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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, April 9, 2011

9 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IRS issues $4.5 million reward to tax whistleb ...
    The Associated Press is reporting that the IRS has issued a whistleblower reward to an in-house accountant at a financial services firm. This accountant became a whistleblower for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), providing inside information about the firm's lapse in tax compliance. The tip r ...
  • Citizen activism does the impossible: One WPEA ...
    Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement on this bill: In December of 2010, the National Whistleblower ...
  • Citizen activism does the impossible: WPEA loo ...
    Yesterday, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 (WPEA), S. 743. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) issued the following statement on this bill: In December of 2010, the National Whistleblower ...
  • Pension Stripping Bill Passes Senate Committee
    TAKE ACTION! We previously reported about the Senate Intelligence Committee's plan to include a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Bill (S. 719) requiring federal employees working at intelligence agencies to sign a contract stipulating that they would forfeit their federal pensions if ...
  • NWC Asks Plaintiffs Not To Appeal ACLU v. Hold ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) today asked the three plaintiffs in the court case ACLU et al. v. Holder not to appeal the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissing their challenge to a key provision of the False Claims Act (FCA).�� The American Civil Liber ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Crade's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week's favorites post comes from crade Happy Saturday to the workers. I guess we have another week of dirty tech and it would be good to review, summarize, and have a look at the best posts of the week. We aren't going to, though; we are going to have a look at the ones I happened to ...
  • If You're Arguing That Someone 'Deserves' Copy ...
    For many years, we've explained why the debate about copyright is not a moral issue at all. Yet, whenever we get into discussions on it, sooner or later, someone makes an argument about how this or that creator "deserves to make a living" from their art. There are two things wrong with this st ...
  • Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A ...
    A few weeks ago, when the NYTimes' Bill Keller bizarrely compared Arianna Huffington to a Somali pirate, we noted that journalism is a form of aggregation as well. After all, you're taking content from the people who actually make news, and aggregating it into a publication. It appears that ot ...
  • Feds Say It Doesn't Matter If No One Reads A P ...
    In the ongoing attempt by the US government to access Twitter info from some Wikileaks supporters, we noted that an odd part of the government's reasoning for why it should be allowed access to this info is that Twitter's privacy policy is evidence that users are willing to give up private info ...
  • DailyDirt: Materials Behaving Weirdly
    Materials used to be so important that several stages of history are marked by them: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc... Nowadays history seems a bit less intrigued by the materials we have access to. There's no Superconducting Cuprates Age, for instance. But there are still so ...

VacTruth

  • The ‘Unknown’ About Polio Vaccine: SV40 and Cancer
    On September 10, 2003, on the simian virus (SV40) that was included in the original polio vaccine produced and administered to children in the 1950s and 1960s. More than 60 laboratories world wide have documented the presence of SV40 in human tumors.Vactruth.com
  • Thimerosal: From the 1930s to 2011
    Healthcare professionals should read this article to get the down and dirty facts about what’s been going on under their closed eyes regarding a neurotoxin Pharma is pushing with such vigor as to make one wonder why. Vactruth.com
  • Experts Recommend Delaying Breastfeeding Until ...
    News came in today of a study entitled 'Inhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on Infectivity of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines' advising nursing mothers to delay breast-feeding until after vaccinations.Vactruth.com
  • Mother Jailed for Taking Vaccine Damaged Daugh ...
    A mother from Detroit was jailed this week for trying to protect herself and her daughter from the police and the CPS. Maryanne Godboldo's problems began when her daughter aged 13 was given mandatory vaccinations.Vactruth.com
  • Is There A Paradox About Vaccines?
    There are many paradoxes in life but none so ludicrous [preposterous, ridiculous, absurd] as those that exist within the fields of health, healing, medicine, and, most of all, pharmaceuticals.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • The Big Show
    Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend?  I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office.  In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget.  Ahem. ...
  • Clarity Through Microcosm
    I used to work for a hotel in Miami called the SeaView. It was owned by stockholders who had condos in the building. In a crunch, some of the condos were rented out. But generally only the parts of the building that were purely hotel rooms were for the public. The interesting part is who [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry for skipping my usual Thursday post last week. My social life seems to be getting in the way of writing and the next couple weeks are busy. Guess I’ll have to skip work or something. Thanks to @db0 for the heads up on this post about the men’s rights people. You have probably already [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I didn’t make it to the Manning protest at Quantico this weekend, but I did make it to the Iraq war anniversary thingamawhosit. The first (Code Pink) hour was pretty bad. I spent most of it texting snarky comments to the bfriend, who wisely stayed in bed. But it got better. Couple of the speeche ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

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

food and water watch

  • By: April
    Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

  • Argentinean Artist Gives Old Money New Life
    "Tree with round fruit." Image: Máximo González Money does grow on Máximo González's trees: The Argentinean artist collages their trunks, branches, roots, leaves, and fruits out of bank notes that have been taken out of circulation. The delicate works are among his playful pieces -- many wi ...
  • FDA Brings Clarity to Food Recalls: But Are We ...
    Photo: eutrophication&hypoxi a's Food recalls have become a part of our lives. It seems every other day a recall makes us stop in our tracks and see if we happened to purchase the current contaminated food item. But according to Food Politics, the FDA is trying to bring transparency to the ...
  • Paris Promotes Natural Parks and Community Gar ...
    A community garden in Paris' 14th arrondissement. All Photos: Alex Davies Paris just wrapped up its Week of Sustainable Development, a showcase of the City's myriad efforts to promote green thinking, from renewable energy to pedestrian and cyclist-friendly policies. Paris has also made a bi ...
  • Recycled Tie-Dye Canvas Bags Worth Bragging About
    Photo: Baggu Functional design paired with a fun tie-dye print makes Baggu's limited-edition Shabd Bags top knotch canvas bags. Hand dyed by Brooklyn based Artist Shabd Simon-Alexander, who also has a fashion line, each bag is made with 100% recycled cotton duck canvas. ...Read the full ...
  • New Eco-Friendly Golf Balls Made From Lobster ...
    Photo credit: chispita_666/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Miranda Perry, a writer for Care2 Causes. A research team at the University of Maine has developed a new variety of eco-friendly golf ball. The golf balls are made from ground lobster shell, a refuse byproduct from ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • EPA's Clean Air Act: Pretending air pollution ...
    Despite historically low levels of air pollutants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking to enforce air quality regulations that are increasingly strict and burdensome. These regulations cost the economy billions of dollars by the EPA's own admission.
  • Is it time to sell federal lands?
    Faced with a soaring federal deficit and a slumping economy, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have hit on an idea to deal with both: They want the federal government to begin selling off some of its vast estate.
  • Congress bickers over biodegradable forks
    CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto to discuss congressional Democrat's fight for biodegradable forks, knives, and spoons in the congressional cafeteria.
  • Saving lives in Japan: search, rescue & recovery
    CFACT helped send this SAR team to Japan where they are now hard at work saving lives and easing suffering.
  • We need nuclear: Wind won't keep us warm
    How many thousands of people would die in a severe winter if wind turbines don’t have any wind to turn them? Britain last winter got just 9 percent of the rated generating capacity of its huge wind turbine arrays. Only fossil fuel backup plants saved them from freezing to death.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
    (Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Pfc. Dustin J. Feldhaus, 20, of Glendale, AZ.Pfc. Michael C. Mahr, 26, of Homosassa, FL.Pvt. Jeremy P. ...
  • Tuesday, April 5 - Invest in Ohio's Future Rally
    12:00 - 5:00 pmColumbusOne Ohio Now is holding an “Invest in Ohio’s Future Rally” rally at the Ohio StatehouseWhere: North Plaza: Broad St., 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215.Contact: Andrea Fejes at andrea (at) oneohionow.org or RSVP Online.Due to the large turnout expected, we are moving to ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 31-Mar-2011
    Thursday, March 3110:00 AM - 6:00 PMColumbusSenate Bill 5 Rally at the StatehouseWhere: 225 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215OEA Building & Ohio StatehouseOEA will open at 10:00 a.m. so you can pick up signs, water and snacks. RSVPs are not required, but are helpful and appreciated. By letti ...
  • 'No On SB 5': What's next if it passes
    Below is from an email sent by the state Democratic party.More news is developing by the minute on Senate Bill 5. After the Republicans shut down public hearings and hashed out backroom deals all last week, the House Commerce and Labor Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. this morning to vote this bill ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Threaten the Fund ...
    The New York Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) – together with City Council Members, non-profit organizations and dozens of community gardeners- rallied against proposed cuts to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) on the steps of City Hall Tuesday, April 5th. These cuts threaten to se ...
  • Stop the Corporate Takeover of Organics! Comme ...
    The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which advises the Secretary of Agriculture on organic policy and rulemaking, is considering several changes to the USDA’s organic standards that would water down organics, catering to corporate interests. We cannot allow corporate-backed members of t ...
  • Anti-EPA House Votes to Let Agribusiness Dump ...
    The Tea Party Congress doesn't just hate EPA rules that protect against industry destroying our country with greenhouse-gas pollution, mercury, coal ash, and mountaintop removal. By a veto-proof margin, the U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to prohibit Clean Water Act limits on pesti ...
  • Atrazine Associated with Risk of Small Babies, ...
    Researchers in France report that women exposed to detectable levels of the herbicide atrazine during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to smaller babies. Prior human and animal studies report similar results. Click here to read this article
  • Consumers are Demanding More Whole Food, Less ...
    American consumers are rejecting processed and functional foods and embracing whole foods - and industry needs to react with innovative formulation, according to a presentation at the recent Nutracon conference.Click here to read this article

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Guest-Post: Anna Dolidze on the ICJ Judgment i ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Anna Dolidze, a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. In 2007-08, Dolidze was
 an Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk at New York University Law
 School and a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute.  She has wor ...
  • Guest-Post: Nuclear Trafficking as an Internat ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest-post written by Orde Kittrie, a professor at ASU’s law school, and Sandy Spector, the deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.  They very much want input from OJ’s readership, so please post your ...
  • OLC Issues Libya War Powers Opinion
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Office of Legal Counsel has released an opinion asserting the constitutionality of President’s Obama’s use of force against Libya.  Here’s how it frames the question: [T]he Presidentâs legal authority to direct military force in Libya turns on two questions: ...
  • David Bernstein Misrepresents Human Rights Wat ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller This time concerning the Goldstone Report and whether Israel intentionally targeted civilians during Operation Cast Lead as a matter of policy.  You know a post is in trouble when it's entitled "Human Rights Watch Lies re: Goldstone Retraction" but then states, three para ...
  • Call for Proposals, International Law Weekend 2011
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness The American Branch of the International Law Association has a call for panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2011, which takes place October 20-22 in New York City.  The theme of this year’s ILW is “International Law and National Politics.” Th ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Globalists Coming Full Circle
    Long before the verified lies of Qaddafi�s �door-to-door� genocide and even before the media cleverly tagged the engineered destabilization of the Middle East the �Arab Spring,� Libya was already marked for destabilization and regime change. Submitted by Lori B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note ...
  • Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)
    Khan describes how remote tutoring his relatives on Youtube exploded into a utility pioneering change in the classroom right in the current school system, teachers using it to pioneer a completely different use of their time as education coordinatorsSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech � ...
  • Soda loses its fizz - The BANNING of Soda in B ...
    The banning of soda in parts of Boston,MA...this will reverse obesity?..I think notSubmitted by . to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Homeland Stupidity
    News collection indexed by topic and date : Economy,Environment, Health Care, Homeland Security,Humor,Immigration,Internet,Intelligence,Military, Law Enforcement,Linux,Open Source,Politics,Privacy,Telecommunications,TerrorismSubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • US denies depleted uranium use in Libya, but r ...
    ICBUW calls for the US to give a categorical assurance, similar to that given by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, that weapons containing DU have no place in this conflict. A clear statement, covering both A-10 and AV-8B aircraft should be issued...Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it ...

Angry Indian News

  • Anti-Cuban Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Acqu ...
    UNITED STATES/TEXAS (APNS) -- A US federal jury in El Paso, TX today acquitted a anti-Castro activist and former CIA operative of perjury and immigration fraud after a 13-week trial. Luis Posada... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Trece detenidos y choques con la Policía en la ...
    Batalla campal en el centro de Madrid - Vídeo Batalla campal en el centro de Madrid - 20minutos.tvAfter the demonstration, which began in the Plaza de Antón Martín and finished at Plaza de Atocha, a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Azerbaijani authorities target opposition rall ...
    Azerbaijani authorities target opposition rally leaders - Amnesty International Australia: "The Azerbaijani authorities must halt a campaign of intimidation against opposition leaders that has seen... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Nubians demand the right to return to their ho ...
    Nubians demand the right to return to their homeland | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt: "Scores of Nubians on Thursday protested before the parliament building in Cairo, demanding that they... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Guatemalans Sue US for Deliberately Spreading ...
    (Picture Credit: brown.edu) - Guatemalans Sue US for Deliberately Spreading Illness in 1940s Experiment | Humanitarian News: "In late 2010 it was revealed that the US government conducted experiments... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'No choice for US to stay in Iraq'
    ShareThis'No choice for US to stay in Iraq' --'What's happening now in Bagdad is that all of the people are saying they will not allow the Americans to stay past the end of this year.' 09 Apr 2011 Iraq's influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has said that resistance against US troops will increase ...
  • White Powder Found At West's Office Not Anthrax
    ShareThisWhite Powder Found At West's Office Not Anthrax --Campaign Staffer Opens Envelope Containing White Powder, Threatening Letter 08 Apr 2011 A white powder that was found in a letter at a South Florida congressman's office was determined not to be anthrax. The discovery was made at the Boc ...
  • JPMorgan CEO sees compensation jump 1,500 per ...
    ShareThisJPMorgan CEO sees compensation jump 1,500 per cent to $20.8million --His 2010 compensation also included $579,624 worth of perks, including $421,458 of 'moving expenses,' $95,293 to use company aircraft and $45,730 for personal automobile use. Most of the rest went toward home security. ...
  • 'Unusual event' declared at Wash. nuclear plant
    ShareThis'Unusual event' declared at Wash. nuclear plant 08 Apr 2011 A spokesman for a Washington nuclear power plant says a small amount of hydrogen gas ignited in a six-inch flame Thursday when workers cut into the pipe. Columbia Generating Station declared an "unusual event," evacuated plant ...
  • Japan promotes its nuclear industry at special ...
    ShareThisJapan promotes its nuclear industry at special ASEAN summit By Joseph Santolan 09 Apr 2011 Japan's foreign minister, Takeaki Matsumoto, will co-chair a special ASEAN-Japan Ministerial Meeting in Jakarta today. The summit has ostensibly been called to discuss Southeast Asian aid to Japan ...

Daily Loaf

  • UPDATE: Congress comes to term on budget – no ...
    Somewhat comically, the 15 minutes allotted for satellite time expired right after a Gannett news reporter asked Nelson if he intended to get paid if the shutdown occurred, and before the Senator could respond.
  • See Professional Bull Riders For $10
    Have you ever seen bull riding? I don’t mean a mechanical bull at your favorite watering hole. I’m talking about eight seconds of furious action between the best humans and bulls that the Professional Bull Riders organization has to offer. If you haven’t had a chance to see it live, PBR’s pre ...
  • Lightning put on a show, beat Panthers 4-2 in ...
    Friday night was fan appreciation night at the St. Pete Times Forum, as the Tampa Bay Lightning wrapped up their regular season home schedule with one final tune up against their cross state rival, the Florida Panthers. And boy, the Lightning sure did a good job showing their appreciation of ...
  • Rays win: bats come alive in 9-7 win over ChiSox
    In their first game away from home and first after the retirement of Manny Ramirez, the Tampa Bay Rays looked like a team with something to prove. With the departure of the would-be Hall of Famer in the wake of alleged drug problems, the Bay-area boys came out and bested their scoring output ov ...
  • Manny: the end of an error
    A missive on the failed experiment that was Project Manny: Rays Edition.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Alexander the Great
    Sunrise over Farah 07 April 2011 Afghanistan contains many treasures of ancient history.�� Climate conditions here preserve old structures whose origins often remain a mystery. Alexander stormed through here a thousand years before the Arabs introduced Islam.� Today, after travelling arou ...
  • Last Man Standing
    Kuchi Girl in Farah 05 April 2011 Many Provinces, Afghanistan As the Afghan war wears on and politicians, diplomats and generals thrust and parry about an endgame, one thing is clear: The outcome of this war will be decided by the last man standing. Who that will be, and what has to happen be ...
  • There is a Right, and a Wrong
    Mark Bieger with Farah 04 April 2011 In war, the closer you get to blood, the closer you get to truth.� One day in Iraq there was a car bomb. It was like any other day at that time.� Several American Soldiers were wounded. In addition to hitting American Soldiers, this bomb hit children.� ...
  • Rolling Stone: Boycotting Advertisers
    31 March 2011 In 2006, I launched a boycott against a magazine owned by a huge conglomerate.� The Boycott damaged the magazine but the extent was unknown.� Eight months later, the press reported that the magazine had died.� (Early Christmas Present for Michael Yon.) The boycott was not done on ...
  • Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
    29 March 2011 Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.� Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.� The story is titled �THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.�� It should be titled: �BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone. ...

The Killing Train

  • Harper and Bribery
    Today's headlines were interesting. Conservatives using the RCMP as their political goon squad to turf people out of events and pre-screen them. But Harper's said he's sorry and, I'm sure, has promised to never do it again. This is a good little quote from the Toronto Star though: read more
  • Harper's Foreign Policy
    Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" discusses Harper's foreign policy. It isn't really distinguishable from Liberal foreign policy, except that it is a little more paranoid and secretive. Throughout the West, there is fairly unconditional support for Israel. Some explain this with lobbies, etc. For t ...
  • Stephen Harper, Bruce Carson, and the Environment
    The quote of the day is definitely from Stephen Harper about Bruce Carson's fraud convictions: "I did not know about these revelations that we're finding out today. I don't know why I did not know." Anyone who doubts Carson's importance in Harper's team should definitely read Lawrence Martin's " ...
  • Harper and the Press
    In Harperland, Lawrence Martin points out how Harper hates the press (you can see it in this campaign, with the 19th century schoolmaster's Five Questions policy). In a chapter on Harper's press policy, called "the Control Fixation", Martin relates this story (pg. 65): read more
  • Incrementalism
    Calgary academic and Harper advisor Tom Flanagan has more influence on Canadian politics than most people in this country realize. He was an important informant in Lawrence Martin's imporant book, "Harperland". A good quote from Flanagan, on pg. 47 of Harperland: read more

treehugger

  • Argentinean Artist Gives Old Money New Life
    "Tree with round fruit." Image: Máximo González Money does grow on Máximo González's trees: The Argentinean artist collages their trunks, branches, roots, leaves, and fruits out of bank notes that have been taken out of circulation. The delicate works are among his playful pieces -- many wi ...
  • FDA Brings Clarity to Food Recalls: But Are We ...
    Photo: eutrophication&hypoxi a's Food recalls have become a part of our lives. It seems every other day a recall makes us stop in our tracks and see if we happened to purchase the current contaminated food item. But according to Food Politics, the FDA is trying to bring transparency to the ...
  • Paris Promotes Natural Parks and Community Gar ...
    A community garden in Paris' 14th arrondissement. All Photos: Alex Davies Paris just wrapped up its Week of Sustainable Development, a showcase of the City's myriad efforts to promote green thinking, from renewable energy to pedestrian and cyclist-friendly policies. Paris has also made a bi ...
  • Recycled Tie-Dye Canvas Bags Worth Bragging About
    Photo: Baggu Functional design paired with a fun tie-dye print makes Baggu's limited-edition Shabd Bags top knotch canvas bags. Hand dyed by Brooklyn based Artist Shabd Simon-Alexander, who also has a fashion line, each bag is made with 100% recycled cotton duck canvas. ...Read the full ...
  • New Eco-Friendly Golf Balls Made From Lobster ...
    Photo credit: chispita_666/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Miranda Perry, a writer for Care2 Causes. A research team at the University of Maine has developed a new variety of eco-friendly golf ball. The golf balls are made from ground lobster shell, a refuse byproduct from ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • US jury acquits anti-Castro militant on perjur ...
    [JURIST] A federal jury on Friday acquitted anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] of charges of lying to federal immigration officials. He was indicted [Miami Herald report] before the US District Court for the Western District of Texas [official webs ...
  • US House votes against net neutrality regulations
    [JURIST] The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to overturn regulations aimed at preserving the Internet as a free and open platform of communication. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] approved the regulations last year [JURIST report], which prevent Interne ...
  • US State Department releases 2010 annual right ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of State (DOS) [official website] on Friday released the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [materials]. The report outlined three prevailing trends that shaped human rights in 2010. These included the growth of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the inc ...
  • Human rights organizations criticize rampant a ...
    [JURIST] Human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Doctors Without Borders (DWB) [advocacy websites] criticized [HRW press release; DWB press release] Bahrain on Friday for rampant human rights abuses related to anti-government protests. HRW deputy Middle East director Jo ...
  • Wisconsin AG sues judge, calls for state Supre ...
    [JURIST] Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen [official website] on Thursday filed a filed a Petition for Supervisory Writ [text, PDF] directly to the state Supreme Court over a circuit court judge's temporary blocking [JURIST report] of a controversial bill that limits the rights of publi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Can Poll Respondents Predict the Future?
    We're on the verge of a government shutdown, and the political question of the hour is: If a shutdown happens, who comes out ahead politically? As is often the case, polling constitutes the only empirical evidence we have to try to assess. And the polling we have is based on similar, future-ten ...
  • Government-Shutdown Watch: An Inside View
    I mentioned yesterday the uncertainty tax that the possible government shutdown was imposing on "normal" government operations, as people from National Park employees to members of the military tried to figure out whether they could plan as far ahead as next Monday. I included mention of one im ...
  • Stop Blaming GOP Freshmen for a Shutdown
    I was about to write an item about how it's a little misleading to blame the Tea Party for a shutdown, since cultural issues like Planned Parenthood funding are what's at stake in the 11th-hour negotiations. But Dave Weigel at Slate beat me to it. (Now we're even.) So let me add a sub clause: it ...
  • The Brave and Serious Mr. Ryan
    I mentioned earlier that if asked to choose an adjective to describe the budget plan presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, I would suggest "partisan" or "gimmicky," as opposed to "serious" or "brave." Most budget proposals are both partisan and gimmicky, so this is no particular knock against Rep. Ryan. ...
  • Washington's Dueling Budget Battles
    With a federal shutdown appearing likelier by the minute, Washington is now engaged in two very different discussions about federal spending. Right now, they appear to have little to do with each other. On the one hand, Republican and Democratic negotiators are seeking a deal to avoid a governm ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • N.Y. State Senator Hosts Anti-Jihadi Inquisition
    Anti-Muslim crusaders Frank Gaffney, Nonie Darwish and David Yerushalmi were shut out of Rep. Peter King’s recent Congressional hearings on alleged Islamic extremism.  But like a Jack in the Box, no sooner are they squashed than they rear their ugly heads once again. N.Y. state senator Gregory ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis: The Death of Hope
    Juliano Mer-Khamis, the noted Israeli actor-director, was assassinated in Jenin on Monday. The PA has arrested Mujahed Qaniri, a Palestinian suspected of the crime.   The shooter has alleged connections to Hamas. Mer-Khamis was a living, breathing representative of what an Israeli, and Israe ...
  • Abusisi Confession Blatant Fraud
    After consulting with Dirar Abusisi’s attorney and brother and checking the facts regarding the Shabak accusations, I can say with absolute certainty that they are a fraud. They are a fraud in large part because Abusisi, likely under torture or extreme duress gave an account to his interrogators ...
  • Israel Files Charges Against Abusisi, Accuses ...
    Earlier today, the Israeli State prosecutor released its charges (full Hebrew version, this is a partial English translation prepared by Dena Shunra) against Dirar Abusisi.  And to read it, you’d think he was the Werner von Braun of Hamas, it’s chief rocket designer and the brains behind the mo ...

Ode Magazine

  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
  • A business in a box
    Teenagers in a rural village in Madagascar show off ToughStuff products: a radio charger, an LED lamp and a solar panel.Photo: ToughStuff After spending decades working in some of the world’s poorest economies, Andrew Tanswell, a British management consultant and Medai ...
  • From dirt to shirt
    When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas b ...
  • The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
    While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for ma ...
  • Shaking it up for charity
    By: Ode Very few good stories end with the characters grungy and exhausted, outdoors in Times Square at 5:18 a.m. in freezing weather, but this is one of them. After months of training and preparation, two hardy teams were the last men standing in a re ...

OpEd News

  • Posturing and Blaming the Only Victors in Last ...
    A stop gap measure keeping the governments doors open was agreed to last night. But it's a sad commentary ALL parties are to blame for the shameless grandstanding we were forced to endure. The budget crisis may have been temporarily averted but there was nothing magnanimous coming from either si ...
  • SAFEWAY KALI
    This poem inspired by the voice of Kali in my mind, as grocery shopping, I suddenly saw the connection between our "war," speech and consumption. Our culture is permeated with images of war. And when our wars are over I pray there is enough of our world left for Kali the great destroyer/creator ...
  • Don't Eat That Donut! - Career Persuasion Tech ...
    The better looking have better careers. They receive better grades in college, they receive higher paychecks and are the first to be promoted. Why is this true and to what extent do looks play a part in our ability to persuade and get ahead? Finally, what can you do about it?
  • House Votes to End Net Neutrality
    Censorship takes many forms, updated for the times.
  • Energy Reconfiguration for World Survival
    Suggestions for a reworking of the energy procurement and distribution systems for the United States

Switchboard

  • Disgrace: Gutting the ESA and Killing Wolves
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago The Associated Press is reporting that Senator John Tester got the go-ahead to attach a rider to last night’s budget deal that will strip endangered species protections from gray wolves ...
  • Feds Agree to Protect Beluga Habitat in Alaska
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that Alaska’s Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat will be federally protected. The final rule designates mo ...
  • Recent Study Finds Alarming Asthma Rates Near ...
    Morgan Wyenn, Project Attorney, Santa Monica Almost 30% of households in West Long Beach, California are home to someone with asthma.  This heartbreaking statistic is among the findings of a recent study conducted by the Greater Long Beach Interfa ...
  • Better Life: Weatherization saves low-income p ...
    Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York It was so cold in Dorothy Johnston’s trailer in Hannibal, Missouri that the retired factory worker sometimes couldn’t get out from under her covers to go to the doctor. High heating bills meant “ ...
  • Media scan 4/8: Drilling safeguards, organic p ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide On Thursday, Frances Beinecke addressed the Carey Institute of Ecosystem Studies and was quoted in the Mid-Hudson News about the need for stronger safeguards for off-shore drilling…Wendy Gordon app ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Do Pitchers Play For Teams? A Far and Balance ...
    Blogger Murray Chass, in a recent blog post on his blog, generously supplemented his own original thoughts with some equally fresh perspectives: Klein called the recent “devaluation of wins” a mistake. “Remember when it used to be said of good pitchers that ‘they do what it takes to win’ and of ...
  • Dept. of Corrections
    We have been informed by the Federal Bureau of Internets Investigations that the post below, while excellent substantively, is in flagrant violation of Internet Traditions, which plainly hold that “every excuse to post a cheesy video from a famous former Star Trek cast member shall be taken adva ...
  • The Keep-Hitting-Yourself Party
    Bad deal: So why were Reid and Obama so eager to celebrate Boehner’s compromise with his conservative members? The Democrats believe it’s good to look like a winner, even if you’ve lost. But they’re sacrificing more than they let on. By celebrating spending cuts, they’ve opened the door to furth ...
  • Debating Lawfare
    Stephanie Carvin and I have been having another of our friendly little cat-fights over at Duck of Minerva on the technicalities of humanitarian law discourse. She thinks I was too hard on Posner for his conflation of General Dunlap’s “lawfare” concept with the naming and shaming efforts of NGOs ...
  • Against Bilbo Baggins
    Interesting claim: And then he goes on to estimate the mass and coverage of gold, diamonds, and other treasure for a current street value of $8.6 billion. So Bilbo Baggins, having received 1/14th of the treasure, did very well for himself on that little adventure. Hurm. $615 million isn’t chump ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Attorney, client sanctioned for violating gag ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that a former Dallas city official and his attorney violated a gag order by making remarks about the George W. Bush administration during a TV interview prior to the official's corruption trial.
  • Judge tosses overseas claims against Toyota
    A federal judge has dismissed a consolidated lawsuit brought by Toyota consumers in foreign countries over sudden acceleration claims.
  • State-owned company officials count under anti ...
    A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss an indictment on the argument that the officials who allegedly were bribed didn't meet the definition of "foreign official" under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
  • ALM, LexisNexis sign content agreement
    The parent company of The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and several other legal publications has reached a deal to make its content available through LexisNexis.
  • OPINION: Transparency: the cure for America's ...
    For the first time, they would have a potent incentive to reduce tuition and accelerate the so-far glacial movement to incorporate practical skills into legal education.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Record-Low Arctic Ozone Leads to High UV Radia ...
    The effects of record low ozone over the Arctic have reached southern Scandinavia, where large ozone-depleted air masses have produced higher ultraviolet radiation levels in Finland this week, scientists say. Click to enlarge WMOArctic ozone cover, March 30 While ozone levels above Finland i ...
  • Tree-killing Pine Beetles Moving East, Canadia ...
    The mountain pine beetle that has decimated large swaths of lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests across western North America in recent years is migrating eastward, according to report by Canadian researchers. iStockA mountain pine beetle Scientists at the University of Alberta say they have ...
  • Funding Limits on Coal Plants Proposed in New ...
    The World Bank is planning to limit its funding for coal-fired power plants to the world’s poorest nations, bowing to pressure from environmental groups and governments that have criticized the bank’s record on funding fossil fuel projects, according to published reports. Under proposed new regu ...
  • Decline of Bats in U.S. Could Cause Billions i ...
    A new study concludes that the continuing loss of large numbers of bats in the United States  to so-called “white nose syndrome” could cost U.S. agriculture billions of dollars in losses from increased insect infestations. Reporting in the journal Science, Gary McCracken of the University of Ten ...
  • Along Scar from Iron Curtain, A Green Belt Ris ...
    A forbidding, 870-mile network of fences and guard towers once ran the length of Germany, separating East and West. Now, one of the world’s most unique nature reserves is being created along the old “Death Strip,” turning a monument to repression into a symbol of renewal. BY CHRISTIAN SCHWäGERL

Red Ice Creations

  • Operation Odyssey Dawn; An Illuminati Mega Hum ...
    As I watch in disgust the UN and Barack Insane Obama have declared war on Libya creating yet another unjustified war. But as most feel angry about this war most will not realize that this is another sacrificial ritual that the psychotic Killuminati are celebrating. In this analysis I will connec ...
  • First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty
    These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under which the brave men work to save their nation from full nuclear meltdown. The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to coo ...
  • While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It’s ...
    It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled through Latin Ame ...
  • India says Monsanto covertly, illegally conduc ...
    Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wrote a letter to ...
  • Jerusalem bus bomb victim was British
    The woman killed when a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The bombing, the first in the city for seven years, left the 60-year-old dead and injured dozens of others. The 1-2kg suitcase bomb detonated close to the main bus station and ...

Russia Today

  • US media draw halo over Uncle Sam’s head – US ...
    Norman Solomon, a founder and president of the Institute for Public Accuracy says there are some glaring omissions in the way some US media outlets are reporting Washington's military campaigns abroad.
  • Russia ready to dispatch radiation processing ...
    Russia is ready to send a unique vessel which can process radioactive liquid to Japan, the ship’s captain announced. This comes as another powerful earthquake hit the country’s northeast, leading to a radioactive spill...
  • Gaddafi bites the bullet, NATO bombs rebels
    NATO is denying they participated in an air strike on an oil field in south-east Libya. Instead, they claim the attack was an attempt by Gaddafi to sabotage oil supplies to the eastern part of the country overtaken by...
  • Sarkozy between a Libyan ‘rock’ and a French ‘ ...
    For a France that was pushing for a military solution in Libya three weeks ago, the possibility of a stalemate looks likely to bring some grand ambitions crashing down, with watchers already questioning the noble...
  • Georgian veterans fighting govt amnesia
    Once honored, now forgotten: Georgian war veterans are now being forced to fight their own government, which they say is depriving them of the essentials needed to live.

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

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

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...

The Freeman

  • Business Disruption Would Follow Government Cl ...
    “The federal government is, after all, a very big business, and temporarily pulling the plug would disrupt many other businesses.” (New York Times) Well, isnât that the problem? FEE Timely Classic “What Big Government Is All About” by David Boaz
  • Bidding for Business Costs Taxpayers Money
    “Though some say [rivalrous interstate efforts to attract businesses] strengthen communities with new jobs and tax revenue, a growing chorus of leaders on both sides are wondering about the point of it all, warning that the efforts serve only to help private companies at taxpayer expense.” (New ...
  • Had Enough Yet?
    Let’s acknowledge the debt of gratitude due every politician who put us in this predicament. Each spending vote dug the hole deeper and made it harder to get out.
  • Time Running Out on Budget Writers
    “Congressional negotiators raced against the clock Wednesday to reach a deal to fund the government for the rest of the year.” (Washington Post) Whoâd have thought Leviathan would be so hard to manage? FEE Timely Classic “Whatâs So Bad about Big Government Anyway?” by George C. Leef
  • Turning Food Crops to Fuel Poses Global Danger
    “Each year, an ever larger portion of the worldâs crops â cassava and corn, sugar and palm oil â is being diverted for biofuels as developed countries pass laws mandating greater use of nonfossil fuels and as emerging powerhouses like China seek new sources of energy to keep their cars and indus ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • A great Flash infographic
    This might be the best interactive information graphic ever. What do you think? I love the simplicity of the rollovers. The multiple information (timeline, map) delivered in the top image below is delightful. Tapuiassauro, o novo dinossauro do Brasil won a gold medal at this year’s Malofiej (se ...
  • 10 useful resources about data visualization
    These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization. (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-wor ...
  • Timelines in journalism: A closer look
    You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
  • Teaching about storytelling
    As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...
  • Is your story actually a story?
    “The problem with many news stories is that theyâre not really stories at all.” (Source: Advancing the Story, an excellent blog about broadcast journalism and multimedia.) This is true not only in TV news but across the board — and not only for student work! Sometimes the material is new (or at ...

Facing South

  • Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
  • VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
    We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Did Massey miners die in vain?
    Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29 Year in which Congress passed a landmark mine safety law in response to a mine explosion in Fairmont, W.Va. that killed 78 miners: 1969 Year in which Congress passed ...
  • Legal action seeks to slow rush to build new n ...
    A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South. Filed directly with the NRC's five ...
  • Latino South Rising
    It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 perc ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Uncertain Future of Libya
    Removing Gaddafi is proving harder than expected. But what will be even harder for Libyans who have never known democracy is putting together a viable government after the rebellion is over.
  • The Jasmine Revolution
    Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
  • Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
    In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • In Light of the Budget Deal: Obama’s Personality
    Sometimes our early take on a man is the best.  In 2006, I wrote “I believe Obama“. (Re-repost, because it seems… appropriate.) One of my rules of analysis is that I believe people when they tell me who they are. That doesn’t mean I believe everything they say – I never believed Bush was a [...]
  • When Medicare is destroyed is only a matter of ...
    Folks, this won’t pass this year, but a version of it will pass: That plan would transform Medicare from a government insurance program to one in which seniors would chose from private, federally subsidized coverage. Americans 55 and older would stay in the current system. Remember, Obama’s heal ...
  • When Medicare is destroyed is only a matter of ...
    Folks, this won’t pass this year, but a version of it will pass: That plan would transform Medicare from a government insurance program to one in which seniors would chose from private, federally subsidized coverage. Americans 55 and older would stay in the current system. Remember, Obama’s heal ...
  • What Next in Libya
    So now what? In Libya as there appears to be a highly predictable stalemate as the pro-Quaddafi forces cannot move en masse due to the threat of NATO airpower hitting mobile columns strung out on exposed road marches. The anti-Quaddafi forces are unable to effectively maneuver because they have ...
  • 1984 Was Not A Manual
    But the people running England, or at least London, certainly think it is.  CCTV cameras are everywhere you go, in large numbers.  On one Underground  platform today I counted 13.  Of course, with that many CCTV cameras there is no way they can actually effectively be monitored in real time, so ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Japan's nuclear disaster: live Q&A
    Do you have questions about the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan? Join us at 4pm London time on Wednesday 6 April for a live Q&A with Jim Smith, an environmental physicist from the University of Portsmouth and Nature's Geoff Brumfiel. Enter your email below to sign up for a reminder. Feel ...
  • US government shutdown averted in 11th hour deal
    Forget the cherry blossoms and the monuments. Today the most remarkable sight in Washington DC is simply that of a government operating normally. With barely an hour to go before a crucial budget deadline expired last night, congressional leaders arrived at a deal to fund the US government ...
  • US shutdown: a scientist's guide
    Time is running out for US congressional leaders trying to agree on spending legislation before a crucial budget deadline expires. While the Senate's Democratic majority leader Harry Reid (left), and Republican House Speaker John Boehner (right) spent the day demanding concessions from one a ...
  • Podcast Extra: Fukushima
    Japan is struggling with a nuclear emergency following the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. In this podcast, reporter Geoff Brumfiel brings us up-to-date on the situation at the Fukushima power plant. He also tells us how Japan is planning for the long t ...
  • NASA disbands science teams to make way for Eu ...
    NASA is disbanding two major US science teams following a bilateral meeting with the European Space Agency, Nature has learned. In a public presentation April 4, Jon Morse of NASA Astrophysics Division said that the International X-ray Observatory and the Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA ...

new geography

  • China, Detroit, and Houston: How Ghost Propert ...
    Learning about China's property boom and its "ghost" cities has given me a whole new perspective on my four decades in the building, land development and consulting fields. During these periods our economy has had various ups and downs. In ‘up’ times, the rise in construction of new housing an ...
  • Local Stakeholders Debate Changes to San Franc ...
    Despite one of the highest population densities in California and a prohibitive cost of living, the San Francisco keeps packing them in. Figures released by the U.S. Census last month show that the City of San Francisco added 28,502 people during the last ten years, a modest population bump of 3 ...
  • Cities and the Census: Cities Neither Booming ...
    For many mayors across the country, including New York City’s Michael Bloomberg, the recently announced results of the 2010 census were a downer. In a host of cities, the population turned out to be substantially lower than the U.S. Census Bureau had estimated for 2010—in New York’s case, by ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Mumbai
    The continuing dispersion of international metropolitan areas is illustrated by recently released 2011 Census of India preliminary data for the Mumbai "larger" metropolitan area. The historical core, the "island" district of Mumbai (Inner Mumbai) lost population between 2001 and 2011, while ...
  • The Problem With Megacities
    The triumphalism surrounding the slums and megacities frankly disturbs me. It is, of course, right to celebrate the amazing resilience of residents living in these cities� massive slums. But many of the megacity boosters miss a more important point: that the proliferation of these sorts of commu ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Sony, Canon Plants Knocked Out by Aftershock
    Via: Bloomberg: Sony Corp. and Canon Inc. were among manufacturers that shut plants in Japan following a 7.1- magnitude earthquake yesterday, delaying their recovery from last month’s record temblor. Sony, Japan’s largest exporter of consumer electronics, said it suspended operations at two plan ...
  • Naked Man Shoots SWAT Robot with AK-47
    Via: WFTV: A Brevard County man was naked when he opened fire on a SWAT team robot and it was all caught on video, according to deputies. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said the robot was sent into the West Melbourne home last week because the homeowner had called his family and said he was ...
  • Off Topic: Telecom More Than Triples Far North ...
    On 8 April, early AM hours NZ time, I noticed that my Telecom XT connection was running much faster than normal. I did my usual speed test: Woh. That’s interesting! I’ve been using Telecom XT “out here” since November 2009 and the link was always throttled back to a maximum of 1.3 Mbits/sec up a ...
  • General: U.S. May Consider Troops in Libya
    Mmm hmm. Via: CBS News: The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over. Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers Thursday that added American ...
  • Japan: After Latest Earthquake, Multiple Nucle ...
    Update: Emergency Backup Systems Operating at Nuclear Facilities Via: Forbes: NHK says power cuts are occurring at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Pref., although radiation levels around the plant remain unchanged so far. At 12:23 a.m. the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, an arm o ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Lebanese Makhzoumi Foundation at the UNCCD-COP ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.makhzoumi-foundation.org/en/default.asp?contentID=673 United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification Makhzoumi Foundation participated in a meeting regarding the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification, which was held a ...
  • Good old Prof. KASSAS of Egypt (Google / Green ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/04/egypt-prophet-desertification/ Mohamed Kassas: Egyptâs Prophet Of Desertification by Tafline Laylin If Hassan Fathy is the Middle Eastâs father of sustainable architecture, then Mohamed Kassas is the prophet of desertif ...
  • Drought in Kenya : livestock dying, number of ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=92393 KENYA: Livestock dying as drought deepens ISIOLO/MANDERA, 6 April 2011 (IRIN) – Thousands more heads of livestock have died in Kenyaâs arid Northeastern province as La Niña drought conditions worsen and water shortages become more acu ...
  • WaSH Survey (IISD)
    Read at : Water Issues Announcement List   Researchers at U.S.-based universities and organizations that are concerned with water, sanitation, and hygiene challenges in developing countries have begun to explore ways to expand, better coordinate, and increase support for ...
  • Protest against Ethiopia’s mega-dam (Afr ...
    Read at : AfricaFiles No. 25183: Hundreds of groups join in protest against Ethiopiaâs mega-dam — Ecology Title: Hundreds of groups join in protest against Ethiopiaâs mega-dam Author: Tesfa-Alem Tekle Category: Ecology Date: 3/30/2011 Source: Sudan Tribune Source Website: http://www.sudantribune ...

The Paper Trail

  • Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
  • Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
    When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
  • E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
    An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...
  • Broadband money flows to House panel that oppo ...
    Broadband and wireless companies contributed $81,500 to members of a key House subcommittee after the Federal Communication Commission in December approved “network neutrality” rules requiring providers to treat all Internet content equally, according to American University’s Investigative Repor ...
  • Fact Check: The debate over federal workers&#8 ...
    Are federal employees overpaid? Republican leaders in Congress think so, and they are calling for an overhaul of the entire federal pay system to help slash government spending.

backofthebook.ca

  • Harper’s Facebook police
    By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: "Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and 'u ...
  • Canada’s startup scene gains traction
    By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, ...
  • Stephen Harper, funny guy
    By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper's June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term" "the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegra ...
  • CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
    By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
  • The Pacioretty effect
    By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Project Blue Beam Update
    Seeing is NOT synonymous with believing — at least not anymore. Lucifer is synonymous with light – his very name means “the Shining One”.   Today, using LIGHT WAVES  – holograms of incredible detail and design now entertain vast crowds of human beings.  They dance on stage, wiggle their behi ...
  • Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
    I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
  • New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
  • First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
    This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
  • Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
    Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
  • Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan ...
    He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like C ...
  • Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov ...
    The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
  • Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
    Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.

Scotts Contracting

  • Disgusted with the Politicians
    I’m not happy with the Politicians and their Back Room Deals with Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Business. I suggest to everyone to check out the site: opensecrets.org. It is full of valuable information about who is donating and to whom. After viewing the information- You to will then have an idea ...
  • Finally, Nat Gas Act, let the Debate begin:
    Guest Post: Subject: Finally, Nat Gas Act, let the Debate begin:
  • MO one step closer to restoring 2008 voter-ena ...
    HB 613 aims to reinstate portions of Prop C, though it is still weaker than what Missouri voters passed with 66% of the vote in 2008 New Renewable Energy Bill Passes Out of House Committee Missouri one step closer to restoring 2008 voter-enacted renewable energy law In response to the Missouri G ...
  • The EPA protects the American public; please p ...
    On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Solar Nation wrote: Thank you for using Solar Nation Mail System. Message sent to the following recipients: Senator Blunt Senator McCaskill Message text follows: April 7, 2011 [recipient address was inserted here] Dear [recipient name was inserted here], The House ...
  • Government Shutdown-Courtesy Roy Blunt-MO Sen
    On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Roy Blunt wrote: Dear Friend, As you’ve probably seen on television or read in your local paper, Washington is facing a potential government shutdown this week. What’s at stake is funding our government for the short-term while making much-needed cuts ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Amnesty International: World needs to interven ...
    (CNN) -- The international community needs to step up and "play a more active role" in investigating the deaths of protesters in Yemen, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh have left 94 dead over the past two months, most of them during "Bloody F ...
  • Weird and wacky: Inventors show devices in Geneva
    GENEVA (AP) — Inventors from 45 countries are laying out their weird and wacky wares at the world's biggest inventions fair in Geneva this week. Creations include intelligent footwear and a kangaroo tail for humans. Peyman Sarhadi of Iran says his "smart boot" uses sensors to collect data s ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Iran Adjourns Christians’ Blasp ...
    TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- An Iranian court has given prosecutors a week to prove that five Christians of a large evangelical house church denomination are guilty of blasphemy, which carries the death penalty in Iran, a senior church official told BosNewsLife Wednesday, April 6. Pastor Behrouz ...
  • Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi to receive ...
    Imprisoned Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi is the laureate of this year’s UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. He was selected by an independent international jury of 12 media professionals. Ahmad Zeidabadi is currently serving a six-year jail sentence following Iran’s presidenti ...
  • Israel Is the Nuclear Threat, Not Iran
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Most Revolutionary Act

  • The President with No Past – Part IV
    All in the Family Although many official records of Obama’s extended family are sealed, there is sufficient information in the public domain to suggest that his stepfather Colonel Lolo Soetoro and both maternal grandparents also had links to the CIA. Colonel Lolo Soetoro Following her return to ...
  • The President with No Past – Part III
    Obama’s Fictional Autobiography The scenario Obama lays out in Dreams from My Father about his parents’ background differs markedly from limited information available from school and other public school records. Some commentators attribute this to his embarrassment over his father’s multiple mar ...
  • The President with No Past: Part II
    Obama’s secrecy and evasiveness about his early life has only fueled speculation about his alleged links to the CIA. Sherman Skolnick, the late Chicago based court reformer, journalist and conspiracy buff, first raised the issue when the Russians detained Senator Obama in 2004. Any evidence Skol ...
  • The President with No Past: Obama’s Ele ...
    Implications of Executive Order 13489 What are the chances of a president who has all his pre-presidential records sealed winning re-election to a second term? At the moment, because of Executive Order 13489, the public and press have virtually no way to independently verify much of what Obama ...
  • Wyeth Losing in Court
    As I blogged previously, the National Institutes of Health Women’s Health Initiative Study (launched in 1993-95) had to be shut down in 2002, when it became clear the women in the Premarin/Prempro arm of the study were experiencing an unacceptably high rate of breast cancer, strokes, heart disea ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
    Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]
  • The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
    Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]
  • The Libyan Uprising, a Tactical Analysis
    OK, thought I’d have some fun with this looking at it purely from a tactical or wargaming perspective. I’ve done a lot of wargaming, too much really. And Libya is a classic battlefield so to speak for wargames. That’s because some classic battles were fought there during World War Two, Libya was ...
  • NATO and the USA Charge Into Libya With Our Al ...
    Oh my. The situation in Libya has been progressing dramatically, so on the one hand I have been loathe to write about it. Anything I write could be superseded by developments on the ground so to speak even as I type. Granted that’s always true no matter what the topic to some extent, but when [...]
  • “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those a ...
    Sigh. Nuclear power. One can read opinion pieces all over the map about nuclear power, from Ann Coulter’s “radiation is good for you” to more sober analysis. Basically, if someone wants to believe this accident is no big deal, there’s plenty on the web to reinforce their beliefs. If one wants to ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...
  • Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
    Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
  • To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
    … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...
  • How I brought down the Nuclear Industry in my ...
    The nineteen-seventies were the hey-day of nuclear power. Almost every country, big or small, super-power or developing country, thought they should build as many atomic reactors as possible. And then, all of a sudden, or so it seems, most of these ambitious projects came to a screeching halt. W ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Speculator’s Political Reserve?
    Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...
  • Contradicting Goals: Cheap Gas and Lower Carbo ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Phenomenon of Political Contradictions Energy policy frequently highlights some glaring contradictions among lawmakers. Some politicians who have railed against our dependence on petroleum and who insist we must reduce carbon emissions turn around a ...
  • Debunking Five Myths about Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post An Expanded Look at Five Myths about Gas Prices This past week I had an article published in the Washington Post called Five Myths about Gas Prices. I will discuss each particular myth in detail below, but the five myths I addressed were: Fighting in ...
  • Will Range Anxiety Impact Electric Car Sales?
    Join the forum discussion on this post I have always liked the concept of electric cars. I could imagine a future in which fleets of electric cars are being charged by electricity from clean sources, and where the impact of peak oil won’t be especially burdensome. In a story I did last year cov ...
  • Modes of Transportation
    Join the forum discussion on this post Because of my interest in energy, I have a long-standing interest in different modes of transportation. One of the reasons that I am not overly pessimistic about a future in which I foresee even higher long-term oil prices is that I believe we can make a s ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Broken Ocean? Here are 25 Ways You Can Help Fix It
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As we've been pointing out all Ocean Week, anyone who enjoys seafood, fishing, snorkeling, or breathing oxygen (the ocean produces up to 70 percent of the world's O2) needs to be concerned about the endangered state of the world's oceans. But as author and ocean activist ...
  • Radiation from Full-Body Scanners Minimal, Stu ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the world waits nervously to see what happens with the nuclear reactors in Japan, many people are worried about nuclear radiation drifting across the Pacific and contaminating food, air, and water here. But last November and December, the American public was much more ...
  • "Everything You Do Makes a Difference": How Oc ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You may not live near the coastline, but rest assured, everyone's health rides on our oceans' well-being. To learn more about the interconnectedness of everyday live and our sprawling seas, we turned to third-generation explorers and ocean activists, siblings Philippe an ...
  • Ocean Week on Rodale.com!
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  • Jellyfish Soup? Get Used to It, Or Act Now Sav ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—"It's a little weird that Sam Malone is talking to you about oceans," Ted Danson told a crowd of editors at Rodale's headquarters last week on a tour promoting his new book Oceana (Rodale, 2011). And it would be weird, if not for his obvious dedication to the cause. Da ...

big think

  • A New Way to Play the Healthcare Game
    If you want to know the direction that healthcare is headed in the near future, ask your kids which video games they’re playing today. The last year has seen an explosion of new approaches to solving healthcare problems, with many of them originating in the world of videogaming. The latest . ...
  • Genetic Link Between Autism & Epilepsy
    What's the Big Idea? When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, after more than a decade of research, scientists hoped that mapping our species' 20,000-25,000 genes would provide a magic key to unlock the mystery of genetic disorders. We collectively imagined individual gene therapie ...
  • Medicaid as Preventative Medicine
    What's the Big Idea? In 2009, 17.3% of America's economy, in terms of G.D.P., was devoted to healthcare. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that's more than any other country on the planet. The rising costs of healthcare in America are unsustainable. We need a less .. ...
  • How the Civil War Revolutionized Medicine
    What's the Big Idea? Where do truly innovative ideas come from? While the poet might argue for divine inspiration, history gives us another story. Necessity being the mother of invention, wars have tended to require innovative solutions to the very unfortunate problems they create—privation .. ...
  • Genetic Testing: Is Ignorance Bliss?
    What's the Big Idea? When is ignorance bliss? When do you refuse to be tested for a disease against which there is no suitable treatment? With genetic testing kits more readily available than ever, many people may face a medical ethics crossroad�should their doctor recommend a test seeking ... ...

Information Liberation

  • Why Aren't The Rich Paying 50% in Taxes?
    Tax Day (April 18) is fast approaching, which means anxiety and night sweats for about 99 percent of taxpayers. And bitching and moaning by those at the top of the income pyramid about how they aren't forced to pay more in taxes. Secretary of St...
  • Peter Schiff Interviews Robert Kiyosaki (And G ...
    Peter Schiff has quite a way of inadvertently exposing people. First Dick Morris hangs up on him, now Robert Kiyosaki curses at him for merely asking questions. You know someone is a con-man if they can't give any concrete specific advice and onl...
  • Harry Reid: Taxation Is Voluntary
    This is a prime example of the mental illness that pervades Washington D.C.. How can we have allowed ourselves to be governed by such people? Why are we putting up with this? Next time you go to a party meeting to vet a politician, ask them the ...
  • Do not panic, citizens: If the government shut ...
    Many federal Web sites will go dark if the government shuts down tomorrow night, the White House indicated this afternoon. A 16-page memo (PDF) to federal agencies says their Web sites may stay online only in a small number of situations, includin...
  • Heads Up, Mexico: You May be Next
    The time has come, insists Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), "for the U.S. to show serious commitment to war in our own backyard." It's shamefully narrow-minded of Washington to confer the blessings of humanitarian mass murder on distant B...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Five more science stories
    Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...
  • Young Science Writer of the Year
    Looks like the Guardian and Wellcome Trust are taking up the young science writer gauntlet with a new award. Winning an award like that can be a great start to a career in science communication. If I remember rightly, I first entered the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the year awards in ...
  • A year of Materials Today
    I contribute materials science news and editorials to most issues of the journal Materials Today and usually bookmark each item on Sciencebase and Delicious. But, you can subscribe to the electronic edition of Elsevier journal Materials Today for free if you're in the USA. Just fill in the form ...
  • Five more science stories
    Sperm condensation – Protamines are small basic proteins that condense the genetic material, the DNA, in mature sperm helping to form the head of the sperm. They are rich in the amino acid arginine whose residues are distributed in a number of stretches separated by neutral amino acids. The amin ...
  • A fix of five fresh science stories
    Incognito – If the conscious mind – the part you consider you – is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries.  (97818476 ...

RFF Library

  • The World of Rivers
    National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water/water-animation The annual Malofiej awards, for top graphics in journalism, were handed out last week. The best map of 2010 went to National Geographic for the World of Rivers. Every river system in the world was mapped and scal ...
  • Hazmat Incident Database
    Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/library/data-stats/incidents The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has launched an online database of hazardo ...
  • The Relationship between Common Management and ...
    LUISS “Guido Carli” University of Rome / by Danilo Sama http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28978/ [Abstract] Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the environmental and scientific society. On one hand, it has been considered as a m ...
  • Estimating the Costs and Benefits of the Smart ...
    Electric Power Research Institute http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt?Abstract_id=000000000001022519 [Abstract]  The present electric power delivery infrastructure was not designed to meet the increased demands of a restructured electricity marketplace, the energy needs of a digital society, or ...
  • FAO Food Price Index (4/7/11)
    Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesindex/en/ The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 230 points in March 2011, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March last year. International pri ...

Scientific American - News

  • A Lovely Swirl: Orbiter Spots a Shifting Vorte ...
    Venus is Earth's closest sibling, in terms of size and proximity, but it remains relatively little explored compared with Earth's other planetary neighbor, Mars. For instance, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) currently have three working Mars orbiters and one active Mars rover between ...
  • Defending the Body Corporate: Appeals Court Pu ...
    The latest chapter in the legal battle over gene patenting unfolded this week during oral arguments (MP3) made in a Washington, D.C., courtroom. A year after a somewhat surprising victory in a New York federal district court, a group of plaintiffs led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACL ...
  • U.S. Collider Offers Physicists a Glimpse of a ...
    Physicists sifting through data generated by the Tevatron particle collider in Illinois have uncovered a signal that neither they nor the long-standing Standard Model of particle physics can explain. [More]
  • Lofting Aspirations: SpaceX Plans to Launch Wo ...
    Come 2013, the burliest rocket in the world may belong not to NASA, Boeing or any of the other traditional heavy-hitters in the aerospace field. It will belong to a relative newcomer, if start-up spaceflight firm SpaceX has its way. [More]
  • Radioactive Omission: Where Are the Anti-Radia ...
    Despite the wide availability of potassium iodine to mitigate ingestion exposure to radioactive iodine in the air, food or beverages, there is still no magic medicine to give to people who have been--or will be--exposed to high levels of direct radiation. [More]

First Truths

  • Shutdown Can't Come Soon Enough
    My take on shutdown hysteria: Besides its protective functions, defined by its monopoly on the use of force, the need for a state is often asserted on the basis of its role as a “safety net.” But although few would disagree that individuals need some hedge against sickness, unemployment and the ...
  • The Free Market's Regulatory Model
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that a truly free market doesn't require an EPA to protect the environment, that in fact Big Business welcomes the state's regulations: And companies that are, due to the lack of competitive pressures, unwieldy in their largeness are inherently acc ...
  • The Foreclosure Mess: Another Crisis of State ...
    My take on the ongoing housing disaster: Where everything the banks lost was recouped through bailouts and the Fed’s consumption of bad debt with play money, the common man gets to watch his home — probably the only real wealth he had — become another corporate welfare payment. There’s nothing r ...
  • Self-Determination and Ivory Coast
    On the violence in�Côte d'Ivoire: Naturally it hasn�t occurred to the international consortium of criminal bands we call the UN that the people of Ivory Coast might wish to escape Africa�s arbitrary political boundaries themselves. It certainly doesn�t comport with the statist worldview that �se ...
  • Syria's Old Boy Network
    On events in Syria, I wrote: Whether the ties are rooted in blood or class interests, the state, everywhere and at all times, is characterized and defined by nepotism; its rules are geared to wring the rewards out of the productive and to wall in certain industries, allowing a chosen few to domi ...

Media Co-Op

  • A Lot of Empty Promises
    VANCOUVER - Social housing advocates cut the ribbon�on another broken promise today - an unbuilt BC Housing project at a lot on�Alexander street. The City-owned site�was approved for�100 units of social housing five years ago. The mock opening promised and delivered "a free BBQ & ribbon cutting ...
  • DNC Chinatown Heights Fight at City Hall
    For Immediate Release April 5, 2011 CHINATOWN AND DTES RESIDENTS FIGHT CONDO HEIGHTS WITH MUSIC! VANCOUVER: Chinatown and Downtown Eastside residents took over city c ...
  • Anti-War Protests Continue as Canada's Role In ...
    As Canada's role in the 'Libya-adventure' becomes increasingly aggressive in nature, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) organized a weekend of protests, at the foot of Barrington and Spring Garden, as well as at the Spring G ...
  • Resourced & A PEOPLE'S FORECAST -- Montreal La ...
    PART 1: A speakers panel regarding climate justice mobilizations The Just Seeds Resourced portfolio can be viewed at http://justseeds.org/resourced/ Featuring music by Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Civilization" from the album "Quiet Places" (1973) ...
  • Resourced & A PEOPLE'S FORECAST -- Montreal La ...
    PART 2: A speakers panel regarding climate justice mobilizations The Just Seeds Resourced portfolio can be viewed at http://justseeds.org/resourced/ Featuring music by Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Civilization" from the album "Quiet Places" (1973) ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Repent! The end is near... or maybe not
    Administration officials said that nearly 800,000 federal workers would probably be told to stop working if a deal was not reached in the next two days. Small business loans would stop. Tax returns filed on paper would not be processed. Government Web sites would go dark. And federal loan guaran ...
  • Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on yo ...
    Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly ...
  • Libya for Dummies: the lipstick doctrine
    The Lipstick DoctrineIn the Victorian age, the British once sang � �We don�t want to fight, but by Jingo if we do/ We�ve got the ships, we�ve got the men, we�ve got the money too.� The Libyan intervention feels like a last reprise of that old tune, rather than a bold statement for a new age. Gid ...
  • The shooting in Tucson: the sound and the fury
    A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing Monday on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. - Associated PressDavid Seaton's News LinksThe obligatory ...
  • Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney". ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well.� From one moment to the next, this poor m ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • NEW! Self-Funded Study Found HUGE Tumors from ...
    Victoria Inness-Brown conducted a personal two and a half-year experiment on the effects of aspartame, probably the worst of the artificial sweeteners on the market. Her experiments resulted in the book, My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, as well as the shorter summary vers ...
  • A Lesson Learned in Haiti Reveals a Deeper, Si ...
    A new study has taken a look at how the Haitian cholera outbreak is likely to evolve. It found that clean water and hygiene education measures are likely to be more effective at reducing the spread of the disease than a vaccination campaign. The researchers created disease dispersion models for ...
  • Is Vitamin D Deficiency Connected to Parkinson ...
    Researchers report that there is a correlation between insufficient levels of vitamin D and the development of early Parkinson's disease. A study of more than 150 Parkinson's patients found that a high percentage of subjects had vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. Almost 70 percent had vitam ...
  • Lack of Sleep Linked To Childhood Obesity
    New studies show a direct connection between obesity and insufficient sleep. Children with inadequate nightly rest are at higher risk for obesity than those who are getting the proper amount of sleep. If a child has likelihood to be obese, proper sleep will help protect him or her against future ...
  • An Unusual Way of Detecting This Early Stage C ...
    Research shows that some dogs have an uncanny ability to detect impending seizures, cancer, and even when people will die. Some examples of these extraordinary animals can be seen in the two videos above. In one new study, a Labrador retriever has been trained to detect colon cancer nearl ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Malaria outbreak could reach uncontacted Indians
    Numerous tribes are threatened by the Madeira River dams project © © Clive W. Dennis/Survival The lives of uncontacted Indians living close to the Madeira dams in the Brazilian Amazon are at grave risk from a malaria outbreak in the area. New figures released by a local Mayorâs office re ...
  • Police charged for role in Bagua massacre
    A wounded protester is beaten by police, Bagua, Peru © Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen Three senior police and army officers have been charged in connection with the deaths of 33 Peruvians during clashes between Amazon Indians and police in June 2009. Violence erupted in the northern Ama ...
  • Inter-American Commission orders Brazil govern ...
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Telma Monteiro/ Survival The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered the Brazilian government to suspend construction of the Belo Monte dam until the rights of the thousands of indigenous people in the area are respected. The B ...
  • World Health Day: Uncontacted tribes at risk o ...
    The Nukak have been decimated by diseases since contact © Gustavo Pollitis/Survival Survival has warned on the eve of World Health Day (April 7) that uncontacted tribes face massive population loss if their land is not protected. Tribes like the Amazon Indians shown in the incredible aeri ...
  • Ecuador’s government under Indian attack
    Crossed spears found on a path in northern Peru, in the region where oil company Perenco is working. Crossed spears are a common sign used by uncontacted Indians to warn outsiders to stay away. © Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization has launched an unprecedented ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Election 2011: Viewpoints
    WHICH PARTY/PARTY LEADER HAS MOST/LEAST IMPRESSED YOU SO FAR DURING THE CAMPAIGN?
  • Vote subsidies vs. tax credits
    The Gazette's most recent editorial on political-party funding ("Subsidies for parties, for and against," April 5) shows an encouraging shift. The Gazette once took the line that the $2-per-vote subsidy should be ended because public money is paid to parties that some voters do not support, like ...
  • After a tragic death, a moral debate
    controversy that continues to sweep the media, the artistic community, the court of public opinion, the National Assembly and even federal politics.
  • A school board that needs to grow up
    There's a new circus in town, and you can watch it free at emsb@ canadacast.ca. That's the website of the English Montreal School Board, where you see school commissioners at work during regular and special meetings. Get past the dull bits and you'll see the chest-beating antics, the shouting, t ...
  • Estelle Vallières, 37, suburban mom
    A mother of four, Vallières lives in the South Shore town of Ste. Julie. In the 2007 Quebec general election, the Action démocratique du Québec won every single poll in every single polling station in Ste. Julie, thus establishing the suburb of 30,000 as the municipality in Quebec that most want ...

Food World Order

  • 4/7 binge & purge: easter, grocer, toxic, addi ...
    oregon salmonella case brings easter chick warning* bpa ban advances in oregon legislature* north portland grocer charged with food stamp fraud* trouble in the bat world means trouble for US food supply?* 14 die after eating toxic sardines in madagascar* processed food from stone ...
  • conagra broadens campaign to feed hungry kids
    update: conagra ceo on customers & rising prices... from nytimes: ConAgra Foods, whose social cause is ending child hunger, is taking a new approach to raise the issue’s visibility. The company is starting its largest campaign ever, including a television special, to spur more grass-roots inv ...
  • mcdonald's launches plan to (soylent) green it ...
    world wildlife fund gets into bed with mcdonald's, gives birth to darling 'sustainability program' from grist: McDonald's is going to be less bad for the future of life on Earth, it promises. With the help of the World Wildlife Fund, the 32,000-store chain has pledged to do the following t ...
  • the price of food is at the heart of this wave ...
    from independent: Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew more serious in Iraq... And it's not just the Middle East. This is an African crisis: Tunisia, where it started, is an African cou ...
  • mouse-pig & super-fish seek approval for human ...
    from toronto sun: The federal government is refusing to say whether it is close to approving genetically modified animals for human consumption. But if they do, you may never know it. So far, groups have applied to get approval for fish that grow twice as fast as normal, and pigs with mice ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Militant Christianity - Evangelical Christiani ...
    source: DNA India, March 27, 2011 In his explosive new book The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US evangelism as a f ...
  • Suspected religious conversion racket busted i ...
    source:  DNA India, Apr 4, 2011 Social welfare department officials on Sunday busted an alleged religious conversion racket in Haleyangadi gram panchayat limits in Mangalore city police limits.
  • 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
    source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
  • Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
    source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
  • Caste divide
    source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...

Whole Truth Coalition

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 9th April 2011
    "The failure of the euro will signify the failure of the European ideal, and that is why eurocrats fight so hard for it. What should have been a club of free-trading nations over-reached itself, and sought to unite people with little or no common culture, politics, language or economic history i ...
  • Our Poll: Only 11% intend to fill in census ho ...
    Before entering into the main thrust of this post, we are probably duty-bound to state that it is a requirement by law (statute actually) for you to complete and return your census form. However, over the last two weeks, we've run a poll on this site to find out exactly how many of you intend ...
  • And when former East Germans accuse Theresa Ma ...
    I really can't be bothered to write any more about this beastly character than has already been written in the title of this post. Foul woman. Resign in shame, Theresa May. Read the story HERE, HERE and HERE. You can't trust the Tories on national sovereignty. (nor can you trust Lab ...
  • Census stand-off: Round 1
    Just had a ring on the chimes of the Clock Tower. Eeek! A door-to-door gestapo agent, wanting to know where my census form is ("Well, I did post it...") Good grief. Either I'm getting old, else the evil state is now using twelve year olds to do it's dirty work, knowing we'd find it more di ...
  • The Battle of Trafalgar Square: A Reflection
    There is something strangely schizophrenic about this country - or the people who claim to speak up for it. On the one hand, they are criticising 'the rebels' who have smashed Central London up while also supporting the arming and aiding of 'the rebels' (Al Qaeda) in Libya. There is much t ...

Facing South

  • Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
  • VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
    We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Did Massey miners die in vain?
    Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29 Year in which Congress passed a landmark mine safety law in response to a mine explosion in Fairmont, W.Va. that killed 78 miners: 1969 Year in which Congress passed ...
  • Legal action seeks to slow rush to build new n ...
    A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South. Filed directly with the NRC's five ...
  • Latino South Rising
    It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 perc ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    AP: Terror Suspects in Afghanistan Can Be Held for Weeks in Secret The AP reports Friday that suspected terrorists in Afghanistan continue to be held in secret, U.S. military-run detention facilities where they can be interrogated for up to nine … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    NY State Senator’s Terror Hearing Draws Criticism New York State Senator Gregory Ball (R-District 40) plans to hold a hearing Friday in Manhattan on New Yorkâs terrorism preparedness, but his plan to examine the threat of radical Islam has drawn … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    White House Report Suggests Pakistan Making Little Headway Against Militants A semiannual White House report to Congress suggests that Pakistan is making little progress against militants and that the country has âno clear path toward defeating the insurgency,â according to … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Four Accused 9/11 Plotters to Face Military Tribunal Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators will be tried at a military tribunal at Guantanamo rather … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Suicide Bombers Kill More Than 40 at Sufi Shrine in Pakistan A pair of suicide bombers killed more than 40 people and wounded 100 others on Sunday when they attacked an important Sufi shrine in Pakistanâs Punjab province, according to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubo Icons Theme - Not Glossy, Drawn With Ballp ...
    When we featured this collection of top 10 most popular icon themes for Ubuntu GNOME some time ago, Ubo Icons was probably one among the most promising set of icons for GNOME in that list, though it was still a project yet to be completed back then. Well, the first alpha release of Ubu Icons is ...
  • Osmo - Simple, Easy to Use Personal Organizer ...
    Osmo is a handy personal organizer application for Linux. Feature list includes calendar, tasks manager, address book and notes modules. Osmo is comprehensive in its set of functionalities yet very easy to use and configure. In many ways, Osmo is as good or even better than�Getting Things GNOME ...
  • Elementary OS Review: Delight to Use, Few Issu ...
    Elementary OS is unlike many other Ubuntu derivative distros out there. Instead of simply rearranging applications in a different order to create a new distro, Elementary project concentrates on actually building a full blown Linux distro with a consistent user interface that include custom appl ...
  • Calibre - Really Good E-Book Management Tool f ...
    Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application for Windows, Mac and Linux.�Important functionalities include library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion and even e-book reader�synchronization�features. Calibre E-book Management Tool for Win ...
  • Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin C ...
    Hope you all remember the Bitcoin project, the much talked about open source virtual currency project which has the potential to become the gold standard of digital currency. Now, a Google engineer has released an open source Java client for the Bitcoin peer-to-peer currency called BitcoinJ. Bit ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Threatened shutdown of US government a bank op ...
    Lyndon LaRouche and Alex Jones discuss how the Globalists have been using the weapon of national debt to try to close down the US government in an interview on Infowars. http://www.infowars.com/lyndon-larouche-exposes-the-face-of-evil/ The US national debt – just like the sovereign debt of the e ...
  • Who is the better leader? Prince Harry or Karl ...
    When Die Welt newspaper reported on Prince Harry’s “tour” of the Artic, they played down the fact that he went to the North Pole to support soldiers wounded in Afghanistan in an action that was refreshing in its  idealism. http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article13106695/Prinz-Harry-sit ...
  • German university says ex Defence Minister Gut ...
    Former German Defence Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg has failed in his bid to block the publication of a report by Bayreuth University that concluded that the plagiarism of his doctorate was a deliberate and systematic act, according to local media. Guttenberg’s lawyers had argued that the ...
  • First Iceland bank crash prison sentence hande ...
    First Iceland bank crash prison sentence handed down as country prepares to vote on new bank debt repayment package. Posted on07 April 2011.  Icenews. Reykjavik District Court has today passed sentence on the first case by the special prosecutor into the banking crash. Baldur Gudlaugsson has bee ...
  • IRISH DOCTORS ORDERED TO RETURN SWINE FLU VACC ...
     GPs must return flu vaccine over narcolepsy fears Scientists have linked drug to sleep disorder By JEROME REILLY, Irish Independent Sunday April 03 2011 The Heath Service Executive (HSE) will remove all stocks of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix from GPs’ surgeries, the Sunday Independent has l ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Glamour and the Ghost Cities of the Moon
    By Les Visible I speak often about attractions and desires. I think the richest person in France is the lady who is the heir to the L’Oreal fortune. When you consider the commercial industry of glamour and all that it connects to, directly and indirectly, you’re looking at one of the biggest ind ...
  • Looking for Dr. Pangloss in an Orwellian Nightmare
    By Les Visible If things seem to be moving faster, it’s not because they’ve all of a sudden gained some mysterious acceleration, even if that might be true to a degree. The fact is that for a few decades now, deluded individuals and groups have been industrious about setting the stage for an Orw ...
  • Is Japan’s Elite Hiding A Weapons Progra ...
    By Yoichi Shimatsu 4-6-11 Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of ...
  • The Pending Judgment of the New World Disorder
    By Les Visible Life operates according to a seasonal progression. We are in The Fall at present, culturally speaking, and… along with being the season of harvest; it is also a season of judgment. Harvesting and judgment are very similar. In order for circumstances, individuals and groups to be e ...
  • Drunvalo Melchizedek on ETs, Historical Univer ...

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.

electric politics

  • Imperfect (Nuclear) Implementation
    Humans cannot engineer a perfect technology for nuclear power, one that presents zero risk. Nor can humans engineer a political process that enforces constant, rigorous, indefinitely long-term oversight on imperfect nuclear power solutions. The choice, therefore, is stark: use nuclear power and ...
  • Tell Me About the Future
    Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
  • What is Religion Good For?
    In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...
  • Booker T. Washington
    White supremacy was never a good cornerstone upon which to build a union. A pact with the devil, we're still not done dealing with its implications. For a look at how an earlier generation of Black Americans attempted to cope, I turned to Dr. Raymond W. Smock, former official historian of the U ...
  • Korea, Korea
    Remembering, forgetting, never knowing. Dr. Bruce Cumings, in his recently published book, The Korean War: A History, examines how willingly America intruded into Korea after the Second World War and how difficult it's been for us ever afterward to deny ourselves any real understanding of Korea ...

PR News

  • Marina Maher hires CBS veteran for media role
    NEW YORK: Marina Maher Communications has hired former CBS senior producer and investigative reporter Susan Bean as EVP, practice leader of its media relations division.
  • Rubenstein adds Magnolia Bakery to roster
    NEW YORK: Rubenstein PR signed several new accounts, including Magnolia Bakery, photographer Fadil Berisha, documentary Discover the Gift, and solar energy provider Solar Rainbow.
  • PR Newswire backs Investor Uprising
    NEW YORK: PR Newswire is sponsoring the launch of Investor Uprising, a community website from parent company United Business Media aimed at the individual investor.
  • Coyne boosts toy practice with two accounts
    PARSIPPANY, NJ: Coyne Public Relations has added two AOR accounts to its toy and juvenile products division: Nuk USA and Playmobil USA.
  • WPIX-TV's Haunss moves to WestGlen
    WPIX-TV reporter Allison Haunss has joined WestGlen Communications as a producer at the broadcast and Internet PR and production firm's New York HQ.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Project Blue Beam Update
    Seeing is NOT synonymous with believing — at least not anymore. Lucifer is synonymous with light – his very name means “the Shining One”.   Today, using LIGHT WAVES  – holograms of incredible detail and design now entertain vast crowds of human beings.  They dance on stage, wiggle their behi ...
  • Mormon Temple – South Korea Prophetic Pr ...
    I just received this from a listener to the show today.  Keep in mind that  “Priesthood Ordinances” are basically WICCA “Spells”.  Is “The Lord” Lucifer real and can he produce supernatural phenomenon?  Yes indeed he can. (In WICCAN Satanic Pagan ceremonies – marriages are called “hand-fasti ...
  • New Lab Virus Surfaces in —- CHINA!!!!
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/521/973/Highly_Contagious_AIDS-Like_Disease_Spreading_in_China.html&NL Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:09 In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Expr ...
  • First Stop on Presidential Election Trail &#82 ...
    This is 3 and 1/2 minutes of incredible truth. Please spread this far and wide..
  • Libyan “Rebel Leader” Spent 20 Yea ...
    Who exactly is the “Rebel Leader” of Libya – the man who will replace Qadafi if the Libyan “civil war” rebellion is successful?   Who is  Khalifa Hifter???  The answer is stunning!!! Libyan rebel leader Hifter spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia with no visible means of support ( ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • U.S. Airways: You Know Those Free Miles We Gav ...
    Isn't it so nice when your favorite airline e-mails you to let you know that, because they love to see you so happy, you're getting 1,000 frequent flier miles in your account. You know what's not so nice? When that same airline writes you a few days later to snatch those miles right back out o ...
  • Phone Tips For People Who Hate Phones
    For people who'd rather live their lives by email and text messages, pressure to participate in actual phone calls can be an unreasonable burden. Lifehacker offers valuable tips to neutralize the annoyances phones can foist upon you: *Disable your voicemail. Notifications do nothing other than ...
  • Reasons New Cars May Be Better Buys Than Used
    Because new cars lose a sizable chunk of their resale value once you drive them off the lot, conventional wisdom says it's wiser to buy used. Money Crashers bucks that line of thinking, suggesting several advantages new cars have over used models. Here's a sampling of the reasoning in the pos ...
  • BofA Charges Fee After 3 Withdrawals To Discou ...
    Here's a funny fee that I just found out about, even though it's been in place for at least a year. So, Federal regulation, Regulation D, prohibits more than six withdrawals per month from a savings account (ATM withdrawals don't count towards the 6). Most banks will just charge an "excess acti ...
  • Analysis: T-Mobile Gives You More For Your Dol ...
    As AT&T prepares to head into the regulatory review of its pending purchase of T-Mobile USA, the telecom giant's CEO has stated, however noncommittally, that existing T-Mobile customers should not see their rates go up. And according to a comparison done by our number-crunching cousins at Consu ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Armenians and Gays Together
    The Armenian Apostolic Church found itself coupled with gays and lesbians on the pages of the April 2, 2011, LAEXTRA section of the Los Angeles Times. While it wasn’t, necessarily, a match made in heaven, and certainly not Church sanctioned, the juxtaposition of the two articles was logical. The ...
  • REPORTED: 23 Dead, 200+ Injured in Overnight C ...
    BREAKING: The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has issued a number of emergency statements overnight detailing an assault on refugee Camp Ashraf by Iraqi troops assisted by Iranian QOD security forces. Using 100+ vehicles they overran and destroyed the camp’s northern fence killing ...
  • Southwest Airlines Incident Highlights Cracks ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica The five-foot tear in the roof of a Southwest 737 last week has brought renewed attention not only to the problem of aging planes, but also to problems in oversight of the airline industry. In a report that received limited attention when it was released in December, t ...
  • If The First Amendment Had To Be Ratified Today…
    by Tina Dupuy Republicans will tell you they’re the sole Constitutional purists in the country; they worship the document more/better than you do. But imagine if the First Amendment had to be voted on today. It would need two-thirds majority in both Houses just to be proposed. Consider it: “Cong ...
  • Paul Ryan’s Plan, the Coming Shutdown, and Wha ...
    I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor Department’s 15,600 employees to go home and not return the next day. I also had to tell them I didn’t know when they’d next get a paycheck. There were two shutdowns, actually, rolling [ ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Legal warfare against skeptics: one win, one n ...
    The Big Scare Campaign is desperate, when they can’t win with reason, they can always find a reason to sue and hope to silence their critics. Their deep pockets make them an ominous foe, and the legal battles are running hot. Actions are running against Andrew Bolt, and Tim Ball (see below), and ...
  • Patrick Moore takes on another Greenpeace Guru
    Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace way back in 1971. He abandoned them in 1986 so he could pursue his environmental passions. As you would. Last November he published a tempting book: Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. And not surprisingly s ...
  • Greenpeace: witchhunters with $280m dollars to ...
    UPDATE: It appears ANZ is not feeling apologetic or likely to cave in to green threats. ANZ chief executive Mike Smith, has delivered a savage attack on Julia Gillard, declaring her party was part of the “weak government club” of the world. Greenpeace have produced a hit job on the ANZ Bank: a ( ...
  • Poll Wars: Lying with loaded questions
    The Carbon Tax is melting down Australian politics. The spin is running wild and the falsity of “carbon pollution” (sic) preys on yet another political leader. Two polls met head to head today, one showing 59% of Australians don’t want the tax, and other saying that 72% of Australians want gover ...
  • Patrick Moore takes on another Greenpeace Guru
    Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace way back in 1971. He abandoned them in 1986 so he could pursue his environmental passions. As you would. Last November he published a tempting book: Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. And not surprisingly s ...

ReNew America

  • GOP, Obama make 'historic' deal to avoid gover ...
    (NewsMax) - 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...
  • Fox News survey shows 62% opposed to raising d ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - A Fox News poll of Americans' attitudes toward raising the debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion shows 62 percent opposed -- with a whopping 79 percent of Republicans against a move being promoted by Republican House Speaker John Boehner, despite widespread and growing discontent am ...
  • Schumer: Senate will 'never, never, never' def ...
    (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed yesterday that the provision to defund Planned Parenthood that passed the House earlier this year is "never, never, never going to pass the Senate"...
  • Thanks for raising my taxes -- what else can I ...
    (Ann Coulter) - When Wisconsin Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on splendiferous public sector union contracts, did they happen to notice that the rest of the country is in the midst of a massive recession? For years, Democrats have been using taxpayer money so that their buddie ...
  • Two George Soros events aim to remake the fina ...
    (Fox News) - Apparently, megalomaniacs need schedulers. Just ask George Soros. The left-wing billionaire is helping fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. God created the ...

Truth Offering

  • Civilization: The Biggest Bubble
    One thing I'm certain of is that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know that much. That's the irony of knowledge. It's like, as you open one door of knowledge, there are ten more to explore. And to be honest, I love that about life; I love learning more and more about our ever-changing ...
  • The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
    Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
  • US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
    CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
  • Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
    In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...
  • SoCal Fun: The Radioactive Plume and the "Big One"
    Radioactive plume heads for US west coastMan, what a week. Not that my paranoia comes anywhere close to what people are going through in Japan, I must say that all this talk about nuclear 'plumes' sweeping across the Pacific and wiping across the shores is scaring the hell out of me. I'm a healt ...

2012 Blog

  • CRE Superbug in the USA
    Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is the new concern. Carbapenem is an antibiotic, that is losing its powers rapidly, and there is no alternative yet: Carbapenems are one of the antibiotics of last resort for many bacterial infections, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiell ...
  • Tsunami Underestimation – When Will We L ...
    The reason behind the whole Japanese tsunami nuclear disaster is simple – they doubted a tsunami could be that big. Doomsday researchers know that in the distant past tsunamis have been as high as half a mile, yet the Japanese even chose to ignore relatively recent records: In postulating the ma ...
  • Chandra Wickramasinghe Dismissed
    This totally sucks. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a superstar astronomer (in my opinion) and will most likely be acknowledged (one day) as the most progressive comet researcher of his era. He has given us the concept of dark comets, and greatly helped publicize the study of  panspermia, which he co ...
  • New 2012 Doco / 2012 Robot Film
    According to CNBC (USA): “APOCALYPSE 2012″ will premiere on Thursday, April 7th at 9pm. The documentary will repeat that evening at 10pm, 12am and 1am. Meanwhile, here’s a robot 2012 short film: Don’t Kill Me, Now from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo. Related posts:New 2012 Social Network Great Pyramid Ai ...
  • UPDATE: Zahi Hawass Quits?
    UPDATE: Mar 30 2011: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass, as the new Minister of State for Antiquities. On his blog, Dr Zahi Hawass explains why he has resigned from his position of Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. Whi ...

Facing South

  • Florida tomato pickers challenge supermarkets ...
    By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Labor NotesThousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters marched in front of supermarkets up and down the East Coast this spring, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve wages and working conditions in the fields. ...
  • VOICES: Latino growth sparks Texas redistricti ...
    We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer Steve Murdock put it, "it's basically over for�Anglo's."The fundamental message is: if y ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Did Massey miners die in vain?
    Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29 Year in which Congress passed a landmark mine safety law in response to a mine explosion in Fairmont, W.Va. that killed 78 miners: 1969 Year in which Congress passed ...
  • Legal action seeks to slow rush to build new n ...
    A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South. Filed directly with the NRC's five ...
  • Latino South Rising
    It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 perc ...

One News Page

  • Kristen Stewart - Happy Birthday, Kristen Stewart!
    Twilight star Kristen Stewart is all grown up - the actress turns 21 on Saturday (09Apr11) One of young Hollywood's brightest stars and biggest talents, Stewart has become famous around the world since landing her break-out role as Bella Swan in...
  • Sidney Lumet Dies
    Filed under: R.I.P., Movies Acclaimed director Sidney Lumet died at his home in Manhattan today from lymphoma. He was 86. Lumet directed a laundry list of classics, including '12 Angry Men,' 'Serpico,' 'Dog Day Afternoon,' 'The Wiz,' 'Network,' 'The Verdict,' and most recently… Read more
  • Betty White BLASTS Lohan, Sheen
    Filed under: Betty White, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Celebrity Feuds, Sponsored By Dr. Drew Betty White just UNLOADED on Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen -- claiming she 'cannot stand' their over-the-top lifestyles ... and blasting them for letting their careers spiral out of control. ...
  • We will support Lokpal Bill in Parliament: BJP
    Promising support for the Lokpal Bill in the Monsoon session of Parliament, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari said the party welcomed the campaign against corruption by social activist Anna Hazare.
  • People thinking about alternative: Sushma Swaraj

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Libya: ‘Winged Democracy’ in Criti ...
    Global war-mongers are seemingly in deep frustration. Despite huge investments in ‘people opposition movement’, disinformation campaign and eventual direct foreign intervention in Libya, the ‘anti-Gaddafi project’ has come to obvious deadlock. That looks quite surprising. Regular Libyan army bea ...
  • How Is Gadhafi Going to Hit Back?
    Throughout the past week, the theme of Gadhafi’s options for counterstrikes in response to the Western coalition’s air raids against Libya and of the instigation of the insurgency in the country has been constantly popping up in the media headlines.The British intelligence agencies, British amba ...
  • ‘Empires Only Fall When They Have to Pay Their ...
    When I read this by Oscar Wilde I thought that surely one couldn’t characterize such cataclysmic events with a simple one liner but on reflection one can usually add that the financial catastrophe is ignored by those in charge proving again Mair’s Axiom I – you make a serious mistake assuming th ...
  • Dismantlement of the International Law as a Ne ...
    While the war against Libya is raging, another aggression possibly marking a new phase in the history of the international law is beginning to unfold. On April 5, the French forces launched an offensive supposed to lead to the seizure of Ivory Coast’s legitimate president Laurent Gbagbo. Accordi ...
  • Libya: Distractions and Diversions
    “This is pure hypocrisy and demagogy, they are already giving weapons to the rebels, and not only that: they are interfering in the struggle of the Libyan people,” he said, adding that âthis action is against international law and the United Nations Charter.â– Miguel D’Escoto One thing should su ...

BlogHer

  • Run Like a Mother!
    Section Editor Dashboard Section Editor Topic:� Sports On Saturday I ran my third half-marathon. Now, this may not be a big deal for most people but considering I just started running April of last year and I ran my first half marath ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, April 8:
    Issa of You Want to Be Rich was quoted in the March 2011 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Christina Skretkowicz from Nathan's Fight started a business with a friend that sells stuff to make life with Cystic Fibrosis easier. Heather Mann from Dollar Store Crafts was interviewed at the nrelate blog ...
  • We're the Real Beastie Boys: Fight for Your Ri ...
    Watch out for Will Ferrell. Or is that Ad-Rock? "We bring a super-fresh, old-school throwdown dance contest from the future," Ferrell's Ad-Rock says in "Fight for Your Right Revisited," a trailer for the 30-minute Beastie Boys film of the same name, accompanying the long-awaited new record "Hot ...
  • Israel and America: Caught Between Cultures
    My flip flops smack against dirty steps as a breeze provides sweet relief from the sticky Middle Eastern air. A stone path is warm beneath my feet. I sling my loosely knit backpack over one shoulder, slide my Lennon-esque sunglasses in place and enter the shuk, the open air market. And then, I b ...
  • How to Wear Eye-searingly Bright Colors
    Big, bold brights are on the docket for spring, and I'm guessing that scares the PANTS off some of you. And even if you don't care about trends and are, therefore, still in possession of your pants, I've got some tips for ways to wear fabulously bright shades without looking like a Rainbow Bri ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes More Co ...
    If after perusing the news, you think to yourself, “Why are more young people dropping dead after a sporting event?” then you are on to something. Most recently it was basketball player Wes Leonard of ...
  • Rising Rates of Tubal Pregnancies Cause Concern
    Ectopic pregnancies (often means conception in the fallopian tube) are becoming more common but the medical profession is unsure why. It can lead to tubal rupture and hemorrhaging. The problem was thought to be on ...
  • Garden as if Your Life Depended On It, Because ...
    It is time to take your nourishment into your own hands. In the wake of the recent passing of the Food Safety Modernization Act and the rash of recent GM crop approvals for spring planting by the ...
  • Neural Activity Linked to Food Addiction
    Setting down a chocolate milk shake in front of a food addict isn’t much different than setting down drugs before a substance addict according to a new study to be published in the Archives of ...
  • Jennie-O Turkey Recall: Resistant Salmonella O ...
    Not Jennie-O’s all natural turkey too! It seems we are hearing of more recalls and Salmonella outbreaks then ever. This strain, Salmonella Hadar, is particularly troubling due to its resistance to many typical antibiotics like ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 8, 2011
    Betty Harrah sister of deceased miner Steven Harrah attends a vigil following the Upper Big Branch Memorial Service Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in Whitesville, W.Va. The memorial was for the 29 coal miners who were killed in an explosion at the mine one year ago today in Montcoal, W.Va. (AP Photo/Je ...
  • Obama’s mountaintop removal crackdown am ...
    This just in from The Hill: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Friday morning that provisions on mountaintop-removal coal mining are among the sticking points in the down-to-the-wire federal spending-bill talks. “Curiously enough, mountaintop mining was put on the table ...
  • Coal industry still lags on communications gear
    My buddy Larry Messina over at The Associated Press moved an interesting story earlier from today’s sessions at Wheeling Jesuit University’s 4th Annual International Mining Health and Safety Symposium. Larry reports: U.S. coal mine operators fall well short of meeting a 5-year-old congressional ...
  • New study adds to evidence about the need for ...
    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has gotten a bit of attention lately for his statements that there’s no need for tougher federal coal-dust regulations because, the good senator claims, the coal industry has already done “a pretty good job” of reducing the incidence of black lung. But a soon-to-be publi ...
  • Reality TV check: MSHA cites Cobalt Coal
    Here’s the latest from Vicki Smith at The Associated Press: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The first episode of a reality show in a southern West Virginia mine had real-world results: Inspectors cited Cobalt Coal for two activities they say endangered miners. Spike TV’s new series “Coal” was filmed a ...

Daniel Miessler

  • What we can learn from procrastination | The N ...
    Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.” A two-stage experiment provides a classic illustration: In the first stage, people are offered the cho ...
  • How to Get a Real Education at College II | WS ...
    Combine Skills. The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable. It’s unlikely that any average student can develop a world-class skill in one particular area. But it’s easy to learn how to do several different things fairly well. I succeeded as ...
  • How to Get a Real Education at College | WSJ.com
    One day the managers of The Coffee House had a meeting to discuss two topics. First, our Minister of Employment was recommending that we fire a bartender, who happened to be one of my best friends. Second, we needed to choose a leader for our group. On the first question, there was a general con ...
  • OffSec Perspective | Security Aegis
    This entry was posted on Friday, April 8th, 2011, 12:26 am and is filed under infosec. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. via securityaegis.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsGr ...
  • SF to Paris, With Northern Lights
    via vimeo.com Phenomenal video, taken with DSLR. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDigital DJ UIStrong Vim FuDigital GraffitiPlaying With LightSpace BattlesCloud Surfing with NikonStephen Fry on Life Lessons

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Sidney Lumet, RIP
    Director Sidney Lumet Dies at 86 | Hollywood Reporter Sidney Lumet, who directed such impassioned, often furious, movies as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Network, died Saturday morning at his home in New York City. He was 86. The cause of death was lymphoma, his stepdaughter Leslie Gimbel told ...
  • Moonbase Potempkin
    Shit, first Sputnik, now this! Russia reveals plans for base on the moon | Montreal Gazette Russia has announced that it intends to build a base on the moon within 20 years, which it plans to use as a staging post for a manned mission to Mars. The promise was made as Vladimir Putin, the [...]
  • David Crosby: Selected filmography
    By Matt Schild | avclub - One hippie’s quest to chase down the American dream of movie stardom If you’re an ambitious and upwardly mobile musician, you can’t be content with just rock-star status. You have to continue to challenge yourself and grow artistically—or at least make the half-assed mo ...
  • Environmentalist? Make People Like You!
    Why People Hate Environmentalists | Feelgood Style Okay, people don’t “hate” environmentalists… you help the planet and save endangered species! But that message gets lost between greenwashing and over-zealous activists, leading many to conclude that environmentalists are self-righteous 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 ...

reference frame

  • Are ET aliens shy?
    The Physics arXiv Blog has been intrigued by an extraterrestrial paper by Adrian Kent: Too Damned Quiet?Science rejected the paper in 2005 but it's fun, so why wouldn't he submit it to the arXiv in 2011? ;-) There are three typical answers to Fermi's question - Where a ...
  • David Suzuki, wife: despair, huddle at night, weep
    Tom Nelson, Steven Goddard, Climate Quotes, and others have noticed that David Suzuki and his wife need a help of a psychiatrist and they tried to provide Suzuki with some comfort: Partner Spotlight: Dr. David Suzuki, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation (Tck Tck Tck)In the interview ...
  • Herr Schellnhuber has a master plan
    First, a technical intermezzo: check 5 new ways to view this blog: flipcard, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, timeslide... Pierre Goselin is discussing a remarkable interview with the top German climate ideologue in Spiegel: We Are Looting the Past and Future to Feed the Present (English)J ...
  • Václav Klaus visited glaciers in Patagonia
    Last week, Czech President Václav Klaus visited Argentina. Here is a translation of an interview in Lidovky, a leading Czech daily. Klaus standing by glaciers: Nature can treat us the way She likes BUENOS AIRES (from an Argentinian LN correspondent) - President Václav Klaus ...
  • Benjamin Netanyahu in Prague
    Today, Benjamin Netanyahu became the very first Israeli prime minister who visited the Czech Republic. Today, he met Mr Petr Nečas, his Czech counterpart. Tomorrow, he will have a lunch with President Klaus. Both prime ministers have vowed that Czechia and Israel wi ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
    Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
  • Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
    Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.
  • The IPCC’s Activist Chairman
    Rajendra Pachauri does not display the aloof, dispassionate demeanour traditionally evoked by the term "scientist." Instead, he repeatedly lends the good name of the scientific body he chairs to activist endeavours.
  • The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality
    Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded - but that's not how it behaves.
  • Responses to the Japanese Earthquake
    A slideshow of iPhone images created in response to the tragic earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.

Tarpley

  • Ελληνικά
    English Deutsch Français Italiano Îλληνικά Other ÎÎ-ÎÎÎÎΤÎ: ΠÎÎÎÎΠΤΩΠÎÎÎÎÎΡΣÎΩΠΤÎΣ CIA ÎΠΠΤΠÎÎÎΥΠÎÎΧΡΠΤÎΠΥÎÎÎÎÎ Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net 3 ÎÏÏιλίου Ïου 2011 ÎεÏά αÏÏ Î´Ïο ÎµÎ²Î´Î¿Î¼Î¬Î´ÎµÏ Î¹Î¼ÏεÏιαλιÏÏÎ¹ÎºÎ®Ï ÎµÏίθεÏηÏ, Ïο ...
  • Al Qaeda: Pawns of CIA Insurrection from Libya ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 3, 2011 After two weeks of imperialist attack, Libya is being mangled by al Qaeda terrorists, civil war, NATO air raids, cruise missiles, Predator drones, and C-130 gunships – all made possible by the CIA-backed al Qaeda rebels of Cyrenaica. US, Briti ...
  • خبير أمريكي: ما يجري في ليبيا والعالم العربي م ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 1, 2011 English Translation: U.S. Expert: What is happening in the Middle East is pre-planned Tarpley interviewed on Russia Today’s Arabic division http://arabic.rt.com/prg_hadis/66675/video/
  • Tarpley on Alex Jones Show: Bush and Cheney us ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars March 31, 2011 download file
  • The Libya Rebels: A CIA Secret Army of al Qaed ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net March 30, 2011

Modern Survivalism

  • Arkansas, New Madrid, Rock-n-Roll
    During Thursday, April 7, a concentrated area of earthquakes began popping off near Greenbrier, Arkansas, and up to the time of this post 24 quakes have been recorded in a short period of time. Several magnitude 3.9′s and a 3.5 is enough shaking to get your attention, and strong enough to cause ...
  • Government Shutdown, a Soros Diversion, Bretto ...
    Conspiracy? Yes, maybe… but, where have you heard reported in the main-stream-media of the George Soros sponsored Bretton Woods II economic conference, taking place this weekend at the Omni Mount Washington Resort – Bretton Woods New Hampshire, with a conference them, “Crisis and Renewal: Intern ...
  • Practical, Portable, Drinking Water Storage
    Awhile back I had researched and checked reviews while looking for a good quality drinking water storage container, about 5 gallons (this one is 7 gallons), that would fit in the back of each of our vehicles to compliment our 72-hour emergency kit that we keep. We live in the heart of earthquake ...
  • Gerald Celente at his most passionate ever!
    Gerald Celente, of Trends Research Journal, is a man who speaks his mind, and has been accurate about many world changing trends over the years. He’s the kind of guy you either like for his straight-talk, or he may simply be too abrasive for your pallet. I happen to be one that likes this guy [...]
  • SuperBug NDM-1 found in Drinking Water
    Back in August of 2010, it was reported that a SuperBug strain called NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1), had been discovered in the UK with links back to India. Today, in April of 2011, the ‘Lancet infectious Diseases journal’ reports that bacteria carrying the NDM-1 SuperBug has been d ...

Fast Company

  • Work Smart: 5 Rules for Remembering Names
    Forgetting someone's name in a social situation is embarrassing, but in a business setting it can be disastrous. In this week's episode of Work Smart, I talk with memory expert Bob Gray about how to remember the names of the people you meet.[video_twistage 1]Here's a quick recap -- watch the vid ...
  • The Solar Industry Responds to Claims of Suppl ...
    After we wrote about how many solar panel makers fared badly on The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's 2011 Solar Scorecard, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) nearly fell over itself to respond, telling us that the solar industry is cleaning up its act--and fast. The scorecard--whi ...
  • Apple Round-Up: Hybrid Connectors, Smart Bezel ...
    A lot of Apple news and rumors have popped up this week, so we've gathered them all together for you in one convenient place--dip in and imagine what Steve Jobs and Co. have been working on for the future of those iDevices.Hybrid ConnectorApple released its new Thunderbolt protocol with the rece ...
  • Kayak Says DOJ Mandates on Google's ITA Acquis ...
    It appears the Department of Justice has heard the cries of travel companies and consumer watchdogs, who threw a fit over Google's planned $700 million acquisition of ITA Software. Many travel sites, from Microsoft's Bing to Kayak to Expedia, use ITA's technology, which helps enable consumers ...
  • Cleaning Up Oil Spills With a Swarm of Autonom ...
    Imagine if, after the next Deepwater-esque oil spill, we simply deployed a fleet of inflatable sailboats, equipped with oil-sucking booms, that would autonomously sail to the spill and soak up the oil. Or, if we need accurate data about radiation in the water outside another power plant approach ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Role of Workers and Labor Unions in the Eg ...
    Jadaliyya�is hereby presenting the first�(deliberately belated) installment in a series called "A Portrait of a Revolutionary," featuring interviews with an Egyptian journalist and activist who was at the forefront of the Egyptian protest movement, Hossam Hamalawy. Below is the first pa ...
  • Update from Islamophoberia
    Islamophoberia, a place millions of Americans call home, will get a lot colder come 2012 because the main gasbag is being shut down in December. The decision of Fox News to cancel The Glenn Beck Show will leave the idiosphere scrambling for a new source of fuel to motor anti-Muslim ranti ...
  • إنتفاضة البحرين حتى التدخل السعودي [The Bahra ...
    �ع�دما بدأت ا�إ�ت�اضة �� ا�بحر�� �٠14�م� شباط/�برا�ر� تد�� ا�آ�ا� م� ا�م�اط��� إ�� ا�ش�ارع ��مطا�بة با�إص�احات� بما �� ذ�� إص�اح ا�دست�ر� ا�تح��� �� سر�ة ا�أراض� ا�عامة �ا�ذ� ���� خز��ة ا�د��ة م��ارات ا�د��ارات� �إ��اء ا�تم��ز ا�م�ظم. �سارعت ا�ح��مة بإط�ا� ��ات�ا ��تصد� ��إحتجاجات. ��� خ ...
  • Essential Readings: Counterinsurgency
    [Editors' Note: This is the�second in a series of "Essential Readings,"� in which we ask contributors to choose a list of must-read books, articles, and new media sources on a variety of topics. These are not meant to be comprehensive lists, but rather starting points for readers who�w ...
  • Interview with Juliano Mer Khamis (2005)
    This is an interview I conducted with Juliano Mer Khamis about his remarkable documentary, Arna's Children, in 2005. It was aired on "Voices of the Middle East and North Africa" on KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California.

mediagazer

  • Is This the World's Best Twitter Account? (Cra ...
    Craig Silverman / CJR: Is This the World's Best Twitter Account?  —  Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine  —  Yesterday morning NPR's Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world's best Twitter accounts to explain what it's like to be a living, breathing real-time verification system.
  • On 'Radiolab,' the Sound of Science (Rob Walke ...
    Rob Walker / New York Times: On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science  —  Jad Abumrad was talking about “tension” —the tension between the certainty of science and mysteries that inspire wonder; between authenticity and artifice; between a sound that feels carefully constructed and one that feels a ...
  • Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsga ...
    MediaShift Idea Lab: Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?  —  This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota's Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames.  While it can be a slippery term to define, gene ...
  • Down to the Wire Deal Keeps Government Open an ...
    Chris Ariens / TVNewser: Down to the Wire Deal Keeps Government Open and Cablers Reporting  —  Around 10:30, the cable networks began reporting on a deal to keep the government running.  The husband and wife CNN team of John King and Dana Bash broke the news during “Anderson Cooper 360.”
  • Page views offer only a small part of the pict ...
    Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review: Page views offer only a small part of the picture in a newsroom compensation plan  —  By Robert Niles: How should the pay for online journalists be determined?  —  Pay for work is always a sensitive question.  Pay, after all, quantifies work.  And since ...

Chemtrail News

  • Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Un ...
    Registered: 05/19/09. Posts: 3568. Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Uncovered, Congress Exceeds Billions To Spray Populace Like Roaches? ...globalskywatch.com/chemtrails/ubbthreads.php?ubb...3956
  • Chemtrails back : Aliens & UFOs
    So after a beatifull clear last few days seems they have replenshed their stocks and have resumed the spraying, out side here in manchester its ...www.disclose.tv/forum/chemtrails-back-t48822.html
  • Andy Hirst: Stranger things have happened ... ...
    He's a supporter of the chemtrail conspiracy theory that believes it's something to do with population control. Well if it is, it sure isn't working. ...
  • YouTube - Chemtrail Conspiracy or Contrail?
    Contrails (short for "condensation trails") are vapour trails of visible condensed water vapour clouds created by an aircraft engine's exhaust.www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFCItjTJUSg
  • Chemtrail SKYWATCHER (Chemtrails_818) o ...
    Chemtrail SKYWATCHER (Chemtrails_818) is on Twitter. Sign up for Twitter to follow Chemtrail SKYWATCHER (Chemtrails_818) and get their latest updates.twitter.com/chemtrails_818

World News - Top Stories

  • 'American Idol': Jessica Alba shows suppo ...
    People are still talking about the exit of Pia Toscano on Thursday's American Idol, which airs on Channel 10 in Tempe. Many were shocked to see the singer go home. One actress, Jessica Alba, took to her Twitter account to show her support for the eliminated singer. She tweeted the following ...
  • Obama, Republicans avert govt shutdown
    Protesters demonstrate in front of Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, calling ... US President Barack Obama speaks during a reenactment of his speech on the ... US House Speaker John Boehner told fellow Republicans he had reached a deal... A last-gasp deal slashing spending prevented a US gove ...
  • Stand-ins for Bruno Mars
    Most Read Entertainment 'Willing Willie' to go off air for 2 weeks, Revillame says Sexy starlet regrets what she did for love Stand-ins for Bruno Mars Katy Perry keeps him grounded Judy Ann's new commitment Ali Sotto's new TV show is a movable feast Bruno Mars: Filipino and proud of it Denn ...
  • Sexy starlet regrets what she did for lov ...
    Most Read Entertainment 'Willing Willie' to go off air for 2 weeks, Revillame says Sexy starlet regrets what she did for love Stand-ins for Bruno Mars Katy Perry keeps him grounded Judy Ann's new commitment Ali Sotto's new TV show is a movable feast Bruno Mars: Filipino and proud of it Denn ...
  • Macaulay Culkin & Pete Doherty Make iPhon ...
    British rocker Pete Doherty has teamed up with "Home Alone" child star...

no frakking consensus

  • The State of the IPCC’s Leadership
    Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
  • Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch In ...
    Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this activist organization a bit awkward.
  • The IPCC’s Activist Chairman
    Rajendra Pachauri does not display the aloof, dispassionate demeanour traditionally evoked by the term "scientist." Instead, he repeatedly lends the good name of the scientific body he chairs to activist endeavours.
  • The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality
    Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded - but that's not how it behaves.
  • Responses to the Japanese Earthquake
    A slideshow of iPhone images created in response to the tragic earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.

Pointman's

  • So, where are we now with global warming?
    Politicians world-wide got into the âsave the planetâ business for two reasons; electorates were convinced the planet needed saving and would vote for candidates who said theyâd do just that and wouldnât vote for candidates who said it was all hysteria, which it was and which most of them knew i ...
  • Living with ghosts.
    This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
  • Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
    I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 23
    Chapter 23 Drayton lay prone, squeezed between the other two men at the northern post. In front of them, the lawn stretched out in the moonlight to the treeline. Nothing moved or made a noise, not even his companions whose breathing had become almost inaudible. The moonlight turned the carefully ...
  • Internet security 2 : There’s a lot more going ...
    In a previous article here, I gave some information about what basic precautions you should take in order to enjoy the web safely. Iâd like to drop down to a slightly lower level and tell you a few more simple things you can do to make surfing the web a lot safer. They wonât be technical … Read ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Louisian ...
    From our friends at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Joint Statement from Plaintiffs and Counsel on Recent Decision in Road Home Case: Today a federal court of appeals issued a ruling explaining its decision to set aside preliminary injunctions previously granted against th ...
  • DeSoto Parish Middle School Student Punished f ...
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: Last week, student Dawn Henderson of DeSoto Middle School wore a shirt to school bearing the message “Some Kids are Gay. That's OK.” In return for her support of the gay community, the school's principal ordered her to change her shirt or go home, censor ...
  • Defense Rests in Trial of Police Accused of Ki ...
    Lawyers for the two officers accused in the beating death of Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old handyman from the Treme neighborhood, rested their case today. It's expected that on Monday jurors will hear two rebuttal witnesses called by prosecution, as well as closing arguments. Although Robair's d ...
  • Jena, LA, Correction Officer Pleads Guilty to ...
    From a US Department of Justice Press Release: The Justice Department announced today that Joseph Taunton, 31, from Jonesville, La., a former corrections officer at the LaSalle Parish Detention Center in Jena, La., pleaded guilty in federal court for engaging in a sexual act with a federal de ...
  • Robin Hood in Reverse in US: Seven Examples
    By Bill Quigley The rich have been getting richer and the poor and middle have been getting poorer in the US recently. Here are seven examples that show how the US is going through Robin Hood in Reverse. Between 1948 and 1979, the richest 10 percent of families in the US claimed 33 percen ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Whaler wrote: So these people slaughtered the closest whites they could find when they heard that some yahoo in Florida burned korans? Is that an honest parsing of the facts? The closest whites? [T]housands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Ancient Body Clock Discovered ...
    Wimpy wrote: I had a thought regarding these peroxiredoxins and their possible interaction with gravitationally phase shifted neutrinos. I know, weird, but I do recall that this measured phase shift occurred or was measured only after having passed through the earth. That neutrinos were alter ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    duplicate deletedStatistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:40 am
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    In Season 2, Episode 1--the Plum Island conspiracy theory--interestingly, Ventura interviews a Karl Grossman as well as another Jew, Kenneth King. Grossman effectively blames the Plum Island conspiracy theory (that the US government creates bio-weapons and mutants in a scecret lab) on the Nazis ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    This one looks back at "Yesterday's Jew Scams" caused by International Jewry.... --CSR -------------- MUNICH SPEECH OF APRIL 12, 1922 AFTER the War production had begun again and it was thought that better times were coming, Frederick the Great after the Seven Years War had, as the r ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Record-Low Arctic Ozone Leads to High UV Radia ...
    The effects of record low ozone over the Arctic have reached southern Scandinavia, where large ozone-depleted air masses have produced higher ultraviolet radiation levels in Finland this week, scientists say. Click to enlarge WMOArctic ozone cover, March 30 While ozone levels above Finland i ...
  • Tree-killing Pine Beetles Moving East, Canadia ...
    The mountain pine beetle that has decimated large swaths of lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests across western North America in recent years is migrating eastward, according to report by Canadian researchers. iStockA mountain pine beetle Scientists at the University of Alberta say they have ...
  • Funding Limits on Coal Plants Proposed in New ...
    The World Bank is planning to limit its funding for coal-fired power plants to the world’s poorest nations, bowing to pressure from environmental groups and governments that have criticized the bank’s record on funding fossil fuel projects, according to published reports. Under proposed new regu ...
  • Decline of Bats in U.S. Could Cause Billions i ...
    A new study concludes that the continuing loss of large numbers of bats in the United States  to so-called “white nose syndrome” could cost U.S. agriculture billions of dollars in losses from increased insect infestations. Reporting in the journal Science, Gary McCracken of the University of Ten ...
  • Along Scar from Iron Curtain, A Green Belt Ris ...
    A forbidding, 870-mile network of fences and guard towers once ran the length of Germany, separating East and West. Now, one of the world’s most unique nature reserves is being created along the old “Death Strip,” turning a monument to repression into a symbol of renewal. BY CHRISTIAN SCHWäGERL

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  • Harper’s Facebook police
    By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: "Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and 'u ...
  • Canada’s startup scene gains traction
    By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, ...
  • Stephen Harper, funny guy
    By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper's June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term" "the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegra ...
  • CBC’s Compass: Voting for Dummies
    By Dave Brindle It's so damn hard following the daily romper room in the House of Commons, you know? It’s so, like, boring to form an opinion that isn’t about head-shots in hockey. And then, as if that isn’t too much to expect, you're prodded and goaded to a polling station ...
  • The Pacioretty effect
    By David Bitonti Hockey has been a huge part of my family for generations. When I was a kid, back in the ‘80s, every Saturday evening after my brother and I played our own minor league game, we'd all pile up in the living room to watch the Montreal Canadiens on ...

Daily Beast

  • Charlie Sheen's Wild Show in New York
    Last night, Hollywood's favorite troubled star took a New York audience on a schizophrenic ride that earned him wild applause-and more than a few jeers. Jacob Bernstein reports On Friday night, as a possible government shutdown loomed, around 5,000...
  • Film-Inspired Cocktails: Arthur
    Russell Brand himself would approve of this new gin-based drink from San Francisco-based bartender Marcovaldo Dionysos, created just in time for Arthur's release. By Brody Brown. Was April quietly declared Russell Brand month? Or is there some...
  • Boehner and Cantor: The GOP's Top Frenemies
    Driving the GOP's budget battles is the tense relationship between Speaker Boehner and his deputy, Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Patricia Murphy on the rumblings of a coup in the ranks. Tag team or palace coup? That's the burning question about the...
  • Shutdown Averted: Inside the Budget Deal
    Close call! After a day of squabbling, Congress and President Obama have finally reached a deal to keep the government running-but it didn't come cheap. In an epic close call, Congress reached a deal to avoid a government shutdown just an hour before...
  • Government Shutdown: How Obama Rose Above
    While Boehner and the Democrats squabbled over relatively meaningless cuts, the president sat back and played referee. Howard Kurtz on how White House escaped most of the blame-for now. After weeks of looking on as congressional leaders squabbled,...

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Japan Times

  • Ready for English?
    Fifth- and sixth-grade teachers will have one new worry starting this month — teaching English. All elementary schools must introduce compulsory foreign language lessons. Despite the difficulties of implementing this national strategy for English education, it is high time Japan took its English ...
  • Giants to buy own power generator
    The Yomiuri Giants will purchase a private power generator so they can play night games at Tokyo Dome this summer, Kyodo News learned on Saturday. The Tokyo Dome eats up as much as 6,000 kw of electricity during games in the summer.
  • Japan's seismic nerve center
    The Earthquake Phenomena Observation System, located inside the Japan Meteorological Agency in Tokyo's central Otemachi district, is usually operated by five teams of seven who work in rotating shifts that span every minute of the year. But at 2:46 p.m. on March 11 this year, all that changed. I ...
  • EU lowers food radioactivity limits
    BRUSSELS (AP) The European Union is lowering the maximum acceptable levels of certain radioactive elements in food and animal feed imported from areas of Japan to conform with temporary levels imposed by Tokyo. The European Commission said all checks so far by member countries "demonstrate neg ...
  • Giteau guides ACT to Super 15 win
    CANBERRA (AP) Flyhalf Matt Giteau kicked four penalties as the ACT Brumbies edged the Wellington Hurricanes 17-16 in a lackluster match between two strugglers in Super 15 rugby on Saturday. Leading 11-10 at halftime, the Brumbies got two more penalties from Giteau to clinch the match. ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Report: 2 killed in mall shooting in Netherlands
    At least two people were killed in a shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the Netherlands, early Saturday, eyewitnesses tell CNN affiliate NOS.
  • When This Happens, Most Nuclear Power Plants i ...
    Whenever there is a disaster, those responsible claim it was "unforeseeable" so as to escape blame.For example:It happened with 9/11It happened with the financial crisisIt happened with the BP oil spill (see this, this, this, this and this)It happened ...
  • Democrats, Republicans agree on a budget deal
    The Senate has passed a short-term budget deal that will keep the government funded through next Thursday. The measure still has to be approved by the House of Representatives. "We have agreed to an historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year, as well as a short-term bridge tha ...
  • The day’s most popular stories
    The five most popular stories on CNN.com in the past 24 hours, according to NewsPulse. Weeklong budget extension possible, source says: Budget negotiators are working on a proposal to keep the federal government open for another week while Democratic and Republican leaders put together a broader ...
  • Boosted approval ratings and back pay: Lessons ...
    There's no question that the country can make it through a government shutdown. We've done it before – 17 times since 1977, CNNMoney.com reports. What have we learned from previous shutdowns? The last two shutdowns occurred on President Bill Clinton's watch, when House Speaker New Gingrich and ...

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