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Thomas Paine

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Monday, May 30, 2011

30 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Merkel: Germany will lead way in renewable energy
Monsters and Critics.com
- May 30, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Berlin - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that Germany would lead the way in the move to renewable energy, after her government anounced plans to shut down all of the country's nuclear power plants by 2022. 'Germany will be the first large ...
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States may have to buy renewable power more often
Business Standard
- May 30, 2011
- 1 hour ago
The Central Energy Regulatory Commission (CERC) proposes to spread the renewable power purchase obligation of states staggered over one year and at specified intervals. The proposal comes as a move to make renewable power trading on the exchanges more ...
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Renewables unlikely to fill nuclear gap without bold policy changes
The Local.de
- May 30, 2011
- 7 hours ago
Germany has decided to phase out nuclear power, but can renewables satisfy the energy needs of Europe's largest economy? Experts say better policy, not technology, is needed for renewable energy to reach its potential. A recent report by the Federal ...
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Cheap gas will overtake renewables, energy chief warns
The Guardian
- May 30, 2011
- 3 hours ago
A glut of cheap gas will see the fuel overtake renewable sources in the global race to build new energy generation, says a senior energy industry executive. "More gas [power plants] than wind and solar will be built [in the 10 to 20 years]," said Steve ...
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Human Habitat

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Maple Leaf signs deal to buy private Vancouver plantation company
Winnipeg Free Press
- May 30, 2011
- 3 hours ago
CALGARY -Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc. (TSXV:MPE) of Calgary says it has signed a letter of intent to acquire KS Ecology (Canada) Inc.., a Vancouver-based private Yellowhorn tree plantation company that operates in China. The deal is valued at between ...
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A film on a father of wildlife ecology: Aldo Leopold
Boston Globe (blog)
- May 30, 2011
- 7 hours ago
You may not have heard of Aldo Leopold but the conservationist, forester, philosopher and writer is considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology and his well-known book, A Sand County Almanac, is considered a classic in conservation. ...
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Government committed to protecting ecology
Arab News
- May 29, 2011
- 20 hours ago
Prince Turki bin Nasser, head of the Presidency for Meteorology and Environment, being greeted by children at the opening of the Gulf Environment and Sustainable Development Forum at the Jeddah Hilton on Sunday. (AN photo by Ben Harrison) By ROGER ...
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Feature: Island Butterfly Garden: not just about business, it is about ecology
Philippine Information Agency
- May 30, 2011
- 6 hours ago
by Rizalie A. Calibo and Inacher A. Abatayo "It's not just about business, most importantly it is about the conservation of butterfly species and the ecology," Dante Jumapit said as he talked about the Island Butterfly Garden. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Report: Kids should stick to water, low-fat milk
Washington Post (blog)
- May 30, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Sports beverages (and the related sports recovery drinks) offer water, electrolytes and carbohydrates. Though they come in reduced-calorie varieties, most do contain some calories. As noted above, most kids should entirely avoid caloric beverages ...
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Daugaard: Dakota Dunes could be under water up to 2 months
KTIV
- May 30, 2011
- 17 minutes ago
Dennis Daugaard says Dakota Dunes could be under water for up to two months. Speaking late Monday morning, Daugaard said the flow of the Missouri River should reach 150000 cubic feet per second by June 14. He says that will put the river depth at 1098 ...
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Reportlinker Adds Chinese Markets for Water Soluble Polymers
Sacramento Bee
- May 30, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Reportlinker China's demand for water soluble polymers has grown at a fast pace in the past decade. In the next five years, both production and demand will continue to grow. This new study examines China's economic trends, investment environment, ...
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Deer Creek State Park - Beach Closed
ABC6OnYourSide.com
- May 30, 2011
- 2 hours ago
STERLING - An announcement made by officials at Deer Creek State Park say that due to the wet weather we have experienced, Deer Creek Lake is currently 19 ft. above our normal summer water level. Algal toxins are present at this location and are unsafe ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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

The Daily Galaxy

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

Natural News

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

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

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

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

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

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

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

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

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

AlterNet Top Stories

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

Threat Level

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

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

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

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

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

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

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

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • US Doctors 'Hid Signs of Torture' at Guantanamo
    US government doctors who cared for the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay deliberately concealed or ignored evidence that their patients were being tortured, the first official study of its kind has found. A detailed review of the medical records and case files of nine Guantanamo inmates has concluded ...
  • Why US and NATO Fed Detainees to Afghan Tortur ...
    WASHINGTON - Starting in late 2005, U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan began turning detainees over to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), despite its well-known reputation for torture. Interviews with former U.S. and NATO diplomats and other evidence now available show that Unit ...
  • Yemenis Start Civil Disobedience Campaign
    SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni residents in scores of cities and towns across the nation launched a civil disobedience campaign Wednesday to bring down the country's long-serving president, activists said. The campaign is the latest in Yemen's uprising that started in early February, inspired by revolts ...
  • Chained Ethnic Studies Students Take Over Scho ...
    Has Wisconsin finally come to Arizona? In an extraordinary uprising at the Tucson Unified School District board meeting Tuesday, Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies (MAS) students chained themselves to the board members chairs and derailed the introduction of a controversial resolution that ...
  • Panetta to Head Pentagon, Petraeus CIA
    President Barack Obama will nominate CIA director Leon Panetta as defense secretary and Army General David Petraeus as head of the American spy agency, officials said on Wednesday. Obama will also nominate veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. An official said ...

Lifehacker

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

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

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

McClatchey

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

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

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

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

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

Watts Up With That?

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

Dandelion Salad

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

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

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

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

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

Public News Service

  • History Lessons for Social Security And Medicare?
    History Lessons for Social Security And Medicare? Phoenix, AZ – As Congress prepares to take-up the future of Social Security and Medicare, a look at the history of the systems is useful, according to Mark Schmitt, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, former editor at The American Prospec ...
  • It's Screen-Free Week – Dare You Look Away?
    It's Screen-Free Week – Dare You Look Away? Phoenix, AZ – Arizonans are being urged to turn off TVs, video games and hand-held devices this week in an effort to make families aware of how much time is spent with electronic entertainment instead of physical activity and face-to-face human interac ...
  • Sniffling Season in Arizona: Allergy or Cold?
    Sniffling Season in Arizona: Allergy or Cold? Phoenix, AZ – Is it a cold or seasonal allergies? That’s a question many Arizona parents face this time of year when their little ones are sniffling and sneezing. Experts say it’s crucial to know what you are dealing with in order to properly treat i ...
  • AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work ...
    AZ Programs Boost Energy Efficiency; More Work Remains Phoenix, AZ - A new study finds the United States falling behind in clean energy investments, just as Arizona is becoming a more energy-efficient state. Some say there's room for the Grand Canyon State to become more of a leader. Comments fr ...
  • AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View"
    AZ Kids and Toddlers Keep "Backseat View" Phoenix, AZ – New guidelines will change the way Arizona children ride in a car. The American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting toddlers stay in rear-facing car seats until at least the age of two and all children remain in the backseat until age 13. ...

Center for Food Safety

  • CFS and Deepak Chopra–Watch Live Today!
    Genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa has recently been approved by the USDA, even though significant questions remain concerning its effects on consumers and the environment, and the serious contamination risks it poses to non-GMO and organic farmers and to our food supply. In light of this decis ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know! Send you ...
     Join our virtual rally and send your letter to Congress urging mandatory labeling of GE foods TODAY! Saturday, March 26th, from D.C. to Colorado Springs–and more than 20 cities in between–thousands of people will  join together for a Rally for the Right to Know, demanding labeling of GMO food ...
  • Join the Rally for the Right to Know!
    The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labeling of GE foods would remain voluntary, even though there was no indication that any company would ...
  • Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Chall ...
    “Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds Today, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Depar ...
  • Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced To Ban Dang ...
    Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other groups, businesses and retailers applaud Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Lisa Murkowski (R- ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • More on Egypt
    Reading that now, a few days after the military pressured Mubarak to step down, the Egyptian parliament has been dissolved, and the Constitution invalidated by the Egyptian military. This fills me with fear. The mainstream media are treating these acts as a good thing, and the Egyptians they int ...
  • Update: Mubarak Not Stepping Down Tonight
    Related posts:Celestial Show Tonight Update on March Update, Perverse Justice
  • US involved in an Egyptian “military coup”?
    Photo by adaptorplug A CNN news story says that Hofni Mubarak will likely relinquish power to the Egyptian military tonight. This is what their source, âa senior Egyptian officalâ is quoted by CNN as saying: He said the process — which included dialogue between the government and opposition repr ...
  • President Llorens
    I’ve reconsidered my position about posting Wikileaks articles. This article not only discusses classified material disclosed by Wikileaks, but actually quotes it. I know some of my readers work for the US government, thus the warning. I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I simply ...
  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [ ...

Green Times

  • Church Point ferries go green
    The feel good factor for the local community – boat access only residents of southern Pittwater – and visitors alike now extends beyond the scenery…
  • The New Climate Kid
    Is this what FUTURE us will look like? :) Adapting! That's what it's all about - or so we're told by David Attenborough and the like. So Do the Green Thing and UNICEF have teamed up to create this terrific tongue-in-cheek look at how kids of the future might have to be, just ...
  • What's On 25 April 2011
    Hope you enjoyed the extra-long Easter and Anzac Day break! Now I have to break the bad news… it's back to work and back to school time for most of us! Still, there's a few things happening this week, to help ease the transition back. There's permaculture, coal-seam gas protests and some of us a ...
  • Environmental News 21/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 20/04/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • RIP Vittorio, z”l
    I was scheduled to be interviewed by Ashley Bates, whose work we have reposted here. Instead she got word of the death of her friend, Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni at the ends of self-proclaimed “Salafists,” an Islamist faction and rival to Hamas. While of course internationals’ death ...
  • Interview with BDS leader Omar Barghouti
    Democracy Now! shared this interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa. Thankfully, the campaign wa ...
  • Intolerance–Then and Now
    This post is a bit of a departure for the website.  While our focus is generally on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, we want to also occasionally draw the connections between the political culture here in the U.S. and in Israel and Palestine, and how they influence one another. Yest ...
  • Democracy Now! on Julian’s death
    Democracy Now? asked us to repost their interview with Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre and Constancia “Dinky” Romilly. She is the founder and president of the board of the New York-based Friends of Jenin Freedom Theatre. They are speaking of the death o ...
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, in his own words
    From filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe: Dear friends, Many of you may have already heard about the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. The co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, he was gunned down (five bullets to the head) this afternoon outside the theatre by an unkno ...

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 ...
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