9 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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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

• Hey Chris Matthews: 9/11 Truthers are NOT left ...
  Reg's Thoughts at: TvNEWSLIES.org On his MSNBC program Hardball last evening, Chris Matthews went on a well-founded tirade against Donald Trump and his pandering to the uninformed, right wing Birthers who insist, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that Barack Obama is not an American.. ...
• Fukushima Meltdown Confirmed
  by Stephen Lendman On April 6, Reuters reported that "the core at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor has melted through the reactor pressure vessel," Rep. Edward Markey told a House hearing on the disaster, saying: "I have been informed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the core h ...
• The Crazies versus the Sleepwalkers - Big Budg ...
  By Michael Collins The Republican crazies are in a celebrity death match with sleepwalking Democrats. It is a fabricated drama amounting to not much of anything in terms of the nation's well being. The stakes are supposedly the shutdown of the United States government at midnight this Friday. ...
• Military Commissions Will Try 9/11 Suspects
  by Stephen Lendman On April 4, New York Times writer Charlie Savage headlined, "In a Reversal, Military Trials for 9/11 Cases," saying: After months of indecision, the Obama administration "will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other (suspects) accused of plotting the Sept ...
• BS Elitist Presidential Poll Shows Trump #2
  By Silver Shield The Elite’s Main Stream Media has already started to marginalize and control the growing Freedom Movement. The WSJ/NBC conducted a poll of likely Republican primary voters and only gave the voters the choice of the Elite’s sock puppet candidates. Ron Paul was not a choice in th ...

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

• Budget deal reached – No Govt. Shutdown
  Democrats, Republicans agree on a budget deal | CNN Democrats and Republicans narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the federal government Friday night, agreeing on a budget deal and a short-term funding extension little more than an hour before the clock struck midnight and time ran out. The n ...
• Wake ‘N’ Bake 101: Repairs
  WWH – Last week, Dr. Woody heard Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thom Hartmann–both really sincere, admirable men–and was again struck by how totally, hopelessly, blindingly, wrenchingly IMPOTENT they seem. They pose exquisitely correct solutions to the most intractable problems whose ONLY flaw is th ...
• The Little Natural Foods Store That Could
  By Leigh Medeiros | seekonk – The Good Seed has helped to keep Seekonk friends and neighbors healthy for the past 22 years. âWe have the nicest customers,â says Christine Mulhall. Mulhall, along with Susan Kinnel and Ruth Hardman, has owned The Good Seed natural food market for 22 years, well be ...
• When asked about the pepper spray and what he ...
  Colorado police pepper-spray misbehaving boy, 8 | Yahoo News The staff at the Colorado elementary school said no one could calm 8-year-old Aidan Elliott. He had just thrown a TV and chairs and was now trying to use a cart to bust through a door to an office where teachers had taken some young st ...
• Weekly Hippie Trivia
  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! He is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. His accent in the music biz came when the “bes ...

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

• Obama hails deal to avoid government shutdown
  President Barack Obama says a last-minute deal with congressional leaders to avert a government shutdown happened because "Americans of different beliefs came together."
• Was he bluffing the whole time?
  Let's be clear: It was never in the political interests of House Republicans to force a government shutdown over this -- and John Boehner, who was a member of his party's leadership when the GOP suffered a P.R. disaster during the shutdowns of late 1995 and early 1996, knew it.
• House votes to repeal "net neutrality" rules
  House Republicans adamant that the government keep its hands off the Internet passed a bill Friday to repeal federal rules barring Internet service providers from blocking or interfering with traffic on their networks.
• Deadline nears, and some Republicans go wobbly
  The federal government lurched toward a shutdown for the first time in 15 years on Friday as Republicans and Democrats in Congress struggled for a way out and swapped increasingly incendiary charges over which side was to blame.
• Time's about up: Shutdown now mere hours away
  On the brink of a painful government shutdown, the Obama administration readied furlough notices for hundreds of thousands of workers Friday as Republican and Democratic leaders accused each other of refusing to give ground on a deal to keep operations running.

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

• One-stop eye care
  Allowing other medical professionals to provide some services formerly exclusive to doctors is a step toward better care and lower costs.
• A fitting honour for David Pecaut
  Naming one of Toronto’s public squares in David Pecaut’s honour is a fitting tribute to this city-builder.
• Federal campaign: Where’s the urban agenda?
  Canada’s three big national parties need to clearly spell out how they propose to help this country’s beleaguered communities.
• Afghanistan: Tell truth about detainees
  The Conservative government is still trying to avoid full disclosure about the treatment of prisoners caught by Canadian soldiers.
• Political access: What is Harper so afraid of?
  All front-runners try to run a controlled campaign, but the Prime Minister's goes too far.

Energy Collective

• FEPC Fukushima Reactor Status Update For April ...
  Update to Information Sheet Regarding the Tohoku Earthquake The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) Washington DC Office As of 12:00PM (EST), April 8, 2011 Radiation LevelsThe concentration of radioactive nuclides from the seawater sampled at the screen device ...
• Is the Electric Car’s Tax-Free Ride Coming to ...
  The tax-free joyride electric and hybrid-electric vehicle owners have been enjoying while cruising the highways and byways of America may soon be a thing of the past.
• Unconventional Energy and Transportation Wisdom
  Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation asked me to speak on a panel yesterday -- the entire thing was recorded and is available here -- along with Jed Kolko of the Public Policy Institute of California and Shin-Pei Tsay of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The topic was "unc ...
• Global Market Impact Starting To Be Felt From ...
  The global energy market consequences of the devastating earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 are already starting to be felt, but so far, impacts have been more in spot LNG markets than in oil markets.� That�s because the increased demand for oil to burn for electricity generation will b ...
• Congress Defers to EPA on Climate Policy
  The confrontation over climate policy that was teed up by the results of last November's mid-term election culminated with the House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly yesterday to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

EU Times

• Former Top US Economic Adviser: A Weaker Dolla ...
  Frustrated by “the suffering of real families,” President Obama’s former top economic adviser recently called for action: “If I have a complaint about policy these days, it’s that we’re not doing enough,” Christina Romer said in a speech last month at Vanderbilt University. “I think there are to ...
• Netherlands to vote on law banning slaughter o ...
  The slaughter of animals by halal or kosher methods could be banned in Holland. The Muslim and Jewish practices inflict unacceptable suffering on animals, campaigners say. A vote will take place later this month. An unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the Right-wing Freedom Party is ...
• Obama administration urges Congress not to pro ...
  The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Commu ...
• New force of nature, latest data from U.S. ato ...
  Data from a major U.S. atom smasher may have revealed a new elementary particle, or even a new force of nature like gravity or magnetism, a lab has told AFP. The findings could offer clues to the persistent riddle of mass and how objects obtain it – one of the most sought-after questions in all ...
• Georgian pensioner facing jail for cutting off ...
  A 75-year-old woman could be jailed after she cut off the internet services of an entire country. The elderly woman from Georgia cut through a fibre-optic cable while searching for scrap metal and managed to disable Armenia’s web connection for hours last month, as well as disrupting services in ...

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

• Libyan Rebels Sell Chemical Weapons to Hamas & ...
  Pallets of mustard gas shells similar to those sold by Libyan rebels to Hamas and Hezbollah Mossad leak source DEBK Afile reports on what our freedom-loving friends, the Libyan rebels, have been up to
• Obama As Budget Referee: It's a No-Win Situation
  Now that the budget hijinks have come to a close and Washington has oh-so-narrowly averted a government shutdown, let the blame game begin. Such high stakes political negotiations always involve some level of political fallout. As President Obama likes to say, no one ever gets 100 percent of wh ...
• A War of Attrition Has Broken out in Gaza. Wil ...
  Hamas Military commander and body guards killed in IAF attack Friday, more than 50 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into Southern Israel and the Western Negev at residential targets in the Eshkol and Sha'ar Hanegev regional Council.  The recently deployed Iron Dome, anti-short-range roc ...
• Protesters Are Back in Tahrir Square…
  And apparently shots have been fired and protesters have hurled rocks into the Cairo Museum… Demonstrators burned cars and barricaded themselves with barbed wire inside a central Cairo square after troops violently dispersed an overnight protest injuring at least 10. Hundreds of soldiers beat p ...
• Anti-Israel rally turns violent in Cairo
  Over one million Egyptian protesters in Cairo’s Liberation Square demanded their military rulers to abandon Israel and lift the blockade on the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday. Fierce clashes have erupted between the Egyptian army and thousands of protesters who gathered outside the Israeli embas ...

Groklaw

• IBM Forecasts $7 Billion In Cloud Revenue
  "One of the inhibitors to adopting cloud computing is the possibility of being locked into proprietary interfaces," Telford noted. To emphasize its above-the-fray stance, IBM is launching a Cloud Standards Customer Council to define requirements and "influence the existing standards bodies," Te ...
• Developer yanks unauthorized Windows Phone 7 u ...
  "Be careful when using unofficial hacker tools," Prengel said, according to a translation of his original message in German. "They can put the phone in an undefined state [making] the installation of future updates impossible. Use at your own risk -- neither Microsoft nor the device manufacturer ...
• Facebook now wants a say in computer hardware
  "What we found over time is that a lot of the stuff that the mass manufacturers put out wasn't exactly in line with what we needed and what other social apps needed," Zuckerberg said at a media event at Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters on Thursday. By sharing design specifications, ...
• Viacom and Time Warner Cable duel over iPad
  The battle centers on whether an existing contract between the companies allows Time Warner to stream Viacom content to hot new entertainment screens -- iPad tablet computers. Viacom contends that Time Warner should pay more for the privilege, while the second-largest US cable company counters ...
• H-P Sues Ex-Executive Who Joined Oracle
  Hewlett-Packard Co. sued a former sales executive, alleging he stole trade secrets from the company before joining rival Oracle Corp., the latest act in an ongoing drama between the two technology giants. H-P claims Adrian Jones, a senior vice president in its Asian operations, on Feb. 11 used ...

WideShut

• George Monbiot, Nuclear Power and the New Worl ...
  Rebuttal of Green Guru George Monbiot's pro-nuclear agena, and an assessment of the safety & conduct of the nuclear industry, with mind to the UK"
• Albert Pike’s 3 World Wars Letter Hoax: ...
  An investigation in to the infamous alleged 1871 letter by Freemason Albert Pike, predicting 3 world wars.
• Editorial: What Have We Done?
  The only thing great about Britain is the deception and tyranny of the people in charge, and the lack of understanding of the public.
• Doctors Dishing Out ADHD Drugs Against NHS Gui ...
  Children as young as four given ADHD drugs even when illness isn't explicitly diagnosed.
• Top 9/11 Documentary Gets TV Deal
  Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth get distribution deal for 9/11: Blueprint For Truth documentary.

Politics in the Zeros

• Do gang members infiltrate law enforcement?
  Margarita Crispin, a corrupt customs inspector, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for letting marijuana pass through the border. She made nearly $5 million doing this, and lived frugally on the US side of the border while buying expensive homes and SUVs through straw buyers in Mexico. The FBI ...
• Ford to use plastic substitutes made from mush ...
  Ecovativeâs foam is composed of mycelia (mushroom root), seed husks, and other “throw away” organic substances. Ford has turned to Ecovativeâs new material to replace the petroleum-based foams used as insulators in dashboards, bumpers, and interior components to help make their cars more compost ...
• Houston, we have a budget deal
  Maybe the theatrics will be over for at least a few months now. $38.5 billion in cuts in a budget of $3.8 trillion is chump chance. Neither side is taking the budget deficit seriously. As usual, the dual parties of corporatism have squabbled over a few social issues and ignored most everything else.
• California teachers pension fund shortfall now ...
  Unbelievable as it may seem, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the sixth largest public pension fund in the country, now has a pension shortfall of $56 billion, up $15.5 billion from last fiscal year. That’s an increase of almost 25% in one year. Worse, given the strang ...
• Germany plans to replace nuclear power with re ...
  Merkel has pledged to speed Germany’s transition for nuclear to renewable energy. Several nuclear plants there were closed for inspection after the Fukushima disaster and it is doubtful they will re-open. I’m sure after ten or twenty years of squabbling and vicious political fighting the US will ...

  TVNZ - Top Stories

• Ewen MacDonald's parents 'confused' by murder ...
  Ewen Macdonald's parents say they are "confused and bewildered" by the charges laid against their son.
• Mayor Bob Parker rejects claims of ignoring ea ...
  Christchurch's Mayor has rejected claims that the city's devastated eastern suburbs are being ignored in the recovery effort.
• Two winners of record $35 million Lotto Powerball
  The $35 million Lotto Powerball prize has been split between two North Island ticket holders.  
• A fire has broken out in a chicken hatchery is ...
  Firefighters are still battling to bring a large blaze at a chicken hatchery south of Auckland under control.
• China Southern Airlines launches direct route ...
  The inaugural New Zealand flight for one of the world's largest airlines touched down in Auckland this afternoon.

Just World News

• U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
  Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
• Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
  Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
• 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 ...

frogblog

• Our advantage is low wages, says Bill English
  Remember all that talk of “catching up with Australia“? It was a big part of Nationals rhetoric in the 2008 election, followed by the Don Brash 2025 Taskforce, etc? Bill English: …over the next few years New Zealand’s advantages would become more apparent. “One is the wage differential. We have ...
• Sharks need a better PR strategy
  Sharks suffer from bad PR. Just this week the Kaikoura District Council voted 7-1 to paint over a local mural because it features a basking shark, which local tourist operators thought may ‘scare’ tourists. Never mind that basking sharks are endangered, protected in New Zealand and are gentle fi ...
• Earth. Let’s not frak it up
  It’s Armageddon this weekend! The Green Party will be at this weekend’s Armageddon pop culture expo in Wellington running a stall with this Battlestar Galactica themed banner encouraging people to enrol to vote in this year’s General Election. Come join candidates James Shaw, Tane Woodley and me ...
• Greens could lead Government in Germany, and h ...
  The Greens are now the largest opposition party in Germany, according to a poll commissioned by news magazine Stern. Support for the center-left environmentalist party has risen to 28 percent, seven points higher than in the previous survey. The Social Democrats (SPD), traditionally Germany’s la ...
• Peering into the Abyss: The Red Zone of Christ ...
  Yet nothing prepares you for the inner city. It is not the destruction, for not all buildings are (yet) down. It is the scene, the ambience, of pure desolation.

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 8 April 2011
  Yesterday was play-with-string day. The string itself is out of the frame in both these pictures, but on the left Domino is waiting for the string to come back within reach of her paws, and on the right Inkblot is watching the string dangle above his head. What are you going to do for playti ...
• Paying for What We Get
  Andrew Sullivan writes today that healthcare costs are skyrocketing and there are basically two way to rein them in: If we want to reduce this giant suck from the rest of the working economy, there are two options: have a government body decide which treatments can be afforded and which c ...
• Map of the Day: High Frequency Trading Locations
  Via Tyler Cowen, A. D. Wissner-Gross and C. E. Freer investigate where you should open a high-frequency trading facility given that light-speed propagation delays are a key factor in arbitraging trades between two exchanges. After much fiddling with partial differential equations, they come ...
• The GOP Yanks the Football Away Again
  This is quite a budget showdown we're having, isn't it? The original Republican proposal asked for $32 billion in cuts, and after considerable grumbling Democrats eventually accepted that. But by that time Republicans had moved on, proposing $38 billion in cuts. Democrats are now willing to ...
• Taxes, Cost Controls, and Medicare
  Speaking of fiscal reality, Austin Frakt reminds us that the federal budget, including Medicare, is actually in pretty good shape if we follow current law. Here's the CBO's projection of the primary budget (i.e., excluding interest payments): Are Democrats willing to raise taxes in order ...

Insanity Report

• IC 240: Shutdown
  Topics: People who abuse ‘reply all’ Old lady shuts down an entire country’s Internet service Lebron’s mom gets arrested The politics of the government shutdown Glenn Beck is leaving his daily show…is it really a victory? Share with your friends:
• 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 ...

Simple Climate

• Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
  By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
• Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
  Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
• Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
  Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
• 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.
  

  e!Science News

  • NASA's Kepler helps Iowa State's Kawaler, astr ...
    NASA's Kepler Mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 sun-like stars, giving astronomers a much better idea about the nature and evolution of the stars. read more
  • IPF drug fails in new trial
    A new study has demonstrated no significant benefit of taking the drug bosentan for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). read more
  • Breast-cancer awareness now in national consci ...
    Each October, the color pink marks the arrival of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Media coverage, product promotions and even the football gridirons showcase the national effort to promote screenings and early detection of the cancer that 200,000 American women are diagnosed with each ye ...
  • Scientists develop 'universal' virus-free meth ...
    Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a simplified, cheaper, all-purpose method they say can be used by scientists around the globe to more safely turn blood cells into heart cells. The method is virus-free and produces heart cells that beat with nearly 100 percent efficiency, they claim. re ...
  • Free software makes computer mouse easier for ...
    The hand moves the computer mouse, but the cursor doesn't comply. The cursor doesn't go where told. read more

  unEarthed

  • Why I Fight For Our Forests: Earthjustice's Re ...
    Earthjustice legislative counsel explains why she's dedicated to the fight El Dorado National Forest (This is the�third in a series of Q & As with Earthjust ...
  • It's No Secret: Power Plants Can Clean Up Thei ...
    Affordable, effective technology exists to make our air safer to breathe When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed last month to clean up the toxi ...
  • Shut Down the Government So They Can Blow Up M ...
    Tell Mr. Boehner and his House majority: "Hell No You Can't!" House Speaker John Boehner
  • Friday Finds: Coffin' Up Green
    Congress for sale, radiated water, noisy pollution In an effort to draw in new customers, some burial services are going green. Photo courtesy of Rob Shenk. ...
  • The U.S. Asthma Epidemic
    New report highlights prevalence, cost of asthma and the need for clean air Photo: Chris Jordan/Earthjustice People who suffer from asthma often say an atta ...

  Brave New Climate

  • Fukushima Daiichi nuclear saga – 2 to 9 ...
    The nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi has, alas, now evolved into more of a saga. The last seven days of events has been acted out in slow motion compared to the first dramatic week (dating back to almost a month ago), but there continues to be plenty of headaches for TEPCO — and no clear [...]
  • 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 ...

  Indigenist Opinion

  • GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism
    Pinkwatching Israel � GayMiddleEast.com’s Zionism Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly)”grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates ...
  • Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Eve ...
    Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death - International Middle East Media Center: "'He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'' Rwidy paused, then continued. ''Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'' Twenty-four-year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning ...
  • The hypocrisy of military intervention for so- ...
    The hypocrisy of military intervention for so-called 'humanitarian assistance': "(FinalCall.com) - The fast moving media discussion concerning the invasion of the North African country of Libya, under the auspices of the creation of a no-fly zone, and the destruction of “military targets” appear ...
  • In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have bee ...
    thepublicarchive.com: 1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers ...
  • Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True ...
    March 15, 2011 - Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only [climateark.org] Background All existing nuclear energy plants, waste and weapons are accidents waiting to happen - vile deadly toxins to be dealt with for millenium. Japan is facing the worst nuclear crisis since t ...

  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 ...

  Amped Status

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

  +972

  • Gaza and the Negev: Setting the stage for the ...
    This is a post about how Israel prepares for war. I don’t know if we are going to war. But the awful attack on a school bus by an anti-tank missile fired from Gaza on Thursday, seemed tailor-made to push Israel over the edge. Following weeks of escalation between the IDF and Hamas, the airwaves ...
  • Interview: Abbas on Hamas, refugees and indepe ...
    By Roee Ruttenberg On Tuesday, I had a unique opportunity to sit down with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Amman, Jordan.  We discussed the peace process (or lack thereof), refugees, prisoners, Gilad Shalit, incitement and diplomacy. The interview aired on CCTV News ( ...
  • Eight arrested as Nabi Saleh protests continue
    The demonstrations against the Occupation in Nabi Saleh have experienced major setbacks in recent months. The demonstrations been taking place for over one year despite serious military repression. The two leaders of the community, Bassem and Naji Tamimi, have both been arrested by Israeli soldi ...
  • Four notes on the upcoming war in Gaza, “Scorc ...
    Who turned down the ceasefire: In a couple of months, when the operation takes a turn for the worse – either when some soldiers get hit by an IED (improvised explosive device), or when an IDF missile will miss its target, as usual, blowing up a Gazan kindergarten – we’ll have to remember: Hamas ...
  • 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 ...

  Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Statement from Environment Minister on Tasman ...
    The Gillard Government has today received an interim report from Mr Bill Kelty who is facilitating progress on the Statement of Principles agreed between conservation groups, the CFMEU and the timber industry in Tasmania.
  • Gunns pulp mill environmental impact manageme ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today approved the three remaining modules of the Gunns Bell Bay pulp mill environmental impact management plan.
  • Decision date on koala threatened species lis ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the due date for a decision on whether to add the koala to the list of nationally threatened species.
  • Chaffey augmentation brought forward to secur ...
    Joint funding announced today by the Gillard and Keneally Governments will fast-track construction on a $43.33 million augmentation and complete safety upgrade of Chaffey Dam.
  • NPI Data shows drop in air pollutants
    National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) data released today shows emissions of a range of common air pollutants dropped slightly in 2009–10.

  Matt Weidner Blog

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

  abelard - news

  • another step forward for civilisation against ...
    Israel is developing functional star wars elements, protection against Arab missiles.
  • buy some really miserable socialist crayons | ...
    Politically correct puritanism finds another way to dull a child's fun.
  • on socialist labour's economic mess - 1931 vin ...
    Deja vu, or is it Groundhog Day? Stanley Baldwin's words could have been come from today's Coalition.
  • noyon cathedral - its architecture | the Franc ...
    Fascinating, the way cathedrals differ, even for non-cathedral twitters ^_^ .
  • gradually the west learns to deal with primiti ...
    More sophisticated technology, surveillance and control from the air, is dominating various unpleasant combatants.

  The Parallel Parliament

  • “Yikes”
    Campaigns are supposed to be a battle of contrasts and this one certainly has shaped up in such a manner. But they can also offer a heavy dose of hypocrisy. A number of people and organizations were upset yesterday with the National Citizens Coalition and its mangling of Canadian sensibilities w ...
  • Why Elizabeth May Must Be In The Debates
    Jeffrey Simpson did us all a huge favour today with his Globe and Mail column, “Climate change? Not in this campaign.” His conclusion? “The Harper government’s 17-per-cent reduction target can’t be met with policies now in place, and every expert knows it. Canadians just don’t care. So the issue ...
  • Campaign Insider – Canvassing (Education)
    The University of Western Ontario – one of Canada’s finest learning institutions – is in my riding, so clearly post-secondary education is important to London. The city also houses Fanshawe College. Going door-to-door canvassing, we hear about concerns from both parents and their kids about the ...
  • Get ‘em While They’re Young
    Yesterday I spoke about politics to a joint gathering of two grade five classes at St. Martin’s school in London’s Old South district. I had promised I would do it before I knew there was an election but felt I couldn’t break the commitment. I was to talk for a few minutes then permit them [...]
  • 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 [...]

  Vaccine Awakening

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

  2020 Science

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

  Reader Supported News

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

  War Resisters League

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

  Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

  A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

  Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Pembina reacts to the Green Party platform
    Pembina Institute 7 Apr 2011 OTTAWA, ON — The Pembina Institute's Clare Demerse made the following statement in response to today's launch of the Green Party's campaign platform: ...
  • Declining Grasslands and Species at Risk
    On the Environmental Law Centre blog, Laura Bowman posts on the decline on native grasslands in Canada, and the threats posed to the species at risk in Alberta that rely on grassland habitats. Bowman identifies deficiencies in the recently posted Recovery Strategy for the Sprague’s Pipit (Anth ...
  • Call for Input: Lower Athabasca Regional Plan
    Organization:� Government of Alberta Land Use Secretariat Initiative:� Lower Athabasca Regional Plan ...
  • Edmonton Bicycle Commuters is hiring summer po ...
    Edmonton Bicycle Commuters�(EBC)�has posted three terrific summer job opportunities for students: Cycling Education�Coordinator Artist In�Residence Bicycle Events�Coordinator Application deadline for all three positions is April 15, 2011 at�5:00pm. ...
  • Alberta’s caribou left out in the cold, again
    Ecojustice 5 Apr 2011 EDMONTON — The highly-anticipated Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP), rolled out this morning to much fanfare, is another glaring example of Alberta’s unwil ...

  Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war: April 9
    ==== NATO, Recolonization Of Africa, BRICS And Silent Lambs Post-Cold War NATO Expansion: No Neutrals Left In Europe U.S. Considers Sending Ground Troops To Libya Libya, AFRICOM And The U.S. Scramble For Africa After Libya And Ivory Coast, Obama Condemns Syria Western Nations Must Abandon Illusi ...
  • STOP NATO News: April 8, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 8 From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa Threatened With Western Military Subjugation ==== No To War – No To NATO Network Congress In Dublin U.S. Prepares For Landmark Interceptor Missile Test Georgia Ready To Join NATO In “2-3 Years” Abkhazia: Two Georgia ...
  • From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa T ...
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 8 ==== Stop NATO April 8, 2011 From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa Threatened With Western Military Subjugation Rick Rozoff On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military oper ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 8
    ==== Back To Africa: Swedish Jets In First Combat Mission In 50 Years Italy Flies 108 Air Missions For NATO’s Libyan War Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Libya: Sarkozy, The New War President Russian, Venezuelan Presidents Cal For Peace In Libya NATO Solidarity: German Okays “Humanitarian” Troops To Li ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 7
    ==== Libyan War Prepared For Months In Advance, Prelude To Larger War Report: NATO Air Strike Hits Major Libyan Oil Field Libyan War: Canada Adds Troops, Increases Bombing Raids NATO Steps Up Air Attacks; U.S., Italy Discuss Arming Libyan Rebels Turkey’s Role In Libyan War, NATO Missile Shield L ...

  Before It's News

  • Dont be Fukushima and let your core melt down ...
  • Congress avoids government shutdown
  • Investinme Conference Poster 2011
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  Intel Hub

  • Brian Camden of ‘Hardened Structures&#82 ...
    NotForSale2NWO April 8th, 2011 The Intel Hub Radio with special guests Brian Camden of Hardened Structures. April 7th 2011 Download/Listen to full show here http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Intel_Hub/Intel_Hub.2011-04-07_16k.mp3 The Intel Hub http://theintelhub.com http://theintelhubradio.com H ...
  • James Evan Pilato On The Intel Hub Radio: Huma ...
    NotForSale2NWO April 8th, 2011 The Intel Hub Radio with James Evan Pilato – April 6th, 2011 Download the full show http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Intel_Hub/Intel_Hub.2011-04-06_16k.mp3 The Intel Hub http://theintelhub.com http://theintelhubradio.com Media Monarchy http://mediamonarchy.blogspo ...
  • Japan Nuclear Radiation Found In Food Bought I ...
    The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins – Contributing Writer April 8th, 2011 As reported live last night on the Intel Hub radio show and again today on The Alexander Higgins Show, Japan nuclear radiation including i-131, Caesium 134 and Caesium 137 are now being detected in a wide variety of foods b ...
  • The United States is Moving Backwards…Fast
    The Intel Hub Dale May April 8, 2011 The United States is moving backwards… fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. Obamaâs Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has been particularly b ...
  • South Koreans Wear Masks Out of Fear of Radiat ...
    Washington’s Blog April 7th, 2011 As Zero Hedge noted yesterday: As the following animation from ZAMG demonstrates, courtesy of Northeastern winds, a major cloud of radioactive Iodine 131 is currently passing right over South Korea. Making matters worse is the fact that it is currently drizzling ...

  FRS

  • Background on “Western powers grab for L ...
    21 March 2010. A World to Win News Service. *The Western powers now bombarding Libya like to pretend that their so-called humanitarian intervention is something new in the world. It would be something new and amazing if the US and Europe were fighting to liberate an oppressed people, but that’s ...
  • Democracy in the Arab World by Kahlil Bendib
  • Protests on the Rise Again in Syria: A Report ...
    Protests on the Rise Again in Syria: A Report f…, posted with vodpod
  • Blood runs in Syrian streets
    By ANDY SOLTIS, April 9, 2011 At least 22 Syrian protesters were killed and dozens wounded when security forces attacked them in three cities in the worst bloodshed since pro-democracy demonstrations began last month, witnesses said. But President Bashar al-Assad’s news agency claimed “vandals” ...
  • Long Live Libya, We Are Libyan Freedom Fighter ...

  Ken O'Keefe

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

  StillSmallVoice

  • Top this:
    Two kids -- ages 6 and 3 -- quoting Matthew 7, of the Sermon On the Mount. I'm not even sure I, Bible thumper supreme, can do that. Happy Weekend.
  • A fabulous answer to an ignorant rant
    Here's what prompted this video. And thanks, Christopher, for the link.
  • Tammy Duckworth's coming to Hartford
    Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth will talk about eliminating homelessness among veterans at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 18,�at Hartford's Lyceum. Duckworth's speech will be followed by a panel discussion that includes Sharon Castelli of Chrysalis Center, and Margaret Middl ...
  • Single-payer health care is cheaper
    DickG. sends this, an argument for a vast, vast, vast restructuring of our health care "system," which really isn't a system at all, but more a reaction to a crisis. As DickG. says, a private health care system is more expensive because it must charge for all services, in addition to paying for ...
  • What Would Jesus Cut?
    Sojourners asks the question: Congress is considering a budget plan that would make a 9 percent cut in discretionary spending while giving a 2 percent increase for military spending. This would be devastating for domestic programs that provide basic nutrition, health, and opportunity to poo ...

  Associated Content

  • Politicians' Quotes on Budget Debate Focus on ...
    Let's take a look at some of this week's comments by politicians on the budget debate.Contributor: Gregory Schmidt Published: Apr 08, 2011
  • Sony Halted by Hacker Collective
    A fight between Sony and a collective of hackers over security shortcomings reached a head when the "Anonymous" collective launched a distributed denial of service attack on Sony's servers, calling security into question.Contributor: Matt Hawk Published: Apr 08, 2011
  • Conservative Supreme Court Justice Now Likely ...
    When the Prosser/Kloppenburg Wisconsin state Supreme Court race had concluded, only a few hundred votes separated the two candidates. However, a development late Thursday has given Justice David Prosser 7,000-plus extra votes.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 08, 2011
  • Trump More Qualified for Celebrity Than Presidency
    Donald Trump has not only hinted in the past that he may run for the presidency as a Republican candidate, he is now outlining why the present administration and his possible competition will not be elected if he runs.Contributor: Monica Lehua Published: Apr 08, 2011
  • Strong Reasons Why Donald Trump May Be the 45t ...
    Donald Trump would make a fine candidate with his winning history, a strong indicator of future success.Contributor: John Troiano Published: Apr 08, 2011

  Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, April 4-8, 2011
    Disclaimer: In the future, you will not have to worry about spills like this one, what with the superhydrophobic fabrics and all. But that technology is not widely available quite yet, so the t-shirt you could win simply by retweeting us on Twitter is susceptible to saturation by liquids of all ...
  • Study Finds Commonly Used Silver Nanoparticles ...
    Nanotech is looked upon by many as the next great enabling technology that will revolutionize (and is revolutionizing) everything from materials science to disease therapies to game-changing new energy technologies. But, according to a new study by Queen’s University researchers, some commonly ...
  • Rinderpest, the Cattle-Killing Plague, to Beco ...
    The UN will formally announce the triumph this summer The plague begins with a fever, weepy eyes and a drippy muzzle. Dysentery and diarrhea follow, and then death by dehydration. Rinderpest sweeps through a herd quickly, and can kill half its animals in a matter of weeks. The loss of thousands ...
  • 'Retina in a Dish' is the Most Complex Tissue ...
    Researchers in Japan have grown a retina from mouse embryonic stem cells in a lab, but this isn’t just another incremental advance in tissue engineering. Scientists claim their “retina in a dish” is by no small degree the most complex biological tissue yet engineered. If the breakthrough can be ...
  • Neuroscientists Engineer Mice That Make Better ...
    Adding newborn brain cells to an aging brain can improve memory and decision-making, according to a new study. Adult mice with newborn neurons in the hippocampus, which governs memory and learning, were better able to distinguish between similar events and make better-informed choices. Combined ...

  Veterans Today

  • Village scheme breeds fresh hope in rural Vietnam
    Its heartbreaking legacy - mental and physical retardation, dwarfism, cancers and deformities so severe the sufferers' features are often effaced - prompted Bruce Montgomery, a Tasmanian journalist and former staff writer on The Australian, to help victims and their families.
  • US-Vietnam dialogue group work on consequences ...
    (VOV) - A seminar was held on April 8 in the southern Dong Nai province by the National Assembly (NA) Committee for Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin to review their activities in recent times.
  • Ohio Politicians Refuse to let the VA scandal ...
    Thinking that maybe politicians in Ohio would eventually back off on the Dayton VAMC Dental Clinic scandal under pressure from mainstream Veterans Service Organizations defensive of the VA system, I placed the last update on this story in the comments section of Ohio Congressman calls for a Cong ...
  • A defense which deserves being called “h ...
    Almost 20 years have passed since the conclusion of 20th century's longest, most erosive war which was brutally imposed on the defenseless people of Iran by a belligerent and aggressive dictator who was finally pushed to death by the same people who had once persuaded, funded, aided and supporte ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Israeli Embassy in Cairo Under ...
    On this April 8th night, and on the very same day that witnessed the massacre of Bahr el-Bakar the Israeli embassy with all the Israeli diplomatic mission in Cairo seemed under siege.

  War is Business

  • Civilian Employees May Not Get Paid In US Gove ...
  • Vintage Arms Trade (Aggregated)
  • Debunking Stories Of Gadhafi’s Serbian M ...
  • Report: Spanish Mercs In Libya Under Contract ...
  • Veiled Nostalgia For Glory Days Of UK Navy (Ag ...

  Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

  Internat'l Political Economy

  • USTR Ron Kirk on Moving Doha Forward
    I guess the points put forward here will not surprise many since the US trade representative is tasked with promoting trade liberalization first and foremost. For what they're worth, here is Ron Kirk on the US position regarding the aforementioned topic, all the while emphasizing the reasonablen ...
  • Japan Says Don't Overreact to 'Nuked' Foodstuffs
    With alarming news reports coming out of Japan on a nearly daily basis about how various foodstuffs are exhibiting raised radioactivity levels--whether the bulk of them are true or not I cannot ascertain for obvious reasons--its trading partners are becoming understandably wary of importing Japa ...
  • Like Greece & Ireland, IMF Shouldn't Help Portugal
    Now I'm hopping mad! I know that I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but in the interest of fairness, I will fight the good fight even if no one else will do so. Bravely I must soldier on in this bleak and unbearable world. Previously, I have argued that the IMF should not have ...
  • Why I Still [Heart] Trade War, US Federal Shutdown
    I've just come from an engaging talk by Martin Wolf at the LSE. In his take on one of Aesop's fables, China and other industries have been, in recent years, industrious "ants" busy saving up through thrift and industry. Meanwhile, the likes of the US and the UK have been loafing around, singing ...
  • Inevitable Reform Candidate for FIFA President?
    Governance of sport should be of considerable interest to its followers given how much attention and money fans devote to sporting events. At the same time, let's just say that global governance of sport often fails the smell test on justifiable grounds. If there ever were institutions that coul ...

  Economic Collapse Blog

  • Gold, Silver And Oil Are All Skyrocketing And ...
    The following is one statement that you should get used to seeing: "The price of gold set another record today."  Today, spot gold reached a new all-time record of $1461.91 an ounce before settling back a little bit.  Silver is also skyrocketing.  At one point today silver hit $ ...
  • 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The H ...
    Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems.  When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our ...
  • The G-7 Forex Intervention Is A Perfect Exampl ...
    What do governments and central banks do when they don't like what is happening in the financial markets?  They directly intervene and they manipulate the financial markets of course.  On Friday, the central banks of the G-7 acted in concert to drive down the value of the surgin ...
  • Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy ...
    Is the U.S. government on the verge of a massive debt problem?  For years, the U.S. government has been able to borrow all the money that it has wanted to at extremely low interest rates.  But now many of the lending sources that the U.S. government has been depending on are dry ...
  • Global Financial Markets Plunge As The World W ...
    Global financial markets are in turmoil as the situation in Japan continues to deteriorate.  Stock markets are plunging all over the world as investors flock to investments that are considered to be safer.  The 9.0 earthquake and the unprecedented tsunami in Japan would have bee ...

  Infoshop - Alt Media

  • Banned in Vermont: An interview advocacy journ ...
    I've known radical grandma Rosemarie Jackowski (RMJ) for several years now and even ...
  • What is new with Little Black Cart - Spring 2011
    We are just finalizing everything we need to do to prepare for 8 days of Anarchy a festival we have her...
  • Announcing Issue Two of The Anvil Review
    The Anvil...
  • J'accuse! The Betrayal of WBAI
    After more than 20 years on the airwaves of WBAI-New York, the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade was officially cancelled the day after my last bro...
  • March 2011 TCN Radio - Episode #3
    Here is the March episode of TCN Radio. The featured segment for this episode is a performance of the "Letters Journal Play" in two ac...

  E U Times

  • Former Top US Economic Adviser: A Weaker Dolla ...
    Frustrated by “the suffering of real families,” President Obama’s former top economic adviser recently called for action: “If I have a complaint about policy these days, it’s that we’re not doing enough,” Christina Romer said in a speech last month at Vanderbilt University. “I think there are to ...
  • Netherlands to vote on law banning slaughter o ...
    The slaughter of animals by halal or kosher methods could be banned in Holland. The Muslim and Jewish practices inflict unacceptable suffering on animals, campaigners say. A vote will take place later this month. An unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the Right-wing Freedom Party is ...
  • Obama administration urges Congress not to pro ...
    The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Commu ...
  • New force of nature, latest data from U.S. ato ...
    Data from a major U.S. atom smasher may have revealed a new elementary particle, or even a new force of nature like gravity or magnetism, a lab has told AFP. The findings could offer clues to the persistent riddle of mass and how objects obtain it – one of the most sought-after questions in all ...
  • Georgian pensioner facing jail for cutting off ...
    A 75-year-old woman could be jailed after she cut off the internet services of an entire country. The elderly woman from Georgia cut through a fibre-optic cable while searching for scrap metal and managed to disable Armenia’s web connection for hours last month, as well as disrupting services in ...

  Voiceless Victim

  • Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
    As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
  • Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
    Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
  • Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
    There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
  • Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
    Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
  • Who’s Looking After The Children?
    “Who’s looking after the children?” In Australia this week one man dared to ask this question of the highest court in the land. The High Court of Australia replied, “We’re only interested in looking after child rapists.” As a result, this courageous crusader is likely to die in jail, while some ...

  WL Central

  • 2011-04-08 WikiLeaks Challenges Media's Gateke ...
    TweetCitizens who are concerned with the state of media and democracy in the United States have gathered in Boston to talk about how to reform media. People are here to dig into some of the biggest developments in media, technology and democratic society to get closer to a truth, which can help ...
  • 2011-04-08 Vote for Julian Assange (Again) i ...
    TweetVote for Julian Assange in The 2011 TIME 100 Poll,
  • 2011-04-08 Another bloody Friday in #Syria
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  • 2011-04-08 Vote for Bradley Manning in The 20 ...
    TweetVote for Bradley Manning in The 2011 TIME 100 Poll, here! As of today, April 8, 2011, Bradley Manning is ranked at No. 39 out of 203 nominees for TIME Magazine's 2011 100 Poll. Julian Assange is ranked at No. 8. The popular mag invites readers to: "Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, ...
  • 2011-04-07 African refugees murdered, drowned ...
    TweetThe UK's Independent is reporting from an Eritrean priest who tracks migrants across the Mediterranean that the bodies of murdered African migrants have been washing ashore in Libya. Father Mussie Zerai, who is in Rome, says that his contacts in Tripoli have seen five bodies in a hospital t ...

  U N News

  • Successful polls a sign of Haitians' yearning ...
    The United Nations envoy for Haiti said today that the recent successful electoral process in the Caribbean nation is a demonstration of the resilience of its people and an indication of their determination to build a better country for themselves.
  • Continued US support vital to UN's success, Ba ...
    As United States lawmakers remain embroiled in a heated budget debate, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for continued support from the largest contributor to the United Nations system so that the world body can carry on with its important work.
  • Haiti will continue to need strong internation ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged the continued assistance of the United Nations for Haiti, which, while having made significant gains in recent months, still faces a number of daunting challenges such as reviving its crippled economy and strengthening the rule of law.
  • Ban to discuss UN's work with officials in Was ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to discuss with United States officials the work of the United Nations in a number of critical areas, his spokesperson announced today.
  • UN welcomes calm atmosphere as initial results ...
    The United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti today welcomed the release of the preliminary results of the country's presidential and legislative elections and urged Haitians to continue to show patience and calm in the lead-up to the release of final results.

  Conspiracy Reality TV

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

  Rewilding Institute

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

  Asia Sentinel

  • Who Got Swindled at Citibank Indonesia?
    Police generals suspected of keeping their loose change in Citigold accounts, as the mess for the bank gets worse by the day
  • Ecotourism? Don't Try China
    The locals want to go overseas
  • India's Tata Succession Struggle
    Indian way of succession leaves something to be desired
  • China's Bubble Economy
    The inevitable slowdown will affect all – from commodity producers to governments issuing debt
  • Japan: Relevant Again
    Quake underscores the country’s global importance

  We Know the Lies

  • POTENTAL Fukushima Fallout Forecast ... Now U ...
    �Indicating a POTENTIAL radiation release of Iodine-131,� Xenon-133 and Cesium-137.� Produced by officials within the Department of Atmospheric and Climate Research (ATMOS) at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). ~ MAP - Linksread more
  • HAARP Data Indicates... Japan Quake Was INDUCED
    � THE UNITED STATES Air Force and Navy has provided a visual insight into what caused the 9.0 magnitude off Japan on March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC...� Where was the USS Ronald Reagan on the morning of March 11, 2011...? read more
  • Cell Phone Surveillance... Recording Your Loca ...
    �Do you own a cell phone?� Do you think that it is private and secure?� You might want to think again.� The truth is that there is virtually no privacy when it comes to cell phones.� In fact, the amount of cell phone surveillance that goes on is absolutely staggering.� ~ Michael T Snyder - Vi ...
  • Obama's Assault on Weapons
    �"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." ~ Second Amendment to the United States Constitutionread more
  • *NOTICE*... US Military Vets are Being 'Summon ...
    This is a 'must see' 2:20 minute video.� This vet says he 'will not support another illegal war or murder'... ~ Videoread more

  Tatumba 2.0

  • Leonard Cohen exposes the New World Order thro ...
      It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the [ ...
  • I can prove that the Canadian Government Suppo ...
    First off Kadhafi Duck is a looney-toon thug. He has always been a tyrant but we, as a Western Civilization, have tolerated his evil because he sold his oil to the world. With a brief history lesson of the area, unbeknownst to the bulk of you mindless drones who know no better, Libya has been [. ...
  • Charlie Sheen – A WINNER – Fires Truth Torpedo ...
    This why I love Charlie Sheen. This guy can lift the veil off of the corruption that the mainstream media keeps over the fluoridated media zombie’s eyes in a verbose and oh-so-eloquent way. Here Charlie vents to David Degraw about the financial tyranny consuming our wealth, resources and freedom ...
  • The Fluoride Deception: the truth about water ...
    The Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, he exposes the truth about where fluoride really comes from: The toxic byproducts of the phosphate mining industry! Do your ...
  • Alex Jones On The View
    Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...

  Truth About Our World

  • Lyndon LaRouche: The Face of Evil
  • Commentary at NYU Nawal El Saadawi on US and t ...
  • Connecting the Dots: Autism Awareness
    Alison Rose Levy Dr. Ricki D. Robinson, M.D. honored World Autism Awareness Day with a thoughtful blog that superbly navigates between this steadily rising health concern and a medical model that has been challenged to find either an explanation or a treatment approach. Our health scientific res ...
  • We Are Not Being Told The Truth About Libya
    Johann Hari Columnist, the London Independent   Most of us have a low feeling that we are not being told the real reasons for the war in Libya. David Cameron’s instinctive response to the Arab revolutions was to jump on a plane and tour the palaces of the region’s dictators selling them the mo ...
  • “Blinding”Blue Light/ Flash Seen During Earthq ...
    Nuclear explosion?  Whatever it is, it isn’t being covered by the mainstream media, although it’s THEIR cameras that caught it.   April 7th, 2011 The Onagawa nuclear power plant has lost power and is currently running on back up generators after another huge quake rocked Japan. âAt 12:23 a.m. t ...

  Bloomberg

  • The Driving Force of Dividends
    Jeffrey Kleintop of PNC Advisors sees dividend growth as a positive force for the current market -- and even some tech stocks
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
  • Emulex: A Cash Stash from Data Storage
    S&P views the storage-gear maker as a major beneficiary of a big trend in information archiving -- the move to network-based technology
  • Some Fat Chances for Investors
    Megacaps have lagged of late, but a judicious mix of these giants' stocks has the potential to power a sluggish portfolio

  Enviroblog

  • New old news: 2004 Industry Tests Found 'Brock ...
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations Tap water industry representatives made no mention of their chromium-6 2004 study when they testified alongside EWG at a Feb. 2 Senate environment committee hearing on chromium-6 pollution. Some water utility... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Toxins in Our Kids' Foods: Where is the FDA?
    Guest Post by Laurie David and Robyn O'Brien, EWG Board Member Yesterday, in the face of a just- released report by the National Cancer Institute that showed a 9.4% increase in childhood cancer between 1992 and 2007(1), the FDA let... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Toxic trade mission: US pitched China on toxic ...
    By Alex Formuzis with Sonya Lunder In 2007, two members of Congress traveling on a tax-funded junket scolded a Chinese government official over tainted Chinese-made products, including lead-tainted children's toys, being exported to the United States.... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Chromium-6 in Gas Drilling Wastes?
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor The boom in natural gas drilling across the United States has spawned well-warranted fears that the fluids and chemicals used to free the gas from surrounding rock could pose a risk to drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Labor camps? Fine. But BPA crosses the line.
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice President for Media Relations China: Where anyone who speaks out against the government will likely languish for years in a prison cell; Where crackdowns on the press and Internet access happen again and again; Where... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

  Quick Hits

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

  Capital - NYC

  • Red Bulls change team-building tactics, create ...
    Last week's trade bringing Dwayne De Rosario, five-time member of Major League Soccer's Best XI, to the New York Red Bulls did more than simply plug a hole in the team's lineup. More
  • A Capital week in review: Goodbye to Cathie Bl ...
    Here's what happened this week. More
  • How does Brian De Palma do what he does, and h ...
    Brian De Palma’s thrillers depend on two kinds of conspiracies. There’s the kind that emboldens the individual and destroys his or her sense of self. And there’s the kind that seeks to bury him or her alive. “De Palma Suspense,” BAMcinemathek’s 13-day serie ...
  • A Capital anticipation list: Tina Fey, Vancouv ...
    Each week, Capital's editors will offer a list of the events, activities, releases and personal obsessions that we are looking forward to during the next week. Here is a list of our anticipations. More
  • After Cathie Black, maybe, public school leade ...
    The Bloomberg administration has never seemed that concerned about winning popularity contests when it comes to school reforms. The fact that the mayor so unceremoniously rid his administration of Cathie Black after just three months says a great deal about ...

  Views & News from Norway

  • Spring relieves electricity crisis
    The newly-arrived, mild Norwegian spring looks set to spare the country an electricity crisis, as rain and melting snow relieve the pressure on the country’s reservoirs, and reduce energy prices. Although reservoirs remain at historically low levels, the status of the energy supply in the count ...
  • Several still trapped in Ivory Coast
    13 Norwegians remain in the Ivory Coast as the conflict there intensifies, with Norwegian foreign ministry officials working to bring them home. All 13 are currently in different places within the country’s largest city, Abidjan, awaiting transport out of the conflict-ridden area. Norwegian auth ...
  • Majority supports Libya mission
    Seven out of 10 Norwegians support their country’s involvement in enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya, according to a new opinion poll. Six F-16 fighter jets have been sent from Norway to participate in the multinational mission. The survey, undertaken by research firm Respons Analyse for new ...
  • Minister urges toddler testing
    Norway’s education minister, Kristin Halvorsen, has released a new parliamentary report that seeks to reduce the number of Norwegian children receiving special education, including the controversial proposal that kindergarten pupils as young as three should have their language ability tested. T ...
  • One Chinese exhibit in Norway
    MUSEUM GUIDE: Norwayâs capital is full of museums, and theyâre often in the news. Weâre following that news, and aim to focus regularly on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The National Museum – Architecture, which has been hosting an exhibit on Chinese architecture a ...

  Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • GMOs Linked to Organ Disruption in 19 Studies
    A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% of the measured parameters, ...
  • How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30
    This video makes two things clear: We don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to make a compost tea brewer Things in the USA are too cheap! (I couldn’t get the items mentioned in this video for anything near as low a price as $30). It just goes to show how accustomed we are to [...]
  • Earth Policy Institute Video Asks “How Many Fa ...
    Watch the full episode. In this PBS-produced video, with actor and philanthropist Matt Damon narrating, Lester Brown gives a good overview of some of the current issues we face as a race. He connects the dots between the world’s rapidly melting glaciers, extreme weather events, and reso ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture Group Hosts Permacultu ...
    Click for larger, printable version Coinciding with Australia’s National Permaculture Day, the Gold Coast Permaculture Group will host a Permaculture Skill Fair Day on May 1st, 2011. This event will incorporate fun, interactive and educational talks, workshops and stalls relating to permacult ...
  • Passive Houses vs. Strawbale Buildings in the ...
    The housing industry has slowly developed itself for a century or so in the cheap oil economy, and is now well-rooted and developed in the market and minds. As subsequent use of constructed buildings normally spans over long time intervals, it is historically a conservative area of the economy, ...

  Telecrap Urinal

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

  Anna's News

  • Fake cancer drugs given to thousands: Conman j ...
    Thousands of cancer patients were given fake drugs in a multi-million pound scam that could have condemned them to early deaths.Peter Gillespie, 65, imported the bogus Chinese-made drugs and packaged them to make them look like genuine medicines for......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
  • The Key to a Long Life: Conscientious Habits
    Long before the age of gene therapy and miracle medical treatments, the secrets of long life were being gathered and revealed in a unique study of 1,500 children born about 1910. By studying these people throughout their lives, successive generations..Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness ...
  • Anand Kumar shows "The Way to IIT" with 'Super 30'
    IIT aspirants would be holding their hearts as the exam will be conducted on April 10 that will decide their fate about opportunity of getting admission into India's top technical institute. Instantly, Super 30 will come to mind whenever IIT will be......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Take a bite out of that: Ground-breaking apple ...
    Technological breakthroughs and the word �apple� seem to be synonymous these days but this latest advance has nothing to do with the computer giant.Japanese researchers have found a technique to create full-colour holograms and the discovery could .......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown
    Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years. Submitted by Anna Smith to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

  Medical Marijuana

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

  Truth About Our World

  • Lyndon LaRouche: The Face of Evil
  • Commentary at NYU Nawal El Saadawi on US and t ...
  • Connecting the Dots: Autism Awareness
    Alison Rose Levy Dr. Ricki D. Robinson, M.D. honored World Autism Awareness Day with a thoughtful blog that superbly navigates between this steadily rising health concern and a medical model that has been challenged to find either an explanation or a treatment approach. Our health scientific res ...
  • We Are Not Being Told The Truth About Libya
    Johann Hari Columnist, the London Independent   Most of us have a low feeling that we are not being told the real reasons for the war in Libya. David Cameron’s instinctive response to the Arab revolutions was to jump on a plane and tour the palaces of the region’s dictators selling them the mo ...
  • “Blinding”Blue Light/ Flash Seen During Earthq ...
    Nuclear explosion?  Whatever it is, it isn’t being covered by the mainstream media, although it’s THEIR cameras that caught it.   April 7th, 2011 The Onagawa nuclear power plant has lost power and is currently running on back up generators after another huge quake rocked Japan. âAt 12:23 a.m. t ...

  Gyrovague's Raves

  • Can I expand my short-term memory?
    by David Robson Never mind mastering a second language or a subject syllabus, most us have enough difficulty remembering the orders for a round of drinks at the pub. That’s because the average short-term, working memory can only hold five to seven pieces of information at any one time. This limi ...
  • International Support Is Needed in Conquering ...
    Translated By Nathan Biant Edited by Gillian Palmer Japan – Chunichi Shimbun – Original Article (Japanese) The support of various countries was soon offered to Japan after the disaster at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant. Both developed countries and developing countries are strongly reliant ...
  • Is Ulysses Overrated?
    All but one chapterâand not the one you think. By Ron Rosenbaum James Joyce, author of Ulysses Why did you decide to write this column in question-and-answer form? Good question! As a tribute to a single chapter in Ulysses, the 70-page chapter known as the "Ithaca episode," the penultimate secti ...
  • Cry havoc! And let slip the maths of war
    Warfare seems to obey mathematical rules. Whether soldiers can make use of that fact remains to be seen IN 1948 Lewis Fry Richardson, a British scientist, published what was probably the first rigorous analysis of the statistics of war. Richardson had spent seven years gathering data on the wars ...
  • Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle ...
    By David Kravets The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americansâ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the ...

  In Verbena | Royal Society

  • No title
    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
  • The legacy of Phineas Gage
    FROM SARAH MEE, POLICY ADVISER This rather macabre illustration is of the skull of Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman. In 1845 he was the victim of an explosion that caused a three foot long iron rod to pass through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. Remarkably, ...
  • An Agrarian Renaissance?
    FROM DINO MCMAHON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Tuesday 15 February, I went along to the launch of the all-party parliamentary group on Agroecology.  Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture.  It studies the interaction between plants, animals, humans and the environment.  an incr ...

  NAU Resistance

  • U.S. Predator Drones Patrol Canadian Border
    What this is really about is the creation of a common security perimeter around the continent of North America
  • Parliamentary Law Bars Harper From Re-Election
    By: PAUL W KINCAID March 28, 2011 – 7:27 am Canada Elections Act CANDIDATES â Qualifications http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=loi%2Ffel%2Fcea&document=part06&lang=e Ineligible candidates 65. The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate: (b) a person who is dis-ent ...
  • Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
    "The Conservative government has maintained that a security perimeter with the U.S. will not impact on sovereignty"
  • Harper Cronies Intentionally Misleading Canadians
    "Now we've learned that the F-35 stealth fighter deal is connected to Harper's plan to build a security perimeter around Canada and the United States- a Fortress North America!"
  • Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
    Obama also announced, “we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries.” He added, “I look forward to consulting with Congress and moving forward in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollar ...

  Gaea Times

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

  TruthNews Australia

  • Duelling carbon tax rallies in Sydney - 2nd Ap ...
    Hereward Fenton reports on pro and anti carbon tax rallies held in Sydney on 2 April 2011. Some observations about the events: the anti-carbon tax protest was composed of a wide demographic in terms of age, education and occupation, whereas the pro carbon tax group appeared to be mainly co ...
  • Goldstone’s shameful U-turn
    Judge Richard Goldstone in the Gaza Strip, June 2009. (UN Photo) "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone's much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might ...
  • The 9/11 truth movement needs leaders
    The 9/11 truth movement in Australia desperately needs YOUR help. We need YOU to take charge, step up and LEAD. The truth is, while a handful have exhausted both their energy and finances, thousands of others have just looked on and done NOTHING to help us. If you are one of those people, th ...
  • Scott Grainger, fire protection engineer, blow ...
    This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary: "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" - AE911truth.org
  • The people say NO to the Carbon Tax!
    Today I welcome to the show Luke Jenkins, organiser of the Sydney No Carbon Tax Rally, to be held in Hyde Park on Saturday 2nd April 2011. Luke explains why he became an activist in the campaign, and we cover some of the key questions and controversies within the topic of anthropogenic climate ...

  Beacon

  • Japan’s Radiation Leak Causes Fishing and Ship ...
    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since our first post about the impacts of Japan�s nuclear crisis on the oceans, a lot has happened, but many questions remain and the situation is constantly changing. As the cooling systems for the injured reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle ...
  • Where Are They Now?: Ocean Hero Jay Holcomb
    Jay Holcomb with a pelican patient. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Throughout the nomination period, which ends April 27, I’ll be featuring a few of the past winners and finalists to get you inspired. Last week I updated you on last year’s Junior ...
  • Washington State Passes Shark Fin Trade Ban
    Great news from the Evergreen State: Washington State’s legislature has passed a bill banning the illegal trade of shark fins, an extraordinary step toward shark conservation on the U.S. Pacific coast. The legislation now goes to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. While shark finnin ...
  • Christie’s Green Auction Raises $1.4 Million ( ...
    The Runway to Green fashion show. Photos © Oceana/John Dee Last Tuesday evening, the live component of Christie’s Green Auction raised $1.4 million to benefit four environmental organizations: Oceana, Conservation International, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Central Park ...
  • Oceana Proposes a Canary Islands MPA
    Last week, in a culmination of several years of work, our European colleagues presented a proposal to protect 15% of the marine area around Spain’s Canary Islands. If the proposal is accepted, it would multiply the current protected area by 100. Here’s the back story: In 2009 the Oceana Ranger, ...

  Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • More Hot Air Balloons. From X-Planes, Blogroll ...
    “Dignitaries and seamen cheer as Japan’s first military balloon, made of 1,400 yards of paper with a rubber coating, is tested at the naval ministry in 1877” “An American family watches from its bayside terrace as Japanese balloons float over the foreign quarter of Tokyo” (1877 woodcut) “Ascensi ...
  • Very Cool Curiosity Rover Mission Animation
    Click here to view the [...]
  • Dirigibles. From X- Planes.
    Dirigible "City of Glendale" Steel Stable Dirgible From The Slate [...]
  • Camera On A Falcon And A Goshawk, Two Of The F ...
    Click here to view the [...]
  • Morihei Uyeshiba Invented Aikido And This Vide ...
    Click here to view the [...]

  Taylor Marsh

  • Working Class Whites Remain Cold on Obama
    **UPDATED** Details on the appropriations deal are still hard to come by, but you don’t need the details to know that substantial short-term cuts in domestic discretionary spending will hurt the poor while harming macroeconomic performance. The problem with not agreeing to the deal, of course, ...
  • 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%, ...
  • Couric to Leave News, Targets Daytime
    Katie Couric, the news anchor whose interview with Sarah Palin did more to characterize the first female on the Republican ticket than anything she did herself, is leaving her job after her $15 million a year contract expires June 4th. Oprah Winfrey made her mark by doing scads of victim shows, ...
  • My $0.02/Saturday: Cerebral Is as Cerebral Does
    Morning, news junkies. First up… a personal note of congratulations to my blogger friend, Lake Lady, who on Wednesday was elected mayor of Byrnes Hill, Missouri. Mayor Lake Lady, you are a true inspiration! Throughout your campaign, I’ve been reminded of this quote from Margaret Mead: “Never do ...
  • TPM Turns Into ‘The President’s Media’ on Laun ...
    It’s good to be Josh Marshall today. Ground zero in the blogosphere for Pres. Obama’s relaunch will be his site. That’s nothing new and just because you have advertising from a company doesn’t mean you represent their views, though in this case it does and this is one hell of an ad buy, which [...]

  Hudson New York

  • The Palestinians' Own Goal
    The assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was a well known Israeli Arab actor and film producer who moved to live in the West Bank to help Palestinians establish a theater, has seriously embarrassed the Palestinian Authority. Although its leaders
  • The Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. Enablers
    Last month, Ahmed Bedier, an extremist Muslim from Tampa, Florida, who had attended Cairo rallies against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, tried to apply the lessons he learned while agitating in Egypt, and attempted to apply them to the Florida State
  • Chavez Defends Gaddafi, Tries to Save Assad
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez can be counted on always to stand on the side of radicals and dictatorships. After defending the Libyan regime, Chavez is now trying to save Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The Venezuelan leadership is openly supporting
  • Turkey 'More Democratic' Than Some EU Members
    THIS WILL BE ERDOGAN'S LAST ELECTION Speaking at the closed session of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made important statements regarding his party's candidate lists. Recalling that members of his
  • Spain: The "Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe"
    Spain emerged as one of the most anti-Semitic countries in the European Union in 2010, and the Spanish government has done nothing about it, according to the authors of an annual report that tracks anti-Semitic violence on the Iberian Peninsula. The

  Urban Survival

  • Coping: With the Horrible Earthquake Trend
    Every month, spreadsheet job/reader/contributor Tony Ring generously sends us the monthly crunch of long-term earthquake data.  What he does is log into the USGS database and then slices and dices by month, subtotals and figures.  Even he was amazed at … Continue reading →
  • GlobalRev Heats Up – Again
    I suppose its only right to begin our Monday morning adventure with a look over the shoulder at this weekend.  We have the US military none too happy about the Quran burning in the US which touched off a wave … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Wars of Convenience
    Nice to see that people who read this site maintain their level-headedness despite the daily barrage of bummers (and partial truths) that spew forth from the mainstream media. For example, when I noted that Sweden was sending some jet fighter … Continue reading →
  • Game Time: Let’s Play Brinksmanship & Bu ...
    Always good theater to watch as the republicorps and the democorps are once again playing the time-honored game of government budget brinksmanship.  It’s all dandy theater and it provides a nice break from the still-leaking nuke plants and still evolving … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Copyrights and Complexity
    Some mornings we get into nitty-gritty stuff here, other days are like this one.  Just a more or less constant parade of housekeeping items; some of which are interesting, perhaps others not. First up is the small tweak of the … Continue reading →

    Blacklisted News

  • Jurors vote to acquit the former CIA operativ ...
    A Texas jury on Friday acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to U.S. authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in 1997.
  • Johnson & Johnson fined for bribing doctors
    US authorities fined cosmetics and drugs giant Johnson & Johnson $70 million on Friday for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq.
  • Syria’s biggest day of unrest yet sees at lea ...
    Anti-government demonstrations have spread across Syria with the highest turnout yet in a month of unrest, despite a heavy crackdown by security forces in Deraa in which at least 22 people were reported killed.
  • Special Forces scandal as officers are held ‘ ...
  • A Militarized Economy Cannot Balance the Budget
    It does not matter on what side of the political fence you sit during the current budget debates. The fact is that if our leaders are not willing to take into account our over-dependence on a militarized economy and change it, we will never balance the budget. Our progeny will face an endless s ...

  The Intelligence Daily

  • Powerful Aftershock Rocks Japan
    by Stephen Lendman Measuring 7.1 (one or more other reports said 7.4), rocked northeast Japan,...
  • Madoff Calls Big Investors ‘Complicit’ in Jail ...
    by Jake Bernstein, ProPublica A recent jailhouse interview conducted by the Financial Times with...
  • A Question of Values and Ethics
    By Brian McAfee The Muskegon, Michigan Tea Party has scheduled a rally in the Muskegon area for...
  • Deteriorating Oil and Gas Wells Threaten Drink ...
    by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have...
  • The Japanese Economy Is In Much Bigger Trouble ...
    by Michael T. Snyder (The Economic Collapse Blog) Now that nearly a month has gone by since the...

  My AntiWar

  • Iran Says Ready to ‘Resolve’ Diffe ...
  • Iran, North Korea Eyed Swiss Technology
  • US Officials Have Long Been Warned About Saleh ...
  • Saudi Oil Disruption Is Unlikely: Credit Agricole
  • Video: Syrian State TV Shows Footage of Gunmen ...

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Three Mideast Stink Bombs
    Summary: Sharmine Narwani Popular revolts may be spinning through the Arab world with a fervor and determination not seen in decades, but efforts to sidetrack the reform momentum are also gaining strength. Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at ev ...
  • Israeli Official Admits to Tuesday Attack on Sudan
    Summary: 'Not Our First Time There,' Confirms Military Official source: Antiwar.comread more
  • New Iran group to press White House on democracy
    Summary: With democratic revolutions shaking the Middle East, a Democratic think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the pro-democracy group Freedom House are launching a new task force aimed at shifting American policy on its central regional foe, Iran, toward a more aggressive focu ...
  • Four Iranian police killed in border attack: r ...
    Summary: The report said the attack happened Friday night in the city of Marivan. "Unidentified armed people threw a grenade into the police office," it said. On March 25, news agencies reported two policemen were shot dead and three other people wounded in two "terrorist" shootings in the ...
  • A Package to Resolve the Nuclear Impasse with Iran
    Summary: Mousavian Eight years of negotiations between Iran and the P5+ Germany on the nuclear issue have failed and will likely continue to do so, as long as the existing negotiating strategy and the hostilities between Iran and the US persist. After the revolution, despite Western support ...

  The Daily Galaxy

  • Weekend Feature: 40-Year-Old Mystery of Massiv ...
    Studies have shown that neutron stars often exist as pairs on the fringes of galaxies, and that they collide frequently, sometimes involving a black hole, also a stellar remnant but one that is much more dense. Neutron stars are often...
  • Weekend Feature Image: The Massive Planet of B ...
    The dense clouds of carbon enveloping a nearby massive star, Beta Pictoris, hint that the star may be aggregating new planets, according to a past study led by Aki Roberage of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Only 12 million...
  • Our Solar System Seems to Exist Inside a "Bubb ...
    We seem to be inside a "local bubble" in a network of cavities in the interstellar medium, probably carved by massive star explosions millions of years ago. The interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter that exists in the space...
  • Do We Owe Our Existence to Interstellar Forma ...
    A common molecule throughout the universe, formaldehyde, a poison, is now believed to be the source of the solar system's organic carbon solids -- abundant in both comets and asteroids. Scientists have long speculated about the how organic, or carbon-containing,...
  • Image of the Day: New Mars' Volcanoes Snapped
    ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of mist-capped volcanoes located in the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Long after volcanic activity ceased, the area was transformed by meteor impacts that deposited ejected material over the lower flanks of the...

  Natural News

  • Extreme weather taking a huge toll on global f ...
    (NaturalNews) An increase in the prevalence of extreme weather events due to global warming will seriously affect global food production worldwide, climate and agriculture experts are increasingly warning."Climate change threatens to make large areas of the planet unsuitable for human habitation ...
  • Seventy-five percent of prostate cancer cases ...
    (NaturalNews) More than 75 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are treated aggressively, even though most prostate cancers are slow-growing and will never pose a risk to a man's life, according to a study conducted by researchers from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and UMDNJ-Robert ...
  • New study - You can literally spice up your lo ...
    (NaturalNews) (NaturalNews) Drugs for pumping up sex lives come with a long list of potentially bothersome and even dangerous side effects. But scientists from the University of Guelph have come up with evidence natural aphrodisiacs exist. In fact, if you want to spice up your sex life, try doin ...
  • Last-minute budget deal narrowly avoids the Bi ...
    (NaturalNews) The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats want to spend us into oblivion while the Republicans only want to spend us into purgatory. The idea of actually running a balanced budget has never seriously occurred to either party. Government, after a ...
  • New study says plant-based foods help prevent ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Minnesota Hormel Institute now admit that plant-based foods are highly beneficial in helping to prevent cancer, particularly among those who have the highest risk of developing the disease. Published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, their stu ...

  Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
    Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
  • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
    A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...
  • In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Aut ...
    Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree. Gonzalez, ...
  • Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Am ...
    The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Comm ...
  • Feds, RIAA Ask $22,500 in Damages Per Song
    Do federal judges have the power to reduce jury awards in copyright-infringement cases? The Obama administration and the Recording Industry Association of America don’t think so. They argued that point Monday before a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which ha ...

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • Grant and the Enduring Lessons of Appomattox
    On April 12th, Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War. The reenactors will be out in force, though their numbers will be dwarfed by the revisionists pretending the conflict was about anything else but slavery. Even as the ...
  • "Big Abortion" and the GOP's Bogus Budget Battle
    Back in early February, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan presented the Republican leadership's plan to cut $35 billion from the remainder of the fiscal year 2011 budget. As it turns out, that dollar figure is roughly the same one John Boehner, Harry Reid and President Obama have closin ...
  • Party of Lincoln Wages War for Government Shutdown
    As the nation prepares to mark next week's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the Party of Lincoln stands on the brink of shutting down the federal government. But whether it comes this week over the GOP's budgetary blackmail of Planned Parenthood and the EPA or next month over th ...
  • 50 Years Later, Republicans Still Trying to Ki ...
    Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed the obvious about Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare as we know it. The GOP plan to "voucherize" and inevitably ration Medicare would lead to future seniors paying more - much more - for health insurance. Of course, killing the wildly popula ...
  • GOP Budget Pits Rich, Elderly Against Everyone ...
    Last November, the elderly and the rich powered Republicans to victory in the midterm elections. Voters aged 65 and older backed the GOP by a staggering 59% to 38%, while boosting their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% in 2008. Those with family incomes over $200,000 chose Republicans over ...

  Blackspot News Feed

  • Positively Orwellian by Dennis Kucinich
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Apr 8, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement responding the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion regarding the President’s authority to use military force in Libya: In the leg ...
  • It’s Time To Go To Work For The Solar Initiati ...
    By Steve Windisch (jibbguy) Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 8, 2011 The below is a possible Letter to an elected official. We would urge you to please write one and send it, letting them know this subject is both important to us all, and to our planet. Sadly, due to terrible events, NOW is ...
  • The Empire conducts a war fest (or business as ...
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info April 8, 2011 To paraphrase, the first casualty of capitalism is the truth and the outrageous and totally illegal invasion of Libya, launched with so much super-heated air, has degenerated into a vile exposé of the true nature ...
  • From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa T ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 8, 2011 On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military operations in fellow West African nation Ivory Coast and t ...
  • David Cameron’s Gift of War and Racism, to The ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House www.johnpilger.com April 08, 2011 The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West’s response to popular uprisings in strategi ...

  Consortium News

  • NYT Demands Libyan War Escalation
    New York Times' neocon editors call on President Obama to use close-combat attack aircraft in Libyan cities, Robert Parry reports. April 8, 2011
  • Strange Twist in Wisconsin Battle
    A Republican clerk's fortuitous discovery of thousands of lost votes put a key GOP judge over the top in Wisconsin, notes Lisa Pease. April 8, 2011
  • Iraqis Resist Longer US Occupation
    President Obama signals a willingness to extend the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but some Iraqi leaders balk, reports Gareth Porter. April 8, 2011
  • Rep. Ryans' Free-Market 'Death Panels'
    Rep. Paul Ryan's GOP budget would phase out Medicare and confront the elderly sick with life-or-death choices, says Robert Parry. April 7, 2011
  • Eliminating Medicare for the Elderly
    Republican congressional leaders are taking aim at Medicare, seeking to force seniors into private insurance, notes Margaret Flowers. April 7, 2011

  CounterPunch

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

  Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Goldstone Reignites Gaza Debate (The Alyona S ...
  • Early morning strikes kill 3 Hamas militants ...
    Israeli forces resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early morning Saturday targeting a private car in the Tel As-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the south, and several other sites acr ...
  • Jerusalem tram construction company out of Lon ...
    Reports that a company who built Jerusalem's tramline will not be considered for a $1.63 billion contract in London, were welcomed by Palestinian activists Friday. Veolia, a French mu ...
  • Village remains under siege weeks after settle ...
    Awarta is a poor, sprawling village in the northern occupied West Bank. Surrounded by land that is now a vivid green from the winter rains, trails of cactus plants grow between the ho ...
  • Twitter Timeline: Revealing Context in #Gaza ...
    In what will likely be followed by more attacks on Gaza, a projectile fired from Gaza hit a bus inside Israel injuring those inside. Suddenly, news stories began to appear, the "twitterverse" began reflecting the news of the attack and Israeli officials already began to speak of punishing Gaza f ...

  Water - AlterNet

  • Deteriorating Oil and Gas Wells Threaten Drink ...
    There's been warnings for decades that abandoned wells can provide pathways for oil, gas or brine-laden water to contaminate groundwater supplies or to travel up to the surface.
  • Retaking Capitol Hill from Big Coal: DC Strate ...
    "The coal lobby doesn't get freebies anymore, because thousands of regular American citizens are standing up and going toe-to-toe with them."
  • "Sue the Bastards": Kentucky Leader ...
    "If I could have one wish for how to really put a dent into what is happening I think I would wish for tort attorneys and expert witnesses to sue the bastards."
  • The Dirty Truth Behind America's Obsession Wit ...
    Most Americans don't know the ugly backstory of the shrimp on their plates: destroyed mangrove forests, toxic sludge, and displaced lives.
  • There's Nothing Natural About Natural Gas
    It's not a choice between coal and natural gas. We are facing a choice between a truly clean energy future or more of the same. Natural gas is just a bridge to nowhere.

  Public Citizen in Texas

  • Noisier, Nastier, and Costlier Elections
    Most folks outside of Wisconsin and the Washington beltway were not paying much attention to that state’s recent state supreme court justice election, but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision this election was a study in what judicial elections have evolved into — a trend ...
  • Corporate welfare for oil and gas or fully fun ...
    Texas oil and gas officials will plead with House Appropriations Committee members next week that the industry needs its $1.2 billion annual tax break, more than children need fully funded schools or the elderly need nursing homes to stay open. The committee will take testimony on April 14 from ...
  • Whaaaa, don’t take my tax break away
    In another effort to stave off critics who call a $1 billion annual tax break for high-cost gas producers in Texas outrageous, a study paid for by the industry has emerged intended to scare folks into believing that for every $1 the state spends in tax breaks it gets back about $4 in related eco ...
  • News Roundup for April 4, 2011
    The Texas Progressive Alliance would have voted against HB1 as well as it brings you this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff notes that when one Bradley goes away, another one gets nominated. Three Wise Men examines the possibility of a federal government shutdown and what Republicans are doing w ...
  • “Jumpers” (ジャンパー) wanted
    Wanted: Short term, possibly long term position that pays thousands of dollars for up to an hour of work requiring little training working in perilously radioactive environments. A Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) official said this week that the company has tasks fit for “jumpers” (ã¸ã£ã³ãã¼) — ...

  Unexplained Mysteries

  • Russia outlines plan to build moon base
    Russia are planning to build a manned outpost on the moon by 2030 and use it to stage a mission to Mars. As the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's his...
  • ET life researcher Baruch Blumberg dies
    Baruch Blumberg who helped NASA begin its search for alien life in the 1970s has died aged 85. Nobel Prize winner Blumberg was credited with saving mi...
  • Crab with three pincers caught by fishermen
    A mutant crab with three pincers has been fished up in a lobster pot off the coast of Northumberland. Nicknamed Claude the crab was donated to the Blu...
  • Sci-fi fans undergo surgery for elvish ears
    A new craze is seeing fans of Middle Earth having their ears sculpted to look like an elf. The painful looking operation involves the top cartilage of...
  • Worms rain from the sky over Scotland
    In an unusual Fortean event pupils at a Scottish school encountered worms raining down from the sky. A PE lesson at Galashiels Academy was cut short w...

  Grassroots

  • The Coming Global Food Fight
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Robin Broad is a Professor of International Development at American University in Washington, D.C. and has worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Congress. John Cavanag ...
  • Closure in Beit Ommar violates resource rights
    4420070025_7d496d4fc5_b.jpg This article, Israel lays Gaza-like siege on West Bank village, highlights many threats to resource rights in Palestine, as the people living there have diminishing access to land, water, and food. These develop ...
  • Mourning the death of a colleague, and fearing ...
    juliano.jpg Sometimes the work we engage in as people who believe in a just peace in the face of a brutal world is quite simply heart breaking. Today is such a day.read more
  • Celebrating Palestinian Land Day
    olive_tree_in_field.jpg At the rate the Separation Wall is being built, soon Palestinian Land Day (March 30) will need only a few hours. The Wall and the Israeli mandated buffer zones jut into the Palestinian territories by as much as 300 ...
  • Update from farmers in Japan
    �Below is an update from Grassroots International�s partner, the Via Campesina, concerning the situation of farmers in Japan. To keep up to date with the� Noumiren blog, visit http://earlybirds.ddo.jp/earlybirds/saigai/?lang=en.read more

  Climate

  • EU Plans to Link Emissions Trading Scheme with ...
    Source:� Guardian Europe's commissioner for climate action on Tuesday confirmed for the first time plans to link the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) with California's carbon market which opens next year.
  • U.S. House Votes to Curb Climate Regulation
    Source:� AFP The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill aimed at preventing the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. �
  • EPA Concerns Key to Budget Battle
    Source:� Politico The White House and the Senate Democratic leadership are standing firm against efforts to unravel EPA. But it's uncertain how long they�ll be able to hold off attacks to protect EPA rules.
  • Schumer: Deal 'Impossible' with Riders
    Source:� The Hill An agreement to avert a government shutdown is near "impossible" unless Republicans drop policy riders from a funding bill, leading Senate Democrats said Thursday.
  • GE to Build Cheaper Thin-Film Solar Panel Plan ...
    Source:� VentureBeat General Electric has finished acquiring thin-film solar panel maker PrimeStar Solar and will build a 400-MW thin-film solar panel manufacturing plant in the U.S., the company announced.

  GreenBiz

  • Avon, Dunkin' Among Firms Enlisting in EDF's C ...
    Avon, Dunkin' Brands, Citigroup and Facebook are the among the 49 firms participating in the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps this summer as the program that brings fresh eyes to energy efficiency challenges enters its fourth year.
  • GE Report Finds Gas Flaring Wastes 5 Percent o ...
    In a time when energy is scarce, unused fuel is simply being burned away in the common but highly wasteful practice of gas flaring, according to a new report from General Electric.
  • Dell to Ship Servers in Mushroom Based Packaging
    Dell looks to nature for new packaging options.
  • Chemists Lay Out Roadmap for Sustainable Fuels ...
    Chemists from around the world discuss how materials chemistry can bring sustainability to fuel cells, batteries, energy, plastics, fertilizers and more. �
  • The Other Half of the Smart Grid Story
    Despite a tremendous focus on smart grid, there is little attention paid to consumption. If the smart grid industry is so concerned about efficiency on the grid, they should be equally concerned about the way electricity is consumed beyond the grid. �

  Reuters Global

  • Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, a deterrent ...
    Pakistan's nuclear weapons are meant to counter India's conventional military superiority but they may also be aimed at deterring a U.S. attack should relations break down completely.
  • Gbagbo and the crocodiles — can the cycl ...
    Isn't it poignant to recall, then, as Ouattara's forces, aided and abetted by the former colonial power France, besiege Gbagbo in his bunker that Ivory Coast's first post-colonial ruler Houphouet-Boigny also was considered a progressive in his day?
  • India and Pakistan: practising peace
    The latest attempt at peacemaking between India and Pakistan has the advantage of combining political leadership with more structured dialogue between bureacrats.
  • Nigeria’s non-vote: Incompetence or sabotage?
    A Nigerian vote delay has inevitably put another question mark over the credibility of a series of elections seen as a chance for a break from a history of ballots where fraud and thuggery have been the order of the day.
  • A tribute to journalist and colleague Sabah al ...
    For those of us who work in the Baghdad bureau, it is always a shock to look back through the collected photos of one of our Iraqi colleagues. We think we are used to those old scenes. But seen one after another, the images compiled over eight years of carnage by a single journalist like Sabah a ...

  Booman Tribune

  • For GOP, Deficits Still Don't Matter
    If you know any wingnuts in your personal life, please tell them that all John Boehner's threats and posturing only resulted in saving less than a third of the money it cost to extend the Bush tax cuts. In both cases, Democrats made big concessions on key Republican agenda items tax and s ...
  • All Spending is Not Good Spending
    It's funny. I guess Duncan wasn't in the mood to listen to my request that progressives engage in less all spending is good spending analysis, since he retorted with exactly that rhetoric. I understand his point and it will take a small bit of argument to explain why I disagree with it. Dunca ...
  • The Aftermath
    I have to rescind my assessment last night that John Boehner got nothing out of the late negotiations on the 2011 budget. Apparently, he won the restoration of a ban on the District of Columbia spending its own money to help poor women attain abortions. President Obama and the Democrats had li ...
  • Now They Try to Soften Boehner's Landing
    It looks like the far right of the Republican Party (as represented by Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee) is creating some room for John Boehner to cave and make a deal with the president. Their rationale is identical to the rationale I gave this morning for not making any concessions whatsoev ...
  • Quote of the Day: Diane Feinstein
    You know things have gotten ugly when Sen. Diane Feinstein gets intemperate: "The numbers have been agreed to, but it's an opportunity for the right wing in the House to really sock it to women,"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said. "I don't usually use this language, but I really believe this i ...

  European Tribune

  • Saturday Open Thread
    Where the sun is shining....
  • European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
    �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1241 - in the...
  • Friday Open Thread
    Shoot the breeze...
  • European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch ...
    �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1946 - formation of...
  • Thursday Open Thread
    Where the piano has been drinking....

  Futurismic

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

  Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy Friday! This week’s news details some of the latest research on workplace satisfaction, very important new discoveries about long term depression treatment, and information about alcohol use in light of Alcohol Awareness Month. We hope y ...
  • Women Feel Prettier by Having More Things
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A new study discovers a link between a womanâs view of material possessions and a negative body image. Lead author Eleni-Marina Ashikali discusses the findings. “Not all women are affected in the same way by looking at idealized media models, and it has therefore b ...
  • Power Up Communication by Finding “The Lost Co ...
    By Lori Hollander LCSW-C, BCD Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lori and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “The Lost Conversation” is the one that goes beyond the spoken word, diving deeper into the conflict, to uncover the hidden and unconscious conversati ...
  • People Pleasing and Looking for Mr/Ms Right
    By Beverly Amsel, Ph.D., Individuation Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beverly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When I think about many of the clients I see in therapy, men and women who want to develop relationships, find partners and have families of their own, there are m ...
  • Workday Improves from Positive Morning Mood
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research shows that if an employee starts their day in a good mood, it will positively impact their interactions with their managers, peers and overall production. The study showed that when workers kicked their day off on a high note, they felt better about ...

  Mountaintop Removal

  • Banks come under fire for mountain top removal ...
    Banks come under fire for mountain top removal ties Environmental Expert (press release) UBS, Citi, and PNC banks are the biggest financiers of mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in the USA's Appalachian mountain region, according to a new report issued this week. Only Credit Suisse came away uns ...
  • Looks like environment was spared - Louisville ...
    Treehugger Looks like environment was spared Louisville Courier-Journal (blog) They included measures to strip the EPA of power over regulating mountaintop removal mining, and regulating air and water pollution. Longtime clean air advocate Frank O'Donnell sent a notice out last night briefly di ...
  • URGENT: Mountaintop removal threat on spending ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) URGENT: Mountaintop removal threat on spending bill Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Word on the street (and on CNN) is that Republican budget dealmakers now want to weaken EPA's ability to address mountaintop removal mining as part of a spending ...
  • Don't like air pollution? Can I interest you i ...
    Streetsblog Capitol Hill (blog) Don't like air pollution? Can I interest you in some water pollution? Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) In the last several hours, we've been hearing that Republican leaders have sought to include riders to prevent the government from carefully scrutinizin ...
  • Beshear Visits Mountaintop Removal Sites - WFPL
    Beshear Visits Mountaintop Removal Sites WFPL Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear spent part of Thursday visiting mountaintop removal coal mining sites in Eastern Kentucky. Beshear's trip was the fulfillment of a promise he made to a group of activists who staged a protest in his office in February ...

  Memeorandum

  • Rep. Allen West will vote no on budget deal (B ...
    Bob Cusack / The Hill: Rep. Allen West will vote no on budget deal  —  Rep. Allen West is against the bipartisan budget deal struck by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the Obama administration.  —  West told The Hill that $39 billion in cuts is insufficient.  Asked whether he was pleased with ...
  • US to fund $20m remake of Sesame Street for Pa ...
    BBC: US to fund $20m remake of Sesame Street for Pakistan  —  The show will be set in a Pakistan village and be mostly in Urdu  —  The United States is funding a Pakistani remake of the popular TV children's show Sesame Street.  —  In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID …
  • Sidney Lumet, Director of American Film Classi ...
    Robert Berkvist / New York Times: Sidney Lumet, Director of American Film Classics, Dies at 86  —  Sidney Lumet, a director who preferred the streets of New York to the back lots of Hollywood and whose stories of conscience — “12 Angry Men,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Verdict,” “Netw ...
  • Soldiers and Protesters Clash in Cairo (Associ ...
    Associated Press: Soldiers and Protesters Clash in Cairo  —  CAIRO (AP) — Demonstrators burned cars and barricaded themselves with barbed wire inside a central Cairo square demanding the resignation of the military's head after troops violently dispersed an overnight protest killing one and inj ...
  • Congressional leaders close to agreement on bu ...
    Washington Post: Congressional leaders close to agreement on budget deal, aides say  —  Gallery: Government shutdown 2011: Democrats and Republicans have so far failed to reach an agreement on the 2011 federal budget, increasing the likelihood of the first government shutdown in more than 15 y ...

  Energy & Environment News

  • Green: Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field ...
    "When I hear scientists say, 'The data speak for themselves,' I cringe," a social scientist says. "Data never speak."
  • Commodities’ Success Brings Calls for C ...
    Because commodities have performed so well in the last year, some advisers say it may be better to wait for their next boom.
  • Flexing After an Energy Boost
    Some of the top-performing mutual funds of the first quarter benefited from their oil and gas industry holdings.
  • Op-Ed Contributor: Mother Nature’s Melt ...
    Non-native species, like human immigrants, do more good than harm.
  • Japan Cargo Is Screened at U.S. Ports
    A system installed after the Sept. 11 attacks is now also being used to detect any radiation-tainted Japanese imports.

  5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.1, Kyushu, Japan
    Saturday, April 9, 2011 12:57:49 UTCSaturday, April 9, 2011 09:57:49 PM at epicenterDepth: 21.30 km (13.24 mi)
  • M 5.2, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Thursday, April 7, 2011 22:02:19 UTCFriday, April 8, 2011 07:02:19 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.00 km (21.13 mi)
  • M 5.0, north of Honduras
    Thursday, April 7, 2011 21:06:05 UTCThursday, April 7, 2011 03:06:05 PM at epicenterDepth: 16.20 km (10.07 mi)
  • M 5.4, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Sunday, April 3, 2011 07:38:46 UTCSunday, April 3, 2011 04:38:46 PM at epicenterDepth: 57.30 km (35.60 mi)
  • M 5.1, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Sunday, April 3, 2011 03:09:11 UTCSunday, April 3, 2011 12:09:11 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.10 km (19.32 mi)

  China Dialogue

  • Joining forces on the grasslands
    Cooperative herding in Inner Mongolia embodies the spirit of traditional nomad culture – it is also a path to economic development and grassland protection, writes Zhou Wei.This winter, continuous snows covered the pastures of Inner Mongolia’s East Ujumchin Banner. On the phone to Hobshalt, I co ...
  • Physics of the future
    A new deep science programme at Cambridge University, funded by a high-flying financier, will hunt for technologies to protect the planet. John Elkington went to the launch.Hedge-fund superstar David Harding has just made the biggest ever gift to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University: ...
  • In Shanxi, lasting pain (1)
    A fatal radiation incident 19 years ago still casts a shadow over the lives of a mother and daughter in north China, reports Cui Zheng in the first instalment of a two-part article.Zhang Jingsheng puts on some light make-up, ties her hair back in a ponytail and leaves the house in a short jacket ...
  • In Shanxi, lasting pain (2)
    Across China, radiation sources are used in healthcare, agriculture and industry. But sloppy management has led to accidents, writes Cui Zheng, concluding a two-part article.The Zhang family tragedy was the only case of radiation poisoning that Lou Bincheng dealt with in his long career as a doc ...
  • Climate crisis on our plates
    While speaking up for policy reform, individuals can help provide market demand for climate-friendly foods by following the principles of a climate-friendly diet, writes Anna Lappé.The following extract, published with permission, is from the Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2011: Innov ...

  AlterNet Top Stories

  • Your Own Personal Tahrir
    Your Own Personal Tahrir There is a moment half-way through âTweets from Tahrirâ – the new tweet by tweet running quotation of the Egyptian Revolution – where the reader gets goosebumps. Itâs when you realize, âI could do this. I could have my own personal Tahrir.â The young people who ran up an ...
  • Michele Bachmann Helped Spawn An Entire Genre ...
    “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” – George Orwell, 1984 Would Michele Bachmann lie about her family genealogy to seem more “Iowan”, presumably to impress state residents who might attend the upcoming February 2012 Iowa caucus, th ...
  • Obama Hails Short-Term Deal to Avert Governmen ...
  • GOP Offers No Death Panels, Just Death From La ...
    Republicans concocted death panels in an attempt to terrify Americans about health care reform, then propagated the lie because they wanted insurance corporations to profit from illness and injury unfettered. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed anyway, but now the GOP has annou ...
  • For the Family Research Council, government sh ...
    The Family Research Council seems to be taking time from its “busy schedule” of gay-baiting in order to inform folks about the possibly imminent government shutdown. And the organization’s actions seem to indicate the prevailing story coming out of Washington, i.e. the possibility of a govern ...

  Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related ...
    Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government. For four months the Justice Department has been seeking non-content information about WikiLeaks’ official Twi ...
  • Trucker Convicted of eBay Extortion Plot Loses ...
    A Tennessee trucker who posted an eBay auction offering sensitive personal information that Las Vegas casinos kept on high-rolling clients has lost a bid to overturn his four-year prison term and conviction. Ruling 2-1, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday se ...
  • In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Aut ...
    Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree. Gonzalez, ...
  • Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Am ...
    The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Comm ...
  • Feds, RIAA Ask $22,500 in Damages Per Song
    Do federal judges have the power to reduce jury awards in copyright-infringement cases? The Obama administration and the Recording Industry Association of America don’t think so. They argued that point Monday before a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which ha ...

  Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • WRAPUP 1-Late U.S. budget deal avoids costly s ...
    WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday to narrowly avert a government shutdown that would have hit the economy and idled hundreds of thousands of workers.
  • FACTBOX-Details of deal reached to keep US gov ...
    April 9 (Reuters) - Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress clinched a short-term budget deal to keep the federal government running for a week after hammering out an agreement to cut domestic spending.
  • Gunman kills five in Dutch shopping mall shooting
    AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A gunman shot five people and injured at least 11 others at a shopping mall in a small Dutch town on Saturday before turning his automatic weapon on himself, the town's mayor told reporters.
  • New fighting erupts in Libya
    AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - A buoyant Muammar Gaddafi made his first television appearance for five days on Saturday and his troops engaged rebels in new fighting on the eastern front in Libya's civil war.
  • Friday protests erupt in Arab world,10 die in ...
    SANAA/CAIRO (Reuters) - Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators dying in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak's fall.

  IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #494
    David Petraeus tipped to be new CIA director. Reuters denies bureau chief had CIA contacts. UK court grants Russian 'spy' aid to fight deportation. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #493 (MI6 edition)
    MI6 scientist's death questioned by close friend. Who killed MI6 agent Linel Crabb? Analysis: Libya gives spies a chance to shine. Continue reading →
  • Suspicion mounts as US unlocks Moussa Koussa’s ...
    Eyebrows were raised in intelligence circles on Monday, after the United States lifted its freeze of foreign assets belonging to Libyaâs former intelligence chief, who defected to London last week. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #492 (history edition)
    New information on Evdokia Petrova's defection. British spy files shed light on Nazi saboteurs in the US. Holocaust spy's memoir gets movie treatment. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #491
    Libyan defector Moussa Koussa 'was an MI6 double agent'. Israel pressures Russia to prevent EU Palestine recognition. Anlysis: Egypt's top spy a US concern. Continue reading →

  War is a Crime.org

  • War News Radio: Big Decisions
    � Big Decisions April 8th, 2011 - First, we hear about the Obama administration trying Guantanamo detainees in military commissions. Then we analyze media coverage of NATO attacks in Libya. Finally, we hear about the controversies surrounding Basetrack, an experimental media project in southern ...
  • Israel: Spoiling for Another Fight?
    Israel: Spoiling for Another Fight? - by Stephen Lendman Throughout its history, Israel intimidated as a regional menace, preemptively attacking Palestinians and regional neighbors for any reason or none at all. Each time, it's claimed self-righteousness and "self-defense," what scoundrels alway ...
  • Powerful Aftershock Rocks Japan
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  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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