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 Above Top Secret

• How Osama Is About To Win The War On Terror (232 flags) - 1 day agoI know we are all celebrating the death of the most wanted and evil man in the world, but it is time to snap back to reality. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but what was Osama...
• Calling all ATS Osama Dead huh? What are they breaking the news to hide? Lets start digging please (216 flags) - 1 day agoThis is how they do it we all know this. This is a blatant MSM wool over the eyes type of an announcement. Its time to peruse the interwebz with a fine tooth comb. I have a huge suspicion...
• Dont Be Distracted : The Real Problem = Historic Mississippi Flood/Intentional Levee Breach (117 flags) - 1 day agoI know everyone is bent up on the latest Osama is Dead But dont forget about the Historic Mississippi Flood/Intentional Levee Breach... Tomorrow is going to be a big day...
• Mass Arrests, Tear Gas, Sound Weapons used Against West Illinois University Students (114 flags) - 1 day agoReports coming from MaComb Saturday night say police are overtaking the streets as riots broke out on and around the Western Illinois campus. Witnesses are posting pictures...
• Has ATS been infiltrated? (107 flags) - 1 day ago

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AllBusiness

• Business Boxing: How to Generate Sales QuicklyIn the 10th and final round of "Business Boxing," business experts Carol Roth and Barry Moltz go toe to toe with tips on taking potential customers from "suspect" to "prospect...
• Smart Ways to Use Twitter for B2B Marketing - 1 day agoTwitter is quickly developing into a useful marketing tool for small and midsize companies that sell products and services to other businesses.
• Put Your Small Business Strategy into Action with Web Analytics - 1 day agoInfo garnered from Web traffic can lead to profitable rewards. The key is to determine which data is most helpful in developing a sound business strategy.
• Is It Finally Time to Move Your Small Business to the Cloud? - 4 days ago

• Wall Street falls as earnings fears threaten rally (Reuters) - 4 hours agoReuters - stocks fell on Tuesday as investors questioned the sustainability of the rally in light of fresh worries about earnings growth in the coming quarters.
• Portugal agrees on a 78-billion euro EU/IMF bailout (Reuters) - 2 hours agoReuters - Portugal has agreed a three-year, 78-billion-euro ($116 billion) bailout with the European Union and IMF, caretaker Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on Tuesday.
• Strong ad market drives Comcast and CBS results (Reuters) - 58 minutes ago

American Rivers

• Conservation Expert Available To Comment On Levee Explosion, Rivers, Floods And Community Safety - 4 hours agoAs rising Mississippi floodwaters threaten people and property and the US Army Corps of Engineers has exploded a levee to protect Cairo, Ill., the public needs credible information about why rivers fl...
• Potomac Highlands Implementation Grants Now Available - 5 days agoAmerican Rivers is seeking proposals for a variety of projects aimed at protecting and restoring the Potomac Highlands, the headwaters of the river that flows through our nation’s capital, as part of ...
• American Rivers Kicks Off 20th Anniversary of National River Cleanup(TM) - 5 days agoAmerican Rivers, the nation’s leading voice for healthy rivers and clean water, today announced the kickoff of National River Cleanup™, now in its 20th year. The program, which mobilizes hundreds of t...
• Obama Administration Acts to Improve Protections for Clean Drinking Water - 6 days agoThe small streams and wetlands that provide drinking water for millions of Americans will remain protected, thanks to draft guidance released today by the Environmental Protection Agency.
• On Gulf oil spill anniversary, major spill threatens clean water in PA - 1 week ago

BBC - Home

• Bin Laden 'was unarmed when shot' - 2 hours agoAl-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed by US troops on Sunday after resisting capture, the White House says.
• Portugal reaches deal on bail-out - 4 hours agoPortugal has reached a deal on a bail-out from the EU and IMF, its caretaker prime minister announces.
• Syrian army 'surrounds Baniyas' - 10 hours agoSyrian security forces surround the coastal city of Baniyas, activists say, days after tanks and troops took control of Deraa in the south.
• North Korea jail camps 'growing' - 4 hours agoAmnesty International publishes satellite images of what it says are North Korea's political prison camps, saying they appear to be growing in size.
• Bahrain medics 'promoted unrest' - 9 hours ago

BBC - England

• Suspect named in family murders - 6 hours agoPolice investigating the murder of a couple and their two daughters in a house in Northampton name a man they want to locate.
• Lapse 'allowed drugs into prison' - 2 hours agoA "serious" security breach allowed "huge quantities" of drugs and mobile phones to get into a prison on the Isle of Wight, a report reveals.
• Dewani 'wanted out of marriage' - 7 hours agoAn extradition hearing is told a man accused of ordering his wife's murder on their honeymoon in South Africa "needed a way out" of the marriage.
• Tomlinson unlawfully killed by Pc - 8 hours agoNewspaper seller Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed by Pc Simon Harwood at the G20 protests in London in 2009, an inquest jury rules.
• Model's ex-PA sentenced for fraud - 11 hours ago

Cage Prisoners

• The cycle of violence just became even more deadly - 9 hours ago Osama bin Laden is many things to many people, particularly when one considers his life over the course of the last 30 years. A one time a hero of the mujahideen in Afghanistan, and until recently, ...
• With Osama bin Laden's death, the time for US vengeance Is over - 1 day ago Andy Worthington explains why bin Laden's death ought to bring to an end the "War on Terror" -- but probably won't.
• Guantanamo Bay: United Kingdom 1-0 France - 1 week ago By convicting five Guantanamo former detainees, France has failed to recognise their status of victims but also to uphold the guarantees of due process.
• The hidden horrors of WikiLeaks' Guantánamo files - 1 week ago Andy Worthington on the significance of WikiLeaks' release of secret military documents on the Guantanamo prisoners.
• PRESS RELEASE: Wikileaks revelations confirm most Guantanamo detainees held under false pretexts - 1 week ago

 Coyote

• If GOP Candidates Can’t Make It Here, They Can’t Make It Anywhere - 2 hours agoIt’s hard to see populist, wacky GOP candidates making much progress nationally if they can’t get any traction in Arizona. A poll of 623 Arizona voters released today reflects a couple things — almo...
• Where Does It End? - 6 hours agoCalifornia legislation to make it a crime to use flat rather than fitted sheets on hotel room beds. Via Overlawyered .( wOOt !  The Governator slays me )
• City Planning, Light Rail and White People - 9 hours agoI have argued for a long time that the shift of city transit departments from buses to a love affair with light rail has been a disaster.  Rail is so much more expensive per passenger mile, and so inf...
• You Will Be Relieved to Know it is Now Harder To Discipline Bad Cops in Arizona - 9 hours agoFrom the AZ Republic Arizona police officers accused of misconduct will soon have more protection. Gov. Jan Brewer has signed six bills, backed by police unions, that spell out procedures for inte...
• Animated Pictures - 10 hours ago

Crikey! - Columns

• Rundle: by the time Osama died, he had already died - 21 hours agoThere was no Brandenburg gate to plant a flag on, no Mussolini hanging from a rope -- just a speech and footage of a compound.
• Rundle: Manning Clark and the Austen Tayshus comparison - 21 hours agoIn one of the most bizarre sallies in the ongoing, nasty kulturkampf against Manning Clark, Ross Fitzgerald joins his voice to those who saw the great historian as some sort of Soviet stooge.
• Lamenting the dumbing down of politics - 21 hours agoCrikey readers have their say.
• Markets rally at Osama’s death only to close down - 21 hours agoThe Dow Jones was up 65 at best on the news of Osama bin Laden’s death
• Osama and the media … Easdown quits Hun … Mercury keeps its subs … - 21 hours ago

Top Documentary Films

• Secret Files of the Inquisition - 8 hours agoBased on previously unreleased secret documents from European Archives including the Vatican, Secret Files of the Inquisition unveils the incredible true story of the Catholic Church’s 500-year strugg...
• Food Matters - 20 hours agoLet thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food – Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters f...
• Cocaine Submarines - 1 day agoColombian drug traffickers are using a new secret weapon to smuggle cocaine north – drug submarines. Up to 30 meters long and nearly impossible to detect, they are capable of distributing several tons...
• Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story - 1 day agoHorizon reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves – a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster. Engineers and oi...
• How Earth Made Us - 2 days ago

Drone Wars UK

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• Transfer Speculation - 1 day agoI wrote most of this post last night before the announcement that US special forces entered Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden and members of his family.  It is noteworthy that drones were not used t...
• Drones everywhere - 1 week ago Obama: Sending Drones to Bomb Libya It’s been a busy week!  On Monday the Guardian highlighted the MoD’s  new document on the need for serious discussion on the ethics and legality of usin...
• New MoD document recognises legal, ethical and moral issues raised by use of armed drones - 2 weeks agoThe UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (click image to open PDF from MoD website) The UK Ministry of Defence has published a new document, to “inform and prompt wider debate” on military unman...
• UK Reapers notch up 20,000 flying hours - 3 weeks agoThe UK MoD have announced today that UK  Reaper drones have now notched up over 20,000 hours flying over Afghanistan  since they were first deployed in October 2007.  In the self-congratulatory anno...
• Reaper and Predator drone manufacturer opens UK office - one month ago

The Drum - Opinion

• Obligations to asylum seekers - 2 days agoWhen we enter the world of detention... we enter a zone where usual conceptions of human rights and obligations to others do not apply. (Zachary Steel) The recent protests at Villawood throw into reli...
• A post-insurance world of snug socialism - 2 days agoWild weather in the last four months has already killed the insurance industry, and capitalism itself may not long survive it. Floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, bushfires caused by lightning s...
• Sri Lanka needs truth, not a national forgetting - 2 days agoLike most children of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora I have almost no experience of the Sinhalese as human beings. The breadth of my experience has been confined to a friend here, an acquaintance there...
• The Chaser’s royal wedding commentary: frequently axed questions - 4 days agoWhether in the media coverage of the decision to cancel The Chaser’s Royal Wedding Commentary or when I endlessly check Twitter, the same questions keep cropping up again and again about our abortive ...
• A right royal knees up - 4 days ago

Eco 20.20

• May 3, Best Green Technology Books: Energy Products Articles: Eco20/20 - 10 hours agoWhether you have a growing interest or have been a long-time insider on green technology, there is always something to learn from a book. Here are a few interesting publications that just might teach ...
• May 3, Green Vehicles - Fad or Reality?: Electric Vehicles Articles: Eco20/20 - 10 hours agoAfter years of hybrid vehicle sales seemingly gaining momentum, in 2010 sales were down almost across the board. Ford Escape hybrid sales were down over 23 through the first two and a half quarters th...
• May 2, The Cost of Green Technology: Renewable Energy Articles: Eco20/20 - 1 day agoAlmost everyone is aware of green technology in this day and age. It permeates our day-to-day lives. From our homes, to our city streets, to our popular culture; green technology is present in some wa...
• May 2, Comparison of Green Energy and Nuclear Energy: Nuclear Energy, Non Renewable Energy: Eco20/20 - 1 day agoNuclear energy requires a substantial upfront investment to build the power plant, around five to ten billion dollars. Once that investment is made nuclear energy is one of the safest most efficient m...
• Apr 29, Clean Electricity in Green Technology: Non Renewable Energy Articles: Eco20/20 - 4 days ago

ESA

• ESA expands its Earth-exploring service - 16 hours agoSince 2006 ESA has been making satellite images of Earth available to anyone wanting to explore the planet in near-real time. ESA has now added nearly 13 000 radar images to the service, bringing the ...
• Shuttle Endeavour launch no earlier than 10 May - 1 day agoNASA Space Shuttle and International Space Station managers met Monday and determined that Tuesday 10 May is the earliest Endeavour could be launched on the STS-134 mission with ESA astronaut Roberto ...
• Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically - 1 day agoNo wonder it is called Red River: it looks like it could be on the red planet rather than in Spain. The landscape and terrain make it a perfect place for simulating a Mars sortie.
• Space sensor helps produce ‘greener’ glass - 2 days agoWhat has making glass in common with space exploration? The special technology to measure oxygen atoms outside space vehicles is now being used in the glass industry to produce super-efficient energy-...
• Andromeda’s coat of many colours - 6 days ago

Gawker

• This Is How You Will French Kiss in the Future [Video] - 1 hour ago # gadgets Wondering how you will kiss your significant other in the future? Well, you, specifically, will be alone for the rest of your life, b...
  ( Anyone paying attention to trends revealed by futurism might be interested by another novel by the author of 'I,Robot' : Professor Isaac Asimov, also author of the 'Foundation and Empire'  trilogy and murder mystery set in a future in space where physical contact is not part of society. Robot J. Daneel Olivaw assists in a murder investigation, as I recall : The Naked Sun )
  
• Comment of the Day: A Great New Magazine Game [We Read You] - 1 hour ago # wereadyou Today we talked about Time magazine dusting off the red-X-over-someone's-face thing for their issue about Osama bin Laden's d...
• Did Online Poker Lead to Osama Bin Laden's Death? [Conspiracy Theories] - 1 hour ago # conspiracytheories Just weeks before Osama Bin Laden's death, the Department of Justice shut down the three largest online poker websites. ...
• Online Teens Want to Know: Who Is Osama Bin Laden? [The Internet] - 1 hour ago # theinternet Here's a good way to make those of you who aren't very old feel extremely old: The kids these days — many of the same ones ...
• Star Jones' Book About The View Is Not About The View [Video] - 2 hours ago

Great Beyond

• Fukushima reactors did not restart after initial shutdown, study suggests - 6 hours agoA new analysis posted to the popular physics preprint server ArXiv.org suggests that the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi have not restarted their nuclear processes since 11 March. The work is no...
• Europe unveils biodiversity plan - 9 hours agoThe European Commission has published a new plan to improve Europe’s biodiversity over the next decade (see 3 May press release ). The strategy includes targets on sustainable agriculture, safeguardin...
• Canada gets majority Conservative government, and its first Green MP - 10 hours agoThe Conservative party won a majority in the Canadian election yesterday, after five years of minority rule. The left-wing New Democratic Party vaulted over the Liberals to form the official oppositio...
• How DNA may have confirmed bin Laden's death - 1 day agoThe US government has said that DNA samples from family members of Osama bin Laden were used to positively identify his body with "99.9 percent" certainty. How would this work, and how can t...
• Technique to map distant universe holds dark energy promise - 1 day ago

Green Life

• Tracking TrekEast: Week 7 - 1 hour agoJohn Davis's TrekEast adventure from Florida's Everglades to Canada's Gaspe Peninsula has as its goal to raise awareness of the East's remaining wild places, and to inspire people to h...
• How to Tell the EPA How You Feel About Coal Emissions - 6 hours agoAll you die-hard anti-coal crusaders, take note: the EPA wants to hear what you think about its proposed regulations on mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants.  Three public hearing...
• Green Your Mom: The Fashionista - 11 hours ago Mother’s Day is Sunday (May 8), so this week’s tips suggest ways for you to help your mom be greener, no matter what type of lady she is. You might get a gift idea or two too.  Tip #2: G...
• Daily Roundup: May 2, 2011 - 23 hours agoHanging in the Balance:  Still reeling from last week's deadly tornadoes, people in the Midwest and the Southeast are bracing for a series of storms that could result in severe flooding.  MNN He...
• The Top 10 Solar-Power States - 1 day ago

Homeland Stupidity

• The Nanny State Can’t Last - 3 weeks agoLast week, Congress and the administration refused to seriously consider the problem of government spending. Despite the fear-mongering, a government shutdown would not have been as bad as claimed. ...
• Albany’s Historic Student Ghetto: Kegs N Eggs Mark the Spot - one month agoAlbany, New York isn’t just the seat of a clown car state government — it’s also a college town. And college students, when boozed to the gills, can out-bozo politicians. (Well, almost.) On March 12th...
• Gaming the Game: Baba, Elvis, and the NBA Betting Scandal - one month agoSean Patrick Griffin’s new book Gaming the Game won’t make disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy happy. In 2007, Donaghy was busted by the feds for conspiring with pro gambler Jimmy “Baba” Battista and th...
• No-Fly Won’t Fly Constitutionally - one month agoLast week we once again heard numerous voices calling for intervention in Libya. Most say the US should establish a “no-fly” zone over Libya, pretending that it is a benign, virtually cost-free action...
• Buying Friends Creates More Enemies - one month ago

LEAF

• The “S” Word - 5 days ago In an era of climate change hysteria, diminishing natural resources, discussions about food security and political posturing, the word shouting out at us from every angle is “sustainability”. What...
• LEAF’s Technical Field Day at Harper Adams - 2 weeks agoHarper Adams UC hosted it’s first Technical Field Day, in conjunction with LEAF and sponsored by BOCM Pauls , DairyCo and Väderstad . Farmers from across England travelled to Harper Adams for a seri...
• Sodexo Flies the LEAF Flag! - 2 weeks ago Hundreds of schools, prisons, hospitals and army barracks up and down the UK may soon be serving up LEAF Marque food! Sodexo , one of the largest catering companies in the UK and Ireland have signed...
• Lambing Live: Good for the industry or just good entertainment? - 2 weeks agoThis was the question that we posed on twitter before the first airing of it’s second series on Monday, and these were the responses: @HoeGrange Hoe Grange Holidays @ LEAF_Farming hopefully a bi...
• LEAF Takes Over the TV! - 3 weeks ago

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