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- Côte d'Ivoire on the Edge of Chaos
Forces of law and order have abandoned their posts in Abidjan, creating a vacuum which has rapidly filled with violence, looting and fear. Residents of C�te d'Ivoire's commercial capital are shut in their homes, doors closed against scenes of pillage and assault of civilians, while reports of ...
- EGYPT: Cracks Appear In Mubarak-Era Labour Body
The state-controlled trade union federation that for over half a century was employed by Egyptian rulers to suppress workers' protests and mobilise voters for sham elections appears to be crumbling with the recent ouster of president Hosni Mubarak.
- SOMALIA: Manifestation of Stealth Trusteeship
Somalia is currently under what James Fearon and David Laitin of Stanford University call "a neo-trusteeship system". Various external powers, while disagreeing among themselves, make the important decisions for the Somali people.
- COTE D'IVOIRE: Pro-Ouattara Forces Launch Pala ...
Heavy fighting is continuing in Abidjan where forces loyal to C�te d'Ivoire's presidential rivals are battling for control of the country's main city.
- Rights Groups Deplore Order to Try 9/11 Suspec ...
U.S. human rights groups reacted angrily to the Justice Department's announcement Monday that the self-acclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon will be tried before a military commission at the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba.
- Protect our basic right to trial by jury - Fra ...
The Court of Appeal's decision to deny the Urewera 18 the right to have a jury trial is a major offence to New Zealand's proud human rights record.
- Murray Horton – New Zealand is Not for Sale
the TPPA and the privatisation of public assets – is all just a part of the big picture, namely the relentless takeover of nearly every sector of the NZ economy you can think of by transnational corporations. It is, in effect, a recolonisation but one by company rather than by country
- Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
- Vacuum of Authority in Yemen | STRATFOR
While the world’s attention is focused on the combat transpiring in Libya and the events in Egypt and Bahrain, Yemen has also descended into crisis. The country is deeply split over its support for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and this profound divide has also extended to the most powerf ...
- Takashi Uesugi: The Interview - Time Out Tokyo
While the mainstream media presented a reasonably united front, a group of freelance and internet journalists were openly dissatisfied with the explanations being given at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s seemingly endless stream of press conferences. Why wasn't the company mentioning levels of pluton ...
- Lawmakers renew push for "rogue websites" bill
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress on Monday vowed to pass legislation giving the U.S. Justice Department new authority to go after foreign and domestic websites that sell pirated music and movies and counterfeit goods.
- Sen. Graham voices support for restrictions o ...
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is drawing national attention stemming from controversial comments he made this weekend seemingly calling on Congress to impose limits on free speech.
- MI5 bugged leading intellectuals and journali ...
MI5 bugged the phones of leftwing journalists and writers in an intensive but unsuccessful attempt to discover more about the Cambridge spy ring, according to newly released, hitherto top-secret files.
- Japanese crisis inspires U.S. Mormons to unde ...
While the nuclear crisis in Japan unfolds a continent away, Mormon-dominated communities in the western United States say the disaster overseas is bringing close to home a lesson about preparing for the worst.
- Facebook sued for $1billion over 'Intifada' p ...
Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are being sued for more than $1billion over a page that was on the social networking site that called for violence against Jews. The suit was filed by American attorney Larry Klayman in the D.C. Superior Court on Thursday.
- Targeting tumours
Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
- Search for the stellar smoking gun
When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
- Women and science
Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
- A recipe for failure
By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
- The challenging spine, the adventurous mind
- Egypt: 'We'll fight back if Israel attacks Gaz ...
In interview with Arab newspaper, former IAEA chief says if elected as Egypt's next president he will open Rafah crossing in case of an Israeli attack Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egyp ...
- New Haitian president transformed from a polit ...
The presidential campaign of musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly at first seemed like an afterthought, overshadowed by the short-lived run of the better-known star Wyclef Jean and dismissed as little more than a sideshow to an election that featured major Haitian political figures. But Mart ...
- US: Bloody pig's foot sent to Rep. Peter King
Authorities intercepted a parcel this morning addressed to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) containing a bloody pig's foot and a derogatory message, a source has confirmed to CBS News. The parcel was intercepted at the Congressional mail facility in Landover, Maryland, where mail sent to lawmakers is ...
- New Zealand: Mt Ruapehu Heating Up
Mount Ruapehu's Crater Lake is heating up, but there are no signs an eruption is imminent. GNS Science volcanologists said today high water temperatures, currently about 38degC-39degC, were being experienced in the lake. GeoNet duty volcanologist Agnes Mazot said changes had also recently oc ...
- Ancient Greek Calculating Device Continues to ...
It's known as the Antikythera mechanism, a metal gear driven device found over a century ago on a sunken Roman ship, near the island of Antikythera, that for just as many years has had scientists analyzing, scratching their heads and offering suggestions as to its purpose. Some have called the ...
- Dear Liberals, NDP, Greens, and possibly Bloc:
If these poll projections remain flat throughout this campaign, Stephen Harper could eat a live kitten on TV and still find himself heading a minority government after 2 May. You will, as individual parties, have lost three elections in a row to a gang of thugs whom you found to commit one of th ...
- Operation Unified Protector
DAVID CENCIOTTI'S WEBLOG has a detailed account of the Libyan air adventure, that is worthy of your attention. Apparently, the Armée de l'Air and the RAF were really hot to trot:all of a sudden, while the United Nation Security Council was about to give birth to Resolution 1973, France had alrea ...
- Conservative campaign: producing 12 metric ton ...
Unsurprisingly, the Harpercon children have opted to shit the planet by, unlike the other four parties, not purchasing carbon offsets for their campaign air travel. That party is cognitively damaged.
- House Wars
Red versus blue, two wankers go head to head, mano a mano, deploying sabres of rhetoric in political mortal combat. The dark side calling out the grey, the epic continues. I wish our election didn't have to reduce itself to two rivals dropping their trousers and whipping out the measuring tape, ...
- Interesting veterans proposal from the Liberals
Liberals: A Liberal government would offer Canadian Forces veterans full support for as long as four years of college, university, or technical college, party leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday. Expanding in Halifax on a plank in the party platform released Sunday, Ignatieff said it would als ...
- Fox News Uses Anniversary Of Martin Luther Kin ...
Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Neil Cavuto attacked unions who cited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s support for labor rights on the anniversary of his assassination. In fact, King was shot while in Memphis to support striking municipal workers, and that was just one example of King's support f ...
- Newsweek Falsely Blames Wind Turbines ...
The latest issue of Newsweek claims that "a new study suggests" offshore wind farms cause whales to beach themselves. In fact, the authors of the study said their research did not establish such a link, and the UK newspaper that reported the claim pulled the story from its website and issued a ...
- Fox News Figures Demand That Countries Pay For ...
Several Fox News figures have recently demanded that countries hosting an American military presence reimburse the U.S. financially.Fox News Hosts�Have Demanded Iraqi Oil As Reimbursement For�Invasion Beck On Iraq:�"We Take The Oil To A Certain Point" To "Pay Us Back."�From Glenn Beck's radio ...
- Fox Falsely Blames AZ Medicaid Shortfall On "I ...
Fox & Friends�co-host�Steve Doocy agreed with�former Arizona representative J.D. Hayworth's�false�claim that�Arizona's Medicaid budget shortfalls�can be �attributed�to�immigrants in the state. In fact, Arizona's Medicaid system explicitly prohibits undocumented workers from receiving benefits, ...
- Right-Wing Media Rush To Quran-Burning Pastor' ...
After controversial Pastor Terry Jones led a burning of the Quran that sparked riots in Afghanistan and led to dozens of deaths, the right-wing media has come to the defense of Jones, absolving him of any responsibility for the riots. But there were warnings, including by Gen. David Petraeus, t ...
- What Am I Missing?
Freud spoke about the narcissism of small differences. He might have added that where small differences are really small, they must always be adjusted to seem bigger. Aaron David Miller, to whom I have been grateful since his thoughtful review of The Tragedy of Zionism in 1985 (more narcissis ...
- Goldstone's Edit Changes Absolutely Nothing
Defenders of Israel's Gaza onslaught of 2008-9 can barely contain their joy. In a Washington Post op-ed on Friday, Judge Richard Goldstone -- the famed South African jurist who headed that country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- offers some second thoughts about the Gaza war and softens ...
- Heartbreaking News: Juliano Mer-Khamis
The extraordinary Israeli actor and film-maker was shot dead in Jenin today. Nobody really knows by whom. I say Israeli with extreme reverence and sorrow. Mer-Khamis was born to a Jewish mother and Arab father. It is hard to imagine a man who embodied more completely the compassion we wil ...
- Labor Actions Today Remember Martin Luther Kin ...
Today, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, unions and their supporters are holding over a 1000 actions "in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin and dozens of other states where corporate politicians are trying to take away our rights" as outlined at the We are One site. ...
- Goldstone's Reconsideration
Richard Goldstone is a good man in need of a good editor. His report would never have attracted so much lightening had it not started off the way it did, trying to chronicle the terrible events of the operation, along with all the�preliminary�allegations of war crimes, before getting to context, ...
- Congress Must Debate the Libya War
The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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- Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
- Bring Urban Children To Nature
A new study outlines just why there should be a concerted push to ensure children of all ages encounter the wonders of the environment and nature at an early age. This is especially true for children who grow up in urban environments, who tend to see nature as something either a long way off, or ...
- Warmer Waters Cause Colder Winters in North Ea ...
Average winter temperatures in northern Europe are at least 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than similar latitudes on the northeastern coast of the United States and the eastern coast of Canada. The same phenomenon happens over the Pacific Ocean, with winters on the northeastern coast of Asia being ...
- Climate Change Aiding One Antarctic Flowering ...
Stereotype would have us convinced that Antarctica is a white mass of snow 365 days a year. But summer on the Antarctic Peninsula allows a little bit of green to sprout and add beautiful contrast to what we thought we knew of the region. And climate change is aiding this progress, for one plant ...
- Americans More Self Centered Than Ever
More and more Americans are turning their focus inward and ignoring the plight of that which does not directly concern them, as seen in the most recent statistics released by Gallup from their polling in early March of this year. Respondents were listed nine separate environmental problems and a ...
- Top 40 Green Stories (April 5)
Following my first top 37 green stories post yesterday, here's some top green news and commentary from the past day or so.
- Behind Those March Unemployment Figures - Wor ...
Although 230,000 new private sector jobs were added to the work force last month---pushing down the unemployment rate to 8.8%----nearly 14-million Americans remain jobless and millions more among the long-term unemployed have dropped out of the statistics because they have given up even trying t ...
- Transocean gives bonuses after Gulf of Mexico ...
Editor's Note: The Axis reader who sent this article to me for possible republication on Axis of Logic added a note: "Talk about an upside down world!" Really! - LMB The offshore drilling firm responsible for running the Deepwater Horizon rig has given its top executives bonuses for ...
- Venezuelan Workers March Again to Demand Socia ...
Mérida, March 31st 2011 – Thousands of Venezuelan workers took to the streets of Caracas on Thursday to demand immediate improvements in workplace democracy and to insist on the final passage of a radical new labor law that has been held up in the National Assembly since 2003. According to organ ...
- Afghanistan: Koran protests in Kandahar and Ja ...
Editor's Comment: We have pro-war, religious fundamentalists, i.e. Christian Zionists, burning the Koran in Florida and Muslims protesting in Afghanistan. So where does the BBC place their emphasis on this story (below)? The BBC blames the killings Afghanistan on the Muslims of course even thoug ...
- We're Number One! - United States
March 22, 2011 Americans are number one in quite a few areas—but they’re not all accomplishments to be proud of. From President Obama to Sarah Palin, our politicians are constantly invoking America’s superiority and exceptionalism or exhorting us to be Number 1. Yet from health care ...
- We Are One Rally in Louisville
The Hillybilly was there, and has it all: More videos here and pictures here. Photos from the Courier here.
- The Nightowl Newswrap
We have no words. "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks, will be tried by a military commission in Guantanamo Bay instead of a US civilian court. The news comes as a major reversal for the administration of Barack Obama, the US president. In makin ...
- Quote of the Day
From emptywheel at Firedoglake: Because nothing says "laying the foundation" of a Presidential campaign and "inspiring new" supporters like caving to fearmongering.
- Put My Name Down
A quick personal follow up on BG's story, "2012 starts now" below: Got my little email with Mr. Obama's name on it just a few minutes ago and couldn't help getting a little of the old "Bring It" feeling that I felt four years ago when the 2008 race was starting to shake out. Yes, even I... the d ...
- Why would anyone who has ever worked or strugg ...
This is what the drunk who has been passing himself off as the Speaker of the House since January thinks about anyone who ever used any social program ever: You are human garbage and it's an insult to his sensibilities that you ever aspired to be more. I dare you to read this excerpt from an int ...
- Neck Pain Injuries evolve with new Gadgets
Smart phones and laptop computers, hand-held computer games and MP3 players, and at present, perhaps, Apple�s new iPad � the last engineering is cracking, but it�s also a actual neck pain, doctors say.Submitted by Milenkovic I. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Greatest Music Comebacks In History
Don't call it a comeback, they've been here for years. But even music's most influential artists have succumb to their share of career setbacks. Submitted by Heath Robinso to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Ten Strikes Against Nuclear Power
In the aftermath of Japan�s Fukushima nuclear reactor crisis, some countries, like Germany, have responded with due caution, pulling the plug on several nuclear power plants, and calling their nuclear energy programs into question. Submitted by Kathy B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- How Much Debt Will The US Be In By 2015?
The US is facing a critical period in the exponential growth of debt. How far will we sink before we start swimming, again? Submitted by Hathawa N. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Maine Now Second State to Push Child Labor | A ...
Why is it that some Republican lawmakers really want to see the return of child labor? State legislative sessions have been brutal enough for working families this year, but Republicans, first in Missouri and now in Maine, want to go even further�Submitted by Caitlin M. to US Politics & G ...
- Killing Over One Torched Koran? **UPDATED**
* Bumped Up * Update below the fold. I could barely believe my eyes when I saw this headline, “Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill UN Staff.” This is not a joke. If it were, it would be a sick one, but the reality is much, much worse. Indeed, a mob of over 20,000 [...]
- On This Sad Anniversry
Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., gunned down at a hotel in Memphis, by James Earl Ray, in 1968. Robert Kennedy announced this tragedy in one of the most eloquent, moving statements I have ever heard from anyone, politician or poet, minister or teacher. He ...
- Rep. Paul Ryan: The Leader We Crave
If you’re like me and often have the TV news on as I go about my day, I miss a lot of what is said and easily get distracted by chores, phone calls, e-mails, etc. But once in a rare while, a guest says something that resonates so profoundly, I have to stop and listen. [...]
- Are the Brits, French and Italians Slitting Ob ...
The word circulating back channel is that the Brits, with the backing of the French and Italians, have cut a deal with Musa Kusa that will permit Muaamar Qaddafi to hand over power to his son, Seif, who will in turn over see reform in Libya. The only person who does not like the deal [...]
- The Evaporating Women of Wall Street
Reprinted in full from The Daily Beast with the express permission of Amy Siskind, founder and president of The New Agenda. Fewer women seem to be climbing the corporate ladder on Wall Street these days. Amy Siskind says it’s time to get rid of bad managers with gender biasâit would only be good ...
- Dead Vlei: Namibia's Graveyard of 900-Year-Old ...
A frozen lunar landscape? No. A graveyard for trees. Dead Vlei in Namibia is a truly haunting place, a sun-crusted clay pan where life refuses to flourish. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- The Disappearing Future of Snake Charming in India
The exotic site of a mystical man performing on the streets in India is quite common, but the future of a practice many see as cruel hangs in the balance... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- The Real Life Murder Mystery Encrypted in a Se ...
Do you think you can crack a cipher? Are you a good puzzle solver? If yes, you might be of great help to the FBI in solving a murder case. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Life in the Wild with Photographer Thomas Marent
An interview with amazing wildlife photographer Thomas Marent. Marent has spent most of his life in the wild, taking close-ups of sometimes dangerous animals. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- India's Tiger Population on the Rise
Great news from the World Wildlife fund (WWF)! A survey in India shows the tiger population there has increased in the last 4 years. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
- Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
- Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
- March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
- Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...
[photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...
- Eating children: what Detroit teachers and stu ...
School is little more than a trauma unit now that the ruling elites have managed to derange the entire enterprise. Of course obedience training and historical amnesia were always the capitalist curriculum but now the situation is so bad that education remains a preposterous illusion under the c ...
- False Flag Candidate – Obama in 2012
By Numerian This is a political crime of deception, an enormous bait and switch, in which liberals and quite a few independents were misled by a serial liar who purposely characterized himself as a reformer… Did you receive your email from Barack Obama yet? If you are a Democrat, or on his campa ...
- Monbiot Goes Nuclear on Student
I owe George Monbiot an apology. Last week, I published an article for Project Censored in which I included a few choice snippets of a debate aired on DemocracyNow! The debate was between world renowned anti-Nuclear activist and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Helen Caldi ...
- A Hawk Reappraises the Afghan War
Bing West’s “The Wrong War” By BRIAN M. DOWNING Bing West, a marine veteran and assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, has written extensively on American soldiers in various wars from the Vietnam War, in which he served, to ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His many b ...
- (Conference to Against the Bombing of Africa ( ...
(Click Links Below to Watch) On March 31, 2011 Your World News had the opportunity to attend the Press Conference to Stop the Bombing of Africa (Libya) at the Newseum in Washington DC. This press conference was well attended by members of several different communities and organizations. It also ...
- Interview with Arthur Waskow
As part of our special focus on Islamophobia, Rabbi Arthur Waskow discusses how the Abrahamic tradition can counter anti-Muslim sentiment.
- Hey Congress, Want $400 Billion in New Annual ...
Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the superrich and vast corporations.
- The FDA and the Fukushima Fallout
The FDA is disingenuous in its attempt to compare the radiation from a major nuclear accident to radiation exposures in everyday life.
- Response to Juan Cole On Libya
With the military intervention underway, our job now is to make sure it does not escalate into full-scale invasion, and to try to end it as soon as possible. And then to work as hard as we can to support the efforts to consolidate and expand the extraordinary accomplishments of the uprisings of ...
- Is Libya A Litmus Test For The Arab World?
The debate over Libya does not break down along ideological lines. Linda Wertheimer talks to two liberals who disagree over whether the U.S. should be intervening in Libya. Phyllis Bennis, the director of the New Internationalism Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, opposes the allied mi ...
- Traduction des preuves en Français
Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale
- Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.
- The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
- Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- CDC - Salmonella Hadar Turkey Burger Antibioti ...
As of April 1, 2011, 12 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Hadar have been reported from 10 states: Arizona (1 case), California (1 case), Colorado (1 case), Georgia (1 case), Illinois (1 case), Missouri (1 case), Mississippi (1 case), Ohio (1 case), Washington (1 case), and ...
- The Civil Justice System and the Media in Action
At times both lawyers and the media take some heat from politicians – mostly from the right – for standing up for their rights. I am proud when one of my clients is willing to take the abuse. Erin M. Carrera maintained her 16-year-old became ill after eating two zeppole's made at the bakery la ...
- First Salmonella Lawsuit to be Filed Against D ...
Monday we will be filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island on behalf of a Massachusetts family impacted by DeFusco's Bakery. As of last Friday nine new cases were reported, bringing the total to 56. 26 needed hospitalization and 9 people still remained hospitalized. The Rhode Island Health Department ...
- Jennie-O Turkey Burgers Sold at Sam's Clubs Re ...
The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services notified FSIS of a patient diagnosed with salmonellosis caused by Salmonella serotype Hadar. The investigation expanded to include 12 people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Washington, and Wi ...
- New T.V. Show - "Foods that can Kill You"
When I am not traveling the world in search of the last Foodborne Illness Outbreak or trying to prevent the next one, I try to spend time with my kids. My youngest, Sydney (a.k.a. Squid) is an animal lover, so we tend to watch some episode of “Animal Planet” before she (more likely me) falls as ...
- Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
- Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
- Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
- Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...
- Smart ForSpeed concept revealed before Geneva ...
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Geneva Motor Show, Smart, Electric Smart Forspeed - Click above for high-res image gallery Not every future Smart model is in trouble of vanishing - some will never see the light of production. To wit, Daimler's minicar maker is bringing an all-electr ...
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
- Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering ...
On March 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear the death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, se ...
- Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
- Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
- 21-Year-Old Libyan American Medical Student Mu ...
Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhannad ...
- Libyan Citizen Journalist Mohammed Nabbous Kil ...
Democracy Now! regrets to report that Mohammed Nabbous, a Libyan citizen journalist in Benghazi who founded Libya AlHurra TV to broadcast live online on Gaddafi violence, was shot and killed Saturday morning. Click to hear Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat’s Feb. 26 interview ...
- Addiction to food, drugs similar in the b ...
Ice cream and other tasty, high-calorie foods would seem to have little in common with cocaine, but in some people's brains they can elicit cravings and trigger responses similar to those caused by addictive drugs, a new study suggests.
- Audi Reveals A5 E-Tron Quattro Plug-In Hy ...
Audi has unveiled the Audi A5 e-tron quattro plug-in hybrid prototype with sophisticated hybrid systems. The hybrid system that featured in this prototype utilizes an internal combustion engine.
- Glaciers Melting Faster Than Originally T ...
A team of scientists from Aberystwyth University, the University of Exeter and Stockholm University, led by Welsh scientist and Professor Neil Glasser, have released at study published in Nature Geoscience showing that the glaciers of Patagonia in South America are melting at a much ...
- Will buying an electric car make an envir ...
Experts say that depends on three factors: What were you driving before? How is your electricity generated? And how many other electric cars are going to be sold? Advocates: EVs are a game-changer
- Facial structure of men and women has bec ...
Research from North Carolina State University shows that they really don't make women like they used to, at least in Spain. The study, which examined hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese skulls spanning four centuries, shows that differences in the craniofacial features of men and women have ...
- Gaboon Vipers and Radioactive, Hedge Fund Bankers
By Les Visible Japan looms large. The drinking water in California is permeated with radioactivity of an alarming potency, providing more opportunities for people like Ann Coulter and the poisoned mind robottroids of the airwaves, who hate our freedoms and are determined to see them removed. Wel ...
- THE WAYSEER MANIFESTO
- Transocean hails ‘best year’ in safety, gives ...
By Kase Wickman The company that owns the now-infamous Deepwater Horizon, the oil rig that caused immeasurable damage to the Gulf, recently applauded itself for the “best year in safety performance in our Company’s history.” The company, Transocean Ltd., rewarded its executives millions in bonus ...
- Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s GMO patents
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post “A new invention to poison people … is not a patentable invention.” Lowell v. Lewis, 1817 A landmark lawsuit filed on March 29 in US federal court seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds and to prohibit the company from ...
- Organic groups, farmers file preemptive lawsui ...
By Ethan Huff In order to avoid completely losing their businesses and livelihoods to the predatory business model of Monsanto, 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations have collectively filed a preemptive lawsuit against the multinational biotechnology giant. Fi ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- Germany’s Q1 Building Boasts a Dazzling Facade ...
Read the rest of Germany’s Q1 Building Boasts a Dazzling Facade of 400,000 Metal “Feathers”http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, ene ...
- The Kubik is a Glowing Pre-Fabulous Party Venue
Read the rest of The Kubik is a Glowing Pre-Fabulous Party Venuehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Blestra Berlin, green party venue, green v ...
- Virtually Attend Fortune’s Brainstorm Green Co ...
Attend Brainstorm Green online today at 4pm PST! Fortune Magazine has teamed up with the Nature Conservancy, NRDC, and the Environmental Defense Fund to bring together some of the brightest green thinkers from the fields of business, government, and NGOs at today’s Brainstorm Green conference — ...
- Lloydesign Creates Colorful Layered Stools and ...
Using 95 percent recycled materials, Lloydesign creates beautifully layered eco-friendly furniture.
- Office Decorated With a Refurbished Vintage 19 ...
When Adam Kushner, principal of design firm KUSHNER Studios, set about designing a creative office environment, he thought big – really big. He and his team hauled in a vintage 1960s MiG fighter plane and refurbished it on-site, creating the ultimate thinking spot (and company mascot). The plane ...
- Salamander Has Algae Living Inside Its Cells
In a symbiotic union more complete than any previously found in vertebrates, the common spotted salamander lives with algae inside its cells. Such a degree of cross-species fusion was long thought to exist only among invertebrates, whose immune systems are not primed to destroy invaders. But al ...
- One More Eaglet to Hatch Soon on Live Webcam
Thousands tuned in as two baby bald eagles hatched live on webcam in Decoarh, Iowa, over the weekend. But if you missed it, you can still see a third eaglet hatch, probably within the next 48 hours.
- LHC Locking In on New Elementary Particle
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, may be only months away from finding a new elementary particle — a sign of a new force in nature — recent studies suggest. The studies focus on the top quark, the heaviest of the six quarks, which are the fundamental building ...
- Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
The world’s oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry as well as flashy gears to track celestial bodies’ motion through the heavens. The device, a 2,000-year-old assem ...
- X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist’s Cover-Up
ANAHEIM, California — Experimenting with a vivacious blonde, only to settle instead on a somber brunette, is an old, clichéd storyline â in fact, itâs at least 200 years old. A new analysis of a 19th century painting reveals that the artist first depicted a blonde with purple ribbons in he ...
- HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
- Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
- Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
- Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
- The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...
- Voices from Bagram: Prisoners Speak in Their D ...
This is the third article in “Bagram Week” here at Andy Worthington, with six articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, and ongoing updates to the definitive annotated ...
- Broken Justice at Bagram — for Afghans, ...
So what’s happening at Bagram, the main US prison in Afghanistan, which has been wracked by scandals, including a number of murders, and allegations of torture and abuse and since it opened in December 2001? Unrecognizable since those early days, the prison at Bagram — once housed in a Soviet-er ...
- Updating the Definitive Bagram Prisoner List & ...
My apologies. I have been so busy with other projects that I have let my attention wander from Bagram in recent months, which is unwise when this particular prison — America’s largest prison in Afghanistan — is not only a legal black hole that makes Guantánamo look like a facility that is tra ...
- Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It&# ...
The gulf between what’s happening on the ground in the Middle East and the way it is perceived by the US intelligence services — as well as the gulf between how critics perceive America’s counterterrorism policies in the Middle East, and how those policies are perceived by US intelligence — were ...
- Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is ...
If I was an American lawyer who had fought for many years to secure habeas corpus rights for the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — in other words, the right to ask an impartial judge to rule on my captors’ reasons for slinging me in a legal black hole and leaving me to rot [...]
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- Alaska Congressman Seeks Distance From Accused ...
A Republican congressman from Alaska, who also is on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, now is attempting to distance himself from a Fairbanks militia leader accused in a high-profile firearms, murder and kidnapping plot. In April 2009, with a video camera rolling, Rep. Do ...
- Anti-Muslim Activists Gingerly Deplore Jones’ ...
Anti-Muslim activists are walking an ideological tightrope, condemning the actions of the Florida pastor whose burning of the Koran on March 20 set off murderous riots last weekend in Afghanistan, while condemning President Obama for not emphatically reaffirming the pastor’s right to do what he ...
- FBI: Confessed California Planned Parenthood B ...
The FBI on Thursday said Donny Eugene Mower, 37, has confessed to the September firebombing of a Planned Parenthood center in Madera, Calif. The FBI said Mower also was responsible for posting hostile signs at a Madera Islamic Center in late August. The FBI was already investigating the Islamic ...
- Amazon Often Rejects Porn But Helps White Raci ...
Fans of racist literature looking to get their hands on a copy of Kyle Bristowâs 2010 novel White Apocalypse need look no further than Amazon.com. Thanks to the online retail giantâs print-on-demand (POD) service, the bloodthirsty white nationalist fantasy â which Bristow self-published through ...
- Black Extremists Blast Obama’s Decision to Wea ...
President Obama’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to cripple dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s ability to combat rebels trying to topple his regime didn’t sit well with two American black nationalist leaders who consider the long-time strongman a friend and ally. “Now you may laugh, but in a ...
- Students Should Learn About Harvey Milk, Bayar ...
Harvey Milk. Alan Turing. Jane Addams. Natalie Clifford Barney. Bayard Rustin. Barbara Gittings. Those are just a few prominent LGBT names in history that, more often than not, never make their way into America's classrooms. But legislation in California could change that, and ensure that the co ...
- Thirty-Year-Old Organic Farm to Be Turned into ...
Nick Maravell has been tilling the soil in Maryland's Montgomery County for more than 30 years. His 20-acre operation, Nick's Organic Farm, provides a cornucopia of certified organic meat, seed crops, and vegetables, and countless local farmers and foodies rely on the agricultural operation. "Wh ...
- Razing Arizona? Citizens Fight to Protect the ...
Every year, 5 million tourists from all over the world flock to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, where they can view 2 billion years of geologic history in its glory. Today, this national landmark is under threat. In only the last few years, the uranium mining industry has lined up more than 1,000 ...
- Will the New York City Council Defend the Righ ...
It may be one of the most absurd policies my home state has ever come up with: using carrying condoms as evidence for arrest and prosecution for intent to commit prostitution. It's simultaneously wildly offensive to individuals who opt to be prepared to engage in safe sex and a severe public hea ...
- Change.org Community Helps Go Daddy Elephant-K ...
It was the tweet that roared. On his Twitter account, on March 14, Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons posted, “Just back from hunting problem elephant in Zimbabwe. Here's my vacation video. Enjoy.” I saw a retweet a week or so later, and clicked the link, hoping it was a a lame joke. It wasn’t. There was ...
- US Labor Department Demands Refund in Maine Mu ...
WASHINGTON — If Maine Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t wish to display a mural depicting the state’s labor history, then the federal money used to create it should be returned, the U.S. Department of Labor says. The department said Monday that LePage violated the terms of federal laws governing money ...
- Unions Mark MLK's Death with National Protests
The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed 43 years ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside the workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights.read more
- Workers' Rights are Under Threat Across the World
Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on this day in 1968. He was there to support striking sanitation workers, fighting for the right to have their union recognised by their employer; fighting for the right to collective bargaining. ...
- Obama Reverses Course: No Civilian Trials for ...
In a sharp reversal of the Obama administration's policy on trying Sept. 11 suspects in U.S. courts, mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators will be tried in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Attorney General Eric Holder today placed the blame squarely on Congress for c ...
- Libyan War: A Showcase in the New Arms Race
PARIS - The photograph shows a French Rafale warplane at the Mitiga air base outside Tripoli. A small crowd of men, women and children mill around the fighter, its tail fin lit up by the North African sun. read more
- From the Tips Box: TV Episodes, URL Previews, ...
Readers offer their best tips for looking up episode guides for your favorite shows, making Firefox's URL previews a bit less jarring, and keeping your touch screen devices clean. More��
- Remains of the Day: The End of Android Fragmen ...
Twitter gets an advanced search tool, Toyota courts jailbreakers with a Cydia-based advertising campaign, and Android Ice Cream may combine Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Google TV into a single project. More��
- Add Unsupported Removable Drives to Windows 7' ...
Windows 7's libraries are a really neat tool for quickly accessing your data (or putting data from multiple locations into one window), but it doesn't let you add removable flash drives or SD cards. Reader Java-Princess shares a workaround ...
- Google Maps for Android Adds Location History, ...
Android: Google Maps rolled out some new features for their location-tracking Latitude app today, letting you view summaries of where you go and spend most of your time. It's pretty cool—so cool, they make us actually want to use Latitude. ...
- CalendarBar Keeps Your iCal and Google Calenda ...
Mac OS X: CalendarBar is a really handy menubar utility that stores your calendars in your Mac OS X menubar. It syncs up with Google Calendar, works with iCal, and even Facebook. More��
- Activist to speak on water crisis
By: Breanne Van Nostrand Clean water activist Maude Barlow will speak Tuesday about the stress of global water resources. It will be the final University Lectures event of the semester. ...
- Pfeifer: Water is lifeblood for Earth
Tuesday, March 22,2011, is World Water Day. The United Nations first declared this day in 1993 as a way to focus public attention on critical water issues around the world. World Water Day calls attention to how water crosses borders and links us...
- Outsourcing & and privatizing
Redding officials have identified four city services for potential outsourcing.
- DeStefano gets an earful at 1st New Haven comm ...
NEW HAVEN — At his first community budget meeting, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was barraged Thursday night with questions about proposals to privatize school custodial services and impose a storm water fee.
- Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
- News of the World arrests in phone-hacking case
Former news editor and current chief reporter arrested after presenting themselves at separate London police stationsThe former news editor and current chief reporter from the News of the World are in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting mobile phone voicem ...
- Gbagbo 'close to exit' in Ivory Coast
�� Gbagbo reportedly in negotiations to step down �� Presidential palace in Abidjan is surrounded �� Gbagbo generals call ceasefire �� Fears of a humanitarian crisis1.59pm: The Guardian has an interactive which gives a breakdown of where the fighting is taking place in Ivory Coast. Click on the ...
- Officer recounts striking Tomlinson
PC Simon Harwood, the police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground at the G20 protests two years ago, gives his second day of evidence at the newspaper seller's inquest1.42pm: Here's a lunchtime summary:PC Simon Harwood has said he was "amazed" and "shocked" when Ian Tomlinson fell to t ...
- Child poverty commission unveiled
Deputy prime minister says body will monitor this and future governments in attempts to increase social mobility in UK and reduce child povertyNick Clegg has sought to ease fears that he is downgrading child poverty targets by announcing the establishment of a child poverty and social mobility c ...
- Tax the rich, Cameron tells Pakistan
British PM tells Pakistan elite: 'Many of your richest people are getting away without paying much tax at all � and that's not fair'David Cameron has told the Pakistan elite they have to start paying more tax, and cut out government waste and weakness, if the British public are to back his plans ...
- House Republicans ready to unveil 'Path to Pro ...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans were to roll out their ambitious vision of the future Tuesday, with a fiscal 2012 budget plan that would cut $6.2 trillion in spending over the next decade, overhaul Medicare and Medicaid, and restructure individual and business taxes.
- N.C. U.S. Rep. Price: Boehner listened too clo ...
WASHINGTON — Although tea party influence has waned in recent negotiations to prevent a government shutdown, GOP leaders still want the support of most of the House freshmen Republicans that the movement supported.
- Alleged kingpin's remarks may spark new U.S.-V ...
Walid Makled, the alleged Venezuelan drug kingpin at the center of a U.S. extradition battle, raised the stakes over the weekend, telling a television station that he was willing to share information about his ties to Venezuelan officials, Colombian guerrillas and Middle Eastern terrorist groups ...
- Coastal lawmakers say ports tax should be used ...
WASHINGTON — All six House members from South Carolina, in a rare display of bipartisan unity, have joined lawmakers from other coastal states in demanding that the federal government stop using harbor maintenance taxes for unrelated needs.
- FAA to order airlines to check more Boeing 737 ...
Federal authorities are requiring airlines to check more Boeing 737 airplanes for metal fatigue in the wake of Fridays incident, in which a 5-foot hole opened in a fuselage of a Southwest Airlines jet in midair.
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
- Bees: a sting in the tale
� The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
- Green tuna goes FAD-free
Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
- China and EU share climate vision
China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
- Refining the sixth great extinction
Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction. In ...
- A Message For harperbot Trolls
If on the very small chance that you have the moral and intellectual ability to feel bad about taking the harpercon party of Canada's money to infest progressive blogs and defend the harpercon government's deliberate assault on Canadian democracy, ... just stop doing it. That's right. Continue ...
- Remember: The Opposition Forced This Election ...
That's something important to remember when some harpercon hack tells you about how much their glorious leader tried to avoid this election, but "The Coalition" wanted it. Whatever I have said about the Liberal Party of Canada, ... hell, whatever my thoughts on the integrity and consistency of ...
- Liberal - Tory - Same - Old - Story!!!
SIGH. Yesterday, I wrote some commentary about stephen harper's revolting words about the significance of the recent Japanese earthquake tragedy as reported here. Now, that's a Liberal site, but I still found it ridiculous and outrageous that part of the response to an abomination emerging fro ...
- harper's Japan Remarks: The banality of evil
So, upon witnessing (along with the rest of us) the terrible devastation of the earthquake and the tsunami, and now, the deadly explosions of ill-prepared nuclear power stations in Japan, harper furrows his brow and tries to make a "teachable moment" out of the tragedy: “All of these things shou ...
- What's Disappointing About This Election
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad it's here. It had to happen. The damage that harper was doing to Canadian democracy was like letting someone put one drop of weak poison after another into your glass of water. "The first one hasn't killed me. Therefore it's fine to continue to put more in." Yes, th ...
- ElBaradei says he would declare war if Israel ...
Egyptian presidential candidate and former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that if elected he would orchestrate a counterattack against any Israeli offensive on Gaza.
- Liberal MP Rob Oliphant running on 'politics o ...
Don Valley West federal electoral district Liberal Member of Parliament Rob Oliphant is running a “politics of people” campaign and is planning to send his Conservative adversary, John Carmichael, “back to the country club.”
- Germany hosting RoboCup 2011, a soccer competi ...
RoboCup German Open 2011 is an international soccer tournament for robots taking place at Magdeburg, Germany, with the ultimate goal of developing a robot soccer team capable of beating the human World Cup champions.
- India's population soars 18 percent in decade ...
According to census figures released this week, India, the world's second most populous country, experienced a dramatic growth in population over the past decade, raising questions on sustainability.
- Ontario woman gets scary wake-up as man kick o ...
A Burlington woman had a scary wake up Thursday when an unknown man started banging on her back door at 2 a.m. The woman was able to escape before the suspect entered her home.
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
- We’re taking action on the F-35 today
Today we are bringing one of the most respected critics of the F-35 stealth fighters directly from Washington to Ottawa.
- Liberals release election platform
The Liberal Party released its latest “Red Book”, its election platform document, on April 3rd (Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, 2011). The foreign and security policy elements of the document for the most part reaffirm the positions the Liberals took in the intern ...
- Withdrawal issues: NATO countries on the futur ...
According to “Withdrawal issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe,” a recently released report by peace advocacy group IKV Pax Christi, there is sufficient political will within NATO to end the deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Eur ...
- Let’s Make the Stealth Fighters an Election Issue
Yes, I can donate $25 to stop the stealth fighters Dear peace supporter, It’s been a pitched media battle with Harper’s Conservatives and his corporate defence lobby since I last wrote you. And as you will read below, it’s about billions of dollars in military sales, deceit, corporate and govern ...
- Canadian general to lead Libya mission
Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard has been tapped to lead the no-fly and arms-embargo elements of the Libya intervention now that NATO has agreed to run those operations (Daniel Leblanc, “Canadian general to take command of NATO mission in Libya,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2011). Howev ...
- Using the Backyard Grill This Summer Just Got ...
April 4th, 2011 DailyFinance.com By: Charles Wallace Just when it seemed like it couldn’t get much worse on the price front â how can you top $4 a gallon gasoline? â comes news the cherished summer barbecue is about to get more expensive. Contracts for future deliveries of corn, soybeans and whe ...
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-4-11
Today, Kevin gives you the solutions to your economic woes and explains why you absolutely cannot put a price tag on your health! Self Help: Inflation Cure Stop Eating Tainted Meat The Only Answer To Cancer Stress Reduction Voice Your Political Support Safest Hair Products Health: Genetically ...
- Jennie-O Recalls Turkey Burgers Over Salmonell ...
April 4th, 2011 CNN.com By: Emanuella Grinberg Jennie-O Turkey Store is recalling nearly 55,000 pounds of frozen, raw turkey burgers that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday. The recall pertains to packages of ...
- We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
April 4th, 2011 The Wall Street Journal By: Stephen Moore If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for ...
- U.S. Companies Shrink Packages as Food Prices Rise
April 4th, 2011 Daily Finance By: Douglas McIntyre U.S. food prices have been rising in the last year, but it seems the growth is only just beginning. A sharp jump in commodities’ prices this year will soon result in sticker shock for American consumers. Large food companies have recently announ ...
- Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
- Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
- Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
- Break the Silence Congo week
The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
- Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
- The fight for Libya
The Guardian reports: There has been much to terrorise the people of Misrata over the past weeks of bloody siege. Tank shells and mortars have fallen at random in the heart of the rebel-held Libyan city, with little warning bar the final whistle of the explosive flying through the air. Muammar ...
- Faces of the displaced
For more than a month, refugees have been fleeing the violence and uncertainty of Libya into Tunisia. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has reported nearly 180,000 people have fled — a rate of 2,000 a day. Most end up at border transit camps, desperately trying to find a way home. ...
- Intifada update
AFP reports: Yemeni security forces shot dead 17 anti-regime demonstrators and wounded scores more on Monday, on the second day of lethal clashes in Taez, south of the capital, medics said. “The death toll has gone up to 17, in addition to dozens wounded,” said Sadeq al-Shujaa, head of a makes ...
- Weapons sales to the Arab world under scrutiny
Der Spiegel reports: The revolutions in the Arab world caught British Prime Minister David Cameron off guard. For some time, diplomats had been planning a trip for Cameron that would take him to several countries in the Middle East. In fact, it was meant to be more of a trade mission, with Came ...
- Follow the money
Samir Aita writes: The reasons for the Arab spring go deeper than immediate demands for freedom and democracy. The protesters want to end the political economy and the authoritarian regimes in place since the 1970s. Monarchies in the Arab world have been absolute, and life-long presidents (wit ...
- Climate Craziness of the week – Claim: n ...
People send me stuff. Never mind the other aerosol sources, it was the Fat Man and Little Boy. From the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics April 2011, these claims: Atmospheric nuclear explosions induced the stagnation in global warming in … Continue reading →
- All the climate news that’s fit to misprint
While Krugman wails at the NYT, giant Elk die in print for all the wrong climatic reasons: In Tips and Notes, P J Brennan says: All the news thatâs fit to mis-report: From todayâs NYT When the planet warmed at … Continue reading →
- An investigation of USHCN station siting issue ...
While BEST is making a public relations train wreck for themselves by touting preliminary conclusions with no data analysis paper in place yet to support their announcements, there have been other things going on in the world of surface data … Continue reading →
- Quote of the Week – it’s a doozy
Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last Thursday about Dr. Richard Muller’s testimony before Congress. From the … Continue reading →
- Pielke Sr. on sampling error in BEST 2% prelim ...
Is There A Sampling Bias In The BEST Analysis Reported By Richard Muller? Guest post by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior In his testimony Richard Muller (which I posted on Friday April 2 2011), indicated that he used 2% of the available … Continue reading →
- I, Juror by Mark A. Goldman
by Mark A. Goldman Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.gpln.com April 5, 2011 Yesterday, 3/29/2011, I was a juror and today I feel like I’m the one who put the last nail in the coffin of justice. I did my job, but I couldn’t deliver justice.  I participated in a system that no longer wo ...
- Is Israel preparing a new war on Gaza? by Eric ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Eric Ruder SocialistWorker.org April 4, 2011 Eric Ruder reports on Israel’s new attacks on Gaza–and the threat of worse. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE marched in Gaza in a funeral procession for three Hamas members killed by Israeli air strikes while driving in a ca ...
- I believe I Saw Muammar Gaddafi On My Way To t ...
by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 4 April, 2011 The sting of satire can often underscore certain truths that straight prose rarely manages to touch. (Roma) A cold wind was blowing down Mussolini’s showpiece avenue. The Via dei Fori Imperiali is the site of victory parades. The v ...
- “White City” in Afghanistan – ...
by Kathleen Kirwin Guest Writer Dandelion Salad April 4, 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan As Pastor Terry Jones revels in his victory against Islam while he basks in the Florida sun thousands of miles away savoring both limelight and vindication, the city of Kabul, from where I write, and the rest of Af ...
- This Is What Resistance Looks Like by Chris Hedges
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig April 4, 2011 used with permission photo by William Bowles http://williambowles.info/ The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience ...
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This is what an absolutely destroyed nuclear plant looks like : More stunning photos of Fukushima destruction here.
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British novelist Martin Amis on reading in the age of digital information overload : "the long read is a dying art" "....there are so many claims on our attention. Very literate people admit they can't read books any more. And just as the literate brain is physically different to the illiter ...
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The Tsunami Wave That Will Not Stop A continuous shot of the 10 metre tsunami wave hitting the Miyagi coast, Japan. On a larger screen you can see cars trying to flee along roads, getting caught and washed away, other cars trying to escape across fields, people running and getting swept up. And ...
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Tsunamis Smash Japan It's being called the biggest earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history, magnitude 8.8. In the footage below, cities, towns, entire farms and hundreds of people are swept away by tsunami waves plowing into the Miyagi coast, pushing debris kilometres inland. Impossible t ...
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A stunning view of Earth taken by the Russian satellite Elektro-L : More Earth images here, including a fascinating read on why Russian & American images of Earth from space look so different.
- Salamander Has Algae Living Inside Its Cells
In a symbiotic union more complete than any previously found in vertebrates, the common spotted salamander lives with algae inside its cells. Such a degree of cross-species fusion was long thought to exist only among invertebrates, whose immune systems are not primed to destroy invaders. But al ...
- One More Eaglet to Hatch Soon on Live Webcam
Thousands tuned in as two baby bald eagles hatched live on webcam in Decoarh, Iowa, over the weekend. But if you missed it, you can still see a third eaglet hatch, probably within the next 48 hours.
- LHC Locking In on New Elementary Particle
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, may be only months away from finding a new elementary particle — a sign of a new force in nature — recent studies suggest. The studies focus on the top quark, the heaviest of the six quarks, which are the fundamental building ...
- Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
The world’s oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism used pure geometry as well as flashy gears to track celestial bodies’ motion through the heavens. The device, a 2,000-year-old assem ...
- X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist’s Cover-Up
ANAHEIM, California — Experimenting with a vivacious blonde, only to settle instead on a somber brunette, is an old, clichéd storyline â in fact, itâs at least 200 years old. A new analysis of a 19th century painting reveals that the artist first depicted a blonde with purple ribbons in he ...
- Richard Silverstein: Goldstone’s tawdry turn, ...
[Goldstone] writes that if he knew then what he knows now, the report would've been different. Note, he didn’t say the report would've vindicated Israel's conduct. That's the message the Hasbara... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
- Students on trip to IDF base simulated shootin ...
Incident took place during at a military base where students were being escorted as part of an 'IDF preparation' project, sanctioned by the Education Ministry. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the I ...
- Noam Chomsky: On Libya and the unfolding crises
Libya is a different case. Libya is rich in oil, and though the US and UK have often given quite remarkable support to its cruel dictator, right to the present, he is not reliable. They would much... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- Israel pressing UN to halt new Gaza aid flotilla
More than 1,000 leftists and pro-Palestinian activists are expected to take part in the flotilla, which sources say will include more than 20 vessels of various sizes. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go ...
- Minister Ya’alon: Israel expects UN to fully r ...
Comment by Deputy PM comes as Israel sets out to embark on a diplomatic and public relations campaign seeking to leverage in its favor the article published by Judge Richard Goldstone. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- Woman Tells Dog to Bark More Softly
Here�s what she�s saying:� �Can you do it again?� Is that all you got?� Can you do it more quietly?� More quietly, more quietly!� Do it the cute way.�
- Rottweiler Plays with Beagle Puppy
Rottweiler Marlow plays "dog fight" with 9 week old beagle puppy Indie.
- Is Your Food Making You Old?
Physical and mental degeneration are not an inevitable part of getting older.� In fact, the foods you eat (or don�t eat) can speed those processes along, aging you before our time. That�s fit makes some suggestions as to what foods you may be lacking: If you have less energy You may ne ...
- Hands-Free Faucets Can Harbor Nasty Germs
Faucets that electronically sense the presence of a hand without a touch are sometimes used to cut down on the risk of bacterial contamination. But researchers who ran bacterial tests discovered that half of water samples taken from the electronic faucets grew Legionella, the type of bacteria th ...
- Freezing Wrinkles a Possible Alternative to Botox
A new technology gets rid of forehead wrinkles, at least temporarily, by freezing the nerves. If the technique is approved by the FDA, it could provide an alternative to treatments like Botox and Dysport -- injectable forms of Botulinum toxin. The freezing procedure involves the use of small ne ...
- Flores de colores I (10 imágenes en Alta Defin ...
Si desea ver más fotos de flores, haga usted clic aquí para explorar... ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Ya somos más de 5,000 miembros en Facebook (¡G ...
El día de hoy, deseo agradecer a todos y cada de ustedes por ser parte de nuestra comunidad en Facebook. Es increíble ver cómo cada día se unen a nosotros más y más personas desde diversos países con el único objetivo de compartir imágenes gratuitas a través de Internet. Las redes sociales, jueg ...
- Los paisajes más hermosos del mundo II (10 fotos)
Para ver más paisajes hermosos, explore nuestro archivo. (1)(2) ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Fotografías de mujeres muy hermosas III (14 fotos)
Explora nuestro archivo para ver más mujeres. (1)(2)(3) ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Del crepúsculo al amanecer IX (Amaneceres y At ...
Explora nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
- Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.” A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
- Making Health the Default
A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
- How much meat do we eat, anyway?
Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question. The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry. But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more. So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
- What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
- The Locavore debate, revisited
How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.” But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...
- Fuck, it’s Monday
I linked to the Koch scientist who believes in global warming yesterday, and now Paul Krugman has (much) more of the story: So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What’s the punch line? They were three of the five “expert witnesses” Re ...
- Links, lists and dumbasses
UPDATE: Matt Taibbi interviews John Boehner. This is the story I would have led with had I seen it a bit earlier. Eating your seed, cont.: Pay for performance Unpaid interns Friendly fire comes to Libya Money laundering [more from emptywheel] [more from Charles II] Economists with their hair on ...
- Your daily aggregation
Think how happy the Reverend Terry Jones must be today. He burned a Koran while nobody was looking, publicized the hell out of his actions and now seven UN workers and eight Afghans are dead as a direct and predictable result. John Amato:Â I’m not justifying the murder spree that just happened i ...
- No April Fools about it, we’re year-roun ...
Krugman: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.” That, according to Herbert Hoover, was the advice he received from Andrew Mellon, the Treasury secretary, as America plunged into depression. To be fair, there’s some question about whether Mellon actuall ...
- Late links
New stuff from Matt Taibbi! including whores, whores and more whores. More: Recordkeeping? Not when it’s your money! Economy about to re-swoon? Supreme Borks split on gender lines over WalMart? Artists question winner-take-all rules Scheer on Obama and Immelt - News: Privatization WTF?: prison i ...
- AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work ...
AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work Remains Phoenix, AZ - A new study finds the United States falling behind in clean energy investments, just as Arizona is becoming a more energy-efficient state. Some say there's room for the Grand Canyon State to become more of a leader. Comments fr ...
- Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart
Seven Steps to a Healthier Heart Phoenix, AZ – Sometimes there’s a big gap between perception and reality when judging your own health. According to a recent American Heart Association (AHA) survey, nearly 40 percent of Americans thought they were in ideal heart health, when in reality, less tha ...
- Triangle Fire Anniversary Today
Triangle Fire Anniversary Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 New York sweatshop workers and led to government-enforced workplace safety rules, as well as strengthening the growing labor movement of the time. Ther ...
- Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for ...
Report: Health Insurance Exchange Critical for Rural Arizona, Small Biz Phoenix, AZ – A new report says small businesses and uninsured Arizonans living outside the state's metro areas have a huge stake in the one-year old Affordable Care Act. Comments from the report's author, Jon Bailey of the ...
- Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range N ...
Plans Proceed for Northern AZ Shooting Range Next to National Monument Flagstaff, AZ – Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners are moving forward with plans for a regional shooting range within hearing distance of Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff. Opponents say the gunfire will dist ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
 Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
- Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
- Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
- Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
- Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever. Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...
- 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...
Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western Concern For Sexual Assault in Libya By The AngryindianApril Fools Day, 2011 �Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.�-George Orwell In the capitalist wor ...
- ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
- Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...
- The Right to Forget
Ahmed Timol died when my mother was still young. She knew him- they all did, she said- he had gotten himself involved in politics and things had changed for him. 'But weren't you horrified? Didn't it scare you? Weren't you sad?' I was in school, and I had just read the article of him ...
- More on Egypt
Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
- Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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- US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
- President Llorens
I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
- Magnificent
This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...
- Plastic in the ocean
This image, displayed in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, shows the great amount of plastic floating in the Ocean and the terrible impact it has on the wildlife. To find out more about this issue, watch a video about the Plastic Soup (videos/plastic-soup.html), and read our article M ...
- Mangroves in Cape Tribulation
There are so many amazing trees (recycling-waste/cut-down-paper-not-trees.html), plants and flowers to discover in our country. Mangroves like these grow all over the tropics. They are prevalent in Australasia, in particularly on the island of Papua New Guinea and in northern Australia (glossar ...
- Environmental News 31/03/2011
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- What's On 28 March 2011
There is a lot of argy-bargy at the moment over Julia Gillard's announcement about the impending implementation of a Carbon Tax. Two weeks ago saw over 8,000 people hit the streets of Melbourne, last week there were ugly scenes in Canberra and now it's Sydney's turn: It starts on the morning of ...
- Environmental News 28/03/2011
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- Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...
- Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...
- How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...
- Abdallah Abu Rahmah is free, may all Palestini ...
Great news on the heels of the horrible killings in Itamar settlement and Netanyahu’s exploitation of them. It’s good to have a hopeful example even if its freedom for a man who should have never been imprisoned. Indeed, the protests Abdallah Abu Rahmah helped organize are still going on after h ...
- Please report any unattended human rights
I read Neve Gordon’s piece a few months back about human rights websites being banned at Ben Gurion airport, and thought what a perfect microcosm of the front Israel is trying to put up to the world. While they wouldn’t think of banning such websites to their own population, I hope, internation ...
- US government to write panic button for activists
The US government says it will helpfully supply apps for phones that will delete incriminating info from cell phones in case the baddies are about to confiscate it. Hmm, color me suspicious Who are the authors? Certainly the app would need to be examined to insure it’s not phoning home to a US g ...
- Does free speech include the right to mouth of ...
Stve Hynd, a Polizeros Radio blogging partner, says Terry Jones’ inflammatory burning of Korans perhaps should not be protected by freedom of speech. Some thoughts. 1) Jones’ church has about 50 members. For the mainstream media to give him such slavish and devoted coverage is twisted and derang ...
- No good options for California budget
(My latest for CAIVN, the California Independent Voter Network)) Not only are there no good options for passing a budget before the money runs out, there aren’t even any bad options. As too often happens, negotiations and machinations over the budget could go on for many more months before an ag ...
- Maybe the UN needs to intervene in Japan?
Tepco to try silt fence to stop radioactive water This after trying trying to pour in concrete then attempting to block the leak with sawdust and newspapers. Look, Tepco is clearly incompetent and has also repeatedly shown clear and reckless disregard for human life. The oceans and air belong to ...
- What Have They Done To The Rain. The Searchers
One of the first anti-nuclear power songs
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...
- NC bill threatens to criminalize naturopaths, ...
(NaturalNews) Alternative health practitioners in North Carolina (NC) and their patients need your help to defeat a stealth bill that flew under the radar of most everyone in the natural health community. Senate Bill 31, which clarifies the penalties for the “unauthorized practice of medicine,” ...
- Oregon Supreme Court urged to block warrantles ...
A digital rights organization told the Oregon Supreme Court that allowing law enforcement officials to search arrestees’ cell phones violates privacy protections guaranteed by the Constitution. In the case Oregon v. Nix, police officers searched through the data on a criminal suspect’s cell phon ...
- What America has Become Folks! Can’t Eve ...
- This Day In History – April 5
1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Phili ...
- Feds seek $7M in privately made ‘Liberty ...
RALEIGH, N.C. â Federal prosecutors on Monday tried to take a hoard of silver “Liberty Dollars” worth about $7 million that authorities say was invented by an Indiana man to compete with U.S. currency. Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted last month in federal court in Statesville on conspirac ...
- Trouble with Thunderbird
I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.  I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials. The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...
- Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
I’ve been thrown out of better.  It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.  Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.  Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...
- Peanuts
Recently there have been some posts on the internet which have had my attention. First, is a series of posts by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit that have led to another vastly expanded version of hide the decline.  It turns out that Briffa’s data wasn’t only truncated in recent years but al ...
- WTF
Do you realize that America just bombed a country by authority of the president, killing people without a single US address as to the reason, intent, or expected involvement from the president? Sure there was a UN resolution – minimally discussed, but why are America and UK throwing billions ...
- In Case You Missed It
Statpad – Roman M Two and a half PC’s.
- Fat as Class War in Arizona
Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
- Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
- A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
- Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
- Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...
- Platform Update: Event API Calls Improved, Pub ...
The latest Platform Update to the Facebook Developer’s blog announced a change to how data about Facebook Events is accessed through the Graph API that should improve the performance of Event data-dependent apps. It also announced that domains no longer need to be on a whitelist in order to pu ...
- “Friends in [City]” Facebook Sidebar Module En ...
Facebook recently began showing a “Friends in [City]” sidebar module to users who are visiting a location other than the current city listed in their profile. It suggests friends to message who live near a user’s temporary location. The module may be designed to incite conversations or meetups b ...
- Work For Us Page Apps Suggests Relevant Facebo ...
Today, Work4 Labs adds new features to “Work For Us”, its recruiting app that can be installed on Facebook Pages. Smart Share helps suggests friends to recommend jobs to based on their Facebook profiles, locations, work histories and Likes. Smart Sort ranks job openings by relevance based on ...
- Facebook’s New iPhone App Adds Map View of Fri ...
In Facebook’s first update to its iPhone app in five months, the company added a new map view for seeing friend’s locations and check-ins for events. Facebook also changed the user interface for notifications, putting bigger profile pictures in, and added the ability to unfriend people from the ...
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Expedia, IKEA, Th ...
Our featured Facebook campaigns this week employed a variety of tactics to draw Likes, customers and generate news feed items. Expedia created a detailed vacation contest application to draw in users, IKEA in the United Kingdom is uses a battle of the sexes voting system in its new campaign, The ...
- Judge Richard Goldstone alters his verdict
Lawrence Davidson looks at the flawed logic and the tribal, personal and political pressures that may have led Richard Goldstone, the South African Jewish judge who authored the report of the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict, into altering his original verdict which suggested that Is ...
- Judge Richard Goldstone's U-turn
Gilad Atzmon argues that Judge Richard Goldstone's shunning of his own report into possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza is a "point of no return", signalling the need to "free our intellectual, spiritual and ethical life from any trace of Zionist ideology, from people who may have Zionist views o ...
- UK-Israel mutual admiration provokes "technico ...
Stuart Littlewood considers the new depths into which the British government has sunk by hailing the UK's friendship with the rogue state of Israel - a nuclear-armed apartheid entity that commits crimes and flouts international law with impunity - and setting off the process to block the arrest ...
- Florida pastor bigger threat to US security th ...
Yvonne Ridley contrasts the failure of the US authorities to rein in the hate-mongering Pastor Terry Jones, whose incitement against Muslims has led to a killing spree in Afghanistan and put the lives of US servicemen in danger, with the instant actions taken by those authorities to silence crit ...
- Redress Information & Analysis needs your help
Redress Information & Analysis calls upon fellow fighters for truth and justice to make a donation to help it remain secure and resilient in the face of rising costs and growing attacks by Zionists, racists and fascists. "...over the past two years our readership has grown - and continues to gr ...
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
- Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
- 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
- BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...
- Being Proud of What We Are Not
A Few Notes on Boiling Frogs Post in Wrapping Up Our Countdown I think it is appropriate to revisit the purpose and some of the main characteristics of Boiling Frogs Post as we are getting ready to wrap up and finalize our countdown month. Usually, as we have done, organizations and various foru ...
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 4 & Still Co ...
Updates On Our Annual Fundraising & A Few Notes on my relocation Journey Let me start with a big personal âthank youâ to all of you who have generously donated to keep this site alive – before my other brief updates, and before I run out of my pre-purchased internet minutes. As you know I [...]
- Jamiol Presents
- Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 2
We Need Your Support to ‘Help Wake up the American public before the water gets too hot to climb out of the pot’ I want to thank those of you who have contributed to Boiling Frogs Post during our first week campaign. Thank You! Next, I want to briefly respond to a common inquiry I’ve received fr ...
- Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post: Year Two
We Need Your Support to Continue & Expand: Countdown Week 1 In October 2009 I launched Boiling Frogs Post with one purpose in mind: To establish a venue for investigative articles, editorials, analyses, discussions, and interviews on issues largely censored by the media. We are entering our sec ...
- Cornel West on Aljazeera
- Why I Appreciate the Black Blogosphere and the ...
   Because our voices are local and they are global. Black people are all over the world speaking truth to power in the way that matters to them! And just what are we talking about? And do we have a right to speak “our truths”? Well as I have gone through the black [...]
- Les Twins — Hip Hop Dance Straight Outta ...
At the beginning of the year, I was on Facebook when I noticed a post of young twin hip hop dancers. I was blown away by their talent as I watched the brothers Larry and Laurent start actually dancing. Fantastic doesn’t even begin to describe them! There are many dancers out there and most of [...]
- Quote(s) of the Day
via Lonnie Plaxico: John Henrik Clarke “Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that… they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” Krishnamurti/Freedom from the Known, p.11: DISORDER :”The primary cause of disorder in ourselves i ...
- Blackout of humanitarian crisis in Cote d̵ ...
In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring t ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...
- Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
- Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
- No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
"SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
- Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
- Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
- Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
- Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
- Rally to Save the American Dream
In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
- RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...
- Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
- International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
- ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
- UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
- Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
- Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...
- DocumentCloud Enables Public Searches, Embedda ...
We quietly opened DocumentCloud's catalog to public searches in January, and we've been working since to do more with the great documents that reporters have added to our catalog. When Vancouver Sun investigative reporter Chad Skelton asked if there was a way to automate display of the growi ...
- How Project Argo Members Communicate Across Ti ...
Project Argo is an ambitious undertaking. It involves networking NPR with 12 member stations spanning three time zones with a different mix of bloggers and editors at each station. The stations cover a variety of regionally focused, nationally resonant topics that range from climate change to lo ...
- Lessons From Phase 1 of the Ushahidi Evaluatio ...
This post was written by Melissa Tuly and Jennifer Chan. This is the second in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. The Ushahidi-Kenya evaluation is off to a strong ...
- The Psychology Edge - Study Shows that Social ...
Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection "hurt" in the same way, a new study shows.The study demonstrates that the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painful sensory experiences are activated during intense experiences of social rejection."These results giv ...
- Book Review - A Balanced Approach to the Splin ...
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. Eugene Robinson. Doubleday. 2010. 272 pages.By now, virtually every U.S. history textbook features African-American history in the mainstream of its narrative. The names and events are familiar, even iconic: the 20th century features Booker T. Wa ...
- Edge on Physics - High Temperature Superconduc ...
Scientists at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES) have found the strongest evidence yet that a puzzling gap in the electronic structures of some high-temperature superconductors could indicate a new phase of matter. Understanding this "pseudogap" has been a 20-year qu ...
- The Ancient Edge - First US-lead Archaeologica ...
Three National Science Foundation-supported researchers recently undertook the first non-Iraqi archaeological investigation of the Tigris-Euphrates delta in nearly 20 years. Archeologists Jennifer Pournelle and Carrie Hritz, with geologist Jennifer Smith, carried out the study late last year to ...
- Israel and Palestine - Greater Cooperation by ...
Checkpoints in Israel exist solely to protect the lives of innocent civilians on both sides of the conflict. If no terrorist threat existed, no barriers would be necessary. Thanks to improved security cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, a greater commitment to preventing ...
- Counterrevolution 101
By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
- No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
- Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
- What Is True Sustainability?
By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
- Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong: Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
- Why is the US Even Considering the Purchase of ...
The United States and Brazil have always had a complicated "up and down" relationship. Maybe that's why since he was inaugurated, President Obama has gone out of his way to make friendly gestures to the socialist government of Brazil. Unfortunately the gestures he selected have defied logic and ...
- Here's Why The Mainstream Media Is So Bad
"BENTLEY [a journalist, based on the American journalist Lowell Thomas]: "Your Highness, we Americans were once a colonial people and we naturally feel sympathetic to any people, anywhere, who are struggling for their freedom. "FEISAL [later king of Iraq]: Very gratifying. "BENTLEY: ...
- The NY Times Never Lets The Facts Get In the W ...
In a spectacular reversal, this past Friday Judge Richard Goldstone published an op-ed in the Washington Post which reverses the key charge against Israel in the report about the Gaza War which bears his name. He no longer believes the blood libel put forth in his document, that Israel ...
- Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Sends an Email ...
By Barry Rubin The following email was recently received by the White House: Dear President Obama: My name is Bashar al-Assad. Not long ago my father died and left me an entire country in his will. It is a very valuable property but I am trying to market it internationally. If y ...
- Oops! Another Global Warming Threat Debunked
If you are a believer in the Global Warming myth, you can stop building that ark.� You see, one of the claims put out by Al Gores army of moonbats is that global warming is going to cause the polar glaciers melt and soon sea levels will begin to rise at an accelerating rate. Unfortunately for th ...
- Bacterial Genes, High Dosis of RoundUp may cau ...
Institute for Responsible Technology April 5, 2011 “This study was just routine,” said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybe ...
- Mohamed El Baradei Threatens Israel
Egypt: Israel must pay us back for gas ynetnews.com In interview with Arab newspaper, former IAEA chief says if elected as Egypt’s next president he will open Rafah crossing in case of an Israeli attack. Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announ ...
- Lab creates human heart with Stem Cells
Mail Online April 4, 2011 Scientists are growing human hearts in laboratories, offering hope for millions of cardiac patients. American researchers believe the artificial organs could start beating within weeks. The experiment is a major step towards the first ‘grow-your-own’ heart, and could pa ...
- Terror Trials in Guantanamo Bay to Hide 9/11 D ...
By Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda April 4, 2011 The sham performed by United States Attorney General Eric Holder -blaming Congress for not allowing a public trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 4 alleged 9/11 plotters- is just part of the American government’s PR campaign to keep important ...
- The Media carries the water for the Establishm ...
The Real Agenda March 4, 2011 In a recent interview on CNN, former CIA officer Michael Scheuer helped the two teleprompter readers understand what is really going on in the Middle East. In fact, he took them both to history and current events school in a matter of 5 minutes. As a former CIA man, ...
- New rules kick up passionate debate
In front of a crowded room at the Umatilla County Courthouse Thursday, Cindy Severe held up a map of the soon-to-be Helix Wind Power Facility. �My home is R13 on this map,� she said. �What the map doesn�t show is that on the opposite ridge are 26 wind turbines. With this new addition going in, w ...
- Wind energy debate sweeps Statehouse
BOISE � The eastern and southern parts of Idaho have drawn battle lines in the wind energy debate. Opponents of wind energy, primarily from eastern Idaho, say that the state needs to slow down and develop a clearer plan that takes into account issues like the impact on nearby homeowners, the env ...
- Rare sea eagle killed by wind turbine
A white-tailed sea eagle introduced to the Killarney National Park from Norway three years ago has been killed after colliding with a wind turbine near Kilgarvan, an area designated as suitable for wind farms in the Kerry county development plan. Although such collisions are common in Europe and ...
- Woodstock wind project opponents appeal to Sup ...
Opponents of the Spruce Mountain wind project in Woodstock last week filed an appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, leaving an offer from the developer to donate money to the town’s elementary school in limbo. Attorney Rufus Brown, representing Friends of Spruce Mountain and other aggrie ...
- Huge eastern Oregon wind farm raises big quest ...
The gravel haulers start rolling down Oregon 74 before dawn, their air brakes bellowing under the heavy loads they ferry into the neighboring hills. Just over the rimrock of Willow Creek Valley, hard-hatted contractors scramble to pour the base pads and lay electrical cable for 338 wind turbines ...
- Congratulations, Military Families, on your ne ...
From Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and Antiwar.com writer Tom Engelhardt for pointing this out, your new Chief Psychologist who will be taking care of the spiritual and emotional needs and problems of your families, is the Former Chief Torturer at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Yes, a Sick, Sadistic perve ...
- Shit I learned in school
…because, really, I DO believe there’s a deliberate sabotage of Public Education being done simply by handing a “liberal” program over to be administered by “conservatives”. In 7th grade in Texas you’re taught Texas History. Some of it would be almost unrecognizable from a Yankee point of view. ...
- Frank Bator and Princess Lisa Czeladtko
I went to his memorial service at Marian House 6 years ago. He had died in his trailer home, alone, and the body not discovered for about a week. There were a few people attending, some of the staff at Marion House, a couple of people who knew him casually, his sister and brother… A [...]
- GE, Corporate Govt Contractor Profiteer, prese ...
…with a tax bill. for a 3.2 BILLION dollar refund. This after record profits from offshored jobs and the tax breaks from doing that hiring a bunch of new people where even those HERE won’t get full pay and benefits demanding that Unions give up pay and benefits and last, but certainly not least ...
- Buddy Gilmore, Babykilling Warmonger for Mayor?
The Cowardly Babykilling Puke is running on the strength of being a War Profiteer, at one stroke being part of cause of the economic Meltdown of America, crippling our economy for generations to come, and soiling his hands and America’s with the blood of Human Beings in the For Profit Wars Of Co ...
- You're Either in Sheen's Korner or You're With ...
My new t-shirt I found at Hot Topic. :) Related Info: The Sheen comments that matter Charlie Sheen and Some Facts About 9/11 for President Obama to "Deal With" Scootle's "Twenty Minutes With The President" Contest Entry Debunking dsglop's ridiculous answers to Charlie Sheen's 20 points to O ...
- Proof That Leslie Robertson Saw Molten Steel a ...
Sites like 911Myths.com and others have claimed that Leslie Robertson, one of the original WTC structural engineers, never saw molten steel at Ground Zero. However, a video clip recently released from the IC911Studies which shows a presentation given by Robertson at Stanford University shows oth ...
- Debunking the Only Bad Review of "The Mysterio ...
I've just recently finished David Ray Griffin's nearly impeccable book "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7," which I received as a gift for my birthday last month and was looking at the reviews at Amazon.com. As of this writing, there are 23 five star reviews and just a single lonel ...
- Magic, Mythology or Science?
James B. over at Screwloosechange recently commented on the debate between Richard Gage and Chris Mohr. James apparently thinks that Gage is contradicting himself by saying that explosives took down WTC7 but that thermite is an incendiary and makes no explosive sounds. From this, James concludes ...
- CFR/Kissinger: Our puppet is doing a good job ...
HAHAHAHAA! You can't make this shit up... Obama Failing as Commander in Chief Author: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy The Obama administration deserves credit for its foreign policy achievements. There has been no successful terrorist attack on U. ...
- Juicer or Blender?
Is it us or has there been lots of buzz recently around juicing? What’s the big deal? Are juicers that much better than blenders? And how is nutrition affected? What you need to know: Most people are familiar with the standard multi-speed blender used at home to create smoothies. Blenders simply ...
- Why are Movie Theaters Exempt from National Ca ...
Seems like the FDA had a busy week. Just after the travesty of de-facto approval of artificial food dyes as safe, the FDA released on Friday afternoon its proposed rules for calorie labeling in food establishments. As Marion Nestle writes: Federal agencies love releasing potentially controversia ...
- FDA Panel Votes 8-6 In Favor of Artificial Dyes
Oh dear, we had our hopes up so high earlier this week. An advisory panel to the FDA convened for 2 days to review studies linking artificial food colorings with hyperactivity in children. Unfortunately, the panel concluded that there is no clear indication that artificial food dyes cause hypera ...
- Breaking: McDonald’s Opening “McFarmers Market ...
This morning McDonald’s has announced what could be the most disruptive move in the 60 year history of fast food. Starting in early June, approximately 1000 McDonald’s locations across the country will begin hosting farmer’s markets on their premises. From McDonald’s press release: At McDonald’s ...
- Never Eat Fast Food French Fries Again
This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Yes, you can do it! You can give up your beloved french fries and celebrate their exit from your life. Seriously. Before you start arguing with me about how you simply will never leave them – have you met “homemade sweet potato fries”? Get ...
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
- 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
- Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
- Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
- How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
- Gordon Brown condemns ‘wanton destruction’ of ...
The Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Ex-British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has issued an urgent call to stop the âwanton destructionâ of Sarawakâs tropical rainforest, before it is too late. Writing in the Briti ...
- Cyber Greenwash – Malaysia Palm Oil on the attack
Oil palms planted on recently-deforested land, Sarawak © M Ross/ Survival Malaysia’s palm oil lobby has launched a new website to counter ‘propaganda’ about the controversial industry, which has faced strong criticism from Borneo tribes and international organizations. The new industry web ...
- Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousand ...
A family stand amidst the ruins of their home © COPORWA/Survival NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa âPygmiesâ homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen their homes destroyed in recent ...
- South American Indians to receive royalties fr ...
The Quechua people of Peru first cultivated potatoes up to 3,000 years ago. © H Mason/ Survival The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know ...
- British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...
- BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
- Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
- No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
- Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims. They didn't lose their sh ...
- Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
- Plastic bottle creations, recycled robot plant ...
Every now and then I realise I’ve had some great ideas & links sent to my email but not shared them with you yet – this is one of those times! First up, Vernon got into touch to tell us about his plastic bottle creations. He says he’s been making them for 15 years and [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle hair straighters/fl ...
Over on the Suggest an Item page, Nicole has said: I’ve had two straighteners/flat irons (to straighten hair) die on me. Is there a way to recycle these other than tossing them? As a minimum, they should be collected for electronic/electric waste recycling – either at your local tip/”household w ...
- How can I reuse or recycle hairdressers/beauty ...
Jeri left a question on the Suggest an Item page: I work at a beauty salon and we just got new aprons so I collected all the old black ones and all the old polyester smocks that they were going to throw away. They were just putting them in the trash so I rescued them [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle a decorative colour ...
We’re in the middle of having our bathroom replaced. It’s been a nightmare, never again etc etc – but it has had some upsides. For example, after I mentioned to the main plumber that I’d reuse the side of the old shower enclosure to make a cold frame or something, he brought me six old [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle Keurig coffee K-cups?
From one coffee-related post to another. We’ve had an email from Rose about “K-cups”: I love drinking the various flavors of Keurig coffee, but hate wasting the cups since they can’t be recycled I need suggestions on what to do. Kids crafts would be great since I have 2 little ones. I hadn’t hea ...
- Offit and Tsouderous Team Up in Online Autism ...
By Anne Dachel At noon on Tuesday, March 22, I went online for “an hour-long chat about vaccines, vaccine safety, the anti-vaccine movement and vaccine injury, with the Tribune's health reporter Trine Tsouderos and panelist Dr. Paul Offit.” Here’s how...
- The Age of Autism: Featured Advocacy Reception ...
Featured Advocacy Reception in the Presidential Suite Thursday evening at the AutismOne/Generation Rescue 2011 Conference! From our dear colleagues who brought you the magnificently well-reasoned book The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic, authors Mark Blaxill and...
- Jenny McCarthy and Byron Katie on VoiceAmerica ...
Today! Noon EDT, 9:00am Pacific. Autism One: A Conversation of Hope airs live on Tuesdays at 9 AM Pacific / 11 AM Central / 12 Noon Eastern on the VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel. To access the show, log on...
- A (Brian) Deer in the Headlights: Allowed to R ...
A Deer in the Headlights’ two years on: why was Brian Deer allowed to go on reporting on a story which he himself had created? With Brian Deer up for ‘Specialist Journalist of the Year’ tomorrow night at the British...
- Parade Magazine On "Autism's Lost Generation"
Managing Editor's Note: I'd like to thank Joanne Chen of Parade Magazine for her thoughful interviews and careful consideration of our family in the Parade Magazine online piece HERE. Also, our good friend Dan Burns and his son were featured...
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- BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
- Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
- Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
- Trade Unions
The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...
- Israeli troops mysteriously get cancer
Press TV – High occurrence of cancer has been detected in Israel’s elite naval commando unit, apparently due to the waste disposal by Israeli firms in Kishon River. The river, which flows into the Mediterranean Sea in the northern city of Haifa, has been used for training the unit, known as Shay ...
- Pakistan blast ‘kills seven’ at bu ...
BBC - At least seven people have been killed in a suicide-bomb attack at a bus station in north-west Pakistan. Twenty-two were also injured in the town of Jandool in Lower Dir, where Pakistani troops fought a major offensive against the Taliban in 2009. A member of a government-backed peace comm ...
- Fannie, Freddie Execs Get Big Bucks Despite Do ...
NPR – Sure the past year was a tough one for the millions of Americans who lost jobs or faced foreclosure, but at least some people did well. The top executives of bailed-out mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were paid very large salaries â without proper written procedures or a ...
- Climate Fact Of The Day – Uncertainty in ...
Science 17 June 2005: Vol. 308 no. 5729 pp. 1753-1754 Kevin Trenberth- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO 80307, The marked increase in land-falling hurricanes in Florida and Japan in 2004 has raised questions about whether global warming is playing a role. In his Persp ...
- China police silent on artist Ai Weiwei’ ...
BBC – The internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for more than 24 hours after being detained at Beijing airport. The artist was stopped while passing through security checks for a flight to Hong Kong. No one has seen or heard from him since. The authorities have not ...
- Molycorp to expand rare earth operation to Europe
Molycorp Inc., which owns the only rare earth mine in the U.S., plans to double its processing capacity by buying a European plant. The Colorado-based company said Monday that it was buying 90% of Estonia-based AS Silmet for $89 million...
- Solar panels power Central Valley pistachio farm
Alongside the sprawling grove of pistachio trees at Nichols Farms near Fresno, a 6-acre solar-panel installation is now up and running. The 1-megawatt concentrating photovoltaic project, built by Bechtel Power Corp. and featuring SolFocus technology, is being called the first...
- Rare earths bill attempts to boost U.S. share ...
Congress may soon ask the U.S. to ramp up its efforts to snag a larger share of the critical global rare earths supply chain. Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would direct...
- 9th Circuit Court upholds controversial EPA de ...
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of caps on motor vehicle emissions that a coalition of environmental groups had argued failed to address hazardous air pollution faced by the 1.5 million people who live next ...
- Respiratory disease in humans linked to deaths ...
A virus that causes respiratory disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, according to a study conducted by researchers in Africa and two U.S. universities.
- Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
- Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
- Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
- Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
- Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)
Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
- Indigenous community takes court ruling into o ...
A community in Malaysian Borneo seized an oil palm plantation belonging to the IOI Group after the palm oil giant failed to respect the terms of a court ruling that the plantation was established on native customary land, reports the Rainforest Action NetSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & ...
- PERU: Indians take on Amazon loggers
Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians� reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for action.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- THE CORPORATE POLITICS OF PALM OIL: New World ...
A new report from a World Growth International, a lobby group for industrial forestry interests, contains "false and misleading" information on the economic impact of reducing Indonesia's deforestation rate, says an Indonesian environmental group.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Not ...
- Dennis Kucinich's Address to Congress on the W ...
"We are not naïve about the existence of forces in the world which work against peace and against human security, but it is our fervent wish that we shall never become like those whom we condemn as lawless and without scruples."Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
- Home sought for cats left at warehouse
When Seeds of Change moved its Santa Fe operations to Los Angeles last year, the seed warehouse abandoned not only 17 local jobs, but also two cats that had provided organic vermin control.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Morgan Freeman 'Born to Be Wild' Interview wit ...
Morgan Freeman finally won an Academy Award in 2005 in the Best Supporting Actor category for his work in Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby,'
- Why We Did This: The Opportunity to Turn Failu ...
The cost in human life is impossible to calculate, but these questions are worth pondering. How many potential scientists never got the chance to develop because their schooling in the projects was stunted?
- Gas Prices Skyrocket Upwards in Sacramento
Including the change in gas prices in Sacramento during the past week, prices yesterday were 98.7 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 18.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
- Palestinians Aim to Impose UN Resolution
Such unilateral action outside the negotiation process would constitute a fundamental breach of the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement, thereby releasing Israel from its reciprocal commitments.
- Focused Guerrero is Ready to Roll
Guerrero's courageous decision to abandon a world title shot to be with his cancer-stricken wife, Casey, in her darkest hour made him a hero to millions regardless of whether he won another fight.
- Jackets-Stars preview
8:30 TONIGHT AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER TV: Fox Sports Net (HD) Radio: WBNS-FM (97.1) The series The Blue Jackets are 13-21-0-5 all-time against Dallas, including 6-11-0-2 in American Airlines Center. This is the fourth and final...
- AirTran lands atop U.S. airline rankings
ATLANTA - AirTran Airways, soon to be acquired by Southwest Airlines, came out on top in the annual Airline Quality Rating study of U.S. carriers. AirTran got the top score among 16 airlines based on 2010 on-time performance, baggage handling, denied boardings and complaints to the federal ...
- Alberto Aquilani reiterates desire to sta ...
Juventus midfielder Alberto Aquilani is hopeful he will remain at the club beyond the summer. The Italian playmaker is on loan at the Turin giants until the end of the season from...
- Baldwin, Spacey call for arts funding in ...
WASHINGTON - Actors Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey are expected to visit Capitol Hill to press Congress to preserve arts funding...
- Miandad could be appointed Pak team's bat ...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is negotiating with former skipper Javed Miandad to accept the post of the national team's batting coach. ODI skipper Shahid Afridi told reporters after a meeting with PCB chief Ijaz Butt that the board was...
- US Labor Department Demands Refund in Maine Mu ...
WASHINGTON — If Maine Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t wish to display a mural depicting the state’s labor history, then the federal money used to create it should be returned, the U.S. Department of Labor says. The department said Monday that LePage violated the terms of federal laws governing money ...
- Unions Mark MLK's Death with National Protests
The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed 43 years ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside the workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights.read more
- Workers' Rights are Under Threat Across the World
Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on this day in 1968. He was there to support striking sanitation workers, fighting for the right to have their union recognised by their employer; fighting for the right to collective bargaining. ...
- Obama Reverses Course: No Civilian Trials for ...
In a sharp reversal of the Obama administration's policy on trying Sept. 11 suspects in U.S. courts, mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators will be tried in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Attorney General Eric Holder today placed the blame squarely on Congress for c ...
- Libyan War: A Showcase in the New Arms Race
PARIS - The photograph shows a French Rafale warplane at the Mitiga air base outside Tripoli. A small crowd of men, women and children mill around the fighter, its tail fin lit up by the North African sun. read more
- Smart Grid -- Let’s Get Horizontal!
How the energy information age will change how we use power
- Corn and Ethanol: The Missing Food vs. Fuel Ci ...
Corn futures have spiked to their highest price of the year, and, as the Wall St. Journal reported over the weekend, to their highest level since 2008, following news that US corn inventories had declined by 15%, compared to a year earlier.
- Chernobyl and Fukushima – Measuring our Monste ...
The first rule of Horror Films 101 is “Don’t reveal your monster too soon”. Fear is all about suggestion. Hints. Things that go bump in the night. Letting vague connections swell in the imagination. Chernobyl. Fukushima. But once your monster is front and center on screen, anti-climax is tough t ...
- Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around and introduce legislation aimed at making g ...
- Does the President Realize We’re About to Have ...
The upshot of President Barack Obama’s latest energy speech is correct. We can reduce one-third of our oil imports by 2025. Ironically, the United States has simultaneously never had a better or worse energy outlook. Improving corporate average efficiency standards will effectively bring America ...
- IKEA to develop green product scorecard
Ikea, the global home furnishings retailer, is developing an internal scorecard of its products this year to promote the use of sustainable and recyclable materials.
- Rolling Stones' Leavell: Mother Nature Network ...
Chuck Leavell, a renowned keyboardist, has spent decades touring the world with the Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers, George Harrison, Eric Clapton— you name it. But as if that's not interesting enough, he also co-founded Mother Nature Network, which has expanded quickly.
- Gallup: Most Americans say U.S. nuclear power ...
Amid Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis, 58% of Americans think U.S. nuclear power plants are safe but remain split over the need for more plants, a Gallup poll Monday shows.
- Senate chief: Budget deal won't stop EPA's cli ...
The Senate's Democratic leader said Friday that a U.S. budget deal, which President Obama said is "close," won't contain a GOP measure to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
- USDA unveils 60 products with new bio-based label
Five dozen products, including hand soaps and engine oils, will soon be sold with a new "BioPreferred" label to show they contain agricultural ingredients, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday.
- Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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- Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
- Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
- Paul Allen v. The Internet
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
- Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...
- The Democrats "False Flag" Candidate
By Numerian This is a political crime of deception, an enormous bait and switch, in which liberals and quite a few independents were misled by a serial liar who purposely characterized himself as a reformer... Numerian Did you receive your email from Barack Obama yet? If you are a Democrat, o ...
- Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
By Dana Gabriel http://beyourownleader.blogspot.com/2011/03/canada-us-deep-integration-agenda_28.html � Canada and the U.S recently issued a joint threat and risk assessment as part of ongoing efforts to further enhance security on the northern border. This initiative supports a declaration by ...
- Shock Troops Used to Prevent Vet-Led Flower La ...
Right to Peaceably Assemble to Redress Grievances Undermined by Quantico Marine Command that Violates Soldier’s Oath By Kevin Zeese “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true f ...
- I believe I Saw Muammar Gadaffi On My Way To t ...
The sting of satire can often underscore certain truths that straight prose rarely manages to touch. By Gaither Stewart Silvio Berlusconi. Until yesterday a loyal pal of Gaddafi's. Today, one of his executioners.(Roma) A cold wind was blowing down Mussolini’s showpiece avenue. The Via dei ...
- Where U.S. Chooses to Back ‘Armed Strugg ...
By Nicola Nasser* Within a few days, the “Silmiya” (peaceful) popular uprising against the 42-year old rule of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya had turned into an “armed struggle” and in no time the U.S. administration was in full gear backing the Libyan armed violent revolt, which has turned into a fu ...
- Federal budget analysis
Why analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come. Click here to read our analysis of the 45-minute budget, explaining why it wasn't worth supporting. Click ...
- This or that: Which would you choose?
Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets. We've c ...
- Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...
The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...
- International Day for the Elimination of Racia ...
Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wellesley Institute on Canada�s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada�s labour market. �We found that during the heyday of Canada�s pre-rece ...
- Ben Parfitt on the dangers of fracking in toda ...
The Vancouver Sun today published Ben Parfitt's op ed on the dangers of "fracking" in Northern BC. (Fracking is hydraulic fracturing: a method of extracting gas by injecting fluid and sand into cracks in rock formations to force them further open.) A group of citizens in the Peace Region — Pea ...
- Sell an ounce of cocaine and you go to jail, W ...
Cocaine smugglers laundered billions through Wachovia bank | Yahoo News Somehow, the major banks in the United States have gone from serving as the main bulwarks of credit and entrepreneurial pluck to the moral equivalent of a James Bond villain. There were, for instance, the jaw-dropping mortga ...
- Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich, Big Tax Hikes f ...
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Proposes Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich, Big Tax Hikes for Middle Class | Think Progress One of the organizing principles of the conservative movement revolves around always cutting taxes and resisting any moves towards raising revenues. Hundreds of conservatives have eve ...
- This Is What Resistance Looks Like
by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Op-Ed – The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left. We will not halt the laying off of teachers and other public employees, the ...
- Hippie Movies
10 Cool Hippie Type Movies | Screen Junkies If you love flower power, peace signs, and the social activism that hippies were all about, you will likely enjoy these 10 cool hippie type movies. There are Hollywood myths regarding what the hippie was, but these movie present a wide variety of hippi ...
- “Willie weed” is considered the gold standard ...
When It Comes to Marijuana, Willie’s Punishment Seems to Vaporize | The New York Times On Nov. 26, Border Patrol agents at the eastbound Interstate 10 immigration checkpoint just west of the far West Texas town of Sierra Blanca arrested Mr. Nelson inside his touring bus, Honeysuckle Rose, after ...
- The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
- Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
- VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
- The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
- Cairo in Wisconsin
The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...
- The truth about Philadelphia 1787
This originally appeared at New Deal 2.0
- Primitive Muslims' unique love of violence
University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, today, echoing so many by lamenting the compulsive violence of Muslims:
- Obama 2012: Let's talk next year
Monday brought a strange convergence of political events: President Obama officially launched his campaign for reelection, with an email to supporters asking that they come back and make "Obama for America" an even greater grass-roots behemoth than it was in 2008, along with a video of lovely ...
- The myths that just won't die
About the only thing I�can say about this piece from Gregg Easterbook is that I'm absolutely floored by the ignorance it conveys.
- Did a Quran burning really cause Afghan violence?
A little more than two weeks ago, Florida pastor Terry Jones orchestrated a bizarre mock-trial against the Quran in his Gainesville church. At its conclusion, Jones set fire to the holy book. In a different era, the episode would probably have been little more than an afterthought. And, to be ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Smart Grid -- Let’s Get Horizontal!
How the energy information age will change how we use power
- Corn and Ethanol: The Missing Food vs. Fuel Ci ...
Corn futures have spiked to their highest price of the year, and, as the Wall St. Journal reported over the weekend, to their highest level since 2008, following news that US corn inventories had declined by 15%, compared to a year earlier.
- Chernobyl and Fukushima – Measuring our Monste ...
The first rule of Horror Films 101 is “Don’t reveal your monster too soon”. Fear is all about suggestion. Hints. Things that go bump in the night. Letting vague connections swell in the imagination. Chernobyl. Fukushima. But once your monster is front and center on screen, anti-climax is tough t ...
- Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around and introduce legislation aimed at making g ...
- Does the President Realize We’re About to Have ...
The upshot of President Barack Obama’s latest energy speech is correct. We can reduce one-third of our oil imports by 2025. Ironically, the United States has simultaneously never had a better or worse energy outlook. Improving corporate average efficiency standards will effectively bring America ...
- Good humour diminishes the capacity to memoris ...
Having fun at a party and then forgetting the names of who has just been introduced may be related. According to research conducted in the United States, good humor diminishes the ability to remember information. The team, led by doctoral student, Elizabeth Martin, University of Missouri, asked ...
- Federal Agents Told to Reduce Border Arrests, ...
An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce – at times even stop – arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told FoxNews.com that a supervisor with the U.S. Border P ...
- U.S. wants to use India in missile shield agai ...
The United States has been trying to rope in India for its plans to build a global missile defence system threatening Russia and China, the Komsomoloskaya Pravda, a popular Russian daily published from Moscow reported on Thursday. In a story based on the WikiLeaks releases, the report said the U ...
- Netanyahu asks UN Chief to stop Upcoming Gaza ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the flotilla, scheduled to head toward the Gaza Strip in May, is a provocation and goods can easily be transported to the strip via land. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki- ...
- Shimon Peres welcomes Arab uprisings
Israeli president says events in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries represent an opportunity for Israel and the Palestinians. The Israeli president, Shimon Peres, has welcomed “the winds of change” blowing through the Middle East and said events in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries re ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Special Education High School Transition Services
From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
- Don't Quit Your Day Job
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
- Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...
- NTT DoCoMo Update on Post Tsunami Situation
I periodically got updates from NTT DoCoMo (since I met up with them during 2010 CommunicAsia) and while the news says that recovery is very much in progress, when I looked at NTT DoCoMo’s latest report (4th April), it seems that there are work to be done. Fukushima is totally not accessible ba ...
- Kemba Walker Drove The Bus To The Title
"From last season, the loss to Virginia Tech, Coach, he gave me the keys. From that point on, I just drove." -Kemba Walker, April 4, 2011, after UConn won its 11th consecutive game, a 53-41 victory over Butler for the program's third national championship
- Next iPhone 5 Launching in 4th Week of June?
Next iPhone 5 Launching in 4th Week of June? is a post from: Gadgets DNA Korean site ETNews.co.kr is claiming that Apple is planning to launch the iPhone 5 during the 4th week of June. The claim actually looks foggy to us, as Apple’s WWDC 2011 is all about software only and multiple reports su ...
- Fed Watch: The Good, The Bad, and the Fed
Tim Duy: The Good, The Bad, and the Fed, by Tim Duy : The data flow can be characterized as generally good from a growth perspective and generally bad from a levels perspective. Fed policymakers who focus on the former will tend toward removing policy accommodation sooner than later. Those who ...
- Michael Steele Was Correct, Bill Kristol Was W ...
For starters, based upon mainstream media reports, one would have no idea Obama's Afghanistan strategy has cost more American lives in two years , than those lost under Bush in approximately eight. Media was routinely doing high profile totals with every new fatality under Bush. As soon as Obam ...
- Viacom Appeal: YouTube Hits Back, Says Its A ...
The brief takes time to note the positive and obviously socially beneficial uses of YouTube: videos include "raw video footage taken in war zones or during protests in foreign capitals... video messages sent by U.S. soldiers overseas to their families back home." Governments, universities, non-p ...
- Google Loses Swiss Street View Case, May Have ...
A Swiss court has sided with privacy regulators in that country, ruling that Google's system for automatically blurring faces in Street View doesn't go far enough, even though Google (NSDQ: GOOG) says that system manages to blur 99 percent of the faces that show up in its images...the company is ...
- Google's Integrity - and Missing the Point of ...
There are firms where such a request from the CEO would be viewed by underlings as an order from God, to be obeyed immediately and without question. Not so with Google, according to this Levy story. Google comes out smelling like a rose, its search integrity intact and solid. Of course, such a ...
- OSI Responds to German Federal Cartel Office r ...
OSI just responded to German Federal Cartel Office enquiry about the CPTN transaction - response will be published when they acknowledge. - Simon Phipps, Twitter
- FLOSS Weekly: Open Source Software at the DOD ...
[PJ: FLOSS Weekly will be hosted by David A. Wheeler on April 6 at 10 AM.] - TWiT tv
- US government to write panic button for activists
The US government says it will helpfully supply apps for phones that will delete incriminating info from cell phones in case the baddies are about to confiscate it. Hmm, color me suspicious Who are the authors? Certainly the app would need to be examined to insure it’s not phoning home to a US g ...
- Does free speech include the right to mouth of ...
Stve Hynd, a Polizeros Radio blogging partner, says Terry Jones’ inflammatory burning of Korans perhaps should not be protected by freedom of speech. Some thoughts. 1) Jones’ church has about 50 members. For the mainstream media to give him such slavish and devoted coverage is twisted and derang ...
- No good options for California budget
(My latest for CAIVN, the California Independent Voter Network)) Not only are there no good options for passing a budget before the money runs out, there aren’t even any bad options. As too often happens, negotiations and machinations over the budget could go on for many more months before an ag ...
- Maybe the UN needs to intervene in Japan?
Tepco to try silt fence to stop radioactive water This after trying trying to pour in concrete then attempting to block the leak with sawdust and newspapers. Look, Tepco is clearly incompetent and has also repeatedly shown clear and reckless disregard for human life. The oceans and air belong to ...
- What Have They Done To The Rain. The Searchers
One of the first anti-nuclear power songs
- Open thread, early April 2011
Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
- More on Turkey/Syria
On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
- What can be done in Syria (and could have been ...
Syria is, like Libya, a one-man-ruled country with a long history of having been on Washington's hit-list that in the past two weeks has witnessed mounting popular protests and government attempts to crack down. I have made periodic reporting trips to Syria for 35 years now and have a broad ran ...
- War and humanitarianism: From Kosovo to Libya?
The three western governments that have, with a little help from two Arab governments, been undertaking very lethal military action against Libya in the past eight days have worked to "justify" those acts of war largely in the name of either ending an existing humanitarian crisis or preventing ...
- Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...
- National is failing the people of Christchurch ...
This is really sad. I would have thought that the National Party would care about rebuilding Christchurch following the devastation of their earthquakes. And I would have thought that a compassionate, albeit conservative, major Government party would have agreed that a temporary levy on higher ...
- Roger Awards
Last night Green MP Keith Locke and myself attended the Roger Awards an annual event which “celebrates” the worst multinationals affecting Aotearoa/New Zealand. Chief Judge of the 2010 awards Christine Dann and her team of supporting judges awarded first place to the utterly deserving Warners B ...
- Welfare reforms failing in the UK – for all bu ...
Part of the grand plan to emerge from the Welfare Working Group is to have greater private sector involvement in job placement. I guess the rationale is that the private sector does things “more efficiently”. So I decided to have a look at how the welfare reforms in the United Kingdom, which m ...
- Tunnel or bridge? Either must prioritise rail.
New research just out shows the majority of Aucklanders want the new link to the North Shore to include rail. The UMR research found 79% favour the inclusion of rail. Like Jarbury, I’m not sure that another road link will be needed at all, given that oil prices are going to stay high, and traffi ...
- List Ranking Underway
List ranking is underway in the Green Party. Ballot papers, candidate biographies and an Initial List have just gone out to members. The Initial List was formed by the votes of branch delegates and the candidates themselves, following the Green Party conference in Auckland in early February. At ...
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