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Thursday, May 19, 2011

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  • Believe it or Not, Steroids Have an Actual Medical Use - 23 hours agoThe other day I was listening to a national sports-talk radio show and they were discussing an prominent athelete’s recent injury.  They were expressing concern that the doctor who was treating the at...
  • A Trillion Dollars in Job Destruction - 1 day agoEconomists Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor have produced a new study on the trillion dollar stimulus, and reached a few fairly unambiguous conclusions. Our benchmark point estimates suggest the Act cr...
  • Draft and Slavery - 1 day agoI have a hard time seeing how anyone can deny that drafted soldiers are slaves of the state.  They are giving their time and labor only under compulsion, and while they may be better off than ante-bel...
  • This is Absurd - 1 day agoIt is folks like this who continue to want to score the stimulus solely based on employment created by stimulus projects, without considering the fact that someone was using the money for some product...
  • Fourth Amendment No Longer a “Real” Right? - 2 days agoSeveral of the amendments in the Bill of Rights, notably the second and the tenth, are no longer treated by many folks as “real.”  Just old TJ kidding around. Over the last several years, I have wor...


  • Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary - 11 hours agoIn the early years of the microcomputer, a special kind of game was being played. With limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power, the first games on home computers would hard...
  • Darwin’s Struggle: The Evolution of the Origin of Species - 23 hours agoDocumentary telling the little-known story of how Darwin came to write his great masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, a book which explains the wonderful variety of the natural world as emerging out...
  • Dying To Have Known - 1 day agoIn Dying To Have Known, filmmaker Steve Kroschel went on a 52-day journey to find evidence to the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy – a long-suppressed natural cancer cure. His travels take him acro...
  • Who Says Science has Nothing to Say About Morality? - 1 day agoIn his new book The Moral Landscape, neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris challenges the commonly held view that science has nothing to say about moral issues and that religion is the best author...
  • The Shock Doctrine - 2 days agoA documentary adaptation Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. An investigation of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters...

  • British drones over Afghanistan to be piloted from UK - 6 days agoSTOP PRESS The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced today that it is forming a second, RAF drones squadron to be based at RAF Waddington in Lincs.  RAF pilots will control the UKs armed Reaper...
  • We mustn’t ignore the fact that British drones kill too - 6 days agoThis is my comment piece published in today’s Guardian  Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, is right to question the morality and legality of US drone strikes in Pakistan ...
  • Drone Strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, Proliferation Elsewhere - 1 week agoA US drone strike in Yemen on Thursday (5th May), was an attempt to assassinate US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , said to be head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  Two Saudi brothers were killed i...
  • Drone Laws - 1 week agoAn article by two senior MoD scientists in an obscure US military journal suggests that while the UK military says it has no intention of developing a fully autonomous armed drone, background research...
  • Transfer Speculation - 2 weeks agoI wrote most of this post last night before the announcement that US special forces entered Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden and members of his family.  It is noteworthy that drones were not used t...

  • Has the term 'science' outlived its usefulness? - 10 hours agoAsk us what we mean by “science” and you’ll find us a little circumspect. In fact, we think the word “science” is close to useless. This might seem odd, given we work at the Australian National Centre...
  • Joe packs his bags for Saudi Arabia - 10 hours agoJoe Hockey gave his Budget Reply address at the National Press Club yesterday. The best you can say is it wasn’t as bad as last year, where he failed to outline the Budget cuts that Tony Abbott had sa...
  • Angry Boys? I’ll go out on a limb… - 10 hours agoOK. I'm going to go out on a limb here. Not just any old limb, either, but the highest limb I can find. On the most sacred tree in town. And I'm taking my shiny new hacksaw with me. Want to wa...
  • #slutwalk is no step forward for women - 10 hours agoSexual assault and rape are violent acts that have very little to do with sex. Like all other types of physical and psychological violence, there’s no excuse for these actions. No matter how promiscuo...
  • NT's mind-blowing condom ban - 13 hours agoIt is staggering in its mind-blowing idiocy that the handing out of condoms in the Northern Territory has been dealt a blow by someone that should know better. The fact this person in the Northern Ter...


  • AMS: ready to discover the particle universe - 6 hours agoThe largest and most complex scientific instrument yet to be fitted to the International Space Station was installed today. Taken into space by the Space Shuttle, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will ...
  • Mapping the deadly mosquito - 1 day agoESA is helping to take the bite out of mosquitoes and their deadly diseases by tracking their distribution and habitat via observation satellites, satnav, and mobile communications.
  • Endeavour docks with Space Station - 1 day agoSpace Shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station today at 12:14 CEST (10:14 GMT) after chasing it in space following a textbook launch on Monday. The 12 astronauts are now working to...
  • Out-of-this-world ideas on offer - 2 days agoIs your company on the hunt for out-of-this-world business concepts? ESA is placing information on its intellectual property rights online, aiming to promote the commercialisation of these patents in ...
  • Last Shuttle with ESA astronaut lifts off to Space Station to hunt ‘dark matter’ - 3 days agoESA PR 14 2011 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off today on her last mission to the International Space Station. Following launch of the STS-134 mission at 12:56 GMT (14:56 CEST), Endeavour is headin...



  • Green Your Graduation: Make a Promise - 3 hours agoIt’s graduation time, and across America, gleeful students are tossing their caps. This week's tips will prepare you for a commencement that'll make your parents, including Mother Earth, ...
  • Daily Roundup: May 18, 2011 - 15 hours agoOuch: In a sting operation, Conservation International was duped by a pair of British journalists, who were aiming to reveal the nonprofit's questionable business relationships. Huffington Post ...
  • Book Roundup Wednesday: Green Lessons for Kids - 18 hours agoEvery Wednesday, we review a selection of new and upcoming books addressing a specific aspect of environmentalism. This week, we're recommending books that promote eco-mindedness for children. C...
  • Tracking TrekEast: Week 8 - 20 hours agoTrekeast John Davis's TrekEast adventure from Florida's Everglades to Canada's Gaspe Peninsula has as its goal to raise awareness of the East's remaining wild places, and to inspire pe...
  • Green Your Graduation: Spread the News - 22 hours agoIt’s graduation time, and across America, gleeful students are tossing their caps. This week's tips will prepare you for a commencement that'll make your parents, including Mother Earth, pr...

  • Of Humans and Rights"Surveys have found Americans’ assessment of their level of happiness declining significantly. The United States contains 4.5 percent of the world’s population and spends 42 percent of the world’...
  • Nakba protests: A taste of the future :: Israel in strategic dead-end ::"The protesters in Syria and Lebanon showed that they will not be pushed to the margins of the Palestinian Arab Spring. That message will not be lost on either Hamas or Fatah as they begin negoti...
  • Obama and Netanyahu are missing the boat"What Obama has under his sleeve is anyone’s guess but few expect him to reveal any momentous step along the lines that Jeremy Ben-Ami, the leader of a pro-Israel advocacy group said would allow ...
  • Egypt's Second Grassroots Resurgence"The incredible courage of Egyptian youth brought on by their passionate belief in justice, and the ingenuity that they showed during the uprising, are qualities that have been attributed to the ...
  • Proud to be Palestinian"...the most moving scene by far was of Palestinian refugees living in the squalid camps of Syria and Lebanon marching on the barbwire borders with Israel, Palestinian flags raised high above the...

  • The Nanny State Can’t Last - one month agoLast week, Congress and the administration refused to seriously consider the problem of government spending. Despite the fear-mongering, a government shutdown would not have been as bad as claimed. ...
  • Albany’s Historic Student Ghetto: Kegs N Eggs Mark the Spot - one month agoAlbany, New York isn’t just the seat of a clown car state government — it’s also a college town. And college students, when boozed to the gills, can out-bozo politicians. (Well, almost.) On March 12th...
  • Gaming the Game: Baba, Elvis, and the NBA Betting Scandal - one month agoSean Patrick Griffin’s new book Gaming the Game won’t make disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy happy. In 2007, Donaghy was busted by the feds for conspiring with pro gambler Jimmy “Baba” Battista and th...
  • No-Fly Won’t Fly Constitutionally - 2 months agoLast week we once again heard numerous voices calling for intervention in Libya. Most say the US should establish a “no-fly” zone over Libya, pretending that it is a benign, virtually cost-free action...
  • Buying Friends Creates More Enemies - 2 months agoLast week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I had the opportunity to raise some of my concerns regarding US foreign policy and the costs of o...

  • Military Rape: Rampant, Ignored - 1 day agoWhen Panayiota Bertzikis tried to tell her commanding officers that she had been raped in May 2006 by a shipmate four months into her tour at the Burlington, Vt., Coast Guard Station, they discouraged...
  • Resistance Is Fatal - 2 days agoIf compassion isn't reason enough for global policymakers to fund safe drinking water, sanitary conditions and decent healthcare in the developing world, perhaps self-interest will be. A deadly su...
  • The Blair Mountain Project - 3 days agoFrom his trailer home in the old coal camp of Sunbeam, W.Va., Kenny King has been working for the past two decades to preserve nearby Blair Mountain in Logan County. He wants it listed on the National...
  • Dear ITT Ideologist: Bin Laden’s Neighbor Wants Some Answers - 4 days agoDear ITT Ideologist, I am the neighbor of the very nice Bin Laden family. Late Sunday night there was a lot of ruckus next door. In the morning, my kids found spent cartridges on the ground and we hav...
  • Mr. Ryan’s Neighborhood - 6 days agoHouse Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) star is rising fast, as Beltway pundits describe his plan to cut $6.2 trillion in federal spending over 10 years as a "courageous" and "th...


  • New Public Health Campaign Aims to End Ronald McDonald’s Career - 19 hours agoCHICAGO—Should Ronald McDonald be forced to retire? A new national campaign—“Value [the] Meal”—aims to do just that, with the larger goal of sparking action by McDonald’s shareholders to protect kids ...
  • Newt Gingrich Is Good at Losing Friends - 23 hours agoWhat was meant to be a high-publicity campaign launch on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday backfired, undermining Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions the same week he announced his candidacy. Asked abo...
  • The Endless Search for ‘Success’ In Afghanistan - 2 days agoBy David Szydloski Following the death of Osama bin Laden, there has been increased political pressure to “end the war in Afghanistan.” Currently, the administration has set a goal of beginning troo...
  • The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and more - 2 days agoby Eric Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion. So exactly what does the ...
  • Disaster Capitalism Erupts in Wisconsin - 4 days agoBy Miles Kampf-LassinFirst, Scott Walker went after the unions. Now he is setting his sights on the very heart of the public good – entitlements and education. In the meantime, the Wisconsin Governor ...

  • MacDonald Red Tape Review: LEAF’s Comments - 2 days agoLEAF welcomes the findings of the new report ‘Striking a balance: reducing burdens; increasing responsibility; earning recognition’. Put together by the independent Farming Regulation Task Force chair...
  • LEAF Demonstration Sites, Summer Event - 3 days agoLEAF Demonstration Farmers, Innovation Centre representatives and LEAF supporters, gathered together last week for our annual summer training event, based this year near Bristol. Our first visit was t...
  • It’s nearly here, Open Farm Sunday 2011! - 1 week agoThis year’s Open Farm Sunday is just about a month away. So here is a mini update on what’s been going on in the run up to this year’s event. Registrations got off to a great start at the beginning … ...
  • Trends in Sustainable Food: 28% honestly disengaged - 2 weeks agoA few weeks ago, Defra released their latest research on attitudes to sustainable food (full report). They found that people want to buy healthy and local food. The full report is very interesting and...
  • 10,000 Farmers Wanted, No Experience Necessary - 2 weeks agoThe National Trust is starting an innovative farming experiment, inviting 10,000 people to become ‘virtual farmers’ and get involved in the day to day running and key decisions at one of the Trust’s w...

  • Cameroon and “Motions of Support” - 1 week agoBy Julius Fondong Someone recently quipped that if we were to go by the numerous motions of support addressed to President Paul Biya and read every day over CRTV, there will be no need to hold electio...
  • The Cameroonian Conundrum: Autopsy of a Moribund Nation - 1 week agoBy Dr. Peter Wuteh Vakunta Introduction The ailing polity code-named Cameroon seems to be afflicted with a medley of ailments that have earned it a myriad of sobriquets:Clando Republic, Mimboland, Ani...
  • What if Biya’a stopped dyeing his hair? - 1 week agoBy Dr. Patrice Nganang (Translated from French by Dr. Peter Vakunta) Ludicrous Biya’a whose hair is darker than those of Obama who is thirty years his junior!  Let Biya’a tell us the truth: what produ...
  • 2012 Patriot - 1 week ago2012Patriot Follow my videos on vodpod Filed under: 2012 End of World Tagged: Joe Montana, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, Recreation, Super Bowl, Tom Brady, YouTube
  • Media Ignores Fukushima Fire!! - 1 week agoThe Japan – Fukushima incident is far from getting over and the media isn’t covering up any information about it. Fukushima is now almost entirely off the corporate media radar screen. If the photos b...







  • Fifty Subpoenas Sought in Sterling Leak Case - 1 hour agoProsecutors in the case of Jeffrey A. Sterling , a former CIA officer who is accused of leaking classified information to the press, asked a court (pdf) this week to provide 50 blank subpoenas requiri...
  • DNA Testing in Criminal Justice, and More from CRS - 1 hour ago“Increasing awareness of the power of DNA to solve crimes has resulted in increased demand for DNA analysis,” according to a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service, “which has result...
  • Government Insists on Right to Censor Book - 1 day agoGovernment attorneys this week asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by author Anthony Shaffer who claimed that his freedom to publish a memoir of his military service in Afghanistan had been vio...
  • Transforming Classification, or Not - 1 day agoThe Public Interest Declassification Board , a White House advisory body, was asked by President Obama to develop recommendations for a “fundamental transformation” of the national security classifica...
  • Intelligence Agencies Are Told to Cooperate with GAO - 3 days agoAn expanded role for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in oversight of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) may soon become a reality as the result of an official directive that requires inte...

  • Lokpal Bill Draft Panel to Meet Today - 1 week agoThe Government and civil society members of the lokpal bill joint committee are to hold their third meeting in New Delhi on Saturday evening to draft a stringent anti-draft law. The joint drafting com...
  • US forces kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan - 2 weeks agoAlmost 10 years after the 9/11 terror strike, Al-Qaeda Leader Osama bin Laden was Sunday night killed by US forces after being hounded in a special operation in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Bin Laden, 54, ...
  • A Tribute To Sathya Sai Baba - 3 weeks agoA human body is associated with six stages of transformation: birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. Death accepts no excuse.  Sathya Sai Baba (Sathyanarayana Raju) was born in Putta...
  • Celebration of Earth Day & The Theme for Its Sustainability - 3 weeks agoEarth Day Is The World’s Birthday! Save Earth or Die!!!!!!!!!!! Earth Day has actually gained much political support since the first Earth Day in 1970 in the United States when a senator in Wisconsin ...
  • 5 Disturbing Parts Of Indian Census 2011 - one month agoThe Indian Census is the most credible source of information on Demography (Population characterstics), Economic Activity, Literacy and Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanisation, Fertilit...


  • From Nobel to Nobel – Open Letter to Barack Obama - 3 days agoA day like today, 34 years ago, I came back to life after a flight with death during the Argentinean military dictatorship backed by the U.S.A. Thank God I survived. I had to get out of the maze by ov...
  • May 15, 2011: 63 Years of Nakba (VIDEO OF THE WEEK) - 3 days agoThat the 15th of May 1948 never be forgot. And that Palestinians may have their freedoms and rights back; especially the right of return to the land of their ancestors, where they were born.
  • Julian Assange: The Man Who Leaked the World - 3 days agoWikiLeaks: the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics? Who is the real Julian Assange? He says his dream is a world without secrets. But is that true?
  • Wanted Dead or Alive - 3 days agoPresident Obama’s attempts this past week to call forth a heightened sense of national unity around Osama bin Laden’s assassination is a devil’s bargain because the need for more violence will never e...
  • Vanunu Demands Revoking of His Israeli Citizenship - 3 days agoMordechai Vanunu, the man who revealed Israel’s nuclear secrets to the world in 1986, has demanded that Israel rescind his citizenship and allow him to leave the country. In a weekend letter to Israel...

  • Africa: Latest fibs from world financiersAccording to a new report from the African Development Bank, thirty percent of the African population qualifies as forming part of the middle class and the continent is on the brink of an economic tak...
  • Does the G20 serve any purpose?The Institute for Security Studies, linked to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, published a study on the G20. The author endorses the rhetoric according to ...
  • Hillary Clinton picks Cheney aid as spokespersonHillary Clinton finally resolved to part ways with her spokesman, P.J. Crowley, whose head was demanded by the Pentagon ever since he took the liberty of criticizing the brutal treatment inflicted on ...
  • Bashar al-Assad meets with Dara'a delegationPresident meets with Dara'a delegation President Bashar al-Assad has met with a delegation from the embattled city of Dara'a, reported SANA. \"The meeting (Monday) focused on recent e...
  • Palestine: To the Edge of Their LandsFrom the Lebanon-Palestine border, Franklin Lamb gives a poignant testimony of the both majestic and tragic events which marked the commemoration of the Nakba Day on 15 May. Among the tens of thousand...

  • EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon - 3 weeks agoPOLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the Nationa...
  • NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director - 4 weeks agoToday I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OC...
  • Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner - 4 weeks agoLast Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant ...
  • Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin, Texas - one month agoOn April 28 th , Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled " The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions " fro...
  • For Sale: Donated Front Row Washington Nationals Tickets - one month agoThe National Whistleblowers Center received a generous donation of front row tickets to ten Washington Nationals games. The view from these seats is truly amazing. If you don’t believe me, just look a...
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