia in South Sudan, officials have said. South Sudan army spokesman Brig Malaak Ayuen said dozens were also wounded in the clashes in the state of Jonglei. The local authorities accuse...
  • Eat wheat flour and almonds to satisfy hu ...
    Want to know the trick to control hunger pangs? Here is the clue. Eating wheat flour and almonds increases the feeling of fullness, leading to reduced food intake and preventing overeating. "Although it may affect people at different times throughout the day, reducing or satisfying those hu ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Home for Easter Town Halls, GOP Faces Backlash ...
    HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. — Standing in a brightly lit bingo hall, GOP Rep. Charles Bass should have felt a long way from the pressure-cooker of budget politics in Washington. But as he opened a town hall meeting in Hillsborough, N.H., last week, it was clear the pressure had followed him to American L ...
  • Pakistanis Rally Against Drone Strikes, Block ...
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan -�- The main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan was temporarily closed on Sunday after thousands of people blocked a key highway in Pakistan to protest against U.S. drone strikes, officials said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, ho ...
  • Much Corporate Political Spending Stays Hidden
    WASHINGTON — Despite mounting calls for greater transparency, only a few of the country's 75 leading energy, healthcare and financial services corporations fully disclose political spending, according to a review of company records and state and federal campaign finance reports. ...
  • Two-Faced Arab League Losing Ground
    CAIRO - As the Cairo-based Arab League continues to back western military intervention in support of the popular rebellion in Libya, the League's failure to back similar uprisings in other Arab countries - most notably Bahrain - has led to charges of double standards. ...
  • US Launches First Predator Drone Attack in Libya
    WASHINGTON  – The United States carried out its first drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said, two days after approving the use of pilotless aircraft to aid rebels fighting Moamer Kadhafi's forces. "The first Predator strike in Libya occurred today in the early afternoon local time ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Ontario pension fund backs out of AECL deal
    More than a year after the Canadian government offered its crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) for sale, some commercial interest has appeared on the scene. However, early hopes of a deal have been dashed to bits.
  • Offshore solar: Get ready for floating photovo ...
    photo: Todd Woody Solar panels have sprouted on countless rooftops, carports and fields in Northern California. Now, several start-up companies see potential for solar panels that float on water.
  • ARPA-E’s (Semi) New Lease on Life
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  • How American Ingenuity Can Reduce Our Pain at ...
    In this blog (Part 2 of 2), �I take a swing at describing ways that electric-drive vehicles can help reduce our pain at the gasoline pump, benefit our economy, and clean up our air. Yesterday, Secretary LaHood of the U.S. Department of Energy spoke at the Electric-Drive Transportation Associatio ...
  • How American Ingenuity Can Reduce Our Pain at ...
    How can we reduce our pain at the gasoline pump, clean up the air, and spark American ingenuity? This week, leaders from industry, government, and non-governmental organizations�gathered in the nation�s Capital to see how we can move from our gas guzzling vehicles to electric-drive vehicles that ...

Green House - USA Today

  • On Earth Day, green light bulbs debut
    What's notable on Earth Day 2011? While technological changes are sweeping the U.S. economy, perhaps the biggest switch for homes comes in lighting. There's a plethora of new, more energy-efficient options.
  • Home energy upgrades get U.S.-backed loans
    Many U.S. homeowners are now eligible for up to $25,000 in federally-insured loans to make energy-efficient upgrades such as adding insulation, sealing ducts or replacing windows, the Obama adminitration announced Thursday.
  • Gallup: Fewer Americans see climate change as ...
    Fewer Americans and Europeans view climate change as a threat than did a few years ago, but more Latin Americans and sub-Saharan Africans see themselves at risk, according to Gallup surveys in 111 countries.
  • EBay pays for broken iPads, iPhones, iPods
    In celebration of Earth Month, online auctioneer eBay will pay consumers for small broken Apple electronics (up to $150 for iPads, $100 for iPhones, and $50 for iPods) until April 30.
  • Asian 'unicorn' gets nature reserve in Vietnam
    "The loveliest of all" animals, the late Shel Silverstein once wrote in a popular children's song, is the unicorn. He would probably have been pleased that a nature reserve has been set aside in central Vietnam for the critically endangered saola, also known as the Asian "unicorn."

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Commemorating Palestinian Political Prisoners
    by Stephen Lendman Since 1979, April 17 annually is Palestinian Prisoners Day, commemorating Mahmoud Hijazi's 1974 release - the first ever prisoner swap with Israel. Acknowledging the day, the Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association highlighted the thousands of persecute ...
  • Many U.S. officials see the events in Bahrain ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy. Mr. Naiman edits the Just Foreign Policy daily news summary and writes on U.S. foreign policy at Huffington Post. Naiman has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Rese ...
  • THE RESURRECTION MYTH / JESUS WAS DIVINELY HUM ...
    Allen L Roland This arresting picture of Jesus as a revolutionary, imitating the style of the famous poster of 1960s fighter Che Guevara, was produced as an advertising poster encouraging people to go to church during Easter 1999 Jesus was divinely human ~ a determined revolutionary and an evo ...
  • Pernicious Koch Brothers Political Influence
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article on America's Tea Party discussed its backers, including David and Charles Koch, billionaire owners of Koch Industries, a privately owned energy conglomerate with interests in manufacturing, ranching, forestry, finance, and numerous other ventures in 60 c ...
  • Al Jazeera's War on Gaddafi
    by Stephen Lendman Based on its recent Libyan and Gulf states reporting (or lack thereof), Qatar-based Al Jazeera's credibility appears extremely compromised. A previous article said the following: Overall, its Libya misreporting has been deceitful, functioning more as a propaganda arm for Wa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Moving Medicare Forward
    Moving Medicare Forward presents the argument for an expanded, truly equitable public health system in Canada. Featuring Saskatchewan's own Roy Romanow, Rosalee Longmoore and Steven Lewis, along with public health advocates Michael Rachlis and Danielle Martin, this video offers us a positive vis ...
  • Corporate tax cuts not delivering on job creation
    A new CCPA study tracked 198 companies on the S&P/TSX composite from 2000 through 2009 and found those companies—Canada's largest corporations—are making 50% more profit and paying 20% less tax than they did a decade ago. But how have they done in terms of job creation? Not so well. In fact, th ...
  • Federal budget analysis
    Why analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come. Click here to read our analysis of the 45-minute budget, explaining why it wasn't worth supporting. Click ...
  • This or that: Which would you choose?
    Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets. We've c ...
  • Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...
    The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Happy Easter Sunday!
    Easter | Wikipedia Easter (Old English: Ēostre; Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic and Hebrew: פֶּסחא‎ Pasḥa,) is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on ...
  • Billionaires Who Want Higher Taxes
    Billionaires: Raise My Taxes! | The Daily Beast Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told President Obama this week he would be “cool” with paying more taxes. From Bill Gates to Warren Buffett, see which other top earners are willing to give extra to Uncle Sam. Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama have som ...
  • Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is ...
    by Sarah van Gelder | yesmagazine – The 10,000 young people who gathered in Washington, DC, for the third Power Shift came prepared to get things done. They traveled in groups from campuses, high schools, and neighborhoods across the country. They brought stories of campaigns to get local food o ...
  • Health Benefits of Green Living
    By Krista Peterson | WWH – âGoing greenâ is often presented as a sacrifice we have to make in order to help the world at large. However, living an environmentally-friendly lifestyle can have immediate benefits for the individual as well, particularly when it comes to health. Air Quality You may ...
  • Hippie.TV

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FDR Speaks Out Against the Koch Brothers in 1936
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936: ... ROOSEVELT: Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people. Only reckles ...
  • Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
    From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.

Salon

  • Heavy fighting rages in Libyan city of Misrata
    Heavy fighting raged anew in Misrata and killed 24 people Saturday as Moammar Gadhafi's forces gave up more ground inside Libya's third-largest city. The U.S. said its first Predator drone attack in the country destroyed a government rocket launcher that had menaced civilians in the western city.
  • Yemen's president agrees to step down
    State-run TV says Yemen's embattled president has agreed to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
  • Syria death toll hits 120 over two days
    The death toll from two days of violence in Syria reached 120 Saturday as security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners who shouted for the regime's downfall during funeral processions, a human rights group said.
  • President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule ...
    (updated below)
  • The vindication of P.J. Crowley
    Ever since P.J. Crowley resigned as State Department spokesman last month following his public criticism of the Pentagon's treatment of Bradley Manning, he has become, through a steady stream of tweets and media appearances, one of the more compelling foreign policy analysts out there.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Ontario pension fund backs out of AECL deal
    More than a year after the Canadian government offered its crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) for sale, some commercial interest has appeared on the scene. However, early hopes of a deal have been dashed to bits.
  • Offshore solar: Get ready for floating photovo ...
    photo: Todd Woody Solar panels have sprouted on countless rooftops, carports and fields in Northern California. Now, several start-up companies see potential for solar panels that float on water.
  • ARPA-E’s (Semi) New Lease on Life
    ��
  • How American Ingenuity Can Reduce Our Pain at ...
    In this blog (Part 2 of 2), �I take a swing at describing ways that electric-drive vehicles can help reduce our pain at the gasoline pump, benefit our economy, and clean up our air. Yesterday, Secretary LaHood of the U.S. Department of Energy spoke at the Electric-Drive Transportation Associatio ...
  • How American Ingenuity Can Reduce Our Pain at ...
    How can we reduce our pain at the gasoline pump, clean up the air, and spark American ingenuity? This week, leaders from industry, government, and non-governmental organizations�gathered in the nation�s Capital to see how we can move from our gas guzzling vehicles to electric-drive vehicles that ...

EU Times

  • Palestinian Christians stopped from celebratin ...
    Palestinian Christians of various denominations celebrated Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) in the ‘Old City’ of al-Quds (Jerusalem) amid tight Israeli security measures this year. Tens of of thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world annually flood the city of al-Quds dur ...
  • Fed’s shortcut to greatness
    There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen… the bad economist pursues a small present good that will ...
  • Pastor Terry Jones imprisoned to prevent Detro ...
    The US pastor whose burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan was briefly jailed in a heavily Islamic suburb on Friday after a court banned his protest outside a mosque. A local judge jailed Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida and his associate Wayne Sapp after a court fou ...
  • Boy, 9, saves 2-year-old sister from drowning ...
    ‘I would do anything for her’: Boy, 9, saves two-year-old sister from drowning by giving CPR. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. And though pint-sized hero Tristin Saghin is still small, his quick-thinking actions that saved his sister’s life were bigger than anyone could have imagined. The ni ...
  • NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan
    A helicopter used by the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan has crashed in the northeastern province of Kapisa as the attacks against US-led troops surge in the war-torn country. Afghan officials said Saturday that the NATO chopper crashed at 4:00 a.m. local time in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province, so ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Easter Sunday - The Relevance of the Resurrection
    Readings: Acts 10:34a. 37-43; Ps 118; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 The following is a sermon prepared for the 9:30am Mass in Blackfriars, Oxford. A few weeks ago, I was invited to a school in Essex, and I went into a Year 10 classroom to take some questions. A boy, obviously hoping I would answer his a ...
  • Thank God the Emergency Law was "Lifted" in Syria!
    Syrian forces raid homes to quell protests Al-Jazeera " Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight , rights campaigners said , as popular opposition to President Bashar al-Assad mounted following the bloodiest attacks on pro-democracy protesters in weeks of demonstrations
  • Is Innocent Syrian Blood on Obama's Hands?
    Over the last two days over 120 people have died in Syrian protests.  The Syrian government have decided that they are going to try to use the same tactics that Iran has used to stop their rebellions, which include violence against protestors
  • ‘No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli – NATO wages w ...
    Click here to view the embedded video. RussiaToday In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi’s troops are reportedly being withdrawn from the rebel-held city of Misrata in the face of NATO airstrikes. It follows an almost two month standoff. Meanwhile, allied aircraft carried out fresh airstrikes on the capita ...
  • Damascus entity rounds up those suspected of o ...
    Image by PanARMENIAN_Photo via Flickr AFP: Security forces raided homes across Syria on Sunday arresting regime opponents, according to activists, as funerals were held for people killed in a bloody crackdown on protests. Students meanwhile called for a strike and two MPs resigned after at leas ...

Groklaw

  • Paul Allen, like youve never heard him before
    It was a privilege, and a ton of fun, to get to interview Paul Allen on stage about his new book, Idea Man, during an event Friday evening at Town Hall Seattle. For me, at least, it was a side of the Microsoft co-founder I hadn't experienced before.... On his recent discussion with Steve Ballme ...
  • Vivek Kundra: Obama is right fed IT is 'horr ...
    President Barack Obama echoed office workers everywhere last week when he was caught on microphone complaining about the IT services at work. "We can't get our phones to work," he said. The White House is "like 30 years" behind the times when it comes to technology, he said. "IT purchasing" th ...
  • 5/2: CIS Speaker Series - A Defensive Patent ...
    Name of Speaker: Jason Schultz and Jennifer Urban Title of Event: A Defensive Patent License Proposal Please RSVP for this free event. Defensive patenting---i.e., filing a patent specifically to avoid the threat of litigation---is a common strategy in the world of intellectual property for p ...
  • MySQL, State of the Ecosystem 2011
    So how is the ecosystem? It turns out it is pretty healthy....Oracle. I watch the MySQL trees, and I see that they are having an overall positive influence on the codebase. They are making good decisions, none of which appear to be malicious in nature. I hear from people who are using it, and I ...
  • Where is There an End of It?
    It's very rare for me to write a blog entry directed solely at what someone else has written, but there's an exception to every rule. This one is directed at a posting by Alex Brown, entitled UK Open Standards *Sigh*. ... Sadly, it appears that a problem has come up. The U.K. government, you see ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • In praise of Marx
    The Chronicle of Higher Education There is a sense in which the whole of Marx’s writing boils down to several embarrassing questions: Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, ex ...
  • Flying Burrito Brothers. Sin City (L.A.) 1969
    “A friend came around tried to clean up this town His ideas made some people mad He trusted his crowd So he spoke right out loud And they lost the best friend they had”
  • Boeing to build 787′s entirely with renewable ...
    Boeing’s new 787 plant in South Carolina will be powered primarily by 18,000 solar panels on the roof of the mammoth facility. They will use renewable energy credits to purchase any needed renewable energy. Production will start this summer.
  • KPFA cancels Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now
    KPFA, part of the listener-supported Pacifica chain that includes WBAI in New York and KPFK in Los Angeles, is also now taking corporate money. Both these decisions were done with no input from listeners, local boards, or anyone else. Democracy Now is a hugely popular show as well as major fundr ...
  • Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture
    “We’re not promoting Islam, we’re not saying the Koran is the Bible,” said Scott Dalgarno, the church’s pastor. “We’re just saying that if people are curious, if they want their consciences informed on this issue … then let them pick up a copy on us and read it and decide for themselves what to ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • My CSM oped on need for negotiated transition ...
    People with an interest in escalating tensions and sowing conflict within Middle Eastern countries always say "There is no time!" for diplomacy or negotiation.... and that "If lives are to be saved then we have to take military action..." In mid-March, I was stunned to see how rapidly those ar ...
  • Cordesman on the slippery slope of warmaking
    I generally have broad respect for the military assessments made by Anthony Cordesman, and his latest assessment of the situation in Samantha's War in Libya contains much excellent analysis. Including this opening paragraph: At some point in time, it will be critical to examine the historical ...
  • C.J. Chivers on Libyan rebels' violations of l ...
    Last week, the NYT's military-affairs writer C.J. Chivers was one of the first to do detailed reporting of the use by Libyan government forces of cluster bombs in the heavily populated port city of Misrata. Today, the NYT carries another piece of well researched reporting by him-- this time on ...
  • Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
    Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...
  • U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
    Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
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