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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

24 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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renewable recycling conservation
Google drops another $55M in Calif. wind farm
VentureBeat
- May 24, 2011
- 55 minutes ago
The farm is located in Tehachapi, Calif., “where the Mojave sands meet the Tehachapi Mountains,” according to a blog post by Google's renewable energy guru Rick Needham. The deal does not involve a power purchase agreement — meaning Google is only ...
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Huaneng Renewables Secures US$275 Mln From Cornerstone Investors - Source
Wall Street Journal
- May 24, 2011
- 6 hours ago
(Adds Shun Feng Photovoltaic to delay its listing plan in the 2nd and 15th paragraphs, emerging market equity fund flows and Hang Seng Index performance in 13th-16th paragraphs, Xinjiang Goldwind to subscribe to Huaneng Renewables HK IPO in 8th ...
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Toshiba forgoes nuclear sales for renewables focus
Business Green
- May 24, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By BusinessGreen staff Toshiba has announced it will push to expand sales in renewable energy rather than nuclear, as workers fighting to contain radioactive spills at the Fukushima Daiichi plant admitted three of the reactors have now suffered ...
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Biomass Power: Pillar of a New Japan?
Biomass Power and Thermal
- May 24, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Recent events in Japan may fuel a new push toward renewable energy as the country reevaluates its energy portfolio. By Anna Austin | May 24, 2011 In the wake of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant incident, a result of the massive earthquake and ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Program to monitor saltwater beaches for bacteria
KMAS
- May 23, 2011
- May 23, 2011
The state Departments of Ecology and Health coordinate the federally funded program. Local health agencies, tribal nations and volunteers implement it. New federal rules to protect endangered Puget Sound killer whales have gone into effect. ...
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Mediterranean Sea invaded by hundreds of alien species
Daily News & Analysis
- May 24, 2011
- 2 hours ago
... but our understanding of how alien species affect ecosystems is inhibited by a lack of basic knowledge of the animal and plant communities on the coast,” said Stefan Kalogirou of the Department of Marine Ecology at the University of Gothenburg. ...
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Technical Director of Marine Ecology
Environmental Expert (press release)
- May 24, 2011
- 5 hours ago
An international consultancy is seeking to appoint a Technical Director of Marine Ecology to develop existing work in the marine renewables, oil and gas, and power generation sectors and expand the market share in other relevant sectors. ...
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Dairy fine dropped; procedural errors cited
Yakima Herald-Republic
- May 19, 2011
- May 19, 2011
The state Department of Ecology announced Thursday that it withdrew the penalty earlier this month against DeRuyter Brothers Dairy of Outlook because of problems with the way a dairy inspector collected evidence leading to the May 2010 penalty. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
China faces worst drought in 50 years
Financial Times
- May 24, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Leslie Hook in Beijing Chinese authorities will step up the release of water from the Three Gorges Dam in a bid to tackle a drought in southern China which has put pressure on drinking water, crops, shipping lanes and electricity production in what ...
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Despite drought, lawmakers refuse to finance future water
Houston Chronicle
- May 23, 2011
- 11 hours ago
By MATTHEW TRESAUGUE AUSTIN — The severe drought across Texas apparently hasn't made it dry enough for lawmakers to pour billions of dollars into a plan to increase the state's water supply over the next 50 years. The Texas House balked at two bills ...
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High water damage shuts RR bridge near New Orleans
Chicago Tribune
- May 24, 2011
- 2 hours ago
AP Flood damage closed a rail bridge just west of New Orleans, delaying freight and forcing Amtrak to shuttle passengers by bus at the Louisiana end of the City of New Orleans' twice daily route. A 26-foot span -- the distance between two of the piers ...
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State sues NRC over water permit
Brattleboro Reformer
- May 24, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Zachary P. Stephens/Reformer BRATTLEBORO -- The Department of Public Service and the New England Coalition filed suit Friday against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission citing that the relicensing of Vermont Yankee is a violation of the Clean Water Act. ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Bahrain in the shadow of Iran, Saudi Arabia an ...
    Summary: Bahrain protestsIt is true that Iran has a vested interest in what is happening in Bahrain and that the country has a degree of cultural and political influence throughout the wider Persian Gulf area. But in Bahrain, as elsewhere in the Arab world, the demonstrations are not driven ...
  • ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
    Summary: Bush-Rice-CheneyNEW YORK (AP) — Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq. source: APread more
  • Rats, Roaches and Shiites
    Summary: Bahrain protestsShia-majority Iran, Iraq and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah have been the most vocal in condemning the outrageous killings, arrests and beatings of Shiites in the Persian Gulf -- but they have had to do so with a muffled voice. Each objection from Iran or He ...
  • ElBaradei: US, Europe Weren’t Interested in Co ...
    Summary: Officials Withheld Key Info From IAEA Chief in Push for Regime Change source: Antiwar.comread more
  • ElBaradei: US and EU3 only interested in regim ...
    Summary: On Iran's nuclear standoff with the West: "I adhere strictly to the facts, and part of that is that the Americans and the Europeans withheld important documents and information from us. They weren't interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change -- by an ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Discovery on Origin of the Most Violent Ex ...
    This Chandra image of the Tycho supernova remnant contains new evidence for what triggered the original supernova explosion. Tycho was formed by a Type Ia supernova, a category of stellar explosion used in measuring astronomical distances because of their reliable...
  • SETI's 100-Million-Channel Scan for Extraterre ...
    Funding for the SETI Institute has dried up, meaning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence lost one of its key drivers on the planet. In an letter dated April 22nd, reports the San Jose Mercury News, SETI Institute's CEO, Tom Pierson,...
  • "Blotars" -- Weird Brown Dwarfs Observed Devou ...
    A group of nine unusual stars spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in a young cluster above called NGC 3603 that are too cool to be ordinary stars, with analysis of their infrared light emissions indicating surface temperatures between 1700...
  • Neutron Space Matter Not Found on Earth Discovered
    The dense core of a nearby collapsed neutron star is undergoing a rapid chill, providing the first direct evidence that the cores of such stars are so dense that atomic nuclei dissolve, and protons and electrons combine to form a...
  • Is Our Real Universe Flat? --"It's 250 Times B ...
    Is our universe infinite or closed? Because the visible Universe is expanding, the most distant visible things are much further away than its estimated 14-billion year age. In fact, the photons in the cosmic microwave background have traveled a cool...

Natural News

  • Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and ste ...
    (NaturalNews) Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicin ...
  • Betrayal of a Nation: Why U.S. health authorit ...
    (NaturalNews) Dr. Anne Looker and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently made vitamin D legend, Professor Hector DeLuca of University of Wisconsin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_DeLuca), and certain folks at big pharma very happy with her widely-reported analysis of t ...
  • GMO pesticides linked to birth defects, disrup ...
    (NaturalNews) Numerous studies in recent months have tied agricultural pesticides to reproductive and other serious health problems (http://www.naturalnews.com/pesticides.html). And a new study out of Argentina adds even more evidence to the fact that such chemicals are a widespread public healt ...
  • Court files prove Maryanne Godboldo had full l ...
    (NaturalNews) New developments in the case of Maryanne Godboldo -- the Detroit, Mich., woman whose house was recently raided by a SWAT team with a tank, and whose daughter was subsequently kidnapped by these armed terrorists -- are set to hopefully clear the mother of any wrongdoing in the matte ...
  • Lawsuit against FDA a success! Court rules cen ...
    (NaturalNews) A considerable legal victory has been achieved for the natural health community in defending freedom of health speech. A recent lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and several other plaintiffs against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has successfully sto ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower
    The government has dropped its criminal investigation of the whistle blower who exposed the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2004, and will evidently not be filing criminal charges for the historic leak. Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department atto ...
  • WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
    A German nonprofit that processes most of the donations submitted to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has finally made good on a nearly year-old promise to release a report detailing how those donations are spent — though the report remains silent on how much money was paid to WikiLeaks found ...
  • Godzilla’s Lawyers Claim Apple App Fingerzilla ...
    Toho, the owner of all things Godzilla, claims a menacing-looking human index finger with monster-like scales pictured over a skyline is treading on the Japanese company’s intellectual-property rights. With that belief, the Japanese monster-maker is demanding that the producer of an Apple iOS ap ...
  • FBI v. Coreflood Botnet: Round One Goes to the ...
    The FBI’s unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet — comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines — appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earlier this month, a ...
  • FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King’s Speech U ...
    The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member the bureau believes was first to upload the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech as well as Black Swan, and other in-theater-only films to the Pirate Bay in January, according to interviews and sealed court records o ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • War and Peace by Mitt Romney
    By now, Mitt Romney's gymnastic flip-flops and comic turnabouts are the stuff of political legend. After all, on abortion, immigration, his fidelity to Ronald Reagan, his signature health care law and even his state of residence, Romney has reversed himself, often more than once. But when it c ...
  • The "Half a World War II" Debt Solution
    The United States was slowly recovering from economic catastrophe. Its military forces were deployed worldwide in a global conflict to defeat what even the President's political opponents deemed an existential threat. U.S. national debt would soon top 100% of the nation's entire economic outpu ...
  • Republican Economic Terrorism
    The USA Patriot Act defines "domestic terrorism" in part as activities intended "to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." By th ...
  • The Republican Truth Deficit on the Debt Ceiling
    With the deadline on raising the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling fast approaching, grandstanding Republicans are threatening national economic suicide. If it comes, the means of death will have been a fatal dose of hypocrisy. After all, GOP majorities in Congress didn't merely vote seven times ...
  • McCain Declares Libyan Rebels His Latest "Heroes"
    On Friday, Senator John McCain became the highest ranking American political figure to meet with the Libyan rebels. But while his declaration that "they are my heroes" doubtless was well received in by the anti-Qaddafi fighters in Benghazi, McCain's track record should give Americans good reas ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Untitled
    DISTRICT 9 display at Weta Cave (and Werner) Meredith Yayanos
  • Station Ident
    (-3-) Related articles Joss In The NYT Today (warrenellis.com) Suwappu (warrenellis.com)
  • Daniel Ellsberg: Bradley Manning Charges Shoul ...
    We speak to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about President Obama’s comments last week on accused U.S. Army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning. Speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama openly declared that Manning—who has been accused of leaking classified military docum ...
  • Guardian Newspaper Editor Defends Publishing W ...
    More than 750 "secret" Guantánamo prisoner "assessment" files released by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks cover almost every prisoner since the U.S. military base was opened in Cuba in 2002 and reveal the United States believed many of those held at Guantánamo were innocent or low-level ope ...
  • Locked-Out Uranium Processing Workers Protest ...
    Dozens of workers protested at Honeywell’s shareholder meeting on Monday, accusing the company of putting employees and the public in danger at its Uranium Enrichment Plant in Metropolis, Illinois. Major U.S. defense contractor, Honeywell, pleaded guilty last month to illegally storing hazardous ...

Consortium News

  • News Flash: Iraq War Was About Oil
    New disclosures in Great Britain belie the U.S./U.K. insistence that oil was not a factor in invading Iraq, reports Ray McGovern. April 22, 2011
  • Misunderstanding Jesus's Execution
    Christian doctrine plays down a key Holy Week event, Jesus's overturning of money tables at the Temple, says Rev. Howard Bess. April 23, 2011
  • NATO Pushes 'Regime Change' in Libya
    NATO military intervention in Libya has stretched the U.N. humanitarian resolution past the breaking point, writes Peter Dyer. April 22, 2011
  • Giving War a Chance
    The neocons of the U.S. news media still hope they can engineer violent regime change in the Muslim world, notes Robert Parry. April 21, 2011
  • US Military Retreats on Manning Abuse
    The Obama administration moves accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning out of Quantico detention, reports Kevin Zeese. April 21, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Environmental Hypocrisy
    Over the past year, there have been big battles in our big State of Texas over Texans’ right to keep the feds out of our business. Governor Perry’s allies in the state’s leadership and his appointed commissioners are fighting the EPA’s Clean Air Act, and the Governor recently released a book cal ...
  • TLR protesters [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • TLR has dancing H. Simmons [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Robert Redford – Fighting Goliath
    Robert Redford, who has been a major figure in film in this country since the 60s (as an actor, director, and producer), is once again in the limelight for the release of his new film The Conspirator.  But as much of note in Mr. Redford’s life is his lifelong commitment to positive social and e ...
  • Weekly Bill Update from ACT
    We will be posting the weekly update provided to us by the Alliance for Clean Texas throughout the legislative session. Now that April’s in full swing, there’s never a dull moment for environmental advocacy at the Capitol. I want to tell you where we are on several of ACT’s priority bills this ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International Partners Take Action ...
    lucha-peasant_day.jpg The Via Campesina declared April 17 as "International Day of Peasants' Struggles." This day commemorates the 1996 slaughter by the Brazilian police of 19 peasants of the Landless Worker Movement (MST) while they mobil ...
  • Bury the corporate food system!
    Below is an article from Grassroots International partner, the Via Campesina, in preparation for the International Day of Peasants� Struggles. The Via is an international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenou ...
  • "Victory comes only with struggle": Brazilian ...
    mcp.jpg April 17 commemorates the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle for land, water, food and justice.read more
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Celebrates Intern ...
    usfsa-turn_tables.jpg As part of our commitment to engage in advocacy to challenge US policy and corporations that are often the root causes of resource rights violations around the world, Grassroots International has been proud to be an a ...
  • Carbon Credit Plan Implementation Halts Medica ...
    At the request of the community assembly of Amador Hernández in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots International along with the Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Carbon Trade Watch, the Global Forest Coalition, the Timberwatch Coalition, Grassroots G ...

Climate

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • We Are So Dumb
    How many of you think I was born in the United States? I am going to guess that at least seven percent of you are going to be wrong. I think we should consider banning polling. How many times do we need it to be confirmed that half the country can't find its own ass with a mirror and a rectal ...
  • Too Bad the South Lost the War
    Jamelle Bouie points us to the results of some of Public Policy Polling's analysis of the South. Here's how Southerners feel about the fact the Confederacy lost the Civil War: In Georgia 47% of Republicans are content with the Union victory, while 31% wish the South had won. Democrats (58/17 ...
  • The Dems Are Holding Our Lifeline
    Ezra Klein's unassailable observation, that the president more nearly resembles a moderate Republican of early 1990's vintage than a socialist Muslim born in Kenya, will probably be misinterpreted by a lot of progressives as an insult. But Klein's point is not to complain about Obama's policies ...
  • Lying Liars
    Here's a proposal. You produce ethanol. You give me a check for $312,500 and I will go to Iowa to give a pious tribute to the awesomeness of ethanol. If any reporters ask me about my speech, I will simply say, "I am not a lobbyist for ethanol." There is no need to retain my services for a se ...
  • Even the Best Is Not Good Enough
    Haley Barbour will not run for president. Rep. Ron Paul will. This time, Ron Paul won't sound like an isolated iconoclastic loon. In fact, he may discover that he's almost a mainstream Republican. This is going to open a massive hole in the political middle of the country that Obama should b ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Are Kids with ADHD at Risk for Substance Abuse?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that children with ADHD are more likely to develop substance abuse problems in early adulthood than their peers. Lead researcher Steve Lee, an assistant professor of clinical psychology at UCLA, believes that the reason children with ADHD may ...
  • Several Factors Affect Academic Performance in ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In recent research, it has been reported that genetics may play a large role in the reading performance of children with ADHD. However, the same study showed that environment was a larger factor than genetic make-up in how a child performed in mathematics. Lee A. ...
  • High Levels of Childhood Stress May Lead to De ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that children who experienced maltreatment in childhood showed more cortisol in their systems, which can lead to the development of depression. In a recent article, Dr. Harkness, a psychology professor, said, âover time cortisol levels can bu ...
  • Lesbians and Gay Men Considering Parenthood
    By Cheryl Deaner, MS, MFT Click here to contact Cheryl and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile One of the most striking aspects I’ve seen in working with lesbian and gay prospective parents is the amount of thoughtfulness, creativity and deliberateness that goes into the decision to bring childre ...
  • Body Image in Transgendered People
    By Shirley Katz Leon, PhD, CCC Body Image Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Shirley and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I decided to dedicate myself to investigating and writing about the experience of body in transgendered people. Though I am by no means “expert” in working with ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • GOP hopefuls OK with mountaintop removal minin ...
    GOP hopefuls OK with mountaintop removal mining BusinessWeek Companies that unearth coal using a divisive mining procedure known as mountaintop removal have nothing to fear from Kentucky's three Republican gubernatorial candidates. Louisville businessman Phil Moffett, state Senate President Dav ...
  • Morgantown environmental group keeps on eye on ...
    Morgantown environmental group keeps on eye on the water Graffiti It was related to Coal River Mountain Watch project, where we looked at the economic benefits of building a wind farm versus mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain. A lot of media picked up on that because it was sort of a mi ...
  • Mine issue raised at PNC meeting - Pittsburgh ...
    Mine issue raised at PNC meeting Pittsburgh Tribune-Review In an otherwise subdued annual meeting, several PNC Financial Services Group shareholders on Tuesday challenged CEO James Rohr about the bank's lending to companies that mine coal through mountaintop removal. PNC held the meeting at its ...
  • GOP hopefuls OK with mountaintop removal minin ...
    GOP hopefuls OK with mountaintop removal mining Forbes Companies that unearth coal using a divisive mining procedure known as mountaintop removal have nothing to fear from Kentucky's three Republican gubernatorial candidates. Louisville businessman Phil Moffett, state Senate President David Wil ...
  • Republicans running for Ky. governor have no p ...
    Republicans running for Ky. governor have no problem with mountaintop removal ... The Republic Coal companies that mine using a controversial form known as mountaintop removal have nothing to fear from any of Kentucky's three Republican gubernatorial candidates. Louisville businessman Phil Moff ...

Memeorandum

  • House votes to restrict unions (Michael Levens ...
    Michael Levenson / Boston Globe: House votes to restrict unions  —  Measure would curb bargaining on health care  —  Robert J. Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, said the union would fight the legislation “to the bitter end.”  (M. McDonald for The Boston Globe)  —  House lawmakers ...
  • Reports: Panetta to be tapped for Pentagon, Pe ...
    Jordan Fabian / The Hill: Reports: Panetta to be tapped for Pentagon, Petraeus for CIA  —  CIA Director Leon Panetta will be nominated to head the Defense Department and Gen. David Petraeus is the pick to replace him at the intelligence agency, according to reports Wednesday.  —  The Associated ...
  • Panetta and Petraeus in Line for Top Security ...
    New York Times: Panetta and Petraeus in Line for Top Security Posts  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama is expected this week to name Leon E. Panetta, the director of central intelligence, as defense secretary and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, as director of th ...
  • President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate ...
    Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog: President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate  —  In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President's campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii.  The state sent the campaign the President's birth certificate, the same legal docum ...
  • White House releases Obama's birth certificate ...
    Alexander Mooney / CNN: White House releases Obama's birth certificate  —  (CNN) - President Obama released his original birth certificate Wednesday, saying the controversy surrounding the issue had become a “sideshow.”  —  Obama's birth certificate  —  “We do not have time for this kind of sil ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Atomic risks beyond radiation
    The safety of atomic energy has become a hot topic for public discussion in China since the nuclear crisis in Japan. But, writes Chen Jiliang, China also needs to consider the economics – and the security dimension – of the nuclear debate.It took the recent crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant ...
  • Forget Chernobyl at our peril
    Those who minimise the dangers and uncertainties in the Japanese nuclear crisis ignore the casualties of the past, argues John Vidal. The Fukushima disaster is potentially worse than the 1986 events in Ukraine.Every day there are more setbacks to solving the Japanese nuclear crisis and it’s pret ...
  • Chernobyl – a poisoned landscape
    In Ukraine, 25 years on from history’s worst nuclear accident, Robin McKie sees dramatic reminders of the reactor explosion’s enduring and harrowing legacy: radioactive soil, abandoned towns and polluted lakes.Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive l ...
  • Deep-running disaster
    On this Earth Day, a year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, scientist Samantha Joye is convinced that much of BP’s spilt crude still lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.There are few people who can claim direct knowledge of the ocean floor, at least before t ...
  • The conscientious carnivores
    In San Francisco, Ian Monroe sampled a range of vegetarian and vegan food. He and his girlfriend have cut back on meat, hoping they’re improving their -- and the planet’s -- health.There’s certainly a lot green in front of us: glistening mounds of fried Szechuan green beans, steaming Chinese bro ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
    Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters late last week that he thinks we may turn the corner at the end of this year in Afghanistan. Again. Turning the corner, or the tide, or the momentum, or what have you, has become a semi-annual ritual in the failing U.S. war in Afghanistan. While all ...
  • Displacing People For Profit: Obama Administra ...
    Why is the Obama administration covertly pushing for an internationally opposed open-pit coal mine operation in Bangladesh?
  • How the 'Humanitarian' Intervention in Libya M ...
    North Korea's lesson from Libya is that if you give up your WMD programs peacefully, you may have lost your best defense from invasion.
  • Oil Prices: Gouge Us Baby One More Time
    Gas prices have been edging up since February, reaching $4 a gallon this Easter, and Republicans are gearing up to make a stink about it. To blame Democrats, that is, for setting things up this way. Blaming green energy initiatives for driving up prices, House Republicans are planning to hold he ...
  • Annotating White Conservatism’s Internal ...
    It seems that Reverend Wright was not enough. The Right is trying to generate another Obama “racist” Pastor scandal as a lead into the 2012 election. Conservative talk radio website WRNO’s piece, “Obama’s Church Choice for Easter Based on Race” is telling not because of how it plays to white Con ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower
    The government has dropped its criminal investigation of the whistle blower who exposed the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2004, and will evidently not be filing criminal charges for the historic leak. Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department atto ...
  • WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
    A German nonprofit that processes most of the donations submitted to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has finally made good on a nearly year-old promise to release a report detailing how those donations are spent — though the report remains silent on how much money was paid to WikiLeaks found ...
  • Godzilla’s Lawyers Claim Apple App Fingerzilla ...
    Toho, the owner of all things Godzilla, claims a menacing-looking human index finger with monster-like scales pictured over a skyline is treading on the Japanese company’s intellectual-property rights. With that belief, the Japanese monster-maker is demanding that the producer of an Apple iOS ap ...
  • FBI v. Coreflood Botnet: Round One Goes to the ...
    The FBI’s unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet — comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines — appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earlier this month, a ...
  • FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King’s Speech U ...
    The FBI has raided the Los Angeles apartment of a Screen Actors Guild member the bureau believes was first to upload the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech as well as Black Swan, and other in-theater-only films to the Pirate Bay in January, according to interviews and sealed court records o ...

Equality Trust

  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  
  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYo ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • FDA seeks permanent injunction against Pennsyl ...
    From and FDA Press Release: Rainbow Acres distributed raw milk in violation of federal law The Justice Department, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has filed a complaint for permanent injunction against Daniel L. Allgyer, owner of the Rainbow Acres Farm, in Kinzers, Pa. ...
  • The Food Industry Will Never Solve the Poisoni ...
    I have always been a bit amazed at the meat industry and the USDA. In the 18 years of litigating E. coli O157:H7 (and other bacterial and viral) cases – mostly on behalf of children – I am tired (and a bit disgusted) by the constant din of blaming the consumer. Sometimes the industry goes so far ...
  • Vitor Belfort with Hepatitis A - "in two weeks ...
    According to press report, in a series of Twitter messages issued today, former UFC champion and recent contender Vitor Belfort (19-9 MMA, 8-4 UFC) revealed that he has contracted hepatitis A – a “moderately” serious infection caused by contaminated food or water that's often mistaken for the fl ...
  • Jonathan's Salmonella Sprout Recall Expanded t ...
    Jonathans Sprouts of Rochester, MA is upgrading its recall of conventional alfalfa sprout products with a specific sell-by date to include all of its alfalfa products, conventional and organic, with all sell-by dates, as a precaution, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonel ...
  • Don't Kiss the Chicks - Or, the Ducklings - Th ...
    According to the CDC: Baby animals, including baby chicks and ducks, are sometimes given as gifts or put on display at this time. Because they are so soft and cute, many people do not realize the potential danger baby chicks and ducklings can be to small children. Young birds often carry harmfu ...

AutoblogGreen

  • New York 2011: Honda Civic Hybrid scores 44 mp ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Honda 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not 50 miles per gallon (rest, easy Prius), but the mpg numbers for the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid impress us nonetheless: 44/44/44. That's city/highway/combined, and it's ...
  • New York 2011: Mitsubishi sets price of all-el ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi i - Click above for high-res image gallery Some bits of good news come with a head scratcher. At the New York Auto Show today, Mitsubishi announced that the all-electric i will start at just $27,990 in the U.S. Once ...
  • New York 2011: Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concep ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Suzuki Suzuki Kizashi EcoCharge Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery For a car that doesn't exist - yet - the Suzuki Kizashi hybrid certainly rears its head an awful lot. The rumor had been that Suzuki wanted to release the car in 2011, b ...
  • New York 2011: 2012 Nissan Versa offers 33 mpg ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Budget, Sedan, Nissan 2012 Nissan Versa - Click above for high-res image gallery Revealed "simultaneously" as the new Tiida in Shanghai, the 2012 Nissan Versa drove onto the stage here at the 2011 New York Auto Show spouting some impressive numbers: 33 miles ...
  • Toyota Plug-In Prius reservations start on Ear ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Plug-in Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery If the idea of getting around 83 or 87 miles per gallon in a plug-in Toyota Prius suits your fancy, then get ready to give Toyota your pertinent details on Earth Day. That's t ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Vandana & Mira Shiva on Corporate Malpractice ...
    On Earth Day, Democracy Now! revisits a 2010 conversation with world-renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva and her sister, Dr. Mira Shiva, about multi-national malpractice in India, from the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal to Monsanto GMOs that are destroying biodiversity.
  • ‘Restrepo’ Director Tim Hetherington and Photo ...
    Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, director and producer of the documentary film “Restrepo,” and photojournalist Chris Hondros were killed in the Libyan city of Misurata on Wednesday when a group of four photojournalists were attacked. Photographer, Guy Martin, suffered severe inj ...
  • Amy Goodman's New Column: "Renewed Energy For ...
    More than 10,000 people converged in Washington, DC, this past week to discuss, organize, mobilize and protest around the issue of climate change. While tax day Tea Party gatherings of a few hundred scattered around the country made the news, this massive gathering, Power Shift 2011, was largel ...
  • Standing up to Big Pharma in Bangladesh: Right ...
    Democracy Now! talks to Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, co-founder of Bangladeshi charity Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK, The People’s Health Center) which provides education, job opportunities and low-cost, locally-produced essential drugs to rural Bangladeshis. GK received the Right Livelihood Award ...
  • Environmental Activists Occupy Interior Dept. ...
    2:15pm EDT Tim DeChristopher , activist and founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising, called Democracy Now! with an update from the U.S. Department of Interior, where 300-400 people are outside protesting and another 50 people are inside and refusing to leave. The march c ...

Digg Green

  • Looks do matter, particularly when it com ...
    It's an unfamiliar neighborhood and you find yourself in the middle of a bunch of streets and buildings you've never seen before. Giving the environment a quick once-over, you make a snap decision about whether you're safe or not. And chances are, that first 'gut' call is the right one, say ...
  • Spacetime has No Time Dimension -- New Th ...
    Einstein never interpreted time "t" as a fourth dimension of space. Space is not 3D + T, space is 4D. With clocks we measure numerical order of material change. This numerical order is the only time that exists in a physical world. With this approach all immediate information transfers of ...
  • CT scans of Egyptian mummy help Vt. solve ...
    A childhood fascination with archaeology and a chance encounter with a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy are helping Vermont doctors and law enforcement officials find truth in some of the most challenging of modern-day crimes: the unexplained deaths of young children.
  • Catastrophic Amphibian Declines Have Mult ...
    Amphibian declines around the world have forced many species to the brink of extinction, are much more complex than realized and have multiple causes that are still not fully understood, researchers conclude in a new report.
  • Did the Universe Begin as a Simple 1-D Li ...
    A refreshingly simple new idea has emerged in the complicated world of high energy physics. It proposes that the early universe was a one-dimensional line. Not an exploding sphere, not a chaotic ball of fire. Just a simple line of pure energy.

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 ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Utopian Permaculture Farms Look Like Fantastic ...
    Read the rest of Utopian Permaculture Farms Look Like Fantastical Floating Islandshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", A10, Bak ...
  • Prius-Powered Roller Coaster is Made Up of Toy ...
    Toyota and Pittsburgh-based Deeplocal have teamed up to create a Prius-powered hybrid roller coaster. The idea was to see if the car’s braking energy could be harvested to power other parts of a theme park. “There’s energy everywhere,” said energy and battery expert Jay Whitacre, Ph.D, in the vi ...
  • Foster + Partners Break Ground on Naturally Co ...
    Read the rest of Foster + Partners Break Ground on Naturally Cooled CITIC Skyscraper In Chinahttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: catural cooli ...
  • LEED Platinum Vancouver Convention Centre Take ...
    Read the rest of LEED Platinum Vancouver Convention Centre Takes Home Top Ten AIA COTE Awardhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable a ...
  • 2,200MPG Celeritas Solar Car Wins Shell Eco-Ma ...
    Solar cars are rapidly becoming more and more efficient, but they’re going to have to step up their game in order to beat the Celeritas, a 275 lb vehicle that can travel 2,200 miles per gallon. The car, designed by a team from Purdue University, just won the urban division of the 2011 Shell EcoM ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Total Collapse – The Build up to World ...
    Even if we do make it through this summer which I highly doubt the crash of the dollar is inevitable just a matter of time it could happen tomorrow next week or next month .Main Stream Media will be the last news source to inform us we're on a sinking ship! The United States are going to collaps ...
  • Fukushima Radiation: A Soft-Kill Operation
    The Fukushima radiation leak is a soft-kill operation against the people and ecosystem of the Northern Hemisphere. The leaking reactors could be sealed in concrete and sand in a matter of days as they were at Chernobyl. However, it is now clear that TEPCO and the corporate-controlled Japanese ...
  • Even Ben Stein Is Warning That An Economic Col ...
    He sure has come a long way since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". During a recent television segment for CBS, Ben Stein declared that "the tea leaves are ominous" and he warned that an economic collapse may be coming. In particular, Ben Stein is deeply concerned about inflation. During his recent ...
  • Al-Qaida terrorist worked for British and Cana ...
    An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military’s Guantánamo Bay prison camp. Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, ...
  • Kabbalist Doctrine Explains World Events
    According to the Kabbalah, which is the secret doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, "Evil and catastrophe [are] endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place." (Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, by ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Hidden Horrors of WikiLeaks’ Guantán ...
    WikiLeaks’ latest revelations — secret military files on almost all of the 779 prisoners held in the US “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — are already causing a stir, and for good reason, as they resuscitate a story that appears to have been forgotten in the last few years: how, i ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses WikiLeaks’ Gu ...
    Another day, another round of phone calls, radio interviews and no opportunity whatsoever to put pen to paper — OK, fingers to typepad — to actually write something myself about the copious revelations of injustice, incompetence, credulity and tortured, coerced or bribed prisoners passed off as ...
  • The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson Captures t ...
    Since Sunday night, when WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo Files first began appearing online, eight media partners have been putting out stories — McClatchy Newspapers, the Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El Pais, La Repubblica and Aftonbladet — as well as other media outlets, ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Significance of ...
    On Monday afternoon, after almost no sleep, because of the rush release on Sunday night of WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo files, and after a busy morning of feedback and planning, a trip to central London for an interview on the BBC World Service’s Newshour, a quick cup of coffee and a muffin in the bla ...
  • WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exp ...
    Well, the cat is now out of the bag, and Guantánamo will, hopefully, be closer to closure — and the lies that powerful Americans tell about it will, hopefully, be closer to silence — as a result. For the last few weeks, I’ve been working as a media partner with WikiLeaks, along with the Washin ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • White Nationalist Report Guesses That Immigran ...
    Just in time for tax day, the white nationalist Social Contract Press has released a special report claiming that immigrants â legal and undocumented alike â are manipulating the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to cheat taxpayers out of billions. The report, “Defrauding the American Taxpayer â T ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activists Gingerly Deplore Jones’ ...
    Anti-Muslim activists are walking an ideological tightrope, condemning the actions of the Florida pastor whose burning of the Koran on March 20 set off murderous riots last weekend in Afghanistan, while condemning President Obama for not emphatically reaffirming the pastor’s right to do what he ...
  • Alaska Congressman Seeks Distance From Accused ...
    A Republican congressman from Alaska, who also is on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, now is attempting to distance himself from a Fairbanks militia leader accused in a high-profile firearms, murder and kidnapping plot. In April 2009, with a video camera rolling, Rep. Do ...
  • Alleged MLK Day Bomber Hit With Rare Federal H ...
    The white supremacist accused of planting a potentially deadly back pack bomb on the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade in Spokane, Wash., was arraigned Monday on four charges, including a new federal hate crime charge. His trial was scheduled for May 31 in federal court. The gra ...
  • Nullification Advocates Take Show On The Road
    Possibly coming to a city near you: A citizens’ seminar on how to weaken the “united” in United States by canceling federal laws that states don’t like. The traveling conference, called “Nullify Now!” pushes nullification, the notion that a state has the right to invalidate and disregard any fed ...

change: org.

  • Norwegian Labour Party Votes to Shut Down Fur ...
    In a major victory for animal lovers, members of the Norwegian Labour Party voted to�shut down Norway's fur industry. According to Views and News from Norway, Popular Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg "will be under marching orders from his party members to urge fur farmers into other lines of wor ...
  • King & Spalding: The Law Firm that Will Defend ...
    Imagine if years from now, history books had this to say about your business: when discrimination needed a champion, "x" business was there to make sure anti-gay laws were defended. The law firm of King & Spalding better be careful, or this is what folks will be saying about it a few years down ...
  • Progress! California's Ventura County Rescinds ...
    California's Ventura County almost let a cancer-causing neurotoxin onto its crop fields — almost. An Oxnard-area farmer recently applied for a permit to use methyl iodide, a fumigant pesticide so poisonous it's been linked to cancers, miscarriages, neurological disorders, and other health issues ...
  • Progress! NYC Council Member Agrees to Sponsor ...
    New York City's carriage horse industry would have you believe their horses lead the equine equivalent of a pampered Manhattan life, complete with a retirement plan to look forward to. In reality, we don't know what happens to the horses when their carriage-pulling days are over, since dispositi ...
  • Change.org Immigration Blogger Placed in Remov ...
    Last year during my first round of law school final exams, Congress was getting ready to vote on the federal DREAM Act, which would have given undocumented youth in the United States a pathway to citizenship. This year, during another set of final exams, President Obama has decided to send me a ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Doctors 'Hid Signs of Torture' at Guantanamo
    US government doctors who cared for the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay deliberately concealed or ignored evidence that their patients were being tortured, the first official study of its kind has found. A detailed review of the medical records and case files of nine Guantanamo inmates has concluded ...
  • Why US and NATO Fed Detainees to Afghan Tortur ...
    WASHINGTON - 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 torture. Interviews with former U.S. and NATO diplomats and other evidence now available show that Unit ...
  • Yemenis Start Civil Disobedience Campaign
    SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni residents in scores of cities and towns across the nation launched a civil disobedience campaign Wednesday to bring down the country's long-serving president, activists said. The campaign is the latest in Yemen's uprising that started in early February, inspired by revolts ...
  • Chained Ethnic Studies Students Take Over Scho ...
    Has Wisconsin finally come to Arizona? In an extraordinary uprising at the Tucson Unified School District board meeting Tuesday, Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies (MAS) students chained themselves to the board members chairs and derailed the introduction of a controversial resolution that ...
  • Panetta to Head Pentagon, Petraeus CIA
    President Barack Obama will nominate CIA director Leon Panetta as defense secretary and Army General David Petraeus as head of the American spy agency, officials said on Wednesday. Obama will also nominate veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. An official said ...

Lifehacker

  • Small but Visible Rewards Can Motivate Team Me ...
    Remember when all you needed for motivation was a sticker next to your marker-printed name, or maybe a notch on the chalkboard? It's a principle still in play in adult motivation, as proven by the Ohio State Buckeyes, and grown men competi ...
  • How To Perfect Your French Press Coffee Techni ...
    At its best, coffee brewed with a French press is richer and more full-bodied than drip; at its worst, it's bitter and gritty. This expert technique can help you avoid the pitfalls and make perfect coffee with your French press. More�� ...
  • You're Now Owed Serious Money if You Get Bumpe ...
    New rules issued by the Department of Transportation insist that travelers who get involuntarily "bumped" from their flights receive substantially bigger payouts than before. Given the higher pay-out rates, volunteering to be bumped gives ...
  • Keep Small Items Together in a Dishwasher with ...
    Plastic strawberry (and other berry) baskets can be reused as handy dishwasher baskets. Use them on the top shelf of the dishwasher to keep small items secure while washing. More��
  • Tom's Planner Now Schedules Projects on iPads ...
    Tom's Planner, a work scheduling tool built in the Gantt chart fashion, has added some pretty nifty functionality for iPad and iPhone users. Throw together the tasks and actions that you need accomplished, and long-press a field for more o ...

Water Privatization

  • Candidates answer readers' questions
    NORTHUMBERLAND -Earlier this month Northumberland Today invited readers to submit questions they would like the four local candidates in the May 2 federal election to answer. We chose five questions, which we e-mailed to the candidates, asking for answers up to 250 words in length.[...]
  • Candidates answer readers' questions
    NORTHUMBERLAND -Earlier this month Northumberland Today invited readers to submit questions they would like the four local candidates in the May 2 federal election to answer. We chose five questions, which we e-mailed to the candidates, asking for answers up to 250 words in length.[...]
  • University Lectures | Activist highlights impo ...
    The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...
  • Privatization Commission Board reconstituted
    ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has reconstituted the Board of Privatization Commission with Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Privatization, Water and Power as its chairman.
  • Activist highlights importance of protecting c ...
    By: Breanne Van Nostrand The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. ...

Guardian

  • UK GDP grew by 0.5% in last quarter
    �� Britain's economy grew by 0.5% in the first quarter of the year �� Office for National Statistics warns that UK is on a "plateau" �� Treasury says growth is good news, but Ed Balls claims George Osborne has his head in the sand. �� Vote Now: Is the UK economy on the right track?11.05am: Phill ...
  • Syria can still do right thing – Hague
    Foreign secretary says president Bashar al-Assad is viewed as a potential reformer � and may be persuaded to go down the right 'prong in the fork'The foreign secretary, William Hague, has said it is not too late for Syria to "do the right thing" by implementing the reforms its people are calling ...
  • PlayStation hack 'took days to detect'
    Sony's company blog says forensic analysis of the PlayStation Network hack took 'several days' to complete and extent of intrusion wasn't understood until TuesdaySony has admitted that it shut down its PlayStation Network last week because it discovered a "non-gaming" intrusion into the system, ...
  • Gaddafi envoys in Caracas for talks
    Libyan delegation arrived several days ago to discuss solution to end Nato's 'crazy' bombing, Venezuelan president addsEnvoys from Muammar Gaddafi's government have flown to Venezuela to discuss ways to resolve Libya's conflict, President Hugo Chávez has said.The visitors arrived in Caracas seve ...
  • Thousands attend Sai Baba funeral
    Funeral broadcast live on TV, while PM, Sonia Gandhi and Sachin Tendulkar among those to pay their respects since his deathThousands of tearful devotees have gathered for the funeral of Sathya Sai Baba, who was revered by his followers as a divine incarnation with miraculous healing powers.The 8 ...

McClatchey

  • In nuclear accident, risks extend beyond evacu ...
    WASHINGTON — The nuclear power accidents at Fukushima this spring and at Chernobyl 25 years ago Tuesday show that radiation releases can endanger people and contaminate land many miles beyond evacuation zones.
  • Poll: Most Americans think a nuclear accident ...
    WASHINGTON — Most Americans fear that the United States someday could face the kind of nuclear emergency that's plagued Japan in recent weeks, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
  • Guantanamo secret files show U.S. often held i ...
    WASHINGTON — Naqibullah was about 14-years-old when U.S. troops detained him in December of 2002 at a suspected militant's compound in eastern Afghanistan.
  • More states moving to managed-care plans for M ...
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Lobbying battles are being fought in state capitals across the country as more than a dozen governors try to contain the cost of Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor and those with disabilities, by requiring more people to go into managed-care plans.
  • Bernanke will meet the press, a first for the Fed
    WASHINGTON — In a historic break with an almost century-old tradition, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a news conference Wednesday.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate laws don't wait for UN
    With UN climate negotiations in something of a quagmire, you might assume that fewer and fewer governments were passing national legislation on the issue. According to a report just out from Globe International, the parliamentarians' alliance, you'd be mistaken. US states such as California are ...
  • Giant tortoise brings slow salvation
    In a week when the introduction of species to islands has been under discussion for other reasons, news comes from Mauritius of a new inhabitant that is restoring a vital piece of long-extinct ecology. And it centres on a tortoise. � Several hundred years ago, settlers wiped out the big wildli ...
  • Re-homing nature: A step too far?
    Sir Richard Branson's plan to introduce lemurs to islands he owns in the Caribbean, which I reported on Saturday, has thrown into new light a real dilemma facing conservation scientists as they struggle to contain and reverse the loss of species and ecosystems across the world. The red-ruffed l ...
  • Exploring the 'oceans crisis'
    Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice. According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - ...
  • Science and politics - a tale of two meetings
    More than 8,000km separate Vienna and Bangkok. That's roughly the distance that appeared to be separating the minds of people attending very different meetings that took place in the two capitals last week. In between bites of Sachertorte, scientists unveiled their latest research in many discip ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Did I Break Dr. Dawg's Blawg?
    No I didn't. The morning after the events in question I was able to access it. Strangely enough, the comment that I tried to post and which I thought might be responsible for breaking his blog is still in the comment window, un-posted. What happened is that I was having a discussion with one of ...
  • "Edgy Comedian" Guy Earle
    Altavista anything about the Guy Earle case, the self-professed extremely left-wing physicist/comedian, and you're bound to get a slew of hits to right-wing troglodytes (Steyn, Levant, Shaidle) for whom the man is a hero in the cause of free speech. Seems that back in 2008, two lesbian women we ...
  • cons, dippers, n' libs [finished!]
    Maybe we Canadians are going to get the government we deserve. Part of the reason for this, ... a very important reason for this, ... is because the habitual voting preferences of those Canadians who do vote, has revolved around two parties that have no interest in dismantling an electoral s ...
  • Is harper's the Democracy Our Soldiers Died For?
    Enough said?
  • Listen Liberals ...
    This ain't a dig. I'm working on something to explain partisan attitudes in Canada (it's currently in an incomplete form about two posts down). This is, rather, an important reason why the NDP might have a genuine surge in Quebec and why the Liberals are struggling. Chantel Hebert once decided ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • NDP Leader Jack Layton hosts 'historic' town h ...
    New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton held another large rally in the heart of Toronto. Layton, whose party is in a tough fight for second place with Michael Ignatieff's Liberals, pledged more funding for healthcare and to bring the troops home.
  • Bill Gates now largest CN Railway shareholder, ...
    Bill Gates, the multi-billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is now the largest shareholder of Canadian National Railway Co. and now owns $3.2 billion. Since 2006, Gates has been increasing his involvement in the nation's biggest railway company.
  • Photo essay: Faces of Vaisakhi parade, Surrey, BC
    On a sunny weekend day, East-Indian residents of Lower Mainland celebrated their Vaisakhi holiday that marks the birth of religious community known as khalsa. The Sikhs all over the world celebrate their harvest festival in these days.
  • Bixi Toronto's first docking station arrives
    Starting Tuesday April 26th, the gradual deployment of BIXI stations will begin for the official launch of the service on May 3rd 2011.
  • Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff: 'The campaig ...
    Michael Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, spoke in downtown Toronto Sunday. Ignatieff, standing alongside Liberal colleagues, commented on the latest polls, the recent campaign vandalism and his “campaign of style.”

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • F-35 costs to rise: Pentagon
    Two new Pentagon reports suggest that the purchase and operating costs for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be higher than originally projected (Murray Brewster, “F-35 service costs may be more than double Ottawaâs estimate,” Globe and Mail, 25 April 2011). One report indicates (unsurprisingly ...
  • Party platforms on peace issues
    With the notable and limited exception of the proposed F-35 purchase, the issues of war and peace have been almost entirely absent from the current federal election campaign, even though the country is now involved in two on-going wars. The major parties have all published election platform docu ...
  • F-35 documentary on CPAC
    F-35: The Politics of Procurement, a new documentary on the proposed F-35 purchase hosted by Scott Taylor, will air on CPAC on Thursday and Friday (it also aired on Wednesday). Showtimes: Thursday, April 21st at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT Friday, April 22nd at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Information from [...]
  • Manson: Stop ranting!!!
    Retired General Paul Manson, former Canadian Chief of Defence Staff and (in his stealth mode) former Chairman of Lockheed Martin Canada, has slammed Winslow Wheeler’s critique of the planned purchase of the F-35 as a “low credibility rant” sponsored by the “farleft” Rideau Institute (Paul Manson ...
  • More military spending: or deliver aid and fig ...
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HacgnxcmUI

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Dr. Leonard Coldwell
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Dr. Leonard Coldwell and click here to find out how to become a sales champion! Click here to order The Only Answer To Becoming A Sales Champion. Click here to listen to The Dr. Coldwell Report. Click here to read his daily blog. Dr ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-26-11
    Today, Kevin explains why it is so important to care… but not that much! Plus, Dr. Leonard Coldwell teaches you how to become a sales champion! Self Help: The Only Answer To Becoming A Sales Champion Don’t Be Scared! Be Prepared! Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on Yo ...
  • Andrew Breitbart Joins The Kevin Trudeau Show!
    On Thursday April 28th at 12PM CST, conservative journalist and free-speech advocate Andrew Breitbart will be LIVE on The Kevin Trudeau Show. Andrew is going go into extreme detail on how the mainstream media lies and misleads the public. In Andrew’s latest book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-25-11
    Today, in the holiday spirit, Kevin goes over his curiosity with certain religious traditions that contradict important rules and teachings.     Self Help: McCombs Candida Cleanse   Make Your Dreams Come True Government: Change Turned Out To Be A Lot Tougher Than Obama Expected NWO: The Mysterio ...
  • Obama: ‘Change Turned Out to Be a Lot To ...
    April 25th, 2011 AOL News By: Julie Pace President Barack Obama told supporters on Thursday he is pressing ahead with his agenda in a difficult political environment in Washington and that “change turned out to be a lot tougher than expected.” Obama addressed about 200 people who paid up to $35, ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Supporters in Haiti make ready for Aristide
    Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. 'Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the ...
  • Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultur ...
    After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of th ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 1 ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...

War in Context

  • News roundup — April 26
    The epic Arab battle reaches Syria Rami G. Khouri writes: Syria is now the critical country to watch in the Arab world, after the homegrown regime changes in Tunisia and Egypt, and the imminent changes in Yemen and Libya. The Syrian regime headed by President Bashar Assad is now seriously chal ...
  • Shahin and Juan Cole: the women’s movement in ...
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Against all odds, they just keep tottering.  I’m talking, of course, about the autocrats of the Middle East: first, Ben Ali of Tunisia, then Mubarak of Egypt, now Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen.  After two months of demonstrations in the streets of Y ...
  • How Obama leads from behind
    Ryan Lizza writes: This spring, Obama officials often expressed impatience with questions about theory or about the elusive quest for an Obama doctrine. One senior Administration official reminded me what the former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said when asked what was likely to set ...
  • McCoy and Reilly: an empire of failed states
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Imperial powers hedge their bets.  The most striking recent example we have of this is in Egypt.  While the Pentagon was pouring money into the Egyptian military (approximately $40 billion since 1979), it turns out — thank you, WikiLeaks! — that th ...
  • News roundup — April 25
    Poll: Over half of Egypt wants end to Israel peace More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday. The poll highlights the deep unpopularity of the thre ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Blown promises
    First the promise, perhaps a bit overrated: The article goes on to say: The borough already has one publicly-owned turbine â a 33ft Air Dolphin turbine at a location off Taylors Lane, Oldbury, near the civic amenities site in Shidas … Continue reading →
  • Deep fried flying
    I’ve never much thought there was much usefulness to waste vegetable oil used for automobile fuel, as there is a much more finite amount of waste frying oil available compared to petroleum. Ditto for chicken fat powered aviation. Would you … Continue reading →
  • Wakey wakey
    CU-Boulder leading study of wind turbine wakes A turbine at the National Wind Technology Center south of Boulder, Colo. (photo courtesy of CIRES) While wind turbines primarily are a source of renewable energy, they also produce wakes of invisible ripples … Continue reading →
  • EPA abuses the permit process for an icebreaker
    Jeez Louise. They may need an icebreaker for the project, and so since they didn’t account for its exhaust, let’s scuttle the whole thing and the 4 billion invested so far.  I’m no fan of Shell, but this is just … Continue reading →
  • The climate sensitivity and the surface temper ...
    Dr. Roger Pielke Senior posted this today, since he has no comments on his blog, I felt it would be good to repost it here to allow discussion – Anthony Repost Of Weblog Climatequotes.com âClimate Scientists Answer Question: Should Climate … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • 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 ...
  • 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

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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
    Please click to view the entire report.
  • 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

National Geographic | Environment

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

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

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 ...
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