5 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Chimp and Foster Mother Reunite After 30 Years
  Photo via The Waikato Times Although it has been well over three decades since Georgie Seccombe first met Sally, a baby chimpanzee that had been rejected by her mother at a nearby zoo -- the passing of time has done little to weaken the bond they formed back then. Their story begins in the 1 ...
• Liam Neeson Joins UNICEF, Alicia Silverstone P ...
  Photo: Barry King/FilmMagic/Getty Images Liam Neeson has joined UNICEF as the organization's newest Goodwill Ambassador, but those who've followed his humanitarian work, says Tonic, the appointment wasn't much of a shock: The actor has worked with the group for nearly 15 years, supporting t ...
• Join BookHugger in Reading Everyday Environmen ...
  Photo credit: Island Press Last month, TreeHugger and Island Press joined together to introduce BookHugger. Members got a discounted copy of Peter Calthorpe's Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change and the opportunity to talk with the author himself. This month, BookHugger presents Read t ...
• Environmental Groups Win Major Victory for Cle ...
  Environmentalists win some political battles too, you know. For instance, three of the biggest -- the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the League of Conservation Voters -- succeeded in rallying Democrats to reject a 'riders' that Republicans want to attach to the budget that ...
• With Nuclear Power, Overconfidence is Deadly
  Fukushima #3 Photo credit: daveeza via Flickr/CC BY-SA After an accident in any high-profile industry that makes the public nervous, it's pretty common to see business interests, regulators, and public officials rush to assure everybody that the incident was a fluke, and that the power plan ...

Biosingularity

• Sperm grown in a test tube
  Researchers in Japan have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish, a feat long thought to be impossible. The technique, reported today in Nature1, could help to reveal the molecular steps involved in sperm formation and might even lead to treatments for male infertility. Biologists have b ...
• Gene Therapy May Improve Parkinson’s Symptoms
  An experimental gene therapy injected into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease improved tremor, stiffness, and other movement symptoms and was safe with few side effects over six months of follow-up, a study shows. The small study represents the first successful clinical trial compar ...
• New UCSF Robotic Pharmacy Aims to Improve Pati ...
  Although it won’t be obvious to UCSF Medical Center patients, behind the scenes a family of giant robots now counts and processes their medications. With a new automated hospital pharmacy, believed to be the nation’s most comprehensive, UCSF is using robotic technology and electronics to prepare ...
• An On-Off Switch for Anxiety
  With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The study highlights the power of optogenetics technology—which allows neuroscientists to control genetically engineered neurons with light—to explore the fun ...
• Coffee May Lower Stroke Risk
  Women who drink a cup or more of coffee each day may be less likely to have a stroke, compared to women who drink less coffee, according to new research in the journal Stroke. The new findings should not be taken to mean that everyone should start drinking coffee to lower their stroke risk, as [...]

CFACT

• Is it time to sell federal lands?
  Faced with a soaring federal deficit and a slumping economy, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have hit on an idea to deal with both: They want the federal government to begin selling off some of its vast estate.
• Congress bickers over biodegradable forks
  CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto to discuss congressional Democrat's fight for biodegradable forks, knives, and spoons in the congressional cafeteria.
• Saving lives in Japan: search, rescue & recovery
  CFACT helped send this SAR team to Japan where they are now hard at work saving lives and easing suffering.
• We need nuclear: Wind won't keep us warm
  How many thousands of people would die in a severe winter if wind turbines don’t have any wind to turn them? Britain last winter got just 9 percent of the rated generating capacity of its huge wind turbine arrays. Only fossil fuel backup plants saved them from freezing to death.
• Send a Search and Rescue team to Japan
  Please help CFACT send a Caritas Search and Rescue team to Japan!

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerobatic t ...
  On April 5, 2011, the Russian Air Force’s Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerobatic team marked its 20th anniversary. The team was established in 1991 on the basis of the 237th Guards Proskurov Air Force Regiment.
• Gazprom, E.ON Ruhrgas expect higher demand for ...
  Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom and Germany's E.ON Ruhrgas, one of Europe's biggest customers for gas from Russia, expect European demand for Russian gas supplies to grow, Gazprom said on Tuesday.
• Russians becoming disinterested in politics - poll
  Russians have continually been losing interest in politics over the last six years, though about 60% of Russians regularly discuss political issues at home, according to a poll held by the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).
• Kazakh commission confirm Nazarbayev poll win
  The final results of Kazakhstan's presidential election confirm veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev's win with 95.5% of the vote.
• EU free trade zone could slow Ukraine's GDP gr ...
  A proposed free trade zone with the European Union could slow economic growth in Ukraine, the country's deputy economics minister said in an interview published on Tuesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Soyuz TMA-21 with new ISS crew launch ...
  Russia's Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft has been launched early on Tuesday to the International Space Station.
• Russia, U.S. to discuss nuke-powered spaceship ...
  Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA will discuss the development of a nuclear-powered spaceship on April 15, agency director Anatoly Perminov said on Monday.
• Medvedev criticizes competiveness of Russian p ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticized on Friday Russian aircraft makers for failing to provide competitive and electronically advanced planes.
• Putin orders federal biotech program ready by May
• UN mulls naming April 12 World Space Day
  The UN General Assembly will vote next week on a resolution to declare April 12 International Spaceflight Day, Russian envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin said on Friday.

Pruning Shears

• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Pfc. Dustin J. Feldhaus, 20, of Glendale, AZ.Pfc. Michael C. Mahr, 26, of Homosassa, FL.Pvt. Jeremy P. ...
• Tuesday, April 5 - Invest in Ohio's Future Rally
  12:00 - 5:00 pmColumbusOne Ohio Now is holding an “Invest in Ohio’s Future Rally” rally at the Ohio StatehouseWhere: North Plaza: Broad St., 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215.Contact: Andrea Fejes at andrea (at) oneohionow.org or RSVP Online.Due to the large turnout expected, we are moving to ...
• 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 31-Mar-2011
  Thursday, March 3110:00 AM - 6:00 PMColumbusSenate Bill 5 Rally at the StatehouseWhere: 225 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215OEA Building & Ohio StatehouseOEA will open at 10:00 a.m. so you can pick up signs, water and snacks. RSVPs are not required, but are helpful and appreciated. By letti ...
• 'No On SB 5': What's next if it passes
  Below is from an email sent by the state Democratic party.More news is developing by the minute on Senate Bill 5. After the Republicans shut down public hearings and hashed out backroom deals all last week, the House Commerce and Labor Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. this morning to vote this bill ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Similarly, here are a few things that have been ignored or greatly downplayed by American media:Ray Davis sprung.Trophy photos with murdere ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Startling New Report Shines Light on Farm Labo ...
  Most corporations involved in the food business quietly benefit from the invisibility of U.S. farmworkers. Bon Appetit Management Co., a U.S. subsidiary of the U.K.-based, transnational catering giant Compass Group, has done something odd: It has partnered with the nation's leading farm worker's ...
• Environmentalists Stand Up to Obama, Win Big
  Under intense pressure from green groups and their members, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) announced Friday that Republican proposals to gut the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were off the table in budget negotiations. Click here to read this article
• Letters: Organic Market Takes a Stand on Food ...
  As a citizen concerned about the health, environmental, ethical and socio-economic hazards of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and industrial-scale factory farms or CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations), I am writing to inform your readers about a new consumer campaign calling for Trut ...
• Clash Leaves Cloned Meats Unregulated Across t ...
  Meat from the offspring of cloned animals could appear in stores across the European Union, with no one being any the wiser, after Member State government representatives early this morning refused the European Parliament's demand to label clone-derived food products.Click here to read this article
• Movement-Building and the 2012 Presidential Ca ...
  All of a sudden the news media is full of stories about President Obama about to officially announce his 2012 reelection campaign, with headlines that he may end up raising a billion dollars in the process.Click here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Threat of Prosecution Plays a Role in Libyan D ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Critics of the Security Council’s decision to refer the situation in Libya to the ICC normally argue that the referral denies Gaddafi the option of going into exile instead of fighting to the death.  That may or may not be true — as I’ve noted previous ...
• A Major Scandal at the Army Crime Lab
  by Kevin Jon Heller On paper, courts-martial are far more fair than military commissions -- the substantive law they apply is superior, and their rules of evidence and procedure are designed to protect defendants, not ensure convictions.  Unfortunately, a recent McClatchy investigation indi ...
• St. John’s Center for International and Compar ...
  by Chris Borgen Tomorrow, the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL) of St. John's University School of Law will have its inaugural symposium. Peggy and I are CICL's Co-Directors, and we are looking forward to what we hope will be a great kick-off. The symposium, entitled Challen ...
• How Should the Conflict in Libya Be Categorized?
  by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis The UN Security Council’s approval of the no-fly zone over Libya serves to answer the thorniest jus ad bellum questions, but there are also jus in bello questions that need to be answered. Most importantly, what kind of conflict is this? Before the UN ...
• Kenya’s Latest Attempt to Invoke Complementarity
  by Kevin Jon Heller The Kenyan government has filed a 30-page motion with the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber II arguing that recent improvements to the Kenyan criminal-justice system render the cases against the Ocampo Six inadmissible.  Here are the highlights of the reforms, from the motion's in ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• You know you live in Christchurch when...
  You know you live in Christchurch when.... · Geonet / ChristchurchQuakeMap is your homepage · The rest of the country offers you a place to stay · “Munted” and “buggered” are official technical terms · You go 'pfffff' when Wellington...
• Just a hint of what the next Investigate HIS/H ...
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• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...

My Care2 Picks

• New aerial images deepen concerns about Gulf s ...
  Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama flew over the Gulf on March 19 and 20 on a flight provided by On Wings of Care and videotaped what he saw. "nothing that's being caught in these waters today is safe for human consumption."Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Why Western meddling in Deathistan needs to en ...
  Suppose really something bad were happening in America. Suppose George W. Bush refused to leave office: was barricaded in the White House, and attempting to cancel civil liberties. Now suppose Libya or Iraq possessed super-carrier strike groups...Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �| ...
• The CIAs Libya Rebels
  Mystery surrounds the anti-Qaddafi transitional government which emerged at the beginning of March in the city of Benghazi, located in the Cyrenaica district : mujahedin,Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Interesting Times: Lessons to Learn From a Flo ...
  David ( Contrary ) Brin is a futuristwho makes observations that others miss.About cell service : require that all cell phones be equipped to pass along text messages on a peer-to peer (P2P-packet) basis, all the way to the edge of the afflicted zoneSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech � ...
• Funding of Bretton Woods II by George Soros Ex ...
  A new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the international financial architecture after World War II, is needed to establish new international rules…reconstitute the International Monetary Fund (IMF)…[and] to reform the currency systeSubmitted by EarthSpirit Angel to US Poli ...

Angry Indian News

• National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine Subcommi ...
  NLG International Global News - National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine Subcommittee to Observe Resumption of Trial Brought by Family of Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie: "'It has been eight years... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Libyan official in Athens to deliver Gaddafi m ...
  Libyan official in Athens to deliver Gaddafi message: "ATHENS (alarabiya.net Agencies)Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi arrived in Athens on Sunday to deliver a message from Libyan... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Mounting Alarm Over US Use of Depleted Uranium ...
  Mounting Alarm Over US Use of Depleted Uranium Arms in Libya | Common Dreams: "by Rob EdwardsThe countries involved in air strikes on Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya are coming under pressure to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Pakistan: Protest against hiring of mercenarie ...
  Pakistan: Protest against hiring of mercenaries for Bahrain [ireland.marxist.com]Written by Farhad Kayani - Saturday, 02 April 2011 - The Bahraini regime, with the aid of the Pakistan Army, has been... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western C ...
  Indigenist Opinion Editorial | APNS: "The women of Africa have been struggling against systematic military-rape for hundreds of years without serious interventionism from the the international... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Marti Oakley on Call to Decision with Pastor B ...
  Call To Decision Host: Pastor Butch Paugh GCN Radio Marti Oakley The PPJ Gazette Listen here: Marti Call to Decision
• Memory Erasing Drugs In the Crosshairs!
  Scientists are working on drugs to erase memories.
• Ode to Monsanto
  Just say NO! to GMO - Ode to Monsanto.
• Truth Squad Radio: BioPirates, Toxic Chemicals ...
  Deborah of Environmental Voices will join us as we discuss Biopiracy and the chemical poisoning of our planet.
• The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineering ...
  Only in America can a beleaguered company with a checker past such as Monsanto's, which includes a nasty little habit of poisoning entire towns with toxic waste, battle it's way to the top of the dung heap to deliver a fatal blow to the people and planet with a deadly and insidious type of chemi ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Fighter jets escort Egypt-bound British passen ...
  ShareThisFighter jets escort Egypt-bound British passenger plane to Athens after bomb threat 04 Apr 2011 A British passenger plane had to be escorted to Athens airport by fighter jets after receiving a bomb threat. Greece's Air Force said two F-16 jets and a Super Puma helicopter escorted the pl ...
• Bloody pig's foot, hate mail sent to GOP Rep. ...
  ShareThisBloody pig's foot, hate mail sent to GOP Rep. Peter King who led hearings on Muslim 'radicalization' 04 Apr 2011 A package containing a bloody pig's foot and a hate-filled note was mailed to the Washington office of Rep. [Sociopath] Peter King, prompting a police investigation. U.S. Cap ...
• House GOP to distribute shutdown plan
  ShareThisHouse GOP to distribute shutdown plan 04 Apr 2011 Republican leaders are preparing the House for a government shutdown, as they plan to distribute a pamphlet about the mechanics of a partial congressional work-stoppage to all lawmakers' offices Tuesday morning, according to several seni ...
• Japan nuclear plant dumps radioactive water in ...
  ShareThisJapan nuclear plant dumps radioactive water into sea --'Less'-radioactive water officials purposely dumping into sea is up to 500 times legal limit for radiation 04 Apr 2011 Workers began pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plan ...
• U.S. May Build Five New Nuclear Reactors by 20 ...
  ShareThisU.S. May Build Five New Nuclear Reactors by 2020, New Energy Finance Says --Obama administration offered loan guarantees to developers of reactors 04 Apr 2011 The U.S. will build five new nuclear reactors by 2020 and ignore calls to scale back plans in the wake of Japan’s nuclear accide ...

Daily Loaf

• Do It Today: free movie party with Visual Acou ...
  Two free informative events: Learn about Native American burial mounds at UT, and attend a free movie party with a screening of Visual Acoustics at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.
• The movement, We are One, honors Dr. Martin Lu ...
  Leaders come together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today in the movement We are One.
• Out in Left Field: Going nuts about peanut all ...
  This child has a severe peanut allergy, and the parents want her out of their school. Period.
• Pam Iorio, Ronde Barber and Coach Raheem Morri ...
  Local bucs star and former Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio celebrate the awarding of 34 scholarships for students with physical challenges at the 15th Annual ChairScholars Festival, a annual family-fun fest and celebration.
• Must-click links: 2011 Cannes poster, climate ...
  Must-click links is a collection of (mostly random) movie and news links we hope will peak your interest and spark discussion. Send your suggestions for the next day’s post to anthonynicholas2@gmail.com and leave comments.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• There is a Right, and a Wrong
  Mark Bieger with Farah 04 April 2011 In war, the closer you get to blood, the closer you get to truth.� One day in Iraq there was a car bomb. It was like any other day at that time.� Several American Soldiers were wounded. In addition to hitting American Soldiers, this bomb hit children.� ...
• Rolling Stone: Boycotting Advertisers
  31 March 2011 In 2006, I launched a boycott against a magazine owned by a huge conglomerate.� The Boycott damaged the magazine but the extent was unknown.� Eight months later, the press reported that the magazine had died.� (Early Christmas Present for Michael Yon.) The boycott was not done on ...
• Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
  29 March 2011 Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.� Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.� The story is titled �THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.�� It should be titled: �BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone. ...
• Statement regarding Today's Attacks in Afghanistan
  28 March 2011
• 101st Airborne
  04 March 2011 Plans are afoot to embed with the 2-506 Infantry in Paktika Province.� If all goes well, the hard work will begin several weeks from now.� The Battalion Commander is Lieutenant Colonel Don Hill. Please see their latest newsletter: Please Click to view the entire newsletter. ...

The Killing Train

• Harper and the Press
  In Harperland, Lawrence Martin points out how Harper hates the press (you can see it in this campaign, with the 19th century schoolmaster's Five Questions policy). In a chapter on Harper's press policy, called "the Control Fixation", Martin relates this story (pg. 65): read more
• Incrementalism
  Calgary academic and Harper advisor Tom Flanagan has more influence on Canadian politics than most people in this country realize. He was an important informant in Lawrence Martin's imporant book, "Harperland". A good quote from Flanagan, on pg. 47 of Harperland: read more
• Blogging the Canadian election
  To go with Canadian election season, I am reading books about Stephen Harper, his party, and his movement. I have got Lawrence Martin's "Harperland", Marci McDonald's "The Armageddon Factor", and I have ordered Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power". I thought I might put some of the interesting qu ...
• Fukushima and low-probability events
  A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him to nuclear power. George summarizes the Fukushima incident as follows: read more
• Aristide's speech upon return

treehugger

• Chimp and Foster Mother Reunite After 30 Years
  Photo via The Waikato Times Although it has been well over three decades since Georgie Seccombe first met Sally, a baby chimpanzee that had been rejected by her mother at a nearby zoo -- the passing of time has done little to weaken the bond they formed back then. Their story begins in the 1 ...
• Liam Neeson Joins UNICEF, Alicia Silverstone P ...
  Photo: Barry King/FilmMagic/Getty Images Liam Neeson has joined UNICEF as the organization's newest Goodwill Ambassador, but those who've followed his humanitarian work, says Tonic, the appointment wasn't much of a shock: The actor has worked with the group for nearly 15 years, supporting t ...
• Join BookHugger in Reading Everyday Environmen ...
  Photo credit: Island Press Last month, TreeHugger and Island Press joined together to introduce BookHugger. Members got a discounted copy of Peter Calthorpe's Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change and the opportunity to talk with the author himself. This month, BookHugger presents Read t ...
• Environmental Groups Win Major Victory for Cle ...
  Environmentalists win some political battles too, you know. For instance, three of the biggest -- the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the League of Conservation Voters -- succeeded in rallying Democrats to reject a 'riders' that Republicans want to attach to the budget that ...
• With Nuclear Power, Overconfidence is Deadly
  Fukushima #3 Photo credit: daveeza via Flickr/CC BY-SA After an accident in any high-profile industry that makes the public nervous, it's pretty common to see business interests, regulators, and public officials rush to assure everybody that the incident was a fluke, and that the power plan ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Ex-army captain arrested, interrogated
  Former military officer had been volunteering at a blood donation group run by the NLD before his recent arrest, and remains in detention
• Burmese among Malaysian camp breakout
  Nearly 80 migrants still on the run after violence flares at the Lenggeng immigration centre where detainees regularly report poor conditions
• Tourists flock to tattooed Chin women
  Dying custom in northwestern Burma still drawing sightseers as mystery remains of what lies behind the facial etchings
• Nine Burmese die in Thai truck collision
  Thirty more hospitalised after 10-wheeled truck ploughs into lorry carrying Burmese migrant workers in the Thai town of Mahachai
• NDF leaders at loggerheads, party splits
  Deputy party chairman Thein Nyunt forms splinter group and states that 'in no way' will he work again with Khin Maung Swe's faction

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Eton student in bid to become youngest person ...
  A 16-year-old boy is set to make his second bid to be the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.
• Bob Ward boobs again over rainfall records
  The Grantham Institute's attack dog, Bob Ward, came back for another bite, but missed again, says Christopher Booker.
• How my family and I hatched a plan to keep lob ...
  A charity is working to reverse the effects of overfishing on one of Cornwall's premium 'common resources', writes Roger Highfield.
• Met Office climate survey: why our obsession w ...
  Arctic winters, red-hot summers and melting snow caps. Climate change is one of the most talked about issues today. But how much do we really know about the climate on our very own doorstep? And what can we really do about it?
• Met Office climate survey: how to get involved
  The Met Office is urging people to blow bubbles and spot vapour trails as part of a national survey of Britain's climate.

National Geographic | Environment

• Radiation in Japan Seas: Risk of Animal Death, ...
  If radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant continues to enter the ocean, animals could suffer "bizarre mutations" or worse.
• Substance to Stop Oil From Sticking to Birds?
  Scientists are perfecting a sort of eco-friendly "laundry detergent" to make spilled oil less likely to stick to bird feathers. Video.
• Earth Getting Mysteriously Windier
  The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades—and the reason is a mystery, a new study says.
• Earth Hour Pictures: Before and After, Around ...
  NoneSee what it looked like Saturday night when hundreds of landmarks went dark—and cities went darkish—in the name of energy conservation.
• Earth Hour Tonight: What Time? What's the Point?
  Tonight, energy-conscious millions will turn out the lights for Earth Hour, but critics say it's not such a bright idea.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Dutch court upholds ban on religious headscarv ...
  [JURIST] A Dutch court in the Amsterdam district of Haarlem on Monday upheld [CGB press release, in Dutch] a ban on Islamic headscarves [JURIST news archive] at Don Bosco College [academic website, in Dutch], a Catholic school in Volendam. The court stressed that a prohibition on headscarves is ...
• Spain court seeks extradition of Guatemalan ma ...
  [JURIST] A Spanish court issued an international arrest warrant on Monday for the extradition of Jose Sosa Orantes, a former Guatemalan soldier being held in Canada for his involvement in a 1982 massacre during Guatemala's 36-year civil war [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. Arrested in Canada [AP r ...
• Holder announces 9/11 conspirators to face mil ...
  [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced Monday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and four other co-conspirators will be tried before a military commission [statement] for their roles in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Holder, who wanted the ...
• Supreme Court rules challengers to Arizona tax ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 Monday in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that respondents lacked standing to bring suit regarding the constitutionality of an Arizona tax credit. The tax cre ...
• Supreme Court limits federal habeas review
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] in Cullen v. Pinholster [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that review under the federal habeas law is limited to the record that was before the state court, reinstating the death penalty for a convicted man. ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Shutdown vs. Shutdown: Republicans Better Off ...
  Not all government shutdowns are created equal, as far as political consequences go. After surveys from other pollsters have given contradictory indications about shutdown politics, the Pew Research Center now finds that blame would fall more or less evenly on the parties. And this means Republ ...
• Can Obama 2012 Bring the New Media Band Back T ...
  The kick-off of Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid Monday morning came with a relaunch of BarackObama.com and a thoroughly Web-based announcement push that featured a campaign YouTube video, a text message, a Facebook post, a pair of tweets, and a simple call to supporters: "Are You In?" One ...
• Barack Obama, Sports Commentator in Chief
  Sports lingo comes naturally to the president. An avid basketball fan (and player), he's comfortable talking about the intricacies of an NCAA tournament field, which he does every year with ESPN, or the sorrows of college football's BCS computer-ranking system. As he told Fox's Bill O'Reill ...
• A Hamstrung Eric Holder Blasts Critics of Civi ...
  As Eric Holder announced today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed won't be tried in federal civilian court, where the administration had originally hoped to see him prosecuted, the U.S. attorney general appeared clearly displeased with how the political fight had gone. "Let me be clear: I stand by that ...
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The Capitulation Is Co ...
  Updated 2:58 p.m. -- In the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Obama administration's capitulation is complete. Attorney General Eric Holder, who only 17 months ago heralded a federal civilian trial in New York City for the man accused of masterminding the largest mass murder in American histor ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] ***SPAM*** Libya's Qaddafi stars in U.S ...
• [COAT] Watch my antiWAR music video (Dylan/See ...
• [COAT] Peace Surge NOW! Save Ottawa Ban on War ...
• [COAT] Afghan MP tells Ottawa to Stop Arms Sho ...
• [COAT] Ottawa's Mayor & War Bazaars! Democracy ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Israel Files Charges Against Abusisi, Accuses ...
  Earlier today, the Israeli State prosecutor released its charges (full Hebrew version, this is a partial English translation prepared by Dena Shunra) against Dirar Abusisi.  And to read it, you’d think he was the Werner von Braun of Hamas, it’s chief rocket designer and the brains behind the mo ...
• Abusisi’s Co-Workers: Shocked at Israeli Kidna ...
  Walla publishes a persuasive article interviewing two of Dirar Abusisi’s long-time colleagues at the Gaza power plant where he served as deputy director, who deny emphatically the claims of Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu that the engineer was affiliated with Hamas: “It’s easy to iden ...
• Shabak Strikes Again, Israeli Palestinian Boy ...
  I reported a few days ago that the Shabak has arrested an 18 year old Nazareth resident, Ahmad Khaled Ghanem under gag order.  He is suspected of alleged security offenses.  I contacted a staff member of the I’lam Media Center in Nazareth who helped me reach his parents and lawyer.  The famil ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• Goldstone’s Tawdry Turn, Israel’s False Dance ...
  An Israeli reporter wrote to me today saying that Israel is “aflame” with the news that Judge Goldstone has finally given the nation the vindication it so richly deserved by renouncing his human rights report on Operation Cast Lead, which found that Israel may’ve committed numerous war crimes. F ...

Ode Magazine

• A cure for Nature-Deficient Disorder
  By: eisnerish The new film Echoes of Creation is an orgiastic nature experience from award-winning film director Jan Nickman. It's currently being aired on public television as a pledge drive program across the nation - check your local listings - and ...
• To those who pray for peace
  By: PeaceCorso The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer and the esoteric techniques and meanings of late m ...
• Voss’ ark
  At his Florida farm, Jeff Voss provides a home to the Watusi (pictured here) and many other exotic animal species.Photo: Jeff Voss By day, Jeff Voss manages portfolios and analyzes cash flows; by night, he tends exotic animal species at Briley Farm, a private 60-acre p ...
• Wonder wall
  wonder wallPhoto: urbanarbolismo You can take in San Vicente del Raspeig’s main square at a glance: town hall, library, concert hall. The only thing the center of this rural town near Valencia, Spain, was missing was plant life. Or so thought Jose Maria Chofre, of the ...
• Druid prayer for peace
  By: PeaceCorso Deep within the still centre of my being May I find peace. Silently within the quiet of the Grove May I share peace. Gently within the greater circle of humankind May I radiate peace. The Druids were deep nature mystics. I find t ...

OpEd News

• Isaiah 3: 1-15
  Surprisingly apt and pertinent description of today's GOP/corporate policies. Regardless of religious origin, comment on social injustice is relevant and prophetic.
• Richard Goldstone's Fall from Grace
  Goldstone capitulates to the Israeli Lobby
• Remember Libya: One of History's Terror Bombin ...
  US led naked aggression on Libya
• Michele Bachmann Lies About Her Own Family His ...
  At the Rediscover God in America conference in Iowa, Michele Bachmann revised her family history to make herself sound more Iowan.
• Song: I Sliced Pastrami For The CIA And Found God
  Of all the CIA diabolical plots to kill Fidel Castro, I believe this was the most incredible.

Switchboard

• LA Needs to Find Sustainable Solution to Our G ...
  Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team, Santa Monica In an often polarizing time when industry associations and environmental groups are taking dramatically different positions on public policy issues, these groups appear ...
• A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC As scientists investigate whether the BP oil disaster contributed to an unexplained die-off of dolphins and sea turtles in the Gulf, another oil disaster is underway thousands of miles away i ...
• Local Lead: Pollution around Chicago school re ...
  Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Sometimes those of us outside the Beltway need reminders about how the battles in DC impact our day-to-day lives. The Chicago Tribune tossed a big reminder grenade into the local ...
• Is there a Doctor in the House? Or the Senate?
  Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. Its a question that jumped to mind when I read the editorial "Confronting health issues of climate change" from the American Medical Association about climate change and health. The editoria ...
• Environment as profit center
  Peter Malik, Director, Center for Market Innovation, New York The other day I picked up an article in the April issue of Fast Company, detailing Bloomberg’s reporting of companies’ ESG data, or Environment, Social and Governance.   Curtis Ravenel, ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Your Moment of Bobo
  Yes, nothing is more “courageous” than proposing policies that hammer the relatively powerless to benefit the wealthy and powerful in a country that already has rapidly increasing inequality. If only Bobo were an outlier…
• France and UN Hit Targets in Cote d’Ivoire.
  Well, well. A couple of immediate reactions: A) Based on this, allready the purpose of this action is being muddled by spokespeople. Is it to protect civilians? Is it to protect UN personnel? Is it to enforce the rule of law? B) Ban ki-Moon is emphasizing that this does not mean the UN is a pa ...
• Congratulations to the Champion!
  As most of you know, the Oregon Ducks defeated hated Creighton Friday night in Eugene to win the College Basketball Invitational. Loomis and I have been celebrating with a three day bender, one day for each of the three games in the CBI title series. So on this otherwise uneventful evening, rem ...
• Posner, Dunlap and Lawfare
  Eric Posner had a recent piece in The National Interest on the concept of “lawfare,” in which he appears to define “lawfare” as efforts to undermine powerful states’ foreign policy goals by holding them accountable to international norms (he lumps Wikileaks and Human Rights Watch together as two ...
• Death By A Thousand Specious Distinctions
  The Roberts’s Courts disingenuous war on standing in Establishment Clause cases continues. The glories of minimalism! If you’re looking for silver linings, Kagan’s first dissent was very good.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Lots of Rooftop Solar Comes To Tucson
• Bacardi HQ Goes LEED, We Get Tanked
• Energy Efficiency Made Easy In Washington?
• HP Delves Into Energy Management Tools
• Connecticut Colleges Teach Green Jobs

National Law Journal | U.S.

• In packed courtroom, 1st Circuit weighs challe ...
  Whether Congress intended the Copyright Act's damages provision to apply to consumers and whether the 1st Circuit should overrule its statutory language were up for debate at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on April 4.
• Judge tosses overseas claims against Toyota
  A federal judge has dismissed a consolidated lawsuit brought by Toyota consumers in foreign countries over sudden acceleration claims.
• High court hands a victory to 'school choice' ...
  In a significant victory for "school choice" advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied standing to Arizonans who challenged a state tax credit program that indirectly benefits students in religious schools. The 5-4 ruling provoked a strong dissent from Justice Elena Kagan — her first wr ...
• State-owned company officials count under anti ...
  A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss an indictment on the argument that the officials who allegedly were bribed didn't meet the definition of "foreign official" under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• ALM, LexisNexis sign content agreement
  The parent company of The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and several other legal publications has reached a deal to make its content available through LexisNexis.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• PennFuture workshop: Gas and Our Water
  Gas and Our Water: Legal tools for watershed advocates dealing with drilling in the Marcellus Shale Saturday, April 16 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre This workshop will give grassroots conservation and watershed groups, concerned citizens and volunteers the legal tools necessary to protect our wat ...
• Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
  Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
• Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...
• Governor’s Marcellus Commission Meeting ...
  Hi All, A notice in the PA Bulletin announced the first meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. Scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., It will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA. Th ...
• Senator Casey Introduces Three Natural Gas Bills
  The following is a press release from Senator Robert Casey regarding three bills he has reintroduced. (1) S1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (aka: The Frac Act) (2) S S3964: Faster Action Safety Team Emergency Response Act (aka: FASTER) (3) S3720: Marcellus Shale On- ...

News Blaze

• Morgan Freeman 'Born to Be Wild' Interview wit ...
  Morgan Freeman finally won an Academy Award in 2005 in the Best Supporting Actor category for his work in Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby,'
• Why We Did This: The Opportunity to Turn Failu ...
  The cost in human life is impossible to calculate, but these questions are worth pondering. How many potential scientists never got the chance to develop because their schooling in the projects was stunted?
• Gas Prices Skyrocket Upwards in Sacramento
  Including the change in gas prices in Sacramento during the past week, prices yesterday were 98.7 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 18.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
• Palestinians Aim to Impose UN Resolution
  Such unilateral action outside the negotiation process would constitute a fundamental breach of the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement, thereby releasing Israel from its reciprocal commitments.
• Focused Guerrero is Ready to Roll
  Guerrero's courageous decision to abandon a world title shot to be with his cancer-stricken wife, Casey, in her darkest hour made him a hero to millions regardless of whether he won another fight.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

• Bankrupt Jesuit Order Pays Native Americans $1 ...
  A bankrupt order of priests has agreed to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native American and Alaska Natives who were abused at their schools. The payout by the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province - part of an agreement to resolve its two-year-old bankruptcy case - is the third biggest settlemen ...
• Battered Mothers Custody Conference Interviews
  Prof. Garland Waller produced "Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts" which is an independent documentary that explores the relationship between domestic violence, child sexual abuse and custody laws in America. To learn more about the stories of the women seen in this 10 minu ...
• Ground operation in Libya could start in April ...
  The international coalition force is planning a ground operation in Libya that could start in late April, a high-ranking Russian intelligence service source said on Friday. "Information coming via different channels shows that NATO countries, with the active participation of Britain and the Unit ...
• Japan: Radioactive levels in sea 1,250 times h ...
  Levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are 1,250 times higher than the safety limit, officials say. The readings were taken about 300m (984ft) offshore. It is feared the radiation could be seeping into groundwater from one of the reactors. But t ...
• Nigel Farage: "Bombings, bailouts - what on ea ...
  The UN says it's alarmed by the looming humanitarian crisis in Libya. Officials warn food supply lines have been disrupted and over three hundred thousand refugees have already fled the country. Nigel Farage, MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, believes the whole military strategy in Li ...

Russia Today

• Gaddafi envoys might propose diplomatic soluti ...
  The Libyan government’s spokesperson Ibrahim Moussa said that he is optimistic about a political solution to the current Libyan crisis.
• Who did Mossad catch – terrorist or engineer?
  A Palestinian engineer has been charged with terrorism by an Israeli court. Dirar Abu Sisi, who was kidnapped from a train in Ukraine by Israeli agents in February, is also accused of conducting training for Palestinian...
• Libya on fire, who’s next?
  As fighting for control over the cities of Brega and Misrata continues in Libya, RT looks at how the military operation could just be the start of Washington's wider goals in the region.
• Frustration with government grows among Britons
  The British Prime Minister announced that the UK will increase the number of Tornado jets deployed to Libya, bringing the total to 12.
• UN resolution gives too much power to coalitio ...
  Barry Gardiner, a member of the British Parliament, was among those who voted against the intervention because he believed that it was impossible for any military involvement to be limited simply to a humanitarian...

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

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

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

• Who Should Rebuild Japan’s Cities?
  No one person or group of experts needs to or should rebuild Japan, if the goal is to reestablish settlements that are genuine engines of economic growth and incubators of ideas.
• Republican Budget Chairman Wants $4 Trillion C ...
  “A Republican plan for the 2012 budget would cut more than $4 trillion over the next decade, more than even the president’s debt commission proposed, with spending caps as well as changes in the Medicare and Medicaid health programs, its principal author said Sundayâ¦. [Rep. Paul] Ryan said Obam ...
• Keep Soldiers on Border, Republican Implore
  Stepping up the immigration enforcement bidding war, House Republicans last week asked President Obama to extend the deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops on the U.S.-Mexico border past June 30, when their mission is slated to end.” (Washington Times) A militarized border: nice image for a c ...
• Schools Ponder Need for Algebra II
  “In recent years, 20 states and the District have moved to raise graduation requirements to include Algebra II, and its complexities are being demanded of more and more studentsâ¦. But exactly how to raise the education levels of the U.S. workforce is a matter of debate. And whether learning Alg ...
• Robert Gates Again Rules Out U.S. Ground Force ...
  “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates reiterated Thursday that the U.S. would not put ground forces in Libya, but conceded that allies involved in the operation might provide arms and send in trainers to aid the rebels, who have lost ground to Col. Moammar Kadafi’s forces in recent days.” (L.A. Tim ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• 10 useful resources about data visualization
  These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization. (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-wor ...
• Timelines in journalism: A closer look
  You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
• Teaching about storytelling
  As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
• Is your story actually a story?
  “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...
• Web literacy: Should be required
  A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Finding King's economic promised land
  Martin Luther King's final public remarks, delivered 43 years ago yesterday, are often called his darkest, because he appears to foreshadow his assassination the following day. He was in Memphis, Tenn., urging supporters of 1,300 striking sanitation workers to double-down at a critical junc ...
• New aerial images deepen concerns about Gulf s ...
  New aerial images from the Gulf of Mexico are deepening concerns about whether seafood currently being harvested from those waters is safe to eat. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama flew over the Gulf on March 19 and 20 on a flight provided by On Wings of Care and videotaped ...
• Arkansas latest in series of defeats for voter ...
  This week, a senate committee in Arkansas' state legislature rejected a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Arkansas vote was the latest in a string of defeats for voter photo ID bills, which state Republicans have aggressively pushed in over a dozen states t ...
• VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
  By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
• Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
  By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• Alex Salmond dusts off his party's 'It's Scotl ...
  Salmond has begun his campaign to be re-elected as Scotland's First Minister on May 5, writes Alan Cochrane.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.
• We don't have the luxury of an interventionist ...
  We must work out what our national interest is, and then we must act upon it, writes Simon Heffer.
• We need nuclear power
  Telegraph View: The earthquake in Japan must not divert Britain from its nuclear energy programme

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• AACR: Cell-sorting method traces tumour develo ...
  A new technique can simultaneously assay a hundred molecular markers on single cells, allowing a team of researchers to track the developmental history of individual cancer cells. The results, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research on 4 April, could b ...
• AACR: Experimental cancer drug unleashes 'guar ...
  Researchers at sanofi-aventis have developed compounds that release the brakes on p53, a protein often called the 'guardian of the genome' because of its importance in repairing damaged DNA. The compounds shrank tumours in mice grafted with human cancer cells. p53 has been heralded as a key ...
• Arguments heard in high-profile patent case ag ...
  A US appeals court heard pivotal arguments today in a landmark case involving gene patenting and breast cancer testing, which puts to the test the legal basis for many patents that support the biotechnolgy industry. The arguments in Association of Molecular Pathology, et al. v United States ...
• China unveils ten-year plan to develop electri ...
  Posted on behalf of Jane Qiu China will invest 100 billion yuan (US$16 billion) in developing the production and commercialisation of electric cars in the coming decade, according to a report published last week in The China Business News (CBN), a Chinese-language newspaper. The plan promi ...
• Fukushima update: TEPCO forced to deliberately ...
  A quick wrap-up of some developments from today and over the weekend: TEPCO deliberately dumps more than 10,000 tonnes of radioactive water into sea. TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima power plant has today begun deliberately discharging radioactive water into the sea. The company says it w ...

new geography

• The Problem With Megacities
  The triumphalism surrounding the slums and megacities frankly disturbs me. It is, of course, right to celebrate the amazing resilience of residents living in these cities� massive slums. But many of the megacity boosters miss a more important point: that the proliferation of these sorts of commu ...
• California: Club Med Meets Third World?
  On March 25th, the Bureau of Labor statistics released a report that showed that California jobs had increased by 96,000 in February.  The state’s cheerleaders jumped into action. Never mind that the state still has a 12.2 percent unemployment rate, and part of the decline from 12.4 percent i ...
• Bicycle Commuting: A US System and A World-Wi ...
  To my pleasure, there is now a United States Bicycle Route System that goes more places than Amtrak and Greyhound do. Have a look at the proposed map of the national corridor plan. The goal is to create clearly marked north-south and east-west routes, as romantic as the Oregon Trail or as fun ...
• The End of the Line: Ambitious High-speed Rail ...
  A well-intentioned but quixotic presidential vision to make high-speed rail service available to 80 percent of Americans in 25 years is being buffeted by a string of reversals. And, like its British counterpart, the London-to-Birmingham high speed rail line (HS2), it is the subject of an impassi ...
• The Best Cities For Minority Entrepreneurs
  As the American economy struggles to recover, its greatest advantage lies with its diverse population. The U.S.’ major European competitors — Germany, Scandinavia, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Italy — have admittedly failed at integrating racial outsiders. Its primary Asian ri ...

GM Watch

• Studies show animals fed on GM diet face organ ...
• We won't sell clone meat say supermarkets
• Scientist warns US and EU administrations of g ...
• Non-GM ringspot virus-resistant papaya
• Dirty tricks campaign to get GM into New Zeala ...

spiked

• The other Libyan war looks like a stalemate, too
  None of the international players competing for influence in this crisis has the will to run an air war, never mind re-colonise Libya.
• Keeping the poor in the dark
  New World Bank rules restricting support for coal-fired power stations will confine millions to poverty.
• It’s time to declare war on terroir
  Banning anyone outside Cornwall from making Cornish pasties promises to crimp the life out of food culture.
• Defending libraries against cuts? It’s t ...
  Where were today’s champions of libraries in the 1990s, when philistine New Labour was emptying those venerable institutions of all their worth?
• Fukushima: why greens turned on each other
  The reaction to events in Japan shows that fear – of climate change or radiation – trumps old solidarities.

Cryptogon

• Predator: A Smart Camera that Learns
  More: Zdenek Kalal
• Physicians for Social Responsibility Deeply Co ...
  Via: Physicians for Social Responsibility: Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) expressed concern over recent reports that radioactivity from the ongoing Fukushima accident is present in the Japanese food supply. While all food contains radionuclides, whether from natural sources, nuclear ...
• McDonald’s Wants to Fill 50K Jobs on Hir ...
  Recovery. Via: AP: McDonald’s Corp. plans to hold its first national hiring day April 19 to fill 50,000 openings at its restaurants nationwide. The company says it is making a concerted effort to add staff as its business improves and as more of its restaurants stay open 24 hours a day.
• TEPCO Disposing of ‘Low’ Radioacti ...
  Couldn’t they store the radioactive water in massive bladders (like these)? Via: Kyodo: Tokyo Electric Power Co. began disposing of a total of 10,000 tons of water containing low-level radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean on Monday from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant t ...
• How a Big U.S. Bank Laundered Billions from Me ...
  Bloomberg ran a great piece about this back in June 2010. What has happened since then? Of course, there was some wrist-slapping, but, “Now that the year’s ‘deferred prosecution’ has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear.” Via: Guardian: On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• Spring garden beauty (Willem Van Cotthem)
  Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden and house. I like to share … Continue reading →
• UNDDD Success Stories – Brazil (UNDDD / ...
  Read at : SUCCESS STORIES http://unddd.unccd.int/success-stories.htm Brazil Success_story_Brazil Greening a grey land Naelson Medeiros was born about 30 years ago in Sombras Grandes, a small community in the vast âgrey landâ of the Caatigna forest in north-eastern Brazil. The forest … Continue r ...
• UNDDD Success Stories – Turkey 2 (UNDDD ...
  Read at : SUCCESS STORIES http://unddd.unccd.int/success-stories.htm Turkey Success Story Turkey The Kop and Burnazdere Microcatchments in Bayburt region â Turkey Hot and short summers that are followed by cold winters are not the best preconditions for a healthy vegetation. Thus, … Continue rea ...
• UNDDD Success Stories Turkey 1 (UNDDD / UNCCD ...
  Read at : SUCCESS STORIES http://unddd.unccd.int/success-stories.htm Turkey Success Story Saffron Turkey Flowers to combat desertification and protect biological diversity in Turkey For a long time, cotton dominated agricultural production in the Harran Plateau of Turkey, despite this crops acco ...
• UNDDD Success Stories – India 2 (UNDDD / ...
  Read at : SUCCESS STORIES http://unddd.unccd.int/success-stories.htm India Success Story watershed India Adarsha Watershed in Kothapally Leads to Inward Migration Flows One of the main obstacles to combating desertification and drought is the failure to provide local communities with the knowled ...

The Paper Trail

• Gitmo prisoner matched to Pearl murder video f ...
  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 whose distinctive hand was identified in a video showing the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, will be tried in a military court at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials said today.
• The impact from the Center’s coverage of ...
  A lot has happened in the month since the Center first exposed the controversy over the so-called Fast and Furious probe by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
• Budget cuts may axe Obama’s government t ...
  Funding for government transparency websites, part of a two-year long initiative by the Obama administration, will be cut in the upcoming months. The websites were part of President Obama’s effort to make government data more accessible to the public and show how federal funds were spent. Websit ...
• House committee subpoenas ATF for documents on ...
  The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today issued a subpoena for documents about a controversial federal gun smuggling probe after the investigating agency missed a deadline for providing the documents voluntarily.
• Fed reveals which banks borrowed from discount ...
  The Federal Reserve is naming the banks that drew emergency loans during the financial crisis, offering information on its oldest lending tool for the first time in the central bank's nearly 100-year history.

backofthebook.ca

• 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. ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

• Afghanistan Gone Wild
  The killings in Mazar-i Sharif followed by rioting in Kandahar, Jalalabad and towns across the country are more than a little troubling. Joshua Foust posted on the topic expressing concern about the viability of internationals remaining outside the wire which makes concerned too because Joshua ...
• Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
  Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
• Rant Time
  Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...
• Crickets
  Crickets as in “I hear nothing but crickets” is the word of the day for Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) based in Camp Dwyer and controlling the southern districts of Helmand Province.  I needed to do a little district level coordination last weekend and was able to catch a ride to Marjah with ...
• It Takes A Clue
  Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
  I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
• New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
• First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
  This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
• Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
  Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...
• HAARP SMOKING GUN — (Where is America&#8 ...
  Incredible Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on HAARP originally broadcast  January, 1996!!!   What you have to realize before viewing this segment is that Raytheon Corporation is a strategic and primary arm of DARPA (Virginia Tech – Defense Advanced Research Projects A ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
  Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
• Lyndsay Greene, Author -- encore (Oct 19, 2010)
  Peter talks about planning and preparation for the retirement years with the author of "You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?"
• Governor General David Johnston (Oct 9, 2010)
  Peter talks about the role of the GG -- plus technology and hockey -- in Johnston's first interview as the Queen's representative in Canada
• James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
  He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
• Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat ...
  She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.

Scotts Contracting

• Radioactive Water Continues Pouring Into The Sea
  Japan Nuclear Leak: AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 04/ 3/11 06:04 PM ET Updated: 04/ 4/11 10:40 AM ET TOKYO — Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean from Japan’s tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant Sunday ...
• The Big Lie of ‘Clean’ Nuclear
  Alec Baldwin Actor- crossposted via Huffpost Green Fascinating and heartbreaking how the Japanese civilian population, once again, has been called upon to teach us a harsh lesson about nuclear energy. In the past few decades, more details have emerged about the development and deployment of the ...
• Energy Efficiency-Architects Join In with 5 pr ...
  AIA reiterates top five proposals for increasing energy efficiency Apr 1, 2011 Construction News The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reacted to President Obama’s proposals for increasing the nation’s energy security by reiterating its top five energy conservation legislative priorities. " ...
• Obama’s Secret Love Affair
• Google Adds Dynamic View
  Google unleashed 5 Dynamic Views for your viewing pleasure. To view the Dynamic View of St Louis Renewable Energy (Additional Web Pages by Scotty, Scotts Contracting) use this Dynamic View Web Links Provided Below Flip Card Dynamic View Side Bar Dynamic View Mosiac Dynamic View Snap Shot Dynamic ...

The View From Abroad

• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.
• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Why Did Richard Goldstone Throw the Goldstone ...
  What prompted Richard Goldstone's pseudo-retraction of the Goldstone Report?
• U.S.-Algeria Counterterrorism Partnership a Ma ...
  The U.S.-Algeria relationship, a marriage of convenience, was cemented after 9-11 by a what may have been a staged terrorist attack on the part of Algeria.
• Surprise War for Regime Change in Libya is the ...
  The Obama administration is selling the U.S. public a pig in a poke with its military intervention in Libya.
• Armchair Anti-Imperialism and Libya
  The choice in Libya is clear: to support the popular uprising and not the unpopular tyrant.
• Interview with Arthur Waskow
  As part of our special focus on Islamophobia, Rabbi Arthur Waskow discusses how the Abrahamic tradition can counter anti-Muslim sentiment.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• آمار بیش از شش میلیون مورد نقض حقوق بشر
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• Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
  You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud.
• International Affairs - The Shah - Book TV
  Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. talked about his biography of the shah of Iran. He also responded to questions submitted by members of the audience. Mr. Kuiper moderated. "The Enduring Influence of Iran's Last Shah" was a lecture at the World Affairs ...
• Iran 'Yet To Respond' To Muhammad Ali Plea For ...
  WASHINGTON -- Iranian authorities have yet to respond to a February letter from the former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali asking for the release of two young Americans held on spying charges, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Ali wrote to Supreme Leader Ayatolllah Ali Khamenei asking him t ...
• Iranian police arrests some people at burial c ...
  The burial ceremony of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi’s father was interrupted by an intervention of security forces. Kaleme.com website reported on Thursday that Iranian security forces and police arrested at least seven people during the burial ceremony. Mir Ismael Mousavi died ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• The President with No Past: Part II
  Obama’s secrecy and evasiveness about his early life has only fueled speculation about his alleged links to the CIA. Sherman Skolnick, the late Chicago based court reformer, journalist and conspiracy buff, first raised the issue when the Russians detained Senator Obama in 2004. Any evidence Skol ...
• The President with No Past: Obama’s Ele ...
  Implications of Executive Order 13489 What are the chances of a president who has all his pre-presidential records sealed winning re-election to a second term? At the moment, because of Executive Order 13489, the public and press have virtually no way to independently verify much of what Obama ...
• Wyeth Losing in Court
  As I blogged previously, the National Institutes of Health Women’s Health Initiative Study (launched in 1993-95) had to be shut down in 2002, when it became clear the women in the Premarin/Prempro arm of the study were experiencing an unacceptably high rate of breast cancer, strokes, heart disea ...
• Wyeth Stocks Soar While Women Die
  Six Decades of False and Misleading Marketing Estrogen, a hormone regulating the development and function of the female reproductive system, was first discovered in 1925. In the 1930s, the drug company Wyeth developed a process (viewed as barbaric by animal rights activists) to extract conjugate ...
• Menopause: Made in the USA
  Historically 80% of Premarin and Prempro sales have occurred in the US. Even in the US, the cessation of menstruation is a non-event in 75% of women, producing no physical symptoms whatsoever. In fact, most languages and cultures have no word for menopause. In Chinese medicine, so-called menopau ...

Doug's Darkworld

• The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
  Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]
• The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
  OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
• NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
  Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]
• “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
  Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...
• BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, WARNING, SEEING THIS MOVI ...
  A TV commercial just came on saying “Battle: Los Angeles” was the world’s number one movie. I’ve seen it. If it’s the world’s number one movie, it’s because it doesn’t have much competition. Not that it’s a bad movie. If one likes alien invasion movies, say Aliens crossed with Independence Day, ...

FourWinds10

• New photo of 'English Nessie' hailed as best yet
• NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE AND MORE
• Videos of the âtoxicâ black sludge coating ...
  VIEW THESE HERE http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ video-toxic-black-sludge-coating-ocean-floor-video
• âFirstâ Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: T ...
  To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico.  Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up ...
• Oil leak shuts down BPâs largest onshore fie ...
  BP suffered an oil leak in the Dorset countryside late last year, causing such concern that its biggest onshore field in Western Europe has been shut down for the past two months. … Wytch Farm has not been producing its 25,000 barrels per day since November and the pipeline where the leak was di ...

Crisis Maven

• Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
  Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...
• Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
  Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
• To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
  … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...
• How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
  The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...
• Dangers, Properties, possible Uses and Methods ...
  Most methods and tools being recommended here on the Internet such as purification by filtration will not lead to your desired result of decontaminating “radioactive water”. a) Radioactive contamination of drinking water in Japan at this point in time can come about in only two ways: 1) The sour ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around a ...
• Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
• Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
  Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...
• Modes of Transportation
  Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...
• Clarifying Misconceptions on Taxpayer-Subsidiz ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Last November, the Financial Times published an article charging that ethanol from the U.S. is collecting U.S. tax credits before being shipped to Europe, where it also qualifies for favorable tax treatment. I wrote an article about this called Taxpayer Su ...

Discovery Educator Network

• World’s Simplest Online Safety Policy « My Isl ...
  Tags: onlinesafety, aup, policies, safety, CIPA, policy, FERPA, COPPAby: Dean Mantz
• A Year with the iPad - Cole Camplese: Learning ...
  Tags: ipad, year, educationby: Dean Mantz
• The nitty gritty… | Personalising Learning wit ...
  Tags: mlearning, mobile2011, learning, iOS, edtech, ipodtouch, ipodtouchclassroomby: Dean Mantz
• Langwitches Blog » On the Go- Mobile Storytelling
  Tags: digitalstorytelling, mobile, ipad, blog, langwitchesby: Dean Mantz
• PrimaryWall - Web based sticky notes for schools
  Tags: primarywall, collaboration, stickies, web2.0by: amy musone

Rodale News

• Rodale.com Ocean Week Giveaway
  Rodale.com Ocean Week Giveaway: Oceana OFFICIAL RULES read more
• Seafood Lovers, Fishermen, and All of Us Can H ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Large-scale disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and last year's BP oil rig explosion, remind us of the ocean's power and vulnerability. But the truth is, the world's oceans have been in crisis for decades. As one example, consider that 90% of the ...
• Save Money, Stay Healthy: Create a Nontoxic Gr ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Just because a store-bought green cleaner label makes claims of being natural or ecofriendly doesn't mean the contents match the message. New research presented at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in California last week confirms that the truth about green ...
• You Gotta See This! Free Seeds, Free Books, Be ...
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• Ban Food Dyes? The FDA Says No
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Against the wishes of many prominent public health advocates, an advisory panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided Thursday that there isn't enough evidence to ban food dyes or require labels stating that some evidence exists linking food dyes to att ...

big think

• Shakespeare, Our Contemporary
  James Shapiro, Carol Gilligan and guest editor Kenji Yoshino--a professor of English, a psychologist, and a law professor, respectively,�discuss how plays like Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth and Titus Andronicus speak to our contemporary ideas of love, leadership and revenge.�� � � ...
• The Web's Copernican Moment
  Whether consciously or not, most of us subscribe to a PC-centric view of the Internet, in which everything revolves around content that is created or accessed via a PC or Mac. However, that is about to change as mobile increasingly becomes the new paradigm for both creating and consuming con ...
• Unacknowledged Legislators: Ai Weiwei and the ...
  “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in “A Defense of Poetry” in 1821. A radical, Romantic humanist, Shelley passionately believed that artists of all stripes could inspire the masses to rise up against oppression. The “legislation” written and enac ...
• 508 - Waitin' for the Syndrome: A Rock Map of ...
  Holy Land visitors of a deeply religious disposition risk being overwhelmed by the experience. This type of culture shock is called Jerusalem Syndrome, after the city in which it often manifests itself. The syndrome involves obsessive, delusional and/or psychotic behaviour, often includes ... ...
• Hanging by your Fingernails - The Fukushima Me ...
  The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now, in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one....� As we mentioned, the accident so far in Fukushima is progressing in three acts. The first act was the earthq ...

Information Liberation

• Cop unleashes dog to catch suspect -- Dog atta ...
  A Fort Wayne police officer unleashed his dog on some supposed crime suspect (probably a non-crime like drugs, of course) and instead of the dog attacking the supposed criminal, it went and attacked a two year old boy, allegedly leaving the boy suffe...
• Cops arrest security guard and brake her ankle ...
  Despite police officers saying they have absolutely no obligation to protect the citizenry, god forbid if you do the same with a police officer. The NY Daily News reports: A security guard says she suffered a broken ankle after being arrested for...
• Criminal Justice Is No Job for the State
  The local paper had a brief news item recently quoting Alabama's state finance director as saying 3,000 nonviolent prisoners would have to be released if the state legislature adopts the budget proposed by the new governor. "[David] Perry made the...
• Federal Agents Prevail in the War on Lawn Darts
  Some folks know my penchant for the lawn darts issue. Yes, I even wrote about them. And yes, I have a few sets of the real thing stashed away. In fact, when I wrote that piece on lawn darts, I came across a website that sold parts * and what a great ...
• Is Humanitarian War the Exception?
  Many people who otherwise oppose war in general terms make an exception for a so-called humanitarian war, such as the war in Libya. The idea is that this kind of war is waged for disinterested, altruistic reasons. These people are in urgent need of a...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Inferno
  The scene: a desolate, barren moonscape. Lightning bolts flash occasionally across a blackened sky. Boiling, bubbling lava pools dot the ground as far as the eye can see, sending plumes of reeking smoke into the gloom. The only sounds are … Continue reading →
• What Is Libertarianism Part II
  Since I published my original short article on this subject, a number of you have asked me to make some clarifications and extensions. I thought it appropriate to deal with some of those today. Last August on this site, Dr … Continue reading →
• It’s Just A Jump To The Left
  …followed by the inevitable step to the right. Am I the only one here to notice that electoral political sentiment has a certain uniformity across the Anglosphere? Centre-left and centre-right administrations tend to follow each other in the UK, the … Continue reading →
• McLurg’s Law
  I wasn’t planning to comment on the Japanese earthquake, as it’s being fully covered elsewhere. But last night’s hysterical treatment of the relatively minor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the local current affairs TV program Four … Continue reading →
• Cactoblastis
  Yet another grab for power by the state over the citizen, in ways never mentioned in the constitution. Today’s story is set here in Australia, but all readers around the world take note, because if this law succeeds here, its … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

• e-Atlas of Global Development
  World Bank http://vx.worldbank.org/t/3061380/23937714/17145/0/ [Announcment] The e-Atlas of Global Development is a free, online, interactive tool, which maps and graphs more than 175 indicators from the World Bank’s development database. Its launch coincides with the release of a new print edit ...
• Lead In Tap Water: CDC Public Health Communica ...
  Government Accoutability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-279?source=ra [Summary] In February 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was asked to assess the effects of elevated lead levels in tap water on Washington, D.C., residents. In April 2004, CDC published the ...
• Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation
  Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University http://emf.stanford.edu/files/pubs/22530/summary25.pdf EMF Publications Site [From a Climate Wire article by Saqib Rahim, sub. req'd]  … [a] troupe of researchers expects that carbon intensity — the amount of carbon dioxide emissions occurring with eac ...
• S.394: No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels ...
  US Senate Thomas link: http://tinyurl.com/3b26327 [From Press Release by Sen. Kohl's Office] Today, U.S. Senator Herb Kohl introduced bipartisan legislation to permit the Department of Justice to bring actions against foreign states – such as members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Co ...
• H.R.910 and S.482: The Energy Tax Prevention A ...
  US Congress Thomas link for H.R.910: http://tinyurl.com/43zopvp Thomas link for S.482: http://tinyurl.com/3tgy5pj Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 – Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from promulgating any regulation concerning, t ...

Scientific American - News

• Radioactive Omission: Where Are the Anti-Radia ...
  Despite the wide availability of potassium iodine to mitigate ingestion exposure to radioactive iodine in the air, food or beverages, there is still no magic medicine to give to people who have been--or will be--exposed to high levels of direct radiation. [More]
• Deteriorating Oil and Gas Wells Threaten Drink ...
  A version of this story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up. But hundreds of ...
• Bursting MRSA's Bubble: Using Nanotech to Figh ...
  Antibiotics have proved to be a valuable weapon in the fight against infection, but their popularity has also become their undoing. Although the drugs cripple harmful microbes from within, bacteria that survive such sabotage tend to develop resistance that makes them even more dangerous . To co ...
• Gateway Disorder?: Kids with ADHD Show Higher ...
  One of the top worries for parents of kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the long-term consequences of this condition. "Families want to know, 'So what does this mean?'" says Alice Charach , head of the neuropsychiatry team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. ...
• Half-Life and Death: Radioactive Drinking Wate ...
  Three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant workers have made some headway in cooling the facility's overheated fuel rods. But overall, the situation remains "very serious," according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) . ...

First Truths

• Fannie and Freddie Reform: Too Little, Too Late
  In an article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, I wrote: In a genuine free market, investors would have recognized the mortgages devoured by Fannie and Freddie for what they were, and their prices would have reflected those judgments. The assumption underpinning Fannie and Freddie's involvemen ...
• Revolution Not Replication
  I commented for C4SS on the similarities between Egypt and Yemen: A market anarchist revolution, evolving through commercial interchange and voluntary synergy rather than violence, would not subject society to a new ruling class. It would desert forever the idea that there need be or ought to be ...
• Socialism: The Qaddafi Version
  Like "the free market," "socialism" means different things to different people. For C4SS, I wrote: On the other hand, the Qaddafi permutation of socialism has been, by all accounts, more practical than philosophical, a variable and temperamental medley of views informed more by his personal idio ...
• "Renegade History" Against the "Respectable" B ...
  I offered a short review of Thaddeus Russell's A Renegade History of the United States: The stories in the book demonstrate that it was the “renegade behaviors” of ordinary people that spearheaded — through nothing more socially aware than their day-to-day activities — the best features of Ameri ...
• Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part II
  Center for a Stateless SocietyContinuing my commentary on events unfolding in Wisconsin, I write: The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any ...

Media Co-Op

• Peace Arch Rally Disappointing
  Rally small, lively, and rhetorical Banners and flags a-waving, between 1,200 and 1,500 trade unionists from British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon�rallied for a couple of hours�Saturday (April 2) at the Canada-US border to show solidari ...
• Free Miners strike again
  Environmentalists purchase mining rights on controversial Juan de Fuca resort properties Vancouver developer Ender Ilkay, owner of the Marine Trail Resort group of companies, has racked up thousands of travel miles in pursuit of his Vancou ...
• Statements from Hunger Strikers in Chile: Pabl ...
  Greetings to all w ...
• Fighting for truly public education
  Reflections on the ideological integrity of the student movement in BC Student organizer Haida Arsenault-Antolick was one of the speakers at "Privatizing the Future: Knowledge, Debt, and the Crisis of Public Education", a forum which took ...
• Media Co-op Investor: March
  We Check Out the Assets of Brookfield Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works, and the major companies which benefit from it. Every two week ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Amazing Liquid
  Here’s what happens when you mix cornstarch, water, and science!
• Don’t Let Your Child Be the Next Victim of Thi ...
  The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has issued an alert to Washington state residents about a bill that recently passed the state legislature and is headed for the Governor’s desk. The legislation threatens your fundamental right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination ...
• Falling for This "Urban Myth" Can Damage Your ...
  There has been a surprising jump in the number of Americans with severe arthritis symptoms. This could be the result of obesity, according to health experts. About 22 percent of U.S. adults have arthritis, a total of nearly 50 million people with the ailment. This number has not increased much ...
• Boost Your Metabolism, Curb Cancer, and Slash ...
  Herbs are not only great in meals for spice and added flavor but are key to the nutritional density in the foods you eat. Herbs can protect you against diseases, clear toxins from your body, and provide you with vitamins and minerals. Here are some examples of such, from a list of nine assembl ...
• Laughing Baby
  Luke laughs as his mother imitates him crawling around the house in the morning.

JAMA

• Use of Fibrates in the United States and Canad ...
  Context Interest in the role of fibrates intensified after the publication of the negative results from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial, which assessed therapy with fenofibrate plus statins. The evidence for clinical benefit in outcomes with the use of fibra ...
• Hydrocortisone Therapy for Patients With Multi ...
  Context The role of stress-dose hydrocortisone in the management of trauma patients is currently unknown. Objective To test the efficacy of hydrocortisone therapy in trauma patients. Design, Setting, and Patients Multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled HYPOLYTE (Hydrocortisone ...
• Association of Episodic Physical and Sexual Ac ...
  Context Evidence has suggested that physical and sexual activity might be triggers of acute cardiac events. Objective To assess the effect of episodic physical and sexual activity on acute cardiac events using data from case-crossover studies. Data Sources MEDLINE and EMBASE (through February 2 ...
• In Search of Equipoise [Commentary]
• A National Registry for Healthy Volunteers in ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Gordon Brown condemns ‘wanton destruction’ of ...
  The Penan have mounted countless blockades to stop their forest being destroyed. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Ex-British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has issued an urgent call to stop the âwanton destructionâ of Sarawakâs tropical rainforest, before it is too late. Writing in the Briti ...
• Cyber Greenwash – Malaysia Palm Oil on the attack
  Oil palms planted on recently-deforested land, Sarawak © M Ross/ Survival Malaysia’s palm oil lobby has launched a new website to counter ‘propaganda’ about the controversial industry, which has faced strong criticism from Borneo tribes and international organizations. The new industry web ...
• Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousand ...
  A family stand amidst the ruins of their home © COPORWA/Survival NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa âPygmiesâ homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen their homes destroyed in recent ...
• South American Indians to receive royalties fr ...
  The Quechua people of Peru first cultivated potatoes up to 3,000 years ago. © H Mason/ Survival The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know ...
• British parliamentarians discuss CKGR issue
  Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The future of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has been raised in the British House of Lords this month. Longstanding supporters of the Bushmen, Lord Avebury and Lord Pearson of Ra ...

Montreal Gazette

• Subsidies for parties, for and against
  Conservative leader Stephen Harper deserves credit for announcing during this election campaign that if his party is elected with a governing majority, he will eliminate the public subsidies for national political parties that are based on the number of votes the parties earned in the preceding ...
• Make our streets safer for pedestrians
  Montreal is a typical big city, densely populated, its population older than in the outlying suburbs where young families have installed themselves. And like many big-city dwellers, when Montrealers go out to get bread or buy the newspaper, they walk. This includes the nearly one in seven who ar ...
• Quebec and Alberta: common ground
  Far from disdaining Alberta as the heartland of redneck Canada, a strong majority expressed a favourable view of the province in general, and in particular of its economic engine, the oilsands development that is persistently demonized by Quebec politicians of various stripes.
• Memo to all parties: Montreal's not the enemy
  It was good having Conservative leader Stephen Harper in town this week stressing the importance of having Montreal representation at his cabinet table should his party be returned to government this election.
• Hard and fast rules needed for federal debate
  There are good reasons why Green Party leader Elizabeth May should be included in the leaders' debates during this federal election campaign, but also good reasons why she should not

Food World Order

• worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across U ...
  from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even t ...
• wholesale prices rise due to biggest jump in f ...
  from ap: Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonal ...
• no fries for you! nyc health dept workers balk ...
  from nbcnewyork: The city's Health Department is going on a diet. No deep-fried foods served at agency lunches. No cookies and cakes at the same time. And no beverages over 25 calories per ounce: Those are all part of the new health mandate issued to department employees in a little bright-colo ...
• 2/10 binge & purge: seeders, makers, actions
  secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor* raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules* military steps in to buy up gulf seafood* high sugar prices stimulate neotame/nutrasweet take up* action: ask hhs to end US water fluoridation program* natural news launche ...
• genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk
  from telegraph: The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high quantities of key nutrients that can help to boost the immune system of babies and reduce the risk of infections. ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• Transcendence: The True Awakening From The Matrix
• Jim Corr: March from Wood Quay Dublin to the G ...
  ‘I am asking that the Irish people unite, as our forefathers did, and take to the streets at 11am Saturday 27th from Wood Quay Dublin, to voice our anger and concern over the actions of our politicians and what is happening to Ireland.’ -  Jim Corr
• Announcing “This Is Disclosure” co ...
  After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and ...
• Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                       SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
• COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
  COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• Another Bite out of Life
  As the economy bloats with bigger and bigger bites taken from the biosphere, what's the 21st century response?
• Fitting the Name to the Named
  To some, "steady state" sounds pessimistic. But to many, "steady state" is a sincere name for our best bet at an exceptional economy.
• Surely We Can Do Better than Nuclear Socialism
  Brent Blackwelder suggests that you don't have to worry about a solar or wind "spill" contaminating the air, land and water.
• The Green Transition Scoreboard: How to Invest ...
  The Green Transition Scoreboard is a useful tool to direct investment decisions in the 21st century economy.
• The Great Energy Rethink: Lessons from Japan a ...
  Misplaced confidence is preventing us from making decent decisions about our energy supplies.

The Talking Clock

• Oh, Betty! Is Paul Nuttall taking the hotpot?
  It's not too often I read a news story involving UKIP and blush or cringe. Yet that was my response to a story in the Daily Express concerning an attempt to give Lancashire Hotpot 'protected' status under EU law. Protected status? Sure, Betty might need to retire from the Rover's Return on ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 3rd April 2011
  Many of you will have seen the satirical political observation on the internet, an assertion that the initials 'CIA' stand for 'Cocaine Import Agency'. It's not actually the CIA at the centre of our first story, but the revelations are of a similarly ground-shattering proportion. It is a r ...
• Budget: £1 for you and £3,000,000,000 for Port ...
  This blog didn't bother looking at Georgie Boy's boring budget. What's the point? The country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy and the public is being squeezed left, right and centre. So he's bunged another 40p on a packet of ciggies... like we didn't see that attack on freedom of choice comin ...
• The Conservative and (European) Unionist Party ...
  This morning, we ran an April Fool gag claiming that 'Call Me Dave' Cameron had agreed to an 'In-Out Referendum' after pressure from the 1922 Committee. Although we did make it clear in the same post that it was a joke, we would like to apologise to anybody who got their hopes up. That sai ...
• BREAKING! Government agrees to 'In-Out Referen ...
  Just received a phone call from an inside contact inside Tory HQ. Call Me Dave is going to make an announcement at 11.30 this morning announcing that he has agreed to an In-Out Referendum! Apparently, the decision follows a move by the powerful 1922 Committee who warned Cameron that, unles ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Finding King's economic promised land
  Martin Luther King's final public remarks, delivered 43 years ago yesterday, are often called his darkest, because he appears to foreshadow his assassination the following day. He was in Memphis, Tenn., urging supporters of 1,300 striking sanitation workers to double-down at a critical junc ...
• New aerial images deepen concerns about Gulf s ...
  New aerial images from the Gulf of Mexico are deepening concerns about whether seafood currently being harvested from those waters is safe to eat. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama flew over the Gulf on March 19 and 20 on a flight provided by On Wings of Care and videotaped ...
• Arkansas latest in series of defeats for voter ...
  This week, a senate committee in Arkansas' state legislature rejected a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Arkansas vote was the latest in a string of defeats for voter photo ID bills, which state Republicans have aggressively pushed in over a dozen states t ...
• VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
  By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
• Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
  By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Suicide Bombers Kill More Than 40 at Sufi Shrine in Pakistan A pair of suicide bombers killed more than 40 people and wounded 100 others on Sunday when they attacked an important Sufi shrine in Pakistanâs Punjab province, according to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Scottish Prosecutors Want to Interview Koussa About Lockerbie After Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa defected to Britain late Wednesday, Scottish prosecutors have submitted a request to interview the former intelligence chief about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, according to multiple reports. ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Canada Arrests Man on Suspicion of Plan to Join al Shabab Canadian authorities arrested a man at Torontoâs Pearson Airport on Tuesday night on suspicion that the man was headed to Somalia to join the militant group al Shabab, according … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Appeals Court Reverses Uthman Habeas Decision The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a lower courtâs decision Tuesday to release a Yemeni detainee, Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, who has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. Last … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Saudi Accused of U.S. Bomb Plot Pleads Not Guilty A Saudi student accused of attempting to assemble a bomb to be used against U.S. targets pleaded not guilty in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, Monday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Climate change sceptics: just regular folk, in ...
  Delegates at the Greenhouse 2011 conference in Australia are told that there is more than enough scientific evidence to justify government climate action
• 'Don't panic' over plutonium in soil at Fukush ...
  Some contamination with plutonium may be due to recent releases, but levels are below those considered hazardous, says Zena Iovino
• James Cameron's 3D camera won't go to Mars
  NASA says there is too little time left before the November launch of its Curiosity Mars rover to finish testing a 3D camera backed by the Avatar director
• Today on New Scientist: 28 March 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: Stuxnet reveals frightening software holes, rebuilding civilisation from scratch, and more
• Piggyback partners frozen in time for 44 milli ...
  For the first time a mantid fly larva has been found fossilised. It was riding around on a spider when they both got caught in sticky tree resin

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

• Small leaf could provide electricity for home; ...
  Power Plant: One Small Leaf Could Electrify an Entire Home By Richard Adhikari TechNewsWorld 03/28/11 12:20 PM PT Scientists at MIT have created what may be the first practical artificial leaf — a device about the size of a playing card capable of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and sto ...
• Austrian police terrified witness of Kampusch ...
  A fear of revenge by other members of the paedophile ring involved in the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch may have influenced a witness to alter her statement and claim that only one person was involved, suggest documents printed in Austria’s Kurier newspaper. http://kurier.at/nachrichten/208705 ...
• Austrian Justice Minister drafts anti-corrupti ...
  Austria’s Justice Minister Dr Claudia Bandion-Ortner has drafted tough new laws in the wake of  corruption scandals that have rocked the country. A bribery scandal involving an Austrian MEP Ernst Strasser who offered to influence EU bank laws in return for 100,000 euros highlighted the lax rules ...
• “The Coming Currency Crash”: new b ...
  03.04.2011 Mit immer größerer Geschwindigkeit rollte die globale Währungskatastrophe auf uns zu. Politiker sind hilflos, Notenbanken lügen, Massenmedien ignorieren das Problem. Michael Mross über sein neues Buch „Der Währungscrash kommt“ Noch vor fünf Jahren hätte ich nicht im Traum daran gedach ...
• Ralph Bärligea explains why the euro and Germa ...
  Euro: Tod auf Raten für Deutschland und Europa |02.04.2011 Benennen wir die EU und ihre Euro-âRettungspolitikâ als das, was sie ist: Lüge, Betrug, ökonomisch-parasitoid und weil gegen Lissabon-Vertrag und Grundgesetz verstoÃend auch noch kriminell. – Die NutznieÃer dieser Euro-âRettungspoliti ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Gaboon Vipers and Radioactive, Hedge Fund Bankers
  By Les Visible Japan looms large. The drinking water in California is permeated with radioactivity of an alarming potency, providing more opportunities for people like Ann Coulter and the poisoned mind robottroids of the airwaves, who hate our freedoms and are determined to see them removed. Wel ...
• THE WAYSEER MANIFESTO
• Transocean hails ‘best year’ in safety, gives ...
  By Kase Wickman The company that owns the now-infamous Deepwater Horizon, the oil rig that caused immeasurable damage to the Gulf, recently applauded itself for the “best year in safety performance in our Company’s history.” The company, Transocean Ltd., rewarded its executives millions in bonus ...
• Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s GMO patents
  Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post “A new invention to poison people … is not a patentable invention.” Lowell v. Lewis, 1817 A landmark lawsuit filed on March 29 in US federal court seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds and to prohibit the company from ...
• Organic groups, farmers file preemptive lawsui ...
  By Ethan Huff In order to avoid completely losing their businesses and livelihoods to the predatory business model of Monsanto, 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations have collectively filed a preemptive lawsuit against the multinational biotechnology giant. Fi ...

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.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Shift promotes Lyons to president
  NEW YORK: Shift Communications promoted Amy Lyons to the newly created role of president.
• Pfizer hires Linda Dyson, expands global nutri ...
  MADISON, NJ: Pfizer hired Linda Dyson as director of global commercial communications for Pfizer Nutrition, effective in March.
• Valvoline unveils new product with Cohn & Wolf ...
  LEXINGTON, KY: Valvoline has rolled out a motor oil made from 50% recycled oil called NextGen, supported with a PR campaign that communicates the environmental benefits of using less oil.
• KCSA to lead IR for Spare Backup
  PALM DESERT, CA: Spare Backup has hired KCSA Strategic Communications to build a comprehensive communications campaign targeted to the investment community.
• Smart Balance adds VP of IR, business development
  PARAMUS, NJ: Smart Balance appointed Carole Buyers to VP of investor relations and business development.

The Story Behind the Story

• Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
  I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
• New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
• First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
  This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
• Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
  Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...
• HAARP SMOKING GUN — (Where is America&#8 ...
  Incredible Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on HAARP originally broadcast  January, 1996!!!   What you have to realize before viewing this segment is that Raytheon Corporation is a strategic and primary arm of DARPA (Virginia Tech – Defense Advanced Research Projects A ...

k2p blog

• Beware Nova Publishers and Frank or Nadya Colu ...
  Nova Publishers appears to be nothing more than a republishing scam but the ones being duped are not the contributors who pay nothing while getting their list of publications enhanced, but the unsuspecting or gullible librarians paying fabulous amounts to stock their journals and books.
• Cracks appear in the Gaddafi façade
  It was a only matter of time before the survival reflex started to kick in and start the propagation of cracks within the façade surrounding the Gaddafi family and clan. But replacing him with one of his sons would be a case of one step forward and two back.
• Fukushima Dai-ichi – Tracing the leaks
  TEPCO, is continuing its efforts to identify the exact route of the highly radioactive water flowing into the Pacific from its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.
• Fukushima reactors coped with the massive quak ...
  The reactors at Fukushima nuclear plant withstood the massive earthquake but were knocked out by the tsunami wave.
• A new field : Pillaibooks.com
  Books and the marketing of books is a new field for me – but it is fascinating and I am still a beginner at this. I have established a new website pillaibooks.com specifically for marketing two books: 3000 Miles to Freedom by Brig. M.M Pillai MC Essence of a Manager  

Left Foot Forward

• How powerful is your vote?
  Stephen Whitehead of the new economics foundation reports on the new website that will help you measure just how powerful your individual vote is.
• Lansley may be listening but it’s busine ...
  Andrew Lansley today launched a listening exercise designed to ease the mounting concerns regarding his NHS shake up. However, whilst Cameron and Co. travel the country “listening” the restructuring will race on regardless.
• Daily Mail is confused and misleading on legal aid
  The Sound off for Justice campaign take apart a Daily Mail article on legal aid and cuts to the justice system.
• Is the government cutting women out of education?
  NUS National Women's Officer Olivia Bailey reports on the gender pay-inequality that will affect women's repayments of student loans.
• Lord Owen: Government acting with “no au ...
  Jos Bell reports on the latest criticism of health secretary Lansley's "fatally flawed" healthcare bill, from Lord Owen of.

Consumerist

• Transocean Apologizes For Calling 2010 "Best Y ...
  The owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf issued an apology after calling 2010 its "best year" ever in safety. Transocean did not comment on the safety bonuses it awarded top execs for meeting and exceeding internal safety goals, even considering the disaster at the rig run by BP resul ...
• Despite Raising $18 Million, Madonna's Malawi ...
  Madonna's planned academy for girls in the African country of Malawi has been abandoned, despite the foundation behind it, "Raising Malawi," raising a reported $18 million in donations since 2006 and spending $3.8 million on the school itself. Newsweek combed through the numbers and is asking w ...
• Sad In-Flight Meals Are Enough To Make Us Lose ...
  There has been a lot of shouting and complaining in recent years as major airlines like Continental and United have done away with free food on domestic flights. But the folks at Jaunted.com have put together a gallery of craptastic airline meals that will make you glad you don't have the opti ...
• Apple Store Guard Shoots And Kills Robbery Suspect
  A suspect in a smash and grab robbery is dead after engaging in an estimated 40 shot gunfight with an armed private security store guard hired by Apple to protect its San Diego store, reports 10News and NBC San Diego. Two men and a woman had shattered the store's windows when the guard confron ...
• Travel Industry Trying To Beat Complaining Cus ...
  The right to complain when your travel experience wasn't what you paid for is being preempted by many airlines and other agencies, but does that mean you have to accept what you're being offered right off the bat when something goes wrong? Travel journalist and consumer advocate Christopher El ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• The United States of Britain?
  Why donât we call America the United States of Britain? It may be a separate entity to the UK, politically and geographically, but it truly carries forward the imperial spirit of the old British Empire. There was a span of 70 years â from 1776, when ‘the shot heard round the world’ was fired, to ...
• UK and US Officials in London Call for Recogni ...
  In further developments to the growing humanitarian crisis and threat to Iraq’s Camp Ashraf, a joint statement was issued today by senior British and American lawmakers urging support for the PMOI refugees in Camp Ashraf, threatened now by Iraqi forces. The full text of the statement follows: Se ...
• Rock and a Hard Place – With Libya, Are Camp A ...
  BREAKING: The 3,400 Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, 60 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, are stuck between a rock and a hard place. On Sunday, Iraqi military forces under the order of President Nouri al Maliki, and at the request of the Iranian regime, surrounded Camp Ashraf with 30 milit ...
• Organic Farmers & Monsanto Fight It Out In Court
  Monsanto, an agriculture giant whose patented genes are in 95% of all soybeans and 80% of all corn (maize) grown in the US, has been suing farmers suspected of violating patents – even if done inadvertently. Incidences of farmers being sued because pollen from nearby Monsanto-brand genetically m ...
• Opinion – Behind Those March Unemployment Figures
  Although 230,000 new private sector jobs were added to the work force last month – pushing down the unemployment rate to 8.8% – nearly 14-million Americans remain jobless, and millions more among the long-term unemployed have dropped out of the statistics because they have given up even trying t ...

NewsAlert

• A Word-Problem World: A World of Mathematical ...
  Jeremiah Dyke
• More Chicago women claim police abuse
  The Chicago Sun-Times reports:A predator police patrol????? Sneed hears the investigation of Chicago police officers stemming from an incident last week involving a 22-year old woman claiming she was sexually assaulted by two cops after being picked up in their squad car — is enlarging. Sneed ...
• Socialist Senator Sanders: Rich ‘Have Not Cont ...
  Breitbart T.V.
• City, town health plans most costly, report says
  The Boston Globe reports:Health insurance plans to cover city and town employees cost 37 percent more than similar plans for workers at private companies, mostly because municipal employees pay minimal copayments or deductibles when they get care, according to a new statewide survey. The 20-pag ...
• With no one looking, Fidelity chief moves fami ...
  The Boston Herald reports:A clandestine company that manages billions for Fidelity Investments chief Ned Johnson and his family has quietly pulled up stakes from Boston’s Financial District, leaving the Bay State behind for New Hampshire and its beneficial trust and tax laws, the Herald has lear ...

JoNova

• 40% of Australians don’t believe in man-made g ...
  Who knew? CSIRO funded a 5,000 person poll last July and August and then sat on the results for months. Perhaps they were disappointed that only 50% of people thought humans have any role in changing the global climate? Worse, 90% of people acknowledge that the world is warming, and 40% have fig ...
• France ditches carbon tax as protests mount
  The economic reality of big-debts,and the poor decisions made by people spending “other people’s money” is hitting home, with protests and strikes increasing around the world. In France strikes have closed schools, and stopped half of all trains. This is hot news in Australia — a prophetic warni ...
• Scary Exaggerations Unfounded
  GUEST POST: Dr David Evans and Professor Bob Carter Their Latest Scary Forecast The latest from the Climate Commission is very, very scary: They reckon we have to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions immediately or we’ll fry. But these forecasts are based solely on what are essentially the same fa ...
• Prof Vincent Courtillot speaks with clarity
  I’m traveling at the moment, in Darwin tonight. I can’t really comment on the hot-bed of climate action that Australia is right now, but instead this is something from afar that caught my eye a few days ago. Video’s bore me usually, but I enjoyed watching Courtillot — he’s possibly the clearest, ...
• The Tyranny grinds on: Update on the Thompsons
  Background: Can a Western Government wipe out an honest business with red tape? (What a naive question…) Matt and Janet spoke out as skeptics in May 2007 and their life savings and business are now at grave risk as they fight off bankruptcy. What has undone them is not the financial crisis, or a ...

ReNew America

• Obama's ultimate aim in Libya: a world militar ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - There is a high risk -- very close to a dead certainty -- that no matter what happens in Libya, the results will be bad for the United States. In the run-up to his 2012 re-election bid, why would President Obama go against such odds?...
• GOP budget plan to cut more than $4 trillion o ...
  (Fox News) - The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee said his party's budget proposal for 2012 would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, vowing to tackle costly entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid...
• Stop ATF's anti-gun zealots
  (Michelle Malkin) - For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the "community organizing" in the world couldn't curb...
• List of health reform waivers keeps growing
  (The Hill) - The number of waivers the Obama administration has awarded for a provision of the year-old healthcare reform law grew by 128 in March. With the new waivers, that means 1,168 businesses, insurers, unions and other organizations have received one-year exemptions from a healthcare refo ...
• Planned Parenthood: so accustomed to lies
  (Mona Charen) - Perhaps you've seen the commercials touting the life-saving benefits of Planned Parenthood. They're very professional, very persuasive, and clearly very expensive. Viewers might wonder why, if Planned Parenthood can afford this multimillion-dollar image advertising, it would be d ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Tsunami Underestimation – When Will We L ...
  The reason behind the whole Japanese tsunami nuclear disaster is simple – they doubted a tsunami could be that big. Doomsday researchers know that in the distant past tsunamis have been as high as half a mile, yet the Japanese even chose to ignore relatively recent records: In postulating the ma ...
• Chandra Wickramasinghe Dismissed
  This totally sucks. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a superstar astronomer (in my opinion) and will most likely be acknowledged (one day) as the most progressive comet researcher of his era. He has given us the concept of dark comets, and greatly helped publicize the study of  panspermia, which he co ...
• New 2012 Doco / 2012 Robot Film
  According to CNBC (USA): “APOCALYPSE 2012″ will premiere on Thursday, April 7th at 9pm. The documentary will repeat that evening at 10pm, 12am and 1am. Meanwhile, here’s a robot 2012 short film: Don’t Kill Me, Now from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo. Related posts:New 2012 Social Network Great Pyramid Ai ...
• UPDATE: Zahi Hawass Quits?
  UPDATE: Mar 30 2011: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass, as the new Minister of State for Antiquities. On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. Whi ...
• Clif High on 2012
  Clif High, of Web Bot fame, has written an article on 2012. Specifically he discusses the theories and predictions of Patrick Geryl, and gives us his own take on what will happen to our “expando” planet. Here’s some snippets: So, in the Expando Planet model, the continuous stream of energy from ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Finding King's economic promised land
  Martin Luther King's final public remarks, delivered 43 years ago yesterday, are often called his darkest, because he appears to foreshadow his assassination the following day. He was in Memphis, Tenn., urging supporters of 1,300 striking sanitation workers to double-down at a critical junc ...
• New aerial images deepen concerns about Gulf s ...
  New aerial images from the Gulf of Mexico are deepening concerns about whether seafood currently being harvested from those waters is safe to eat. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama flew over the Gulf on March 19 and 20 on a flight provided by On Wings of Care and videotaped ...
• Arkansas latest in series of defeats for voter ...
  This week, a senate committee in Arkansas' state legislature rejected a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Arkansas vote was the latest in a string of defeats for voter photo ID bills, which state Republicans have aggressively pushed in over a dozen states t ...
• VOICES: Why I quit selling Gulf seafood
  By Laurie Lambert, Bridge the Gulf Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I've worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There ...
• Census undercounts cost Texas communities millions
  By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice Newspaper Low-income families along the Texas border could lose millions of dollars over the next decade and see their voice in government even further diminished because, from the statistical reality of the federal government's 2010 census, they don't exist. The 1 ...

One News Page

• Brit woman is world's first to have frozen ova ...
• Surfs Up In The Panama Canal
  The Panama Canal offered surf champion Gary Saavedra an unusual crossing for his record-breaking challenge.
• Ivory Coast: Over 800 killed in communal violence
  More than 800 people have been massacred in a western Ivory Coast town where hundreds of United Nations (U.N.) peacekeepers are based, the International Federation of the Red Cross said Saturday, but the U.N. military spokesman said he had no information about mass killings there.
• US to send 140 radiation control experts to Japan
  The US military was to dispatch a 140-member radiation control team to Japan, a news report said Thursday.
• World Cup final tickets going for Rs 1.25L
  Blackmarketeers are making huge profits by selling tickets for a seat inside the Wankhede Stadium for Saturday.

Global Research TV

• New Data Indicates Chain Reaction at Fukushima ...
• US Goal to Break Up Libya like Yugoslavia
• Brutal Repression in Honduras Targets Teachers ...
• Breaking News: Large Explosion Filmed in Libya
• Three Raging Nuclear Meltdowns In Progress

Daily Tech

• Report: Smartphone App Makers Under Federal In ...
  Federal Grand Jury subpoena could open Pandora's box
• Tennessee Pushes Legislation to Safeguard Anti ...
  But will the politicians protect those who believe the Sun orbits the Earth?
• U.S. Traffic Deaths Hit Lowest Numbers Since 1949
  Less deaths thanks to safer cars and other factors
• Visa, Samsung Join Forces in NFC Venture for L ...
  They're launching the Olympics and Paralympics Games mobile handset in London that will use Visa's payment application and a Visa SIM card
• Osram/Sylvania Presents Affordable, Efficient ...
  Could eventually replace high-intensity discharge lamps

Oriental Review

• Gaddafi’s African “Mercenary” Story is a Disin ...
  Experts on Africa who have traveled extensively in Libya contend that the stories emanating from the Western media that portray Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as engaging the services of black mercenaries from Sahara and sub-Sahara Africa is a disinformation ploy by the CIA to stoke racist fer ...
• Sarkozy’s Libyan Odyssey
  By Vitaly Bilan (Russia) A Parisian dove French President Nicolas Sarkozy never tires of repeating that it should be the Libyans themselves who decide Moammar Gadhafi’s political fate in Libya, not the international coalition. “Libya’s future and Libya’s political choice, including what they dec ...
• ”Days of Anger”: New Era of Revolu ...
  By Yuri Gavrichenko (Russia) This year started with a wave of social uprising in Maghrib, which later spread to the most part of the Arab North Africa and the Middle East. Though historical significance of these events will become clear only with time, now we still can make some conclusions and ...
• Post-Gaddafian Africa (II)
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Part 1 In the middle of 90s Colonel Gaddafi decided to give up his venturesome-terrorist policy at the African continent and became one of the African Union architects — this Euro-Union-like organization including an entire Africa. On the 9th of September, 1999 African ...
• The US Steers towards a Caste Society
  David Kerans (USA) As we discussed in our previous piece, the authoritarian revolution of the US right that has generated so much tumult in various state capitols over the last two months is more than a struggle over economic spoils. Money is at stake, to be sure, in the form of tax policies, pa ...

BlogHer

• Announcing the BlogHer Food '11 Agenda
  Have you checked out the BlogHer Food '11 Agenda page lately? if you have, you may have noticed that suddenly it is chock full of interesting, educational and yummy-sounding content! Thanks to an incredibly responsive and eager community, we had an embarrassment of riches to choose from. It alm ...
• Baseball Is a Game of Passion
  Baseball is an emotional game. I learned that from my grandfather. Sunday afternoons, he would stretch out in his recliner and listen to the legendary sportscaster Harry Caray announce the St. Louis Cardinals games. Grandpa hated Harry Caray. Harry would go into his classic holler: “Holy Cow ...
• The Messages We Give Girls about Beauty
  I have called my son “beautiful” and “gorgeous” all his life. He’s beautiful inside and out, and I never thought twice about using these words with him. But now that I have a little girl, I find myself calling her beautiful and then following it with “and so smart.” And now that she walks ar ...
• FDA Votes Not to Mandate Warnings for Food Col ...
  When it was announced that the FDA would consider adding warning labels to foods with artificial colorings, a collective roar arose from the Internet. In this corner, anti-regulatory proponents, pointing out that any link between artificial colors and behavioral impact remains tenuous; in that c ...
• You Are What You Post: A Warning & A Rant
  About seventy-eight times in the past few weeks I've seen this tweet or Facebook update that basically boiled down to this thought: "I can't believe X thought Y about me." The update is usually made by some woeful person who has just been smacked in the face with how their online persona is perc ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Artificial Dye Safe to Eat, Panel Says
  Last week we brought news about an FDA advisory panel to consider placing warning labels on food products that contain artificial dyes. The dyes have been linked to ADHD symptoms like hyperactivity in children as ...
• Tasmanian Devil on Brink of Extinction from In ...
  Australia’s “little fighter,” the Tasmanian devil is more beloved now as it faces extinction from an infectious cancer called Devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). The devils spread it through fighting and mating. The sore tumors ...
• Federal Raw Milk Suit: FDA Answers the Judge
  Judicial proceedings were stayed, last September, in a suit filed by Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund challenging federal regulations prohibiting raw milk for consumption in interstate commerce. The FDA had six months to answer hypothetical questions ...
• Farmers Launch Preemptive Strike Against Monsanto
  It became too burdensome to bear. Monsanto became a monster; they monopolized the seed providers by buying them all out, they changed nature forever by genetically engineering the seed, they’ve made their farming benefactors fully ...
• Cloned Meat Betrayal: Unlabelled Dairy & Beef ...
  Before we could break a story about the UK considering approval of using cloned descendants’ dairy and beef, the UK government pulled the rug out from under its citizens and parliament by sabotaging all restrictions! ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Massey Chairman Bobby Inman calls Upper Big Br ...
  Massey Energy Co. Chairman and CEO, Don Blankenship, second from right, attends a press conference with board directors, from left, Robert Foglesong, Bobby Inman, and Stanley Suboleski, Monday, April 26, 2010 at in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) If you thought the departure of Don Bl ...
• More stories on the Upper Big Branch anniversary
  In this March 8, 2011 photo, Marques Canterbury holds an art piece he plans to donate to a memorial for the Upper Big Branch Coal Miners in Whitesville, W.Va. Twenty-nine men died deep inside Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine on April 5, 2010 near Montcoal. It was the deadliest U.S. coal m ...
• ‘He was the coal baron of the modern era ...
  In this April 26, 2010 file photo, Massey Energy Co. Chairman and CEO, Don Blankenship, second from right, attends a press conference with board directors, from left, Robert Foglesong, Bobby Inman, and Stanley Suboleski, in Charleston, W.Va. When 29 men perished in a single, powerful explosion ...
• UMWA President Cecil Roberts on UBB anniversary
  United Mine Workers of America President Cecil E. Roberts, right, bows his head alongside United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard during a moment of silence before the start of a labor rally in Waynesburg, Pa., Friday, April 1, 2011.  (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) This just in from the United Mine ...
• UBB security director seeks to delay trial
  Hughie Elbert Stover, the Massey Energy security director charged with trying to destroy documents and lying to investigators in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster probe is trying to delay his trial. Stover had pleaded innocent, and a fairly quick trial date — April 25 — had been set in the cas ...

Daniel Miessler

• Alone in the Wilderness
  via youtube.com This dude is living the Walden way. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThis Dude is MetalSwords vs. ShadowsJan-Ove Waldner ServesAnd Now I Give You TechnovikingThe China QuestionEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.Drone
• Good and Bad Procrastination | Paul Graham
  think the way to “solve” the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you’ll leave the right things undone. via paulgraham.com Read the whole thing. ...
• Structured Procrastination
  Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on ...
• Another Mass SQLi Attack
  In this case, the injected SQL is simply updating text fields within the database, to make them include an extra fragment of HTML. This HTML in turn loads a JavaScript from a remote server, typically “http://lizamoon.com/ur.php” or more recently, “http://alisa-carter.com/ur.php.” Both domain nam ...
• The Captain America Trailer
  via youtube.com I’m not a Captain America fan, but this looks like another excellent comic book remake. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSwords vs. ShadowsEuler’s DiskThe GiftJan-Ove Waldner ServesAndrei Arlovski “This is Sparta” KickThe Strange Powers of the Pla ...

Fitwatch

• Political Policing, UKUncut and 26 March
  Last Saturday the police charged 138 people for peacefully occupying Fortnum and Masons with aggravated trespass. Most were kept for over 24 hours, had their clothing and phones seized, and were given bail conditions preventing them attending the royal wedding or Mayday. Many commentators have c ...
• Violence at TUC demo – EK 148
  The following text is taken from Freedom VIOLENCE AT TUC DEMO Published March 27, 2011 Violent thug who seriously injured a girl at yesterday’s protest Freedom exposes one of the known hardcore troublemakers intent on violence at the March 26th demo. Police went on the rampage yesterday as they ...
• Serious violence by police at protest party.
  Forget what the mainstream media are saying about the black block, the most serious violence yesterday was probably the attack by police on partying crowd that was gathered in Trafalgar square. Senior police officers had warned in the run up to the March 26 protests that any occupation of Trafal ...
• Surveillance policing and the TUC march
  On the eve of what will probably be the biggest demonstration seen in the UK for many years, it is probably a good time to give a little blog space over to looking at the role of Forward Intelligence Teams and the various intelligence gathering strategies that will operate on such massive events ...
• Top Ten Nasty FIT cops – Nos 1&2 Discombe and ...
  Unlike many FIT cops, who only take on FIT duties at major events, these two are full time intelligence officers for CO11, the public order unit of the Metropolitan police. For this reason alone they warrant being top of the table. Discombe and Cowlin lead and direct FIT teams, making sure they ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich, Big Tax Hikes f ...
  Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Proposes Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich, Big Tax Hikes for Middle Class | Think Progress One of the organizing principles of the conservative movement revolves around always cutting taxes and resisting any moves towards raising revenues. Hundreds of conservatives have eve ...
• This Is What Resistance Looks Like
  by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Op-Ed – The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left. We will not halt the laying off of teachers and other public employees, the ...
• Hippie Movies
  10 Cool Hippie Type Movies | Screen Junkies If you love flower power, peace signs, and the social activism that hippies were all about, you will likely enjoy these 10 cool hippie type movies. There are Hollywood myths regarding what the hippie was, but these movie present a wide variety of hippi ...
• “Willie weed” is considered the gold standard ...
  When It Comes to Marijuana, Willie’s Punishment Seems to Vaporize | The New York Times On Nov. 26, Border Patrol agents at the eastbound Interstate 10 immigration checkpoint just west of the far West Texas town of Sierra Blanca arrested Mr. Nelson inside his touring bus, Honeysuckle Rose, after ...
• Hippie TV News Video, with Joe McEvoy (Winston ...
  WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worldwide Hippies News and Stuff is a weekly video, produced by WWH. Connect with us on Utube. The Worldwide Hippies Channel If you have a video, you would like to see on Hippie TV – Contact joe@worldwid ...

reference frame

• Hide the decline II: 1400-1550 covered up
  Steve McIntyre managed to uncover a piece of scientific forgery that looks even more serious than the original "hide the decline" trick: Hide the Decline: Sciencemag #3 The summary of the story is very simple. The Briffa-Osborn 1999 reconstruction of the climate depended on a variable c ...
• Did MEG see muons decaying to electrons?
  The MEG experiment, named after "muons", "electrons", and "gamma", tries to observe muons that decay to an electron and a photon. It's been initiated in Japan but it is currently running in Switzerland. μ- � e- + γ � or � μ+ � e+ + γ So far, no reliable evidence of such a flavor-chang ...
• Is the top-antitop asymmetry due to stop squarks?
  TRF has discussed the Tevatron-observed asymmetry in the produced top-antitop in January and March 2011. Jester of Resonaances is reviewing the models that have been proposed to explain the discrepancy from the Standard Model - assuming that the discrepancy is real. ...
• Buzz Aldrin dumped the LHC beam
  If you continuously watch the LHC status, you must have noticed that on March 1st, 2011, a beam was dumped at some point. Why did it happen? Well, it happened because they told the second man on the Moon, climate skeptic Buzz Aldrin, to press the red button, and he did so. ;-) Here a f ...
• Human Achievement Hour 2011
  North Korea traditionally prefers the "Earth Hour" over the "Human Achievement Hour". On Saturday, 26th of March, 2011, the civilized people of the world who won't forget will celebrate Human Achievement Hour 2011 between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm local time. The Reference Frame al ...

No Frakking Consensus

• The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality
  Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded - but that's not how it behaves.
• Responses to the Japanese Earthquake
  A slideshow of iPhone images created in response to the tragic earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.
• Politically Incorrect Prof May Lose His Job
  A UCLA professor who found no link between a certain kind of air pollution and premature death is fighting to keep his job. But the state employee with the fake PhD merely got demoted.
• Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?
  Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to recede. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?
• The Horse Manure Problem
  In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.

Tarpley

• Al Qaeda: Pawns of CIA Insurrection from Libya ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 3, 2011 After two weeks of imperialist attack, Libya is being mangled by al Qaeda terrorists, civil war, NATO air raids, cruise missiles, Predator drones, and C-130 gunships – all made possible by the CIA-backed al Qaeda rebels of Cyrenaica. US, Briti ...
• خبير أمريكي: ما يجري في ليبيا والعالم العربي م ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 1, 2011 English Translation: U.S. Expert: What is happening in the Middle East is pre-planned Tarpley interviewed on Russia Today’s Arabic division http://arabic.rt.com/prg_hadis/66675/video/
• Tarpley on Alex Jones Show: Bush and Cheney us ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 31, 2011 download file
• The Libya Rebels: A CIA Secret Army of al Qaed ...
  Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net March 30, 2011
• Italiano
  English Deutsch Français Italiano Other I ribelli libici della CIA sono gli stessi terroristi che hanno ucciso truppe statunitensi e truppe NATO in Iraq Uno studio di West Point mostra che lâarea di Bengasi, Derna e Tobruk era i leader mondiali nel reclutamento dei bombaroli kamikaze di al ...

Modern Survivalism

• Break in those new Boots
  I just read a post over at The Apartment Prepper’s Blog, Breaking in your Walk out of the City Shoes, and it reminded me of something important that I need to do. That is, break in my new hiking boots. During the winter I had bought a nice pair online to replace my old worn [...]
• Heirloom Tomato Seeds, Preserved
  Tomatoes are extremely popular in backyard gardens, but unfortunately they are dominated by commercial F1 Hybrids which are bred for industry and economy – high density, thick skinned for mechanical harvesting, to name a few. Heirloom tomatoes can be bred true from seed and are living legacies. ...
• The Berkey Water Filters
  We bought our ‘British Berkefeld’ Stainless Steel Gravity water filter about 8 years ago, for the purpose of providing safe drinking water during a 2-week vacation stay at a location in the Trinity Alp Wilderness area of northern California. It worked magnificently because none of us got sick fr ...
• Grocery Store Rant
  There is no inflation. Right? Isn’t that what we keep being told by ‘big brother’? Well my weekly shopping expedition that I embarked on today proved otherwise. I came home and ranted to Ken. Then I felt the need and the responsibility to rant to all of you. We always knew the prices of food [...]
• Food Storage and Food Rotation Challenges
  It’s one thing to go out and buy extra food to have and keep as part of your emergency preparedness inventory, but it is quite another thing to keep it organized and to rotate it in such a way that is practical and to ensure no waste. I’m sure that most everyone who has built [...]

Fast Company

• Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Reveals the Se ...
  Can clean solar energy offset dirty production methods? Solar energy is sustainable, sure. But what about making a solar panel? It's an oft-overlooked aspect of an industry that is given a green halo because of what it contributes to our renewable energy future. The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalit ...
• iFive: TI Buys National Semic., Twitter Moneti ...
  1. Late yesterday the maker's of many a student's favorite pocket calculator, Texas Instruments, said it would buy chip-maker National Semiconductor. The deal carries some clout because it's worth some $6.5 billion, which makes it one of the biggest over the last year, and creates one new giant ...
• Kevin Rose Thinks We Need Another Idea Incubat ...
  Ex-Digg brainiac (by which we mean inventor and CEO) Kevin Rose has got a new baby: Milk. It's an idea incubator, specifically behaving like a development lab for "out there" ideas. It's targeting the mobile Net. And it's got some distinguishing features.Rose only left Digg a few weeks ago, whic ...
• A Nanotech Cream May Prevent Nickel Allergies
  A newly developed nanoparticle cream could hold the cure for nickel allergies and skin irritation from metal jewelery. Approximately 10% of the population has a nickel allergy that causes skin irritation when they wear inexpensive metal jewelery or handle coins for an extended period of time. Th ...
• Innovation Agents: Britta Gross, Director of G ...
  By the end of this year, there should be 15,000 Chevy Volts and Opel Amperas on the road, and hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't far behind. Where to power up all those electric cars? Britta Gross is working on the solution.Britta Gross is a big picture thinker. That’s a good thing, because she’s ...

Jadaliyya

• What Wasn't Said at Senator Durbin's Hearing o ...
  Senator Dick Durbin, the senior Democrat from Illinois, held a historic hearing last week on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights in the U.S.” The hearing, called by Durbin as the Chair of the Senate’s new Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, took place on March ...
• النقابات العمالية في مصر بين الحزب الوطني والإ ...
  ع�دما جاء عس�ر 23 ����� إ�� ا�س�طة �� مصر �رغم دع�ت�م �إ�امة ح�اة د�م�راط�ة. إ�ا أ��م تعام��ا ب�س�ة �اضحة مع إضراب عما� ��ر ا�د�ار �� أغسطس �بعد أ�� م� ش�ر ع�� ا�ث�رة. �أ�ام�ا مح�مة عس�ر�ة �� ��ر ا�د�ار برئاسة�ا��ائم م�ام عبد ا�م�عم أم�� رج� ا�س�ارة ا�أمر���ة��ا�ذ� اصدر ح�م� بإعدام مصط�� ...
• What Wasn't Said at Senator Durbin’s Hearing o ...
  Senator Dick Durbin, the senior Democrat from Illinois, held a historic hearing last week on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights in the U.S.” The hearing, called by Durbin as the Chair of the Senate’s new Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, took place on March ...
• عن سورية: لقاء مع ياسين الحاج صالح [On Syria: ...
  � �اس�� ا�حاج صا�ح �اتب �معارض س�ر�� �ض� ستة عشر عاما� �� ا�سج� أث�اء ح�م حا�ظ ا�أسد��.�� م� �تب� س�ر�ا �� ا�ظ���:�� �ظرات داخ� ا�ص�د�� ا�أس�د ��(��جدار٢٠٠٩).�� �ج�ب ��ا ع�� بعض ا�أسئ�ة ا�ت� طرحت�ا جد��ة ع��� ح�� ا�أ�ضاع �� س�ر�ا��.� س��:�� ما �� تح���� ���ضع ا�حا�� �� س�ر�ا� تحد�دا� تع ...
• "A Space Exodus": A Truly Palestinian Film
  Larissa Sansour, A Space Exodus. Video (5' 29"). 2009. “Jerusalem, we have problem,” a woman’s voice says, as female fingers run over the controls of a space ship. “No . . . We are back on track,” she then mutters, breathing heavily; the only response from Jerusalem is a deafening silen ...

mediagazer

• Hulu Q1 By The Numbers: On Pace For $500 Milli ...
  Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Hulu Q1 By The Numbers: On Pace For $500 Million 2011  —  In a new blog post, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar says the online video joint venture finished the first quarter of 2011 up 90 percent in revenue over the same period last year and is on pace to bring in a half-bil ...
• Apple makes bid to become gatekeeper for newsp ...
  Patrick May / Mercury News: Apple makes bid to become gatekeeper for newspapers and magazines  —  Apple's (AAPL) bold foray into the world of digital publishing could make it the online gatekeeper for newspaper and magazine content, just as it is for music.  —  But for a plan ostensibly designe ...
• 'The conditions are finally right to give news ...
  Jim Romenesko / Poynter: ‘The conditions are finally right to give newspaper paywalls a fair shake’  —  That's what former NPR chief executive and ex-head of NYTimes.com Vivian Schiller said at the 12th International Symposium on Online Journalism.  This is the first time I've felt this way, an ...
• The View From Somewhere - Neither ideology nor ...
  Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: The View From Somewhere  —  Neither ideology nor politics defines my work, but that doesn't mean I'm without bias - consider me a partisan for public discourse, California roots, and disagreement in conversation.  —  The press critic Jay Rosen often co ...
• Report: San Francisco Chronicle to put up payw ...
  Jim Romenesko / Poynter: Report: San Francisco Chronicle to put up paywall  — Report: San Francisco Chronicle to put up “hard” paywall as early as the end of the month. http://journ.us/h86Mdu 2 minutes ago  — Loyalty ain't what it used to be: @roypeterclark justifies journalists as ketchup & e ...

Chemtrail News

• Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Un ...
  and saw the picture of the chemtrail spraying airship. I saw one of these about a month or two ago. It was much faster than a blimp, and much slower than a ...dailypaul.com/.../secret-presidential-chemtrail-budget-uncover...
• World Chemtrail Research And Discussion ...
  Welcome to a Facebook Page about World Chemtrail Research And Discussion Network . Join Facebook to start connecting with World Chemtrail Research And ...www.facebook.com/pages/World...And.../163688627006283
• UN Bans Chemtrails USA Change is under ...
  Thx for your disinfo ops and yes they are chemtrail not all of them you just cant stick to my post and what the U.N had to said ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread684492/pg1
• New Video: Strange Coloured Clouds & Ch ...
  Glowing orange-coloured clouds and chemtrails are shown in this video about geo- engineering, plus more. It was shot on March the 31st, 2011 from the suburb of Woodhill, Whangarei after I'd received a phone call from a friend at about ...infonews.co.nz All news - http://www.infonews.co.nz/
• Show Events for 04/09/11 - Chemtrails G ...
  Chemtrails & Geoengineering Information & Activism. Information ... Ladybug colonies died during heavy chemtrail spraying. ...globalskywatch.com/chemtrails/ubbthreads.php?ubb...

World News - Top Stories

• Jackets-Stars preview
  8:30 TONIGHT AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER TV: Fox Sports Net (HD) Radio: WBNS-FM (97.1) The series The Blue Jackets are 13-21-0-5 all-time against Dallas, including 6-11-0-2 in American Airlines Center. This is the fourth and final...
• AirTran lands atop U.S. airline rankings
  ATLANTA - AirTran Airways, soon to be acquired by Southwest Airlines, came out on top in the annual Airline Quality Rating study of U.S. carriers. AirTran got the top score among 16 airlines based on 2010 on-time performance, baggage handling, denied boardings and complaints to the federal ...
• Alberto Aquilani reiterates desire to sta ...
  Juventus midfielder Alberto Aquilani is hopeful he will remain at the club beyond the summer. The Italian playmaker is on loan at the Turin giants until the end of the season from...
• Baldwin, Spacey call for arts funding in ...
  WASHINGTON - Actors Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey are expected to visit Capitol Hill to press Congress to preserve arts funding...
• Miandad could be appointed Pak team's bat ...
  The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is negotiating with former skipper Javed Miandad to accept the post of the national team's batting coach. ODI skipper Shahid Afridi told reporters after a meeting with PCB chief Ijaz Butt that the board was...

no frakking consensus

• The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality
  Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded - but that's not how it behaves.
• Responses to the Japanese Earthquake
  A slideshow of iPhone images created in response to the tragic earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.
• Politically Incorrect Prof May Lose His Job
  A UCLA professor who found no link between a certain kind of air pollution and premature death is fighting to keep his job. But the state employee with the fake PhD merely got demoted.
• Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?
  Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to recede. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?
• The Horse Manure Problem
  In the late 1800s cities were drowning in smelly, dirty, disease-spreading horse manure. The private automobile was a huge step forward, environmentally-speaking.

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Groups to Challenge Disparate Punishment Under ...
  From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Attorneys, Advocates Say Antiquated Law Unfairly Brands Poor Women and LGBT People with Scarlet Letter, Disproportionately Affects African Americans The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Andrea J. Ritchie ...
• New Orleans Police Attack Mardi Gras Parade
  On Sunday night, at least 20 officers descended on a Mardi Gras parade, arresting twelve costumed marchers, and repeatedly deploying tasers, pepper spray, and physical violence. The parade, which consisted of local artists and other neighborhood residents, as well as quite a few tourists, began ...
• Tom Joyner Doesn't Understand New Orleans Soci ...
  2-Cent Entertainment is a remarkable New Orleans-based arts and activist collective who have built a national reputation for creating videos that are both informative and entertaining. They have received major national awards and rave reviews in the media. Their videos regularly get thousands of ...
• Lawsuit Puts Hold on Closing of SUNO
  Last week, advocates took legal action in an attempt to stop Governor Jindal's actions to dissolve SUNO. LJI has posted the legal documents on our NOLA Public Records website. Below is an excerpt from a summary of the status of the legal claims, from BayouBuzz News: Seven Southern University Sys ...
• Louisiana Unions Organize “We Stand with Wisco ...
  From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: “We Stand with Wisconsin,” a solidarity rally, will be held at 5:00pm on Wednesday outside of the Baton Rouge City Hall (the Governmental Building) located at 222 St. Louis Street. The event is being organized by Service Employees International Union (S ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• The Trouble With Teens
  Fast driving, drugs, and unsafe sex: The risk-loving behavior of adolescents may result from a neurological gap in the developing brain. by Carl Zimmer iStockphoto Teenagers are a puzzle, and not just to their parents. When kids pass from childhood to adolescence their mortality rate doubles, de ...
• The Trillions of Microbes That Call Us Home
  and Help Keep Us Healthy The human body is a habitat for a huge range of harmless and beneficial microbes, which may be the key to fighting disease without antibiotics. by Michael Tennesen Image: Masterfile In the intensive care nursery at Duke University Medical Center, doctors and nurses atten ...
• Bible insufficiently anthropomorphic, say anim ...
  by Paul Sims Noah: inclusive saviour of God’s creatures, or just another speciesist shipbuilder? While the Bible may be one of the bestselling books of all time, it has its fair share of critics, from followers of other religions, to atheists stunned by the sheer brutality of the Old Testament, ...
• Truth and Lies
  By Franck Nouchi Translated By Mylène Perdreau Edited by Jessica Boesl France – Le Monde – Original Article (French) There is a tab on the White House website that will direct you to press briefing transcripts. It is a tradition as old as the American democracy: Every day, the president’s spoke ...
• China’s Search for a Grand Strategy
  With China’s clout growing, the international community needs to better understand China’s strategic thinking. But China’s core interests are to promote its sovereignty, security, and development simultaneously — a difficult basis for devising a foreign policy. By Wang Jisi, Dean of the School o ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• The 9/11 truth movement needs leaders
  The 9/11 truth movement in Australia desperately needs YOUR help. We need YOU to take charge, step up and LEAD. The truth is, while a handful have exhausted both their energy and finances, thousands of others have just looked on and done NOTHING to help us. If you are one of those people, th ...
• Scott Grainger, fire protection engineer, blow ...
  This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary: "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" - AE911truth.org
• The people say NO to the Carbon Tax!
  Today I welcome to the show Luke Jenkins, organiser of the Sydney No Carbon Tax Rally, to be held in Hyde Park on Saturday 2nd April 2011. Luke explains why he became an activist in the campaign, and we cover some of the key questions and controversies within the topic of anthropogenic climate ...
• Susan Wolfe: truth activist and organiser of t ...
  Today I am joined by Susan Wolfe, who is organising the massive 9/11 truth gathering for We Are Change in New York, scheduled to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.� Susan is attempting to make this event a landmark in the history of the 9/11 truth movement, and she is taking all steps t ...
• Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Hum ...
  March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Li ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• How A Sunken Road Became A Bloody Lane
  Bloody Lane By Alexander Gardner This entire battle might be looked at as an indictment on the temperamental and timid Union General Scott McClellan. He was an open critic of President Lincoln. Some historians say he was a decent battlefield commander but his reputation suffered the slings and a ...
• Please Donate So I Can Keep Writing And Editin ...
  There’s a Paypal tab to the right. You know the drill.   And [...]
• Living In Our Own Heads.
  Educated by cable news and US public schools our understanding of the world has to be pre-chewed, sanitized, pixelated and explained by “experts” who are all too often paid for opinion out of the Public Relations industry. Conventional wisdom about the nature of Arab societies is utterly Hollywo ...
• Found Under “Negro Soldiers”
  Fred McIntyre of the 369th Infantry Holding A Photo Of The Kaiser WWII Negro Soldiers From Philadelphia This Photo Of Negro Soldiers Has The Attached Comment In A Text That Reads "Dancing Was One Of The Activities Of The Negro Solier When They Not On Patrol" Mugabe's Troops Black Soldiers WWI WW ...
• Gurkha Humor

Taylor Marsh

• Tea Party Rolls Boehner, Reid and Obama on Bud ...
  There’s a reason Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have been pushing the Heritage Foundation mercilessly on their show for months and it was to pave the way for Paul Ryan and his Heritage Foundation hallucinations. This partisan ideological shop is the driving engine for Rep. Ryan’s math, who in u ...
• Progressive Notes: Social Security, FDR, AARP, ...
  Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Senator Sanders and others held a great rally with seniors to push pols not to touch Social Security in any way.Next, a letter to the President for today, but written in 1938. In 1937 F.D.R. made a bad move to cut spending ...
• Queer Talk: Queer (In)Justice
  Let’s begin with a current incident, via Darren Hutchinson’s Dissenting Justice, and under the headline, “Beyond Bullying: Race, Poverty and LGBT Rights”: “One of the most pernicious but least discussed stereotypes of LGBT persons portrays them as a highly privileged population. According to ...
• Julian Schnabel’s ‘Miral’ Premieres in Washington
  After reading Judge Richard Goldstone’s remarkable piece in the Washington Post today, it’s a further reminder of just how impossible it is to tell any story of Israelis and Palestinians without chasing narratives that inevitably end up colliding. “Miral” is just such a collision. Based on the ...
• Stepping on Your Message, Blowing Off Your Base
  Morning headline and story: Obama launches reelection campaign. Afternoon headline headline and story: In a Reversal, Military Trials for 9/11 Case: The Obama administration, ending more than a year of indecision with a major policy reversal, will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other ...

James Laxer

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