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- SOUTHERN AFRICA: Assessing the True Value of Water
As water resources in Southern Africa come under pressure from growing population, climate change and increasing industrial and agricultural use, economic accounting for water is among the tools that could aid better management.
- Sierra Leone Facing Facts of Teenage Pregnancy
On Apr. 5, the United Nations Children's Fund will launch a report on teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone. Teenage pregnancies account for 40 percent of maternal deaths in the country, and the report comes as public health authorities recalibrate strategy to address a problem that endangers both ...
- Libya Poses Immigration Challenge To Italy
The influx of migrants arriving from Libya and other African countries has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in southern Italy.
- U.N. Staff Killed in Afghanistan Quran Protests
Afghan officials say at least 11 people have been killed at a United Nations operational centre in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when protests over the burning of the Quran by an American preacher turned violent.
- UGANDA: Sun Smiling on Renewable Energy Initiative
Clementine Auma was still living in a displaced person's camp in Gulu district when she acquired the treasure she's gone into the house to fetch. She re-emerges from her home with a white box in her arms: it's a solar oven.
- Fukushima Aerial Images
Noting that the press has largely turned its resources off of the Fukushima complex, and needing up-to-date information on the status of the damage control efforts there, we secured the most up-to-date satellite photo from DigitalGlobe (dated March
- Arab Spring: Follow the money
Those Arab states that have erupted this year – and others that may follow – want freedom and democracy, but also to end the way their countries have been run for the financial benefit of rulers and their friends The reasons for the Arab spring go deeper than immediate demands for freedom and de ...
- Libyan rebels 'receive foreign training' - Al ...
US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told. "He said these were state-of-the-art, heat-seeking rockets and that they needed to be trained on how to use them, which was one of the things ...
- Crews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fukushima - ...
A nuclear expert has warned that it might be 100 years before melting fuel rods can be safely removed from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.
- Fisk: Ottoman adventures hold lessons
Amid the fury of the Arab awakening – not to mention our own deepening crisis over Libya – old Constantinople is a tonic, a reminder amid minarets and water, palaces and museums and bookshops and an ancient parliament and a thousand fish restaurants that this really was the only united capital t ...
- Charges fly over Ivory Coast killings
The United Nations and the government it supports in Ivory Coast are trading accusations over the killings of hundreds of civilians in a western town last week.
- Syrian president appoints ex-minister to form ...
Syrian President Bashar Assad appointed a former agriculture minister Sunday to form a new government, part of a series of overtures toward reform as the country faces a wave of anti-government protests.
- Libya rebels battle Gaddafi forces in oil town
Warplanes flew over Brega on Sunday as rebels fought troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi for control of the east Libyan oil town, rebel fighters said.
- Charlie Sheen stage show slammed by audience a ...
Charlie Sheen was heckled, booed and eventually abandoned by the crowd at his inaugural stage show, with many of the audience members chanting "refund" and heading for the exits even before the show abruptly ended.
- Koran protests continue in Afghanistan
Afghan protests against the burning of a Koran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstrations in the south and east Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence.
- School District Cops Ticket Thousands of Stud ...
Such tickets, often given for “disorderly conduct” or “classroom disruption,” typically are handled in municipal courts or by county justices of the peace and can have fines of between $250 to $500, police and court officials say, though some courts route many students into community se ...
- U.S. still unprepared for threats, 9-11 Commi ...
Major recommendations by a bipartisan commission that investigated the 9/11 terrorist attacks remain unfulfilled nearly 10 years after the attacks, the commission chairmen told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
- Homeland Security Office releases iPhone appl ...
The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security has announced the release of an iPhone version of the Eyes and Ears on Kentucky application.
- More Americans work for the government than i ...
If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manu ...
- Libya-Owned Bank Got 73 Loans From Fed Discou ...
Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.
- Targeting tumours
Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
- US: DOH confirms 4 cases of dengue fever on O ...
The Department of Health says: it's an outbreak. There are now FOUR confirmed cases of dengue fever on Oahu - with results of 12 more suspected cases still pending. But, health officials are hoping this epidemic can be contained to small numbers. Hawaii health officials have an all-points bul ...
- Genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk
Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious. The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high quantit ...
- Radioactive Material Found in Illinois
Radiation believed to be from the nuclear plant disaster in Japan has been detected in Illinois. The radioactive iodine similar to what was released in Japan was found in a grass clipping in the Joliet area by the Radiological Assessment Field Team, which regularly checks on vegetation, air, mi ...
- UK: Our man in Washington helped with Gaddafi ...
Sir Nigel Sheinwald showed 'profound interest' in Saif Gaddafi's studies Colonel Gaddafi's son was given help with his 'dodgy' PhD thesis by Britain's ambassador to the United States. Last night's extraordinary revelation provides further evidence of the close links between the Blair governmen ...
- Transocean Hails 'Best Year' in Safety, Gives ...
The company that owns the now-infamous Deepwater Horizon, the oil rig that caused immeasurable damage to the Gulf, recently applauded itself for the "best year in safety performance in our Company's history." The company, Transocean Ltd., rewarded its executives millions in bonuses for the achie ...
- Darth Harper
- Song for Stephen
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- Ignatieff vs Harper moderated by Rick Mercer?
Oh yes please. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has accepted an offer from comedian Rick Mercer to take part in a one-on-one debate with Conservative Leader Stephen Harper... Harper had earlier spoken about the possibility of a one-on-one debate, but then distanced himself from the idea and ...
- Punish Canada
The title of this post represents the best way I can come up with of understanding the Harper Conservative approach to governance.� Harper and his minions and base are people living in a country, a state, an imagined community of people that consistently reject their worldview in enough number ...
- At the going down of the sun ...
With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Yannick Scherrer, 1er Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens Relay via sat
- Fox Doesn't Need To Understand Retiree Health ...
Commenting on a program created by the Affordable Care Act, Fox News' Clayton Morris falsely suggested that only states and unions received funds from the program, and Mike Huckabee called it a "political payoff" to unions. In fact, businesses are also benefitting from the program, which tempor ...
- New Black Panthers Fabulists: Everyone Who Dis ...
J. Christian Adams and Hans Von Spakovsky, the chief proponents of the New Black Panther Party manufactured scandal, have branded as "uber-political" "militant leftist partisan," "hyper-Democratic loyalist," and "liberal ideologues" those who disagree with their interpretation of the Justice De ...
- Hypocrites: Fox Said Media Was "Intent On Und ...
Many times during the Iraq war, Fox News came to the defense of President Bush, arguing that those critical of the war were "aiding the terrorists" and "undermining" the president. Yet in the past several weeks, Fox has gone all out in attacking Obama for the U.S. military presence in Libya ...
- Right-Wing Media Smear McDermott; Claim He C ...
The right-wing media have seized on an eight-second video clip of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) to claim he called the Constitution "silly." In fact, McDermott was criticizing Republicans for not focusing on "job creation" in favor of doing "silly" things like reading the Constitution on the Ho ...
- Conservative Media Still Misleading On Deepwat ...
Members of the right-wing media have distorted the administration's policies in the wake of the BP oil spill, claiming that President Obama shut down all drilling and production in the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, the temporary moratorium on drilling in the Gulf only applied to new deepwater wells ...
- Bill Moyers On The American Plutocracy
I received an email from a Capitol Hill aide who thinks my criticism of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby, is overly simplistic. He doesn't dispute the fact that AIPAC has a disproportionate influence on our Middle East foreign policy. He argues, however, that AIPAC is no different than other ...
- The Truth About the Economy that Nobody In Was ...
Why aren't Americans being told the truth about the economy? We're heading in the direction of a double dip - but you'd never know it if you listened to the upbeat messages coming out of Wall Street and Washington. Consumers are 70 percent of the American economy, and consumer confidence is p ...
- Obama Moved at Warp Speed on Libya
Recently at a dinner hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, former National Security Adviser to two US Presidents Brent Scowcroft stated in response to a question about what Barack Obama should do given the tumult in the Middle East, "President Obama should slow things down, move slowly, caut ...
- Next, Mr. President, A Peace Plan
According to people who should know, President Obama has been discretely meeting Middle East hands and political consultants over the past couple of months to explore the possibility of presenting a peace plan for Israel and Palestine, much like the one teed-up by the Olmert-Abbas talks. David R ...
- Slamming Samantha Power With Something She Did ...
Via Politico's Ben Smith, this just in from the Don't-Let-Facts-Ruin-a-Good-Story Department. So I'm sitting here watching Sean Hannity (slow night, what can I say), and he has a story about White House aide Samantha Power that just doesn't smell right. Actually the problem is that the story sme ...
- Congress Must Debate the Libya War
The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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- Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
- Climate Science Stories of the Month
In case you don't keep an eye on our Climate Science News page and missed any of this, here's a list of good climate science stories from March (& maybe a few from February or April).
- How Many Clothes Do You Throw Away Each Year?
Here's a good reminder to reuse, recycle, upcycle, or donate your old clothes instead of throwing them away. This little infographic was created by USAgain using EPA data.
- Kangaroos (10 Friday Photos Comes Back!)
Kangaroos are very interesting animals to many of us because of their unique appearance and their rarity (in most parts of the world). I suppose that in cartoons kangaroos are always the boxers, but I think their not so bad! I think that kangaroos are beautiful and not many people in the world w ...
- Republicans Come Around, Propose Climate Chang ...
The science is absolutely clear, climate change is happening (at an unprecedented speed) and this is caused by humans. However, for a long time, Republicans remained the only major political party in the world to deny these facts and deny any need to act. Actually, the Bush administration and ot ...
- Climate Change and Health, Epic New Book Out.. ...
Director of Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment Paul Epstein, MD and award-winning science journalist Dan Ferber have a new book out on the health impacts of climate change: Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We ...
- Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘Rebel Upris ...
Editor's Note: A photo essay depicting the retreat of empire's mercenaries follows James Petras' powerful indictment of the U.S. and European architects of this war against the Libyan people. - Les Blough, Editor Over the past two weeks Libya has been subjected to the most b ...
- Libya, imperialism and the prostration of the ...
Editor's Comment: Juan Cole is often billed as "anti-colonialist", a Middle East expert and as one who takes a strong stand against Israel. But for years we have recognized the clever mixed opinions espoused by Juan Cole and similar liberal academics who do more to confuse rather than clarify th ...
- Obama’s North African War Face - The 2008 Elec ...
Whatever happens to Moammar Gaddafi, an independent Libya is not on the U.S. agenda. “Obama hopes to ‘stabilize’ Libya under indirect U.S. dominion through a kind of protectorate involving various ‘international’ entities, on the Haitian model.” The president’s doctrine of “humanitarian” warfare ...
- King, Obama and the Other April 4th - World News
As April 4th approaches I cannot but think of the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. On April 4th this year there will be the standard remembrances of Dr. King on the 43rd anniversary of his assassination. There will also be demonstrations taking place across the country initiated by la ...
- Libya: Coalition air strike near Brega kills r ...
At least 12 people are reported to have been killed when a coalition plane enforcing the no-fly zone fired on a rebel convoy between Brega and Ajdabiya late on Friday night. Doctors at a hospital in Ajdabiya told the BBC that three medical students were among the dead. Nato said...
- States Racing to See Which Can Humiliate and D ...
Bad enough that the freakazoids insist on treating women like non-sentient property incapable of controlling their own bodies. Worse that the freakazoids have established a massive industry of lies and psychological/emotional torture to terrify women into surrendering bodily autonomy. But unspea ...
- Nightowl Newswrap
First joint operation between U.S. and post-Mubarak Egypt is covert ops in Libya. "US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told. An unnamed rebel source related how he had undergone training ...
- If You Want Any Privacy At All, You've Got to ...
Time to dig grandma's old manual typewriter out of the attic and starting conversing face to face with real people. Bon the Geek at Zandar's place: Prompted by privacy concerns, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is circulating draft legislation that would require law enforcement officials to obtain w ...
- Unions Are Not the Enemy: Anti-Union Employers ...
Did you catch this part of the news that the Ford truck plant in Louisville will lay off 3,600 worker because parts aren't available from earthquake-devastated Japan? Laid-off workers will get unemployment benefits and supplemental income paid by Ford under its contract with the United Auto Work ...
- Japan Fallout Reaches Kentucky
If it hasn't reached your town yet, it will. This is just the beginning. The Kentucky Truck Plant will furlough about 3,600 workers next week because parts from disaster-stricken Japan are starting to run out, and high fuel prices have hurt retail sales of its mainstay F-Series Super Duty trucks ...
- Tell Congress to Stand Up to Corporate Influence
Congress must act to stop corporate interests from using their immense financial resources to shut the public out of its own government. Here�s what Congress can do now:Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 20 Surprising Artificially Colored Foods
As FDA reviews possible links between artificial food colorings and behavior problems in children, you may not realize just how many everyday foods contain artificial tints.Submitted by Nancy C. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Statenâs story - a life of neglect - Nationa ...
Colorado � Though Staten is only four years of age, she appears much older. Submitted by Sophia P. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- It's Not Too Late to Save the Clean Air Act!
UPDATE: The Senate has adjourned for the week without voting on this legislation. Keep up the pressure! They return to work on Monday afternoon.Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Alabamans Seek to Turn Off the Gas in Animal S ...
One area of public policy where animal advocates have seen some success in recent years is in ending the use of gas chambers as a means of euthanasia in animal shelters. Last year, five more states passed laws banning mass gas chamber euthanasia, Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
- More Economic Bamboozlement from Obama
* Bumped Up * The clueless media laps up Obama economic “facts” like a dog drinking from a toliet bowl. The so-called good news from today’s jobs report is bogus. Pure and simple. Just look at the facts (click on this link to read the actual BLS figures for yourself). Let’s start with the civili ...
- Keep For Use: Batchelor Publicity Blurb + Cod ...
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : – From the blog for the John Batchelor Show, aired nightly from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. ET. Listen [...]
- Unknown Syria (& Open Thread)
Bronwyn’s Note: Stay tuned for posts by Syrian expert Dr. Joshua Landis on Sunday morning. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The Syria solution is [...]
- Killing Over One Torched Koran?
I could barely believe my eyes when I saw this headline, “Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill UN Staff.” This is not a joke. If it were, it would be a sick one, but the reality is much, much worse. Indeed, a mob of over 20,000 people went on a rampage because a copy [...]
- More Economic Bamboozlement from Obama
The clueless media laps up Obama economic “facts” like a dog drinking from a toliet bowl. The so-called good news from today’s jobs report is bogus. Pure and simple. Just look at the facts (click on this link to read the actual BLS figures for yourself). Let’s start with the civilian non-institu ...
- The Disappearing Future of Snake Charming in India
The exotic site of a mystical man performing on the streets in India is quite common, but the future of a practice many see as cruel hangs in the balance... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- The Real Life Murder Mystery Encrypted in a Se ...
Do you think you can crack a cipher? Are you a good puzzle solver? If yes, you might be of great help to the FBI in solving a murder case. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Life in the Wild with Photographer Thomas Marent
An interview with amazing wildlife photographer Thomas Marent. Marent has spent most of his life in the wild, taking close-ups of sometimes dangerous animals. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- India's Tiger Population on the Rise
Great news from the World Wildlife fund (WWF)! A survey in India shows the tiger population there has increased in the last 4 years. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Perfect Bloody Mary Explained by Science
The perfect Bloody Mary explained by science. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
- Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
- Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...
[photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...
- A Hawk Reappraises the Afghan War
Bing West’s “The Wrong War” By BRIAN M. DOWNING Bing West, a marine veteran and assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, has written extensively on American soldiers in various wars from the Vietnam War, in which he served, to ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His many b ...
- (Conference to Against the Bombing of Africa ( ...
(Click Links Below to Watch) On March 31, 2011 Your World News had the opportunity to attend the Press Conference to Stop the Bombing of Africa (Libya) at the Newseum in Washington DC. This press conference was well attended by members of several different communities and organizations. It also ...
- How You Can Fight For Academic Freedom
In 1983, professor William Cronon made his career with Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, a seminal study of how European settlers transformed the ecosystem of early America. Nearly thirty years later, the now distinguished Cronon, President of American Hi ...
- End of Life Care, Who Should Decide?
But she insisted on dialysis, saying, “Some life is better than no life.” Really? Maybe, Maybe not. When I was a nurse I came to realize we are good at what we do. In the field, we could bring people back from death. Of course, we did not always bring back the whole patient, but [...]
- Libyan Liberation – Is there Another Way?
� By Kathleen Barry With its call for regime change even before the Libyans began to rebel, American hypocrisy has been looming large over the U.S. war with Libya. UN resolution 1973 was its pretext, humanitarian intervention its justification. No doubt, humanitarian intervention is urgently n ...
- The FDA and the Fukushima Fallout
The FDA is disingenuous in its attempt to compare the radiation from a major nuclear accident to radiation exposures in everyday life.
- Response to Juan Cole On Libya
With the military intervention underway, our job now is to make sure it does not escalate into full-scale invasion, and to try to end it as soon as possible. And then to work as hard as we can to support the efforts to consolidate and expand the extraordinary accomplishments of the uprisings of ...
- Is Libya A Litmus Test For The Arab World?
The debate over Libya does not break down along ideological lines. Linda Wertheimer talks to two liberals who disagree over whether the U.S. should be intervening in Libya. Phyllis Bennis, the director of the New Internationalism Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, opposes the allied mi ...
- Arming Libya's Rebels: Overdue Idea or 'Disast ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the U.S. has not yet decided whether to send weapons to Libya's struggling opposition movement. Jim Lehrer discusses the arms issue with the Institute for Policy Studies' Emira Woods and Mansour El-Kikhia of the University of Texas at San An ...
- End this Cynical Anti-Immigrant Program, Save ...
The cynically named Secure Communities program threatens to make every cop in the country part of an immigration dragnet.
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Jennie-O Turkey Burgers Sold at Sam's Clubs Re ...
The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services notified FSIS of a patient diagnosed with salmonellosis caused by Salmonella serotype Hadar. The investigation expanded to include 12 people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Washington, and Wi ...
- New T.V. Show - "Foods that can Kill You"
When I am not traveling the world in search of the last Foodborne Illness Outbreak or trying to prevent the next one, I try to spend time with my kids. My youngest, Sydney (a.k.a. Squid) is an animal lover, so we tend to watch some episode of “Animal Planet” before she (more likely me) falls as ...
- Jennie-O Turkey Salmonella Hadar Recall Linked ...
Jennie-O Turkey Store, a Willmar, Minn. establishment, is recalling approximately 54,960 pounds of frozen, raw turkey burger products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. As FSIS continues its in ...
- Where did the E. coli Bologna Go?
The CDC has confirmed that 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli serotype O157:H7 have been reported from Maryland (3 cases), New Jersey (2 cases), North Carolina (1 case), Ohio (2 cases) and Pennsylvania (6 cases). The FSIS announced that Palmyra Bologna Company, of Palmyra, ...
- DeFusco's Bakery Salmonella Count Climbs
Felice Freyer reports that swabs taken from cardboard boxes where empty pastry shells were stored at DeFusco's Bakery in Johnston, tested positive for Salmonella. The boxes previously held raw eggs. If any of those eggs were infected and had broken open, residue in the boxes could have led to t ...
- Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
- Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
- Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
- Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...
- Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering ...
On March 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear the death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, se ...
- Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
- Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
- 21-Year-Old Libyan American Medical Student Mu ...
Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhannad ...
- Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Kil ...
Democracy Now! regrets to report that Mohammed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya AlHurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 interview ...
- Missing workers found dead at Japan nuke ...
Two missing Fukushima nuclear plant workers were found dead on Sunday as more highly radioactive water spilled into the sea and authorities struggled to seal the leak.
- Genetically modified cows produce 'human' ...
Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious. The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high quan ...
- Daily update from Japan | Bulletin of the ...
Over the upcoming days, Tatsujiro Suzuki will provide daily updates on the events at Japan's nuclear power plants.
- Dark matter could provide heat for starle ...
In a resent paper posted at arXiv.org and submitted to Astrophysical Journal, Dan Hooper and Jason Steffen, physicists at Fermilab in Illinois, present the theory that cold and dark planets, not heated by a star, could be heated by dark matter. In theory, this dark matter could produce ...
- How It Works: 3-D TV Without Glasses
How a series of thin near-vertical lines placed in front of a display can create a stereoscopic image
- Here’s Comes April. Don’t be a Fool.
By Les Visible We give things importance by making them important and often they are not. Humor is a valuable tool, with a great deal of defensive capacity. We should carry it with us at all times. Negative publicity can be a very good thing, especially if it is ridiculous to the degree that no ...
- North Carolina bill would prohibit cities from ...
By Stephen Webster The Republican-dominated North Carolina State Assembly this week approved a bill that would prohibit communities from upgrading their internet access, forcing individual municipalities into a private monopoly of managed broadband services by companies like Time Warner and Comc ...
- Taking Deborah Lipstadt Apart
By Gilad Atzmon The ‘deniers’, according to Lipstdat, are a lively movement that is working vigorously to “distort history and inculcate anti-Semitism”. Yet, it is far from being clear how anyone can ‘distort history’, for history is not a singular set of facts laid down and dictated by one grou ...
- President Assad’s defiant speech stuns S ...
By Nicholas Blanford, Correspondent / March 30, 2011 Beirut, Lebanon Syrian President Bashar al-Assad struck a defiant stance Wednesday, blaming “conspiracies” for two weeks of unprecedented antiregime protests and stopping short of offering a widely anticipated reform package. The content of Mr ...
- Huge Yemeni crowds press on for president̵ ...
By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen â Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters packed the streets of cities throughout Yemen Wednesday, demanding the president’s ouster and blaming him for a munitions factory blast that left at least 100 people dead. Enraged men chanted as they walked toward ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- How to Green Clean Your Bathroom Without Toxic ...
No one likes cleaning the bathroom; hair-clogged drains, moisture-loving mildew, and, ahem, the toilet all make for an unpleasant chore. No doubt your first priority when cleaning the loo is eliminating germs and soap scum, but it’s important to steer clear of harsh chemicals that can linger in ...
- Tomoko Shioyasu’s Lace-Like Tapestries Made fr ...
From a distance, Tomoko Shioyasuâs giant art pieces could be confused for immense maps of weather patterns rather than intricately cut paper tapestries. In fact, the Japanese artist is heavily influenced and inspired by the elements of nature such as the force of wind or the patterns of cells so ...
- Sarajevo Survival Tools: Ingenious DIY Designs ...
Sarajevo Survival Tools is a showcase of extraordinary ready-made objects that citizens of Sarajevo had to design and hand-make when the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina was under siege from 1992 to 1996. The exhibition’s wide range of objects expose an atmosphere of everyday struggle through ...
- Valera Velev’s “Crimson” Rocking Chair is a Po ...
What would it look like if Jackson Pollock dabbled in furniture design? Our guess is that this dynamic rocking chair by Valera Velev would be a pretty close match. Called the “Crimson Rocker,” it uses a salvaged piece of furniture as its base and is coated with a thick and vibrant layer of paint ...
- The Bachelor Chair is a Step Stool, Seat and I ...
It’s a step stool! It’s an ironing board! No, it’s a chair! Actually the humorously named Bachelor Chair is all three. Conceived in the 18th century, the wooden, nearly all-purpose piece of furniture was designed to help single men who couldn’t land a wife to maintain a proper home. Some believe ...
- Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
The world’s oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry as well as flashy gears to track celestial bodies’ motion through the heavens. The device, a 2,000-year-old assem ...
- X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist’s Cover-Up
ANAHEIM, California — Experimenting with a vivacious blonde, only to settle instead on a somber brunette, is an old, clichéd storyline â in fact, itâs at least 200 years old. A new analysis of a 19th century painting reveals that the artist first depicted a blonde with purple ribbons in he ...
- Bats Are Worth at Least $3 Billion Per Year
Insect-eating bats are worth at least $3 billion — perhaps as much as $54 billion — per year to U.S. agriculture alone, say biologists who evaluated their ecological contributions. With bats threatened by careless wind-turbine development in major flyways and, more pressingly, by the new and dr ...
- Not Even Breathing Is Safe in Iraq
ANAHEIM — As if enemy fire, IEDs and suicide bombers werenât enough, U.S. soldiers in Iraq also must contend with air thatâs laden with heavy metals and lung-ravaging particles, researchers reported March 30 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. Exposure to particles of th ...
- Spacecraft Sees Earth Eclipse the Fiery Sun
This spectacular image of the half-blocked sun was captured March 29 when the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory slipped behind the Earth. SDO shoots dazzling photos and videos of the sun from a point 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface. Twice a year, the spacecraft enters an eclipse season whe ...
- HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
- Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
- Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
- Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
- The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
- Updating the Definitive Bagram Prisoner List & ...
My apologies. I have been so busy with other projects that I have let my attention wander from Bagram in recent months, which is unwise when this particular prison — America’s largest prison in Afghanistan — is not only a legal black hole that makes Guantánamo look like a facility that is tra ...
- Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It&# ...
The gulf between what’s happening on the ground in the Middle East and the way it is perceived by the US intelligence services — as well as the gulf between how critics perceive America’s counterterrorism policies in the Middle East, and how those policies are perceived by US intelligence — were ...
- Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is ...
If I was an American lawyer who had fought for many years to secure habeas corpus rights for the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — in other words, the right to ask an impartial judge to rule on my captors’ reasons for slinging me in a legal black hole and leaving me to rot [...]
- Amina Masood Janjua, Champion of Pakistan̵ ...
Yesterday, while cross-posting a perceptive and shocking Guardian article by Declan Walsh about the state-sanctioned disappearances and murders of would-be separatists and critics of Pakistani policy in the vast tribal area of Balochistan, bordering Afghanistan and Iran, it occurred to me that, ...
- Torture and Murder in Balochistan: Declan Wals ...
Coming up tomorrow are new articles about Guantánamo and habeas corpus, and US intelligence and the Middle East, but to fill the vacuum today, here at Andy Worthington, I’m straying into the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands and cross-posting a distressing but extremely informative article from the ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- Feds Push to Destroy White Supremacist Hal Tur ...
Imprisoned neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner, one of the most vitriolic racists in America, who routinely suggested killing his enemies, may lose a bit of his venom if federal attorneys are successful in their proposition to destroy his guns. Following his conviction in December, U.S. District Judg ...
- Far-Right African Americans Chosen to Testify ...
Tomorrow, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing at the Rayburn House Building entitled, “Making Immigration Work for American Minorities.” On the witness list are two figures whose views of immigrants are less than charitable: Carol Swain, an African-Am ...
- Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...
- Black Extremists Blast Obama’s Decision to Wea ...
President Obama’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to cripple dictator Muammar Qaddaffy’s ability to combat rebels trying to topple his regime didn’t sit well with two American black nationalist leaders who consider the long-time strongman a friend and ally. “Now you may laugh, but in a ...
- Arrest Reported in Spokane Terror Bombing Attempt
A significant break in the Martin Luther King Day backpack bomb investigation in Spokane occurred this morning when an FBI SWAT team executed a search warrant and reportedly made an arrest in the small northeastern Washington town of Addy. FBI officials weren’t immediately available for comment, ...
- Lawmakers Challenge the Effectiveness of Absti ...
Our nation is potentially one step closer to seeing an end to Abstinence-Only Education. Earlier this month, legislation was re-introduced in Congress seeking an end to this limited form of sexuality education. The bill is entitled the "Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Progra ...
- Jackson, Michigan Hires Human Resources Direct ...
Say there's a person who believes that LGBT people deserve no legal protections from discrimination, who believes that LGBT people don't deserve basic civil rights, and who advocates "ex-gay" therapy -- the dangerous practice of trying to "cure" people of their sexual orientation. Would you expe ...
- eBay Shuts Down Korean Pet Sales, Still Welcom ...
The World Society for the Protection of Animals just announced a victory for companion animals in Korea — eBay has agreed to shut down pet sales on its Korean site, Auction.co.kr. WSPA member organization, Korea Animal Rights Advocates, has been campaigning against online pet sales, citing that ...
- April 7 Lobby Day to STOP the War on Women
The anti-choice leadership of the U.S. House of Representative is waging a War on Women. The latest attack: a bill that could subject survivors of sexual assault who choose abortion care to "rape audits" by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to Mother Jones, H.R.3, the extreme “Stupak ...
- No Safe Levels of Pollution in East Texas
Linda Tucker is a real Texan lady who won't take no for an answer.� She has a rare form of non-smoker's lung cancer, and she knows exactly why she has it. She can see the conveyor belt for a ignite mine, the Monticello strip mine, from her home. She can see the toxic dust created from the strip ...
- Barack Obama's on Thin Green Ice
President Barack Obama's relationship with environmentalists sits on thin ice after a major league meltdown over whether he will really defend their biggest demand: EPA climate change rules. Tensions have crossed into the danger zone between the two camps after a year of cross-ups, including the ...
- Radioactive Water From Japan's Fukushima Plant ...
Radioactive water from Japan's quake-striken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is leaking into the sea, its operator said. The 20cm (8in) crack in a containment pit under reactor two may be the source of recent radiation in coastal waters, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) officials said. Hidehiko Nish ...
- US Embassy in Baghdad to Double Staff
"We'll be doubling our size if all of our plans go through and if we receive the money from Congress in 2011 and then again in 2012," James Jeffrey, the US ambassador in Iraq, said. He said the staff would increase "from 8,000 plus personnel that we have now to roughly double that by 2012," addi ...
- Fighting Rages in Ivory Coast, 800 dead in West
ABIDJAN - Soldiers of Ivory Coast's rival leaders battled for the main city Abidjan on Saturday, clashing by the presidential palace and state TV offices in a conflict so brutal that 800 people have died in one smaller town alone. Advancing soldiers backing Alassane Ouattara, who U.N.-certified ...
- Liberals Among Fiercest Libya Critics
As President Obama struggles to sell a contentious Libya strategy to a skeptical Congress, Capitol Hill's most liberal voices have emerged as some of the fiercest critics. read more
- Celebrate April Fool's Day All Weekend with Th ...
April Fool's Day doesn't have to end on April 1st. If you want some fun DIY projects for the weekend, here are a few you can put together that are kind of like April Fool's Day jokes of their own. More��
- From the Tips Box: Firefox Back Button, Nail B ...
Readers offer their best tips for moving through your recent history in Firefox, avoiding a nail biting habit, and making sure you don't send any embarrassing emails. More��
- This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
This week we made clever use of our spare thumb drives, considered switching to Firefox from Chrome, had some fun with a few harmless geek pranks, backed up our hard drives, and much more. Here's a quick look back. More�� ...
- Use Google Docs for Powerful, Collaborative Sc ...
College students are probably already familiar with Google Docs' collaborative tools for projects, but weblog HackCollege shows us how great it can be for simple note taking during class, too. More��
- Social Browser RockMelt Updates, Improves Chat ...
Windows/Mac: RockMelt, the new Chromium-based social networking browser, updated today to add improved Facebook chat, real-time Twitter updates, a bookmark-and-read-later function, and support for Chromium 10. More�� ...
- Battle brewing in Franklin on proposed water-s ...
A 24-year-old man is facing drug charges after police responded to a Moutain Avenue home and found... - 8:18 am All township schools are operating on a two-hour delay this morning due to inclement weather.
- Delhi: Govt open to privatization of water
New Delhi Municipal Council has proposed a 24x7 water supply in its areas. With water in such short supply across the capital - many residents go without even a 30-minute supply daily - one would think it criminal to provide continuous water to the VIPs in central Delhi.
- Battle brewing in Franklin on proposed water-s ...
All township schools are operating on a two-hour delay this morning due to inclement weather. - 6:28 am MORRIS TWP. - 5:24 am
- P3 water proposal goes before Abbotsford and M ...
On Monday night, the issue of water takes centre stage at council meetings in both Abbotsford and Mission. A new water system – estimated to cost $300 million – is needed by 2015, to augment the current Norrish Creek water supply. Up for debate is how to fund the project.
- DeStefano gets an earful at 1st New Haven comm ...
NEW HAVEN — At his first community budget meeting, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was barraged Thursday night with questions about proposals to privatize school custodial services and impose a storm water fee.
- Omagh bomb: police chief pays tribute to slain ...
Northern Ireland chief constable calls Ronan Kerr, 25, a 'modern-day hero' and says his death is a 'tragedy for Omagh'The head of Northern Ireland's police force has described the death of a police constable killed in a car bomb as a "tragedy for Omagh" and paid tribute to the 25-year-old office ...
- Chinese police detain Ai Weiwei
Officials stopped outspoken artist at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded studioChina's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.The 53-year-old, who designed the Olympic Bird's Nest sta ...
- Plane develops hole in roof mid-flight
Southwest Airlines grounds 80 Boeing 737-300s after Flight 812 develops 6ft hole in fuselage mid-flightA "gunshot-like sound" woke Brenda Reese as her Southwest Airlines flight cruised at 36,000ft (11,000m). Looking up, she could see the sky through a hole torn in the cabin roof.The Boeing 737 l ...
- Fulham v Blackpool - live
�� Bash F5 or use our auto-refresher for the latest updates �� Click here for today's other latest scores �� Send your thoughts to john.ashdown@guardian.co.uk �� Or get in touch via TwitterPeep! Peeeeeep!!! And a jaunty old half comes to an end.43 min: Grandin spanks a shot at goal but the formi ...
- Northern Ireland rocked as car bomb kills poli ...
Booby trap bomb kills 25-year-old officer preparing to drive to work as David Cameron condemns 'wicked and cowardly' attackDissident republican terrorists have killed a young police officer in Omagh. The victim was only a schoolboy when the worst atrocity of Northern Ireland's Troubles was visit ...
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- Refining the sixth great extinction
Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction. In ...
- More Politicians Who Have Sunk Beyond Redemption
Yesterday I wrote about how if Barack Obama hadn't already lowered himself beyond redemption he did when he forced P. J. Crowley to resign for his criticism of the torture of whistle-blower Bradley Manning. The Harvard constitutional lawyer, Barack Obama, has been "assured" by government lawyers ...
- Oh Jesus Christ
Liberal Bloggers who are creaming themselves over Ryan Dolby (the former NDP candidate for Elgin-Middlesex-London)'s decision to withdraw and prevent a split-vote from giving the riding to the harpercons, ... could you please take the five seconds of thought necessary to not make this another ep ...
- While We're Asking harper About his Coalition ...
This comes via "Impolitical" - "Harper then and now on costing of legislation" Mr. Stephen Harper (Calgary West, Ref.): Mr. speaker, it is a pleasure today to debate Bill C-214, the program cost declaration act tabled by the hon. member for Durham. Let me take a few minutes to outline the pur ...
- HAH! Read the Pathetic harpercons Weeping and ...
With a hat-tip to "Mr. Sinister," I give you this Chronicle-Herald editorial - "Stop Harper-ventilating": We’re talking about the "reckless, unprincipled coalition" that Mr. Harper has invented as his political opponent and chief whipping boy in the 2011 campaign and the underlying attitude th ...
- On the Firing of P. J. Crowley
As most of you know, Barack Obama has fired State Department spokesperson P. J. Crowley for his statements on the torture of Bradley Manning. Calling Manning's torture ""ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid," raised the ire of the detestable public relations creature that is Barack Obama. L ...
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- Withdrawal issues: NATO countries on the futur ...
According to “Withdrawal issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe,” a recently released report by peace advocacy group IKV Pax Christi, there is sufficient political will within NATO to end the deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Eur ...
- Let’s Make the Stealth Fighters an Election Issue
Yes, I can donate $25 to stop the stealth fighters Dear peace supporter, It’s been a pitched media battle with Harper’s Conservatives and his corporate defence lobby since I last wrote you. And as you will read below, it’s about billions of dollars in military sales, deceit, corporate and govern ...
- Canadian general to lead Libya mission
Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard has been tapped to lead the no-fly and arms-embargo elements of the Libya intervention now that NATO has agreed to run those operations (Daniel Leblanc, “Canadian general to take command of NATO mission in Libya,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2011). Howev ...
- Now not a good time to purchase F-35s: poll
According to the latest CTV/Globe/Nanos Poll, when asked about the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 jet fighters, 68% of Canadians believe that now is not the right time to purchase the aircraft. Canadians identified healthcare as their number one unprompted issue of concern. 29% of r ...
- Military budget growth set to continue
The new federal budget, presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, confirms last year’s pledge of somewhat delayed, but continued, growth in Canada’s military spending. The chart above, drawn from last year’s budget documents, depicts the continued upward path of Canadian military sp ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-1-11
Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind the American and UN plot to accelerate the need for a one world governing body and one world currency. Self Help: Financial Freedom Is A Decision Away Lose A Pound Of Pure Fat A DAY! Change Your DNA Get Rid Of The Toxins Health: HFCS Prompts Considerably Mor ...
- Fox News Exec Linked Obama To Socialism On Air ...
April 1st, 2011 HuffingtonPost.com A Fox News executive was caught on tape saying he pushed the notion that Barack Obama was a socialist on air–even though he thought the “premise” was “far-fetched.” Media Matters obtained audio of Bill Sammon, Fox News’ Washington managing editor, speaking on a ...
- Government Protects Employees Who Watch Porn o ...
April 1st, 2011 AOL Jobs By: Lisa Johnson Mandell It looks like employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) might not be able to get away with murder, but they can get away with downloading and watching massive amounts of pornography while on the job. When word got out that they we ...
- Obama Signs Secret Order Authorizing Support F ...
April 1st, 2011 TodayOnline.com By: Reuters President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorising covert United States government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters yesterday. Mr Obama signed the order, known as a pres ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-29-11
Today, Kevin explains how natural supplements, like honey and apple cider vinegar, can improve your health and even reverse the aging process. Self Help: Make Food Allergies Vanish Get Rid of Depression Give Your Support Health: Leading Experts Rethinking Food Allergy Causes New Blood Tests Spot ...
- Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
- Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
- Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
- Break the Silence Congo week
The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
- Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
- The fight for Libya
Al Jazeera reports: US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told. An unnamed rebel source related how he had undergone training in military techniques at a “secret facility” in eastern Lib ...
- Can Israel survive without anti-Semitism?
Avraham Burg writes: In a very short time we will no longer be able to evade the real questions: Are we capable of apprehending our existence without the hatred of others? Do we really need external anti-Semitism as a means to define our inner identity? Think for a moment about a world in which ...
- It’s the plutocracy, stupid
M J Rosenberg writes: I received an email from a Capitol Hill aide who thinks my criticism of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby, is overly simplistic. He doesn’t dispute the fact that AIPAC has a disproportionate influence on our Middle East foreign policy. He argues, however, that AIPAC is ...
- Libya offers lessons for both Washington and a ...
It’s hard to observe Washington without concluding that it fosters a political culture in which stupidity — or at least feigned stupidity — is a prerequisite of success. Pity the politician who might be so naive as to imagine that the appearance of intelligence would boost his or her political f ...
- Libya’s challenge: democracy under the gun
At Open Democracy, Mark Taylor writes: The demonstrators at the heart of the Arab spring have redefined the political space in their countries and as a result laid down a new dividing-line in the region. No longer is the political contest between east and west, Muslim against the rest, or pro- ...
- Former EPA researcher Alan Carlin publishes hi ...
My New Paper On The Economics And Science Of Climate Change Guest Post by Alan Carlin On Friday my new paper on climate change science and economics was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, a … Continue reading →
- The big self parodying “climate change b ...
Longtime WUWT reader Jimbo writes in Tips and Notes: The following has been partly referenced and inspired by Numberwatch. The differences between this list and Numberwatch are: 1) I have tried to select my sources only from peer reviewed letters, … Continue reading →
- Leaked document shows how Australian governmen ...
Professor Bob Carter writes: A rather remarkable thing happened in Australia last week, which was the leaking of an internal government document issued to all Labor MPs (probably from the PM Gillardâs office) with 16 pages of suggestions as to … Continue reading →
- “Science has been sitting on his critiqu ...
On Recent Criticisms of My Research By Dr. Roy Spencer One of the downsides of going against the supposed âconsensus of scientistsâ on global warming â other than great difficulty in getting your research funded and published â is that … Continue reading →
- UHI, this is London
Since BEST claims they will work to take UHI into consideration, it seems worthwhile to highlight this new paper. Guess who’s a co-author? Phil Jones of UEA’s CRU. Image above from Arizona State, Center for Environmental Science Applications (CESA). From … Continue reading →
- Cornel West and the fight against injustice
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish on Mar 29, 2011 The provocative US intellectual discusses issues of race, civil liberties and Barack Obama’s leadership. Riz Khan – Cornel West and the fight against injustice see Cornel West: No Lie Can Live Forever! Class Warfarin: Dosage ...
- Chris Hedges: It’s Over, They Won
with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 2, 2011 madashellinamerica on Apr 1, 2011 Adam Klugman speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges, March 26th, 2011 Chris Hedges – Mad as Hell in America Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter cove ...
- Class Warfarin: Dosage, Part I by Joseph Natoli
by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad April 2, 2011 Why Americans are not upset by the steady siphoning of wealth from the many to the very few is a question that confounds, more confounding than probing into America’s love affair with the automobile because class and conflict are word ...
- Helen Caldicott vs George Monbiot: “Pres ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! March 30, 2011 âPrescription for Survivalâ: A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott The crisis in Japan has refueled the rigorous global debate about the v ...
- Ongoing Supremacy of White Supremacy by Steven ...
by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com April 2, 2011 In a BuzzFlash commentary dated Aug. 25, 2009. (See here) I pointed out that the South had six principal war aims in the Civil War: 1. The preservation of the institution of African and African-Am ...
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Tsunamis Smash Japan It's being called the biggest earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history, magnitude 8.8. In the footage below, cities, towns, entire farms and hundreds of people are swept away by tsunami waves plowing into the Miyagi coast, pushing debris kilometres inland. Impossible t ...
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A stunning view of Earth taken by the Russian satellite Elektro-L : More Earth images here, including a fascinating read on why Russian & American images of Earth from space look so different.
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Why Are TV Reporters Suddenly Speaking Absolute Gibberish On Air? And no, I don't mean the quality of their journalism. An interesting two part CNN investigation into RF (radio frequency) weapons : Part Two :
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Top Cancer Institute Says Cannabis Can Reduce Tumours, Then Changes Its Mind The United States' National Cancer Institute finally comes clean on cannabis : 'The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, ...
- Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
The world’s oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry as well as flashy gears to track celestial bodies’ motion through the heavens. The device, a 2,000-year-old assem ...
- X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist’s Cover-Up
ANAHEIM, California — Experimenting with a vivacious blonde, only to settle instead on a somber brunette, is an old, clichéd storyline â in fact, itâs at least 200 years old. A new analysis of a 19th century painting reveals that the artist first depicted a blonde with purple ribbons in he ...
- Bats Are Worth at Least $3 Billion Per Year
Insect-eating bats are worth at least $3 billion — perhaps as much as $54 billion — per year to U.S. agriculture alone, say biologists who evaluated their ecological contributions. With bats threatened by careless wind-turbine development in major flyways and, more pressingly, by the new and dr ...
- Not Even Breathing Is Safe in Iraq
ANAHEIM — As if enemy fire, IEDs and suicide bombers werenât enough, U.S. soldiers in Iraq also must contend with air thatâs laden with heavy metals and lung-ravaging particles, researchers reported March 30 at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. Exposure to particles of th ...
- Spacecraft Sees Earth Eclipse the Fiery Sun
This spectacular image of the half-blocked sun was captured March 29 when the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory slipped behind the Earth. SDO shoots dazzling photos and videos of the sun from a point 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface. Twice a year, the spacecraft enters an eclipse season whe ...
- Moshé Machover: The long road to the Arab revo ...
There is a genuine problem, and it would be unfortunate to appear callous and uncaring about the fate of those in Benghazi who were penned in and faced the terrible prospect of being massacred...... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- HRW: New laws marginalize Palestinian Arab cit ...
Human Rights Watch Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson: "These laws threaten Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel and others with yet more officially sanctioned discrimination... Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
- Poll: Young Israelis moving much farther to th ...
Study shows increase in number of Jewish youths that put defining Israel as a Jewish state as a number one goal, while fewer youths recognize the importance of Israel's identity as a democratic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Palestinian cleared of rape charges: The polic ...
Four Palestinians released after being accused of rape, sexual abuse by 11-year-old boy from Bnei Brak; one of the men tells Army Radio that police beat them and didn't tell them allegations against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s new military ally
It used to be that when you counted off Israel's top allies, the obvious names came to mind. Germany, the UK, and of course, the US. These days, Canada seems determined to soar to the top of that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Scientists Identify KRAS Rearrangements in Met ...
Scientists have uncovered a genetic characteristic of metastatic prostate cancer that defines a rare sub-type of this disease. These findings are published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, which will debut at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2 ...
- Heart Drug Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk; Holds Po ...
Johns Hopkins scientists and their colleagues paired laboratory and epidemiologic data to find that men using the cardiac drug, digoxin, had a 24 percent lower risk for prostate cancer. The scientists say further research about the discovery may lead to use of the drug, or new ones that work th ...
- Cancer Discovery Publishes Paradigm-Shifting R ...
Cancer Discovery, the newest journal in the robust publication program of the American Association for Cancer Research, will debut at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held here from April 2-6.
- Digoxin May be a Possible Treatment for Prosta ...
Scientists have identified digoxin as a possible therapy for prostate cancer, using a combination of laboratory science and epidemiology that is unprecedented in its cooperative nature.
- Immune System May Guide Chemotherapy for Breas ...
A study published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, debuting here at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held April 2-6, showed how evaluating the immune response in the tumor microenvironment may help researchers better target therapy in br ...
- Which is the Guilty Dog?
This evidence might not hold up in court, but the perpetrator seems clear.
- Airport Security Scans: What Would Your Doctor Do?
The Transportation Security Administration claims that backscatter scans are safe. But what do medical professionals personally feel about it? Many doctors don�t opt out of the scans.� Dr. Drew Pinsky calls the amount of radiation "inconsequential."� However, some researchers question wheth ...
- Twin Babies in a Conversation
Whatever they’re saying, it seems very important.
- Despite Assurances on Milk, Radiation Fear Lingers
The possibility of radiation contamination in milk following Japan�s nuclear power plant problems is causing concern among many people.� Authorities have issues repeated public assurances, but distrust still lingers. The alarm began when federal officials announced that tests had detected a tra ...
- Is this the Key to Living Longer than 150 Year ...
Thousands of studies have been published on telomeres and telomerase. They are known to maintain genomic stability, prevent the inappropriate activation of DNA damage pathways, and regulate cellular aging. In humans, telomere length and integrity plays a role in diseases, disease susceptibility ...
- 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 ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The Locavore debate, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- Your daily aggregation
Think how happy the Reverend Terry Jones must be today. He burned a Koran while nobody was looking, publicized the hell out of his actions and now seven UN workers and eight Afghans are dead as a direct and predictable result. John Amato:Â I’m not justifying the murder spree that just happened i ...
- No April Fools about it, we’re year-roun ...
Krugman: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.” That, according to Herbert Hoover, was the advice he received from Andrew Mellon, the Treasury secretary, as America plunged into depression. To be fair, there’s some question about whether Mellon actuall ...
- Late links
New stuff from Matt Taibbi! including whores, whores and more whores. More: Recordkeeping? Not when it’s your money! Economy about to re-swoon? Supreme Borks split on gender lines over WalMart? Artists question winner-take-all rules Scheer on Obama and Immelt - News: Privatization WTF?: prison i ...
- As mean as necessary
It’s wrong to call Justice Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom. For starters, only African Americans have a right to make such an accusation, but more importantly, Clarence Thomas is more properly known as an Uncle Clarence. An Uncle Clarence is someone who gets a lot of help getting from nowhere to so ...
- Making a list
Incredible. Even the establishment media, which makes its money by not noticing these kinds of things, is beginning to take notice of the Republicans’ insane our-way-IS-the-highway-and-everyone-else-is-roadkill approach to governance. From today’s NYTimes: House Republicans have already won so m ...
- Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart
Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart Phoenix, AZ – Sometimes there’s a big gap between perception and reality when judging your own health. According to a recent American Heart Association (AHA) survey, nearly 40 percent of Americans thought they were in ideal heart health, when in reality, less tha ...
- Triangle Fire Anniversary Today
Triangle Fire Anniversary Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 New York sweatshop workers and led to government-enforced workplace safety rules, as well as strengthening the growing labor movement of the time. Ther ...
- Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for ...
Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for Rural Arizona, Small Biz Phoenix, AZ – A new report says small businesses and uninsured Arizonans living outside the state's metro areas have a huge stake in the one-year old Affordable Care Act. Comments from the report's author, Jon Bailey of the ...
- Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range N ...
Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range Next to National Monument Flagstaff, AZ – Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners are moving forward with plans for a regional shooting range within hearing distance of Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff. Opponents say the gunfire will dist ...
- A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Un ...
A New Way for Arizonans to Report, Research Unsafe Products Phoenix, AZ - A new website promises open access to product safety information, including reports about potential problems and manufacturers' responses to them. It's www.SaferProducts.gov, launched last Friday (March 11) by the Consumer ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
 Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western Concern For Sexual Assault in Libya By The AngryindianApril Fools Day, 2011 �Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.�-George Orwell In the capitalist wor ...
- 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 ...
- The Right to Forget
Ahmed Timol died when my mother was still young. She knew him- they all did, she said- he had gotten himself involved in politics and things had changed for him. 'But weren't you horrified? Didn't it scare you? Weren't you sad?' I was in school, and I had just read the article of him ...
- Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberat ...
Ghaddafi a hero for African rights and liberation - English pravda.ru: "In 2005 in the basement of the United States Capitol at a meeting convened by Congressman John Conyers on the subject of the 'Downing Street Memo,' Ray McGovern uttered the following truth: he testified that 'the United Stat ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- Earth Hour Awards 2011
Here comes another Earth Hour, but with a new twist! The inaugural Earth Hour Awards will celebrate those who go beyond the hour…
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- Zebra eating hay
The zebra's crazy stripes are one of the most fascinating skin colouration and patterns amongst all the African fauna (wildlife/fauna.html). Bicolour stripes help break up the outline of a zebra’s body, making them especially difficult to identify at twilight which is the preferred hunting ti ...
- Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...
- How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
- Please report any unattended human rights
I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
- Israeli solidarity activist interrogated by po ...
Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli activists working alongside Palestinians for justice. For this she rewarded with ...
- And it’s 1,2,3, what are we fighting for…
- Google Page Speed now a website
Now you can test page and loading speed of websites online with Google Page Speed rather than by using a plugin. there’s lots of highly useful info here for web developers.
- Undermining the Idea GateKeepers
Juan Hijo Check out LeVar Buron’s thoughts in the video above. He has has been a champion for challenging people to think, discover, and ask “what if?” for decades now. In the Web 2.0 Social web, we are increasingly able to find and choose messages that make sense and resonate; conversations tha ...
- Radioactive water from reactor 2 leaking into sea
Somehow Tepco just got around to discovering an 8 inch crack in a concrete pit at a Fukushima reactor 2 that is leaking radioactive water into the ocean. This came days after radiation levels in the ocean were found to be high and after Tepco initially said it was impossible for water to be leak ...
- What they should have done on Day One at Fukushima
One of world’s largest concrete pumps is headed to Fukushima.
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- Trouble with Thunderbird
I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.  I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials. The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...
- Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
I’ve been thrown out of better.  It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.  Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.  Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...
- Peanuts
Recently there have been some posts on the internet which have had my attention. First, is a series of posts by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit that have led to another vastly expanded version of hide the decline.  It turns out that Briffa’s data wasn’t only truncated in recent years but al ...
- WTF
Do you realize that America just bombed a country by authority of the president, killing people without a single US address as to the reason, intent, or expected involvement from the president? Sure there was a UN resolution – minimally discussed, but why are America and UK throwing billions ...
- In Case You Missed It
Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Fat as Class War in Arizona
Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
- Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
- A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
- Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
- Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network J ...
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at TinyCo, Pocket Gems, Digital Chocolate, Betfair, Playfish, an ...
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- Facebook Roundup: White House, Insider Trading ...
Facebook Sets Sights on Obama Aide Gibbs – Former Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is in talks to work for Facebook to help manage the companyâs communications ahead of the rumored 2012 public offering. [Image Via Pete Souza] Insider Trading Scandal Led to Termination of Facebook E ...
- Facebook Running Google AdSense Ads to Gain Users
Facebook has recently been running Google AdSense ads informing viewers that they can “Find Friends on Facebook” by registering for an account. The ads, likely part of a very limited test, could be a sign that Facebook is looking for ways to continue its growth in certain key markets. A strong c ...
- Top 25 Facebook Games for April 2011
April kicks off with 14 games shrinking in terms of monthly active users and 15 with fewer daily active users than they enjoyed a month ago. Between the two charts, generated using AppData‘s Top Applications Leaderboard, we see that Mafia Wars sits higher in MAU versus DAU as the result of a lat ...
- Redress Information & Analysis needs your help
Redress Information & Analysis calls upon fellow fighters for truth and justice to make a donation to help it remain secure and resilient in the face of rising costs and growing attacks by Zionists, racists and fascists. "...over the past two years our readership has grown - and continues to gr ...
- "Perpetual hell" of the Palestinian refugee camps
Stuart Littlewood turns the spotlight on the appalling conditions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon - robbed of their inalienable right to a homeland by the Israeli occupation and denied their civil and human rights by the Lebanese authorities.
- Will NATO protect unarmed humanitarian activis ...
Stuart Littlewood asks whether Britain and its NATO allies will live by the principles they have applied to the Gaddafi regime in Libya and deploy warships to protect the flotilla scheduled to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza in the face of Israeli threats to use snipers and attack dogs against ...
- Uncomfortable truths in Palestine: indictment ...
In the first of a four-part series entitled "Palestine and the United States: A Battle Lost, A War to Win", Alan Sabrosky views the edifice of Zionist influence and control in the US, as a precursor to defining the parameters of a strategy focusing on cracking this edifice and thereby saving bot ...
- The left's double standards on Libya
Jeffrey Blankfort highlights the hypocrisy of some leftists in Europe and the USA who, in the struggles they wage from their armchairs or behind their computers against the bogeyman of US imperialism, are happy to treat Libyan civilians as expendables and to support murderous Libyan dictator Mua ...
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- Being Proud of What We Are Not
A Few Notes on Boiling Frogs Post in Wrapping Up Our Countdown I think it is appropriate to revisit the purpose and some of the main characteristics of Boiling Frogs Post as we are getting ready to wrap up and finalize our countdown month. Usually, as we have done, organizations and various foru ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 4 & Still Co ...
Updates On Our Annual Fundraising & A Few Notes on my relocation Journey Let me start with a big personal âthank youâ to all of you who have generously donated to keep this site alive – before my other brief updates, and before I run out of my pre-purchased internet minutes. As you know I [...]
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- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
- Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
- Les Twins — Hip Hop Dance Straight Outta ...
At the beginning of the year, I was on Facebook when I noticed a post of young twin hip hop dancers. I was blown away by their talent as I watched the brothers Larry and Laurent start actually dancing. Fantastic doesn’t even begin to describe them! There are many dancers out there and most of [...]
- Quote(s) of the Day
via Lonnie Plaxico: John Henrik Clarke “Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that… they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” Krishnamurti/Freedom from the Known, p.11: DISORDER :”The primary cause of disorder in ourselves i ...
- Blackout of humanitarian crisis in Cote d̵ ...
In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring t ...
- “What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Mi ...
Op-ed submission by Project 21 As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and civil rights lobbyists have perpetua ...
- “How Much Do We Need Greenhouse Gas Regu ...
Article submission from Nicholas Scott, a health, safety, and political advocate with a passion for environmental responsibility. He believes there should be a greater focus on the present risks of environmental toxins to urban communities with close proximity to dense areas of industry. With th ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
- Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...
- DocumentCloud Enables Public Searches, Embedda ...
We quietly opened DocumentCloud's catalog to public searches in January, and we've been working since to do more with the great documents that reporters have added to our catalog. When Vancouver Sun investigative reporter Chad Skelton asked if there was a way to automate display of the growi ...
- How Project Argo Members Communicate Across Ti ...
Project Argo is an ambitious undertaking. It involves networking NPR with 12 member stations spanning three time zones with a different mix of bloggers and editors at each station. The stations cover a variety of regionally focused, nationally resonant topics that range from climate change to lo ...
- Lessons From Phase 1 of the Ushahidi Evaluatio ...
This post was written by Melissa Tuly and Jennifer Chan. This is the second in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. The Ushahidi-Kenya evaluation is off to a strong ...
- Using Technology to Aid Disaster Relief for Ja ...
The March 11 earthquake in Japan triggered a flurry of concern in the Media Lab community at MIT. The natural desire to help was amplified by the fact that the disaster had hit many of our friends close to home in a very literal sense. Most messages suggested donations to support relief organiza ...
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- Internet Hate - Facebook and Zuckerberg Do an ...
Following widespread criticism, a Facebook page calling for a third Palestinian intifada against Israel was removed on March 29. On the Facebook page, Palestinians were urged� to launch street protests following Friday May 15 and begin an uprising as modelled by similar uprisings in Tunisia, Egy ...
- The Battle for Libya - Congress Shell-Shocked ...
Congress returns to Washington this week to confront a scenario few lawmakers envisioned when they left town less than 10 days ago: a third U.S. war in the Arab world.The question is now: What should Congress do about it?President Obama’s sudden move to deploy American military forces in Libya c ...
- Battle for Libya - America Deploys its Million ...
In the opening days of the assault on Libya, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a barrage of at least 161 Tomahawk cruise missiles to flatten Moammar Gadhafi’s air defenses and pave the way for coalition aircraft.In fiscal terms, at a time when Congress is fighting over every doll ...
- Hawaii Tourism Officials Need to be Nimble
I was stationed in Hawaii some years ago. Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I hope Hawaii Tourism officials can be nimble enough to redirect their efforts to make up for the unfortunate lost of Japanese tourisms (see Shocked Hawaii Tourism Reps Scramble As Japanese Visits ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- How The Bizarre World of Middle East Studies M ...
Lawrence puts his hand in the flame of a match after lighting a cigarette. POTTER: Ow! It damn well hurts. LAWRENCE: Certainly, it hurts! POTTER: Well, what's the trick then? LAWRENCE: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. --"Lawrence of Arabia," the film. ...
- Judge Goldstone Disavows His Own Anti-Israel U ...
Last night, Judge Richard Goldstone published an mea culpa in the pages of the Washington Post. He trashed his own report which has been used by Israel's opponents to delegitimize the Jewish state. "We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I cha ...
- Why Do "They" Hate America? Just Listen
By Barry Rubin Why do people in certain parts of the world hate America? Some think it's because of U.S. support of Israel or other policies; some�because of American values and culture. Well, the main reason is the politics, worldview, history,�and self-interest of those involved. ...
- BREAKING!! Christian, Muslim and Jewish Leader ...
In a secret cellar underneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem leaders of all three major monotheistic faiths have been meeting for over a year to try to figure out a way to� bring peace throughout all faiths. Today they announced their solution, they have set up a committee to come up with a new n ...
- Breaking Newsbusted News: Obama Makes Speech ...
Breaking "News!!!" They said it couldn't be done, yet the lack of experience reflected in the way President Obama� performed his duties the first 2+ years of his administration may finally being replaced by some experience, you guessed it --he has taken off the training wheels and finally made a ...
- Japanese Radioactive Material Leaking into Pac ...
CNN April 2, 2011 A first attempt to plug a cracked concrete shaft that is leaking highly radioactive water into the ocean off Japan failed Saturday, so officials are now exploring alternatives, spokesmen for Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Power plant workers had been trying to fill the shaft wi ...
- NATO-led attacks kill 13 innocent Libyans
Reuters April 2, 2011 A NATO-led air strike killed 13 Libyan rebels, a rebel spokesman said on Saturday, but their leaders called for continued raids on Muammar Gaddafi’s forces despite the “regrettable incident.” In the rebel capital of Benghazi the anti-Gaddafi council also named a “crisis tea ...
- Fluoride is a Toxic Industrial Waste Product
NaturalNews.com April 1, 2011 Since the 1940′s fluoride is used in toothpaste and is added to drinking water in many countries around the world. The dental profession claims that fluoride is safe and necessary for good dental health. Fluoride is actually toxic waste from the aluminium, phosphori ...
- America’s Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya
By Michel Chossudovsky March 30, 2011 A war on Libya has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than 20 years. Using nukes against Libya was first envisaged in 1997. On April 14th 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered a series of bombings directed against Libya under “Operation El Dorado Can ...
- Keylogging Software Discovered in Samsung Laptops
CNET March 30, 2011 A security researcher says he discovered keylogging software installed on two brand-new Samsung laptops that could be used to monitor all activities on the computer remotely. Mohamed Hassan, founder of NetSec Consulting, discovered StarLogger software on Samsung laptops with ...
- Woodstock wind project opponents appeal to Sup ...
Opponents of the Spruce Mountain wind project in Woodstock last week filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, leaving an offer from the developer to donate money to the town’s elementary school in limbo. Attorney Rufus Brown, representing Friends of Spruce Mountain and other aggrie ...
- Huge eastern Oregon wind farm raises big quest ...
The gravel haulers start rolling down Oregon 74 before dawn, their air brakes bellowing under the heavy loads they ferry into the neighboring hills. Just over the rimrock of Willow Creek Valley, hard-hatted contractors scramble to pour the base pads and lay electrical cable for 338 wind turbines ...
- Lawmakers renew push to speed turbine construction
BOSTON � Gov. Deval Patrick and allied lawmakers are renewing a push to reduce the legal hurdles that have stalled some wind-power projects in Massachusetts. Their efforts were thwarted last session by lawmakers from wind-rich areas in the Western part of the state, who say the bill would erode ...
- Commonwealth Court upholds revocation of Butle ...
Butler Township had the right to revoke a zoning permit issued to the developer of a wind turbine project along Ashland Mountain, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has ruled. In an 18-page opinion and order filed Tuesday in Pottsville, the panel upheld county Judge Charles M. Miller’s rulin ...
- Hancock County towns grapple with wind turbine ...
PENOBSCOT, Maine � While plans for a major wind farm project in northern Hancock County work their way through the review and permitting process, towns in the western part of the county are developing ordinances that would locally regulate the construction of both wind turbines and communication ...
- Shit I learned in school
…because, really, I DO believe there’s a deliberate sabotage of Public Education being done simply by handing a “liberal” program over to be administered by “conservatives”. In 7th grade in Texas you’re taught Texas History. Some of it would be almost unrecognizable from a Yankee point of view. ...
- Frank Bator and Princess Lisa Czeladtko
I went to his memorial service at Marian House 6 years ago. He had died in his trailer home, alone, and the body not discovered for about a week. There were a few people attending, some of the staff at Marion House, a couple of people who knew him casually, his sister and brother… A [...]
- GE, Corporate Govt Contractor Profiteer, prese ...
…with a tax bill. for a 3.2 BILLION dollar refund. This after record profits from offshored jobs and the tax breaks from doing that hiring a bunch of new people where even those HERE won’t get full pay and benefits demanding that Unions give up pay and benefits and last, but certainly not least ...
- Buddy Gilmore, Babykilling Warmonger for Mayor?
The Cowardly Babykilling Puke is running on the strength of being a War Profiteer, at one stroke being part of cause of the economic Meltdown of America, crippling our economy for generations to come, and soiling his hands and America’s with the blood of Human Beings in the For Profit Wars Of Co ...
- 1/2 million in London in Pre-wedding drama
Demonstrating against cuts which force austerity on the poorest… but not on the richest. They’ve already (the protesters) once gotten their hands on Charles’ car with him and lovely bride Camel-face errr his lovely camel Camilla, errr never mind over cutting education. Sound familiar? What that ...
- You're Either in Sheen's Korner or You're With ...
My new t-shirt I found at Hot Topic. :) Related Info: The Sheen comments that matter Charlie Sheen and Some Facts About 9/11 for President Obama to "Deal With" Scootle's "Twenty Minutes With The President" Contest Entry Debunking dsglop's ridiculous answers to Charlie Sheen's 20 points to O ...
- Proof That Leslie Robertson Saw Molten Steel a ...
Sites like 911Myths.com and others have claimed that Leslie Robertson, one of the original WTC structural engineers, never saw molten steel at Ground Zero. However, a video clip recently released from the IC911Studies which shows a presentation given by Robertson at Stanford University shows oth ...
- Debunking the Only Bad Review of "The Mysterio ...
I've just recently finished David Ray Griffin's nearly impeccable book "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7," which I received as a gift for my birthday last month and was looking at the reviews at Amazon.com. As of this writing, there are 23 five star reviews and just a single lonel ...
- Magic, Mythology or Science?
James B. over at Screwloosechange recently commented on the debate between Richard Gage and Chris Mohr. James apparently thinks that Gage is contradicting himself by saying that explosives took down WTC7 but that thermite is an incendiary and makes no explosive sounds. From this, James concludes ...
- CFR/Kissinger: Our puppet is doing a good job ...
HAHAHAHAA! You can't make this shit up... Obama Failing as Commander in Chief Author: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy The Obama administration deserves credit for its foreign policy achievements. There has been no successful terrorist attack on U. ...
- FDA Panel Votes 8-6 In Favor of Artificial Dyes
Oh dear, we had our hopes up so high earlier this week. An advisory panel to the FDA convened for 2 days to review studies linking artificial food colorings with hyperactivity in children. Unfortunately, the panel concluded that there is no clear indication that artificial food dyes cause hypera ...
- Breaking: McDonald’s Opening “McFarmers Market ...
This morning McDonald’s has announced what could be the most disruptive move in the 60 year history of fast food. Starting in early June, approximately 1000 McDonald’s locations across the country will begin hosting farmer’s markets on their premises. From McDonald’s press release: At McDonald’s ...
- Never Eat Fast Food French Fries Again
This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Yes, you can do it! You can give up your beloved french fries and celebrate their exit from your life. Seriously. Before you start arguing with me about how you simply will never leave them – have you met “homemade sweet potato fries”? Get ...
- Dieters Rejoice!? Less Food in Every Package
Interesting writeup in the New York Times this week about the shrinking package sizes of processed foods. Turns out that the recession, along with rising costs of commodities, have brought about a sneaky habit by many manufacturers. Instead of raising the price of products, brands are selling le ...
- Check Out Abe’s Market – Online Specialty Food ...
If you’re a foodie, you probably procure at least some of your groceries from non-supermarket sources. Whether the farmers market, a local deli, or even an artisan neighbor, you discover that food lovingly made by the person you are paying is not just delicious, it has a story. That’s the idea b ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- Cyber Greenwash – Malaysia Palm Oil on the attack
Oil palms planted on recently-deforested land, Sarawak © M Ross/ Survival Malaysia’s palm oil lobby has launched a new website to counter ‘propaganda’ about the controversial industry, which has faced strong criticism from Borneo tribes and international organizations. The new industry web ...
- Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousand ...
A family stand amidst the ruins of their home © COPORWA/Survival NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa âPygmiesâ homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen their homes destroyed in recent ...
- South American Indians to receive royalties fr ...
The Quechua people of Peru first cultivated potatoes up to 3,000 years ago. © H Mason/ Survival The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know ...
- British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...
- Indians take on Amazon loggers
Ceramic pots found in the Isconahua reserve are evidence of the presence of these isolated Indians. © Pepe Villacorta / ProNaturaleza Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for ...
- BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
- Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers/beauty ...
Jeri left a question on the Suggest an Item page: I work at a beauty salon and we just got new aprons so I collected all the old black ones and all the old polyester smocks that they were going to throw away. They were just putting them in the trash so I rescued them [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle a decorative colour ...
We’re in the middle of having our bathroom replaced. It’s been a nightmare, never again etc etc – but it has had some upsides. For example, after I mentioned to the main plumber that I’d reuse the side of the old shower enclosure to make a cold frame or something, he brought me six old [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle Keurig coffee K-cups?
From one coffee-related post to another. We’ve had an email from Rose about “K-cups”: I love drinking the various flavors of Keurig coffee, but hate wasting the cups since they can’t be recycled I need suggestions on what to do. Kids crafts would be great since I have 2 little ones. I hadn’t hea ...
- Plastic-free and aerosol-free cleaning – ...
This week, we’ve had a vaguely spring cleaning inspired week here on Recycle This and looked at a few cleaning related questions – so far, reusing/recycling bleach bottles, making homemade dishcloths/pot scrubbers, and reusing/recycling air fresheners. Today though, I’d like to hear your tips an ...
- How can I reuse or recycle zip lock coffee bea ...
I had one of those “it’s amazing how things mount up” moments the other day when I opened our tea & coffee cupboard and was confronted with this: They’re all empty, flattened out version of these: John likes his coffee. To be fair, he does prefer quality rather than quantity and these represents ...
- Win A Natural Skin Care Gift Basket from EO at ...
EO wants to help you pamper yourself this autism action month. They have kindly offered us three gift baskets of their natural skin care products. Can you smell the lavender already? Their tagline? "Love Life. Live Clean." Leave a comment...
- NAA Says Autism Awareness Month Points out Nee ...
NIXA, Mo., April 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Autism Association (NAA) joins with organizations worldwide in recognizing April as Autism Awareness month. With one in 110 children now diagnosed with autism, and autism mortality rates doubling that of the...
- Evelyn Guzman CT Bus Driver with 1000+ Texts S ...
Jennifer Davila plead guilty in the case involving injury to my daughter Bella on 4/1. (I went into slight detail about the story at the end of my book.) Davila's mother was arrested for texting over 1000 times, as seen...
- Announcing Autism Science Digest from Autism One
Hot off the presses and debuting just in time for Autism Action Month! Autism Science Digest New subscriptions* placed through the end of April 2011 are eligible to win two AutismOne/Generation Rescue 2011 Conference dinner gala tickets! ($140 value; one...
- Seth Mnookin Exposes His Cursory Knowledge of ...
Managing Editor's Note: Seth Mnookin's book is riddled with errors that even basic editing should have caught. His rudimentary understanding of this complex topic is startling. That the media has latched onto him as a darling of the Vaccine Injury...
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- BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
- Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
- Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
- Trade Unions
The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...
- Truth Squad Radio: BioPirates, Toxic Chemicals ...
Deborah of Environmental Voices will join us as we discuss Biopiracy and the chemical poisoning of our planet.
- The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineering ...
Only in America can a beleaguered company with a checker past such as Monsanto's, which includes a nasty little habit of poisoning entire towns with toxic waste, battle it's way to the top of the dung heap to deliver a fatal blow to the people and planet with a deadly and insidious type of chemi ...
- EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth ...
As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.
- The Codex Alimentarius Irradiated Food Cover-up
This proposal is merely another cover mechanism for the pretense of protecting the consumer with strong regulation, while allowing industry to do just what it wants, i.e. produce high levels of irradiated food to cover up unsanitary manufacturing practices.
- Codex Alimentarius and Food Irradiation in the ...
Essentially, the food becomes mutated by this exposure, a condition which does not occur in nature, and is the cause for many forms of cancer and genetic modification. Yet, Codex pushes irradiation as if it were a great tool of disinfection with no adverse side effects at all.
- Climate Fact Of The Day – Spatial Analys ...
Journal of the American Statistical Association. September 1, 2008, 103(483): 934-947. Mikyoung Jun – Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Reto Knutti – Assistant Professor, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Swiss Federal Institute ...
- Quotation Of The Week
“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.” [...]
- No surveillance without oversight
Guardian – The FBI recently announced that its Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) has “reached its initial operating capacity”. This vast new biometrics project, for which Lockheed Martin won a $1bn contract in 2008, encompasses not only fingerprints but also, possibly, such biometrics ...
- Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D? 5 Really Goo ...
Huffington Post – I know Iâm not getting enough vitamin D, whichâas a dietitian and nutrition editor of EatingWell MagazineâI hate to admit. Except for in my coffee, I donât care much for milk (a food thatâs fortified with D). I also spend most of my weekday hours indoors behind a computer, I sl ...
- NATO Airstrike Reportedly Kills Rebels in Libya
New York Times – A NATO airstrike killed 13 rebel fighters in the battle outside the pivotal oil port of Brega, the rebels said Saturday.The deaths underscored the challenge that the Western allies and the rebels face in relying on airstrikes to push back the the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddaf ...
- Solar panels power Central Valley pistachio farm
Alongside the sprawling grove of pistachio trees at Nichols Farms near Fresno, a 6-acre solar-panel installation is now up and running. The 1-megawatt concentrating photovoltaic project, built by Bechtel Power Corp. and featuring SolFocus technology, is being called the first...
- Rare earths bill attempts to boost U.S. share ...
Congress may soon ask the U.S. to ramp up its efforts to snag a larger share of the critical global rare earths supply chain. Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would direct...
- 9th Circuit Court upholds controversial EPA de ...
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of caps on motor vehicle emissions that a coalition of environmental groups had argued failed to address hazardous air pollution faced by the 1.5 million people who live next ...
- Respiratory disease in humans linked to deaths ...
A virus that causes respiratory disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, according to a study conducted by researchers in Africa and two U.S. universities.
- It's over
Gov. Jerry Brown officially relegated California's recent drought to the record books Wednesday, issuing a proclamation rescinding a 2008 drought declaration by his predecessor. "NOW, THEREFORE, I, EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of the State of California, in accordance with...
- Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
- Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
- Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
- Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
- Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)
Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- Spanish scientists search for fuel of the future
In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have found the fuel of tomorrow: bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory.Almost 400 of the green tubes, filled with millions of microscopic algae....Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- Recycled Island to Be Built from Ocean Garbage ...
What's made of plastic, the size of Hawaii, and powered by wind and solar energy? If Dutch architect Ramon Knoester succeeds with his vision, it will be Recycled Island, a sustainable, floating society constructed from a collection of all the Pacific's...Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- 60 Slick Office Tricks for April Fools Day
Corporate culture possesses a dry, stiff and overly formal reputation � making it fertile ground for revelry once April Fool's Day rolls around. But even the most ardent prankster out there may feel uninspired when it comes to pulling a few fast ones.....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Child Sex Ratio declines in India
The Census 2011 has raised concerns in India. While the population rose to 121 crore and the literacy rate touched 74.04%, the child sex ratio declined, signaling at the existence of female foeticide. Even as the female to male ratio in the population....Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Top 5 Questions on Radiation Exposure
Japan's struggle to regain control over the nuclear power reactors damaged in the tsunami that followed a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 has people worldwide wondering and worrying about the impacts of radioactive fallout. Here's our top 5 questionsSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Stray Bullet Kills UN Staff Member in Cote D'i ...
Zahra Abidi, 33, was an information analyst at the UN Operation in C�te d'Ivoire (UNOCI) in Abidjan, the country's commercial capital that has been the scene of intensified fighting between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo and those supporting Alass
- Concern Rises in US Over Radiation Levels in D ...
The radiation fallout in Japan is not only affecting rainwater, but contamination is being detected in the air and in the sea, a problem that is likely to increase as the radiation leak in Japan has yet to be solved.
- UN-Backed Treaty Help Poor Countries Effective ...
The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade is designed to ensure that hazardous chemicals do not endanger human health and the environment but inclusio
- Somali's Interim Government Plans to Boycott U ...
United Nations envoy for Somalia today urged all of the country's leaders to participate in an upcoming conference on the transition process.
- Taxing Rich Could Mean $2.5 Billion for Educat ...
Given the recent events in Sacramento that saw budget negotiations collapse and efforts launched to find a Plan B, a recent statewide survey of likely voters in California has discovered a proposal that could help solve the state's budget mess - ra
- Tweaking the climate to save it: Who deci ...
CHICHELEY, England – To the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable. Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law, politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloistered behind Chicheley Hall's old brick walls, where British saboteu ...
- Interest growing in nuclear science
NEWYORK — The crisis in Japan has boosted interest in nuclear-related museums and plants, once-secret Manhattan Project complexes and areas laid waste by disaster. In the United States, you can peek into a 320-foot blast crater in the Nevada desert or descend a Titan II missile silo in Ariz ...
- Afghanistan Koran protests spread
Hundreds of peaceful protesters blocked the main highway in eastern Afghanistan today and marched through the southern city of Kandahar towards a UN office, denouncing the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist US pastor. The demonstrations come after two days of deadly violence at ...
- Israel's Peres demands apology for Goldst ...
Jerusalem - Israeli President Shimon Peres demanded Sunday that Richard Goldstone, who headed a United Nations fact-finding mission into the Gaza war of two years ago, 'apologize' for his report. Peres said an apology by the South African former judge would be 'appropriate,' because this we ...
- Windows phone Nokia spell a challenge for ...
iPhones and Android phones seem to be everywhere I look in Silicon Valley. The future is obvious, isn't it? IPhone, Android and no one else. They will form an exclusive duo in smartphones, just as Windows and Mac have in personal computers. Make way, however, for Windows Phone. Yes, Windows ...
- Entry inhibitors show promise as drugs with ne ...
Promising new viral hepatitis data show that entry inhibitors a new mechanism of action for drugs to treat viral hepatitis could provide the first new hepatitis B and hepatitis D treatments for many years.
- Data suggest liver experts should take care wh ...
New novel antiviral compounds for the treatment of hepatitis C virus must be prescribed and monitored by experts and specialists to ensure resistance is minimized, experts say.
- New data show non-alcoholic fatty liver diseas ...
According to new data the United States could soon be faced with an epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, one of the major contributing factors of chronic liver disease, considered as one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
- Finding a needle in a haystack: whole genome s ...
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a malignancy of the bone marrow, in which there is a deficiency of myeloid cells and an excess of immature cells called promyelocytes. APL is most commonly caused by a translocation (15:17) and expression of the promyelocytic leukemia and the retinoic recept ...
- Research On Crucial Role Of PET-Guided Biopsy ...
The Breast Journal recently published original prospective data confirming the technical validity of image-guided needle biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions using Positron Emission Mammography (PEM)-guidance...
- Barack Obama's on Thin Green Ice
President Barack Obama's relationship with environmentalists sits on thin ice after a major league meltdown over whether he will really defend their biggest demand: EPA climate change rules. Tensions have crossed into the danger zone between the two camps after a year of cross-ups, including the ...
- Radioactive Water From Japan's Fukushima Plant ...
Radioactive water from Japan's quake-striken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is leaking into the sea, its operator said. The 20cm (8in) crack in a containment pit under reactor two may be the source of recent radiation in coastal waters, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) officials said. Hidehiko Nish ...
- US Embassy in Baghdad to Double Staff
"We'll be doubling our size if all of our plans go through and if we receive the money from Congress in 2011 and then again in 2012," James Jeffrey, the US ambassador in Iraq, said. He said the staff would increase "from 8,000 plus personnel that we have now to roughly double that by 2012," addi ...
- Fighting Rages in Ivory Coast, 800 dead in West
ABIDJAN - Soldiers of Ivory Coast's rival leaders battled for the main city Abidjan on Saturday, clashing by the presidential palace and state TV offices in a conflict so brutal that 800 people have died in one smaller town alone. Advancing soldiers backing Alassane Ouattara, who U.N.-certified ...
- Liberals Among Fiercest Libya Critics
As President Obama struggles to sell a contentious Libya strategy to a skeptical Congress, Capitol Hill's most liberal voices have emerged as some of the fiercest critics. read more
- When Man Does Not Bite Dog Is News
So when the New York Times writes that U.S. nuclear utilities are complying with requirements from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding the control hydrogen in reactor pressure vessels, why is that news? But if an anti-nuclear group claims that the NRC’s requirement itself it unsafe ...
- Is the UCS a friend to nuclear power?
One of my readers complained about my criticism of the Union of Concerned Scientists in a rather harshly worded comment. That comment did not end up being posted, not because I censored it, but because of a technical problem with posting it. I am, however, going to respond to it.
- Electrify, Baby, Electrify
What is depressing about the Georgetown address is that it indicates that government leaders are falling into a vicious political cycle we have seen before. In order to address that familiar third rail of American politics—high gasoline prices—leaders are competing with each other to advocate e ...
- Fukushima reactor status news for 2011 04 01
Update to Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthquake Source: The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) Washington DC Office As of 11:00AM (EST), April 1, 2011
- The Future of Nuclear Power: Shellenberger on ...
Breakthrough Institute President Michael Shellenberger debated the future of nuclear power today on KQED Radio's Forum, joining host Dave Iverson and the Sierra Club's David Hamilton to discuss the impacts and implications of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan.
- Senate chief: Budget deal won't stop EPA's cli ...
The Senate's Democratic leader said Friday that a U.S. budget deal, which President Obama said is "close," won't contain a GOP measure to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
- USDA unveils 60 products with new bio-based label
Five dozen products, including hand soaps and engine oils, will soon be sold with a new "BioPreferred" label to show they contain agricultural ingredients, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday.
- US scientists find 2,000-year-old coral near B ...
Federal scientists have, for the first time, validated that deep-sea black coral near BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is 2,000 years old.
- NRC: Three U.S. nuclear plants need more scrutiny
Three U.S. nuclear power plants are operating safely but need increased oversight from federal regulators, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's chief said Thursday.
- Study: Fresh food diet cuts exposure to chemic ...
Adults and children can reduce their exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals, including bisphenol-A (BPA), by eating more fruits and vegetables and less food from plastic containers and metal cans, a new study out today says.
- Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Pub ...
seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed ...
- Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s G ...
By Rady Ananda “A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.” Lowell v. Lewis, 1817 A landmark lawsuit filed on March 29 in US federal court seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds and to prohibit the company from suing those whose crops beco ...
- Russell Defreitas: Terrorist or Political Pris ...
by Stephen Lendman Many hundreds of wrongfully convicted men and women languish unjustly in US federal and state prisons, victims of judicial unfairness, get tough on crime policies, a guilty unless proved innocent mentality, three strikes and you're out, and America's bogus war on terror, entr ...
- Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘ ...
James Petras Over the past two weeks Libya has been subjected to the most brutal imperial air, sea and land assault in its modern history. Thousands of bombs and missiles, launched from American and European submarines, warships and fighter planes, are destroying Libyan military bases, airport ...
- "Perpetual hell" of the Palestinian Refugee Camps
By Stuart Littlewood A delegation of parliamentarians has returned from a tour of the refugee camps in Lebanon and made its report http://www.prc.org.uk/newsite/images/stories/pdfs/PRC_lebanon_delegation.pdf. It was led by former British government minister Sir Gerald Kaufman MP and includ ...
- A FEARLESS WISCONSIN TRUTH TELLER / KEVIN BARRETT
Allen L Roland Dr Kevin Barrett is a voice of truth in a sea of deceit and his lonely battle with the University of Wisconsin represents the universal battle of the truth against the embedded forces of political power and hypocrisy. Dr Kevin Barrett is a truth seeker as well as a 9/11 Truther ...
- Robin Hood in reverse: The real numbers behind ...
Earlier this week, the Conservatives announced their first election plank of the campaign: the �Family Tax Cut,� or income splitting for couples with children, selling the plan as a helping hand for middle class and low-income families. In his latest post on the CCPA election blog, Research Ass ...
- CCPA economists promote a budget that connects ...
The CCPA released its Alternative Federal Budget Tuesday, promoting a federal budget that connects with Canadians' real financial worries. Watch Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David Macdonald on CBC's Power and Politics here. Watch CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan on CTV's Powe ...
- CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2011
The CCPA released the Alternative Federal Budget for 2011 today. This year's AFB presents a comprehensive recovery plan designed to: get Canadians working in good jobs again; reduce record-high income inequality, strengthen Canada’s middle class, and improve supports for Canada’s poor and mo ...
- Deregulation in Canada: A disaster in the making
In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. ...
- BNN launches three-part series on income inequ ...
CTV's Business News Network (BNN) begins a three-part series today looking at the gap between the rich and the rest of us. Today's show, at 5 pm EST, features Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labour. Tomorrow's show, 5 pm EST, features the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' own Senio ...
- Bomb Threats Against Conservative Think Tank
Conservative Think Tank Receives Bomb Threats After Michigan FOIAs | TPM The Mackinac Center For Public Policy — the conservative-leaning think tank in the news this week after it requested emails from Michigan labor studies professors regarding Wisconsin and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow — says it has ...
- Wake’N'Bake 101: Meta…
WWH – Dr. Woody wonders: Why does what Rosie O’Donnell thinks about the WTC/9-11 events matter? A clip of her espousing learned theories about the causes and agents implicated in the events of Sept. 11, 2001, was going around on “F-Book” this (Saturday) morning. The hed proclaimed “Rosie O’Donne ...
- Violence mars demonstration in Afghan city the ...
Nine killed and 81 injured in Kandahar protest against US burning of Qur’an | Guardian Nine people have been killed and 81 injured in the Afghan city of Kandahar during a demonstration against the burning of a Qur’an by Christian extremists in the US. Violence erupted as hundreds of demonstrator ...
- Dangers of marijuana pale in comparison to leg ...
By Brittany DeBole, | medailleperspective - Should New York state dance with âMary Jane?â You don’t have to be former president Bill Clinton to admit that you’ve tried it, rap sensation Lil Wayne to admire it, or a modern day hippie to rally for the cause and legalization of it. In fact, you don ...
- Hippie.TV
- The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Cairo in Wisconsin
The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
- Nine dead in Afghan protests over Quran burning
Anger over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a Florida church fueled a second day of deadly violence half a world away in Afghanistan, where demonstrators set cars and shops ablaze Saturday in a riot that killed nine protesters, officials said.
- More than 1,000 killed in Ivory Coast town
More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in a western Ivory Coast town, a Catholic charity said Saturday, adding that the mass killings happened in an area under the control of forces fighting to install the country's internationally recognized president.
- Libyan rebels say 13 killed in NATO airstrike
The main Libyan opposition spokesman says 13 rebels have accidentally been killed and seven injured in a NATO airstrike targeting Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
- Citizenship duties
"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."
- Debunking the latest sharia scare
The movement to ban the use of sharia in the United States continues to grow, even as its proponents struggle to find examples of Islamic law posing a threat to the American way of life.
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- When Man Does Not Bite Dog Is News
So when the New York Times writes that U.S. nuclear utilities are complying with requirements from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding the control hydrogen in reactor pressure vessels, why is that news? But if an anti-nuclear group claims that the NRC’s requirement itself it unsafe ...
- Is the UCS a friend to nuclear power?
One of my readers complained about my criticism of the Union of Concerned Scientists in a rather harshly worded comment. That comment did not end up being posted, not because I censored it, but because of a technical problem with posting it. I am, however, going to respond to it.
- Electrify, Baby, Electrify
What is depressing about the Georgetown address is that it indicates that government leaders are falling into a vicious political cycle we have seen before. In order to address that familiar third rail of American politics—high gasoline prices—leaders are competing with each other to advocate e ...
- Fukushima reactor status news for 2011 04 01
Update to Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthquake Source: The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) Washington DC Office As of 11:00AM (EST), April 1, 2011
- The Future of Nuclear Power: Shellenberger on ...
Breakthrough Institute President Michael Shellenberger debated the future of nuclear power today on KQED Radio's Forum, joining host Dave Iverson and the Sierra Club's David Hamilton to discuss the impacts and implications of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan.
- Tensions rise between Italy, France over immig ...
Tensions between Italy and France were rising over the immigration emergency as more refugees coming from the southern island of Lampedusa tried to escape across the frontier and were pushed back by the French police. Undesecretary of State Stefania Craxi said Thursday that France was not doing ...
- Germany’s decision to stay out of Libya lauded
The conflict in Libya continues without a sign of a clear victor in the wake of NATO intervention. Readers have been writing in with their thoughts on the situation. The following comments reflect the views of DW-WORLD.DE readers. Ongoing conflict in Libya Covert operatives are indeed the precur ...
- Iran: Revolutions expose US treachery
Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has identified ‘the exposition of US dishonesty’ as one of the ‘key achievements’ of the revolutions around the region. Larijani reiterated that ‘movements’ in the Arab world have once again unmasked the US and noted, â[US President Barack] Obama ...
- Are government microwave mind-control tests ca ...
A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame. In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended into undeciph ...
- Germany and China call for Libya ceasefire
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has joined with China in calling for a ceasefire in Libya and insisting that the situation cannot be solved by âmilitary means.â Westerwelle, who is visiting China, joined his counterpart Yang Jiechi in Beijing in calling for a ceasefire and a political solutio ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
- Al Jazeera reported Boeing whistleblowers conc ...
Boeing 737NG planes might not be as safe as expected: Al Jazeera conducted interviews with Boeing whistleblowers about key structural parts in planes that are flown by over 150 airlines, according to Al Jazeera. The whistleblowers claim that the parts in question were made by a Boeing subcontra ...
- ‘Explosion’ Rips Roof Off Southwest Airlines Plane
âJUST unreal. All of a sudden thereâs like a little explosion. Sounded like an explosion at least. All of a sudden thereâs a sunroof in the middle of the plane.â So says a passenger aboard Southwest AirlinesFlight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento. Turns out that â aircraft skin fatigue âcaused a ...
- Uconn's Kemba Walker Hustle On Court Stems Fro ...
In rap music lore, the Bronx holds sway over all the boroughs in New York as the birthplace of the music and culture of hip hop. It is also where a college basketball star honed many of his phenomenal moves. While Brigham Young guard Jimmer Fredette may have been the face of the NCAA Men’s bask ...
- Libya and Obama’s Defense of the Rebel Uprising
Over the past two weeks Libya has been subjected to the most brutal imperial air, sea and land assault in its modern history. Thousands of bombs and missiles, launched from American and European submarines, warships and fighter planes, are destroying Libyan military bases, airports, roads, port ...
- Farrakhan Received $8 Million from Gaddafi
Nation of Islam leader and friend of Obama’s pastor of 20 years (the America-hating Jeremiah Wright) Louis Farrakhan received $8 million from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The Chicago Sun-Times reports : Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan defended Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi as a “br ...
- Patent Reform 2011: House of Representatives B ...
Representatives Lamar Smith, Bob Goodlatte, and Darrell Issa have introduced their version of the America Invents Act (AIA) to the House of Representatives. H.R. 1249. [AIA.pdf] The AIA closely tracks the Senate's bill on comprehensive patent reform (S. 23) that was passed in the Senate earlier ...
- UK ICT strategy offers "level playing field" t ...
The UK Government's Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude MP, has unveiled the coalition's ICT (Information and communications technology) strategy. The new strategy includes plans to "create a level playing field for open source software". Though this is a position previous administrat ...
- Czech Constitutional Court overturns parts of ...
The Czech Republic's Constitutional Court [official website, in Czech] on Thursday overturned [press release, in Czech] parts of a controversial data retention law that obligated telecommunications companies to maintain records of their customers' internet and telephone usage. The court found t ...
- Does the Constitution Protect OKeefes Surrep ...
Earlier this week, Vera's lawyer, Eugene Iredale, fired back with this filing. "There is no special or disparate treatment accorded 'exposé' journalism' under the Constitution," Iredale writes. "O'Keefe is not immune from prosecution for breaking into an office or recording confidential communi ...
- Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Go ...
A BBC blogger reports that Microsoft has filed an antitrust complaint against Google in the EU. It's an informative article, but it doesn't get all its facts right. It claims that this is Microsoft's first antitrust filing against Google, which is not correct. In fact, I reported on antitrust ...
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