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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, April 7, 2011

7 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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A Real Chance for Renewable Energy
Huffington Post
Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have setup versions of it, and yet, a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) still isn't on the books at the national level. This Congress, I hope we can change that. My cousin, Senator Mark Udall of Colorado ...
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GE sees new U.S. solar plant running by 2013
Reuters
BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co aims to have its new US solar-panel plant up and running by 2013, the head of the largest US conglomerate's renewable energy unit said in an interview. GE earlier said it aimed to invest about $600 million in a US ...
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PNM Issues RFP for Renewable Energy
Business Wire (press release)
Through the RPS, PNM earns renewable energy certificates (RECs) for each kilowatt hour of electricity that it generates or buys from clean, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. PNM is required to increase its renewable generation to 10 ...
IEA says fossil fuels still dominant
UPI.com
PARIS, April 7 (UPI) -- An increase in the use of renewable energy doesn't necessarily mean the appetite for fossil fuels is declining, the International Energy Agency said from Paris. The International Energy Agency in its first progress report on ...
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Human Habitat

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Mississippi — TITLE 49 CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY — CHAPTER 17 POLLUTION OF ...
Leagle.com
(a) One (1) director who is the Mayor of Bay St. Louis, or his or her designee, for an initial term of two (2) years; (g) One (1) director who is the Chairman of the Pearlington Water and Sewer District. After expiration of the initial terms, ...
Senate passes bill to improve oil spill response
The Seattle Times
The amended Senate version passed by the Senate on Tuesday directs the Department of Ecology to evaluate and update planning standards for tank vessels by 2012. It also directs the agency to update requirements for state-of-the-art spill response ...
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Global Ecology Announces EPA Filing
Marketwire (press release)
Global Ecology President & CEO Peter Ubaldi said, "Although it is difficult to predict the date the EPA will complete its review and approval process, we have determined that the potential list of approved uses will more than justify the time required ...
Agreement paves way for new Bridgeport water
Access Washington
YAKIMA – An agreement signed between the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and the city of Bridgeport sets aside a longtime water dispute and provides the city access to a reliable supply of drinking water now and into the future. ...
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In Japan, will sea dilute radiation pollution?
CNN International
(CNN) -- I heard the news today, oh boy: The radioactive water leak at Japan's quake- and tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor has been stanched. It's the first anniversary of the fatal Massey Energy coal mine explosion. ...
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Researchers find superbug gene in New Delhi water
Ocala
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON - A deadly superbug was found in about a quarter of water samples taken from drinking supplies and puddles on the streets of New Delhi, according to a new study. Experts say it's the latest proof that the new ...
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American Water Issues 2010 Virtual Annual Report
Business Wire (press release)
By providing a virtual annual report, American Water continues its efforts to preserve the Earth's limited natural resources. The company estimates that the online report saves approximately 300 trees and 98000 gallons of water, which would have been ...
Sulzer to Buy Assa's Waste-Water Pump Unit for $935 Million
Bloomberg
By Richard Weiss and Andrew Noel - Thu Apr 07 11:06:43 GMT 2011 Sulzer AG (SUN) agreed to buy a waste- water pump business from Assa Abloy AB (ASSAB) for 858 million Swiss francs ($935 million) to expand in a market that it estimates will grow by more ...
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: Libya Splitting Republicans in 1990s Redux
    In something of a replay of the infighting among Republicans over Washington's military interventions in the Balkans in the 1990s, U.S. involvement in the civil war in Libya is exposing serious splits among self-described conservatives.
  • World Bank Chief Calls for Economic Reforms in ...
    World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday pressed a Middle East and North Africa in the midst of the "Arab Spring" to promote vibrant civil societies and urged international financial and development institutions to hold its client governments in the region more accountable, if ...
  • U.S.-Colombia Deal on Labour Rights Met with S ...
    On the eve of a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos here on Thursday, the White House announced that a deal has been reached on key labour issues upholding the countries' stalled bilateral trade pact.
  • Broken Promises Loom Large in 2012 Election Run-Up
    Just days after United States President Barak Obama announced his reelection campaign for the 2012 run-off via a Youtube video, the White House is poised on the brink of its first shutdown in 15 years, with budget wars, an immigration maelstrom and determined opposition to the administ ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Report from Fukushima
    My decision to visit Fukushima - the area worst hit by the massive quake, tsunami and nuclear power accident on Mar. 11 - was taken one afternoon last week after a long meeting with scientists.

Scoop - NZ

  • Tapu Misa: Cuts in public services won't stimu ...
    My first job was in the public service. It was at the Government Printing Office in Wellington, where my father worked as a storeman. My younger siblings were given holiday jobs there
  • Irish Bank Rescue Reaches $142 Billion - Bloomberg
    Ireland yielded to the European Central Bank to protect bondholders even as its bailout bill for the region’s worst banking crisis moved to as much as 100 billion euros ($142 billion) after stress tests.
  • Anti-American rioting sweeps Afghanistan
    Perhaps even more serious, from a military standpoint, was an incident that took place on Thursday, March 31, when a helicopter-borne US attack in Kunar province, in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, ran into heavy fire from Taliban fighters. Six US soldiers were killed, one of ...
  • Libyan waiting game favors Gaddafi
    The "game" has become ugly to the point that even pretences of transparency and honesty are being abandoned. A disinformation campaign, tailored to the short attention span and lack of genuine interest of Western audiences, is in full gear. Today's promises are forgotten tomorrow or twisted beyo ...
  • Protect our basic right to trial by jury - Fra ...
    The Court of Appeal's decision to deny the Urewera 18 the right to have a jury trial is a major offence to New Zealand's proud human rights record.

Independent - London

  • Five rebels 'killed in Nato strike in Libya'
    A Nato air strike killed at least five rebels near the Libyan port of Brega today, medics said, and insurgents reported Muammar Gaddafi's forces killed five more in a bombardment of besieged Misrata.
  • French strike hits Gbagbo forces in Ivory Coast
    French forces hit military vehicles belonging to troops loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo during a helicopter-borne mission that rescued Japan's ambassador to the West African country today.
  • Spain 'won't seek bailout'
    Spain will not be next in line for a bailout, the country's finance minister said today after Portugal became the third eurozone country to seek outside help.
  • Japan police race to find tsunami bodies
    Japanese police are racing to find thousands of missing bodies before they completely decompose along a stretch of tsunami-devastated coast that has been largely off-limits because of a radiation-leaking nuclear plant.
  • Video: Driver survives freak accident
    Video showing a driver narrowly avoiding being impaled has been posted online.

Rogue Government.com

  • Silver Advances to Most Expensive Versus Gold ...
    Silver climbed to its most expensive level versus gold since 1983 as rising inflation spurred by commodity shortages, economic recovery and turmoil in the Middle East bolstered demand.
  • Oil could hit $200-$300 on Saudi unrest
    Oil prices could rocket to $200- $300 a barrel if the world's top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is hit by serious political unrest, former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani told Reuters on Tuesday.
  • UN helicopters fire on pro-Gbagbo camp in Cot ...
    A leading ally of the internationally recognised president of Cote d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, has called for a "rapid offensive" in the commercial capital, Abidjan, where pro-Ouattara fighters are battling forces loyal to the country's incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo.
  • First Responders, NYPD Conduct ‘Dirty Bomb’ D ...
    The NYPD and 70 other law enforcement agencies across our region will test their ability to detect radiological materials and prevent an attack orchestrated by four fictional terror cells intent on targeting New York City with a “dirty bomb.”
  • General David Petraeus tipped to take over CIA
    This summer it will be musical chairs among President Barack Obama’s national security team. Leon Panetta, the CIA Director, is widely expected to take over from Bob Gates as Pentagon chief.

Innovation Canada

  • Targeting tumours
    Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
  • Women and science
    Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.
  • A recipe for failure
    By definition, perfectionists set very high standards for themselves. As a result, they are also setting themselves up to fail. And when they do, research is now showing that many perfectionists resort to binge eating to alleviate feelings of loneliness, sadness and inadequacy. “Perfectionists o ...
  • The challenging spine, the adventurous mind

Signs of the times

  • Israel mulls creation of elite counter-cyberte ...
    Unit would protect private sector firms and gov agencies Israel is mulling the creation of a counter-cyberterrorism unit designed to safeguard both government agencies and core private sector firms against hacking attacks. The proposed unit would supplement the efforts of Mossad and other agen ...
  • Couple's Honeymoon Covers Cyclones, Fires, Flo ...
    Couple endures nightmare honeymoon- Happy to be home safe at last A Swedish couple are glad to be safely home after completing their four-month honeymoon trip - which took in the sights of a blizzard in Munich, a cyclone in Cairns, bushfires in Perth, floods in Queensland, an earthquake in New ...
  • Congo Measles Epidemic Kills At Least 210
    Infants born in the Congo today are battling two deadly diseases: measles and cholera. Indeed, measles are spreading quickly in the African nation. According to the latest figures form local health authorities, 16,112 suspected cases of measles have been reported since early 2011. At least 210 ...
  • US: NWS Says 2nd Mississippi River Crest Will ...
    A second crest of the Mississippi River has started in Saint Paul Minnesota. Major floods are expected by this weekend at Prescott in far western Wisconsin. The river is already a foot-and-a-half above its flood stage at nearby Hastings Minnesota. The National Weather Service says the Mississi ...
  • Scotland: Never Mind Cats and Dogs - School Hi ...
    A PE class had to run for cover as it started raining worms. Teacher David Crichton was leading a group of pupils playing football at Galashiels Academy when dozens of the invertebrates began plummeting from the sky. The 22 second-year boys had to abandon their lesson Mr Crichton said the chil ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hold the one-on-one debate anyway
    Nicely played Ignatieff: As you stated, there are only two people who can be Prime Minister after May 2nd: you or me. Canadians truly deserve to see us go face to face in a contest of ideas, values and very different visions for our country. That is what democracy is all about. Like many C ...
  • Mop & Pail spots emperor walking streets naked
    That bastion of Marxism and vanguard of the glorious revolution of the proletariat, The Globe and Mail, �today brings us a story so shocking, a truth so revealing that it if absorbed by the general populace, will shake our economic and political firmament for years to come. Corporate tax cuts do ...
  • Chicken Wings
    Buckdog! 5 questions a day! Stephen Harper's Election Campaign Airplane should be called 'CHICKEN WINGS'.
  • Paranoid and afraid...
    I'm not sure how much of this indicates an allergy to democracy. I suspect it goes much deeper. I think we're watching a control freak lose control. Elections, democracy, difference all that create uncertainty which probably alarms Harper on a very deep level. He's trying to manage his election ...
  • Conservative Stasi
    Dr. Dawg is chilling. The Harper goons, with the support of the RCMP has created lists of political dissidents. Young voters now find themselves on lists and banned from Harper events for such crimes against the party as visiting Cancun on behalf of a well established mainstream environmental NG ...

Media Matters for America

  • The 50 Worst Things Glenn Beck Said On Fox News
    In light of Glenn Beck's announcement that his Fox News show will be ending, Media Matters for America presents the 50 worst things Beck has said on Fox. Violent Rhetoric Breaches Of Common Decency Paranoid Conspiracy Theories Apocalyptic Predictions Attacks On Obama And Other Progressive ...
  • Beck Falsely Claims No Law Protects Public Sec ...
    As part of his anti-union campaign, Glenn Beck claimed that collective bargaining for public employees exists only through an "executive order by John Kennedy" because "there was never a law passed." In fact, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Service Reform Act in 1978 granting federal employe ...
  • America Live Ignores Conservative Mon ...
    America Live featured a segment focused on "pro-union groups pour[ing]" money into Wisconsin's Supreme Court race in order to criticize "pro-union" attacks on the incumbent, conservative Justice David Prosser Jr. In fact, more outside money has been spent on Prosser's behalf -- a fact ignored b ...
  • Fox's War On Health Continues
    Fox has continued to ramp up its ongoing war on health in recent weeks, attacking initiatives that encourage kids to exercise and discourage unhealthy behavior, even going so far as to attack a plan to decrease unhealthy foods at New York City Health Department events.Fox Freaks Out Over NYC Pu ...
  • Gretchen Carlson: Unofficial GOP Campaign Stra ...
    Fox & Friends�host Gretchen Carlson regularly advises the GOP and Republican candidates on news and messaging they should use in order to defeat�Democrats�in upcoming elections. Carlson's�advice for Republican candidates falls in line with a�history of promoting GOP campaigns and�Fox News'�posi ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • A Heritage of Exaggeration
    To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. Even as the key players in the budget debate, from President Obama to House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) are shirking their responsibility to take a serious look at reducing military spending, a new report from the Heritage Foundation ...
  • Iraq has Oil & Afghanistan has America: Obama ...
    One of the lines working around the Middle East and South Asia is that "Iraq has oil, and Afghanistan has the U.S." The budget showdown looming in Washington now, threatening to shut down the government on Friday seems to hardly recognize the expenditure by the US in FY2011 of $119 Billion i ...
  • Medicare Vouchers: Ryan Versus Baker
    Since Representative Ryan is running around pushing his Medicare vouchers I might as well take the opportunity to push my own. It seems that Mr. Ryan and I have something in common, we both like Medicare vouchers. Of course there are big differences between our systems. Ryan's voucher system ...
  • Stanley Kurtz Explains Obama Foreign Policy fo ...
    Been wondering about the real intentions behind President Obama's foreign policy? You can stop your rumination now, because Stanley Kurtz reveals the hidden agenda in a new National Review article. Apparently, the intervention in Libya is merely a Trojan horse for more sinister ambitions -- a "p ...
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  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Tracking the Japanese Tsunami Debris
    Most people will have seen the images depicting the devastating impact of the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake which destroyed coastal towns along the Japanese east coast near Sendai. Entire villages and communities are gone, along with the lives that inhabited them. Of less, but still important, concern t ...
  • Climate Beliefs Shift With The Wind
    A new paper which looks at three separate studies shows that humanities understanding of climate change and global warming is at times unduly influenced by something as simple as how cold or warm it is on the day that they are asked.
  • Organic farmers, Monsanto’s latest superweed [ ...
    More info on organic farmers vs. Monsanto From EatDrinkBetter: Organic Farm Group Sues Monsanto, Seeking Protection From GMO Contamination From Monsanto’s home newspaper: Farmers, seed companies sue Monsanto From The Cornacopia Institute: Farmers and Seed Producers Launch Preemptive Strike again ...
  • Completion of Earthquake Early Warning System ...
    Despite the huge loss of life following the Tonoku earthquake and consequent tsunami, the losses would have been even greater were it not for an earthquake early warning system set in place by the government of Japan following the devastating Kobe quake in the mid 1990's. A similar early warnin ...
  • Top 70 Green News & Commentary Stories (April 6)
    Top green news and commentary of the last day or two. Check it out (top of the top is bold, source key is at the bottom)

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • K Street's favorite dictators - World News
    Popular revolutions swept away autocratic leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. The US and NATO launched airstrikes in Libya under a "responsibility to protect" civilians. But for decades the same dictators clung to power with US support. Despite the rhetoric about human rights from the State De ...
  • Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times ...
    TOKYO — The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish. The reading of ...
  • With US government shutdown looming, Democrats ...
    7 April 2011 President Obama and Democratic leaders have made it clear they are willing to accept even deeper social spending cuts in order to reach an agreement with congressional Republicans to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government Friday. Obama and Vice President Joseph Bi ...
  • Two more U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq - World News
    WASHINGTON— Two Fort Hood soldiers have died in an insurgent attack in Iraq. A Defense Department statement issued Wednesday says 26-year-old Staff Sgt. Quadi S. Hudgins of New Orleans and 30-year-old Sgt. Christian A.S. Garcia of Goodyear, Ariz., died Saturday when their position was attacke ...
  • Israel's Ynet and Reuters Boasts that Israelis ...
    Israeli official: We struck in Sudan April 6, 2011 Official quoted by TIME Magazine confirms strike, says 'it's not our first time there.' Al-Jazeera says Palestinian, Iranian killed in Tuesday's bombing, later changes its report. Sudanese FM: We'll complain to UN A senior Israeli mil ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Easy Solution to the States' Medicaid Crisis
    It's the issue that has confounded every state government: funding its share of Medicaid. Here in Kentucky, the hole Medicaid funding blew in the state budget forced the General Assembly into a special session to try to figure out how to close the gap. But for those of us in the reality-based co ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Karma is such a delightful bitch, we want to buy her a drink. "Yesterday, AOL's Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to "contribute as part of our non-paid ...
  • Campaign Finance: Who's your (sugar) daddy, Fr ...
    It must be nice. Pile up that campaign indebtedness getting pasted in the election and someone shows up to bail you out. Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission: CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR - TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CO ...
  • How Much Do Repugs Hate Women? Outlawing Abort ...
    How do you know repug forced-birth fanaticism has nothing to do with concern for blastocysts? Because the repug War Against Women goes far, far beyond merely outlawing abortion. Katha Pollitt at The Nation: Remember "shared sacrifice"? Like the rain, the budget cuts were supposed to fall on all ...
  • Republican Death Panels Are Real: If You Are N ...
    Ignore the shutdown kabuki over what's left of the 2011 budget - the real fight over the 2012 budget is just starting, and the theme is clear: if you're not filthy rich, report to your neighborhood "Killing Social Security to Save It" euthanasia station immediately. The Ryan Plan is far worse th ...

Care 2

  • Scientists grow retina from stem cells in lab ...
    Part of an eyeball has been grown in a lab, paving the way for �DIY transplants� that would offer hope to millions of blind people.The retina � a light-sensitive �film� crucial to vision � was produced from scratch in what experts describe as ...........Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • Save the Grand Canyon
    The Grand Canyon, one of America's greatest treasures, is threatened by a huge wave of Uranium mining -- and the deadline for public comment is fast approaching. Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • US Politics: A Pseudo Two Party System Where T ...
    The opposition to the Vietnam war in the late 1960s and early 1970s was the last time the left in America had any impact on foreign policy decisions.Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
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    Please sign the petitionSubmitted by Bohm Judith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Sacrificing Teachers and Firefighters to Hoove ...
    You see, it�s these greedy public employees, pulling down $30,000 to $50,000 a year, who are sapping the economy and draining government treasuries � not billionaire casino dealers in Wall Street hedge funds who pay far lower tax rates than a fire-->Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note-it! ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Scoops Du Jour (& Open Thread)
    Below the fold: Why the Saudis are so unhappy with the U.S., Pat Buchanan’s repetitive speech habit, and the invitation for you to share all of your great finds!     ”Hillary voters aren’t only willing to pull the plug on their fellow Democrats -â they’re willing to yank it like they’re starting ...
  • Did Wall Street Violate the Racketeering Act?
    I want to thank a regular reader for prompting me to tune into 60 Minutes this past Sunday evening. Watching CBS’s Scott Pelley evidence how Wall Street banks knowingly and fraudulently engaged in forging mortgage documents made me cringe and vomit as I thought of just how low these financial in ...
  • Not Your Emperor’s War
    NATO [from video below the fold]: “…they are the ones who have been systematically attacking…civilians…attacking their own people…” “Human shields…is one of the primary reason the planes are returning without dropping their weapons…” “It’s one of the reasons…a combination of factors…” “…no furth ...
  • Iraq – The Forgotten War (& Open Thread)
    Is Iraq the Forgotten War? TRENDING NOW Kirstie Alley Kate Gosselin Jesse Ventura Dancing With the Stars Lybia .. and whatever.. “It would have been unthinkable even two years ago to say that we would reach a point at which most Americans and, indeed, some people in Washington, would increasingl ...
  • As Calm Returns to the Streets, Syrians Ponder ...
    From Syria Comment, the blog of Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma. Syria experienced its first day of political calm in over two weeks on April 3. The Sunami of protest and youth awakening that swept over Syria as part o ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 16-Year-Old En Route to Becoming Youngest Expl ...
    Sixteen-year-old Parker Liautaud is on his way in his attempt to be the youngest person in history to ski to the North Pole. See pics of him on his way! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Tamarisk Leaf Beetle Attacking Salt Cedar Tree ...
    The invasive salt cedar has displaced cottonwood and other native trees in the western USA. Another small foreigner, the tamarisk leaf beetle, has been hired to help out. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • New Species of Huge Carnivorous Dinosaur Disco ...
    A tyrannosaurine that lived during the Cretaceous period has been discovered in China. Find out more about this dinosaur incorrectly called a close relative of T. Rex. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...
  • Predators Feasting on the Carcasses of their Prey
    Stunning images of predators with their prey. If you're not fond of pictures of animals feasting on carcasses, don't read on! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Amazing Images of Orangutans Swimming
    The primate who is not supposed to be able to swim, caught in fantastic photographs doing just that! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Clean Energy Is a Target of Ryan Budget Plan
    The congressman's plan for drastic cuts is expected to be opposed by President Obama and the Senate but it enjoys the support of many Republicans.
  • Chemistry 201: Why Is Fukushima So Gassy?
    An explosion at the nuclear plant would be powered by a combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Where are those gases coming from? From the doused seawater, gamma radiation from the nuclear fuel, and zirconium metal cladding.
  • The Rich Are Different: They Can Buy More Sand
    A new study suggests that increased coastal erosion will create two classes of beach towns: those that can afford to replenish their sand and those that cannot.
  • White House Promises Veto of Anti-E.P.A. Bill
    The White House says the bill would roll back the Clean Air Act, worsen the threat of global warming, undercut efforts to make cars and trucks more fuel-efficient and contradict public health experts and scientists.
  • Republicans Open Inquiry on Yucca Mountain Shu ...
    Two congressmen say there was "no scientific or technical basis" for the Obama administration's move to withdraw a construction application for the nuclear-waste storage site.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
  • Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
    Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
  • Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
    We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
  • March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
    A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...
  • Feds take down Liberty Dollar with Extreme Pre ...
    [photo source] Mother Jones reports von NotHaus has founded the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu – eat that, coppers! Full trial Blog @ LibertyDollarTrial. Ron Paul Coin Minter, Pot Priest, Faces 15 Years in Prison | Mother Jones A few crib notes on the late great Liberty Dollar, which worked ...

Daily Censored

  • Workers at the University of Maryland say, &#8 ...
    On March 31, the UMD student newspaper, the Diamondback, wrote an article based on an anonymous letter from a non-exempt University Employee describing the work environment on campus as a “Nazi camp” and a “plantation.” “We are made to feel like idiots,” the letter said. “Our opinions are null a ...
  • US Revolution: Obama fascism is more unlawful ...
    Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Activist Post wrote a brilliant article to explain and document how the Obama administration has escalated the unlawful policies of the Bush administration. The unlawful policies of murderous wars and fraudulent transfer of trillions of taxpayers’ dollars to cor ...
  • Tim Donnelly: Racist or Rule of Law Man?
    � Nationwide, Republicans have elected extremists, whose radical agenda is now becoming apparent. It should come as no surprise that the most radical of Republicans are those that garnered Tea Party support. In California, one such radical extremist is newly elected assemblyman of the 59 Distric ...
  • Milwaukee Police Censored Reporter Geoff Davidian
    Milwaukee Police Officer Joseph Anderer did not want any recording of his colleagues ticketing a victim who was broadsided April 52011 by a speeding police car that exited an alley without stopping. So he twisted the camera from reporter Geoff Davidian’s hand, breaking the lens. Anderer cited Da ...
  • Radical Environmentalist George Monbiot Endors ...
    George Monbiot, the prominent left writer and columnist for the London “Guardian” newspaper, has recently announced his support for nuclear power (“Guardian” newspaper, March 21, 2011). Considering the fact that he has written extensively on the issue of environmentalism and that he previously o ...

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Equality Trust

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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Will the FDA Beat Me to Food Recall Information?
    I have been blogging about food safety issues for nearly a decade.� I have announced a few outbreaks and several recalls before the FDA - or FSIS - ever said a word.� However, with this new website, I feel that the Government is trying to beat me.� That would be a good thing for everyone.
  • Del Monte Salmonella Cantaloupe Update
    • As of March 29, 2011, 13 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama have been reported from Oregon (5 cases), Washington (4 cases), California (2 cases), Colorado (1 case) and Maryland (1 case). • Collaborative investigative efforts of state, local, and federal public he ...
  • Fresh Express Recalls Spinach Due to Salmonell ...
    Fresh Express is voluntarily recalling 2,939 cases of 9 oz. Bag Spinach with Product Codes starting with H081 and H082, UPC Code of 7127913204 and Use-by Dates of April 6 and 7 out of an abundance of caution due to a positive result for Salmonella from random sample testing. The company is not ...
  • DeFuco's Zeppoles Salmonella Outbreak Update
    Reported Illness as of April 3, 2011 • 60 Reported cases of illness (59 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) • 27 Hospitalizations (22 Discharged, 5 Current) • 31 Lab-confirmed Salmonella
  • 27 Tons of Hormel Jennie-O Turkey Burgers Sold ...
    12 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Hadar have been reported from 10 states: Arizona (1 case), California (1 case), Colorado (1 case), Georgia (1 case), Illinois (1 case), Missouri (1 case), Mississippi (1 case), Ohio (1 case), Washington (1 case), and Wisconsin (3 cases) ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Milestone Accomplished: Toyota sells one milli ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota 2011 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery California Toyota dealers may or may not be running out of Priuses, but the hybrid is most certainly still popular. How else to explain the news that one million of the ico ...
  • Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
  • Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...
  • Spy Shots: All-wheel-drive Mini Cooper hybrid ...
    Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrid, Mini AWD Mini Cooper Hybrid Spy Shots - Click above for high-res image gallery Once you've put an all-electric drivetrain into a Mini Cooper, is it that hard to hybridize one? Well, yes, especially since BMW's limited testing program was intended to give the ...
  • Volvo considering insanely high $2,100/month l ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volvo, Electric Volvo C30 Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery A trial fleet of around 400 Volvo C30 Electrics is coming, and anyone who wants one had better have an awful big piggy bank. Speaking at a media launch near Indianapolis, IN today ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York
    On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal court, but through controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Holder blamed members of Congr ...
  • Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering ...
    On March 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear the death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, se ...
  • Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night ...
    Late at night on March 17, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Haiti has been ravaged by ...
  • Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President ...
    Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were flown on March 18, 2011 by the South African government back to their home in Haiti after seven years in exile in South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was the only reporter to join them on the journey. Here is the compl ...
  • 21-Year-Old Libyan American Medical Student Mu ...
    Muhannad Bensadik was a 21-year-old Libyan American medical student in Benghazi who was born in North Carolina and whose family lives in Virginia. He participated in the Libyan uprising last month and then decided to join the armed struggle against Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Muhannad ...

Digg Green

  • Ozone layer faces record 40 pct loss over ...
    The protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun's most damaging rays — ultraviolet radiation — has thinned about 40 percent this winter, a record drop, the U.N.
  • World’s 2nd Deadliest Poison, in an Aquar ...
    In 2007, a man from Woodbridge, Virginia was rushed into hospital after inhaling an aerosolised version of one of the deadliest poisons on the planet. He was not the victim of a terrorist attack. He wasn’t working in a biohazard laboratory. He was trying to clean out his fish tank.
  • Slow the F*ck Down [PIC]
  • APOD: 2011 April 6 - M74: The Perfect Spi ...
    Explanation: If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view. Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand design of M74' ...
  • Physics proves that no one really has blu ...
    Although some people have blue eyes, and many babies are born with particularly deep blue irises, no one actually has blue pigment in their irises. They're just a trick of the light.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World; a Rand ...
    By Les Visible Wherever we go in this world there is stress awaiting our appearance and looking for an avenue of expression. During these times, forces in the material world are doing everything in their power to reduce the quality of life and to humiliate and oppress the public at every turn, w ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered today in Jenin
    By Gilad Atzmon Palestinian genius film maker, actor and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, 53, was shot dead on Monday in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. According to Jenin police chief Mohammed Tayyim, Mer-Khamis was shot five times by Palestinian militants, but that police were still ...
  • The despised state of Israel cannot survive fo ...
    By Kourosh Ziabari Interview with Christopher Bollyn Kourosh Ziabari: Dear Christopher; you’ve written on the 9/11 attacks and the involvement of the Mossad and CIA in the attacks extensively. The former Italian President Francisco Cossiga has also testified that Mossad and CIA were involved in ...
  • Breaking: Dr. Paul Connett – New Studies ...
  • Prostate cancer screening has zero benefit, co ...
    By Mike Adams Don’t let anyone from the cancer industry lie to you about PSA screening: The test is completely bogus and offers zero improvement in your lifespan. That’s the conclusion from a 20-year study that followed over 9,000 men. After 20 years of follow-up, guess what the results were? No ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • EcoKiosk is a Solar-Powered Storefront for Str ...
    Bizarreka‘s Ecokiosk is a concept for a cost-effective and eco-friendly storefront for street vendors. Solar panels on the roof of the simple structure power the vendor’s operations on the inside without having to tap into outside energy sources. The project was designed in direct response to th ...
  • Vanja Bazdulj Turns Wool Sheets Into Unexpecte ...
    This year Vanja Bazdulj will be debuting her new collection of Rough & Ready chairs at the Milan Furniture Fair. Inspired by the reuse of existing materials, Bazdulj’s designs make the most of the imperfect, the unpredictable, and the unfinished. The eye-catching chairs are made from tailored cu ...
  • Base Lamp by Designtree Highlights the Eleganc ...
    We’ve been spying a number of illuminating designs ready to make their debut at the Milan Furniture Fair next week, among them is this elegant new lamp from Designtree. Designed by Tom Wigmore, the Base Lamp highlights the forgotten beauty of old signage by framing their colorful scraps as trans ...
  • European Union to Organize an Electric F1 Raci ...
    Formula One racing is one of the most popular sports in the world, but it’s hardly the most environmentally friendly. Despite the excitement, the glory and the scantily clad pit girls, the fact is that 20+ cars going 180 mph around a track produces a lot of pollution. In fact, it is estimated to ...
  • Announcing the Winners of the Stop the Paper T ...
    Read the rest of Announcing the Winners of the Stop the Paper Towels Design Competition!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cloth towels, desi ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Earth Gets Double Asteroid Flyby Wednesday
    Two small asteroids will zip past Earth at distances closer than the moon April 6. Newly discovered asteroid 2011 GW9 flew within 48,000 miles of Earth twice Wednesday morning at 12:53 a.m. EDT [04:53 UT], according to the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Small Body Database. A second space rock, 2011 GP28 ...
  • Unprecedented Arctic Ozone-Thinning Drifts South
    In mid-March, our online story about the thinning of stratospheric ozone over the Arctic noted that conditions appeared primed for regional ozone losses to post an all-time record. On April 5, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud announced that Arctic ozone had ind ...
  • Dinosaurs May Have Been Tormented by Lice
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Feathered dinosaurs may have been the first animals bedeviled by lice. That’s the finding of Illinois ornithologist Kevin Johnson, after tracing the evolutionary line of the critters back millions of years. Johnson and his team worked out a partial family tree of lice b ...
  • App Explores Movie Connections Like Scientists ...
    We live in an age of networks, with ever more appreciation for connections: Between proteins, people, ecosystems and economies, between just about any system made up of linked units. And as connection-mapping tools become more sophisticated, there’s a need for new ways of interacting with those ...
  • Sun Video Shows New Solar Cycle Is Far More Active
    Side-by-side views of the sun two years ago and the sun now show what a difference a solar cycle makes.

PakAlert

  • HOW WILL ISRAEL RESPOND TO POPULAR ARAB UPRISINGS?
    The reality is that dramatic political change now sweeping the Arab world would eventually facilitate the execution of Israel’s war agenda against the Arabs, as well as against Pakistan and Iran.
  • Video: New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage
    New, Stunning Japan Tsunami Footage Video
  • Video: Joe Biden believes President Obama shou ...
    In this interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Of course, the tough-talking Biden was only a Senator when this interview took place and he was ...
  • Scientist: Japan nuke “accidents” are tectonic ...
    Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Al ...
  • The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya
    Looks like the PNAC, or Project for A New American Century, agenda of 1997 is rolling along as planned. Just as has been outlined by other think tanks, Illuminati writers and social programmers But a blind world reels on the defensive when they could have known what was coming all along. Not ...

Andy Worthington

  • After Wisconsin and the “We Are One&#822 ...
    On April 4, the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., over a thousand events — teach-ins, vigils, faith services and town hall meetings — took place across the United States, as part of a campaign, backed by unions, faith groups, civil and human rights activists, students a ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantánamo Pris ...
    In a show described as “Life in Prison without Trial,” I joined Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio on Monday for our 25th interview — the first since my recent health problems and a stay in hospital, the first since I gave up smoking, and the first I’ve ever done under the influence of morphine (for ...
  • Holder, Obama and the Cowardly Shame of Guantá ...
    Since May 2009, when President Obama first bowed to Republican pressure on national security issues, and abandoned a plan by White House Counsel Greg Craig to rehouse on the US mainland a couple of cleared prisoners at Guantánamo who were at risk of torture if repatriated, it has been apparent t ...
  • Voices from Bagram: Prisoners Speak in Their D ...
    This is the third article in “Bagram Week” here at Andy Worthington, with six articles in total exploring what is happening at the main US prison in Afghanistan through reports, analyses of review boards, and the voices of the prisoners themselves, and ongoing updates to the definitive annotated ...
  • Broken Justice at Bagram — for Afghans, ...
    So what’s happening at Bagram, the main US prison in Afghanistan, which has been wracked by scandals, including a number of murders, and allegations of torture and abuse and since it opened in December 2001? Unrecognizable since those early days, the prison at Bagram — once housed in a Soviet-er ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Justice Keeping Blanket of Secrecy Over MLK Pa ...
    The Justice Department is maintaining tight secrecy around its case against a 36-year-old white supremacist accused of planting a backpack bomb on the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade in Spokane, Wash. Kevin William Harpham, who has past ties to the neo-Nazi National Alliance a ...
  • The Screaming Hypocrisy of Congressman Peter King
    Yesterday, in the opening statement of his hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed that his political dog-and-pony show was not Islamophobic because “not one terror-related case in the last two years involved neo-Nazis” or other domestic groups. ...
  • Muslim-Basher Pam Geller, Fresh From Call for ...
    Pamela Geller, one of America’s most rabid Islamophobes and a woman who is scheduled to testify today to the Alaska House of Representatives, thinks people like her should be able to decide what news people like you get to see. And she doesn’t think you can handle news presented by Middle East-b ...
  • Steve Emerson, Backing King Hearings, Pushes M ...
    UPDATE: Steve Emerson, who is criticized in the post below, sent in a lengthy statement last night in response to a request for comment submitted by the writer earlier in the week. It can be found in the comments at the end of the story. The day before U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) convened th ...
  • Alaska Militia Leader Arrested in Plot to Kill ...
    The Anchorage Daily News is reporting this morning that five people in the Fairbanks area were arrested yesterday on charges connected with a plot to kidnap or kill state troopers and a Fairbanks judge. They are accused of conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping, and arson, as well as weapons mi ...

change: org.

  • Victory! iCarly Won't Make Fun of Hobos Anymore
    Nickelodeon is the most watched children's television network, reaching over 214 million homes in the US. So folks were understandably upset when they heard that iCarly, one of its popular programs, was making fun of 'hobos'. Not only did they feel the jokes were inappropriate, they also felt th ...
  • Victory! Justice Department to Investigate Mia ...
    How many people have Miami Police fatally shot since last July? Not one, or even two or three, but a shocking seven. Two of the victims were reportedly unarmed. All were African American, and all of the officers involved in the shootings are Hispanic. To say that these details have raised eyebro ...
  • Helft uns, den Wald von Chimki zu retten&#8212 ...
    Bitte unterzeichnen Sie die Petition in englischer Sprache. http://www.change.org/petitions/save-khimki-forest-stand-with-russias-human-rights-and-environmental-activists Hier ist die Übersetzung: (In English, please read this blog post and sign this petition). Einführung Der Kampf russischer J ...
  • Спасет&#10 ...
    Моля, подпишете петицията на английски език. Ето и превод. (In English, please read this blog post and sign this petition). Въведение Действайте днес за да спасим Химковския лес в Русия. Руски активисти и журналисти са подложени на побой, арести и заплахи по време на кампанията им за спасява ...
  • Акция п&#1 ...
    Пожалуйста, войдите ходатайство на английском языке. http://www.change.org/petitions/save-khimki-forest-stand-with-russias-human-rights-and-environmental-activists Вот перевод. (In English, please read this blog post and sign this petition). Введение. Российские активисты и журналисты пережили ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Officials Doubted Nuclear Safety Plans: Wat ...
    BOSTON - U.S. regulators privately have expressed doubts that some of the nation's nuclear power plants are prepared for a Fukushima-scale disaster, undercutting their public confidence since Japan's nuclear crisis began, documents released by an independent safety watchdog group show. ...
  • Study Finds Maine the Most ‘Peaceful’ State in ...
    BANGOR, Maine — While U.S. military forces continue to be engaged in conflicts abroad, a survey of the home front by an international think tank finds that U.S. states have become more peaceful since 1995.   read more
  • Maliki's Doubts Threaten Post-2011 Troop Prese ...
    President Barack Obama has given his approval to a Pentagon plan to station U.S. combat troops in Iraq beyond 2011, provided that Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki officially requests it, according to U.S. and Iraqi sources. But both U.S. and Iraqi officials acknowledge that Maliki may now be reluct ...
  • Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Mar ...
    American public support for the free market economy has dropped sharply in the past year, and is now lower than in China, according to a GlobeScan poll released today. The findings, drawn from 12,884 interviews across 25 countries, show that there has been a sharp fall in the number of Americans ...
  • America's Costliest War
    Author(s) Profile(s):� William Hartung Congress, the media, and the public are rightly asking whether America should be spending $1 billion or more on the intervention in Libya at a time of fiscal austerity. One member of Congress ha ...

Lifehacker

  • Drop Your Tiny But Brilliant Tweaks and Fixes ...
    Boosting Windows 7's bass levels. Creating better Spaces shortcuts on Macs. Decaffeinating tea on the fly. These are just some of the ideas and obsessions we've seen lately in #tips, the page where we invite everyone to drop off an idea or ...
  • Avoid Frequent Discharges to Extend Your Phone ...
    People spread a lot of information about smartphone and laptop batteries these days, but we get a lot of mixed messages, some of which are just incorrect. Here's how to take care of your battery for the best battery life possible. More ...
  • Ships Captain's Medical Guide Is an Emergency ...
    If you're camping, sailing, or otherwise distanced from medical attention, it's good to know what to do when somebody gets hurt or sick. A UK government guide, written for ships at sea, provides a great overview of first aid, injury treatm ...
  • Minimalist for Facebook Removes the Clutter fr ...
    Chrome: Facebook has gotten seriously cluttered over the years, and if you'd like to tone it down by removing, say, the Groups button, the Messages dropdown, or the ads, Minimalist for Facebook will let you tweak it to your liking. More ...
  • Make Notepad++ an Even Better Editing App with ...
    You don't have to go hunting to find plug-ins for the excellent, lightweight text editor Notepad++—there are a whole bunch already installed, and the others are in one big pack. There are, however, a lot of them. Here are some worth the fe ...

Water Privatization

  • Union of Water Employees Against Privatization ...
    By Ina Alleco R. Silverio Bulatlat.com While the public is continually bombarded with reminders to save water, Malacañang is pushing for the privatization of the water industry which, critics say, will lead to higher water rates. Rodrigo Aranjuez, Water System Employees Response (WATER) national ...
  • Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
    ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
  • University Lectures | Activist highlights impo ...
    The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...
  • Activist highlights importance of protecting c ...
    By: Breanne Van Nostrand The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...
  • Redding to push ahead with outsourcing
    Private firms may one day operate the city’s sewer and water treatment plants, manage its information technology and run its building and planning departments.

Guardian

  • 'They got me' – Tomlinson's last words after p ...
    'The fuckers got me' said newspaper seller as he collapsed after being knocked down by riot policeman, court hearsIan Tomlinson, the newspaper seller knocked down by a police officer at the G20 protests, muttered "the fuckers got me" moments before he died.The inquest into his death has already ...
  • Spain rejects risk from Portugal debt
    �� Spanish economy minister says there is no risk of contagion �� UK could contribute more than £3bn to help Portugal �� Jose Sócrates says: 'This is an especially grave moment for our country'Spain has insisted it will not become the next victim of the eurozone debt crisis after Portugal finall ...
  • French forces in Ivory Coast rescue
    Gbagbo fighters break into ambassador's residence near presidential compound in AbidjanFighting is continuing in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, as French helicopters target forces loyal to the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo, who is holed up in the country's presidential palace.French troo ...
  • Second man held over Kerr murder
    Suspect held in inquiry into murder of Northern Ireland policeman Ronan KerrPolice have confirmed they have arrested a man in Northern Ireland in connection with the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr.A spokesman said officers from the serious crime branch were questioning the 40-year-old man in Co ...
  • Ai Weiwei family call inquiry 'absurd'
    Chinese artist's relatives say allegations are an attempt to stifle activism amid wider government crackdown on dissidentsRelatives of the detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have denounced an official report that he is suspected of economic crimes as "absurd".The state news agency, Xinhua, publis ...

McClatchey

  • NATO jet bombs rebel tanks in Libya, killing a ...
    AJDABIYA, Libya — A NATO war plane Thursday bombed a group of rebel tanks outside the embattled town of Brega, hitting three directly and killing at least two and perhaps as many as six rebels, witnesses said, in the latest sign of tension between the rebels and the Western alliance now charged ...
  • Oil prices give Alaska $3.4 billion revenue su ...
    JUNEAU — Alaska is rolling in money from the high oil prices, with the revenue department on Wednesday projecting a state surplus of $3.4 billion.
  • Fund diversion from Texas veterans lottery pro ...
    Beginning in 2009, Texans could start buying scratch-off lottery tickets that did something unusual amid all the convenience store offerings -- support a specific program.
  • Haiti rebuilding funds aren't going to grassro ...
    It took the Valm� family 15 years and $500,000 from donations and recycling bottles to build a two-story yellow school building for youngsters in this rural outpost. But before the doors opened, the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake destroyed the school.
  • Small organizations left out of Haiti rebuildi ...
    SOURCE CAROSSOLE, Haiti — It took the Valmé family 15 years and $500,000 from donations and recycling bottles to build the two-story yellow school building to give youngsters in this rural outpost what many never had: an education. But before the doors opened, the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake destro ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
  • Bees: a sting in the tale
    � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
  • Green tuna goes FAD-free
    Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...
  • China and EU share climate vision
    China and the European Union are setting out plans for changing energy use and curbing carbon emissions within a space of a few days. As one of them is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases while the other would be third in the global list if its emissions were tallied as a single enti ...
  • Refining the sixth great extinction
    Are we living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth history? That we are is something you'll often hear asserted in conservation circles - and you'll easily find dozens of news articles taking the notion at face value. It's even acquired a posh name - the Holocene extinction.   In ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • NDP (and the other guys) Reject harpercon Budget
    HOOOORAY!!!! Fuck-head flaherty's clueless bromides budget has been rejected by all three opposition parties! Layton said he'd work with Paul Martin's minority government and he did, until Martin contemptuously rejected NDP demands to stop the privatization of health care. (You Liberal blogger ...
  • Liberal Bloggers Putting Party Before Country
    Going after NDP incumbents. Confusing voters in British Columbia, the Prairies, Quebec, etc., about who they need to vote for to defeat harper. I'll be voting NDP where I live. A safe Liberal riding. I won't be telling anybody not to vote Liberal though. I'll be trying to get harpercons to swit ...
  • Reply to Scotian
    Scotian left a long, detailed statement in the comments section of this post. I composed an equally lengthy reply, which was subsequently eaten by blogger and since Scotian deserves a reply and I don't have all the time in the world, I thought I'd make my second attempt my post for the day: I ju ...
  • "CONTEMPT" - One More Time For You Stupid, Whi ...
    "Wahhh!!! The contempt finding was unfair! Our prosecutors were our judges!!! Wahhh! It's a 'kangaroo court'! Wahhhhh!!!" Listen harpercons; try to wrap your shit-heads around this: Michael DeLayton: "And so, this Liberal-Democratic-Bloc-Party majority government is pleased to introduce this s ...
  • Federal Election Talk and War in Libya
    Some random thoughts for this morning: Obviously there has to be an election. I've long held to the idea that harper is unfit to govern due to his demonstrated contempt for our entire political system. He is by far the most undemocratic prime minister we've ever had. They're a disgrace, they're ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • White House actions pushing Saudi Arabia towar ...
    Saudi Arabia is reported to be so dissatisfied with the Obama administration over its dealings in Middle East affairs that it has sent high-ranking representatives to China and Russia to establish greater trade relations with them.
  • Nurse charged with sexually assaulting senior
    An employee at the Castleview Nursing Home in Toronto was arrested today after a female resident was sexually assaulted during the early morning hours.
  • Canadian PM only taking 5 questions per day, T ...
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't hold a lot of press conferences when Parliament is in session, but it seems he doesn't take a lot of questions even on the campaign trail during this year's federal election.
  • College Student Alliance launches itsyourvote.ca
    When it comes to voting many 18 to 24-year-olds don't flock to the polls due to voter apathy. In an effort to change turnout for the current Canadian election the College Student Alliance has launched itsyourvote.ca.
  • Gravity satellite depicts Earth as a planet sh ...
    Our planet actually looks like a big potato, at least according to European Space Agency's GOCE satellite that shows the uneven distribution of gravity on Earth. The geoid map will help us better understand our planet.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Winslow Wheeler on the F-35: News coverage
    Winslow Wheeler’s briefings on the planned F-35 purchase (sponsored by the Rideau Institute) led to an additional round of Canada-wide coverage of the controversial purchase, which is becoming one of the hot-button issues of the current election campaign. Key media coverage included: Meagan Fitz ...
  • We’re taking action on the F-35 today
    Today we are bringing one of the most respected critics of the F-35 stealth fighters directly from Washington to Ottawa.
  • Liberals release election platform
    The Liberal Party released its latest “Red Book”, its election platform document, on April 3rd (Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, 2011). The foreign and security policy elements of the document for the most part reaffirm the positions the Liberals took in the intern ...
  • Withdrawal issues: NATO countries on the futur ...
    According to “Withdrawal issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe,” a recently released report by peace advocacy group IKV Pax Christi, there is sufficient political will within NATO to end the deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Eur ...
  • Let’s Make the Stealth Fighters an Election Issue
    Yes, I can donate $25 to stop the stealth fighters Dear peace supporter, It’s been a pitched media battle with Harper’s Conservatives and his corporate defence lobby since I last wrote you. And as you will read below, it’s about billions of dollars in military sales, deceit, corporate and govern ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-6-11
    Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR [...]
  • Studies Show Coffee Drinkers Get Health Perks
    April 6th, 2011 AOL News By: Jane Healey Coffee lovers have a reason to celebrate. Recent studies have shown that rather than being harmful, coffee actually provides a variety of health benefits. In a study published last week in Stroke: the Journal of the American Heart Association, Swedish res ...
  • Eskimo Study Highlights Obesity and Disease Pr ...
    April 6th, 2011 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson High consumption of foods naturally rich in omega-3 fatty acids helps to reduce the risk of developing obesity-related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, says a new study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Even among ...
  • Ron Paul: The Fed Undermines Foreign Policy
    April 6th, 2011 InformationLiberation.com By: Ron Paul Last week I was both surprised and pleased when the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions requiring the Federal Reserve Bank to comply with requests for information made by Bloomberg under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). Bloomb ...
  • High Fructose Corn Syrup Increases Abdominal F ...
    April 6th, 2011 Natural News By: T.M. Hartle A new study from Princeton University found that significant weight gain occurred by merely adding high fructose corn syrup to the diet. Subjects in the test group gained 48% more weight than those who were not given any high fructose corn syrup. Comp ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Government says Aristide can come home
    Haiti's government has said it was ready to issue a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which would allow him to return after almost seven years in exile in South Africa. 'The government will give assurances that as soon as it re...
  • Cuba: Cuban organisation fights for release of ...
    Enrique Roman, first vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has underlined that the movement in solidarity with Cuba prioritises in 2011 the struggle for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist heroes incarc...
  • Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
    Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • The fight for Libya
    Gaddafi appeals to Obama to intervene in Libya Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the U.S.A. is a must, so that Nato would withdraw finally from the Libyan affair. Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame. (Mu’aumer Qaddaf ...
  • Intifada update
    As quiet returns, Syrians ponder the future Syria experienced its first day of political calm in over two weeks on April 3. The tsunami of protest and youth awakening that swept over Syria as part of the earthquake that hit the Arab world over two months ago has profoundly shaken Syrians. So ac ...
  • Moral power, not firepower, is what will ultim ...
    Jason Pack, a researcher on Libya at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, writes: t is nearly impossible to imagine that the revolutionaries can defeat Qaddafi by military force alone. Lacking an effective chain of command or training, they have not yet learned to employ guerrilla tactics, ...
  • ElBaradei: We’ll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza
    Ynet reports: Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that âif Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.” In an interview with the Al-Watan newspape ...
  • Last act in the Mideast
    Andrew Bacevich writes: Gaddafi’s fall (assuming it occurs) will close a chapter in Libyan history but won’t open a new chapter in the history of the Middle East. Libya is an outlier. It won’t be and can’t be a bellwether. Apart from enabling policymakers in Washington, London, and Paris to rec ...

Watts Up With That?

  • What’s delaying UC sea level data from b ...
    The University of Colorado at Boulder releases satellite based altimetry of sea level change several times a year. This graph below is dated December 15th according to the image timestamp. If the previous schedule is any indication, they are now … Continue reading →
  • The Nuclear Winter of our Discontent
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony recently discussed a recent paper called “The Role of Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions on the Stagnation of Global Warming in the Mid 20th Century”  (PDF, author’s version). It advances the claim that nuclear tests changed the … Continue reading →
  • Climate Change: Bigger health threat than AIDS ...
    UPDATE: Holy moly. Dr. Richard North over at the EU Referendum points to this, (screencap below) which makes Ric’s article (further below) look tame. Add this to what’s going on in the AMA, and it looks like a effort to … Continue reading →
  • Warming or Cooling? Heads or Tails?
    At left, Two Headed Quarter from Doublesidedcoins.com This article, originally published in the Wall Street Journal, is now republished here, with the author’s permission, using his website post. Mathematician Doug Keenan (in so many words) rhetorically asks the question: “Are … Continue reading →
  • Energy content, the heat is on: atmosphere -vs ...
    Jeff wrote to me with this article which visually illustrates his point quite well. Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has given his take on it here, saying: The post on The Air Vent is worth adding to the reasoning why we … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Stimulator: World on Fire
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator on Apr 6, 2011 http://submedia.tv/ This week: 1. Tsunagasaki 2. Green Party uber alles 3. VerMutants 4. The E.N.D. of the U.K. 5. Conspiracy Rap 6. Squaddafi World on Fire see Libya: Arms, Duplicity and Front Line Foetuses by Felicity Arbuthnot Lib ...
  • Class Warfarin: Antidote, Part IV by Joseph Natoli
    by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad April 7, 2011 In the end, this is a war first with ourselves. As long as we refuse to admit that we are not self-creating nor free to choose to be free to choose, this will be a war we cannot identify, a war without a label. And as long [...]
  • Libya: Arms, Duplicity and Front Line Foetuses ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 6 April, 2011 “The assessment is that we have taken out 30 percent of the military capacity of Gaddafi.” (Brigadier General Mark van Uhm, senior NATO staff officer, 5th April 2011.) On 29th March, freshly back from a good will tour of the Mi ...
  • Distractions and diversions By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info Crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation April 6, 2011 “This is pure hypocrisy and demagogy, they are already giving weapons to the rebels, and not only that: they are interfering in the struggle of the Libyan people,” he sa ...
  • Bernie Sanders: An Extraordinarily Unfair Budget
    Dandelion Salad SenatorSanders on Apr 6, 2011 Sen. Sanders, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the outrageous budget proposals from House Republicans. An Extraordinarily Unfair Budget see An All-American Retirement System: Building for the Future ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    C3PO : "I Must Have Some Booze! I Demand To Have Some Booze" If you're a fan of the movie WithNail & I, you'll love this. If you're a fan of Star Wars, but you've never heard of Withnail & I, you'll be confused, but laugh anyway. If you're a huge fan of both Star Wars and Withnail & I, well, y ...
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    You Know, This Street Smells Really Nice Since Those Quiet People With The Blacked Out Windows Moved In Cannabis farms in apartments and units are increasingly popular in crumbling economies like the UK's because the return on investment is so high, the legal implications (compared to, say, arm ...
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    Tens Of Millions Of Americans Are Now The Working Poor American families with both working mums & dads, living frugally, with the only American dream left being winning the lottery, are now finding it impossible to make ends meet : ...many of the jobs in retail, hospitality and home health car ...
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    How To Live To Be 125, Maybe According to a multi-billionaire who is aiming to live to be 125 years old, this is the diet of longevity : ...fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks ...
  • No title
    When Earthquakes Come In Swarms An animation of earthquakes in Japan, primarily off the east coast, between March 9 and 14 follows. One second of animation equals one hour of real time. There is a pause, seven hours or so of seismological silence through the morning of March 11, as though the ...

Wired - Science

  • Earth Gets Double Asteroid Flyby Wednesday
    Two small asteroids will zip past Earth at distances closer than the moon April 6. Newly discovered asteroid 2011 GW9 flew within 48,000 miles of Earth twice Wednesday morning at 12:53 a.m. EDT [04:53 UT], according to the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Small Body Database. A second space rock, 2011 GP28 ...
  • Unprecedented Arctic Ozone-Thinning Drifts South
    In mid-March, our online story about the thinning of stratospheric ozone over the Arctic noted that conditions appeared primed for regional ozone losses to post an all-time record. On April 5, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud announced that Arctic ozone had ind ...
  • Dinosaurs May Have Been Tormented by Lice
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Feathered dinosaurs may have been the first animals bedeviled by lice. That’s the finding of Illinois ornithologist Kevin Johnson, after tracing the evolutionary line of the critters back millions of years. Johnson and his team worked out a partial family tree of lice b ...
  • App Explores Movie Connections Like Scientists ...
    We live in an age of networks, with ever more appreciation for connections: Between proteins, people, ecosystems and economies, between just about any system made up of linked units. And as connection-mapping tools become more sophisticated, there’s a need for new ways of interacting with those ...
  • Sun Video Shows New Solar Cycle Is Far More Active
    Side-by-side views of the sun two years ago and the sun now show what a difference a solar cycle makes.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: Mer-Khamis and binational resistan ...
    Juliano was angry. His rage was the kind that only a Jew like him, who was born on the left and craved equality until the end, can allow himself to express as a way of life. Palestinians must conquer... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Kenneth Roth: Gaza – the stain remains on Isra ...
    Most important, Israel has failed to investigate adequately the policy-level decisions that apparently lie behind the large-scale indiscriminate and unlawful attacks in Gaza. Those decisions are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Ran Greenstein: Reflections on academic boycot ...
    The past few years have seen an increase in calls for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. This is part of a broader campaign to apply pressure on the Israeli state and its agencies. A recent... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Goldstone’s rethink
    Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article ... by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his UN-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Richard Silverstein: Goldstone’s tawdry turn, ...
    [Goldstone] writes that if he knew then what he knows now, the report would've been different. Note, he didn’t say the report would've vindicated Israel's conduct. That's the message the Hasbara... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Amazing Dog Rescue in Japan
    Rescuers in Japan have rescued a survivor of the earthquake and tsunami -- a dog stranded at sea for three weeks.
  • Ryder Falling Asleep
    Child Ryder and bulldog Rosco are simultaneously dozing off for a nap.
  • Kids and Social Media: Guidance for Parents
    If you are a parent who either doesn�t use or doesn�t understand social networking technologies, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) thinks that you should try to get a handle on it. More than half of teens connect to a social media site at least daily, and three-quarters have cell phones ...
  • Working Longer Hours Correlated to Higher Risk ...
    If you work 11 hours a day, you might earn more money, but you will increase your risk of developing heart disease by 67 percent or more, A new study has the researchers arguing that doctors should include data on a patient's working hours when listing risk factors for heart disease. The scient ...
  • 16 Things You Didn’t Know About Sleep
    Crazy Art Ideas, the website linked below, contains a number of facts about sleep you might not ever have heard of.� For example: Men dream about other men 70 percent of the time; women dream about men and women equally A quarter of married couples sleep in separate beds ...

fotoFrontera

Center for a Livable Future

  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
  • Making Health the Default
    A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...
  • How much meat do we eat, anyway?
    Reading the new federal dietary guidelines made me want to look into this question.  The guidelines, just released, say that Americans presently eat an average of 3.7 ounces daily of meat and poultry.  But, the figures I typically see are double that, or more.  So, why, in the brand-new guidelin ...
  • What’s Cookin’ in Your Soil Kitchen?
    What’s Cooking in your ‘Soil Kitchen’? There is probably lots cooking but you might not like all that’s on the menu. So if you are an urban agriculturalist in the mid-Atlantic (NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC) area scratching your head about all this talk of soil contamination, grab a soil sample ...

Norwegianity

  • Kloppenburg up, recount unavoidable
    The trouble with RSS feeds is that they don’t always update as quickly as you’d like. That and I didn’t check out the Great Orange Satan this morning which was a mistake because they’ve got the best Wisconsin election coverage of anyone. Currently David Nir puts Kloppenburg’s lead at 233 with th ...
  • Stink linking good
    Picking up where the last post left off: Dictator-loving scum Like mother, like daughter Don Blankenship revisited The gods themselves Paul Ryan’s budget: Milbank on the dogmatism, Harold Meyerson on the pain redistribution, and the Plum Line with more links $900 million for road work: Gov. Brid ...
  • Prosser holds slim lead
    Yeah, yeah, I know I’ve threatened to quit too many times to count, but I am taking a break if Prosser’s lead holds. It takes a lot of hard ons to win a special off year election, and Fox News was handing out partisan viagra like salt tablets at a marathon. There was almost nothing [...]
  • Money will tear us apart again
    Yes, blame Charlie Sheen for behaving like a CEO. In a nation run by narcissistic personality disorder cases, keep piling onto the actor. Sure, he’s been a jerk to his wives and girlfriends but the truth is we’re lucky that the truly powerful’s sex lives aren’t paraded in front of us as if reali ...
  • Fuck, it’s Monday
    I linked to the Koch scientist who believes in global warming yesterday, and now Paul Krugman has (much) more of the story: So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What’s the punch line? They were three of the five “expert witnesses” Re ...

Public News Service

  • New AZ Budget Ends Low-Income Child Care Help
    New AZ Budget Ends Low-Income Child Care Help Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s newly-enacted state budget eliminates child care assistance for all low-income working parents. More than 13-thousand children and seven-thousand parents will be affected. Comments from Bruce Liggett, director, Arizona Child ...
  • AZ’s National Forests to Get Management ...
    AZ’s National Forests to Get Management Makeover Phoenix, AZ – Planning procedures for the national forests are being updated for the first time in nearly 30 years. The new procedures will affect everything from logging and wildlife protection to recreation. A public forum is being held tomorrow ...
  • Commission Joins Call for New Mining Ban at Canyon
    Commission Joins Call for New Mining Ban at Canyon Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Commission is endorsing a proposal to withdraw some one-million acres near the Grand Canyon from mining for the next 20 years. Commissioners say they are concerned about the impact increased mining would h ...
  • Analysis: SRP Renewable Energy Plans Lagging O ...
    Analysis: SRP Renewable Energy Plans Lagging Other AZ Utilities Phoenix - Arizona's second-largest power producer is lagging behind utilities regulated by the state when it comes to adding renewable energy sources, according to a new analysis. Comments from Salt River Project customer Renee Guil ...
  • Navigators Help Cancer Patients Through the Sy ...
    Navigators Help Cancer Patients Through the System Phoenix, AZ – An growing strategy for assisting cancer patients holds out the promise of better outcomes and possibly lower costs. The "patient navigation" model is being used in hospitals nationwide, including several in Arizona. Comments fro ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
     Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will  join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
    The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    “Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...
  • Nature Happens – Humans Can’t Cont ...
    By Lisa J. Bunin, Liana Hoodes, Michael Sligh Last week, USDA announced its decision to allow the planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) GM alfalfa without any ongoing monitoring or regulation whatsoever.  Despite widespread consumer, farmer, and food industry opposition and contrary scientif ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Paul Craig Roberts: Our Time of Universal Dec ...
    Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell | FPJ: “Support the troops” originated in the public relations department of the military/security complex. What “support the troops” really means is to support the profits of the armaments industry and the neoconservative ideology of US world heg ...
  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western Concern For Sexual Assault in Libya By The AngryindianApril Fools Day, 2011 �Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.�-George Orwell In the capitalist wor ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
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  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

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  • Mobile Public Toilets
    Everyone needs to go to the toilet sooner or later... The topic becomes more unpleasant when it comes to temporary loos. In those mobile public toilets, chemicals like formaldehyde and tensides are used to stop the natural process of decay and prevent the smell. The use of these chemicals makes ...
  • Environmental News 01/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Nuclear Testing 1945-1998
    This video of all the nuclear explosions between 1945 and 1998 is oddly mesmerising... It starts slowly - with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to end World War 2. You would think that this would actually be the end - with so much destructi ...
  • Plastic bag or reusable bag?
    At the store, when the cashier asks "would you like a plastic bag (videos/the-plight-of-the-plastic-bag.html)?", what do you say? Do you say yes to new plastic bags?! If so, maybe it's time that you get yourself a reusable shopping bag or too and start helping to protect the environment! Ther ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...
  • Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
    Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...
  • Salem’s Music Center Team Visits Tel Aviv And ...
    Dear Friends, The last months saw the development of connections between the Music Center that opened about a year ago in the village of Salem, near Nablus, and several people from the well-stablished Alef High-School of Arts in Tel Aviv. Ram and Rutie, who are leading this initiative from th ...
  • How to lift the closure of Gaza in three easy ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway, what it would actually take to end just the closure of Gaza, although not the entire Occupation. Israelâs Deputy Foreign Minister said last week that the continued smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip threatens further implementation of the âeasingâ of the closur ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Your house is a shipping container and follows ...
    Just the thing for urban nomads. From the Evolo competition. Treehugger has more on this and other entries. Um, where’s the elevators?
  • College students invent carbon sequestering liquid
    Students in Michigan Technical University‘s Chemical Engineering Program have developed a cheaper substitute for conventional carbon capturing methods at power plants. Their proprietary liquid is capable of negating 50% of all CO2 emissions emitted by smokestacks, offering an economically viable ...
  • On Terry Jones wanting to put Mohammed on trial
    Steve Hynd, in a fine rant, says Terry Jones is trying to provoke violence in the Muslim world, and the US legal is too lame and too mired in 18th century constitutional fetishism to stop him. He blasts Andrew Exum, who happily says that US soldiers can die to defend the supposed free speech of ...
  • Utah refuses federal unemployment assistance
    Utah Republican Senate President Michael Waddoups has backed Utah’s decision to refuse federal unemployment assistance money, saying all those danged lazy unemployed people need be more “self-sufficient,” a decision the The Salt Lake City Tribune calls “cruel and stupid.” (The Central Utah Proje ...
  • Biofuel from farmland may kill 200,000 per yea ...
    From the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Increased production of biofuels increases the price of food worldwide by diverting crops and cropland from feeding people to feeding motor vehicles. Higher food prices, in turn, condemn more people to chronic hunger and “absolute poverty” ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – April 7
    1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country. 1798 – ...
  • World Wide Revolution, or New World Order Ensl ...
    I remember listening to a conversation when I was a child, maybe a little more than ten years old. It occurred between two young men that I held great respect for. These young men were highly intelligent, geniuses even, and I knew it. So did they. The discussion they were having revolved around ...
  • Bernie Sanders “Republicans Want To Dism ...
  • Dead NYPD Officer’s Body Snatched By New ...
  • China’s presence in PoK ‘increasin ...
    JAMMU: China’s presence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is “increasing steadily” and its troops are “actually present” along the Line-of-Control, a top Army commander said, adding the Chinese footprints are “too close for comfort” for India. “Chinese presence in Gilgit-Baltistan and the North ...

The Air Vent

  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale o ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rational of ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
  • Trouble with Thunderbird
    I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.   I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials.  The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...
  • Climate Blogger Censored by New York Times
    I’ve been thrown out of better.   It seems that my commentary was unwelcome at the New York Times.   Last night – at around 3 am – I left a comment in reply to Paul Krugman’s post on the bad people wanting to prosecute scientists.   Ironically, the post was centered on an issue of disclosu ...
  • Peanuts
    Recently there have been some posts on the internet which have had my attention.  First, is a series of posts by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit that have led to another vastly expanded version of hide the decline.   It turns out that Briffa’s data wasn’t only truncated in recent years but al ...

Focal Point

  • Fat as Class War in Arizona
    Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona's Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is proposing a $50 "fine" for overweight Medicaid patients who fail to slim down on doctors' orders: ...
  • Republicans: Putting the "Us" in "Uterus"
    Remember, ladies, there is no "I" in "uterus." The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP's war to control women's bodies. He has banned the mere discussion of generative lady parts on the House floor. A Democratic representative in Florida was rebuk ...
  • A Consulting Business in Indonesia...
    I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I bet he spent a little time in jail And what's that tune he's always whistl ...
  • Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State ...
    Florida's Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires for executive branch agencies. Scott recently transferred a controlling interest in his multi . ...
  • Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting
    @BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.� We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we're still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is. Hooray for traditional values! [Photo credit: teachingsagit ...

Inside Facebook

  • Following Problems with Profile to Business Pa ...
    Last week, Facebook released a tool allowing users who had created a personal profile for a business venture to convert that profile into a Page and change their friends into fans. However, some users didn’t fully understand the consequences of conversion while others had their profile deleted b ...
  • Facebook Promotes Group Buying Feature Deals W ...
    Facebook stepped up its marketing efforts recently for its new group-buying feature Deals. Users have seen home page ads asking them to invite their friends to subscribe to news feed and email notifications about Deals. Meanwhile, Page admins have received location-customized emails from Faceboo ...
  • Highlights This Week From the Inside Network J ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Spooky Cool Labs, Buffalo Studios, Acquinity Interactive, Ubi ...
  • The Facebook Like Button Placement Guide for W ...
    The following is an excerpt from the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, brand, or website using Facebook. The full version of this article, available through a Facebook Marketing Bible subscription, includes an explanation of which Like buttons have ...
  • Buddy Media Report on Facebook Page Posts: Sho ...
    Page management company Buddy Media has released a study based on 200 of its clients illustrating best practices for Facebook Pages looking to increase their fan base’s engagement — the volume of Likes and comments their posts receive. Key findings include: posts of 80 characters or less receive ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Goldstone's rethink: cleansing Israel's war crimes
    Jonathan Cook considers what judge Richard Goldstone may or may not have retracted from his original report on Israel's attack on Gaza in 2008, the validity of his apparent retractions and what may lay behind his rethink.
  • Judge Richard Goldstone alters his verdict
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the flawed logic and the tribal, personal and political pressures that may have led Richard Goldstone, the South African Jewish judge who authored the report of the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict, into altering his original verdict which suggested that Is ...
  • Judge Richard Goldstone's U-turn
    Gilad Atzmon argues that Judge Richard Goldstone's shunning of his own report into possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza is a "point of no return", signalling the need to "free our intellectual, spiritual and ethical life from any trace of Zionist ideology, from people who may have Zionist views o ...
  • UK-Israel mutual admiration provokes "technico ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the new depths into which the British government has sunk by hailing the UK's friendship with the rogue state of Israel - a nuclear-armed apartheid entity that commits crimes and flouts international law with impunity - and setting off the process to block the arrest ...
  • Florida pastor bigger threat to US security th ...
    Yvonne Ridley contrasts the failure of the US authorities to rein in the hate-mongering Pastor Terry Jones, whose incitement against Muslims has led to a killing spree in Afghanistan and put the lives of US servicemen in danger, with the instant actions taken by those authorities to silence crit ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...
  • BREAKING: Chevron Guilty of Amazon Rainforest ...
    Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network just announced a major victory for the Amazon rainforest. An Ecuadorean judge today found Chevron guilty of one of the largest environmental crimes in history and ordered the company to pay a whopping $8 billion to clean up its damage in the Amazon. Che ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen Nabs George Bush ...
    Fethullah Gulen’s Cosmos Foundation Hires Bush Karen Hughes & Here is Why! Here at Boiling Frogs Post we have been covering the infamous Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen, his $25 Billion network and CIA guardians, his more than 1000 Madrasas in the Balkans, Central Asia, Caucasus and elsewhere, his ...
  • A Warm Up Round Up: Back in Operation
    The Ever Growing List of Untouchable-Notorious-Infamous US War Profiteers, Libya-Groom & Plant Candidate,  My Relocation Journey & BFP Countdown Status After a month of being away and with so much happening on all the fronts of interest I am finding it hard to pick a starting point. First, I wan ...
  • Being Proud of What We Are Not
    A Few Notes on Boiling Frogs Post in Wrapping Up Our Countdown I think it is appropriate to revisit the purpose and some of the main characteristics of Boiling Frogs Post as we are getting ready to wrap up and finalize our countdown month. Usually, as we have done, organizations and various foru ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Countdown-Week 4 & Still Co ...
    Updates On Our Annual Fundraising & A Few Notes on my relocation Journey Let me start with a big personal âthank youâ to all of you who have generously donated to keep this site alive – before my other brief updates, and before I run out of my pre-purchased internet minutes. As you know I [...]
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Afro Spear

  • Cornel West on Aljazeera
  • Why I Appreciate the Black Blogosphere and the ...
          Because our voices are local and they are global. Black people are all over the world speaking truth to power in the way that matters to them! And just what are we talking about? And do we have a right to speak “our truths”? Well as I have gone through the black [...]
  • Les Twins — Hip Hop Dance Straight Outta ...
    At the beginning of the year, I was on Facebook when I noticed a post of young twin hip hop dancers. I was blown away by their talent as I watched the brothers Larry and Laurent start actually dancing. Fantastic doesn’t even begin to describe them! There are many dancers out there and most of [...]
  • Quote(s) of the Day
    via Lonnie Plaxico:   John Henrik Clarke “Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that… they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” Krishnamurti/Freedom from the Known, p.11: DISORDER :”The primary cause of disorder in ourselves i ...
  • Blackout of humanitarian crisis in Cote d&#821 ...
    In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring t ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Sen4Earth

  • Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
    Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • PRIVATIZATION Eisenhower Warned Us About
    When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address in 1960 he warned the citizenry and future Presidents about the military-industrial complex and their influence. This group has been controlling everything since the end of his term, he saw and knew what they did, and his warnings were not heed ...
  • Dennis Kucinich talks with David Gregory
    Dennis was interviewed by David Gregory and again raises the question as to why do we have no money for the people and always plenty to fight wars and kill people?
  • Republican Cuts Devastate interests to THE PEOPLE
    Congress needs to hear from all of us right away, because the only chance we have to stop this budget is if Senate Democrats stand united against it. And the first vote could come today.1 Can you call Sen. Nelson and tell him to stand strong against Republicans‘ massive, devastating cuts? Senato ...
  • Rally to Save the American Dream
    In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, a ...
  • RICK SCOTT MADE MILLIONS OFF HEALTH NOW CUTS I ...
    Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits. He's taking away a law that ends the worst insurance company abuses and frees families, senior ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
  • UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
    On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]
  • Interview With Bill McKibben, Winner of Puffin ...
    Climate reality writer and activist Gregory Vickrey. (L) ( Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Founder of 350.org, writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben. (R) (Photo: Nancie Battaglia / 350.org) Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, is the author of a dozen boo ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
    The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
  • LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
    Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
  • Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
    The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...
  • DocumentCloud Enables Public Searches, Embedda ...
    We quietly opened DocumentCloud's catalog to public searches in January, and we've been working since to do more with the great documents that reporters have added to our catalog. When Vancouver Sun investigative reporter Chad Skelton asked if there was a way to automate display of the growi ...
  • How Project Argo Members Communicate Across Ti ...
    Project Argo is an ambitious undertaking. It involves networking NPR with 12 member stations spanning three time zones with a different mix of bloggers and editors at each station. The stations cover a variety of regionally focused, nationally resonant topics that range from climate change to lo ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Terrorism - The Truth Left Behind: ...
    Two months after Omar Sheikh and his cohorts were apprehended, the Pakistani judicial system was putting into place all the pieces necessary to try the four men in a court of law. But what followed turned out to be less about meting out justice and more about putting a quick end to this embarras ...
  • The Race for Nuclear - From Chernobyl to Fukus ...
    Soldiers long ago shot the dogs and cats. Today, the only sound on Lenin Avenue is a chill wind blowing dead leaves. In the summer, thick vegetation obscures six-story apartment blocks, once homes for the city’s 50,000 residents. Once a model Soviet community built for Chernobyl’s nuclear power ...
  • Religious Tolerance - The Duplicty of Great Br ...
    British Jews who primarily interact with fellow Jews in their daily lives, and thus remain largely insulated from direct anti-Semitic confrontations, frequently underrate the impact of the relentless demonization of Israel on their standing in society. Others, who insist that the anti-Israeli on ...
  • The Race for Batteries - Global Revenues for P ...
    Global revenues for UPS sales pass $7 billion Data from market analyst, IMS Research, shows the global market for Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS) grew twice as fast in the second half of 2010 compared with the first half of that year. The growth helped to push the total annual value past $7 ...
  • Inside the Mideast - As Arab World Revolts, Pa ...
    While Arabs throughout the Middle East engage in a largely nonviolent effort to overthrow the dictatorial regimes that have enslaved them for decades, the Palestinians have watched helplessly as their plight has fallen off the media’s radar. The longstanding claim that the “Palestinian question” ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Counterrevolution 101
    By Dave Fryett The wretched of the Earth have seen what is possible. Power has been shown to be powerless in the face of determined mass opposition. And in every corner of our world the immiserated rejoice, because they know the day of liberation draws near
  • No One Curious What CIA Is Working On At The ...
    By Jay Janson What does the CIA have in store for Egypt? What chores will it assign its agents both American and Egyptian? American socialists and progressives are overly cooperative with mainstream media and Congress in hardly ever asking after our secret CIA shadow government
  • Lessons Learned In The Streets Of Cairo
    By William A. CookIf the streets of Cairo have taught us anything, they have demonstrated that vigilance against those who would control out of arrogance, oppress with indifference, deceive with impunity, and humiliate without feeling, have abandoned all natural sympathies and become , in fact ...
  • What Is True Sustainability?
    By Matthew SteinIf we are to develop an effective plan and roadmap for creating a sustainable world, we must first have a clear idea of what it truly means to be sustainable
  • Egypts Army Dissolves Parliament
    By Al Jazeera Military rulers say they will remain in charge for six months until elections are held as some protesters vow to remain

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...

Yid With Lid

  • In The Mid East Ally "Game" The Islamists Are ...
    By Barry Rubin Events in the Middle East have moved so quickly that one almost needs a daily scorecard to keep up. This article will try to give a basic picture of what has, and hasn�t, changed. Have Iran and revolutionary Islamists gained in recent months? Yes, since�Islamism is ...
  • Bohner To Obama "Check...It's Your Move."
    In a bold move, Speaker of the House John� Boehner will introduce one more stopgap spending bill tomorrow.� The Bill will seek to put off the the closing of the government seven more days while cutting another $12 billion from the budget. President Obama rejected the prospect of anoth ...
  • Saudis VERY Unhappy With Obama...Expanding Fri ...
    The summer before the election Obama took a European tour where the heads of State fawned over the future President. The future President promised that was that he was going to "repair" our relationship with Europe "damaged" after eight years of that "cowboy" George "W" Bush. In German ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Beck Quits Daily Fox TV Show
    What do you know, those rumors are true, Glenn Beck is pulling the plug on his popular daily show for Fox News. A press release issued right after his radio show by his production company, Mercury Radio Arts, Beck announced that he will "transition" away from his Daily Fox News show later this y ...
  • Obama No Longer Votes Present, He Skips Town A ...
    During the election of 2008, many pundits pointed to Obama's nasty habit of abstaining from key votes in the Illinois State Senate, sadly during much of his Presidency so far, he has tried to do the same thing, voting present instead of being the leader the country needs. Lately though, it seem ...

The Real Agenda

  • Portugal pide rescate
    Terra Noticias Abril 6, 2011 El primer ministro dimisionario luso, el socialista José Sócrates, ha confirmado que Portugal ha decidido pedir ayuda financiera a la Unión Europea, después de que, horas antes, el ministro Finanzas, Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, anunciase este cambio de postura del ...
  • Pesquisadores afirmam ter isolado sinal químic ...
    BBC Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Abril 5, 2011 A substância química que convoca as células-tronco da medula óssea para o local de uma ferida, foi descoberto por cientistas no Reino Unido e Japão. O estudo, publicado na revista Proceedings, da Academia Nacional de Ciências, identificou o sin ...
  • Índia proíbe importações de alimentos do Japão
    A Agência Ambiental Americana (EPA), aumentou os níveis de exposição à radiação para fazer com que a nova radiação pareca segura. 2,4 milhões de galões de liquido radiativo esta sendo despejado diretamente no oceano. Reuters Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Abril 5, 2011 A Índia impôs uma proibição de ...
  • Desafio 9/11: Treze Perguntas sem resposta
    The Real Agenda Abril 6, 2011 Explicações científicas e militares são necessárias para o seguinte: 1) Dezenove (19) homens das cavernas com facas sequestraram quatro aviões em 9/11 e bateram três deles em Nova York e Washington sem ter nenhum estudo de aviação civil. 2) Um edifício de 47 andares ...
  • Tribunal Federal Suíço: Google “Street View” V ...
    Terra.es Adaptação Luis R. Miranda Abril 6, 2011 O Tribunal Administrativo Federal suíço decidiu que o Google Street View, um aplicativo de mapas de rua, viola a proteção de dados local. O Tribunal também determinou que a empresa deve pedir permissão antes de postar as imagens na internet ou ent ...

Wind Watch

  • Rare sea eagle killed by wind turbine
    A white-tailed sea eagle introduced to the Killarney National Park from Norway three years ago has been killed after colliding with a wind turbine near Kilgarvan, an area designated as suitable for wind farms in the Kerry county development plan. Although such collisions are common in Europe and ...
  • Ill winds are blowing
    Thirteen landholders in the Crookwell district are in shock after receiving letters from a wind farm developer giving them three months to sell out or live in the shadow of 73 giant wind turbines. The situation flows from a Land and Environment Court decision late last year giving the developer, ...
  • Eddington residents enact strict wind ordinance
    EDDINGTON, Maine � Residents in town discussed the wind energy facilities ordinance for about 20 minutes, with people speaking passionately for and against the 35-page draft that is one of the strictest in the state, and then residents resoundingly endorsed the measure. �We should be looking at ...
  • Residents sue town over municipal wind turbine
    FALMOUTH â Neighbors of the controversial municipal wind turbine off Blacksmith Shop Road are suing the town. Six West Falmouth residents filed the lawsuit Monday in Barnstable Superior Court. In the suit, they ask a judge to reverse a vote last month by the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals, whi ...
  • Wind farm opponents rally; Backdraft from prop ...
    COLEBROOK � Residents and some neighbors from Winsted and Norfolk stood up overwhelmingly in opposition to plans to build six wind turbines here during the first of two hearings on Tuesday. Residents who spoke before the Connecticut Siting Council at Northwestern Regional High School in Winsted ...

Not My Tribe

  • Congratulations, Military Families, on your ne ...
    From Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and Antiwar.com writer Tom Engelhardt for pointing this out, your new Chief Psychologist who will be taking care of the spiritual and emotional needs and problems of your families, is the Former Chief Torturer at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Yes, a Sick, Sadistic perve ...
  • Shit I learned in school
    …because, really, I DO believe there’s a deliberate sabotage of Public Education being done simply by handing a “liberal” program over to be administered by “conservatives”. In 7th grade in Texas you’re taught Texas History. Some of it would be almost unrecognizable from a Yankee point of view. ...
  • Frank Bator and Princess Lisa Czeladtko
    I went to his memorial service at Marian House 6 years ago. He had died in his trailer home, alone, and the body not discovered for about a week. There were a few people attending, some of the staff at Marion House, a couple of people who knew him casually, his sister and brother… A [...]
  • GE, Corporate Govt Contractor Profiteer, prese ...
    …with a tax bill. for a 3.2 BILLION dollar refund. This after record profits from  offshored jobs and the tax breaks from doing that hiring a bunch of new people where even those HERE won’t get full pay and benefits demanding that Unions give up pay and benefits and last, but certainly not least ...
  • Buddy Gilmore, Babykilling Warmonger for Mayor?
    The Cowardly Babykilling Puke is running on the strength of being a War Profiteer, at one stroke being part of cause of the economic Meltdown of America, crippling our economy for generations to come, and soiling his hands and America’s with the blood of Human Beings in the For Profit Wars Of Co ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The Debunking the Debunkers Exploding Paint Ar ...
    It's been two years now since the publishing of the Active Thermitic Material ... paper, and over the last two years the debunkers have gone to great lengths to deny this forensic proof of demolition. We at Debunking the Debunkers have been following the thermite denialists closely, and have w ...
  • You're Either in Sheen's Korner or You're With ...
    My new t-shirt I found at Hot Topic. :) Related Info: The Sheen comments that matter Charlie Sheen and Some Facts About 9/11 for President Obama to "Deal With" Scootle's "Twenty Minutes With The President" Contest Entry Debunking dsglop's ridiculous answers to Charlie Sheen's 20 points to O ...
  • Proof That Leslie Robertson Saw Molten Steel a ...
    Sites like 911Myths.com and others have claimed that Leslie Robertson, one of the original WTC structural engineers, never saw molten steel at Ground Zero. However, a video clip recently released from the IC911Studies which shows a presentation given by Robertson at Stanford University shows oth ...
  • Debunking the Only Bad Review of "The Mysterio ...
    I've just recently finished David Ray Griffin's nearly impeccable book "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7," which I received as a gift for my birthday last month and was looking at the reviews at Amazon.com. As of this writing, there are 23 five star reviews and just a single lonel ...
  • Magic, Mythology or Science?
    James B. over at Screwloosechange recently commented on the debate between Richard Gage and Chris Mohr. James apparently thinks that Gage is contradicting himself by saying that explosives took down WTC7 but that thermite is an incendiary and makes no explosive sounds. From this, James concludes ...

Fooducate

  • The Truth About Carbohydrates
    This is a guest blog post by Shoshi Domb. The sun is shining, the snow is melting, and summer is right around the corner. As summer arrives, so does diet season. Since there are so many diets on the market it is sometimes hard to choose a sensible one. Regardless of the diet that you [...]
  • 10 Things to Know About Rennet [It's in your c ...
    We recently received an interesting inquiry from a Fooducate community member: I just learned what “rennet” is (an enzyme used to make most cheeses and which is usually derived from the lining of calves stomachs).  You can imagine what an unwelcome surprise this might be to some people. For exa ...
  • Juicer or Blender?
    Is it us or has there been lots of buzz recently around juicing? What’s the big deal? Are juicers that much better than blenders? And how is nutrition affected? What you need to know: Most people are familiar with the standard multi-speed blender used at home to create smoothies. Blenders simply ...
  • Why are Movie Theaters Exempt from National Ca ...
    Seems like the FDA had a busy week. Just after the travesty of de-facto approval of artificial food dyes as safe, the FDA released on Friday afternoon its proposed rules for calorie labeling in food establishments. As Marion Nestle writes: Federal agencies love releasing potentially controversia ...
  • FDA Panel Votes 8-6 In Favor of Artificial Dyes
    Oh dear, we had our hopes up so high earlier this week. An advisory panel to the FDA convened for 2 days to review studies linking artificial food colorings with hyperactivity in children. Unfortunately, the panel concluded that there is no clear indication that artificial food dyes cause hypera ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Inter-American Commission orders Brazil govern ...
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Telma Monteiro/ Survival The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered the Brazilian government to suspend construction of the Belo Monte dam until the rights of the thousands of indigenous people in the area are respected. The B ...
  • World Health Day: Uncontacted tribes at risk o ...
    The Nukak have been decimated by diseases since contact © Gustavo Pollitis/Survival Survival has warned on the eve of World Health Day (April 7) that uncontacted tribes face massive population loss if their land is not protected. Tribes like the Amazon Indians shown in the incredible aeri ...
  • Ecuador’s government under Indian attack
    Crossed spears found on a path in northern Peru, in the region where oil company Perenco is working. Crossed spears are a common sign used by uncontacted Indians to warn outsiders to stay away. © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization has launched an unprecedented ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...
  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle roofing felt?
    We’ve had an email from Daniel: Can I recycle roofing felt? I have a lot of small pieces to get rid of. I’ve not heard of it being recyclable and looking into it, it seems unlikely because it’s several hard/impossible to recycle materials all squished together. The better option would be to use ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle excess sterilising ...
    We’ve covered a wide range of things during our cleaning themed week here on Recycle This – bleach bottles, plug-in air fresheners, making dishcloth & pot scrubbers, and yesterday’s very interesting discussion on reducing plastic waste from cleaning – so I feel it’s fine for me to go off on a bi ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle pretty glass spice ...
    We’ve had an email from Dianne: I found a box full of used glass spice jars at a car boot sale recently and had bought it before I knew it. They’re those narrow round ones with plastic lids. I’ve refilled some of the herbs and spices to make my kitchen look neater but still have [...]
  • Plastic bottle creations, recycled robot plant ...
    Every now and then I realise I’ve had some great ideas & links sent to my email but not shared them with you yet – this is one of those times! First up, Vernon got into touch to tell us about his plastic bottle creations. He says he’s been making them for 15 years and [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle hair straighters/fl ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Nicole has said: I’ve had two straighteners/flat irons (to straighten hair) die on me. Is there a way to recycle these other than tossing them? As a minimum, they should be collected for electronic/electric waste recycling – either at your local tip/”household w ...

Age of Autism

  • Kitty Genovese and the Alternate Universe, Part 2
    By Adriana Gamondes We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer What I mostly learned from advocacy for domestic violence survivors...
  • AZ Boy With Autism Alerts Family To Fire: Runs ...
    We report this story as part of our "nightmares" category. As much as we all celebrate our children and their every success, the reality is that autism is a handicap, a life threatening handicap for many of our loved ones....
  • Tell Judge No Accelerated Rehab for Evelyn Guz ...
    By Kim Stagliano Evelyn Guzman of Bridgeport, CT was arrested and charged with Risk of Injury to A child and Reckless Endangerment for sending and receiving over 1000 texts while driving the special ed bus in Trumbull, CT. Age of...
  • April and Autism: Ready? Set? Action!
    By Cathy Jameson We’ve rounded the corner of another month-long Autism Awareness campaign. I wrote about how we as a nation need more than just promote autism awareness in this piece a year ago (HERE). Awareness is good. It’s fine...
  • Read A Thin Place A Novel by Jack Peterson and ...
    A Thin Place A novel by Jack Peterson Purchase this fascinating novel, that tells a story you are all familiar with, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit SafeMinds. Click here to purchase. While witnessing unprecedented increases in autism...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • ‘US directly linked to Yemen killings’
    PressTV – âThere is a direct link between US aid to Yemen and the killings of hundreds of demonstrators,â Ali al-Ahmed told Press TV.  Ahmed, referring to the arming of Yemeni regime by the US and the presence of the American forces in the country under the pretext of fighting terrorism, argued ...
  • Three dead, many injured in two blasts in cent ...
    BNO - Two explosions on Tuesday killed three people and left many injured in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported on Wednesday. Two improvised explosive devices (IED) exploded on Tuesday night in northwestern Baghdad. The terror attacks took place near the Sayid Mohamm ...
  • Britain orders 1,000 Thales LMM missiles
    UPI - In a bid to arm its incoming AgustaWestland Lynx Wildcat helicopters, Britain has become the first customer for a new multi-role missile developed by Thales UK. Thales plans to deliver the first of 1,000 Lightweight Multi-role Missiles to the British armed forces in 2013. Unveiled in 2008, ...
  • French helicopter hits Gbagbo forces in Ivory ...
    Reuters – French forces destroyed military vehicles belonging to troops loyal to Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo during a helicopter-borne mission that rescued Japan’s ambassador to the West African country on Thursday. The French, who have already joined helicopter raids to destroy Gbagbo’s heavy ...
  • Libyan rebels near Ajdabiya ‘killed in N ...
    Rebels in eastern Libya say their forces have been mistakenly hit in a Nato air raid. Doctors in Ajdabiya told the BBC 13 rebel fighters had been killed by the strike on a rebel tank position. The BBC’s Wyre Davies reports chaotic scenes on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, with rebel forces in retreat ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Nuclear energy, catastrophe preparation and ge ...
    The U.S. must shore up its backup power infrastructure to avoid the electricity shortages that roiled Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami, a key federal energy official said Tuesday. “We take electricity for granted in a lot of ways,”...
  • Solar panel manufacturing and disposal -- is i ...
    Major solar companies aren’t just prioritizing market share and installed megawatts these days, according to a study contending that the environmental and health effects of photovoltaic panels are also becoming a major consideration. In its most recent Solar Scorecard, the...
  • Molycorp to expand rare earth operation to Europe
    Molycorp Inc., which owns the only rare earth mine in the U.S., plans to double its processing capacity by buying a European plant. The Colorado-based company said Monday that it was buying 90% of Estonia-based AS Silmet for $89 million...
  • Solar panels power Central Valley pistachio farm
    Alongside the sprawling grove of pistachio trees at Nichols Farms near Fresno, a 6-acre solar-panel installation is now up and running. The 1-megawatt concentrating photovoltaic project, built by Bechtel Power Corp. and featuring SolFocus technology, is being called the first...
  • Rare earths bill attempts to boost U.S. share ...
    Congress may soon ask the U.S. to ramp up its efforts to snag a larger share of the critical global rare earths supply chain. Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would direct...

water.org

  • Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
    Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
  • Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
    Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
  • Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
    Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
  • Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
    Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...
  • Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift (The Hindu)
    Gramalaya’s World Water Day gift: technology park (The Hindu) TIRUCHI, India – A water technology park, established by Gramalaya, a voluntary organisation at its Institute of Water and Sanitation at Kolakudipatti near here, was declared open on Tuesday on the occasion of World Water Day. [Gramal ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • 10 Landmark Court Cases in Womens Rights
    On Tuesday March 29th, discussions began in the class-action lawsuit disputing the workplace policies of Wal-Mart, marking the start to what could be the largest Supreme Court case concerning women�s rights in decades. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • India's Literacy Rate rises to 74.04%
    In a significant development, India's literacy rate rose by 9.21% to reach 74.04% in 2011 as compared to 64.83% in 2001. The women in India scored a point over the men when it came to literacy. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Migraine heart link in children
    Children who see flashing lights during a migraine have twice the normal likelihood of having a hole-in-the-heart, a study suggests.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Court hears argument in Wal-Mart sex bias claim
    The justices suggested that they are troubled by lower court decisions allowing the class-action lawsuit to proceed against the world's largest retailerSubmitted by EarthSpirit Angel to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Imagine if…
    After being convicted of these crimes, Struck requested a lenient sentence from the judge because the man who kidnapped, beat and tortured a 15-year-old Palestinian claimed to be a �law-abiding citizen with no prior convictions.�Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Kyocera Installs 1MW of Solar Modules in Japan ...
    One of the largest photovoltaic installations for a commercial facility in Japan
  • Traditional Forms of Anti-Semitism Continue to ...
    Ms. Rosenthal stated that the world still faced ongoing hostile acts such as the defacing of property, desecration of cemeteries, and even accusations of blood libel, now morphing into accusation that Jews are kidnapping or killing children to steal
  • Ban: Desecration of Koran Contradicts UN Effor ...
    In a meeting with a group of ambassadors representing Member States of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to the UN, Mr. Ban condemned the incident in the state of Florida and said such actions cannot be condoned by any religion.
  • Slash Military Spending, Not Medicare
    Winograd Charges 'Trillion Dollar' Military Budget to Blame; CA (36) Special Election Candidate Denounces Republican Attacks on Medicare and Medicaid Programs
  • Armed Men Ambush UN Mission Patrol in Darfur
    The ambush killed one peacekeepers serving with the joint United Nations-African Union mission after being abducted by armed men following a firefight in the north of the war-wracked Sudanese region.

Worldnews

  • Cricket diplomacy part of Mammohan Singh' ...
    Union minister of state for external affairs Preneet Kaur today said that 'Cricket Diplomacy' was part of an agenda set by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to build confidence between India and Pakistan. "We...
  • Spam, spam, spam: Twitter's arms race
    Del Harvey's 'Trust and Safety' team is tasked with stopping spam on Twitter. Is she fighting a losing battle? Dealing with Twitter spam occupies seven people full-time, plus the services of two engineers. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Biz Stone and Ev Williams discovered pretty qu ...
  • Heidi Montag signs new reality TV deal
    HEAVILY-surgically enhanced Heidi Montag, who rose to fame after having 10 cosmetic operations in one day, has a new TV reality show. The 24-year-old Montag, who...
  • PEP URGES BARCA CAUTION
    Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has warned "this isn't over" despite seeing his side build a 5-1 first leg lead in their Champions League quarter-final tie against Shakhtar Donetsk. Andres Iniesta, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Seydou Keita and Xavi were the goalscorers for Barca while Shakhtar's ...
  • Women should stick together - Reese
    Reese Witherspoon thinks actresses aren’t supportive enough of one another. The ‘Water for Elephants’ star – who recently married Hollywood agent Jim Toth - can’t understand why women have to be so competitive and hates the way people are judged on the way they look. She said: “When...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • US Officials Doubted Nuclear Safety Plans: Wat ...
    BOSTON - U.S. regulators privately have expressed doubts that some of the nation's nuclear power plants are prepared for a Fukushima-scale disaster, undercutting their public confidence since Japan's nuclear crisis began, documents released by an independent safety watchdog group show. ...
  • Study Finds Maine the Most ‘Peaceful’ State in ...
    BANGOR, Maine — While U.S. military forces continue to be engaged in conflicts abroad, a survey of the home front by an international think tank finds that U.S. states have become more peaceful since 1995.   read more
  • Maliki's Doubts Threaten Post-2011 Troop Prese ...
    President Barack Obama has given his approval to a Pentagon plan to station U.S. combat troops in Iraq beyond 2011, provided that Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki officially requests it, according to U.S. and Iraqi sources. But both U.S. and Iraqi officials acknowledge that Maliki may now be reluct ...
  • Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Mar ...
    American public support for the free market economy has dropped sharply in the past year, and is now lower than in China, according to a GlobeScan poll released today. The findings, drawn from 12,884 interviews across 25 countries, show that there has been a sharp fall in the number of Americans ...
  • America's Costliest War
    Author(s) Profile(s):� William Hartung Congress, the media, and the public are rightly asking whether America should be spending $1 billion or more on the intervention in Libya at a time of fiscal austerity. One member of Congress ha ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Flex-Fuel Competition for OPEC?
    An op-ed in this morning's Wall St. Journal by former CIA Director James Woolsey makes an interesting and seemingly pragmatic suggestion for improving America's energy security.
  • Cleantech Investment Reaches Record High in 20 ...
    The first financial quarter of 2011 closed last week, and the early numbers suggest it was a record quarter for cleantech investment.
  • Interview: Siemens CTO on Building Energy-Effi ...
    At Hanover Fair I met Dr. Michael Weinhold, chief technology officer of Siemens Energy. Here are his thoughts on how to make cities more energy-efficient.
  • NRC Threat Assessment of Fukushima Risks
    The New York Times reports today that a March 26 threat assessment by the Reactor Safety Team of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) warns that the crippled nuclear plant faces fresh threats that could persist indefinitely.
  • Toyota: U.S. Prius Sales Hit One MIllion
    Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., today announced the one-millionth sale of the Toyota Prius, the world's first mass-produced hybrid gas-electric vehicle, in the United States.

Green House - USA Today

  • IKEA to develop green product scorecard
    Ikea, the global home furnishings retailer, is developing an internal scorecard of its products this year to promote the use of sustainable and recyclable materials.
  • Rolling Stones' Leavell: Mother Nature Network ...
    Chuck Leavell, a renowned keyboardist, has spent decades touring the world with the Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers, George Harrison, Eric Clapton— you name it. But as if that's not interesting enough, he also co-founded Mother Nature Network, which has expanded quickly.
  • Gallup: Most Americans say U.S. nuclear power ...
    Amid Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis, 58% of Americans think U.S. nuclear power plants are safe but remain split over the need for more plants, a Gallup poll Monday shows.
  • Senate chief: Budget deal won't stop EPA's cli ...
    The Senate's Democratic leader said Friday that a U.S. budget deal, which President Obama said is "close," won't contain a GOP measure to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
  • USDA unveils 60 products with new bio-based label
    Five dozen products, including hand soaps and engine oils, will soon be sold with a new "BioPreferred" label to show they contain agricultural ingredients, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday.

Prior Art

  • Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Myriad Case
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  • Cloudy Copyright Forecast for New Amazon Music ...
    By Andrew Goldberg Amazon's push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new "music locker" service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant's new cloud-based music...
  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recus ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been s ...

Peoples Voice

  • Increasing Fukushima Radiation Dangers
    by Stephen Lendman Daily reports on efforts to contain Fukushima's disaster remain worrisome. On April 5, New York Times writers Andrew Pollack and Kevin Drew headlined, "Plant Operator Measures Higher Radiation in Sea," saying: "(C)ompany officials said that seawater collected near the ...
  • Richard Goldstone's Fall from Grace
    by Stephen Lendman The line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafor explains, saying: "Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream." Goldstone's shameless reversal exposes the true man, a Judas, not what most people believed. Why is at issue? More on that below. Two ...
  • "WHITE CITY" IN AFGHANISTAN BLACK HEART IN FLORIDA
    By: Kathleen Kirwin Kabul, Afghanistan As Pastor Terry Jones revels in his victory against Islam while he basks in the Florida sun thousands of miles away savoring both limelight and vindication, the city of Kabul, from where I write, and the rest of Afghanistan has been declared "White City " ...
  • Despicable Lies, Delusional Recovery
    Joel S. Hirschhorn The US government lies. Sure looks like most Americans gobble up false and misleading information that is nothing less than political propaganda. Take the highly hyped unemployment number for March, 2011 of 8.8 percent that moved like a tornado through the media and was pra ...
  • Remember Libya: One of History's Terror Bombin ...
    by Stephen Lendman Like Cast Lead against Gaza, Odyssey Dawn is criminal imperial war, willfully attacking non-combatants and civilian targets, including vital infrastructure, hospitals, non-military airports and buildings, ports, power generating facilities, and other sites unrelated to mil ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Making It Count: CCPA's federal election blog
    The CCPA has launched a federal election blog to bring you expert analysis on the issues that will—or should—define the election. Making It Count features timely commentary from CCPA staff and research associates, who will be weighing in everything from the economy and federal finances to the ...
  • Will the middle class have to learn to do with ...
    That's the question journalist and author Linda McQuaig addresses in her column about greed, the assault on middle class dreams, and the "looming conflict" between Canada's elite and the "aspirations of millions of Canadians". Read the column here.
  • Living Wage 2011: how much does a family need ...
    CCPA-BC has just published Working for a Living Wage 2011, which shows that the living wage for Vancouver in 2011 is $18.81 an hour, up from $18.17 last year, and far higher than the $10.25 minimum wage planned for next year. A living wage enables families to pay for necessities, support the h ...
  • So you think you can budget
    From corporate tax cuts to seniors benefits, everyone on Parliament Hill seems to think they know what should be in the budget. But can you do better? What if you were finance minister for a day, what would be in your budget? We've developed an interactive budget tool based on our Alternative F ...
  • Canada's military spending higher now than any ...
    A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the end of the Second World War, thanks to twelve years of budget increases. Canada is the 13th largest military spender in the world and the 6th largest within the 26-member NATO alliance. The study points o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Beck’s Leaving Fox News
    Beck Out At Fox. What It Means. | Firedoglake Today Fox and Glenn Beck’s production company said that Beck, “will be transitioning off his daily Fox News program.” I’m very happy to hear this (don’t let Bones see me smiling). Beck and Fox are trying to spin this as some kind of “moving on to [...]
  • Hippie Parties Have Cops Worried
    Hippie parties worrying cops | The West Australian Police are concerned about an increase in dangerous “hippie” parties in bush where revellers aged from their teens into their 50s binge on drugs. Boddington officer in charge Sgt Mick Sears said a bush party in Bannister at the weekend at which ...
  • National security: When secrecy is a weapon
    By Jameel Jaffer OP-ED | LA Times - U.S. officials hurt our democracy by withholding information from the courts but then disclosing it to the public whenever it suits their needs. In a recent interview with Newsweek magazine, former CIA lawyer John Rizzo spoke with surprising candor about the C ...
  • Maine Governor Paul LePage Has To Pay For Mura ...
    Department Of Labor steps into battle over Maine mural | Politico The U.S. Department of Labor wants its money back if Maine Gov. Paul LePage won’t return the mural it funded to the state’s Labor Department headquarters. The federal government provided part of a $60,000 grant to pay for the crea ...
  • Have You Been Scrubbed Lately?
    WWH – When it was suggested I write an article on scrubbing the internet, I replied, âWhat the fuck is that?â The answer was, âGoogle it!â So I did. Up came so many sites about âScrubbing the Internet,â I felt as if I had been held captive in a dark room this whole time, solitary [...]

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
  • The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
    According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...
  • Cairo in Wisconsin
    The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. An ...

Salon

  • Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster
    Except for weight loss potions, no area of American life is more prone to fads, panaceas and miracle cures than public education. Everybody agrees that schools are failing, and since everybody went to school almost everybody's an expert.
  • Mike Pence backs more abortions
    Rep. Mike Pence vowed to continue his jihad against Planned Parenthood Wednesday morning, telling Willie Geist on "Morning Joe" that he's willing to reject any budget compromise, and shut down the federal government, if that's what it takes to defund the women's healthcare services provider.
  • Will we even notice if the government shuts down?
    The probability of a partial government shutdown is increasing with each passing hour. With funding set to expire at the end of Friday, federal agencies have begun drawing contingency plans if President Obama and GOP�congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement by then.
  • Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end airstrikes
    Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has appealed directly to President Barack Obama to halt what the Libyan leader called "an unjust war," and wished Obama good luck in his bid for re-election next year.
  • Glenn Beck done at Fox
    Glenn Beck, America's single most trusted newsman, is "transitioning away" from his daily Fox News television show, which is press release talk for Beck leaving to pursue other moneymaking opportunities and Fox deciding to air something at 5 p.m. that it can actually sell advertising on.

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Flex-Fuel Competition for OPEC?
    An op-ed in this morning's Wall St. Journal by former CIA Director James Woolsey makes an interesting and seemingly pragmatic suggestion for improving America's energy security.
  • Cleantech Investment Reaches Record High in 20 ...
    The first financial quarter of 2011 closed last week, and the early numbers suggest it was a record quarter for cleantech investment.
  • Interview: Siemens CTO on Building Energy-Effi ...
    At Hanover Fair I met Dr. Michael Weinhold, chief technology officer of Siemens Energy. Here are his thoughts on how to make cities more energy-efficient.
  • NRC Threat Assessment of Fukushima Risks
    The New York Times reports today that a March 26 threat assessment by the Reactor Safety Team of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) warns that the crippled nuclear plant faces fresh threats that could persist indefinitely.
  • Toyota: U.S. Prius Sales Hit One MIllion
    Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., today announced the one-millionth sale of the Toyota Prius, the world's first mass-produced hybrid gas-electric vehicle, in the United States.

EU Times

  • CIA involved in Yemen repressions
    Al-Qaeda in Yemen has not been held responsible for the death of even one American for the past five years, yet the US continues to play the al-Qaeda card and provide the country’s regime with military aid. In an interview with Press TV, Ali al-Ahmed, director of Intitute (Persian) Gulf Affairs ...
  • Ivorian Surrender Talks Fail as Opposition Lau ...
    According to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, the Tuesday night negotiations for Ivory Coast ruler Laurent Gbagbo’s surrender have failed, and opposition leader Alassane Ouattara’s militia forces are launching new attacks against him. The talks had been centering around offers of safety guar ...
  • Ahmadinejad Predicts Embarrassing End for Obama
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted the US administration for its deceitful policies, and warned that US President Barack Obama will have to face an end far more embarrassing than what his predecessor, George W. Bush, encountered. Speaking at a press conference here in Tehran on Monday ...
  • Ron Paul to Announce Presidential Bid Next Month
    Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Texas Rep. Ron Paul said he will make a final decision within a month on whether he will run for president in the 2012 election. Congressman Paul said he will soon make a “token decision” if he will participate in a presidential debate to be held in South ...
  • Third World War to begin during Winter Games i ...
    On March 24, well-known Russian astrologists, shamans and parapsychologists gathered to discuss forecasts for near and distant future. “The phenomenon that they call the world financial crisis, and which, as they believe, is now ending, was not the financial crisis per se. It was just an omen of ...

Stonecipher News

  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found tha ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Donald Trump Ties Huckabee
    It’s billed as a “Donald Trump Surprise,” via the latest WSJ/NBC Poll : Among Republican primary voters, Mr. Romney captured the support of 21% in a broad, nine-candidate field. Mr. Trump was tied for second with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, with 17%. House Speaker Newt Gingrich got 11%, ...
  • 'Why Fukushima Won't Kill Nuclear Power'
    Richard Lester writes in today's WSJ : Today's most advanced designs move toward the goal of 'walk-away safety'—reactors that shut down and cool themselves without electricity or any human intervention. The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is still far from resolved
  • Reid: ‘We’ve Met Them More Than Halfway’
    Just hours before he was scheduled to meet with House Speaker John Boehner at a closed-door negotiating session at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats won’t  support the latest stopgap spending measure offered by House Republicans, adding that if the government sh ...
  • Angelina Jolie hasn’t adopted, the 7th tattoo ...
    Yesterday, we talked about Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Tunisian-Libyan border , where thousands of Libyan refugees have poured through the border, causing one of the latest refugee crises. As we looked through the photos of Jolie meeting with refugees, our focus was pulled away from the crisis ...
  • Glenn Beck Makes It Official: Not Leaving Fox ...
    Glenn Beck made it official today, he will be ending his daily 5pm program on the Fox News Channel by the end of the year. But, Glenn is not leaving Fox News, entirely. This was also confirmed by Roger Ailes at FNC. For weeks now, many on the Far-Left have been speculating about Fox News trying ...

Groklaw

  • DC. lawyer charged in multimillion-dollar insi ...
    On Wednesday, the government dispatched any notion that law firms are always bastions of probity and discretion, charging that since the mid-1990s Kluger had tapped into his firms' computer networks to extract and trade on confidential information about deals involving such blue-chip companies a ...
  • Net giants challenge French data law
    The law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded. Police, the fraud of ...
  • Court rejects suit over Net-neutrality rules
    A federal appeals court on Monday rejected as "premature" a lawsuit by Verizon and MetroPCS challenging the Federal Communications Commission's pending rules aimed at keeping Internet service providers from blocking access to certain websites or applications. - Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  • Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal
    Google has filed its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the closely-watched $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube. In the 94-page document, Google outlines why it believes it qualifies for "safe harbor" from liability under the Digital ...
  • Pandora, other app makers subpoenaed over user ...
    A federal grand jury has opened an investigation into mobile apps and what kind of personal data they might transmit about users, Pandora has revealed. The streaming music company recently amended its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to note that it had been subpoenae ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Your house is a shipping container and follows ...
    Just the thing for urban nomads. From the Evolo competition. Treehugger has more on this and other entries. Um, where’s the elevators?
  • College students invent carbon sequestering liquid
    Students in Michigan Technical University‘s Chemical Engineering Program have developed a cheaper substitute for conventional carbon capturing methods at power plants. Their proprietary liquid is capable of negating 50% of all CO2 emissions emitted by smokestacks, offering an economically viable ...
  • On Terry Jones wanting to put Mohammed on trial
    Steve Hynd, in a fine rant, says Terry Jones is trying to provoke violence in the Muslim world, and the US legal is too lame and too mired in 18th century constitutional fetishism to stop him. He blasts Andrew Exum, who happily says that US soldiers can die to defend the supposed free speech of ...
  • Utah refuses federal unemployment assistance
    Utah Republican Senate President Michael Waddoups has backed Utah’s decision to refuse federal unemployment assistance money, saying all those danged lazy unemployed people need be more “self-sufficient,” a decision the The Salt Lake City Tribune calls “cruel and stupid.” (The Central Utah Proje ...
  • Biofuel from farmland may kill 200,000 per yea ...
    From the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Increased production of biofuels increases the price of food worldwide by diverting crops and cropland from feeding people to feeding motor vehicles. Higher food prices, in turn, condemn more people to chronic hunger and “absolute poverty” ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Open thread, early April 2011
    Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
  • More on Turkey/Syria
    On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...
  • What can be done in Syria (and could have been ...
    Syria is, like Libya, a one-man-ruled country with a long history of having been on Washington's hit-list that in the past two weeks has witnessed mounting popular protests and government attempts to crack down. I have made periodic reporting trips to Syria for 35 years now and have a broad ran ...
  • War and humanitarianism: From Kosovo to Libya?
    The three western governments that have, with a little help from two Arab governments, been undertaking very lethal military action against Libya in the past eight days have worked to "justify" those acts of war largely in the name of either ending an existing humanitarian crisis or preventing ...
  • Israeli vice-premier, accused of war crimes, w ...
    On March 9, I received the following invitation: The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center present (sic) A Conversation with Moshe Yaalon Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Likud Knesset Member Moderated by Aaron ...

frogblog

  • Pink Shirt Day on April 14th
    You know you have one. Time to get it out. Russel Norman says I have to iron mine. April 14th is Pink Shirt Day, a day when everyone around the country is encouraged to make a visual display of our abhorrence of bullying.
  • Courts and Criminal Matters
    The aim of the Courts and Criminal Matters bill is to enhance the courts’ powers and processes for the collection of fines and other monetary penalties, and civil debt. There is more and more evidence that we are an increasingly unequal society and that inequality negatively affects everyone. We ...
  • China comes down hard on high profile dissident
    While the world’s attention has been focussed on the efforts of the pro-democracy movement in the Middle-East, China has been cracking down hard on dissidents.
  • General debate, April 6, 2011
  • National is failing the people of Christchurch ...
    This is really sad.  I would have thought that the National Party would care about rebuilding Christchurch following the devastation of their earthquakes.  And I would have thought that a compassionate, albeit conservative, major Government party would have agreed that a temporary levy on higher ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Beck's Brain
    I happened to tune into Glenn Beck for a few minutes today, and I really think the guy is losing his mojo. He was going on and on about he was going to put everything together for us today and tomorrow, but I found myself just yawning through the whole thing. (Though the image of Samantha Po ...
  • Eat the Rich
    Megan McArdle: As the angry debate over Ryan's budget plan wears on, one suggestion I'm seeing over and over is that we should just raise personal and corporate income tax rates back to where they were in the 1950s, when marginal tax rates were 50% on corporate income and up to 90% on per ...
  • Bold Thinking on Climate Change
    Medicare and the federal deficit are long-term problems. Global warming is also a long-term problem. Paul Ryan has been widely hailed as courageous for proposing a 100% conservative solution to the former, so Matt Yglesias wants some props for proposing a 100% liberal solution to the latter: ...
  • The Algebra II Blues
    This story has been tickling the back of my mind ever since I first saw it, but I haven't blogged it yet. So here it is. I knew that many school districts have started requiring kids to pass algebra in order to get a diploma, and I've always had mixed feelings about this. But a few days ago ...
  • Grasping Reality For Real
    Ezra Klein makes an important but wonky point today about Paul Ryan's plan to cap Medicare costs: instead of capping growth at GDP + 1%, it caps growth at the rate of inflation: Here’s the catch: The way GDP gets calculated includes inflation. So think of GDP+1% as the rate of inflation p ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Fredrick Douglass and S ...
    Just when you thought the anti-abortion movement couldn’t get any worse….Arizona jumps into the fray and shouts “Checkmate Bitches!!!” A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5 Mo ...
  • IC 239: I Blame OJ
    Topics: Drunk dialing Teacher makes fun of student’s hair on Facebook….but for good reason Snooki gets $32,000 to speak to college kids We’re doing it all wrong Everything is OJ Simpson’s fault Share with your friends:
  • IC 238: Student Athletes
    Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:
  • No One Does Fear Like Glenn Beck…No One…
    The hilarity from this video is almost too much. Which country in the Middle East has the same morals as us? Well Glenny, if you include the shadiness of the U.S. government then of course the answer is Israel. Of course we know that’s not what Beck meant. Remember, he’s not talking bad about Is ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: 3rd Time’s The Charm
    Want a perfect example that politics and government, while maybe not broken, is severely hampered by bullshit?  Well I got the perfect one for you.  In Florida they are on their 3rd attempt to ban bestiality.  Yes…THIRD attempt. The saga began in January of 2008, when the raping and killing o ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Indian public ...
    Disease-causing bacteria carrying the new genetic resistance to antibiotics, NDM-1, have been discovered in New Delhi's drinking water supply. read more
  • Chimpanzees' contagious yawning evidence of em ...
    Contagious yawning is not just a marker of sleepiness or boredom. For chimpanzees, it may actually be a sign of a social connection between individuals. read more
  • Long-term users of ecstasy risk structural bra ...
    Long term users of the popular recreational drug ecstasy (MDMA) risk structural brain damage, suggests preliminary research published online in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. read more
  • High levels of toxic compounds found on coasts ...
    "We were not expecting to find such high levels of PCBs, highly toxic compounds that are considered as priority compounds by European legislation, in a region such as the western coast of Africa", Ailette Prieto, a researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU-Spain) and co-author ...
  • Body mass index in adolescence associated with ...
    A new 17 year follow-up study of 37,000 Israeli teenagers found that diabetes risk is mainly associated with increased body mass index (BMI) close to the time of diagnosis at early adulthood, while coronary heart disease risk is associated with elevated BMI both at adolescence and adulthood. The ...

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Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • Paul Craig Roberts: Our Time of Universal Dec ...
    Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell | FPJ: “Support the troops” originated in the public relations department of the military/security complex. What “support the troops” really means is to support the profits of the armaments industry and the neoconservative ideology of US world heg ...
  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Examining the Political Hypocrisy of Western Concern For Sexual Assault in Libya By The AngryindianApril Fools Day, 2011 �Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.�-George Orwell In the capitalist wor ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • Palestinian statehood 2011: The biggest event ...
    The upcoming vote on Palestinian statehood, that will most probably take place this September at the UN General Assembly, has a lot of people talking – and a certain government panicking. Rightfully so – itâs the regionâs biggest event of 2011. So why is the left in Israel and abroad keeping mum ...
  • Voices of People: Interview with Makarem Nazza ...
    I met Makarem Nazzal a few years ago when she was a shift-supervisor at New Wave Research, a company I subcontract for my projects. Dropping by one evening to monitor a survey, I was struck by her scrupulousness and precision, never to be taken for granted in the Levantine work environment here. ...
  • Palestinian Committee blames Israeli occupatio ...
    By solely condemning the Israeli occupation for the murder, the Bil’in Popular Committee is sending both sides an unfortunate message The morning after the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis, the Bil’in Popular Committee, led by Iyad Burnat, put out a statement expressing its sorrow over the tragic ev ...
  • The Occupation is Israel’s deadly tumor
    By Louis Frankenthaler All too often life meets fiction.  We live our lives in the “realities” that TV producers decide to construct for us.  As long as we remain confined in the flat screen hanging on our walls we can ignore reality, deny human interaction and proceed endlessly in the delirium ...
  • Israel insists on treating enemies as criminals
    What does the trial of Dirar Abu Sisi tell about Israeli hypocrisy Israel has kidnapped, apparently with the Ukrainian authorities turning a blind eye, a Gazan engineer named Dirar Abu Sisi. He was detained for several weeks under the usual schtick of a double gag order: one gag order preventin ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Proper Vetting
    I spotted him early and had no idea who he was. But it was clear he was miffed and not about to be placated. It was a few days ago at the Ignatieff event in London and I wondered if it would create some difficulty. The Liberal leader was still about 20 minutes away, and [...]
  • Questions, Questions
    Starting today we will be posting some videos on what our canvassers are hearing at the doors as they attempt to inform voters concerning the issues in the upcoming election. This time you’ll get to meet Graham, a student who has just returned from England to his home town of London, Ontario and ...
  • The Six-Pack versus the Family-Pack
    Pundits are increasingly referring to this election campaign as a battle between two competing visions, two sets of clear choices. That’s the way I read it as well following the first week of the election. For months in the Liberal caucus it was readily apparent that the jet fighters versus fami ...
  • “He Not Coming Back For You”
    “Glen, come on, you’ve got to get out front.” I just can’t do it easily. Politics isn’t much of a place for a person with a shy nature, but that’s what I find myself in. And campaigns can be difficult for someone like that – all the handshaking, stump speeches, interviews. And yet I do [...]
  • Campaign Opening
    Most of the candidates had their official launches this past Saturday, and as a key rallying point for the volunteers they are pivotal. Campaign offices are the nerve centre for what happens in the five-week campaign and mine is no different. Although the profile of many of those volunteering in ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Larry Brilliant: Enabling sustainable humanity ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog [Transcript] I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here ...
  • Questions teens ask about risk – I’m A Scienti ...
    I’ve just posted this over on the Risk Science Blog, but deviously thought I would also disrupt 2020 Science readers’ day with it as well! For the past couple of years, a highly addictive and innovative on-line teen science engagement event has been run in the UK. I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of ...
  • Should experts engage directly with people on ...
    A couple of days ago I posted a blog that noted the absence of direct information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis coming out of US Schools of Public Health. In it, I wrote As events at the Fukushima power plant unfolded, I assumed – rather naively as it turns out – that Schools of Public [...] ...
  • Technology innovation and human health risk – ...
    As anyone who has followed my work over the past few years will know, I have a deep interest in the potential benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies, and in particular whether we can swing the balance towards benefits by thinking more innovatively about risk and how we address ...
  • Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
    How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but with some serious ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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