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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, May 26, 2011

26 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hydropower not considered renewable energy in ...
    (Crossposted from CAIVN. It’s clear that the push towards renewable energy can be just the same old slimy lobbyists and special interests ramming through bills that benefit them and hurt the rest of us. There is no rational reason why hydropower should not be considered renewable energy in Calif ...
  • Underground pumped hydro energy storage at gri ...
    What renewable energy needs is a way to store excess energy at grid scale for later use. Gravity Power thinks they can take traditional stored hydro (pump water up to a holding tank) and do it underground. This eliminates environmental concerns with fish and they say a 7 acre site could store a ...
  • The unreality of California budget negotiations
    Gov. Brown’s “concessions” from public unions have, as usual in the convoluted, interminable, and deeply opaque process by which California eventually stumbles to a budget agreement, turned out to be less of a cut than what state employees are experiencing under their current expired contract. B ...
  • Pacifica violates own rules, takes corporate money
    And from the Vampire Squid (Goldman Sachs), no less… However, outraged listeners have forced KPFA to not cancel Democracy Now.
  • On the violence and corruption in Mexico. Sylv ...
    In this interview by al Jazeera , intelligence professional Sylvia Longmire says the cartels are hybrids, insurgencies as well as criminal, and the solution must be multi-faceted. We need to discuss legalization as well as social programs and economic reform so drugs aren’t the only way for desp ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Air Readings In Texas WAY Off Charts, Official ...
  • Ron Paul Explains Why He Wants To Be President
  • Holding Bernanke Accountable
    On Wednesday at 2:15 p.m., Ben Bernanke will do something that previous Federal Reserve chairmen considered a terrible idea. He will hold a news conference. Mr. Bernanke spent much of his academic career arguing that the Fed should be less opaque, and, as chairman, he has put his ideas into acti ...
  • US suspected BBC was a propaganda network
    THE US government suspected the BBC of being a “possible propaganda media network” for al-Qaeda after a phone number for the World Service was found in the possession of several suspected terrorists. The number was held by operatives fighting in Afghanistan and questions were asked about the cor ...
  • Group sues auditor general to release G8 report
    An online activist group is filing a lawsuit in federal court to try to force the auditor general to release her report into the government’s G8 spending before the election, it announced Tuesday. Avaaz, an organization known for its petitions on democracy and rights issues, is arguing Auditor G ...

The Air Vent

  • How to reply?
    I received this email today, not sure how to reply.  Any suggestions? Hi Jeff, I wanted to email you in regards in any possible advertising opportunities you may have with your website…I am looking to promote the C40 Cities project (Climate Leadership Group) and the work that they and their par ...
  • Examination of the Climate Change Strategy
    By John F. Pittman There have been some excellent articles and discussion at Dr. Curry’s site and others over the renewed calls for anything from Climate Change SWAT teams, to reorganizing the educational direction of scientists and advocates to convince the public. On Dr. Pielke, Jr’s site is a ...
  • Reply to a Believer
    Kim Oyhus placed a YouTube video on line which Steve McIntyre highlighted a why climategate wasn’t a scandal repeating the excuses of the scientists involved which makes it somewhat interesting.  She quoted them claiming that using certain techniques was the problem in the data.  Of course she ...
  • Who is the Enemy of Whom
    A news article recently caught my attention. U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether ‘Mother Earth’ Deserves Human Rights Status I suppose this is the official step for conversion of the global warming science group to the status of religion. The dangers of this stupidity should be obvious but leave me ...
  • Ugh!
    I’ve got to let off a little steam.   Currently, in the US, we have a government overspending their income by a gigantic proportion.   Those in charge have no chance of feeling the result of their own policy (while in office) and those who lose office didn’t have the power anyway so — who ca ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Insights API Now Shows if Page Post L ...
    Over the last week, Facebook has quietly improved the Insights API for Page posts such that admins can now tell the percentage of their Post Likes and comments that came through a mobile device. The device source data can help Pages that use third-party analytics tools to interpret the Insights ...
  • The Facebook Marketing Bible May 2011 Edition ...
    The May 2011 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Comprehensive Guide to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook is now available. The Facebook Marketing Bible has enabled thousands of marketers, social application developers, publishers, and entrepreneurs to navi ...
  • Facebook Launches Three New Sponsored Stories ...
    Facebook has just launched three new types of Sponsored Stories — the ad unit it launched in January that turns user activity into ads shown to their friends. The new types expand the kinds of user activity that can be converted into ads to include Page post Likes, app or game usage, and activit ...
  • With Launch of Deals, Facebook Introduces New ...
    Along with the rollout of its new Deals group coupon service for businesses, Facebook has updated its overarching legal terms for all users and organizations in order to cover what Deal participants are agreeing to. The “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities” document now includes two new lin ...
  • How Your Website Can Use the Facebook Send Button
    The following is an excerpt from the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, brand, or website using Facebook. The full version of this article is available through a Facebook Marketing Bible subscription. Released yesterday, Facebook’s Send button socia ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...
  • Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam:
    Federal Brasilian judge Ronaldo Desterro has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns. Judge Desterro said environmental requirements to build the Belo Monte dam had not been met. He also barred the national development bank, BND ...
  • 1.ooo military forces end illegal gold mining ...
    The Peruvian military has cleared-out illegal gold mining along the country’s south-eastern Amazon region in a move aiming to protect the environment. The government sent about 1,000 security forces to the region of Madre de Dios to destroy the illegal operations, the state-funded BBC reported. ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Weekly Round Up for Sunday, April 24
    Police State Status, TSA Pornographers, the Ever-Lasting Anthrax Mystery, Drone-Mania, Israel &Colonialism, Our So-Called Ally-Azerbaijan & More! Hope you all had a nice week. I’ve been nursing my daughter who is recovering from her first strep throat: 103F fever, antibiotics, miserable cough, a ...
  • The Divine Rights of the US Federal Government
    Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. – - Herbert Spencer Once upon a time there was âthe divine right of kings,â a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy asserting that kings are subject to no earthly authority, deriving their right to r ...
  • Podcast Show #40
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Grant Smith Grant F. Smith joins us to discuss Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, a 2009 Council on Foreign Relations book authored by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. He tells us about rarely discussed “massive non-market subsidies and distortions” d ...
  • On Your Warnings: “One if by Land, Two if by S ...
    I’m Every Woman & Here is How To my good friends and supporters who have been warning and preparing me for the ‘siege to come’ after writing my last post on the Israel Lobby: Here I am still standing, stronger than ever, after speaking the ‘unspeakable.’ Granted some of those warnings were anyth ...

Afro Spear

  • A Haitian History Lesson, Or, Why I LOVE Randa ...
    I am reading Randall Robinson’s “Quitting America.” I’ve quit America, too, I just haven’t left this jive plantation yet. Its comin’!! Robinson is my new/old hero. I needed to share this brilliant, powerful black man with ya’ll. Its old history – if you’ve heard it at all – but its relevant. I l ...
  • “Africa’s Hidden Presidents?&#8221 ...
    What transpired in Ivory Coast recently, luckily, unearthed a great rot in our education system and upper echelons of power in Africa. Laurent Gbagbo, the professor of History, made a bad history for not understanding history. He mindlessly clung unto power so as to cause many deaths and many ca ...
  • easter riddymz
    “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1: 18 
  • Baldwin’s Prophecy
  • Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa & ...
    Cote d’Ivoire discussed – Africa – Al Jazeera English.

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • A Billion Acts of Greenwash
    Tomorrow is Earth Day – whoopee doo! It’s that time of year that all the environmental NGOs and countless businesses work towards in order to bring about a sudden upsurge in pointless symbolic actions and purchases of “green” things like (I’ll just have a look in my Deleted Items folder) LED can ...
  • Irony Alert! Red Tape Challenge a Breach of Na ...
    I’ve just come off the phone after speaking to a nice person at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She sounded a little concerned, or maybe that was just bemusement, after I pointed out that the UK Government’s latest brain-busting measure – known, all chummily, as the Red Ta ...
  • 350.org on Facebook: Now You See It…Now ...
    Naomi Klein decided to join the board of 350.org. They are delighted, as you would be if one of the world’s most influential anti-capitalism writers joined your campaign. Obviously this puts Naomi Klein’s writings in a whole new focus – she’s happy to be part of an organisation that received its ...
  • Switch Your Lights ON for Earth Hour!
    Once upon a time there was just greenwash: corporations and governments went to great lengths to convince a concerned public that they were doing everything they could to help the natural environment return to its former glory. All the time they were filling their bank accounts and pumping up th ...
  • International Atomic Energy Agency Spinning Li ...
    In the light of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsumani, government and internation agencies are working like crazy to ensure no news remains good news regarding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet from the BBC we hear the following: There are now problems at the number three reactor – ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Our Project (and the Country) Needs Cheap, ...
    Of all the challenges since November, when we began our Knight-funded project, hooking up the Internet was probably the least expected snag. Our project, Order in the Court 2.0, aims to modernize an old-school district courtroom and stream its proceedings live online. There was so much policy ...
  • R.I.P. Flip Cam: The Smartphone Did It (Not Cisco)
    Over the last three years, I've attended all three TEDx conferences on the idyllic campus of my old alma mater, the University of Southern California. And it's been my experience that TEDxUSC is where you go to be inspired, not have your dreams relegated to the heap bin of "what if..." But fo ...
  • How to Design Fast, Interactive Maps Without Flash
    Until recently if you wanted to create a fast interactive map to use on your website you had two main options - design it in Flash, or use Google. With the prevalence of mobile devices, for many users Flash isn't an option, leaving Google and a few competitors (like Bing). But we are developing ...
  • Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames?
    This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers a wide range of game-like experiences from puzz ...
  • Ushahidi's Online Toolbox Helps People Underst ...
    [Post written by Melissa Tully and Jennifer Chan. This post is the third in a series of blog posts documenting a 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation.] We have made great progress on the Ushahidi Kenya e ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of the Universe - Search for Dark Matter ...
    Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other institutions participating in the international XENON collaboration say they are now closer than ever befor ...
  • The Battle for Libya - The Port of Misurata is ...
    The Libyan city of Misurata is the last remaining major rebel outpost in western Libya. Misurata’s access to the sea has enabled regular shipments of food, weapons, medicine and ammunition to sustain the resistance in the face of daily attacks by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Ga ...
  • The Battle for Yemen - Islamist Militancy: Bef ...
    Nearly three months have passed since the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, first saw mass demonstrations against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, but an exit from the current stalemate is still nowhere in sight. Saleh retains enough support to continue dictating the terms of his eventual political dep ...
  • Inside Islam - France Appears More Concerned A ...
    Seldom do we object when people wear less in public. Why are the French so riled when some women want to wear more? The French ban on face veils came into force this week. Based on this law Muslim women who wear a face veil in public places will be fined. Men who force women to wear a face veil ...
  • Book Review - Promise and Peril: America at th ...
    Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age. Christopher McKnight Nichols. Harvard. 2011."My dear Rick, when will you realize that in this world today, isolationism is no longer a practical policy?" Sydney Greenstreet asks Humphrey Bogart in a classic moment from Casablanca (1942). Ev ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Man Who Saved Obama's Political Career Passes Away
    The flag at the White House must be flying at half-mast today as the man credited with saving the career of President Barack Obama passed away. No I am not talking about Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright they just shaped the future president's politics, this person was much more important, Hubert Sc ...
  • Wisconsin Voters Who Signed Recall Petition Ar ...
    Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay is one of the Wisconsin legislators who skipped town rather than vote for the budget bill reducing the public unions' stranglehold on the states finances. Last Thursday, Hansen was rewarded for his dereliction of duty when some of his constituents� handed in ...
  • The Anti-Democratic Super-Weapon: How The West ...
    By Barry Rubin I have long thought that we are experiencing what might be called the Middle Easternization of the West but never fully understood it until a friend asked me a question. Why is it, he asked, that when moderates in the Arab world are attacked they always react defen ...
  • New Research: States Face $1.26 Trillion Retir ...
    The Unions can bitch and protest all they want but it will not change the facts, state budgets are facing an increasingly large gap between what they owe in retirement benefits and what they can pay and unless something is done about it today these states will be heading toward bankruptcy and no ...
  • Electric Car Subsidies :Your Tax Dollars Down ...
    While we are looking for places to come up with savings in the federal budget, its time that we looked at cutting the federal subsidies for electric cars. Through its loan and subsidy program, the United States is creating a market for a product where the is no demand. The problem with buying de ...

The Real Agenda

  • Majority of Human Race Does Not See Global War ...
    CNSNews.com April 26, 2011 Most of the human race does not see global warming as a serious threat, according to a Gallup poll released last week that surveyed individuals in 111 countries. Respondents were asked: “How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?” They were given ...
  • U.S. Feds get warrants to mine Facebook accounts
    As if Facebook wasn’t already enough of a data mining operation, judges are allowing Feds to access account information such as addresses, telephone numbers, friends’ lists in order to… you guessed it: ‘fight crime’. By Robert Snell The Detroit News April 25, 2011 Federal investigators in Detroi ...
  • Pediatricians call for stricter laws for chemicals
    The U.S. is not doing enough to protect kids from exposure to potentially dangerous chemicals, pediatricians said in a new statement released today. Reuters April 25, 2011 The policy paper from the American Academy of Pediatrics explains that a law meant to inform the public about the risks of d ...
  • The Dark Side of Globalism
    by Tom DeWeese April 25, 2011 There are many faces of globalism, and it comes with many names, but in all cases, the goal of globalism is to erase national borders, eliminate national sovereignty, reduce national identities, and move toward global governance through the United Nations. The Europ ...
  • Apple’s legal council: We ‘must ha ...
    Guidelines for user spying are written under United States Telecommunications Act of 1996. International Business Times April 25, 2011 Security researchers unveiled this week that Apple’s iPhonewas actively logging the whereabouts of users, storing location data into an easily assessable file on ...

Wind Watch

  • Slew of bills target growing wind power industry
    AUGUSTA, Maine � Critics of industrial wind power in Maine are waging their most organized fight against the burgeoning industry, urging lawmakers to impose tougher siting standards or require developers to compensate neighbors when wind farms harm their property values. During the first of two ...
  • Resistance mounts to Germany’s ambitious ...
    The German government plans to replace nuclear reactors with thousands of wind turbines and thousands of kilometers of high-voltage “monster masts” in a move that will deface vast swathes of territory. Germans, though desperate to phase out atomic energy, are gearing up to protest against the gr ...
  • Wind-farm boom stirs up wildlife concerns
    The unregulated wind-energy industry is expanding rapidly across Oklahoma, causing concern among wildlife officials about the location of wind farms and towering turbines. Oklahoma is among several states with few or no regulations regarding wind-energy development, officials said. With hundreds ...
  • Fickle winds, intermittent sunshine start to s ...
    The growth of U.S. wind power has begun to create operating challenges for nuclear and coal plants that must be ramped up and down as wind speeds vary, panelists at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology energy conference reported last week. The MIT Energy Initiative symposium on integrating la ...
  • Major headwinds: Lawsuit leaves renewable ener ...
    This time last year, all appeared to be on track for a large-scale, $75-million installation of a dozen wind turbines on the Douglas-Webster town line. Testing had been done to prove there is enough wind to support the more than 300-foot towers. The Weymouth-based development firm pushing the pr ...

Not My Tribe

  • Pissing match with trickle-down theory
    Oh dear, is this really the best antiwar argument we’ve got? The share of federal spending which goes to war-making IS astounding, and informative to the common citizen, but how does it speak to the average weapons industrialist? They’re trickle-down folks! The more money going to science and sk ...
  • Ugh Bruce, but imperturbable
    COLORADO SPRINGS– It was Doug Bruce himself, the anti-tax man most responsible for the region’s decaying services and infrastructure, polishing his own campaign sign, on land belonging to Griffis/Blessing. The fit was not entirely out of the realm of possibility, but I made a second pass, conspi ...
  • The man-purse for behind enemy lines
    A staple of army surplus stores since the days Banana Republic was the Starbucks of olive drab, the Israeli Paratrooper Bag was marketed as the Swiss Army Knife of handbags. Beside the ludicrous notion that an airborne assault fighter would shoulder a single-strapped man-purse, the red logo of a ...
  • Semper Fido Bitches
    COLO. SPRINGS– Tough crowd at this week’s antiwar bannering: the usual plentiful honks of support, but now intermittent servicemen heckling in crew-cutted indignation. And we haven’t yet inaugurated our WARMONGERS GO TO HELL banner. The best the driver of a white van-load of them could muster wa ...
  • Local cyclists shred Garden of the Gods
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Mountain bike thrillcraft eco-vandals Jason Memmelaar and Chris Heath weren’t apprehended by the El Paso County Sheriff or the CSPD, but interrupted by an off-duty park ranger Stephanie Stover, who saw them cutting tree limbs to expand an illegal downhill run. When she scattere ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Listening to Debunker Arguments is Like Watchi ...
    By: John-Michael Talboo and Steve Weathers Late last month Adam Taylor published a response to JREF forum members "Sunstealer" and "The Almond," who like many before them, are trying to argue that the international group of scientists who authored the "Active Ahermitic Material paper," which i ...
  • 5 No-planer Claims Refuted
    This is for anyone who still thinks the no-plane theories have any credibility. Please consider this my public statement about no-plane theories: They have no merit and are all wrong. Related Info: Debunking "September Clues" and "No Plane" Theories The plane does decelerate: Interpreting ...
  • Structural Aspects of Building 7’s Collapse: W ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: The Physics of WTC 7 World Trade Center 7: An Engineered Collapse NIST's Admission of Freefall - Does It Matter? The Ultimate proof NIST is lying about WTC7 Re: NIST Report on WTC7 debunked and exposed! Scientists, Schola ...
  • What they've got planned for us next...
    The Projected Al Qaeda Use of Body Cavity Suicide Bombs Against High Value Targets http://www.groupintel.com/2011/04/11/the-projected-al-qaeda-use-of-body-cavity-suicide-bombs-against-high-value-targets/ Page 33: Ultimately, however, it is going to require some sort of reliable and medically sa ...
  • Foreknowledge of Building 7's Collapse : Dr. G ...
    Submitted by Radical Pragmatist at 911blogger.com. Related Info: Oh, How Typical ! Arch Debunker Pat Curley Grossly Misrepresents Firefighter Testimony and then Wrongly Accuses 911 Truthers of the Same Thing

Fooducate

  • 14 Tsp of Sugar But Still Healthy [Nutrition I ...
    Check out Mott’s Singles 100% Juice Singles. Their ads have recently been cropping up. According to the company the product is …a delicious drink with the health benefits of real fruit. Made of 100% juice, it’s conveniently packaged so you can enjoy it on the go. Let’s take a closer look, especi ...
  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Vitamin A [and ...
    This week we are excited to try out a new way of presenting helpful nutrition information with a tool called Prezi! Prezi takes boring slideshows to a whole new level and you will see the cool ways we used it to incorporate pictures, graphs and even YouTube videos so that this is NOT your typica ...
  • Airplane Food Gets Even More Revolting
    This is a guest blog post by Chef Rob Endelman. As if airline food isn’t awful enough, those still eating the carriers’ meals (when offered) now have unsanitary conditions on the aircraft themselves to worry about. The following is an excerpt from a warning letter the Food and Drug Administratio ...
  • About Those Colorful Easter Candies
    Easter, the holiday of spring and renewal, is also the holiday of brightly colored eggs and candies. Today, millions of kids will gorge on sweets. And some, as a result, will start bouncing off the walls. It could be the sugar, but perhaps a sensitivity to artificial food dyes is the trigger. Ye ...
  • Join Fooducate’s Easter Egg Hunt Today
    Happy Easter everyone! Join the Fooducate Easter Egg Hunt for a chance to win a $20 gift card. We’ve hidden 3 mystery products (Easter eggs) in our product database. Can you find them? Contest Details: Use your Fooducate iPhone App to scan products in your pantry or the supermarket Scanning a my ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Wave of child deaths strikes indigenous commun ...
    Warao child and baby, Amacuro delta, Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/Survival Six children in one Warao indigenous community in Venezuela have reportedly died within the space of ten days in April, as a result of malnutrition, disease, and poor health care. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, respiratory ...
  • Jumma villages burned to ashes
    Jummas, Bangladesh © Mark McEvoy/Survival Six indigenous Jumma villages have reportedly been burned to ashes and many Jumma people attacked by Bengali settlers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Violence erupted when Jumma landowners discovered settlers clearing their land and bu ...
  • Ross Thomas models for Survival
    Ross Thomas modeling Survival's T-Shirt by Richard Long. © Survival Hollywood actor Ross Thomas, whose new movie ‘Soul Surfer’ has just opened, models two new T-shirts for human rights organization Survival International. The two T-shirts are available from Survival’s online store. Richa ...
  • US human rights report shines spotlight on Pen ...
    Under Chief Minister Taib, the Penan's forests have been ravaged for 30 years. © Survival International A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging. The US State Department docum ...
  • Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Dis ...
    The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode ...

Greg Palast

  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and se ...
  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...
  • Dispatches UK TVGreg Palast Drills Deep into BP
    One year after the Deepwater Horizon, Palast travels from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea to drill deep into the heart of BP. Filth, polar bears and oil-crat police states. Catch it Monday night at 8pm GMT on Channel 4's DISPATCHES. Sorry: Only in Britain. Greg Palast ...
  • No BS Info on Japan NuclearObama invites Tokyo ...
    for Truthout/Buzzflash by Greg Palast What South Texas project could look like.(Image by NINA - Nuclear Innovation North America) I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigatio ...
  • Chevron Runs from Judgmentin Ecuador
    by Greg Palast Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit. I've been there, in Ecuador. I met the victims.  They didn't lose their sh ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I recycle more stuff on my own?
    We’ve had an email from Melissa: I’m Melissa from Argentina. I love recycling but there are not many things I can do here. That’s why I’ve got to ask you… Is there any way of recycling more stuff on my own??? I recycle paper, bottle caps and cardboard. In my country there aren’t a lot [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make dishcloths ...
    We’re having a cleaning-themed week here on Recycle This – yesterday, we talked about reusing or recycling bleach bottles but today I’d like to think about making and have a question for you guys: what have you reused or recycled to make reusable dishcloths or pot scrubbers? A lot of people knit ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle bleach bottles?
    Inspired by clearing out of bathroom cupboards this morning, I thought we’d have a cleaning themed week here on Recycle This. We’ve covered various cleaning related things in the past – pump action spray bottles, washing powder packaging, “freshener” shakers and reducing the amount of cleaning p ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a vertical ...
    Readers of my simple/DIY living blog The Really Good Life will already know that I’m trying to make more efficient use of the space in my garden this year – I’ve been making lots of planters and raised beds from scrap wood (including this weekend, a 3ftx3ft bed for square foot gardening from our ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle baby sleeper suits/ ...
    We’ve already talked about baby clothes in general but CD, who writes the Canadian Doomer blog, has sent over such an excellent reuse idea for worn out baby sleepers/romper suits that I thought it was worth featuring these in particular: I just posted this on my blog, and one of my readers thoug ...

Age of Autism

  • Paging Dr. Ruth: Autism & Mercury More than a ...
    By Julie Obradovic Recent events surrounding the US indictment of researcher Poul Thorsen inspired me to revisit the time when he became involved in the effort to examine (and it appears, exonerate) the potential role of vaccines in Autism. An...
  • Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: Bullying CBS On ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Imagine if doctors fought to make sure the pharma drug ads did not have to share the side effects with you, the consumer. Imagine if pediatricians, who have a government mandate to inject dozens of vaccines in...
  • Did the Dominus Effect Begin with Seth Mnookin ...
    By Jake Crosby The saga of Seth Mnookin and his uncle, Robert Mnookin just gets weirder and weirder. First it has been revealed that Robert Mnookin is close colleagues with Linda Singer - the mother-in-law of pharma-funded wife, Alison Singer...
  • NuLife Foods Grandparent Packs for Autism One/ ...
    NuLife Foods "Grandparent Packs" Offer for the AutismOne/Generation Rescue Conference! For those parents who will be learning about ways to heal their children and help their families while the kids stay home, NuLife Foods is extending a generous and convenient...
  • Autism Becomes a Political Football
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. For many long years I've felt that those of us in the autism community resemble the African-Americans in the 1930s and 1940s who would go to movies filled with white faces and yearn for the moment...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...
  • Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer?
    Time – The women’s hospital at the University of Würzburg used to be the biggest of its kind in Germany. … â countless women were involuntarily sterilized here when it stood in the geographical center of Nazi Germany. Today, … the experiments within its walls are of a very different nature. Sin ...
  • Epilepsy: Study finds eating fatty foods can h ...
    abc – For decades, doctors have struggled to find a reliable way to stop seizures but now, they think they may have found a big help in an unlikely place. It’s a special diet, called the “KETO” diet. On this diet, 90% of your food comes from fat, bacon, heavy cream, mayonnaise and you’re virtual ...
  • Australia: ABC TV forced to pull “Chaser” wedd ...
    ABC – Just two days before Prince William and Kate Middleton are due to tie the knot, ABC TV has been forced to cancel The Chaser’s one-off live coverage of the event due to what it says are restrictions imposed by the royal family. The Chaser’s Royal Wedding Commentary was due to air on ABC2 [...]

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Colorado River parks dammed, report finds
    A report released Tuesday reiterates one of Western environmentalists' biggest gripes -- the network of dams along the Colorado River have irrevocably transformed the habitats of some of the country's most treasured national parks. The dams make the flow of...
  • Los Angeles hikers and bikers mobilize to save ...
    For at least half a century, Angelenos have hiked and biked up the Hastain Trail, a wide path that winds through oak trees and wildflowers in Franklin Canyon to a promontory overlooking the city and the ocean. Today, three chain...
  • Biodegradable plastics: Plant symbol chosen as ...
    The bioplastics industry may have a new symbol to slap on its products and packaging – an abstract plant to denote plastics made without petroleum. More than 1,500 designers submitted entries into a contest seeking an icon to represent plastics...
  • Are Americans recycling more electronic waste ...
    Each year, Americans throw out 400 million units of high-tech trash – and they’re on track to toss another 50 billion over the next decade, according to a study released just before Earth Day. Constant upgrades caused by improving technology...
  • Confess your eco-sins on Earth Day!
    Admit it: You buy your lunch in foam takeout containers. A lot. You drive an 8-cylinder truck. Alone. You don't print on both sides of your copy paper. You left the computer on all night. You can't stand those compact...

water.org

  • Water.org recognized by TIME 100 List (TIME)
    The 2011 TIME 100 – Matt Damon and Gary White (TIME) – Matt, 40, teamed up with Gary White, 48, a longtime expert in water-supply systems, in 2009 and created Water.org. Their message is one of hope; their solutions for providing access to clean water are simple and cost effective. And their wor ...
  • Hult Challenge – Solutions to water cris ...
    Hult Global Case Challenge: Solutions to the Water Crisis (Business Wire) – In partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative and the Hult International Business School, Water.org is participating in a global competition to discover the next best and brightest ideas to address the water and sani ...
  • High School senior raises money for Water.org (SR)
    Eastlake senior raises money so others can have water (Sammamish Review) – The idea that almost a billion people donât have access to safe drinking water first hit Kate Zopolos in her 10th-grade world history class at Eastlake High School. Overwhelmed and wondering how to help, Zopolos started g ...
  • BU team tops regional Hult water challenge (BU)
    GSM Team Tops Regional Hult Global Case Challenge (BU) – Hereâs a little challenge to tackle on the weekend: figure out, within five hours, how to deliver safe water and sanitation to 100 million people within five years. Thatâs the problem that Graduate School of Management students took on, as ...
  • Swanson speaks water at Indiana University (IDS)
    Water crisis affects millions (Indiana Daily Student) – Water.org member Erin Swanson spoke Wednesday in Chemistry 122 on the global problem of water and water sanitation. The event was presented by the University Coalition for Global health. Swanson discussed the issues of water sanitation and ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The 10 Best Colleges for Writers
    An aspiring writer choosing a college is a lot like a child trying to make a decision in a candy store. Cliched simile aside, the amount of colleges with utterly brilliant writing programs, both at the graduate and undergraduate level, is astounding. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Society & Cul ...
  • 9 Embarrassing Facts That Could End Trumps Pr ...
    It doesn�t matter how much he or others might dislike President Obama; Trump�s got too much baggage to get further than testing the waters. Need proof? Enjoy this walking tour through his life, complete with awkward moments, personal failures,Submitted by Nancy Bridget to US Politics & Gov't �| ...
  • 10 Most Corrupt State Governments
    Charles Caleb Colton said it best: "Corruption is like a ball of snow; once it�s set a rolling, it must increase." It seems that political corruption is influenced by several intrinsic factors that are almost impossible to change. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Human Chain to Spell 'NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE'
    We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power on a regular basis. We intend to tell the story of how the people of Gaza continue to suffer the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from thSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • Farmer shot in northern Gaza
    "In practice, Israel restricts access to agricultural land up to 1,000-1,500 metres from the fence, which accounts for more than 30% of Gaza's agricultural land and a significant number of water wells. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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.

Worldnews

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

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • The Molten Salt Reactor Family: Uranium Fuel
    In an earlier post, I stated that there were many different possible Molten Salt Reactor designs. I pointed to nuclear fuel as one possible source of reactor design variations. There are two potential nuclear fuel cycles that can be used in Molten Salt Reactors. Choice of fuel cycles can make ...
  • Challenging New York Academy of Sciences to Re ...
    On the 25th anniversary of the explosion that destroyed unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, Ralph Nader published a commentary in which he strongly supported the book titled Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment.
  • CO2 Fertilization
    Regarding encouraging plant growth, that is a direct CO2 effect. Interestingly, I just learned that it is killing koalas.
  • Not Boring
    Let's start at the very beginning. Every month we dig ourselves deeper in the hole. Every month the future bottleneck looks tighter, the future crisis deeper, the future losses more tragic. And for a few years, we have been out of the realm of the hypothetical, with real damage starting to occur.
  • Counterpoint to Heritage on DOE Cuts
    Last week, I reported briefly on a policy report released recently by the Heritage Foundation calling for what I believe to be drastic and dangerous cuts to the Department of Energy.

Green House - USA Today

  • On Earth Day, green light bulbs debut
    What's notable on Earth Day 2011? While technological changes are sweeping the U.S. economy, perhaps the biggest switch for homes comes in lighting. There's a plethora of new, more energy-efficient options.
  • Home energy upgrades get U.S.-backed loans
    Many U.S. homeowners are now eligible for up to $25,000 in federally-insured loans to make energy-efficient upgrades such as adding insulation, sealing ducts or replacing windows, the Obama adminitration announced Thursday.
  • Gallup: Fewer Americans see climate change as ...
    Fewer Americans and Europeans view climate change as a threat than did a few years ago, but more Latin Americans and sub-Saharan Africans see themselves at risk, according to Gallup surveys in 111 countries.
  • EBay pays for broken iPads, iPhones, iPods
    In celebration of Earth Month, online auctioneer eBay will pay consumers for small broken Apple electronics (up to $150 for iPads, $100 for iPhones, and $50 for iPods) until April 30.
  • Asian 'unicorn' gets nature reserve in Vietnam
    "The loveliest of all" animals, the late Shel Silverstein once wrote in a popular children's song, is the unicorn. He would probably have been pleased that a nature reserve has been set aside in central Vietnam for the critically endangered saola, also known as the Asian "unicorn."

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Israel's Lawless Arrest of Ahmad Qatamish
    by Stephen Lendman On April 21, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association expressed grave concern about Qatamish's arrest: "not only because (it's) motivated by his political opinions and beliefs and as such should be considered a case of arbitrary detention, but also be ...
  • Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don ...
    Ellen Brown “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 money comes from debt, debt and deficits are actually necessary to ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Misreporting about Gitmo ...
    by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, The New York Times became the lead misreporting source about Guantanamo detainees, largely characterizing them as dangerous terrorists threatening US security. For example, on July 25, 2007, (like its many other reports) William Glaberson headlined, "New US ...
  • American Hellholes
    by Michael T. Snyder The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression. The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like the economy is improving, but the truth is that it doesn't take a g ...
  • Capitalism and Class Struggle
    James Petras Introduction The class struggle continues to play a central role in the process of capitalist accumulation, albeit it takes different forms depending on the socio-economic context. In order to map out the unfolding of the class struggle it is necessary to specify key concepts rel ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FDR Speaks Out Against the Koch Brothers in 1936
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936: ... ROOSEVELT: Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people. Only reckles ...
  • Rep. James Clyburn, Third-Ranking Democrat in ...
    From the Dylan Ratigan Show, Friday, April 8th: RATIGAN: What we haven’t received is any articulation as to where the actual cuts in the billions are. So people say, you give me a little information there in the categories, but no one seems to want to tell any of us what exact ...
  • The Cost of One F-15E Lost in Libya Is 563 Wis ...
    According to the New York Times, the U.S. fighter jet that just crashed in Libya was an F-15E Strike Eagle. The Air Force says each F-15E cost $31.1 million in 1998 dollars (not including fuel, pilot training or anything else). Adjusted for inflation, that's $42.23 million today. Wisconsin tea ...
  • Rick Snyder's "Shared Sacrifice": Michigan's W ...
    Michigan's tax system is already regressive -- meaning that poorer people pay a higher tax rate than the wealthy. But Governor Rick Snyder has decided that it's just not regressive enough. So in the name of "shared sacrifice," he wants to hike the tax rate on poor and working Michiganders, while ...
  • VIDEO: Bus leaves Kalamazoo to protest Gov. Sn ...
    People talk about why they are going to Lansing to take part in protests against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposals, including bills that would give emergency financial managers the power to terminate labor contracts, proposed cuts to education funding and tax policy changes.

Salon

  • Is there a real candidate left in this race?
    You would think that an opposition party coming off a monster midterm election performance would have no trouble attracting a pool of competent, qualified and electable candidates to oppose a president who is plagued with dangerously low approval ratings and an economy that has been painfully ...
  • The labor movement finally takes a stand
    It's no secret that union leaders in Washington have been loyal, unquestioning servants of the Democratic Party for decades. But on Tuesday, that relationship may have started to change -- and that's probably good news for rank and file union members.
  • Donald Trump's personal experience with questi ...
    Donald Trump added a blatantly race-baiting component to his already racially charged campaign against Barack Obama's Americanness this week when he claimed -- based on things he's "heard" -- that Obama was a "terrible student" who got into Columbia and then Harvard based solely on affirmativ ...
  • Gadhafi's grip on western Libya may be slipping
    Moammar Gadhafi has suffered military setbacks in recent days in western Libya, a sign that his grip may be slipping in the very region he needs to cling to power.
  • Chuck Norris is plagiarizing his conservative ...
    Here is a "Chuck Norris fact," for you: He is a plagiarist. The famous kick-boxing B-movie and television star is also a respected right-wing commentator, despite the fact that he is famous solely for kicking. He writes a column for famously ridiculous right-wing conspiracy website WorldNetDaily.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Abused as Tory props
    According to the Conservative party platform “every victim matters.” Whether it’s victims of natural disaster, Communism, Holocaust, human trafficking, terrorism or crime – there are 40 references in all—they must be better recognized and suppo ...
  • PM’s callous pitch for votes
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has just set a new low in trolling for votes, with a shamelessly self-serving campaign stop in Asbestos, Que., home to one of the country’s most notor ...
  • Editorial: Not voting is a vote for Conservati ...
    With so many people feeling mistrustful, alienated and disengaged, there's a real prospect that discouraged voters will stay home next Monday.
  • Apathy is a default vote
    A striking number of Canadian voters are not happy with this election race. Just 33 per cent might be called “engaged and hopeful,” according to an Angus Reid/Toronto Star poll. They are split between the mobilized Tory base and hopeful mid-lef ...
  • Vandalism is no joke
    Conservative Leader Stephen Harper “condemns” the incidents, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff calls them a “disgrace,” and New Democrat Olivia Chow says they are an “affront” to democracy.

Energy Collective

  • The Molten Salt Reactor Family: Uranium Fuel
    In an earlier post, I stated that there were many different possible Molten Salt Reactor designs. I pointed to nuclear fuel as one possible source of reactor design variations. There are two potential nuclear fuel cycles that can be used in Molten Salt Reactors. Choice of fuel cycles can make ...
  • Challenging New York Academy of Sciences to Re ...
    On the 25th anniversary of the explosion that destroyed unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, Ralph Nader published a commentary in which he strongly supported the book titled Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment.
  • CO2 Fertilization
    Regarding encouraging plant growth, that is a direct CO2 effect. Interestingly, I just learned that it is killing koalas.
  • Not Boring
    Let's start at the very beginning. Every month we dig ourselves deeper in the hole. Every month the future bottleneck looks tighter, the future crisis deeper, the future losses more tragic. And for a few years, we have been out of the realm of the hypothetical, with real damage starting to occur.
  • Counterpoint to Heritage on DOE Cuts
    Last week, I reported briefly on a policy report released recently by the Heritage Foundation calling for what I believe to be drastic and dangerous cuts to the Department of Energy.

EU Times

  • France questions fundamental European principles
    France seems to have questioned one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement within the EU. The possibility of revising the Schengen agreement by French was on the agenda in connection with the influx of refugees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia. The discussion about a ...
  • IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
    The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. The Obama deficit tour The Wall Street Jo ...
  • Our sick society
    Here we are, at the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is the temple for worshipping profit and greed, where the value of each is determined by the ability to accumulate money and power at the expense of others, where rewrite, manipulate and disregard the laws are the order of the day, [...]
  • Child trafficking increasing in US
    Andrea Powell works directly with children who have been sold for sex in Washington, DC. Powell says most of the child victims she works with come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. According a recent FBI law enforcement bulletin 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming victim ...
  • Chernobyl’s sarcophagus falling apart
    Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been fal ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Got Windows Phone 7? Microsoft's Tracking You Too
    It might be time to state the obvious: If you have a smartphone in your pocket, someone knows where you are, right now. First, we found out that Apple, maker of the uber-popular iPhone and iPad, has been storing and tracking location data on its devices for more than a year now. Next, we learne ...
  • Nokia to outsource Symbian to Accenture along ...
    Nokia is outsourcing Symbian activities to Accenture and about 3000 employees are going to be transitioned. This is not surprising as Nokia is concentrating only on Windows Phone 7 as it's primary smartphone platform right now. Symbian would continue to be breathing life at Accenture as Nokia e ...
  • iPhone Vs. Android Vs. RIM Vs. Microsoft: Deve ...
    Apparently developers are finding it somewhat difficult to keep up development of apps for the iPhone, Apple iPad , and the Android platform according to a recent survey of 2760 mobile developers which apparently shows that over the last 6 months developer interest in both iOS and Android had r ...
  • Nokia axes 4,000 jobs; Gives Symbian to Accenture
    Nokia warned that the shift to Windows Phone would result in “ substantial reductions in employment ” and now the first significant signs of those job losses are being seen. Around 4,000 employees worldwide – though predominantly in Denmark, Finland and the UK – will be axed by the end of 2012 ...
  • Reason 1,001 to Pull Out of the Corrupt United ...
    Yep, the United Nations is a full blown joke. Syria, a nation that sponsors terrorism and is led by a murderous thug dictator in Bashar Assad is going to have a seat on the Human Rights Council. It doesnât matter that Mr. Assad wears a suit and tie and acts like a civilized leader, the reality ...

Groklaw

  • Barnes and Noble's Answer, Affirmative Defense ...
    The '372, '780, '522, '551, and '233 patents, however, do not cover, claim, or disclose the AndroidTM Operating System. Instead, they claim five insubstantial and trivial features, including what Microsoft has itself described as (1) the "display of a webpage's content before the background imag ...
  • Windows phones send user location to Microsoft
    Microsoft has said here that when location services for Windows phones are switched on, the devices transmit a unique ID along with nearby wireless networks, their signal strength, and GPS-extracted location to the company's servers. - The Register
  • HP CEO: Microsoft still our BFF (but no Window ...
    APOTHEKER: ... HP smartphones and tablets will be running WebOS, only WebOS, at least that's for the near future, that's the plan. And the PCs will be running Windows, and you can also then have a WebOS experience on that Windows environment....FORTUNE: If you're going to enable your PCs to do m ...
  • There Is A Solution, Heres How A Patent Pool ...
    These animations explain why people in developing countries can't get the HIV medicines they need to survive and how setting up a 'patent pool' could change that. MSF calls on researchers and pharmaceutical companies: put your patents in the pool! - Doctors Without Borders
  • Important Information on the Biological Effect ...
    According to a new study, electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones may affect bone strength. Men who wear their cell phone on the right side of their belts were found to have reduced bone mineral content and bone mineral density in the right hip.... The study's authors advise cell phone us ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hydropower not considered renewable energy in ...
    (Crossposted from CAIVN. It’s clear that the push towards renewable energy can be just the same old slimy lobbyists and special interests ramming through bills that benefit them and hurt the rest of us. There is no rational reason why hydropower should not be considered renewable energy in Calif ...
  • Underground pumped hydro energy storage at gri ...
    What renewable energy needs is a way to store excess energy at grid scale for later use. Gravity Power thinks they can take traditional stored hydro (pump water up to a holding tank) and do it underground. This eliminates environmental concerns with fish and they say a 7 acre site could store a ...
  • The unreality of California budget negotiations
    Gov. Brown’s “concessions” from public unions have, as usual in the convoluted, interminable, and deeply opaque process by which California eventually stumbles to a budget agreement, turned out to be less of a cut than what state employees are experiencing under their current expired contract. B ...
  • Pacifica violates own rules, takes corporate money
    And from the Vampire Squid (Goldman Sachs), no less… However, outraged listeners have forced KPFA to not cancel Democracy Now.
  • On the violence and corruption in Mexico. Sylv ...
    In this interview by al Jazeera , intelligence professional Sylvia Longmire says the cartels are hybrids, insurgencies as well as criminal, and the solution must be multi-faceted. We need to discuss legalization as well as social programs and economic reform so drugs aren’t the only way for desp ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Reminder about the comments policy
    Every so often, over the eight-plus years I've been publishing this blog, waves of hostile forces come in and try to take over the comments boards with their hostility and their rantings. So back in January 2005, I crafted the 'Comments Policy' for the blog, and it has worked pretty well since t ...
  • My CSM oped on need for negotiated transition ...
    People with an interest in escalating tensions and sowing conflict within Middle Eastern countries always say "There is no time!" for diplomacy or negotiation.... and that "If lives are to be saved then we have to take military action..." In mid-March, I was stunned to see how rapidly those ar ...
  • Cordesman on the slippery slope of warmaking
    I generally have broad respect for the military assessments made by Anthony Cordesman, and his latest assessment of the situation in Samantha's War in Libya contains much excellent analysis. Including this opening paragraph: At some point in time, it will be critical to examine the historical ...
  • C.J. Chivers on Libyan rebels' violations of l ...
    Last week, the NYT's military-affairs writer C.J. Chivers was one of the first to do detailed reporting of the use by Libyan government forces of cluster bombs in the heavily populated port city of Misrata. Today, the NYT carries another piece of well researched reporting by him-- this time on ...
  • Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
    Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...

frogblog

  • Tories are as Tories do
    I don’t have much interest in the celeb puke-fest that is the marriage of Catherine Middleton and Prince William of Wales (did anyone ever ask the Welsh people if they wanted him to be one of the Princes the English impose on them?) But the list of invitees to the Royal Wedding is interesting: L ...
  • Fuel tax deferral won’t help
    Kiwis are feeling the pain at the pump, and the Government’s grand “solution” is to defer a 1.5c increase in the petrol tax until next year. Let’s put this in perspective. 1.5 cents a litre will save the average driver less than $1 when they fill up their tank. It’s about 0.6% of the total [...]
  • Kayaking the Kaituna
    April 15, 2011 The Kaituna is internationally famous for white-water rafting and kayaking. And having just gone down it, I can see why. A deep gorge with trees overhead, fast flowing, lots of rapids, and a really big waterfall – 7 metres apparently. Iâd like to be able to tell you that I kayaked ...
  • Space Oddity – the David Farrar version
    This is ground control to Major Don, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare If I was a member of the ACT Board, I would be asking why are all these National Party members trying to take [...]
  • Petrobras protest and the Maritime Rules
    I’m more accustomed to splashing around in a freshwater pond than being out on the high seas, but I do know enough about maritime navigation to know that a powered vessel that is underway is normally required to give way to a vessel that is fishing.   That principle is enshrined in both intern ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Obama Brazenly Lying Once Again
    I see that even our own Tim Murphy has fallen for the White House's "long form birth certificate" scam this morning. How disappointing to see one of MoJo's own being so credulous. This "official" copy has obviously been doctored, as anyone can see clearly by looking at the bottom of the form. S ...
  • Is Obama a Republican?
    Ezra Klein argues today that Barack Obama is, historically speaking, a moderate Republican. On three big issues, he says, Obama has championed approaches that Republicans themselves supported only a couple of decades ago: Take health-care reform. The individual mandate was developed by a ...
  • Skin in the Game, Continued
    The "skin in the game" theory of healthcare says that if people have to pay for medical services out of their own pocket, they'll be more careful about what they do and don't need, and this will drive down healthcare costs. A Rand study several decades ago suggested there was something to th ...
  • Testing For Thee, But Not For Me
    Via Matt Yglesias, here is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's latest brainstorm: Walker is proposing expanding the voucher program that currently is only available to low-income students in Milwaukee. He wants to expand the program to all of Milwaukee County and phase out the low-income qualif ...
  • The Future of Abortion?
    Anti-abortion groups have been busily working to push the envelope of anti-abortion law for decades, and lately they've decided to stop pushing and just shred the envelope to pieces instead. For example, Kate Sheppard reports that a Louisiana lawmaker flat out wants to make abortion illegal ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 243: Fucking Ninjas
    Topics: Kriss goes into a rant about maiming people Asians know how to fly The woman with the most cosmetic procedures Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee……again Steve Harvey has $10,000 stolen from him Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Let Steve Harvey ‘Locat ...
    So apparently Steve Harvey now has a dating website “Locate Your Love.” I’m not sure if he owns it but I do know he supports and promotes it.  On Wednesdays he even ties it into his radio show where he tries to set people up on dates. No. Just stop it. There’s a section on [...]
  • Activist “Denounce” Obama’s Environmental Inaction
    WASHINGTON — Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Air Act, stop taking money from corporate polluters, and invest in a clean energy economy. The rally was the culmination of a three-day climate summi ...
  • IC 242: Fuck Freedom
    Topics: Rod from the ‘Black Guy Who Tips’ has a rough day People are so sensitive these days California GOP lady sends an email with a picture of the President as a monkey…but she’s not racist Successful men don’t like nor want successful women Steve Harvey’s book to be made into a movie Tyler P ...
  • IC 241: We Respect Females
    Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...

Simple Climate

  • Retreating Arctic coasts show need for careful ...
    Historical records of a quarter of the Arctic coastline show that it is retreating more quickly on average, threatening industry, ecosystems and communities located there. However, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research's Hugues Lantuit emphasises the importance of getting data f ...
  • Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
    “Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
  • Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
    By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
  • Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
    Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • 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. read more
  • New study: Health reform to make health insura ...
    Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report by Jonathan Gruber and Ian Perry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The report finds that ...
  • Increase in evidence-based treatments followed ...
    In an analysis of data from a coronary care registry in Sweden, between 1996-2007 there was an increase in the prevalence of use of evidence-based invasive procedures and pharmacological therapies for treatment of a certain type of heart attack, and a decrease in the rate of death at 30 days and ...
  • Teen sleep study adds to evidence of a 'neural ...
    Teens are rarely described as stable, so when something about their rapidly changing brains remains placidly unaltered, neuroscientists take notice. Such is the case in a new study of electroencephalography (EEG) readings gathered from dozens of teens while they slept. Despite the major neural o ...
  • Researchers at Brandeis University make stride ...
    Brandeis researchers have made a significant advance in the effort to understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by successfully reversing the toxicity of the mutated protein in the familial type of the disease. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Anti-nuclear cartoon book, 1978 – anythi ...
    A few weeks ago, Haydon Manning passed me an interesting book from the more dusty section of his shelf. It was called “Nuclear Power for Beginners“, and the edition I have was published in 1978. (If you do a bit of searching, you can still find old copies for purchase). If you’ve read this post ...
  • Fukushima Daiichi Open and Update Thread #5
    The problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to be worked on, with no short-term resolution in sight. Here are eight recent notable happenings, compiled from various sources (see list below): 1. Reports indicate that some fuel melted and fell to the lower containment sectio ...
  • Energy debates in Wonderland
    My position on wind energy is quite ambivalent. I really do want it (and solar) to play an effective role in displacing fossil fuels, because to do this, we need every tool at our disposal (witness the Open Science project I kick started in 2009 [and found funding for], in order to investigate t ...
  • Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
  • Open Thread 15
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Please Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe as a 'Libyan rape victim' without the 'alleged' added as is done with Black African women and others not politically valuable to the inter ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Paul Ryan is Trying to Kill Us
    Get old. Get sick. Insurance company you bought insurance from with your “voucher” denies to pay for your treatment. You die. Pretty simple. So simple a tea bagger can even figure it out.
  • What Happens When Politifact Can’t Get I ...
    Ending Medicare has been a Republican dream for decades Politicrack. Voucherizing single payer is ending it you pro-death panel fake fact checker. I mean come on Politicrack. What could make Republicans more happy than knowing senior citizens are spending their golden years worrying about how th ...
  • 80% of Americans Want the Safety Net Left Alon ...
    Numbers don’t lie. Even the treasonous teabaggers don’t want their social security and medicare voucherized….
  • Republicans Plan to Kill Grandma
    Once grandma runs out of money the “new” medicare voucher system will not cover her treatment. Grandmother will die. Republicans plan on handing more $$ to the wealthy by killing grandma when she gets sick.
  • Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
    Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

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  • American-Israeli bluffs and the success of pal ...
    President Abbas has told Newsweek he is disappointed with Obama, but the American President has actually done a nice job of revealing the American double-standards with regards to Israel. Meanwhile, Jerusalem’s hawks are suggesting that in response to a Palestinian declaration of independence, I ...
  • A.B. Yehoshua and Zionism’s identity politics
    Acclaimed Israeli novelist uses identity politics as a way to absolve Israel of responsibility for its actions A.B. Yehoshua, the acclaimed Israeli fiction author, has an opinion piece in today’s Haaretz where he addresses a fundamental question: why has the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gone on ...
  • When a Palestinian child becomes an enemy
    Last summer I found myself wading around a swimming pool in the middle of the scorching desert on a Kibbutz in the Negev. I had come to this kibbutz to see an old friend from high school. Over the past 12 years we have developed and maintained a close friendship despite clear political differenc ...
  • Treading a fine line between Jaffa and Bat Yam
    Last night I posted one of my “Izzie in HolyLand” pieces. It was about the collective punishment Israel rewarded the West Bank village of Awarta, after the murder of the Fogel family from Itamar. In the post, I made Izzie have a nightmare about the same treatment Bat Yam would have had if a murd ...
  • Egypt: Soldiers planted flowers in Tahrir Square
    Tahrir Square has been cleaned up. One day last week soldiers laid new turf in the central traffic island, and the next day they planted flowers. A day after that they erected a huge banner that confirmed the army’s commitment to the goal of the revolution, but when I returned two days later [...]

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Preparatory Pruning
    I’ve been asked by a veteran to re-post an earlier entry from this past March – “Beating ‘em in the alley.” It’s about the significant number of senior officials who were let go by the Harper government over the last while. This is what the PM accomplished with a minority government, against the ...
  • Campaign Insider – “Special Guest& ...
    “I want to come down to help,” Bob Rae said over the phone. And, of course, I was glad for his assistance. He knows London well and we share a number of mutual friends here. The visits of special guests is an important part to any campaign, raising the profile of the local candidate and [...]
  • What if …?
    “This is the craziest election I’ve ever witnessed.” I occasionally tell people that I’ve received quite an education in Ottawa, but my real schooling came from London. I learned a lot from 30 years of public service as a firefighter and cut my teeth on community involvement through difficult ye ...
  • A Facebook Message
    The following is a message sent to me on Facebook yesterday by someone I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting. It’s well-written and his own experience speaks volumes as to what Canada requires at this moment.  Thanks Timothy. This is an interesting site – My own riding of Oxford is deemed a sa ...
  • My Day
    For the first time since I was elected four years ago I will finally be home for the birthday of my twin daughters, Abuk and Achan. Both were products of slavery in Sudan and their African mother was killed in a raid when they were four months old. She was holding Abuk in her arms [...]

Vaccine Awakening

  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
  • Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
  • Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
  • Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
  • Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
    by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible ...

2020 Science

  • Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
    Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in this Nanower ...
  • A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
    OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
  • Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
    This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
  • Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
    Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
    I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...

Reader Supported News

  • Keith Olbermann's Countdown to Return on June 20th
    San Jose Mercury News: "The voice will be silenced no more. Current TV has announced that its new show with Keith Olbermann will debut on June 20 at 8 p.m. The show, to be called 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann,' marks the return to the airwaves for Olbermann, one of journalism's most provocativ ...
  • Was FBI Too Quick to Judge Anthrax Suspect the ...
    The report begins: "Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant - a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer." FBI photographs of letters that contained anthra ...
  • Guantanamo Files: Massive Leak Reveals Innocen ...
    David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke report: "The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called 'worst of the worst,' many prisoners were flown to the Guantanamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, ...
  • Fox News Goes Full Birther
    Intro: "Following Donald Trump's lead, Fox News figures have recently embraced or promoted aspects of the birther conspiracy theory by falsely claiming that President Obama has not produced his birth certificate, or by hosting birthers to hype their discredited theories unchallenged." Sarah P ...
  • 'No Humanity Left' in Syria
    Al Jazeera journalist Cal Perry begins: "Every other journalist is trying to get into Syria, but on Saturday I was trying to get out. The government had made it perfectly clear: My visa was expiring and unless I left on April 23, I would 'face the full force of the law.'" A man carries a chil ...

War Resisters League

  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
  • WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
    From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
  • Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
    In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
    According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
  • U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
    The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
  • Corn Panic
    By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
  • Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
    This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
  • Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
    The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
  • Obama's Indecent Interval
    Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News: April 26, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Atlantic Club’s Passy: EU Must Become Collective Member Of NATO Middle East, North Africa: U.S. Risks War With China And Russia To Protect U.S. Interests, International Companies: 15,000 U.S. Troops, Thousands Of Contractors To Remain In Iraq Romania: U. ...
  • NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Stop NATO April 26, 2011 NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Rick Rozoff 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 p ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 26
    ==== NATO’s African War: Nearly 4,000 Sorties, Over 1,600 Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable NATO Playing With Fire In Libya: Analyst NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli As Former Colonial Master Italy Enters War NATO Escalates Bombing Assault, Libyans Fear Protracted War Al ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 25, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 25 ==== U.S. Marines Bring Iraqi And Afghan War Combat Experience To Gulf Of Guinea “Made In USA”: Yemen Targeted By Predator Drone Missile Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable Resurgence Of French Imperialism New Georgian Military Adventurism ...
  • Samuel Johnson on war
    Samuel Johnson Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771) Excerpts [W]ar is not the whole business of life; it happens but seldom, and every man, either good or wise, wishes that its frequency were still less. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if ...

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Intel Hub

  • House Of Numbers: Dr Peter Duesberg, A Caution ...
    NotForSale2NWO April 27th, 2011 Peters interview from the House of Numbers Deluxe Edition DVD. Most of the Big Pharma funded medical community has shunned Peter for speaking the truth. This clip documents the smear/slander campaign that has been waged against Mr. Duesberg. http://www.houseofnumb ...
  • Air Readings In Texas WAY Off Charts, Official ...
    NotForSale2NWO April 26th, 2011 TCEQ: Air monitor readings in Texas City were off the charts after power outages http://www.khou.com/news/BP-loses-power-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-120679184.html
  • Bioaccumulation: Why Fukushima Matters
    lucaswhitefieldhixson.com April 26th, 2011 What is Bioaccumulation? Simply Stated - All living organisms are connected to each other through a food chain. It takes more organisms in the beginning of a food chain to support a smaller number of organisms at the end of the chain. Where bioaccumulat ...
  • Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
    The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...
  • Press For Truth: Into The Fire – G20 Pol ...
    Intel Hub Note: Citizens of Canada were literally beaten, strip searched and left naked for hours. Women were sexually assaulted, journalists were illegally detained, and police were given broad powers that turned out to be not even exist. This is the police state in FULL force. This is globalis ...

FRS

  • Turkey: Five TKP/ML-TIKKO women guerillas kill ...
    Press Bulletin/ April 2011 To the Press and the Public:  5 martyrs of TKP/ML-TIKKO died in Dersim The Press statement of the TKP/ML-TIKKO Dersim Region Comittee from April 20th 2011 states that on 2nd February 2011, 5 guerillas of TKP/ML-TIKKO have lost their lives as a result of an avalanche. A ...
  • Egypt’s ElBaradei suggests war crimes pr ...
    (AP) â 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) â 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. Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil ...
  • Delhi students investigate the mass struggle a ...
    Preliminary report of the DSU fact-finding visit to Narayanpatna, Odisha Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Delhi PRESS RELEASE:  A REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO A team of students from DU, JNU and IGNOU belonging to the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU) visited Narayanpatna Block in the Koraput distri ...
  • The “Arab Spring” and How the Oppo ...
    Jordan’s New Opposition and the Traps of Identity and Ambiguity by Hisham Bustani, Jadaliyya Apr 20 2011 Protesters took the streets of Amman, Jordan, on Friday, calling for governmental and constitutional reforms.There are two major tribulations in Jordan from which all other issues stem. The f ...
  • Saudi counter-revolution cools Arab Spring
    Fueled by fear of rising oil prices, US deference is helping Saudi Arabia implement its agenda in the Gulf. Jim Lobe, al Jazeera 24 Apr 2011 – As the so-called Arab Spring enters its sixth month, it appears to have run into seriously wintry headwinds. While some observers here have blamed Saudi ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
    On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
  • Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
    During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
  • Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
    We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
  • Response to “An Open Letter to Ken O&#82 ...
    We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
  • Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
    As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Because it's beautiful -- but fake
    Stole this offa Facebook. It was posted on YouTube two years ago. I hope this young woman is having a fabulous life, but her catch -- sadly -- isn't real.�And thanks, Carole, for the head's up.
  • But how will we know if they've arrived?
    The alien-seeking telescopes have lost funding. You can read more here.
  • A little more reading with Wednesday's column...
    To read more about the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence's description of td411.org, go here. To take a relationship quiz, go here. For a list of warning signs, go here. To read Pres. Obama's proclamation that names February as teen dating violence prevention and awareness month, ...
  • What makes a bad job, bad?
    Well, according to this, a lack of union protection is a good place to start for a bad job. From there, things get complicated. Writes Michael Lind at Salon: ...it is much easier to reach a consensus on the definition of a bad job than to agree on what constitutes a good job. Reuters photo
  • Hold on with that God particle thing
    A leaked memo about scientists closing in on the Higgs boson ("God particle") is real, but the work is still fresh and unconfirmed, say officials at the Swiss collider where the work is being done. ("God particle" is a media construct. Turns out scientists prefer "the champagne bottle boson.") ...

Associated Content

  • Conservatives Continue to Battle Abortion Acce ...
    Thanks to new GOP majorities in the wake of the 2010 election, Republican governors in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Idaho, with the endorsement of conservative state legislatures, signed into law a series of restrictive measures this month.Contributor: T. Calvarese Published: Apr 22, 2011
  • Obama Can't Ignore Discontent Among Core Suppo ...
    The singing protest against President Obama showed creativity and flair. What does it signal about protests against the president?Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 22, 2011
  • Electric Vehicles the Way of the Future for Au ...
    As gas prices continue to rise, it's no wonder the fully electric Nissan Leaf was named the 2011 World Car of the Year.Contributor: Miranda Young Published: Apr 22, 2011
  • Q&A: Andrew Breitbart on 'Righteous Indignatio ...
    Andrew Breitbart is no stranger to controversy. With the release of his new book, he has been put back into the cross-hairs -- and he loves it.Contributor: Douglas Stewart Published: Apr 26, 2011
  • Chernobyl Aftermath, By the Numbers
    A look at the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath 25 years later.Contributor: John Coon Published: Apr 26, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Amateur Photo Displays a Full Day's Worth of C ...
    Photographer shoots and assembles an entire day of skies Amateur photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos created this continuous image of the sky over Sounio, Greece, a town near his home. Late last December, he recorded the sun’s path across the sky during the day and an 11-hour star trail at night. W ...
  • In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Ma ...
    If there were a distinction one could earn for practicing smart medicine on a shoestring, a UT grad student would be high in the running. Using a aluminum foil, gelatin, milk protein, and a cheap LED light--items that collectively sell for under a buck--he’s created a fast, one-hour test for ac ...
  • ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better ...
    The Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy) has just doled out its fourth round of funding, and $30 million is going toward the ambitious goal of trimming the cost of biofuels by 50 percent. PETRO, or Plants Engineered to Replace Oil, looks to breed or genetica ...
  • Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liqu ...
    Fire ants might be infuriating little beasts, an invasive species we'd all be pleased to see banished to its native Brazil, but it turns out a fire ant colony has some pretty amazing properties. In groups, they knit together, more like a fabric than anything else, and are waterproof, totally fl ...
  • Video: They Sure Don't Make Pyrex Like They Us ...
    A change to heat-resistant glass has had explosive effects Most people probably don’t think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine more difficult—a fascinating exam ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Yorkshire Water confident of no hosepipe bans ...
    Yorkshire Water have told BBC Yorkshire that even if the rest of spring and summer turns out to be as dry as 1995, there will be no water restrictions in Yorkshire. 1995 was a disastrous year for the company. Reservoirs were full at the end of March, but a pipe network that was badly in need o ...
  • Will the warm sunshine last for Easter?
    We've had mixed fortunes at Easter over the years. Despite what we all might hope for, or think we remember, it is much more common for Easter weather to be poor rather than good. The last fine and warm Easter was in 2007. In fact April 2007 turned out to be the warmest on record - with April 20 ...
  • March global temperature update
    The global temperature anomaly for March according to NASA/GISS was 0.57c, up from 0.44c in February. Adjusted to the 1961-90 time period this is approx 0.46c compared to 0.33c last month. The Hadcrut3 global anomaly figure for March showed a smaller increase at 0.318c, up from 0.264c last mo ...
  • Coldest March globally for 17 years.
    Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
  • An exceptionally dry March
    High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • China's Material Girls II: No Home, No Marriage
    Numerous studies in anthropology, social psychology, sociology and so forth corroborate findings that men value physical appearance most in their partners, while women value financial security most among theirs. This phenomenon generally holds across cultures. As it turns out, China's economic b ...
  • More Research on Remittances from the US
    Despite its obviously more limited prospects for international workers at the current time, the United States remains the world's largest source of workers' remittances--especially to nearby Latin America. It is thus with no small interest that I've been flipping through this new Congressional B ...
  • The Hugo Chavez - Formula One Connection
    It seems colourful regimes and Formula One go hand in hand given that the latter is already populated with several colourful characters. From S&M fetishists to crash artists, F1 has all the shenanigans going on. Given that it is one of if not the world's most-watched sport depending on who you'r ...
  • American Hypocrisy on Libya & Int'l Criminal Court
    I read with no small amount of amusement the grandiosely titled op-ed "Libya's Pathway to Peace" by Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy. One way or another, none are free from hypocrisy to keep things lively. When the Libya mess erupted, Cameron was on a junket to the Middle East se ...
  • Like Greece & Ireland, IMF Shouldn't Help Portugal
    Now I'm hopping mad! I know that I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but in the interest of fairness, I will fight the good fight even if no one else will do so. Bravely I must soldier on in this bleak and unbearable world. Previously, I have argued that the IMF should not have ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • France questions fundamental European principles
    France seems to have questioned one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement within the EU. The possibility of revising the Schengen agreement by French was on the agenda in connection with the influx of refugees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia. The discussion about a ...
  • IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
    The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. The Obama deficit tour The Wall Street Jo ...
  • Our sick society
    Here we are, at the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is the temple for worshipping profit and greed, where the value of each is determined by the ability to accumulate money and power at the expense of others, where rewrite, manipulate and disregard the laws are the order of the day, [...]
  • Child trafficking increasing in US
    Andrea Powell works directly with children who have been sold for sex in Washington, DC. Powell says most of the child victims she works with come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. According a recent FBI law enforcement bulletin 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming victim ...
  • Chernobyl’s sarcophagus falling apart
    Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been fal ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Top 10 Catholic Lies About Child Rape
    The Catholic Church lies about child rape. Not occasionally. Not accidentally. But deliberately, and every time it’s representatives or apologists have anything to say on the subject.   The Catholic Church is not still learning about this issue. It has been “dealing” with child rape for the las ...
  • Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
    As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
  • Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
    Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
  • Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
    There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
  • Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
    Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...

WL Central

  • 2011-04-27 Interview w/ investigative journo, ...
    Tweet Jason Leopold is the deputy managing editor of Truthout.org and a co-founder of The Public Record. As an investigative journalist he has written extensively on the Guantanamo Bay detention and torture camp, Enron, and the Military. The list goes on. In February 2011, Leopold interview A ...
  • 2011-04-27 Wikileaks Notes: Shaker Aamer, Time ...
    TweetUK fighting for Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer's release Foreign Secretary William Hague will raise the case of Shaker Aamer with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she comes to the UK in May. Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt has told the BBC that dealing with the US on the i ...
  • 2011-04-26 The Guantanamo Children: These Aren ...
    Tweet*With research assistance from GeorgieBC Pakistani national Naqib Ullah (also Naqibullah) was 14 years old and out doing an errand for his father when he was kidnapped from his village in Khan, Afghanistan by 11 men that called themselves, “Samoud’s people.” The men, according to Ullah, “fo ...
  • 2011-04-26 Wikileaks notes: David House: Wikil ...
    Tweet David House tweets Wikileaks grand jury subpoenas are being issued Bradley Manning friend and supporter David House tweeted Subpoenas are being issued in the WikiLeaks grand jury. Violations of Espionage Act. No further comment at this time. two hours after tweeting "Are you now, or have y ...
  • 2011-04-26 Wau Holland Foundation submits annu ...
    TweetOver the past year, the Wau Holland Foundation received roughly 1.3 million Euros in donations for Wikileaks. Around 400,000 Euros were paid out, the majority for the salaries of Wikileaks staff (ca. 100.000) and campaigns (ca. 140.000), and rather modest amounts for travel, legal assistanc ...

U N News

  • Right to housing at risk as Brazil prepares fo ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about alleged displacement and evictions in various cities across Brazil as the country prepares to host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
  • UN and partners congratulate Haiti&#39s presid ...
    The United Nations and its partners today congratulated Haiti's President-elect Michel Martelly on his poll victory, saying the world body looked forward to working closely with his administration once it is inaugurated on 14 May.
  • Haiti: UN-constructed temporary Parliament han ...
    The United Nations envoy for Haiti has handed over to the president of the country's senate a prefabricated building that will temporarily house the Parliament until the one destroyed by the earthquake in January last year is rebuilt.
  • UN housing expert voices concern about violent ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about the increasing rate of violent evictions taking place in Argentina and called for a comprehensive strategy to tackle the country's housing crisis.
  • General Assembly President meets with top offi ...
    Global governance has topped the agenda in talks between General Assembly President Joseph Deiss and senior officials from Panama during the President's visit to the Latin American country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
    Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
  • 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
    The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
  • The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
    In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
  • CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
    Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
  • Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
    He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
    Itâs the Gobi Desert.  Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage.  Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage.  Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]
  • Around the Campfire with Dave Foreman – What T ...
    In 1974, physicist John P. Holdren and biologist Paul Ehrlich, then both at Stanford University, set down in Science the key scientific formula of our time: I=PAT. Paul and Anne Ehrlich later spelled out what it means, “The impact of any human group on the environment can be usefully viewed as t ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
    In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things.  As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
  • Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
    “I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
  • Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
    The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist.  Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers.  Only a handful of still-work ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

  • Mocking Jesus – Women nails Ape to cross and c ...
    From the show “Toffee VeHa-Gorillah” – WARNING!!! Explicit and offensive anti-Christian material contained. Burn the Koran in the USA and you get riots the world over. Nail a monkey to a cross and refer to said primate as Jesus, who is a Nazi…and not a peep in our media. Why is that? No Zionist ...
  • The Anatomy of Election Fraud in the USA – Mur ...
    Murder Spies And Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary by Brad Friedman which tells the story of a computer programmer who was contracted by a private company’ with ties to convicted Chinese spies, to write a program that could be used to rig elections… What follows is ...
  • Bob Moriarty is full of shit. Silver is not in ...
    Bob Moriarty is full of shit. I read an interesting article today by Bob Moriarty of 321Gold.com fame where he pretty much shoots a hole through the heart of us Silver Vigilantes but, like all other precious metals bears, he has come to a battle of the wits unarmed. This is without a doubt the [ ...
  • Prepare Yourself for Collapse – The Self-Destr ...
    People ask me all of the time…when will the economy, society, humanity, etc break down and collapse into chaos. My answer is always the same…it is happening now. The global economy is in depression and countries around the world are bankrupt, only being kept afloat by printing more money and iss ...
  • Nuclear Engineer Exposes Fukushima Tepco Cover-Up
    Why is mainstream media not covering this? Why is this a cover-up? Why do we live in la la land? If you can afford it.. drop them a donation.. if we all send a little.. it adds up to a lot! Nuclear explosion, and meltdown discussed by Fairewinds associates. www.fairewinds.com they deserve any he ...

Truth About Our World

  • China hits back with report on U.S. human righ ...
    English.news.cn Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was re ...
  • Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Fo ...
    By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology � or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community su ...
  • The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Natu ...
    Richard William Posner Activist Post A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you needn’t think about, I have a small experiment you can try that might serve to enlighten you. Hop in your 10-mpg SUV and motor on down t ...
  • Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO- ...
    Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against �pro-democracy� protesters in order to lay the groundwork for another contrived �humanitarian� war Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tue ...
  • Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
      Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has thrown his weight behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pointed a finger of blame at the West for recent unrests in the Middle Eastern country. Chavez accused the United States and its allies of fomenting unrest and protests in Syria, arguing that Wes ...

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • EWG's BPA Petition Delivered to Maine Governor
    By Bobbie Manning, EWG Environmental Health Outreach Coordindator Maine just became the ninth state to ban the use of bisphenol A in baby products. Come January 1, 2012, Maine babies will be protected from this potentially harmful endocrine disrupting... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminish ...
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist In a 2010 meeting between the pesticide industry and the Obama Administration, the pesticide industry revealed its objective that government food testing data (like the USDA pesticide residue data EWG uses to create... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Fast Food Follies
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Around this time last year the health-conscience crew at KFC headquarters gave the American consumer the Double Down chicken sandwich - 540 calories of bacon and cheese with no veggies, smashed... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Watch "Bag It," Then Just Bag It
    By Rebecca Sutton, Phd, EWG Senior Scientist Plastic pollution: it's everywhere, from the gigantic garbage patch swirling in the Pacific Ocean to the cells of our bodies, a point EWG's President, Ken Cook, makes so well in this recent TEDx... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
    By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

  • Katie Couric is not the next Oprah Winfrey, bu ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • F.A.Q.: Does anyone feel bad for the N.F.L. ow ...
    Sridhar: The reason the N.F.L. Players' Association has asked for the league to open their books is essentially compel the owners at least to try to explain why they need revenue back from the players. Throughout this whole fight, the owners have never cla ...
  • 'Roadie' rules: An everyday story about Long I ...
    Jimmy Testagross in Michael Cuesta's Roadie has never made a pot of coffee. He does not know how to fold laundry. He still crashes on his friends' couches. He can fit all of his stuff into one bag. He is in his 40s. More
  • Lindsay Lohan, Yankees, squatters, bad teacher ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • The 2011 Knicks and Donnie Walsh's grand desig ...
    After seven years out of the playoffs, the New York Knicks managed to replicate their 2004 postseason performance by getting swept in the first round.But unlike that 2004 team, which didn't seem to belong on the same court as the opposing team (the Nets), ...

Views & News from Norway

  • New ritual circumcision law proposed
    Changes have been proposed to the law on ritual circumcision in Norway, with health ministers hoping to ensure that the procedure can be done under proper medical conditions by covering it for free as part of the public health system. Until around 10 years ago, free circumcisions were available ...
  • Young lynching suspects questioned
    Two underaged Norwegian boys have been questioned as suspects in the attempted lynching of another Norwegian boy in Sweden over the Easter weekend. No charges have been filed, though, and both young suspects deny any involvement. Swedish police have confirmed that they suspect the two boys, aged ...
  • Amelie returns to Nansen school
    Maria Amelie, an author who was deported from Norway for being a “paperless” illegal immigrant in January, was set to return to Nansen school in Lillehammer on Wednesday – the place where she was originally arrested before being sent home to Russia. After applying for a work permit in order to ...
  • Doctors refuse to give abortions
    Gynecologists at a local hospital in Flekkefjord, south Norway, are refusing to give abortions because of fears of attacks by anti-abortion opponents. Marcüs Gurgen, leader of the surgical department at the hospital, told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that one of the doctors in particular fears ...
  • Ethiopians in new cathedral protest
    Around 20 Ethiopian asylum seekers protesting against the Norwegian immigration authority’s decision to send them home have returned to Oslo Cathedral for a new protest, following their occupation of the church and hunger strikes in February. The protestors set up a large white tent directly bes ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Facts About Bottled Water
    Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Diigo Post on ...
  • Home Made Solar Tracker
    Solar modules are very common all over the world. Unfortunately it is a high energy effort to make them and expensive materials are required. That’s why we should make them more effective. Most solar panels are fixed in place, which is not very effective because the sun moves the whole day. ...
  • The International Permaculture Conference and ...
    The world’s premier permaculture gathering begins in September this year. The International Permaculture Conference and Convergence is held every two years on a different continent. This time around, it’s Jordan’s turn. Jordan is home of the original, and sequel, ‘Greening the Desert‘ sites. I ...
  • Permaculture Urban Landscape Design Course
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’d love to take this course myself, but alas, I’m unable to make it. Those of you who’re itching to get started, or to do better, with your urban patch (or with someone else’s urban patch!), should seriously consider jumping on this course. During this intensive 5- ...
  • A Solar Powered Life, Part VI – The Ideologica ...
    The series, A Solar Powered Life, is intended for those that have an interest in the generation and storage of electricity using solar panels. I’ve tried to write the series in such a way that it is accessible for everybody and not just for those that are technically minded. By the end of the se ...

Telecrap Urinal

  • US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
    Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
  • Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
    Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
  • US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
    The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
  • United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
    Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
  • Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
    9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

  • London 2012 Olympics team publishes first gree ...
    London 2012 Olympic organisers have published the first environment report for next year's Games.The report says it is on target to cut the carbon footprint by 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in the procurement of materials and venue construction. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� ...
  • Wael Ghonim - The Man behind Revolution in Egypt
    Wael Ghonim, who hogged limelight during Egypt's political uprising, is believed to be the real person behind the revolution that inspired many national unrests in countries like Yemen, Syria and Libya.Ghonim is an Internet activist and the head of MarketSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Greenpeace: Apple has the dirtiest data
    Sure, most of us consider the environmental impact our recycling habits or car's gas mileage may have.But what about our text messages and status updates?The energy that technology companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
  • Gulf disaster renews debate over Arctic oil spill
    A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario � a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska's northern coast. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Scotland's First Marine Reserve Already Produc ...
    Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/21/11 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should peo ...
    vegetarian.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should people become vegetarian? - In 2010, each person in the US ate an average of 57.5 pounds of beef, 46.5 pounds of pork, and 82 pounds of chicken. Vegetarians, about 3.2% of the US population, do not eat meat (including poultry and seafood). ...
  • 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
  • 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
    abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
  • 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
  • 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
    deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...

Truth About Our World

  • China hits back with report on U.S. human righ ...
    English.news.cn Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was re ...
  • Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Fo ...
    By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology � or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community su ...
  • The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Natu ...
    Richard William Posner Activist Post A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you needn’t think about, I have a small experiment you can try that might serve to enlighten you. Hop in your 10-mpg SUV and motor on down t ...
  • Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO- ...
    Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against �pro-democracy� protesters in order to lay the groundwork for another contrived �humanitarian� war Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tue ...
  • Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
      Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has thrown his weight behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pointed a finger of blame at the West for recent unrests in the Middle Eastern country. Chavez accused the United States and its allies of fomenting unrest and protests in Syria, arguing that Wes ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Folic Acid Follies
    Pregnant women should stop popping these pills like candy. By Amanda Schaffer Take folic acid, but not too muchNo woman who’s expecting, or expecting to expect, can avoid the advice, from any doctor or health site worth its salt: Take folic acid. The vitamin deserves its exalted status. When wom ...
  • Females Move to the Head of the Class
    Census: Women win advanced-degree battle of the sexes By Josh Voorhees For the first time, U.S. women now outnumber their male counterparts when it comes to finishing college and earning advanced degrees, the Associated Press reports. Among adults 25 and over, 10.6 million of those with advanced ...
  • Starbucks Now No. 3 U.S. Chain Restaurant
    Burger joints lose grasp on top-sellers podium. By Josh Voorhees Starbucks is now the no. 3 largest-selling chain restaurant in the United States, trailing only perennial no. 1 McDonaldâs and relative podium newcomer Subway, according to the latest rankings of the top 500 selling chain restauran ...
  • Incredible Edibles
    The mad genius of âModernist Cuisine.â by John Lanchester  Nathan Myhrvold and his culinary colleagues love to cut things in halfâlike this traditional pot roastâand show cross sections. In 2004, Nathan Myhrvold, who had, five years earlier, at the advanced age of forty, retired from his job as ...
  • The Inner Voice
    Gandhiâs real legacy. by Pankaj Mishra Gandhiâs legend too often obscures the audacious radicalism of his ideas. Mohandas Gandhi was the twentieth centuryâs most famous advocate of nonviolent politics. But was he also its most spectacular political failure? The possibility is usually overshadowe ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
    Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted.  Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
  • Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
    Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
  • No title
    FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches.  Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
  • Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
    Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
  • Gr8 expectations
    FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...

NAU Resistance

  • U.S. Predator Drones Patrol Canadian Border
    What this is really about is the creation of a common security perimeter around the continent of North America
  • Parliamentary Law Bars Harper From Re-Election
    By: PAUL W KINCAID March 28, 2011 – 7:27 am Canada Elections Act CANDIDATES â Qualifications http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=loi%2Ffel%2Fcea&document=part06&lang=e Ineligible candidates 65. The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate: (b) a person who is dis-ent ...
  • Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues ...
    "The Conservative government has maintained that a security perimeter with the U.S. will not impact on sovereignty"
  • Harper Cronies Intentionally Misleading Canadians
    "Now we've learned that the F-35 stealth fighter deal is connected to Harper's plan to build a security perimeter around Canada and the United States- a Fortress North America!"
  • Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security Co ...
    Obama also announced, “we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries.” He added, “I look forward to consulting with Congress and moving forward in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollar ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
    This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
  • Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
    Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
  • Letter From America
    Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
  • Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
  • Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
    Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...

Beacon

  • Good News for Sharks and the Oceans
    I have several good news items to share with you this week. First, I am happy to announce that our trawling ban in Belize is now official. Belize is home to a major portion of the world’s second largest reef system as a well as a thriving local fishing community, and the ban protects both these ...
  • Ted Danson On NBC Nightly News
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Ted Danson was on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams this weekend, talking about his book, "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them." Once again he does a fantastic job describing the state of th ...
  • Where Are They Now?: Sara Bayles
    Nominations are still open for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with 2010 finalist Sara Bayles. Sara Bayles is the author of The Daily Ocean blog, where she documents her efforts to collect trash from her local beach for 365 non-consecutive days. Now Sara and ...
  • Where Are They Now?: Casey Sokolovic
    Casey Sokolovic with her specialty: sea turtle cookies. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with one of our favorites, sea turtle activist Casey Sokolovic. Casey might look familiar - we can’t get enough of her ever since she ...
  • Kate Walsh on Offshore Drilling
    Check out Kate Walsh explaining her support of Oceana's campaign to end offshore drilling at yesterday's event. Kate has been a fantastic spokeswoman for us and we can't thank her enough for joining us at the Capitol. �

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • My $0.02/Saturday: sheroes and potpourri
    Morning, news junkies. Here are my Saturday reads. Hillaryland Hillary’s profile in the 2011 Time 100 was written by dean emeritus of the Kennedy School, Joe Nye. Nye doesn’t mention Hillary’s work on behalf of women and girls, instead defining her influence in terms of how well she plays with ...
  • Trump: What Does Privacy have to do with ‘Pro- ...
    **UPDATED**Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Nice, soft ball question. But as we found out with Sarah Palin there aren’t any. –updated– Speaking of Sarah, it really does look as if Donald Trump’s media blitz and poll explosion has team Sarah concerned. ...
  • John Boehner’s Oops
    “Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and, frankly, they’ve got some part of this to blame,” the Ohio Republican told ABC News today. Blame aside, what about the cold, hard cash — the billions of dollars in tax breaks and other subsidies big oil receives every year? President Obama has ...
  • Obama: ‘Let Me Finish My Answers…’
    **UPDATED** After the interview, Obama pointed out that he doesn’t like an interviewer challenging his comments. “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” he said. – WFAA.com – News 8, TexasThere is nothing more infuriating than being interviewed and not being all ...
  • The Ugly, The Bad, & The Good Can Oust the Worst
    Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools. Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for ...

Hudson New York

  • How Much Should You Spend to Protect Your Citi ...
    While Israelis are cheering the success of the new Iron Dome short range Missile Defense weapon, many have expressed doubts about the cost-effectiveness of the system. How can it be in Israel's interest, they ask, to use expensive interceptors to destroy
  • Marxism Redux: When Government Interference Ho ...
    Government interference is very often the factor that imperils capitalist success. The guarantees provided by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to create the real estate bubble that ultimately undermined the housing market. The "carry trade" that gives
  • Despite Pressure, Colombia Will Not Recognize ...
    US President Obama, with an attitude that apparently prevented him from even visiting Colombia during his first trip to Latin America, is leaving stranded an important Latin American ally to the US – Colombia -- both in regard to its opposition to
  • If the United States Eliminates Lots of its Nu ...
    And then over time we can eventually get to zero, right? At least that is what has been argued for the 65 years of the nuclear age by the proponents of what is now known as "Global Zero," the campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons. And don't worry.
  • Why Are Palestinians Killing People Who Suppor ...
    In April, two "pro-Palestinian" activists were murdered by Palestinians –- one in the West Bank and the other in the Gaza Strip. The fact that the two were staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause and were known for their deep hatred of Israel was not

Urban Survival

  • Housing: Home Prices Slide – Again…
    Not too much of a surprise in the housing numbers just released by Case Shiller/S&P – the 20 City Housing Index: New York, April 26, 2011 â Data through February 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Civilization Restart Kit
    I know most people think ,we’re crazy – walking away from the fine restaurants, the great shopping, high-end movie houses, theater, concerts and such that goes with the Big City Life, but since outgrowing the Lionel stage (about age 18 … Continue reading →
  • Reader Advisory
    This morning’s post will be up around 8:15 to incorporate the housing numbers due out in a few minutes from Case Shiller/S&P – these are mighty  damned important…
  • The Word Among Time Monks
    [Reader Note:  We depart from our usual news then commentary form this morning because there is a whole lot of Big Picture stuff in motion that needs to be taken in as a whole.] This could be the week everything … Continue reading →
  • GlobalRev – Ongoing
    Every once in a while, I have panoramic, better than HD TV or Panavision dreams, and this morning’s was disturbing.  It was about a crowd of people in a middle eastern nation near some kind of sporting event/stadium being attacked … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Max Igan : A Fear Based Reality
    Max Igan from Queensland Australia is an excellent Philosopher! Global Governmental... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Gerald Celente: Prepare, Survive and Prevail
    Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones 21 Apr 2011Gerald Celente : look at the numbers home... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Links for 2011-04-21 [del.icio.us]
    Bob Chapman JP Morgan and HSBC are trapped | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman JP Morgan and HSBC are trapped Fukushima Nuclear disaster : Radiation, Food Contamination and the end of the world | Gerald Celente Trends Blog Fukushima Nuclear disaster : Radiation, F ...
  • Mike Rivero : The students Loan Bubble
    Mike Rivero gives an excellent explanation to what's happening in Wall street which was... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • I am a High Tech Low Life out of rehab and in ...
    George Carlin gives a very comic description o the modern man , high tech low life... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

  • IS THE TRUTH CONTROVERSIAL?
    Is there something controversial about the truth? Maybe that’s why we dont like it. Theres something about the truth that’s just not normal. Its something we cant handle or accept. Would people like you if you always told the truth? Or would they prefer it if you lied a little? Have you ever spo ...
  • MIND CONTROL 36
    This is where it gets deep……so tread carefully. Not many people know…….that the “Eucharist” originated with Paul: 1 Cor 11:23-25 23 For I RECEIVED FROM THE LORD that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given ...
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT EASTER
    Easter as a celebration is mentioned nowhere in the new testament apart from in the King James version of the bible. Those who spend time reading different translations will discover that the King James bible in particular has quite a number of inserted words and scriptures, that are not found i ...
  • INSPIRATION
    I sat with my pen in hand. Waiting for inspiration. Waiting for words to pour themselves out. From within; somewhere on the inside. Sometimes; its important to give what’s inside a chance to speak. A chance to be heard. A chance to be seen. A chance to be witnessed on the outside. I was still [...]
  • MIND CONTROL 35
    Let us take a close look so that we can get a full understanding of Paul’s message in relation to grace. But in order to get a full perspective…….let us start with a statement from Jesus. Jesus says: Matthew 6:14-15 14 FOR IF YOU FORGIVE MEN WHEN THEY SIN AGAINST YOU, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

Physics Today

  • Harvesting electricity from bacteria
    Daily Mail: Scientists are one step closer to creating power stations that generate electricity from humble bacteria, writes David Derbyshire for the Daily Mail. Yesterday Tom Clarke of the University of East Anglia and coworkers published their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
  • UK space plane passes key review
    BBC: A revolutionary UK space plane design was recently evaluated by the European Space Agency. In their report, the agency’s experts concluded that “no technical or economic impediments have been identified” that would prevent the project from going forward. Skylon is a proposed hybrid reusable ...
  • US Census Bureau study correlates college majo ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: It's taken for granted that workers who hold bachelor's degrees earn more than workers who don't. But does it matter what subject a worker's degree is in? Yes, according to a new study by the US Census Bureau. As the Chronicle's Beckie Supiano reports, the bureau c ...
  • Chicago prepares for climate change
    New York Times: Chicago is preparing for a wetter, steamier future based on climate scientists’ predictions. Inspired by the Kyoto international treaty of 2006, then mayor Richard Daley initiated efforts to reduce carbon emissions and raise Chicago’s profile as an environmentally friendly town. ...
  • Radio telescopes capture best-ever snapshot of ...
    Astronomy: The highest-resolution image of galactic jets has been produced by the Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry (TANAMI) project. The new image shows a region less than 4.2 light-years across, and radio-emitting features as small as 15 light-days are ...
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