- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- A Revolting World
Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
- Demented Democracy
An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
- Friday Cat Blogging - 22 April 2011
The cats were a little boring this week, so I didn't have a lot of new pictures to choose from. So here's the same bench from last week, but this time with both cats on it. I should note that this little scene of domestic bliss didn't last long. They never do. Eventually Inkblot gets a burr ...
- Pack and Crack: Now Even Better!
The Washington Post reports that blacks are increasingly migrating into the suburbs, making the GOP's "pack and crack" gerrymandering strategy even easier than it used to be: “The practical effect is great for the GOP,” said Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. “In state after sta ...
- Apple Knows Where You Are
When I first heard that Apple iPhones were collecting location data on users, I was a little skeptical of the possibility that this was just a mistake. The data, you see, was collected in a .db file, and that's not really something you're likely to do by accident. If your intent is to hold j ...
- Who's Really Courageous Here?
Paul Ryan is "courageous" for proposing huge cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in order to finance tax cuts and balance the budget by 2050. But how about the Congressional Progressive Caucus? Their plan balances the budget sooner than Ryan's, and their numbers are more honest to boot. So why hav ...
- Raw Data: Everyone Loves Oil
"Price elasticity" is a measure of how people react to rising prices. A high number means they cut back sharply when prices rise. A low number means they just suck it up and keep buying. So what's the elasticity of oil prices? This is important, because it tells us, for example, how people ...
- Retreating Arctic coasts show need for careful ...
Historical records of a quarter of the Arctic coastline show that it is retreating more quickly on average, threatening industry, ecosystems and communities located there. However, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research's Hugues Lantuit emphasises the importance of getting data f ...
- Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
“Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
- Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
- Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
- Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
- Fukushima Daiichi Open and Update Thread #5
The problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to be worked on, with no short-term resolution in sight. Here are eight recent notable happenings, compiled from various sources (see list below): 1. Reports indicate that some fuel melted and fell to the lower containment sectio ...
- Energy debates in Wonderland
My position on wind energy is quite ambivalent. I really do want it (and solar) to play an effective role in displacing fossil fuels, because to do this, we need every tool at our disposal (witness the Open Science project I kick started in 2009 [and found funding for], in order to investigate t ...
- Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
- Open Thread 15
The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...
- Anti- to Pro-Nuclear, Pro- to Anti-, who’ ...
Today I was speaking to a colleague about Fukushima and its implications on public attitudes to nuclear as a way to mitigate climate change. After I mentioned George Monbiot’s recent investigative journalism on anti-nuclear claims, he responded by asking: Okay, sure, that’s one person, but conv ...
- 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 ...
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- As TA bike lanes grow, residents demand voice ...
After years of pressure from advocacy groups, the Tel Aviv Municipality has finally adopted an aggressively pro-bicycle agenda. Bike lanes are being paved, a bike-share system is being launched, and the city’s PR machine is working hard to sell the new strategy. Yet, the insensitivity and obtuse ...
- Young Mizrahi Israelis’ open letter to A ...
In a letter titled, “Ruh Jedida: A New Spirit for 2011,” young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa We, as the descendents of the Jewish communities of the Arab and Muslim world, the Middle East and the Maghreb ...
- Arab republican dictators: A dying breed
Six months ago, there were five Arab republican dictators. Now, all but Syria’s president are out or on their way, and even Assad is facing his biggest challenge since succeeding his father a decade ago The “Arab Spring” of the last six months has already swept away the dictators of Tunisia and ...
- Media mentions of peace plans are soaring
Quantitative analysis shows that media coverage of the “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians is skyrocketing, and has reached its highest level since Obama’s inauguration. Are we really in for another round of the peace talks’ masquerade, which has been the occupation’s lifeline fo ...
- Palestinian diplomacy exposes Israeli Right ...
Forty-four years into the occupation, most right-wingers still can’t answer a simple question: “So what’s your solution?” Two days ago, a rally of rather moderate leftists was held in Tel Aviv, across from the building in which Declaration of Independence was read in May 1948. These rallies gene ...
- A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms. It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
- THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions. Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
- The Banks Can’t Count…
Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing. I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
- The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
- Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story. The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...
- My Day
For the first time since I was elected four years ago I will finally be home for the birthday of my twin daughters, Abuk and Achan. Both were products of slavery in Sudan and their African mother was killed in a raid when they were four months old. She was holding Abuk in her arms [...]
- Campaign Insider – “Defining Human ...
Another installment by Romeo Dallaire, this time on comparing the Rwandan tragedy as compared to the West’s response to the former Yugoslavia. “A human is a human,” he states, reminding us that we got to stop constructing a world in which some humans are more important than others. Some might wo ...
- A Government Fearful Of Its Young
I don’t know how else to say it other than that all the candidates participating in the debate at a local high school yesterday felt some kind of line had been crossed. So did the students. As with other debates in the riding, the Conservative candidate didn’t show up. First she was a no-show at ...
- Campaign Insider – “Loss Of the Se ...
Romeo Dallaire spoke for almost 90 minutes in London the other night. I recorded the entire speech in hopes of posting some snippets on the blog. On this one he talks about not only why we lost the seat on the United Nations Security Council but also what the effects of that has been. As he [...]
- Lost
Not every all-candidates debate is the same, but last night’s was somewhat typical in that a good representation of keen observers gathered to press all of the aspiring MPs on policy issues. Held in a local library and hosted by the group Our Votes Count, the questions were indeed varied – every ...
- No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
- WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
- New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
- Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
- Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
- Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in this Nanower ...
- A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
- Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog. Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
- Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life. But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
- Obama Speaks on Manning and the Rule of Law
Excerpt: "Obama said this when justifying Manning's treatment, 'We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.' The impropriety of Obama's public pre-trial declaration of Manning's guilt ('He broke the law') is both gross a ...
- 37 Arrested at Hancock Air Base Protesting Use ...
Intro: "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 Molly Road. They w ...
- The Abu Ghraib Photos You Haven't Seen
Excerpt: "'Riley and his story' offers readers something unique and haunting: a look through the eyes of a veteran who served at perhaps the most notorious locale of the Iraq War, one that historians will catalog alongside My Lai, No Gun Ri, Samar and Sand Creek - notable sites of past American ...
- The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia's Hist ...
Intro: "Indigenous and campesino (small-scale farmer) movements in the Andean nation of Bolivia are on the verge of pushing through one of the most radical environmental bills in global history. The 'Mother Earth' law under debate in Bolivia's legislature will almost certainly be approved, as it ...
- Al Franken to Steve Jobs on iPhone Tracking: I ...
Intro: "Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) wants answers. After reports Wednesday that Apple's iPhones and iPads secretly store information of the user's location, Franken wrote Apple CEO Steve Jobs a strongly-worded letter." Portrait, Senator Al Franken, 09/06/09. (photo: Jeffrey Thompson/Getty Images) ...
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
- Corn Panic
By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
- Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.” A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 24
==== NATO Warplanes Strike Military, Civilian Targets In Libyan Capital McCain Meets Head Of Egyptian Military Junta After Libyan Visit Russia Negotiates Ceasefire With Libyan Prime Minister Today Libya And Ivory Coast, Tomorrow Ghana ==== NATO Warplanes Strike Military, Civilian Targets In Liby ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 23
==== March 31-April 22: 3,438 NATO Sorties, 1,432 Air Strikes U.S. Confirms First Predator Drone Strike In Libya U.S. Drone Strikes: Lessons For Libya From Pakistan NATO Air Strike Kills Three Civilians Near Gaddafi Compound Sarkozy To Follow McCain To Benghazi NATO Deploys Bulgarian, Romanian F ...
- Stop NATO News: April 22, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 22 ==== America’s Century Of The Drone Pakistan: U.S. Drone Attack Kills At Least 25, Wounds 20 More Pakistan: U.S. Evacuates Base Used For Drone Missile Attacks U.S. Military Chief Widens Rift With Pakistan Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills Four Road Workers N ...
- William Dean Howells: Spanish Prisoners of War
William Dean Howells Member of the American Anti-Imperialist League Spanish Prisoners of War Literature and Life (1902) Certain summers ago our cruisers, the St. Louis and the Harvard, arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with sixteen or seventeen hundred Spanish prisoners from Santiago de Cuba ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 22
==== NATO’s Aerial Onslaught In Libya: 3,300 Sorties, 1,373 Air Strikes U.S. Introduces Armed Predator Drones For Libyan War Benghazi: McCain Hails Rebels As “Heroes” As Drones Are Deployed Libya: On The Eve Of A Ground Invasion? Libya: NATO Air Attack Kills Nine Including Utility Workers Video ...
- The Intel Hub: Writers Wanted
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas April 24, 2011 � The Intel Hub is looking for skilled writers. Do you have what it takes? Do you want exposure, Blog/Web recognition, promotion? Then provide us with great content. Submit original articles to writers@theintelhub.com Strictly on a volunteer basis
- Large Hadron Collider Rumoured To Have Found G ...
The Telegraph By Richard Gray April 24th, 2011 A leaked internal memo contains unconfirmed reports that one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, had picked up signals that could be the long sought after particle, called the Higgs boson. One of the main scientific g ...
- Travinyle1 on Al Jazeera Listening Post “ ...
Travinyle1 April 24th, 2011 My short appearance on Al Jazeera about the media situation in Bahrain For all the latest NWO news and radio http://nwoupdate.blogspot.com Entire episode http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2011/04/201142313211899… //
- Color Revolution’s Mystery Gunmen
The Intel Hub By Tony Cartalucci - Contributing Writer April 23rd, 2011 Bangkok, Thailand April 24, 2011 – Imagine you are an embattled regime fighting against a rising tide of foreign-funded protesters. The entire world is watching, one nation is already under creeping foreign invasion for “wag ...
- Japan Nuclear Radiation Rainwater Update – Ida ...
The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer April 23rd, 2011 As previously posted, Lucas Hixton Whitefield tipped us off to the fact that the EPA has been detecting Plutonium and Strontium along the entire US West Coast since March 18th. The discovery came after Lucas found that the ...
- Shanghai: Massive truckers strike highlights c ...
Third day of Shanghai strike threatens China exports Fri, Apr 22 2011 By Melanie Lee and Royston Chan SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Striking truck drivers protested for a third day on Friday in Shanghai’s main harbour district amid heavy police presence and signs the action has already started to curb ex ...
- Bristol, UK: Anti-corporate “direct acti ...
Anti-Tesco protest boils over into riot / Police accused of attacking bystanders The Independent (UK) By Kunal Dutta and Oliver Duff Saturday, 23 April 2011 Hundreds of people set up burning street barricades and hurled rocks at police as anti-Tesco protests in Bristol fast escalated into bloody ...
- Australia: Asylum-seekers rebel against treatm ...
Asylum-seeker riot blaze sees 22 arrested Friday 22 April 2011 Sydney, Australia — Australian police investigating a riot at Sydney’s Villawood Detention Centre were still questioning 22 people today about a protest and fire started by asylum-seekers which erupted late on Wednesday night. A hand ...
- Oman: Protests break out in Omani city
Thousands take to the streets in southern city in Gulf state to press for better wages, jobs and end to corruption. 22 Apr 2011 Unrest in Oman has been small relative to other Arab countries but security has been increased significantly [Reuters] At least 1,000 protesters have taken to the s ...
- Syria: Massive protest defiant of government&# ...
Damascus, Syria:Â April 22, 2011 ———————— Witnesses: Clashes between Syrian security forces and protesters kill 27, including young boy By Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press BEIRUT – Syrian security forces fired live bullets and tear gas Friday on pro-democracy demonstratio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
- Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- A little more reading with Sunday's column...
To read more about Monica Applewhite, go here. To read Applewhite's 2006 article in 'America: The National Catholic Weekly," go here. To read more about the Coppertone ad, go here�or here. To read more about Robert Baden-Powell, go here. To read his thoughts on molestations, go here (Chapter ...
- I am going on vacation, and you should, too
I am stepping away from the keyboard -- save for a blog post to go with Sunday's column, when it runs -- until Tuesday. I trust you, too, will have a fabulous weekend, and that you'll come back here next week and share stories of your adventures. Feel free to comment, though I don't anticipate ...
- Politics and Holy Week
Melissa Harris-Perry writes at The Nation: This year’s Palm Sunday was the first that I worshipped at my husband’s Catholic church in New Orleans where they observe the day with a brass band, enormous palms, a parade into the church and a spirit of enthusiastic reverence. There is no denying t ...
- The words for today...
...are from, as usual, the Dalai Lama, who says, via his Twitter account: Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever.
- That chocolate cross for Easter has nothing on ...
Sherry thoughtfully sent this link, in reply to this. I mean...chocolate crucifix lollipops? I really need to get out more, I think.
- Cuts in Science Research in Ryan Budget Critic ...
The Paul Ryan budget plan has come under criticism from an unusual source. Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, presumptive candidate for president, and leader of the 1994 Republican revolution has a nit to pick.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 23, 2011
- Easter Arrives at Long Last
Thanks to the Gregorian calendar, Easter Sunday has taken a little longer to get here this year. But it will finally fall at the latest possible date tomorrow, although that won't happen again for another few decades.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Apr 23, 2011
- Why Speculators Are Not Causing Oil Price Incr ...
With the price of oil and thus gasoline on the rise, politicians such as President Barack Obama have resorted to the tried and true method of deflecting blame. Blame a shadowy group of speculators for bidding up the price.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 23, 2011
- More Roles Revealed in 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Another two high profile actors join the cast of the next Batman film. However, they appear to have been cast in relatively minor roles.Contributor: Nathaniel Wayne Published: Apr 20, 2011
- Mediapocalypse Now: What Happens After Convent ...
The current technological shift is exciting, but it brings unexpected challenges like rampant online theft and the loss of connectivity between sellers and buyersContributor: Peter Hanson Published: Mar 11, 2011
- This Week in the Future, April 18-22, 2011
We're not trying to be negative. We're just looking out for you when we tell you all the things you should think twice about consuming--whether it's leavened bread, human waste, or an excess of electronics. What you should do is read on--there's no other way to win this week's Baarbarian illust ...
- In Thrilling Smashup, LHC Breaks Beam Luminosi ...
The Large Hadron Collider is now officially the world's most powerful particle accelerator The LHC smashed a record-breaking number of particles at midnight Geneva time last night, setting a new standard for beam intensity. CERN replaced Fermilab’s former record of 4.024 × 1032cm-2s-1 with a s ...
- "How It Works" Throughout History, In Pictures
Some of the greatest moments ever in figuring out how stuff works Here at PopSci, there's nothing we love more than figuring out how something works, be it the latest technology, or a scientific breakthrough. That moment of discovery - let's call it a "how it works moment" - is almost as exciti ...
- Gallery: "How It Works" Throughout History
Great moments of scientific discovery
- A Synthetic Brain Synapse Is Constructed From ...
Building a synthetic brain is no easy undertaking, but researchers working on the problem have to start somewhere. In doing so, engineers at the University of Southern California have taken a huge step by building a synthetic synapse from carbon nanotubes. In tests, their synapse circuit functi ...
- Yorkshire Water confident of no hosepipe bans ...
Yorkshire Water have told BBC Yorkshire that even if the rest of spring and summer turns out to be as dry as 1995, there will be no water restrictions in Yorkshire. 1995 was a disastrous year for the company. Reservoirs were full at the end of March, but a pipe network that was badly in need o ...
- Will the warm sunshine last for Easter?
We've had mixed fortunes at Easter over the years. Despite what we all might hope for, or think we remember, it is much more common for Easter weather to be poor rather than good. The last fine and warm Easter was in 2007. In fact April 2007 turned out to be the warmest on record - with April 20 ...
- March global temperature update
The global temperature anomaly for March according to NASA/GISS was 0.57c, up from 0.44c in February. Adjusted to the 1961-90 time period this is approx 0.46c compared to 0.33c last month. The Hadcrut3 global anomaly figure for March showed a smaller increase at 0.318c, up from 0.264c last mo ...
- Coldest March globally for 17 years.
Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
- An exceptionally dry March
High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
- QE2, Hand Westminister Abbey Back to Us Catholics
[NOTE: This is the first of two royal wedding overload "specials" from your cranky correspondent. Blogging is not usually an activity for the well-adjusted.] A few days ago, I eagerly watched the BBC documentary "Does Christianity Have a Future?" which focused on the fate of various Christian ch ...
- West Complains About Yunus Ouster from Grameen
[NOTE: This is the second of two posts reflecting on the ouster of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen as demanded by the Bangladeshi government.] Well it's finally happened: the Bangladeshi authorities have forced the removal of microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank. Although Yunus has ...
- Dev't Battle: Jagdish Bhagwati v Muhammad Yunus
[NOTE: This is the first of two posts reflecting on the ouster of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen as demanded by the Bangladeshi government.] Here is a clash of the titans from the Indian subcontinent if there ever was one. On one side we have Jagdish Bhagwati, arguably the most influential internat ...
- Post Fukushima, French Still [Heart] Nuclear Power
Just when a nuclear power revival was supposedly in full flower, troubles with the technology at Japan's Fukushima facility are prompting a global reassessment of its costs and benefits. Yes, it's a virtually carbon-free technology. Yes, it weans you somewhat from importing fossil fuel from perp ...
- Euro Mideast Intervention = Own the Refugees?
We've heard this story before. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is usually credited for applying the Pottery Barn principle to foreign intervention. For international readers, Pottery Barn is a housewares retailer in the US. Instead of breaking what the Brits call "crockery," Powell ass ...
- 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is ...
In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen. Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have ...
- Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing. Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months. Now those price increases are ...
- 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while. New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
- Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
Today there are two very different Americas. In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives. In the other America, ...
- 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan? That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight. Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis. Even though there have b ...
- 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 ...
- Top 10 Catholic Lies About Child Rape
The Catholic Church lies about child rape. Not occasionally. Not accidentally. But deliberately, and every time it’s representatives or apologists have anything to say on the subject. Â The Catholic Church is not still learning about this issue. It has been “dealing” with child rape for the las ...
- Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
- Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
- Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
- Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
- 2011-04-23 My trip to the "Free Bradley Mannin ...
TweetAuthored by Jonathan Getzchman So I drove down to Leavenworth, Kansas today for a "Free Bradley Manning Rally" ... that was happening six weeks from now. I had a funny feeling something was wrong when I got to the address for the protest an hour late, and no one was there. The next funny fe ...
- 2011-04-23 Wikileaks Notes: Manning rally June ...
TweetRally for Bradley Manning A rally is being planned at Leavenworth on June 4 "to protest the indefinite detention and unconstitutional torture of Bradley Manning." The Facebook page is here. Obama spokesman denies Obama expressed the view he expressed White House spokesman Tommy Vietor deni ...
- 2011-04-23 Director of New Film on 'Collateral ...
TweetA new short documentary called, “Incident in New Baghdad,” premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Sunday. The film tells the story of Iraq war veteran Ethan McCord, a soldier who appears in the “Collateral Murder” video rescuing two wounded children. The director, James ...
- 2011-04-21 Suspicion and fear as FOG sea cable ...
TweetWL Central will be updating news on Bahrain, with new items added at the top. All times are ET in USA. You can contact me on twitter @carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. Don't send media when links available. Most email is not encrypted and not anonymous. I cannot guarantee any ...
- 2011-04-22 Wikileaks Notes: Oral hearing for W ...
TweetOral hearing for Wikileaks Twitter appeal cancelled Today's hearing of oral arguments has been cancelled in the appeal of last month's order over whether the US government has the right to access the online information of three Twitter users in aid of its Wikileaks investigation, and also ...
- Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
- 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
- The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
- CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
- Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...
- Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
Itâs the Gobi Desert. Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage. Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage. Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]
- Around the Campfire with Dave Foreman – What T ...
In 1974, physicist John P. Holdren and biologist Paul Ehrlich, then both at Stanford University, set down in Science the key scientific formula of our time: I=PAT. Paul and Anne Ehrlich later spelled out what it means, “The impact of any human group on the environment can be usefully viewed as t ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things. As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
- Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
“I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
- Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist. Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers. Only a handful of still-work ...
- Prepare Yourself for Collapse – The Self-Destr ...
People ask me all of the time…when will the economy, society, humanity, etc break down and collapse into chaos. My answer is always the same…it is happening now. The global economy is in depression and countries around the world are bankrupt, only being kept afloat by printing more money and iss ...
- Nuclear Engineer Exposes Fukushima Tepco Cover-Up
Why is mainstream media not covering this? Why is this a cover-up? Why do we live in la la land? If you can afford it.. drop them a donation.. if we all send a little.. it adds up to a lot! Nuclear explosion, and meltdown discussed by Fairewinds associates. www.fairewinds.com they deserve any he ...
- Ride with The Mad Ape and AC/DC down the Casin ...
Here AC/DC joins me, The Mad Ape, on a journey down the Casino Gulag Highway as Bon Scott sings It’s A Long Way To The Top If You Want To Rock And Roll. Notice that I am passing every damn thing in sight. Come get me coppers! Follow along if you are bored. I dedicate [...] Related posts:Rob ...
- Michael Ruppert – Collapse – Peak Oil and Peak ...
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- A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion – Communi ...
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- Irrational Consumerism (or The Few Companies W ...
Not many people realize that most of the processed foods available on the market, whether they be in groceries or fast-food chains, all come from the same few companies. Even less people realize that these companies are major actors in elite organizations who decide health, social and economic ...
- RON PAUL: EMOTIONAL SPEECH….REVOLUTION
This man gives great speeches.  I pray he’s for real, and REALLY means what he says and cares for the people.  If there’s no hidden agenda behind him, I hope he runs  for President and wins.  I pray he is not part of a scheme by the powers that be to further dupe the public … I pray he is a ...
- Syria crisis: Obama condemns ‘outrageous ...
Hypocrite. Â Is it only me who sees this? Â Guess he doesn’t consider attacking Lybia as an “outrageous” use of force… Now, I guess he’ll “peacefully” bomb Syria too… US President Barack Obama has accused Syria of using “outrageous” force against anti-government protesters. He condemned “in th ...
- Freedom of Information Act Reveals Files Sugge ...
Yes, your history books are wrong. “History” is written according to what suits those in power… Alexis Bonari Activist Post September 11th is hardly the first âday of infamyâ to undergo public scrutiny and accusations of government conspiracy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the phras ...
- Libyan War Gets Weird; Defending the Indefensible
Tony Cartalucci Activist Post Bangkok, Thailand April 21, 2011 – Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. The lies and prop ...
- Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminish ...
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist In a 2010 meeting between the pesticide industry and the Obama Administration, the pesticide industry revealed its objective that government food testing data (like the USDA pesticide residue data EWG uses to create... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- Fast Food Follies
By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Around this time last year the health-conscience crew at KFC headquarters gave the American consumer the Double Down chicken sandwich - 540 calories of bacon and cheese with no veggies, smashed... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Watch "Bag It," Then Just Bag It
By Rebecca Sutton, Phd, EWG Senior Scientist Plastic pollution: it's everywhere, from the gigantic garbage patch swirling in the Pacific Ocean to the cells of our bodies, a point EWG's President, Ken Cook, makes so well in this recent TEDx... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
- Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Safe Chemicals Act ...
By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst Once again, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is leading the effort to try to contain the constant onslaught of dangerous industrial chemicals on our bodies. This week, Lautenberg, along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- ‘Blåveis’ confirms that spring is here
The wild flower known as blåveis is a sure sign of spring in southern Norway, often being the first arrival of the spring season flora. The hepatica nobilis, also known as liverleaf, is common in many European countries, and in Norway it can be found all the way north to Bodø. It was believed t ...
- Syrians protest killings back home
Approximately 70 people, mostly Syrians, rallied outside Norway’s foreign ministry on Friday to protest the increasing use of violence against demonstrators in their home country. According to news website Al Jazeera, at least 20 protesters were killed in several Syrian cities when police opened ...
- Jotun goes on a hiring spree
International paint and coatings firm Jotun plans to hire more than 1,600 new workers this year, most of them outside the company’s home base in Norway. The hiring will set a new record, reports newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN). Global growth means that the Jotun concern will advertise more tha ...
- Films bound for Cannes
Two Norwegian films, one of them short, have been chosen to compete at the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival next month. It’s the latest in a series of international recognition for Norwegian film production. Director Joachim Trier’s new film, Oslo 31. august, was selected to be sho ...
- Alpine skiing loses out to cross-country
As Norway’s ski season melts away, new figures confirm what many have suspected for months: Norwegians prefer cross-country skiing to alpine (slalom or downhill) skiing, and are more active on the trails than ever before. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reports that Norwegians bought nearly a ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part VI – The Ideologica ...
The series, A Solar Powered Life, is intended for those that have an interest in the generation and storage of electricity using solar panels. I’ve tried to write the series in such a way that it is accessible for everybody and not just for those that are technically minded. By the end of the se ...
- The Future of Architecture
by Ãyvind Holmstad While the corporations and the starchitects (walking hand in hand) try to sell us “freedom” through techno-utopia, using images of anti-nature-architecture as the future of sustainability, like Masdar City, we still have teachers showing us the Timeless Way back to Earth. One ...
- Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced Blueprints for ...
It has been made clear that heavy machinery can help set up permaculture systems. Bobcats, excavators, tractors, save our backs and allow for earthworks that would have otherwise not been possible. The pros of water harvesting abilities outweigh the cons (i.e. pollution). Well, in this video you ...
- Britain’s Private Militias
The Ratcliffe miscarriage of justice shows that we need a sweeping reform of the police. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom Here, so far, are the results of the undercover surveillance operation the police conducted against ...
- Superadobe Earthbag Building Workshop with Bil ...
Find out more and book here! Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post thi ...
- 4/21/11 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should peo ...
vegetarian.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should people become vegetarian? - In 2010, each person in the US ate an average of 57.5 pounds of beef, 46.5 pounds of pork, and 82 pounds of chicken. Vegetarians, about 3.2% of the US population, do not eat meat (including poultry and seafood). ...
- 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
- 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
- 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
- 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
- Irrational Consumerism (or The Few Companies W ...
Not many people realize that most of the processed foods available on the market, whether they be in groceries or fast-food chains, all come from the same few companies. Even less people realize that these companies are major actors in elite organizations who decide health, social and economic ...
- RON PAUL: EMOTIONAL SPEECH….REVOLUTION
This man gives great speeches.  I pray he’s for real, and REALLY means what he says and cares for the people.  If there’s no hidden agenda behind him, I hope he runs  for President and wins.  I pray he is not part of a scheme by the powers that be to further dupe the public … I pray he is a ...
- Syria crisis: Obama condemns ‘outrageous ...
Hypocrite. Â Is it only me who sees this? Â Guess he doesn’t consider attacking Lybia as an “outrageous” use of force… Now, I guess he’ll “peacefully” bomb Syria too… US President Barack Obama has accused Syria of using “outrageous” force against anti-government protesters. He condemned “in th ...
- Freedom of Information Act Reveals Files Sugge ...
Yes, your history books are wrong. “History” is written according to what suits those in power… Alexis Bonari Activist Post September 11th is hardly the first âday of infamyâ to undergo public scrutiny and accusations of government conspiracy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the phras ...
- Libyan War Gets Weird; Defending the Indefensible
Tony Cartalucci Activist Post Bangkok, Thailand April 21, 2011 – Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. The lies and prop ...
- Frequent churchgoers frequently fatter
Stephanie Smith -CNN Medical Producer Young, religiously active people are more likely than their non-religious counterparts to become obese in middle age, according to new research. In fact, frequent religious involvement appears to almost double the risk of obesity compared with little or no i ...
- Durian: The King of Fruits is an angry king
Beloved in Southeast Asia, famously stinky, I’ve avoided the "King of Fruit" for decades … until now By Francis Lam Wikipedia/Salon Durian. Oh, durian. You can’t read anything about the heavy, spiky tropical fruit without finding out that "many people in Southeast Asia call it the King of Fruits ...
- ‘God particle’ may be discovered soon
RONAN McGREEVY THE LARGE Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland is working so well that it may discover a mysterious particle years ahead of schedule, one of its lead scientists has said. Belfast-born Dr Steve Myers, director of accelerators and t ...
- Too Hard for Science?
Philip Zimbardo–creating millions of heroes By Charles Q. Choi If outside influences can make people act badly, can they also be used to help people do good? In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don’t think could be investigated. For ...
- Ozone loss made tropics rainier
Hole over Antarctica changes weather patterns all the way to the equator By Alexandra Witze From high above the South Pole, Earthâs ozone hole can affect rainfall as far away as the tropics, scientists have found. Thinning ozone causes weather patterns to shift southward across the Southern Hemi ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
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FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches. Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
- Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
- Gr8 expectations
FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Letter From America
Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
- Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
- Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...
- Where Are They Now?: Casey Sokolovic
Casey Sokolovic with her specialty: sea turtle cookies. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with one of our favorites, sea turtle activist Casey Sokolovic. Casey might look familiar - we can’t get enough of her ever since she ...
- Kate Walsh on Offshore Drilling
Check out Kate Walsh explaining her support of Oceana's campaign to end offshore drilling at yesterday's event. Kate has been a fantastic spokeswoman for us and we can't thank her enough for joining us at the Capitol. �
- A Close Call With a Manta Ray
Photographer Tony Wu has a cool story up on his blog today. While shooting a large manta ray near Sri Lanka earlier this week, he was suddenly accosted by the normally-peaceful animal. The manta ray emitted a weird screeching noise as it headbutted him, telling him in no uncertain terms to back ...
- Marking the Oil Spill Anniversary In Washington DC
Oceana was joined by longtime supporters Kate Walsh ("Private Practice" and "Grey's Anatomy") and Aaron Peirsol (gold medal-winning swimmer) in Washington, D.C. today to remember the one-year anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. We were also joined by Patty Whitney, a Louisiana resident- ...
- A Year Since the Spill, the Push to Drill Cont ...
Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and triggering the largest accidental oil spill in history. When all was said and done in July, it had spewed more than 200 millio ...
- David Frum Levels Pawlenty While Trump Watches
I’ve been waiting for someone on the Right to say something close to what’s deserved about Mr. Tim Pawlenty and finally someone has. If the GOP wants to finish Trump, GOP candidates had better learn to speak to those anxieties â to offer a remedy more effectual than the snake-oil now being pedd ...
- Will Trump Tornado Pull Palin In?
**UPDATED – BUMPED** Real estate mogul Donald Trump touted his net worth as a selling point over likely presidential contender and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. âI’m a much bigger business man and have (a) much, much bigger net worth. I mean, my net worth is many, many, many times Mitt ...
- War Hawks and Neocons
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, according to protesters, witnesses and accounts on social networking sites. – Security F ...
- Paul Ryan Booed Defending Wealthy Tax Cuts
Town hall meetings can be treacherous. Ask Rep. Paul Ryan. From Think Progress: CONSTITUENT: You have to lower spending. But it’s a matter of there’s nothing wrong with taxing the top because it does not trickle down. RYAN: We do tax the top. (Audience boos). Let’s remember, most of our jobs c ...
- Your Sunday Early Bird News Round-Up
Good morning and welcome to Sunday. On this day in history, April 17, 1961, approximately 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro Here are some links on this lovely Spring morning: ~The WSJ has an unusually good pi ...
- Wimpy Warfare: Obama's "Bay of Libya" Fiasco
While the Cuban government marked the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs' fiasco with parades and marches, Cuban exiles gathered in an emotion-filled event in Miami to remember those who courageously died in combat during the U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs
- The "Merchants of Peace" Racket
A "peace activist" based in Jerusalem this week sent out the following email to friends: "For my birthday on May 2, I'm asking my friends and family for a special gift: help me raise $5,000... It's a great cause that advances peace –two states for two
- Turkey Got Tired
TURKEY GOT TIRED The Supreme Board of Election's (YSK's) cancelling the candidacies of 12 independent applicants caused tension both in politics and on the streets. Courts have eventually confirmed that the vetoes were unfair. The YSK is expected to take
- Britain vs. Muslim Immigration
Islamic jurisprudence is spreading throughout Britain at an astonishing rate. At least 85 Islamic Sharia courts are now operating in the country, almost 20 times as many as previously believed. A recent think tank study titled "Sharia Law or One Law for
- Danish Show Trial: Inquisition Judicial Procedures
On April 26 my colleague, the Danish author and historian Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society and The International Free Press Society, will be back in court accused of "racism" for comments he made during a conversation on the
- GlobalRev – Ongoing
Every once in a while, I have panoramic, better than HD TV or Panavision dreams, and this morning’s was disturbing. It was about a crowd of people in a middle eastern nation near some kind of sporting event/stadium being attacked … Continue reading →
- Coping: With Human Navigation
The story in the UK Telegraph about how humans in prehistoric (pre royal takeover times we assume) figured out how to get around. The article “Sat-Nav: Prehistoric man ‘used crude stat nav’” is an interesting read, but seems to give … Continue reading →
- That $5 Silver Move Nears?
A chat earlier this week with Clif of www.halfpasthuman.com, about the way things are lining up for silver here shortly, bears mentioning about here. You may remember in some of the predictive linguistics work, there was and expectation that we … Continue reading →
- Coping: With “the Dry Coffee” Mystery
We continue to pile up reports of highly strange things – things that shouldn’t happen, yet objectively they do.  Take this email, for example: “I checked into a hotel for a business seminar this week, and decided to brew a … Continue reading →
- DUCK!
I figure there’s enough thunderstorm crap firing off that we might as well grab the computer off the desk and huddle under it to read this morning’s report. A kind of warm & cozy read, for a change. The details … Continue reading →
- MY LIFE AND WOMEN
I lost my virginity when I was about 17 years old. It wasn’t the fairytale story of agreeing to “do it” with a long time childhood friend. I hadn’t exactly planned to wait that long either. For about a year or two before, I tried really hard to have sex. I was very shy you [...]
- MIND CONTROL 34
Like I said…..this is where it starts to get a bit more scary. In one of the most subtle of manners, Paul uses his letters to justify sin. Take another look at this statement found in the book of Romans: Romans 7:14-24 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I AM CARNAL, [...]
- DEFYING THE LAW
If you know your history, you will know where you’re coming from. You will know where you’re going; and more importantly, how to get there. They say your past is who you are. Who you are is made up from the past. Your past determines the who that is you; but that isn’t always true. [...]
- MY LIFE AS A LIAR
Lying is something that I have to deal with every day of my life. Everywhere I go I’m confronted with liars. Perhaps the most delicate part of the scenario is the fact that most people don’t even know they are liars. Popular belief says that everyone is a liar. We all lie, and if you [...]
- MIND CONTROL 33
Like I said……this is where it starts to get a bit scary….. Paul preaches a very subtle message. His message centers on a number of things, the first of which we are going to deal with in this episode. Paul maintains that: Romans 5:12 12 Through one man sin entered the world, and death through [...]
- Japanese government censors Fukushima reports ...
Censorship of the truth about what is really going on at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility has been taken to a whole new level of corruption.
- The Mysterious Deaths of Nine Gulf Oil Spill ...
In the past year, nine vocal critics or potential whistleblowers of the Gulf oil spill all died in extremely mysterious ways. Their deaths could be strange, unrelated coincidences. Or they could have been killed as part of a conspiracy to silence those who were speaking out against t ...
- 10 Reasons to Still Be Pissed Off About the B ...
Your guide to the worst oil spill in US history, one year later.
- US carries out first drone strike in Libya: P ...
"The first Predator strike in Libya occurred today in the early afternoon local time (our morning time EDT)," a US military press spokesman said in a statement sent to AFP.
- TSA Screener Charged with Child Pornography...
Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.
- "Zapping Enceladus": Saturn's Electric Link Wi ...
NASA has released the first images and sounds of an electrical connection between Saturn and one of its moons, Enceladus. The data collected by the agency's Cassini spacecraft enable scientists to improve their understanding of the complex web of interaction...
- Is This Fossil a New Species of Humans? Some E ...
This spooky image shows the controversial cranium of Malapa Hominid 1, Holotype of Australopithecus sediba unearthed in April 2010 in a South African cave. Fossils of the bones of the young male and adult female suggests a controversial new species,...
- Image of the Day: A Spectacular Galactic Fandango
This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The distorted shape of the larger of the two galaxies shows signs of...
- DiscoveryAlert: 165-Million-Year Old Spider Fo ...
You're looking at Nephila jurassica, a 165-million-year-old spider fossil, a relative of the modern golden orb-weaving spider, recently found in China. Although it's the largest fossil spider ever found, it is disappointingly small as far an ancient creatures go, measuring...
- EcoAlert: NASA/Europe Space Agency Zero In On ...
ESA and NASA have joined forces to further our understanding of how the fragile polar environment is responding to climate change in support of ESA's CryoSat ice mission, which was launched a year ago to monitor changes in ice thickness....
- Cap The Gene Spill - New video says GMO contam ...
(NaturalNews) As part of an ongoing effort to warn the public about the dangers of runaway GMO pollution of our planet, the Institute for Responsible Technology executive director Jeffrey Smith has released a new video called Cap the Gene Spill.The video is viewable in its entirety at: http:// ...
- Survey: Many women shoppers avoid OTC drugs, s ...
(NaturalNews) A recent study conducted by The Hartman Group on behalf of Boiron, a global manufacturer of homeopathic medicines, has found that 82 percent of women shoppers ages 25-70 try to avoid buying traditional over-the-counter (OTC) medications that treat conditions like headaches and infl ...
- Discovery by Israeli scientists may lead to de ...
(NaturalNews) Scientists from Tel Aviv University's (TAU) Department of Physics and Astronomy have developed a bacterial "Social-IQ score" system that they say paves the way for the development of intelligence-based "green" pesticides. If successfully replicated, the discovery could lead to a vi ...
- Using police to enforce a Big Pharma medicatio ...
(NaturalNews) In a new video posted today (link below), I argue that using police officers to enforce a Big Pharma medication agenda is not merely a violation of civil rights, but a crime against human rights. It is a grave misuse of state power and a waste of law enforcement resources that are ...
- Japanese government censors Fukushima reports ...
(NaturalNews) Censorship of the truth about what is really going on at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility has been taken to a whole new level of corruption. According to a recent report from the Shingetsu News Agency, the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIAC ...
- Biden Death Threat Case: Minnesota Man Says He ...
A Minnesota man who admitted trying to frame his neighbor by sending threatening e-mail to Vice President Joe Biden using the neighbor’s Wi-Fi now wants to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that he himself was framed. The imprisoned defendant, Barry Ardolf, wrote the judge presiding over his c ...
- Nude Nuns Judge Questions Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
A federal judge wants a Los Angeles film company to explain why it’s targeting nearly 6,000 John Doe defendants around the country in a single lawsuit for torrenting the 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns. Camelot Distribution Group Inc., which claims to own the rights to the mo ...
- Neo-Nazi Freed, Online Speech Protected
A neo-Nazi found guilty of  jury intimidation over a web post was released from custody this week after a federal judge reversed his conviction, a ruling his attorney said Thursday buttresses online free speech “no matter who says it.” William A. White, the operator of now-defunct Overthrow.com ...
- Protesters Interrupt Obama to Sing Support for ...
Protesters supporting WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning managed to infiltrate a private fundraiser for President Obama on Thursday morning in San Francisco, interrupting his remarks with a song. As Obama was speaking at the $5,000-a-plate breakfast fundraiser, a California activist named Naomi ...
- Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Mi ...
A hacker and carder has pleaded guilty to trafficking in more than half a million stolen card numbers that resulted in $36 million in fraud losses. Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Virginia to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. The ha ...
- The Republican Truth Deficit on the Debt Ceiling
With the deadline on raising the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling fast approaching, grandstanding Republicans are threatening national economic suicide. If it comes, the means of death will have been a fatal dose of hypocrisy. After all, GOP majorities in Congress didn't merely vote seven times ...
- McCain Declares Libyan Rebels His Latest "Heroes"
On Friday, Senator John McCain became the highest ranking American political figure to meet with the Libyan rebels. But while his declaration that "they are my heroes" doubtless was well received in by the anti-Qaddafi fighters in Benghazi, McCain's track record should give Americans good reas ...
- Business Leaders Warn GOP on Debt Ceiling Dis ...
Nothing focuses the mind, it is said, like the sight of the gallows. So it is for the American business community as the clock ticks down on the looming deadline to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. Over the past few days, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street executives, the National Associati ...
- Republicans Violate Their "Seniors' Bill of Ri ...
That didn't take long. As the battle over health care reform reached a fever pitch in the fall of 2009, the Republican National Committee rolled out a "Seniors' Bill of Rights." But with the midterms safely won, the GOP has predictably turned its back on its pledge of "no cuts to Medicare to p ...
- 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts
As Tax Day 2011 arrives, the distance between the tax debate and tax reality has perhaps never been larger. New data from the IRS revealed that over since the mid-1990's, the richest 400 taxpayers saw their incomes double and their tax rates halved. Overall, the gilded-class has seen its effec ...
- Rolling Blackouts – NEVER AGAIN! – well at lea ...
An unusual weather event and rolling blackouts – what lessons were learned? Apparently none. A report from the Public Utility Commission of Texas is clear in its analysis of what went wrong and what needed to be done to prevent another such event: The winter freeze greatly strained the ability ...
- TLR protester taking a break [Flickr]
Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
- WCS and Texas Wildfires
As fires rage throughout Texas, we should remember that besides brush, farm land and homes, wildfires are a danger to many industrial sites. According to today’s Texas Forest Service incident management situation report, a wildfire designated the Frying Pan Ranch fire in Andrews Co. has been c ...
- Nuclear Power: Poll shows a spike in U.S. oppo ...
A recent ABC News-Washington Post poll shows Americans oppose building more nuclear power plants in the United States, by a margin of 2-1. This is an 11-point increase in opposition, up from a few years ago. In the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear plant crisis, 64 percent in this ABC News/Washin ...
- Is fracking worse for the climate than coal?
A new study from Cornell Professor Robert Howarth shows that natural gas from shale beds extracted through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has the same effect on the climate as burning coal, tarnishing one of the natural gas industry’s major claims of being a less polluting and more climate f ...
- Grassroots International Partners Take Action ...
lucha-peasant_day.jpg The Via Campesina declared April 17 as "International Day of Peasants' Struggles." This day commemorates the 1996 slaughter by the Brazilian police of 19 peasants of the Landless Worker Movement (MST) while they mobil ...
- Bury the corporate food system!
Below is an article from Grassroots International partner, the Via Campesina, in preparation for the International Day of Peasants� Struggles. The Via is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenou ...
- "Victory comes only with struggle": Brazilian ...
mcp.jpg April 17 commemorates the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle for land, water, food and justice.read more
- US Food Sovereignty Alliance Celebrates Intern ...
usfsa-turn_tables.jpg As part of our commitment to engage in advocacy to challenge US policy and corporations that are often the root causes of resource rights violations around the world, Grassroots International has been proud to be an a ...
- Carbon Credit Plan Implementation Halts Medica ...
At the request of the community assembly of Amador Hernández in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots International along with the Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Carbon Trade Watch, the Global Forest Coalition, the Timberwatch Coalition, Grassroots G ...
- Maybe the ACLU Ain't So Bad
Poppy Bush wasn't a natural culture-warrior. He started out pro-choice. His wife is still pro-choice. His daughter-in-law is pro-choice. Freaking David Souter turned out to be pro-choice. That's why Poppy came up with weird rallying-cries, like saying his opponent was a "card-carrying memb ...
- Stupid Republicans
No one could have predicted this: Anxiety is rising among some Republicans over the partys embrace of a plan to overhaul Medicare, with GOP lawmakers already starting to face tough questions on the issue at town hall meetings back in their districts. House leaders have scheduled a Tuesday ...
- Original Tea Party Was Astroturfed (Probably)
I don't know. It seems to me like John Hancock was a low-down tea smuggler who, like the modern day Koch Brothers, protected his business interests by financing a riot (aka the Boston Tea Party). So, if the Royal Crown gives the colonies a huge break by eliminating the massive customs duties ...
- Casual Observation
No one could have predicted that giving the president of the American Enterprise Institute a billion words in the Washington Post would result in both a column on why rich people deserve to keep all their money and a colossal waste of everyone's time. When does the class war begin, again? Dis ...
- The Year of Hating Women
I knew that I was seeing a ridiculous number of reports about state legislatures attacking abortion rights and introducing other crazy anti-women bills, but it's good to see it collected in one place. So far, there have been 916 bills introduced that aim in some way or another to make life more ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- New Research Emphasizes Veteran’s Need for Men ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Veterans struggling with mental illness may also be at a higher risk for substance addiction, according to a new study. Ismene Patrakis and colleagues from Yale University School of Medicine used data to determined that among veterans diagnosed with mental challen ...
- Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend, everyone! This week’s news goes further into depth in some popular psychology topics, such as video game violence, effects of elderly poverty, and child stress issues. We hope this news is useful and interesting to you, and enco ...
- Gay Teens Feel Less Support in Conservative Co ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In politically conservative communities with very little gay support programs, there is a higher rate of suicide attempts among homosexual teens. According to a study by Mark Hatzenbuehler, a Columbia University psychologist and researcher, gay teens are bullied a ...
- Vulnerability and Eating Disorders
By Jodie Barley, MA, RCC, CHRP Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jodi and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Vulnerability is an emotion that affects individuals suffering from eating disorders in a multitude of ways. It is the opposite of being in control and a ...
- Psyche’s Nature is Playful
By Mary Alice Long, PhD Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mary Alice and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “The Egyptians highly valued their animals, turning them into gods and goddesses” -Neil Russack, Animal Guides: in Life, Myth and Dreams Imagine a perch ...
- Gubernatorial candidate profiles: the Mountain ...
Gubernatorial candidate profiles: the Mountain Party's Bob Henry Baber Beckley Register-Herald Also, in regard to mountaintop mining, which is a huge plank of the Mountain Party, none of the Republicans or Democrats who are running are going to say they're against mountaintop removal, because t ...
- Mining companies follow greed, not green, inst ...
Mining companies follow greed, not green, instincts nwitimes.com The US Environmental Protection Agency has taken some steps to limit the destruction done by mountaintop removal coal mining, but members of Congress are trying to take away what little say the EPA has. We can't let politicians st ...
- Beshear Visits Mountaintop Removal Sites - WFPL
Beshear Visits Mountaintop Removal Sites WFPL Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear spent part of Thursday visiting mountaintop removal coal mining sites in Eastern Kentucky. Beshear's trip was the fulfillment of a promise he made to a group of activists who staged a protest in his office in February ...
- MTR Is Just One Symptom of Systemic Oppression ...
MTR Is Just One Symptom of Systemic Oppression: TN Activist Ash-Lee Henderson ... AlterNet "Issues about land ownership, self-determination, labor justice, and so many others are intimately related to our struggle to end mountaintop removal." Henderson at mountaintop removal rally, photo courte ...
- Speak Now Against the Day: TN Activist Ash-Lee ...
Speak Now Against the Day: TN Activist Ash-Lee Henderson on Next Steps for ... AlterNet (blog) �Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement� is a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo W ...
- Welfare handouts aren't fair - and the public ...
Janet Daley / Telegraph: Welfare handouts aren't fair - and the public knows it — A new survey shows that despite years of propaganda from the Left, Britons retain a deep-seated sense of fairness and individual responsibility, says Janet Daley. — Like a mythical traveller seeking truth, a ...
- Republicans facing tough questions over Medica ...
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post: Republicans facing tough questions over Medicare overhaul in budget plan — Video: All but four GOP House members voted for the budget plan devised by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The proposal puts the future of Medicare in jeopardy and could ...
- Foster children would be allowed to get clothi ...
Todd A. Heywood / Michigan Messenger: Foster children would be allowed to get clothing only from second hand stores — Under a new budget proposal from State Sen. Bruce Casswell, children in the state's foster care system would be allowed to purchase clothing only in used clothing stores. — ...
- President of Yemen Offers to Leave, With Condi ...
New York Times: President of Yemen Offers to Leave, With Conditions — CAIRO — Yemen's embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, said Saturday that he accepted a proposal by Arab mediators that would shift power to his deputy 30 days from the signing of a formal agreement and grant him and his ...
- Pity For The Rich - You can tell something's h ...
Myglesias / Yglesias: Pity For The Rich — You can tell something's happening in the economic policy debate when you start reading more things like AEI's Arthur Brooks explaining that it would simply be unfair to raise taxes on the rich. Harvard economics professor and former Council of Econo ...
- M 5.1, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 23:07:02 UTCWednesday, April 20, 2011 08:07:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 90.20 km (56.05 mi)
- M 5.4, South Sandwich Islands region
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:53:23 UTCTuesday, April 19, 2011 01:53:23 AM at epicenterDepth: 25.40 km (15.78 mi)
- M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
Thursday, April 21, 2011 22:31:20 UTCFriday, April 22, 2011 10:31:20 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.20 km (21.25 mi)
- M 5.0, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 08:35:14 UTCWednesday, April 20, 2011 08:35:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 60.70 km (37.72 mi)
- M 5.1, Guam region
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 17:46:11 UTCWednesday, April 20, 2011 03:46:11 AM at epicenterDepth: 85.00 km (52.82 mi)
- Deep-running disaster
On this Earth Day, a year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, scientist Samantha Joye is convinced that much of BP’s spilt crude still lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.There are few people who can claim direct knowledge of the ocean floor, at least before t ...
- The conscientious carnivores
In San Francisco, Ian Monroe sampled a range of vegetarian and vegan food. He and his girlfriend have cut back on meat, hoping they’re improving their -- and the planet’s -- health.There’s certainly a lot green in front of us: glistening mounds of fried Szechuan green beans, steaming Chinese bro ...
- A taste of Chinese vegetarianism
As non-meat restaurants proliferate in China, diners are flocking to them for many reasons: flavour, nutrition, ethics, faith, culture, fashion, food safety and environmental concerns. Zhou Wei reports.The roast imitation meat is all gone, but the waitress points at our leftovers. “Coriander’s t ...
- Snubbing the seal trade
Blocked from trading in 30 other countries, Canada’s seal industry has set its sights on China, to the fury of local animal welfare campaigners. Meng Si reports.On March 29, the Canadian authorities finally responded to months of criticism from Chinese animal-protection groups, angered by the co ...
- A warning from Gansu
A tragic mudslide in northwest China held lessons for the authorities about urbanisation, disaster response and the environment. By Gong Jing, Wang Heyan and Zhang Ruidan, winners of the “best in-depth report” category at the 2011 China Environmental Press Awards.In the early hours of August 8, ...
- Biden Death Threat Case: Minnesota Man Says He ...
A Minnesota man who admitted trying to frame his neighbor by sending threatening e-mail to Vice President Joe Biden using the neighbor’s Wi-Fi now wants to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that he himself was framed. The imprisoned defendant, Barry Ardolf, wrote the judge presiding over his c ...
- Nude Nuns Judge Questions Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
A federal judge wants a Los Angeles film company to explain why it’s targeting nearly 6,000 John Doe defendants around the country in a single lawsuit for torrenting the 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns. Camelot Distribution Group Inc., which claims to own the rights to the mo ...
- Neo-Nazi Freed, Online Speech Protected
A neo-Nazi found guilty of  jury intimidation over a web post was released from custody this week after a federal judge reversed his conviction, a ruling his attorney said Thursday buttresses online free speech “no matter who says it.” William A. White, the operator of now-defunct Overthrow.com ...
- Protesters Interrupt Obama to Sing Support for ...
Protesters supporting WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning managed to infiltrate a private fundraiser for President Obama on Thursday morning in San Francisco, interrupting his remarks with a song. As Obama was speaking at the $5,000-a-plate breakfast fundraiser, a California activist named Naomi ...
- Carder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Involving $36 Mi ...
A hacker and carder has pleaded guilty to trafficking in more than half a million stolen card numbers that resulted in $36 million in fraud losses. Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Virginia to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. The ha ...
- Libya's Misrata comes under heavy bombardment: ...
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata on Sunday, a day after rebels celebrated the pullback of government troops from the western Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.
- Five women brutally murdered in Mexico beach r ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Five women, all apparently connected to a beauty parlor, were found brutally murdered in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco on Saturday morning, state police said.
- Company owner hoping for "miracle" with trappe ...
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The head of the company that owns the Idaho silver mine where a worker has been trapped underground for eight days said he still hopes rescuers will bring the miner safely home to his family.
- Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba dies
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions of followers as a living god, died Sunday in a hospital in southern India. He was 86.
- Viral video star Antoine "hide your wife" Dods ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kevin Antoine Dodson, star of a viral Internet song warning neighbors to watch out for a sexual predator, was arrested and charged with marijuana possession after being stopped for speeding, police said on Saturday.
- How green is your iPhone?
by Jess Zimmerman. Carbon emissions? Energy overuse? Sketchy labor relations? There's an app for that, and it's all of them. This infographic from Geekaphone (there's way more, it's huge -- click on our excerpt to see the rest) illustrates that the iPhone, like basically any modern con ...
- Rupert Murdoch is totally against the global w ...
by Jess Zimmerman. It's probably not the first time Rupert Murdoch has been on a list with Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden. Turns out that media mogul/plutocrat Murdoch's company, News Corporation, is deeply and explicitly committed to reducing its carbon footprint, combating global wa ...
- Yesterday’s fracking blowout: What happe ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, a natural gas well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania -- perhaps suffering from an overload of irony -- ruptured and leaked "thousands and thousands of gallons" of fracking fluid over the surrounding farmland and ...
- The future of green computing is dunking your ...
by Christopher Mims. As seemingly every aspect of our lives moves online, the giant building-size computers that power the web suck up ever more energy. Cooling can eat as much as a third of the energy required to run these "data centers," so fixing their heat problem (modern processor ...
- How much could climate change cost your state?
by Jess Zimmerman. No idea why they got someone's dad to narrate this video, but the information in it is pretty startling. According to this group, the American Security Project, costs racked up by climate change could include: $9.3 billion a year in lost agriculture revenues in ...
- Bolton vs Arsenal - Preview and Live Stream
Arsenal will be looking to reduce the gap to Man Utd when they take on Bolton today.
- Indian Cricket Captain MS Dhoni Makes Time Mag ...
The Indian Cricket Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni made it into the list of the 100 most influential people released by Time Magazine recently.
- Kosovo Parliament to Investigate on Illegal Se ...
Kosovo, Kosova, Pristina, Prishtina, SHIK, Intelligence Agency, K-SHIK, Florin Krasniqi, Haxhiu, Thaci, AAK, PDK, LDK, Vetevendosje, Rexhepi, Kasumi, Veseli, Smakaj, KLA, KIA, Kosovo Liberation Army, UCK
- Immigrant Contributions Positive, House Votes ...
Immigrant youth bill could bring international funds to Colorado, give children a fighting chance
- History of Chocobos
The candid and sordid History of the Marvelous Chocobo
- Fork in the Road
This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
- The Declensionist Diet
We continue with the ‘big picture’ of food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. This is the second of three excerpts. The first can be found here. We argued the causes of our ongoing, and oncoming, food crises are manifold, rooted in present-day policies as well as humanity’s ...
- The Born Identity
With Richard Kock and Robyn Alders I co-authored the following review of food and forest crises. Richard presented an earlier version at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Global Conference on Wildlife held in Paris in February. Over the next few days we will publish three slightly e ...
- From Reactor to Plate
âJapan’s PM vows to win battle against nuke plantâ reads one recent headline. It is unclear which possibility is worse, that Naoto Kan has failed to grasp the plant at Fukushima Dai-ichi has already defeated Japan, or that he knows full well and broadcasts a ânecessary lieâ protecting an industr ...
- Evolutionary Investigations
1.1 A particular kind of evolutionary biology—lost in its capitalist devotionals—uses the failures of its mortal enemies—say, creationist science—to defend itself against all other kinds of critiques. 1.1.1 “But you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy…” is a common refrain, devoid of substan ...
- Easter Celebration
I arise today, through The strength of heaven The light of the sun, The radiance of the moon, The splendor of fire, The speed of lightning The swiftness of wind, The depth of the sea, The firmness of Rock. ~ From St. Patrick’s prayer, The Deerâs Cry Related reading: Easter Wikipedia
- See You at the Plumsted Farm Races - April 24, ...
Photo courtesy of Martha Fuller by Catherine Austin Fitts I am headed to Pennsylvania for a wonderful Easter weekend with my cousins from the National Bank of Malvern. The big event is the Plumsted Farm Races, at the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup Course, Newark Road or Rte 926, Unionville, PA. This is ...
- Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.21.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ...
- State and Local Pension Plans and Fiscal Distr ...
By Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorney Congressional Research Service (31 Mar 11) This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and how these governments incorporate borrowing into their budget. The second section reports data on state and local government ...
- Federal Reserve Enforces Against 10 Banks for ...
Release Date: April 13, 2011 For immediate release The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosu ...
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- Important history on Earth Day
Summary: Exaggerated, often wildly inaccurate, warnings by greens diminish our ability to cope with future shockwaves (high impact, low probability scenarios). We have to plan for them, since eventually one will hit us. Hysterical single-issue advocacy groups are part of the problem, not the ...
- A note about the obvious that’s seldom m ...
Summary:  We could publish a newspaper with nothing but old analysis that would tell us more about the world than does the New York Times, because our intelligensia has become lost in its myths — unable to see obvious trends in the world. Here’s a brief example from the always insightful Er ...
- Speak up! Let’s all benefit from the sc ...
Summary: Here’s an opportunity to pressure the government to open up the research we fund, rather than letting the benefits flow to well-connected scientists and corporations. This would make a long-term difference in a dozen different fields, including climate science. Tell The White House ...
- Our tactics are an obstacle to victory in the ...
Summary: Our wars in the Middle East show the rapid development of military theory. Unfortunately, most of this takes place in the minds of our enemies — while we recycle differenent tactics from Vietnam and the many other defeats since WWII of foreign armies by local insurgents. Here we ...
- The limit to America’s power is our abil ...
Summary: Today one of the two major credit agencies fired a warning shot across the bow of the American ship of state. Feckless borrowing for decades plus an inability to make simple, obvious reforms have put at risk a credit rating forged by hard actions by the Founders. For more information ...
- Gates Quells Right Wing Meme that He’s Against ...
After President Obama announced his plan to cut military spending last week, the war hawks immediately got to work trying to throw a wrench in any talk of reducing the Pentagon’s massive budget. But without much substance to fall back on, many hyped a made-up narrative that Defense Secretary Rob ...
- Advancing the Drawdown in Afghanistan
Wednesday, a group of high-caliber panelists gathered at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to participate in a frank discussion on the United States’ strategy for the Afghanistan War. The panelists included the highly regarded blogger and analyst Josh Foust in conversation with ...
- Who is Ayatollah Khoeiniha?
This guy sounds like someone whose name I’ve certainly run across before, but he’s definitely never made an impression until now: “Since the mass unrest that followed the June 2009 presidential election, the Iranian authorities have succeeded in suppressing street protests and decapitating the o ...
- A Political Case for the Libya Effort
I have been apprehensive, a month ago, and now, about what the Administration, still with no Congressional approval, is getting the nation into in Libya. A reader makes a political case in favor of this sort of murky limited involvement. The argument is that this is a way for the Democrats to sh ...
- Assad's Syria Shaking
In a long, fascinating interview that Syria President Bashar al-Assad did with the Wall Street Journal's Jay Solomon in January, Assad spoke extensively about reform. He argued that he was a reformer -- and also said that by the time that situations go to where Tunisia and Egypt were (when he ...
- The Little Picture: Earth Day 2011
Yesterday marked the 41st anniversary of Earth Day. Since its creation in 1970, Earth Day has encouraged people across the globe to get involved in projects that help our environment. Above is an Earth Day volunteer planting flowers. ( Flickr/uscgd13)
- The Real Problem with the Independent Payment ...
When I was a graduate student, abandoned houses were a real problem in my community. These eyesores blighted the neighborhood. In many cases, the city needed to quickly condemn these properties to address public safety concerns. Aldermen loudly complained about the cumbersome administrative proc ...
- Today at the Prospect
Robert Hiltonsmith notes that a showdown on the debt-ceiling vote isn't common, but it's happened before. Christen Simeral talks with Steven Levy about the view from inside the world of Google. Scott Lemieux explains why George W. Bush's appointees should scare liberals more than Clarence Thom ...
- The Worst Case
Annie Lowrey imagines the worst case scenario if the United States comes close to defaulting on its debt: Foreign investors are spooked, and they're dumping Treasury bonds—billions of dollars' worth. They had been selling them off for weeks, of course, possessing much less stomach for the id ...
- Liberals Should At Least Try to Take Advantage ...
Dave Weigel is baffled by liberal silence on Paul Ryan and the recently passed Republican budget: The town halls of 2009—dry runs in June, and really volcanic ones in August—changed the way that Washington talked about the law that would become the Affordable Care Act. And there was a scien ...
- Will the Unemployed and Homeless End up In Pri ...
PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's a place where black is white, and up is down, and one man can make enough money in a year to pay the salaries of 100,000 new teachers.Where 1% of the population has accumulated more wealth than the bottom90%. Where this tiny group took a big slice of ...
- Bernie Sanders Says Congress is ‘Way Out of T ...
BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT ALERT The following is a news release from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont): Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said that new national surveys show that Congress is "way out of touch with the American people" on how to reduce deficits. "At a time when ...
- From the Atomic Testing Museum in Vegas to Arr ...
ROBERT KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Within 10 seconds the fire that wiped out the city came after us at full speed. Everyone was naked. Bodies were swelling up. Some people were so deformed I couldn't tell if they were male or female. People died screaming, 'Please give me water!' "There w ...
- The Fake Budget Debate in Washington, D.C.
SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT By definition, a "debate" requires two opposing sides holding mutually exclusive opinions. In the U.S. Congress, however, real debate has all but vanished. Instead, we are subjected to endless blather that - if you listen closely - is a simple discussion ov ...
- David Prosser, Walker's Scalia, Says He Will F ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There they go again. As in the Bush campaign in Florida in 2000 - and so many Republican campaigns that followed and preceded it - the David Prosser election effort to retain his Wisconsin State Supreme Court Seat is resorting to bullying. Prosse ...
- Five feisty science books on David’s desk
Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
- Recent science news roundup
Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
- Five more science stories
Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
- Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...
- Five more science stories
Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...
- Language, "Promontory Views" and American Perc ...
Thomas S. Harrington Imagine for a moment that you were preparing for a fact-finding trip to a foreign country and that you had to choose between background reports produced by two competing informants.read more
- A Time to Weep, A Time To…
Linda Wagner Schmoldt In 1944 our mother married our father, a fresh seminary graduate and moved with him from Ohio to eastern Montana. She was twenty-two, bright, pretty, and funny. Besides her upbringing in a loving, pious, church-going ...
- This Will Be the Arab World's Next Battle
Lester Brown Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the news will remain. Prominent among these are rapid population growth, spreading water shortages, and growin ...
- Wisconsin: Numbers Show Walker Recall a Real P ...
John Nichols Wisconsinites who have a taste for democracy are in for a treat this year, and they have Gov. Scott Walker to thank for it. Walker’s attempt to strip state, county and municipal employees and teachers of their collective barga ...
- The United States Faces a Crisis Not Seen Sinc ...
Will Hutton Maybe it's because Boston is different, a semi-detached city in one of the US's most liberal states. But the news that the world's biggest economy had had its creditworthiness challenged for the first time by the upstart rating ...
- Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions an ...
- Water wars: Laporte residents to face off agai ...
Landowners Mary Humstone, right, and George Burnette walk along the historic Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad where the Bellvue water pipeline is expected to be located near Laporte, which is in northwest Fort Collins. The city of Greeley hopes to complete the pipeline by the summer of 2013.
- Tribal Water Wars Could Be Looming for Africa
For many tribes and communities in Africa, Earth Day is not a special time to think about green acts and water conservation; its is a struggle to find enough water for their crops, livestock, and families.
- BC-AP Interactive & Graphics Digest
For editorial questions, call Bernadette Tuazon, (800-845-8450, ext. 1901). For technical and service questions, call the AP Global Customer Support at 877-587-6180 or email apcustomersupport (at) ap.org. Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 7 p.m. GRAPHICS CHINA DAMS: Map shows dams affecting the Mekong ...
- Water wars loom in Asia
BAHIR JONAI, India (AP) -- The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate t ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
- Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- For Sale: Donated Front Row Washington Nationa ...
The National Whistleblowers Center received a generous donation of front row tickets to ten Washington Nationals games. The view from these seats is truly amazing. If you don’t believe me, just look at the pictures below. The NWC is selling the tickets for face value on StubHub.com. The tickets ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Glyn Moody's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
This weeks favorites are from Glyn Moody, perhaps one of the biggest sources for various stories here on Techdirt. If you're not reading his Twitter account, you're missing out. Sometimes I think I could fill Techdirt based entirely on stories he recommends. One of the problems with a sit ...
- We May Have Unbundled The Music... But We've S ...
Ian Rogers, from Topspin, has an absolutely fantastic blog post on the question of "unbundling" and "rebundling," in the music business. What kicked it off was David Pakman's writeup about how unbundling the album into songs that can be purchased individually may have had the biggest impact on ...
- 'Economics In One Lesson' Apparently Doesn't I ...
Copycense, who has done a really bangup job in pointing out some ironic ebook pricing decisions, has another one. The book "Economics in One Lesson," by Henry Hazilitt is available new from Amazon in paperback for $7.95... or at $9.99 for the Kindle. Apparently, "Economics In One Lesson" eithe ...
- How Copyright Law Makes Sample-Based Music Imp ...
We've talked a few times recently about the wonders of sample-based music, along with the fact that the legal issues surrounding copyright on such works means that many works are simply not legal. Kembrew McLeod, who made the excellent film Copyright Criminals, about the legal issues around sam ...
- DailyDirt: Ubiquitous Sensors Are Getting Kind ...
Sensors are everywhere, recording all sorts of activities and creating an enormous amount of data. The ability to store and analyze immense amounts of information is making these sensors even more useful. Before this computational capacity was so readily available, researchers were forced to h ...
- Selling Social (In)Justice
Last week, I was invited to an awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center. The event was put on by an organization called Vital Voices, an NGO that “trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.” Sunitha Krishn ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Sorry for disappearing last week. My schedule has been hectic. I haven’t had too many days or nights off the last few weeks. Not enough time for reading and writing. I did; however, have time to go to the New York Anarchist Book Fair. Â Aside from meeting with people I never get to see (or [...]
- The Big Show
Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend? Â I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office. Â In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget. Â Ahem. ...
- Clarity Through Microcosm
I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
- A Report to Helga: How To Make Sense
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- Killing the Future: When Obama Attacked NASA, ...
Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- The Empire’s Genocide Policy, Key Threat to Ma ...
By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- Documentation: Obama Budget Guts Earthquake Pr ...
By Carl Osgood Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- LPAC-TV Weekly Report: Galactic Challenge Dema ...
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
- Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
- Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
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