14 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Dandelion Salad

Award-winning journalist P. Sainath will speak on the failure of mass media to report and analyze the widening economic inequality in India and around the world. For the past decade, Sainath has been reporting on the epidemic of farmers committing suicide in India as a result of the collapse of the rural economy. Read more »

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• Stephen Kohn: Whistleblowing and the First Amendment, interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
• Skepticism Grows. Who Did the Rambo Squad Kill? by Cameron Salisbury
• Bernie Sanders: A Fair and Progressive Budget for America
• In the name of Vittorio Arrigoni, the ‘Stay Human’ convoy has entered Gaza + Viva Palestina: The Ongoing Journey
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• The Absurd Rush To Perdition By Siv O’Neall
• Madeleine Albright: We think the price is worth it by Felicity Arbuthnot
• Noam Chomsky: The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World
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• The Truth About Libya By J. Brett Whitesell

• NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 26, 2011 As it has done daily since it assumed control of the air war and naval blockade against Libya on March 31, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 25 posted on its website a ...
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• Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 26, 2011 “Deficit terrorists” are gutting governments and forcing the privatization of public assets, all in the name of “deficit reduction.” But deficits aren’t actually a bad thing. In today’s monetary scheme, in which most mon ...
• Ron Paul announces 2012 presidential explorato ...
  Dandelion Salad SaveOurSovereignty3 on Apr 26, 2011 Ron Paul Officially Announces Exploratory Committee In Iowa, Goes Right To Questions http://tinyurl.com/6j9ys92 Ron Paul Officially Announces Exploratory Committee In Iowa, Goes Right To Questions *** Ron Paul announces 2012 presidential bid RT ...
• Why U.S. and NATO Fed Detainees to Afghan Tort ...
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 26 April, 2011 WASHINGTON, Apr 26, 2011 (IPS) – Starting in late 2005, U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan began turning detainees over to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), despite its well-known reputation for ...
• Can We Give The Hyperinflation-thing a Rest? B ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House April 26, 2011 The Federal Reserve is not going to push the economy into Zimbabwean hyperinflation. That’s pure bunkum. The Fed’s plan is to weaken the dollar to boost exports and to force China to let its currency a ...

Your New Reality

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  A near perfect documentary sequence for spaceheads. No bullshit narration, actual facts & interesting details served over an ultra-slow motion view of the Saturn V rocket launch that carried Apollo 11 away from the Earth, and into history :
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  Without a doubt, one of the more effective pieces of US government propaganda at the start of World War 2, seen by tens of millions of Americans before the start of Saturday afternoon at the movies :
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  The United States Of Stoned Presidents If you've spent most of your life seeing only the classic black & white portrait of Abraham Lincoln, this coloured one from the WhiteHouseMuseum is startling : Abraham Lincoln : "Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of ...
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  George Carlin celebrates Earth Day :
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  Tens Of Millions Of Americans Are Now The Working Poor American families with both working mums & dads, living frugally, with the only American dream left being winning the lottery, are now finding it impossible to make ends meet : ...many of the jobs in retail, hospitality and home health car ...

Wired - Science

• Ancient Supernova Triggered by Stellar Cannibal
  An ordinary star may have lived through a catastrophic explosion that created one of the most famous supernova remnants in astronomy. A new look at the cosmic debris cloud known as Tycho’s supernova remnant shows an arc of material that could explain what creates a key type of supernova. âIt l ...
• Australia Pistachio Disaster Hints at Agricult ...
  Australia’s pistachio farmers expected a bumper crop this year. Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before caused an outbreak in pistachios. The culprit was anthracnose, a fungal disease best-known for infecting mangoes. It raced through the ind ...
• Iceland Volcano Ash Pics Vindicate Airspace Sh ...
  The most detailed visual study yet of volcanic ash from last year’s Icelandic eruption reveals just how sharp, abrasive and potentially dangerous the particles were. After Eyjafjallajökull erupted in April 2010, sending volcanic plumes high into the atmosphere, officials closed Europe’s air ...
• Ant Rafts Repel Water Like Gore-Tex
                      runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience918350428001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In the first serious study of the physics of fire-ant rafts, researchers have described how the insects form floating, waterproof islands. In nature, the rafts allow ...
• Bacteria on the Radio: DNA Could Act as Antenna
  Theoretical physicists have proposed an explanation for how bacteria might transmit electromagnetic signals: Chromosomes could act like antennae, with electrons traveling gene circuits to produce species-specific wavelengths. It’s just a hypothesis, and the notion that bacteria can generate rad ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Israel’s High Court: Knesset must explain why ...
  In the wake of her participation in last year's Gaza flotilla, Zuabi was stripped of three key privileges as an MK; Zuabi in turn petitioned the High Court to get her privileges reinstated. The court... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Richard Falk: Goldstone breathes new life into ...
  Goldstone miscalculated; he has given the report a second life. It may still languish in the UN system, thanks to the geopolitical leverage being exerted by the United States to ensure that Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Gary Younge: For Israelis and Palestinians, th ...
  To suggest that Palestinians are equally responsible for this state of affairs would suggest the two sides hold equal power to shape events. They don't. No matter how many rhetorical checkpoints get... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Lamis Andoni: To Juliano and Vittorio with love
  Solidarity activists have traditionally been embraced, virtually adopted even, by their host communities. That they should be killed by those they were trying to defend generated shockwaves that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Yossi Sarid: Israel does not have a monopoly o ...
  And no one is a human being without recognizing that the other is also one, and that it is important to get to know him, both his shortcomings and hopes. No one is born a murderer and no one is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia successfully tests Sineva SLBM
  Russia has successfully test-fired the Sineva submarine-launched ballistic missile from a Delta-IV class submarine.
• NATO says aims to stop violence, not to kill G ...
  The NATO-led military operation in Libya does not aim to eliminate Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the commander of coalition forces said on Tuesday.
• Russian Navy will stay in Sevastopol forever - ...
  Russia will never give up its naval base in Ukraine's port of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula, ex-commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Adm. Igor Kasatonov said.
• Black Sea Fleet
• U.S. to seek agreement with Russia on tactical ...
  The U.S. cabinet is working intensively to increase transparency on tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Europe and secure an agreement with Russia on the reduction of such weapons, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller has said.

NewsWise

• Misericordia University Introducing a Certific ...
  The Department of Medical Imaging at Misericordia University is introducing a new certificate program in nuclear medicine technology beginning in the fall semester for both traditional and adult learners.
• Study's Findings About Anesthesia and Young Ch ...
  Young children exposed to a brief, single anesthetic did not show any evidence of adverse long-term effects on the brain, according to a new Danish study published in the May issue of Anesthesiology.
• A Less Painful Colonoscopy
  Colonoscopy is regarded as the most thorough way to screen for colon cancer but it can be a painful procedure. Tufts researchers have developed a technique that could potentially reduce patient discomfort while also ensuring the accuracy of the exam.
• Vitamin D Deficiency is Associated with Differ ...
  A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that while black and white children with vitamin D deficiency both had higher fat levels, black children were more likely to have higher levels of fat just under their s ...
• Increased Metabolic Rate May Lead to Accelerat ...
  A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that higher metabolic rates predict early natural mortality, indicating that higher energy turnover may accelerate aging in humans.

Natural Health News

• Shiba Inu Puppy Cam
  Video streaming by Ustream On this live feed, you can tune in daily to see the cutest Shiba Inu puppies ever. The six puppies,�three boys and�three girls, were born on Thursday, April 14th, 2011. All of them already have forever families waiting for them.
• One in Four Over 45 Take This Unnecessary Drug
  Many Americans take cholesterol lowering statin drugs -- including half of men aged to 65 to 74, and nearly 40 percent of women aged 75 and older. In fact, a grand total of one in four Americans aged 45 and older are taking a statin. That means there are almost 32 million Americans taking a sta ...
• More Bad News -- Meningitis Vaccine Now Approv ...
  The United States has expanded approval for the bacterial meningitis vaccine, Menactra, to include children ages 9 to 23 months. Menactra, which was already approved for patients aged 2 to 55, is the first bacterial meningitis vaccine to achieve approval in the U.S. approval for children below ...
• How You Can Use Fear or Love to Radically Impr ...
  Neurologically, your mind and body are always in one of two emotional states – either love or fear. Empathy, joy, and gratitude are examples of core emotional states of love. Hurt, disappointment, and shame, on the other hand, are examples of core emotional states of fear. These core emotions a ...
• Warning -- Coca Cola is Loaded with Bisphenol A
  Coca-Cola is facing calls to publish a report on how it will develop replacements for the use of bisphenol A in its can linings. A resolution is due to introduced at the company’s annual meeting by shareholder advocacy group. A similar motion was introduced last year and received 22 percent of ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Am I Arguing a Strawman about Drones, Civilian ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In comments to my post below about the strange new respect for drones, Kevin queries whether I’m arguing a strawman.  The “circles” that he and I both move in — academics, NGO activists, and so one — he suggests, have never seriously questioned that dro ...
• More From the Department of False Equivalences
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, conservatives and the Obama administration are falling all over themselves to praise Paul Clement for his brave willingness to represent the House of Representatives at the low, low rate of $520.00 per hour — practically pro bono.  Th ...
• The Sudden Attraction of Drones in Libya
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Numbers of folks I’ve been talking with recently — desirous of going forward with humanitarian intervention in Libya, but mindful that international altruism by the Western democracies goes forward only with few casualties among their armies — seem sudd ...
• Mark Martins at Harvard Law School
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Jack Goldsmith notes at Lawfare: Last Monday Harvard Law School conferred its medal of freedom on one of its graduates, General Mark Martins, Commander of the Rule of Law Field Force -Afghanistan.  The Harvard National Security Journal has just posted t ...
• DOMA, Gitmo, and False Equivalences
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At Lawfare today, Ben Wittes criticizes King & Spalding for refusing to help the House of Representatives defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.  His argument turns on an analogy between representing the House and representing Gitmo detaine ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• BBC caught financially supporting climate chan ...
  What is being called a "shadowy" climate change lobby organisation turns out to have had an undeclared conflict of interest after one of its members was outed in connection with a Climategate inquiry whitewash. ANd it also turns out to...
• Justice system in denial over controversial ne ...
  MEDIA RELEASE NZ JUSTICE SYSTEM IN DENIAL OVER NEW BOOK (radio ad available here Badlands1 ) A new book on the failings of New Zealand’s justice system is provoking major controversy before it has even hit shop shelves. BADLANDS: NZ...
• New Badlands book shatters myths on NZ crime p ...
  MEDIA RELEASE PUBLIC KEPT IN DARK ABOUT NZ'S TRUE CRIME PROBLEMS A new book by a British crime expert says New Zealanders have been kept in the dark about the true nature of our crime problem, because politicians and academics...
• You know you live in Christchurch when...
  You know you live in Christchurch when.... · Geonet / ChristchurchQuakeMap is your homepage · The rest of the country offers you a place to stay · “Munted” and “buggered” are official technical terms · You go 'pfffff' when Wellington...
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My Care2 Picks

• Firm defending Defense of Marriage Act withdra ...
  Paul D. Clement, the partner who had been selected as the lead attorney on the case resigned from King and Spalding. He will continue to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act as a partner at another firmSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Another Shocking UN cover up about Libya
  The Council was about to vote on a report that affirmed and praised Libya and Colonel Ghaddafi for THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD for the nation's treatment of religious minorities, and the "human rights training" received by security forces.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Secret Guantanamo Files, New Insights: Hundred ...
  Senior US commanders have concluded that in dozens of cases there was �no reason recorded for transfer.�Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian M ...
  The Davidian cult in Waco was dealt with by armored vehicles,� remarked Muammar Gaddafi in February, defending his own crackdowns in light of the U.S. government�s. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Teenage Mutant Theocrats
  Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights reports racist "birther" attacks on President Obama, discussions of the conspiracy behind the problem facing America (complete with anti-Semitic illustration), Christian nationalism, anti-environmentaliSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

• Angryindian Radyo - 04.26.20011 Analysis: UK
  Series: Aboriginal Press News Service Public Radio (APNSPR) Summary: Intelligent Aboriginal Radyo speaks with Sister Selin, editor of the ‘The Long Walk to Freedom’ opinion blog about a range of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Maghreb Blog: Large Protests in Morocco
  Maghreb Blog: Large Protests in Morocco: "Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of several cities and towns in Morocco. Protesters were calling for an eradication of despotism and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Shoul ...
  Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Should Be Dismissed After Obama Declares Accused Army Whistleblower "Broke the Law": "Speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama openly declared that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'hero of Palestine' | ...
  Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'hero of Palestine' | Pennie Quinton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Hearing of the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni, a committed peace activist who for the last 10 years... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Malcolm X’s Daughter Disputes Sexuality Claims ...
  Malcolm X’s Daughter Disputes Sexuality Claims - COLORLINES: "Gender Matters columnist Akiba Solomon wrote weeks ago that the allegations in question appear on only two pages of a 600 word book. And... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• The Great California Water Swindle and Propert ...
  The California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) has decided to re-interpret the Lake and Streambed Alteration Program (DFG code, section 1600) to include the normal use of water as a “permitable” action.
• GM Alfalfa – Why No Sprouting?
  We know that Monsanto doesn't allow farmers to save seeds, but no sprouting? What could the reason be for that little caveat?
• The Great Mold Coverup In the Crosshairs!
  “Moldy buildings do no harm” marketed its way into US public health policy, thereby allowing the dismissal of injured parties’ insurance claims.
• A Government of Monsanto, by Monsanto, and for ...
  Monsanto is now ready to grow soybeans that are genetically modified to produce omega-3 fatty acids. The fact that the company is doing this comes as no surprise, but the important thing to note is the process that the FDA goes through to approve these types of substances as Generally Recognized ...
• USDA moves to let Monsanto perform its own env ...
  GMO industry to conduct its own environmental impact studies?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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

• Fukushima city removing radioactive topsoil in ...
  ShareThisFukushima city removing radioactive topsoil in schools 27 Apr 2011 A city in Fukushima Prefecture started Wednesday to remove topsoil from playgrounds in its elementary and nursery schools, following radiation leaks from a crisis-hit nuclear power plant nearby. Heavy machinery began sco ...
• Afghan pilot kills, injures NATO forces
  ShareThisAfghan pilot kills, injures NATO forces 27 Apr 2011 An Afghan army officer has opened fire on foreign troops at Kabul airport, leaving one dead and several others injured, a report says. According to the afghan Defense Ministry, the local army officer, an afghan military pilot, opened f ...
• Missouri sues to block demolition of river levee
  ShareThisMissouri sues to block demolition of river levee 26 Apr 2011 The Missouri attorney general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plans to detonate the levee at Birds Point on the Mississippi River. Attorney General Chris Koster said ...
• Suspect arrested in Columbine-area bombing attempt
  ShareThisSuspect arrested in Columbine-area bombing attempt 26 Apr 2011 Authorities on Tuesday arrested a recently paroled bank robber suspected of planting a bomb at a crowded shopping mall near Columbine High School last week on the 12th anniversary of the school massacre. Earl Moore, 65, was ...
• Ron Paul announces possible Republican 2012 pr ...
  ShareThisRon Paul announces possible Republican 2012 presidential bid --Long-time Texas politician and Tea Party favourite has made a key step on the official route to the White House 27 Apr 2011 Ron Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican congressman beloved of many Tea Party supporters, has ann ...

Daily Loaf

• 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
  I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
• Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
  Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
• D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
  Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
• Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
  The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
• Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
  April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• The Mysterious Well: Part II of II
  Axe Handle Cam Events from Farah Province, Afghanistan Published 24 April 2011 The previous dispatch ended with Kris LeBoutillier lowering his camera into the mysterious well at Kafir Qala, which is believed to be more than 2,000 years old. The depth and contents of the ancient well were unkn ...
• Important Message From Libya
  22 April 2011 I�ve been reading traffic from a private worldwide group regarding the sad loss of journalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington in Libya.� The people discussing the loss include names you sometimes see on national television, in books, and so on and so forth.� The bylaws of the ...
• The Mysterious Well
  Kak Kohzad 21 April 2011 In Afghanistan, there is a mysterious and ancient well.� Nobody knew how deep it was, or what might be down there, but some locals thought it might contain bones of their ancestors.� My friend Steve Shaulis came upon the well while working in Farah Province, and decide ...
• After Action Report - Visit Columbia March 2011
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• Alexander the Great
  Sunrise over Farah 07 April 2011 Afghanistan contains many treasures of ancient history.�� Climate conditions here preserve old structures whose origins often remain a mystery. Alexander stormed through here a thousand years before the Arabs introduced Islam.� Today, after travelling arou ...

The Killing Train

• Today's election thoughts
  Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
• 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
  The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
• Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
  Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
• I went over my twitter limit...
  So I'm just going to make a few notes: -Ignatieff was right when he says Harper's offering "fantasy economics". He also answered the financial question directly. And Harper seemed to make eye contact for the first time. And then went back to the camera. Harper: "Every credible economic analyst" ...
• Cancer is sexy
  I don't have a TV, so I just checked if my livestreaming CBC is working and it seems to be, so I will be able to watch the debate tonight. Two chapters left to go in Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" and I also just picked up Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power" yesterday and have read chapter 1. A ...

treehugger

• Share the Road (Cartoon)
  Click to enlarge "Share the Road" by Option-G This the latest in a series of daily cartoons on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual art....Read the full story on TreeHugger
• How Throwing Stuff Away Makes You Frugal (and ...
  Image credit: Joe Shlabotnik, used under Creative Commons license. I've argued before that saving money makes us more mindful of our consumption. I've also made the case that reuse can quickly become hoarding, and that sometimes the best approach is to throw something away—or at least donat ...
• Natural Nitrogen Ice Cream Tastes Good
  Photo: B. Alter Welcome to the chin chin laboratorists, Europe's only nitro ice-cream parlour. On first glance it looks like a mad scientist's lab, with figures in white coats at work and clouds of white gas appearing out of nowhere. They are using liquid nitrogen to make delicious creamy i ...
• Real Birds Tweet on Twitter With a Peckable Ke ...
  In this era of high-speed internet, smartphones and social-networking, keeping in contact has never been easier -- but in being so plugged-in, we run the risk of losing touch with the beautiful sounds of the world around us. As a sort of tongue-and-cheek response to this and the growing popu ...
• With Gas At 4 Bucks A Gallon, Who'll Un-Pimp ...
  "big engine, little car!" Image credit:Flicker, Stephen Bowler Five years back I wrote an Earth Day Plea to car makers of the world: "Un-Pimp My Ride", making the point that all we need is smaller engines to make a cost saving, quantum leap in mileage improvement. I was chastised, of cours ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Shale gas in Karen State?
  New gas & oil deals on the cards including the possibility of controversial shale gas or oil in volatile Karen State with two Singaporean companies allegedly looking into involvement in the project near the Thai border
• Plastic bags get the sack in Rangoon
  Authorities in Burma's main city forbid production and sale of plastic bags in an effort to cut pollution from non-degradable waste
• Thailand begins migrant ‘slave’ probe
  Investigation begins into the 60 Burmese migrants freed after spending up to 8 months enslaved in a Bangkok garment factory
• Border force defects, attacks Burma unit
  Former DKBA-turned-border force troops attack Burmese army supplies and join sides with the Karen National Liberation Army
• Ex-soldier shines light on Burma’s hidde ...
  "Burma Soldier"- a documentary on a soldier turned democracy activist is screened in the US State Department, with Kurt Campbell describing it as "one of the most powerful things I have ever seen"

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Lobbyists who cleared 'Climategate' academics ...
  A shadowy lobby group which pushes the case that global warming is a real threat is being funded by the taxpayer and assisted by the BBC.
• Climate change activists invited to appeal aft ...
  A group of climate change activists who plotted to shut down Britain's second largest power station have been invited to launch appeals against their convictions.
• Met Office chief receives death threats from c ...
  Met Office chief says threatening emails were from climate sceptics.
• What happens when the great fantasies, like wi ...
  There's a pattern in the unravelling of make-believe projects, whether it's wind power or the euro, says Christopher Booker.
• Arctic meltwater could lower temperatures at h ...
  Average temperatures in Britain could fall by several degrees due to a massive pool of melted ice water heading south from the arctic, scientists have warned.

National Geographic | Environment

• Pictures: "Liquidators" Endured Chernobyl, 25 ...
  NoneRobots couldn't handle the intense radiation at Chernobyl, so the dangerous nuclear cleanup job fell to the "liquidators" — a corps of soldiers, firefighters, miners, and volunteers.
• Presented By:
• Pictures: Animals Inherit Mixed Legacy at Cher ...
  NoneA quarter-century after the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl, the surrounding evacuated area has seen a resurgence of wildlife, but some species have weathered the disaster significantly better than others.
• Earth Day Pictures: 20 Stunning Shots of Earth ...
  NoneAuroras, glaciers, and gullies feature among the most stunning pictures of Earth from space, chosen by National Geographic photo editors for Earth Day 2011.
• Pictures: Building the Perfect Solar Car
  NoneOn their journey to designing a prize-winning solar car in a high-efficiency vehicle race, a team of Drexel University students explored the practical side of engineering, and also had fun.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Supreme Court hears arguments on corporate fre ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in Sorrell v. IMS Health [oral argument transcript, PDF; JURIST report] to determine whether a state law prohibiting prescription drug manufacturers from using data co ...
• Federal appeals court grants new sentencing fo ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [official website] on Tuesday ordered [opinion, PDF] a new sentencing hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal [Philadelphia Inquirer backgrounder], a former member of the Black Panthers who was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a police offic ...
• Supreme court rules tribe cannot bring same su ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-1 in United States v. Tohono O'odham Indian Nation [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the tribe cannot bring a suit based on the same facts in both federal district court and the C ...
• UN report accuses Sri Lanka government of war ...
  [JURIST] A UN panel of experts said in a report released Monday that the Sri Lankan government and rebel forces may have committed war crimes [report, PDF] during the final stages of the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [JURIST news archive]. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- ...
• Proposition 8 sponsors move to vacate district ...
  [JURIST] Sponsors of Proposition 8 [text; JURIST news archive], California's same-sex marriage ban, on Monday filed a motion to vacate in US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website], arguing that the judge who struck down the marriage ban should have recused himself from the cas ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Confused and Clueless Independents
  Michael Kazin wonders if independent voters are "really just a confused and clueless horde". That is certainly the impression one gets from dipping into the finer details of a mid-April survey of 1,000 likely, registered voters conducted by Democracy Corps, the outfit run by Stan Greenberg ...
• What Ron Paul Accomplished in 2008
  Ron Paul didn't win the presidency in 2008. He didn't even win the Republican nomination. In the key primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida, Paul placed 5th in every one, but with a diminishing percentage share of the vote. By traditional standards, his White House ...
• Poll: Only 43 Percent Say Trump Was 'Definitel ...
  Just 43 percent of poll respondents say Donald Trump was definitely born in the U.S., according to a USA Today poll: For what it's worth, not everyone is convinced Trump was born in the USA either: 43% say he definitely was born here, and 20% say he probably was; 7% say he definitely or p ...
• Statehouse Republicans Promote the Cowboy Code
  Cowboy poets have been savaged in the media lately, as conservatives found it convenient, and hilarious, to attack federal funding for an annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering held in Nevada and defended on the Senate floor by Majority Leader Harry Reid. But as this has been going on, anoth ...
• Ron Paul 2008 Debate Highlights
  Rep. Ron Paul is exploring another bid for president, and that means we could be treated to another insurgent campaign that doesn't look anything like those run by GOP frontrunners. The most exciting part of Paul's 2008 campaign was probably his debate appearances. Paul was the only Republica ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Israeli Bloggers Linking to Tikun Olam Threate ...
  There’s been a bunch of nonsense published lately in Israeli media and blogs about the Yoav Even case and my breaking of the gag.  But an article that just came out in The Marker, Haaretz’s business publication, really takes the cake.  The reporters are shocked, I say shocked that when you ins ...
• Israeli Rabbis Favor Right of Return…to Saudi ...
  Israel’s far-right nationalist rabbis have made a major political breakthrough in coming to recognize a Palestinian right of return.  The only problem…where they want them to return to: Saudi Arabia.  Rabbi Dov Lior, chief rabbi of the most extreme of the extremist settlers in Hebron, has come ...
• Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
  Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role t ...
• Levels of Sexual Violence in Israel
  A number of Israeli male commenters have objected to my characterization of the high level of sexual violence against women in Israel.  I promised I would provide some sources and statistics to support my claims.  The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel presents findings for 2007 whic ...
• Itamar Murder Suspect’s Facebook Page, Rotter’ ...
  In this day and age it seems like every teenager has their own Facebook page.  It appears suspected murderers too are members of the club.  One of the two suspects in the murder of the Fogel family, Amjad Awad, has his own Facebook page.  There may not be that much that is odd or unusual [... ...

Ode Magazine

• Sending love and hugs to Tōhoku Japan
  By: onetruespirit I live in Tokyo, and I made a video about my mission to collect hugs and take them to the people who were affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The people have lost so much. I don't want them to lose hope, too. I pla ...
• From dirt to shirt
  When he answers his phone, Eric Henry, president and co-owner of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, is outside fretting about grasshoppers chomping their way through the employee vegetable garden. “We’ve tried screen mesh and now we’re thinking of getting guineas b ...
• Signs of love
  By: EmilyAviles Shannon Weber is a woman on a mission to bring love to the streets of San Francisco, and beyond. She's spreading the love with help from her blog and many, many, signs. What is “I love you, too?” “I love you, too" is an opportunity ...
• The tango according to Pippi Longstocking
  While members of Gotan Project, the prime movers of contemporary tango innovation, are resorting to slogans like “Tango 3.0” to extol the virtues of their recorded output, a modest yet far more playful revolution is taking place in Finland, second home to the tango for ma ...
• “The washing machine has changed society more ...
  Ha-Joon Chang, a Cambridge economist, turns conventional wisdom about the free market on its head in his new book, 23 Things They Donât Tell You About Capitalism. In it, he argues that the washing machine was more revolutionary than the Internet. Wait a minute. Has the In ...

OpEd News

• The Guantanamo Children: These Aren't What You ...
  Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as "every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." However, the US and the Pentagon does not care about child rights. Fourteen or forty years ...
• Land as a Distinctive Factor of Production
  The classical economists treated land as distinct from capital: "land, labor and capital" were the three basic "factors of production". They were mutually exclusive. They were comprehensive, including all economic agents. Each was also "limitational," meaning at least some of each was needed for ...
• Israel's Lawless Arrest of Ahmad Qatamish
  Another political prisoner
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Misreporting about Gitmo ...
  Media lies about Gitmo detainees
• Normalizing Evil: The NY Times' Curious Take o ...
  There is no room for the notion that it is a monstrous evil to kidnap people, buy them from bounty hunters, round them up in city streets all over the world, and dump them in a concentration camp where they can be tortured, abused, driven mad and abandoned without any legal recourse for years on ...

Switchboard

• Homage: Remembering Chernobyl
  Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Today is the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. To commemorate the disaster, and draw attention to the fact that the disaster continues to unfold for those living ...
• Exxon Solves Their Megaload Problem - By Cutti ...
  Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC Be wary when Exxon claims they are going to “investigate” a problem… Over the weekend, Exxon literally took an axe to the trees lining the US Highway-12 Wild and Scenic River corridor in order to faci ...
• India Climate Change and Energy News - April 1 ...
  Anubhav Gupta, Program Assistant, Water, San Francisco Climate Change India to Map Its Coastal Hazard Line with SDAP “Indian Environment and Forests ministry has signed an agreement with The Survey of India to map, delineate and demarcate the h ...
• More Than a Year Later, Gulf Dolphins and Turt ...
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC The anniversary of the country’s worst oil disaster came and went last week. There was a brief frenzy of media attention, a litany of speeches and promises by politicians, and emotional memor ...
• Auto Execs Debunk Own Lobbyists' Myth about St ...
  Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Nobody likes to witness a family argument—much less get pulled into it.  But the schism between auto industry lobbyists and auto company executives is hard to ignore, and the consequence ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Week Too Much Music Died
  R.I.P.: Gerard Smith. Phoebe Snow. Poly Styrene.   …more from Roy, who like a commenter reminds me that I forgot to mention Hazel Dickens. Harlan County, USA is available on Netflix streaming…
• White House releases photo of birth certificate
  This is interesting. Apparently Obama is holding a PC later this morning to address the “issue.” My off the cuff reaction is that this is a mistake. From a political standpoint I think it’s great that Donald Trump is out there saying crazy stuff on Anderson Cooper about how the real birth certif ...
• Nails/McCourt!
  Between his gross misogyny and rampant financial fraud, the only remaining question is whether Dykstra gears up for a 2016 run at the GOP nomination or waits until 2020.
• The Right Talk
  The point that Chait makes here about how a lot of the nonsense about how tax cuts invariably lead to pony and unicorn explosions is borne out of the necessity of finding a politically palatable way of defending the principle that extremely wealthy people should have their taxes kept low is born ...
• The Tyranny of the President Choosing His Own ...
  It indeed doesn’t get much more grimly hilarious than Dick Cheney’s lawyer pretending to be aghast at the “kingly power” what would result from the president being able to appoint the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without congressional collaboration. Matt is als ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
  The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
• DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
  NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
• Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
  The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...
• Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
  Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
• Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
  By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.

Earth Techling

• Xatori Claims Largest EV Charging Network
  Electric vehicle software company Xatori announced that its iPhone app has helped create the self-proclaimed largest U.S. charging station network.
• Targus Laptop Sleeves Go Green
  Toxic-free, recylable and degradable Ariaprene--an eco-alternative to neoprene--will now be used in the construction of Targus' A7 and Proxy laptop sleeves.
• LG Smart Fridge Rules Your Kitchen World
  LG rolls out its first two smart appliances this year, including a smart grid-ready fridge that recommends recipes based on what's inside it.
• Boeing Has A Big New Solar Paneled Roof
  Boeing has forged a partnership with South Carolina Electric & Gas that involves a 2.6 megawatt solar installation on the roof its 787 assembly-line building.
• Carbon Capture A Big Go In Saskatchewan
  The Canadian province of Saskatchewan has made a big step into carbon capture, approving immediate construction of a massive $1.24 billion CAD project.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Some praise, some pans for PTO proposal to str ...
  Patent lawyers have mixed views of a recent proposal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to overhaul the patent re-examination process, which involves asking the agency to review issued patents and has become a key part of patent litigation.
• Blind win easier access to law school applicat ...
  After two years of legal wrangling, the Law School Admission Council and the National Federation of the Blind have reached a settlement--with the help of the Justice Department--over the accessibility of the Web site nearly every U.S. law school uses to accept student applications.
• Jones Day leads the pack in U.S.-based attorneys
  With 3,738 lawyers in 43 offices, Baker & McKenzie once again topped the NLJ 250--The National Law Journal's list of the largest 250 U.S.?based firms by attorney headcount.
• Protecting America's intellectual property assets
  World Intellectual Property Day serves as a reminder of the dangers posed by infringement, counterfeiting, theft, espionage and other IP crimes.
• E-DISCOVERY: A SPECIAL REPORT
  Until the next rules change, recent case law is the best standard for preservation obligations; state e-discovery rules are all over the map. Other topics covered in this special report include native production, proportionality, "Big Data" and concept searching.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Video: Natural gas blow back in Bradford county
  Frac fluid spills from well for 20 hours at Chesapeake site near Canton. Fluid flowed into a creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna. For more details, see http://www.wnep.com/wnep-brad-leroy-gas-drillingemergency20110420,0,1884646.story
• Do not discuss the chemicals – Lessons f ...
  So, I’m posting this email I received from the RDA (responsible Drilling Alliance) out of Williamsport, PA because it is full of all the things that I’ve been certain of since the gas companies and their land men showed up, but now there is actually some proof. At least it is proof enough for me ...
• PennFuture workshop: Gas and Our Water
  Gas and Our Water: Legal tools for watershed advocates dealing with drilling in the Marcellus Shale Saturday, April 16 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre This workshop will give grassroots conservation and watershed groups, concerned citizens and volunteers the legal tools necessary to protect our wat ...
• Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
  Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
• Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...

News Blaze

• India Cinema Showcases Strong Sense of Nationalism
  The work of every film producer, director and writer of that time reflected a strong sense of nationalism, as they experimented with subjects, music and actors. They all showcased the aspirations of the common woman and man.
• Nevada Assembly Opens With Hindu Prayers
  He recited from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world. He also recited some lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, both ancient Hindu scriptures. He started and ended the prayer with 'Om,' the mystical syllable containing the universe. In
• Tragic Saga of Bahl Sisters Reflects Society's ...
  Nobody bothered to ring the doorbell of the Bahl residence in Sector 29 in NOIDA, where the two sisters had withdrawn into a deep depression. The local Residents' Welfare Association (RWA) was well aware that the water and electricity connections h
• Flight Experiences Offered to Students and Tea ...
  Students and educators nationwide will have the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers and scientists through two newly developed NASA flight initiatives.
• EPA Announces New Category for Commercial Frye ...
  Fryers are one of the most common appliances in the food service industry. Large vat fryers are used in a variety of high-volume food establishments including fast food, grocery, retail, institutional and full-service restaurants.

environment 360

• Outsourced Emissions Dwarf CO2 Cuts in Develop ...
  Carbon emission reductions achieved since 1990 by the world’s developed nations were canceled out many times over by the increase of imported goods from nations without binding emissions targets, including China, according to a new report. While climate policies, including the Kyoto Protocol, st ...
• Future Water Stress Detailed In U.S. Report on ...
  A new U.S. government report on water in the American West in the 21st century forecasts that temperatures in the region will soar by 5 to 7 degrees F., major rivers such as the Rio Grande and Colorado could Click to enlarge U.S. Department of InteriorProjected precipitation change, 2070-2099 ...
• Populations of American Pikas Going Extinct As ...
  Extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold over the last decade within the Great Basin region of the western U.S., and the climate-sensitive species is moving to higher elevations at a rate Photo by Donald M. Jones/Minden PicturesAn American pika 11 times faster than dur ...
• Richard Branson Proposes Lemur Reserve on Pri ...
  Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire head of the Virgin Group of companies, is planning to establish a controversial reserve for threatened ringtailed lemurs on a 124-acre island he owns in the Caribbean, about 8,000 miles away from primates’ native Madagascar. Getty Images Branson, who has been ...
• Extreme Soil ‘Liquefaction’ Is Key Factor in J ...
  Extreme soil liquefaction over hundreds of miles was responsible for much of the damage in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, according to a new report. While it is common for major earthquakes to produce some liquefaction — a phenomenon in which soils lose their strength and act ...

Red Ice Creations

• Sun Gone Wild: NASA Releases Highlight Reel of ...
  Look what the sun’s been up to over the past year. This spectacular highlight reel of videos shot by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) commemorates the year anniversary of when NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft. Over the past year, the sun has gone from one of the most ...
• US carries out first drone attacks, will escal ...
  President Obama’s authorisation of the use of missile-armed drones is a further escalation of the Libya conflict that is sure to result in yet more civilian casualties (Obama sends in Predator drones to help Misrata, 22 April). The evidence is overwhelming that drone usage in Pakistan, Afghanist ...
• Are civilian deaths mounting in Libya or not? ...
  In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi’s troops are reportedly being withdrawn from the rebel-held city of Misrata in the face of NATO airstrikes. It follows an almost two month standoff. Meanwhile, allied aircraft carried out fresh airstrikes on the capital Tripoli overnight, with a government spokesman say ...
• Pluto’s Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers
  Recent observations of Pluto reveal that the icy orb’s atmosphere has expanded dramatically since 2000, and for the first time researchers have detected carbon monoxide. The findings may be evidence of seasonal changes in climate linked to Pluto’s most recent close approach to the sun, but scien ...
• Hundreds of dead fish found in Ventura Harbor, ...
  Hundreds of fish have been found dead in Ventura Harbor. This is the second large fish kill in Southern California this year. This time, hundreds of dead fish are floating in Ventura Harbor. The phone calls started coming into the Ventura Harbor Patrol around 6 a.m. Monday. Boaters were already ...

Russia Today

• Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the net
  Swedish self-confessed internet pirates want official recognition of their anti-copyright stance as a religious belief – and seek legal protection for it. Russian like-minded activists also have their eye on...
• Fukushima operator starts test-drowning damage ...
  Tokyo Electric Power Company has increased the flow of water into the containment vessel of the damaged No.1 reactor to test whether the construction can withstand increased weight and to check for possible leaks.
• I want to free France from EU straitjacket – f ...
  While the EU forces France to accept more and more immigrants, the country has already had enough, with anti-ethnic sentiments growing every year, believes Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right party National Front.
• From sanctions to a Libya-style showdown in Syria
  France and Italy are urging the UN to put pressure on Syria to end its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. Washington is also considering imposing sanctions, which is raising fears that Syria could be the...
• Lost liberty fears in France over “Big Brother ...
  France’s Vigipirate system, Europe’s most expensive anti-terror program, was designed to fight what it calls the growing terrorist threat. With troops patrolling the streets it is feared that France is now just one step...

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

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

Tippers News

• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

• The Preamble They Should’ve Written
  If the Founding Fathers had wanted to block the drift toward big government, they should have written a preamble to the Constitution that extolled the virtue of the private sector.
• Dependence on Government Hits All-Time High
  “Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nationâs history, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. The trend shows few signs of easing, even though the economic recovery is nearly 2 years old. A record 18.3% of the nationâs total personal income ...
• People Feel the Pinch of Higher Gas Prices
  “Soaring gasoline prices are biting into household incomes and nibbling at Americansâ fuel consumption â and support for President Obama, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.” (Washington Post) Déjà vu. FEE Timely Classic “How Not to Respond to Higher Gasoline Prices” by David N. Laba ...
• Government Employee Pensions Are on the Table
  “Conventional wisdom and the laws and constitutions of many states have long held that the pensions being earned by current government workers are untouchable. But as the fiscal crisis has lingered, officials in strapped states from California to Illinois have begun to take a second look, to see ...
• Silence: One Way Truth Loses
  The Duke lacrosse suits are a rare opportunity to lift the veils that protect academic, police, and court misconduct from public view.

Teaching Online Journalism

• Skills for journalists: The basics
  Jennifer Peebles — a self-described “old geezer who used to work at a newspaper” — wrote a post at the SPJ Net Worked blog titled Digital media skills every young journalist needs. Like a lot of old geezers (I say that with affection!), she started with the fundamentals: Be honest, accurate, fai ...
• A great Flash infographic
  This might be the best interactive information graphic ever. What do you think? I love the simplicity of the rollovers. The multiple information (timeline, map) delivered in the top image below is delightful. Tapuiassauro, o novo dinossauro do Brasil won a gold medal at this year’s Malofiej (se ...
• 10 useful resources about data visualization
  These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization. (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-wor ...
• Timelines in journalism: A closer look
  You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
• Teaching about storytelling
  As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Environmental justice communities bear ...
  By Robert J. Bullard, OpEdNews It has been one year since the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster created an environmental nightmare on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The oil disaster killed 11 workers. And for three months the nation watched and held its breath as the busted BP well spewed ...
• CHRONIC EXPOSURE
  Along the Gulf Coast, the oil industry's harm to communities' health goes far beyond the BP disaster. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis In the offices of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots nonprofit in Mid-City New Orleans, a large map of the state and the Gulf of Mex ...
• Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
  For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
• A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
• A REGULATORY DISASTER
  Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed F ...
  In this interview, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop talks about the Senegal military's effort to integrate women into its armed forces, the many facets of that challenge, and how Senegal is one African country that has been able to avoid a coup.
• The Uncertain Future of Libya
  Removing Gaddafi is proving harder than expected. But what will be even harder for Libyans who have never known democracy is putting together a viable government after the rebellion is over.
• The Jasmine Revolution
  Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
• Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
  In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
• U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
  In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.

Telegraph UK - oil

• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.
• BP oil spill: 30 pictures of the Deepwater Hor ...
  30 pictures of the oil spill on the first anniversary of the disaster.
• BP oil spill: Dramatic recovery of Gulf of Mex ...
  A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Philip Sherwell travels to Louisiana to find that a striking recovery has happened.
• Alex Salmond dusts off his party's 'It's Scotl ...
  Salmond has begun his campaign to be re-elected as Scotland's First Minister on May 5, writes Alan Cochrane.
• Britain should not be afraid of nuclear power
  Energy generation is never risk free, but the industry has a strong safety record, says John Hutton.

Ian Welsh

• On the NDP Surge in Canada
  So, amidst the standard gloomy news of austerity, autocratic elites who don’t give a damn about anything but themselves and populations who keep voting for the wrong people, some actual good news arises: the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canada has surged into second place in the polls. The NDP ...
• A blast from the past and a reminder about the ...
  Courtesy of the Black Agenda Report: As election year 2008 began, Obama took the most pro-banker, laissez faire capitalist position on home foreclosures of the three major Democratic presidential candidates. John Edwards backed a mandatory moratorium on foreclosures and a freeze on interest rate ...
• The profits of local instability
  A “reasonable” amount of localized political instability in major oil-exporting nations is an extremely profitable situation for relatively stable oil exporters.  Saudi Arabia, among other, oil exporting nations is seeing the value of their oil exports increase dramatically as the civil war in ...
• A bit more on hedonic adjustments
  Hedonics, in economics, is essentially the idea that if something is better than it used to be, it is effectively cheaper, so inflation is less than it seems. In comments, BDBlue posted this: In Queens, New York, on Friday, William Dudley was bombarded with questions about food inflation, and hi ...
• Core CPI is exactly the wrong thing to watch
  Our lords and masters (h/t Americablog): Those trends came as real income dropped 0.5 percent for the month. The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent after rising by the same margin in February. That was in line with economists expectations. Core CPI is vindicatio ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Fleeing fish could skew scuba surveys
  Much of our knowledge of coral reefs is based on surveys by scuba divers. But what if those divers are scaring away the fish they’re trying to count? A new study in PLoS One suggests that the so-called ‘diver effect’ drives away an average of half the fish in a given area, with 70% of individ ...
• 25th anniversary of Chernobyl accident
  Today marks the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the explosion in 1986 of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine - a bitter irony given the ongoing Fukushima-Daichii nuclear disaster. Nature's news editor, Mark Peplow, was on his way to Chernobyl to ...
• SETI scope suspends search
  There is a new answer to the Fermi Paradox ¬– which asks why, if the universe is vast and the basic ingredients life plentiful, have we not yet discovered another civilization? The answer may be: because we can’t afford to. Last Friday, the SETI Institute in Mountainview, California, sent o ...
• Research board calls for Gulf Coast proposals
  The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) research board today announced its long-awaited request for proposals from researchers who want to use British Petroleum (BP) funds to study the effects of last year’s Gulf Coast Oil spill. Interdisciplinary teams of researchers may now apply for fund ...
• Hauser Science publication replicated
  The journal Science has published a replication of results from a 2007 publication coauthored by Marc Hauser. The paper, "The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates”, found that cotton-top tamarins, rhesus macaques, and chimpanzees can each infer the intentions underly ...

new geography

• Washington State's Evolving Demography
  Population change in the state of Washington has relevance to the nation and to other states because it tells us something about market preferences of households versus the orientation of planners (e.g., “smart growth”). It tells us much about gentrification and America’s changing racial and eth ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Manila
  The Urban Area: The Manila urban area ranks as the world's fifth largest urban area (area of continuous urban development) with a population of approximately 21,000,000 (Note 1) covering a land area of 550 square miles (1,425 square kilometers). The urban population density sits at approximat ...
• Tests, Lies and The Race to the Top
  Obama had his “Sputnik Moment,“ when standardized test scores around the world pointed to the mediocrity of American students in reading, math and sciences. There is now a major mantra coming from Washington to all state capitals: the “race to the top” is on, and it doesn't include a continuati ...
• Pickles Plans a Pogrom
  Pogróm is a word with Yiddish origin, and is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently, to destroy, or to devastate a town." Eric Pickles, British Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is planning to demolish, destroy, and devastate half of ...
• Here’s Comes the Bus: America’s Fastest Growin ...
  Travel by intercity bus is growing at an extraordinary pace: reflecting a rise in travel demand, escalating fuel prices, and investments in new routes. This confluence of factors has propelled scheduled bus service between cities to its highest level in years and has made the intercity bus t ...

GM Watch

• Tanzanian NGOs challenge GM
• New Bt brinjal panel has conflict of interest
• A new patron for the biotech industry
• Tanzanian NGOs challenge GM
• New Bt brinjal panel has conflict of interest

spiked

• The war between fact and fallacy in US politics
  When a senator excuses an erroneous comment by saying ‘it was not intended to be factual’, where’s the line between reality and fantasy?
• Tescophobia: a new middle-class malady
  The chattering classes’ weird hatred of Tesco reveals the elitism of modern-day consumer activism.
• On the wrong track over iPhone privacy
  Campaigners should worry less about gadgets recording our locations and more about why society doesn't value privacy.
• The culture war behind the Will’n’ ...
  The wedding has exposed big fault lines within the British elite, with defensive monarchists on one side and snobbish cynics on the other.
• It’s not 1981 all over again
  There might be more cynicism about this royal wedding than Charles and Diana’s – but what’s good about that?

Cryptogon

• No Prosecution Seen for Official in NSA Leak
  It’s better if as little attention as possible is directed at the NSA’s mass communications intercept program targeting Americans. Via: New York Times: A former Justice Department official who told Newsweek that he was one of the sources for a 2005 article in The New York Times about the Nationa ...
• Microsoft Collects Locations of Windows Phone ...
  Via: Cnet: Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. Windows Phone 7, supported by manufacturers including Dell, HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung, transmits to Microsoft a miniature data dump including a unique device ...
• Save $12 On a Year of Web Hosting with BlueHost
  BlueHost is having one of their rare sales. I’ve only noticed them do this one other time, and it lasted for about two days.
• ‘A Vast, Global Online Network of Homele ...
  Remember Hiro Protagonist’s living arrangement in Snowcrash? He lived in a shipping container, but he also had a fiber optic connection to the Metaverse. Homeless people with broadband: It’s not Sci-FI, it’s the new normal. Via: Parent Dish: Brianna Karp thought she had it all together. At 23, t ...
• Soaring Costs Force Some Renters To Choose Bet ...
  Via: Huffington Post: Around 10 million American households — or one in every four families that rent their homes — could have to choose between paying rent, buying groceries or keeping current with bills, according to a report released Tuesday. The number of households spending more than 50 per ...

The Economic Collapse

• Is America Becoming The Land Of The Part-Time ...
  Do you need a good job?  If so, there are millions of other Americans that are just like you.  Unfortunately, most of the jobs that are available in America today are either part-time jobs, temp jobs or are "independent contractor" jobs.  The "full-time job with benefits" is a d ...
• Gold, Silver And Oil Are All Skyrocketing And ...
  The following is one statement that you should get used to seeing: "The price of gold set another record today."  Today, spot gold reached a new all-time record of $1461.91 an ounce before settling back a little bit.  Silver is also skyrocketing.  At one point today silver hit $ ...
• 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The H ...
  Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems.  When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our ...
• Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
  Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now.  The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster.  Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
• How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
  Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy.  But is that really the case?  No, sadly it is not.  The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...

Desertification

• Alleviating hunger and malnutrition with reuse ...
  Just showing how easy it is to produce fresh food : grow your own vegetables at home in any kind of pot, e.g. yogurt pots. Give the families and the children at school in drought affected regions some yogurt pots … Continue reading →
• More local food production and less reliance o ...
  Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/04/26/urban-agriculture-the-way-of-the-future/ Urban Agriculture â the Way of the Future? Linked by Michael Levenston Dr. Biel is the author of âThe Entropy of Capitalismâ By Julian Jackson â Environment and Technology Correspondent Earth Times 26 Apr 20 ...
• Herausforderung Desertifikation – Biocha ...
  Ich möchte Sie auf unsere Tagung zum Thema Herausforderung Desertifikation: Biochar & Co. im Kampf gegen Bodenerosion und Ausbreitung der Wüsten aufmerksam machen (s. Anhang). programm von ReviTal10 Symposium Di 10.Mai 2011, Zentrum fuÌr Umweltforschung und nachhaltige Technologien (UFT), Rau ...
• Increase food production and to mobilise funds ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=1999 Growing food and fuel crisis must be tackled urgently Two-thirds of developing countries are close to meeting key targets for tackling poverty and hunger but the poorest countries need urgent help, a newly released report from … Contin ...
• Opportunities of climate change (IIED)
  Read at : http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets/blog/opportunities-climate-change?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28Due+South%3A+IIED+Blog%29 The opportunities of climate change Submitted by Rachel Godfrey Wood It’s not always a great idea to acknowledge th ...

The Paper Trail

• Center staff honored with awards
  Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
• A new site, a new era
  Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
• Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
  PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
• Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
  When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
• E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
  An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

• SUN TV Snooze Network
  By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn't paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant's show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who ...
• It’s a stag, not an orgy
  by Jodi A. Shaw William and Kate this, Royal Wedding that. Kate Middleton had a Dirty Dancing themed stagette, while Prince William’s bachelor party is rumoured to have had a water theme: speed boats and wakeboarding and a boat-borne pub crawl. Sounds like fun. But while I doubt Will spen ...
• Is Trost right again?
  By Alison@Creekside Con MP and anti-abortion crusader Brad Trost, who lists being a member of the cross-party Pro-Life Caucus as one of his duties as an MP on his website, addressed the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association’s annual convention on Saturday and thanked its members for their help in ...
• iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
  by Eric Pettifor iPhones log date and location of every call they make. This is true of phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is ...
• Dmitri Soudas in “Con the Waterfront”
  By Montreal Simon Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee. But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal. An investigation by Radio-Canada su ...

libcom

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• Madison IWW Secretary Report
  BuildingThumb.jpg Vamp of the electoral party and a strategic counter program A report on the political situation in Wisconsin read more
• Andries Tatane: Murdered by the Ruling Classes
  South African activist Andries Tatane was buried in the small rural town of Ficksburg yesterday. He was murdered by the police on a demonstration of four and a half thousand people last week. Shawn Hatting from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front has de ...
• Jeff Monson wins ISKA Title, wants UFC return
  monson.JPG Anarchist MMA fighter Jeff Monson won the ISKA heavyweight title by defeating Tony Lopez in Florida earlier this month. Monson managed to grind-out a five-round unan ...
• Union Leadership Stands in the Way of Working ...
  Solidarity-Wisconsin1111.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. In a surprise legislative maneuver last month, Republican legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, passe ...

Free Range International

• Victory Day
  Well, here we are, a week away from Victory Day, the third annual national holiday celebrating the martial history of Afghanistan.  There is Independence Day in August, which celebrates running the Brits out of the country in the 1800’s. Then, there is Liberation Day, in February, which mark ...
• Poppy Time
  It is Saturday, the 9th of April here in the sunny paradise of Afghanistan and both Kandahar and Kabul are in UN declared “White City” status as the locals brace for another round of anti American protests in response to the Koran burning in Florida.  I’m in Kandahar where all is quiet after   ...
• Afghanistan Gone Wild
  The killings in Mazar-i Sharif followed by rioting in Kandahar, Jalalabad and towns across the country are more than a little troubling. Joshua Foust posted on the topic expressing concern about the viability of internationals remaining outside the wire which makes concerned too because Joshua ...
• Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
  Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
• Rant Time
  Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Doug Wallace Strikes Again
  Doug Wallace has been a thorn in Mormonism’s side for many decades.  He is credited for forcing the “Church” to allow Negroes to “Hold the Priesthood”. Now look what he is advocating!   Incredible! Americans United Against Fascist & Theocratic Government Retired Attorney Seeks World-Wide Shut ...
• The Achilles Heal of the New World Order &#821 ...
  In the New Testament, it is recorded that Jesus Christ often blessed the little innocent children. On at least one occasion he declared that any person who would abuse or “offend” a child — it would be better for that person that a “millstone” (an exceedingly heavy and large rock) be placed arou ...
• T – EL – EVIL – SION = TELEV ...
  It starts with the Tau – the cross.  Then it honors El – another name for the Serpent Demon God Set — which of course is the ultimate anti-Christian EVIL, all culminating in the vision of SION — aka ZION. T-El-EVIL-SION — what’s in a name?  Everything!! Discovered by Mormon Philo Farnsworth af ...
• Brother Nathaniel Speaks Out on Glenn Beck
  Ok folks, here it is.  I am NOT a Glenn Beck fan.  In my opinion he is a narcissistic, blind and ignorant Mormon blow-hard.  However, he is learning the hard way it would appear.  Perhaps now he understands who actually has paid his exorbitant salary the last couple of years.  Perhaps now he rea ...
• WHAT IS GOING ON??
  I have noticed that many “mainstream media” reporters are suddenly speaking a very weird form of gibberish.   Strangely, it sounds like some form of hidden language ala the fictional (?) TV series V. Or, is this just ordinary humans suffering from low blood sugar and migraines?   At the very ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Don Tapscott
  Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
• Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
  Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
• Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
  We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
• Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
  She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...

Scotts Contracting

• Solar Systems offered by Scotts Contracting
  Westinghouse Solar Solar World Kyocera Schott Schuco Sanyo Suniva Suntech Canadian Solar GE Solar Lumeta SoloPower plus many more. I have the products you need for your next Solar Project -at Prices you can afford. Lowest Margins – Fastest Delivery – Full Service Micro-Inverters (Enphase and 2 o ...
• Business Proposal-Concentrated Solar Power
  CSP-Design will enable every homeowner an option for Inexpensive Photovoltaic System for their Home or Business. Lets Make Producing Solar Energy Affordable for Every Budget! Business Proposal1 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have foun ...
• Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design
  Initial Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design-4/17/2011 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have found that the biggest hurdles to overcome are: Total Costs of the System (Thousands of dollars that do not produce as reasonable return ...
• Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design
  Initial Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design-4/17/2011 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have found that the biggest hurdles to overcome are: Total Costs of the System (Thousands of dollars that do not produce as reasonable return ...
• Just a Few of the Reasons I Choose to Offer We ...
  Racking, Wiring, Grounding and Inverter are built into a larger-format 235-watt panel (AC Power), thereby delivering higher performance and lower installed cost. Westinghouse Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEST), a designer and manufacturer of solar power systems, today announced the release of their secon ...

The View From Abroad

• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
• Abraham Lincoln: Biggest Fraud in American Hi ...
  The 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inaugural is a good time to re-evaluate the Great Emancipator's record.
• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• The Undead Chicken
  With Libya, the Obama administration has followed the Chinese adage: kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. But the chicken still rules the roost in Tripoli.
• Should We Feel Guilty Over How Sad the Deaths ...
  Can mourning Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros more deeply than Libyans who are killed be justified?
• WikiLeaks: No Special Treatment for Non-Compos ...
  American officials have been slow to recognize and treat mental health disorders in Guantanamo detainees.
• Beyond Gbagbo's Last Stand
  The standoff in Cote d'Ivoire is over. Here's how to break the cycle of violence.
• Forces Opposed to Dangerous, Extravagant Nuke ...
  Nuclear watchdogs fight a new facility to build the part that makes nuclear weapons explode.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Iran seeking to enter international market for ...
  Iranian national computer games will be distributed in other countries, Managing Director of the National Foundation for Computer Games Behruz Minaii announced on Monday. "Five international distributers submitted proposals for the copy right of the Iranian computer game 'Garshasp Gorz-e-Serit ...
• How Iran Became The World’s Worst Internet Opp ...
  The Internet has fueled, and by some accounts may have even sparked, the wave of revolutions sweeping across the Middle East.read more
• Iran MP calls for pilgrim boycott against S.Ar ...
  EHRAN, April 26 (Reuters) - A prominent lawmaker called for Iranians to boycott some pilgrimages to Mecca in protest at what he called Saudi support for the suppression of demonstrations in Bahrain, the official IRNA news agency said on Tuesday.read more
• بهاره علوی ( دختر خورشید بلوگ) در گذشت
  بهاره علوی وبلاگ نویس و فعال حوزه زنان و كمپین یک میلیون امضا و فعال حقوق بشر کرد شامگاه روز دوشنبه پنج ادریبهشت درگذشت.read more
• افزايش هزار درصدی تعرفه خدمات پستی
  به گزارش خبرگزاری مهر شرکت پست جمهوری اسلامی ایران تعرفه هزينه های خدمات پستی خود را بين ۴۰ تا هزار درصد افزايش داده و موجب مشکلات زیادی را برای استفاده کنندگان شده است. تعرفه خدمات جدید پستی از جمله هزینه تمبر و توزیع نشریات با افزایشی چشمگیر مواجه شده است. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Taboo on Violent Protest
  The Role of Left Gatekeeping Foundations To fully understand the role of International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and its sister foundations in promoting a de facto taboo on violent protest in the North America, it’s helpful to understand the role they have played in galvanizing the “ ...
• How Nonviolence Protects the State
  How Nonviolence Protects the State is the title of a 2007 book by Peter Gederloo. It can be downloaded free at http://zinelibrary.info/files/How%20Nonviolence%20Protects%20The%20State.pdf As a long time activist, I have always been troubled by the militant nonviolent perspective that dominates t ...
• Infiltrating the Single Payer Movement
  http://www.healthcare-now.org/ My own knowledge of left gatekeepers stems from 14 years as a single payer activist (1988-2002)  in Washington State. Our local single payer movement was launched by a group of doctors belonging to Physicians for a National Health Program. Our goal was to reduce he ...
• Leftgatekeepers Infiltrate the Progressive Mov ...
  Wesbster Tarpley, in Barrack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography, uses the example of the Ford Foundation to outline how left gatekeeper foundations, often backed by CIA funding, have taken over some of the Cointelpro-type counterinsurgency functions of the US government. It’s really impossible ...
• The “Cointelpro” Role of Left Ga ...
  The two most prolific contemporary writers regarding foundation funded Cointelpro-style counterinsurgency tactics are historian and journalist Webster Tarpley (in Barack H Obama: the Unauthorized Autobiography) and Australian-born academic researcher Michael Barker. A list and link to all Bark ...

Doug's Darkworld

• What’s Wrong With This Picture?
  A big part of the reason I have had such a hard time blogging recently is because the world is going to shit. So many ongoing catastrophes, it’s an embarrassment of riches. I mean, as I type, there are things going on that entire decades didn’t see back in the late 20th century. Are the [...]
• Fukushima Lies
  Well, as was obvious almost immediately, the nuclear power lobby and their supporters went into overdrive to downplay and obfuscate the seriousness of the Fukushima crisis in Japan. No, this isn’t another Chernobyl. And World War Two wasn’t the same as World War One, that doesn’t mean World War ...
• The lessons of the King’s Cross Fire, or ...
  The King’s Cross Fire was a fire on an escalator in a subway in London in 1987. 31 people died, more than 60 were injured. It made the news of course, and I’m sure many of my older readers remember it. And if they were like me, they recall that the fire was on a [...]
• The Mask of la Roche-Cotard
  Continuing with my “strange old things” theme, here we have the Mask of la Roche-Cotard. Unlike our previous rock, this rock has been shaped by human (well, Neanderthal) hands. It’s a piece of flint about 4 inches (10 cm) tall and wide, and through a natural hole under the “nose” a piece of bone ...
• The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
  Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]

FourWinds10

• SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
• Military Debris Threaten Oceans
  BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ashor ...
• Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
  No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
• Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
  HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Every ti ...
• Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

• Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
  … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
• How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
  Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
• Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
  Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...
• Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
  Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
• To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
  … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Witch-Hunt Begins as Gas Prices Continue t ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Usual Suspects Summer is approaching, and that typically means rising gas prices. And when gas prices rise, our political leaders generally start looking around for someone to blame. Over the past few years it has become a regular ritual that as gas p ...
• I Can’t Take Donald Trump Seriously
  Join the forum discussion on this post I am constantly amused by the views of presidential candidates on energy policy. Their views are either so disingenuous or so naive that I often find it difficult to vote for a candidate. In the 2008 election, I could have voted for Barack Obama, who decl ...
• ‘Price Signal’ can be a Weapon for Managing Hi ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Steep Cost of Sudden Price Spikes One of my recent essays discussed the relationship between high oil prices and recession. Consumers who suddenly find themselves paying more for fuel are hit with the equivalent of a stealth tax, leaving less money av ...
• Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent article in the Washington Post on Five Myths About Gas Prices, I received several inquires for additional commentary on the story. Below is an interview that I did with KSL NewsRadio in Utah that allowed me to expand upon the points fro ...
• A Double Dip Recession? Only If We Are Lucky
  Join the forum discussion on this post Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’r ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Diagramly - Draw Diagrams Online
  Tags: diagram, mindmapping, tools, visualization, diagrams, designby: Fred Delventhal
• AssistiveWare: Accessibility and Assistive Tec ...
  Comments:Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTu ...
• Seeing the Possibilities with Video Phone Tech ...
  Comments:"Seeing the Possibilities with Video Phone Technology " - Jackie GersteinTags: iphone, mobile, mobilelearning, specialneedsby: Jackie Gerstein
• Forensics
  Tags: forensicsby: Heather Sullivan
• Pulse.to - a Group Text Platform to Text For Free
  Comments:Pulse.to is similar to Cel.ly. You can login to the website, create a free account and then you start to set up pulses. You can have a public or private mass texting channel (called "pulses"). In addition, you can select if only the pulse owner can send messages or if everyone in the gr ...

Rodale News

• Gov't Wants Farm-Fresh Food in School Lunches
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—This year, when you visit your favorite farmer's market, you might notice new competition for that organic baby spinach you read more
• Delcious, Fresh Mushrooms in 10 Days: Just Add ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Several years ago, while studying business and investment banking in college, Alejandro Velez, now 23, and Nikhil Arora, 24, started experimenting with growing mushrooms in a University of California–Berkeley, frat house. (Wait! It's not what you think!) The two weren't ...
• To Soothe Chronic Pain, Meditation Proves Bett ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Chronic pain is estimated to affect over 76 million people, more than diabetes and heart disease combined, and back pain is our country's leading cause of disability for peop read more
• Candy, Cooking, Exercise, Healthy Food: It's t ...
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—"How would you like to have a 5-year-old who had a temper tantrum while the president was speaking?" asked a perfect stranger when she saw me taking notes. There is no appropriate answer to that question. Welcome to the annual Easter egg extravaganza on the South Law ...
• Mysterious Bat Deaths Could Lead to Higher Foo ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bats may freak you out and remind you of creepy vampires that want to suck your blood. But the truth is, bats get their fix not from sucking on human necks, but rather, feasting on mosquitoes and other insect pests in the evening hours. These nocturnal, organic pest-cont ...

big think

• Hunting for Dark & Anti-Matter
  What's the Latest Development? An ambitious science�experiment�called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will be carried to the International Space Station (I.S.S.) this Friday aboard N.A.S.A.'s space shuttle Endeavor. The experiment will use a massively powerful magnet to analyze cosmic rays for ...
• How to Store Nuclear Waste
  What's the Latest Development? A recent report published by M.I.T. recommends a $1 billion investment to create better temporary storage facilities for nuclear waste. Because the proposed long-term waste storage site in the Yucca Mountains has failed to materialize, nuclear power plants are ru ...
• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: 25 Years Later
  What's the Latest Development? The 25th anniversary of the horrible explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine comes at a time when the world's attention is already turned to the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan. "In some ways, the connection between the two accidents may yi ...
• Search for Aliens Put on Hold
  What's the Latest Development? "The Allen Telescope Array is a partnership between the�S.E.T.I. Institute, based in Mountainview, California, and the University of California, Berkeley. The S.E.T.I. Institute paid for the array's construction using funds from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen an ...
• China to Rival International Space Station
  What's the Latest Development? "China�laid out plans for its future in�space�yesterday, unveiling details of an ambitious new space station to be built in orbit within a decade. ... The space station will weigh around 60 tonnes and consist of a core module with two laboratory units for experim ...

Information Liberation

• 21-Yr-Old Murdered by Police for Selling Marijuana
  Consuming drugs is not a crime, it's in no way criminal, it violates no one's rights and is an entirely voluntary action. The "war on drugs," on the other hand, deprives people of their life, liberty, happiness and property. It sanctions criminalit...
• "But their jobs are so hard!"
  *But their jobs are so hard!* This is something repeated ad nauseum by police apologists. According to*Forbes, construction workers have the 10th most dangerous job in the country. Sanitation workers are at number 7, with*25.2 deaths per 100,000 wor...
• Fox News Uses Royal Wedding To Promote the Pol ...
  Leave it to Fox News to use the occasion of the royal wedding to advocate the police state. This article informs us that for the royal wedding, the U.K. will be using security measures * including random stops and searches, warrantless arrests, an...
• Guy Gets SWAT Team-ed for Not Securing His Wir ...
  Buffalo, New York: Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of *pedophile!* and *pornographer!* stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn*t need long to figure out the reason for the ea...
• State Dept. wants to make it impossible to get ...
  From ConsumerTraveler: If you don*t want it to get even harder for a U.S. citizen to get a passport * now required for travel even to Canada or Mexico * you only have until Monday to let the State Department know. The U.S. Department of State is ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Price Of Freedom
  Today, April 25th, marks the ninety-sixth anniversary of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZACs, on the shores of Gallipoli in the Turkish Dardanelles, on a stony beach of a bay now re-named Anzac Cove. … Continue reading →
• Or I’ll Huff, And I’ll Puff…
  Unlike immigration, which as I said is a complicated issue with no simple, pat, one-line solution, the issue of smoking from a Libertarian viewpoint is pretty cut-and dried (pun discovered only after proof-reading). So this will be a much shorter post. … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Immigration
  I was going to wait a while before tackling this issue, but it has become topical in so many countries, including those of most of you reading this, that it’s appropriate we look at it today. It isn’t a cut … Continue reading →
• The Missing Fifty Million
  Fifty million peopleâthe equivalent population of Burma, South Korea, Spain or South Africaâthey’ve gone. Vanished. Or perhaps, more precisely, they’ve been disappeared. That’s the number of âclimate refugeesâ by 2010 that the United Nations Environment Programme forecast in its 2005 report, … ...
• Gaia Rights
  For those of you wondering why I expend so many words banging on about rights, here’s a story which illustrates the point nicely. You may have read about it yourselves in the last few days; I did, but dismissed it … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Latest science news
  Crowdsourcing a clinical trial to treat ALS – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a pretty grim disease. Victims experience progressive muscle weakness, leading to death; patients survive a median of only two to five years following the onset of symptoms. Currently, there are no effective the ...
• Five feisty science books on David’s desk
  Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
• Recent science news roundup
  Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
• Five more science stories
  Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
• Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
  Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...

RFF Library

• Distributional Implications of Climate Change ...
  World Bank / by Hanan Jacoby, Mariano Rabassa, and Emmanuel Skoufias http://bit.ly/gqtyJC [Abstract] Global warming is expected to heavily impact agriculture, the dominant source of livelihood for the world’s poor. Yet, little is known about the distributional implications of climate change at t ...
• The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change : a Revi ...
  World Bank / by Emmanuel Skoufias, Mariano Rabassa, and Sergio Olivieri http://bit.ly/hR9rQG [Abstract] Climate change is believed to represent a serious challenge to poverty reduction efforts around the globe. This paper conducts an up-to-date review of three main strands of the literature anal ...
• Agriculture and the Clean Development Mechanism
  World Bank / by Donald F. Larson, Ariel Dinar, and J. Aapris Frisbie http://bit.ly/gAN7hM [Abstract] Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to those found in the energy sector. They are mostly located in developing countrie ...
• How Economic Growth and Rational Decisions Can ...
  World Bank / by Stephane Hallegatte http://bit.ly/ecrbOE [Abstract] Assuming that capital productivity is higher in areas at risk from natural hazards (such as coastal zones or flood plains), this paper shows that rapid development in these areas — and the resulting increase in disaster losses — ...
• Temporal Increase in Organic Mercury in an End ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print April 18, 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1013865108 PNAS April 18, 2011 ) / by Anh-Thu E. Voa, Michael S. Bank, James P. Shinec and Scott V. Edwards (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/04/14/10138651 ...

Scientific American - News

• Ferry Tale: Fire Ants Aggregate into Living Ra ...
  If you're ever pursued by a colony of fire ants , it might occur to you to try to escape their painful, itchy stings by diving into the nearest body of water. Wrong move. It turns out that thousands of fire ants can easily self-assemble into a waterproof raft, which can float on water for month ...
• Passion Gear: Autos Appeal to Emotions This We ...
  Carmakers have long known that everything takes a back seat to emotion when it comes to buying a new vehicle, so it is no surprise to see plenty of emphasis on gadgets, environmentally friendly engines and safety at this year's New York International Auto Show . [More]
• Ice Cores from Greenland Unlock Ancient Climat ...
  BOULDER, Colo. – Climate science research often involves a little derring-do mixed in with a lot of tedium. Some scientists scramble up equatorial peaks to measure melting glaciers; others scour dry African lakebeds for sediment that reads like a talking science book.For paleoclimatologist James ...
• One Year After BP Oil Spill, At Least 1.1 Mill ...
  COCODRIE, La.--Five million barrels of oil seems like a lot. That is approximately what spewed from the blowout at BP's Macondo well last year, about enough to fill an American football field more than 90 meters deep--and much of it has gone missing. [More]
• Deep Freeze: Mars Orbiter Finds Massive Stores ...
  Buried under the south pole of Mars are the makings of one heck of a Halloween party. [More]

First Truths

• Charles L. Hooper says, "Mercantilism Lives"
  At the Library of Economics and Liberty, Charles L. Hooper writes: Mercantilists argued for a strong nation with a strong military. With the importation of manufactured goods, some fear an atrophy of America's manufacturing ability, and so it is the (largely mercantilist) hawks who offer the onl ...
• Richman on reason.tv
  Sheldon Richman, editor of the Foundation for Economic Education's�The Freeman, member of the Center for a Stateless Society's advisory panel, and senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation, spoke about the state's education apparatus to Reason magazine's reason.tv.
• Under Construction
  First Truths is in transition, though what it is in transition both�from and to remain something of a mystery. In the meantime, visit the Center for a Stateless Society for your market anarchism/D'Amato fix. My Center for a Stateless Society archive. My Ludwig von Mises Institute archive.
• The Real Terrorists
  I commented on the Iraq hostage situation among other things: Terrorist attacks, if indeed they are disproportionately directed at the U.S. and its surrogates, are, while monstrous and morally detestable, the desperate convulsions of a people trapped and oppressed by the weight of empire. As Gre ...
• For Our Own Good
  I discuss the regulatory state for C4SS: Well, if they’re our last hope, then there really isn’t any way out of state capitalism’s shrewd schemes to bleed us dry and sell us poison. Barrett never bothers to consider, though, what it is that enables corporations to “cut corners” against the inter ...

Media Co-Op

• The Media Co-op is looking for interns!
  Hi everyone! We're currently looking for two people interested in interning with the Media Co-op to work with us over the summer: one editorial & publishing intern, to be based in Montreal, and a web intern, based anywhere in Canada. A bit about who we are: The Media Co-op is a national web & pr ...
• Lancement de la Coop média de Montréal - Montr ...
  Mercredi le 4 mai, joignez-vous à nous pour le lancement de la Coop média de Montréal! De 17h à 22h 10, Avenue des Pins ouest, #312 Avec des tounes des DJ Chris et Aaron Maiden, de la bouffe, et une discussion sur la façon de développer ensemble des médias communautaires. Discussion – Con ...
• Pitch us a story!
  It's time again to submit your story pitches to the Media Co-op!  As we do every month, in May we will pay two contributors for news features to be published in the July 2011 edition of The Dominion (due out in mid-June). We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, includ ...
• Halifax Youth Host Vote Mob
    On Friday April 22nd about 50 youth gathered in the Halifax Commons to host a ‘vote mob’ to show their dedication to getting out the youth vote. People gathered with flags, face paint, and signs describing issues they are concerned abou ...
• Power of the working class:waking a sleeping giant
  As we get closer to May Day 2011, we see the working class around the world is starting to coalesce to resist austerities measures imposed on workers by countries who are reeling from an economic crisis purposefully created by the big banks and the economic elite Whether it is increasing labor u ...

David Seaton's News Links

• America's future role in the Middle East
  "There are forces at work in any society, and particularly one that is facing these kinds of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own specific agenda.... [That is] why I think it is important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian gove ...
• The Neo-Imperialism of a Future Failed State
  David Seaton's News LinksAfter World War Two, Europe's far-flung empires all collapsed within a few years. This was not because Britain, France and the Netherlands had suddenly lost their taste for their colonial possessions, far from it. Their empires collapsed because they could no longer aff ...
• How do you say, "Tienanmen" in Arabic?
  Bring on the goonsOmar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر س��ما��; born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) ...
• Egypt.... the coup ... The bill?
  Up until now, President Mubarak has enjoyed the support of the armed forces. He was, after all, a career air force officer suddenly catapulted to the presidency when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. But if these protests continue and intensify there are bound to be senior voices within the ...
• Iraq to Libya, from tragedy to farce?
  MARCH 19, 2011 OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world'... MARCH 19, 2003 BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disa ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• One of the BEST Breakfasts to Eat for Proper E ...
  Ori Hofmekler, author of The Warrior Diet, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat, and the upcoming book Unlocking the Muscle Gene, is an expert on how to build muscle and improve your health with foods. In this interview, Ori shares his insights about the timing of your meals to ...
• 19 Studies Link GMO Foods to Organ Disruption
  A new paper demonstrates that consuming genetically modified (GM) food leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice. Researchers reviewed data from 19 studies and found that parameters including blood and urine biochemistry and organ weights were significantly disrupted in the GM-fed ...
• The 'Other' Sweetener That's Made from Sugar, ...
  Researchers recently investigated sucralose (Splenda) to see if it could reduce hunger and keep blood sugar steady.� They found that it could not. The researchers hoped to find�that sucralose could cause the intestine to produce a hormone that reduces blood sugar and decreases appetite, which p ...
• If a Shark Bit Off Your Arm, Would You See You ...
  The movie SoulSurfer tells the story of Bethany Hamilton, a teenage Hawaiian girl whose left arm was bitten off by a tiger shark. It is an inspirational story -- Bethany returned to surfing and eventually won a world championship. Although traumatic events are painful and difficult, going thr ...
• The Spice that Actually Doubles as a Powerful ...
  In cultures that are thousands of years old, there tend to be deep traditions of cooking daily meals with medicinal roots and herbs. Turmeric is one such medicinal root that has made its way into many Indian recipes. Research shows that turmeric has powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and an ...

JAMA

• Accountable Care Organizations and Community E ...
• A 60-Year-Old Man With Delayed Care for a Rena ...
• Paracentesis by Moonlight [A Piece of My Mind]
• Pronouncements [Poetry and Medicine]
• THE LOST ARTS [JAMA 100 Years Ago]

Survival - tribal peoples

• Wave of child deaths strikes indigenous commun ...
  Warao child and baby, Amacuro delta, Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/Survival Six children in one Warao indigenous community in Venezuela have reportedly died within the space of ten days in April, as a result of malnutrition, disease, and poor health care. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, respiratory ...
• Jumma villages burned to ashes
  Jummas, Bangladesh © Mark McEvoy/Survival Six indigenous Jumma villages have reportedly been burned to ashes and many Jumma people attacked by Bengali settlers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Violence erupted when Jumma landowners discovered settlers clearing their land and bu ...
• Ross Thomas models for Survival
  Ross Thomas modeling Survival's T-Shirt by Richard Long. © Survival Hollywood actor Ross Thomas, whose new movie ‘Soul Surfer’ has just opened, models two new T-shirts for human rights organization Survival International. The two T-shirts are available from Survival’s online store. Richa ...
• US human rights report shines spotlight on Pen ...
  Under Chief Minister Taib, the Penan's forests have been ravaged for 30 years. © Survival International A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging. The US State Department docum ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Brent Tyler, 55, language activist, amateur actor
  Montreal lawyer Brent Tyler is best known for his many court challenges of Bill 101, the Quebec language law. Born in Ottawa but raised in the Quebec town of Drummondville, Tyler is the son of a British army officer, John Tyler, who graduated from the Royal Military College in England. After imm ...
• Better animal-control system badly needed
  It may be, as claimed by the management of the Berger Blanc animal pound, that an investigative report on the facility that accuses it of systematic cruelty to the creatures cast into its charge was somewhat sensationalist and biased, and that steps to correct the situation have been taken.
• Elsy Fneiche, 24, immigrant, student, activist
  A Shiite Muslim, Elsy Fneiche was born in Lebanon and came to Canada when she was 2 years old. In 2007, she was one of nine hijab-wearing women from Montreal who drove up to Hérouxville, in the Mauricie region, to talk with local residents about their town's controversial anti-immigration manife ...
• Missing from the campaign: ideas on health care
  Former prime minister Kim Campbell was roundly ridiculed some years back for saying that election campaigns are poor forums to debate highly complex issues such as health care. This year's federal campaign, however, has shaped up as a vindication of the point she made then.
• Missing from the campaign: ideas on health care
  Former prime minister Kim Campbell was roundly ridiculed some years back for saying that election campaigns are poor forums to debate highly complex issues such as health care. This year’s federal campaign, however, has shaped up as a vindication of the point she made then.

Food World Order

• in new food culture, a young generation of far ...
  oregon farmer "looks more indie rock star than seed farmer" from nytimes: For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming. After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former feder ...
• 3/31 binge & purge: radioactive milk & reversi ...
  epa reports radiation found in american milk* video: study says reduce bpa exposure by cutting consumption of packaged foods* americans stage nationwide protests over genetically modified foods* video: protesters in salem, oregon denounce influence of monsanto* reversing roles, farme ...
• christian group: buy 'jesus chicken' from chic ...
  from raw story: The American Family Association, a conservative Christian group, is urging people to show appreciation for the fast food chain Chick-fil-A by purchasing their products during the week of April 25-30. The so-called "buycott" is in response to an "attack by homosexual activists a ...
• 3/3 binge & purge: poison, polls, paycheck
  satire: gerber recalls 60,000 jars of baby poison* poll: do you believe gmo foods should be labeled?* states try to loosen raw milk restrictions as fda tries to tighten them* uk restaurant's breast milk ice cream seized by council officials* whole foods ceo: don't call it 'whole payc ...
• food inflation kept hidden in tinier bags
  a stealth downsizing, as shoppers pay more for less food... or: nabisco is cheating you out of precious saltines

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

• COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
  COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
• A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
  A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!
• Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
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  We Need Your Help Urgently Please so That Robert Green Can Stand for Parliament on the Hollie Greig Establishment Abuse Case Do you live in the constituency of Aberdeen South? The wards are: Queens Cross, Gilcomston, Langstane, Hazelhead, Peterculter, Murtle, Cults, Mannofield, Ashley, Holburn, ...
• Please join the Hollie Campaign during the UK ...
  What is the point of knowing what is going on if we then do nothing about it! ‘Paedophilia within the British establishment is rife.  Up and down the country, innocent children are being sexually abused by people holding positions of trust in ways that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary ...

The Economic Collapse

• Is America Becoming The Land Of The Part-Time ...
  Do you need a good job?  If so, there are millions of other Americans that are just like you.  Unfortunately, most of the jobs that are available in America today are either part-time jobs, temp jobs or are "independent contractor" jobs.  The "full-time job with benefits" is a d ...
• Gold, Silver And Oil Are All Skyrocketing And ...
  The following is one statement that you should get used to seeing: "The price of gold set another record today."  Today, spot gold reached a new all-time record of $1461.91 an ounce before settling back a little bit.  Silver is also skyrocketing.  At one point today silver hit $ ...
• 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The H ...
  Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems.  When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our ...
• Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
  Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now.  The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster.  Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
• How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
  Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy.  But is that really the case?  No, sadly it is not.  The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...

CASSE

• National Wildlife Federation Adopts Key Elemen ...
  Strong support for kicking GDP to the curb just got stronger.
• Missed Opportunity in the Budget Debacle
  Even though Congress missed a golden opportunity, we still need to fight for a budget that aligns with our values.
• How Chicken Farming, Murder and Eugenics Spark ...
  With groundless accusations hanging in the air, Mike Freedman asks, "Who's the misanthrope here?"
• Hooray for the Underdog
  CASSE being named the Best Green Think Tank of 2011 is a testament to underdogs everywhere.
• Sir Thomas Enough: Utopia and the Steady State
  With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.

The Talking Clock

• Dave's Immigration Dishonesty
  Call Me Dave is all over the news with his big on rhetoric pledge to curb the out-of-control levels of immigration. There is no doubt that David Cameron and his advisers have hit upon a popular point of policy - many people in this country, of all political persuasions and affiliations, are e ...
• Quote of the Day: 26th April 2011
  "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Vicky Haigh, a horse trainer and former jockey, was the subject of an attempt by Doncaster council to imprison her for speaking at a meeting in Parliament." - John Hemming MP exposes the disgusting state of democracy and freedom in Britain, the freedom and de ...
• Gord help us... Ken Clarke becomes the Conserv ...
  Dear me. When, as a blogger, I read as many of the news reports floating around as I do, I really have to laugh occasionally at the absurdity of some of what goes on - supposedly in our name. Today's source of much mirth is the sight of Ken Clarke, the Conservative Party's new unleashed EU-sc ...
• Go on... accuse The Guardian and The Daily Tel ...
  Oh dear. The New World Order is unravelling still further. Al Qaeda - as the well read amongst you may know - is an organisation which was set up originally with massive CIA funding (former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook revealed just before he died while out walking) to help defeat the Russian ...
• Keiser: Now the Globalists are Going to Try Ta ...
  11m 30s onward, but watch the entire thing. Now then, United States... consider this in the context of the scene from the first (but fourth) Star Wars film, where Luke Skywalker encounters R2D2 for the first time and triggers the recorded message from Princess Leia. This episode of the Kei ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Environmental justice communities bear ...
  By Robert J. Bullard, OpEdNews It has been one year since the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster created an environmental nightmare on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The oil disaster killed 11 workers. And for three months the nation watched and held its breath as the busted BP well spewed ...
• CHRONIC EXPOSURE
  Along the Gulf Coast, the oil industry's harm to communities' health goes far beyond the BP disaster. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis In the offices of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots nonprofit in Mid-City New Orleans, a large map of the state and the Gulf of Mex ...
• Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
  For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
• A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
• A REGULATORY DISASTER
  Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Gitmo Defense Lawyers Cautioned Against Reading Leaked Documents Online In what the New York Times calls an âabsurdist challenge,â the Justice Departmentâs Court Security Office has cautioned defense attorneys for Guantanamo detainees from accessing leaked Guantanamo documents online because the ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S. Prosecutors Charge Four More Men for Mumbai Terror Attack Weeks before the trial of a Canadian man is to begin in Chicago on charges he provided material support to the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, U.S. prosecutors … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Hundreds of Guantanamo Documents Leaked Hundreds of classified military and intelligence documents about the prison at Guantanamo and the detainees held there have been obtained by WikiLeaks and by several U.S. and European media outlets via a different source, and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Indonesia on High Alert After Large Bomb Found Near Church Indonesian security police are on high alert Friday after police say that terrorism suspects arrested Thursday, now numbering 19, led them to either to a large bomb or series of … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Pentagon to Seek Death Penalty for Guantanamo Detainee Nashiri The Defense Department announced new charges on Wednesday against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee accused of involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Life inside Chernobyl, 25 years later
  A quarter-century after the worst nuclear accident in history, a photographer documents life in and around the plant
• Space station spies silvery glint of African atoll
  Sunshine reflects off the waters of the Bassas da India atoll – a coral-ringed lagoon off the coast of Mozambique – in a new image
• Today on New Scientist: 19 April 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: chemical computers, a voice for the voice box-less, bear DNA and the science of scent
• Plan to shut down Fukushima in nine months
  The owners of Fukushima Daiichi plant have set out a plan to stabilise the reactors within nine months. But the true cleanup will take decades
• Today on New Scientist: 26 April 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: cellphones get help to India's sex workers, PlayStation goes offline, and the unlikely charm of cockroaches

Tech Drive In

• 12 Things I did After Installing New Ubuntu 11 ...
  Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal beta is already here and in a few days time, the final release will happen. We have already reviewed the latest Ubuntu 11.04 beta and we think it is ready for prime time, well, almost. We did encounter some amount of instability in the new Ubuntu Unity mostly because o ...
• Gmail Motion - The Future of Email is Here!
  Google has done it again. When Gmail was originally introduced few years ago, it was a revelation of sorts in terms of services and space it offered, for free. Gmail Motion Beta is Google's yet another attempt at re inventing Email technology. Gmail Motion lets you control Gmail with different b ...
• Equinox Adds 3 More Themes, PPA for Ubuntu 11. ...
  Faenza icon theme for Natty PPA has already been updated and now its the turn of Equinox themes for Ubuntu 11.04 to be released. And the latest Equinox theme pack, created by Tiheum(who also created beautiful Faenza icon theme) comes with 3 brand new themes - Equinox Dawn, Equinox Dusk and Equin ...
• 9 Good CD and DVD Burning Tools for Ubuntu/Linux
  There is no dearth of good CD/DVD burning tools for Ubuntu. Brasero Disc Burner comes as default in Ubuntu and it is a good enough tool with almost all functionalities you expect from a basic CD/DVD burning application. But what really are the alternatives. Here is a quick listing of very good C ...
• GNOME Login Screen Mockups, Videos
  Linux desktop is on a roll. First came the revamped KDE 4.0 which took the level of User Interface(UI) fit and finish of Linux desktops to another level. Then came the GNOME Shell and Ubuntu Unity desktop interfaces. But one thing they all lack, especially GNOME Shell and Unity, are good looking ...

Case About Bird Flu

• The royal wedding: why Shakespeare said it all
  Not even the overblown pomp, ritual and ceremony  at Thursday’s  royal wedding of Prince William and Kate will dilute the direct, emotional connection that the people of England clearly feel to the couple. Just like in a cycle of history plays by Shakespeare, the wheel has spun full turn: a happ ...
• Michael Mross on the eurozone transfer union
  Check out Michael Mross’ interview with Russian Today on the consequences of the transfer union for the eurozone.
• WHY WE NEED A NEW MILITARY DESIGNED TO DEFEND ...
  German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere has said that he wants to establish a dialogue with the people about the future of the country’s military. http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/politik/minister-sucht-neues-konzept-1.602659 The initiative comes as a debate is raging about what shape the Germ ...
• AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR WARNS FINANCIAL S ...
  Vienna University Economics Professor Franz Hörmann, talks in this interview about why the eurozone is set to collapse soon under the weight of debt (hyperinflation), and about why we need a new money system that gives value not to material things but to creativity and intelligence. He points ou ...
• EU PREPARES FOR GROUND INVASION OF LIBYA
  Alex Jones On EU Ground Invasion Of Libya Infowars.com April 19, 2011 Alex Jones addresses the cynical, pre-planned announcement by the EU to officially launch ground forces in Libya, a policy set in place since late February / early March when U.S. and British originally deployed special forces ...

Invisible Opportunity

• The Extraordinary Inter-Dimensional Ship is La ...
  By Les Visible Let me tell you something right now that you can take to every bank of every kind of modality; nothing ventured, nothing gained. You want something specific, like I did? You will be tested. You can have the whole enchilada. It awaits you in beckoning repose. However, nobody gets t ...
• The Power Of The Rothschilds
  By Fritz Springmeier Excerpt – Bloodlines of the Illuminati 8-12-7 CO-MASTERS OF THE WORLD –connections to JWs, Mormons, and Judaism It has been said all roads lead to Rome. For this book, it could be said all paths of investigation lead to the Rothschilds. Charles T. Russell, in a 1891 letter t ...
• Wesley Snipes beats IRS Tax Fraud Rap
  In 2008, Wesley Snipes was accused of and tried for several income tax related violations. Specifically, he was charged with * One count Income Tax Fraud * One count of Conspiracy to Defraud the fed govt * Six counts of Willful Failure to File Snipes was found innocent of the two serious charges ...
• Home schooling goes mainstream
  Over the last few years, more parents are choosing home school for the same reason as Barnes. From 2007 to 2010, the number of home-schooled children nationwide rose by about 25 percent to the current estimate of 2 million. There are a number of reasons why parents are choosing this option, but ...
• DeVos/Koch/Scaife Plot To Destroy Public Education
  Voucher Advocate Betsy DeVos, Right-Wing Think Tanks Behind Koch-Style Attack on PA Public Schools Rachel Tabachnick print page Wed Apr 20, 2011 at 11:28:44 PM EST ………………. A new wave of school voucher bills is sweeping the nation, which would allow public education funds to be used in private or ...

Veterans Today

• Obama “Compromise” With Republican ...
  President Obama's compromise with Congressional Republicans to reduce the deficit is “a rotten deal” that “hits the poor and the middle class the hardest,” The Nation magazine said in a May 2nd editorial.
• JB Campbell: URGENT 737 NG WARNING!
  Earlier this month a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 took off from Phoenix en route to Sacramento. A panel in the roof blew out and the plane made an emergency landing at Yuma.
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
  Veterans!  Hereâs your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need 1. Minnesota town duped by woman’s story of military service. 2. More Marines now eligible to receive Purple Hear ...
• B. D. S. (Jackson 5) Chicago Flashmob
  Chicago Activists Mark Palestinian Land Day with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Flash-Mob   madlittledebbie On March 30th at 5 pm, a group of social justice activists held a “flash-mob” in downtown Chicago. The demonstration was organized as one of hundreds of demonstrations held around the w ...
• When in doubt, give a Middle East speech
  So let the speeches begin. Who knows? Maybe in some turn of phrase or dangling participle lurks the key to Middle East peace. Certainly, talking is a lot better than shooting. Aaron David Miller / FP The problem with all these initiatives is that none have a strategy to move from words to deeds. ...

electric politics

• Industrial Beginnings
  In the absence of a strong industrial base, says Dr. Jefferson Cowie, it's still possible to build a healthy labor movement. I disagree. But it's complicated. So this is a somewhat frustrating exchange for me because, first, I can see that Jeff's heart is in the right place and, second, a lot o ...
• An Anthropologist At Large
  This one meanders. We start with Japan's nuclear power crisis, commiserate over America's political failures, and end up talking about the risks inherent in maintaining large inventories of nuclear weapons. An anthropologist specialized in nuclear culture — but with very widely-ranging interest ...
• Imperfect (Nuclear) Implementation
  Humans cannot engineer a perfect technology for nuclear power, one that presents zero risk. Nor can humans engineer a political process that enforces constant, rigorous, indefinitely long-term oversight on imperfect nuclear power solutions. The choice, therefore, is stark: use nuclear power and ...
• Tell Me About the Future
  Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
• What is Religion Good For?
  In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...

PR News

• City of Hope names Weber Shandwick AOR
  LOS ANGELES: Weber Shandwick was appointed as AOR for City of Hope, a research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases.
• Ketchum Midwest appoints Essex as SVP, brand a ...
  CHICAGO: Ketchum Midwest named Kim Essex SVP and senior client director for its brand and food practice.
• Schwartz named director of business comms at N ...
  DAYTONA BEACH, FL: NASCAR hired Jon Schwartz as director of business communications within the recently formed Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) department.
• Borenstein Group hires Plyler as VP of governm ...
  RESTON, VA: The Borenstein Group appointed Kim Plyler as VP of government communications.
• BackBay Communications wins TD Bank account
  BOSTON: TD Bank selected BackBay Communications to handle public relations for its US commercial banking business.

The Story Behind the Story

• Doug Wallace Strikes Again
  Doug Wallace has been a thorn in Mormonism’s side for many decades.  He is credited for forcing the “Church” to allow Negroes to “Hold the Priesthood”. Now look what he is advocating!   Incredible! Americans United Against Fascist & Theocratic Government Retired Attorney Seeks World-Wide Shut ...
• The Achilles Heal of the New World Order &#821 ...
  In the New Testament, it is recorded that Jesus Christ often blessed the little innocent children. On at least one occasion he declared that any person who would abuse or “offend” a child — it would be better for that person that a “millstone” (an exceedingly heavy and large rock) be placed arou ...
• T – EL – EVIL – SION = TELEV ...
  It starts with the Tau – the cross.  Then it honors El – another name for the Serpent Demon God Set — which of course is the ultimate anti-Christian EVIL, all culminating in the vision of SION — aka ZION. T-El-EVIL-SION — what’s in a name?  Everything!! Discovered by Mormon Philo Farnsworth af ...
• Brother Nathaniel Speaks Out on Glenn Beck
  Ok folks, here it is.  I am NOT a Glenn Beck fan.  In my opinion he is a narcissistic, blind and ignorant Mormon blow-hard.  However, he is learning the hard way it would appear.  Perhaps now he understands who actually has paid his exorbitant salary the last couple of years.  Perhaps now he rea ...
• WHAT IS GOING ON??
  I have noticed that many “mainstream media” reporters are suddenly speaking a very weird form of gibberish.   Strangely, it sounds like some form of hidden language ala the fictional (?) TV series V. Or, is this just ordinary humans suffering from low blood sugar and migraines?   At the very ...

k2p blog

• Energy saving light bulbs are not so friendly ...
  Fears have been reignited about the safety of energy saving light bulbs after a group of scientists warned that they contain cancer causing chemicals.
• Parrakeet to be eliminated from the wild: So m ...
  A species of parakeet that threatens wildlife and crops but has not caused any damage yet is to be removed from the wild.
• Jail time coming for Anil Ambani
  It would seem to be just a matter of time before Anil Ambani is taken in for questioning about the 2G scam but whether he spends any jail time remains to be seen.
• The Art of Motivation
  In human behaviour, motivation can be considered to be a force. It is brought to bear when performing actions. Where actions have no purpose motivation is undefined.
• A lack of courage in environmentalism today
  As environmentalism has moved away from its simple goals of cleaning up the world we live in it has adopted intangible goals which are addressed by the politics of fear and represents a movement lacking courage.

Left Foot Forward

• GDP figures show economic growth has ground to ...
  The eagerly awaited GDP figures for the first quarter of 2011 show that output is only back to the level of the third quarter of 2010. In effect, economic growth has ground to a halt.
• Dissidents cannot be allowed to derail first “ ...
  Ed Jacobs reports on the unified condemnation and disgust seen across Northern Ireland's political divides over the murderous actions of dissident republicans
• Welfare minister faces calls for a sleaze probe
  Tory minister Chris Grayling faces calls for a probe after naming a company linked to donations to him as a "preferred bidder" on lucrative contracts.
• FE students: ‘EMA axe is holding back re ...
  Lecturers and teachers in more than two-thirds of sixth-form and further education colleges say that changes to EMA are 'adversely affecting recruitment to the college' - despite claims from Education minister Michael Gove, going back to at least 2008, that the scheme was a 'flop'.
• Cruddas: Big Society failing the “all in ...
  Labour MP Jon Cruddas blasts the Big Society for failing the "all in this together" test while safety nets are being removed reports Daisy Blacklock.

Consumerist

• Will Women's Clothing Sizes Ever Be Standardized?
  The good news: clothing manufacturers have figured out (again) that perhaps they should standardize women's clothing sizes. The bad news: multiple companies are working on different systems, so this standardization won't be standardized any time soon. The New York Times looked at the problem ...
• Sony: PlayStation Network Users' Credit Card I ...
  Sony's early bid for a high seed in next year's Worst Company tournament continues, as does the mass outage of its PlayStation Network. Yesterday, the company admitted that it wasn't sure if users' credit card info was compromised by whatever evil forces hacked the system, but now Sony has slig ...
• Take Your Jewelry To Kay For Repairs If You Ne ...
  Consumerist readers may fault Michelle for patronizing a chain jewelry store, but she and her family have a solid relationship with their local Kay Jewelers store. Such a solid relationship, in fact, that when her boyfriend's pocket watch needed repairs, she brought it back to the store in her ...
• How One Couple Dug Out From $83,000 In Credit ...
  It's pretty easy to amass a mountain of credit card debt, especially if you're a married couple with nine credit cards on which you only pay the minimum. But there's no simple way to bulldoze that mountain once it's reached Everest-like heights. As one couple in Atlanta learned, erasing $83,000 ...
• UPS Sends Yet Another Package Back To 2009
  For me, half of the fun in ordering things online is watching the package find its way to me through the shipping service's online tracking system. The UPS package that Dean is waiting for won't provide him with that pleasure, though, because it has apparently been sent back to 2009 for delive ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Banking Groups Stir Consumer Fears on Debit Ca ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica On April 21st another Dodd-Frank deadline came and went. It was the day the Fed’s regulations on debit card transaction fees, also known as interchange fees, were supposed to be finalized. Hasn’t happened. Controversy over the regulations caused the Fed to postpone fin ...
• CPC’s Budget: Sacrifice For All, Growth Where ...
  The US CPC (Congressional Progressive Caucus) and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) get full marks for bravery in the face of crisis. As opposed to simply rubber stamping ideologically deep ‘frosting’ budget cuts that decimate the poor and defenceless, they take on and balance the entire cake in a budge ...
• First Months of 2011 Yield a Lobbying Slump? N ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica Lobbying disclosures this week have spurred a flurry of stories about how the pace of lobbying has slowed in the first few months of 2011. The reports note that spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which typically tops the list for lobbying expenditures, dropped t ...
• Matt Damon Is Right
  by Brent Budowsky As President Obama returns to Hollywood in search of campaign dough from the “Hollywood progressives,” it is a moment to praise Matt Damon who speaks with clarity and conviction about his disappointment with President Obama. Let me state my conclusion at the beginning. For thos ...
• The Monday Line: Our 3rd Birthday… Milestones ...
  2011 is summed up thusly: if you want to make God laugh, tell her YOUR plans. We’ve survived vile business ‘partners,’ the folding of trusted ones from recession, financial crisis (yes, we can still use your help), family death, taxes and we’re still here! And we’re gonna be. Why? Because UK Pro ...

NewsAlert

• College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine ...
  The New York Times reports:Ever since Congress passed the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX, universities have opened their gyms and athletic fields to millions of women who previously did not have chances to play. But as women have surged into a majority on campus in recent years, man ...
• Koch Industries Responds to NPR's Lighthearted ...
  Philip Ellender of Koch Companies responds to NPR:We Respond to NPR's Lighthearted Coverage of Koch Death Threats Ellen McDonnell, Executive Director of News Programming National Public Radio Dear Ms. McDonnell: I am writing to raise deep concerns about a Morning Edition segment that aired o ...
• Boehner opens door to cutting U.S. oil tax breaks
  Reuters
• CNN investigation: Obama born in U.S.
  CNN
• Krugman Admits He Has No Close Friends
  Benjamin Wallace-Wells in the New York reports:Paul Krugman is a lonely man. That he is comfortable in his solitude, that he emphasizes its virtues, that his intelligence gives it a poetic gloss, none of this diminishes the poignancy of his isolation. Krugman grew up an only child and is deeply ...

JoNova

• Nearly 80% of Chinese people are skeptics*: wo ...
  Gallup has done a world wide poll, about whether people believe the theory of man-made global warming. Though don’t stake too much money on the results, they only interviewed “approximately 1000 people” (what’s an approximate person?) *So we’re talking about a survey of about 10 people per count ...
• Who does the Labor Party represent? Would that ...
  Another leading commentator — this time Michael Stuchbury in The Australian — see the Carbon Tax as a dead dog. ARE these the signs that Labor’s climate change policy is heading for a second disaster? Big unions and big business are in revolt as the mining boom’s strong dollar squeezes the rest ...
• The moment to test what we-are-made-of, is here
  Ladies and Gentlemen, as the power of big-government comes under threat the attacks on skeptics and free citizens grow worse than ever. We are all busy, but we cannot let this one get past. Art Robinson is one of us, one of the original skeptics, back when hardly anyone else was. He’s been a key ...
• Billions of dollars sneaks out the door throug ...
  There are billions of dollars of money sneaking out the door of Western Nations and being used to feed the monster bureaucracy, the UNFCCC and its cohort. In The Carbon Tax that Ate Australia Tony Cox and David Stockwell point out the Australian contributions  fly so under the radar (despite bei ...
• Who does the Labor Party represent? Would that ...
  Another leading commentator — this time Michael Stuchbury in The Australian — see the Carbon Tax as a dead dog. ARE these the signs that Labor’s climate change policy is heading for a second disaster? Big unions and big business are in revolt as the mining boom’s strong dollar squeezes the rest ...

ReNew America

• 'Investigations have concluded...'
  (Joseph Farah) - Last Thursday, nearly three weeks after April Fool's Day, the New York Times, once touting itself as "the newspaper of record" that brought readers "all the news fit to print," carried the following headline in its politics section: "Evidence Aside, State Lawmakers Debate 'Birth ...
• Gallup: Majority of human race does not see gl ...
  (CNSNews.com) - Most of the human race does not see global warming as a serious threat, according to a Gallup poll released last week that surveyed individuals in 111 countries...
• WikiLeaks: Al-Qaida already has nuclear capacity
  (NewsMax) - U.S. authorities believe al-Qaida already has nuclear capacity and is ready to use it, new WikiLeaks documents detailing prisoner interrogations in Guantanamo Bay have revealed...
• Democrats revive fight for tax hikes on wealthy
  (Newsmax) - President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats acquiesced in December to Republican demands that the Bush-era tax cuts be extended for everyone. But now the Democrats in Congress are following the lead of Obama, seeking to end the tax cuts for families with annual income of more ...
• Breaking the debt-ceiling cycle
  (Sen. Mike Lee) - "We will raise the debt limit. We always have. We will do it again." -- Pres. Barack Obama. President Obama's words highlight the charade that surrounds the recurring debate over whether it is in America's best interest to increase the debt ceiling. The president articulates a ...

Truth Offering

• TV Personality Accosted by TSA
  Many of you have likely heard of Susie Castillo or seen her face at one time or another. According to her official website, Susie is an "actress and television personality," most notably working as a VJ on MTV, hosting a show called "School Pride" for NBC...oh, and she was Miss USA in 2003. Pret ...
• Poll: Will the US military end up occupying Libya?
  I know you're not stupid. You know our military. You know the recent history of our never-ending military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan; the countless billions of dollars wasted. And prior to that, it was Korea and Vietnam. It never ends. So this week, we asked: Only roughly 3% of responde ...
• Civilization: The Biggest Bubble
  One thing I'm certain of is that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know that much. That's the irony of knowledge. It's like, as you open one door of knowledge, there are ten more to explore. And to be honest, I love that about life; I love learning more and more about our ever-changing ...
• The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
  Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
• US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
  CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...

2012 Blog

• HAARP Website / Hawass Sentenced
  The HAARP facility of the US government has long been suspected of being used for nefarious activities, and many plane crashes and earthquakes have had conspiracy theorists naming it as a likely culprit. The recent Japanese tsunami reignited discussions and then suddenly the official HAARP websi ...
• Nyiragongo / Comet Elenin
  This is a photo from National Geographic, of a volcano you perhaps have not heard of: Nyiragongo. It is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is 2 miles high, and is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. This is unfortunate for the 1 million people who live at the base of [...] Rel ...
• 100 Days of Disaster – VIDEO UPDATE
  I’ve got no idea if this will be on YouTube for a day, a week, or forever, but here’s the documentary for non-Aussies to see: 100 Days of Disaster My understanding is that it had 335,000 viewers which is average for 10PM on a Monday. I’m particularly happy with the overall 2012 angle that was [. ...
• Baigong Pipes / Antikythera Device / Arctic Forest
  This is great fodder for Ancient Astronaut theorists. Over in China is a pyramid that has iron pipes within it, and heaps of pipes laying about outside. Like many such mysteries, the pipes could actually be naturally occurring – and Wikipedia cites similar, natural examples. But combined with a ...
• 100 Days of Disaster
  I’m one of the interviewees for an Australian documentary, 100 Days of Disaster, screening tomorrow (Monday) on Channel 10 at 10pm. Patrick Geryl was also interviewed, plus I believe a few orthodox scientists, some religion experts and I think an astrologer. All being asked if we should expect t ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Environmental justice communities bear ...
  By Robert J. Bullard, OpEdNews It has been one year since the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster created an environmental nightmare on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The oil disaster killed 11 workers. And for three months the nation watched and held its breath as the busted BP well spewed ...
• CHRONIC EXPOSURE
  Along the Gulf Coast, the oil industry's harm to communities' health goes far beyond the BP disaster. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis In the offices of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a grassroots nonprofit in Mid-City New Orleans, a large map of the state and the Gulf of Mex ...
• Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
  For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
• A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
• A REGULATORY DISASTER
  Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...

One News Page

• Petrol price up again, this time by Rs 2.5
  State-owned oil marketing companies today raised petrol prices by up to Rs 2.54 a litre. The increase, second in 30 days, comes on the back of rising international crude oil prices. With effect from midnight, Indian Oil outlets will sell petrol at Rs 58.37 a litre. The price at HPCL and BPCL ...
• Eminem - Eminem To Collaborate With Royce Again
  Eminem is teaming up with former collaborator Royce Da 5'9' on a new EP The pair previously worked together on the rapper's debut album 'The Slim Shady LP' in 1999 and again on single 'Nuttin' to Do' under the name Bad Meets Evil, but were...
• Charlie Sheen police escort investigated
  An investigation has been launched into the decision to provide Charlie Sheen with a police escort in Washington D.C.
• Evidence of medical complicity in torture at G ...
• Charlie Sheen's ex-goddess Bree Olson pleads g ...

Global Research TV

• Chinese Inflation Continues to Rise
• Honduran Teachers Get Shock Treatment
• Pentagon Opened Doors to 9/11 Attack
• American Authorities Accused of Torturing Wiki ...
• Lies and Excuses: Military Spending out of Control

Daily Tech

• SETI Suspends Allen Telescope Array Operations
  Reduced federal dollars and a state budget crisis has put the Allen Telescope Array into hibernation
• News Corp. Hopes to Get at Least $100M for MySpace
  News Corp. to take $480 million to the chin
• Nokia Restructuring Begins, 4,000 Employees to ...
  Company to shed 7,000 jobs by 2013
• Apple Admits it Botched iPad, iPhone "Location ...
  The distortion field is failing Capt'n! She can't take much more of it!
• UPDATED: White iPhone 4 to Launch Thursday
  Best Buy and Apple stores have begun to receive inventory of the devices

Oriental Review

• The Agony of Libya: What Can Be Done
  The people of Libya are in deep trouble. Gaddafi is managing to retain his hold on the capital Tripoli and much of the west of the country and keeping under pressure the rebels who seem to have secured the eastern city of Benghazi thanks to the intervention of the UN Security Council sanctioned ...
• Passionate for Palestinian Independence
  Increased Palestinian activity After the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations process broke down last year, the Palestinian National Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas launched an active campaign to get unilateral recognition for Palestine as an independent state. As a payoff, several countries recogniz ...
• Oil and War In Libya
  High oil prices have recently become word of the day. Economists are arguing about how long this trend will last and whether it will cause another world crisis. When the USA along with their NATO allies started the military operation in Libya, numerous observers were perplexed, as long as Americ ...
• It is Time for Obama to Demonstrate True Coura ...
  John F. Kennedy said: “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” For Mr. Obama, it is time for action! When Mr Obama was elected to the US Presidency, he vowed to tackle and resolve the Israeli-Palestinia ...
• Can BRICS Soften Dollar Crisis?
  On April 10, in an interview with a CNN host and political observer Fareed Zakaria, the former secretary of state James Baker, when he was speaking about the current global changes, said the following: “The biggest challenge facing the U.S. isn’t turmoil in the Arab world. It’s our debt bomb”. H ...

BlogHer

• Would You Buy a Vibrator at a Drugstore?
  Janine placed the pregnancy test on the counter to be rung up. The woman behind it hardly gave a glance as she took it to ring it up. “You’re having sex,” she said. It wasn’t a question. The woman motioned dismissively to the condoms on an aisle nearby. Janine blushed, mortified. “It’s obvious ...
• The Friendster Wake: Remembering the Late Soci ...
  Alas, poor Friendster, some of us weren't actually aware that you were still alive until we heard about your semi-demise. I'm really sorry about that, Friendster, because back in the old days when Facebook was still for those whippersnappers in college, Friendster was the social media site to ...
• "Don't let my stilettos fool you. I still want ...
  New female sports heroes alert! Continuing my "Shrinking and Pinking" series I started last month... Number one on the list? Desi Davila. Davila finished second in the Boston Marathon on Monday, just two seconds out of the lead. She set a new personal record and became a hero to the next gen ...
• Dancing with the Stars Recap: The Top 7 Feel G ...
  Although some of these "guilty pleasures" songs are really just AWESOME. If anything was a guilty pleasure last night (and what a weird insulting honor for the artists used that was), it was realizing that a couple of those Hanson boys turned out kinda cute. That gave me a not-so-fresh feeling ...
• Are Female Athletes Woman Enough To Compete?
  A lot has been written recently about the International Association of Athletics Federation, the governing body for track and field, and the new policy they've drafted to deal with female athletes who have excessive levels of male hormones. On April 5 the International Olympic Committee co-sig ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• BP Buys Off Coastal Cities With Unrelated Gear
  Since the gulf disaster, BP has “gifted” near gulf cities with tens of millions in the form of gadgets and gear like tasers, brand new SUVs, iPads and other laptops. This gift spree has virtually ...
• Covering Your Child in Suntan Lotion Could Giv ...
  When Poppy Brett took her son to the park, it was like dragging a reluctant tired boy along behind her instead of the other way around. Their doctor repeatedly dismissed the her concerns because he ...
• Pesticides Are Good For You! Propaganda From B ...
  Rachel Carson is turning in her grave… Who knew that all her sacrifice and diligent research involving the deadly effects of pesticides on nature would be brushed away by an article from croplife.org that pesticides ...
• Leahy Bill Passes Senate – Needs to Stop ...
  A once dormant bill to criminalize natural food and supplement producers is back in action. Attaching a prison sentence of up to 10 years is pretty serious for a possible ambiguous crime of adulteration and ...
• Provocative ‘Shiny Suds’ Ad by Met ...
  To what lengths will a company go to warn consumers about dangerous chemical ingredients? Method, the naturally-derived cleaning products company, is about to celebrate its 10 year anniversary. Awhile back, they posted a spoof-with-message ad ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• WVDEP appeals major water quality ruling
  Well, WVDEP Secretary Randy Huffman called it the worst ruling Iâve ever seen out of the EQB as far as a lack of respect for the rule of law, so it probably is no surprise that the agency has appeal the state Environmental Quality Board’s decision in the case over International Coal Group’s New ...
• State of deniers: GOP gubernatorial candidates
  If you thought the Democratic gubernatorial candidates here in West Virginia were something else … check out the answers from the Republicans regarding a simple question about global warming … hard to know what to say about answers like these. Do you accept the science that global warming is oc ...
• Sad news: Body of Idaho silver miner found
  People mill around downtown Mullan, Idaho on Monday, April 18, 2011. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka) The bad news came in from The Associated Press late yesterday: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For nine days, miners more than a mile underground burrowed around the clock to reach one of thei ...
• Friday roundup, April 22, 2011
  Lucky Friday miner, Brad Sala, of Mullan, Idaho holds his 8 month-old-son Cael Sala during a news conference at Mullan City Hall on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Mullan, Idaho. Rescue teams Saturday cleared debris from a collapsed tunnel at a northern Idaho silver mine to find a miner missing mo ...
• FBI officials tell Upper Big Branch miners&#82 ...
  We broke the story earlier today on the Gazette’s website about an FBI letter notifying the families of the miners killed at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine that they may be victims of a federal crime. I’ve now posted a copy of the letter here (with the name redacted to protect my source) ...

Daniel Miessler

• Coffee Joulies | The Best Coffee Accessory You ...
  via kickstarter.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Coffee Trinity is CompleteDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfThe Herman Miller Nelson BenchBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose Chart
• Advanced Nmap | Security Aegis
  Ncrack Ncrack is a command line password bruteforcer like hydra and medusa. Up until recently I was a�stalwart�Medusa user but what brought me over (mostly) was the superior SSH library, RDP password bruting, and easy nmap-like syntax. Should you want to audit a whole class C for ssh passwords N ...
• Chrome Wins Again: Now Clears Flash Cookies Na ...
  Google has maintained since they started bundling Flash that it was mainly to ensure they could make it more secure for their Chrome users. They do this by both sandboxing it and auto-updating it when the security patches regularly appear. But a new feature has just hit the Chrome dev builds whi ...
• Care Wolf
  via izit.org Yeah! Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsA Grey Wolf in the Apple StoreDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCouldn’t Care LessBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose ChartA Pink Flower in Palo Alto
• The Annoyed Geek’s Response to Stupid Computer ...
  via i.imgur.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDon’t LikeDon’t Be a Cryptic AssObama and Jesus | ImgurHalley’s CometAnatidaephobiaReaganomicsVery Gradual Change We Can Believe In

Fitwatch

• Police Attempt to Disrupt Benefit Gigs in Sout ...
  On Saturday 23rd of April and Sunday 24th of April, the Metropolitan Police attempted to harass and intimidate the management of two established and fully licensed venues with intelligence gathering - or 'fishing' - exercises. The two venues, both in the Borough of Lambeth in South London, were ...
• Alabama 3 Headline FITwatch BeneFIT Saturday 2 ...
  This Saturday 23rd April Brixton legends Alabama 3 will be playing an acoustic and unplugged live set, alongside DJ's from some of London's finest soundsystems at The Jamm, 261 Brixton Rd, London SW9 6LH. The event, starting at 8 till late, is on offer to FITwatchers and their friends at a mere ...
• Liberty condone policing and condemn protesters.
  It’s not surprising, or in the least unexpected, but in a report they released yesterday, Liberty have made it quite clear their sympathies lie far more with the police than with any protester engaging in civil disobedience. The policing of the demonstration on the 26th March, said Liberty, was ...
• Warning – Police Surveillance is Big Bus ...
  This is the second of a couple of posts written by Kevin Blowe in advance of the ‘Standing Up To Surveillance’ conference hosted by Fitwatch and Netpol on Sunday. It is reproduced by permission from his blog Random Blowe In January, I idly speculated in a piece for Red Pepper that groups who inc ...
• Rethinking the politics of kettling
  This is the first of two articles written by Kevin Blowe in preparation for the 'Standing up to Surveillance' conference tomorrow, at which he is speaking. Reproduced from his blog Random Blowe with permission. An online campaign calling for a ban on kettling seems, on the face of it, like a com ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Wake’N'Bake 101: Gratuitous
  BP last week “committed” a billion dollars to start restoration projects in the Gulf. However, as blogging colleague Glynn Wilson down there in Mississippi, tells it: No amount of money can bring back all the dead wildlife, rotting at the bottom of the sea. The company can be forced by the gover ...
• RIV: Rest In Vinyl
  Turn Your Remains Into Vinyl When You Die | Disinformation A British company called And Vinyly promises to do just that for a fee of £3,000. Pets and body parts accepted. After your passing, rotate forever on your relatives’ turntables, preferably in the form of ‘Kokomo’ or something else simila ...
• Carter Goes To Korea
  Jimmy Carter Arrives in North Korea to Push for Nuclear Disarmament Talks | Bloomberg Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea on his second trip to the country in less than a year to help push forward stalled multinational talks on curbing the regime’s development of atomic wea ...
• WWH-Who Are We?
  WWH – We’re a diverse group of people that have come together to make things happen. We are jokers, smokers and midnight tokers. We’re Atheists, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and everything in between. We’re Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, movers and shakers. We don’t look at the glass as b ...
• Dads: The Original Hipsters
  Sorry hipsters, your dad was the original hipster and he was killing it back in the day. Your dad was into mother nature before you were and he has the tent popping skills to prove it. He knew that partying in the city was played out, so he stepped his game up and stepped into [...]

reference frame

• Education bubble
  One of the world's most ingenious venture capitalists, Peter Thiel, the father of PayPal and the first major Facebook investor, believes that the air from the subprime bubble has already been moved into another, perhaps more long-lived bubble waiting to be burst, the higher education bubble ...
• Yuri Gagarin: 50 years ago
  On Tuesday, April 12th, it will have been 50 years from what was arguably the most impressive achievement of the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia was the first country after the USSR that Gagarin visited after he returned (the picture here is from that visit) - and my positive emotions abo ...
• UAH AMSU: global anomaly -0.10 °C
  Roy Spencer has released the March 2011 UAH AMSU global satellite data. The anomaly dropped on both hemispheres; the tropics stayed constant. The global anomaly was -0.10 °C. It's been negative in each of the three months of 2011. It's not hard to see that the anoma ...
• Gallup in 111 countries: most people don't see ...
  Last week, Gallup has released the results of an AGW poll taken in 111 countries: Fewer Americans, Europeans View Global Warming as a Threat Only 42% of the people in the world view global warming as a "somewhat serious" or "very serious" threat. In Western Europe and the U.S., this fig ...
• Are ET aliens shy?
  The Physics arXiv Blog has been intrigued by an extraterrestrial paper by Adrian Kent: Too Damned Quiet?Science rejected the paper in 2005 but it's fun, so why wouldn't he submit it to the arXiv in 2011? ;-) There are three typical answers to Fermi's question - Where a ...

No Frakking Consensus

• WWF’s Chief Spokesperson Joins IPCC
  Jennifer Morgan was recently recruited to help prepare the upcoming edition of the climate bible. Rather than being one of the world's finest scientific minds she is a professional activist - as in chief climate change spokesperson for the World Wildlife Fund.
• Ka-Ching! More Greenpeace Money
  One of the most senior authors for the upcoming climate bible has spent the past 17 years cashing cheques from Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.
• Clueless New IPCC Policy Ignores Advocacy Lite ...
  Proposed new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines single out blogs - declaring that they are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC Reports. Yet these same guidelines contain not one word about literature published by advocacy groups such as Greenpeace.
• Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
• Citizen Audit Anniversary
  A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...

Tarpley

• Español
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén Reduccíones brutales de los gastos de gobierno de Estados Unidos con la aprobación de Obama: Depresión economica mas profunda, mas desempleo, rebelliónes en los ca ...
• Austerity Psychosis Grips Washington, D. C.
  Webster G. Tarpley Guns & Butter April 20, 2011 Obama’s budget speech at George Washington University on April 13th, 2011; the Fiscal 2011 Budget Resolution causes a revolt in DC; the Independent Payment Advisory Board as Death Panel; House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s genocidal Budget ...
• Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia Gets Pakistani M ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars April 20, 2011 download file
• العربية
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخابرات الأمريكية الأمريكي Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab ...
• Tarpley in Press TV Debate with Libyan Rebel S ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 15, 2011 This April 6th interview just recently became available. — webmaster

Modern Survivalism

• Rice and Beans, A Survival Combination
  Rice is rich in starch, an excellent source of energy. Rice also has iron, vitamin B and protein. Beans are rich in protein, and contain a good amount of iron and other necessary minerals, and the consumption of the two in tandem provides all the essential amino acids. It is no wonder that this ...
• NDM-1, A Global Time Bomb
  “Doctors at the world’s largest gathering of infectious disease experts recently described NDM-1 as a global time bomb that could lead the world into a post-antibiotic era.” A 25-Apr-2011 report from ‘The Age‘, an Australian online media and newspaper outlet, says AUSTRALIAN hospitals have been ...
• Radiation and the UV Index
  The UV Index is a forecast of the amount of skin damaging UV radiation (UltraViolet radiation) expected to reach the earth’s surface at the time when the sun is highest in the sky (solar noon). The amount of UV radiation reaching the surface is mostly related to the elevation of the sun in the s ...
• Getting Back to Basics, Remedies
  Before the days of endless availability of products and high-tech remedies for things like cleaning, laundry, pest control and others, people had to make do with the materials that they had on hand. They were able to accomplish the same tasks that we deal with today, while using only a handful o ...
• Bretton Woods II, Results Are IN
  A few weeks after the non publicized Soros sponsored Bretton Woods II event, the results are in – ‘America must give up on the dollar’. During the weekend of April 8, 2011, George Soros and 200 economists, finance experts and âscholarsâ met at the Mount Washington Resort with a mission. A missio ...

Fast Company

• How We Should Store Spent Nuclear Fuel
  There are multiple nuclear reactors teetering on fault lines around the country, and most of them are surrounded by pools of water filled with still-very-radioactive spent fuel. The radioactivity from the now-exposed spent fuel at Fukushima is part of the reason why the situation there is so dir ...
• Apple May Fill Its iPhone 5 Vacuum With New Ma ...
  Apple may be changing its usual iPhone update schedule to the fall, instead of a pre-summer launch in June/July--the news has popped up multiple times, and a source familiar with Apple's plans has also confirmed it with Fast Company. But Apple is a company that thrives on PR excitement...and the ...
• Why Searching For Aliens Is Good For Business
  The SETI Institute has stopped listening for aliens, a casualty of government budget cuts. The business community and private donors should pony up. Here's why it's not as crazy as it sounds.Nerds everywhere today are in mourning. Funding for the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., has drie ...
• Researchers Invent Jell-O-Based Testing For Pa ...
  Using little more than Jell-O, aluminum foil, milk protein, and a 12-cent LED, University of Texas scientists have hacked together a super-cheap, fast-acting detector for pancreatitis.The researchers in Austin have effectively created a sub-one-dollar instant detector for pancreatitis--a disease ...
• Missiles Into Models
  A Swedish aerospace technology company beats swords into ploughshares, turning missile tech into what some have called "Google Maps on steroids." Nokia just released a product licensing the tech.Last week, Nokia released an upgraded version of it mapping service, Ovi. The upgrade was a milestone ...

Jadaliyya

• الشعب يريد عجلة إنتاج أخرى [The People Want A ...
  �ا�� عج�ة ا�إ�تاج تتصدر ا�ص�رة ا�س�اس�ة �� مصر مرة أخر�� بعد أ� أخ�ت �ز��اعة إ���ار ا�ا�تصاد م�ا��ا مؤ�تا ��ز��اعات ا�س����� �ا�إخ�ا� �غ�اب �ع� ا�جما��ر.�جم�ع ا��خب تحدث�ا ا�آ� ع� �ذ� ا�عج�ة ا�سحر�ة: ا�ش�خ محمد حسا� �دع� ��ض ا�اعتصامات �د�ع عج�ة ا�إ�تاج� سم�ة ا�خشاب: عج�ة ا�إ�تاج ا���� أ ...
• After Syria's "Great Friday": Al-Jazeera Inter ...
  Below is Al-Jazeera's interview on Syria with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad after the events of "Great Friday" on April 22nd,�the bloodiest days that Syria witnessed since the beginning of the uprisings. In this interview, conducted on Saturday April 23rd,�Bassam discusses the events ...
• Culture II
  This is the second week of Jadaliyya's culture section. The first week included four pieces and can be viewed here. This week's bouquet includes: "A Damascene Diary" by�Samar Yazbek "Memoir and Mythology" by Mimi Kirk "The Meaning of My Prayer" by Sargon Boulus We welcome your contri ...
• "The Meaning of My Prayer" by Sargon Boulus
  “Ma`na Salati” (The Meaning of my Prayer) appeared in Sargon Boulus’ posthumous collection `Azma Ukhra li-Kalb al-Qabila (Baghdad and Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2008). The Meaning of My Prayer Perhaps this is what I prayed for at times This is what I saw in moments of despair my ...
• Memoir and Mythology
  Facts arenât the only thing that should be checked in Three Cups of Tea The recent uproar over Greg Mortensonâs immensely popular nonfiction book Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace... One School at a Time has centered around the question of whether the account is fact ...

mediagazer

• In WikiLeaks' Growth, Some Control Is Lost (Ne ...
  New York Times: In WikiLeaks' Growth, Some Control Is Lost  —  WikiLeaks, the Web site responsible for publicizing millions of state secrets in the last year, has tried to pick its media partners carefully.  But the site has become such a large player in journalism that some of its secrets are ...
• Obama Scolds Media For Focusing On Birthers: ' ...
  The Huffington Post: Obama Scolds Media For Focusing On Birthers: ‘We Do Not Have Time For This Kind Of Silliness’ … At his press conference on Wednesday, President Obama scolded the media for focusing on his birth certificate instead of more important issues.  —  He started the conference by c ...
• Obama releases birth form, decries 'silliness' ...
  Associated Press: Obama releases birth form, decries ‘silliness’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's releasing his long-form birth certificate because the country doesn't have time for the “distraction” and “silliness” of questions being persistently raised about where he wa ...
• Arianna Huffington sets direction for MapQuest ...
  Greg Avery / bizjournals: Arianna Huffington sets direction for MapQuest  —  MapQuest's move to new headquarters in Denver was timed to celebrate the online mapping company's 15th anniversary.  But the relocation from 17th Street to the trendier SugarCube building in Lower Downtown is more abou ...
• Malcolm Gladwell: What I Read (Gabriel Snyder/ ...
  Gabriel Snyder / The Atlantic Wire: Malcolm Gladwell: What I Read  —  How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all?  Do they have some secret?  Perhaps.  We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.  Malcolm Gladwell, ...

Chemtrail News

• Excellent Chemtrail Website
  Discussion about Excellent Chemtrail Website at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1461813/pg1
• April 24 UFO & Objects Chemtrails O ...
  So I came across this video and thought, oh okay, I see chemtrails, and then near the end of the video, I see the broken down video footage of the UFO ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread694580/pg1
• Chemtrail Petition - Sign it! - Chem ...
  Here is the link to the online petition for chemtrail truth. I just signed it; have you? Chemtrail Petition - Click Here As of today there are 7286 signat…chemtruth.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chemtrail-petition-sign-it
• Academic In Space Aeronautics On HAARP/chem ...
  Kwaaikoppie's video about Chemtrail Symposium Belgium Chemtrails contrails conspiracy theory conspiracies cover-up N documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../academic_in_space_aeronautics_on_HAA...
• Chemtrail Scientists Lunatics And Liars ...
  Ghost32's video about Chemtrail Scientists Lunatics and Liars documentary on Disclose.tv.www.disclose.tv/.../Chemtrail_Scientists___Lunatics_And_Liar...

World News - Top Stories

• Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Lionel M ...
  Veteran manager has branded the Portuguese ace, who made his name at Old Trafford, as the best in the business, but believes his Argentine rival is also a "fantastic" footballer By Adithya Ananth Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Champions League. Manchester United manager Sir A ...
• Are pets really 'companions'? Academics c ...
  Animals should not be described as 'vermin', 'pests' or even 'pets', animal ethicists have decided. Academics say that traditional words used to characterise animals like 'beasts' and 'critters' are derogatory and should be replaced. They say words like 'pests' and 'vermin' should be droppe ...
• Harvard Academic Dr. Lobsang Sangay Elect ...
  Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala Dharamshala: - The election committee confirms that the Indian born, US-based Tibetan scholar and Harvard laureate, Dr. Lobsang Sangay, is the winner of the 15th general election with 55% of the total votes cast in his favor. Runner-up ...
• Apple denies storing users' locations on ...
  The Associated Press Share E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here 0 comments Similar stories: " tooltipId="mi_tt1"> Apple denies storing users' locations on iPhones Apple denies storing users' locations on iPhones Apple says it does not store users' locations on iPhones and iPads. ...
• Sensex falls 97 points on Wipro results, ...
  MUMBAI: The BSE Sensex today fell for the third straight day, losing about 97 points to close at over 19,448, on sustained selling following lower-than-expected earnings and sales forecast by IT major Wipro. It is another heavyweight company -- after Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Infosy ...

no frakking consensus

• WWF’s Chief Spokesperson Joins IPCC
  Jennifer Morgan was recently recruited to help prepare the upcoming edition of the climate bible. Rather than being one of the world's finest scientific minds she is a professional activist - as in chief climate change spokesperson for the World Wildlife Fund.
• Ka-Ching! More Greenpeace Money
  One of the most senior authors for the upcoming climate bible has spent the past 17 years cashing cheques from Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.
• Clueless New IPCC Policy Ignores Advocacy Lite ...
  Proposed new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines single out blogs - declaring that they are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC Reports. Yet these same guidelines contain not one word about literature published by advocacy groups such as Greenpeace.
• Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
• Citizen Audit Anniversary
  A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...

Pointman's

• America is throwing another Tea party.
  For those of you not aware of it, there is a grass-roots movement in America called the Tea party that in its two scant years of existence has become significantly influential. It is not as such a political party but rather a loose collection of diverse individuals. It seems to me that they repr ...
• Food for the Wolf
  Once upon a time there was a mangy old wolf who liked to eat a pig once in a while. People blamed the poor devil terribly for what was after all, just his nature. They made up horrible stories about him eating piglets, cats, dogs, barns, little girls and anything else they could think of … Read more
• So, where are we now with global warming?
  Politicians world-wide got into the âsave the planetâ business for two reasons; electorates were convinced the planet needed saving and would vote for candidates who said theyâd do just that and wouldnât vote for candidates who said it was all hysteria, which it was and which most of them knew i ...
• Living with ghosts.
  This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
• Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
  I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Gulf Coast Activists And Yes Men Impersonate B ...
  From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Attendees of the “ Gulf Coast Leadership Summit” received a pleasant surprise this morning upon hearing a representative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announce a ban on toxic dispersants -- as well as a free health ca ...
• Fishers gather to Commemorate Anniversary
  On the Anniversary of the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon that marked the beginning of the BP Drilling Disaster, fishers and advocates gathered in Palquemines Parish to send the message that recovery for them and their communities is still a long way away. Among those at the gathering were B ...
• Guestworkers Win Victory in US Department of L ...
  From our friends at the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity: Proposed DOL regulations move guestworkers one step closer to inclusion in basic labor protections, civil rights, and the right to organize Statement by the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity on the Department of Labor’s Proposed H ...
• Native American Student Suspended for Refusal ...
  From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: In a fight for religious freedom, the ACLU of Louisiana has enrolled to represent a Native American student at Juban Parc Junior High School in Denham Springs, LA. Seth Chaisson, a member of the United Houma Nation, grows his hair long for cultural and ...
• Justice Department Report, Released Today, Cal ...
  An earlier version of this article originally appeared on ColorLines.com Eve is a transgender woman living in rural southern Louisiana. She was molested as a child and left home as a teenager. Homeless and alone, she was forced to trade sex for survival. While still a teenager, she was arrested ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  The Chinese labelling actually indicates that it's a bug detector, protecting against eavesdropping and pinhole cameras. Probably just as effective as ICTS at airport security.Statistics: Posted by kolnidre — Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:45 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Easter is over and so is this threadStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:02 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  sirbadman wrote: So what nations aren't under the jewminati-controlled central banking cartel? Well you should know that, but they are all in the Middle East and Africa. ... But yeah you have fun picking on Africans and Arabs and playing your petty divisive games. Well you should know that, t ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  MSMD said: Who asked you for your opinion, Hasbarat? One throw away line and one stupid image. Same procedure Yomama used. Here is something interesting on hasbarats (why capitalise the word for this scum?) http://comncents.blogspot.com/2009/12/i ... arats.html They are known by the lan ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  This guy says that the israeli stuxnet virus caused the meltdowns in Fukushima. His video shows suspicious white light that appears at the same time as the earthquakes. He says this light is caused by HAARP. Also, he shows some video that casts doubt on whether the tsunami caused the malfunc ...

TVNZ

• China seizes melamine-tainted milk powder
  Chinese police have seized more than 26 tonnes of milk powder tainted with melamine from an ice cream maker.
• Exiled Tibetans elect Harvard scholar as leader
  Tibetan exiles from around the world have chosen a Harvard law scholar as prime minister of their government-in-exile, officials said.
• Guru Sai Baba buried in Indian state funeral
  Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba was buried on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of devotees flocked to pay their last respects at his temple in south India to a man revered as a living God
• Storms cause further chaos in US, eight dead
  Severe storms have ripped through central America, leaving at least ten people dead.
• Syrian troops pour into Damascus suburb
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad poured troops into a suburb of the capital overnight while his tanks pounded Deraa to crush resistance in the southern city where the revolt against his autocratic rule began on March 18

environment 360

• Outsourced Emissions Dwarf CO2 Cuts in Develop ...
  Carbon emission reductions achieved since 1990 by the world’s developed nations were canceled out many times over by the increase of imported goods from nations without binding emissions targets, including China, according to a new report. While climate policies, including the Kyoto Protocol, st ...
• Future Water Stress Detailed In U.S. Report on ...
  A new U.S. government report on water in the American West in the 21st century forecasts that temperatures in the region will soar by 5 to 7 degrees F., major rivers such as the Rio Grande and Colorado could Click to enlarge U.S. Department of InteriorProjected precipitation change, 2070-2099 ...
• Populations of American Pikas Going Extinct As ...
  Extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold over the last decade within the Great Basin region of the western U.S., and the climate-sensitive species is moving to higher elevations at a rate Photo by Donald M. Jones/Minden PicturesAn American pika 11 times faster than dur ...
• Richard Branson Proposes Lemur Reserve on Pri ...
  Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire head of the Virgin Group of companies, is planning to establish a controversial reserve for threatened ringtailed lemurs on a 124-acre island he owns in the Caribbean, about 8,000 miles away from primates’ native Madagascar. Getty Images Branson, who has been ...
• Extreme Soil ‘Liquefaction’ Is Key Factor in J ...
  Extreme soil liquefaction over hundreds of miles was responsible for much of the damage in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, according to a new report. While it is common for major earthquakes to produce some liquefaction — a phenomenon in which soils lose their strength and act ...

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backofthebook

• SUN TV Snooze Network
  By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn't paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant's show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who ...
• It’s a stag, not an orgy
  by Jodi A. Shaw William and Kate this, Royal Wedding that. Kate Middleton had a Dirty Dancing themed stagette, while Prince William’s bachelor party is rumoured to have had a water theme: speed boats and wakeboarding and a boat-borne pub crawl. Sounds like fun. But while I doubt Will spen ...
• Is Trost right again?
  By Alison@Creekside Con MP and anti-abortion crusader Brad Trost, who lists being a member of the cross-party Pro-Life Caucus as one of his duties as an MP on his website, addressed the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association’s annual convention on Saturday and thanked its members for their help in ...
• iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
  by Eric Pettifor iPhones log date and location of every call they make. This is true of phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is ...
• Dmitri Soudas in “Con the Waterfront”
  By Montreal Simon Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee. But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal. An investigation by Radio-Canada su ...

Daily Beast

• 20 Most Useless College Majors
  As college seniors prepare to graduate, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine which majors-from journalism to psychology -didn't pay. Some cities are better than others for college graduates. Some college courses are definitely hotter...
• Obama's China Policy Breakthrough
  On the eve of a dialogue on human rights with Beijing, the president has finally begun talking tough about China's crackdowns. It's a sign he realizes his toothless policy of the last two years has failed, says Joshua Kurlantzick. As the U.S. and...
• Portal 2: The Best Videogame Ever?
  Portal 2 gives gamers something they are not accustomed to-memorable characters, witty dialogue, and a truly fantastic story. Taylor Clark on the videogame that anyone can love. As a general rule, the defining feature of modern videogame storytelling...
• The Democrats' Giffords Senate Puzzle
  With Gabrielle Giffords still recovering from being shot and not ready for a tough campaign, the party is scrambling to find a strong contender to battle the GOP's Jeff Flake-and fast. David A. Graham examines the field. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was...
• Obama for Queen
  With the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton looming, some Commonwealth nations have signaled they no longer want a British monarch reigning over them. Offering the scepter to an ex-President Obama is one option, writes Geoffrey...

Loonwatch

• Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture
  A gesture of goodwill from a Presbyterian Church in Utah.
• Book Review: Ornament of the World by Maria Ro ...
  Cordoba, once the "Ornament of the World," now a memory we would do well to remember.
• Civil War in Tennessee: Right Wing in Dispute ...
  Mother Jones reporter Tim Murphy highlights the growing tension between some Tennessee Tea Partiers and the right wing crazies who want to ban Sharia.
• Three Coptic brothers accused of killing siste ...
  Killed because they converted, what if they were Muslim?
• Donald Trump Says Something in Koran Teaches a ...
  Donald Trump expresses "concern" about the teachings of the Koran saying, “There’s something there that teaches some very negative vibe.”

Energy News

• Radiation Scare in Ohio: High readings caused ...
  High radiation at Ohio nuclear plant prompts ...Read More
• Radiation readings in Fukushima reactor at hig ...
  Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to ...Read More
• Nuclear expert: Powerful explosion at reactor ...
  Gundersen Postulates Unit 3 Explosion May Have ...Read More
• “New problem”: TEPCO says No. 4 sp ...
  Water may be leaking from No. 4 ...Read More
• Japan gov’t announces new leakage from r ...
  New Leaks Detected at Japan's Nuclear Power Plant, ABC News Radio, April 26, 2011 ...Read More

Japan Times

• Magic hope to end Rizing jinx in Western Confe ...
  The bj-league postseason begins on Wednesday as the upstart Shimane Susanoo Magic try to extend their season into May by upsetting the Rizing Fukuoka. The Magic-Rizing two-game series tips off at 7 p.m. in Kyushu with a compelling storyline: Can coach Zeljko Pavlicevic's squad reverse its fort ...
• Too many volunteers to put up
  Nearly 90 percent of volunteer-staffed disaster relief operation centers in severely affected Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures are limiting their intake of volunteers due in part to difficulty finding them accommodations, a Kyodo News survey showed Tuesday. Some volunteer centers said t ...
• Tepco nixes new hiring, cuts pay across board
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it has scrapped its plan to hire new employees who would have started work next spring amid the ongoing nuclear crisis at its troubled Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Faced with the prospect of massive compensation costs linked to the accident, Tepco also said ...
• World title up for grabs in Moscow after long ...
  After a one-month wait following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the 2011 world championships originally scheduled for Tokyo are under way in Moscow. Prior to the catastrophe, Miki Ando looked like the favorite to win her second world title, having enjoyed an outstanding season that saw h ...
• Judge rules against NFL in lockout case
  After seven weeks of bitter back and forth, failed talks and growing uncertainty about the 2011 season, a federal judge has ordered an immediate end to the NFL lockout. But there are many hurdles to clear and questions to answer before pro football is actually back on track.

Alexander Higgins

• Obama to name Panetta defense secretary
  President Barack Obama plans to pick CIA Director Leon Panetta to succeed Robert Gates as defense secretary, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
• Wednesday’s live events
  Donald Trump holds a news briefing today. Will he discuss a possible run for the presidency? Will he address his "birther" claim that President Obama may not have been born in the United States? Watch CNN.com Live for coverage. 9 am ET - Aviation Summit –  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nat ...
• California Plutonium 43 Times, Hawaii 11 Times ...
  A blog post out Japan says EPA data has been found showing Plutonium levels in California are 43 times an in Hawaii are 11 times higher than the maximum levels detected over the last 20 Years. Plutonium and Uranium has also been detected in Guam and Japan although the Japanese Government is deny ...
• Bald eagle with Web following struck, killed b ...
  Biologists believe a bald eagle that was a star of a popular Virginia eagle-watching webcam was killed Tuesday morning, struck by an airplane that was landing at Norfolk International Airport. A U.S. Airways jet’s landing gear struck and killed a bald eagle as the plane was trying to land, airpo ...
• Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
  The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...

Macleans - Central

• The economists want in
  Canadian Business considers the emergence of economists in this election. When the prime minister announced…
• And now a word from Bob Rae and Ujjal Dosanjh
  In a statement sent out by the Liberal campaign, the two Liberal MPs confirm that…
• The Commons: The daring Mr. Harper
  It's as if he's taunting his detractors. Mocking their outrage.
• Fake CanCon
  I was glad to see the Globe and Mail‘s Kate Taylor run a piece about…
• Fresh eyes
  Bruce Anderson tries to explain why the NDP might be surging and why that surge…

Making It Count - CCPA

• Is Harper The Best Person to Manage the Econom ...
  I’m puzzled that the Harper Conservatives’ are getting such a free ride from the other parties and from the media on their main campaign mantra: that they are the best economic managers, that Canada is leading the international pack to economic recovery, and that Harper knows best what’s good fo ...
• Dispelling Middle-class Myths
  We’re in the last week of a federal election campaign, and every party wants you to believe they’re there for the hardworking families of a middle class under enormous pressure. That’s you, right? The idea of the middle class resonates, because it is a notion we all share. Time and again, opinio ...
• Does Not Play Well With Others
  Note to the Harper family regarding your son Stephen; I am writing on behalf of the daycare staff regarding your son Stephen and his ongoing behavioural challenges. A number of incidents have caused some concern among caregivers, children, and several parents, and after four years I regret to te ...
• How Much Would Harper Cost Your Province?
  As I note in the following op-ed in today’s Toronto Star, federal Conservative election promises entail significant fiscal costs for provincial governments. It is not the first time that Harper has tried to stick provinces with the tab. For example, his policy of increased incarceration imposes ...
• How to Help the Long Term Unemployed
   The OECD have weighed in on what policy measures are needed to limit the damage of long term unemployment in the aftermath of the Great Recession. I would judge the NDP platform – which includes a significant job creation tax credit and increased EI benefits – to be closest to the OECD prescri ...

ReDress

• Lobbification of US politicians: betraying the ...
  Lawrence Davidson explains the process by which members of the United States Congress abandon the people and the national interest and instead become beholden to political lobbies or special interest groups, the most powerful of which is the Zionist lobby.
• US weapons to Israel are disincentives to peace
  Against the background of Israel's contempt for international law and violations of Palestinian human rights, and as Washington now considers raising the debt ceiling and making even more substantial cuts to the 2012 budget, Josh Ruebner argues that "the moral, financial and political costs of a ...
• Pro-Israel pressure on law conference threaten ...
  Cecilie Surasky highlights the threat to freedom of speech in the United States posed by mainstream Jewish organizations who are going all out to silence all criticism or debate of Israeli policies, even by Jews and Israelis.
• Middle East peace process: dead as Monty Pytho ...
  Stuart Littlewood considers the possible scenarios open to the Palestinians in the coming months in view of the death - some would say the stillbirth - of the "peace process", from UN membership to the collapse of the Palestinian National Authority and "new openings and possibilities, a new logi ...
• BBC governing body hails "pretentious propagan ...
  Richard Lightbown is surprised to learn from the BBC Trust - the governing body of Britain's state broadcaster - that it considered Panorama's "Death in the Med" documentary to have "performed a valuable public service".

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Stem cell research gets messy on Longwood Avenue
  The first hit from a Yahoo search on "lung stem cells" this morning turned up a Boston Globe story on this week's paper out of Brigham and Women's Hospital. Played inside the paper, the story's headline reads "Study finds lung stem cells, likely to generate debate." It then goes on to detail h ...
• BU study: More bad news on lung scans
  Just as researchers were finding ways to scan the lungs for signs of cancer, other researchers were beginning to find flaws in the screening/early diagnosis approach to cancer care. Last week, the NY Times reported that consent forms had gone missing for 90,000 people enrolled in a Cornell stu ...
• This week: Engineering RNA, bacterial transcri ...
  Some upcoming events you'll find on our calendar: Tuesday: The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration Harvard Museum of Natural History Michael Canfield, Harvard University May 10, 2011 at 06:00 pm Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA ...
• Why tap WHOI for Air France recovery? No one e ...
  From the NYTimes Sunday Magazine story on the role of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in recovery of the Air France plane that two year ago crashed into the deep ocean waters. More on WHOI and Remus 6000, an underwater recovery robot, here. (While your at it, check out WHOI's new s ...
• Orbs, floating films and a string tunnel: MIT ...
  Here are a few images from this weekend's FAST Light weekend. The event is part of bothg the MIT150 celebration and the Cambridge Science Festival. Below find MIT's descriptions of these installations, as well as short talks by the artist/ creators. The event continues through this evening, ...