5 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The Courageous, Serious, Gutsy Paul Ryan
  David Brooks on Paul Ryan's long-term budget proposal: Today, Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, is scheduled to release the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes....His proposal will set the stand ...
• Caving in to the Mob
  Jane Mayer on Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 defendants in military tribunals instead of civilian courts: Today’s news that K.S.M. is slated now for a military trial in the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, rather than facing a criminal tr ...
• Mitt Romney, Scared of His Own Shadow
  Considering the clown show he's part of, I'd say that Mitt Romney is probably the least bad Republican candidate for president running right now. But that's a pretty low bar, and Romney's almost pathological fear of being on the wrong side of an issue — any issue — was on full display over t ...
• Paul Ryan's Voucher Plan for Medicare
  I imagine that we're going to spend a fair amount of time this week talking about Paul Ryan's plan to cut corporate taxes and slash Medicare, but I think I'll wait until tomorrow to jump in. I'd rather react to the plan itself than to the Sunday chat show version of what the plan might be. ...
• Mike Huckabee's Memory Hole
  I can't really think of anything to actually say about this, but I'm sort of gobsmacked by Siddhartha Mahanta's piece today informing us that Mike Huckabee physically erased and crushed all the hard drives in his office when his term as governor of Arkansas ended: In February, Mother Jone ...

Insanity Report

• IC 239: I Blame OJ
  Topics: Drunk dialing Teacher makes fun of student’s hair on Facebook….but for good reason Snooki gets $32,000 to speak to college kids We’re doing it all wrong Everything is OJ Simpson’s fault Share with your friends:
• IC 238: Student Athletes
  Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
• No One Does Fear Like Glenn Beck…No One…
  The hilarity from this video is almost too much. Which country in the Middle East has the same morals as us? Well Glenny, if you include the shadiness of the U.S. government then of course the answer is Israel. Of course we know that’s not what Beck meant. Remember, he’s not talking bad about Is ...
• FacePalm of the Week: 3rd Time’s The Charm
  Want a perfect example that politics and government, while maybe not broken, is severely hampered by bullshit?  Well I got the perfect one for you.  In Florida they are on their 3rd attempt to ban bestiality.  Yes…THIRD attempt. The saga began in January of 2008, when the raping and killing o ...
• IC 237: Sucker Punched
  Topics: VCU fucks up everyone brackets Zack Snyder sucker punches movie watchers everywhere Why can’t people just make movies fun? The irony of social conservatives talking about morals Donald Trump is a birther Why does it take 3 attempts to ban bestiality? Chris Brown hasn’t learned a thing Sh ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• 4 new genes for Alzheimer's disease risk ident ...
  In the largest study of its kind, researchers from a consortium of 44 universities and research institutions in the United States, including Rush University Medical Center, identified four new genes linked to Alzheimer's disease. read more
• Bone marrow cells that transform into skin cel ...
  Researchers at King's College London and Osaka University in Japan have identified specific bone marrow cells that can transform into skin cells to repair damaged skin tissue, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). read more
• Nanoparticles improve solar collection efficiency
  Using minute graphite particles 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, mechanical engineers at Arizona State University hope to boost the efficiency—and profitability—of solar power plants. read more
• Stronger alcohol 'buzz' predicts future binge ...
  For some people, alcohol is a social lubricant. For others, it's an unpleasant downer. New research shows that a person's response to alcohol can predict their future drinking behavior, including their frequency of binge drinking and the risk of developing an alcohol-use disorder. read more
• When African animals hit the hay
  Fossil teeth of African animals show that during the past 10 million years, different plant-eating critters began grazing on grass at different times as many switched from a salad-bar diet of tree leaves and shrubs, says a University of Utah study. read more

unEarthed

• Monday Reads: The Lost Shipping Container Edition
  A sunken steel behemoth provides refuge and life ... or not? You know those humongous shipping containers that traverse the world in smog polluting ships? Shipping containers, packed full o' goodies. (Dorothy / Flickr) Yeah, ...
• Not "Having Fun" In Bokoshe, OK
  ABC News tells how "Making Money Having Fun" destroyed Oklahoma town Suella Hudson and her daughter (in picture) both died of cancer. Photo courtesy of Carlan Tapp. ...
• Friday Finds: Toilet Talk
  Nuclear money, devilish diseases, superbug crisis Californians are eyeballing human waste as a possible source of energy. Photo courtesy of Matt Seppings. ...
• Kansas Keeps Getting In The Way of Big Coal
  Judge rules against fed's approach to Sunflower coal-fired power plant Courtesy redgreenandblue.org After four years of trying, Big Coal’s national ambition ...
• Obama Says the Cure for Oil Addiction Is More Oil
  One year after Gulf oil spill, he calls for expansion of drilling As oil and gas prices again climb in response to Middle East travails, the phrase “Drill, Bab ...

Brave New Climate

• Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our ...
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. For another terrific article by Geoff, related to Fukushima and radiation risk read: Cancer deaths in Japan will be from alcohol ...
• Some other perspectives on Fukushima
  Apart from getting on with my life (e.g., building a new computer, catching up with my backlog at work, spending time with the family, etc.), I’ve been spending the last few days reading widely on what other people have had to say, in reflection, on the Fukushima crisis. Here are some highlights ...
• Fukushima Daiichi crisis – April 1 persp ...
  The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has moved off the front page of most newspapers, but a lot continues to happen, and the situation remains unresolved. Below I offer some personal perspectives on some of the things that have been widely reported over the last few days, and then I conclude wit ...
• Fukushima Philosophical Discussion Open Thread
  It was suggested in a comment — and I agree — that the previous open threads on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident were becoming difficult to read, because they are such a mixture of technical details and philosophical discourse. That is, it’s generally a bad idea to cater to two different a ...
• Fukushima Technical Discussion Open Thread
  It was suggested in a comment — and I agree — that the previous open threads on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident were becoming difficult to read, because they are such a mixture of technical details and philosophical discourse. That is, it’s generally a bad idea to cater to two different a ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• The Fix America Plan
  Correcting America’s financial problems is easy. We ALL will have to sacrifice some. Including corporations. Including the filthy rich, the rich, the middle class, and the rest of us. Here is the fix America plan that would work. End the Bush tax cuts. Tax corporations a 20% on global income bot ...
• What Do You Mean?
  So let me get this straight. Is the middle class waking up? Are they finally starting to figure out that having corporations screw us for our own good isn’t actually good for us? Is having the middle class pay more taxes so corporations don’t have pay any income tax really what’s good for Americ ...
• Shame Shame Shame
  Shame shame shame shame shame
• David Koch – We Want Our Money Back
  We Want Our Money Back Dear Mr. Koch. We want our money back. What money? The money you stole from AMERICA. The money you, and your friends socked away with the help of a corrupt system, bought and paid for politicians, and banksters. When you paid to put that maggot in the governor’s mansi ...
• Wake Up
  Wake up and do something. The billionaires, and the corporations they control have been destroying our nation for long enough.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• WATCH: Juliano Mer Khamis’ “Arna’s ...
• Activist, actor, director Juliano Mer Khamis a ...
  (updated below) News just broke that Juliano Mer Khamis, who has established and run the Freedom Theater in Jenin, has been assassinated by  masked gunmen in the refugee camp near the theatre.  Mer Khamis, son of a Palestinian father and a Jewish mother, has faced threats since forever: From con ...
• Challenging the evangelical bias against Pales ...
  By Aziz Abu Sarah Last week Ynetnews.com published an article by Johnnie Moore, a Christian evangelical pastor and vice president of Liberty University (the largest evangelical university in the world, founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell). Moore was visiting Israel with a group of students on ...
• Goldstone clarifications: Just another distraction
  Shortly after the Goldstone Report was published, a wealthy American Jewish woman at a New York cocktail event leaned in to tell me how horrible the report is. Waving her jeweled hands, she keened: “We’re living in a nightmare!” Israeli society seemed to feel the same. The Goldstone Report has b ...
• “Army crossed another red line:” r ...
  The Israeli army arrested 19 Jewish peace activists who held a demonstration outside of the West Bank village of Beit Ummar on Saturday. One of the activists who was arrested and beaten shares his recollection of the day’s events. âThe army has crossed another red line,â Micha Kurz, longtime J ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Queensland Lower Balonne catchment water purc ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today announced a tender for water purchases in the Queensland Lower Balonne catchment under the Gillard Government's new approach to recovering water for the environment through smaller, more consistent tenders.
• Secure water future for Australia's National ...
  The Australian National Botanic Gardens will be irrigated with water from Lake Burley Griffin, saving up to 170 million litres of Canberra's drinking water each year.
• Support for Murray-Darling Basin communities
  Tony Burke, Minister for Water, today announced that the Gillard Government will invest in Murray Darling Basin communities with support to implement water savings initiatives.
• Wilgie Mia on National Heritage List
  Wilgie Mia, an ochre mine near Cue in the Murchison district of Western Australia and used for centuries by Indigenous people, will be added to Australia's National Heritage List.
• Working together to care for our country
  Proposals for land care and environment projects from across the nation are invited under the Caring for our Country 2011-12 business plan.

Matt Weidner Blog

• WOW! Palm Beach Post Nails It– Are Judge ...
  Palm Beach Post Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Please Watch 60 Minutes Tonight!
  For a variety of reasons, I’ve been a bit quite on the blog of late.  I certainly don’t have less to say and things have not gotten better to where I feel I can stop…..I’m just biding my time…..and preparing. Good law continues to be made in most of my cases and while that gives [...]
• Our Hero Lynn Syzmoniak on 60 Minutes This Sunday!
  As this war rages on, it’s easy to focus on all the ways we are losing the battle for integrity, for justice, for the respect of basic law and respect for important Constitutional rights. It’s demoralizing to go into courtrooms day after day, continuing to fight the same battles over and over an ...
• A MONSTER ORDER VACATING A FINAL JUDGMENT OF F ...
  Florida’s courts are underfunded to a level that violates our fundamental Constitutional rights. Florida’s legislature has whittled down the funding of our court system so that our courts are funded with only .07 of the state’s entire budget. During this year’s legislative session, the legislato ...
• RICK SCOTT IS THE ANTICHRIST-HELP ME BOO HIM O ...
  Looks like the front doorstep of my office will be ground zero in the battle to BOO RICK SCOTT. We’re all warning about the terror and tragedy that is descending upon EVERY SINGLE FLORIDIAN and I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERY READER OF THIS BLOG. PLEASE COME OUT TOMORROW TO PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF ...

abelard - news

• heavy metals in the fossil fuel industry | eco ...
  While nuclear Luddites point out the relatively minor problems with nuclear power, the details about problems with the coal industry come out very infrequently.
• nuclear and coal - a totally muddled, innumera ...
  How fossil fuel coal costs are massaged by ignoring exported pollution costs.
• noyon cathedral, picardy | the France zone at ...
  A once major French cathedral that was vandalised during the Revolution, then terribly damaged by the Germans during WW1. Beta release as yet, but this page will grow to join the Germans in France area at abelard.org.
• religion makes you fat | behaviour and intelli ...
  A strange colleration, but why?
• futaba/fukushima - earthquake 10 times design ...
  Who could have imagined or predicted the size of the recent Japanese earthquake/tsunami? Now to learn from their correct choices and their mistakes.

The Parallel Parliament

• “He Not Coming Back For You”
  “Glen, come on, you’ve got to get out front.” I just can’t do it easily. Politics isn’t much of a place for a person with a shy nature, but that’s what I find myself in. And campaigns can be difficult for someone like that – all the handshaking, stump speeches, interviews. And yet I do [...]
• Campaign Opening
  Most of the candidates had their official launches this past Saturday, and as a key rallying point for the volunteers they are pivotal. Campaign offices are the nerve centre for what happens in the five-week campaign and mine is no different. Although the profile of many of those volunteering in ...
• 300
  The big question: “Why are we wasting 400 million dollars on an election campaign nobody needs?” A valid query, except that’s it’s about 100 million dollars off the mark. Two years ago, in an election campaign called by Stephen Harper against his own election law (every four years), the PM conti ...
• “We Are Not Responsible For Their Action ...
  Apparently it was brutal. Yesterday, I heard from Jeremy, a good friend of mine in Ottawa, who had himself lost an abiding friend in the raid of the UN compound in Afghanistan that left over a dozen people dead. I told him I didn’t want to talk politics, or the election campaign; I just wanted [...]
• What’s In A Face?
  It was a pretty special night. William Blake used to say that if a person’s face never gave any light then they could never become a star. If that’s true, Michael Ignatieff hit the big time here in London last night. We knew something special was happening an hour before his town hall when the [...]

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
  OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
• Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
  This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
• Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
  Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
  I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
• The art of regulating nanotechnologies
  The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago while visiting Venice. At the time I ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
  The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
• Making Health the Default
  A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
• How much meat do we eat, anyway?
  Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question.  The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry.  But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more.  So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
• What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
  What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...
• The Locavore debate, revisited
  How can local food systems support a resilient and sustainable future food economy in the United States? That was the question of the day at a recent conference entitled, “Reviving the American Economy-One Heirloom Tomato at a Time.”  But for some, the question isn’t so much how, but even can ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Pembina reacts to Liberal Party election platform
  Pembina Institute 3 Apr 2011 OTTAWA, ON — The Pembina Institute's Clare Demerse made the following statement in response to today's release of the Liberal Party platform: "Ove ...
• Southern land-use plan falls short of public e ...
  Castle Special Place Working Group 31 Mar 2011 Lethbridge — South Saskatchewan Regional Advisory Council (RAC) recommendations to continue development on land also identified as co ...
• Environmental Assessment Changes: Will They Af ...
  19 Apr 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00 Environmental Law Centre 19 Apr 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00 Are you confused about how recent changes in Environmental Assessment law will affect your practi ...
• ELC Comments on the Statutory Review of the Ca ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted its�Comments on the Statutory Review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Source: Environmental Law Centre
• Door Remains Open for Hunting of Alberta’s Thr ...
  Temporary Hunt Restriction Needs to be Extended Alberta Wilderness Association 29 Mar 2011 The future for Alberta’s grizzly ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News: April 4, 2011
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 4 ==== 1. Video And Text: Sweden – From Neutrality To NATO 2. Ivory Coast: France Deploys More Troops As Battle For Capital Intensifies 3. Dutch Marines Kill Two Suspected Pirates In Gulf Of Aden 4. Video And Text: NATO Troops Kill Afghan Civilian, Abduct His So ...
• Updates on Libyan war: April 4
  ==== Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command ==== Why NATO Cannot Be Trusted Mounting Alarm Over U.S. Use Of Depleted Uranium Arms In Libya Impact Of Depleted Uranium Ammunition In The War On Libya Today It Is Libya, Tomorrow It Is You: Namibian MPs ==== Why NATO Cannot Be Trusted http:// ...
• Updates on Libyan war: April 3
  ==== Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command ==== Libyan War: U.S. Agrees To NATO Request For More Air Strikes Libya Warns Of Catastrophe If NATO Bombs Great Man-Made River Video And Text: MSNBC’s Longstanding Love Affair With War Over 200 NATO Warplanes Pounding Libya, More To Come Libya ...
• Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command
  Stop NATO April 3, 2011 Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command Rick Rozoff On the morning of March 31 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization assumed full command of military operations against Libya, effecting the transfer of air, naval and preliminary ground operations from U.S. Africa ...
• Updates on Libyan war: April 2
  ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 2 ==== Italy: Thousands Protest As Libyan War Enters Third Week Report: Civilians Killed As NATO Warplanes Strafe Libyan Towns NATO Air Strike Kills At Least Ten Libyan Rebels British Legal Experts: Arming Libyan Rebels Violates UN Charter Pentagon Chief, Top U. ...

Before It's News

• Free Will isnt What it Cracks up to Be.
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Intel Hub

• Japan Nuclear Crisis: Live Report From Citizen ...
  NotForSale2NWO March 4th, 2011 The Intel Hub Radio with special guest David. Download the full show here http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Intel_Hub/Intel_Hub.2011-04-04_16k.mp3 The Intel Hub Radio http://theintelhub.com http://theintelhubradio.com Oracle Broadcasting – The Intel Hub Is Live Mon ...
• Illegal War In Libya Is CIA Run, Media Shills ...
  NotForSale2NWO Apr 4th, 2011 The Intel Hub with special guest Susan Lindauer, former U.S. asset covering Libya, 9/11, and Iraq Listen/Download Full Show http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Intel_Hub/Intel_Hub.2011-04-04_16k.mp3 The Intel Hub http://theintelhub.com http://theintelhubradio.com Susan ...
• What Is Going On In The Ibaraki Prefecture? Ra ...
  Rys2sense.com April 4th, 2011 First of all let me explain, the Japanese news coverage for Fukushima has been like pulling teeth, only admitting things slowly as they become forced to by foreign and alternative media. Here is something that quite literally flew under the radar. Further South of F ...
• Merciless Green Austerity System On The Agenda ...
  By Michael Vail(Chief Editor of BLN) Vantagepointradio.com April 4th, 2011 – Originally published on March 30th The United Nations flag with the grid over the globe is an important clue for those who monitor world affairs. They are tightening their grip on the earth and laying out their control ...
• Alert: NC Bill Threatens to Criminalize Naturo ...
  NaturalNews By Ethan A. Huff April 4th, 2011 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 “unaut ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

• Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
  During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
• Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
  We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
• Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
  We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
• Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
  As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
• The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
  Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...

StillSmallVoice

• The preacher your preacher could preach like
  I don't even care what he's selling. This is funny. And thanks, Vegas, for letting me steal this off of you on Facebook.
• The holy war against unions
  According to Mother Jones, the conservative evangelical group Family Research Council is helping finance Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's push against collective bargaining. According to FRC president Tony Perkins: Pro-family voters should celebrate WI victory b/c public & private sector union b ...
• Can we be just a little bit civil?
  The Connecticut Humanities Council is hosting a program on April 18 with Nina Simon and Jim Leach, chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities. The morning program begins at 10 a.m. with Simon, author of "The Participatory Museum," and includes a lunch program with Leach, who will speak a ...
• Before we plunge into the women's NCAA champio ...
  That's my niece, Sharenda, in the upper left hand corner of her official 2010-2011 Webb City High School basketball team photo. I'd get�sick running wind sprints in my high school's pre-dawn gym -- pre-dawn because the boys needed to practice, too, and God forbid they should have to set their a ...
• For the family of Edwin Rivera
  For more information on how you can help, contact Christian Porter at 860-334-8712, or�email him at�ctmicro@sbcglobal.net. For more on Army Staff Sgt. Edwin Rivera, go here.

Associated Content

• Kroger Customer Deeply Concerned About Epsilon ...
  Epsilon, an online marketing company that manages customer data from many major retail stores, was hacked into this past week.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Apr 04, 2011
• Khalid Sheik Muhammad to Be Tried at Guantanam ...
  When running for President, Barack Obama vowed that he would close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and try terrorist prisoners in civilian courts. But, as the saying goes, that was then and this is now.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 04, 2011
• Health Care Reform: Repeal of 1099 Requirement ...
  Despite the fact that the "way to pay" is still unclear, repeal of the 1099 requirement has support across the spectrum, from the public to the business community, from the House and the Senate, and all the way to the president's desk.Contributor: Susan Montag Published: Apr 04, 2011
• Factbox: The Backlash Against Comic Sans
  Google surprised users on April Fools' Day by announcing Comic Sans would be its default font on all products beginning April 4, 2011. The typeface has been heavily criticized and a movement is in place to ban the font.Contributor: Derek Ciapala Published: Apr 04, 2011
• Romney Tries to Turn Health Care Reform Lemons ...
  Mitt Romney has all of the advantages of a potential frontrunner. He is telegenic, a former governor, has a reputation for sound, economic acumen, and has run for president before, But he had one very heavy millstone hung around him.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 03, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Genetically Modified Cows Produce Milk Akin To ...
  In a potential new step for genetically modified food, babies could someday drink human-like milk derived from herds of genetically modified dairy cows, which scientists say could supplement breast milk and replace baby formula. Scientists have created 300 cows that produce milk with some of th ...
• Professional Astronomers Assemble Hundreds of ...
  A pair of professional astronomers resolved the orbit of a bright comet using photos shot by their amateur counterparts. The research shows it’s possible to mine Internet photo-sharing sites for science — even if the astrophotographers didn’t know they were taking part in a crowdsourcing experi ...
• This Week in the Future, March 28-April 1, 2011
  Do not adjust your computer monitor, tablet, or smartphone. Do not bother rubbing your eyes. Just scoff, as the chicks do, at the patently impossible air conditioner. Then enter our contest for the chance to win a t-shirt emblazoned with said chicks, said air conditioner, and a host of other sc ...
• Company Offers $3 Million for an Algorithm Tha ...
  It’s almost as if Heritage Provider Network set out to create the perfect PopSci story by mashing up all of our favorite things: clever algorithms, a multi-million dollar intellectual competition, and the future. The California-based health care provider has put up a purse of $3 million for the ...
• Algae Could Be Key to Cleaning Up Nuclear Acci ...
  Algae can secrete biofuels and pump out biologic drugs, and now researchers think it could help clean up radioactive accidents like the one unfolding at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility. A Northwestern University researcher has identified a certain kind of common algae, known as Closterium mo ...

Veterans Today

• UK-Israel mutual admiration provokes ‘Technico ...
  There can be few spectacles more contemptible than ministers of the British crown canoodling with a thuggish regime that has trampled the Palestinians’ legitimate aspirations for 63 years. Stuart Littlewood / Veterans Today Last week a stomach-churning love-in was conducted between the British G ...
• WACHOVIA/WELLS FARGO: THE DRUG CARTEL BANKS
  On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico, as the sun was setting. Mexican soldiers, waiting to intercept it, found 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100m. But something else – more important and far-reaching – was discov ...
• Afghan President Hamid Karzai
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered his government to investigate deadly Koran-burning protests that killed up to two dozen people, including seven foreign UN staff, his spokesman said Monday.
• Filner Sponsors Bill Strengthening Collective ...
  Washington, D.C. – Ranking Democratic Member Bob Filner (D-CA), introduced H.R. 807, legislation that would strengthen the collective bargaining rights of VA health care providers.
• New Directions Board Elects Veteran Stephanie ...
  Los Angeles, CA – The New Directions, Inc. Board of Directors has elected Stephanie Stone as its newest member. Stone, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, is the first female veteran to serve on the Board.

War is Business

• John Boehner’s Gift To Julian Assange (O ...
• Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Vs. The FBI (Ag ...
• Arming The Libyan Rebels: What To Do? (Bullet ...
• What Happens When The Generals Run A Country ( ...
• Obama On Arming Libyan Rebels: ‘I’m Not ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Fukushima Folly: Nuclear Power in Question (Again)
  Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Hiroshima Stop radioactivity - it's in the air for you and me [Radioactivity]...discovered by Madame Curie Shall we be adding Fukushima to this list? Leave it to the Germans to perform probably the most buoyantly morbid song of them all in "Radioactivity." In ...
• Is the US Really More £$%*ed Up Than the UK?
  With the US heading towards a government shutdown by Friday lest they feed the whole unsavoury enterprise more scraps, let's just say that the UK at least has this one over its erstwhile wayward North American insurrectionists. (As if cutting a measly $73 billion from a trillion-plus dollar defi ...
• India Shining: Rupee Symbol Now in MS Windows
  Always one to play the foil, let me say that contrary to conventional wisdom among the self-styled digerati, I see no reason to chuck Windows 7 for OS X. Not only is the range of programmes for the former vast, but a smidgen of diligence means you can avoid catching viruses and malware. Yes, yo ...
• The Slow Road to Southeast Asian Integration
  Here is an update on something I follow quite closely from my home region: Southeast Asian economic integration. Unlike the European Union (liberal democracies) or the Gulf Cooperation Council (Islamic monarchies), Southeast Asia possesses countries with a range of political and economic systems ...
• Opiate of the Masses? Predicting Religion's Death
  Let us begin today's missive on the contemporary fate of religion with Karl Marx's famous "opiate of the masses" passage: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
  Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing.  Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months.  Now those price increases are ...
• 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
  If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while.  New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
• Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
  Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
• 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
  How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...
• Sheeple: Government Handouts = 35 Percent Of U ...
  The ratio of government handouts to wages and salaries in the United States is now at an all-time high.  According to TrimTabs Investment Research, government handouts have reached a level that is equivalent to 35 percent of all wages and salaries in the United States.  Consider ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• What is new with Little Black Cart - Spring 2011
  We are just finalizing everything we need to do to prepare for 8 days of Anarchy a festival we have her...
• Announcing Issue Two of The Anvil Review
  The Anvil...
• J'accuse! The Betrayal of WBAI
  After more than 20 years on the airwaves of WBAI-New York, the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade was officially cancelled the day after my last bro...
• March 2011 TCN Radio - Episode #3
  Here is the March episode of TCN Radio. The featured segment for this episode is a performance of the "Letters Journal Play" in two ac...
• Riot Act edited Police G20
  The aggression of the police at the G20 meetings in Toronto, Canada, in June 2010, is at the center of my animation, Police G20. The unprovoked ...

E U Times

• 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-04-04 Bradley Manning confirmed as a Brit ...
  TweetAs reported by the UK Friends of Bradley Manning, the British Government has tonight recognised that Bradley Manning is a citizen of the United Kingdom. Ann Clwyd MP, spoke of Manning in parliament just after 10PM, a continuation of her previous efforts to raise Manning's case in the UK. O ...
• 2011-04-05 365 Days of #WikiLeaks (Since the ' ...
  TweetApril 5 marks an important anniversary in the history of WikiLeaks. It was the day that WikiLeaks released the "Collateral Murder" video showing a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in New Baghdad. It was when WikiLeaks became a much more prominent organization. Following "Collateral Murder," W ...
• 2011-04-04: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cableg ...
  TweetEl País: La corrupción policial en Ecuador es generalizada (Police corruption is widespread in Ecuador) "La corrupción "es generalizada" en las filas de la Policía Nacional de Ecuador y quien fuera su comandante, Jaime Aquilino Hurtado, utilizó su poder como la máxima autoridad del cuerpo p ...
• 2011-04-04 US Policy on Yemen Shifts as Tear G ...
  TweetBy now, those following the story closely are aware that the position of the US on President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime has shifted greatly. A near-180 has taken place. As announced last evening, the New York Times reported the “United States, which long supported Yemen's president, even ...
• 2011-04-04 WikiLeaks Notes: UK Parliament to d ...
  TweetAt the end of today's sitting, the UK Parliament at Westminster will debate the treatment of Bradley Manning, a debate that will be opened by Ann Clwyd (Labour-Cynon Valley). Clwyd has raised Manning's plight and the concern for him of her constituents in Wales before in committee and in t ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Hong Kong Squanders A Valuable Asset
  By intervening in a legal case, the government undermines its judicial autonomy
• Thailand in Market for German Subs
  Das Baht
• Polls loom in Singapore
  But don't expect much to change
• Twin Nightmares for Citibank Indonesia
  Sexy Swindler and Debt-Collection Murder Arrests Give Citi Sleepless Week in Jakarta
• Grameen After Yunus
  A Bangladesh Supreme Court ruling is expected Monday that could remove him from the bank

We Know the Lies

• POTENTAL Fukushima Fallout Forecast ... Until ...
  ��Indicatinging a POTENTIAL radiation release of Xe133 (Xenon).� Produced by officials within the Department of Atmospheric and Climate Research (ATMOS) at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). ~ See larger MAP - Links �read more
• New Hampshire... Exposed!... Bretton Woods II ...
  �"A new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the international financial architecture after World War II, is needed to establish new international rules��reconstitute the International Monetary Fund (IMF)��[and] to reform the currency system"�� George Soros ~ Bob Adelmannre ...
• Here it Comes... Taxpayer Funded Cash for Clu ...
  Even after the Cash for Clunkers program failed, the federal government refuses to give up. It is now launching Cash for Clunkers 2, this time for “green vehicles.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the proposal has delighted General Motors. Cash for Clunkers was a program that involved the $3 billi ...
• Chemtrail Lab Test Results Are In...
  �Are Their Any Questions Now?...read more
• Obama Announces Reelection Bid!... ('Change' S ...
   President Obama opens his reelection campaign on Monday with a familiar cast of consultants; an economy that’s improving, sluggishly; wars that he is struggling to extract himself from; and an implacable partisan fight in Congress that might shut down the government by week’s end. ~ Mark Am ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• Former CIA officer blows lid off libya fraud l ...
  The American Dream April 4, 2011 Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment.  In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be �interesting�, but then they will say something that is not part o ...
• The Big Space Show in the Sky and the New Worl ...
  See also http://www.worldtruthtoday.com/gracemj/2011/04/04/scalar-energy-a-completely-new-world-is-possible/ for an understanding of  other available technology that can make all this happen. Blue Beam Project has four different steps in order to implement the new age religion with the Antichri ...
• Scalar Energy – A Completely New World ...
  � I apologize, but I cannot make the font any bigger on this post. By Bill Morganwmorgan@nycap.rr.com7-22-3 The greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world has happened over the last few decades and it has gone largely unnoticed because of the great secrecy with which it has been h ...
• Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s GMO patents
  by Rady Ananda � �A new invention to poison people �� is not a patentable invention.�Lowell v. Lewis, 1817 A landmark lawsuit filed on March 29 in US federal court seeks to invalidate Monsanto�s patents on genetically modified seeds and to prohibit the company from suing those whose crops become ...
• 5.8 million Israelis Get 100 Billion In US Tax ...

Bloomberg

• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Akimbo: From Niches to Riches?
  The Internet video startup has amassed an impressive menu of online content. Subscribers are all it needs
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• Merck Tumbles on Texas Verdict
  Autodesk posts strong profits, Gap lowers outlook for the year, and more of Friday's stocks in the news

Enviroblog

• Toxins in Our Kids' Foods: Where is the FDA?
  Guest Post by Laurie David and Robyn O'Brien, EWG Board Member Yesterday, in the face of a just- released report by the National Cancer Institute that showed a 9.4% increase in childhood cancer between 1992 and 2007(1), the FDA let... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic ...
  By Alex Formuzis with Sonya Lunder In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to the United States.... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
  By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Hold the Applause
  By Jane Houlihan, EWG Senior Vice President for Research Two weeks ago (Feb. 17), fellow activists proclaimed the upbeat news that the European Union had banned xylene and five other toxic chemicals that pose risks to human health and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Movie about life-changing juice diet comes wit ...
  When you first meet Joe Cross in Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, he looks about as slick as any other self-made guru and weight-loss expert. Cross spends much of his film stumping for something called the "Reboot juice fast," a detoxifying crash diet that requir ...
• Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, and 'anticipat ...
  Note to regular readers of The Front: Read Ken Auletta's profile of Robert Thomson in The New Yorker today (if you've got a subscription). What he ultimately gets around to, and which is written a little bit apologetically, as though he hadn't managed to fi ...
• Does the Google Books Settlement set the stage ...
  Last month, a New York federal district court threw out a settlement negotiated between Google and representatives of book authors and publishers, who had sued to stop Google from scanning and indexing published books to return as search results. New York L ...
• Charlie Sheen sinks as Kemba Walker elevates; ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Schumer embraces the G.O.P.'s Tea Party embrac ...
  Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin—Harry Reid’s two top Senate lieutenants—each represented their party on national news shows on Sunday. The discussion, during both Schumer’s appearance on ABC’s “This Week” and Durbin’s on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” focused on the ...

Views & News from Norway

• Protests greet new data storage law
  Members of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) used more than nine hours to debate a controversial new data storage law pressed upon them by the European Union (EU), amidst noise from the gallery and protests on the floor. A slim and unconventional majority finally approved the measure Monday ...
• Norway renews anti-piracy effort
  After months of fending off criticism over its contribution to international anti-piracy efforts, Norway’s Defense Ministry has decided to send surveillance aircraft to Somalia, to aid NATO’s anti-piracy operation off the coast of east Africa. Norway remains a major shipping nation, and its shi ...
• Pilots upset over lower-paid colleagues
  Discount carrier Norwegian Air has opened a new base in Helsinki, but its pilots are unhappy because the airline is using pilots from Estonia who have accepted wages that are much lower than those paid to pilots in either Norway or Finland. “We’re doing this of course because it means we can fly ...
• Historic factory buildings up for sale
  Property making up Oslo’s historic Freia chocolate factory, which was bought by Kraft Foods of the US nearly 20 years ago, looks destined to be put on the market. The site in Oslo’s Rodeløkka district is best-known for its outdoor park and factory canteen, which is decorated with paintings by N ...
• Police warn of rapists in Oslo
  Four women were raped in Oslo during a five-hour period on Saturday night, and police are investigating whether the same rapists may be involved in all four cases. One of the assaults occurred at the fashionable new waterfront real estate complex next to Aker Brygge, called Tjuvholmen. In that c ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Climate Change – Meet the Scientists
  It’s tiring hearing some write off many thousands of peer-reviewed studies by climate scientists — by brandishing apparent petitions by ‘thousands of climate skeptics‘ who supposedly say the exact opposite. Now, these thousands aren’t putting forth peer-reviewed studies and thoroughly researche ...
• The Green Thing
  In the line at the store the cashier told the old woman that plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to her and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.” That’s right. They didn’t have the green thing in her day. Back then they returned their milk bo ...
• Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge – Update: Cob Oven
  Editor’s Note: As many of you will have noticed, Alex has been making some great practical updates on the work going on at the Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge. Below is yet another little update on the practical application of permaculture in southern Ethiopia. In addition to the Steve Cran Training ...
• Permaculture Training of Trainers: Interactive ...
  Steve Cran brings his infamous Green Warriors (Permaculture-Aid Workers’) Program to Ethiopia. This course is a full-on intensive, interactive action learning Training of Trainers Course, inducting the participants on the practicalities of applying Permaculture to the development of food securi ...
• Everything You Need to Know About Composting W ...
  by Rob Avis Following my recent blog post on the Do-It-Yourself Vermipod, I’ve been receiving a ton of questions from folks who built Vermipods and are looking for information on how to manage and maintain their new pets. So here’s a compilation called Everything You Need To Know About Composti ...

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

• CT scan surge for kids' emergencies raises concern
  Soaring numbers of kids are getting CT scans in emergency rooms, a study found, raising concerns some may be exposed to adult-sized radiation doses and potential risks for cancer down the road. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Famous Athletes With Surprising Side Talents
  Athletes aren't a whole lot different from regular hardworking folks.When they aren't working, some are cultivating and/or maintaining hobbies that require unique � sometimes weird � talents. Here are 10 with whom you may be familiar.Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
• Algae That Live Inside the Cells of Salamander ...
  A species of algae long known to associate with spotted salamanders has been discovered to live inside the cells of developing embryos, say scientists from the U.S. and Canada, who report their findings in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy..Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• 50 Great Ways Colleges Are Using Facebook
  Colleges have fully embraced Facebook as a way to interact with current and prospective students, alumni, and even the general public. It�s a natural fit for finding and communicating with students who are online all the time anyway, and affords colleges.Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Declining Rainfall Is a Major Influence for Mi ...
  Instinct and the annual increase of daylight hours have long been thought to be the triggers for birds to begin their spring migration. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, however, have found that that may not be the case. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

• 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
  www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
• 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
  abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
• 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
  gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
• 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
• 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...

Progressives United - Russ Feingold

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Moe Foe wrote: For what it's worth I actually work with helping immigrants who are primarily Arab/Moslems from all over: Sudan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, Middle East etc and they are as kind and warm a people as you could ever wish to meet. I believe this is because of Islam rather than in spit ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  i am sad to say that after one mounth of no blogging tiu still have the muslims vs the whites fight! oh my god !!!!!Statistics: Posted by superzebra — Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:46 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  There is absolutely nothing productive about this thread. It seems like every so often such wastes of time and energy occur on here and yet no one learns(maybe I should track down one of the other similar threads and cite where I say the exact same thing?). You don't put a fire out by continuin ...
• Philosophy • Re: Ancient Body Clock Discovered ...
  jai_mann wrote: How about this for an idea? There is nothing internal which acts as a hard wired clock, but instead the 24hr cycle of day & night is the regulating mechanism, while the organisms cells act as passive antennas for the variations in waveforms that hit the earth at various times of ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • J ...
  IMO, Jesse Ventura is a more professional and better presenter of conspiracy theories than Jarhead Jones, but of course, he does not name the Jew. But looking at his TV team of investigators, we find at least one Jew. Executive producers/conspiracy investigators Jesse Ventura Arthur Smith K ...

TVNZ

• Forces close in on Ivory Coast leader
  Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's presidential claimant launched a major assault on the presidential palace today.
• UN plane crashes in Congo; at least 20 dead
  A United Nations plane crashed while trying to land at the airport serving Congo's capital Kinshasa, killing 32 people.
• Libyan Wounded recount 'hell' of Misrata massacre
  Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are staging a "massacre" in the besieged city of Misrata, evacuees said.
• Obama plans $1 billion 2012 campaign
  US President Barack Obama declared himself a candidate for re-election in 2012, jumping ahead of a slow-starting Republican field and hoping an economic recovery will boost his case for a new term
• Bodies found from 2009 Air France wreck
  France has located the bodies of some passengers who perished when an Air France plane crashed off Brazil in 2009, as well as wreckage from the aircraft, the government said

environment 360

• Along Scar from Iron Curtain, Green Belt Rises ...
  A forbidding, 870-mile network of fences and guard towers once ran the length of Germany, separating East and West. Now, one of the world’s most unique nature reserves is being created along the old “Death Strip,” turning a monument to repression into a symbol of renewal. BY CHRISTIAN SCHWäGERL
• Dolphin Death Toll in Gulf ‘Gravely’ Underesti ...
  The number of dolphins and whales killed in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill has likely been significantly underestimated, according to a new analysis. While a reported 101 whale and dolphin Getty Images carcasses have washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico since last April's spill, ...
• U.S. Loses Ground In Clean-Energy Investments
  The United States fell behind China and Germany in clean energy investments in 2010, a result of the lack of a coherent national energy policy in the U.S., according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. China invested Click to enlarge Pew Charitable TrustsGreen energy investment, 2010 $5 ...
• Malaysian Forestry Claims Refuted by Google Ea ...
  While officials in the state of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo have insisted that 70 percent of the region’s forest cover is intact, satellite images indicate that far more widespread deforestation is taking place. A review Click to enlarge Google EarthForest loss in Sarawak of Google Earth ima ...
• New Scottish Recycling Programs Will Target Ca ...
  Scotland is introducing a new recycling program targeting materials that cause the most environmental damage — including food waste, plastics, and textiles — rather than simply focusing on weight. Beginning in 2013, local communities and households will be asked to increase recycling of waste ma ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• Stephen Harper, funny guy
  By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper's June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term" "the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegra ...
• CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
  By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
• The Pacioretty effect
  By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...
• Cons on the G20: “An unmitigated success ...
  By Alison@Creekside The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House on Friday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in - the outrageous cost - the unprecedented arrests of over 1100 people, including journa ...
• The Conservatives’ cupcake budget
  By Montreal Simon OMG. I was watching the Evan Solomon show today, and there was Julie Fantino making a complete idiot out of himself, by dismissing this poll of CARP members: 62% say it is NOT a budget which benefits older Canadians. 58% say they do NOT agree with the budget overall. ...

Daily Beast

• A Kangaroo Court for Khalid Sheik Mohammed
  President Obama's egregious flip-flop on Khalid Sheik Mohammed-no civilian trial, but a military tribunal for the 9/11 planner-is a glaring example of our political cowardice. It also hands al Qaeda a victory, says Paul Campos. 'Let the jury consider...
• The Duke Lacrosse Accuser's New Trouble
  Five years after falsely accusing three Duke lacrosse players of rape, Crystal Mangum has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend. David A. Graham and Eve Conant report on the former exotic dancer's tangled past. Late Sunday night, a man...
• Yemen's Looming Humanitarian Emergency
  As civil unrest grips the Arab world's poorest nation, sharp spikes in the price of food and fuel could inflict new hardships on Yemenis-and lead to more violence, a writer reports from Yemen. Yemen's growing civil unrest contains an impending human...
• States That Sponge Tax Dollars
  As Democrats and Republicans battle over the budget, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to see which states take more from D.C. than they send back-and which states get shortchanged. The increasingly rancorous political wrangling over the federal...
• Why Obama's Campaign Bores Me
  The president kicked off his reelection bid Monday, officially launching the 2012 campaign. Peter Beinart on why liberals' ardor has cooled-but Obama is headed for a predictable victory anyway. With Barack Obama's announcement that he's running for...

Loonwatch

• Upset Over Nothing: Salon.com debunks latest S ...
  Salon.com's Justin Elliot examines and debunks the sharia takeover myth
• Greenwald: Primitive Muslims’ unique lov ...
  Glenn Greenwald points out the bloodthirsty and violent nature of many in the American political establishment.
• Students on trip to IDF base simulated shootin ...
  Incident took place at a military base where students were being escorted as part of an 'IDF preparation' project, sanctioned by the Education Ministry.
• The Truth About American Muslims
  At the Justice Department, it’s called the post-Sept. 11 backlash — the steady stream of more than 800 cases of violence and discrimination suffered by American Muslims at the hands of know-nothing abusers.
• “America Should Be Governed By Biblical ...
  "Historian" David Barton thinks America should be governed by the Bible. And Mike Huckabee wants to put a gun to your head to know about it.

Energy News

• Trouble at Fukushima reactors No. 5 and 6 &#82 ...
  via NHK ...Read More
• Radioactive iodine at 7.5 MILLION times legal ...
  300,000 bequerels of iodine-131 per 1 cubic CENTIMETER ...Read More
• EPA finds DRINKING water with radioactive iodi ...
  EPA STATEMENT: Update on Ongoing Monitoring, EPA, April 4, 2011 ...Read More
• Volunteers are operating EPA’s radiation ...
  "A network of individuals work with the EPA under voluntary agreement as RadNet-trained monitor operators" ...Read More
• Nuclear expert: EPA claim that no harmful radi ...
  EPA’s radiation detection system not 100 percent, WTVM ...Read More

Japan Times

• Utility's shares plunge below previous low set ...
  Shares of Tokyo Electric Power Co. plunged Tuesday to their lowest point ever amid growing doubts about its ability to contain the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Tepco shares dropped by ¥80 — the maximum daily limit, or 18 percent, to just ¥362 — falling below its p ...
• Radioactivity in sea up 7.5 million times
  Radioactive iodine-131 readings taken from seawater near the water intake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's No. 2 reactor reached 7.5 million times the legal limit, Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted Tuesday. The sample that yielded the high reading was taken Saturday, before Tepco announc ...
• Tepco starts to pay partial compensation
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to pay provisional compensation by the end of the month to residents and farmers living around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as their livelihoods have been heavily impacted by the emergency, Tepco officials said Tuesday. The utility will make tentati ...
• Asia shines in Cricket World Cup
  MUMBAI — India's in cricket heaven, Sri Lanka reached the final and Pakistan the last four. Of cricket's main Asian nations, only Bangladesh had a bad World Cup. Australia, South Africa and England? They were reduced to watching the World Cup final on television, admiring India's maturity and ...
• Curbs on produce to be changed
  The government decided Monday to alter the way it restricts farm produce tainted by radioactive fallout from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant. In response to the fallout, the government restricted shipments of farm products from four nearby prefectures. But the restrictions will now be ...

Hudson New York

• World Council of Churches Finds a "Champion" W ...
  The World Council of Churches [WCC] in Israel can only effectively help local Christians by withdrawing from the sphere of Palestinian political advocacy, ceasing to mobilize Christians – both locally and internationally – for that purpose, and then
• Radical Muslim Falsely Labels Israeli Official ...
  When radical Muslims with ties to terrorist organizations label others "radicals" -- as happened last month when the Executive Director of The Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles, Hussam Ayloush, falsely branded a representative
• Jordan Facing Civil War?
  King Abdullah of Jordan is in a bad spot. His Jordanian Bedouin tribes, which control the military and make up the ruling foundation for the Hashemites, are asking for more power and privileges by calling on King Abdullah to give them his authority by
• Slitting Throats is "Natural"
  Leave it to CNN to make a terrorist attack that killed five members of the Fogel family recently look like a botched burglary. Kevin Flower's filed a report, entitled;"Israeli family of 5 killed in 'terror attack', military says." on CNN's web site. The
• Turkey's Top Banker Resigns After Criticizing ...
  TURKEY HEADS TOWARD PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the presidential system could be presented for a referendum after the parliamentary elections, scheduled for June 12. Speaking to Bloomberg TV during a visit to London,

  Blacklisted News

• Manipulating morals: scientists target drugs ...
  A pill to enhance moral behaviour, a treatment for racist thoughts, a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries - these may sound like the stuff of science fiction but with medicine getting closer to altering our moral state, society should be preparing for the consequences ...
• StunRay disables your brain with inverse blin ...
  Until we figure out how to make a phaser that can be set to stun, we've been stuck with non less-lethal options like tasers (which can kill) and laser dazzlers (which can cause eye damage). StunRay is basically just a big flashlight, except with the ability to disable you by causing "inverse bl ...
• Special Ops university opens today at MacDill
  Tampa's newest university doesn't have a football team. It doesn't have a mascot. But it does have the most restrictive admission process in the state. If you want to enroll in the Joint Special Operations University, which officially opens today with a ceremony, you better be a member of the w ...
• Tweaking the Climate to Save It: Who Decides?
  To the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable.Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law,politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloistered behind Chicheley Hall's old brick walls,four dozen thinkers pondered the planet's fate as ...
• A Stasi Expert Advises Egypt on Secret Police ...
  Two decades ago, Herbert Ziehm helped storm the headquarters of the East German secret police, the Stasi. Now, he is advising Egypt on how to deal with its own legacy of official abuse. History, it would seem, is repeating itself. Herbert Ziehm has traveled a long way to meet his past. Finally, ...

The Intelligence Daily

• The Lender of Last Resort — To All the Bankers ...
  Related: World Markets Unprepared for Abrupt End to QE2, Downshift of Japanese Economy by Justice...
• Richard Goldstone’s Fall from Grace
  by Stephen Lendman The line from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafor explains, saying:...
• While Nuclear Waste Piles up in U.S., Billions ...
  by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica While the nuclear crisis in Japan has focused attention on the risks...
• No means no! Wisconsin judge blocks Walker bil ...
  by John Wojcik, The People’s World A judge here ruled March 29 that a restraining order is...
• Too Much Energy?
  By John Michael Greer One of the bits of mental flotsam that very often drifts to the surface in...

My AntiWar

• Despite house arrest Jerusalem activist will f ...
  rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rPalestinian activist Jawad Siyam has been under house arrest for nearly three months after being accused of attacking a Palestinian neighbor in the occupied East Jerusalem village of Silwan. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours spoke to Siyam about his recent arrest, what ...
• Ouattara Forces Say They Have Surrounded Ivory ...
• How Libya Is a Showcase in the New Arms Race
• GOP Bill: Fund Pentagon for Year, Government f ...
• Senators Debate Libya Resolution

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• New Iran group to press White House on democracy
  Summary: With democratic revolutions shaking the Middle East, a Democratic think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the pro-democracy group Freedom House are launching a new task force aimed at shifting American policy on its central regional foe, Iran, toward a more aggressive focu ...
• Four Iranian police killed in border attack: r ...
  Summary: The report said the attack happened Friday night in the city of Marivan. "Unidentified armed people threw a grenade into the police office," it said. On March 25, news agencies reported two policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in two "terrorist" shootings in the ...
• A Package to Resolve the Nuclear Impasse with Iran
  Summary: Mousavian Eight years of negotiations between Iran and the P5+ Germany on the nuclear issue have failed and will likely continue to do so, as long as the existing negotiating strategy and the hostilities between Iran and the US persist. After the revolution, despite Western support ...
• Turkey, Iran must form alliance to preserve gl ...
  Summary: Speaking to the AA in Tehran where he arrived to attend the "Second International Nevruz Celebrations", Arinc said that Iran was highly pleased to see Turkey's participation in Nevruz celebrations at the level of a deputy prime minister. Stressing that he met Iranian President Mahmu ...
• U.S. court backs Iran in dispute over assets
  Summary: PersepolisThe appeals court did not rule on the fate of the antiquities but it said the lower court wrongly denied Iran its sovereign immunity, which it says is presumed and did not need to be asserted in court by Iran. The ruling also voided the lower court's order that all Iranian ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Our Solar System Seems to Exist Inside a "Bubb ...
  We seem to be inside a "local bubble" in a network of cavities in the interstellar medium, probably carved by massive star explosions millions of years ago. The interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter that exists in the space...
• Do We Owe Our Existence to Interstellar Forma ...
  A common molecule throughout the universe, formaldehyde, a poison, is now believed to be the source of the solar system's organic carbon solids -- abundant in both comets and asteroids. Scientists have long speculated about the how organic, or carbon-containing,...
• Image of the Day: New Mars' Volcanoes Snapped
  ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of mist-capped volcanoes located in the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Long after volcanic activity ceased, the area was transformed by meteor impacts that deposited ejected material over the lower flanks of the...
• "Hacking the Cosmos": Physicists Achieve Super ...
  Physicists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits), realizing the largest quantum register ever produced, almost doubling the record for the number of entangled quantum bits created experimentally (a property of...
• Weird Black Holes in the Andromeda and Milky W ...
  The Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue dot in the center of the image is a "cool" million-degree x-ray source where a supermassive black hole with the...

Natural News

• EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure whi ...
  (NaturalNews) The mass radioactive contamination of our planet is now under way thanks to the astonishing actions taking place at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. As of last night, TEPCO announced it is releasing 10,000 tons of radioactive water directly into the Pacific Ocean. That 2.4 ...
• 'Blinded by Science' explores the power of vib ...
  (NaturalNews) The narrow and mechanistic way in which modern science tends to investigate and explain life, the world, and human health has robbed generations of people of a true knowledge of how these things actually work. In an up-and-coming new book Blinded by Science, author Matthew Silverst ...
• CDC releases report about scientist working wi ...
  (NaturalNews) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report recently that highlights the events surrounding the sudden death of Malcolm Casadaban, a 60-year-old genetics and cell biology professor from the University of Chicago (UC) who died just a few hours after contr ...
• 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," ...
• The latest scientific abomination: Genetically ...
  (NaturalNews) There seems to be no limit to the violations of natural law that will be committed in the name of "science." The latest is an effort to make cows produce human breast milk by using genetically modified embryos crossed with human genes, then implanted into surrogate cows. The result ...

Threat Level

• Appeals Court Strengthens Warrantless Searches ...
  The authorities may seize laptops, cameras and other digital devices at the U.S. border without a warrant, and scour through them for days hundreds of miles away, a federal appeals court ruled. The 2-1 decision (.pdf) Wednesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes as the government is ...
• Army: Manning Snuck ‘Data-Mining’ Software Ont ...
  Accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning installed and used unauthorized "data-mining software" on his SIPRnet workstation during the time he allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of documents off that classified network, the Army said Friday in response to inquiries from Threat Level.
• Condé Nast Got Hooked in $8 Million Spear-Phis ...
  A spear phisher managed to reel in a prize catch last year with a single hook when media giant Condé Nast took the bait and wired $8 million to his bank account after he posed as a legitimate business, according to a news account. The alleged swindler failed to withdraw any funds before federal ...
• Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own t ...
  A film company suing 5,865 BitTorrent downloaders over the flick Nude Nuns with Big Guns doesn’t own the rights to the movie, according to court documents and interviews. Incentive Capital of Utah took ownership last month of the B-rated flick about a sister who is “one Bad Mother.” Yet two week ...
• Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three ...
  A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was sentenced in New York this week to three years in prison on new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh, now 27, was also ordered to pay ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Elections Won, GOP Finally Embraces Ryan Roadmap
  If nothing else, the House Republicans' 2012 budget proposal being rolled out this week by Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan offers a never-ending series of ironies. Now touting $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years, Ryan as a member of the Simpson-Bowles commission voted a ...
• GOP Budget Proposal for 2012 to Gut Medicaid
  On Sunday, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his party's 2012 budget proposal due out Tuesday. Needless to say, its target of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade won't be met by simply letting the Bush tax cuts expire. Instead, Ryan as widely expecte ...
• Beggar Thy Neighbor, Beggar Thyself
  Having won one class war, Republicans are starting a second. To perpetuate record levels of income inequality not seen since before the Great Depression, conservatives are agitating for middle class Americans to wage a civil war on each other. Their latest divide-and-conquer tactic is to portr ...
• Desperate Evangelical Leaders Turn to Trump
  Given his emergence as the new face of the "Birther" movement, it comes as no surprise that Fox News has rewarded Donald Trump with a weekly slot on its morning show. (After all, with Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and now "Monday Mornings with Trump" fixtures on the n ...
• Taking Sides in the Palin-Maher Squirmish
  From taxes and the First Amendment to Reagan's Iran/Contra scandal, how much energy her home state of Alaska produces and so much more, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she doesn't know. Regardless, the language comedian Bill Maher recently used to describe her shocking ignorance and incessant dem ...

Blackspot News Feed

• 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 ...
• Bookmarks for 2011-04-04
  Emphas Home page"Photojournalists pitch their projects directly to the public. You get to decide whether a story is worth doing. By agreeing to back a story, for a minimum contribution of $10, you are making sure that the issues that you care about receive the in-depth coverage they deserve. In ...
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  PRECISION: a short film written by Mike Sizemore (remember the SLINGERS sizzle reel?) and directed by Andrew James Sykes.� Conceived, written, shot, edited and scored in 48 hours.� Just for you. PRECISION from Andrew James Sykes on Vimeo.
• 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 – Black Heart in F ...
  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 ...

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel okays 942 new settler homes in East Jer ...
  Elisha Peleg, from the right-wing Likud party, confirmed that the new construction in Gilo, close to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, had been approved during an afternoon session of ...
• Member of UN Fact Finding mission on Gaza Conf ...
  UN-Fact Finding Mission member Hina Jilani affirmed nothing will change the substance of the original report submitted to the UN. In an exclusive interview given to the Middle East Mo ...
• Horowitz and Ratner discuss the Goldstone Repo ...
• Goldstone: 'retractions' vs facts (Ben White, ...
  The publication of Richard Goldstone's op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday heralded a weekend of frenzied hasbara. Goldstone's "retraction" (though 'qualification' is more accura ...
• Israeli Soldiers beat and curse protestors (J ...

Water - AlterNet

• "Sue the Bastards": Kentucky Leader ...
  "If I could have one wish for how to really put a dent into what is happening I think I would wish for tort attorneys and expert witnesses to sue the bastards."
• The Dirty Truth Behind America's Obsession Wit ...
  Most Americans don't know the ugly backstory of the shrimp on their plates: destroyed mangrove forests, toxic sludge, and displaced lives.
• There's Nothing Natural About Natural Gas
  It's not a choice between coal and natural gas. We are facing a choice between a truly clean energy future or more of the same. Natural gas is just a bridge to nowhere.
• Indigenous Activists Fight Building of Massive ...
  Tar sands oil has a host of toxic additives that increase the health risks, and that makes the crude oil flowing under the Ogallala Aquifer that much more dangerous.
• Why Factory Farmed Meat Is a Threat to Your He ...
  David Kirby talks about his book "Animal Factory," and the risks that factory farming poses to our health and the environment.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Green Groups in Texas highlight new revenue st ...
  While Texas Legislators are furiously looking under every couch cushion to find more revenue this bienium, the Alliance for Clean Texas today highlighted a half dozen strategies that could help Texas close its $27 billion budget deficit. As lawmakers are loathe to talk about the dreaded “T” word ...
• March 29th – Bill of the day!
  HB 3110 – Bad by Craddick – Relating to air permitting requirements for certain oil and gas facilities. Alliance for a Clean Texas organizations involved in air and TCEQ sunset legislation are opposed to HB 3110.   HB 3110 will be heard in House Energy Resources on Wednesday, March 30th. Click ...
• Greenpeace vigils tonight to show support for ...
  Today is the 32nd anniversary of the worst U.S. nuclear accident, a partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island power plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Although no deaths or injuries resulted, many of the concerns the public is expressing about the ultimate fate of the doomed Fukushima Dai-i ...
• Whaaaa, don’t take my tax break away
  In another effort to stave off critics who call a $1 billion annual tax break for high-cost gas producers in Texas outrageous, a study paid for by the industry has emerged intended to scare folks into believing that for every $1 the state spends in tax breaks gets back about $4 in related econom ...
• News Roundup for April 4, 2011
  The Texas Progressive Alliance would have voted against HB1 as well as it brings you this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff notes that when one Bradley goes away, another one gets nominated. Three Wise Men examines the possibility of a federal government shutdown and what Republicans are doing w ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Detecting life through alien mining
  One astrophysicist has a new way to search for life - to look for alien mining in asteroid belts. Rather than focusing our energies solely on radio fr...
• Man risks all to prove sharks not a threat
  Chris Fallows believes sharks do not pose a threat to humans and is willing to risk his life to prove it. Photographed paddling on a surfboard in open...
• Crashing comets make rings ripple
  Wobbles in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter preserve a record of past impacts. Imagine walking along a well-trod path past a lake and seeing ripples in...
• UFOs sighted over Chicago
  Sightings of a series of lights moving across the sky over Chicago have hit the headlines this week. Witnesses crowded on the streets to look skywards...
• Rare metal books could hold Jesus secrets
  A set of 70 books found in Jordan are being hailed as a find more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls. They were discovered somewhere between 2005 and...

Grassroots

• Closure in Beit Ommar violates resource rights
  4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b.jpg This article, Israel lays Gaza-like siege on West Bank village, highlights many threats to resource rights in Palestine, as the people living there have diminishing access to land, water, and food. These develop ...
• Mourning the death of a colleague, and fearing ...
  juliano.jpg Sometimes the work we engage in as people who believe in a just peace in the face of a brutal world is quite simply heart breaking. Today is such a day.read more
• Celebrating Palestinian Land Day
  olive_tree_in_field.jpg At the rate the Separation Wall is being built, soon Palestinian Land Day (March 30) will need only a few hours. The Wall and the Israeli mandated buffer zones jut into the Palestinian territories by as much as 300 ...
• Update from farmers in Japan
  �Below is an update from Grassroots International�s partner, the Via Campesina, concerning the situation of farmers in Japan. To keep up to date with the� Noumiren blog, visit http://earlybirds.ddo.jp/earlybirds/saigai/?lang=en.read more
• Keeping the Sacred Waters Flowing
  women_in_the_narmada_valley_face_drowning_in_rising_dam_waters.jpg � Rivers are sacred in many cultures and central to the World�s early civilizations, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to India and China. Perhaps this was on his mind when Jawaha ...

Climate

• Japan Nuclear Crisis to Affect Climate Battle: EU
  Source:� AFP Japan's nuclear crisis will have a clear impact on global efforts to fight climate change, the chief EU negotiator said Sunday as the latest round of UN talks got underway.
• German Nuclear U-Turn Means Jump in Emissions
  Source:� Reuters Germany's nuclear policy U-turn leaves it little choice other than to rely more heavily on coal power, and that could boost its annual carbon emissions by as much as 10 percent.
• Bangkok Climate Talks Aim for Progress
  Source:� BusinessGreen The April 3-8 climate change talks in Bangkok must make inroads on difficult issues of climate financing and a successor to Kyoto.
• Japan May Review 2020 Emission Cut Target: Report
  Source:� Reuters Japan may review its emission reduction pledge for 2020 after a massive quake and tsunami last month set off a crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, an official was quoted as saying.
• Japanese Turn to Paper and Sawdust to Plug Fuk ...
  Source:� Guardian read more

GreenBiz

• The Other Half of the Smart Grid Story
  Despite a tremendous focus on smart grid, there is little attention paid to consumption. If the smart grid industry is so concerned about efficiency on the grid, they should be equally concerned about the way electricity is consumed beyond the grid. �
• Whole Foods & the Greenest Grocery Store in th ...
  Showcase facilities are a powerful learning tool for companies that are implementing sustainable business practices, as illustrated by the new Whole Foods store in Dedham, Mass.
• Obama's Pragmatic Energy Plan: Oil, Natural Ga ...
  The President gave a much-touted speech on energy security at Georgetown University yesterday, one that emphasized only the most pragmatic steps to move toward a low-carbon economy.
• Two-Thirds of Americans Support Phaseout of In ...
  An EcoAlign survey of 1,000 Americans on attitudes toward energy efficient lighting and policy turned up some surprising results.
• Lighting the Path for Greater Energy Efficiency
  Strategic marketing agency EcoAlign takes the pulse of 1,000 Americans in a survey of attitudes on lighting policy and energy efficiency. �

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

• Redistricting Reform
  Redistricting season is upon us and legislatures are beginning to draw up their maps and allow public comments. The Democrats peaked two years too early, and losing everywhere in the 2010 midterms means that the Republicans are in the driver's seat in way too many states. However, one state, I ...
• SCOTUS Delivers Another Blow
  The Supreme Court that George W. Bush gave us just keeps on giving. Their newest innovation is to revoke individuals' standing to bring cases to court objecting to the use of taxpayer dollars to fund activities that promote a particular religion. It's really rather clever. See, if the state o ...
• A Heroine in a Chaotic Yemen
  If you want to be inspired, read about Tawakkol Karman ("a thirty-two-year-old [Yemeni] woman who runs an organization dedicated to protecting journalists") on page four,
• GOP is Preparing to Cave
  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will announce his budget plan for 2012 tomorrow. Why are they introducing a plan for next year before they've even finished their work on this year's budget. If you ask me, it signals that the Republicans are going to make a deal rather than let the government shut down. ...
• Something Afoot in Tripoli?
  Here's a story being floated in the New York Times. You can choose to believe it or not. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafis son Seif el-Islam is proposing a resolution to the Libyan conflict that would entail his father relinquishing power for a transition to constitutional democracy under his sons d ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1804 - The High...
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  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1922 - Joseph Stalin...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Facing the Facts About Social Anxiety in Children
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many socially anxious children try to forge strong relationships with their peers unsuccessfully because they are unable to interpret facial expressions correctly, according to a recent study. “If you misread facial expressions, you’re in social trouble, no matter ...
• Climb High to Give More
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A new study reveals some highs and lows about a person’s emotional state. Larry Sanna and his associates at the University of North Carolina conducted a study that showed people who had ridden up an escalator were twice as likely to contribute to the Salvation Army ...
• Psychological Issues Can Impact a Child’s Future
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers reveal that psychological issues in childhood have negative effects on adult relationships and earnings potential. The 50-year study showed that children who faced serious psychological challenges were less likely to forge permanent, healthy relationsh ...
• Does a Little Chat Make You Feel Fat?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Women often engage in conversations about their body weight. For most women, this type of discussion is common. Women can think that complimenting a friend while making disparaging remarks about their own physique is beneficial to the other and has no negative cons ...
• Can Real Time News Really Increase Anxiety?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In our rapidly evolving technological society, many people fall victim to anxiety from over exposure to current traumatic events. Dr. Judith Orloff states that these people become addicted to the rush of the “fight or fight” response, and can quickly become obsess ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Quakers Take Action Against Mountaintop Remova ...
  Baltimore Sun (blog) Quakers Take Action Against Mountaintop Removal Financing It's Getting Hot In Here They called for PNC executives to sign a �confession� admitting their investments in destructive mountaintop removal. Nine Earthquakers were eventually escorted out of the flower show by poli ...
• Editorial: EPA suffering while feds sit on bud ...
  Editorial: EPA suffering while feds sit on budget Asheville Citizen-Times But other dangers lurk in proposed setbacks to environmental progress: allowing mountaintop removal for coal mining, which was only recently halted; preventing cleanup plans for Chesapeake Bay from taking effect; stopping ...
• "Sue the Bastards": Kentucky Leader Teri Blant ...
  "Sue the Bastards": Kentucky Leader Teri Blanton on Next Steps for Anti ... AlterNet Editor's Note: The following interview is a parts of "Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement,” a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields re ...
• Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effo ...
  Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA effort to reduce mountaintop removal ... Charleston Gazette (blog) You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. One Response to �Rep. Rahall continues to try to block EPA ...
• Interview with Anti-Mountaintop Removal Moveme ...
  Interview with Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement Leader Bo Webb on Next Steps AlterNet (blog) �Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement� will be a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader ...

Memeorandum

• ElBaradei: We'll fight back if Israel attacks ...
  Ynetnews: ElBaradei: We'll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza  —  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 …
• Graham Responds to Steyn, Stuttaford (Robert C ...
  Robert Costa / National Review: Graham Responds to Steyn, Stuttaford  —  In response to the criticism by Mark Steyn and Andrew Stuttaford about his weekend comments on free speech and Koran burning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) called me this afternoon to flesh out his thoughts on the matter. ...
• The GOP Path to Prosperity (Paul D. Ryan/Wall ...
  Paul D. Ryan / Wall Street Journal: The GOP Path to Prosperity  —  Our budget cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president's budget over the next 10 years and puts the nation on track to pay off our national debt.  —  Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spe ...
• Source: Pig's foot sent to congressman's offic ...
  Gschwarzcnn / CNN: Source: Pig's foot sent to congressman's office  —  Washington (CNN) - A frozen pig's foot and a note laced with anti-Semitic rants were sent to Rep. Peter King's Capitol Hill office, a congressional source familiar with the situation confirmed to CNN Monday.
• No fried food: Health Dept. workers cringe at ...
  Kathleen Lucadamo / NY Daily News: No fried food: Health Dept. workers cringe at new rules restricting foods, fragrances, decorations  —  No overbearing perfume.  No obscene pictures.  And definitely no French fries for work lunches.  —  That's the new edict for employees of the same city Heal ...

Energy & Environment News

• Room for Debate: Japan's Nuclear Crisis: Lesso ...
  An 8.9 magnitude quake and tsunami are rare events. But should the U.S. rethink its own nuclear safety plans?
• I.H.T. Special Report: Business of Green: Spa ...
  Many spas in the region are concerned about the impact of their operations on the environment.
• To Cut Smog, Navistar Blazes Risky Path of Its Own
  If Navistar’s engine design works, it could be the simplest, most elegant way to reduce smog from truck exhaust.
• Transocean’s Safety Claim Is Criticized
  Transocean, one of the companies involved in the explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, called 2010 a good year for safety.
• Energy: A Special Section: Ethanol Industry Ho ...
  The cellulosic ethanol industry is taking off across the country, in the Midwest especially, as proposed plants try to secure financing and start operations.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Solomon Islands
  Tuesday, April 5, 2011 09:57:15 UTCTuesday, April 5, 2011 08:57:15 PM at epicenterDepth: 28.00 km (17.40 mi)
• M 5.4, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
  Tuesday, April 5, 2011 07:46:18 UTCTuesday, April 5, 2011 03:46:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 12.40 km (7.71 mi)
• M 5.2, Java, Indonesia
  Tuesday, April 5, 2011 04:34:41 UTCTuesday, April 5, 2011 11:34:41 AM at epicenterDepth: 42.70 km (26.53 mi)
• M 5.7, Fiji region
  Tuesday, April 5, 2011 04:10:08 UTCTuesday, April 5, 2011 04:10:08 PM at epicenterDepth: 565.50 km (351.39 mi)
• M 6.7, south of Java, Indonesia
  Sunday, April 3, 2011 20:06:42 UTCMonday, April 4, 2011 03:06:42 AM at epicenterDepth: 24.00 km (14.91 mi)

China Dialogue

• Building trust in food
  Community supported agriculture projects may have started to help address Chinese consumers’ fears about food safety, writes H Frederick Gale.After a string of toxic-food incidents in recent years, some commentators in China describe the nation’s food industry as facing a crisis of consumer conf ...
• China’s tainted rice trail (1)
  One tenth of China’s rice yield may carry harmful levels of cadmium, say researchers. In the first section of a three-part article, Gong Jing reports on heavy metals in the food chain.Eighty-four year old Li Wenxiang pulled a small bag of rice out from under a paint-stained table. The grains wer ...
• China’s tainted rice trail (2)
  A failure to clamp down on heavy-metal pollution has led to an escalating crisis in China’s rice sector, which is largely going ignored, writes Gong Jing.In January 2006, in the southern Chinese village of Xinma, some 2,000 kilometres away from Side, two people died and a further 150 were diagno ...
• China’s tainted rice trail (3)
  Until the Chinese government takes soil pollution seriously, contaminated food will remain a real and pressing problem, concludes Gong Jing. Farmers cannot fix it alone.In his lectures on soil pollution, Chen Tongbin always starts with four slides – a sky full of thick smog, a filthy river, pile ...
• Making a killing on food
  Traders and economists see a worrying trend. By exploiting the deregulation of global commodity markets, banks and others are making fortunes by speculating on food – and causing misery around the world. John Vidal reports.Just under three years ago, people in the village of Gumbi in western Mal ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Sorry Newt Gingrich, but the American Family A ...
  With the Family Research Council taking the lead in attempting to smack down the Southern Poverty Law Center’s charges of it and other “morality groups” being anti-gay hate groups (and doing a pitifully bad job at it), it’s almost easy to forget the other groups on SPLC’s list. Luckily we have ...
• Floods, Earthquakes, Landslides: Are We to Bla ...
  We are remaking the world, and quickly; we are stumbling into a new way of thinking about disaster, where neither God nor nature, but man is to blame.
• How Much Are You Paying in Taxes for War This ...
  While millions of Americans are out of work or struggling to pay their bills, our government is spending billions of dollars a week on a war we donât support in Afghanistan. At no time is this more apparent than on Tax Day, which is coming up on April 18. Use our new Afghanistan War Tax Calculat ...
• Tell Us Who YOU Think Is the Most Influential ...
  In the battle with the right-wing propaganda machine, we need to promote the wide array of people in the progressive talent pool.
• Hedge Funders Have an Achilles Heel, Pray the ...
  Hedge fund honchos bet on everything from gold to lawsuits. But their big bet is that we won't wise up to the giveaway our current tax code ladles on them.

Threat Level

• Appeals Court Strengthens Warrantless Searches ...
  The authorities may seize laptops, cameras and other digital devices at the U.S. border without a warrant, and scour through them for days hundreds of miles away, a federal appeals court ruled. The 2-1 decision (.pdf) Wednesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes as the government is ...
• Army: Manning Snuck ‘Data-Mining’ Software Ont ...
  Accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning installed and used unauthorized "data-mining software" on his SIPRnet workstation during the time he allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of documents off that classified network, the Army said Friday in response to inquiries from Threat Level.
• Condé Nast Got Hooked in $8 Million Spear-Phis ...
  A spear phisher managed to reel in a prize catch last year with a single hook when media giant Condé Nast took the bait and wired $8 million to his bank account after he posed as a legitimate business, according to a news account. The alleged swindler failed to withdraw any funds before federal ...
• Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own t ...
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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

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War is a Crime.org

• Richard Goldstone's Fall from Grace
  Richard Goldstone's Fall from Grace - by Stephen Lendman The line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafor explains, saying: "Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream." Goldstone's shameless reversal exposes the true man, a Judas, not what most people believed. Why is at issue ...
• Remember Libya: One of History's Terror Bombin ...
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• Australian TV Debate on Afghan War
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• Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and ...
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• Hey Congress, Want $400 Billion in New Annual ...
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Grist - News

• Future of Pennsylvania is dystopian wasteland ...
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• World Bank to the poor: ‘Coal’s go ...
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• Sen. Jim Inhofe hates planet, loves dictators
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• How does your supermarket stack up to the worl ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. The Whole Foods in Dedham, Mass. is bringing new meaning to the word “greengrocer.” It’s a showcase facility, which means it basically tries out all the company’s environmental best practices to see how they work in the wild. The result is a store with an inspiring comb ...
• In face of ‘peak everything,’ gove ...
  by Christopher Mims. Less than a year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the U.S. government has begun issuing new permits for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Pundits think that despite a pause in the "nuclear renaissance," the same thing could happen to nuclear power plants ...

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Farming Pathogens

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Suzie-Q

• Kochtopus: 2,000 Protesters Marched On Koch In ...
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Solari

• Libya Can Tap $7 Billion in Gold Reserves for War
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• Why is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi?
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• Even with a Tsunami Hammering the Competition, ...
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• More Customers Exposed as Big Data Breach Grows
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• The Next Housing Shock
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
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• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
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• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
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• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
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AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• How Killing People With Mental Illnesses Has B ...
  There exists a cottage industry of high-priced psychiatrists and psychologists who are literally killing people with junk science testimony.
• Torture the New Black? How We've Come Accept C ...
  How "enemy creep" is Guantanamo-izing America.
• More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were ...
  Law Professor Michelle Alexander says the shocking incarceration rate is due to the War on Drugs, a war waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color.
• One-Two Punch: Man Is Beaten In Anti-Gay Hate ...
  After a brutal attack, Barie Shortell is taking a whipping from one of the insidious antagonists of 21st century American life—the health-care system.
• Indigenous Activists Fight Building of Massive ...
  Tar sands oil has a host of toxic additives that increase the health risks, and that makes the crude oil flowing under the Ogallala Aquifer that much more dangerous.

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
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• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
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• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
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• 10 green resolutions to save you money
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Fabius Maximus

• Tearing the Constitution is a bipartisan sport!
  Summary:  There is no Constitutional Party in America.  The Left and Right take turns shredding the Constitution.  Sometimes they take turns.  Sometimes they work together.  Domestic surveillance withour warrant, quotas for hiring (ignoring that “equal protection” nonsense), administrati ...
• Can the UN give Obama the authority to send US ...
  Summary:  Many advocates for the war in Libya cite the UN Security Council resolution as giving Obama authority to start a war.  That’s easily shown to be totally false. The Constitution has died of a thousand cuts.  Small cuts.  Each accompanied by rationalizations and soothing words.   ...
• Does al Qaeda still exist?
  Summary:  As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9-11, we should ask if al Qaeda still exists.  There is little public evidence that it does.  But dead or alive, it remains useful to our intelligence and military apparatus.  At the end are links to other posts about AQ. In the five years followi ...
• In America, both Left and Right love the long war
  Summary:  Our new standard to determine which wars we fight:  middle aged guys declare if they would go fight — in the unlikely event anyone asked them.  Really bogus, showing the decayed state of American geopolitical thinking.  Perhaps petitions to fight wars should require that they e ...
• The Constitution will still work for us, if we ...
  Summary:  We’re told that the Constitution has become obsolete, lacking the facilities necessary to cope with threats in the 21st century.  We must blindly trust in the President to wield our armed forces, making him a veritable Caesar.  It’s not so, as a glance at the Constitution will sho ...

Open Your Eyes News

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• Pakistan blast ‘kills seven’ at bus station
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• Fannie, Freddie Execs Get Big Bucks Despite Do ...
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The Progressive Realist

• There Was a Massacre in Ivory Coast
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The Little Picture: Rallies Around the Country
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• The Lost Voices of Moderation
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• It's Not Demagoguery If It's True
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• Today at the Prospect
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Buzzflash

• The Multi-Billion Dollar Brainwash of America' ...
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• The Legalized Theft of Tax Payer Dollars by Ge ...
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• Governor Walker Caves In, Stops Defying Judge ...
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• Make Americans Who Support Our Wars of Choice ...
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• Reducing Fat in the Budget: Let's Start With C ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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• Obama's new view of his own war powers
  The administration's theory of executive authority contradicts what Obama once said but replicates the Bush DOJ
• The wisdom and legality of arming Libyan rebels
  Does the latest proposed escalation violate a U.N. resolution? Does it matter?

The BiPartisan Report

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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• In Admission of Political Failure Obama Admini ...
  Today, in response to news that the Obama administration will try the 9/11 defendants in the military commissions system rather than Article III civilian courts, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:read more
• Appeals Court to Verizon and MetroPCS: Not So Fast
  On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed challenges by Verizon and MetroPCS to the Net Neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in December. In their challenges, Verizon and MetroPCS had argued that the FCC lacked authority to adopt the rules. ...
• Holder Announcement Abandoning Federal Trials ...
  Tom Parker, policy director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement in response to the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military commission in Guantanamo Bay: "The announcement toda ...
• Constitution Project Condemns Administration P ...
  Today, the Obama administration announced a reversal of its November 2009 decision to try the alleged 9/11 co-conspirators in civilian court.� Instead, the five men will now face trial before a military commission on the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.read more
• Family Members of 9/11 Victims Express Profoun ...
  Responding to news reports that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows released the following statement:read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich
  Robert Reich It’s tax time. It’s also a time when right-wing Republicans are setting the agenda for massive spending cuts that will hurt most Americans. Here’s the truth: The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, mainta ...
• The Changing US Tune on Yemen
  Jeremy Scahill Over the weekend of April 2–3 in Yemen, the death toll of anti-government protesters continued to rise as security forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh reportedly shot dead twelve people and injured hundreds of other ...
• Conyers: Congress Should Bar U.S. Ground Troop ...
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• CVS Makes War on Easter
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• The Servant Problem: In Search of the Lost Bat ...
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Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

• Price increases at the grocery store
  Have you noticed that the prices of many items have increased at the grocery store? I have noticed a
• Down and out in parsing and doubling: On being ...
  Four months after the news was revealed of Ireland’s rankings in mathematics proficiency (26th
• Next up, inflation
  IAS 107 Intermediate Macroeconomics March 17, 2011 Inflation Lecture Cleaned-Up Transcript – B
• Prison Industrial Complex
  During Sunday’s radio show we explored the effects of the Prison Industrial Complex on African
• Review: Fool's Gold
  Original Review by Reg Rumney in the Rhodes Journalism Review http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no2

Electronic Intifada

• Despite house arrest Jerusalem activist will f ...
  Palestinian activist Jawad Siyam has been under house arrest for nearly three months after being accused of attacking a Palestinian neighbor in the occupied East Jerusalem vill ...
• Another war on Gaza?
  Until now, there have been good reasons to believe Israel would hesitate to launch a new major military assault on Gaza. But EI's Ali Abunimah sees warning signs Israel could b ...
• Goldstone's shameful U-turn
  Richard Goldstone's shameful U-turn did not happen this week. It comes after more than a year and a half of a sustained campaign of intimidation and character assassination aga ...
• Global actions mark Palestine's Land Day
  Direct actions, rallies and protests took place across Palestine and in numerous cities across the world on 30 March to commemorate the 35th annual Land Day, an important day o ...
• In Palestine, curse anything but the land
  On 30 March 1976, while thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel were protesting against the expropriation of their lands, Israeli security forces shot and killed six of the ...

Afghanistan Sun

• 'Bored' Prince Harry back to smoking
  Prince Harry, who tried to give up smoking after his 10-week stint in Afghanistan in 2008, is reportedly back to his old habit.
• Afghan President asks US Congress to condemn Q ...
  Afghan president Hamid Karzai has called on the US Congress to condemn Christian preacher Terry Jones' burning of the Quran, which prompted mob killings in Mazar- e- Sharif.
• All-female US Air Force team launches historic ...
  A team of female US Airmen has made history in Afghanistan, by planning, maintaining and flying the first all-woman combat mission from the Bagram Airfield.
• Bush-connected Firm Involved In Opium Producti ...
  A one-time Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source revealed to WMR that a Bush family-connected firm, the St. Joe Company, was heavily involved in an irrigation project that provided water to ...
• In Afghanistan and Florida, incendiary fictions
  Two weeks earlier, thousands of kilometres to the west, a nutcase pastor in Florida with an insignificant cult following had decided to put the Koran on trial. It was a silly exercise, worthy of an ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Putting Up A Paywall Just To Have Advertisers ...
  There's an interesting article at AdAge noting that while there are various paywalls going up, there are also a growing number of advertisers willing to pay to take down the paywall... and they're willing to pay more than it would have cost to just advertise. For example, Lincoln "paid" for a b ...
• Yet Another Judge Says No To Mass Infringement ...
  It's seems former RIAA lobbyist Judge Beryl Howell's recent decision that it's fine to lump together a bunch of totally unrelated copyright infringement lawsuits into a single lawsuit is increasingly looking like an outlier. Two more such lawsuits have been rejected by a court, which severed al ...
• Conde Nast Sent $8 Million To A Scammer After ...
  Apparently it's not that hard to scam a big company out of millions of dollars these days. You can just send a single email, pretending to be from a vendor of that company. That's apparently what a guy named Andy Surface discovered when he set up a bank account for an operation he called "Quad ...
• DailyDirt: Don't Just Give People Numbers... D ...
  A number is often meaningless without a unit attached to it, but sometimes a unit is useless if it's an unfamiliar one. Given all the reporting on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a few helpful folks have created some charts to better explain what the radiation dosages mean. These g ...
• Will Amazon Cave In And Get Licenses For Its S ...
  When Amazon recently launched its streaming cloud music player, which let people upload their own tracks and then stream them back, one of the big questions was how would the record labels react. That's because Amazon didn't secure licenses for this, and it's somewhat in dispute whether or not ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, April 2, 2011
  Killer Seismic Dangers? Don’t Blame San Andreas; It’s Obama’s Fault!
• The German Earthquake
  EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 1, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 13
• A New Peace of Westphalia: Up from the Ruin wh ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 1, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 13
• LaRouche: To Protect Our Nation from the Galax ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Obama Lied, and Is Drawing U.S. into a New Vietnam
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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