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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, April 3, 2011

3 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Controlling IT Costs; Enterprise Architecture ...Image by Wonderlane via Flickr

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • ARB holds that SOX covers subsidiaries
    The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) (shown in a file photo) yesterday decided that the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) protects the employees of subsidiaries of publicly traded companies. The case is Carri Johnson v. Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., ARB Case No. ...
  • Iowa House votes to put animal rights whistleb ...
    The Iowa House of Representatives has voted to put animal rights whistleblowers in jail.� On March 17, 2011, the House voted 66 to 27 to pass House File 589, "A bill for an act relating to offenses involving agricultural operations, and providing penalties and remedies." If enacted, the bill wou ...
  • Former Special Counsel Sentenced to One Month ...
    Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), was sentenced to one month in prison, twelve months probation and 200 hours of community service yesterday, after he pled guilty to criminal charges for his misconduct during is tenure at OSC.� During FY 2008, of the 530 new w ...
  • Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma, settles retal ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a settlement with Modern Oil Company, the operator of the Kwick Stop convenience store in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The lawsuit alleged that after OSHA investigated a workplace safety complaint a store in Shawnee, Oklahoma, management grilled the three ...
  • 4th Circuit upholds the FCA's seal, 2-1; Urge ...
    Today the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued a long-awaited decision upholding the seal provision of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(2). The decision is a victory for whistleblowers who depend on the seal provisions to protect themselves from retal ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Marcus Carab's Favorite 'Favorite Techdirt Pos ...
    This week, we contacted a bunch of regular commenters about doing the week's "favorites" posts... and heard back from none of them. Either you guys don't check the emails you have associated with your Techdirt accounts, you secretly hate me or there's a way overractive spam filter at work here. ...
  • Discussions About Scarcity vs. Abundance In Co ...
    A reader by the name of Shadow-Slider points us to a fascinating report from a 1897 Copyright Commission in Great Britain in which the report points out how content is different than real property because of the difference between scarcity and abundance. It sounds very much like what we discus ...
  • Focusing On The Copy Part Of Copyright Doesn't ...
    Julian Sanchez has put up a fascinating post discussing how copyright is really a misnomer in the digital age. He's building off the various discussions about the Google book scanning project and whether or not it's fair use. The key point he makes is that thinking about a "copy" in this situa ...
  • The IP Maximalist's Guide To Making It Big
    Techdirt talks a lot about how to make money in the music biz without actually selling music. Consider this an improvement. With these instructions, you'll hardly have to produce any music at all, and if you do, you won't have to go through all that time-intensive and "extremely expensive" produ ...
  • DailyDirt: Better Living Through Phase Change ...
    High school chemistry is probably the last time most folks hear about heats of fusion. As a quick reminder, when solid materials are melted, there's the energy to just heat up the material, and then there's some extra energy that goes into melting the solid (if it has a melting point) -- and th ...

VacTruth

  • Mother Jailed for Taking Vaccine Damaged Daugh ...
    A mother from Detroit was jailed this week for trying to protect herself and her daughter from the police and the CPS. Maryanne Godboldo's problems began when her daughter aged 13 was given mandatory vaccinations.Vactruth.com
  • Is There A Paradox About Vaccines?
    There are many paradoxes in life but none so ludicrous [preposterous, ridiculous, absurd] as those that exist within the fields of health, healing, medicine, and, most of all, pharmaceuticals.Vactruth.com
  • News of Smallpox Outbreak in India Raises Fear
    Early this week news began to break of an outbreak of smallpox in Jharkhand India. Three people in Gumla were reported to have died of the infectious disease and another five people were reported to be ill. Vactruth.com
  • The Importance of Getting Factual Information ...
    Corporate interests come before human interests, regardless of the industry involved. Nothing is more important to Big Pharma corporate governance than all their moneymaking vaccines with neurotoxins and other poisons.Vactruth.com
  • Government Documents Show DDT Contaminated Milk
    Initially heralded as a scientific miracle, the pesticide DDT is shown by congressional reports to contaminate milk.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • Clarity Through Microcosm
    I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry for skipping my usual Thursday post last week. My social life seems to be getting in the way of writing and the next couple weeks are busy. Guess I’ll have to skip work or something. Thanks to @db0 for the heads up on this post about the men’s rights people. You have probably already [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...
  • Don’t Be Like Che
    Che Guevara is everywhere.  He is on t-shirts, sneakers, bags, bedazzled boots, and even children’s books. The bedazzled boots don’t really bother me so much.  Not likely that the person wearing those has actually read any Che and they probably won’t be mistaken for someone who is about to go ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This art project is amazing.  At first it seemed kind of weird that they would take these silly pictures of women who had been through so much trauma.  But then when you hear the explanation.  Very cool. Police in New Orleans used licensing as an excuse to close down an anarchist bookstore/arts ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
    In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
  • In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
    It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
  • Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
    My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
  • Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
  • By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosph ...
    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]

treehugger

  • 8 Year Old Kenzie Proves Weekday Rainfall Decl ...
    Image: 8 year old Kenzie Brown with her Science Project, photo from Josh Brown, Kenzie's Father We Affect Weather? Do you ever have the feeling it always seems to rain on the weekends but not on the weekdays? So did 8 year old Kenzie Brown, of Phoenix, Arizona. But Kenzie did more than jus ...
  • Toast Your Health With These Five Organic Drinks
    Pink frozen berry drink by D. Sharon Pruitt via Flickr Among all the "natural" energy drinks, chill-out beverages, coconut waters, probiotic kefir shooters, alternative milks, and superfruit juices at the recent Natural Products Expo, there were some standout organic liquid refreshments in ...
  • The Simplicity and Beauty of Riding A Bike In ...
    photo via Moriza at flickr Our friends at Grist have posted a great video that artfully captures the joy of bike riding in the city. Grist writer Sarah Goodyear wrote about a video from Noa Cortes, blogger at NYC Cycle Chic, which shows the high fashions worn by many of the beautiful people ...
  • Would You Trade the Endangered Species Act for ...
    Photo credit: langalex via Flickr/BY-SA We need to do something. Thus far, the legislative strategy that Democrats have used to advance climate policy has been disastrous. Where other major economies around the world are either passing laws to reign in carbon emissions (the EU) or dumping t ...
  • US Capitol to Receive a Powerful Infusion of Y ...
    A Power Shift crowd in 2007. Photo credit: Power Shift/Sierra Club Our nation's capitol will soon receive a powerful infusion of young energy. From April 15-18, more than 10,000 young leaders will converge on Washington, DC, at Power Shift 2011....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

  • Scientists build Parkinson’s disease in ...
    Until now, there have been no witnesses to the death of brain cells in people with Parkinson’s disease. And like any murder mystery, this has slowed the search for the killer. In a big break in the case, Stanford University scientists say they have re-enacted this tragedy in a petri dish — growi ...
  • ‘Can you hear me now?’ Researchers ...
    There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across a crowded room, neurons must figure out the best way to get their message heard [...]
  • Making Cells on an Assembly Line
    Researchers have developed a way to create uniformly sized cell membranes, small cellular packages that can be used like tiny terrariums to study the inner workings of the cell and even create new molecules. Sandro Matosevic and Brian Paegel of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, ...
  • Pulling an all-nighter can bring on euphoria a ...
    A sleepless night can make us cranky and moody. But a lesser known side effect of sleep deprivation is short-term euphoria, which can potentially lead to poor judgment and addictive behavior, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Ha ...
  • Re-creating autism, in mice
    By mutating a single gene, researchers at MIT and Duke have produced mice with two of the most common traits of autism — compulsive, repetitive behavior and avoidance of social interaction. They further showed that this gene, which is also implicated in many cases of human autism, appears to pro ...

CFACT

  • Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
    Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
  • Welcome to the Third World
    Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
  • Fearing EPA's carbon tax
    The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers’ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else’s.
  • More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
    A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.
  • Krugman flunks food and history
    Krugman is trying to frighten us about what’s very likely the finest weather humanity has ever seen. We’re still getting heat waves, blizzards and some hurricanes, but fewer of them. Still, you are three times as likely to read about the severe weather we do get because the media is seeking ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Syrian president appoints ex-minister to form ...
    Syrian President Bashar Assad has appointed a former minister to form a new Cabinet, Syrian state-run television reported on Sunday.
  • Iraqi industry minister survives assassination ...
    Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals Ahmed Nassir Al Karbuli has survived an assassination attempt by unidentified gunmen in the western province of Anbar, a source in the country's security forces told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
  • Radioactive water continues leaking from Japan ...
    The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday continued injecting water-absorbing polymers into a cracked pit but radioactive water was still leaking into the ocean, NHK television reported.
  • Nine dead, over 80 wounded in Afghan Quran bur ...
    Nine people have been killed and over 80 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar in violent protests sparked by the burning of a Quran by a radical Christian preacher in the United States, an Afghan government official said on Sunday.
  • Over 10 people poisoned with chlorine fumes in ...
    A dozen people were poisoned with chlorine fumes at a Long Island swimming school in New York after a pool pump malfunctioned, The New York Post reported on Sunday, referring to Suffolk County police.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Tuesday, April 5 - Invest in Ohio's Future Rally
    12:00 - 5:00 pmColumbusOne Ohio Now is holding an “Invest in Ohio’s Future Rally” rally at the Ohio StatehouseWhere: North Plaza: Broad St., 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215.Contact: Andrea Fejes at andrea (at) oneohionow.org or RSVP Online.Due to the large turnout expected, we are moving to ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 31-Mar-2011
    Thursday, March 3110:00 AM - 6:00 PMColumbusSenate Bill 5 Rally at the StatehouseWhere: 225 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215OEA Building & Ohio StatehouseOEA will open at 10:00 a.m. so you can pick up signs, water and snacks. RSVPs are not required, but are helpful and appreciated. By letti ...
  • 'No On SB 5': What's next if it passes
    Below is from an email sent by the state Democratic party.More news is developing by the minute on Senate Bill 5. After the Republicans shut down public hearings and hashed out backroom deals all last week, the House Commerce and Labor Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. this morning to vote this bill ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Similarly, here are a few things that have been ignored or greatly downplayed by American media:Ray Davis sprung.Trophy photos with murdere ...
  • 'No on SB 5': Upcoming events, 26-Mar-2011
    Saturday, March 2612:00pm - 3:00pmBowling Green State UniversityOhio’s March Against MadnessIn front of the Student Union at BGSUMonday, March 2810 am - 12 pmGraftonJob(less) Ohio TourThis event is sponsored and organized by Ohioâs middle class: Making Ohio great since 1803.Where: Grafton Correc ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Pro-Biotech Scientists Defend Monsanto from Wi ...
    DES MOINES, Iowa - The widespread Internet posting of a letter by a retired Purdue University researcher who says he has linked genetically modified corn and soybeans to crop diseases and abortions and infertility in livestock has raised concern among scientists that the public will believe his ...
  • How to Organize a Millions Against Monsanto Ra ...
    Was there a Rally for the Right to Know in your area? You can organize your own picket line or rally, just pick a date that's good for you, even if it's just taking a clipboard and petition, a homemade sign and some fliers to your local grocery store.Click here to read this article
  • Ask New York Legislators to Label GMOs!
    Ask NY Legislators to support the following bill: The New York Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act Bill #: AB1367 Year: 2011 Bill Summary: Provides for the labeling of food or food products that contain a genetically modified material or that are produced with a genetically modified m ...
  • Ask West Virginia State Legislators to Label GMOs!
    Ask West Virginia State Legislators to support the following bill: Creating the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act" Bill #: HB2178 Year: 2011 Bill Summary: The purpose of this bill is to create the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act." The bill makes legislative findings, ...
  • Ask Vermont State Legislators to Label GE Salmon!
    Ask Vermont Legislators to support the following bill: Genetically Engineered Salmon Right to Know Act Bill #: HB123 Year: 2011 Bill Summary: AN ACT RELATING TO LABELING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SALMONClick here to read this article

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Michael Glennon on Chapter VII and Congression ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I don’t have anything of my own to add to the very instructive debate underway over Congressional authority and war powers, and actions authorized by the Security Council under Chapter VII.  However, to go with the terrific interventions by Michael Ram ...
  • Michael Glennon on Chapter VII and Congression ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I don’t have anything of my own to add to the very instructive debate underway over Congressional authority and war powers, and actions authorized by the Security Council under Chapter VII.  However, to go with the terrific interventions by Michael Ram ...
  • United Nations Releases Guiding Principles for ...
    by Rachel Davis [Rachel Davis is Legal Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights] On March 24, the UN released a much-anticipated set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. The Guiding Principles seek to provide for the fi ...
  • Declaring War and the Security Council
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey In previous posts I’ve argued that the U.S. intervention in Libya requires congressional approval under the Constitution’s original meaning and that there’s no longstanding uncontested precedent that would warrant departure from that meaning.  Here I’ll con ...
  • ASIL 2011
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’m in Los Angeles, on my way home to Melbourne.  I had not attended an ASIL conference in five years, since I was teaching at Georgia, and I’m very glad I attended this one. I met a number of interesting people, including some with whom I’ve had a vir ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Why Western meddling in Deathistan needs to en ...
    Suppose really something bad were happening in America. Suppose George W. Bush refused to leave office: was barricaded in the White House, and attempting to cancel civil liberties. Now suppose Libya or Iraq possessed super-carrier strike groups...Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �| ...
  • The CIAs Libya Rebels
    Mystery surrounds the anti-Qaddafi transitional government which emerged at the beginning of March in the city of Benghazi, located in the Cyrenaica district : mujahedin,Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Interesting Times: Lessons to Learn From a Flo ...
    David ( Contrary ) Brin is a futuristwho makes observations that others miss.About cell service : require that all cell phones be equipped to pass along text messages on a peer-to peer (P2P-packet) basis, all the way to the edge of the afflicted zoneSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech � ...
  • Funding of Bretton Woods II by George Soros Ex ...
    A new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the international financial architecture after World War II, is needed to establish new international rules…reconstitute the International Monetary Fund (IMF)…[and] to reform the currency systeSubmitted by EarthSpirit Angel to US Poli ...
  • Master The Way To Eat Fresh Fruit For Maximum ...
    There is a proper way to eat fruit and you can get your nutrients and enjoy them in comfort.Submitted by Charmaine Lim to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Pakistan: Protest against hiring of mercenarie ...
    Pakistan: Protest against hiring of mercenaries for Bahrain [ireland.marxist.com]Written by Farhad Kayani - Saturday, 02 April 2011 - The Bahraini regime, with the aid of the Pakistan Army, has been... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western C ...
    Indigenist Opinion Editorial | APNS: "The women of Africa have been struggling against systematic military-rape for hundreds of years without serious interventionism from the the international... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Vatican: Libya: Sirte, eight civilians killed ...
    Vatican: Libya: Sirte, eight civilians killed during airstrikes. Apostolic vicar: "Pray for Libya" :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]:... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Police officer killed as car bomb explodes in ...
    Police officer killed as car bomb explodes in Omagh, Northern Ireland - Wikinews, the free news source: "A bomb positioned below the car of a police officer in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Where is Dan Choi when a Gay Soldier really ne ...
    Where is Dan Choi when a Gay Soldier really needs him? | APNS: "Where is Dan Choi, the main face of the anti-DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) movement? When it comes to the despicable treatment of a Gay... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: BioPirates, Toxic Chemicals ...
    Deborah of Environmental Voices will join us as we discuss Biopiracy and the chemical poisoning of our planet.
  • The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineering ...
    Only in America can a beleaguered company with a checker past such as Monsanto's, which includes a nasty little habit of poisoning entire towns with toxic waste, battle it's way to the top of the dung heap to deliver a fatal blow to the people and planet with a deadly and insidious type of chemi ...
  • EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth ...
    As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.
  • The Codex Alimentarius Irradiated Food Cover-up
    This proposal is merely another cover mechanism for the pretense of protecting the consumer with strong regulation, while allowing industry to do just what it wants, i.e. produce high levels of irradiated food to cover up unsanitary manufacturing practices.
  • Codex Alimentarius and Food Irradiation in the ...
    Essentially, the food becomes mutated by this exposure, a condition which does not occur in nature, and is the cause for many forms of cancer and genetic modification. Yet, Codex pushes irradiation as if it were a great tool of disinfection with no adverse side effects at all.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Coalition "friendly fire" kills 13 Libyan rebels
    ShareThisOops! Coalition "friendly fire" kills 13 Libyan rebels 02 Apr 2011 A NATO-led air strike killed 13 Libyan rebels, a rebel spokesman said on Saturday. The 13 fighters died on Friday night in an increasingly chaotic battle over the oil town [of course] of Brega with Gaddafi's troops. "The ...
  • Penguin rescue operation under way after south ...
    ShareThisPenguin rescue operation under way after south Atlantic oil spill --Islands' conservation director: At least 300 penguins have died�� 02 Apr 2011� On an island chain located halfway between Africa and Argentina, local authorities say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way. A mi ...
  • Crews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fukushima
    ShareThisCrews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fukushima 01 Apr 2011 A nuclear expert has warned that it might be 100 years before melting fuel rods can be safely removed from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant. The warning came as levels of radioactive iodine flushed into the sea near the plant spiked ...
  • NATO airstrikes kill Libyan civilians
    ShareThisNATO airstrikes kill Libyan civilians 02 Apr 2011 The warplanes belonging to the Western-led military coalition have killed several Libyan civilians as they dropped bombs on the opposition-held town of Brega. The opposition says at least 13 of its fighters and several civilians were kil ...
  • Southwest grounds 79 planes after roof rips open
    ShareThisSouthwest grounds 79 planes after roof rips open --Flight from Phoenix to Sacramento made emergency landing in Yuma 02 Apr 2011 Southwest Airlines will ground 79 of its Boeing 737 planes for inspection after the roof ripped open on one of its flights, the company said this morning. Sout ...

Daily Loaf

  • Rays drop game 2 to Orioles 3-1
    Another day, another loss to the Orioles; Shields pitched well in loss. Longoria out with strained left oblique.
  • Lightning keep rolling, beat Wild 3-1 for 4th ...
    When the Tampa Bay Lightning took the ice against the Minnesota Wild Saturday afternoon, it probably would not have surprised many if it took them some time to get going. After all, they had just wrapped up a playoff spot less than 48 hours before, and played an emotional game against who man ...
  • Cuts to those who help the disabled a new sour ...
    Curtin, along with a score of others, lined the main entrance to Tropicana Field before Friday night’s Rays home opener. They were there for one simple reason: too “boo” Rick Scott for his “draconian” cuts to important budgets.
  • A celebration of baseball, a celebration of life
    For a handful of Rays fans, Friday night had greater meaning than Opening Day; they gathered to celebrate the life of a friend, who happened to be one of the Tampa Bay Rays' biggest fans.
  • Flat Rays drop ugly opener to O’s 4-1
    It wasn't pretty, but getting that first loss out of the way will be important for the Tampa Bay Rays. Not sure why, but we'll figure that out later.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Rolling Stone: Boycotting Advertisers
    31 March 2011 In 2006, I launched a boycott against a magazine owned by a huge conglomerate.� The Boycott damaged the magazine but the extent was unknown.� Eight months later, the press reported that the magazine had died.� (Early Christmas Present for Michael Yon.) The boycott was not done on ...
  • Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
    29 March 2011 Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.� Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.� The story is titled �THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.�� It should be titled: �BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone. ...
  • Statement regarding Today's Attacks in Afghanistan
    28 March 2011
  • 101st Airborne
    04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...
  • War Stories & Rumors
    Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...

The Killing Train

  • Fukushima and low-probability events
    A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him to nuclear power. George summarizes the Fukushima incident as follows: read more
  • Aristide's speech upon return
  • Aristide's return
    For the seven years since he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004 there have been many different speculations about why Aristide never returned to Haiti. People argued that his exile in South Africa was comfortable, that he had fled in 2004 out of fear for his life and didn't return because ...
  • Wikileaks and the Future of Information
    Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
  • Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
    Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...

treehugger

  • 8 Year Old Kenzie Proves Weekday Rainfall Decl ...
    Image: 8 year old Kenzie Brown with her Science Project, photo from Josh Brown, Kenzie's Father We Affect Weather? Do you ever have the feeling it always seems to rain on the weekends but not on the weekdays? So did 8 year old Kenzie Brown, of Phoenix, Arizona. But Kenzie did more than jus ...
  • Toast Your Health With These Five Organic Drinks
    Pink frozen berry drink by D. Sharon Pruitt via Flickr Among all the "natural" energy drinks, chill-out beverages, coconut waters, probiotic kefir shooters, alternative milks, and superfruit juices at the recent Natural Products Expo, there were some standout organic liquid refreshments in ...
  • The Simplicity and Beauty of Riding A Bike In ...
    photo via Moriza at flickr Our friends at Grist have posted a great video that artfully captures the joy of bike riding in the city. Grist writer Sarah Goodyear wrote about a video from Noa Cortes, blogger at NYC Cycle Chic, which shows the high fashions worn by many of the beautiful people ...
  • Would You Trade the Endangered Species Act for ...
    Photo credit: langalex via Flickr/BY-SA We need to do something. Thus far, the legislative strategy that Democrats have used to advance climate policy has been disastrous. Where other major economies around the world are either passing laws to reign in carbon emissions (the EU) or dumping t ...
  • US Capitol to Receive a Powerful Infusion of Y ...
    A Power Shift crowd in 2007. Photo credit: Power Shift/Sierra Club Our nation's capitol will soon receive a powerful infusion of young energy. From April 15-18, more than 10,000 young leaders will converge on Washington, DC, at Power Shift 2011....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • President to chair defence council
    Thein Sein to head 11-member committee that analysts believe will wield huge influence over military policy in new government
  • 3,000 homeless as illness strikes
    Survivors of Shan state earthquake battling diarrhoea and thirst as high levels of sulphur are found in damaged water supplies
  • New President calls for ‘media respect’
    Thein Sein hails media as the 'fourth estate' and tells parliamentarians they have a duty to tell Burmese 'what they should know'
  • US lawmakers want tougher sanctions
    Tightening of punitive measures on Burma's banking sector seen as one step in quest to pry country open to free-market reforms
  • This is Burma, this is our reality
    This week the Burmese junta officially handed over power from the military clique that has ruled the country for decades, marking what it claims is the start of a steady transition to civilian governance. That pledge has however been met with doubt: many of the key players in the junta have shed ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Bankrupt mortgage company CEO pleads guilty to ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced on Friday that the former CEO of mortgage company Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) [corporate website] pleaded guilty [press release] on charges of fraud related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) [materials; JURIST n ...
  • Germany urges EU export ban on execution drug
    [JURIST] Germany urged the European Union (EU) [official website] on Friday to impose an export ban on a drug used for lethal injections [JURIST news archive] in several US states. Germany's human rights commissioner, Markus Loening, requested that the drug sodium thiopental be placed on the lis ...
  • ICRC: hundreds killed in Ivory Coast massacre
    [JURIST] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website] on Saturday reported [press release] the deaths of at least 800 civilians in the Ivory Coast [JURIST news archive] town of Duekoue as a result of intercommunal violence that took place on Tuesday. A spokesperson for ...
  • Former Somalia PM can be questioned under oath ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a federal suit against former Somali prime minister and defense minister Mohamed Ali Samantar [JURIST news archive]. Lawyers for Samantar argued that the case s ...
  • UN rights office urges restraint, caution in I ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday urged all parties to show restraint [press release] in the Ivory Coast [JURIST news archive]. OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville acknowledged [press briefing] that OHCHR had received unconfirmed ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Choose Your Own Budget Adventure!
    Story by Chris Good; illustrations by Alex Hoyt. You are John Boehner, recently anointed Speaker of the House of Representatives. You're knee-deep in budget negotiations with the White House, trying to find a way to fund the government and live up to your campaign promise -- either to cut ...
  • What Could Cost Obama a Second Term?
    A failure in a complex system almost always involves a combination of factors that feed on one another to cause a breakdown. As we watch Japan's tragic nuclear-plant situation, I am reminded of the near-catastrophe at Three Mile Island in 1979 and what the postcrisis analysis showed. Recall tha ...
  • Pence Says 'Shut It Down'
    Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) has been a leading opponent of passing another short-term bill to avoid a government shutdown while sides work out a longer-term plan. Now, he says we should "shut it down" if Democrats don't agree to the kind of cuts Republicans are proposing. "I think if liberals in t ...
  • About Those False False Choices
    Ruth Marcus is right that Obama relies far too much on the rhetorical device of the "false choice". He's made it a cliché. Obama's speciality, she says, is the false false choice: Set up two unacceptable extremes that no one is seriously advocating and position yourself as the champion ...
  • The Unfulfilled Legacies of Elizabeth Taylor a ...
    A look at how gender politics changed, and stayed the same, during the careers of two iconic women credits: Mario Anzuino/Rueters, Peter Morgan/Reuters Like bookends on an era, the passing of two well-known American women last week underscored how much times have changed--and how mu ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Shabak Strikes Again, Israeli Palestinian Boy ...
    I reported a few days ago that the Shabak has arrested an 18 year old Nazareth resident, Ahmad Khaled Ghanem under gag order.  He is suspected of alleged security offenses.  I contacted a staff member of the I’lam Media Center in Nazareth who helped me reach his parents and lawyer.  The famil ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • Goldstone’s Tawdry Turn, Israel’s False Dance ...
    An Israeli reporter wrote to me today saying that Israel is “aflame” with the news that Judge Goldstone has finally given the nation the vindication it so richly deserved by renouncing his human rights report on Operation Cast Lead, which found that Israel may’ve committed numerous war crimes. F ...
  • David Yerushalmi Threatens Defamation Lawsuit
    NOTE: I originally published this post in reply to a threat of a defamation lawsuit from David Yerushalmi.  I temporarily withdrew it in order to consult with counsel.  I post this now. But before I do, since I wrote this, the Anti Defamation League, a group with whom I often disagree, has pub ...
  • Shabak Arrests 18 Year-Old Palestinian Under G ...
    On March 22nd, the Israeli Shabak arrested 18 year-old Ahmad Khaled Ghanem, a native of Nazareth.  Because his arrest is under gag order inside Israel, it’s likely he is suspected of some sort of security offense.  HaMoked has helped me locate him in Kishon Prison near Haifa.  I am trying to ...

Ode Magazine

  • Voss’ ark
    At his Florida farm, Jeff Voss provides a home to the Watusi (pictured here) and many other exotic animal species.Photo: Jeff Voss By day, Jeff Voss manages portfolios and analyzes cash flows; by night, he tends exotic animal species at Briley Farm, a private 60-acre p ...
  • Wonder wall
    wonder wallPhoto: urbanarbolismo You can take in San Vicente del Raspeig’s main square at a glance: town hall, library, concert hall. The only thing the center of this rural town near Valencia, Spain, was missing was plant life. Or so thought Jose Maria Chofre, of the ...
  • Druid prayer for peace
    By: PeaceCorso Deep within the still centre of my being May I find peace. Silently within the quiet of the Grove May I share peace. Gently within the greater circle of humankind May I radiate peace. The Druids were deep nature mystics. I find t ...
  • Kissing and energetic medicine
    By: AmeryZedd Many of us were raised in families where emergency medical treatment of minor childhood cuts and abrasions were treated with iodine, a Band-Aid and a hug. If you fell off your tricycle and scraped your knee, then your pain, tears and fear ...
  • How to live gracefully
    By: Mon_W Being graceful is to accept everything in our lives, because it has a reason. We accept, not because we are unworthy of anything else, but because we can learn through this situation we are in, and we understand this. Grace helps us to und ...

OpEd News

  • Revisiting Israel's Terror War on Gaza
    One of history's greatest crimes
  • UPDATE: Jones Unrepentent, Islam Unforgiving, ...
    The death toll is mounting in the Afghan riots and still Pastor Terry Jones refuses to repent or apologize. Who can make him do so?
  • School of Hard Knocks Forcing Libyan Rebel Arm ...
    The rebel army is here to stay until the conflict is resolved in Libya, with Benghazi as their stronghold. With NATO jets protecting Benghazi from attack, Gaddafi's army no longer has the capability to overpower the city, while the rebel army can only evolve as food, medicine and military resour ...
  • Summer shocker for GOP in Wisconsin recall battle
    Minnesota's Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) may not know the state in which the original Lexington and Concord battle was fought, but I will tell you the state where the next Lexington and Concord will be fought. Wisconsin. This summer.
  • Libyan War Recalls Afghan Pitfalls
    The lesson from the Afghan conflict in the 1980s would seem to be that all the tough-guy talk about ousting some unsavory leftist dictator -- whether Najibullah or Gaddafi -- can lead to a cure worse than the disease, especially if the United States doesn't understand who its new friends are.

Switchboard

  • New York Times editorial says no to Keystone X ...
    Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC Today, the New York Times editorialized that Secretary Hillary Clinton should not permit the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.  The pipeline would carry nearly a million barrels of oil from northern ...
  • New York Times Editorial: No to a New Tar Sand ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Today the New York Times published an editorial that the State Department should say no to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.  The proposed Keystone XL pipeline wou ...
  • U.S. drops to third in clean energy investment ...
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and gree ...
  • Dollars and bats - why caring about white-nose ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC The post-hibernation discovery of new cases of white-nose syndrome – the disease that has been devastating US bats – continues with recent reports coming from a new county in Maryland and a first-eve ...
  • A Clear Choice: Public Opinion vs Polluters
    Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. As NRDC's President Frances Beinecke blogged today, President Obama is facing a key leadership moment which could determine whether we protect public health or allow polluters to dump unsafe ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • With Notably Rare Exceptions, the New Orelans ...
    More on Connick v. Thompson. I would excerpt, except that it might provide a disincentive to Read the Whole Thing. I’m glad that Lithwick highlights the remarkable Scalia concurrence, which of course was joined by the most reactionary Supreme Court justice since James McReynolds.   Scalia and A ...
  • 2011 MLB Preview: The Junior Circuit
    West:  1. Tex 2. Oak 3. LAA 4. Sea The Rangers ran away with the division and they’re not old, so they’re the presumptive favorites, and I see no reason to pick against them — their offense is easily the best in the division and they have interesting young pitchers (albeit in a park where [...]
  • MLB Preview 2011: The Senior Circuit
    West:  1. SF 2. Col 3. L.A.  4.ARI 5. S.D. The defending champs are likely to get worse years from their overachieving veterans but more value from their young players, and of course the rotation in the best in the league west of Philly.    The Rockies are interesting, but the lineup has some ho ...
  • More Libya
    I was on RT on Thursday:
  • Weak Claimants, Not Weak Claims
    It’s the Republican way.

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
    NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
  • Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...
  • Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
    Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
  • Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
    By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.
  • DRI is a Nevada Asset
    Nevada’s legislature was visionary in 1959 when it created DRI as the environmental research campus of the state’s university system. DRI has flourished as an entrepreneurial campus of 500 scientists, engineers and technicians who leveraged the state’s $8.2 million allocation last year into ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • LAW SCHOOLS REPORT
    The National Law Journal's annual survey of the law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied on the most to fill their first-year associate classes.
  • Memories of Microsoft
    With each new antitrust rumble, Google is starting to look a lot like Microsoft Corp. all over again.
  • Signature Issues
    Lamar Smith is at the apex of his career, as the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a position he's waited 24 years to reach. And because he knows he could lose it in two years, he's in a dash to cover as much legal landscape as he can.
  • An argument for diversity
    John Marshall Law School's National Diversity Undergraduate Mock Trial competition exposes minority students to the law and provides winners with up to $90,000 in financial aid for legal education.
  • Toyota prevails in first acceleration claim to ...
    A federal jury in New York has found that Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. was not liable in the first sudden acceleration case to go to trial.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
    Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
  • Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
    Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...
  • Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
    Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...
  • Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
    The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...
  • Has Your Stream Been Affected by Gas Drilling?
    How do you know? For many, it rests upon early detection -  and prevention of environmental impact. In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)  researched and tested a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Penn ...

News Blaze

  • Stray Bullet Kills UN Staff Member in Cote D'i ...
    Zahra Abidi, 33, was an information analyst at the UN Operation in C�te d'Ivoire (UNOCI) in Abidjan, the country's commercial capital that has been the scene of intensified fighting between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo and those supporting Alass
  • Concern Rises in US Over Radiation Levels in D ...
    The radiation fallout in Japan is not only affecting rainwater, but contamination is being detected in the air and in the sea, a problem that is likely to increase as the radiation leak in Japan has yet to be solved.
  • UN-Backed Treaty Help Poor Countries Effective ...
    The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade is designed to ensure that hazardous chemicals do not endanger human health and the environment but inclusio
  • Somali's Interim Government Plans to Boycott U ...
    United Nations envoy for Somalia today urged all of the country's leaders to participate in an upcoming conference on the transition process.
  • Taxing Rich Could Mean $2.5 Billion for Educat ...
    Given the recent events in Sacramento that saw budget negotiations collapse and efforts launched to find a Plan B, a recent statewide survey of likely voters in California has discovered a proposal that could help solve the state's budget mess - ra

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Operation Odyssey Dawn; An Illuminati Mega Hum ...
    As I watch in disgust the UN and Barack Insane Obama have declared war on Libya creating yet another unjustified war. But as most feel angry about this war most will not realize that this is another sacrificial ritual that the psychotic Killuminati are celebrating. In this analysis I will connec ...
  • First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty
    These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown. The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to coo ...
  • While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It’s ...
    It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled through Latin Ame ...
  • India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conduc ...
    Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wrote a letter to ...
  • Jerusalem bus bomb victim was British
    The woman killed when a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The bombing, the first in the city for seven years, left the 60-year-old dead and injured dozens of others. The 1-2kg suitcase bomb detonated close to the main bus station and ...

Russia Today

  • Plan to plug radioactive water leak fails at F ...
    Attempts to fill in a crack with concrete at Japan’s damaged Fukushima-1 nuclear plant have failed, with radioactive water still leaking into the Pacific Ocean, NHK TV reports.
  • Mossad’s alleged kidnap plot fails to trick wi ...
    As Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi awaits charges to be brought against him next week in Israel, his wife says she will spare no effort to end the “secret” plot against her husband that she suspected weeks before...
  • Gaddafi forces shell rebels’ last western stro ...
    Pro-Gaddafi forces are attempting to recapture Libya’s third largest city, Misrata, in their latest offensive. NATO is investigating reports that at least 13 rebels were killed in a coalition air strike.
  • Signs Gaddafi regime crumbling
    The UK has reportedly been in talks with a senior aide to the Libyan regime who is believed to be seeking an exit strategy for the leader Muammar Gaddafi. This follows the defection of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa.
  • Floating island may store Japan’s radioactive ...
    Workers at the stricken Fukushima facility are set to seal a breach in one of the reactors using concrete. Japan's nuclear officials say highly radioactive water has been seeping through the crack into the Pacific Ocean.

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

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

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GM Food: Facts Not Crops. Take Action!
    To the President of the European Commission J.M. Barroso: We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops .. Sign the petition!Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Green Life ...
  • Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + T ...
    Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!)Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Enviro ...

The Freeman

  • Robert Gates Again Rules Out U.S. Ground Force ...
    “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates reiterated Thursday that the U.S. would not put ground forces in Libya, but conceded that allies involved in the operation might provide arms and send in trainers to aid the rebels, who have lost ground to Col. Moammar Kadafi’s forces in recent days.” (L.A. Tim ...
  • Mexico’s Drug Lords Fall, but War Goes On
    “With just 18 months left in his six-year term, President Felipe Calderon is desperate to show that his U.S.-backed strategy of sending thousands of soldiers and police to fight the traffickers is working and that his government can calm the storm of gruesome violence that has killed more than 3 ...
  • A Victim of the State, pt. 2
    Now even speaking out against injustice can subject a person to criminal investigation. What’s next?
  • Republicans and Democrats Begin Negotiating Po ...
    “After weeks of arguing, Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill began negotiations Wednesday on a possible budget agreement that would slash federal spending by as much as $33 billion and avert a government shutdown. . . . If approved, the deal would be the largest single-year budget cut in U ...
  • GOP Drafts Legislative Assault on Illegal Immi ...
    “The proposal may come with such a hefty price tag that it’s unrealistic to carry out. But Republicans say cost should not be the Border Patrol’s concern. ‘They need to be very candid with us and tell us what they need,’ Miller said. ‘We’re the ones passing the budgets and we have to decide amon ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Timelines in journalism: A closer look
    You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
  • Teaching about storytelling
    As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
  • Is your story actually a story?
    “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...
  • Web literacy: Should be required
    A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
  • Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
    Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...

Facing South

  • Arkansas latest in series of defeats for voter ...
    This week, a senate committee in Arkansas' state legislature rejected a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Arkansas vote was the latest in a string of defeats for voter photo ID bills, which state Republicans have aggressively pushed in over a dozen states t ...
  • VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
    By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
  • Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
    By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The corporate tax dodge
    Profits earned by Exxon Mobil in 2009: $19 billion Amount the Texas-based oil giant paid that year in federal income taxes: $0 Amount Exxon got back from the IRS as a rebate: $156 million Size of the tax refund Bank of America received last year: $1.9 billion Profits earned by the Charlotte- ...
  • VOICES: Georgia, meet your future
    What happens when the country's largest Legislative Black Caucus comes face to face with nine thousand immigrants -- many of them declaring themselves as undocumented -- chanting aqui estamos, y no nos vamos! (we are here, and we're not leaving!)? Love. Or a mad crush, at least. It happened ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Jasmine Revolution
    Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
  • Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
    In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Women's Modern Plight
    With all the progress that has been made to advance women's position in the world, their standing still ranges from disadvantaged in developed countries to brutalized in developing ones.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What Next in Libya
    So now what? In Libya as there appears to be a highly predictable stalemate as the pro-Quaddafi forces cannot move en masse due to the threat of NATO airpower hitting mobile columns strung out on exposed road marches. The anti-Quaddafi forces are unable to effectively maneuver because they have ...
  • 1984 Was Not A Manual
    But the people running England, or at least London, certainly think it is.  CCTV cameras are everywhere you go, in large numbers.  On one Undergroun  platform today I counted 13.  Of course, with that many CCTV cameras there is no way they can actually effectively be monitored in real time, so t ...
  • No Free Lunch
    I haven’t had much to say about the Japanese Tsunami and the nuclear mess there, but here’s the short and to the point. First: the reactors in question were not properly built and tested.  It is very clear now that the Japanese nuclear industry, as with the American, has been cutting corners to ...
  • Burning down your house to generate heat
    Some years ago I worked for a large insurance company.  I was originally hired to help deal with a class action suit, but soon found myself working on something different, demutualizing the company.  Mutual insurance companies are owned by their customers, not by shareholders.  This has a num ...
  • Watch oil prices tomorrow
    Tomorrow’s oil markets should be interesting. The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore: Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thur ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • AACR: ‘Hedgehog’ drug shows promise against sk ...
    An experimental therapy has slowed the growth of the most common form of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma. The drug, named vismodegib but still often referred to by its earlier moniker GDC-0449, was tested in 41 patients with a rare condition called basal cell nevus syndrome. Some patients ...
  • Fukushima update: the battle continues
    Here's a quick roundup of the day's news from the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. In its daily briefing, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that water is still being pumped into the reactors to keep overheated fuel rods cool. Iodine-131 and cesium-137 is still being de ...
  • LHC shutdown April fool is a hit
    Here’s one April fool’s joke that had this reporter breathlessly trying to win space in Nature’s forthcoming print issue and scrambling for the phone numbers of particle physicists. The particle theory blog Resonaances reports that management of Europe particle physics’ lab, at CERN, in Geneva h ...
  • Opinion: Gene patents and democracy
    Posted on behalf of Shobita Parthasarathy. On 4 April, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC will review a case that calls into question patents on human genes. Much of the debate has focused on how the case might reshape the future of biotechnology research and ge ...
  • Open access articles not cited more, finds study
    Posted on behalf of Zoë Corbyn. Make an article open access and it is more likely to get cited - at least that is one powerful argument in open access advocates' arsenal to get researchers to make their work publicly available. But new research published in the Federation of American Soci ...

new geography

  • Bicycle Commuting: A US System and A World-Wi ...
    To my pleasure, there is now a United States Bicycle Route System that goes more places than Amtrak and Greyhound do. Have a look at the proposed map of the national corridor plan. The goal is to create clearly marked north-south and east-west routes, as romantic as the Oregon Trail or as fun ...
  • The End of the Line: Ambitious High-speed Rail ...
    A well-intentioned but quixotic presidential vision to make high-speed rail service available to 80 percent of Americans in 25 years is being buffeted by a string of reversals. And, like its British counterpart, the London-to-Birmingham high speed rail line (HS2), it is the subject of an impassi ...
  • The Best Cities For Minority Entrepreneurs
    As the American economy struggles to recover, its greatest advantage lies with its diverse population. The U.S.’ major European competitors — Germany, Scandinavia, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Italy — have admittedly failed at integrating racial outsiders. Its primary Asian ri ...
  • Hanoi’s Underground Capitalism
    Along the pitted elegance of Pho Ngo Quyen, a bustling street in Hanoi, Vietnam, you will, predictably, find uniformed men in Soviet-style uniforms, banners with Communist Party slogans, and grandfatherly pictures of Ho Chi Minh. Yet, capitalism thrives everywhere else in this community ...
  • The Accelerating Suburbanization of New York
    Some of the best evidence that the tide has not turned against dispersion and suburbanization comes from an unlikely source:  New York�s 2010 census results. If dense urbanism works anywhere in America, it does within this greatest of US traditional urban areas. Before the actual count, the ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • FUKUSHIMA: 1,000 MILLISIEVERTS PER HOUR IN THE ...
    I’ve become very hesitant to post any information that originates from the criminals at TEPCO, but this number has remained standing for over a day now. According to the IAEA, the limit for public radiation exposure is 1 mSv per year: The dose limits for practices are intended to ensure that no ...
  • Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human ...
    When I saw this story in the Telegraph, I thought that it had to be the tail end of some April Fool’s antics. Nope. Apparently, this is actually happening. The article below is from March. Via: Good: Earlier this month, China held an exhibition to showcase major technical achievements during its ...
  • Ivory Coast: Aid Workers Find 1,000 Bodies in ...
    Via: Telegraph: The single biggest atrocity in the long battle for control of Ivory Coast has emerged after aid workers discovered the bodies of up to 1,000 people in the town of Duekoue. Charity workers who reached Duekoue said it appeared the killings had taken place in a single day, shortly a ...
  • Greenpeace Video: Measuring Radiation Outside ...
    Japon : l'équipe de Greenpeace effectue des… by gpfrance
  • A Murder Foretold
    Via: The New Yorker: Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Gu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Landscaping with desert plants (Google / Deser ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desert gardening Gardening Video Log | Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ Watch videos with our experts on how to garden in the desert, care for Arizona plants, rden & set up your own … Continue reading →
  • Agricultural production could be greatly affec ...
    Read at : Zunia http://zunia.org/post/the-poverty-implications-of-climate-induced-crop-yield-changes-by-2030/?rank=c&cHash=7069f496c6d65217d17425d01670c379 The Poverty Implications of Climate-Induced Crop Yield Changes by 2030 gtap.agecon.purdue.edu â Accumulating evidence suggests that agricult ...
  • An economic approach to measuring hunger or un ...
    Read at : Zunia – Your Aid Effectiveness update (John DALY) http://zunia.org/post/a-revealed-preference-approach-to-measuring-hunger-and-undernutrition/ A REVEALED PREFERENCE APPROACH TO MEASURING HUNGER AND UNDERNUTRITION publicaffairs.ucla.edu â Abstract: In most developing countries, caloric ...
  • Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness ...
    Read at : Zunia – Your Aid Effectiveness update (John DALY) http://zunia.org/post/africa-launches-platform-for-development-effectiveness/ Africa launches platform for development effectiveness africa-platform.org â Africa is preparing to tackle development head-on and take ownership of its devel ...
  • Mainstreaming gender in the United Nations’ wo ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://generoyambiente.org/blog/?p=306 IUCN instrumental in UN strategy on gender and desertification IUCN recently hosted a key meeting in Bonn, Germany, on mainstreaming gender in the United Nationsâ work dealing with desertification The meeting was … C ...

The Paper Trail

  • The impact from the Center’s coverage of ...
    A lot has happened in the month since the Center first exposed the controversy over the so-called Fast and Furious probe by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
  • Budget cuts may axe Obama’s government t ...
    Funding for government transparency websites, part of a two-year long initiative by the Obama administration, will be cut in the upcoming months. The websites were part of President Obama’s effort to make government data more accessible to the public and show how federal funds were spent. Websit ...
  • House committee subpoenas ATF for documents on ...
    The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today issued a subpoena for documents about a controversial federal gun smuggling probe after the investigating agency missed a deadline for providing the documents voluntarily.
  • Fed reveals which banks borrowed from discount ...
    The Federal Reserve is naming the banks that drew emergency loans during the financial crisis, offering information on its oldest lending tool for the first time in the central bank's nearly 100-year history.
  • New York City pension fund to post stock picks ...
    NEW YORK — The city's comptroller announced Monday that he plans to make public the inner workings of one of the nation's largest public pension fund systems, letting residents see which companies' stocks are being bought with their tax dollars and monitor the performance of more than $113 billi ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Community Assembly in Christchurch (NZ): the f ...
    Rally.jpg Summary of a public assembly held in Christchurch, New Zealand, to organise the direction of recovery after the February 22 earthquake and in response to draconian changes in city power. ...
  • Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria ...
    Call to Participate in the 6th annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair ~~Please Forward Widely!~~ ****************************** 1. Bookfair Dates & Contacts 2. How to Request a Table 3. Call for Workshops & Presentations Proposals 4. Festival of Anarchy 5. Volunteers needed! ***************** ...
  • Reportback from 2011 Critical Observatory: Cub ...
    social forum.jpg A report from the 5th Observatorio Critico forum in Havana. This year the event was promoted as a Cuban Social Forum bringing together diverse groups and individuals from across Cuba ...
  • Egypt Revolt at the center of wide social chaos
    Since the early Second Postwar, our current kept watching over the events pertaining to Mediterranean Sea, its coast countries and mainly Europe and Middle East (concerning Mediterranean Sea in a geopolitical sense). read more
  • Walk-Out and March in Ithaca NY
    Crossing the street.jpg Students from the Lehman Alternative Community School walked out in solidarity with Wisconsin and democracy. Students from the Lehman Alternative Commun ...

Free Range International

  • Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
    Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
  • Rant Time
    Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...
  • Crickets
    Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
  • It Takes A Clue
    Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
  • Thugs, Mobs And Education
    The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
  • First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
    This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
  • Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
    Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...
  • HAARP SMOKING GUN — (Where is America&#8 ...
    Incredible Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on HAARP originally broadcast  January, 1996!!!   What you have to realize before viewing this segment is that Raytheon Corporation is a strategic and primary arm of DARPA (Virginia Tech – Defense Advanced Research Projects A ...
  • “Greater Israel” — Great Art ...
    The Ongoing Plot To Create “Greater Israel” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:29 “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli em ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.
  • Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
    It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...
  • Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
    His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
  • Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
    He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
  • Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov ...
    The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.

Scotts Contracting

  • Energy Efficiency-Architects Join In with 5 pr ...
    AIA reiterates top five proposals for increasing energy efficiency Apr 1, 2011 Construction News The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reacted to President Obama’s proposals for increasing the nation’s energy security by reiterating its top five energy conservation legislative priorities. " ...
  • Obama’s Secret Love Affair
  • Google Adds Dynamic View
    Google unleashed 5 Dynamic Views for your viewing pleasure. To view the Dynamic View of St Louis Renewable Energy (Additional Web Pages by Scotty, Scotts Contracting) use this Dynamic View Web Links Provided Below Flip Card Dynamic View Side Bar Dynamic View Mosiac Dynamic View Snap Shot Dynamic ...
  • St Louis Area Business-Small Business Week!-Jo ...
    Join Other Small Business Owners for 2011 Small Business Week of Eastern Missouri! Each year, Small Business Week of Eastern Missouri hosts a series of events and seminars geared toward small business needs. This year, special seminars include timely discussions on government contracting, export ...
  • WattHead’s Jesse Jenkins on NPR: Nuclear ...
    WattHead.org Founder and Chief Editor and Breakthrough Institute Director of Climate and Energy Policy Jesse Jenkins was on NPR’s Weekend Edition this past Sunday discussing Japan’s nuclear crisis and what it means for the future of nuclear power. The interview touched on many of the issues that ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • International Affairs - The Shah - Book TV
    Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. talked about his biography of the shah of Iran. He also responded to questions submitted by members of the audience. Mr. Kuiper moderated. "The Enduring Influence of Iran's Last Shah" was a lecture at the World Affairs ...
  • Iran 'Yet To Respond' To Muhammad Ali Plea For ...
    WASHINGTON -- Iranian authorities have yet to respond to a February letter from the former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali asking for the release of two young Americans held on spying charges, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Ali wrote to Supreme Leader Ayatolllah Ali Khamenei asking him t ...
  • Iranian police arrests some people at burial c ...
    The burial ceremony of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi’s father was interrupted by an intervention of security forces. Kaleme.com website reported on Thursday that Iranian security forces and police arrested at least seven people during the burial ceremony. Mir Ismael Mousavi died ...
  • Campaign for the Release of Imprisoned Student ...
    A group of student, women, and human rights activists have formed a campaign in support of student activist Bahareh Hedayat, who is currently serving a nine and a half year prison sentence at Evin Prison. The group is calling on the Iranian government to release her immediately.read more
  • Government Challenges UN Resolution As Rights ...
    (1 April 2011)  The Islamic Republic of Iran’s denunciation of a landmark United Nations Human Rights Council vote to appoint a human rights monitor, and leading politicians’ threats to deny the investigator access to the country, demonstrate the lack of cooperation with the international comm ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The President with No Past: Obama’s Ele ...
    Implications of Executive Order 13489 What are the chances of a president who has all his pre-presidential records sealed winning re-election to a second term? At the moment, because of Executive Order 13489, the public and press have virtually no way to independently verify much of what Obama ...
  • Wyeth Losing in Court
    As I blogged previously, the National Institutes of Health Women’s Health Initiative Study (launched in 1993-95) had to be shut down in 2002, when it became clear the women in the Premarin/Prempro arm of the study were experiencing an unacceptably high rate of breast cancer, strokes, heart disea ...
  • Wyeth Stocks Soar While Women Die
    Six Decades of False and Misleading Marketing Estrogen, a hormone regulating the development and function of the female reproductive system, was first discovered in 1925. In the 1930s, the drug company Wyeth developed a process (viewed as barbaric by animal rights activists) to extract conjugate ...
  • Menopause: Made in the USA
    Historically 80% of Premarin and Prempro sales have occurred in the US. Even in the US, the cessation of menstruation is a non-event in 75% of women, producing no physical symptoms whatsoever. In fact, most languages and cultures have no word for menopause. In Chinese medicine, so-called menopau ...
  • Wyeth and the Multibillion Dollar Menopause In ...
    (this is the first of several posts regarding the “corporatization” of the US health care system – and its harmful effects on human health) I have blogged previously about the ingenious – and deadly – strategy by pharmaceutical companies and other corporate interests of inventing fictitious illn ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
    OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
  • NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
    Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]
  • “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
    Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...
  • BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, WARNING, SEEING THIS MOVI ...
    A TV commercial just came on saying “Battle: Los Angeles” was the world’s number one movie. I’ve seen it. If it’s the world’s number one movie, it’s because it doesn’t have much competition. Not that it’s a bad movie. If one likes alien invasion movies, say Aliens crossed with Independence Day, ...
  • Another Day, Another War
    The USA is now at war with Libya. Not to mention in conjunction with our old buddies, France and Britain. Since this website is about war and the onrushing darkness, I guess I better comment on it, depressing as it is. And it is depressing, wars almost never work out the way people wanted, and [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
    Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
  • To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
    … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...
  • How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
    The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...
  • Dangers, Properties, possible Uses and Methods ...
    Most methods and tools being recommended here on the Internet such as purification by filtration will not lead to your desired result of decontaminating “radioactive water”. a) Radioactive contamination of drinking water in Japan at this point in time can come about in only two ways: 1) The sour ...
  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
  • Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
    Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...
  • Modes of Transportation
    Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...
  • Clarifying Misconceptions on Taxpayer-Subsidiz ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Last November, the Financial Times published an article charging that ethanol from the U.S. is collecting U.S. tax credits before being shipped to Europe, where it also qualifies for favorable tax treatment. I wrote an article about this called Taxpayer Su ...
  • Ethanol and Corrosion Follow-Up
    Join the forum discussion on this post Problem? What Problem? Following my recent post What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corrosion, someone made a comment that gets to the root of why many ethanol proponents mistakenly see me as an enemy of ethanol (indeed, one of the Top 10). The p ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • thedaringlibrarian - QR_Code_Quest
    Tags: thedaringlibrarian, qr_code_quest, qrcodes, scavenger_hunt, library, QR_codesby: Dean Mantz
  • Teacher Blog Posts :: A Comical Education: Fun ...
    Comments:Nice list of comic options for reading enjoyment. - Dean MantzTags: blog, teacher, resources, posts, education, TeachHUB, comicsby: Dean Mantz
  • 3M Science of Everyday Life - Discovery Education
    Comments:includes Innovation HQ - Fred DelventhalTags: smartboard, science, education, resources, activities, innovation, interactive, technologyby: Fred Delventhal
  • Exploring a National Park Teaching Idea
    Comments:This is a grant project to receive a Flip video camera. I want to introduce my students to the National Park system. - Karen VitekPlease vote for my project! Let's show them the power of the PLN! - Karen VitekTags: education, technologyby: Karen Vitek
  • The Print Effect
    Tags: print, effect, twitter, twitter-education, timelineby: Jackie Gerstein

Rodale News

  • You Gotta See This! Free Seeds, Free Books, Be ...
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  • Ban Food Dyes? The FDA Says No
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Against the wishes of many prominent public health advocates, an advisory panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided Thursday that there isn't enough evidence to ban food dyes or require labels stating that some evidence exists linking food dyes to att ...
  • Act Now to Shelve Sinister Soap
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâClean hands shouldn't come at the cost of tainted water and hard-to-kill supergerms. And there's an opportunity now to keep unsafe chemcials out of soap and other personal-care products. Consumers spend a whopping billion bucks annually on antibacterial soaps, household ...
  • Why You Should Buy Organic Seeds
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you're planning your garden for this year's growing season, there's good reason to avoid the 50-cent packets sold at the supermarket or big-box garden center and load up on organic seeds instead. For one thing, chances are those seeds came from a corporation that gets ...
  • Organic Community Fights Back, Sues Biotech Bully
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A large group of organic farmers, small businesses, and seed companies, along with advocacy groups from around the world have filed a lawsuit against the chemical company Mon read more

big think

  • His Living Hue: What Did Shakespeare Look Like?
    “Why should false painting imitate his cheek/ And steal dead seeing of his living hue?” William Shakespeare wrote in Sonnet 67 , which begins, “Ah! wherefore with infection should he live.” Since flights of angels sang him to his rest in 1616, Shakespeare’s likeness has been “infected” with ...
  • Fat as Class War in Arizona
    � Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
  • As Congress Holds Climate Change Hearings, Str ...
    Following Congressional hearings this week on climate change, in a guest post today Ashley Brosius considers the origins of the partisan divide on the subject and suggests several possible paths forward for overcoming ideological barriers.� Brosius is a graduate student in this semester's course ...
  • Top Chefs in Washington, DC Discuss Sustainabi ...
    In a guest post today, Lauren Krizel reports on an event held this week in Washington, DC that gathered some of the city's top chefs to discuss sustainability and the ethical treatment of animals.� In a video as part of her post, she also interviews several of the attendees to gain their thought ...
  • Liberation Biology
    Maybe the most provocative speaker (although not so much, maybe, to BIG THINK readers) at our conference at Berry next Friday and Saturday will be RONALD BAILEY--the libertarian proponent of liberation biology.� Here's a fascinating interview with Mr. Bailey.� A taste: On the possibility of ...

Information Liberation

  • Young Girls BANNED From Selling Girl Scout Coo ...
    Once upon a time in America, if you were a couple of little girls and you wanted to sell lemonade or girl scout cookies at a little stand in front of your home nobody would give you any problems.* In fact, most of the people passing by would have smi...
  • Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality o ...
    Introduction: Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, born in 1949 in Peine, West Germany, studied philosophy, sociology, economics, history and statistics at the University of the Saarland, in Saarbruecken, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, in Frankfurt am...
  • Hillary Clinton Lets the Cat Out of the Bag
    In an interview with Denise Maerker of Televisa, during her February trip to Mexico, Hillary Clinton explained why drugs can*t be legalized: *I don*t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. * It is not likely to work. There is just too...
  • Dolts and Idiots
    Government nonsense, broken logic and stupidity abounds. Take, for example, that in most states the government says that a person can*t drink alcohol until they are 21-years-old. Why 21? No one knows just some arbitrary number that has c...
  • The World -- American Style
    The U.S. government has a known and explicit policy, discussed below, concerning Persian Gulf oil. The visible foreign results of this policy, so far, include the Gulf War of 1990, the subsequent sanctions on Iraq, the U.S. actions during the Ira...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • What Is Libertarianism Part II
    Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
  • It’s Just A Jump To The Left
    …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →
  • McLurg’s Law
    I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →
  • Cactoblastis
    Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →
  • The Centre Of The Universe
    A column by Boris Johnson in the UK Daily Telegraph caught my eye the other day. It shone a cold, hard light on man’s seemingly innate tendency to place himself at the centre of everything. Reflecting on the recent earthquake … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Five more science stories
    Sperm condensation – Protamines are small basic proteins that condense the genetic material, the DNA, in mature sperm helping to form the head of the sperm. They are rich in the amino acid arginine whose residues are distributed in a number of stretches separated by neutral amino acids. The amin ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Incognito – If the conscious mind – the part you consider you – is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries.  (97818476 ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Free complete works of H.P. Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle (and Calibre) – You can now download the complete works of HP Lovecraft as an ebook for your Kindle (or if you haven't wasted your money on that device you can read it with the Calibre software for Windows, Mac and Linux. FYI: OMG, tinfoi ...
  • The fraudulent invention debunkifier
    Debunking crackpot and fraudulent inventions has never been easier than now thanks to the world-shattering invention of the Crackpot Flowchart(TM) from Sciencebase. Based on the 13 unlucky-for-crackpots warning signs published some time ago on ka9q.net, this handy multicoloured flow chart lets y ...
  • Six science selections
    Map mashup reveals world’s top science cities – Combining citation data with Google Maps reveals the cities where science prospers, and those where it doesn't. 9 arguments for (against) herbal remedies – About 40% of pharmaceuticals have a herbal origin but that doesn't mean natural is all good. ...

RFF Library

  • Disaster Relief 2.0 Report
    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | United Nations Foundation | Vodafone Foundation http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VVOS-8FDL7N/$File/full_report.pdf {UN Pulse] …a landmark publication examining how technology is reshaping the information landscape i ...
  • Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of ...
    Rand Corp. / by Tom LaTourrette, David S. Ortiz, Eileen Hlavka, Nicholas Burger and Gary Cecchine http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR876.html U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources. Biomass energy is a renewable resource, generally with lower emissions than fossil fuels ...
  • National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Impl ...
    National Academies Press (free download of prepublication version with registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13092 [Summary] The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future, and some of those earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulner ...
  • H.R. 910: Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
    House of Representatives, US congress http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12122/HR910.pdf [From Summary] H.R. 910 would amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) to address climate change. The bill would create exception ...
  • Trends in Renewable Energy Consumption and Ele ...
    Energy Information Admin., US Dept. of Energy http://www.eia.gov/renewable/annual/trends/?src=email Despite an economic recession and a significant fall in overall energy demand/consumption, the use of renewable fuels grew strongly in 2009. This growth has been supported by Federal and State pro ...

Scientific American - News

  • Half-Life and Death: Radioactive Drinking Wate ...
    Three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant workers have made some headway in cooling the facility's overheated fuel rods. But overall, the situation remains "very serious," according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) . ...
  • A New Wrinkle: Comet Strikes in the 1980s and ...
    Something is disturbing the famed, majestic rings of Saturn as well as the lesser-known rings around Jupiter. The ring systems, which appear at first glance to be planar, wafer-thin bands of ice and dust, have on closer examination been found to be rippled, like a corrugated tin roof. [More] ...
  • New Drugs for Hepatitis C on the Horizon
    Some 3.2 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C , an infection that can linger in the body for years before producing symptoms. It can eventually lead to serious liver scarring and cancer. And most infections in the U.S. are the disease's particularly tough breed, known as genotype 1, which ...
  • 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Will Be Active, ...
    AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists, led by Meteorologist and Hurricane Forecaster Paul Pastelok, are predicting an active season for 2011 with more impact on the U.S. coastline than last year.The team is forecasting a total of 15 named tropical storms, eight of which will attain hur ...
  • The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical S ...
    Early in his new book, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Crown Business, 2011), Duncan Watts tells a story about the late sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who once described an intriguing research result: Soldiers from a rural background were happier during World War II than thei ...

First Truths

  • Bahrain's Blame Game
    From my comment for the Center for a Stateless Society on events in Bahrain: The Bahraini’s state’s obsession with intricately-conceived “subversive designs” therefore looks to be a phantasmal danger suited to rationalize the brutality of riot police and military personnel. The state’s golden ca ...
  • The "Liberation" of Libya
    Commenting for C4SS, I wrote:On the other hand, as the most recent case of the United States’ signature interventionism, Libya is hardly “unique” or unexampled in the world, standing as a typical rather than aberrant sample of U.S. foreign policy. As a social theory that urges the replacement of ...
  • "Shared Value" and State Capitalism
    I had to respond to the combined follies of Robert Reich and Michael Porter, so, at C4SS, I did: For all of its predictable paeans to the state's prying into our lives and our exchanges, Porter and Kramer offer something of a spotty account of how "re-localization" and internalization of corpora ...
  • The Fanciful Idea of Statist "Efficiency"
    In my latest for C4SS, I wrote: By drawing on coercion to (directly or indirectly) compel individuals to pay for things that they would never pay for in a society without those constraints, the state functions on a principle quite opposite to statists’ cherished "efficiency." Its whole system i ...
  • Workers Against the Bosses' Economy
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I commented again on events in Wisconsin: Because the primary interventions of the state capitalist system are so deeply embedded, those interventions closer to the surface — state action like minimum wage laws, etc. — are often more easily recognized; the ...

Media Co-Op

  • Denouncing Violence and Impunity in Policing
    Police violence is a systemic issue and not a series of isolated incidents, according to the Mar. 18 opening panel of the Forum on Police Violence, Incarceration, and Alternatives. “On a daily basis police harass, they profile, they abuse people, they injure, they assault, they intimidate, they ...
  • “You Don't Like the Truth”
    Omar Khadr's Canadian Lawyer Speaks at U of O Dennis Edney, the Canadian lawyer for Omar Khadr, gave a powerful talk on Mar. 21 at the University of Ottawa, where he presented the case that Khadr has been pushed through a sham legal system ...
  • About study in action and social justice research
    On study in action and social justice research Qpirg, Academics and community activism: A new way of thinking research On the week-end from march 11 to 13th, students from Waterloo, Queens, Laval, McGill and Concordia University came to sh ...
  • The Dominion on CKUT
    The Climate Justice Issue On the friday edition of Off The Hour at CKUT, we was interviewing Cameron Fenton and Tim McSorley about the last edition of the Dominion : THE CLIMATE JUSTICE ISSUE Dominion Stories
  • Haiti April Fool's joke digs up more serious q ...
    A message from Dominion contributor Isabel Macdonald who has recently been visiting Haiti (follow her updates on twitter @IsabelMacdo): Last year, former U.S. president Bill Clinton--now UN special envoy to Haiti--apologized for the U.S. ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on yo ...
    Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly ...
  • Libya for Dummies: the lipstick doctrine
    The Lipstick DoctrineIn the Victorian age, the British once sang � �We don�t want to fight, but by Jingo if we do/ We�ve got the ships, we�ve got the men, we�ve got the money too.� The Libyan intervention feels like a last reprise of that old tune, rather than a bold statement for a new age. Gid ...
  • The shooting in Tucson: the sound and the fury
    A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing Monday on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. - Associated PressDavid Seaton's News LinksThe obligatory ...
  • Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney". ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well.� From one moment to the next, this poor m ...
  • Poor United States, so far from God and so clo ...
    The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico.� Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario - CNNDavid Seaton's News LinksI put the quote above, one that I have taken at random from CNN, to a ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Grocery-Shopping Mistakes to Steer Clear of
    USA Today highlights some common mistakes consumers make, including: Shopping without a list Preparing a list keeps you focused on the healthiest food purchases, and saves time. Forgetting to shop the store's perimeter Remember that the outermost edge of the supermarket contains the healthier ...
  • Scientists Vigorously Objected to This Food - ...
    Dr. Philip Bereano is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and an actively engaged activist against genetically modified (GM) foods. His academic work is within Technology and Public Policy, and over the past 30 years, Dr. Bereano's work has focused on genetically engineered or ...
  • The Popular Food You Should Never, Ever Feed Y ...
    A study has linked soy formula given to babies with uterine fibroids in adults. Uterine fibroids are tumors of the uterus that can cause pelvic pain, vaginal bleeding, and fertility problems. Uterine fibroids are the leading cause of hysterectomy. Twenty thousand women participated in the study ...
  • Skip the Doctor - Use 'Grandma's Home Remedies ...
    When you look at the science, it turns out your grandmother wasn't so far off on some of those home remedies she used to talk about. For example, it's really true that olives can help stave off motion sickness – but only if you eat them when the first symptoms appear. That's because olives conta ...
  • 5 Tropical Fruits that Can Change Your Life
    Many people love the flavor of tropical fruits like coconut and mangoes. But did you know that, aside from tasting good, they also have healthy benefits that in some instances could be lifesaving? For example, five of the most outstanding fruits that can change your life are Coconut, ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Cyber Greenwash – Malaysia Palm Oil on the attack
    Oil palms planted on recently-deforested land, Sarawak © M Ross/ Survival Malaysia’s palm oil lobby has launched a new website to counter ‘propaganda’ about the controversial industry, which has faced strong criticism from Borneo tribes and international organizations. The new industry web ...
  • Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousand ...
    A family stand amidst the ruins of their home © COPORWA/Survival NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa âPygmiesâ homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen their homes destroyed in recent ...
  • South American Indians to receive royalties fr ...
    The Quechua people of Peru first cultivated potatoes up to 3,000 years ago. © H Mason/ Survival The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know ...
  • British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...
  • Indians take on Amazon loggers
    Ceramic pots found in the Isconahua reserve are evidence of the presence of these isolated Indians. © Pepe Villacorta / ProNaturaleza Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Quebec and Alberta: common ground
    Far from disdaining Alberta as the heartland of redneck Canada, a strong majority expressed a favourable view of the province in general, and in particular of its economic engine, the oilsands development that is persistently demonized by Quebec politicians of various stripes.
  • Memo to all parties: Montreal's not the enemy
    It was good having Conservative leader Stephen Harper in town this week stressing the importance of having Montreal representation at his cabinet table should his party be returned to government this election.
  • Hard and fast rules needed for federal debate
    There are good reasons why Green Party leader Elizabeth May should be included in the leaders' debates during this federal election campaign, but also good reasons why she should not
  • Hard and fast rules needed for federal debate
    Unless there is a change of mind on the part of the debate organizers, the consortium of TV networks that broadcast them, the latter will prevail and May will be relegated to the sidelines for what will be the campaign centrepiece.
  • Potholes strike again
    On March 21, you published my letter regarding pothole damage ("One pothole story"). A week later, my husband Ed was driving on Décarie Blvd. and had a blowout on the opposite tire because of the numerous potholes on that road.

Food World Order

  • 3/10 binge & purge: dustbowl, perceptions, sov ...
    US farmers fear the return of the dust bowl* new survey on hunger in america measures problems, perceptions; part of awareness campaign w/ tyson foods* usda criticizes ground beef testing for e. coli* US makes biggest canada feed wheat buy in decade* sedgwick, maine declares 'food so ...
  • 'flossophy' fundraiser for health-conscious ki ...
    my girlfriend, the amazing cassie cohn, is currently raising funds for her latest directing project: a music video for 'flossophy 101', a health-conscious kid's song by van oodles ... if you support media monarchy, please consider a donation and help give this project some teeth! 'flossophy ...
  • in new food culture, a young generation of far ...
    oregon farmer "looks more indie rock star than seed farmer" from nytimes: For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming. After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former feder ...
  • 3/31 binge & purge: radioactive milk & reversi ...
    epa reports radiation found in american milk* video: study says reduce bpa exposure by cutting consumption of packaged foods* americans stage nationwide protests over genetically modified foods* video: protesters in salem, oregon denounce influence of monsanto* reversing roles, farme ...
  • bad food makes kids dumber, study says
    from grist: A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their parents r ...

CrusadeWatch

  • 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
    source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
  • Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
    source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
  • Caste divide
    source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...
  • 'Eppadium' (Anyhow), the most recent novel of ...
    source:  Frontline,  Feb 22, 2011 WIELDING the pen with power and determination to smash the injustice and discrimination against Dalit Christians and other oppressed masses is part of the priestly duties of Fr Mark Stephen.
  • Lessons from Conversion by Burning Temples and ...
    Over the last decade, a large number of Buddhist temples in Korea had been destroyed or damaged by fanatically devout Christians. More recently, the Buddha statues, regarded as the devil, were attacked and beheaded in the name of Jesus.

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
  • Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The &#82 ...
    Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporti ...
  • COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
    COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
  • A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
    A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 3rd April 2011
    Many of you will have seen the satirical political observation on the internet, an assertion that the initials 'CIA' stand for 'Cocaine Import Agency'. It's not actually the CIA at the centre of our first story, but the revelations are of a similarly ground-shattering proportion. It is a r ...
  • Budget: £1 for you and £3,000,000,000 for Port ...
    This blog didn't bother looking at Georgie Boy's boring budget. What's the point? The country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy and the public is being squeezed left, right and centre. So he's bunged another 40p on a packet of ciggies... like we didn't see that attack on freedom of choice comin ...
  • The Conservative and (European) Unionist Party ...
    This morning, we ran an April Fool gag claiming that 'Call Me Dave' Cameron had agreed to an 'In-Out Referendum' after pressure from the 1922 Committee. Although we did make it clear in the same post that it was a joke, we would like to apologise to anybody who got their hopes up. That sai ...
  • BREAKING! Government agrees to 'In-Out Referen ...
    Just received a phone call from an inside contact inside Tory HQ. Call Me Dave is going to make an announcement at 11.30 this morning announcing that he has agreed to an In-Out Referendum! Apparently, the decision follows a move by the powerful 1922 Committee who warned Cameron that, unles ...
  • We should thank Gaddafi, for taking our rose t ...
    You know, I think the madman dictator of Libya - the murderous Colonel Gaddafi - has done us all a favour, though probably an unintended one on his part. Before this unjustified military action in Libya, most people had not been exposed to the truth about Al Qaida. We had the rather strang ...

Facing South

  • Arkansas latest in series of defeats for voter ...
    This week, a senate committee in Arkansas' state legislature rejected a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Arkansas vote was the latest in a string of defeats for voter photo ID bills, which state Republicans have aggressively pushed in over a dozen states t ...
  • VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
    By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
  • Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
    By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The corporate tax dodge
    Profits earned by Exxon Mobil in 2009: $19 billion Amount the Texas-based oil giant paid that year in federal income taxes: $0 Amount Exxon got back from the IRS as a rebate: $156 million Size of the tax refund Bank of America received last year: $1.9 billion Profits earned by the Charlotte- ...
  • VOICES: Georgia, meet your future
    What happens when the country's largest Legislative Black Caucus comes face to face with nine thousand immigrants -- many of them declaring themselves as undocumented -- chanting aqui estamos, y no nos vamos! (we are here, and we're not leaving!)? Love. Or a mad crush, at least. It happened ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Scottish Prosecutors Want to Interview Koussa About Lockerbie After Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa defected to Britain late Wednesday, Scottish prosecutors have submitted a request to interview the former intelligence chief about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, according to multiple reports. ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Canada Arrests Man on Suspicion of Plan to Join al Shabab Canadian authorities arrested a man at Torontoâs Pearson Airport on Tuesday night on suspicion that the man was headed to Somalia to join the militant group al Shabab, according … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Appeals Court Reverses Uthman Habeas Decision The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a lower courtâs decision Tuesday to release a Yemeni detainee, Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, who has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. Last … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Saudi Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Pleads Not Guilty A Saudi student accused of attempting to assemble a bomb to be used against U.S. targets pleaded not guilty in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Monday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    NYT: FBI Data Show Thousands Are Assessed for Terror Links Under Relaxed Rules The New York Times reported this weekend that FBI data it has obtained indicate that thousands of people have been assessed for criminal or terror links under … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Gmail Motion - The Future of Email is Here!
    Google has done it again. When Gmail was originally introduced few years ago, it was a revelation of sorts in terms of services and space it offered, for free. Gmail Motion Beta is Google's yet another attempt at re inventing Email technology. Gmail Motion lets you control Gmail with different b ...
  • First Nintendo 3DS TV Commercial for US
    Nintendo 3DS is a portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce 3D effects without the need for any special glasses. Nintendo 3DS is among the early entrants into the market for devices with glassless 3D capabilities along with the likes of LG Optimus 3D smartphone. Following video is sup ...
  • 9 Good CD and DVD Burning Tools for Ubuntu/Linux
    There is no dearth of good CD/DVD burning tools for Ubuntu. Brasero Disc Burner comes as default in Ubuntu and it is a good enough tool with almost all functionalities you expect from a basic CD/DVD burning application. But what really are the alternatives. Here is a quick listing of very good C ...
  • Awoken 1.9 Icon Set Brings in a Darker Version ...
    AwOken icon theme is among the most downloaded and highly rated icon themes for GNOME and we had no second thoughts while including AwOken in our listing of top 10 most popular Icon themes for Ubuntu GNOME. AwOken version 1.9 brings in a lot of changes that includes a new darker version of the t ...
  • IE9 Day 1 - 2.3 Million Downloads, Firefox 4 - ...
    You all must aware of the fact that both IE9 and Firefox 4 was released within a span of two weeks and both of them are considered highly improved versions their predecessors. Now here are some interesting download statistics of both the browsers.� source: firefox wallpapers Firefox 4 ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN BANKS AMONG MAIN BENEFICIA ...
    -  Austria’s Erste  bank was the heaviest bank borrower of the Federal Reserve’s discount window during the financial crisis - Erste was the single biggest bank borrower over the week that Lehman brothers failed, receiving 5.4 billion dollars in low interest loans - Germany’s Hypo Real Est ...
  • Position of bondholders in Irish banks looks p ...
    While the new Irish premier Enda Kenny appears to be ready  to cheerfully transfer the entire wealth of Ireland to criminal banks and break all his  election promises, Kenny has met with unexpected resistance among the people and also the media. Day in, day out, economists like David McWilliams ...
  • Former German central bank head says Irish ban ...
    Thursday, March 31, 2011 – 07:31 ECB Weber Criticizes Ireland For Blank Check To Bank Sector BERLIN (MNI) – ECB Governing Council member Axel Weber on Thursday criticized the Irish government for having given a full guarantee for the banking sector of the country. “The failure of a bank is as no ...
  • “Stress test” fraud explained by I ...
    Following “stress tests” on Irish banks that have triggered calls for tax payers to pour in another 24 billion euros into the banks, it is important to remember that stress tests are just another element in the fractional-reserve banking scam as explained by Emmet Oliver in the Irish Independ ...
  • Austrian judge slaps gag action on Kampusch pa ...
    Even though five Vienna state prosecutors received a summons to appear before a judge in Innsbruck for conspiring to cover up the evidence that a paedophile ring was involved in the abduction of Natascha Kampusch, a judge in Vienna has slapped a legal action on an Austrian MP who has published m ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Here’s Comes April. Don’t be a Fool.
    By Les Visible We give things importance by making them important and often they are not. Humor is a valuable tool, with a great deal of defensive capacity. We should carry it with us at all times. Negative publicity can be a very good thing, especially if it is ridiculous to the degree that no ...
  • North Carolina bill would prohibit cities from ...
    By Stephen Webster The Republican-dominated North Carolina State Assembly this week approved a bill that would prohibit communities from upgrading their internet access, forcing individual municipalities into a private monopoly of managed broadband services by companies like Time Warner and Comc ...
  • Taking Deborah Lipstadt Apart  
    By Gilad Atzmon The ‘deniers’, according to Lipstdat, are a lively movement that is working vigorously to “distort history and inculcate anti-Semitism”. Yet, it is far from being clear how anyone can ‘distort history’, for history is not a singular set of facts laid down and dictated by one grou ...
  • President Assad’s defiant speech stuns S ...
    By Nicholas Blanford, Correspondent / March 30, 2011 Beirut, Lebanon Syrian President Bashar al-Assad struck a defiant stance Wednesday, blaming “conspiracies” for two weeks of unprecedented antiregime protests and stopping short of offering a widely anticipated reform package. The content of Mr ...
  • Huge Yemeni crowds press on for president&#821 ...
    By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen â Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters packed the streets of cities throughout Yemen Wednesday, demanding the president’s ouster and blaming him for a munitions factory blast that left at least 100 people dead. Enraged men chanted as they walked toward ...

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 ...

electric politics

  • Tell Me About the Future
    Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
  • What is Religion Good For?
    In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...
  • Booker T. Washington
    White supremacy was never a good cornerstone upon which to build a union. A pact with the devil, we're still not done dealing with its implications. For a look at how an earlier generation of Black Americans attempted to cope, I turned to Dr. Raymond W. Smock, former official historian of the U ...
  • Korea, Korea
    Remembering, forgetting, never knowing. Dr. Bruce Cumings, in his recently published book, The Korean War: A History, examines how willingly America intruded into Korea after the Second World War and how difficult it's been for us ever afterward to deny ourselves any real understanding of Korea ...
  • The Art of the Unexpected
    Useful intelligence is surprisingly difficult to produce, mostly, I think, because it doesn't lend itself to commoditization or assembly line methods. And, as Dr. David B. Kanin suggests, to be useful it must be directed by some rational, higher-level, national security purpose. David recently ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
  • First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
    This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
  • Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
    Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...
  • HAARP SMOKING GUN — (Where is America&#8 ...
    Incredible Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on HAARP originally broadcast  January, 1996!!!   What you have to realize before viewing this segment is that Raytheon Corporation is a strategic and primary arm of DARPA (Virginia Tech – Defense Advanced Research Projects A ...
  • “Greater Israel” — Great Art ...
    The Ongoing Plot To Create “Greater Israel” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:29 “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli em ...

k2p blog

  • Fukushima reactors coped with the massive quak ...
    The reactors at Fukushima nuclear plant withstood the massive earthquake but were knocked out by the tsunami wave.
  • A new field : Pillaibooks.com
    Books and the marketing of books is a new field for me – but it is fascinating and I am still a beginner at this. I have established a new website pillaibooks.com specifically for marketing two books: 3000 Miles to Freedom by Brig. M.M Pillai MC Essence of a Manager  
  • Juholt continues his Stalinesque purge
    Håkan Juholt continues with his Stalinesque purge of the Swedish Social Democrats. Male social democrats who are out of favour are being replaced on the grounds of being the wrong sex!
  • The dark side of black
    Radiation fears have prevented authorities from collecting as many as 1,000 bodies of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
  • A “Culture of Courage” in manageme ...
    Without fear being present, bravery and courage do not appear on stage. It has always struck me that super-heroes must be particularly devoid of courage since their fantastic abilities must mean that they have little opportunity to feel any fear.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • New York & Company Warns Customers Of E-Mail L ...
    Several readers have forwarded us an email from New York & Company warning customers that their email system had been compromised. The company assures subscribers that "only" names and email addresses were accessed, adding that customers might receive spam email as result. While it is annoying ...
  • Southwest Grounding 79 Planes After Hole Opens ...
    Southwest Airlines announced today that they are grounding 79 planes after 3- to 4-foot hole opened in the fuselage of one its planes mid-flight, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. The airline will be inspecting the 79 Boeing 737 fleet as part of the investigation into the incid ...
  • Tips To Stop Yourself From Gambling
    No matter how successful they are at making money, compulsive gamblers can lose it all and more if they succumb to their addictions. HealthGuidance offers advice on how to curtail the impulse to risk it all. Among the tips: *Don't go it alone. Admit to yourself, family and friends that you ha ...
  • Ways In Which Nintendo Needs To Improve The 3DS
    Nintendo's 3DS, which provides glasses-free 3D images, came out last weekend, and fan reaction has been a mixture of elation and grumbling. Just about every review knocked the handheld's battery life, which can max out at just over three hours of constant, full-feature use. Destructoid spotted ...
  • Caption This Cherry Garcia Frozen In A Chunk O ...
    Anthropologists from the future were amazed to find perfectly preserved in a chunk of ice a carton of "ice cream" offering amazing clues to the secrets of a long-lost civilization. Apparently it was one where people who started out as countercultural antimaterialist icons could years later be u ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Sports Desk Update: Academic Performance Uneve ...
    by Olga Pierce, ProPublica The Final Four of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has been decided, and two teams stand out academically — one in a bad way. Last week we predicted Butler Universitywould win the tournament, on the basis of our academic performance bracket. The team has a pe ...
  • Factchecking Banks’ Dubious Claims on Intercha ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica The banking industry has been busy fighting to defeat or delay a proposal that would cap the interchange fees they collect from merchants when customers pay with debit cards. As we’ve noted, they’ve lobbied extensively, and some banks have warned that they’ll end free ...
  • The Truth About the Economy that Nobody In Was ...
    Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’re heading in the direction of a double dip – but you’d never know it if you listened to the upbeat messages coming out of Wall Street and Washington. Consumers are 70 percent of the American economy, and consumer confidence is plum ...
  • Denying Manning Exercise: A Ploy to Muddle his ...
    Taking away one’s freedom to exercise is one of the subtlest and most debilitating tortures that can be inflicted on a human being. Yet that is how the Pentagon’s Robert Gates, with the backing of President Obama, is punishing PFC Bradley Manning. The Army intelligence specialist’s alleged offen ...
  • For God’s Sake – April First 2011
    Several history changing announcements have rocked the world today: FIRST: The United States, our most powerful and wealthy nation, has announced that it is resolved to live up to Henry Luce’s vision of the “City on the Hill” bringing peace and plenty to all the people of the earth.  In a joint ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • France ditches carbon tax as protests mount
    The economic reality of big-debts,and the poor decisions made by people spending “other people’s money” is hitting home, with protests and strikes increasing around the world. In France strikes have closed schools, and stopped half of all trains. This is hot news in Australia — a prophetic warni ...
  • Scary Exaggerations Unfounded
    GUEST POST: Dr David Evans and Professor Bob Carter Their Latest Scary Forecast The latest from the Climate Commission is very, very scary: They reckon we have to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions immediately or we’ll fry. But these forecasts are based solely on what are essentially the same fa ...
  • Prof Vincent Courtillot speaks with clarity
    I’m traveling at the moment, in Darwin tonight. I can’t really comment on the hot-bed of climate action that Australia is right now, but instead this is something from afar that caught my eye a few days ago. Video’s bore me usually, but I enjoyed watching Courtillot — he’s possibly the clearest, ...
  • The Tyranny grinds on: Update on the Thompsons
    Background: Can a Western Government wipe out an honest business with red tape? (What a naive question…) Matt and Janet spoke out as skeptics in May 2007 and their life savings and business are now at grave risk as they fight off bankruptcy. What has undone them is not the financial crisis, or a ...
  • Lewandowsky bitten by a hoax
    Professor Stephan Lewandowsky may not understand much about the climate, but he is a professor of psychology — so satire, humor, and hoaxes ought to be right up his alley, right?  He’s realized he fell for the brilliant Alene Composta (a master satirist) replying to her and even sending her fak ...

ReNew America

  • Why are Republicans afraid of shutdown?
    (Joseph Farah) - Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are planning to shut down the government in a week or so in hopes of scaring Republicans into agreeing to more modest cuts in spending. More modest? The cuts Republicans have put on the table are far too little, far too ...
  • Free-market Ford laps Government Motors
    (Washington Times) - Ford Motor Co. beat General Motors in March sales, another small but significant victory of private enterprise over government micromanagement. Since the 2009 government takeover of GM, competition between the two leading domestic auto manufacturers has taken on strong ideol ...
  • Tea party rally rouses D.C.
    (Jarrett Stepman) - Tea Party activists gathered in front the Robert A. Taft Memorial in Washington, D.C., yesterday to protest the debt, deficits, and the compromise over budget cuts. The rain and frigid temperatures did nothing to dampen the mood of the event, which appropriately took place at ...
  • At Hill rally, tea partyers turn up heat on Bo ...
    (Washington Times) - House Speaker John A. Boehner praised tea partyers Thursday morning, and then members of the grass-roots movement assailed him in the afternoon, saying the Ohio Republican shouldn't give in to Democrats' demands in the spending battle in Congress, even if that results in a g ...
  • Tea party to storm Capitol for 'gut check'
    (Washington Times) - Miffed at the inability of Republicans to deliver on promises of deep cuts in federal spending, tea partyers will converge on the Capitol on Thursday to warn both parties about political repercussions if they don't act...

Truth Offering

  • The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
    Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
  • US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
    CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
  • Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
    In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...
  • SoCal Fun: The Radioactive Plume and the "Big One"
    Radioactive plume heads for US west coastMan, what a week. Not that my paranoia comes anywhere close to what people are going through in Japan, I must say that all this talk about nuclear 'plumes' sweeping across the Pacific and wiping across the shores is scaring the hell out of me. I'm a healt ...
  • Heroin, the CIA in Afghanistan, 9/11 and the M ...
    Kevin Hayden -- purveyor of the amazing website, TruthIsTreason.net -- wrote this great piece that I think you should all read. One of the main points we're always trying to get across is that nothing is as we're told. There's always a deeper truth beneath the propagandized surface. And that is ...

2012 Blog

  • Chandra Wickramasinghe Dismissed
    This totally sucks. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a superstar astronomer (in my opinion) and will most likely be acknowledged (one day) as the most progressive comet researcher of his era. He has given us the concept of dark comets, and greatly helped publicize the study of  panspermia, which he co ...
  • New 2012 Doco / 2012 Robot Film
    According to CNBC (USA): “APOCALYPSE 2012″ will premiere on Thursday, April 7th at 9pm. The documentary will repeat that evening at 10pm, 12am and 1am. Meanwhile, here’s a robot 2012 short film: Don’t Kill Me, Now from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo. Related posts:New 2012 Social Network Great Pyramid Ai ...
  • UPDATE: Zahi Hawass Quits?
    UPDATE: Mar 30 2011: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass, as the new Minister of State for Antiquities. On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. Whi ...
  • Clif High on 2012
    Clif High, of Web Bot fame, has written an article on 2012. Specifically he discusses the theories and predictions of Patrick Geryl, and gives us his own take on what will happen to our “expando” planet. Here’s some snippets: So, in the Expando Planet model, the continuous stream of energy from ...
  • 19 August 2011: Last Chance for a Temple?
    I find it terribly confusing, but for some Christians, the rebuilding of the temple is everything. And some of those folk have the power to make it happen. Here’s the raw text from the King James Bible: 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgr ...

Facing South

  • Arkansas latest in series of defeats for voter ...
    This week, a senate committee in Arkansas' state legislature rejected a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Arkansas vote was the latest in a string of defeats for voter photo ID bills, which state Republicans have aggressively pushed in over a dozen states t ...
  • VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
    By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
  • Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
    By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The corporate tax dodge
    Profits earned by Exxon Mobil in 2009: $19 billion Amount the Texas-based oil giant paid that year in federal income taxes: $0 Amount Exxon got back from the IRS as a rebate: $156 million Size of the tax refund Bank of America received last year: $1.9 billion Profits earned by the Charlotte- ...
  • VOICES: Georgia, meet your future
    What happens when the country's largest Legislative Black Caucus comes face to face with nine thousand immigrants -- many of them declaring themselves as undocumented -- chanting aqui estamos, y no nos vamos! (we are here, and we're not leaving!)? Love. Or a mad crush, at least. It happened ...

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Oriental Review

  • Sarkozy’s Libyan Odyssey
    By Vitaly Bilan (Russia) A Parisian dove French President Nicolas Sarkozy never tires of repeating that it should be the Libyans themselves who decide Moammar Gadhafi’s political fate in Libya, not the international coalition. “Libya’s future and Libya’s political choice, including what they dec ...
  • ”Days of Anger”: New Era of Revolu ...
    By Yuri Gavrichenko (Russia) This year started with a wave of social uprising in Maghrib, which later spread to the most part of the Arab North Africa and the Middle East. Though historical significance of these events will become clear only with time, now we still can make some conclusions and ...
  • Post-Gaddafian Africa (II)
    By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Part 1 In the middle of 90s Colonel Gaddafi decided to give up his venturesome-terrorist policy at the African continent and became one of the African Union architects — this Euro-Union-like organization including an entire Africa. On the 9th of September, 1999 African ...
  • The US Steers towards a Caste Society
    David Kerans (USA) As we discussed in our previous piece, the authoritarian revolution of the US right that has generated so much tumult in various state capitols over the last two months is more than a struggle over economic spoils. Money is at stake, to be sure, in the form of tax policies, pa ...
  • Post-Gaddafian Africa (I)
    By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Libya has been carrying out utmost active policy in Sahel (part of African continent, lying to the south from Sahara desert) long since. Libyan presence in the region is perceivable in the military, economic, cultural and propagandistic spheres. Numerous countries of t ...

BlogHer

  • Spears and Sex: My Memories of Jean Auel's Ear ...
    When I heard that Jean Auel was releasing Land of the Painted Caves, the final book her Earth's Children series, I smiled. Like many people I have fond memories of reading the series. I first happened upon the series in my high school library. I was actually in junior high at the time, but we ...
  • Grandparents: Turns Out the Gift Was Really for Me
    When I was 20 years old, I walked out of a train station terminal and into the parking lot. My father sat in the cab of his truck, waiting patiently to pick me up. As I walked into the sunshine flooded parking lot, I noticed a family. A woman a few years older than me handed her toddler to a ...
  • When Your Child is Invisible
    It was the group with the older girls that caught my interest. I watched for a long time and couldn’t help but think that my child was deemed invisible out there. I watched a half dozen high school cheerleaders being playful and friendly with the adorable little girls and not even one interact ...
  • Announcing the BlogHer '11 International Activ ...
    Today we are proud to announce the BlogHer '11 International Activist BlogHer scholarship program and invite you to submit yourself or your favorite international activist BlogHer for consideration for this scholarship.The Back Story:In 2008, BlogHer won the Anita Borg Social Impact Award from t ...
  • Early Intervention and Best Practices for Auti ...
    I want to tell you a secret about Autism Awareness Month. I'm telling you because you have a stake in the autism community -- whether you touch one or many lives, you can change them, you are powerful. And, like me, you care. You want to make a difference -- for yourself, for your child, for som ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Farmers Launch Preemptive Strike Against Monsanto
    It became too burdensome to bear. Monsanto became a monster; they monopolized the seed providers by buying them all out, they changed nature forever by genetically engineering the seed, they’ve made their farming benefactors fully ...
  • Cloned Meat Betrayal: Unlabelled Dairy & Beef ...
    Before we could break a story about the UK considering approval of using cloned descendants’ dairy and beef, the UK government pulled the rug out from under its citizens and parliament by sabotaging all restrictions! ...
  • The FDA Comes to the Rescue of Big Pharma
    Big Pharma’s drug patents are beginning to run out, opening the door for Little Pharma (smaller, lesser known pharmaceutical makers) to manufacture generic drugs at lower prices. Ideally, more people would avoid the use of ...
  • Emotional Baggage: Don’t React, Just Respond
    “Our jailer, reactivity, is also our path to freedom.” It seems emotional baggage and its potential subsequent problems like anger, suppression, addiction and inability to cope are more prevalent than ever. Or at least we ...
  • CDC: “Superbug” Speads To 35 States; Kills Upw ...
    This is possibly our biggest infection control dilemma yet. Although cases of this bacterial infection has been on the rise worldwide for the last 10 years, there is an alarming spread recently ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 2, 2011
    In this April 21, 2010 photo, workers stand near an access hole cut near the top of the DTE coal-fired power plant in Monroe, Mich. to allow cranes to hoist new equipment into the plant as part of a major overhaul or the Unit 2 boiler. A Michigan utility spent $65 million last year replacing [...]
  • Breaking news: New lawsuit says some Upper Big ...
    There’s another new lawsuit that’s been filed in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. This was was filed on behalf of the estate of miner William Roosevelt Lynch, and it contains some interesting new allegations. Remember that Lynch was one of seven miners who were killed while they were on thei ...
  • NMA says new study refutes EPA on mining
    This just in from the National Mining Association A new study released today casts doubt on fundamental assumptions used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to justify its regulation of Appalachian coal mining and its controversial new water quality standard. A year–long study in the ...
  • Why won’t Democrats ask MSHA tough quest ...
    During yesterday’s Senate committee hearing on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, I tried to follow the questions being asked by West Virginia Sen. Joe Main. I swear I did. But I just couldn’t figure out his point. As best I can tell from his office’s press release, Sen. Manchin wants to strip ...
  • Suing over selenium: Judge Chambers allows cas ...
    In a ruling just issued today, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers has allowed environmental groups to continue lawsuits over selenium pollution against Arch Coal and Massey Energy. We’ll have more about this in tomorrow’s Gazette … Until then, here’s a copy of the ruling: DV.load('ht ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Another Mass SQLi Attack
    In this case, the injected SQL is simply updating text fields within the database, to make them include an extra fragment of HTML. This HTML in turn loads a JavaScript from a remote server, typically “http://lizamoon.com/ur.php” or more recently, “http://alisa-carter.com/ur.php.” Both domain nam ...
  • The Captain America Trailer
    via youtube.com I’m not a Captain America fan, but this looks like another excellent comic book remake. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Strange Powers of the Pla ...
  • CNN and Hero Suicide Bombers
    I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch. It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s forces. He and his friends were trying to get into some government barracks and he realized they had no chance. So he, a humble oil worker, husband, and father, loade ...
  • Among the Worst Ways to Die: Upside-down Sawing
    via en.wikipedia.org Damn. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsChess Boxing | WikipediaFaith PalmBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosQuicksilver is BackI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartAnother Approach to Weightlifting | Men’s Health
  • How to Practice Your Web Application Testing S ...
      For those who are learning web application security testing (or just trying to stay sharp) it’s often difficult to find quality websites to test one’s skills. There are a few scattered around the Internet (see the link in the notes section below) but it would be nice to have a solid collection ...

Fitwatch

  • Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
    The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...
  • Serious violence by police at protest party.
    Forget what the mainstream media are saying about the black block, the most serious violence yesterday was probably the attack by police on partying crowd that was gathered in Trafalgar square. Senior police officers had warned in the run up to the March 26 protests that any occupation of Trafal ...
  • Surveillance policing and the TUC march
    On the eve of what will probably be the biggest demonstration seen in the UK for many years, it is probably a good time to give a little blog space over to looking at the role of Forward Intelligence Teams and the various intelligence gathering strategies that will operate on such massive events ...
  • Top Ten Nasty FIT cops – Nos 1&2 Discombe and ...
    Unlike many FIT cops, who only take on FIT duties at major events, these two are full time intelligence officers for CO11, the public order unit of the Metropolitan police. For this reason alone they warrant being top of the table. Discombe and Cowlin lead and direct FIT teams, making sure they ...
  • Top ten nasty FIT cops No3 Alan Palfrey
    Alan Palfrey is a regular FIT member, with a knack of being in all the wrong places. He was at the massive climate camp in Kingsnorth in 2008, where ‘intelligence gathering’ hit new heights as thousands of protesters were stopped, searched and pressurised to give their personal details. A fair p ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Wake’N'Bake 101: Meta…
    WWH – Dr. Woody wonders: Why does what Rosie O’Donnell thinks about the WTC/9-11 events matter? A clip of her espousing learned theories about the causes and agents implicated in the events of Sept. 11, 2001, was going around on “F-Book” this (Saturday) morning. The hed proclaimed “Rosie O’Donne ...
  • Violence mars demonstration in Afghan city the ...
    Nine killed and 81 injured in Kandahar protest against US burning of Qur’an | Guardian Nine people have been killed and 81 injured in the Afghan city of Kandahar during a demonstration against the burning of a Qur’an by Christian extremists in the US. Violence erupted as hundreds of demonstrator ...
  • Dangers of marijuana pale in comparison to leg ...
    By Brittany DeBole, | medailleperspective - Should New York state dance with âMary Jane?â You don’t have to be former president Bill Clinton to admit that you’ve tried it, rap sensation Lil Wayne to admire it, or a modern day hippie to rally for the cause and legalization of it. In fact, you don ...
  • Hippie.TV
  • “I don’t want to disparage in any ...
    Indiana Shoots Down Rape/Incest Abortion Exceptions | Mother Jones The Indiana House yesterday passed a bill, HB 1210, that would force women to carry pregnancies past 22 weeks to term, even if the father of the fetus is their rapist or family member. The only reason a woman could get an abortio ...

reference frame

  • Sheldon Cooper will confront Brian Greene
    On Thursday, April 7th, 2011, CBS will air another, 04x20 episode of The Big Bang Theory. It's called "The Herb Garden Germination." Amy and Sheldon will try to spread rumors and Howard will act to upgrade his relationship with Bernadette. More importantly, Brian Greene will star as hi ...
  • Michael Green: math classes are boring
    Can and should maths and physics be made much more appealing for schoolkids? According to the Telegraph, Lucasian professor of mathematics in Cambridge, string theorist Michael Green, has agreed with Barbie (who was silenced by obnoxious feminists in 1992): Children bored by 'tedious ...
  • Spotlight on CERN
    Prof Michal Spiro is the boss of CERN Council. We learn how the CERN is becoming a global organization. Two chaps are warning the viewers from shaking a hand of an antiperson. They're right despite their unconvincing T-shirts: one of them says "2+2=5" while the other translates "resis ...
  • Debbi: Touch the Sun
    Just watching the Second Czecho Slovak Pop Idol. Shocked to hear that this song is not coming from abroad. This song has won the "Song of the Year" award - and appeared in a Metaxa ad. Moreover, Debbi, the singer, is not only Czech but she was also the first eliminated g ...
  • Václav Havel, the film director
    Václav Havel (74), a playwright, a famous Czech dissident, and a former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has become a film director, too. I have only seen the theater version of "Leaving" so far - but the Czech movie theaters are presenting the first movie dire ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Responses to the Japanese Earthquake
    A slideshow of iPhone images created in response to the tragic earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.
  • Politically Incorrect Prof May Lose His Job
    A UCLA professor who found no link between a certain kind of air pollution and premature death is fighting to keep his job. But the state employee with the fake PhD merely got demoted.
  • Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?
    Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to recede. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?
  • The Horse Manure Problem
    In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.
  • Message From Australia
    Australians are outraged by a Prime Minister who, prior to last summer's election, said there'd be no carbon tax - but is now implementing one. At a recent protest rally, a scientist explained why he thinks the dangerous global warming hypothesis has been proved wrong.

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • The Berkey Water Filters
    We bought our ‘British Berkefeld’ Stainless Steel Gravity water filter about 8 years ago, for the purpose of providing safe drinking water during a 2-week vacation stay at a location in the Trinity Alp Wilderness area of northern California. It worked magnificently because none of us got sick fr ...
  • Grocery Store Rant
    There is no inflation. Right? Isn’t that what we keep being told by ‘big brother’? Well my weekly shopping expedition that I embarked on today proved otherwise. I came home and ranted to Ken. Then I felt the need and the responsibility to rant to all of you. We always knew the prices of food [...]
  • Food Storage and Food Rotation Challenges
    It’s one thing to go out and buy extra food to have and keep as part of your emergency preparedness inventory, but it is quite another thing to keep it organized and to rotate it in such a way that is practical and to ensure no waste. I’m sure that most everyone who has built [...]
  • Container Garden Onions, Sand Soil Mix
    We somewhat regularly grow a quantity of onions in our garden each year, along with everything else, but this year we’re going to try something a little different as an experiment. That is, growing some of them in a container (bucket). Many homes do not have the space for a full-on garden, so co ...
  • Earthquake Situation Report, 2011 Q1
    Earthquake Summary, 2011, first-quarter We are now a quarter the way through the year 2011, and it is time for a world update on earthquake numbers with relation to some historical averages. Geological reference times are quite long, and modern day seismic monitoring systems are just that, moder ...

Fast Company

  • Personalized iPad Magazine Zite Responds to Ce ...
    Today, leading publishers including The Washington Post and Time Inc. sent Vancouver-based startup Zite a cease-and-desist letter. In the letter, signed by nearly a dozen media outlets, publishers accused Zite of copyright infringement and called its iPad app, which aggregates and personalizes ...
  • Are the Oil Barons Panicking? Saudi Arabia to ...
    Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, may not be panicking quite yet about its ever-declining oil supply--but the country is certainly concerned. Consider: in February, a Wikileaks document revealed that Saudi Arabia might be overstating its oil reserves by 300 billion barrels, and t ...
  • Apple Round-Up: 3-D iPhone Photography, Batter ...
    Apple's filed a bumper crop of patents recently, and some of them hint at pretty neat features in future iDevices. Let's have a look at what may (or may not--Apple patent spotting is always a strange game) pop up in future iPhones and Macs.Three-dimensional stereographic photos3-D photography ha ...
  • Innovative Nature: Baking Biomimicry In
    I met Jake Cook after sharing content at the innovative HatchFest.org, a creativity/film festival gathering held in Bozman, Montana. Innovation can happen anywhere and developing communities on their talents is something I have a strong passion for. Jake is a talent within a talented communi ...
  • Jane McGonigal to Find the Future at the New Y ...
    Gaming guru and Reality is Broken author Jane McGonigal is organizing a game to commemorate the New York Public Library's centennial celebration. On May 20th, 500 gamers will spend the night in the main branch of the library on 42nd Street to complete 100 "quests" designed by a McGonigal-directe ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Failure to Establish Democracy in Palestin ...
    In the wake of the Arab revolutions gripping North Africa and the Middle East, it would be worth reminding ourselves of some of the factors that have frustrated the Palestinians from establishing a democratic government in Palestine.�To a greater extent than in other Arab countries, th ...
  • Roundtable on Syria Today (Part 3): Is Syria D ...
    This is the last installment (Part 3) of the first Jadaliyya Roundtable on Syria, moderated by Bassam Haddad and Joshua Landis, of Syria Comment. It features Steven Heydemann, Fred Lawson, David Lesch, and Patrick Seale. This post will be published on both Jadaliyya and Syria Comment. [S ...
  • Securing the People (or State?): Efforts in Go ...
    Traditionally conceptualised as pertaining to the state and achieved through its safeguarding against the interests (territorial or otherwise) of other states, security has become an increasingly and intensely contested concept. Two assumptions that structured the field of security studi ...
  • Waiting for Death: I Will Not Carry Flowers to ...
    Itâs not true that, when Death comes, it will have your eyes! And itâs not at all true that the desire for love resembles the desire for death. Itâs not the same moment - maybe those desires are similar in nothingness because both are swimming in dissipation. In love, we merge with the ...
  • The Arab Spring: Two Dictators Down, Twenty To Go
    Dictators in Libya, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Jordan, Syria and other Arab countries have resorted to increasingly repressive and brutal tactics to hold on to power. Khalil Bendib's two cartoons succinctly portray the current state of the 'Arab Spring' as well as its future prospects. � ...

mediagazer

  • Click to Buy That Handbag in Vogue as Fashion ...
    Bloomberg: Click to Buy That Handbag in Vogue as Fashion Magazines Become E-Tailers  —  Vogue and Elle have long influenced what clothes and handbags image-conscious consumers buy.  Now, in a bid to reverse flagging sales and stay relevant, fashion magazines may sell the products they feature ...
  • Standards That Everyone Can See - LAST week Th ...
    Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: Standards That Everyone Can See  —  LAST week The Times reached a strategic frontier with the full introduction of paid subscriptions for digital access to its content.  Perhaps less visibly, but also importantly, the newsroom has moved toward a remarkable i ...
  • NYT vs HuffPo, cont. (Felix Salmon)
    Felix Salmon: NYT vs HuffPo, cont.  —  The NYT's declared war on the Huffington Post shows no sign of dissipating, and as ever the new-look NYT Magazine is at the front lines of the attack.  Andrew Goldman's interview with Arianna Huffington is quite astonishing, but first it's worth looking at ...
  • On the Media: A small-town reporter's big infl ...
    James Rainey / Los Angeles Times: On the Media: A small-town reporter's big influence  —  A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964.  Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel.  —  from ferriday, la.
  • The Daily Dot Wants to Be the Web's Hometown P ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: The Daily Dot Wants to Be the Web's Hometown Paper  —  People often talk about how the social web makes the Internet seem like a small town, and now former VentureBeat and Valleywag editor Owen Thomas says he wants to give the web “its own hometown newspaper” called The ...

Chemtrail News

  • YouTube - Chemtrails Exposed on Local N ...
    http://nwoupdate.blogspot.com Link to entire segment please comment and like! ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxaOp5KxDmE
  • Mythcluescom – Free Access To World Class Cons ...
    Tallinn12.112010 Teine Chemtrail Halo nelja päeva jooksul Estonian Chemtrail Blog Eesti Chemtrail Blogi chemtraileeblogspotcom Photos from that day Sama ...www.mythclues.com/.../second-chemtrail-halo-in-four-days-1...
  • Stopping Chemtrails | Facebook
    Welcome to a Facebook Page about Stopping Chemtrails. Join Facebook to start connecting with Stopping Chemtrails.www.facebook.com/pages/Stopping.../139566179435221
  • A case for chemtrails page 1
    My interest piqued I followed the cloud seeding link which had a link about the chemtrail conspiracy theory I read through it although most information ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread681026/pg1
  • Chemtrail - WFTV Upload and Share Blog post
    Chemtrail. When the media are going to show to the citizens of florida whats really whats going on? Are you guys are controlled by The Gov to not show the ...my.wftv.com/_Chemtrail/blog/3386371/6696.html

World News - Top Stories

  • Tweaking the climate to save it: Who deci ...
    CHICHELEY, England – To the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable. Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law, politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloistered behind Chicheley Hall's old brick walls, where British saboteu ...
  • Interest growing in nuclear science
    NEWYORK — The crisis in Japan has boosted interest in nuclear-related museums and plants, once-secret Manhattan Project complexes and areas laid waste by disaster. In the United States, you can peek into a 320-foot blast crater in the Nevada desert or descend a Titan II missile silo in Ariz ...
  • Afghanistan Koran protests spread
    Hundreds of peaceful protesters blocked the main highway in eastern Afghanistan today and marched through the southern city of Kandahar towards a UN office, denouncing the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist US pastor. The demonstrations come after two days of deadly violence at ...
  • Israel's Peres demands apology for Goldst ...
    Jerusalem - Israeli President Shimon Peres demanded Sunday that Richard Goldstone, who headed a United Nations fact-finding mission into the Gaza war of two years ago, 'apologize' for his report. Peres said an apology by the South African former judge would be 'appropriate,' because this we ...
  • Windows phone Nokia spell a challenge for ...
    iPhones and Android phones seem to be everywhere I look in Silicon Valley. The future is obvious, isn't it? IPhone, Android and no one else. They will form an exclusive duo in smartphones, just as Windows and Mac have in personal computers. Make way, however, for Windows Phone. Yes, Windows ...

no frakking consensus

  • Responses to the Japanese Earthquake
    A slideshow of iPhone images created in response to the tragic earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.
  • Politically Incorrect Prof May Lose His Job
    A UCLA professor who found no link between a certain kind of air pollution and premature death is fighting to keep his job. But the state employee with the fake PhD merely got demoted.
  • Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?
    Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to recede. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?
  • The Horse Manure Problem
    In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.
  • Message From Australia
    Australians are outraged by a Prime Minister who, prior to last summer's election, said there'd be no carbon tax - but is now implementing one. At a recent protest rally, a scientist explained why he thinks the dangerous global warming hypothesis has been proved wrong.

Pointman's

  • Living with ghosts.
    This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
  • Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
    I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 23
    Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...
  • Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
    In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...
  • Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.
    Iâve always liked Churchillâs definition of a fanatic. âA fanatic is one who canât change his mind and wonât change the subject.â Once you get past the witty aspect of the definition, thereâs a deep truth in it too. They simply canât change their mind. Iâve seen a lot of debates in the blogosphe ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Guestworkers Win Victory in US Department of L ...
    From our friends at the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity: Proposed DOL regulations move guestworkers one step closer to inclusion in basic labor protections, civil rights, and the right to organize Statement by the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity on the Department of Labor’s Proposed H ...
  • Native American Student Suspended for Refusal ...
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: In a fight for religious freedom, the ACLU of Louisiana has enrolled to represent a Native American student at Juban Parc Junior High School in Denham Springs, LA. Seth Chaisson, a member of the United Houma Nation, grows his hair long for cultural and ...
  • Justice Department Report, Released Today, Cal ...
    An earlier version of this article originally appeared on ColorLines.com Eve is a transgender woman living in rural southern Louisiana. She was molested as a child and left home as a teenager. Homeless and alone, she was forced to trade sex for survival. While still a teenager, she was arrested ...
  • US Department of Justice Report Finds NOPD "Ha ...
    The US Department of Justice announced the results today of their year-long investigation of the NOPD. Below is their statement: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in patterns of ...
  • First National Conference of Formerly Incarcer ...
    From our friends at Black Agenda Report: A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the spirit of those brave and selfless Georgia prisoners who stood up for their human rights last December, formerly incarcerated people from across the country ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Microsoft’s Odd Couple
    Itâs 1975 and two college dropouts are racing to create software for a new line of âhobbyistâ computers. The result? A company called âMicro-Softâânow the fifth-most-valuable corporation on earth. In an adaptation from his memoir, the author tells the story of his partnership with high-school cl ...
  • A Kennedy in Queen Elizabeth’s Court
    Though sheâs just a month away from becoming British royalty, athletic and easygoing Kate Middleton has always seemed like an all-American girl. In a shocking exclusive, Vanity Fair reveals a newly uncovered family photograph and groundbreaking genealogical research that confirm the princess-to- ...
  • Bloodlust
    Why we should fear our neighbors more than strangers Andre Durand, AFP, Getty Images A Serbian soldier guards Bosnian prisoners in 1992 at the Manjaca internment camp. By Russell Jacoby Edward Said’s 1978 Orientalism opened with a description of the continuing Lebanese Civil Warâabout which his ...
  • Norman Podhoretz: A Biography
    The necessity of making and keeping enemies. Conventional wisdom has it that the story of longtime Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz is the story of a political journey from left to right. Podhoretz biographer Thomas Jeffers suggests that the conventional wisdom on the Podhoretz odyssey is not ...
  • Taxonomy and Grace
    By Joseph P. Wood When I first heard WS Merwinâs poem âBerryman,â I didnât know who either writer was. Instead, I sat mesmerized as Olga Broumasâa poet whose own reputation I scantly appreciatedârecited the poem in my undergraduate creative writing workshop. Her voice began with her usual airy b ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
  • The legacy of Phineas Gage
    FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...
  • An Agrarian Renaissance?
    FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...

NAU Resistance

  • Parliamentary Law Bars Harper From Re-Election
    By: PAUL W KINCAID March 28, 2011 – 7:27 am Canada Elections Act CANDIDATES â Qualifications http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=loi%2Ffel%2Fcea&document=part06&lang=e Ineligible candidates 65. The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate: (b) a person who is dis-ent ...
  • Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
    "The Conservative government has maintained that a security perimeter with the U.S. will not impact on sovereignty"
  • Harper Cronies Intentionally Misleading Canadians
    "Now we've learned that the F-35 stealth fighter deal is connected to Harper's plan to build a security perimeter around Canada and the United States- a Fortress North America!"
  • Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
    Obama also announced, “we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries.” He added, “I look forward to consulting with Congress and moving forward in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollar ...
  • Canadian Swan Song
    Far too few Canadians noticed the non-sequitur of Emperor Harperius, as first he boasted loudly of how our (sovereign) banking regulations had saved us from the ravages of the global financial debacle of 2009, and then handed our banking sovereignty, and the right to keep those same regulations, ...

Gaea Times

  • New fluorescent light surface may kill MRSA
    WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial surface which, equipped with fluorescent lights, would be able to fight off prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The new polymer-type material, “conjugated ...
  • It?s official! Booze impairs decision-making
    WASHINGTON - It is well known that alcohol alters behaviour, but surprisingly it is not well studied at the brain level. However, a new research shows that certain areas in the brain associated with error processing are significantly affected by the effects of alcohol. According to Beth Anders ...
  • Kanye West ?contemplated suicide?
    LONDON - American rap star Kanye West has confessed that there were times when he considered killing himself.There were times that I contemplated suicide,” the Sun quoted him as saying. However, soon he vowed that he would not give up on life again. “There are so many people that will never g ...
  • Anorexia nervosa ?causes potentially serious e ...
    WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, causes potentially serious eye damage. In developed countries, anorexia nervosa affects up to 3% of affluent women. Although the condition also increasingly affects men, around 10 women will be affected for every ...
  • Kristen Stewart ?offered stripper job?
    LONDON - ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart has revealed that she was offered a job as a stripper while she was trying to get accustomed to her role in a new movie. The 20-year-old star made a trip to a strip club accompanied by the director of her latest film ‘Welcome to the Riley’s’. Stewart, ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Scott Grainger, fire protection engineer, blow ...
    This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary: "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" - AE911truth.org
  • The people say NO to the Carbon Tax!
    Today I welcome to the show Luke Jenkins, organiser of the Sydney No Carbon Tax Rally, to be held in Hyde Park on Saturday 2nd April 2011. Luke explains why he became an activist in the campaign, and we cover some of the key questions and controversies within the topic of anthropogenic climate ...
  • Susan Wolfe: truth activist and organiser of t ...
    Today I am joined by Susan Wolfe, who is organising the massive 9/11 truth gathering for We Are Change in New York, scheduled to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.� Susan is attempting to make this event a landmark in the history of the 9/11 truth movement, and she is taking all steps t ...
  • Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Hum ...
    March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Li ...
  • Radiation levels and their effects
    There's been alot of talk in the news lately about radiation levels, yet most people, including myself, have little idea of what these numbers really mean in terms of health risks. News reports today have indicated that radiation levels in Tokyo have been recorded at 20X the normal background ...

Beacon

  • Chilean Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Oceana
    The good news just keep coming in Chile. Yesterday the Chilean Supreme Court ruled against a lawsuit filed by the laboratory Veterquímica to prevent the Livestock and Agriculture Bureau (SAG) from disclosing information to Oceana. The case began in 2009, when Oceana submitted a Freedom of Infor ...
  • Where Are They Now?: The Shark Finatics
    A member of the Shark Finatics. As you know, we are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest. Throughout the nomination period, which ends April 27th, I’ll be featuring a few of the past winners and finalists to get you inspired. First up, the 2010 Junior Ocean He ...
  • How Might Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Affect the Oc ...
    Many of you have inquired via Twitter, Facebook and e-mail about how the Japanese nuclear crisis is affecting the oceans and marine life. There are still a lot of question marks, but here’s what our scientists have to say. How it could affect marine life in general: The greatest concern for ma ...
  • Nominate an Ocean Hero Today
    The 2010 Junior Ocean Heroes, the Shark Finatics, with teacher Robin Culler. It’s that time again: we are looking for ocean heroes, and we need your help. Nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest begin today, so think of the person you know doing the most for the oceans -- and ...
  • Video: Lewis Pugh on Hydrofracking
    Lewis Pugh is a British environmentalist, maritime lawyer and Oceana ally. He was the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean, and is probably best known for two impressive feats: his 2007 swim across the North Pole to highlight the melting of Arctic sea ice, and a swim acro ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Living In Our Own Heads.
    Educated by cable news and US public schools our understanding of the world has to be pre-chewed, sanitized, pixelated and explained by “experts” who are all too often paid for opinion out of the Public Relations industry. Conventional wisdom about the nature of Arab societies is utterly Hollywo ...
  • Found Under “Negro Soldiers”
    Fred McIntyre of the 369th Infantry Holding A Photo Of The Kaiser WWII Negro Soldiers From Philadelphia This Photo Of Negro Soldiers Has The Attached Comment In A Text That Reads "Dancing Was One Of The Activities Of The Negro Solier When They Not On Patrol" Mugabe's Troops Black Soldiers WWI WW ...
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  • Rare B&W Hong Kong 8mm Footage Of Black Tiger ...
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Taylor Marsh

  • It’s Sunday. It’s Your Early Bird Round-Up
    Good morning political junkies, welcome to Sunday. On this day in history, April 3, 1865, Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Here are some links to start off your morning: ~Guess what, Obama is going to announce he wants to run for re-election. ~In yet another ...
  • ‘Cut It or Shut It’ Tea Party, Bruce Springste ...
    Sean Hannity was squealing today on his radio show about Speaker John Boehner going “wobbly” on the budget. Throwing bones to his Tea Party listeners, I guess Hannity forgot that Democrats control the Senate and there’s a Democrat in the White House, too. Nothing like a circus in place of seri ...
  • Walker Ignores Law Because He Wants To
    The Wisconsin fight goes on: Gov. Scott Walker’s administration no longer is collecting dues on behalf of state unions and, as of Sunday, is charging employees more for their pensions and health care, even though nonpartisan legislative attorneys say the changes are not yet law. Backing up the ...
  • Suffering in Congo Reveals Obama’s Weak Case f ...
    “Why invade Iraq and not North Korea or Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not Darfur?” – Candidated Obama, “Audacity of Hope”Pres. Obama got one thing correct last night in his speech. Just because we can’t help all countries doesn’t mean we can’t intervene where it’s really needed. Unfortuna ...
  • Obama Applauded Because He Channeled George W. ...
    Mark Halperin, the political weathervane of Washington, judged Obama’s speech last night a success for a reason no Democrat should trumpet: George W. Bush could have delivered every sentence. Halperin went on to say Obama “boxed in Republican detractors.” Foreign policy on Democratic terms is ...

James Laxer

  • Beyond the Bubble on TVO
  • Beyond the Bubble on TVO Part II
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  • Aging Agitator James Laxer Enters Red Zone
    Aging Agitator James Laxer, who is constantly on the look out for a demonstration to attend, entered the red zone of the G 20 summit this morning.He rose early to be sure to make it to downtown Toronto before day’s end. Much to his surprise as he pointed his ten-year-old vehicle southward, traf ...
  • The Harper Plan for a Global Depression
    At the G8 and G20 Summits, the Harper government is touting its plan for governments around the world to cut their deficits in half by 2013 and to stabilize their debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016. In a letter sent to G20 leaders on the eve of the summit, Harper declared that “advanced countries must s ...
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