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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

16 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BRAZIL: From Development Aid Recipient to Donor
    Although Brazil's international development funds are still small compared to those of the industrialised world, the South American giant's foreign aid has grown considerably in the last eight years, and the country has gone from beneficiary of development assistance to donor.
  • WORLD: Finding Funding for LDCs Amidst Global ...
    Representatives of the world's poorest nations are preparing to assemble a new "programme of action" to reduce grinding poverty. Among proposals that could emerge from the U.N. Least Developed Countries Conference in Istanbul next month is a global tax on financial transactions that would gene ...
  • JAPAN: Quake's Aftermath Weighs Heavily on Women
    Since the horrific Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated her coastal town of Minato, in Ishinomaki city, Masami Endo's three-year-old daughter has been crying and clinging to her every night.
  • EL SALVADOR: Drivers Risk Extortion, Murder by ...
    Zigzagging along the streets of the Salvadoran capital in his bus, Jos� Nuila is much more worried about avoiding an attack by youth gang members than about making his way through the complicated tangle of traffic.
  • PERU: Local Gov'ts Fail to Prioritise Equality ...
    Legally, each of Peru's 25 administrative regions must have a plan for promoting equal opportunities for women. But over the last year, only 10 regions have actually allocated resources to the task of overcoming gender inequity, while another 10 have not even drawn up the compulsory equal oppo ...

Scoop - NZ

  • The Real Housewives of Wall Street | Rolling Stone
    America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and ..
  • Dr. Michio Kaku: Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb"
    The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level. "Radiation is continuing to leak out of ...
  • TEPCO confirms damage to No. 4 unit's spent nu ...
    The cooling period for 548 of the 1,331 rods was shorter than that for others and the volume of decay heat emitted from the fuel in the No. 4 unit pool is larger compared with pools at other reactor buildings. According to TEPCO, radioactive iodine-131 amounting to 220 becquerels per cubic ce ...
  • AJ: The Shifting Zeitgeist of the 'Arab Spring'
    Welcome to the new Egypt; same as the old Egypt? Has the revolution become merely a transition between dynastic orders, with a collective Pharaoate replacing the recently deposed pharaoh like some postmodern redux of the Third Intermediate Period, the interregnum between the New Kingdom and Late ...
  • Unguarded oral histories of WWII: Spiegel.
    The myth that the Nazi-era German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, was not involved in war crimes persisted for decades after the war. Now two German researchers have destroyed it once and for all. Newly published conversations between German prisoners of war, secretly recorded by the Allies, reveal ...

Independent - London

  • Three killed US tornado strike
    Three members of one family were killed when a tornado hit a home in central Alabama, officials said.
  • Policeman dies amid Syrian protest
    A Syrian policeman is reported to have died after being beaten by protesters during a demonstration in a central city.
  • Bomb attacks mar Nigerian elections
    Nigerian voters are deciding whether to keep their accidental president in power, though unease among the country's Muslims about the Christian leader could force a runoff in the oil-rich country where elections have long been marred by fraud and violence.
  • 'Moderate' earthquake shakes Australia and New ...
    Moderate earthquakes rattled parts of Australia and New Zealand today, including the devastated city of Christchurch where power was cut to thousands of homes, officials said.
  • Gaddafi forces using cluster bombs, claim rebels
    Rebels in Misrata, which came under heavy shelling yesterday from troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, claimed the dictator's forces had been using cluster bombs.

Rogue Government.com

  • BRICS to replace dollar credits with local cu ...
    The BRICS nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are taking shots at the dollar again. At the end of recently concluding meeting in China, their development banks agreed to open credit lines denominated in their own currencies rather than the world's reserve currency, t ...
  • China bans time travel for television
    China has been cracking down on dissent of late, as the recent detainment of artist Ai Weiwei suggests.  But the latest guidance on television programming from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television in China borders on the surreal – or, rather, an attack against the surreal.
  • Police Increasingly Peeping at E-Mail, Instan ...
    Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher.
  • CA Senate bill mandates gay history in schools
    Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people would be added to the lengthy list of social and ethnic groups that public schools must include in social studies lessons under a landmark bill passed Thursday by the California Senate.
  • BP faces angry protests at first annual share ...
    BP was facing angry protesters and disgruntled shareholders on Thursday at its first annual general meeting since a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Innovation Canada

  • Designing consumers
    Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
  • Sharing culture
  • Targeting tumours
    Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
  • Search for the stellar smoking gun
    When big stars go boom, they are like really, really big guns — they leave behind a telltale smoke signal and a path of destruction. Understanding the forensic evidence from just a puff of smoke might sound near impossible, but for Samar Safi-Harb, it’s just another day at the office. Originally ...
  • Women and science
    Five Canadian women. Five accomplished scientists. Five perspectives.

Signs of the times

  • US: Republicans set 2012 budget battle with Obama
    Republicans in the House of Representatives united on Friday behind a 2012 budget plan slashing trillions of dollars in government spending while cutting taxes -- two achievements conservatives say are necessary ingredients for a deal to raise the U.S. debt limit. The vote effectively serves a ...
  • Japanese emperor pays first visit to disaster zone
    Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko meet evacuees in Asahi city, where 13 people died in the earthquake and tsunami Japan's emperor has made his first trip to the disaster zone since last month's earthquake and tsunami. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited two evacuation shelters in As ...
  • Whatever Happened To The Anti-War Movement?
    The United States is knee-deep in at least three international military conflicts at the moment - in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. American lives are being lost. Innocent civilians are being killed. Several of the engagements appear to be primed for protraction. The wars are expensive in other ...
  • BP faces angry protests at first annual shareh ...
    London - BP was facing angry protesters and disgruntled shareholders on Thursday at its first annual general meeting since a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The meeting in London is taking place almost a year since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and ca ...
  • Japan Plant Fuel Melted Partway Through Reactors
    Nuclear fuel has melted in three reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and fallen to the lower sections of their container vessels, raising the specter of overheated material compromising a container and causing a massive radiation release, the Atomic Energy Society of Japa ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • On a positive note . . .
    "HOW DAVID BEATS GOLIATH" is a fine article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker, on aspects of what it takes for the underdog to win. Plus cartoons, even.When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, “even when everything we think we know about power ...
  • s*%tharperdid . . . .
    The definitive record of stevie in one place. Spread the word . . . . H/T "drf"
  • HASH(0x95db408)
    VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAY APRIL 3 A Counterpoint to the Sunday Morning Talking Heads @4pm pacific|7pm eastern -� DAN ELLSBERG�&�GLENN GREENWALD: WikiLeaks, the abuse of Bradley Manning and the future of civil liberties in the U.S.� Listen�here @5pm pacific|8pm eastern - Maple Syrup Edition ...
  • Election notebook
    Some random thoughts on the election: Stephen Harper, who not so long ago touted himself as the champion of "open and accountable" government, will only answer five questions a day on the campaign trail, and two of them have to be in French and one from "local" media. So the people from the Glo ...
  • Hmmm . . . could happen
    According to Bizarro. We Canadians know all about 'em, we got the Cootie Party of Canada, after all.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's "Straight News" Wildly Overinflates GOP ...
    Carl Cameron reported that�Rep.�Paul Ryan's budget proposal would "cut�more than�$6 trillion from the federal debt of $14 trillion over the course of the next 10�years." In fact, Ryan's�proposal claims that it would reduce the federal�deficit�by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years -- not reduc ...
  • Serial Health Care Fearmongerers Fox & ...
    After President Obama pointed out cuts in Rep. Paul Ryan's budget to elderly care and education programs, Fox & Friends�reacted by accusing Obama of "playing on the public's fear." But�Fox & Friends�has relentlessly attacked the health care bill by advancing the false "death panels" myth and cr ...
  • Right-Wing Media's History Of Unhinged Attacks ...
    Conservative media have gone to great lengths to portray Planned Parenthood as an organization of "child killers" bent on eliminating entire minority populations. These unhinged claims have led to sexist attacks on women and women's health services.Conservative Media Attack Planned Parenthood A ...
  • Fox Dutifully Adopts GOP Talking Points On Oba ...
    Following the GOP response to President Obama's speech on his budget plan, Fox News figures have repeatedly echoed the idea that it was an "excessively partisan" "campaign speech," along with several other GOP talking points.GOP Responds To Obama's Speech: "Excessively Partisan," All "Campaign ...
  • Eric Bolling Calls Standard Eco ...
    Eric Bolling�deceptively edited President�Obama's remarks on the need to "reduce spending in the tax code" and accused him of using "fuzzy math, Obama math." In comments Bolling excised out of the address, Obama made clear he was comparing "tax expenditures" to spending,�a comparison economis ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • What Defenders of Obama's Speech Don't Get
    Hannah Arendt characterized politics as a realm of "speech-acts," in which words aren't so divorced from deeds that words become empty and deeds become brutal. Yet our national orchestra of high-minded opinion, from Paul Krugman and the New York Times editorial board to my sometime-friends at T ...
  • Soft Power Rules
    If ever there was an argument that our spending priorities are screwed up, it's this chart from this morning's Times. President Obama wants to cut the Defense budget and the Republicans want to preserve the defense budget and cut taxes on millionaires and eliminate Medicare as we know it. And ...
  • Internet Retailer Taxation Highlights Hypocris ...
    Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) are planning to introduce a bill to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet and other interstate products that currently escape taxation. � As I've described in the past, this will help struggling states close their massive budget gaps (to ...
  • The Hostage
    In a rare moment of pique last year, President Obama called John Boehner and Mitch McConnell "hostage takers" for refusing to extend for six months some unemployment benefits to millions whom their own policies had laid off, unless Obama would agree to extend the disastrous Bush tax cuts. The ...
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TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Flamboyán (10 Friday Photos + 2 extra)
    Delonix regia is an awesome tree that look like it's burning. In Spanish it's called "Flamboyán" -- that seems to really fit it. Flamboyan is a breathtaking tree worth looking at for hours! There's nothing what will explain the beauty of that tree to you -- just look at it!
  • Tectonic Plates Moved by Monsoons
    The intensification of Indian monsoons has, according to new research, the ability to spin the Earth’s tectonic plates.
  • Large Fires in Northern Mexico From Space [Pho ...
    Taken using the Landsat-5 satellite on April 9, this image captures the difficulties being faced by firefighters in Mexico who are attempting to put out two large fires in northern Mexico's Coahuila state.
  • Deep Sea Life Photographed at Europe’s Deepest ...
    Scientists from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have photographed for the first time fish and shrimp at Europe’s deepest point, the Oinousse Pit, 5111 metres or 3.2 miles below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of the Greek town of Pylos. The Aberdeen scientists accompanied ...
  • Tectonic Plates Moved by Monsoon’s
    The intensification of Indian monsoons has, according to new research, the ability to spin the Earth’s tectonic plates. According to Dr Giampiero Iaffaldano of The Australian National University, along with colleagues in France and Germany, there is a link between the motion of the Indian plate ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Poor Jon Kyl_He Just Keeps On... Being Jon Kyl
    I know we've all seen lots of people who lack the common sense to simply shut the hell up while they're ahead and probably more than a few too stupid to shut their pie holes when they already way behind. � They keep sinking deeper and deeper into a self made quagmire of �stupidity every time the ...
  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Nancy Pelosi will fuck your shit up. "If you were fortunate enough to be watching the House floor this morning, you happened to catch the House Democratic minority pulling an entertaining fast one on Republicans." Thousands of protesters met with tear gas across Syria. "Syrian security forces ha ...
  • That's What I Want to Hear From the Democratic ...
    I believe there was some concern back in January that Rep. Elijah Cummings would not be a strong enough opponent to stand up to repug Darrell Issa, new chair of the Government Oversight Committee. TPM: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), on Capitol Hill for a hearing held by the House Oversight ...
  • THAT Is When The Cow's really Gonna Eat The Ca ...
    While I've been generally pleased with the rhetoric from Mr. Obama so far... most especially the resulting problems it's causing for Orange Boy... that's all it's really been so far... just rhetoric. �It will probably be some time late this summer before any kind of actual picture begins to emer ...
  • House Repugs Vote to Kill Medicare
    All but four of them. And every single Democratic representative voted against Paul Ryan's Lords-and-serfs budget. So take a good hard look at the Kentucky Congressmen who just voted to install real death panels for your parents and for you: Ed Whitfield, Brett Guthrie, Geoff Davis and Hal Roger ...

Care 2

  • Massacre on Homeless Dogs Would be Shame for R ...
    If killing worked the stray dog populations of Romania's towns would have been eliminated long ago. The result of the extermination campaigns: ZERO. And you want again to adopt these CRIMINAL amendments!!!!!!!!!Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Toxic pesticide Methyl Iodide is being reconsi ...
    For the last 5 years, we've been tirelessly working to stop the use of methyl iodide, a cancer causing pesticide that scientists call, "one of the most toxic chemicals on earth." In March of 2010, the UFW even took legal action joining with other environmSubmitted by Judith awaynomail to Environ ...
  • Antigravity! Trumps "Dark Energy" for the Acce ...
    An exciting new theory says that antimatter could exist in the voids between galaxy clusters and superclusters and that some kind of repulsive gravity �- antigravity �- is pushing the Universe apart. The new theory is a direct challenge to the acceptedSubmitted by Lilith Cohen to Science & Tech ...
  • OVERPOPULATION AND EXTINCTION
    We�re in the midst of the Earth�s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction. Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinctionSubmitted by Nancy C. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Cats By Oliver Pietern
    Looking at the work of German photographer Oliver Pietern understand that he was � a true professional in their field.Submitted by Ivana M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Big Ones (& Open Thread)
    Major quakes (the big ones, 7.0 and above to the scale of 9.0) are expected momentarily (from now till next month for the next thirty years) in both Los Angeles and Seattle, and this peculiar geological statement makes for a strange symmetry with Japan. What will we be like the day after? Have w ...
  • More “Birther Nonsense”
    So speaketh Bill O’Reilly, who gets major props from Jon Stewart for saying so. The Business Insider has this headline declaring the Good News, “HALLELUJAH! Jon Stewart Thanks Bill O’Reilly For Smacking Down Trump’s Birther Nonsense.” O’Reilly responded to the issue since Donald Trump brought it ...
  • Are Six-Year-Old Girls a National Security Risk?
    Apparently they are persons of interest, at least to the Transportation Security Administration. An overly invasive patdown of a tiny girl at a New Orleans airport seems to suggest that. What’s at issue here? Legitimate security concerns applied to all? Or outrageous TSA misconduct? Or sheer stu ...
  • Candidate Due Diligence * Open Thread
  • A New High Is A New Low
    Over three months ago, I wrote a post about the price of gasoline, “Up, Up, And Away.” At the time, I was lamenting how gas prices were around $3 a gallon, and outlined some of the difficulties these kinds of prices place on regular old people like us. I did not think that the prices [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Earliest Green Life on Earth Began Reproducing ...
    Complex life forms have been found, 1 billion year old deposits that could change our understanding of the way green life on Earth developed. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • New Buck Toothed Dinosaur Discovered
    A new species of dinosaur has been found that bridges the gap between the earlier and later predatory prehistoric creatures. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Uakari: The Red-Faced Monkey of the Amazon
    A bizarre monkey from Brazil and Peru that is totally bald and red-faced... Meet the Uakari! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Humpback Whales Mix Tunes in their Own Pop Charts
    Male humpback whales have their own "top of the chart" songs that go viral. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rare Photographs of China in the 1800s
    China may today be a modern, bustling country – and the world's most populated – but these images from back in the 19th century show a very different style of life. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Clouds Part for U.S. Solar Industry
    A bipartisan group of lawmakers averts sweeping cuts to a federal loan guarantee program for clean energy development
  • Agency Seeks Again to Delist Great Lakes Wolves
    The proposed rule change, which is likely to be challenged by environmentalists, states that gray wolves are thriving in the region, with more than 4,000 counted in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
  • U.S. Expands Seeding of Biomass
    The departments of Agriculture and Energy announce that up to $30 million will go toward research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy and "high-value bio-based products" over the next three to four years.
  • ARPA-E Is Poised to Put Products on the Grid
    The government hopes to test a new energy storage technology.
  • Weather Satellites on the Chopping Block
    Satellites and other government-run instruments provide virtually all weather data used to make forecasts in the United States, including those on TV, radio and in newspapers. Like all satellites, weather satellites wear out and have to be replaced regularly.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
    FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
  • LinkDump March 27 2011 - We looked into the fi ...
    The Silver Conspiracy xtranormal lolbears are back for Part V! Listening now to Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert presently on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Mostly about Japan so far. Lyric flagged from Ruppert's band New White Trash - "We looked into the fire and the fire looked b ...
  • Git & Processing: For new HTML5 Javascript-pow ...
    Need to throw a batch of links out there. I had a pretty good idea about how to apply some stuff using this kind of tech. The whole thing has just evolved since last November, from local applications into the web. Processing is a language for a lot of cool things including visualizations, but no ...
  • Wisconsin gets the FreedomWorks - Yoshimi beat ...
    We drove around Madison listening to the Flaming Lips -- that day, the evil robots won... Working for the city - she knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines... ~~ Yoshimi was definitely a public employee in that song ~~ it all makes sense now ~~ Sometimes a press release sums up the a ...
  • March 22 mega-link dump: ChernobyLinks & Middl ...
    A ton of the latest & greatest links to throw at ya, roughly themed out! First some Lols and things to check out: CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network Bloomberg's Winkler Discusses Fed Bank Loan Data Ruling - Video - Bloomberg Granbury woman run over, kil ...

Daily Censored

  • Detroit: OCCUPATION AT CATHERINE FERGUSON HIG ...
    Student Occupiers at Catherine Ferguson Academy Need Your Assistance! See list of needs below announcement.   OCCUPATION AT CATHERINE FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL! STUDENTS AND SUPPORTERS SIT-IN TO DEMAND THAT NO DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOL CLOSES Following in the civil rights tradition of Dr. Martin Luther ...
  • Who Is Drawing The Dirty Pictures?
    Does anyone remember the old story about the psychiatrist who showed his patient a drawing of a square and asked his patient what it reminded him of? The patient replied, “Sex. The doctor than showed him a picture of a circle, with the same question. Again, the patient replied, “Sex.” Finally th ...
  • Bradley Manning: Torture Victim?
    Over the past few months, with the crisis in Japan, endless budget debates, and NATO bombings in Libya, very little media attention has been given to the steady trickle of Wikileaks releases and related stories. Nonetheless, one important news story, mostly overlooked by the main stream media, h ...
  • Public Flagship University, The University of ...
    In a stunning show of courage, public workers from SB Local #1072 of College Park, Maryland at the University of Maryland rallied on April 13th to demand their rights and express their grievances.  Alongside them were university students, aligning their interests in tandem with those of the univ ...
  • It can’t happen here? Hope Academy Char ...
    In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came [...]

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • What Would Jesus Tax?
    The prophetic Jesus would turn our head in different direction from the place where current budget and taxation decisions are focused.
  • Central America: 'Deadliest Non-War Zone'
    The Department of Defense has announced that Mexico will receive $51 million for fiscal year 2011. According to military officials the drug war has grown to rival the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We ask if throwing more money at the situation, or even more American troops, work? Institute ...
  • How the U.S. is like North Korea
    Much of North Korea's population is starving, yet its government pours money into missile and nuclear programs. Such behavior seems to be the height of irrationality. But North Korea is only following the international community's - especially America's - example.
  • We Can Live Without Gold
    A Salvadoran community activist makes the case for prioritizing water over gold, as his ongoing struggle against the gold mining industry is rewarded.
  • Finally, Obama's Talking about Taxing the Wealthy
    He has public opinion on his side.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • DeFusco's Bakery zeppoles now linked to 75 Ill ...
    On Friday, March 25 HEALTH issued a recall of all baked goods from DeFusco's Bakery in Johnston. The following is a list of food establishments that purchased zeppole (cream or pastry shells) or other baked goods from DeFusco's. If you purchased any of the following baked goods from the food est ...
  • Marler Clark Open House and "Poisoned" Book Si ...
    We will be having an open house at our new offices on May 18 as well as a book signing by author, Jeff Benedict, for his new book "Poisoned" - The true story of the deadly E. coli outbreak that changed the way Americans eat See you then.
  • Real Raw Milk Facts Presents The Parent Food S ...
    From the people who brought you Real Raw Milk Facts, please download the Parent Food Safety Guide for Raw Milk.
  • It is past time for the USDA/FSIS to deem "the ...
    In October 2009 that we filed a “Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 601(m)(1)” with the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). Since I ...
  • Rhode Island Health Releases New Numbers on De ...
    The Rhode Island Department of Health posted an update in its ongoing investigation of the Salmonella outbreak linked to DeFusco's bakery in Johnston, Rhode Island. The new numbers released today: * 70 Cases Total (69 in Rhode Island, 1 in Massachusetts) * 29 Hospitalizations (25 Discharged, ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Garage fire claims Chevy Volt and homeb ...
    Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos, Chevrolet, Electric Chevrolet Volt garage fire - Click above to watch video after the jump No one was hurt - but two plug-in vehicles were destroyed - in a fire in a home in the Connecticut town of Barkhamsted last night. The cars were a brand-new 2011 Che ...
  • Quick Spin: Toyota RAV4 EV
    Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, Electric, Quick SpinA Solid Electric CUV, For A Prototype Toyota RAV4 EV - Click above for high-res image gallery Ahh, the joys of driving a prototype vehicle. During the annual Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar in San Diego, California this week, Toyota ...
  • Milestone Accomplished: Toyota sells one milli ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Toyota 2011 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery California Toyota dealers may or may not be running out of Priuses, but the hybrid is most certainly still popular. How else to explain the news that one million of the ico ...
  • Obama: Entire federal fleet purchases to be al ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal President Obama has outlined a new target for the White House energy policy, one that focuses on variety. According to news reports, the plan will include ways to generate more low-carbon electricity, reduce reliance on foreign oil, expand domestic oil productio ...
  • Tesla sues BBC for libel over rigged Top Ge ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK, Tesla, Electric Let's put this out there: Tesla Motors is a feisty little company. When General Motor tried to trademark "range anxiety," the electric automaker said, "You can have it." Tesla has also had a long-standing beef with the BBC TV show Top Gear, l ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Gulf Coast Fisherwoman "Disrupts the Peace" at ...
    Security officers at BP’s shareholder meeting today in London blocked the entrance of a delegation of four fishermen and women from the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast area heavily damaged by last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Among them was Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherw ...
  • "The Connection Between Energy Use And Politic ...
    Mycle Schneider, a Paris-based consultant on energy and nuclear policy, received the Right Livelihood Award in 1997 for "serving to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to human life." Democracy Now! interviewed him during the 30th anniversary of the Right Livelihood Awa ...
  • Right Livelihood Laureate Alyn Ware On The Glo ...
    Alyn Ware received the Right Livelihood Award in 2009 for leading initiatives in peace education and nuclear abolition in his native New Zealand and around the world for the past twenty-five years. Democracy Now! met up with him at the 2010 Right Livelihood Awards in Bonn, Germany. Alyn Wa ...
  • Barack Obama Must Speak Out On Bahrain Bloodshed
    One month into the pro-democracy uprising in the small Gulf state of Bahrain — where the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based, tasked with protecting “U.S. interests” — Bahrainis are suffering the same violent repression as Libyans. So why does Obama have nothing to say? Read More
  • Voices from the 2011 National Conference for M ...
    More than 2,000 journalists, activists, educators and artists from across the country gathered at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10 to discuss issues ranging from net neutrality and racial diversity to democracy and social justice. Democracy Now! was there. LAU ...

Digg Green

  • World's first human brain map unveiled
    The world's first computerised map of the brain was released yesterday by scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in Seattle, Washington, after more than four years of cutting-edge research.
  • Messier 101: APOD April 15th 2011
    Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way galaxy. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebul ...
  • Researchers Create Printed Battery That S ...
    A new manufacturing process developed by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) will increase the energy a lithium-ion battery can store by 40%. The technology is similar to that of printed solar cells.
  • Genes could hold the key to a long and he ...
    Longevity genes that may control the speed of ageing have been discovered by scientists.
  • The future of Cellphones: Dialing with Yo ...
    Neuroscientists are exploring a brain interface that would let you make cellphone calls just by thinking of the number you want to dial.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Visible’s Primer on Basic Economics and ...
    By Les Visible There’s something that goes through my mind a lot and I don’t think I have to be Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill or Milton Freidman to understand it. Certain things have happened in the United States that caused serious problems for the general population and for most of the coun ...
  • The Seven Day Mental Diet
    By Emmet Fox The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. It is the thoughts you allow yourself to think, the subjects that you allow your mind to [...]
  • Detroit SWAT team assaults African American mo ...
    By Mike Adams The medical police state is alive and well in Detroit today, where Child Protective Services (CPS) called in the police to aid in their kidnapping of a 13-year-old daughter from an African American mother who refused to medicate her with dangerous psychiatric drugs. As this case is ...
  • Eugenics and the Still Unsolved Murder of Jane ...
    By Stefan Stanford Who Killed Jane Stanford? New investigations confirm she was poisoned by strychnine, but the case will never be solved. Someone got away with murder. “Haunting the hallowed halls of Stanford for almost a century is a hushed-up whodunit that has reared its head only from time t ...
  • Climate change affects tectonic plate movement ...
    Yes, I believe this says that Japan’s earthquakes are caused by global warming!?!?!? Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement in findings that could provide a valuable insight into why huge tremors occur. Understanding why pl ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Green Overdrive Video: Tesla’s Apple-Inspired ...
    Tesla has a new inspiration for selling its pioneering electric car: Apple. Last Summer Tesla hired George Blankenship to be in charge of its interactive in-store customer experience. Blankenship is well know in the gadget world for previously leading Apple’s highly successful unique store strat ...
  • Lustrous Tabletop Trays Made from Edible Flax ...
    Designed by Studio Geenen, the Flax Tray is a beautiful and organic take on basic houseware made from a bio-composite material derived from Linum usitatissimum – or more commonly known as flax. The new material was developed after an ongoing research based experiment on bio-composite, and the ...
  • Live Screen: A Modular Vertical Garden That Ad ...
    Inspired by the concept of living walls, designer Danielle Trofe created Live Screen, a sculptural, self-irrigating planter system, comprised of tiered, organic-shaped pods that can house many forms of domestic vegetation. This stand-alone, vertical structure is both modular and moveable and can ...
  • Beautiful Paper Chairs Inspired by Traditional ...
    Designer Jovana Chris Lei has unveiled a set of beautiful paper chairs at the Salone Satellite Show at the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair. Dubbed “Future Tradition”, the collection is inspired by the 2,000 year old Chinese craft of making umbrellas. While the material choice may seem disastrous in th ...
  • Enter Our Earth Week Giveaway to Win Some Amaz ...
    CELEBRATE EARTH WEEK WITH US! In celebration of Earth Week we’ve teamed up with MBDC to give four lucky winners some fabulous Cradle to Cradle certified prizes! Starting Monday we’ll be rolling out some super sustainable items just for you readers including a soft and plush Shaw Ultra Shag Rug, ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • What Will Happen to All The Shuttle Stuff?
    As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore. “It’s like if you have to move out of your apartment pretty quickly,” sa ...
  • Moth Mutation Explains Classic Example of Evol ...
    The molecular mechanics behind a classic example of evolution that dates back to Darwin’s time may soon be revealed. As soot from coal-fired factories blackened trees and buildings in 19th century England, naturalists noticed that peppered moths were also trading in their light-colored wings ...
  • Listen: The Humpback Whale Songs That Swept th ...
    In a stunning example of animal communication and culture, researchers have described how humpback whale songs sweep across the Pacific in just a few years. “The level and rate of change is unparalleled in any other nonhuman animal and thus involves culturally driven change at a vast scale,” ...
  • Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
    A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundament ...
  • Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn
    It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennium-spanning analysis of humanity’s major language families suggests oth ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg Criti ...
    In case readers missed it, I’m cross-posting below (wth my own links) an article about Guantánamo — and accountability for torture — written by Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at the New Yorker, and a man described, on Wikipedia, as the New Yorker’s “principal political commentator,” and by ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and the ...
    Yesterday, it was my great pleasure to speak for over a hour with my friend, the veteran progressive radio show host Peter B. Collins, for his latest podcast, available here, which also features the journalist Robert Parry talking about Luis Posada Carriles and his article covering the jury tria ...
  • How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo
    Last Monday, on the very same day that the Obama administration gave up on Guantánamo, so too did the Supreme Court. As far as we know, it was not a choreographed climbdown — nor had money been offered by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to rehabilitate their legacies — but the effect was the [...]
  • On the Torture of Bradley Manning, Obama Ignor ...
    In the ongoing scandal regarding the treatment of Pfc Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower responsible for leaking a treasure trove of classified US documents to WikiLeaks, who has been held since last July in a military brig in Quantico, Virginia, a slowly building body of criticism turne ...
  • The 9/11 Indictment: The Case We Would Have Se ...
    Last Monday, when Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that his dream of prosecuting, in federal court, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, was officially over, derailed by Congressional opposition to the very notion of moving a single prisoner ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William ...
    So who is the suspect accused of building a âweapon of mass destructionâ and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.? The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a âlone wolfââ with a military ordnance background and ...
  • Woman Sentenced for Harboring ‘Sovereign ...
    A Michigan woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for harboring a sovereign citizen who fired shots at Florida state troopers when they tried to stop him last year, an act that once again shows the danger faced by officers when they encounter extremists from the bizarre world of sovereign c ...
  • State Department Advertises Interpreting Servi ...
    Among the white nationalist intellectual vanguard, few figures are as widely known as Jared Taylor, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its racist journal American Renaissance. Despite his infamy, the State Department advertises the polyglot’s language skills on the website of th ...
  • New Evidence Trove Found in MLK Day Bomb Attempt
    Federal agents investigating the attempted bomb attack on a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane have found a pile of new evidence abandoned in a remote area near the U.S.-Canadian border. Forensic comparison tests are now being conducted at the FBI lab on 75 items to see if they are tie ...
  • Spokane Bombing Arrest Details Emerge
    Officials have just identified the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted Martin Luther King Jr. Day bombing in Spokane, Wash., as 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham. Harpham was charged federally with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and receiving and possessing an impro ...

change: org.

  • Victory! Native American Tribe Gets Georgia Le ...
    With only 150 signatures sent to Georgia legislatures, a local Native American tribe has successfully used Change.org to get a discriminatory bill dropped! One of the Creek Tribes, the Kialegee Tribal Town, wanted to come home. Then the Georgia State Legislators tried to prevent Indian Tribes ...
  • Activists Hit Vegas to Rally Against Mirage's ...
    More than 75,000 people have signed a Change.org petition to end the captivity of dolphins kept at The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas strip. The extraordinarily high death rate has earned Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat the nickname "Dolphin Death Pool." Several d ...
  • Target: Pledge to Stop Donating to Anti-LGBT P ...
    As the number two discount retail chain in the U.S. with over $67 billion in annual sales, and intent on conquering Canada's retail market, Target Corp. undoubtedly wields significant socio-economic influence. Recognizing this influence, Target regularly donates to good causes, encourages volunt ...
  • Victory! Global Gag Rule Left Out of Budget Ag ...
    As US politicians worked for the last month to avert a government shutdown, Republican leaders took an ongoing war on women to global ends by insisting on policy riders that would have reinstated the Global Gag Rule. After many groups sprung into action, including on Change.org, the Global Gag R ...
  • How Nestle Tramples on Local Water Rights Desp ...
    Profiting from doing good? Sure, I buy it. Plenty of good, green companies—large and small—are doing just that everyday. But Nestle? The world's biggest food maker? The gigantic Swiss bottled water manufacturer that runs roughshod over community water rights? The one waging costly legal battles ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Youth Environmental Movement Frustrated With O ...
    WASHINGTON -- Ten thousand former Obama voters -- many of whom worked on his 2008 campaign -- will descend on Washington on Friday for a three-day climate summit. Events will culminate in a rally outside the White House, where thousands of young activists will gather on Monday, calling on the ad ...
  • US House Passes Republican Spending Plan
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday, calling it the cure to out-of-control government spending. In an almost perfectly party-line vote, lawmakers voted 235-193 to approve the non-binding ...
  • Japan Eyes State-Backed Insurer to Save TEPCO: ...
    TOKYO - Japan plans to set up a government-backed insurance fund to put money into Tokyo Electric Power and pay compensation stemming from the disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Nikkei newspaper said. Aimed at saving Tokyo Electric from collapse, the plan would have the state i ...
  • Fukushima and the 'Nuclear Renaissance' That W ...
    A month after a devastating earthquake sent a wall of water across the Japanese landscape, the global terrain of the atomic power industry has been forever altered. The ongoing drama at the power plant in Fukushima - a name now ranked alongside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as history's worst ...
  • Whatever Happened To The Anti-War Movement?
    The United States is knee-deep in at least three international military conflicts at the moment — in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. American lives are being lost. Innocent civilians are being killed. Several of the engagements appear to be primed for protraction. The wars are expensive in other wa ...

Lifehacker

  • Plnnr Generates Personalized Trip Itineraries ...
    Planning a trip takes time and effort. Web app Plnnr can help you with that task by automatically suggesting a trip itinerary with things to do, places to eat, and where to stay based on your likings. More��
  • Why It May Make Sense To Reach for the Cheaper ...
    Do more expensive wines taste different than cheaper wines? BBC is reporting that a blind taste test has found people really can't taste the difference between expensively priced wines and inexpensive ones. More��
  • Mactracker Gives Loads of Hardware Info About ...
    Mac OS X/iOS: While System Profiler is handy for checking out your hardware, but it doesn't always tell you everything (and it isn't the most user friendly). Free app Mactracker gives you all the info you need about your computer. More� ...
  • Simple Actions You Can Do In Minutes To Change ...
    Improving your life doesn't have to take a lot of time. In fact, if you have anywhere from 30 seconds to 90 minutes, there are at least two dozen things you can do to change your life and finances for the better. More�� ...
  • How to Convert a Hard Drive from FAT32 to NTFS ...
    Windows: If you use external drives or flash drives often, you've probably reformatted between NTFS and FAT32 tons of times. Here's how to convert a drive FAT32 to NTFS without losing any of your files. More��

Water Privatization

  • Delhi: Govt open to privatization of water
    New Delhi Municipal Council has proposed a 24x7 water supply in its areas. With water in such short supply across the capital - many residents go without even a 30-minute supply daily - one would think it criminal to provide continuous water to the VIPs in central Delhi.
  • Terms for city's water utilities sale announced
    A press release Tuesday from Mayor Greg Ballard's office outlined the terms of an agreement transferring control of Indianapolis' water and wastewater systems to Citizens Energy Group , a public charitable trust. The proposed acquisition, negotiated by the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Coun ...
  • Hairston Calls For Privatization Moratorium
    Ald. Leslie Hairston said Thursday the city shouldn't sign a deal to privatize recycling.
  • Keep control of water
    It looks like Mission council got the message on the proposed P3 water project and voted against it, while Abbotsford council are still yet to vote.
  • Water privatization raises concerns in Fraser ...
    Out here in the Fraser Valley, specifically Mission and Abbotsford, we are faced with the spectre of private control of our water supply.

Guardian

  • Councils slash free adult social care
    Discrimination warning as coalition cuts prompt local authorities to set bar higher for eldery and disabled to receive careThousands of older people and those with disabilities have had their care cut in the past year as cash-strapped councils reduce the level of support they provide, a survey h ...
  • God in the laboratory
    Can scientists be religious? Sam Harris argues science and faith are completely incompatible, while Robert Winston would like to be more inclusive. Emine Saner adjudicatesLast week, the astrophysicist Martin Rees was awarded the Templeton prize, which aims to promote religion. Emine Saner brings ...
  • On Business: latest in our oil stories
    A desert trip to a meeting in Damascus reveals a significant find in this new story by Robin Yassin-KassabHe filled up the tank before he left Kuwait City, filled it again at Qurriyat near the Saudi-Jordanian border. He stopped a couple of times for sandwiches and crisps, otherwise kept on drivi ...
  • Gaddafi forces 'using cluster bombs in Misrata'
    Human Rights Watch say Gaddafi's army has fired the weapons, which cause massive damage and are banned in most statesForces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have fired cluster bombs into residential areas of the besieged city of Misrata, according to witnesses.Human Rights Watch reported that four clust ...
  • Clarke: prison is a waste of money
    Rise in prison numbers unsustainable, says justice secretary, who blames media for creating image that prison life is easyThe rate of jail sentencing is "financially unsustainable", the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has said, delivering a defiant riposte to critics within his own party and ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Our Founding Fathers were just as ...
    Recovering from kidney stone surgery recently allowed me to retreat from the current political wrangling to the more distant politics of our Founding Fathers.
  • Commentary: The changing dangers of nuclear ra ...
    In some of my fondest childhood memories, my heavily bundled siblings and I followed our mom into the back yard after each new snowfall.
  • Rebel aid ships carrying weapons to besieged M ...
    BENGHAZI, Libya — The wooden crates were stacked up on the dock like Lego blocks and clearly stamped with their contents: tank rounds, rifle cartridges, ammunition. The men on the dock, however, had a different explanation for what was inside the shipment bound for the besieged rebel-held city o ...
  • Obama rips budget bill's Guantanamo restrictions
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Friday signed into law a sweeping defense bill that specifically thwarts his goal of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then issued a "signing statement" against it.
  • Gen. Sanchez may throw hat in Texas Senate race
    WASHINGTON — Democrats appear to have recruited retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run for the U.S. Senate in Texas, setting the stage for a potentially competitive race in 2012 for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Exploring the 'oceans crisis'
    Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - ...
  • Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
    More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...
  • Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima
    Earth Watch posts have been in smaller supply than usual in recent days. For a week, your humble correspondent was virtually living inside the Fukushima nuclear power station, attempting to make sense of what we knew and what we didn't know as the situation unfolded. Now - almost two weeks after ...
  • Bees: a sting in the tale
    � The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) buzzes into the ongoing discussion of bee decline this week, with a report examining the global nature of the issue and some of the reasons behind it. Their top-line conclusions are that it's becoming a widespread, if not quite global, phenomen ...
  • Green tuna goes FAD-free
    Environmental group Greenpeace is claiming something of a victory with the news that the UK's biggest supplier of canned tuna, Princes, is going to source its fish from more sustainable supplies than previously. Greenpeace has been spearheading a campaign to get companies to adopt sustainable t ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Fantino - Connect the dots? (La-la-la-la-lah!) [?]
    Okay, ... i ain't mee-self rite-now. Can anyone tell me if there's anything connecting this and (drum-roll please) .... this? [?]
  • Why Did the harpercons Disrupt the Guelph Univ ...
    Canada has a pretty good thing with Elections Canada. We have a first-past-the-post electoral system and some regions and rural ridings enjoy far more proportional strength than they should, but within the confines of that system, thanks to Elections Canada and paper ballots, we have free and fa ...
  • Remember: The Opposition Forced This Election ...
    That's something important to remember when some harpercon hack tells you about how much their glorious leader tried to avoid this election, but "The Coalition" wanted it. Whatever I have said about the Liberal Party of Canada, ... hell, whatever my thoughts on the integrity and consistency of ...
  • What's Disappointing About This Election
    Don't get me wrong. I'm glad it's here. It had to happen. The damage that harper was doing to Canadian democracy was like letting someone put one drop of weak poison after another into your glass of water. "The first one hasn't killed me. Therefore it's fine to continue to put more in." Yes, th ...
  • It HAS Happened Here
    Glenn Greenwald has a devastating survey of the fraudulent nature of the US justice system today: "The two-tiered justice system: an illustration" From massive financial fraud, corporate malfeasance, to Soviet or fascist-level contempt for democratic oversight (torture, spying, illegal wars), i ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Charlie Sheen 'bi-winning' for Toronto bipolar ...
    Just hours before his Friday night "Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour" show at Toronto's Massey Hall, Charlie Sheen sent the social media landscape abuzz by announcing a bipolar disorder awareness march from his hotel to the venue.
  • Federal Election 2011: Candidates for Kitchene ...
    Canadian's are going to the polls again. The Harper minority Conservative government hopes for a majority, while the other parties hope to take over from them.
  • Parents outraged over TSA rigorous pat down of ...
    Controversy has generated a YouTube video showing an airport security officer in New Orleans giving a detailed, full-body search to a 6 year-old girl; the TSA calls it an approved "modified pat-down".
  • Two Ontario families sick due to TransAlta sub ...
    For the Whitworth and Kidd families in Ontario living on TransAlta's 10th Line in Amaranth Township is making them sick. They claim that the continuous noise and electrical pollution that began in 2006 is the root of their daily nightmare.
  • Libyan rebels seek $2 billion loan from Wester ...
    As NATO air strikes against military infrastructure and forces loyal to Libya's Colonel Gaddafi increasingly prove to be ineffective in stopping the civil war's stalemate, Libyan rebels are now seeking a $2 billion loan from the West.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-15-11
    Today, the water doctor, Fred Van Liew, stops by the show to give you the inside details of what is really lurking in your water and what you can do to bring it back to life! Plus, find out how your cell phone may be hurting your health and what small step you need to [...]
  • Fluoride Spill At Water Facility Burns Holes i ...
    April 15th, 2011 EUTimes.net A recent chemical spill at a water treatment facility in Rock Island, Ill., required the assistance of an emergency relief crew decked in the very same type of hazmat suits being worn by workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Except instead of radi ...
  • The Future Is… Fake Chicken
    April 15th, 2011 PublicRadio.org By: Angela Kim You may have heard Adriene Hill’s story on fake chicken on the Marketplace Morning Report. But, why chow down on something fake when you can get the real thing? We asked Dr. Fu-Hung Hsieh. He and his team of researchers at University of Missouri ha ...
  • World Bank Warns Millions Face Poverty
    April 15th, 2011 BBC The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty. World food prices are 36% above levels of a year ago, driven by problems in the Middle East and North Africa, and remain volatile, the ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-13-11
    Today, Blake Sawyer of Royal Velvet stops by the show to explain exactly how deer antler velvet can act as the fountain of youth and turn back the hands of time! Click here to find out why professional athletes buy this product in bulk! Self Help: Gluten Allergy Cure Protect Your Body Maximize Y ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • News roundup for week ending April 15
    For more on why I’m doing reduced news coverage right now, please read this post. — PW With Tripoli’s rebel underground He was rummaging in the boot of his car as we walked past. “Go forward,” he instructed out of the side of his mouth. “I’ll pick you up further on.” The car circled several t ...
  • I won’t give my right arm to become a one-arme ...
    When I say War in Context is handmade, that’s not a figure of speech. Typing and cutting-and-pasting involve all sorts of precise flexions, animated by action potentials rippling at high speed down the median nerve which extends from the cervical spine to the hand. For the last two months the r ...
  • The fight for Libya
    Rebels and NATO strikes repel assault on Ajdabiya Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military forces appeared to falter on Sunday in a second day of assault against the rebel city of Ajdabiya, as opposition fighters aided by heavy NATO airstrikes retook positions through much of the city. Occasional sk ...
  • Egypt: revolution under threat from the army
    Violent army crackdown on Cairo protesters shocks Egyptians Morning broke on a scene that wasn’t supposed to be in the new Egypt: burned military trucks, skeins of barbed wire, blood in the dirt, one protester dead. In a predawn raid Saturday that stunned the nation, Egyptian soldiers stormed ...
  • Intifada update
    Western policymakers shouldn’t accept this Saleh spin U.S. halted record aid deal as Yemen rose up As the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, cracks down with increasing violence against peaceful protesters, his regime and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) both repeat the same mantra: ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The UN “disappears” 50 million cli ...
    Hoo boy, government idiocy at its finest. Not only is the original claim bogus, the attempts to disappear it are laughingly inept. Apparently, they’ve never heard of Google Cache at the UN. Rather than simply say “we were wrong”, they’ve … Continue reading →
  • An answer to the question about why UC’s ...
    Readers may recall my story from April 6th where I asked: Whatâs delaying UC sea level data from being updated? As you can see in the graph above, the data has not been updated since mid 2010. I wrote then: I … Continue reading →
  • Watched solar CME’s never boil?
    I covered the recent uptick in solar activity earlier this month here and here last month. Now NASA offers this summary of the events, saying Cycle 24 is finally “on”. AT the end of this story, I’ve added a video … Continue reading →
  • Ocean cold/warm water fronts mix CO2 much more ...
    From the University of Washington via Eurekalert Data catches up with theory: Ocean front is energetic contributor to mixing Wind blowing on the ocean is a crucial factor mixing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the ocean depths and keeping … Continue reading →
  • Pielke Senior on Geoengineering
    Guest post by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior Comment on The BBC News Article By Richard Black On Climate Geoengineering There is an article on BBC News on April 6 2011 by Richard Black titled Climate âtechnical fixâ may yield warming, not cooling … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: It’s what the god of the m ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 15, 2011 frodobowl on Apr 15, 2011 Chris Hedges speaks to the culture of corporatism and the resistance needed to thwart this at The Sounds of Resistance, a concert and protest against Bank of America in Union Square, NYC Friday April 15, 2 ...
  • George Galloway: Hands Off Libya
    Dandelion Salad StoptheWarCoalition on Apr 15, 2011 George Galloway: Hands Off Libya see Dennis Kucinich: Who are the rebels in Libya? US-NATO Colludes with Islamic Extremism in Bahrain and Libya by Finian Cunningham Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking? by Ellen Brown Michel Collon: Five ...
  • The Obama Doctrine: AWOL in Bahrain by Frankli ...
    by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon April 15, 2011 Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi passed through Beirut a couple of weeks ago and gave a terrific lecture at AUB entitled “Preliminary  Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011.” In response ...
  • Tom Woods: The Phony Arguments for Presidentia ...
    by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post April15, 2011 Tom Woods joins us to discuss his latest article on the Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers which has triggered intriguing reactions from the media on both sides ...
  • My Garden 2011, photos by Dandelion Salad
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ April 15, 2011 My Garden 2011 34 photos Slideshow see Have You Had Your Dandelions Today? Why you should eat dandelions and a recipe Urban Farming for Food Security Local Food – By and For the People Food on Dandelion Salad

Your New Reality

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    New Zealand director Peter Jackson's 10 minute set visit leading to the 1st day of shooting The Hobbit is more entertaining than most movies released so far this year. All young directors can learn an enormous amount about how to build pre-release interest in their movies from this set visit ...
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    From the Collected Letters of Philip K Dick, 1977-1979 : …since our societies - or rather their governments and big corporations - aren't willing to really go about solving our economic and social and political problems, they have hit upon a simple technique (technique, not solution) by whic ...
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    An excellent portrait of the United States in 2011. Wall Street robs Americans blind of hundreds of billions of dollars, nobody goes to jail. Sellers of single cigarettes on the streets of New York City, which they help keep clear of violent drug dealers, go to Rikers : Itinerant cigarette vendo ...
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    A Louisville man convicted of torturing cats to death explains to police what was going on in his mind at the time : "Do you ever see those television shows where, like, something will happen – okay? – and the audience knows everything that's happening to the main character, but everybody else ...
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    14 Years Ago, US Department Of Defence Announced "International Terrorists" Were Developing Earthquake Weapons A surreal DoD press conference from 1997, with Secretary of Defense William Cohen : "...some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would b ...

Wired - Science

  • What Will Happen to All The Shuttle Stuff?
    As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore. “It’s like if you have to move out of your apartment pretty quickly,” sa ...
  • Moth Mutation Explains Classic Example of Evol ...
    The molecular mechanics behind a classic example of evolution that dates back to Darwin’s time may soon be revealed. As soot from coal-fired factories blackened trees and buildings in 19th century England, naturalists noticed that peppered moths were also trading in their light-colored wings ...
  • Listen: The Humpback Whale Songs That Swept th ...
    In a stunning example of animal communication and culture, researchers have described how humpback whale songs sweep across the Pacific in just a few years. “The level and rate of change is unparalleled in any other nonhuman animal and thus involves culturally driven change at a vast scale,” ...
  • Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
    A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundament ...
  • Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn
    It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennium-spanning analysis of humanity’s major language families suggests oth ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Goldstone report: Statement issued by members ...
    Many of those calling for the nullification of our report imply that the final report by the follow-up committee ... somehow contradicts the fact-finding mission's report or invalidates it. In the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Ali Abunimah: Recognising Palestine
    UN recognition of a Palestinian make-believe state would be no more meaningful than this fantasy "institution-building", and could push Palestinians even further away from real liberation and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel steps up Jerusalem expul ...
    Hamoked director Dalia Kerstein: "There is clearly a policy to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem and Israel to reduce what is called here the 'Palestinian demographic threat.' It's really a case of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Divestment: A strategy to end the Occupation
    New York University Students for Justice in Palestine's divestment campaign targets predominately U.S. corporations whose products help make the occupation possible. Withdrawing material support from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Charles Glass: Goldstone’s Guide to Gaza
    Critics of Israel, beware. If you don’t have the stomach for a fight, don’t go into the ring. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

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NewsWise

  • Limiting Carbs, Not Calories, Reduces Liver Fa ...
    Curbing carbohydrates is more effective than cutting calories for individuals who want to quickly reduce the amount of fat in their liver, report UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.
  • Pelvic-Repair Device Developed by UT Southwest ...
    A device developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons offers precise repair of pelvic fractures with minimal postsurgical scarring, pain and infection risk and is available for broad adoption by the nation's 200 level I trauma centers.
  • Law Professor Available to Comment on Bank Fra ...
    Criminal Law Professor Brian Gallini is available to answer questions and provide expert commentary regarding the Department of Justice's recent indictment of the principals of the three largest internet poker companies.
  • Texas Tech Psychologists Available to Discuss ...
    Two Texas Tech University psychologists say men and boys painting their toenails and fingernails are more common today than many might think.
  • Cornerstone Health Care, Anceta, and Humedica ...
    John Walker, M.D., C.P.E., Chief Medical Officer, Cornerstone Health Care, is presenting Cornerstone's successful use of Humedica MinedShareTM Ambulatory as a basis for its new Patient Care Advocate program. Joining Dr. Walker in the presentation are John Cuddeback, M.D., Ph.D. Chief Medical I ...

Natural Health News

  • Mel's Hidden Talent
    Mel was studying abroad in New Zealand when her friends found out that she can imitate animal noises.
  • Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
    In 1993, talk-show host Larry King had an unexpected guest on his program -- David Reynard, who argued that radiation from a cell phone caused or accelerated the growth of a brain tumor in his wife. Susan Reynard died in 1992, just short of her 34th birthday. The Florida Circuit Court that hear ...
  • Jason McElwain, Autistic Basketball Player
    You may recall a testimonial I shared with you several years ago about a young boy's wonderful rebound from autism-related symptoms. Imagine how all that hard work and improvement builds into young adulthood, and you've got the story of Jason McElwain. Diagnosed as autistic, Jason didn't speak ...
  • Nearly Half of U.S. Meat Tainted With Drug-Res ...
    Drug-resistant bacteria may be lurking in your grocery meat aisle. A study found that Staphylococcus aureus, the bacteria that causes most staph infections, was present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at "unexpectedly high rates." Researchers found nearly half of the meat and poult ...
  • 14 Natural Items for Your Alternative First Ai ...
    Matador Network has assembled a list of 14 natural items everyone should have on hand for first aid. Here are a few: Echinacea: It helps support a healthy immune system, and has antibacterial and antibiotic properties. If you start to feel an illness coming on, dosing yourself with a tincture ...

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  • Los colores de nuestro planeta X (12 paisajes)
    TweetPara ver más, explora nuestro archivo. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10) ATENCIÓN: No olvide usted hacer clic sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora, laptop, netbook o iPad si así lo desea.
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  • Fotos de nuestros usuarios I (Flor de Maracuyá)
    TweetHe recibido muchísimas imágenes de mis suscriptores, miembros de mi comunidad en Facebook y seguidores en Twitter. Así como lo prometí, Empezaré la publicación de ellas con esta hermosa fotografía de la flor de Mburucuyá, Mburukujá o Maracuyá que me ha enviado María Inés Fontaine. A manera ...
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Center for a Livable Future

  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
  • Art, Love and Agriculture: An Interview with F ...
    The 2005 documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John chronicles the life of John Peterson, a man who has been described as a “flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving third-generation farmer [who] saves his farm… by being different.”  A vibrant artist and storyteller, John unabashedly documents t ...
  • Making Health the Default
    A recent article featured in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation News Digest on Childhood Obesity highlights a simple strategy that can be implemented in restaurants and other venues to improve the food environment. The innovative new strategy is to change the offerings on children’s menus to hi ...

Norwegianity

  • What the clerk barfed up
    Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...
  • Kloppenburg trails after ballots found in the ...
    Didn’t really want to do a second post but new numbers from Winnebago County have put Prosser on top in Wisconsin. [more] No, they didn’t find any ballots in the trunk of anyone’s car but it’s still super close so a recall will be mandatory. Inevitable is the word I’d pick for the usual whining ...
  • Fitzwalkering themselves
    JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory with a final tally of 740,090 to 739,886. David Dayen says that if this holds up, Prosser will be only the fifth WI Supreme denied re-election in state history (but the second one in three years). Steve Singiser says Walker blames the hippy scum in Madison ...
  • Kloppenburg up, recount unavoidable
    The trouble with RSS feeds is that they don’t always update as quickly as you’d like. That and I didn’t check out the Great Orange Satan this morning which was a mistake because they’ve got the best Wisconsin election coverage of anyone. Currently David Nir puts Kloppenburg’s lead at 233 with th ...
  • Stink linking good
    Picking up where the last post left off: Dictator-loving scum Like mother, like daughter Don Blankenship revisited The gods themselves Paul Ryan’s budget: Milbank on the dogmatism, Harold Meyerson on the pain redistribution, and the Plum Line with more links $900 million for road work: Gov. Brid ...

Public News Service

  • Planned Parenthood: Fight for Women’s He ...
    Planned Parenthood: Fight for Women’s Health Funding Far From Over Phoenix, AZ – The newly-enacted compromise federal budget deal retains funding for low-income family planning services, but officials with Planned Parenthood say the fight for women and reproductive health is far from over. Comme ...
  • White Mountain Tribe Offers Wilderness Tours
    White Mountain Tribe Offers Wilderness Tours Whiteriver, AZ – Arizona’s White Mountain Apache Tribe has begun offering week-long eco-tours, offering opportunities for people to view wildlife while learning about tribal history and culture. The first tours are scheduled for June. Comments from K ...
  • Equal Pay Day: AZ Women Play Catch-up
    Equal Pay Day: AZ Women Play Catch-up Phoenix, AZ - Today (Tuesday) is Equal Pay Day, the point during a year at which a woman's pay equals a man's income – starting from the previous year. Workers' and women's rights groups commemorate it annually to point out the continuing gender disparities ...
  • Plans Dropped to Scuttle Senator McCain’ ...
    Plans Dropped to Scuttle Senator McCain’s Old Aircraft Carrier Phoenix, AZ – Four U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, including Arizona Senator John McCain’s old ship, will not be sunk at sea. The Navy has confirmed the carriers will be recycled, instead. The result could be significant taxpayer savin ...
  • Center Vows Suit Over AHCCCS Cuts
    Center Vows Suit Over AHCCCS Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Arizona lawmakers and the Governor are moving to cut up to a quarter million low-income adults from AHCCCS (Access) health care, the state’s Medicaid program. But a Phoenix public interest law firm is poised to file a lawsuit as soon as a budget co ...

Center for Food Safety

  • CFS and Deepak Chopra–Watch Live Today!
    Genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa has recently been approved by the USDA, even though significant questions remain concerning its effects on consumers and the environment, and the serious contamination risks it poses to non-GMO and organic farmers and to our food supply. In light of this decis ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
     Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will  join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
    The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    “Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Rudy Giullani abandons 9/11 Responders
  • Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-A ...
    Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective | Dissident Voice: "Thousands of Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Filipinos, Turks, Germans, English, Italians, Malaysians, Koreans and a host of other nationalities are lining up at the borders and the airport to leave Libya. It begs ...
  • Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War
    Pinkwatching Israel - Israel’s Gay Propaganda War: "One of the most remarkable features of the Brand Israel campaign is the marketing of a modern Israel as a gay-friendly Israel. Stand With US, a self-declared Zionist organisation, has been quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying: “We decided to ...
  • ei: EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens ...
    ei: EU turns blind eye to Palestinian citizens in Israel | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 12 April 2011 Answering questions from YouTube viewers over the past few weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu depicted Israel as an oasis of interracial harmony in a region of stri ...
  • Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or ...
    Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or the Reinvention of a Life? | Black Agenda Report: "There is a growing sense among those who have read it that Manning Marable’s latest book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is itself a reinvention, or worse. From reviewers, journalists and scholars, ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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    Why not use more colour? Be inspired by these houses on the island of Burano, in the northern part of the Venetian Lagoon. Surrounding yourself with beautiful colours makes you happy. But make sure you’re using natural paint (housing-building/painting-au-naturel.html) if you decide to give your ...
  • Use public transport
    Using public transport, like this train, helps us to reduce pollution (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/pollution-reduction.html ). Read more about transport in the article Transport Evolution (technology/transport-evolution-the-new-black.html )Transport section (directory/categories/Transpo ...
  • Climate Action Rally, Sydney NSW
    No prizes for guessing who has got their Head in the Sand! See our images from the Climate Action Rally in Sydney on 2 April 2011…
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Interview with BDS leader Omar Barghouti
    Democracy Now! shared this interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa. Thankfully, the campaign wa ...
  • Intolerance–Then and Now
    This post is a bit of a departure for the website.  While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...
  • Video from Israelis speaking out against Boyc ...
    Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Masdar City to ban cars, welcomes pod people
    Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates plans to be carbon neutral by 2020. One way they will do this is by banning personal cars and providing autonomous electric podmobiles.
  • Poop converted to cooking fuel in Africa’s big ...
    A Nairobi slum now processes human waste into biogas which residents use to cook food in community kitchens. Thus, what once was a sanitation problem has been turned into a positive.
  • Libya: From no fly zone to demanding regime change
    Obama has continually “revised” our reasons for being in Libya. Now it’s about regime change with the predictable result of another endless war with no exit strategy. Too many Democrats who vehemently protested the Iraq War when Bush was president are of course totally ok with what Obama is doin ...
  • Hippies punched by Democrats, Tea Party betray ...
    Poli-Tea details how some liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party continually go back for more abuse. This is mainly because they are unable to envision alternatives, so they resolutely fight for change within a party that systematically kicks reformists in the teeth every chance it ge ...
  • Polizeros Radio podcast. Fractures on the Left ...
    While the two parties have genuine differences on issues like abortion, the environment, and a safety net, they are in complete agreement about foreign policy (American exceptionalism rules) and corporatism (Hey Wall Street, want more money? can we ignore more laws for you?) The DFH’s, as well a ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • First reviews from World Wide Premiere of &#82 ...
    Atlas Shrugged Part 1 — Our Tomorrow April 15, 2011 Libertarian Savvy.com From the opening scenes we see our own dystopia: an awakened few strive for a world of peace and freedom in an age of government control and force. Low-budget, with little spectacle and no major “stars,” the film offers gl ...
  • Libertarian correspondent discusses what is re ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4647913/a-report-from-the-revolution/
  • ‘Prince of Pot’ denied move to Canada
    Canada’s “Prince of Pot” has been denied a prison transfer back to Canada and will likely serve his entire sentence in the United States. Vancouver resident Marc Emery was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in the U.S. on May 24 for selling marijuana seeds online to American ...
  • Three largest online poker sites indicted and ...
    The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted by the FBI on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to the thriving industry. Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were charged with bank fraud and money laundering in an indictment unsealed in ...
  • It’s Official: “Arab Spring” ...
    Doubts laid to rest; counter revolutions to come. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 15, 2011 – As American bombs rain down upon Libya on the premise that Qaddafi was brutalizing indigenous pro-democratic demonstrators, the accusing fingers of Libya, Iran, China, Syria, Belarus, and a gr ...

The Air Vent

  • the Unseen Load of Government
    I’ve been trying to think of how to make this point.  The problem seems lost on the government educated of the US and despite starting to write it twice both posts came off as grumpy vents which isn’t what I was hoping. E.M Smith has done a wonderful job explaining economics of the world and [...]
  • It’s the magnitude that is hard to ignore
    Joe Bastardi on the recent AV post highlighted at WUWT. H/T Reader Keith Grubb
  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale o ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
  • Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rational of ...
    Ok I admit it!  Apparenlty I can’t quit blogging completely, but doing software calculations is way beyond the scope of my time abilities.   There is a detail which may interest some here that has too little discussion in the ‘climate wars’ .  It’s a matter of reason, again which doesn’t dis ...
  • Trouble with Thunderbird
    I never thought to ask here but there are a ton of computer experts around tAV.   I have been using Thunderbird as an email client for my work emials.  The problem is that the search function doesn’t work properly and I have literally tens of thousands of emails and can’t do proper searches f ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Winklevoss Twins, Canada, Li ...
    Winklevoss Twins Lose Appeal, Facebook Legal Saga Continues – The Winklevoss twins, who had most recently sued Facebook claiming that the company hid information from them when they settled for $65 million, were told by a panel of three U.S. Appeals Court that they must accept that deal. The jud ...
  • Six More Ad Providers Join Facebook’s Approved ...
    Facebook has added six more companies to its list of ad providers that have agreed to its terms for working with developers on the platform, since we last looked at the end of March. Some are better known than others, and include in alphabetical order, the amusingly named Appflation, Deal United ...
  • Why Friend.ly’s Question and Answer Facebook C ...
    At the end of March, Facebook Connect app friend.ly, a question and answer site designed to help you get to know your friends better and make new friends, hit a sudden growth spurt. It gained 2.3 million monthly active users and 247,ooo daily active users between March 24th and April 13th, accor ...
  • Weddings, Hearts, Page Tools, Videos and Mobil ...
    Gifts, videos, weddings, movies and mobile were on our list of top 20 emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. The apps were mostly in English, a few in Turkish, and one in Polish and grew from between 100,700 and 634,300 monthly active users. We compile this list with A ...
  • Facebook for iPhone Now Pulls the News Feed Fr ...
    Earlier this month, Facebook released an update for the Facebook for iPhone mobile app that included an “Improved news feed”, but no one seemed to understand what had actually changed. We’ve determined that the native app now pulls the news feed directly from mobile site m.facebook.com. This all ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel steps up Jerusalem expulsions
    Jonathan Cook reports on the case of the famous Jerusalem-based Palestinian bookseller, Munther Fahmi, who has been told by the Israeli authorities to leave the city and country of his birth as part of its policy of ethnic cleansing.
  • David Harris: Israel’s American propagandist
    Paul J. Balles highlights the arrogance and hypocrisy of the American Jewish Committee's David Harris, a propagandist of the calibre of Joseph Goebbels, who appears to believe that Israel's victims have neither human nor civil rights.
  • The ghost of Joe McCarthy walks the USA
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the apathy of, and lack of accurate information available to, the American public is paving the way for a wave of McCarthyism that is threatening to sweep the USA and is seriously eroding "one of the pillars of American freedom, that of free speech".
  • Judge Goldstone’s wobble sends wrong signal
    Stuart Littlewood explains why judge Richard Goldstone was the wrong person to head the UN fact-finding mission into the conflict in Gaza in the first place, and argues that Goldstone’s latest “wobble” could be the prelude to a new Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza.
  • Alternative strategy for liberation of Libya
    Nureddin Sabir argues that the time has come for the pro-democracy leaders in Libya to acknowledge that NATO will not help them overcome the Gaddafi tyranny and that, in order to avoid the division of Libya, they must consider inviting another Arab country or Iran to intervene directly against t ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #39
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr. Tom Woods Tom Woods joins us to discuss his latest article on the Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers which has triggered intriguing reactions from the media on both sides of the isle. He provides us with historical background and a ‘real’ constitutional ...
  • The Danger of Tranquilized & Docile Youth
    What Is Wrong with This Picture? In February we provided you with coverage of the brutalization and arrest of Veteran Ray McGovern during Hillary Clinton’s speech at George Washington University. McGovern had dared to stand up during the speech, peacefully and silently, in a Gandhi-endorsed way, ...
  • Our Hypocrisy Ridden Foreign Policy: Jailed Jo ...
    Turkey Is the Country with the Most Imprisoned Journalists Uzbekistan boils activists: we are okay with it. Heck, we even support ‘the Boilers. ’Azerbaijan tortures and murders journalists and activists: we are totally fine with it; in fact, we consider them our great ally . When Syria engages i ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April 10
    The Conditional Antiwar Movement, FBI’s Mole in the News Business, This Week’s Hillary Clinton Joke, Pepe Escobar & the New Chalabi for Libya & More! Here is a round up with a few noteworthy developments and articles and an absurdity or two. This week Peter B Collins and I will be recording inte ...

Afro Spear

  • Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa & ...
    Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa – Al Jazeera English.
  • Sing It!
    I need some inspiration, a shot of adrenaline. Ladies and gentleman: Dame Shirley BASSEY!
  • “What the World Needs Now…”
    I was eleven years old. The riots were still fresh. The “Poor People’s March” had failed to ignite the revolutionary redistribution of wealth. “Soul Brother” graffiti was still plastered on burnt out buildings in DC. The faint smell of tear gas could be conjured by its mere mention. On the radio ...
  • Cote D’Ivoire Update: BBC
    From the BBC: Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants EU sanctions lifted Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. Mr Ouattara now controls the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, and wants to restart ...
  • Cornel West on Aljazeera

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Ecofeminism: Book by Jytte Nhanenge
    Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development Authored by Jytte Nhanenge Sustainability Education Network is doubly honored to announce and review the newly published work of author Jytte Nhanenge, and applauds University Press of America for it ...
  • Will the Grand Canyon Survive?
    Last week Change.org contacted us about the Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon. Working together with environmental editor, Jess Leber, the petition housed on Change.org was updated with the current urgency in the need of signatures to make this campaign a successful one. With Change.or ...
  • Turtle Island: Our Earth Mother
    Japan in Crisis By Sheryl Goodwin, SEN Contributor and Honorary Advisor Kway. Hello. First off let me state what an Honor it is to be asked by my brother Gregory and sister Suzanne to join the team. What a privilege to be among such fine people listed on the biography page of Sustainability Educ ...
  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...
  • ExxonMobil Biofuel Advert Officially Pronounce ...
    ASA Adjudication on ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil UK Ltd ExxonMobil House Ermyn Way Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8UX Date: 9 March 2011 Media: Television Sector: Utilities Number of complaints: 1 Agency: Euro RSCG London Ltd Complaint Ref: 141542 Ad A TV ad for ExxonMobil UK Ltd (ExxonMobil) featured ...
  • UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law ...
    On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law. If you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same. The UK [...]

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • 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, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
  • Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
    [Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...
  • Freedom Fone Helps with Election Monitoring to ...
    The eagerly awaited Freedom Fone Version 2.0 has been released this March 2011. The innovative platform, initiated by The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and funded by The Knight News Challenge, was inspired by the desire to reach out to the burgeoning number of ordinary mobile phone users in develop ...
  • LocalWiki Codes, Talks, Searches for Pilot Com ...
    Here's a summary of what we've been up to for the past month or so at LocalWiki: coding, coding, coding, coding, talking, coding, talking, talking, coding, coding, coding. Occasionally we take breaks for sleep and nutritional intake purposes. Want more detail? Read on! Code, code, code, cod ...
  • Map Mashup Shows Broadband Speeds for Schools ...
    The Department of Education (DOE) recently launched Maps.ed.gov/Broadband an interactive map that shows schools and their proximity to broadband Internet access speeds across the country. This is an important story for DOE, an agency that has a stated goal that all students and teachers have acc ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terror - How to Tell if Your Neighbor ...
    Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the�fifth edition of its English-language jihadist magazine �Inspire� on March 30. AQAP publishes this magazine with the stated intent of radicalizing English-speaking Muslims and encouraging them to engage in jihadist militant activity. Since it ...
  • The Metal's Edge - Pentagon Balks on Report ab ...
    Rare earth metals, a variety of elements that are difficult and costly to extract, are vital for technology and the military. Tiny amounts of the metals and their alloys are used in a plethora of everyday devices, like cell phones, computer memory, and fluorescent lighting. But they are also vit ...
  • Egypt After the Revolt - Three Scenarios for E ...
    The protestors have gone home and the world's attention has turned to Libya, but the future of the most populous and influential Arab country remains perhaps the most important issue affecting American interests in the Middle East other than Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.�The decision to aba ...
  • Edge on Environment - Peruvian Presidential El ...
    The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an issue of contention for Peru due to the number of indigenous tribes that inhabit it. As early as the 16th century, the Peruvian Amazon has been linked to the world market, providing such products ...
  • America on Edge - Closing America’s Playground ...
    On a Tuesday morning in late December 2010, for the first time ever, the gates closed at Disneyland. The reason was simple enough—holiday crowds had overwhelmed the magic kingdom. Yet shutting down Disneyland could be a metaphor for a far broader and more troubling phenomenon occurring in Los An ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Oh Great! Now They Say Ice Cubes Cause Global ...
    See, Now they have gone and done it again! Earlier this week we discovered the global warming moonbats alienated the stoners in their base by declaring that growing pot indoors causes global warming.� Apparently the resulting contribution to greenhouse gas emissions from growing pot indoors equa ...
  • In Memoriam? American Superpower, In Debt and ...
    By Barry Rubin Once one of the world�s most respected and powerful forces, America Superpower has disappeared. Worried friends and relatives are engaging in a desperate search. Rumors abound, including stories that Mr. Superpower has been kidnapped; committed suicide; or merely has gone ...
  • Newsbusted: Ben Bernanke Arrested?
    According to reports from Newsbusted's central news room, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was arrested last week, Jodi Miller has the story in today's Newsbusted the twice-weekly feature from Newsbusters.org . Other news stories covered include, how the DNC is playing copy-cat with the FBI, who's b ...
  • Joy Behar, Absolute Proof That You Can't Fix S ...
    Joy Behar comedienne/turned political commentator with her own show on Headline News, so often turns out to be unintentional comic relief, especially on The View. It's a wonder how someone this ignorant is let out of the house without wearing a helmet. And she is on two different TV shows. Th ...
  • Calm Down Folks, The Budget Cuts in The Contin ...
    Speaker Boehner claims the continuing resolution (CR) due to be voted on by Congress today cuts almost $40 Billion dollars out of the budget, but a report issued by the CBO yesterday that the bill actually increases outlays by $ 3 billion.� People read the CBO report and went crazy. "The Deal is ...

The Real Agenda

  • Religión Ambientalista de la ONU: La Ecomafia ...
    El valor de la vida humana debe ser igual a la de un árbol o un insecto. Ese es el objetivo de la iniciativa aprobada en Bolivia y que fue elaborada por Evo Morales. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Abril 13, 2011 Bolivia presentará este mes un proyecto a las Naciones Unidas para [...]
  • Wells Fargo Bank adds EMV chips to credit cards
    Bloomberg April 13, 2011 Wells Fargo, the bank with the most branches, is testing microchip-embedded credit cards with frequent travelers to address complaints of customers who have trouble using their cards abroad. The pilot program announced today marks the first effort by a major U.S. bank to ...
  • Banks in Debt?
    Most of this “debt” is part of the purchase and investment on toxic financial products the banks themselves created as well as unpaid real estate mortgages Reuters April 14, 2011 The world’s banks face a $3.6 trillion “wall of maturing debt” in the next two years and must compete with debt-laden ...
  • Terremoto de Japón disminuyó Longitud de la Tierra
    National Geographic Abril 13, 2011 La magnitud 9,0 del terremoto que sacudió Japón el pasado viernes fue lo suficientemente potente como para reducir la longitud terrestre en 17 centímetros haciendo que los días sean 1,8 microsegundos más cortos. Eso no apunta que las ondas de choque  hayan desp ...
  • Obama White House Threatens Journalist with Death
    Following Chicago-style gangster politics a former intelligence officer is told to stop reporting on government corruption or else. Wayne Madsen April 13, 2011 In yet another indication that America’s democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbine critics come out swinging in Dennis
    SOUTH DENNIS â It may only be one of the first steps in the debate over a proposal to place two wind turbines on Dennis Water District property, but it was a doozy. About 100 residents from Dennis, Harwich, Brewster and Falmouth filled the Dennis Senior Center on Monday night to voice their opin ...
  • Companies say North Dakota wind turbine accide ...
    Experts said a North Dakota wind turbine’s rotor and blades crashed to the ground because they weren’t properly aligned with a power shaft atop the turbine’s steel tower, which caused the rotor’s connecting bolts to fail. The March 14 accident north of Rugby will prompt more frequent inspections ...
  • Green energy project poses threat to wildlife ...
    Pune: Development projects in the ecologically sensitive region of Western Ghats in Maharashtra have been under the green activists’ scanner for long. Activists allege that this time the culprit is a seemingly innocent wind power project. They state that the 113 MW Andhra Lake Wind Power Project ...
  • Wind farm plan rejected by South Staffordshire ...
    Plans for the first wind farm in the West Midlands have been rejected by planners. Members of the South Staffordshire District Council planning committee described the six-turbine application at King�s Street, near Brineton, as �horrendous� as they rejected the scheme. Campaigners from the Stop ...
  • Great Dividing Range wind farm proposal concer ...
    JESSICA van VONDEREN: The State Government will be asked to approve another wind farm for Queensland, and there are proposals for several more from the green energy sector. It comes as the Senate concludes public hearings in Victoria, South Australia and the ACT, over the impact of the large ele ...

Not My Tribe

  • For Tomorrow Mornings Whore-ship Service to Ge ...
    At least he didn’t choose to ride his sorry Ass into town on Palm Sunday. I do hope the Colorado Springs “christian” Schools feel very proud of being Temple Prostitutes for the Beast. Maybe, just this once, you’ll consider sacrificing one of your OWN babies to him instead of ours? You know, the ...
  • Yes sir, you’re right… it’s ...
    Although there are some similarities. Like the level and amount of two radioactive isotopes of Cesium and one of Iodine that are the best measures, the chemical version of a coal-mine canary… High as or higher than Chernobyl. Ah, but that’s not the best part. The best part, oh boy oh joy, is tha ...
  • Jesus Springs welcomes fugitive Bush
    After seeing Colorado College gush over a whitewashed CIA murderer, I’m not in any mood to see local Christian groupies applaud George War-criminal Bush. The plan for Saturday at the Broadmoor had been to pummel the arrogant creep with shoes, ceremoniously of course, and probably in effigy. We’l ...
  • Give the Black Hills back to the Lakota
    Close down the strip-mine gold operation in Deadwood, stop maintaining the blasphemous idols carved onto Mount Rushmore, stop maintaining the Custer National Monument, let them rot into the Earth. They poison the very heart of the Earth Mother, Wakan Tonka. That means not “Great Spirit” like it’ ...
  • Given the recent city council and Chamber of C ...
    And endorsement… How, for instance, does Steve Bach afford signs plastered all over town the very minute he announces his candidacy? Princess Lisa Czeladtko, Jim Leigh? Supposedly non-politicians, right? “Business” men and women, right? Seems mighty coincidental. Also that they’re part of a so-c ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • What they've got planned for us next...
    The Projected Al Qaeda Use of Body Cavity Suicide Bombs Against High Value Targets http://www.groupintel.com/2011/04/11/the-projected-al-qaeda-use-of-body-cavity-suicide-bombs-against-high-value-targets/ Page 33: Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically sa ...
  • Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing
  • Clinton told it like it is...
    I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if ...
  • Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader
    ae911truth YouTube.com Mar 19, 2011 AE911Truth's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Tom Sullivan - Former Explosives Loader for Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) This interview is some raw footage of one of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary "9 ...
  • Health problems related to 9/11 will be felt f ...
    Eric Stevenson 911debunkers.blogspot.com Certainly, living in America, all of our lives were changed nearly 10 years ago on September 11th, 2001. As days moved on, more and more were added to the death toll in the ensuing weeks afterwards. What’s not common knowledge is that some of the effec ...

Fooducate

  • A Fishy Debate: Farmed vs. Wild Seafood
    This blog post is by Erica Melling, who has joined Fooducate as a summer intern. Farmed. In recent years, it has become the “F” word of the seafood industry. However, the issue is more complicated than you may realize and wild-caught fish may not always be the healthier, more sustainable choice. ...
  • Organic Junk Food is Healthier !?
    When it comes to health halos, arguably the biggest one is “Organic”. Please don’t get us wrong, the organic food movement is fantastic, and eating organic food has a multitude of benefits – health, social, and ecological. However, the term “organic” has been hijacked by the processed food indus ...
  • All Calories are Equal. But Some are More Equa ...
    This is a guest blog post by Janet Helm, MS, RD. It originally appeared in Cooking Light. Last summer, Mark Haub, Ph.D, an associate professor of nutrition at Kansas State University, made headlines when he lost 27 pounds after two months of living on Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Little Debbies, and other ...
  • Times Square Renamed Junk Food Square
    This Week, Frito Lay is taking over Times Square with a plethora of marketing activities. The New York Times reports: Frito-Lay plans to spend this week in Times Square with a promotional event featuring a flavor kitchen, which is part of the company’s effort to stimulate sales of its snack bran ...
  • Oh My! Mio Water Flavoring Has Nothing Real in It
    Kraft, like many big food companies, has a problem. Every 3 months the publicly traded company needs to show rising sales and profits to its Wall Street Investors. But since it sells food, how can it possibly sell any more to a country of already overstuffed consumers? The answer: Innovation. Mo ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Dis ...
    The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode ...
  • Uncontacted Indians: report exposes ‘untold st ...
    Kichwa Indian children from a village close to Repsol's project © Survival Oil giant Repsol-YPF could be threatening the existence of two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to a damning new report by Survival (pdf). The Spanish-Argentine oil company has been targeted for its ...
  • 'Poisonous red mud' pours from Vedanta refinery
    Government pollution inspectors previously criticized Vedanta's environmental record at the refinery. © Survival Toxic sludge has poured out of FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ waste pond at its controversial alumina refinery in Orissa, east India, according to local reports. The toxic slurry r ...
  • Borneo tribe denied vote in crucial elections
    Thousands of Penan will have no vote in Saturday's elections © Survival International Thousands of Penan tribespeople will be unable to vote in crucial elections on Saturday in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, because they do not have identity cards. The elections in Sarawak state ...
  • Ranchers caught red-handed – from space
    Bulldozers used for illegal deforestation, photographed by government investigators © GAT/ Survival Wealthy landowners in Paraguay have been caught red-handed after newly-released satellite images showed their startling destruction of almost 4,000 hectares of forest – which is inhabited by ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Where can I source fabric production waste pro ...
    We’ve had an email from Karen which is a bit different from our normal “how can I recycle…” questions but a good question all the same: I’m a fashion student and I am interested in doing my final project/collection using waste products! I’ve been looking for things like parachute silk with fault ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle expired sunscreen/s ...
    We’ve had an email from Karen: I am new to your site and I really love it! I do have a suggestion though, I had been cleaning up the bathroom and found old sunscreen lotion bottles, still full. I heard you can’t use them more than a year, because they go bad and won’t work [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plug-in air fresheners?
    Following on in our vaguely spring-cleaning inspired cleaning week here on Recycle This, I received this email from Helen: How do I recycle plug in air freshener? My daughter has been diagnosed with allergies and they’ve recommended no air fresheners now. I’ve got four to get rid of. We’ve not u ...
  • Upcycling clothing: how can I reuse or recycle ...
    A few years ago, I found the BESTEST JUMPER EVER in a shop. It was a lovely shade of purple, with fair isle detailing and fit me perfectly, in a really flattering way. Best of all, it was in the last ditch clearance sale so only cost £4. From the title of this post, I’m [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle pruned Catalpa wood?
    We’ve had another email from friend of Recycle This, Petra: I need your help again. I hope I can explain the topic well, because I’m not used to discuss garden items in English. We have a Catalpa tree in our garden, which produces every year a lot of new branches. The year after, in March, [...]

Age of Autism

  • TACA Invites You to Meet Kim Stagliano All I C ...
    Hi, friends. Hope to see you at this TACA event - a book signing and Q&A at Border's at 3333 Bear Street in Costa Mesa Saturday evening 4/16 at 6:30pm. Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor of Age of Autism. Her...
  • Dr. Offit, Tell Us What Happened To These Children
    By Anne Dachel I found a recent story in the Stanford University Medical School called, A national health challenge: How the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all. It was all about the wonderful job Dr. Paul Offit is doing defending the...
  • Autism Researcher Poul Thorsen Indicted
    From Atlanta unfiltered.com AUTISM RESEARCHER INDICTED FOR STEALING GRANT MONEY Thorsen Allegedly Absconded With Over $1 Million ATLANTA, GA - POUL THORSEN, 49, of Denmark, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money...
  • Meet Kim Stagliano at Vroman's in Pasadena Ton ...
    Hi, friends. Hope to see you at a Generation Rescue event - a book signing and Q&A at Vroman's Bookstore 695 East Colorado Avenue, Pasadena CA at 7:oopm tonight, April 15th. Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor of Age of Autism....
  • Poul Thorsen: The CDC Finances, Writes and Hel ...
    The Poul Thorsen story: ‘The CDC finances, writes and helps publish Danish research…’ With Danish CDC researcher Poul Thorsen now charged 13 counts of fraud and 9 of money laundering Age of Autism revisits this fascinating article by Dr F...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto
    This week we will talk with Percy Schmeiser about his fight with Monsanto over the contamination of his crop, and the subsequent lawsuit filed by Monsanto for growing their patented seed without a license.
  • USDA Certified Organic Milk NOT Tested for Rad ...
    There is no required testing for radioactive particles in organic milk, and no plans to test in the future.
  • Fracking nightmare destroys small farmers
    As if we didn't have enough problems with the fake food safety bill, a genetically modified food takeover by the USDA's terrorist arm Monsanto, chemtrails dumping aluminum, barium, and strontium on farmland, and Japan's radioactivity spreading across the country, now we have a huge fracking (hyd ...
  • Radiation Nation In the Crosshairs!
    The EPA once again dupes the public by upping "safe" radiation levels.... Will Monsanto take advantage by developing a plutonium resistance gene?
  • The Great Global Warming Swindle
    Basic science: Climate warms, life increases, and CO2 goes up. Climate cools, life decreases, and CO2 goes down. Not the other way around like Al Gore claims. What about that does Al Gore not understand? Oh, yeah.... can't tax CO2 users with the truth.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Irish credit rating cut hits value of euro
    Guardian – The euro dropped against the dollar after credit ratings agency Moody’s delivered another negative verdict on Ireland on Friday morning. Moody’s cut Ireland’s rating by two notches to Baa3 â one notch above junk status â and left the outlook negative. The agency said the country might ...
  • Florida Flirts With Deadline To Join Oil Spill ...
    NPR – The one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill is April 20; that’s also the deadline to join a massive lawsuit to recoup economic damages from the companies involved. It may seem simple: You get wronged, you sue. But when you up the stakes to include the oiled shoreline of four states and ...
  • Over 800 bodies found in Iraq mass grave
    Reuters – A mass grave of more than 800 remains has been discovered in western Iraq– and according to an Iraqi government spokesman the remains belonged to opponents of Saddam Hussein.
  • Emails expose BP’s attempts to control r ...
    The Guardian – BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials openly discussing how to influ ...
  • Drinking energy beverages mixed with alcohol m ...
    PhysOrg – Energy drinks mixed with alcohol, such as Red Bull and vodka, have become trendy. While this consumption has been implicated in risky drinking practices and associated accidents and injuries, there is little laboratory research on how the effects of this combination differ from those o ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Discovery Center project won't get a $7-millio ...
    California State Parks authorities have rejected a request for a $7-million grant needed to begin construction on a controversial $22-million, 14,000-square foot Discovery Center at the Whittier Narrows wildlife sanctuary in South El Monte. “We did not fund that project,”...
  • Budget rider would lift wolf protections in no ...
    When Congress passes the federal budget, it’s increasingly likely lawmakers will also be sealing the fate of wolves in the northern Rockies. An unrelated rider quietly attached by legislators from Montana and Idaho to the crucial spending compromise would for...
  • Safeway, Vons top Greenpeace list for seafood ...
    One of the nation's largest supermarket chains has claimed the top spot in the Greenpeace seafood sustainability report, released Tuesday. Safeway, which operates more than 1,700 stores under various names, including Vons, was praised for discontinuing sales of "red-list," or...
  • California renewable energy gets major boost i ...
    Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a mandate that 33% of electricity in California must come from renewable sources by 2020. Executives at solar, wind and other clean energy companies said the new regulations could help California reclaim its...
  • Sea Shepherd documentary, 'Confessions of an E ...
    Early in his new documentary film, “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist,” Peter Brown, a 30-year veteran of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, assesses the group’s strategy. “Our job,” he says, “is to manufacture awareness.” Ramming boats, hurling stinky acid at whalers...

water.org

  • Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
    Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...
  • Water.org’s local partnerships for solut ...
    Water.orgâs Local Partnerships for Long-Term Solutions (MasterCard Foundation) – This week was World Water Week. Organizations and people around the world rallied to raise awareness around access to safe water and sanitation. One of our partners, Water.org, is tackling this issue head on. Their ...
  • Facebook campaign: Levi’s® and Water.org ...
    Featured Facebook Campaigns: Leviâs and Water.org, Sprite and Discover Ireland (Inside Facebook) – Among notable campaigns on Facebook in the past week, a Leviâs and Water.org partnership offered a branded app that taught users about saving water. By playing the Leviâs WaterTank game, users can ...
  • Levi’s®, Water.org stage water march (De ...
    Levi’s and Water.org Stage ‘Water March’ in New York City for World Water Day (Denim Hunt) – Levi’s, who recently launched the Levi’s Water
  • Microloans potential to bring water to million ...
    Just Add Water: Simplicity of Microloans Has the Potential to Bring Clean Water to Millions in Need (Women Deliver) – During this World Water Day, I would like to celebrate the innovative and integrated approach that Water.org is using to expand access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation, a ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Mom walks from New Orleans to Washington to hi ...
    A 38-year-old mother of six and wife of an unemployed oil rig worker from Rayne, who was affected by the BO Gulf Oil Spill walks to Washington in the hope she will be able to speak to her President. HER PRESIDENT!Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel must recognize Hamas' government in Gaza.
    Israel's entire approach to the Gaza Strip is anachronistic. The blockade, intended to persuade the population to topple the Hamas government, failed and has turned into a stumbling-block.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • WATCH: brutal arrest of protesters in Nabi Sal ...
    The demonstrations been taking place for over one year despite serious military repression. The two leaders of the community, Bassem and Naji Tamimi, have both been arrested by Israeli soldiers along with 12 percent of the total population of the village.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • Rattling the Cage: Goldstone was never the problem
    A JUST war? Operation Cast Lead was about as just as a bullfight. We invaded a foreign land with our ridiculously superior armed forces and decimated it. We racked up a kill ratio of 100-to-one, and a destruction ratio that's immeasurable.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Torture the New Black? - How We've Come Accept ...
    How "enemy creep" is Guantanamo-izing America. Just in case you thought that �political correctness� had been thoroughly discredited in the culture wars of the 1990s, it�s back -- and this time it�s being treated as a stalking horse for terrorism...Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov' ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Solar Power Without Solar Cells
    Solar power station graphic courtesy Scientific American As most people know, electromagnetism manifests as both electric fields and magnetic fields. read more
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: SunEdison Meets Ontario FIT Do ...
    SunEdisonâs 9.1 MW First Light 1 was the first utility-scale photovoltaic facility in Canada when it began transmitting power to Ontario Hydro September 30, 2009. It is located in Stone Mill ...
  • Sempra Generation Gets Green Light From Regula ...
    Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), announced that a 20-year power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been approved California regulators. read more
  • Sun Drenched Australia Orders 44 MW Of Solar Power
    French nuclear power developer AREVA Group has announced that its subsidiary, AREVA Solar will build the world's largest solar/coal-fired power augmentation project in Queensland, Australia. read more
  • United States: DOE Backs 250 MW California Sol ...
    The United States Department of�Energy (DOE) announced that it has offered US$1.187 billion loan guarantee to SunPower Corporation (NasdaqNM: SPWRA) for the development of the 25 read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Fielding lapses cost us the match: Tendul ...
    Mumbai, April 16: Fielding lapses, including a first-ball dropped catch off Brendon McCullum who smashed his way to 81, cost Mumbai Indians the match against IPL debutants Kochi Tuskers Kerala on Friday, said home team captain Sachin Tendulkar. "They fielded better. In bowling and batting w ...
  • IPL teams will take us seriously now: Jay ...
    Mumbai, April 16: Debutantes Kochi Tuskers Kerala on Friday roared back into the Indian Premier League with an upset victory over Mumbai Indians and skipper Mahela Jayawardene hoped the rivals team will take them more seriously now. The Kochi tuskers chased down an imposing 182-2, set by Mu ...
  • Social Networking Phase II: Socializing O ...
    An overdependence on technology is dangerous. Technology can never take the place of a teacher, teaching methodology or true learning. However, not using technology to fully engage students of today and the future is absolutely negligent. Young learners use instruments of technology every d ...
  • Israel raids Gaza after rocket attacks
    JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli warplanes launched raids against targets in Gaza overnight after two rockets were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, Palestinian security officials said on Saturday. No one was hurt in the air...
  • Vettel fastest in final China GP practice
    Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel continued to set the pace at the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix by clocking the fastest time in Saturday's pre-qualifying practice session. Vettel...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Researcher Develop Food Packaging Sensor that ...
    Researchers from the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies in Munich, Germany have developed a sensor film that can be integrated into food packaging to detect spoiled food. The thin film layer changes color in reaction to spoiled food. From the press release: The ...
  • "Vaccine hesitancy" means scientists need to b ...
    Global vaccination programmes are on the brink of a successful new era, but they could yet be undermined by challenges, including a potential crisis of public trust, say experts. A seminar heard how...
  • US centre spells out how new organisations wil ...
    The US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is trying to reduce fragmentation in and improve the quality of healthcare by using a new type of institution, "accountable care organisations," to...
  • Cooking With Sprouted Brown Rice
    Sprouted brown rice looks and feels like regular brown rice, but it's sweeter and more delicate, and a little less chewy.
  • CEO Search Underway
    Roger Hughes, SLHI’s founding CEO, is retiring at the end of 2011 after 16 years of service. A search for his successor is now actively underway. m/Oppenheim Associates, a national leadership search firm specializing in nonprofits, has been retained to conduct the search. A position description ...

Common Dreams

  • Youth Environmental Movement Frustrated With O ...
    WASHINGTON -- Ten thousand former Obama voters -- many of whom worked on his 2008 campaign -- will descend on Washington on Friday for a three-day climate summit. Events will culminate in a rally outside the White House, where thousands of young activists will gather on Monday, calling on the ad ...
  • US House Passes Republican Spending Plan
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday, calling it the cure to out-of-control government spending. In an almost perfectly party-line vote, lawmakers voted 235-193 to approve the non-binding ...
  • Japan Eyes State-Backed Insurer to Save TEPCO: ...
    TOKYO - Japan plans to set up a government-backed insurance fund to put money into Tokyo Electric Power and pay compensation stemming from the disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Nikkei newspaper said. Aimed at saving Tokyo Electric from collapse, the plan would have the state i ...
  • Fukushima and the 'Nuclear Renaissance' That W ...
    A month after a devastating earthquake sent a wall of water across the Japanese landscape, the global terrain of the atomic power industry has been forever altered. The ongoing drama at the power plant in Fukushima - a name now ranked alongside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as history's worst ...
  • Whatever Happened To The Anti-War Movement?
    The United States is knee-deep in at least three international military conflicts at the moment — in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. American lives are being lost. Innocent civilians are being killed. Several of the engagements appear to be primed for protraction. The wars are expensive in other wa ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Anti to Pro Nuclear, and Pro to Anti: who’s ch ...
    Today I was speaking to a colleague about Fukushima and its implications on public attitudes to nuclear as a way to mitigate climate change. After I mentioned�George Monbiot�s recent investigative journalism on anti-nuclear claims, he responded by asking: Okay, sure, that�s one person, but conve ...
  • Advanced Biofuels Leader To Senate: Consistenc ...
    A consistent commitment by Congress that avoids the ups and downs of public opinion will be crucial to the success of transforming America's energy policy to cleaner and renewable sources, that's what Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA), told members of the Sen ...
  • Losing the Future?
    "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation. ...
  • Post-Fukushima Nuclear Power
    Worldwatch Institute has made the draft version of their report, “Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World”, freely available. From the announcement page: The future of nuclear power was bleak even before the Fukushima disaster, said energy expert Mycle Schneider Wednesday at a press conference i ...
  • Continuing Resolution An Early Glimpse of a Co ...
    With the dust settling in the multi-month fiscal 2011 federal budget drama, now may be a good time to take stock of its expected impact on the renewables industry, and what this could mean for the future.� Federal policy remains a prominent driver of growth in the U.S. renewables and energy effi ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Feds gives positive eco review to U.S.-Canada ...
    U.S. officials issued a mostly positive environmental review Friday to a controversial, 1,661- mile extension of a U.S.-Canadian private pipeline that will carry heavy crude oi across six U.S. states.
  • Greenest U.S. states? Some may surprise
    In politics, there are red states and blue states. But when it comes to the environment, there are deep green, semi-green and, well, brown states. Which hue is yours?
  • California sets highest green power goal
    Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that set nation's toughest renewable energy mandate, requiring utilities to draw 33% of their power from solar panels,windmills and other sources by 2020.
  • Greenest cars? Gas prices drive interest in fu ...
    As gas prices rise, consumers are more interested in buying cars with better fuel economy and -- good news! -- there's more eco-friendly cars on the market this year, Kelley Blue Book reports Tuesday.
  • Wearable, self-powered batteries in the works
    How cool is this? Replacing or recharging batteries may become a thing of the past if this idea by New Zealand researchers can be commercialized: wearable batteries.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Killing Us Quickly – Ryan’s Medica ...
    Michael Collins We're not worth having around after 65, says Michael Collins. Why else would they want to kill us off? House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) proposed a Medicare plan that combines Social Darwinism and a bailout for health insurance carriers, even larger than the on ...
  • Libya's Great Man-Made River
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article explained that America's led NATO war on Libya was long-planned. All military interventions require months of preparation, including: -- strategy and conflict objectives; -- enlisting coalition partners; -- selecting targets; -- promoting ...
  • Obamanomics: Waging War on American Workers
    by Stephen Lendman Since taking office, Obama shamelessly betrayed his constituents by: -- ignoring popular needs during America's greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression; -- giving Wall Street crooks trillions of taxpayer dollars; -- spending another $1.5 trillion an ...
  • Goldstone Commission Members Affirm Study Findings
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article addressed chairman Richard Goldstone's fall from grace, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/richard-goldstones-fall-from-grace.html It discussed his shameless retraction of irrefutable evidence he and other ...
  • Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Los ...
    Ian Fletcher There’s a nice new academic paper just out by an MIT economist and his friends that gives some hard data to back up everyone’s suspicion that the U.S. is losing jobs to China. It’s entitled “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States, ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Moving Medicare Forward
    Moving Medicare Forward presents the argument for an expanded, truly equitable public health system in Canada. Featuring Saskatchewan's own Roy Romanow, Rosalee Longmoore and Steven Lewis, along with public health advocates Michael Rachlis and Danielle Martin, this video offers us a positive vis ...
  • Corporate tax cuts not delivering on job creation
    A new CCPA study tracked 198 companies on the S&P/TSX composite from 2000 through 2009 and found those companies—Canada's largest corporations—are making 50% more profit and paying 20% less tax than they did a decade ago. But how have they done in terms of job creation? Not so well. In fact, th ...
  • Federal budget analysis
    Why analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come. Click here to read our analysis of the 45-minute budget, explaining why it wasn't worth supporting. Click ...
  • This or that: Which would you choose?
    Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care or pharmacare... or spend that money on corporate tax cuts, prisons, and fighter jets. We've c ...
  • Federal budget tosses crumbs to Canadians, bre ...
    The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians’ priorities. “For every dollar the Harper budget allocates to Canadians’ priorities—such as help ...

World Wide Hippies

  • How will the Trump 2012 presidential campaign ...
    Enter the Donald, Take Two | Slate Let’s take a journey back to the last time Donald Trump went on an extended bender of White House hallucination. The year was 1999. Pets.com stock was trading at $11 per share. Nobody was all that interested in Bill Clinton’s birth certificate. More important, ...
  • Selling $31 of Marijuana Gets a Mother 10 Year ...
    Family copes after mom’s incarceration | Oklahoma Watch Holding back tears by using a whisper of a voice, 9-year-old Koby LeBlanc uses words like âmadâ and âsadâ when talking about his mother. Patricia Spottedcrow, LeBlancâs mother, was sentenced on Oct. 21 to 10 years in prison after selling $3 ...
  • Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! “Cocksucker, cunt, fuck, motherfucker, piss, shit, tits.” Who is he? Answer to last weeks question – Ri ...
  • Chronic Art
    Cannabis Portraits as Chronic Art | Wrong Dream Chronic Art, splendid spliff – based portraits, is a series by cannabis-smoking, Pittsburgh-based artist Cliff Maynard, hand-crafted and quite stunning. 39-year-old Cliff. a tattoo artist by trade, this ex art student devised up his unique choice o ...
  • Does Obama Fear the War Complex?
    The Unmaking of a “Peacemaker” | Counterpunch Obama won the Presidency campaigning as a peacemaker but has approved $40 billion for arms sales to other countries in his first year in the White House compared to the $34.5 billion President G.W. Bush approved in his last year in office according t ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
    From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.
  • The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
    According to the most recent information, the Forbes 400 now have a greater net worth than the bottom 50% of U.S. households combined. In 2009, the total net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.27 trillion. The best information now available shows that in 2009 the bottom 60% (yes, now it's 60%, n ...

Salon

  • Why the dismay over Obama's remarks to donors?
    I didn't understand all the drama about President Obama's open mic comments to donors Thursday night (beyond kudos to Mark Knoller for capturing them when he realized what was going on.) Obama nailed Paul Ryan as a hypocrite for pretending to be the House "accountant," concerned about deficit ...
  • Harry Potter and the network of neutrality
    Who knew Harry Potter's magic powers were for real? OK, excuse my Muggle-like ignorance, but I didn't believe it until I attended a session at the recent National Conference on Media Reform in Boston, organized by the nonprofit organization Free Press. This particular panel was headlined "Pop ...
  • Donald Trump's idea of "consistent"
    Donald Trump on "Hannity" Thursday night:
  • Rick Santorum disowns campaign slogan when tol ...
    Long-ago Sen. Rick Santorum is running for president, despite his "Google problem," and fresh out of the gate he has already invited more mockery. His campaign website features the slogan, "Fighting to Make America America Again" (by which I think he means that America is not America when the ...
  • The grief the GOP just brought on itself
    With only four defections -- and against unanimous opposition from Democrats -- Republicans just pushed through the House a budget plan that would fundamentally alter Medicare, turning it into a voucher program for Americans now under the age of 55. The final vote was 235-193.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Anti to Pro Nuclear, and Pro to Anti: who’s ch ...
    Today I was speaking to a colleague about Fukushima and its implications on public attitudes to nuclear as a way to mitigate climate change. After I mentioned�George Monbiot�s recent investigative journalism on anti-nuclear claims, he responded by asking: Okay, sure, that�s one person, but conve ...
  • Advanced Biofuels Leader To Senate: Consistenc ...
    A consistent commitment by Congress that avoids the ups and downs of public opinion will be crucial to the success of transforming America's energy policy to cleaner and renewable sources, that's what Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA), told members of the Sen ...
  • Losing the Future?
    "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation. ...
  • Post-Fukushima Nuclear Power
    Worldwatch Institute has made the draft version of their report, “Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World”, freely available. From the announcement page: The future of nuclear power was bleak even before the Fukushima disaster, said energy expert Mycle Schneider Wednesday at a press conference i ...
  • Continuing Resolution An Early Glimpse of a Co ...
    With the dust settling in the multi-month fiscal 2011 federal budget drama, now may be a good time to take stock of its expected impact on the renewables industry, and what this could mean for the future.� Federal policy remains a prominent driver of growth in the U.S. renewables and energy effi ...

EU Times

  • Mobile phones powered by the mind take hands-f ...
    It seems even dialling a mobile number is becoming too time consuming for our fast-paced time precious society. But researchers in America have come up with a solution – a mobile phone which uses the power of thought to make a call – and you do not have to lift a finger. Users wear a [...]
  • Chicago School Bans Home Lunches
    The Chicago Tribune reports that a school in Chicago has banned students from bringing packed lunches from home – unless they have a medical excuse. Principal Elsa Carmona said her goal is protect students from their own unhealthful food choices, stating: “Nutrition wise, it is better for the ch ...
  • Wombat diagnosed with depression from ‘lack of ...
    Handlers at an animal sanctuary in north-east Australia were mystified when their star attraction was brought low by a mystery illness. Tonka the wombat shed 20 percent of his body weight after Cyclone Yasi devastated his home at the Billabong Sanctuary, near Townsville, Queensland, closing it t ...
  • Iran wants to Ban Dogs from Society because th ...
    Not long ago, Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products but now it seems that they want to take it even further, as far as bannings dogs from society. Dogs are “unclean” and should be banned from society. That is what 39 Iranian legislators have ...
  • Hosni Mubarak arrested in bed after collapsing ...
    Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was under arrest last night as prosecutors launched an investigation into alleged corruption and abuses of power during his hardline 30-year rule. The 82-year-old one-time ally of Britain and the United States is in hospital after a suspected heart attack, ...

Stonecipher News

  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Obama Reaffirms Commitment to Regime Change in ...
    (photo: Crethi Plethi) President Obama penned a joint op-ed with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron about the situation in Libya. The President has been awfully quiet about the Libyan mission since announcing it would take “days, not weeks” four weeks ago. ...
  • NBC Rolls Out NBC Live â Live Viewing Enhancem ...
    Here's the next effort in making TV more hip for you, NBC now has "an App for that." NBC Live is available in the App Store now, and it provides a host of new ways to "interact" with fans, and to a certain extent the show in general, when you're watching NBC. If you're noticing a trend, you are ...
  • FBI: online poker sites "bet the house" on mon ...
    Federal prosecutors have charged some of the biggest names in online poker with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling, the US Justice Department announced on Friday. Those behind PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker have had their domains seized by the Federal Bureau of ...
  • Google Apps highlights â 4/15/2011
    This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label â Google Apps highlights " and subscribe to the series. - Ed. In the last few weeks weâve improved Google Apps with easier email snafu avoidance, better document and spreadsheet printi ...
  • Donald Trump To Announce Obama Faked Birth Cer ...
    Will he be firing Barack Obama tonight? Donald Trump has called for a press conference tonight, indicating a MAJOR announcement. Political insiders on the Hill have gone off-record as saying it has something to do with his investigation into Kenyan President Barack Obama’s foreign birth. “I hav ...

Groklaw

  • The Real Housewives of Wall Street
    But if you want to get a true sense of what the "shadow budget" is all about, all you have to do is look closely at the taxpayer money handed over to a single company that goes by a seemingly innocuous name: Waterfall TALF Opportunity. At first glance, Waterfall's haul doesn't seem all that huge ...
  • As LinuxCon Approaches, Speakers Are Revealed, ...
    The LinuxCon conference is approaching, to be held in Vancouver, B.C. August 17-19, 2011. If you haven't been to Vancouver, it's a great place to visit, and in conjunction with this year's conference, The Linux Foundation has announced its lineup of keynote speakers for the event, including a nu ...
  • Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple
    Kevin Timmons, who helped build the data centers that power Microsoft's global cloud computing operation, has left the company and is expected to take a leadership position at Apple. The move strongly hints that Apple is stepping up its plans for an expansion of its data center infrastructure be ...
  • Bugzilla@Mozilla Bug 649408 - Support Nati ...
    [PJ: If you have time for a laugh, you'll find many here. Geeks only. Responding to Microsoft marketing: "The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9."] - Bugzilla.Mozilla.org
  • Radio Berkman 175: Lessig and Zittrain Take On ...
    Today, hosts Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain are joined by Andrew McLaughlin - a former Berkman Fellow and White House Deputy Chief Technology Office - and Brett Solomon - Executive Director of Access, a global movement promoting digital freedom. Together with an audience Lessig and Zittra ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Masdar City to ban cars, welcomes pod people
    Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates plans to be carbon neutral by 2020. One way they will do this is by banning personal cars and providing autonomous electric podmobiles.
  • Poop converted to cooking fuel in Africa’s big ...
    A Nairobi slum now processes human waste into biogas which residents use to cook food in community kitchens. Thus, what once was a sanitation problem has been turned into a positive.
  • Libya: From no fly zone to demanding regime change
    Obama has continually “revised” our reasons for being in Libya. Now it’s about regime change with the predictable result of another endless war with no exit strategy. Too many Democrats who vehemently protested the Iraq War when Bush was president are of course totally ok with what Obama is doin ...
  • Hippies punched by Democrats, Tea Party betray ...
    Poli-Tea details how some liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party continually go back for more abuse. This is mainly because they are unable to envision alternatives, so they resolutely fight for change within a party that systematically kicks reformists in the teeth every chance it ge ...
  • Polizeros Radio podcast. Fractures on the Left ...
    While the two parties have genuine differences on issues like abortion, the environment, and a safety net, they are in complete agreement about foreign policy (American exceptionalism rules) and corporatism (Hey Wall Street, want more money? can we ignore more laws for you?) The DFH’s, as well a ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
    Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...
  • U.K. government forced to open end-of-empire files
    Great news from London, that a landmark court case by elderly Kenyan freedom fighters has now forced the Foreign Office to confess that they have suddenly "found" what are described as "around 8,800 files relating to 37 former British administrations — including those in Palestine, Cyprus, Malay ...
  • Obama's (and Sarkozy's) nonexistent 'casus bel ...
    Hat-tip to Harvard's Steve Walt for this fine article, in which he identified and linked to two fine articles that took apart the 'rationale' adduced by Presidents Sarkozy and Obama for their decision to undertake acts of war against Libya on March 19. In this one, the Chicago Tribune's Steve C ...
  • Open thread, early April 2011
    Sorry I haven't been able to blog for the past few days. Lots happening worldwide right now but I've been very busy on non-blog things. (Which, as regular readers know, happens from time to time.) Readers can use this open thread to continue a discussion on breaking events that is constructive a ...
  • More on Turkey/Syria
    On Monday, I blogged that I thought Turkey's role in helping urge/midwife a successful push for reform in Syria could be key. I gave a few reasons for this-- chiefly, the good relations between the two countries and the length (800 miles) of their common border. Yesterday, Turkey's intel chief ...

frogblog

  • Save the rainforest – but only if you feel like it
    This week the ITTG (Importers of Tropical Timber Group) got sick of waiting for the Government to act and made their own commitment to only purchase and trade legal timber from Indonesia. But the comments by the Minister of Forestry David Carter on the issue are disgraceful given the fact that a ...
  • SCF: A proper, businesslike, efficient and pru ...
    Yesterday, Treasury released a stack of documents relating to failed finance company South Canterbury Finance’s involvement in the Government’s Deposit Guarantee Scheme (DGS). They reveal that within two months of entering the DGS, South Canterbury Finance breached its Deed of Guarantee by lendi ...
  • Risk management and deep water drilling
    I had a bit of fun this week in the House, asking questions of the Acting Minister for Energy and Resources about some of the safety issues involved in offshore drilling in the Raukumara Basin off the East Coast.  The fun came in watching the Minister try desperately to avoid giving a straight a ...
  • Digital copyright debated in the House and online
    It was a privilege to speak in Parliament last night and oppose the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill that passed this morning under urgency. It was also a fun debate, with some hilarious gaffes made by National MPs who got their inter-webs mixed up with their Skynets that have ...
  • Pink Shirt Day
    I believe that naming bullying behaviour should be a top priority, especially in schools. Ros Noonan from the Human Rights Commission said that all bullying in schools should be reported to the parents of victims and of perpetrators, and I agree. We cannot stop bullying if we keep it covered up ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 15 April 2011
    I like this picture of Inkblot a lot. So much, in fact, that I'm running it bigger than usual and turning over the entire day to him. But all is not lost for Domino lovers: if you look closely, you can see her snoozing in the background. But that's not all! Today I have a special shoutout f ...
  • Random Links
    A few miscellaneous notes:� Inflation is still low. (Still!) China still has lots of problems. The Senate's report on the financial crisis is pretty good. House Republicans have officially voted to end Medicare. Have a good weekend! Comments | Post Comment����
  • Fun and Games on Capitol Hill
    My twitter feed was full of tweets this morning about a House vote on a budget proposal from the Republican Study Committee, but I didn't really understand what was going on and didn't tune in to CSPAN to find out. But it turns out this was a pretty entertaining vote. The RSC budget is even mo ...
  • Secrets of the Tax Prep Business
    It's tax day, so you should go read Gary Rivlin's great piece in our current issue about the tax prep business and its laser-like focus on the desperate and the easily scammed: "We recommend that you locate your office where the household income is $30,000 or less," the Instant Tax manual cou ...
  • Britain's Folly
    Tea partiers and their Republican allies in the United States are convinced that the path to prosperity starts with budget cuts right now. That's what the Tory brain trust in Britain thought too when they swept to victory last year. So how's that working out? Retail sales plunged 3.5 percent ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 241: We Respect Females
    Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...
  • IC 240: Shutdown
    Topics: People who abuse ‘reply all’ Old lady shuts down an entire country’s Internet service Lebron’s mom gets arrested The politics of the government shutdown Glenn Beck is leaving his daily show…is it really a victory? Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Fredrick Douglass and S ...
    Just when you thought the anti-abortion movement couldn’t get any worse….Arizona jumps into the fray and shouts “Checkmate Bitches!!!” A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5 Mo ...
  • IC 239: I Blame OJ
    Topics: Drunk dialing Teacher makes fun of student’s hair on Facebook….but for good reason Snooki gets $32,000 to speak to college kids We’re doing it all wrong Everything is OJ Simpson’s fault Share with your friends:
  • IC 238: Student Athletes
    Topics: Honors Student pistol whips mom over used car Should Student Athletes get paid? Glenn Beck and Donald Trump spread Islamophobia Trump claims President Obama’s birth certificate could say he’s a Musliim Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
    By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
  • Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
    Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.
  • 2010′s European heatwave unmatched in ce ...
    Scorcher unlikely to be repeated for decades even as heatwave probability rises 5-10 times, Erich Fischer from ETH Zurich and colleagues find in a study set to help prepare for future climate change.
  • Climate change could hit least responsible hardest
    By studying how population density is related to climate, Jason Samson of McGill University shows that those most responsible for emitting greenhouse gases are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

e!Science News

  • The watched pot and fast CMEs
    If you've ever stood in front of a hot stove, watching a pot of water and waiting impatiently for it to boil, you know what it feels like to be a solar physicist. read more
  • UCSF team describes neurological basis for emb ...
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