30 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

WideShut

• Wikileaks: Al Qaeda Bomber Worked For Britain
  Leaked files from Guantanamo Bay show Al Qaeda terrorist was on payroll of British MI6.
• Bolivia Grants The Earth Human Rights
  The earth now has human rights enshrined in law, but that law could be abused by those with other agendas.
• Gaddafi’s London House Gets Facelift
  The Ian Puddick case gets some unlikely advertising.
• Obama Launches Deadly Drones In Libya
  Obama signs off on Predator drone attacks in Libya, putting innocent civilians in danger.
• Richard Gage Coming To UK and Ireland
  AE911 Truth's Richard Gage on speaking tour in Ireland and UK.

Politics in the Zeros

• Hydropower not considered renewable energy in ...
  (Crossposted from CAIVN. It’s clear that the push towards renewable energy can be just the same old slimy lobbyists and special interests ramming through bills that benefit them and hurt the rest of us. There is no rational reason why hydropower should not be considered renewable energy in Calif ...
• Underground pumped hydro energy storage at gri ...
  What renewable energy needs is a way to store excess energy at grid scale for later use. Gravity Power thinks they can take traditional stored hydro (pump water up to a holding tank) and do it underground. This eliminates environmental concerns with fish and they say a 7 acre site could store a ...
• The unreality of California budget negotiations
  Gov. Brown’s “concessions” from public unions have, as usual in the convoluted, interminable, and deeply opaque process by which California eventually stumbles to a budget agreement, turned out to be less of a cut than what state employees are experiencing under their current expired contract. B ...
• Pacifica violates own rules, takes corporate money
  And from the Vampire Squid (Goldman Sachs), no less… However, outraged listeners have forced KPFA to not cancel Democracy Now.
• On the violence and corruption in Mexico. Sylv ...
  In this interview by al Jazeera , intelligence professional Sylvia Longmire says the cartels are hybrids, insurgencies as well as criminal, and the solution must be multi-faceted. We need to discuss legalization as well as social programs and economic reform so drugs aren’t the only way for desp ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• Reminder about the comments policy
  Every so often, over the eight-plus years I've been publishing this blog, waves of hostile forces come in and try to take over the comments boards with their hostility and their rantings. So back in January 2005, I crafted the 'Comments Policy' for the blog, and it has worked pretty well since t ...
• My CSM oped on need for negotiated transition ...
  People with an interest in escalating tensions and sowing conflict within Middle Eastern countries always say "There is no time!" for diplomacy or negotiation.... and that "If lives are to be saved then we have to take military action..." In mid-March, I was stunned to see how rapidly those ar ...
• Cordesman on the slippery slope of warmaking
  I generally have broad respect for the military assessments made by Anthony Cordesman, and his latest assessment of the situation in Samantha's War in Libya contains much excellent analysis. Including this opening paragraph: At some point in time, it will be critical to examine the historical ...
• C.J. Chivers on Libyan rebels' violations of l ...
  Last week, the NYT's military-affairs writer C.J. Chivers was one of the first to do detailed reporting of the use by Libyan government forces of cluster bombs in the heavily populated port city of Misrata. Today, the NYT carries another piece of well researched reporting by him-- this time on ...
• Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
  Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...

frogblog

• Tories are as Tories do
  I don’t have much interest in the celeb puke-fest that is the marriage of Catherine Middleton and Prince William of Wales (did anyone ever ask the Welsh people if they wanted him to be one of the Princes the English impose on them?) But the list of invitees to the Royal Wedding is interesting: L ...
• Fuel tax deferral won’t help
  Kiwis are feeling the pain at the pump, and the Government’s grand “solution” is to defer a 1.5c increase in the petrol tax until next year. Let’s put this in perspective. 1.5 cents a litre will save the average driver less than $1 when they fill up their tank. It’s about 0.6% of the total [...]
• Kayaking the Kaituna
  April 15, 2011 The Kaituna is internationally famous for white-water rafting and kayaking. And having just gone down it, I can see why. A deep gorge with trees overhead, fast flowing, lots of rapids, and a really big waterfall – 7 metres apparently. Iâd like to be able to tell you that I kayaked ...
• Space Oddity – the David Farrar version
  This is ground control to Major Don, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare If I was a member of the ACT Board, I would be asking why are all these National Party members trying to take [...]
• Petrobras protest and the Maritime Rules
  I’m more accustomed to splashing around in a freshwater pond than being out on the high seas, but I do know enough about maritime navigation to know that a powered vessel that is underway is normally required to give way to a vessel that is fishing.   That principle is enshrined in both intern ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Obama Brazenly Lying Once Again
  I see that even our own Tim Murphy has fallen for the White House's "long form birth certificate" scam this morning. How disappointing to see one of MoJo's own being so credulous. This "official" copy has obviously been doctored, as anyone can see clearly by looking at the bottom of the form. S ...
• Is Obama a Republican?
  Ezra Klein argues today that Barack Obama is, historically speaking, a moderate Republican. On three big issues, he says, Obama has championed approaches that Republicans themselves supported only a couple of decades ago: Take health-care reform. The individual mandate was developed by a ...
• Skin in the Game, Continued
  The "skin in the game" theory of healthcare says that if people have to pay for medical services out of their own pocket, they'll be more careful about what they do and don't need, and this will drive down healthcare costs. A Rand study several decades ago suggested there was something to th ...
• Testing For Thee, But Not For Me
  Via Matt Yglesias, here is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's latest brainstorm: Walker is proposing expanding the voucher program that currently is only available to low-income students in Milwaukee. He wants to expand the program to all of Milwaukee County and phase out the low-income qualif ...
• The Future of Abortion?
  Anti-abortion groups have been busily working to push the envelope of anti-abortion law for decades, and lately they've decided to stop pushing and just shred the envelope to pieces instead. For example, Kate Sheppard reports that a Louisiana lawmaker flat out wants to make abortion illegal ...

Insanity Report

• IC 243: Fucking Ninjas
  Topics: Kriss goes into a rant about maiming people Asians know how to fly The woman with the most cosmetic procedures Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee……again Steve Harvey has $10,000 stolen from him Share with your friends:
• FacePalm of the Week: Let Steve Harvey ‘Locat ...
  So apparently Steve Harvey now has a dating website “Locate Your Love.” I’m not sure if he owns it but I do know he supports and promotes it.  On Wednesdays he even ties it into his radio show where he tries to set people up on dates. No. Just stop it. There’s a section on [...]
• Activist “Denounce” Obama’s Environmental Inaction
  WASHINGTON — Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Air Act, stop taking money from corporate polluters, and invest in a clean energy economy. The rally was the culmination of a three-day climate summi ...
• IC 242: Fuck Freedom
  Topics: Rod from the ‘Black Guy Who Tips’ has a rough day People are so sensitive these days California GOP lady sends an email with a picture of the President as a monkey…but she’s not racist Successful men don’t like nor want successful women Steve Harvey’s book to be made into a movie Tyler P ...
• IC 241: We Respect Females
  Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...

Simple Climate

• Retreating Arctic coasts show need for careful ...
  Historical records of a quarter of the Arctic coastline show that it is retreating more quickly on average, threatening industry, ecosystems and communities located there. However, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research's Hugues Lantuit emphasises the importance of getting data f ...
• Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
  “Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
• Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
  By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
• Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
  Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
• Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
  Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.

e!Science News

• Increased metabolic rate may lead to accelerat ...
  A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that higher metabolic rates predict early natural mortality, indicating that higher energy turnover may accelerate aging in humans. read more
• New study: Health reform to make health insura ...
  Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report by Jonathan Gruber and Ian Perry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The report finds that ...
• Increase in evidence-based treatments followed ...
  In an analysis of data from a coronary care registry in Sweden, between 1996-2007 there was an increase in the prevalence of use of evidence-based invasive procedures and pharmacological therapies for treatment of a certain type of heart attack, and a decrease in the rate of death at 30 days and ...
• Teen sleep study adds to evidence of a 'neural ...
  Teens are rarely described as stable, so when something about their rapidly changing brains remains placidly unaltered, neuroscientists take notice. Such is the case in a new study of electroencephalography (EEG) readings gathered from dozens of teens while they slept. Despite the major neural o ...
• Researchers at Brandeis University make stride ...
  Brandeis researchers have made a significant advance in the effort to understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by successfully reversing the toxicity of the mutated protein in the familial type of the disease. read more

unEarthed

• World Population Growth and the Food Supply
  Two new articles converge on these impossible problems Overpopulation photo courtesy The Green Market not featured ...
• Oh Snap! Little Green Alien Takes Earthling To ...
  A cartoon, a jammin' new tune and some fine-art photography tell the story not featured in campaign Well, it's true that here on a blog, the currency is words. We're ...
• Monday Reads: The Laughter Edition
  Have you ultrasonic vocalized today? Cookie the Little Penguin is headed toward something good. Real good. not fea ...
• On the Job Training: Earthjustice-Style
  Who has time to learn the computer when 40 million acres of wilderness are at risk not featured in campaign (Kari Birdseye is the new National Press Secretary for Ear ...
• Florida's Governor Turns Greed-Green
  He opposes efforts to clean up green slime choking his state's waterways Florida Gov. Rick Scott not featured in c ...

Brave New Climate

• Anti-nuclear cartoon book, 1978 – anythi ...
  A few weeks ago, Haydon Manning passed me an interesting book from the more dusty section of his shelf. It was called “Nuclear Power for Beginners“, and the edition I have was published in 1978. (If you do a bit of searching, you can still find old copies for purchase). If you’ve read this post ...
• Fukushima Daiichi Open and Update Thread #5
  The problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to be worked on, with no short-term resolution in sight. Here are eight recent notable happenings, compiled from various sources (see list below): 1. Reports indicate that some fuel melted and fell to the lower containment sectio ...
• Energy debates in Wonderland
  My position on wind energy is quite ambivalent. I really do want it (and solar) to play an effective role in displacing fossil fuels, because to do this, we need every tool at our disposal (witness the Open Science project I kick started in 2009 [and found funding for], in order to investigate t ...
• Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
• Open Thread 15
  The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Paul Ryan is Trying to Kill Us
  Get old. Get sick. Insurance company you bought insurance from with your “voucher” denies to pay for your treatment. You die. Pretty simple. So simple a tea bagger can even figure it out.
• What Happens When Politifact Can’t Get I ...
  Ending Medicare has been a Republican dream for decades Politicrack. Voucherizing single payer is ending it you pro-death panel fake fact checker. I mean come on Politicrack. What could make Republicans more happy than knowing senior citizens are spending their golden years worrying about how th ...
• 80% of Americans Want the Safety Net Left Alon ...
  Numbers don’t lie. Even the treasonous teabaggers don’t want their social security and medicare voucherized….
• Republicans Plan to Kill Grandma
  Once grandma runs out of money the “new” medicare voucher system will not cover her treatment. Grandmother will die. Republicans plan on handing more $$ to the wealthy by killing grandma when she gets sick.
• Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
  Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• American-Israeli bluffs and the success of pal ...
  President Abbas has told Newsweek he is disappointed with Obama, but the American President has actually done a nice job of revealing the American double-standards with regards to Israel. Meanwhile, Jerusalem’s hawks are suggesting that in response to a Palestinian declaration of independence, I ...
• A.B. Yehoshua and Zionism’s identity politics
  Acclaimed Israeli novelist uses identity politics as a way to absolve Israel of responsibility for its actions A.B. Yehoshua, the acclaimed Israeli fiction author, has an opinion piece in today’s Haaretz where he addresses a fundamental question: why has the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gone on ...
• When a Palestinian child becomes an enemy
  Last summer I found myself wading around a swimming pool in the middle of the scorching desert on a Kibbutz in the Negev. I had come to this kibbutz to see an old friend from high school. Over the past 12 years we have developed and maintained a close friendship despite clear political differenc ...
• Treading a fine line between Jaffa and Bat Yam
  Last night I posted one of my “Izzie in HolyLand” pieces. It was about the collective punishment Israel rewarded the West Bank village of Awarta, after the murder of the Fogel family from Itamar. In the post, I made Izzie have a nightmare about the same treatment Bat Yam would have had if a murd ...
• Egypt: Soldiers planted flowers in Tahrir Square
  Tahrir Square has been cleaned up. One day last week soldiers laid new turf in the central traffic island, and the next day they planted flowers. A day after that they erected a huge banner that confirmed the army’s commitment to the goal of the revolution, but when I returned two days later [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Two new Murray-Darling water purchase rounds ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today announced two new tenders for water purchasing in the southern-connected Murray system in Victoria and South Australia under the Gillard Government's new approach to recovering water for the environment through smaller, more consistent tenders.
• Heritage listing makes Great Ocean Road even ...
  The iconic Great Ocean Road will be placed on Australia's National Heritage List, Heritage Minister Tony Burke, announced today.
• Mining proposal to go through environmental a ...
  A proposal by Shree Minerals to develop a magnetite and hematite mine adjacent to the Nelson Bay River in north-western Tasmania will go through a high level of assessment under national environmental law.
• Gillard Government meet with Murray Darling B ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke has hosted the third in a series of roundtables with irrigation sector representatives from the Murray Darling Basin states.
• Ministers welcome review of Caring for our Co ...
  Australians involved in managing our natural resources have been invited to have their say on the future of Caring for our Country.

Matt Weidner Blog

• A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
  This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
• THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
  We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
• The Banks Can’t Count…
  Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
• The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
  The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
  It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

abelard - news

• war... | behaviour and intelligence news at ab ...
  The destruction of war wrought by the invaders.
• fukushima power plant update | alternative ene ...
  Finding help as only the Japanese can, and Tepco's comprehensive plan to stabilise the reactor.
• more on brown the clown's mess | politics uk n ...
  What else doesn't Gordon known about international debt?
• new complete teams list for the may giro d'ita ...
  For the 150th anniversary of Italian unity,there will be over 200 riders and 23 teams.
• trusting the fossil media | politics uk news ...
  Illustration of the inaccuracies, beneficial to sensationalism, government-bashing and increasing uncritical readership, made by the fossil media.

The Parallel Parliament

• Preparatory Pruning
  I’ve been asked by a veteran to re-post an earlier entry from this past March – “Beating ‘em in the alley.” It’s about the significant number of senior officials who were let go by the Harper government over the last while. This is what the PM accomplished with a minority government, against the ...
• Campaign Insider – “Special Guest& ...
  “I want to come down to help,” Bob Rae said over the phone. And, of course, I was glad for his assistance. He knows London well and we share a number of mutual friends here. The visits of special guests is an important part to any campaign, raising the profile of the local candidate and [...]
• What if …?
  “This is the craziest election I’ve ever witnessed.” I occasionally tell people that I’ve received quite an education in Ottawa, but my real schooling came from London. I learned a lot from 30 years of public service as a firefighter and cut my teeth on community involvement through difficult ye ...
• A Facebook Message
  The following is a message sent to me on Facebook yesterday by someone I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting. It’s well-written and his own experience speaks volumes as to what Canada requires at this moment.  Thanks Timothy. This is an interesting site – My own riding of Oxford is deemed a sa ...
• My Day
  For the first time since I was elected four years ago I will finally be home for the birthday of my twin daughters, Abuk and Achan. Both were products of slavery in Sudan and their African mother was killed in a raid when they were four months old. She was holding Abuk in her arms [...]

Vaccine Awakening

• Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
  UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
• Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
• Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
  by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
• Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
  By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
• Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
  by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible ...

2020 Science

• Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
  Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in this Nanower ...
• A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
  OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
• Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
  This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...

Reader Supported News

• Keith Olbermann's Countdown to Return on June 20th
  San Jose Mercury News: "The voice will be silenced no more. Current TV has announced that its new show with Keith Olbermann will debut on June 20 at 8 p.m. The show, to be called 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann,' marks the return to the airwaves for Olbermann, one of journalism's most provocativ ...
• Was FBI Too Quick to Judge Anthrax Suspect the ...
  The report begins: "Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant - a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer." FBI photographs of letters that contained anthra ...
• Guantanamo Files: Massive Leak Reveals Innocen ...
  David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke report: "The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called 'worst of the worst,' many prisoners were flown to the Guantanamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, ...
• Fox News Goes Full Birther
  Intro: "Following Donald Trump's lead, Fox News figures have recently embraced or promoted aspects of the birther conspiracy theory by falsely claiming that President Obama has not produced his birth certificate, or by hosting birthers to hype their discredited theories unchallenged." Sarah P ...
• 'No Humanity Left' in Syria
  Al Jazeera journalist Cal Perry begins: "Every other journalist is trying to get into Syria, but on Saturday I was trying to get out. The government had made it perfectly clear: My visa was expiring and unless I left on April 23, I would 'face the full force of the law.'" A man carries a chil ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
  According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
• U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
  The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
• Corn Panic
  By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
• Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
  This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
• Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
  The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Canada's "battle in the woods" flares up in Pr ...
  Market action launched against logging in Alberta�s southern�Rockies Alberta Foothills Network Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition ...
• Job Opportunity: Executive Director, Sierra Cl ...
  Position Executive Director Organization Sierra Club Prairie Organization Application Deadline 13 May 2011 - 12:00 Location Edmonton Link to Full Job Posting Full job des ...
• Vegans & Vegetarians of Alberta Mini Veg, May/ ...
  Vegans & Vegetarians of Alberta The Vegans & Vegetarians of Alberta have posted the May/June issue of their Mini Veg newsletter. MiniVeg May/June 2011
• Future of Water Workshops
  Waterlution Hi fellow change makers, Hope things are very well! We thought you and those in your network would be interested in our upcoming Future of Water Workshops. We have four planned across Canada— visit our brand new website ...
• Environmental protection key to promoting stro ...
  The top executives of Canadaâs major environmental organizations send united Earth Day message to political leaders Ecojustice Sierra Club Canada ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News: April 26, 2011
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Atlantic Club’s Passy: EU Must Become Collective Member Of NATO Middle East, North Africa: U.S. Risks War With China And Russia To Protect U.S. Interests, International Companies: 15,000 U.S. Troops, Thousands Of Contractors To Remain In Iraq Romania: U. ...
• NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Stop NATO April 26, 2011 NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Rick Rozoff As it has done daily since it assumed control of the air war and naval blockade against Libya on March 31, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 25 p ...
• Updates on Libyan war: April 26
  ==== NATO’s African War: Nearly 4,000 Sorties, Over 1,600 Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable NATO Playing With Fire In Libya: Analyst NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli As Former Colonial Master Italy Enters War NATO Escalates Bombing Assault, Libyans Fear Protracted War Al ...
• Stop NATO News: April 25, 2011
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 25 ==== U.S. Marines Bring Iraqi And Afghan War Combat Experience To Gulf Of Guinea “Made In USA”: Yemen Targeted By Predator Drone Missile Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable Resurgence Of French Imperialism New Georgian Military Adventurism ...
• Samuel Johnson on war
  Samuel Johnson Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771) Excerpts [W]ar is not the whole business of life; it happens but seldom, and every man, either good or wise, wishes that its frequency were still less. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• House Of Numbers: Dr Peter Duesberg, A Caution ...
  NotForSale2NWO April 27th, 2011 Peters interview from the House of Numbers Deluxe Edition DVD. Most of the Big Pharma funded medical community has shunned Peter for speaking the truth. This clip documents the smear/slander campaign that has been waged against Mr. Duesberg. http://www.houseofnumb ...
• Air Readings In Texas WAY Off Charts, Official ...
  NotForSale2NWO April 26th, 2011 TCEQ: Air monitor readings in Texas City were off the charts after power outages http://www.khou.com/news/BP-loses-power-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-120679184.html
• Bioaccumulation: Why Fukushima Matters
  lucaswhitefieldhixson.com April 26th, 2011 What is Bioaccumulation? Simply Stated - All living organisms are connected to each other through a food chain. It takes more organisms in the beginning of a food chain to support a smaller number of organisms at the end of the chain. Where bioaccumulat ...
• Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
  The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...
• Press For Truth: Into The Fire – G20 Pol ...
  Intel Hub Note: Citizens of Canada were literally beaten, strip searched and left naked for hours. Women were sexually assaulted, journalists were illegally detained, and police were given broad powers that turned out to be not even exist. This is the police state in FULL force. This is globalis ...

FRS

• Turkey: Five TKP/ML-TIKKO women guerillas kill ...
  Press Bulletin/ April 2011 To the Press and the Public:  5 martyrs of TKP/ML-TIKKO died in Dersim The Press statement of the TKP/ML-TIKKO Dersim Region Comittee from April 20th 2011 states that on 2nd February 2011, 5 guerillas of TKP/ML-TIKKO have lost their lives as a result of an avalanche. A ...
• Egypt’s ElBaradei suggests war crimes pr ...
  (AP) â 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) â Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the “shame of a needless war” in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil ...
• Delhi students investigate the mass struggle a ...
  Preliminary report of the DSU fact-finding visit to Narayanpatna, Odisha Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Delhi PRESS RELEASE:  A REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO A team of students from DU, JNU and IGNOU belonging to the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU) visited Narayanpatna Block in the Koraput distri ...
• The “Arab Spring” and How the Oppo ...
  Jordan’s New Opposition and the Traps of Identity and Ambiguity by Hisham Bustani, Jadaliyya Apr 20 2011 Protesters took the streets of Amman, Jordan, on Friday, calling for governmental and constitutional reforms.There are two major tribulations in Jordan from which all other issues stem. The f ...
• Saudi counter-revolution cools Arab Spring
  Fueled by fear of rising oil prices, US deference is helping Saudi Arabia implement its agenda in the Gulf. Jim Lobe, al Jazeera 24 Apr 2011 – As the so-called Arab Spring enters its sixth month, it appears to have run into seriously wintry headwinds. While some observers here have blamed Saudi ...

Ken O'Keefe

• NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
  On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
• Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
  During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
• Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
  We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
• Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
  We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
• Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
  As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...

StillSmallVoice

• Because it's beautiful -- but fake
  Stole this offa Facebook. It was posted on YouTube two years ago. I hope this young woman is having a fabulous life, but her catch -- sadly -- isn't real.�And thanks, Carole, for the head's up.
• But how will we know if they've arrived?
  The alien-seeking telescopes have lost funding. You can read more here.
• A little more reading with Wednesday's column...
  To read more about the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence's description of td411.org, go here. To take a relationship quiz, go here. For a list of warning signs, go here. To read Pres. Obama's proclamation that names February as teen dating violence prevention and awareness month, ...
• What makes a bad job, bad?
  Well, according to this, a lack of union protection is a good place to start for a bad job. From there, things get complicated. Writes Michael Lind at Salon: ...it is much easier to reach a consensus on the definition of a bad job than to agree on what constitutes a good job. Reuters photo
• Hold on with that God particle thing
  A leaked memo about scientists closing in on the Higgs boson ("God particle") is real, but the work is still fresh and unconfirmed, say officials at the Swiss collider where the work is being done. ("God particle" is a media construct. Turns out scientists prefer "the champagne bottle boson.") ...

Associated Content

• Conservatives Continue to Battle Abortion Acce ...
  Thanks to new GOP majorities in the wake of the 2010 election, Republican governors in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Idaho, with the endorsement of conservative state legislatures, signed into law a series of restrictive measures this month.Contributor: T. Calvarese Published: Apr 22, 2011
• Obama Can't Ignore Discontent Among Core Suppo ...
  The singing protest against President Obama showed creativity and flair. What does it signal about protests against the president?Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 22, 2011
• Electric Vehicles the Way of the Future for Au ...
  As gas prices continue to rise, it's no wonder the fully electric Nissan Leaf was named the 2011 World Car of the Year.Contributor: Miranda Young Published: Apr 22, 2011
• Q&A: Andrew Breitbart on 'Righteous Indignatio ...
  Andrew Breitbart is no stranger to controversy. With the release of his new book, he has been put back into the cross-hairs -- and he loves it.Contributor: Douglas Stewart Published: Apr 26, 2011
• Chernobyl Aftermath, By the Numbers
  A look at the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath 25 years later.Contributor: John Coon Published: Apr 26, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Amateur Photo Displays a Full Day's Worth of C ...
  Photographer shoots and assembles an entire day of skies Amateur photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos created this continuous image of the sky over Sounio, Greece, a town near his home. Late last December, he recorded the sun’s path across the sky during the day and an 11-hour star trail at night. W ...
• In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Ma ...
  If there were a distinction one could earn for practicing smart medicine on a shoestring, a UT grad student would be high in the running. Using a aluminum foil, gelatin, milk protein, and a cheap LED light--items that collectively sell for under a buck--he’s created a fast, one-hour test for ac ...
• ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better ...
  The Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy) has just doled out its fourth round of funding, and $30 million is going toward the ambitious goal of trimming the cost of biofuels by 50 percent. PETRO, or Plants Engineered to Replace Oil, looks to breed or genetica ...
• Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liqu ...
  Fire ants might be infuriating little beasts, an invasive species we'd all be pleased to see banished to its native Brazil, but it turns out a fire ant colony has some pretty amazing properties. In groups, they knit together, more like a fabric than anything else, and are waterproof, totally fl ...
• Video: They Sure Don't Make Pyrex Like They Us ...
  A change to heat-resistant glass has had explosive effects Most people probably don’t think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine more difficult—a fascinating exam ...

Veterans Today

• Obama “Compromise” With Republican ...
  President Obama's compromise with Congressional Republicans to reduce the deficit is “a rotten deal” that “hits the poor and the middle class the hardest,” The Nation magazine said in a May 2nd editorial.
• JB Campbell: URGENT 737 NG WARNING!
  Earlier this month a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 took off from Phoenix en route to Sacramento. A panel in the roof blew out and the plane made an emergency landing at Yuma.
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
  Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need 1. Minnesota town duped by woman’s story of military service. 2. More Marines now eligible to receive Purple Hear ...
• B. D. S. (Jackson 5) Chicago Flashmob
  Chicago Activists Mark Palestinian Land Day with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Flash-Mob   madlittledebbie On March 30th at 5 pm, a group of social justice activists held a “flash-mob” in downtown Chicago. The demonstration was organized as one of hundreds of demonstrations held around the w ...
• When in doubt, give a Middle East speech
  So let the speeches begin. Who knows? Maybe in some turn of phrase or dangling participle lurks the key to Middle East peace. Certainly, talking is a lot better than shooting. Aaron David Miller / FP The problem with all these initiatives is that none have a strategy to move from words to deeds. ...

War is Business

• Alokozay Group Of Dubai Moving Into Afghan Ban ...
  Buy refreshments Buy refreshments • Read more at www.emirates247.com
• Professor Says Privatized War Paved The Way Fo ...
  Sell “and for the people” Sell "and for the people" ⢠Read more at harpers.org
• Libyan Rebels Promise Oil Flowing Again Soon ( ...
  Buy humanitarian cause Buy humanitarian cause • Read more at www.reuters.com
• Viktor Bout Claims He Was Threatened With Pris ...
  Buy sympathy for the devil Buy sympathy for the devil • Read more at National: Breaking National News & Headlines - The Washington Post
• Chinese Company Exporting Chemical Weapons Gea ...
  Buy gasmasks Buy gasmasks • Read more at GSN Daily News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Yorkshire Water confident of no hosepipe bans ...
  Yorkshire Water have told BBC Yorkshire that even if the rest of spring and summer turns out to be as dry as 1995, there will be no water restrictions in Yorkshire. 1995 was a disastrous year for the company. Reservoirs were full at the end of March, but a pipe network that was badly in need o ...
• Will the warm sunshine last for Easter?
  We've had mixed fortunes at Easter over the years. Despite what we all might hope for, or think we remember, it is much more common for Easter weather to be poor rather than good. The last fine and warm Easter was in 2007. In fact April 2007 turned out to be the warmest on record - with April 20 ...
• March global temperature update
  The global temperature anomaly for March according to NASA/GISS was 0.57c, up from 0.44c in February. Adjusted to the 1961-90 time period this is approx 0.46c compared to 0.33c last month. The Hadcrut3 global anomaly figure for March showed a smaller increase at 0.318c, up from 0.264c last mo ...
• Coldest March globally for 17 years.
  Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
• An exceptionally dry March
  High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• China's Material Girls II: No Home, No Marriage
  Numerous studies in anthropology, social psychology, sociology and so forth corroborate findings that men value physical appearance most in their partners, while women value financial security most among theirs. This phenomenon generally holds across cultures. As it turns out, China's economic b ...
• More Research on Remittances from the US
  Despite its obviously more limited prospects for international workers at the current time, the United States remains the world's largest source of workers' remittances--especially to nearby Latin America. It is thus with no small interest that I've been flipping through this new Congressional B ...
• The Hugo Chavez - Formula One Connection
  It seems colourful regimes and Formula One go hand in hand given that the latter is already populated with several colourful characters. From S&M fetishists to crash artists, F1 has all the shenanigans going on. Given that it is one of if not the world's most-watched sport depending on who you'r ...
• American Hypocrisy on Libya & Int'l Criminal Court
  I read with no small amount of amusement the grandiosely titled op-ed "Libya's Pathway to Peace" by Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy. One way or another, none are free from hypocrisy to keep things lively. When the Libya mess erupted, Cameron was on a junket to the Middle East se ...
• Like Greece & Ireland, IMF Shouldn't Help Portugal
  Now I'm hopping mad! I know that I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but in the interest of fairness, I will fight the good fight even if no one else will do so. Bravely I must soldier on in this bleak and unbearable world. Previously, I have argued that the IMF should not have ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Is America Becoming The Land Of The Part-Time ...
  Do you need a good job?  If so, there are millions of other Americans that are just like you.  Unfortunately, most of the jobs that are available in America today are either part-time jobs, temp jobs or are "independent contractor" jobs.  The "full-time job with benefits" is a d ...
• Gold, Silver And Oil Are All Skyrocketing And ...
  The following is one statement that you should get used to seeing: "The price of gold set another record today."  Today, spot gold reached a new all-time record of $1461.91 an ounce before settling back a little bit.  Silver is also skyrocketing.  At one point today silver hit $ ...
• 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The H ...
  Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems.  When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our ...
• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Fifth Estate #384 (Spring 2011) now available
  Content includes: "The Haymarket Martyrs – Guilty, but So What?", "Trumbullplex – Almost 20 Years at a Detroit Living...
• New publication: Valeriano Orobón Fernández: T ...
  Valeriano Orob�n Fern�ndez was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist activist, speaker and author. In Spain, and in exile in France and Ge...
• Facerias: Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957) ...
  Anarchist urban guerrilla and member of the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) since 1936, Jos� Lluis Facer�as fou...
• Radio Interviews with Chapel Hill Prison Books ...
  Interview with Monica of the Chapel Hill, NC Prison Books Collective. Monica talks about prison abolition and restorative justice as alternative...
• Radical Media from Portland: BMedia Collective ...
  The BMedia Collective presents the first installment of our monthly Variety Show, a mash up of local and global events from a radical perspectiv...

E U Times

• France questions fundamental European principles
  France seems to have questioned one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement within the EU. The possibility of revising the Schengen agreement by French was on the agenda in connection with the influx of refugees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia. The discussion about a ...
• IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
  The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. The Obama deficit tour The Wall Street Jo ...
• Our sick society
  Here we are, at the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is the temple for worshipping profit and greed, where the value of each is determined by the ability to accumulate money and power at the expense of others, where rewrite, manipulate and disregard the laws are the order of the day, [...]
• Child trafficking increasing in US
  Andrea Powell works directly with children who have been sold for sex in Washington, DC. Powell says most of the child victims she works with come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. According a recent FBI law enforcement bulletin 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming victim ...
• Chernobyl’s sarcophagus falling apart
  Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been fal ...

Voiceless Victim

• Top 10 Catholic Lies About Child Rape
  The Catholic Church lies about child rape. Not occasionally. Not accidentally. But deliberately, and every time it’s representatives or apologists have anything to say on the subject.   The Catholic Church is not still learning about this issue. It has been “dealing” with child rape for the las ...
• Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
  As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
• Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
  Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
• Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
  There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
• Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
  Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...

WL Central

• 2011-04-27 Interview w/ investigative journo, ...
  Tweet Jason Leopold is the deputy managing editor of Truthout.org and a co-founder of The Public Record. As an investigative journalist he has written extensively on the Guantanamo Bay detention and torture camp, Enron, and the Military. The list goes on. In February 2011, Leopold interview A ...
• 2011-04-27 Wikileaks Notes: Shaker Aamer, Time ...
  TweetUK fighting for Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer's release Foreign Secretary William Hague will raise the case of Shaker Aamer with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she comes to the UK in May. Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt has told the BBC that dealing with the US on the i ...
• 2011-04-26 The Guantanamo Children: These Aren ...
  Tweet*With research assistance from GeorgieBC Pakistani national Naqib Ullah (also Naqibullah) was 14 years old and out doing an errand for his father when he was kidnapped from his village in Khan, Afghanistan by 11 men that called themselves, “Samoud’s people.” The men, according to Ullah, “fo ...
• 2011-04-26 Wikileaks notes: David House: Wikil ...
  Tweet David House tweets Wikileaks grand jury subpoenas are being issued Bradley Manning friend and supporter David House tweeted Subpoenas are being issued in the WikiLeaks grand jury. Violations of Espionage Act. No further comment at this time. two hours after tweeting "Are you now, or have y ...
• 2011-04-26 Wau Holland Foundation submits annu ...
  TweetOver the past year, the Wau Holland Foundation received roughly 1.3 million Euros in donations for Wikileaks. Around 400,000 Euros were paid out, the majority for the salaries of Wikileaks staff (ca. 100.000) and campaigns (ca. 140.000), and rather modest amounts for travel, legal assistanc ...

U N News

• Right to housing at risk as Brazil prepares fo ...
  An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about alleged displacement and evictions in various cities across Brazil as the country prepares to host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
• UN and partners congratulate Haiti&#39s presid ...
  The United Nations and its partners today congratulated Haiti's President-elect Michel Martelly on his poll victory, saying the world body looked forward to working closely with his administration once it is inaugurated on 14 May.
• Haiti: UN-constructed temporary Parliament han ...
  The United Nations envoy for Haiti has handed over to the president of the country's senate a prefabricated building that will temporarily house the Parliament until the one destroyed by the earthquake in January last year is rebuilt.
• UN housing expert voices concern about violent ...
  An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about the increasing rate of violent evictions taking place in Argentina and called for a comprehensive strategy to tackle the country's housing crisis.
• General Assembly President meets with top offi ...
  Global governance has topped the agenda in talks between General Assembly President Joseph Deiss and senior officials from Panama during the President's visit to the Latin American country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
  Itâs the Gobi Desert.  Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage.  Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage.  Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]
• Around the Campfire with Dave Foreman – What T ...
  In 1974, physicist John P. Holdren and biologist Paul Ehrlich, then both at Stanford University, set down in Science the key scientific formula of our time: I=PAT. Paul and Anne Ehrlich later spelled out what it means, “The impact of any human group on the environment can be usefully viewed as t ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
  In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things.  As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
• Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
  “I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
• Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
  The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist.  Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers.  Only a handful of still-work ...

Asia Sentinel

• Nuclear Energy Roils Indian Politics
  The fallout from Fukushima
• Limits of Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
  China's tough line on territorial disputes worries the region
• A Pakistani Husband's Agony
  A terrorist victim isn't always someone else
• Singapore Election Upset?
  Nicole Seah and the social media effect
• Taiwan's combined elections might cause heaven ...

We Know the Lies

• Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Holds Fi ...
• Exposed... Documents Reveal Powerful Appetite ...
• Mormon Illuminati?... Here's What 'Charming' M ...
• Obama... It’s “Going to Take More Than One Ter ...
• 401K - IRA... Obama Plans To Seize Control Of ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Mocking Jesus – Women nails Ape to cross and c ...
  From the show “Toffee VeHa-Gorillah” – WARNING!!! Explicit and offensive anti-Christian material contained. Burn the Koran in the USA and you get riots the world over. Nail a monkey to a cross and refer to said primate as Jesus, who is a Nazi…and not a peep in our media. Why is that? No Zionist ...
• The Anatomy of Election Fraud in the USA – Mur ...
  Murder Spies And Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary by Brad Friedman which tells the story of a computer programmer who was contracted by a private company’ with ties to convicted Chinese spies, to write a program that could be used to rig elections… What follows is ...
• Bob Moriarty is full of shit. Silver is not in ...
  Bob Moriarty is full of shit. I read an interesting article today by Bob Moriarty of 321Gold.com fame where he pretty much shoots a hole through the heart of us Silver Vigilantes but, like all other precious metals bears, he has come to a battle of the wits unarmed. This is without a doubt the [ ...
• Prepare Yourself for Collapse – The Self-Destr ...
  People ask me all of the time…when will the economy, society, humanity, etc break down and collapse into chaos. My answer is always the same…it is happening now. The global economy is in depression and countries around the world are bankrupt, only being kept afloat by printing more money and iss ...
• Nuclear Engineer Exposes Fukushima Tepco Cover-Up
  Why is mainstream media not covering this? Why is this a cover-up? Why do we live in la la land? If you can afford it.. drop them a donation.. if we all send a little.. it adds up to a lot! Nuclear explosion, and meltdown discussed by Fairewinds associates. www.fairewinds.com they deserve any he ...

Truth About Our World

• China hits back with report on U.S. human righ ...
  English.news.cn Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was re ...
• Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Fo ...
  By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology � or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community su ...
• The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Natu ...
  Richard William Posner Activist Post A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you needn’t think about, I have a small experiment you can try that might serve to enlighten you. Hop in your 10-mpg SUV and motor on down t ...
• Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO- ...
  Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against �pro-democracy� protesters in order to lay the groundwork for another contrived �humanitarian� war Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tue ...
• Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has thrown his weight behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pointed a finger of blame at the West for recent unrests in the Middle Eastern country. Chavez accused the United States and its allies of fomenting unrest and protests in Syria, arguing that Wes ...

Bloomberg

• The Driving Force of Dividends
  Jeffrey Kleintop of PNC Advisors sees dividend growth as a positive force for the current market -- and even some tech stocks
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• Merck Tumbles on Texas Verdict
  Autodesk posts strong profits, Gap lowers outlook for the year, and more of Friday's stocks in the news

Enviroblog

• EWG's BPA Petition Delivered to Maine Governor
  By Bobbie Manning, EWG Environmental Health Outreach Coordindator Maine just became the ninth state to ban the use of bisphenol A in baby products. Come January 1, 2012, Maine babies will be protected from this potentially harmful endocrine disrupting... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminish ...
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist In a 2010 meeting between the pesticide industry and the Obama Administration, the pesticide industry revealed its objective that government food testing data (like the USDA pesticide residue data EWG uses to create... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Fast Food Follies
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Around this time last year the health-conscience crew at KFC headquarters gave the American consumer the Double Down chicken sandwich - 540 calories of bacon and cheese with no veggies, smashed... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Watch "Bag It," Then Just Bag It
  By Rebecca Sutton, Phd, EWG Senior Scientist Plastic pollution: it's everywhere, from the gigantic garbage patch swirling in the Pacific Ocean to the cells of our bodies, a point EWG's President, Ken Cook, makes so well in this recent TEDx... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
  By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Katie Couric is not the next Oprah Winfrey, bu ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• F.A.Q.: Does anyone feel bad for the N.F.L. ow ...
  Sridhar: The reason the N.F.L. Players' Association has asked for the league to open their books is essentially compel the owners at least to try to explain why they need revenue back from the players. Throughout this whole fight, the owners have never cla ...
• 'Roadie' rules: An everyday story about Long I ...
  Jimmy Testagross in Michael Cuesta's Roadie has never made a pot of coffee. He does not know how to fold laundry. He still crashes on his friends' couches. He can fit all of his stuff into one bag. He is in his 40s. More
• Lindsay Lohan, Yankees, squatters, bad teacher ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• The 2011 Knicks and Donnie Walsh's grand desig ...
  After seven years out of the playoffs, the New York Knicks managed to replicate their 2004 postseason performance by getting swept in the first round.But unlike that 2004 team, which didn't seem to belong on the same court as the opposing team (the Nets), ...

Views & News from Norway

• New ritual circumcision law proposed
  Changes have been proposed to the law on ritual circumcision in Norway, with health ministers hoping to ensure that the procedure can be done under proper medical conditions by covering it for free as part of the public health system. Until around 10 years ago, free circumcisions were available ...
• Young lynching suspects questioned
  Two underaged Norwegian boys have been questioned as suspects in the attempted lynching of another Norwegian boy in Sweden over the Easter weekend. No charges have been filed, though, and both young suspects deny any involvement. Swedish police have confirmed that they suspect the two boys, aged ...
• Amelie returns to Nansen school
  Maria Amelie, an author who was deported from Norway for being a “paperless” illegal immigrant in January, was set to return to Nansen school in Lillehammer on Wednesday – the place where she was originally arrested before being sent home to Russia. After applying for a work permit in order to ...
• Doctors refuse to give abortions
  Gynecologists at a local hospital in Flekkefjord, south Norway, are refusing to give abortions because of fears of attacks by anti-abortion opponents. Marcüs Gurgen, leader of the surgical department at the hospital, told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that one of the doctors in particular fears ...
• Ethiopians in new cathedral protest
  Around 20 Ethiopian asylum seekers protesting against the Norwegian immigration authority’s decision to send them home have returned to Oslo Cathedral for a new protest, following their occupation of the church and hunger strikes in February. The protestors set up a large white tent directly bes ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Facts About Bottled Water
  Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Diigo Post on ...
• Home Made Solar Tracker
  Solar modules are very common all over the world. Unfortunately it is a high energy effort to make them and expensive materials are required. That’s why we should make them more effective. Most solar panels are fixed in place, which is not very effective because the sun moves the whole day. ...
• The International Permaculture Conference and ...
  The world’s premier permaculture gathering begins in September this year. The International Permaculture Conference and Convergence is held every two years on a different continent. This time around, it’s Jordan’s turn. Jordan is home of the original, and sequel, ‘Greening the Desert‘ sites. I ...
• Permaculture Urban Landscape Design Course
  Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’d love to take this course myself, but alas, I’m unable to make it. Those of you who’re itching to get started, or to do better, with your urban patch (or with someone else’s urban patch!), should seriously consider jumping on this course. During this intensive 5- ...
• A Solar Powered Life, Part VI – The Ideologica ...
  The series, A Solar Powered Life, is intended for those that have an interest in the generation and storage of electricity using solar panels. I’ve tried to write the series in such a way that it is accessible for everybody and not just for those that are technically minded. By the end of the se ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• London 2012 Olympics team publishes first gree ...
  London 2012 Olympic organisers have published the first environment report for next year's Games.The report says it is on target to cut the carbon footprint by 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in the procurement of materials and venue construction. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� ...
• Wael Ghonim - The Man behind Revolution in Egypt
  Wael Ghonim, who hogged limelight during Egypt's political uprising, is believed to be the real person behind the revolution that inspired many national unrests in countries like Yemen, Syria and Libya.Ghonim is an Internet activist and the head of MarketSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Greenpeace: Apple has the dirtiest data
  Sure, most of us consider the environmental impact our recycling habits or car's gas mileage may have.But what about our text messages and status updates?The energy that technology companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
• Gulf disaster renews debate over Arctic oil spill
  A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario � a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska's northern coast. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Scotland's First Marine Reserve Already Produc ...
  Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 4/21/11 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should peo ...
  vegetarian.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should people become vegetarian? - In 2010, each person in the US ate an average of 57.5 pounds of beef, 46.5 pounds of pork, and 82 pounds of chicken. Vegetarians, about 3.2% of the US population, do not eat meat (including poultry and seafood). ...
• 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
  www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
• 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
  abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
• 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
  gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
• 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...

Truth About Our World

• China hits back with report on U.S. human righ ...
  English.news.cn Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was re ...
• Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Fo ...
  By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology � or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community su ...
• The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Natu ...
  Richard William Posner Activist Post A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you needn’t think about, I have a small experiment you can try that might serve to enlighten you. Hop in your 10-mpg SUV and motor on down t ...
• Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO- ...
  Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against �pro-democracy� protesters in order to lay the groundwork for another contrived �humanitarian� war Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tue ...
• Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has thrown his weight behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pointed a finger of blame at the West for recent unrests in the Middle Eastern country. Chavez accused the United States and its allies of fomenting unrest and protests in Syria, arguing that Wes ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Folic Acid Follies
  Pregnant women should stop popping these pills like candy. By Amanda Schaffer Take folic acid, but not too muchNo woman who’s expecting, or expecting to expect, can avoid the advice, from any doctor or health site worth its salt: Take folic acid. The vitamin deserves its exalted status. When wom ...
• Females Move to the Head of the Class
  Census: Women win advanced-degree battle of the sexes By Josh Voorhees For the first time, U.S. women now outnumber their male counterparts when it comes to finishing college and earning advanced degrees, the Associated Press reports. Among adults 25 and over, 10.6 million of those with advanced ...
• Starbucks Now No. 3 U.S. Chain Restaurant
  Burger joints lose grasp on top-sellers podium. By Josh Voorhees Starbucks is now the no. 3 largest-selling chain restaurant in the United States, trailing only perennial no. 1 McDonaldâs and relative podium newcomer Subway, according to the latest rankings of the top 500 selling chain restauran ...
• Incredible Edibles
  The mad genius of âModernist Cuisine.â by John Lanchester  Nathan Myhrvold and his culinary colleagues love to cut things in halfâlike this traditional pot roastâand show cross sections. In 2004, Nathan Myhrvold, who had, five years earlier, at the advanced age of forty, retired from his job as ...
• The Inner Voice
  Gandhiâs real legacy. by Pankaj Mishra Gandhiâs legend too often obscures the audacious radicalism of his ideas. Mohandas Gandhi was the twentieth centuryâs most famous advocate of nonviolent politics. But was he also its most spectacular political failure? The possibility is usually overshadowe ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
  Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted.  Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
• Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
  Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
• No title
  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 ...

NAU Resistance

• U.S. Predator Drones Patrol Canadian Border
  What this is really about is the creation of a common security perimeter around the continent of North America
• 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 ...

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
  This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
• Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
  Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
• Letter From America
  Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
• Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
• Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
  Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...

Beacon

• Good News for Sharks and the Oceans
  I have several good news items to share with you this week. First, I am happy to announce that our trawling ban in Belize is now official. Belize is home to a major portion of the world’s second largest reef system as a well as a thriving local fishing community, and the ban protects both these ...
• Ted Danson On NBC Nightly News
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Ted Danson was on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams this weekend, talking about his book, "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them." Once again he does a fantastic job describing the state of th ...
• Where Are They Now?: Sara Bayles
  Nominations are still open for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with 2010 finalist Sara Bayles. Sara Bayles is the author of The Daily Ocean blog, where she documents her efforts to collect trash from her local beach for 365 non-consecutive days. Now Sara and ...
• Where Are They Now?: Casey Sokolovic
  Casey Sokolovic with her specialty: sea turtle cookies. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with one of our favorites, sea turtle activist Casey Sokolovic. Casey might look familiar - we can’t get enough of her ever since she ...
• Kate Walsh on Offshore Drilling
  Check out Kate Walsh explaining her support of Oceana's campaign to end offshore drilling at yesterday's event. Kate has been a fantastic spokeswoman for us and we can't thank her enough for joining us at the Capitol. �

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• HL-10 Lifting Body Space Re-Entry Vehicle. Cir ...
  HL-10 Lifting Body Under Wing Of A B-52 HL-10 Lifting Body After Release HL-10 Lifting Body Aircraft After Release From A B-52 HL-10 Lifting Body On [...]
• Concept Aircraft
  Lenticular Concept Nuclear Aircraft J>C>M> frost, Invented This Lenticular Nuclear Bomber Source: [...]
• The WS125 Atomic Bomber
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• Russian Experimental Tanks
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• World Tae Kwon Do Knockouts. Mostly From Back ...
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Taylor Marsh

• My $0.02/Saturday: sheroes and potpourri
  Morning, news junkies. Here are my Saturday reads. Hillaryland Hillary’s profile in the 2011 Time 100 was written by dean emeritus of the Kennedy School, Joe Nye. Nye doesn’t mention Hillary’s work on behalf of women and girls, instead defining her influence in terms of how well she plays with ...
• Trump: What Does Privacy have to do with ‘Pro- ...
  **UPDATED**Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Nice, soft ball question. But as we found out with Sarah Palin there aren’t any. –updated– Speaking of Sarah, it really does look as if Donald Trump’s media blitz and poll explosion has team Sarah concerned. ...
• John Boehner’s Oops
  “Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and, frankly, they’ve got some part of this to blame,” the Ohio Republican told ABC News today. Blame aside, what about the cold, hard cash — the billions of dollars in tax breaks and other subsidies big oil receives every year? President Obama has ...
• Obama: ‘Let Me Finish My Answers…’
  **UPDATED** After the interview, Obama pointed out that he doesn’t like an interviewer challenging his comments. “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” he said. – WFAA.com – News 8, TexasThere is nothing more infuriating than being interviewed and not being all ...
• The Ugly, The Bad, & The Good Can Oust the Worst
  Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools. Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for ...

Hudson New York

• How Much Should You Spend to Protect Your Citi ...
  While Israelis are cheering the success of the new Iron Dome short range Missile Defense weapon, many have expressed doubts about the cost-effectiveness of the system. How can it be in Israel's interest, they ask, to use expensive interceptors to destroy
• Marxism Redux: When Government Interference Ho ...
  Government interference is very often the factor that imperils capitalist success. The guarantees provided by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to create the real estate bubble that ultimately undermined the housing market. The "carry trade" that gives
• Despite Pressure, Colombia Will Not Recognize ...
  US President Obama, with an attitude that apparently prevented him from even visiting Colombia during his first trip to Latin America, is leaving stranded an important Latin American ally to the US – Colombia -- both in regard to its opposition to
• If the United States Eliminates Lots of its Nu ...
  And then over time we can eventually get to zero, right? At least that is what has been argued for the 65 years of the nuclear age by the proponents of what is now known as "Global Zero," the campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons. And don't worry.
• Why Are Palestinians Killing People Who Suppor ...
  In April, two "pro-Palestinian" activists were murdered by Palestinians –- one in the West Bank and the other in the Gaza Strip. The fact that the two were staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause and were known for their deep hatred of Israel was not

Urban Survival

• Housing: Home Prices Slide – Again…
  Not too much of a surprise in the housing numbers just released by Case Shiller/S&P – the 20 City Housing Index: New York, April 26, 2011 â Data through February 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home … Continue reading →
• Coping: The Civilization Restart Kit
  I know most people think ,we’re crazy – walking away from the fine restaurants, the great shopping, high-end movie houses, theater, concerts and such that goes with the Big City Life, but since outgrowing the Lionel stage (about age 18 … Continue reading →
• Reader Advisory
  This morning’s post will be up around 8:15 to incorporate the housing numbers due out in a few minutes from Case Shiller/S&P – these are mighty  damned important…
• The Word Among Time Monks
  [Reader Note:  We depart from our usual news then commentary form this morning because there is a whole lot of Big Picture stuff in motion that needs to be taken in as a whole.] This could be the week everything … Continue reading →
• GlobalRev – Ongoing
  Every once in a while, I have panoramic, better than HD TV or Panavision dreams, and this morning’s was disturbing.  It was about a crowd of people in a middle eastern nation near some kind of sporting event/stadium being attacked … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Max Igan : A Fear Based Reality
  Max Igan from Queensland Australia is an excellent Philosopher! Global Governmental... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Gerald Celente: Prepare, Survive and Prevail
  Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones 21 Apr 2011Gerald Celente : look at the numbers home... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-04-21 [del.icio.us]
  Bob Chapman JP Morgan and HSBC are trapped | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman JP Morgan and HSBC are trapped Fukushima Nuclear disaster : Radiation, Food Contamination and the end of the world | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Fukushima Nuclear disaster : Radiation, F ...
• Mike Rivero : The students Loan Bubble
  Mike Rivero gives an excellent explanation to what's happening in Wall street which was... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• I am a High Tech Low Life out of rehab and in ...
  George Carlin gives a very comic description o the modern man , high tech low life... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• IS THE TRUTH CONTROVERSIAL?
  Is there something controversial about the truth? Maybe that’s why we dont like it. Theres something about the truth that’s just not normal. Its something we cant handle or accept. Would people like you if you always told the truth? Or would they prefer it if you lied a little? Have you ever spo ...
• MIND CONTROL 36
  This is where it gets deep……so tread carefully. Not many people know…….that the “Eucharist” originated with Paul: 1 Cor 11:23-25 23 For I RECEIVED FROM THE LORD that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given ...
• THE TRUTH ABOUT EASTER
  Easter as a celebration is mentioned nowhere in the new testament apart from in the King James version of the bible. Those who spend time reading different translations will discover that the King James bible in particular has quite a number of inserted words and scriptures, that are not found i ...
• INSPIRATION
  I sat with my pen in hand. Waiting for inspiration. Waiting for words to pour themselves out. From within; somewhere on the inside. Sometimes; its important to give what’s inside a chance to speak. A chance to be heard. A chance to be seen. A chance to be witnessed on the outside. I was still [...]
• MIND CONTROL 35
  Let us take a close look so that we can get a full understanding of Paul’s message in relation to grace. But in order to get a full perspective…….let us start with a statement from Jesus. Jesus says: Matthew 6:14-15 14 FOR IF YOU FORGIVE MEN WHEN THEY SIN AGAINST YOU, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL [...]

Federal Court ( Canada )

• Recently Released Decisions
  Recently released decisions of the Federal Court updated weekly.
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• Blacklisted News

• Microsoft Collects Locations of Windows Phone ...
  Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system.
• Should You Buy A Home In 2011? Check Out Thes ...
  Has the U.S. housing market reached a “bottom” yet?  Are home prices going to start recovering?  Is the housing crisis going to end at some point?  Today there are millions of American families that would like to buy homes but they are not sure what to do. 
• Four Stories This Week Prove that the War On ...
  Four stories from the last week confirm what many have been saying for years: the war on terror is a bust.
• France and Italy in call to close EU borders ...
  France and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe’s system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration sparked by the Arab spring was calling into question the borderless regime enjoyed by more than 400 million people in 25 countries.
• Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and st ...
  Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicine.

The Intelligence Daily

• A Battle Rages in the Streets of New York: Cyc ...
  By Jay Walljasper, On the Commons A controversy over the commons has erupted in the streets of New...
• IntelFilter — April 27, 2011
  Today’s Headlines God’s bankers: How evangelical Christianity is taking a hold of the...
• NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
  by Rick Rozoff As it has done daily since it assumed control of the air war and naval blockade...
• The Coming Chaos: The Post-Oil Community (Part IV)
  by Peter Goodchild Related: The Coming Chaos: Systemic Collapse (Part I), The Coming Chaos: When...
• North American Perimeter Security and the Mili ...
  by Dana Gabriel With the release of a U.S. Congressional report that found only a small fraction of...

My AntiWar

• Rights Group: Syria Revolt Claims 400 Lives
• Damascus Shrugs Off World Pressure
• Bahrain Expels Iranian Diplomat, Iran Warns of ...
• Afghan Police Recapture 65 Escapees of Kandaha ...
• Navy Buses Bombed in Karachi, 4 Killed

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Bahrain in the shadow of Iran, Saudi Arabia an ...
  Summary: Bahrain protestsIt is true that Iran has a vested interest in what is happening in Bahrain and that the country has a degree of cultural and political influence throughout the wider Persian Gulf area. But in Bahrain, as elsewhere in the Arab world, the demonstrations are not driven ...
• ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
  Summary: Bush-Rice-CheneyNEW YORK (AP) — Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq. source: APread more
• Rats, Roaches and Shiites
  Summary: Bahrain protestsShia-majority Iran, Iraq and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah have been the most vocal in condemning the outrageous killings, arrests and beatings of Shiites in the Persian Gulf -- but they have had to do so with a muffled voice. Each objection from Iran or He ...
• ElBaradei: US, Europe Weren’t Interested in Co ...
  Summary: Officials Withheld Key Info From IAEA Chief in Push for Regime Change source: Antiwar.comread more
• ElBaradei: US and EU3 only interested in regim ...
  Summary: On Iran's nuclear standoff with the West: "I adhere strictly to the facts, and part of that is that the Americans and the Europeans withheld important documents and information from us. They weren't interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change -- by an ...

The Daily Galaxy

• New Discovery on Origin of the Most Violent Ex ...
  This Chandra image of the Tycho supernova remnant contains new evidence for what triggered the original supernova explosion. Tycho was formed by a Type Ia supernova, a category of stellar explosion used in measuring astronomical distances because of their reliable...
• SETI's 100-Million-Channel Scan for Extraterre ...
  Funding for the SETI Institute has dried up, meaning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence lost one of its key drivers on the planet. In an letter dated April 22nd, reports the San Jose Mercury News, SETI Institute's CEO, Tom Pierson,...
• "Blotars" -- Weird Brown Dwarfs Observed Devou ...
  A group of nine unusual stars spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in a young cluster above called NGC 3603 that are too cool to be ordinary stars, with analysis of their infrared light emissions indicating surface temperatures between 1700...
• Neutron Space Matter Not Found on Earth Discovered
  The dense core of a nearby collapsed neutron star is undergoing a rapid chill, providing the first direct evidence that the cores of such stars are so dense that atomic nuclei dissolve, and protons and electrons combine to form a...
• Is Our Real Universe Flat? --"It's 250 Times B ...
  Is our universe infinite or closed? Because the visible Universe is expanding, the most distant visible things are much further away than its estimated 14-billion year age. In fact, the photons in the cosmic microwave background have traveled a cool...

Natural News

• Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and ste ...
  (NaturalNews) Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicin ...
• Betrayal of a Nation: Why U.S. health authorit ...
  (NaturalNews) Dr. Anne Looker and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently made vitamin D legend, Professor Hector DeLuca of University of Wisconsin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_DeLuca), and certain folks at big pharma very happy with her widely-reported analysis of t ...
• GMO pesticides linked to birth defects, disrup ...
  (NaturalNews) Numerous studies in recent months have tied agricultural pesticides to reproductive and other serious health problems (http://www.naturalnews.com/pesticides.html). And a new study out of Argentina adds even more evidence to the fact that such chemicals are a widespread public healt ...
• Court files prove Maryanne Godboldo had full l ...
  (NaturalNews) New developments in the case of Maryanne Godboldo -- the Detroit, Mich., woman whose house was recently raided by a SWAT team with a tank, and whose daughter was subsequently kidnapped by these armed terrorists -- are set to hopefully clear the mother of any wrongdoing in the matte ...
• Lawsuit against FDA a success! Court rules cen ...
  (NaturalNews) A considerable legal victory has been achieved for the natural health community in defending freedom of health speech. A recent lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and several other plaintiffs against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has successfully sto ...

Threat Level

• Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower
  The government has dropped its criminal investigation of the whistle blower who exposed the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2004, and will evidently not be filing criminal charges for the historic leak. Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department atto ...
• WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
  A German nonprofit that processes most of the donations submitted to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has finally made good on a nearly year-old promise to release a report detailing how those donations are spent — though the report remains silent on how much money was paid to WikiLeaks found ...
• Godzilla’s Lawyers Claim Apple App Fingerzilla ...
  Toho, the owner of all things Godzilla, claims a menacing-looking human index finger with monster-like scales pictured over a skyline is treading on the Japanese company’s intellectual-property rights. With that belief, the Japanese monster-maker is demanding that the producer of an Apple iOS ap ...
• FBI v. Coreflood Botnet: Round One Goes to the ...
  The FBI’s unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet — comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines — appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earlier this month, a ...
• FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King’s Speech U ...
  The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member the bureau believes was first to upload the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech as well as Black Swan, and other in-theater-only films to the Pirate Bay in January, according to interviews and sealed court records o ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• War and Peace by Mitt Romney
  By now, Mitt Romney's gymnastic flip-flops and comic turnabouts are the stuff of political legend. After all, on abortion, immigration, his fidelity to Ronald Reagan, his signature health care law and even his state of residence, Romney has reversed himself, often more than once. But when it c ...
• The "Half a World War II" Debt Solution
  The United States was slowly recovering from economic catastrophe. Its military forces were deployed worldwide in a global conflict to defeat what even the President's political opponents deemed an existential threat. U.S. national debt would soon top 100% of the nation's entire economic outpu ...
• Republican Economic Terrorism
  The USA Patriot Act defines "domestic terrorism" in part as activities intended "to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." By th ...
• The Republican Truth Deficit on the Debt Ceiling
  With the deadline on raising the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling fast approaching, grandstanding Republicans are threatening national economic suicide. If it comes, the means of death will have been a fatal dose of hypocrisy. After all, GOP majorities in Congress didn't merely vote seven times ...
• McCain Declares Libyan Rebels His Latest "Heroes"
  On Friday, Senator John McCain became the highest ranking American political figure to meet with the Libyan rebels. But while his declaration that "they are my heroes" doubtless was well received in by the anti-Qaddafi fighters in Benghazi, McCain's track record should give Americans good reas ...

Blackspot News Feed

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  DISTRICT 9 display at Weta Cave (and Werner) Meredith Yayanos
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  (-3-) Related articles Joss In The NYT Today (warrenellis.com) Suwappu (warrenellis.com)
• Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Shoul ...
  We speak to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about President Obama’s comments last week on accused U.S. Army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning. Speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama openly declared that Manning—who has been accused of leaking classified military docum ...
• Guardian Newspaper Editor Defends Publishing W ...
  More than 750 "secret" Guantánamo prisoner "assessment" files released by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks cover almost every prisoner since the U.S. military base was opened in Cuba in 2002 and reveal the United States believed many of those held at Guantánamo were innocent or low-level ope ...
• Locked-Out Uranium Processing Workers Protest ...
  Dozens of workers protested at Honeywell’s shareholder meeting on Monday, accusing the company of putting employees and the public in danger at its Uranium Enrichment Plant in Metropolis, Illinois. Major U.S. defense contractor, Honeywell, pleaded guilty last month to illegally storing hazardous ...

Consortium News

• News Flash: Iraq War Was About Oil
  New disclosures in Great Britain belie the U.S./U.K. insistence that oil was not a factor in invading Iraq, reports Ray McGovern. April 22, 2011
• Misunderstanding Jesus's Execution
  Christian doctrine plays down a key Holy Week event, Jesus's overturning of money tables at the Temple, says Rev. Howard Bess. April 23, 2011
• NATO Pushes 'Regime Change' in Libya
  NATO military intervention in Libya has stretched the U.N. humanitarian resolution past the breaking point, writes Peter Dyer. April 22, 2011
• Giving War a Chance
  The neocons of the U.S. news media still hope they can engineer violent regime change in the Muslim world, notes Robert Parry. April 21, 2011
• US Military Retreats on Manning Abuse
  The Obama administration moves accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning out of Quantico detention, reports Kevin Zeese. April 21, 2011

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• When Montgomery comes to Nabi Saleh (Mark Per ...
  In Cairo, in June of 2009, President Obama linked the Palestinian quest for freedom to the American civil rights movement. "Palestinians must abandon violence," he said. "Resistance t ...
• Plan for National Park Threatens to Strangle E ...
  Jerusalem's District Committee for Planning and Construction recently approved a new plan to establish part of a "national park surrounding the walls of Jerusalem" on lands belonging ...
• Germany Will Not Support Palestinian Statehood ...
  Despite ongoing diplomatic talks and efforts carried out by Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and his teams, Germany announced it will not be supporting the Palestinian intentions ...
• Academic Freedom Under Attack at UC Hastings C ...
  In the latest of a series of attacks on academic freedom concerning the question of Palestine, the UC Hastings College of Law recently bowed to pressure from the Anti-Defamation Leagu ...
• When a Palestinian child becomes an enemy (Jo ...
  The method is simple and effective: arrest children in military night raids, verbally harass and traumatize them, interrogate them without the presence of lawyers or parents and infor ...

Water - AlterNet

• Displacing People For Profit: Obama Administra ...
  Why is the Obama administration covertly pushing for an internationally opposed open-pit coal mine operation in Bangladesh?
• 4 Surprising (and Affordable) Places to Buy Su ...
  Buying sustainable seafood doesn't have to be expensive -- the only thing that is truly pricey is choosing to sacrifice the health of oceans and fisheries.
• Texas GOP Fights Catastrophic Wildfires With P ...
  Praying for rain will be little help while Texas politicians work to deny global warming and prevent the changes that might actually deal with their troubles.
• 'Environmentalist' Is an Extinct Label in Toda ...
  Concern about the environment is a mainstream issue of discussion and decision. It's no longer simply the cause celebre of "liberals" and "tree huggers."
• If Nature Had Rights, Would We Need Earth Day?
  Just how different would environmental protection look if say, the Gulf ecosystem itself had rights and could sue to undo all of the damage done?

Public Citizen in Texas

• Environmental Hypocrisy
  Over the past year, there have been big battles in our big State of Texas over Texans’ right to keep the feds out of our business. Governor Perry’s allies in the state’s leadership and his appointed commissioners are fighting the EPA’s Clean Air Act, and the Governor recently released a book cal ...
• TLR protesters [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• TLR has dancing H. Simmons [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Robert Redford – Fighting Goliath
  Robert Redford, who has been a major figure in film in this country since the 60s (as an actor, director, and producer), is once again in the limelight for the release of his new film The Conspirator.  But as much of note in Mr. Redford’s life is his lifelong commitment to positive social and e ...
• Weekly Bill Update from ACT
  We will be posting the weekly update provided to us by the Alliance for Clean Texas throughout the legislative session. Now that April’s in full swing, there’s never a dull moment for environmental advocacy at the Capitol. I want to tell you where we are on several of ACT’s priority bills this ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• SETI suspended due to lack of funds
  SETI's search for extraterrestrial life has been suspended until it can secure more funding. Due to financial difficulties the Allen Telescope Array h...
• Lost Maya city revealed in rainforest
  Three-dimensional mapping has been used to reveal a long lost city in the Guatemalan rain forest. The remains of hundreds of buildings have been ident...
• World's first electronic glasses developed
  The new spectacles contain a thin liquid crystal layer that can change its alignment when needed. The emPower glasses could spell an end to convention...
• Mongolian Death Worm documentary released
  The infamous killer worm has been the subject of many documentaries over the years. Described as a large red worm capable of killing a person from a d...
• Artist creates creepy sculptures from bananas
  Keisuke Yamada has gained quite a following due to his remarkable skills at carving banana sculptures. The 23-year-old has become a cult internet phen...

Grassroots

• Grassroots International Partners Take Action ...
  lucha-peasant_day.jpg The Via Campesina declared April 17 as "International Day of Peasants' Struggles." This day commemorates the 1996 slaughter by the Brazilian police of 19 peasants of the Landless Worker Movement (MST) while they mobil ...
• Bury the corporate food system!
  Below is an article from Grassroots International partner, the Via Campesina, in preparation for the International Day of Peasants� Struggles. The Via is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenou ...
• "Victory comes only with struggle": Brazilian ...
  mcp.jpg April 17 commemorates the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle for land, water, food and justice.read more
• US Food Sovereignty Alliance Celebrates Intern ...
  usfsa-turn_tables.jpg As part of our commitment to engage in advocacy to challenge US policy and corporations that are often the root causes of resource rights violations around the world, Grassroots International has been proud to be an a ...
• Carbon Credit Plan Implementation Halts Medica ...
  At the request of the community assembly of Amador Hernández in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots International along with the Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Carbon Trade Watch, the Global Forest Coalition, the Timberwatch Coalition, Grassroots G ...

Climate

• Fracking Regulations Could Ease Public Concern ...
  Source:� Reuters The gas industry should support "common sense" regulation to ease worries about potential water contamination from hydraulic fracturing, White House economic adviser Gene Sperling said.
• House Preparing to Pass Energy Bills after Eas ...
  Source:� The Hill Republicans will begin work on three bills they say would break a de facto ban on new energy exploration.
• Obama Says He’s Pressing Major Oil Producers t ...
  Source:� Washington Post Obama said Tuesday he is calling on oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the economy. read more
• BP Profits Dip as Deepwater Horizon Costs Cont ...
  Source:� Guardian read more
• Jackson: Climate Regs ‘Nothing to Fear’
  Source:� The Hill The EPA administrator said the agency's pending climate regulations are a "common-sense" use of the Clean Air Act and the public has nothing to fear.

GreenBiz

• Puma to Publish Profit-and-Loss Statement for ...
  Puma plans to put a dollar figure on its impact to clean water, natural resources and other ecosystem services.
• Puma to Publish Profit-and-Loss Statement for ...
  Puma plans to put a dollar figure on its impact to clean water, natural resources and other ecosystem services.
• Walmart's CSR Report Shows the Power, and Limi ...
  A closer look at Walmart's latest Global Responsibility Report reveals the limits to what any company -- even one as vast as Walmart -- can do.
• Lockheed Saves $2.6M in IT Energy Costs; Tops ...
  Lockheed Martin's drive to embed sustainability into its operations is paying off: The firm has already exceeded its 2012 targets for reducing water use and waste, and is saving $2.6 million a year in energy costs for IT.
• Amazon's Purchasing Data Finds U.S. Consumers ...
  Purchases of green products on Amazon "map" right onto the regional stereotypes you might expect -- with a few surprises.

Reuters Global

• Al Qaeda leader killed in Kunar, Afghanistan&# ...
  The announcement about the killing of an al Qaeda leader in Kunar province highlights the significance of al Qaeda safe haven in Afghanistan.
• Behind volatile U.S.-Pakistan ties : the Afgha ...
  Pakistan's anger over U.S. drone strikes has more to do with the tussle over the endgame in Afghanistan than the drones themselves.
• Solving Afghanistan and Pakistan over a cup of tea
  The controversy over Greg Montenson's book Three Cups of Tea has once again raised disquieting questions about U.S. knowledge about Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• Pakistan vs U.S. Dumbing down the drones debate
  The use of drone missile attakcs in Pakistan's tribal areas work only with good intelligence on the ground.
• Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, a deterrent ...
  Pakistan's nuclear weapons are meant to counter India's conventional military superiority but they may also be aimed at deterring a U.S. attack should relations break down completely.

Booman Tribune

• We Are So Dumb
  How many of you think I was born in the United States? I am going to guess that at least seven percent of you are going to be wrong. I think we should consider banning polling. How many times do we need it to be confirmed that half the country can't find its own ass with a mirror and a rectal ...
• Too Bad the South Lost the War
  Jamelle Bouie points us to the results of some of Public Policy Polling's analysis of the South. Here's how Southerners feel about the fact the Confederacy lost the Civil War: In Georgia 47% of Republicans are content with the Union victory, while 31% wish the South had won. Democrats (58/17 ...
• The Dems Are Holding Our Lifeline
  Ezra Klein's unassailable observation, that the president more nearly resembles a moderate Republican of early 1990's vintage than a socialist Muslim born in Kenya, will probably be misinterpreted by a lot of progressives as an insult. But Klein's point is not to complain about Obama's policies ...
• Lying Liars
  Here's a proposal. You produce ethanol. You give me a check for $312,500 and I will go to Iowa to give a pious tribute to the awesomeness of ethanol. If any reporters ask me about my speech, I will simply say, "I am not a lobbyist for ethanol." There is no need to retain my services for a se ...
• Even the Best Is Not Good Enough
  Haley Barbour will not run for president. Rep. Ron Paul will. This time, Ron Paul won't sound like an isolated iconoclastic loon. In fact, he may discover that he's almost a mainstream Republican. This is going to open a massive hole in the political middle of the country that Obama should b ...

European Tribune

• Undoing the Union
  I see some of our more desperate leaders are working to destroy yet another practical...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1667 - blind and...
• Tuesday Open Thread
  I think it's Tuesday...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1889 - birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  It's Easter Monday. Is it a holiday for you?...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Are Kids with ADHD at Risk for Substance Abuse?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that children with ADHD are more likely to develop substance abuse problems in early adulthood than their peers. Lead researcher Steve Lee, an assistant professor of clinical psychology at UCLA, believes that the reason children with ADHD may ...
• Several Factors Affect Academic Performance in ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In recent research, it has been reported that genetics may play a large role in the reading performance of children with ADHD. However, the same study showed that environment was a larger factor than genetic make-up in how a child performed in mathematics. Lee A. ...
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Mountaintop Removal

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• Mine issue raised at PNC meeting - Pittsburgh ...
  Mine issue raised at PNC meeting Pittsburgh Tribune-Review In an otherwise subdued annual meeting, several PNC Financial Services Group shareholders on Tuesday challenged CEO James Rohr about the bank's lending to companies that mine coal through mountaintop removal. PNC held the meeting at its ...
• GOP hopefuls OK with mountaintop removal minin ...
  GOP hopefuls OK with mountaintop removal mining Forbes Companies that unearth coal using a divisive mining procedure known as mountaintop removal have nothing to fear from Kentucky's three Republican gubernatorial candidates. Louisville businessman Phil Moffett, state Senate President David Wil ...
• Republicans running for Ky. governor have no p ...
  Republicans running for Ky. governor have no problem with mountaintop removal ... The Republic Coal companies that mine using a controversial form known as mountaintop removal have nothing to fear from any of Kentucky's three Republican gubernatorial candidates. Louisville businessman Phil Moff ...

Memeorandum

• House votes to restrict unions (Michael Levens ...
  Michael Levenson / Boston Globe: House votes to restrict unions  —  Measure would curb bargaining on health care  —  Robert J. Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, said the union would fight the legislation “to the bitter end.”  (M. McDonald for The Boston Globe)  —  House lawmakers ...
• Reports: Panetta to be tapped for Pentagon, Pe ...
  Jordan Fabian / The Hill: Reports: Panetta to be tapped for Pentagon, Petraeus for CIA  —  CIA Director Leon Panetta will be nominated to head the Defense Department and Gen. David Petraeus is the pick to replace him at the intelligence agency, according to reports Wednesday.  —  The Associated ...
• Panetta and Petraeus in Line for Top Security ...
  New York Times: Panetta and Petraeus in Line for Top Security Posts  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama is expected this week to name Leon E. Panetta, the director of central intelligence, as defense secretary and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, as director of th ...
• President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate ...
  Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog: President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate  —  In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President's campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii.  The state sent the campaign the President's birth certificate, the same legal docum ...
• White House releases Obama's birth certificate ...
  Alexander Mooney / CNN: White House releases Obama's birth certificate  —  (CNN) - President Obama released his original birth certificate Wednesday, saying the controversy surrounding the issue had become a “sideshow.”  —  Obama's birth certificate  —  “We do not have time for this kind of sil ...

Energy & Environment News

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  Researchers are exploring the possibility of repurposing batteries to serve the electric grid, as well as battery ownership models that would reduce the financial burden on a car's owner.
• Special Section: Energy
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• Dot Earth: The Many Shapes of Climate Knowledge
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5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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• M 5.1, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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• M 6.0, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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• M 5.3, offshore Valparaiso, Chile
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• M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
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China Dialogue

• Atomic risks beyond radiation
  The safety of atomic energy has become a hot topic for public discussion in China since the nuclear crisis in Japan. But, writes Chen Jiliang, China also needs to consider the economics – and the security dimension – of the nuclear debate.It took the recent crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant ...
• Forget Chernobyl at our peril
  Those who minimise the dangers and uncertainties in the Japanese nuclear crisis ignore the casualties of the past, argues John Vidal. The Fukushima disaster is potentially worse than the 1986 events in Ukraine.Every day there are more setbacks to solving the Japanese nuclear crisis and it’s pret ...
• Chernobyl – a poisoned landscape
  In Ukraine, 25 years on from history’s worst nuclear accident, Robin McKie sees dramatic reminders of the reactor explosion’s enduring and harrowing legacy: radioactive soil, abandoned towns and polluted lakes.Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive l ...
• Deep-running disaster
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• The conscientious carnivores
  In San Francisco, Ian Monroe sampled a range of vegetarian and vegan food. He and his girlfriend have cut back on meat, hoping they’re improving their -- and the planet’s -- health.There’s certainly a lot green in front of us: glistening mounds of fried Szechuan green beans, steaming Chinese bro ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters late last week that he thinks we may turn the corner at the end of this year in Afghanistan. Again. Turning the corner, or the tide, or the momentum, or what have you, has become a semi-annual ritual in the failing U.S. war in Afghanistan. While all ...
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• Annotating White Conservatism’s Internal ...
  It seems that Reverend Wright was not enough. The Right is trying to generate another Obama “racist” Pastor scandal as a lead into the 2012 election. Conservative talk radio website WRNO’s piece, “Obama’s Church Choice for Easter Based on Race” is telling not because of how it plays to white Con ...

Threat Level

• Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower
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• WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
  A German nonprofit that processes most of the donations submitted to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has finally made good on a nearly year-old promise to release a report detailing how those donations are spent — though the report remains silent on how much money was paid to WikiLeaks found ...
• Godzilla’s Lawyers Claim Apple App Fingerzilla ...
  Toho, the owner of all things Godzilla, claims a menacing-looking human index finger with monster-like scales pictured over a skyline is treading on the Japanese company’s intellectual-property rights. With that belief, the Japanese monster-maker is demanding that the producer of an Apple iOS ap ...
• FBI v. Coreflood Botnet: Round One Goes to the ...
  The FBI’s unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet — comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines — appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earlier this month, a ...
• FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King’s Speech U ...
  The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member the bureau believes was first to upload the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech as well as Black Swan, and other in-theater-only films to the Pirate Bay in January, according to interviews and sealed court records o ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Lindsay Lohan makes clean breast of things for ...
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• Q+A-What's going on at Japan's damaged nuclear ...
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• Japan: capping nuclear-related compensation sc ...
  TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on Wednesday that placing a cap on a compensation scheme for those affected by problems at a stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima was inconceivable.
• Gold inches up, silver rebounds as Fed decisio ...
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War is a Crime.org

• Afghanistan War Weekly: April 26, 2011
  By Sharon Miller DEVELOPMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN “Hundreds of Taliban Escape from Kandahar Jail” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8472419/Hundr... Hundreds of Taliban prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel from Sarpoza Prison in Kandahar. The escape calls the disci ...
• Video of Nicole Sandler Arrested at Congressio ...
• Iraq to Search for Missing Since 2003
  Fresh effort to trace missing persons Photo: Afif Sarhan/IRIN: Rayhan Nasir, 24, is losing hope after two years spent searching for his father (file photo) 27 April 2011 (IRIN) - The government has set up a committee to trace thousands of Iraqis missing since the 2003 US-led invasion that topple ...
• Vermont Gets Closer to Feds Blocking Its Singl ...
  The Vermont Senate is on board with single-payer healthcare. Too bad Washington, D.C., isn't, and Obama insisted that last year's healthcare bill effectively block state initiatives.
• Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency ...
  By John Perkins "Information Clearing House" -- WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest. Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank's early role in the reconstructi ...

Grist - News

• 10 non-boring ideas about the environment
  by Jess Zimmerman. Climate alarmism is counterproductive, and rah-rah Earth fandom is boring. But there are still some fresh perspectives out there -- some are a little nutty, sure, but they're a change from the standard fare. Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic has rounded up ten interesting ...
• Rupert Murdoch is totally against the global w ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. It's probably not the first time Rupert Murdoch has been on a list with Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden. Turns out that media mogul/plutocrat Murdoch's company, News Corporation, is deeply and explicitly committed to reducing its carbon footprint, combating global wa ...
• Yesterday’s fracking blowout: What happe ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, a natural gas well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania -- perhaps suffering from an overload of irony -- ruptured and leaked "thousands and thousands of gallons" of fracking fluid over the surrounding farmland and ...
• The future of green computing is dunking your ...
  by Christopher Mims. As seemingly every aspect of our lives moves online, the giant building-size computers that power the web suck up ever more energy. Cooling can eat as much as a third of the energy required to run these "data centers," so fixing their heat problem (modern processor ...
• How much could climate change cost your state?
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Farming Pathogens

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Suzie-Q

• White House Releases Obama’s Long-Form B ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
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  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Are natural gas companies "fracking" some Americans to death, thanks to Dick Cheney? If you review a recent report by a Congressional committee and watch the documentary "Gasland," (available as a premium with a minimum contribution to Truthout/BuzzF ...
• Tim Pawlenty’s New Campaign Manager on a Missi ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Meet Nick Ayers, the 28-year-old 'wunderkind' who apparently believes he's received a directive from God to help lead Pawlenty to the Promised Land. While Donald Trump has been making the most buzz-nutty moves, Mitt Romney the most predictable, Mike Hucka ...
• We Are Fed a Starvation Diet of News That Is E ...
  Body   It isn't always that politicians deliver a pack of lies when they appear in public, though they may. And it isn't that there is a lack of information available. Rather we are fed a starvation diet of news that is easily digested but not very nourishing. What seems to att ...
• The "Glory Days" of Scott Walker May Already ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT These are not the glory days that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was envisioning as he assumed his Napoleonic reign. Walker, for instance, is openly complaining that the apparently successful effort to initiate recall elections for at least five (now ...
• Sen. Bernie Sanders: Banks Play Shell Game wit ...
  BERNIE SANDERS ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The following April 26 news release is from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont): A study requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) found numerous instances during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 when banks took near zero-interes ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Strong anti-American sentiment in Egypt
  A new poll reveals the dangers of U.S. policy in that region, and the lack of change in perception
• Newly leaked documents show the ongoing traves ...
  A massive WikiLeaks disclosure sheds new light on the lack of credible evidence against detainees
• President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule ...
  The President invokes incoherent and factually confused claims to justify the whistle-blower's pre-trial punishment
• Nobel peace drones
  A U.S. drone attack kills 23 in Pakistan, while Obama sends more on the way to Libya
• Beltway austerity values
  The Washington Post wants more money for more wars, while reducing healthcare benefits for those who fight them

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Latest science news
  Crowdsourcing a clinical trial to treat ALS – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a pretty grim disease. Victims experience progressive muscle weakness, leading to death; patients survive a median of only two to five years following the onset of symptoms. Currently, there are no effective the ...
• Five feisty science books on David’s desk
  Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
• Recent science news roundup
  Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
• Five more science stories
  Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
• Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
  Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Syria: Arab States Should Push for End to Killings
  Arab countries should join international efforts to establish an independent international inquiry into the Syrian government's use of lethal force against peaceful protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt and Tunisia should lead in advocating sanctions against those leaders responsible ...
• Blue Revolution Key to Getting "More Crop per ...
  Increasing demand for water continues to threaten the livelihood of millions of small-scale farmers who depend on water for their crops.read more
• Cost of Medicare Equivalent Insurance Skyrocke ...
  The budget plan put forth by Representative Paul Ryan has been described by some as a serious, smart plan that will help reinvigorate the economy and reduce the deficit. Ryan’s plan, to revamp Medicare has been described as shifting costs from the government to beneficiaries. A new report from t ...
• Kucinich Plan to Lower Gas Prices: Windfall Pr ...
  As the summer peak driving period begins and as oil companies are expected to announce record profits again while gas prices continue to rise, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that he will reintroduce the Gas Price Spike Act, which would reduce the price of gasoline. The bil ...
• Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl Disaster, Hi ...
  It’s been 25 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and today, the area surrounding the plant is still uninhabitable. While the catastrophe, which spread radioactive fallout over tens of thousands of square miles, serves as an eerie reminder ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The African 'Star Wars'
  Pepe Escobar From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world's remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The stakes are tremendous. Most battles will be invisible. All will ...
• Until Death Us Do Part: Wedded to Wealth We D ...
  Donna Smith Perhaps it’s the media fever over the Royal wedding in Great Britain or perhaps it’s my own disgust about hearing that Exxon Mobil makes $100M a day in profits, but either way I am pretty certain many Americans would rather go ...
• It’s Time to Revive an Old Rallying Cry: Labor ...
  Joe Burns During last year’s strike against Mott's, the apple juice maker, Tim Budd, an employee on the bargaining team, heard a plant manager say across the bargaining table that employees were “a commodity like soybeans and oil, and the ...
• Wall Street Tames Washington
  Jim Hightower They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived than the corporate lobbying ...
• Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don ...
  Ellen Brown “Deficit terrorists” are gutting governments and forcing the privatization of public assets, all in the name of “deficit reduction.”  But deficits aren’t actually a bad thing.  In today’s monetary scheme, in which most money co ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
  By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters late last week that he thinks we may turn the corner at the end of this year in Afghanistan. Again. Turning the corner, or the tide, or the momentum, or what have you, has become a semi-annual ritual in the ...
• Three Wars, Three Quagmires
  HASH(0x9343088)
• But They Won't!
  Commentary By Ron Beasley® Matt Yglesias correctly points out that the Obama administration and the Democrats don't have to be held hostage when the rise in the debt ceiling comes up and he has a plan. This isn�t a sudden �shutdown.� Nor is is true that we have to default on obligations t ...
• How Much Are You Paying in Taxes for War This ...
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• How Many Afghan Lives To A Western One?
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Water Wars

• The African 'Star Wars'
  It is the Pentagon's Africom versus China's web of investments - the ultimate prize: Africa's natural resources.
• Water wars: Bottlers play defense vs. environm ...
  The next time you go to the vending machine for a bottle of water (costing 6 cents an ounce) or, instead, sip from the drinking fountain (free), you will be taking part in a debate that touches on the fate of humankind.
• 10 cool things about Palm Springs
  PALM SPRINGS There are a million reasons you might find yourself in Palm Springs - film, fine arts and music festivals, conventions, golf tournaments.
• Atlanta Forward / Another View: We succeeded i ...
  Atlanta Forward / Another View: We succeeded in positioning state for jobs
• Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
  The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions an ...

WordPress | Economics

• Columbia Town Hall Meeting on the SC Budget Cr ...
  South Carolina Progressive Network town hall_flyer The South Carolina Progressive Network describes
• High Speed Rail - HS2
  A controversial subject that keeps cropping up now and then in the media is the planned construction
• Flush Firefighters union withholding Democrat ...
  After decades of being a reliable money stream for the Democrat Party and its candidates, the nation
• Never go against the lobby
  Over this past long weekend Australia’s tobacco lobby (the Alliance of Australian Retailers) r
• High Speed Two: fair and affordable? (part 2)
  In January I looked at the practice of high speed rail operators in Europe charging premium rates fo

Electronic Intifada

• Nablus, beautiful and unvisited
  Ray SmithThe Electronic IntifadaNablus Few visitors make it to the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, causing the city’s tourism sector to suffer.
• Arab league's double standard
  Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-OmraniThe Electronic Intifada As the Cairo-based Arab League continues to back western military intervention in support of the popular rebellion in Libya, the League’s failure to back similar uprisings in other Arab countries — most notably Bahrain — has led to c ...
• "For as long as I can, I will continue": Hajo ...
  Adri NieuwhofThe Electronic Intifada Since being interviewed by The Electronic Intifada in 2009, Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer has toured numerous countries to speak about his efforts to combat Zionism and his support for the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and�equality.
• Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored
  Josh RuebnerThe Electronic Intifada Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, US military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed through this month’s passage of the 2011 budget, but reached the record level of $3 billion. Josh Reubner ...
• Interview: Raja Khalidi on the neoliberal cons ...
  Ray SmithThe Electronic Intifada The Electronic Intifada contributor Ray Smith interviews Raja Khalidi, a senior economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, about the PA’s economic policies and its implications for statehood.

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan forces attack Pak check post in South W ...
  The Afghan National Army launched an unprovoked attack on a Pakistan Army check post at Angoor Adda in South Waziristan on Wednesday.
• Afghan officer fires on NATO troops, kills 9
  KABUL, Afghanistan -; Eight NATO service members and a contractor are dead after an Afghan military pilot opened fire on the foreign troops following a dispute at the airport in Kabul. ...
• Pakistan denies reports of efforts to split U. ...
  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan denied media reports on Wednesday that it was lobbying Afghanistan to drop its alliance with Washington and look to Islamabad and Beijing to forge a peace deal with ...
• Interpol slams 'security breach' aft ...
  PARIS (AFP) - Interpol on Wednesday slammed the international community's "shocking" failure to properly train Afghan police and said a mass Taliban jailbreak had revealed an ...
• Afghan, Pakistan border clash kills 1
  DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -; Afghan border guards fired mortar shells toward a Pakistani military post in a northwestern tribal region on Wednesday, killing a soldier and wounding two others, a ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
  POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
• NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
  Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
• Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
  Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
• Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
  On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
• NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
  On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...

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

• Targeted Advertising? Patented! Bunch Of Media ...
  Back in 2004, we wrote about a ridiculous patent (6,712,702), for a "method and system for playing games on a network." The guy behind the patent, Sheldon Goldberg, was claiming that a bunch of online solitaire games violated his patent. When the EFF launched its patent busting project, they w ...
• BBC Journalist Admits He Took Out Super Injunction
  We've been discussing the ridiculously anti-free speech super injunctions in the UK, which block the press or anyone from reporting on certain things (even if factual). What's amazing is how frequently these seem to be used by famous people in the UK, basically, to avoid being embarrassed by th ...
• Professional Photographers Find Massively Succ ...
  One of the most vocal groups of folks we've seen, when it comes to resisting the changing market dynamics brought about by digital technologies and the internet, is not the music or movie industries... but photographers. We've seen photographers compare microstock photo sites to pollution and d ...
• Be Your Own Souvenir
  We've been interested in the potential legal implications of 3D printing for a while, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact that some of the natural uses of 3D printing can be pretty cool as well. There's something really remarkable about this new project, from blablabLAB, posted on Notcot, a ...
• How Do The NY Times Paywall Results Compare To ...
  One of the oddities in the NY Times introducing its recent emperor's new paywall is the fact that the NYT already played this game and failed a few years ago. Back in 2006, over a year before the NYT finally realized this was a dumb idea, we had pointed out that it appeared its subscriber numbe ...

VacTruth

• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for April
  We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world for the month of April. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
• U.S. Taxpayers ‘Screwed’ in Vaccine Research
  Not much hullabaloo was made whereby Danish vaccine researcher was indicted on 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of money laundering that, incidentally, included your tax dollars.Vactruth.com
• UK Nurse Gave Vaccine To Child Without Consent ...
  A UK nurse has been accused of vaccinating a child without his mothers consent in order hit government vaccination goals.Vactruth.com
• What Everyone Needs To Know About Kids Vaccina ...
  This article contains basic information regarding specifics that parents, in particular, may want to know about and/or need regarding vaccines and vaccinating their children.Vactruth.com
• What IS the Cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder?
  Autism spectrum disorder, or pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), now affect one percent of the population. What IS the cause?Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Apologies in advance for any misspellings or nonsensical statements. Just got back from having a vat of margaritas with the girls. I have not mentioned the DC Anarchist Meetup in a while. There are now two regularly scheduled dates.  One of them is packing at the local Books to Prisons. If you l ...
• Selling Social (In)Justice
  Last week, I was invited to an awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center. The event was put on by an organization called Vital Voices, an NGO that “trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.” Sunitha Krishn ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Sorry for disappearing last week. My schedule has been hectic. I haven’t had too many days or nights off the last few weeks. Not enough time for reading and writing. I did; however, have time to go to the New York Anarchist Book Fair.  Aside from meeting with people I never get to see (or [...]
• The Big Show
  Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend?  I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office.  In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget.  Ahem. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• A Report to Helga: How To Make Sense
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
• Killing the Future: When Obama Attacked NASA, ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
• The Empire’s Genocide Policy, Key Threat to Ma ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
• Documentation: Obama Budget Guts Earthquake Pr ...
  By Carl Osgood Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
• LPAC-TV Weekly Report: Galactic Challenge Dema ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14

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: April
  Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
• 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 [...]

treehugger

• Share the Road (Cartoon)
  Click to enlarge "Share the Road" by Option-G This the latest in a series of daily cartoons on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual art....Read the full story on TreeHugger
• How Throwing Stuff Away Makes You Frugal (and ...
  Image credit: Joe Shlabotnik, used under Creative Commons license. I've argued before that saving money makes us more mindful of our consumption. I've also made the case that reuse can quickly become hoarding, and that sometimes the best approach is to throw something away—or at least donat ...
• Natural Nitrogen Ice Cream Tastes Good
  Photo: B. Alter Welcome to the chin chin laboratorists, Europe's only nitro ice-cream parlour. On first glance it looks like a mad scientist's lab, with figures in white coats at work and clouds of white gas appearing out of nowhere. They are using liquid nitrogen to make delicious creamy i ...
• Real Birds Tweet on Twitter With a Peckable Ke ...
  In this era of high-speed internet, smartphones and social-networking, keeping in contact has never been easier -- but in being so plugged-in, we run the risk of losing touch with the beautiful sounds of the world around us. As a sort of tongue-and-cheek response to this and the growing popu ...
• With Gas At 4 Bucks A Gallon, Who'll Un-Pimp ...
  "big engine, little car!" Image credit:Flicker, Stephen Bowler Five years back I wrote an Earth Day Plea to car makers of the world: "Un-Pimp My Ride", making the point that all we need is smaller engines to make a cost saving, quantum leap in mileage improvement. I was chastised, of cours ...

Biosingularity

• Neuroscientists discover new ‘chemical p ...
  A team of neuroscientists at the University of Leicester, UK, in collaboration with researchers from Poland and Japan, has announced a breakthrough in the understanding of the ‘brain chemistry’ that triggers our response to highly stressful and traumatic events. The discovery of a critical and p ...
• What’s your intestinal bacteria type?
  As partners in the international research consortium named MetaHit, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have contributed to show that an individual’s intestinal bacteria flora, regardless of nationality, gender and age, organises itself in certain clusters. The cluster of intestinal bac ...
• MicroRNA mediates gene-diet interaction relate ...
  Eating more n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, commonly known as omega-3 fatty acids, may help carriers of a genetic variant on the perilipin 4 (PLIN4) gene locus lose weight more efficiently. Led by Jose M. Ordovas, PhD, director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA, researc ...
• Vegetarians May Have Lower Risk of Cataracts
  People who eat meat may be at increased risk of developing cataracts compared to vegetarians, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Oxford in England say vegetarians and vegans are 30% to 40% less likely to develop cataracts than people who eat a lot of meat. Other factors, such as ...
• FDA Approves Roche’s HPV Test for Identi ...
  US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the cobas HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Test which identifies women at highest risk for developing cervical cancer. This test will help physicians make early, more accurate decisions about patient care, which may prevent many women from developing ...

CFACT

• Power for the people
  You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty.
• 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Exiled Tibetans elect Harvard scholar as leader
• The world's most valuable soccer teams
  England’s Manchester United, worth $1.9 billion, remains the most valuable soccer club, according to the 2011 Forbes list of the most valuable soccer teams.
• Russia's VTB posts 16 bln rbl fourth-quarter n ...
  Russia's second largest bank VTB posted a 16 billion ruble ($573.47 million) net profit to International Financial Reporting Standards in the fourth quarter of 2010 after a loss in the same period a year earlier.
• Acron net profit down 16 pct to 6.3 bln rbls
  Acron, one of Russia's largest mineral fertilizer producers, posted a 16 percent fall in its 2010 IFRS net profit to 6.279 billion rubles ($207 million), Acron said on Wednesday.
• Schwarzenegger tipped to star in fifth Termina ...
  Hollywood star and former politician Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to return to his Terminator days by starring in a sequel to the four-part action movie, the DeadLine.com entertainment website reported.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia, Sweden to boost space cooperation
  Russia and Sweden agreed on Wednesday to improve cooperation in the space industry, including their intention to launch Swedish satellites using Russian carrier rockets.
• China confirms plans to build own orbital station
  Chinese space officials have confirmed plans to build a 60-ton space station by 2020 and develop a space freighter for hauling supplies to the station, the China Daily newspaper said on Tuesday.
• Russia to create scientific center on Svalbard ...
  Russia will create a scientific center in Barentsburg in the Svalbard Archipelago, polar explorer parliament member Artur Chilingarov said on Tuesday.
• Russia's Progress M-09M spacecraft to be sunk ...
  Russia's Progress M-09M cargo spacecraft will be sunk in the remote area in southern Pacific Ocean later on Tuesday after it undocked from the International Space Station on April 22, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.
• Medvedev to discuss Skolkovo high-tech hub pro ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Monday preside over a meeting of the economic modernization commission and the board of trustees of the Skolkovo high-tech hub.

Pruning Shears

• 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. By the way, want to know why I link to the Iranian state news agency for drone reporting? Because it’s less biased than the New York Time ...
• 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.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Joseph A. Kennedy, 25, of St. Paul, MN.Army Spc. Donald L. Nichols, 21, of Shell Rock, IA.Ar ...
• 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 12-Apr-2011
  Lots coming up starting this weekend. OCSEA has a list of places to get training here. More details to come. For those near Shaker Heights:Thursday, April 145:00 - 7:00 pmShaker HeightsRally for Our RightsWhere: 12601 Shaker BoulevardOur Lady of Peace ChurchNorth side of Shaker Blvd just 4 bl ...
• 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. Some views from over there here, here and here. Just because we aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean no one else is.Combat operations ha ...
• Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
  (Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Ramps: When is Local not Kosher?
  This spring more than a million plants of wild leek or ramps will be harvested and consumed by individuals, ramp festivals, and especially the culinary industry. Ramps are one of the first harbingers of spring in the forest and for wild food enthusiasts a special treat. Recent demand and consump ...
• Food Rights Network to Hollywood: Stop Greenwa ...
  We have been investigating how, across the nation, sewage sludge is being dumped on farms and gardens, deceptively labeled as "organic compost," "natural fertilizer," or sometimes the PR term "biosolids." Our investigation has discovered that EMA has -- unknowingly -- made an alliance with a ...
• THE SCOOP - April 2011 Organic Center Newsletter
  The April edition of the Organic Center Newsletter.Click here to read this article
• Food Prices: World Bank Warns Millions Face Po ...
  The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty.Click here to read this article
• Eliminating Packaged Foods Can Lower BPA Exposure
  The endocrine-disrupting chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) is in the news again following the release of a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. This time it is good news. Click 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

• Am I Arguing a Strawman about Drones, Civilian ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In comments to my post below about the strange new respect for drones, Kevin queries whether I’m arguing a strawman.  The “circles” that he and I both move in — academics, NGO activists, and so one — he suggests, have never seriously questioned that dro ...
• More From the Department of False Equivalences
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, conservatives and the Obama administration are falling all over themselves to praise Paul Clement for his brave willingness to represent the House of Representatives at the low, low rate of $520.00 per hour — practically pro bono.  Th ...
• The Sudden Attraction of Drones in Libya
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Numbers of folks I’ve been talking with recently — desirous of going forward with humanitarian intervention in Libya, but mindful that international altruism by the Western democracies goes forward only with few casualties among their armies — seem sudd ...
• Mark Martins at Harvard Law School
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Jack Goldsmith notes at Lawfare: Last Monday Harvard Law School conferred its medal of freedom on one of its graduates, General Mark Martins, Commander of the Rule of Law Field Force -Afghanistan.  The Harvard National Security Journal has just posted t ...
• DOMA, Gitmo, and False Equivalences
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At Lawfare today, Ben Wittes criticizes King & Spalding for refusing to help the House of Representatives defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.  His argument turns on an analogy between representing the House and representing Gitmo detaine ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• BBC caught financially supporting climate chan ...
  What is being called a "shadowy" climate change lobby organisation turns out to have had an undeclared conflict of interest after one of its members was outed in connection with a Climategate inquiry whitewash. ANd it also turns out to...
• Justice system in denial over controversial ne ...
  MEDIA RELEASE NZ JUSTICE SYSTEM IN DENIAL OVER NEW BOOK (radio ad available here Badlands1 ) A new book on the failings of New Zealand’s justice system is provoking major controversy before it has even hit shop shelves. BADLANDS: NZ...
• New Badlands book shatters myths on NZ crime p ...
  MEDIA RELEASE PUBLIC KEPT IN DARK ABOUT NZ'S TRUE CRIME PROBLEMS A new book by a British crime expert says New Zealanders have been kept in the dark about the true nature of our crime problem, because politicians and academics...
• You know you live in Christchurch when...
  You know you live in Christchurch when.... · Geonet / ChristchurchQuakeMap is your homepage · The rest of the country offers you a place to stay · “Munted” and “buggered” are official technical terms · You go 'pfffff' when Wellington...
• Just a hint of what the next Investigate HIS/H ...
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My Care2 Picks

• Firm defending Defense of Marriage Act withdra ...
  Paul D. Clement, the partner who had been selected as the lead attorney on the case resigned from King and Spalding. He will continue to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act as a partner at another firmSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Another Shocking UN cover up about Libya
  The Council was about to vote on a report that affirmed and praised Libya and Colonel Ghaddafi for THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD for the nation's treatment of religious minorities, and the "human rights training" received by security forces.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Secret Guantanamo Files, New Insights: Hundred ...
  Senior US commanders have concluded that in dozens of cases there was �no reason recorded for transfer.�Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian M ...
  The Davidian cult in Waco was dealt with by armored vehicles,� remarked Muammar Gaddafi in February, defending his own crackdowns in light of the U.S. government�s. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Teenage Mutant Theocrats
  Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights reports racist "birther" attacks on President Obama, discussions of the conspiracy behind the problem facing America (complete with anti-Semitic illustration), Christian nationalism, anti-environmentaliSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

• Angryindian Radyo - 04.26.20011 Analysis: UK
  Series: Aboriginal Press News Service Public Radio (APNSPR) Summary: Intelligent Aboriginal Radyo speaks with Sister Selin, editor of the ‘The Long Walk to Freedom’ opinion blog about a range of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Maghreb Blog: Large Protests in Morocco
  Maghreb Blog: Large Protests in Morocco: "Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of several cities and towns in Morocco. Protesters were calling for an eradication of despotism and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Shoul ...
  Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Should Be Dismissed After Obama Declares Accused Army Whistleblower "Broke the Law": "Speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama openly declared that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'hero of Palestine' | ...
  Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'hero of Palestine' | Pennie Quinton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Hearing of the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni, a committed peace activist who for the last 10 years... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Malcolm X’s Daughter Disputes Sexuality Claims ...
  Malcolm X’s Daughter Disputes Sexuality Claims - COLORLINES: "Gender Matters columnist Akiba Solomon wrote weeks ago that the allegations in question appear on only two pages of a 600 word book. And... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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