3 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

WideShut

• Editorial: What Have We Done?
  The only thing great about Britain is the deception and tyranny of the people in charge, and the lack of understanding of the public.
• Doctors Dishing Out ADHD Drugs Against NHS Gui ...
  Children as young as four given ADHD drugs even when illness isn't explicitly diagnosed.
• Top 9/11 Documentary Gets TV Deal
  Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth get distribution deal for 9/11: Blueprint For Truth documentary.
• Anti-EU Police Protests Intensify In Kosovo
  Protests against Eulex intensify after 9 KLA arrests - but crimes of Blair, Clinton and NATO conveniently ignored.
• Witness Says Tomlinson Did Not Antagonize G20 ...
  Inquest: Man who shot G20 footage says Ian Tomlinson was not confrontational with police before his death.

Politics in the Zeros

• 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.

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Bumping Wall up the Labour list 'a rort' - com ...
  If former Silver Fern Louisa Wall takes over from former MP Darren Hughes, it could look like bad, a commentator says.
• Extraordinary Chch quake video shows 24 second ...
  Incredible footage showing 24 seconds of February 22's violent Christchurch earthquake has been uncovered by a local photographer
• Trucks cause rumblings of discontent in Christ ...
  Police are starting to crack down on noisy trucks full of debris after complaints from residents in earthquake-damaged Christchurch suburbs.
• Cheeky chimp Sally reunites with foster mother ...
  Hamilton Zoo was the site for a special reunion today.
• Judith Tizard, Mark Burton rule out return to ...
  Judith Tizard and Mark Burton have announced they will not return to parliament to take over former MP Darren Hughes' seat.

Just World News

• More on Turkey/Syria
  On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
• What can be done in Syria (and could have been ...
  Syria is, like Libya, a one-man-ruled country with a long history of having been on Washington's hit-list that in the past two weeks has witnessed mounting popular protests and government attempts to crack down. I have made periodic reporting trips to Syria for 35 years now and have a broad ran ...
• War and humanitarianism: From Kosovo to Libya?
  The three western governments that have, with a little help from two Arab governments, been undertaking very lethal military action against Libya in the past eight days have worked to "justify" those acts of war largely in the name of either ending an existing humanitarian crisis or preventing ...
• Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
  On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...
• This is what good statecraft looks like
  Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store has a terrific piece titled "Why We Must Talk" in a recent issue of the NY Review of Books. In it, he makes a strong argument why "we"-- in this case, I think, western advocates of democracy-- need to start talking seriously to, among other, the Musli ...

frogblog

• General debate, April 3, 2011
• Criticism of judge-only trial in Urewera case
  The Court of Appeal decision to uphold a judge-only trial in the “Urewera 18” case was slammed by Fran O’Sullivan in today’s Weekend Herald column. She rightly can’t see why the defendants should not “have their case heard by a jury of their peers.” The Crimes Act was amended in 2008 to allow a ...
• Back to the future with ACC experience rating
  There are quite a number of nasty legislative and regulatory provisions coming into force today.  Among them are Nick Smithâs Experience Rating Regulations for ACC. Experience rating will result in an individual employer’s ACC levies being adjusted up or down on the basis of their work injury r ...
• More ‘heroic’ ways to pay for the ...
  Earlier this week Sir Paul Callaghan, 2010 New Zealander of the year and Victoria University professor of physical sciences, launched his âHEKEâ campaign – asking overseas graduates to be heroic and pay back their loans to help with the cost of rebuilding Christchurch. Sir Paul Callaghan is obvi ...
• Productivity gains or party politics?
  This week the Productivity Commission has been given its first task.  The Commission came into being late one Saturday night last December, with the house under urgency, and the Greens the only party in opposition to it. In the first reading speech I said of the proposed Commission : “It could ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
  The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
• Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
  Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
• What should be done with illegal immigrants?
  That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
• A Revolting World
  Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
• Demented Democracy
  An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Politics of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich
  Dan Eggen and Perry Bacon Jr. report on the start of Obama's fundraising campaign for 2012: Facing an energized Republican Party and deep-pocketed conservative groups, President Obama is kicking off his 2012 reelection campaign with a concerted push for help from wealthy donors and libera ...
• Obama, Libya, and Me: A Followup
  I tend not to respond very often to criticism of my blog posts because I usually figure justice has been done when I've had my say and everyone else has had theirs. Responding further usually just turns into a pissing match that accomplishes nothing. But I guess I need to respond to some of ...
• Books of the Zeitgeist
  One of Tyler Cowen's readers asks which books are the Great Gatsby of each decade since the 20s? I take this to mean books that both sold well and have come to represent their era. Sounds like fun. Here are Tyler's picks in bold, with alternates from me: 1930s: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinb ...
• Friday Cat Blogging - 1 April 2011
  We're having an early summer here in Southern California. Yesterday it was 90 degrees outside, and you know what that means: piles of cats snoozing in the afternoon warmth. As I write this they're in almost exactly the same positions, enjoying their midday siestas. After all, what else is th ...
• DADT Repeal Going Smoothly
  Politico reports that the repeal of DADT is going great so far: The military’s repeal of its longstanding “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is not facing resistance from troops and is on track to take full effect this fall as planned, top commanders told a House committee on Friday. Cliffor ...

Insanity Report

• IC 238: Student Athletes
  Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
• No One Does Fear Like Glenn Beck…No One…
  The hilarity from this video is almost too much. Which country in the Middle East has the same morals as us? Well Glenny, if you include the shadiness of the U.S. government then of course the answer is Israel. Of course we know that’s not what Beck meant. Remember, he’s not talking bad about Is ...
• FacePalm of the Week: 3rd Time’s The Charm
  Want a perfect example that politics and government, while maybe not broken, is severely hampered by bullshit?  Well I got the perfect one for you.  In Florida they are on their 3rd attempt to ban bestiality.  Yes…THIRD attempt. The saga began in January of 2008, when the raping and killing o ...
• IC 237: Sucker Punched
  Topics: VCU fucks up everyone brackets Zack Snyder sucker punches movie watchers everywhere Why can’t people just make movies fun? The irony of social conservatives talking about morals Donald Trump is a birther Why does it take 3 attempts to ban bestiality? Chris Brown hasn’t learned a thing Sh ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Et tu, Arianna?
  Arianna Huffington runs one of the most popular liberal blogs out there.  I’ve always had my doubts about her though.  I always question when someone starts off on one extreme of the ideological spectrum then all the sudden switches over to the other side.  I mean its one thing to be a moderate ...

Simple Climate

• Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
  Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
• Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
  Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
• 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
  Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
• Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
  By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
• Ice age rethink puts warming into context
  Researchers challenge a fundamental principle of climate science – the effect of Earth's relationship to the sun – but underline that we are still reversing what should be a long slow cool-off for the planet.

e!Science News

• New inhibitor prevented lesions, reduced tumor ...
  A new hedgehog pathway inhibitor demonstrated efficacy in preventing and treating basal cell cancer among patients with basal cell nevus syndrome, a rare inheritable disease, according to Phase II data presented at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held April 2-6. read more
• The AACR increases focus on clinical trials
  The American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting continues to be a showcase for the most cutting edge science in cancer, and this year's meeting, held here April 2-6, will include an increased focus on clinical trials that will impact patient care. read more
• Antidepressants linked to thicker arteries
  Antidepressant use has been linked to thicker arteries, possibly contributing to the risk of heart disease and stroke, in a study of twin veterans. The data is being presented Tuesday, April 5 at the American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans. read more
• DNA of 50 breast cancer patients decoded
  In one of the largest cancer genomics investigations reported to date, scientists have sequenced the whole genomes of tumors from 50 breast cancer patients and compared them to the matched DNA of the same patients' healthy cells. This comparison allowed researchers to find mutations that only oc ...
• PegIFN-lambda shows superior virological respo ...
  Berlin, Germany, 02 April 2011: Highly exciting new data presented today at the International Liver CongressTM found Pegylated Interferon-lambda (PegIFN-lambda) shows superior virological response in HCV patients of genotypes 1-4, with improved safety and tolerability, compared to Pegylated Inte ...

unEarthed

• Friday Finds: Toilet Talk
  Nuclear money, devilish diseases, superbug crisis Californians are eyeballing human waste as a possible source of energy. Photo courtesy of Matt Seppings. ...
• Kansas Keeps Getting In The Way of Big Coal
  Judge rules against fed's approach to Sunflower coal-fired power plant Courtesy redgreenandblue.org After four years of trying, Big Coal’s national ambition ...
• Obama Says the Cure for Oil Addiction Is More Oil
  One year after Gulf oil spill, he calls for expansion of drilling As oil and gas prices again climb in response to Middle East travails, the phrase “Drill, Bab ...
• Care About Climate Change, Clean Air? Call You ...
  Senate votes today on whether to block EPA action on carbon pollution The Senate votes today on four pieces of legislation that all aim to block or delay Envir ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Making Money, Having Fun
  The story of Bokoshe, Oklahoma's fight against cancer, asthma and toxic coal ash Bokoshe, Oklahoma has a population of 450 residents. It’s a small town carryin ...

Brave New Climate

• Some other perspectives on Fukushima
  Apart from getting on with my life (e.g., building a new computer, catching up with my backlog at work, spending time with the family, etc.), I’ve been spending the last few days reading widely on what other people have had to say, in reflection, on the Fukushima crisis. Here are some highlights ...
• Fukushima Daiichi crisis – April 1 persp ...
  The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has moved off the front page of most newspapers, but a lot continues to happen, and the situation remains unresolved. Below I offer some personal perspectives on some of the things that have been widely reported over the last few days, and then I conclude wit ...
• Fukushima Philosophical Discussion Open Thread
  It was suggested in a comment — and I agree — that the previous open threads on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident were becoming difficult to read, because they are such a mixture of technical details and philosophical discourse. That is, it’s generally a bad idea to cater to two different a ...
• Fukushima Technical Discussion Open Thread
  It was suggested in a comment — and I agree — that the previous open threads on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident were becoming difficult to read, because they are such a mixture of technical details and philosophical discourse. That is, it’s generally a bad idea to cater to two different a ...
• Josef Oehmen and Fukushima – Would I hav ...
  On the 13th of March, I posted an article called “Fukushima Nuclear Accident – A simple and accurate explanation“. This was early on in the Fukushima crisis when people were desperately hungry for understandable information, and yet there were scarce few good explanations available. The post had ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• What Do You Mean?
  So let me get this straight. Is the middle class waking up? Are they finally starting to figure out that having corporations screw us for our own good isn’t actually good for us? Is having the middle class pay more taxes so corporations don’t have pay any income tax really what’s good for Americ ...
• Shame Shame Shame
  Shame shame shame shame shame
• David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
  We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...
• Wake Up
  Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.
• Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
  You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

• Prepare For Revolution: The Empire State Rebel ...
  By David DeGraw On Flag Day, this June 14th, as we once again confront tyranny, let's all stand up for ourselves in a decentralized manner and launch our own revolt.
• Empire State Rebellion: House of Cards – ...
• Empire State Rebellion: An Idea Whose Time Has ...
  "Mainstream media in the United States is the most efficient weapon of mass oppression. The propaganda system is so extensive. There is so much divide and conquer rhetoric."
• A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion – C ...
  We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class.
• Overcoming Divide and Conquer Strategies: 99.9 ...
  The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers.

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• Goldstone “apology” won’t ma ...
  Some initial thoughts regarding Judge Richard Goldstone’s op-ed, in which he retracted some of the allegations against Israel made in his report A strange combination of thrill and anger seems to be the immediate response to Judge Goldstone’s surprising op-ed on the Washington post today. Goldst ...
• Incitement and violence: A week on the Israeli ...
  How much farther down can we slide? Oh, I fear there’s still a long way down from here. After all, so far, our skin heads and settlers only beat up Arabs. Lots more to look forward to, no? By Dror Feuer | Published originally on Globes, translated from Hebrew and linked by Shir Harel. A. Nice [...]
• Is the settlement boycott misdirected?
  On the surface, the settlement boycott seems to be a wise ‘middle way’ for Jews that are critical of Israeli policy yet unwilling to join a Palestinian-led nonviolent initiative. However, it’s a step that might prove to be counter-productive The Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanct ...
• Supermarket fires 21 Arab employees at once &# ...
  The case, which so far provoked a very minor public response, proved that companies have no reason to fear any reaction for being perceived as discriminatory against Arabs By Saar Yachin Last week, one of Israel’s major retail chains, Kimat Hinam (“Almost Free”), dismissed 21 of its employees. I ...
• The Kaufmannaire: Issa Edward Bourseh, 28, Ramleh
  Issa Edward Bourseh, 28 years old from Ramleh, is a student at Tel Aviv University majoring in political science and specializing in political communications Why did you chose this topic of study? I was always interested in politics and it seemed like the best way to step into this world. Who ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Mining proposal to go through environmental a ...
  A proposal by Shree Minerals to develop a magnetite and hematite mine adjacent to the Nelson Bay River in north-western Tasmania will go through a high level of assessment under national environmental law.
• Australia's national historic sites protected
  Tony Burke, Heritage Minister, today announced that the Gillard Government will be supporting some of Australia's most special historic sites.
• Environment groups meet to discuss Murray Dar ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke has today hosted a roundtable with representatives from Australian environment and conservation groups on Murray Darling Basin reform.
• HMAS Sydney II and HSK Kormoran shipwrecks on ...
  Heritage Minister, Tony Burke today announced that the HMAS Sydney II and the HSK Kormoran shipwreck sites have been added to Australia's Commonwealth and National Heritage Lists.
• Decision date on koala threatened species lis ...
  Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the due date for a decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Our Hero Lynn Syzmoniak on 60 Minutes This Sunday!
  As this war rages on, it’s easy to focus on all the ways we are losing the battle for integrity, for justice, for the respect of basic law and respect for important Constitutional rights. It’s demoralizing to go into courtrooms day after day, continuing to fight the same battles over and over an ...
• A MONSTER ORDER VACATING A FINAL JUDGMENT OF F ...
  Florida’s courts are underfunded to a level that violates our fundamental Constitutional rights. Florida’s legislature has whittled down the funding of our court system so that our courts are funded with only .07 of the state’s entire budget. During this year’s legislative session, the legislato ...
• RICK SCOTT IS THE ANTICHRIST-HELP ME BOO HIM O ...
  Looks like the front doorstep of my office will be ground zero in the battle to BOO RICK SCOTT. We’re all warning about the terror and tragedy that is descending upon EVERY SINGLE FLORIDIAN and I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERY READER OF THIS BLOG. PLEASE COME OUT TOMORROW TO PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF ...
• The Plaintiffs Are Lying- Another Case Dismissed!
  I’ve got files sitting in my office from 2009 and every month in between.  The more I push on these files, and ask basic questions, like, “produce any evidence you own and hold the note and mortgage and have the right to enforce them”, the more often the Plaintiff objects, claims like it doesn’ ...
• Naked Capitalism- An Excellent Story on The Ro ...
  It’s just so demoralizing to document again and again and again all the fraud and forgery and corruption and abuse and consistently realize that no one cares.  Courts don’t care, attorneys general don’t care (especially apparently Florida’s new attorney general) and no elected “leader” cares.  ...

abelard - news

• noyon cathedral, picardy | the France zone at ...
  A once major French cathedral that was vandalised during the Revolution, then terribly damaged by the Germans during WW1. Beta release as yet, but this page will grow to join the Germans in France area at abelard.org.
• religion makes you fat | behaviour and intelli ...
  A strange colleration, but why?
• futaba/fukushima - earthquake 10 times design ...
  Who could have imagined or predicted the size of the recent Japanese earthquake/tsunami? Now to learn from their correct choices and their mistakes.
• the sky is falling - iodine-131 in water | sci ...
  The radioactivity found in Tokyo's water is not nearly as dangerous as one might suppose (engage numeracy, objectivity and analytics modules).
• are low levels of radiation positive? | news-l ...
  Perhaps another reason to not be so scared of radiation?

The Parallel Parliament

• What’s In A Face?
  It was a pretty special night. William Blake used to say that if a person’s face never gave any light then they could never become a star. If that’s true, Michael Ignatieff hit the big time here in London last night. We knew something special was happening an hour before his town hall when the [...]
• Three-dimensional Contempt
  It’s been interesting to watch the Conservative war machine in full evasive mode as it seeks to convince Canadians that the fall of this government and the subsequent election had nothing to do at all with the Harper government’s contempt of Parliament charges. These are serious charges that mig ...
• Campaign Insider – Calm Before the Storm
  One of the biggest tasks taking place before any election is locating a campaign office and getting it set up to create fluid movement among volunteers to get everything done, from phoning for donations to teams heading out to pound in signs. This time we have the same office we used in the 2008 ...
• Just One More Mountain To Climb
  I have never really talked much to the Conservative MP from Manitoba, Shelley Glover. On those occasions when our paths have crossed she has been friendly. Her increasingly strident comments in the House since the gun registry vote have been noted by many and have been troubling. Even still, rea ...
• Landlords To A Ghost
  One of my favourite authors in earlier years was Lloyd C. Douglas. In his best-selling novel Magnificent Obsession he noted, ”If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.” The observation came back to me ...

Vaccine Awakening

• No Pharma Liability? No Vaccine Mandates.
  by Barbara Loe Fisher On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accounta ...
• WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
• New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
• Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...

2020 Science

• Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
  This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
• The art of regulating nanotechnologies
  The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...

Reader Supported News

• The Kill Team Photos and Videos
  Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
• Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
  Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
• The Kill Team Photos and Videos
  Mark Boal reports: "How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon." This image shows the body of Gul Mudin, the 15-year-old son of a ...
• Pregnant Women Fleeing Japan Nuclear Crisis
  Eric Johnston reports: "Kansai area hospitals and the Osaka Prefectural Government say a growing number of pregnant women from the devastated Tohoku region, as well as some in Tokyo worried about the possible effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, are moving to the area to give ...
• Email to Walker Suggested Faking Violence
  The report begins: "The email came to Gov. Scott Walker from the personal account of a deputy prosecutor and Republican activist in Indiana. After praise for Walker, the email - sent Feb. 19, during union demonstrations against Walker’s budget repair bill - then took a darker turn." Walker em ...

War Resisters League

• The Broken Rifle in Kabul
  The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
• WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
  From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
• Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
  In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
• Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
  “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...

Center for a Livable Future

• 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
• Obama's Indecent Interval
  Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Southern land-use plan falls short of public e ...
  Castle Special Place Working Group 31 Mar 2011 Lethbridge — South Saskatchewan Regional Advisory Council (RAC) recommendations to continue development on land also identified as co ...
• Environmental Assessment Changes: Will They Af ...
  19 Apr 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00 Environmental Law Centre 19 Apr 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00 Are you confused about how recent changes in Environmental Assessment law will affect your practi ...
• ELC Comments on the Statutory Review of the Ca ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted its�Comments on the Statutory Review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Source: Environmental Law Centre
• Door Remains Open for Hunting of Alberta’s Thr ...
  Temporary Hunt Restriction Needs to be Extended Alberta Wilderness Association 29 Mar 2011 The future for Alberta’s grizzly ...
• Action Alert: Tell Premier Stelmach Coal Kills
  Sierra Club Prairie As the world grapples with climate change, the Alberta government is poised to grant approval to a new coal-fired power plant without even holding a public hearing.  Maxim Power Corporation’s plan to build a 500-m ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war: April 2
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 2 ==== Italy: Thousands Protest As Libyan War Enters Third Week Report: Civilians Killed As NATO Warplanes Strafe Libyan Towns NATO Air Strike Kills At Least Ten Libyan Rebels British Legal Experts: Arming Libyan Rebels Violates UN Charter Pentagon Chief, Top U. ...
• Stop NATO News April 1, 2011
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 1 ==== 1. Rasmussen On Global NATO, Sweden, And Libyan And Afghan Wars 2. F-35s To “Revolutionize” Next Libya-Style NATO Wars 3. Asia, Africa: First Time NATO Waging Two Wars At Once – Top Military Commander 4. White Paper: China Highlights U.S. Military Buildup ...
• Updates on Libyan war: April 1
  ==== Video And Text: Georgia Versus Libya: West’s Double Standards On War And War Crimes U.S., British Special Forces Directing Air Strikes From Inside Libya NATO Arms Embargo May Exclude Libyan Rebels, Who Are Already Being Armed African Officials, Experts: Western Intervention In Libya Aims At ...
• Stop NATO News March 31, 2011
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: March 31 ==== 1. NATO Troops Kill Three Afghan Civilians, Wound Four More 2. Top Military Commander: NATO Commands 50-Nation Army For Afghan War, NATO Members Need To Spend More On Military 3. Afghan War Leaves 103 NATO Soldiers Dead In Three Months 4. Pentagon’s Stra ...
• Updates on Libyan war: March 31
  ==== NATO Assumes Full Command Of Libyan War Operations Obama Authorizes Covert Operations In Libya, CIA Already There Poll: Americans Oppose Obama’s Libyan War, Ratings At All-Time Low Defense Minister: NATO’s Libyan Operation Costs Greece $9 Million A Month Venezuela On Libya: No Peace With Bo ...

Before It's News

• Satanists In the Berkeley Hills
• The Littlest Fireman
• For seventh straight hearing, House Natural Re ...
• Downplaying or remaining silent about climate ...
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Intel Hub

• STUDY FINDS LINK BETWEEN GMO’s AND CURRENT HEA ...
  Institute of BioAcoustic Biology and Sound Health Sharry Edwards, MEd. Dec. 26, 2010 Are pesticide resistant seeds responsible for cell signaling malfunctions? The August 14th, 2010 issue of Science News, ”Separating wheat from chaff in celiac disease”, reported that a research team led by gastr ...
• Potential April 6th Fukushima Fallout Forecast ...
  NotForSale2NWO April 3rd, 2011 This is a POTENTIAL radiation release produced by officials within the Department of Atmospheric and Climate Research (ATMOS) at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). No one knows 100% what the levels of radiation will actually be and unfortunately, due ...
• An Elite Military Team of U.S. Bio-Robots Arri ...
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas April 2, 2011 A 15 member U.S. military advanced radiation control team (Bio-Robots – term coined by the Russians during the Cherbobyl crisis) arrived on the island of Japan on Saturday. They have been dispatched to deal with what some would say is the worst radiol ...
• Regular FOX Contributor Charles Payne “T ...
  SaveOurSovereignty3 April 2nd, 2011 Airing Date April.02, 2011 Regular FOX Contributor Charles Payne “This Is About A One World Government”
• HOA Wants Kids Banned From Playing Outside
  News4Jax.com April 2, 2011 EDGEWATER, Fla. — Central Florida homeowners association is preparing to vote on banning children from playing outside. The revamped rules and regulations are being considered by the HOA at the Persimmon Place subdivision on North Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater. The nei ...

FRS

• Background: the Mass Resistance movement in Ke ...
  Indymedia (Greece) Keratea is a town of 16,000 residents in Lavreotiki municipality, situated in southeastern Attica, 40km from Athens, near Lavrion. The site has an ancient history that has left many remains, an amphitheatre, parts of the ancient fortification, etc. As many parts of Attica, it ...
• Greek police clash with protesters opposing ne ...
  By The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece — Riot police fired repeated volleys of tear gas Tuesday to push back firebomb-wielding residents of a town near the Greek capital in the latest violence over plans for a garbage dump in the area. The extensive clashes in Keratea, some 40 kilometres (25 mil ...
• ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 1
  by Media Lens March 23, 2011 One can hardly fail to be impressed by the corporate mediaâs faith in humanity. Or at least that part of humanity with its finger on the cruise missile button. Last week, the Independent’s Patrick Cockburn predicted that âWestern nations will soon be engaged in a w ...
• ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 2
  by Media Lens (see part one at http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/noble-war-in-libya-part-1/) March 28, 2011 As a Sunday Times leader made clear on March 20, sometimes you just have to draw a line: ‘[T]here can be no accommodation with a man like Gadaffi or any of his family ...
• The Communards Debate Again
  [When filmmaker Peter Watkins directed a film on the Paris Commune, "La Commune", the actors were drawn from non-professionals, people who in many cases occupied the same positions in society today as they depicted in the film.  The liveliness of the production made the issues and revolutionary ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
  We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
• Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
  We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
• Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
  As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
• The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
  Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
• Global Revolution 2011
  I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...

StillSmallVoice

• A little more reading with Sunday's column...
  To read the column, go here. To read the Supreme Court's decision, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., go here: 05-1074.pdf To read the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, go here. To read more on the arguments presented before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in the Wal-Mart v. Dukes case, g ...
• Benefit concert for Japan
  The Wesleyan community is hosting a benefit concert for Japan disaster relief at 1 p.m. Sunday at the university's Crowell Concert Hall. Admission is $3 for students, $4 for seniors and staff members, and $5 for the general public. A bake sale will follow the concert, and additional donations ...
• Uterus-uterus-uterus
  This is the best thing out there on the recent discussion in the Florida House about the use of the word "uterus" in public debate.
• Sorry he became a teacher
  Alan Haskvitz is a member of the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He writes: ...after reading the recent California Little Hoover Commission Report that recommends that public school retirements be reduced, even for those who are already retired,  and the actions of the Wisconsin Republican P ...
• Her life in blue jeans
  Read Nancy J. Leppink's essay on blue jeans and how they're made, here. Leppink is the acting administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor's wage and hour division. About your Levis: Egregious violations in the blue jeans industry are not restricted to the manufacturers and their contractors ...

Associated Content

• $54,000 Tax Refund for North Carolina Family
  A family in North Carolina is getting a a tax refund of $54,000 this year.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Apr 02, 2011
• NCAA Basketball Tournament 2011 Good for the S ...
  There has never been a Final Four like the one that's about to unfold tonight. But are all the Cinderellas and lower seeded finalists good for the sport, or is is another sign that college basketball has become diluted?Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Apr 02, 2011
• Top April Fools' Day 2011 Pranks from Around t ...
  April Fools' Day 2011 brought some funny laughs, including one of the best in years from Virgin Galactic.Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 01, 2011
• Poll: Most Prefer Government Shutdown to More ...
  Democrats have been salivating at the idea of a government shutdown in about the week, should an agreement not be reached for a continuing resolution for the rest of the current fiscal year. They believe that a repeat of 1995 is in the making.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 01, 2011
• Cobra's Hissy Fit Comes to an End
  The Egyptian cobra missing from the Bronx Zoo has been found, but not before stirring up twitter-pated New Yorkers.Contributor: Chance Burnam Published: Apr 01, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, March 28-April 1, 2011
  Do not adjust your computer monitor, tablet, or smartphone. Do not bother rubbing your eyes. Just scoff, as the chicks do, at the patently impossible air conditioner. Then enter our contest for the chance to win a t-shirt emblazoned with said chicks, said air conditioner, and a host of other sc ...
• Company Offers $3 Million for an Algorithm Tha ...
  It’s almost as if Heritage Provider Network set out to create the perfect PopSci story by mashing up all of our favorite things: clever algorithms, a multi-million dollar intellectual competition, and the future. The California-based health care provider has put up a purse of $3 million for the ...
• Algae Could Be Key to Cleaning Up Nuclear Acci ...
  Algae can secrete biofuels and pump out biologic drugs, and now researchers think it could help clean up radioactive accidents like the one unfolding at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility. A Northwestern University researcher has identified a certain kind of common algae, known as Closterium mo ...
• New Species of Freshwater Stingray Found, X-Rayed
  Biologists have just discovered two new species of freshwater stingray in the Amazon rainforest, informally christening them "pancake stingrays" for their distinct IHOPian appearance (see below). Naturally, one of their first orders of business was to x-ray one of the specimens, the unearthly r ...
• Quantum Dots Can Tag Individual Molecules With ...
  A team of engineers at Ohio State University have packed a nanoparticle full of fluorescent blinking quantum dots. When the particle is attached to a single molecule, it functions as a gaudily glowing beacon. With their bright, continuous fluorescent glow that transitions between red, green an ...

Veterans Today

• Afghan Youth Write Letter: “Please Stop ...
  We welcome you and the possibility of peace to this forgotten but gorgeous place.
• Demonstration in Afghanistan Mazar-e-Sharif City.
  On 1st April 2011 after Friday prayer around 1400 hours more than two thousand people staged a large demonstration in Mazar-e-Sharif city. The demonstrators were chanting slogans down with America down with the Priest and headed towards the UNAMA office.
• Plant disease raises questions on modified crops
  Bouncing down a dirt road a couple of summers ago, past a gentle patchwork of barnyards and soybean fields in central Iowa, farmer Kent Friedrichsen strained over the steering wheel of his van and stared through the windshield in dismay.
• Eight ways Monsanto is destroying our health
  Lots of talk these days about the bullying of young boys and girls in school by more aggressive students. This brings to my mind the biggest bully of all: the biotech company, Monsanto Corporation.
• Pakistan: Our Sectarian Divide
  OUR SECTARIAN DIVIDE By General Mirza Alsam Beg for Opinion Maker and Veterans Today The sectarian divide of the Muslim World has been the cause of serious conflicts in the past, and continues to have its toll, particularly for the last thirty years, with external forces exploiting this weakness ...

War is Business

• Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Vs. The FBI (Ag ...
• Arming The Libyan Rebels: What To Do? (Bullet ...
• What Happens When The Generals Run A Country ( ...
• Obama On Arming Libyan Rebels: ‘I’m Not ...
• Must-Read Guardian Piece On ‘Pakistan&#8 ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• An exceptionally dry March
  High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
• Long range forecasts: The day of judgement nears.
  In the last two days the press have been full of stories about how we are in for a scorching August. Of course, we have been here before. The Met Office may for ever be associated with the phrase 'barbecue summer' following its disastrous forecast for Summer 2009, which amongst other things le ...
• Biofuels: Some have a higher carbon footprint ...
  Over the last few years there has been a huge drive towards producing more biofuels to replace some of the fossils fuels we consume, which, we've been told, produce lower carbon emissions. Slowly though there is a realisation that in some instances, the carbon footprint of certain biofuels can ...
• Nuclear power: Why the UK government may have ...
  The news and pictures from the nuclear power station in Japan that has been badly damaged from last week's earthquake and tsunami have alarmed us all. Nuclear power is seen almost universally around the world as being crucial in producing carbon free electricity, as countries start to decarbon ...
• Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive ...
  The massive earthquake that affected Japan this morning is one of the strongest in recorded history at 8.9 on the Richter scale. With a number of powerful earthquakes recently it once again begs the question, is there a link between seismic activity and solar activity? Recently we have witne ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Stephen Roach on Japan Quake Consequences
  There's been something of a proliferation by the commentariat on the economic effects of Japan's crisis. Martin Wolf was among those first out of the chute with a paean to its historical resilience to such events which it both prepares for quite thoroughly and has experienced in the past. Moreov ...
• When the "Fox News Babes" Met al-Jazeera
  As a business major, I've always had a problem with the American cable network Fox News. On one hand, it's a master stroke of marketing in selling to a Middle American demographic; an odd mix of conservative righteousness combined with titillation via the omnipresent "Fox News Babes." It's alwa ...
• The Abyss: Pascal Lamy Broaches Doha Failure
  Poor, poor WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy. Forever in search of the completion of the Doha Development Agenda, he must trot out the old reasons that have failed to convince member nations again and again: we're disadvantaging poor nations, we're endangering processes of trade liberalization th ...
• Deutschland Uber Alles, Even in Higher Education
  You've got to hand it to the Germans. I suppose they're a bit like a big brother who can do everything better than you--they're bound to create resentment. In a neat chronological and geographical inversion, Germany has been called the China of Europe as it beats the living daylight out of uncom ...
• Of Repatriation and Concerted G7 Yen Intervention
  My goodness, things are happening so fast that my head is spinning. If the UN establishing a no-fly zone above Libyan airspace wasn't enough, we're now headed for a G7 currency no-speculation zone (of sorts) with regard to the Japanese yen. It certainly isn't everyday when the story on the Yahoo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
  The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those ...
• Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
  Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now.  The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster.  Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
• How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
  Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy.  But is that really the case?  No, sadly it is not.  The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...
• Shaken: 10 Economic Disasters Which Threaten T ...
  2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages and we haven't even reached April yet.  Revolutions have swept the Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan, civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the entire globe is ...
• Inflation Is Here – Just Open Up Your Ey ...
  Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here.  The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that the cost of al ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Announcing Issue Two of The Anvil Review
  The Anvil...
• J'accuse! The Betrayal of WBAI
  After more than 20 years on the airwaves of WBAI-New York, the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade was officially cancelled the day after my last bro...
• March 2011 TCN Radio - Episode #3
  Here is the March episode of TCN Radio. The featured segment for this episode is a performance of the "Letters Journal Play" in two ac...
• Riot Act edited Police G20
  The aggression of the police at the G20 meetings in Toronto, Canada, in June 2010, is at the center of my animation, Police G20. The unprovoked ...
• Nor'easter #11 Call for Submissions
  The Nor'easter collective of the Northeast Anarchist Network is getting ready to put together Nor'easter Issue 11 and it needs help from you! ...

E U Times

• 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

• Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
  Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
• Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
  There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
• Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
  Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
• Who’s Looking After The Children?
  “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...
• Top 10 Catholic Excuses For Doing Absolutely N ...
  Priests at the pulpit do it. Catholic apologists do it mindlessly, understanding little. Cardinals and Bishops exploit their influence to do it to as many people as possible. The Vatican does little else. With alarming regularity and very little variation, they all trot out the same set of tired ...

WL Central

• 2011-04-02 Interview with Brandon Neely, form ...
  TweetThis is our first interview in a series of interviews with former Guantanamo Bay detention camp guards and detainees. Several current and former U.S. soldiers have expressed interest in speaking publicly about their experience at Guantanamo: including a CIA psychologist, interrogators, gu ...
• 2011-04-02 WikiLeaks Notes: Parliamentarians q ...
  TweetUK MP quizzes Crown Prosecution Service over Assange extradition case Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert has raised the relevance of the Human Rights Act to the role played by the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in Sweden's attempt to extradite Julian Assange. In reply to Mr Huppert's q ...
• 2011-04-02 This Week in WikiLeaks Podcast - Et ...
  TweetPodcast to air LIVE at 2 pm New York Time/7 pm London Time. April 5th will mark one year since WikiLeaks first released the "Collateral Murder" video, which showed a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Iraq. To mark the anniversary, the show's guest will be Ethan McCord, an Iraq War veteran an ...
• 2011-04-01: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cableg ...
  TweetEl País: Daniel Ortega, en la lista estadounidense de "los más buscados" (Daniel Ortega, on the U.S. list of "Most Wanted") "Nicaragua no es una democracia pues los poderes del Estado están controlados por dos personas, el presidente, Daniel Ortega, y el opositor Arnoldo Alemán, expresident ...
• 2011-04-02 Royal family member threatens Bahra ...
  TweetWL Central will be updating news on Bahrain, with new items added at the top. All times are ET in USA. You can contact me on twitter @carwinb or by email at carwinb@hushmail.com. Don't send media when links available. Most email is not encrypted and not anonymous. I cannot guarantee any ...

U N News

• Impunity a major issue as Mexico addresses enf ...
  Impunity is still a major concern when it comes to tackling enforced disappearances in Mexico, a group of United Nations human rights experts said today as they outlined recommendations to the Government on the prevention, investigation, punishment and reparation of this crime.
• Enhancing rule of law vital for peace and secu ...
  Haitians must embrace the rule of law to advance peace and prosperity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stresses in a new report, adding that the country and its new leadership will require sustained international support to achieve this goal amid a set of daunting challenges.
• UN independent expert praises tolerance in Par ...
  The United Nations independent expert on religious freedom today commended Paraguay for the openness and tolerance of both the Government and society, but pointed out there is "much room" for improvement in tackling the issue of inequality.
• Grenada: UN rural development agency funds pov ...
  The United Nations rural development agency is to co-finance a $7.5-million project in Grenada designed to alleviate poverty in the Caribbean country, benefiting an estimated 12,000 members of poor communities on the main island and the isle of Carriacou.
• UN chief to open meeting of university preside ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will on Monday visit the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States, to open the 5th meeting of the Global Colloquium of university presidents, his spokesperson announced today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
  Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
• 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
  The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
• The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
  In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
• CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
  Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
• Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
  He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

Rewilding Institute

• Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whales
  From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

Asia Sentinel

• Twin Nightmares for Citibank Indonesia
  Sexy Swindler and Debt-Collection Murder Arrests Give Citi Sleepless Week in Jakarta
• Grameen After Yunus
  A Bangladesh Supreme Court ruling is expected Monday that could remove him from the bank
• The Look of Burma's New Government
  A slightly younger generation, but hardly a more enlightened or fair one
• If Samuel Beckett met Pol Pot.
  Breaking a horrific silence onstage
• Must-Have Wine: Best of the 2010 Lunar Drinkin ...
  Our Wandering Palate susses out a divine cupful of pinot noir in New Zealand – Schubert

We Know the Lies

• Highly Contagious 'AIDS-Like' Disease Spreadin ...
  �A poster to promote AIDS awareness ahead of World AIDS Day in Beijing. A highly contagious AIDS-like disease is spreading in China, However, HIV tests come up negative.read more
• The New Eugenics... Life in Our Vast Chemical Vats
  �As far back as the late 1800s, maybe even earlier, there has been a concerted effort by collections of individuals who somehow view themselves as superior to the general population to institute eugenics; a system of� controlled breeding of those they viewed as inferior. ~ Marti Oakleyr ...
• Dtap Vaccine... To be Soon Injected Into a 7t ...
  Concerns over the spread of whooping cough in the United States, the Oklahoma State Department of Health is taking preventative measures by making sure all students entering the 7th grade this fall get the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and acelluar pertussis) vaccine. ~ Andrew W Griffin read more
• Pennsylvania... ALERT!... Rainwater Samples In ...
  Governor Tom Corbett emphasized that 'the drinking water is safe and there is no cause for health concerns'... (This man apparently has no clue where drinking water comes from! He's not worried� about radioactive contamination... EPA took care of that... they simply raised the 'safe level' for r ...
• Corporate Taxes... 10 Facts That Will Make Y ...
  �As the rest of us fill out our federal tax returns this year, we can all take great comfort in the fact that many of the largest corporations in the United States are not paying any federal taxes at all! ~ Video� read more

Tatumba 2.0

• Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
  This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
• The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
  The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
• Alex Jones On The View
  Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
• Site Upgrade Completed
  I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
• The Charlie Sheen Test
  I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...

Truth About Our World

• Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s Address to ...
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• “I don’t care, Obama is awesome&#8 ...
  I admit, this made me laugh. � Did you know that Chimpanzees and Humans share overwhelming similarities in their genetic makeup? Though the percent varies depending on how deep the data goes, the similarities range from the high 70s to the high 90s. In other words, the similarities greatly outwe ...
• War Criminal Obama Killing Civilians in 6 Coun ...
  The title sounds harsh, but when you think about it…….. By Jay Janson   If Gadhafi is killer of civilians, “it takes one to know one.’ Gadhafi ? Obama? Who is killing? “It’s all in the eye of the [CNN] beholder.’ Karzai, all Afghanis, plead Obama to stop killing them. Pakistani Senators take Oba ...
• Wake up! Obama’s Libyan Rebels are Carry ...
    And they want to “arm” the rebels even further….  There’s so many layers to this…. By Andrew Steele March 31, 2011 Like every war the United States has been in since World War 2, the current war in Libya needs a drummed up motive in which all ambitions for empire are forgotten, coaxing the pu ...
• America’s Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya
    by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky       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 Cany ...

Bloomberg

• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• S&P Keeps Hold Opinion on Autodesk
  Analyst Jonathan Rudy says the company's July-quarter results beat his forecasts. Plus: analysts' opinions on Gap, AnnTaylor, and more
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Hitachi's Plasma TV Gets the Picture
  The new 55HDT51 delivers high image quality in a sleek package with a generous screen, although the remote's layout is confusing
• Applications That Get a "Yes"
  Do Harvard and Wharton scrutinize differently? Clear Admit answers this and other queries about getting into the right MBA program

Enviroblog

• Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic ...
  By Alex Formuzis with Sonya Lunder In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to the United States.... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
  By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Hold the Applause
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Dr. Oz Talks Toxics in Our Drinking Water
  In February, our friend Dr. Oz dedicated an entire show to the safety of the nation's drinking water. On the air, he revealed the results of the 'Dr. Oz National Tap Water Test' - a hands-on water testing experiment undertaken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• A Capital week in review: Jeter and Beltran, J ...
  This is what happened in our world this week. More
• Setsuko Hara: The diva who left Japan wanting ...
  When actress Setsuko Hara retired in 1963, she disappointed her fans and further deepened her allure as �The Eternal Virgin,� a nickname she was lovingly given when her acting career was at its peak. Hara is best remembered for her starring roles in Yasujir ...
• And now, the good news: The 2011 Mets are a be ...
  With all of the legal, financial and psychological drama surrounding the New York Mets recently, it has been easy to forget that the Mets also play baseball, much in the way that you can forget that Charlie Sheen is an actor. More
• 'In a Better World': What do children know abo ...
  In In a Better World, the latest film by Danish director Susanne Bier, two young boys sit on top of a towering silo, their legs dangling over the edge, a hair-raising image of the fragility of life and the recklessness of youth. The two boys are friends of ...
• Muted celebration of the Yankees leaves room f ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

• Female pilot killed in Afghanistan
  Norwegian defense officials confirmed Friday night that Lt. Col. Siri Skare, the country’s first female military pilot, was killed in an afternoon attack on the United Nations office in Mazar-e-Sharif. Skare is Norway’s first female officer to be killed in service in Afghanistan. It took many ho ...
• Statoil in huge new oil find
  Norway’s part-state owned oil and gas enterprise Statoil has made a “significant” discovery of oil and gas in the Norwegian section of the Barents Sea – thought to be the most significant find on the Norwegian shelf during the last 10 years. The Barents Sea, which lies north-east of Norway and ...
• Norway’s economy wins good reviews
  COMMENTARY: Norway’s economy is still on a roll, and keeps catching the attention of analysts and investors around the world. It emerged relatively unscathed from the recent finance crisis, is poised for continued growth and boasts an unemployment rate that’s less than half the size of the Europ ...
• Unemployment falls again
  Unemployment in Norway has fallen for the fourth month in a row, with unemployment now standing at 2.9% – with 5,600 less unemployed people than at this time last year. 74,200 are now registered as unemployed in Norway, according to the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Arbeids- og ve ...
• ‘Sad day’ as maternity wards close
  The Norwegian government has finally decided to push forward with plans to downgrade local maternity ward services in Odda, Lærdal and Lofoten, and close down such services in Nordfjordeid – moves that have created local opposition. The reduction of services in Odda and Lærdal, both in west No ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Everything You Need to Know About Composting W ...
  by Rob Avis Following my recent blog post on the Do-It-Yourself Vermipod, I’ve been receiving a ton of questions from folks who built Vermipods and are looking for information on how to manage and maintain their new pets. So here’s a compilation called Everything You Need To Know About Composti ...
• Our First Week at HEPA
  Just over a week ago I arrived in Vietnam with three of my daughters to work as a Volunteer for SPERI (The Social Policy Ecology Research Institute). SPERI have a number of properties where they have established Human Ecology Practice Areas (HEPA) which run Farmer Field Schools (FFS). Upon arr ...
• Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge Update: Solar Powe ...
  Editor’s Note: As many of you will have noticed, Alex has been making some great practical updates on the work going on at the Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge. The following article is another good example. I thought I’d mention that if you want to soak in some excellent experience at this site, Ste ...
• Permaculture Design Course: Interactive Traini ...
  Steve Cran brings his infamous Green Warriors (Permaculture-Aid Workers’) Program to Ethiopia. This course is a full-on intensive, interactive action learning program which will integrate a standard PDC program with a more advanced Training of Trainers Course, inducting the participants on ...
• Letters from Slovakia – a Homeless Camp Goes P ...
  Already doing what it can to operate along sustainable lines, a homeless camp in Slovakia is looking for a permaculture makeover and evolution. In little more than eight years, more than 800 homeless people have come and gone through this little site. For some it was temporary salvation, givin ...

Telecrap Urinal

• US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
  Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
• Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
  Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
• US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
  The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
• United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
  Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
  9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

• 40 Amazing iPad Apps for the Learning Disabled
  The iPad is a device that many lust after as a shiny new toy, but many people with disabilities can benefit from what it has to offer as a functional tool. Students with learning disabilities can enhance and develop their communication skills.............Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• Catching Cancer With Carbon Nanotubes: New Dev ...
  A Harvard bioengineer and an MIT aeronautical engineer have created a new device that can detect single cancer cells in a blood sample, potentially allowing doctors to quickly determine whether cancer has spread from its original site. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Whale that killed trainer returns to SeaWorld show
  The killer whale that drowned a female trainer at Orlando's SeaWorld flawlessly performed Wednesday for the first time since last year's death, wowing thousands amid heightened safety that included a steel bar protecting the orca's trainers. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Top 10 Campsites in the U.S.
  Camping has been an American pastime for generations. Connecting with nature and exploring new landscapes opens our eyes to the marvels and beauties of the world we often take for granted. With vast deserts, snowy peaks, rocky cliffs, flowing rivers, densSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Researchers Close in on Technology for Making ...
  University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and carbon dioxide. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
  gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
• 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
• 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
• 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
  vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
• 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

• My new group: Progressives United
  Today, I am proud to announce that progressives -- demanding change and demanding action -- have come together to help me launch a new group:�Progressives United � read more

Information Underground

• Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Hitle ...
  asianlion7 wrote: It's called "cognitive dissonance" or what I like to call "Santa Clause Syndrome" when the truth is right before someone's eyes and they can't see it. All these poor Neo-Nazis are going to have to get a plastic surgeon to remove all their Nazi tattoos because their idol Adolf ...
• Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Hitle ...
  Gotta love when "truthers" use the mainstream media as a source for their disinformation. Funny how the mainstream media gets all 'conspiracy theorist' on us when it comes to the Nazis, but when it comes to the Jews they use the word 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory term. Posting links to t ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Okay, let's get something clear here. The Founding Fathers were consciously emulating the ancient Roman Republic(and to a lesser extent, the ancient Greek city states) when they created the new American republic. They were NOT emulating the Catholic Church, and they were NOT emulating some Pr ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Yo Mama wrote: Gordzilla, Your loyalty to the Christ Cult has clouded your thinking and subverted your natural reason and common sense. He cannot be moved from his position because he is a member of a cult. The crazy beliefs cult members adhere to are not based in evidence, but certifiably ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Yo Mama wrote: The ideas of democracy, representative government, freedom, and individual liberty originated in the Greek city states and the Roman Republic. These Western cultures existed long before your sick Jewish Middle Eastern Semitic mystery cult came on the scene in the 1st century A.D ...

TVNZ

• Fighting rages in Ivory Coast, 800 dead in west
  Soldiers of Ivory Coast's rival leaders battled for the presidential palace, military bases and state TV in the main city Abidjan today.
• Ten dead in more Afghan Koran burning protests
  At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States
• Defiant Syria suburb Douma awaits its protest dead
  Hundreds of Syrians chanted "freedom" as they gathered early today to receive home wounded protesters in Douma.
• Gaddafi shells town Misrata, 13 rebels killed ...
  Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi shelled a building in Misrata today.
• Nato airstrike kills at least ten Libya rebels
  A Western coalition air strike has killed at least 10 rebels in eastern Libya.

environment 360

• FedEx, UPS Partner with U.S. in Push to Reduce ...
  Five major U.S. companies, including shipping giants FedEx and United Parcel Service, have committed to partner with the Obama administration in support of a national effort to reduce fossil fuel consumption. As charter members of the so-called National Clean Fleets Partnership, the companies — ...
• Dolphin Death Toll in Gulf ‘Gravely’ Underesti ...
  The number of dolphins and whales killed in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill has likely been significantly underestimated, according to a new analysis. While a reported 101 whale and dolphin Getty Images carcasses have washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico since last April's spill, ...
• U.S. Loses Ground In Clean-Energy Investments
  The United States fell behind China and Germany in clean energy investments in 2010, a result of the lack of a coherent national energy policy in the U.S., according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. China invested Click to enlarge Pew Charitable TrustsGreen energy investment, 2010 $5 ...
• Malaysian Forestry Claims Refuted by Google Ea ...
  While officials in the state of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo have insisted that 70 percent of the region’s forest cover is intact, satellite images indicate that far more widespread deforestation is taking place. A review Click to enlarge Google EarthForest loss in Sarawak of Google Earth ima ...
• New Scottish Recycling Programs Will Target Ca ...
  Scotland is introducing a new recycling program targeting materials that cause the most environmental damage — including food waste, plastics, and textiles — rather than simply focusing on weight. Beginning in 2013, local communities and households will be asked to increase recycling of waste ma ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
  By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
• The Pacioretty effect
  By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...
• Cons on the G20: “An unmitigated success ...
  By Alison@Creekside The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House on Friday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in - the outrageous cost - the unprecedented arrests of over 1100 people, including journa ...
• The Conservatives’ cupcake budget
  By Montreal Simon OMG. I was watching the Evan Solomon show today, and there was Julie Fantino making a complete idiot out of himself, by dismissing this poll of CARP members: 62% say it is NOT a budget which benefits older Canadians. 58% say they do NOT agree with the budget overall. ...
• Stephen Harper’s Libyan offensive
  By Montreal Simon I just saw some video of Canadian jets refuelling at Prestwick Airport near Glasgow. I just saw tornado fighters from Lossiemouth, the RAF base next to the Scottish village where I was born, landing in the theatre of action. I'm glad the world is taking action to stop the ...

Daily Beast

• Terry Jones: How the Mad Pastor Oozed Back
  The world tried to ignore Terry Jones' "Koran trial"-until it incited deadly riots. The fringe preacher tells The Daily Beast's Leon Dische Becker how he pulled off the bloody stunt. Pastor Terry Jones had just been informed that Jamaat-ud-Dawah, an...
• Behind the Porn Piracy Crackdown
  The adult industry is cracking down on thousands who illegally download porn-and betting they'll pay up rather than have their smut-surfing habits exposed in court. Mark A., 29, illegally downloads porn. A lot of porn. His favorite performer is...
• The Title IX Complaint Against Yale
  Sixteen students have filed a Title IX complaint against Yale, alleging a "hostile sexual environment" for women. Jessica Bennett on Yale's dark history of sexual misconduct. It was 1969 when the first class of female freshman entered Yale: confident,...
• Sex Workers Who Run for Office
  Sandra Kaz, a local candidate in France's hard-right Front Nationale, turned out to be a call girl who advertised herself as a cultured companion up for "diverse" outings with her customers. From Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis to Silvio Berlusconi bimbo...
• Sarkozy: Statesman or Madman?
  An intimate look at the French president and his ties to the incestuous world of French intellectuals who helped launch the war in Libya. In their favored haunts all across the city, at the bar of the Hotel Raphael near the Arc de Triomphe, in the...

Loonwatch

• Muslamic Ray Guns Being Used in Stealth Jihad
  The Muslamic rayguns are going to get you to impose Uraqi interracial law.
• Daily Star Reporter Quits Over Fictional Anti- ...
  Reporter quits over papers sympathy to the EDL and anti-Muslim bent.
• Donald Trump Says there is a Muslim Problem, W ...
  Does Donald Trump really want to be president or is this all a PR stunt?
• Robert Mueller: Somali-Americans “Very C ...
  Robert Mueller speaks on the FBI's relationship with Muslims and Somali-Americans.
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Andrea Elliot Speaks on ...
  Andrea Elliot Speaks on the rising anti-Muslim sentiment in America.

Energy News

• Japan admits “several months” may ...
  Kyodo, April 3, 2011 at 2:31 am EDT: NEWS ADVISORY: Several months may be ...Read More
• Nuclear industry propaganda about low-level ra ...
  It’s imperative that people understand that internal emitters cause cancer ...Read More
• Two missing Fukushima nuclear workers found dead
  Their bodies were found Wednesday and required work to remove radioactive materials from them, the utility said ...Read More
• Coverup? Areva VP’s presentation says th ...
  “We cannot comment on that,” Jarret Adams, a spokesman for Areva, said of the slide presentation. ...Read More
• Public authorities avoiding details that may t ...
  New York Times, April 2, 2011 ...Read More

Japan Times

• Lewis stays sharp despite heat
  RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) Stacy Lewis persevered through more desert heat to shoot a 3-under 69 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, opening a three-shot lead Friday over Yani Tseng, Brittany Lincicome and Jane Park. Lewis finished at 9-under par after several big putts during the second round, ...
• Hawks stop Celtics for 4th straight win
  ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Hawks are looking more like a postseason contender again after a renewed commitment to defense delivered a second straight win over a playoff-bound team. Al Horford capped his 35th double-double with a key tip-in with 7.9 seconds remaining, Jamal Crawford scored 20 poi ...
• Fukushima farmers seek to prove their food is safe
  Farmers from Fukushima Prefecture affected by the nuclear disaster held an open-air market Saturday in Tokyo amid the spread of unfounded rumors over the safety of their fresh produce. "It is not justifiable that products from Fukushima, which haven't been banned from the market, are being aff ...
• Every day ought to be Earth Day
  I usually avoid large gatherings of people, even though it has become my job to give lectures and to attend seminars and meetings and such. However, you would never see me anywhere near a rock concert or a rugby, soccer or baseball match. Our home is in the snow country of Nagano Prefecture, b ...
• Japan's 'La Gaijine'
  On Francoise Morechand's living room table there sits a book once owned by a samurai in the Edo Period (1603-1867) that she says she has been studying. "I think I may have been a samurai once in a past life. But you know, I would never do hara-kiri. I would die in battle," she declares. ...

Hudson New York

• Ergenekon Prosecutor Suddenly Re-Assigned
  Top Ergenekon prosecutor Zekeriya Öz has been removed from the coup-plot investigation in what he called a "surprise" reassignment that observers characterized as both a promotion and a punishment for his aggressive moves in the case. "I did not expect
• Will Palestinians Be Deported From Syria?
  The Syrian authorities seem to be convinced that Palestinians played an active role in instigating anti-government demonstrations in a number of cities in the past few weeks. Buthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, surprised many
• African Mercenaries in Libya, Part II
  Dictators all over Africa have aligned themselves with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, supporting his crackdown on his civilian opposition. Many African governments have sent troops to help Gaddafi stay in power, and thousands of other African mercenaries
• Listen to Julian Speaking About His Fellow Jews
  Movie producer and distributor Harvey Weinstein and film director Julian Schnabel, two Jews, got a cinema all for themselves, no charge, to show their new creation. And what a place it is: The United Nations, to show a movie named "Miral." Good people,
• Norway's "Boycott" of Pro-Israel Speakers
  I recently completed a "speaking tour" of Norwegian Universities on the topic of "international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The sponsors of the tour—a Norwegian pro-Israel group—offered to have me lecture without any charge to

  Blacklisted News

• 'Climate Change': the new Eugenics
  The sooner sufficiently large numbers of people aware that, for all its fluffy pretensions, the green movement is rooted in pessimism, grotesque misanthropy and rabid anti-capitalism, the sooner we’ll be able to consign it to the dustbin of history next to all those other bad ideas that seemed ...
• Casualties of China’s One Child Policy
  In 1989, the Chinese writer and broadcaster Xinran was in a remote mountain village in Shandong Province having dinner with the headman when she heard cries from an adjoining room, where his daughter-in-law was giving birth. A while later, as the midwife collected her fee, Xinran noticed a move ...
• Chinese Police Quash Protest Over Land Rights
  While much media attention has focused on the ongoing crackdown on Chinese activists and writers, another protest has been crushed in a village in Yunnan Province. About 2000 villagers have been protesting for the past five days against their forced relocation to make way for a hydroelectric pl ...
• Medvedev’s Plan to Oust Putin Allies Tests Li ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may be risking a power struggle with Vladimir Putin after an aide announced plans to oust Putin allies from some of the biggest state-owned companies a year before elections.  Editor's Note: The CapoRegime wants to be the Don ;)
• Here Come “The Boots On The Ground”: EU Appro ...
  While it has been made very clear that no US “boots” would be on the ground in Libya, except for those beloning to CIA operatives of course, no such stigma applies to Europe. Which is why we were not surprised to read the following from RIA Novosti: “The European Council on Friday approved the ...

The Intelligence Daily

• Surviving Collapse
  By Peter Goodchild (Countercurrents.org) There aint no law in Mexico. It’s just a pack of...
• What President Obama Should Have Said Regardin ...
  By Gail Tverberg We meet here at a tumultuous time for the world. In a matter of months, we’ve seen...
• Japan’s Apocalypse
  by Stephen Lendman Despite a disaster multiples worse than Chernobyl, major media reports all along...
• Setting the Stage for a New Banking Crisis
  by Justice Litle, Editorial Director, Taipan Publishing Group If you thought the banking crisis was...
• Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already ...
  By Michael T. Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog) The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life...

My AntiWar

• Libyan Rebels Recapture Brega
• Why Are Indian Warships Heading Towards Libya?
• Ex-Mujahedeen Help Lead Libyan Rebels
• Battle for Ivory Coast Capital Rages
• Appeal Over North East Soldiers’ Killing ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Four Iranian police killed in border attack: r ...
  Summary: The report said the attack happened Friday night in the city of Marivan. "Unidentified armed people threw a grenade into the police office," it said. On March 25, news agencies reported two policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in two "terrorist" shootings in the ...
• A Package to Resolve the Nuclear Impasse with Iran
  Summary: Mousavian Eight years of negotiations between Iran and the P5+ Germany on the nuclear issue have failed and will likely continue to do so, as long as the existing negotiating strategy and the hostilities between Iran and the US persist. After the revolution, despite Western support ...
• Turkey, Iran must form alliance to preserve gl ...
  Summary: Speaking to the AA in Tehran where he arrived to attend the "Second International Nevruz Celebrations", Arinc said that Iran was highly pleased to see Turkey's participation in Nevruz celebrations at the level of a deputy prime minister. Stressing that he met Iranian President Mahmu ...
• U.S. court backs Iran in dispute over assets
  Summary: PersepolisThe appeals court did not rule on the fate of the antiquities but it said the lower court wrongly denied Iran its sovereign immunity, which it says is presumed and did not need to be asserted in court by Iran. The ruling also voided the lower court's order that all Iranian ...
• Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear energy: India
  Summary: Iran IndiaEmphasizing Iran's right to pursue a civilian nuclear programme, India has said that Tehran should reassure the international community that its nuclear project is only meant for peaceful purposes. "India has taken a consistent stand on the Iranian nuclear issue," Hardeep ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Ancient Subatomic Signature Discovered Spannin ...
  An ancient subatomic signature extends across the universe. It seems that some subatomic particles, invisible and untouchable effects of the very creation of reality, might exist simultaneously across all of space. "Relic" neutrinos, like the relic photons that make up...
• The Gemini Discovery: Why are Galaxies in the ...
  These highly developed galaxies, whose star-forming youth is in fact long gone, just shouldn't be there, but are." Dr. Karl Glazebrook (Johns Hopkins University). Some of the faintest spectra in the universe raise a glaring question: Why do Galaxies in...
• Has Culture Replaced Biological Evolution as t ...
  "Now, after some three billion years," says Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, "the Darwinian era is over. The epoch of species competition came to an end about 10 thousand years ago when a single species, Homo sapiens,...
• News Flash: Japanese Robotic ISS Cargo Ship to ...
  Japan's HTV-2 robotic cargo ship above is seen just before astronauts grapple it on Jan. 27, 2011. The spacecraft, one of several robotic cargo ships that ferry supplies to the International Space Station, is carrying a device to "phone home"...
• Undersea Volcano Explosion Verified
  Most deep-sea volcanoes produce effusive lava flows rather than explosive eruptions, both because the levels of magmatic gas tend to be low, and because the volcanoes are under a lot of pressure from the surrounding water. But by using an...

Natural News

• Medical doctors speak out about why they avoid ...
  (NaturalNews) For those still contemplating whether or not the radiation emitted from airport naked body scanners is serious enough to avoid, you may be interested to know that many doctors routinely "opt out" and choose the full-body pat down instead because they recognize the inherent dangers ...
• Foul odors caused by chemical contaminants pro ...
  (NaturalNews) Johnson and Johnson (J&J) is back in the news again, this time for yet another drug recall. According to the McNeil Consumer Healthcare product recall website, J&J is recalling 34,000 bottles of Tylenol 8 Hour Extended Release because the medicines reportedly have a "musty or moldy ...
• Politics v. Science: Understanding Cannabis Th ...
  A milestone quietly occurred last month, and one the federal government would prefer to ignore. Yet, it could mean a step in the right direction for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who use a centuries-old botanical medicine: cannabis, otherwise know as marijuana.According to th ...
• Mainstream media journalists flunk high school ...
  (NaturalNews) I've seen a lot of lousy, inaccurate reporting from the mainstream media over the years, but some of the reporting we're seeing now on the Fukushima catastrophe is just astonishing in its ignorance of basic physics. Today, the Boston Globe published a story containing this whopper: ...
• FDA says you have no right to real food unless ...
  (NaturalNews) In a response to a lawsuit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), the FDA has articulated its belief that there is no such thing as a right to health or to purchase or consume any given food.The FTCLDF has sued the FDA for banning the interstate shipment or sale ...

Threat Level

• Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own t ...
  A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews. Incentive Capital of Utah took ownership last month of the B-rated flick about a sister who is “one Bad Mother.” Yet two week ...
• Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three ...
  A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was sentenced in New York this week to three years in prison on new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh, now 27, was also ordered to pay ...
• Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associa ...
  The government should be required to obtain a search warrant to get the IP addresses of Twitter users linked to WikiLeaks, argues a court brief filed Thursday by a group of respected security experts who say the addresses carry a higher expectation of privacy than mere phone numbers. The amicus ...
• How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget M ...
  On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and ...
• NSA to Investigate Nasdaq Hack
  The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency’s precise role in the investigation hasn’t been disclosed, but its involvement suggests the October 2010 attacks m ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Beggar Thy Neighbor, Beggar Thyself
  Having won one class war, Republicans are starting a second. To perpetuate record levels of income inequality not seen since before the Great Depression, conservatives are agitating for middle class Americans to wage a civil war on each other. Their latest divide-and-conquer tactic is to portr ...
• Desperate Evangelical Leaders Turn to Trump
  Given his emergence as the new face of the "Birther" movement, it comes as no surprise that Fox News has rewarded Donald Trump with a weekly slot on its morning show. (After all, with Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and now "Monday Mornings with Trump" fixtures on the n ...
• Taking Sides in the Palin-Maher Squirmish
  From taxes and the First Amendment to Reagan's Iran/Contra scandal, how much energy her home state of Alaska produces and so much more, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she doesn't know. Regardless, the language comedian Bill Maher recently used to describe her shocking ignorance and incessant dem ...
• Cash Strapped States Face Self-Inflicted Budge ...
  Facing dire budget crises, governors nationwide are waging an economic race to the bottom. In Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and Idaho, the new GOP leadership is pursuing draconian curbs on public employee unions supposedly to rein in compensation and pensions of government worke ...
• Meet the Republican Undisqualified
  As was proven once again this weekend, for Republicans nothing succeeds like failure. Across the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages, a legion of GOP luminaries spoke authoritatively on subjects they had frequently - and often catastrophically - bungled in the past. Apparently, no transgression ...

Blackspot News Feed

• 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 ...
• Out
  Getting the hell away from lit screens for a day. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from warrenellis’s posterous
• Helen Caldicott vs George Monbiot: “Prescripti ...
  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 ...
• Open Letter to President Obama on the Nominati ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 1, 2011 Dear President Obama: An interesting contrast is playing out at the White House these days—between your expressed praise of General Electric’s CEO, Jeffrey R. Immelt and the silence regarding the widely desired nomi ...

Consortium News

• A Two-Decade Detour into Empire
  In spring 1991, a chance for prying open dark secrets of the U.S. empire was crushed by powerful interests, reports Robert Parry. March 31, 2011
• The Looming Government Shutdown
  Ruling out taxes on the rich, Republicans demand deeper spending cuts to avert a government shutdown, says Danny Schechter. April 1, 2011
• A Wave of Wackiness Sweeps America
  A Tea Party-driven surge of strange political ideas is crashing across America's legislative landscape, observes Don Monkerud. April 1, 2011
• Into the Shifting Sands of Libya
  President Obama is already under pressure to expand the U.S. role in Libya by arming the anti-Gaddafi rebels, notes Ivan Eland. March 30, 2011
• Warriors of the Mainstream Media
  The New York Times and Washington Post criticize President Obama for not acting more unilaterally on Libya, says Robert Parry. March 29, 2011

CounterPunch

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• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel tries to prevent recognition of indepen ...
  The Israeli government has warned the U.N. Security Council and the EU that it will resort to unilateral countermeasures if the international community recognises Palestine as an inde ...
• B. D. S. (Jackson 5) Chicago Flashmob (madlit ...
• No country for old Bedou men (Kieron Monks, A ...
  Amid the rubble of Al-Aizariya you can see the fruits of compromise. This shanty town of 3,000 Jahalin Bedouin lies just south of Jerusalem, a short walk from the city's main garbage ...
• Medics: 3 killed in Israeli air strike on sout ...
  Israeli war planes struck the southern Gaza Strip overnight Friday killing three Palestinians and seriously injuring a fourth, medics said. Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu S ...
• IDF extends arrests of Palestinian protest org ...
  Nabi Saleh Popular Committee leader Bassem Tamimi's arrest was extended by an Israeli military judge after the prosecution filed a grievous indictment. The hearing took place in front ...

Water - AlterNet

• The Dirty Truth Behind America's Obsession Wit ...
  Most Americans don't know the ugly backstory of the shrimp on their plates: destroyed mangrove forests, toxic sludge, and displaced lives.
• There's Nothing Natural About Natural Gas
  It's not a choice between coal and natural gas. We are facing a choice between a truly clean energy future or more of the same. Natural gas is just a bridge to nowhere.
• Indigenous Activists Fight Building of Massive ...
  Tar sands oil has a host of toxic additives that increase the health risks, and that makes the crude oil flowing under the Ogallala Aquifer that much more dangerous.
• Why Factory Farmed Meat Is a Threat to Your He ...
  David Kirby talks about his book "Animal Factory," and the risks that factory farming poses to our health and the environment.
• 4 Fish We Should Never Eat
  Money can buy just about anything these days, especially when it comes to fish -- and that is devastating for our oceans.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Coal Plants Deliver Only A Fraction of the Job ...
  In a New York Times piece, they report on a study by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies in Chattanooga, TN, which takes an in-depth look at the promises of jobs made by builders of new coal plants. No one should be surprised to learn that when wooing a community, developers in just about e ...
• TLR Rally - H _ _ L no, we want to sue you H S ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• TLR Rally protesters in front of state capitol ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• EPA’s Partial E15 Waiver: More ethanol?
  Over the past couple of years, there has been a heated debate involving the potential EPA implementation of allowing a greater percentage of ethanol in gasoline.  The current volume percentage of ethanol allowed is 10% for vehicles made between the years 2001 and 2006. Recently, the EPA has been ...
• TLR Event [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

• Was there a nuclear blast on Mars ?
  An ancient, natural nuclear explosion may have once occured on Mars, turning everything to dry sand. What's more the same thing may have once happened...
• GM cows produce human milk
  In a bid to make cow's milk more nutritious scientists have created cattle that produce human milk. Human genes have been introduced in to 300 cows so...
• Plastic to be made from chicken feathers
  Researchers have devised a way to produce environmentally friendly plastic from chicken feathers. Feathers aren't in short supply, several million ton...
• Eight million mummified dogs excavated
  A staggering eight million mummified dogs have been unearthed beneath the Egyptian desert. The dogs were found packed in to a labyrinth of tunnels, so...
• Girl finds boa constrictor in toilet
  Police were called in Hannover when a massive snake was found coiled up inside a toilet bowl. The seven-year-old had discovered the reptile in her fam...

Grassroots

• Celebrating Palestinian Land Day
  olive_tree_in_field.jpg At the rate the Separation Wall is being built, soon Palestinian Land Day (March 30) will need only a few hours. The Wall and the Israeli mandated buffer zones jut into the Palestinian territories by as much as 300 ...
• Update from farmers in Japan
  �Below is an update from Grassroots International�s partner, the Via Campesina, concerning the situation of farmers in Japan. To keep up to date with the� Noumiren blog, visit http://earlybirds.ddo.jp/earlybirds/saigai/?lang=en.read more
• Keeping the Sacred Waters Flowing
  women_in_the_narmada_valley_face_drowning_in_rising_dam_waters.jpg � Rivers are sacred in many cultures and central to the World�s early civilizations, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to India and China. Perhaps this was on his mind when Jawaha ...
• Farmer Tractorcade Supports Workers in Wisconsin
  Farmers demonstrated the strength of their solidarity with pro-union forces in Wisconsin through the creative force of a “tractorcade,” and the inspiring power of their words and actions. Grassroots International allies from the Family Farm Defenders and the National Family Farm Coalition played ...
• Solidarity and Support for the People of Japan
  Grassroots International joins with those around the world in expressing our sadness and concern for the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Thousands have died, and many more are missing or being evacuated due to ongoing health and safety threats.� While Grass ...

Climate

• UN Talks Aim to Thrash out Tough Details on Cl ...
  Source:� AFP The first UN climate talks of the year in Bangkok this week look to hammer out tough details of a global pact that has offered hope in the fight against global warming. �
• Japan's Quake Could Shake Climate Pledges
  Source:� Deutsche-Welle Japan is a significant donor of the UN "Green Climate Fund," and now there is a risk that it will have to step back from its commitments due to its domestic crisis.�
• EPA Chief: History Will Judge Congress Harshly ...
  Source:� The Hill EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said history will not be kind to Congress if lawmakers kill climate change rules, because they would be overruling scientists in the process.
• Senate Panel Could Vote on Hydropower, Energy ...
  Source:� Greenwire A trio of hydropower bills and a measure on energy efficiency standards may be some of the first legislation the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee takes up this year.
• Barack Obama's on Thin Green Ice
  Source:� Politico President 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.

GreenBiz

• Obama's Pragmatic Energy Plan: Oil, Natural Ga ...
  The President gave a much-touted speech on energy security at Georgetown University yesterday, one that emphasized only the most pragmatic steps to move toward a low-carbon economy.
• Two-Thirds of Americans Support Phaseout of In ...
  An EcoAlign survey of 1,000 Americans on attitudes toward energy efficient lighting and policy turned up some surprising results.
• Lighting the Path for Greater Energy Efficiency
  Strategic marketing agency EcoAlign takes the pulse of 1,000 Americans in a survey of attitudes on lighting policy and energy efficiency. �
• IKEA Boosting Stock of Sustainable Goods with ...
  Using a new product scorecard, IKEA hopes to make its stock greener so that by 2015 the retail chain can classify 90 percent of the goods it sells as being "more sustainable."
• Household Energy Efficiency Gains Eclipsed by ...
  Americans becoming more efficient, while at the same time using more electronics and appliances.

Reuters Global

• Nigeria’s non-vote: Incompetence or sabotage?
  A Nigerian vote delay has inevitably put another question mark over the credibility of a series of elections seen as a chance for a break from a history of ballots where fraud and thuggery have been the order of the day.
• A tribute to journalist and colleague Sabah al ...
  For those of us who work in the Baghdad bureau, it is always a shock to look back through the collected photos of one of our Iraqi colleagues. We think we are used to those old scenes. But seen one after another, the images compiled over eight years of carnage by a single journalist like Sabah a ...
• What’s really behind Merkel’s nucl ...
  Angela Merkel may have boosted her chances of winning a third term with a much-criticised U-turn on nuclear power.
• Standing on the warfront: when sport divides I ...
  In the run-up to Wednesday's cricket match between India and Pakistan, passions are running high on both sides of the border and in the diaspora which is following their teams' progress in the game's biggest tournament
• India-Pakistan – cricket, spooks and peace
  When the prime ministers of India and Pakistan watch their teams play in the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup this week, "cricket diplomacy" may be in there with a fighting chance.

Booman Tribune

• Some Casual Advice for Egyptians
  If it is any consolation to Egypt, we have our own religious extremists vying for political power in our system and yet we are the super-bestest nation ever. And while virtually everything that is wrong with our country can be explained by reference to the ridiculous amount of power our religio ...
• Heinrich Running for Senate?
  We're going to have a difficult time with our Senate races on election night in 2012 even if Obama wins reelection in a massive blowout. One potential bright spot is in New Mexico. If it's true that Rep. Martin Heinrich is running for Sen. Jeff Bingaman's seat, it will be a campaign worth supp ...
• Trust Only Goes So Far
  I feel very similarly to Kevin Drum. I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to say that I trust Obama's judgment over my own, though. On political matters, yes. On whether to intervene in Libya? Not so much. It's true that he has access to intelligence reports and that he talks first hand to wo ...
• Stupid Morons
  Burning books is stupid. Getting mad about burned books is stupid. Killing people who had nothing to do with burning any books because you're mad that a book got burned? That's World Champion Stupid. It's especially stupid because the moron preacher from Florida only had something like 30 co ...
• A Rant About The Failure of Nat'l Democrats
  Earlier today I wrote this diary about the failure of large environmental lobbyist groups and Democrats to speak out about the dangers of climate change because they were told (by Frank "Fricking" Luntz for gawdsake) it wouldn't poll well. Because the folks who took Luntz's advice looked a ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1922 - Joseph Stalin...
• Saturday Open Thread
  The early bird catches the worm....
• Unexpected quotes from unexpected sources
  One has to wonder how much deeper the economic recessions in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1981 - birth of...
• Friday Open Thread
  Go on, knock yourselves out...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

• Psychological Issues Can Impact a Child’s Future
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers reveal that psychological issues in childhood have negative effects on adult relationships and earnings potential. The 50-year study showed that children who faced serious psychological challenges were less likely to forge permanent, healthy relationsh ...
• Does a Little Chat Make You Feel Fat?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Women often engage in conversations about their body weight. For most women, this type of discussion is common. Women can think that complimenting a friend while making disparaging remarks about their own physique is beneficial to the other and has no negative cons ...
• Can Real Time News Really Increase Anxiety?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In our rapidly evolving technological society, many people fall victim to anxiety from over exposure to current traumatic events. Dr. Judith Orloff states that these people become addicted to the rush of the “fight or fight” response, and can quickly become obsess ...
• ADHD May Be Colored By Food Dye Regulation
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The FDA’s Food Advisory Committee will be discussing newly released research relating to a potential link between food dyes and hyperactivity in children. The research suggests that certain children who have been diagnosed with ADHD may actually possess intoleranc ...
• Psychotropic Medications Can Increase Risk of ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, undertook a study to evaluate just how safe various psychotropic medications were in the treatment of clients in nursing homes, primarily those suffering from dementia. The study loo ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Overheard at the Capitol - Lexington Herald Leader
  Lexington Herald Leader Overheard at the Capitol Lexington Herald Leader Mickey McCoy of Martin County, as a sit-in protesting mountaintop removal mining turned into a three-night stay in the Capitol. "Steve Beshear, don't you know? MTR has got to go!" Chanted by marchers circling the Capitol a ...
• Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Gatewood G ...
  Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Gatewood Galbraith visits eastern KY WYMT People came to hear what the independent candidate had to say about several issues including his stance against mountain top removal. �That method of extraction cuts miners jobs. When you turn it over to machinery lik ...
• Mountaintop removal ban dies in Senate - Nashv ...
  Mountaintop removal ban dies in Senate Nashville Ledger newspaper NASHVILLE (AP) � This year's effort to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee has failed in a Senate committee. The Senate Environment and Conservation Committee voted 6-2 against the bill sponsored by Sen. Eric Stewart ...
• Editorial: EPA suffering while feds sit on bud ...
  Editorial: EPA suffering while feds sit on budget Detroit Free Press But other dangers lurk in proposed setbacks to environmental progress: allowing mountaintop removal for coal mining, which was only recently halted; preventing cleanup plans for Chesapeake Bay from taking effect; stopping EPA ...
• EPA on the Brink: Kentucky Leader Teri Blanton ...
  EPA on the Brink: Kentucky Leader Teri Blanton on Next Steps for Anti ... AlterNet (blog) TB: Mountain top removal is but one of a number of issues that will be addressed as our country develops an energy plan for the future. Ending mountaintop removal is a hollow victory if it just results in ...

Memeorandum

• Pastor Terry Jones: 'I may put Mohammed on tri ...
  Philip Sherwell / Telegraph: Pastor Terry Jones: ‘I may put Mohammed on trial’  —  Terry Jones, the radical pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran in his Florida church last month after a mock court hearing, may put the Islamic prophet Mohammed on trial in his next ‘day of judgement’, he to ...
• Obama '12 launch likely next week (Glenn Thrus ...
  Glenn Thrush / The Politico: Obama '12 launch likely next week  —  In a long-anticipated move, President Barack Obama is expected to file his reelection papers with the Federal Election Commission as soon as next week — possibly as early as Monday — and follow up with an announcement to suppor ...
• Huckabee wins 2012 county straw poll in South ...
  CNN: Huckabee wins 2012 county straw poll in South Carolina  —  Washington (CNN) - Mike Huckabee won a 2012 presidential straw poll conducted in a key South Carolina county Saturday.  —  The informal vote was the first of many upcoming straw polls taking place this month at grassroots GOP …
• Libya: Coalition air strike near Brega kills r ...
  BBC: Libya: Coalition air strike near Brega kills rebels  —  The BBC's Nick Springate describes the aftermath after visiting the scene of the air strike  —  At least 13 people are reported to have been killed when a coalition plane flying over Libya fired on a rebel convoy between Brega and Aj ...
• Romney slams Obama foreign policy, avoids Liby ...
  Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal: Romney slams Obama foreign policy, avoids Libya  —  Speaking in Las Vegas, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Saturday criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East.  —  Romney said the president hasn't been tough enough on ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: Report Finds Lax Monitoring of Wildlife ...
  What they found was that Thailand reported the import of more than 10,000 captive-bred, live animals originating in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan reported no direct exports of these species to Thailand.
• Disaster in Japan: Countries Begin Radiation C ...
  Adding to the confusion is the difficulty of getting a clear picture of what approach the customs, security, health or port authorities in various countries and cities are taking.
• Obama Sets Goal of One-Third Cut in Oil Imports
  Saying there were no quick fixes to the nation’s oil addiction, President Obama proposed a mix of measures.
• The Texas Tribune: Certainties of 1970s Energy ...
  A look back at the energy crisis of the 1970s is useful to put today’s situation in Texas in perspective.
• Uranium Processor Still Optimistic About Nucle ...
  Despite Japan’s reactor crisis, the chief of Cameco, a global leader in uranium mining and processing, said he expected building of nuclear reactors to resume within five to seven years.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.4, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Sunday, April 3, 2011 07:38:46 UTCSunday, April 3, 2011 04:38:46 PM at epicenterDepth: 57.30 km (35.60 mi)
• M 5.1, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Sunday, April 3, 2011 03:09:11 UTCSunday, April 3, 2011 12:09:11 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.10 km (19.32 mi)
• M 5.5, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Friday, April 1, 2011 17:03:46 UTCSaturday, April 2, 2011 03:03:46 AM at epicenterDepth: 20.50 km (12.74 mi)
• M 5.5, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Friday, April 1, 2011 14:44:36 UTCFriday, April 1, 2011 11:44:36 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.90 km (21.06 mi)
• M 5.9, Crete, Greece
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China Dialogue

• China’s tainted rice trail (1)
  One tenth of China’s rice yield may carry harmful levels of cadmium, say researchers. In the first section of a three-part article, Gong Jing reports on heavy metals in the food chain.Eighty-four year old Li Wenxiang pulled a small bag of rice out from under a paint-stained table. The grains wer ...
• China’s tainted rice trail (2)
  A failure to clamp down on heavy-metal pollution has led to an escalating crisis in China’s rice sector, which is largely going ignored, writes Gong Jing.In January 2006, in the southern Chinese village of Xinma, some 2,000 kilometres away from Side, two people died and a further 150 were diagno ...
• China’s tainted rice trail (3)
  Until the Chinese government takes soil pollution seriously, contaminated food will remain a real and pressing problem, concludes Gong Jing. Farmers cannot fix it alone.In his lectures on soil pollution, Chen Tongbin always starts with four slides – a sky full of thick smog, a filthy river, pile ...
• Making a killing on food
  Traders and economists see a worrying trend. By exploiting the deregulation of global commodity markets, banks and others are making fortunes by speculating on food – and causing misery around the world. John Vidal reports.Just under three years ago, people in the village of Gumbi in western Mal ...
• The battle for Nanjing’s trees
  The graceful plane trees that line Nanjing’s streets are a symbol of the city’s history. As a subway expansion threatens to uproot them, citizens are rising in protest, writes Meng Si.Nanjing’s historic plane trees, which line the streets of China’s “southern capital”, are being uprooted to make ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Want the Latest Nuclear Radiation Info? There' ...
  The digital information revolution has disrupted the highly centralized world of nuke industry PR, putting a stunning amount of information at our fingertips for the first time.
• The Dirty Truth Behind America's Obsession Wit ...
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Threat Level

• Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own t ...
  A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews. Incentive Capital of Utah took ownership last month of the B-rated flick about a sister who is “one Bad Mother.” Yet two week ...
• Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three ...
  A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was sentenced in New York this week to three years in prison on new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh, now 27, was also ordered to pay ...
• Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associa ...
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• How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget M ...
  On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and ...
• NSA to Investigate Nasdaq Hack
  The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency’s precise role in the investigation hasn’t been disclosed, but its involvement suggests the October 2010 attacks m ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Japan nuclear struggle focuses on cracked reac ...
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese engineers grappling on Sunday to end the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl tried to seal a crack that has been leaking radiation into the ocean from a crippled reactor.
• Charlie Sheen's "Torpedo" bombs in Detroit
  DETROIT (Reuters) - After hearing chants of "Refund! Refund!" and being booed, even Charlie Sheen knew his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" had bombed on its debut in Detroit on Saturday night.
• Obama calls killings in Afghanistan outrageous
  WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday described as "outrageous" the killings in Afghanistan triggered after the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian preacher in the United States.
• WRAPUP 5-Japan nuclear struggle focuses on cra ...
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• Japan tsunami survivor tells her harrowing tale
  RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - When the massive earthquake struck northern Japan on March 11 and triggered a tsunami alarm in her Pacific Coast fishing port, civil servant Takako Suzuki knew exactly where to shelter.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #490
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• CIA active on the ground in Libya ‘for several ...
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War is a Crime.org

• Revisiting Israel's Terror War on Gaza
  Revisiting Israel's Terror War on Gaza - by Stephen Lendman Despite no legitimate provocation, Israel began terror bombing Gaza on December 27, 2008. Invasion followed, attacking innocent civilian men, women and children for over three weeks, using missiles, bombs, shells, and illegal weapons ag ...
• Premediated Murder
  Premeditated Murder By Missy Comley Beattie I used to joke with my peace-movement friends, telling them I might self-immolate in front of the White House to make a statement about war. And, then, I’d laugh, saying there was just one glitch in the plan—I’d require so much Valium I’d be unable t ...
• Please Stop Burning Korans
  DUBAI, UAE -- I was on my way to Afghanistan and have delayed the final leg of the trip a day to see whether being American is compatible with not getting blown up. The problem seems to be that, in addition to the U.S. military occupying the country for almost a decade and routinely murdering r ...
• Militarism, Mutilation, and Minerals: Understa ...
  Militarism, Mutilation, and Minerals: Understanding the Occupation of Afghanistan from Cultures of Resistance on Vimeo.
• Libya Can't Distract From The Iraq War of Choice!!
  Adrian Hamilton: Don't let Libya distract us from what {bush} Blair did 2 April 2011 - A terrible thought has struck me. Could the excitement over the war in Libya serve to make Tony Blair look less awful and deprive the Chilcot inquiry of what little sting it may have when it finally publishes ...

Grist - News

• High-def flyover video of Fukushima shows the ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. This stunning, sobering flyover video of the Fukushima plant was shot in HD, which means it's probably as detailed as you can get while trying to focus a camera from a plane. Some of the rubble is still smoking.
• Farmers in U.S. running out of land
  by Christopher Mims. Despite planting record amounts of corn and soybeans this year, U.S. farmers are sitting on unexpectedly small stockpiles of both crops. Meanwhile, the demand for corn is crowding out use of land for other crops, including cotton. The USDA reports underscored tha ...
• Obama to encourage America’s truck compa ...
  by Christopher Mims. A group of truck fleet-owning companies that collectively owns 275,000 vehicles is scheduled to get a gold star from the president today, as part of the administration's Clean Fleets Initiative. FedEx, UPS, AT&T, PepsiCo, and Verizon are the charter members of a group ...
• Solar power from the moon is fake, but also real
  by Christopher Mims. Solar panels that transform light from the moon into usable quantities of energy:�Fake! Solar panels covering the moon that would transmit massive quantities of energy back to earth using lasers and microwaves:�Real! Or at least: proposed with a straight face. I thi ...
• Fukushima workers prepared to die; don’t ...
  by Christopher Mims. A piece in today's Guardian reveals that TEPCO, the utility responsible for the Fukushima Dai-Ichi reactors, did not until very recently have enough dosimeters for all of the employees who are working to stop an even worse catastrophe at the plant. Normally, dosimeter ...

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Farming Pathogens

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• Seven U.N. Workers Dead In Kandahar After Kora ...
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• April Fools
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• Wisconsin Recall: First Petition To Be Filed A ...
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Solari

• Fed Discloses Secrets on Supreme Court Orders
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• Citibank Debt Collectors Alleged to Kill Custo ...
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• Kindness
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Fabius Maximus

• Can the UN give Obama the authority to send US ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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• Obama's new view of his own war powers
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• The wisdom and legality of arming Libyan rebels
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• Question for Juan Cole
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• Obama and American exceptionalism
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Common Dreams-Views

• How Milton Friedman and Chicago Economics Unde ...
  Russell Mokhiber Here’s the thing about the Chicago School of Economics – it wasn’t always this way. Chicago School now means – market good, government bad. But that was Chicago School hijacked by Milton Friedman, Robert Bork, and Richard ...
• Natural Disasters?
  Bill McKibben At least since Noah, and likely long before, we've stared in horror at catastrophe and tried to suss out deeper meaning – it was but weeks ago that the Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, declared that the earthquake/tsunami/ ...
• The FDA and Fukushima Fallout
  Robert Alvarez Recently, a senior scientist with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made this comment to the news media about radioactive fallout being detected in milk in the United States from the nuclear catastrophe in Japan: "Radia ...
• Labor Pains and the GOP
  Michael Winship There’s a joke making the rounds and it goes like this: Big Business, a Tea Partier and Organized Labor are sitting around a table. A dozen cookies arrive on a plate. Big Business takes eleven of them and says to the Tea Pa ...
• Our Climate Crisis Is an Education Crisis
  In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrote, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.” According t ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• How Many Afghan Lives To A Western One?
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• Petraeus "Understands the Frustration" With Sp ...
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus told senators that he understood the frustration with the Afghanistan War, conceding that "we have spent an enormous amount of money." The general has a gift for unde ...
• Petraeus, McCain Continue Afghanistan War Spin ...
  By Derrick Crowe General David Petraeus is set to testify before Congress today, and he's expected to again try to put a positive spin on a war effort that's utterly failing to meet the goals set by its backers. While intelligence assessments show that tactical moves on the ground in Afghanistan ...
• Karzai Asks NATO To Stop Operations
  By Steve Hynd Is Afghanistan a sovereign nation or not? I guess we'll find out. During a meeting in Kunar to discuss recent civilian deaths including those of children, President Karzai said: "On behalf of you and the Afghan people, today I would like to respectfully, and not arrogantly, ask Nat ...
• Afghanistan's COIN and Coin Disconnect
  By Steve Hynd As Derrick Crowe reminded us yesterday, the U.S. military's own COIN manual says: "I-113. The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." But today, Colin Cookman reports that the Afghan government is about t ...

Water Wars

• "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
  (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. They said the U.N. Security Council should work out ways to ...
• "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
  Climate change seen worsening stresses on water supplies and heightening risk of conflict, though water wars remain very rare
• Worried About "Water Wars," U.N. Calls for Hyd ...
  "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over," Mark Twain reportedly said during the early d
• Water wars panel discussion lets you ask the e ...
  Where: Brenau University Thurmond McRae Auditorium When: 1-3 p.m. Cost: Free More information contact Heather Gladfelter. No comments have been posted.
• "Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
  By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. [More]

WordPress | Economics

• MEGAPOST: Craven A cigarettes
  Frank Ifield – Australian TV commercial (1959) Prior to his international success, here’
• You Can't Make This Up! Ingenious New Taxes! A ...
  $50.00 Fat Tax and New Tax to Punish Smokers Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has proposed levying a $50
• Arizona Proposes Fines for Unhealthy Habits
  State pushes fines for obesity and smoking; opponents call it discrimination.
• Bamboo Capitalism
  Free market capitalism’s advocates are often dismissed nowadays with a one-word crusher: China. Chin
• It's Library Time!
  Earlier in the week, I received an email from my public library that a few books I had put on hold h

Electronic Intifada

• Global actions mark Palestine's Land Day
  Direct actions, rallies and protests took place across Palestine and in numerous cities across the world on 30 March to commemorate the 35th annual Land Day, an important day o ...
• In Palestine, curse anything but the land
  On 30 March 1976, while thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel were protesting against the expropriation of their lands, Israeli security forces shot and killed six of the ...
• Winning entries of first annual Israeli aparth ...
  A year ago, the Ramallah-based Stop the Wall campaign and itisapartheid.org began to collaborate on the first International Israeli Apartheid Short Film Contest. This contest e ...
• Israel lays Gaza-like siege on West Bank village
  Since 24 March, Israeli forces have sealed the southern occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar for an indefinite amount of time as soldiers continue to arrest young Palestini ...
• Corruption investigations begin in post-Mubara ...
  CAIRO, Egypt (IPS) - Egyptian authorities have opened dozens of criminal investigations into hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public land contracts that were awarded il ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan Government bans revealing wedding outfits
  The Afghanistan Government has planned to ban women garments contrary to Islamic sharia and will close down the shops dealing with outfits that are semi-naked, naked, transparent, or tight in a way that reveals part of the woman's body.
• Ten dead on second day of Afghan Koran burning ...
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the ...
• 2 days, 20 dead
  U.S. soldiers stand guard in front the gate of a U.S. base after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Three insurgents attacked a NATO base on the outskirts of ...
• UN chief offers condolences to victims in atta ...
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday offered his deep condolences to the countries whose citizens died in anti-UN attack in Afghanistan, according to a UN readout released from the office of ...
• Workers were killed running out of Afghan bunker
  Fearing for their lives, the U. N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida ...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

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