- Preparatory Pruning
I’ve been asked by a veteran to re-post an earlier entry from this past March – “Beating ‘em in the alley.” It’s about the significant number of senior officials who were let go by the Harper government over the last while. This is what the PM accomplished with a minority government, against the ...
- Campaign Insider – “Special Guest& ...
“I want to come down to help,” Bob Rae said over the phone. And, of course, I was glad for his assistance. He knows London well and we share a number of mutual friends here. The visits of special guests is an important part to any campaign, raising the profile of the local candidate and [...]
- What if …?
“This is the craziest election I’ve ever witnessed.” I occasionally tell people that I’ve received quite an education in Ottawa, but my real schooling came from London. I learned a lot from 30 years of public service as a firefighter and cut my teeth on community involvement through difficult ye ...
- A Facebook Message
The following is a message sent to me on Facebook yesterday by someone I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting. It’s well-written and his own experience speaks volumes as to what Canada requires at this moment. Â Thanks Timothy. This is an interesting site – My own riding of Oxford is deemed a sa ...
- My Day
For the first time since I was elected four years ago I will finally be home for the birthday of my twin daughters, Abuk and Achan. Both were products of slavery in Sudan and their African mother was killed in a raid when they were four months old. She was holding Abuk in her arms [...]
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
- Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible ...
- Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in this Nanower ...
- A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
- Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog. Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
- Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life. But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...
- Keith Olbermann's Countdown to Return on June 20th
San Jose Mercury News: "The voice will be silenced no more. Current TV has announced that its new show with Keith Olbermann will debut on June 20 at 8 p.m. The show, to be called 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann,' marks the return to the airwaves for Olbermann, one of journalism's most provocativ ...
- Was FBI Too Quick to Judge Anthrax Suspect the ...
The report begins: "Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant - a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer." FBI photographs of letters that contained anthra ...
- Guantanamo Files: Massive Leak Reveals Innocen ...
David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke report: "The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called 'worst of the worst,' many prisoners were flown to the Guantanamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, ...
- Fox News Goes Full Birther
Intro: "Following Donald Trump's lead, Fox News figures have recently embraced or promoted aspects of the birther conspiracy theory by falsely claiming that President Obama has not produced his birth certificate, or by hosting birthers to hype their discredited theories unchallenged." Sarah P ...
- 'No Humanity Left' in Syria
Al Jazeera journalist Cal Perry begins: "Every other journalist is trying to get into Syria, but on Saturday I was trying to get out. The government had made it perfectly clear: My visa was expiring and unless I left on April 23, I would 'face the full force of the law.'" A man carries a chil ...
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
- Corn Panic
By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
- Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Stop NATO News: April 26, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Atlantic Club’s Passy: EU Must Become Collective Member Of NATO Middle East, North Africa: U.S. Risks War With China And Russia To Protect U.S. Interests, International Companies: 15,000 U.S. Troops, Thousands Of Contractors To Remain In Iraq Romania: U. ...
- NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Stop NATO April 26, 2011 NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Rick Rozoff As it has done daily since it assumed control of the air war and naval blockade against Libya on March 31, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 25 p ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 26
==== NATO’s African War: Nearly 4,000 Sorties, Over 1,600 Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable NATO Playing With Fire In Libya: Analyst NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli As Former Colonial Master Italy Enters War NATO Escalates Bombing Assault, Libyans Fear Protracted War Al ...
- Stop NATO News: April 25, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 25 ==== U.S. Marines Bring Iraqi And Afghan War Combat Experience To Gulf Of Guinea “Made In USA”: Yemen Targeted By Predator Drone Missile Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable Resurgence Of French Imperialism New Georgian Military Adventurism ...
- Samuel Johnson on war
Samuel Johnson Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771) Excerpts [W]ar is not the whole business of life; it happens but seldom, and every man, either good or wise, wishes that its frequency were still less. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if ...
- House Of Numbers: Dr Peter Duesberg, A Caution ...
NotForSale2NWO April 27th, 2011 Peters interview from the House of Numbers Deluxe Edition DVD. Most of the Big Pharma funded medical community has shunned Peter for speaking the truth. This clip documents the smear/slander campaign that has been waged against Mr. Duesberg. http://www.houseofnumb ...
- Air Readings In Texas WAY Off Charts, Official ...
NotForSale2NWO April 26th, 2011 TCEQ: Air monitor readings in Texas City were off the charts after power outages http://www.khou.com/news/BP-loses-power-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-120679184.html
- Bioaccumulation: Why Fukushima Matters
lucaswhitefieldhixson.com April 26th, 2011 What is Bioaccumulation? Simply Stated - All living organisms are connected to each other through a food chain. It takes more organisms in the beginning of a food chain to support a smaller number of organisms at the end of the chain. Where bioaccumulat ...
- Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...
- Press For Truth: Into The Fire – G20 Pol ...
Intel Hub Note: Citizens of Canada were literally beaten, strip searched and left naked for hours. Women were sexually assaulted, journalists were illegally detained, and police were given broad powers that turned out to be not even exist. This is the police state in FULL force. This is globalis ...
- Turkey: Five TKP/ML-TIKKO women guerillas kill ...
Press Bulletin/ April 2011 To the Press and the Public: 5 martyrs of TKP/ML-TIKKO died in Dersim The Press statement of the TKP/ML-TIKKO Dersim Region Comittee from April 20th 2011 states that on 2nd February 2011, 5 guerillas of TKP/ML-TIKKO have lost their lives as a result of an avalanche. A ...
- Egypt’s ElBaradei suggests war crimes pr ...
(AP) â 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) â Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the “shame of a needless war” in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil ...
- Delhi students investigate the mass struggle a ...
Preliminary report of the DSU fact-finding visit to Narayanpatna, Odisha Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Delhi PRESS RELEASE:Â A REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO A team of students from DU, JNU and IGNOU belonging to the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU) visited Narayanpatna Block in the Koraput distri ...
- The “Arab Spring” and How the Oppo ...
Jordan’s New Opposition and the Traps of Identity and Ambiguity by Hisham Bustani, Jadaliyya Apr 20 2011 Protesters took the streets of Amman, Jordan, on Friday, calling for governmental and constitutional reforms.There are two major tribulations in Jordan from which all other issues stem. The f ...
- Saudi counter-revolution cools Arab Spring
Fueled by fear of rising oil prices, US deference is helping Saudi Arabia implement its agenda in the Gulf. Jim Lobe, al Jazeera 24 Apr 2011 – As the so-called Arab Spring enters its sixth month, it appears to have run into seriously wintry headwinds. While some observers here have blamed Saudi ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
- Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- Because it's beautiful -- but fake
Stole this offa Facebook. It was posted on YouTube two years ago. I hope this young woman is having a fabulous life, but her catch -- sadly -- isn't real.�And thanks, Carole, for the head's up.
- But how will we know if they've arrived?
The alien-seeking telescopes have lost funding. You can read more here.
- A little more reading with Wednesday's column...
To read more about the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence's description of td411.org, go here. To take a relationship quiz, go here. For a list of warning signs, go here. To read Pres. Obama's proclamation that names February as teen dating violence prevention and awareness month, ...
- What makes a bad job, bad?
Well, according to this, a lack of union protection is a good place to start for a bad job. From there, things get complicated. Writes Michael Lind at Salon: ...it is much easier to reach a consensus on the definition of a bad job than to agree on what constitutes a good job. Reuters photo
- Hold on with that God particle thing
A leaked memo about scientists closing in on the Higgs boson ("God particle") is real, but the work is still fresh and unconfirmed, say officials at the Swiss collider where the work is being done. ("God particle" is a media construct. Turns out scientists prefer "the champagne bottle boson.") ...
- Conservatives Continue to Battle Abortion Acce ...
Thanks to new GOP majorities in the wake of the 2010 election, Republican governors in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Idaho, with the endorsement of conservative state legislatures, signed into law a series of restrictive measures this month.Contributor: T. Calvarese Published: Apr 22, 2011
- Obama Can't Ignore Discontent Among Core Suppo ...
The singing protest against President Obama showed creativity and flair. What does it signal about protests against the president?Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 22, 2011
- Electric Vehicles the Way of the Future for Au ...
As gas prices continue to rise, it's no wonder the fully electric Nissan Leaf was named the 2011 World Car of the Year.Contributor: Miranda Young Published: Apr 22, 2011
- Q&A: Andrew Breitbart on 'Righteous Indignatio ...
Andrew Breitbart is no stranger to controversy. With the release of his new book, he has been put back into the cross-hairs -- and he loves it.Contributor: Douglas Stewart Published: Apr 26, 2011
- Chernobyl Aftermath, By the Numbers
A look at the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath 25 years later.Contributor: John Coon Published: Apr 26, 2011
- Amateur Photo Displays a Full Day's Worth of C ...
Photographer shoots and assembles an entire day of skies Amateur photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos created this continuous image of the sky over Sounio, Greece, a town near his home. Late last December, he recorded the sun’s path across the sky during the day and an 11-hour star trail at night. W ...
- In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Ma ...
If there were a distinction one could earn for practicing smart medicine on a shoestring, a UT grad student would be high in the running. Using a aluminum foil, gelatin, milk protein, and a cheap LED light--items that collectively sell for under a buck--he’s created a fast, one-hour test for ac ...
- ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better ...
The Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy) has just doled out its fourth round of funding, and $30 million is going toward the ambitious goal of trimming the cost of biofuels by 50 percent. PETRO, or Plants Engineered to Replace Oil, looks to breed or genetica ...
- Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liqu ...
Fire ants might be infuriating little beasts, an invasive species we'd all be pleased to see banished to its native Brazil, but it turns out a fire ant colony has some pretty amazing properties. In groups, they knit together, more like a fabric than anything else, and are waterproof, totally fl ...
- Video: They Sure Don't Make Pyrex Like They Us ...
A change to heat-resistant glass has had explosive effects Most people probably don’t think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine more difficult—a fascinating exam ...
- Yorkshire Water confident of no hosepipe bans ...
Yorkshire Water have told BBC Yorkshire that even if the rest of spring and summer turns out to be as dry as 1995, there will be no water restrictions in Yorkshire. 1995 was a disastrous year for the company. Reservoirs were full at the end of March, but a pipe network that was badly in need o ...
- Will the warm sunshine last for Easter?
We've had mixed fortunes at Easter over the years. Despite what we all might hope for, or think we remember, it is much more common for Easter weather to be poor rather than good. The last fine and warm Easter was in 2007. In fact April 2007 turned out to be the warmest on record - with April 20 ...
- March global temperature update
The global temperature anomaly for March according to NASA/GISS was 0.57c, up from 0.44c in February. Adjusted to the 1961-90 time period this is approx 0.46c compared to 0.33c last month. The Hadcrut3 global anomaly figure for March showed a smaller increase at 0.318c, up from 0.264c last mo ...
- Coldest March globally for 17 years.
Although locally we have been enjoying unusual warmth in the last few weeks, globally the opposite has been true. Indeed, at the end of last week Remote Sensing Systems, an organisation backed by NOAA, announced that March 2011 was the coldest March since 1994, according to their analysis of s ...
- An exceptionally dry March
High pressure has dominated our weather for much of this month, with exceptionally low rainfall totals across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. At Coningsby in Lincolnshire only 4.8mm of rain fell, compared with the average which is 41mm. This makes it their driest March since records began at the R ...
- China's Material Girls II: No Home, No Marriage
Numerous studies in anthropology, social psychology, sociology and so forth corroborate findings that men value physical appearance most in their partners, while women value financial security most among theirs. This phenomenon generally holds across cultures. As it turns out, China's economic b ...
- More Research on Remittances from the US
Despite its obviously more limited prospects for international workers at the current time, the United States remains the world's largest source of workers' remittances--especially to nearby Latin America. It is thus with no small interest that I've been flipping through this new Congressional B ...
- The Hugo Chavez - Formula One Connection
It seems colourful regimes and Formula One go hand in hand given that the latter is already populated with several colourful characters. From S&M fetishists to crash artists, F1 has all the shenanigans going on. Given that it is one of if not the world's most-watched sport depending on who you'r ...
- American Hypocrisy on Libya & Int'l Criminal Court
I read with no small amount of amusement the grandiosely titled op-ed "Libya's Pathway to Peace" by Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy. One way or another, none are free from hypocrisy to keep things lively. When the Libya mess erupted, Cameron was on a junket to the Middle East se ...
- Like Greece & Ireland, IMF Shouldn't Help Portugal
Now I'm hopping mad! I know that I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but in the interest of fairness, I will fight the good fight even if no one else will do so. Bravely I must soldier on in this bleak and unbearable world. Previously, I have argued that the IMF should not have ...
- Is America Becoming The Land Of The Part-Time ...
Do you need a good job? If so, there are millions of other Americans that are just like you. Unfortunately, most of the jobs that are available in America today are either part-time jobs, temp jobs or are "independent contractor" jobs. The "full-time job with benefits" is a d ...
- Gold, Silver And Oil Are All Skyrocketing And ...
The following is one statement that you should get used to seeing: "The price of gold set another record today." Today, spot gold reached a new all-time record of $1461.91 an ounce before settling back a little bit. Silver is also skyrocketing. At one point today silver hit $ ...
- 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The H ...
Most Americans do not understand what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems. When Americans get into discussions about the economy, most of them still blame either the Democrats or the Republicans for inflation, for the housing crash, for our ...
- Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The ...
Most Americans have no idea just how bad the financial problems over in Europe are right now. The truth is that the entire European financial system is teetering on the brink of disaster. Ireland and Greece have already received bailouts and Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and ...
- How Is The Central Economic Planning That The ...
Most Americans believe that we still live in a capitalist system and that free markets primarily determine the growth and development of our economy. But is that really the case? No, sadly it is not. The truth is that the U.S. Federal Reserve does a tremendous amount of centr ...
- France questions fundamental European principles
France seems to have questioned one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement within the EU. The possibility of revising the Schengen agreement by French was on the agenda in connection with the influx of refugees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia. The discussion about a ...
- IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. The Obama deficit tour The Wall Street Jo ...
- Our sick society
Here we are, at the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is the temple for worshipping profit and greed, where the value of each is determined by the ability to accumulate money and power at the expense of others, where rewrite, manipulate and disregard the laws are the order of the day, [...]
- Child trafficking increasing in US
Andrea Powell works directly with children who have been sold for sex in Washington, DC. Powell says most of the child victims she works with come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. According a recent FBI law enforcement bulletin 300,000 American children are at risk of becoming victim ...
- Chernobyl’s sarcophagus falling apart
Ukraine and Russia remember the Chernobyl disaster, which took place 25 years ago. In the meantime, the question of safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant still remains unsolved. A sarcophagus was built on the fourth reactor of the plant after the breakdown, but the sarcophagus has been fal ...
- Top 10 Catholic Lies About Child Rape
The Catholic Church lies about child rape. Not occasionally. Not accidentally. But deliberately, and every time it’s representatives or apologists have anything to say on the subject. Â The Catholic Church is not still learning about this issue. It has been “dealing” with child rape for the las ...
- Speeding Up Production at Catholic Saint Facto ...
As the date of JPII’s hasty beatification draws nearer, the Catholic Church hopes, by its faux scientific administrative mumbo jumbo, to transform an evil old man with a horrifyingly negative track record in many areas, especially in enabling child rape, into a political figurehead whose moralit ...
- Victim Concludes From Personal Experience: Cat ...
Since first speaking out in 2008 about my six years of child sexual abuse at the hands of a Brother from the Passionist Order, I have found a strength I never knew I had, discovered a voice that demands to be heard after being bullied into silence for so long, and have achieved so much [...]
- Now Everyone Knows What It Takes To Get Rapist ...
There has been so much happening in the Philadelphia diocese lately for those interested in justice and child safety to absorb. And, for once, much of it is good news for victims of Catholic Church sponsored child sexual abuse. Well, as good as it is possible to get for anyone who has survived e ...
- Defending the Indefensible is a Lot Like Football
Battling for truth, justice and child protection against the evil empire of His Greediness can get you down sometimes. Time for a little light relief. I came across this intelligent and articulate blogger just recently. This post from the Voice from the Desert blog is screamingly funny. And trag ...
- 2011-04-27 Interview w/ investigative journo, ...
Tweet Jason Leopold is the deputy managing editor of Truthout.org and a co-founder of The Public Record. As an investigative journalist he has written extensively on the Guantanamo Bay detention and torture camp, Enron, and the Military. The list goes on. In February 2011, Leopold interview A ...
- 2011-04-27 Wikileaks Notes: Shaker Aamer, Time ...
TweetUK fighting for Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer's release Foreign Secretary William Hague will raise the case of Shaker Aamer with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she comes to the UK in May. Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt has told the BBC that dealing with the US on the i ...
- 2011-04-26 The Guantanamo Children: These Aren ...
Tweet*With research assistance from GeorgieBC Pakistani national Naqib Ullah (also Naqibullah) was 14 years old and out doing an errand for his father when he was kidnapped from his village in Khan, Afghanistan by 11 men that called themselves, “Samoud’s people.” The men, according to Ullah, “fo ...
- 2011-04-26 Wikileaks notes: David House: Wikil ...
Tweet David House tweets Wikileaks grand jury subpoenas are being issued Bradley Manning friend and supporter David House tweeted Subpoenas are being issued in the WikiLeaks grand jury. Violations of Espionage Act. No further comment at this time. two hours after tweeting "Are you now, or have y ...
- 2011-04-26 Wau Holland Foundation submits annu ...
TweetOver the past year, the Wau Holland Foundation received roughly 1.3 million Euros in donations for Wikileaks. Around 400,000 Euros were paid out, the majority for the salaries of Wikileaks staff (ca. 100.000) and campaigns (ca. 140.000), and rather modest amounts for travel, legal assistanc ...
- Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
- 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
- The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
- CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
- Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...
- Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – Urban Sol ...
Itâs the Gobi Desert. Thereâs not much other use for it. –Wang Yu All over the world is a widely held belief that we have an energy shortage. Garret Hardin long ago warned that what we think is a shortage is often a longage. Instead of a shortage of stock, it is a longage of [...]
- Around the Campfire with Dave Foreman – What T ...
In 1974, physicist John P. Holdren and biologist Paul Ehrlich, then both at Stanford University, set down in Science the key scientific formula of our time: I=PAT. Paul and Anne Ehrlich later spelled out what it means, “The impact of any human group on the environment can be usefully viewed as t ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman – ...
In our last gathering about the campfire, I looked at how Technology plays in raising carrying capacity, thereby raising Population and Affluence, and shooting up Mankind’s Impact on wild things. As I kindle this campfire, I’d like to weigh in on the never-ending squabble over which is heavier ...
- Around the Campfire – A Note from your Old Unc ...
“I can’t think of a more appropriate way or place for Dave to die,” said my friend Kenyon Fields after I narrowly dodged a cranky bull musk ox that wanted to trample and gore me. We were on the banks of the Noatak River in Alaska’s Brooks Range, about midway on our 375-mile paddle this [...]
- Uncle Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire – A L ...
The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist. Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers. Only a handful of still-work ...
- Mocking Jesus – Women nails Ape to cross and c ...
From the show “Toffee VeHa-Gorillah” – WARNING!!! Explicit and offensive anti-Christian material contained. Burn the Koran in the USA and you get riots the world over. Nail a monkey to a cross and refer to said primate as Jesus, who is a Nazi…and not a peep in our media. Why is that? No Zionist ...
- The Anatomy of Election Fraud in the USA – Mur ...
Murder Spies And Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary by Brad Friedman which tells the story of a computer programmer who was contracted by a private company’ with ties to convicted Chinese spies, to write a program that could be used to rig elections… What follows is ...
- Bob Moriarty is full of shit. Silver is not in ...
Bob Moriarty is full of shit. I read an interesting article today by Bob Moriarty of 321Gold.com fame where he pretty much shoots a hole through the heart of us Silver Vigilantes but, like all other precious metals bears, he has come to a battle of the wits unarmed. This is without a doubt the [ ...
- Prepare Yourself for Collapse – The Self-Destr ...
People ask me all of the time…when will the economy, society, humanity, etc break down and collapse into chaos. My answer is always the same…it is happening now. The global economy is in depression and countries around the world are bankrupt, only being kept afloat by printing more money and iss ...
- Nuclear Engineer Exposes Fukushima Tepco Cover-Up
Why is mainstream media not covering this? Why is this a cover-up? Why do we live in la la land? If you can afford it.. drop them a donation.. if we all send a little.. it adds up to a lot! Nuclear explosion, and meltdown discussed by Fairewinds associates. www.fairewinds.com they deserve any he ...
- China hits back with report on U.S. human righ ...
English.news.cn Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was re ...
- Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Fo ...
By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology � or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community su ...
- The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Natu ...
Richard William Posner Activist Post A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you needn’t think about, I have a small experiment you can try that might serve to enlighten you. Hop in your 10-mpg SUV and motor on down t ...
- Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO- ...
Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against �pro-democracy� protesters in order to lay the groundwork for another contrived �humanitarian� war Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tue ...
- Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has thrown his weight behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pointed a finger of blame at the West for recent unrests in the Middle Eastern country. Chavez accused the United States and its allies of fomenting unrest and protests in Syria, arguing that Wes ...
- EWG's BPA Petition Delivered to Maine Governor
By Bobbie Manning, EWG Environmental Health Outreach Coordindator Maine just became the ninth state to ban the use of bisphenol A in baby products. Come January 1, 2012, Maine babies will be protected from this potentially harmful endocrine disrupting... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
- Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminish ...
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist In a 2010 meeting between the pesticide industry and the Obama Administration, the pesticide industry revealed its objective that government food testing data (like the USDA pesticide residue data EWG uses to create... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- Fast Food Follies
By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Around this time last year the health-conscience crew at KFC headquarters gave the American consumer the Double Down chicken sandwich - 540 calories of bacon and cheese with no veggies, smashed... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- Watch "Bag It," Then Just Bag It
By Rebecca Sutton, Phd, EWG Senior Scientist Plastic pollution: it's everywhere, from the gigantic garbage patch swirling in the Pacific Ocean to the cells of our bodies, a point EWG's President, Ken Cook, makes so well in this recent TEDx... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
- Water utilities, meet water drinkers.
By Ken Cook, EWG President The Water Research Foundation, an offshoot of the American Water Works Association of water utilities, has accused Environmental Working Group of informing utility customers about the presence of chromium-6, a suspected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- Katie Couric is not the next Oprah Winfrey, bu ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- F.A.Q.: Does anyone feel bad for the N.F.L. ow ...
Sridhar: The reason the N.F.L. Players' Association has asked for the league to open their books is essentially compel the owners at least to try to explain why they need revenue back from the players. Throughout this whole fight, the owners have never cla ...
- 'Roadie' rules: An everyday story about Long I ...
Jimmy Testagross in Michael Cuesta's Roadie has never made a pot of coffee. He does not know how to fold laundry. He still crashes on his friends' couches. He can fit all of his stuff into one bag. He is in his 40s. More
- Lindsay Lohan, Yankees, squatters, bad teacher ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- The 2011 Knicks and Donnie Walsh's grand desig ...
After seven years out of the playoffs, the New York Knicks managed to replicate their 2004 postseason performance by getting swept in the first round.But unlike that 2004 team, which didn't seem to belong on the same court as the opposing team (the Nets), ...
- New ritual circumcision law proposed
Changes have been proposed to the law on ritual circumcision in Norway, with health ministers hoping to ensure that the procedure can be done under proper medical conditions by covering it for free as part of the public health system. Until around 10 years ago, free circumcisions were available ...
- Young lynching suspects questioned
Two underaged Norwegian boys have been questioned as suspects in the attempted lynching of another Norwegian boy in Sweden over the Easter weekend. No charges have been filed, though, and both young suspects deny any involvement. Swedish police have confirmed that they suspect the two boys, aged ...
- Amelie returns to Nansen school
Maria Amelie, an author who was deported from Norway for being a “paperless” illegal immigrant in January, was set to return to Nansen school in Lillehammer on Wednesday – the place where she was originally arrested before being sent home to Russia. After applying for a work permit in order to ...
- Doctors refuse to give abortions
Gynecologists at a local hospital in Flekkefjord, south Norway, are refusing to give abortions because of fears of attacks by anti-abortion opponents. Marcüs Gurgen, leader of the surgical department at the hospital, told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that one of the doctors in particular fears ...
- Ethiopians in new cathedral protest
Around 20 Ethiopian asylum seekers protesting against the Norwegian immigration authority’s decision to send them home have returned to Oslo Cathedral for a new protest, following their occupation of the church and hunger strikes in February. The protestors set up a large white tent directly bes ...
- The Facts About Bottled Water
Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Diigo Post on ...
- Home Made Solar Tracker
Solar modules are very common all over the world. Unfortunately it is a high energy effort to make them and expensive materials are required. That’s why we should make them more effective. Most solar panels are fixed in place, which is not very effective because the sun moves the whole day. ...
- The International Permaculture Conference and ...
The world’s premier permaculture gathering begins in September this year. The International Permaculture Conference and Convergence is held every two years on a different continent. This time around, it’s Jordan’s turn. Jordan is home of the original, and sequel, ‘Greening the Desert‘ sites. I ...
- Permaculture Urban Landscape Design Course
Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’d love to take this course myself, but alas, I’m unable to make it. Those of you who’re itching to get started, or to do better, with your urban patch (or with someone else’s urban patch!), should seriously consider jumping on this course. During this intensive 5- ...
- A Solar Powered Life, Part VI – The Ideologica ...
The series, A Solar Powered Life, is intended for those that have an interest in the generation and storage of electricity using solar panels. I’ve tried to write the series in such a way that it is accessible for everybody and not just for those that are technically minded. By the end of the se ...
- London 2012 Olympics team publishes first gree ...
London 2012 Olympic organisers have published the first environment report for next year's Games.The report says it is on target to cut the carbon footprint by 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in the procurement of materials and venue construction. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� ...
- Wael Ghonim - The Man behind Revolution in Egypt
Wael Ghonim, who hogged limelight during Egypt's political uprising, is believed to be the real person behind the revolution that inspired many national unrests in countries like Yemen, Syria and Libya.Ghonim is an Internet activist and the head of MarketSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Greenpeace: Apple has the dirtiest data
Sure, most of us consider the environmental impact our recycling habits or car's gas mileage may have.But what about our text messages and status updates?The energy that technology companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
- Gulf disaster renews debate over Arctic oil spill
A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario � a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska's northern coast. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Scotland's First Marine Reserve Already Produc ...
Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 4/21/11 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should peo ...
vegetarian.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should people become vegetarian? - In 2010, each person in the US ate an average of 57.5 pounds of beef, 46.5 pounds of pork, and 82 pounds of chicken. Vegetarians, about 3.2% of the US population, do not eat meat (including poultry and seafood). ...
- 4/4/11 - Books Citing ProCon.org
www.procon.org - NEW: Books Citing ProCon.org - ProCon.org has been cited in 60 books, that we know of, by authors such as Tavis Smiley, Glenn Beck, Stefan Halper, Newt Gingrich, and Michael J. Schmoker. In our new resource, click the book title to see a preview of how ProCon.org was referenced ...
- 4/4/11 - US Religious Views on Abortion
abortion.procon.org - NEW: US Religious Views on Abortion - Opinion poll results reveal that 48% of Catholics, 59% of Methodists, and 84% of Jews favor legalized abortion, while 59% of Southern Baptist Convention members, 71% of Mormons, and 74% of Assemblies of God USA members are opposed. See ...
- 3/24/11 - Should gay marriage be legal?
gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: Should gay marriage be legal? - Read pro and con arguments from Lambda Legal, American Bar Association, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Cheney, Maggie Gallagher, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 19 other scholars, politicia ...
- 3/9/11 - 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Fed ...
deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: 34 States with Death Penalty / 41 Federal Capital Crimes - On Mar. 9, 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation to repeal the state's death penalty statute. Illinois joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia that do not have capital crim ...
- China hits back with report on U.S. human righ ...
English.news.cn Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was re ...
- Open Source Ecology: Permaculture and Local Fo ...
By Marcin Jakubowski Open Farm Tech We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology � or what we call open source agroecology - towards a replicable package of providing healthy, local food for everybody. We propose community su ...
- The Reality of Environmental Destruction; Natu ...
Richard William Posner Activist Post A Simple, Fun Project You Can Try At Home! For those of you who believe that global environmental issues are something you needn’t think about, I have a small experiment you can try that might serve to enlighten you. Hop in your 10-mpg SUV and motor on down t ...
- Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO- ...
Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against �pro-democracy� protesters in order to lay the groundwork for another contrived �humanitarian� war Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tue ...
- Chavez lends support to Syrian leader
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has thrown his weight behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pointed a finger of blame at the West for recent unrests in the Middle Eastern country. Chavez accused the United States and its allies of fomenting unrest and protests in Syria, arguing that Wes ...
- Folic Acid Follies
Pregnant women should stop popping these pills like candy. By Amanda Schaffer Take folic acid, but not too muchNo woman who’s expecting, or expecting to expect, can avoid the advice, from any doctor or health site worth its salt: Take folic acid. The vitamin deserves its exalted status. When wom ...
- Females Move to the Head of the Class
Census: Women win advanced-degree battle of the sexes By Josh Voorhees For the first time, U.S. women now outnumber their male counterparts when it comes to finishing college and earning advanced degrees, the Associated Press reports. Among adults 25 and over, 10.6 million of those with advanced ...
- Starbucks Now No. 3 U.S. Chain Restaurant
Burger joints lose grasp on top-sellers podium. By Josh Voorhees Starbucks is now the no. 3 largest-selling chain restaurant in the United States, trailing only perennial no. 1 McDonaldâs and relative podium newcomer Subway, according to the latest rankings of the top 500 selling chain restauran ...
- Incredible Edibles
The mad genius of âModernist Cuisine.â by John Lanchester Nathan Myhrvold and his culinary colleagues love to cut things in halfâlike this traditional pot roastâand show cross sections. In 2004, Nathan Myhrvold, who had, five years earlier, at the advanced age of forty, retired from his job as ...
- The Inner Voice
Gandhiâs real legacy. by Pankaj Mishra Gandhiâs legend too often obscures the audacious radicalism of his ideas. Mohandas Gandhi was the twentieth centuryâs most famous advocate of nonviolent politics. But was he also its most spectacular political failure? The possibility is usually overshadowe ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Six academies’ symposium: three nations’ synth ...
Over recent months, we have been conducting an experiment. We have teamed up with five international academies to convene a series of symposia to discuss the emerging field of synthetic biology. This hexilateral collaboration is a first for us, and so we have had to feel our way through the proc ...
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FROM SIR CHRIS LLEWELLYN SMITH FRS, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE REPORT ADVISORY GROUP Global issues such as climate change, potential pandemics, bio-diversity, and food, water and energy security need global approaches. Science has a crucial role to play in measuring and predicting impacts, ide ...
- Diversity, Distribution and Development throug ...
Professor Melissa Leach, ESRC STEPS Centre The Royal Society’s new report ‘Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century’ shows how much and how fast patterns of science and knowledge production are changing. New players, both expected and unexpected, are e ...
- Gr8 expectations
FROM TRACEY ELLIOT, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL I am just back from the annual meeting of the G8+5 science academies, hosted spectacularly this year by the Académie des Sciences in Paris. We meet with our G8 counterparts as well as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico every year to collective ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- Free Mind Report – Guest Hereward Fenton
This week our guest�was Hereward Fenton http://www.truthnews.com.au Hereward Fenton is a 9/11 researcher and host of Truth News Australia. As a leader in the Australian Truth movement his passion for Truth has led him down some deep rabbit holes. Listen live Wednesday January 5, 2011 from 8P ...
- Hereward Fenton on Live and Let Live (Rule of ...
Live and Let Live, with Gary Johnson (Sundays 8-10 pm CST). Robert Guest, (http://www.robertguest.com/, http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/) president of the Kaufman County, Texas, Bar Association, promotes Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.ph ...
- Letter From America
Dear Truth News Readers, At the time of writing I am in Austin, Texas - a beautiful city whose citizens have an amazing passion for liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I travelled here via OKC and Dallas. During the short time I've been here I've met great people and had the opportunity ...
- Janey Coverdale speaks on the Oklahoma City bo ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvX6zdNkLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjK5-Ajg2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vWZbXohtE FULL INTERVIEW NOW ON YOUTUBE On 8 January 2011 Hereward Fenton interviewed Janey Coverdale, grandmother and legal guardian of two children, Aaron and Elij ...
- Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Here ...
Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required co ...
- Good News for Sharks and the Oceans
I have several good news items to share with you this week. First, I am happy to announce that our trawling ban in Belize is now official. Belize is home to a major portion of the world’s second largest reef system as a well as a thriving local fishing community, and the ban protects both these ...
- Ted Danson On NBC Nightly News
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Ted Danson was on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams this weekend, talking about his book, "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them." Once again he does a fantastic job describing the state of th ...
- Where Are They Now?: Sara Bayles
Nominations are still open for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with 2010 finalist Sara Bayles. Sara Bayles is the author of The Daily Ocean blog, where she documents her efforts to collect trash from her local beach for 365 non-consecutive days. Now Sara and ...
- Where Are They Now?: Casey Sokolovic
Casey Sokolovic with her specialty: sea turtle cookies. We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Ocean Heroes Contest! Today we’re catching up with one of our favorites, sea turtle activist Casey Sokolovic. Casey might look familiar - we can’t get enough of her ever since she ...
- Kate Walsh on Offshore Drilling
Check out Kate Walsh explaining her support of Oceana's campaign to end offshore drilling at yesterday's event. Kate has been a fantastic spokeswoman for us and we can't thank her enough for joining us at the Capitol. �
- My $0.02/Saturday: sheroes and potpourri
Morning, news junkies. Here are my Saturday reads. Hillaryland Hillary’s profile in the 2011 Time 100 was written by dean emeritus of the Kennedy School, Joe Nye. Nye doesn’t mention Hillary’s work on behalf of women and girls, instead defining her influence in terms of how well she plays with ...
- Trump: What Does Privacy have to do with ‘Pro- ...
**UPDATED**Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Nice, soft ball question. But as we found out with Sarah Palin there aren’t any. –updated– Speaking of Sarah, it really does look as if Donald Trump’s media blitz and poll explosion has team Sarah concerned. ...
- John Boehner’s Oops
“Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and, frankly, they’ve got some part of this to blame,” the Ohio Republican told ABC News today. Blame aside, what about the cold, hard cash — the billions of dollars in tax breaks and other subsidies big oil receives every year? President Obama has ...
- Obama: ‘Let Me Finish My Answers…’
**UPDATED** After the interview, Obama pointed out that he doesn’t like an interviewer challenging his comments. “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” he said. – WFAA.com – News 8, TexasThere is nothing more infuriating than being interviewed and not being all ...
- The Ugly, The Bad, & The Good Can Oust the Worst
Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools. Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for ...
- How Much Should You Spend to Protect Your Citi ...
While Israelis are cheering the success of the new Iron Dome short range Missile Defense weapon, many have expressed doubts about the cost-effectiveness of the system. How can it be in Israel's interest, they ask, to use expensive interceptors to destroy
- Marxism Redux: When Government Interference Ho ...
Government interference is very often the factor that imperils capitalist success. The guarantees provided by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to create the real estate bubble that ultimately undermined the housing market. The "carry trade" that gives
- Despite Pressure, Colombia Will Not Recognize ...
US President Obama, with an attitude that apparently prevented him from even visiting Colombia during his first trip to Latin America, is leaving stranded an important Latin American ally to the US – Colombia -- both in regard to its opposition to
- If the United States Eliminates Lots of its Nu ...
And then over time we can eventually get to zero, right? At least that is what has been argued for the 65 years of the nuclear age by the proponents of what is now known as "Global Zero," the campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons. And don't worry.
- Why Are Palestinians Killing People Who Suppor ...
In April, two "pro-Palestinian" activists were murdered by Palestinians –- one in the West Bank and the other in the Gaza Strip. The fact that the two were staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause and were known for their deep hatred of Israel was not
- Housing: Home Prices Slide – Again…
Not too much of a surprise in the housing numbers just released by Case Shiller/S&P – the 20 City Housing Index: New York, April 26, 2011 â Data through February 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home … Continue reading →
- Coping: The Civilization Restart Kit
I know most people think ,we’re crazy – walking away from the fine restaurants, the great shopping, high-end movie houses, theater, concerts and such that goes with the Big City Life, but since outgrowing the Lionel stage (about age 18 … Continue reading →
- Reader Advisory
This morning’s post will be up around 8:15 to incorporate the housing numbers due out in a few minutes from Case Shiller/S&P – these are mighty damned important…
- The Word Among Time Monks
[Reader Note:Â We depart from our usual news then commentary form this morning because there is a whole lot of Big Picture stuff in motion that needs to be taken in as a whole.] This could be the week everything … Continue reading →
- GlobalRev – Ongoing
Every once in a while, I have panoramic, better than HD TV or Panavision dreams, and this morning’s was disturbing. It was about a crowd of people in a middle eastern nation near some kind of sporting event/stadium being attacked … Continue reading →
- Stem cell research gets messy on Longwood Avenue
The first hit from a Yahoo search on "lung stem cells" this morning turned up a Boston Globe story on this week's paper out of Brigham and Women's Hospital. Played inside the paper, the story's headline reads "Study finds lung stem cells, likely to generate debate." It then goes on to detail h ...
- BU study: More bad news on lung scans
Just as researchers were finding ways to scan the lungs for signs of cancer, other researchers were beginning to find flaws in the screening/early diagnosis approach to cancer care. Last week, the NY Times reported that consent forms had gone missing for 90,000 people enrolled in a Cornell stu ...
- This week: Engineering RNA, bacterial transcri ...
Some upcoming events you'll find on our calendar: Tuesday: The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration Harvard Museum of Natural History Michael Canfield, Harvard University May 10, 2011 at 06:00 pm Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA ...
- Why tap WHOI for Air France recovery? No one e ...
From the NYTimes Sunday Magazine story on the role of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in recovery of the Air France plane that two year ago crashed into the deep ocean waters. More on WHOI and Remus 6000, an underwater recovery robot, here. (While your at it, check out WHOI's new s ...
- Orbs, floating films and a string tunnel: MIT ...
Here are a few images from this weekend's FAST Light weekend. The event is part of bothg the MIT150 celebration and the Cambridge Science Festival. Below find MIT's descriptions of these installations, as well as short talks by the artist/ creators. The event continues through this evening, ...
- Sunshine and Shadow in Rwanda's Rural Housing ...
The gleam of new corrugated iron sheets shimmers through the blue-green haze that veils Rwanda's rural valleys and hillsides. It is a visible sign of Rwanda's metamorphosis from a nation devastated by genocide seventeen years ago to the fastest modernising state on the continent.
- BAHRAIN: McCarthyism in Manama?
As the savage crackdown on the majority Shiite opposition movement drags on in Bahrain, King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa's military regime – backed by the hefty armed forces of Sunni- dominated Saudi Arabia – has moved from launching outright assaults on peaceful protestors on the streets ...
- YEMEN: Children Dragged Into Dangerous Protests
Children are increasingly facing frontline risks at Yemen's anti-government protests. Parents are bringing them to demonstrations in the belief that they too are necessary for sacrifices in the revolution against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
- HEALTH: Fukushima, Chernobyl Raise Questions a ...
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan and the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have thrown into relief contradictions in the role played by the World Health Organisation, which civil society organisations have spent years pointing out.
- Washington Failing to Understand Iran's Opposition
The popular uprisings that have brought turmoil to Arab countries across the Middle East and North Africa have also underscored Washington's dearth of knowledge about forces on the ground in authoritarian states in the Middle East. One of the largest questions bedeviling policy makers ...
- Oil companies aiding Lybian 'rebel' force.
Khalifa Hifter, one of two rebel military commanders vying for the top command position over Free Libyan Forces in Libya, in his office at the Gulf Oil Co. in Benghazi on Tuesday. The first concrete report of weapons from foreign donors reaching the Libyan rebels came Tuesday, but significant ...
- CONTROL OF THE INTERNET
A third way that the powers-that-be are attacking the blogosphere is through copyright. "The elites have seemingly launched a concerted attack against the blogosphere's many news aggregators, hoping to intimidate them by setting legal precedents that make it unfeasible for such alternative news ...
- Wikileaks: The Gitmo Files
On Sunday April 24, 2011 WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files from the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The details for every detainee will be released daily over the coming month. By October 2004, two years into his detention at the Guantánamo Bay prison, Ali Abdullah Ahmed had e ...
- WikiLeaks reveals Hicks, Habib Gitmo files
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released hundreds of secret files on Guantanamo Bay detainees, including those of Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib.
- SAS faces recruitment crisis
The SAS is facing a recruitment crisis because soldiers do not have time to train for demanding selection tests, the head of the infantry has warned.
- Defining religious freedom
For some, the freedom to practise their religion is vitally important while for others, the freedom not to practise any religion is equally so. How does Canada balance the rights and freedoms of its multicultural population with its state-defined limits on religious freedom? University of Ottawa ...
- Manitoba gets physical
Jonathan McGavock is unequivocal and unapologetic. He’s seriously worried about the next generation of Canadian kids. “Ninety percent are physically inactive, with 25 to 30 percent being overweight or obese,” says the University of Manitoba researcher. “Chronic medical conditions like type 2 dia ...
- Designing consumers
Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
- Sharing culture
- Targeting tumours
Targeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
- US: Nicolas Cage investigated for child abuse ...
A police report from Nicolas Cage's arrest earlier this month suggests the actor might have physically harmed his son before he was taken into custody. Cage, who was arrested in New Orleans on April 16 following an alleged physical altercation with his wife, Alice Kim, "fell while holding" the ...
- Royal Wedding Bells Fall on Deaf Ears
Many parties not for nuptials When Prince William marries Catherine Middleton, all Britons should be celebrating, or so says Prime Minister David Cameron, who has been working hard to whip up public enthusiasm for the extravaganza. Setting an example, the Camerons are planning to throw their ...
- FLASHBACK: The Royal Wedding: Who Pays the Bill?
Who foots the bill for The Wedding of the Century? Peter Hunt, BBC's royal correspondent, looks at who will pay for Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal nuptials. Estimate Cost of Wedding "We're not in Elton John territory," one royal official told me when discussing the possible cost of ...
- Royal wedding to hurt Britain's economy
Let's hope Friday's big blowout is a right royal good time. Because thanks in part to a quirk in the calendar, it's set to take a pretty heavy toll on Britain's economy -- which isn't in great health already. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Friday will be a national holiday -- ...
- Titanic's Unknown Child Given New, Final Identity
Five days after the passenger ship the Titanic sank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled the body of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of the Atlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912. Along with many other victims, his body went to a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the cre ...
- Omar's crib . . .
IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF that nobody has asked our candidates about getting Omar out of Gitmo. Last week, Wikileaks released the operating manual for Omar's world, and according to Ryan Singel at WIRED, it's not pretty, organized by the same gang who set up Abu Ghraib:The manual also includes ins ...
- The possible...
Amid the worry about split votes and Con majorities, there's a chance we'll see an NDP minority when the polls close. With numbers like these, it could happen. On those numbers...there's a lot of teeth gnashing about how these number are splitting votes and killing the chances of Liberals getti ...
- What a way to go . . .
The Euthanasia Coaster. “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements tha ...
- Way cool . . .
$5,800.00, unfortunately.
- Stephen Harper might well be...
...the best thing ever to happen to the federal NDP. I believe this is called a boomerang effect.
- Right-Wing Media Gin Up Another Faux Controver ...
Right-wing media are using the fact that President Obama did not issue an Easter message to again question whether he is really a Christian. Conservative media have long engaged in a dishonest campaign to question and lie about Obama's faith.Conservative Media Use Easter Proclamation Story To A ...
- Conservative Media Push Falsehood That Obama W ...
The right-wing media are deceptively suggesting that, in the words of The New York Post, President Obama is "focused on raising income -- and possibly payroll -- taxes on the wealthiest Americans" rather than making cuts in spending to fix the current deficit problem. In fact, Obama has propose ...
- Fox's Varney Falsely Claims "Virtually Nothing ...
On The O'Reilly Factor, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that subsidies for wind and solar power have resulted in "[v]irtually nothing." In fact, reports show that wind and solar power are rapidly growing sources of electric power in the United States.Stuart Varney Dismisses Benefits Of ...
- "Let Them Default": Right-Wing Media Cheerlead ...
Right-wing media figures have dismissed the consequences of defaulting on America's debt. Yet experts agree that if the U.S. were to default as a result of not raising the debt ceiling, it would have a catastrophic effect on the economic recovery.Right-Wing Media Figures Cheerlead For Default ...
- Glenn Beck Versus Glenn Beck On Regulating Hed ...
While demonizing George Soros, Glenn Beck has recently complained that hedge funds are unregulated. However, Beck�previously demagogued efforts to regulate hedge funds, claiming it was part of an effort to "expand the reach" of government.Beck�Astonished That Hedge Funds Are Unregulated Beck: ...
- Brilliant & Moving: Lawrence O'Donnell on The ...
Last night on The Final Word, Lawrence O'Donnell conducted an interview with the Reverend Franklin Graham that made me grateful that I am not a Christian. Graham, one of the most influential ministers in the United States, is an ignoramus and a bigot. Although we Jews are cursed with plenty of ...
- Deficit Fever: Loon Tune Time Among the Elite
We already knew that the folks involved in debating and designing economic policy had a weak understanding of economics, that is why they couldn't see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy, but now it seems that they are breaking their ties to reality altogether. The country is ...
- September
I can't prove this, but I sense (forgive me) a paradigm shift among Israelis, a new way of talking to accommodate the anomalies emerging from the old puzzle pieces--you know, the puzzle that begins with "Zionism" and ends with "Iran." The biggest anomaly is "September." The reference, of cou ...
- The Other Secret To Donald Trump's Rise
It's pretty obvious that the main reason Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls (among Republicans) is that he is openly appealing to racism. Say what you will about the other GOP "hopefuls," none of them (not even Palin, Bachmann, or Santorum) is openly using the President's race as the ce ...
- 1967 Borders: Disruptive Innovation
Suddenly, it seems a forgone conclusion that the White House will be presenting a plan of some sort in advance of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress in May. For those of us who have been advocating for something along these lines, this should be welcome news. But all of t ...
- Obama Calls Out Climate Deniers (GOP); Kerry F ...
Yeah, that's a long title. A number of recent political statements seem to indicate that us green bloggers aren't the only ones frustrated by the GOP's (and a handful of fossil-fuel-funded Democrats') scientific ignorance and their attack on science. Even Republican former California governor, ...
- Malaspina Glacier From Space {Photo of the Day}
This image was captured on August 31, 2000 and depicts the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska.
- Prehistoric Warming Mysteries
A new research paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience has drawn attention to the possibility that the Earth may be able to recover quicker than anticipated from rising carbon dioxide emissions.
- A Little More about Me, Planetsave, and Green ...
Lynn University recently interviewed me for one of their Earth Day posts on their web magazine, iPulse. They ended up using part of the interview, not the whole thing (apparently, didn't want it to be too long -- understandable). A bit of the interview was actually about Planetsave, and the rest ...
- Be Green for Your New Baby to Celebrate Mother ...
Being a new mom can be exciting and overwhelming all at the same time, as adding a new addition to the family is also adding a new consumer to earth. If you want to lead an example for your new baby to minimize your family’s carbon footprint, then it’s time to implement some new ways... Read Mo ...
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Assad knows his survival is on the line - he won't stop killing protesters. "As the Syrian government intensifies its crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, the international community steps up its pressure on president Bashar al-Assad to stop the bloodletting. In a session on Tuesday, memb ...
- The Impeachable Newt
- If It's Stable, This Must Be Sweden
It's amazing what often emerges from behind all the propaganda and bullshit rhetoric once someone has clawed their way through it all to get to the nub of whatever it is that's being talked about. How often do we suffer through a week or a month of right wing corporate media bullshit telling us ...
- Rescue the "Lost Cause" of Job Creation
Two years One year ago, Steve Benen almost single-handedly saved health care reform after the apparently-devastating election of Scott Brown by telling the House to forget making changes to the bill the Senate had already passed, thus avoiding a filibuster in the Senate. Steve's Just. Pass. The. ...
- Economic Desperation Erases Opposition to Indu ...
For Kentucky's first two centuries, its number one crop was hemp. A renewable source of livestock feed, plus material for paper, rope, cloth, cosmetics and dozens of other products, hemp is a Kentucky native - a weed growing wild and needing virtually no maintenance. If you could grow just one c ...
- How the developed world is hiding its growing ...
The problem is that a country that is recklessly consuming products - whose production is shifted to another nation, with cheaper labor - can also claim massive reductions in greenhouse emissions. The smokestacks are lying in someone else's country now. BSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
- 3-Legged Dog in Houston in Need of Rescue
Houston, TX - An abandoned, 3-legged dog has captured the eye of concerned individuals on Facebook. Her story is compelling - her need is urgent. She apparently was dumped, frightened and alone, to fend for herself. Her situation is dangerous and urgent.Submitted by Marilyn M. to Animals �|� �N ...
- The Mystery of the Singing Mice
In late 1925, one J. L. Clark discovered an unusual mouse in a house in Detroit. It could sing. And so he did what anyone might have done: he captured the mouse and put it in a cage.Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Migrants forced to be sex slaves in Mexico
Locals call them "merchandise" and that is how criminal gangs treat the Central American youths they force into prostitution near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Support a strong online privacy bill! TAKE ACTION
Do Not Track is a popular idea, but tracking companies and advertisers must be required to honor consumer choices with an enforceable law. Last year's discovery of "zombie cookies" that get reinstalled on a consumer's machine after they were deleted showSubmitted by Nancy C. to Society & Culture ...
- Dollar in the Well, Obama Is Lost
Barack Obama is an ignorant fool. Does not understand one damn thing about basic economics. His lame, misguided attempt to blame the higher price of gas on subsidies to the Oil and Gas industry is malpractice for a guy who supposed to be President. I don’t favor subsidies, but when the subsidies ...
- Silver Blame Planet
POTUS assures America that, while some pols may demogogue about gas prices, he knows there is “no silver bullet.” POTUS protests too much. When gasoline prices climb, the public mood darkens; and everyone blames Washington. POTUS polls are sagging badly just because he appears outwitted by facts ...
- What’s the Big Stink About Trump?
I find it odd that progressives and conservatives alike are so preoccupied with Donald Trump’s potential run for the Presidency while at the same time averring from the depths of their collective beings that he would have no merit as a candidate. Whether he would make a good or horrible presiden ...
- Oh My, Obama’s Stern Words–Finger Wag Next?
Teddy Roosevelt lives on in history as the guy who spoke softly but carried a big stick. You understand the concept, right? You don’t threaten, you don’t yell, you just do. Well, little Barry Obama is clearly no student of history and does not understand that he is now the laughingstock of the w ...
- Great Morning Reads
This is but a quick note to share with you two very different but fascinating finds on the ‘net. Most timely and critical is Pat Lang’s pithy essay today on the state of the struggle in Libya: “#Qathafi’s Army is an Armed Mob.” As most of you know, Larry Johnson and Pat Lang are friends, [...]
- Are We At The Start Of A New Mass Extinction?
With the decline of many different species, scientists fear we are in the middle of a new mass extinction read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Garden at Night: An Interview with Nightti ...
An interview with nocturnal photographer Linda Rutenberg. Linda has spent most of her nights capturing the stunning beauty of the garden at night. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- How Reintroducing Once Eradicated Giant Tortoi ...
Introducing a new species of tortoise to an area where they have gone extinct has helped germinate critically endangered ebony trees. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Akuntsu: The Tribe with Only 5 Individuals Lef ...
Due to invasion by loggers and ranchers,today just 5 surviving individuals are left,who are representing the entire Akuntsu community,in the Brazilian rainforests. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
- How Cloning Vanilla Could Cut its Price
Vanilla is popular but expensive, partly because this orchid often needs help to reproduce. Researchers in Malaysia hope to help this familiar spice. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Here's Ye Warning suckaz: Quantitative Easing ...
Here's a Great Chart SUCKAZ: Look at it looming! Right at the end there -------------------v Ah this is kind of obvious stuff - a few fun links to throw together - but I want to put it to the Internets. The end of 'quantitative easing' as a weird Treasury Bill program is probably coming to an e ...
- Michigan's power to zap townships - the end of ...
I found this writeup on the new Midwest 'financial martial law' system interesting enough to share. The crazy rationale for the horrible law in Michigan is that dissolved townships won't be burdened with debt? But what of the system of townships and property created in the Northwest Ordinance? W ...
- Newest nightmare of the Federal Register: Priv ...
Awesome bureaucratic frankenstein nightmare coverups down this fabulous path. Thank you USDA, your great work on GMOs so far – which involves a tiny fraction of the caution found in Europe for example – Anyway there is now a bypass in the works. The Federal Register is the Washington DC version ...
- New 2008 Republican National Convention docume ...
Posted originally at Twin Cities Indymedia By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia -- A new documentary on the 2008 Republican National Convention, Better This World, screens at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival on Sunday and next Wednesday, and on PBS POV nationwide on Sep ...
- Alchemy and Debt Demons - FAIL DOT GOV sHuTdOw ...
FEDERAL SHUTDOWN 2011: The Untold Story - long story short, our narrative ends with The Jesus giving everyone SHROOMS. Alchemy and accountants, the Shutdown revealed mysterious & esoteric truths underlying our post-masonic Nation. [ I had a couple folders sitting around with ...
- Pimping, Pushing, and the High Cost of Health ...
Prescription data mining is allowing the pharmaceutical industry to discover what doctors are and are not selling their drugs. Big Pharma spends $8 billion dollars just to send those cuties to your doctor’s offices to push their drugs. You know the ones. They are those young, very attractive ...
- What The Hell Has Happened To Americans?
Homophobes in D.C. are eager to spend $550/hour for an attorney to defend DOMA while 15,000 3- to 4- year olds in Ohio were dropped from Early Childhood Education, as ECE programs across the nation took a big hit. I was going to cite some examples, but there are just too many big cuts to [...]
- Shanta Driver of BAMN and the new Jim Crow
Shanta Driver, a spokesperson for BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) appeared on the Thom Hartmann show and Russian TV today (Monday the 25th of April) to speak about the closing of public schools in Detroit. You can see the interview with Shanta regarding the Cathy Ferguson Academy in Detroit and o ...
- Kochtopus: Right-wing Network of Money, Power, ...
Charles and David Koch might very well the greatest threat to America sense World War II. Over the last fifty years, the bothers have been slowly developing, tweaking, and expanding a fascist political network designed to end American democracy as we know it. The many arms of the Koch brother’s ...
- Why the TSA won’t improve its image anyt ...
The DHS, TSA, and CBP want to improve its tarnished image. After the criticism that has befallen the TSA since last fall when they mass-introduced full body scanners, it’s no surprise that they are now universally hated. The problem, however, is that the TSA can never improve their image as long ...
- 10 non-boring ideas about the environment
by Jess Zimmerman. Climate alarmism is counterproductive, and rah-rah Earth fandom is boring. But there are still some fresh perspectives out there -- some are a little nutty, sure, but they're a change from the standard fare. Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic has rounded up ten interesting ...
- Rupert Murdoch is totally against the global w ...
by Jess Zimmerman. It's probably not the first time Rupert Murdoch has been on a list with Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden. Turns out that media mogul/plutocrat Murdoch's company, News Corporation, is deeply and explicitly committed to reducing its carbon footprint, combating global wa ...
- Yesterday’s fracking blowout: What happe ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, a natural gas well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania -- perhaps suffering from an overload of irony -- ruptured and leaked "thousands and thousands of gallons" of fracking fluid over the surrounding farmland and ...
- The future of green computing is dunking your ...
by Christopher Mims. As seemingly every aspect of our lives moves online, the giant building-size computers that power the web suck up ever more energy. Cooling can eat as much as a third of the energy required to run these "data centers," so fixing their heat problem (modern processor ...
- How much could climate change cost your state?
by Jess Zimmerman. No idea why they got someone's dad to narrate this video, but the information in it is pretty startling. According to this group, the American Security Project, costs racked up by climate change could include: $9.3 billion a year in lost agriculture revenues in ...
- A Bayesian Market
Found this job posting: Your research will cover any area of evolutionary biology, including adaptation, phylogenetics, population genetics and environmental genomics. You should be using advanced data acquisition and/or analytical approaches (e.g., high-throughput sequencing or other “omics”, B ...
- Fork in the Road
This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. The first two can be found here and here. We learned food insecurity and disease outbreaks can serve as a cover for a particular capital-securitized science tied into spread ...
- The Declensionist Diet
We continue with the ‘big picture’ of food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. This is the second of three excerpts. The first can be found here. We argued the causes of our ongoing, and oncoming, food crises are manifold, rooted in present-day policies as well as humanity’s ...
- The Born Identity
With Richard Kock and Robyn Alders I co-authored the following review of food and forest crises. Richard presented an earlier version at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Global Conference on Wildlife held in Paris in February. Over the next few days we will publish three slightly e ...
- From Reactor to Plate
âJapan’s PM vows to win battle against nuke plantâ reads one recent headline. It is unclear which possibility is worse, that Naoto Kan has failed to grasp the plant at Fukushima Dai-ichi has already defeated Japan, or that he knows full well and broadcasts a ânecessary lieâ protecting an industr ...
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
- We can learn an important lesson about ourselv ...
Summary:  The Three Cups of Tea fable is symptomatic of a deeper flaw in the way we conduct foreign policy. To believe in fairies makes for a fun children’s story, but wars require tight grip on an often harsh reality. We’ve made this mistake in the past and will gain — unless we learn a ...
- We can learn an important lesson about ourselv ...
Summary: Like all cons, the “Three Cups of Tea” affair reveals more about us than its author. Like all marks, we seek simple sure-fire solutions, no matter how implausible. And we prefer the fables of conmen than the complex and often discouraging advice from experts. As any cop on the ...
- Child-like credulity – a requirement to ...
Summary: It’s amusing — in a gallows-humor way — to read our geopolitical experts attempting to explain our strategy in the Libyan War. It requires having (or pretending to have) a child-like credulity to believe our government’s statements, no matter how often they’re proven duplicitous ...
- Important history on Earth Day
Summary: Exaggerated, often wildly inaccurate, warnings by greens diminish our ability to cope with future shockwaves (high impact, low probability scenarios). We have to plan for them, since eventually one will hit us. Hysterical single-issue advocacy groups are part of the problem, not the ...
- A note about the obvious that’s seldom m ...
Summary:  We could publish a newspaper with nothing but old analysis that would tell us more about the world than does the New York Times, because our intelligensia has become lost in its myths — unable to see obvious trends in the world. Here’s a brief example from the always insightful Er ...
- Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...
- Party Like It’s 2002: Pawlenty Attacks Obama F ...
Right wing war hawks recently had some fun mocking part of President Obama’s theory of leadership which a top aide described as “leading from behind.” (Nelson Mandela also espoused this particular idea of leadership, although it’s unclear if these same war hawks mocked him for it as well.) It’s ...
- Iran and Bahrain: Fairly Obvious What He Meant ...
I am not nor would ever claim to be an expert on Bahrain and the issues involved with the protests that are taking place there, but I think like most Americans, I understand the US response (or non-response) is based entirely on the presence of the 5th Fleet in Bahrain. I, like most Americans, a ...
- Jackson Diehl’s Afghanistan and the State of J ...
Jackson Diehl’s Op-Ed Sunday morning deserves a comprehensive critique, but for now let us focus on his opening statement: “As warmer weather brings back both the war and the debate over policy in Washington, the starting point could be summarized this way: Thanks to the U.S. military, the Ta ...
- Iraq’s Parliament Repeals Article Used To Bloc ...
In April 2011 Iraq’s parliament ended one of the main barriers to fighting corruption in the country. That is Article 136B of the Iraqi Criminal Code. The article allows ministers to stop investigations, and has been used more and more in recent times. It’s yet to be seen whether this is part of ...
- Iranian Commander Urges Direct Intervention in ...
While Bahrain expelled a senior Iranian diplomat on April 26, and Iran threatens to do the same in return, calls from Iranâs militias for direct involvement in the tiny island kingdom are intensifying. Iranâs Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast promised that Iran will consider the exp ...
- The Birther Conspiracy Deepens
In case you've been too busy painting your tribute Will & Kate figurines to notice, this morning the White House released the famous "long-form" version of Barack Obama's birth certificate. Briefly: when you ask Hawaii for your birth certificate, they generate and send to you a legally valid, of ...
- Some People Never Change
(Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Future failed presidential candidate Rick Santorum knows what Republicans in Iowa want: Death panels! And could he throw in some shameless exploitation of his children? Yes he can: Santorum, a father of seven and a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, said he wrestles ...
- Little Picture: 25 Years Later
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chernobyl has re-entered the global media cycle as the now six week old Fukushima nuclear disaster unfolds in its shadow, a comparison which AFP reports are "different in nature" according to Japanese officials. Above is a pan ...
- Prop. 8 Defenders Get Desperate
Remember the Prop. 8 trial? It's still wending its slow way up the judicial ladder, and here's the latest: Supporters of Proposition 8, California's ballot-approved ban on same-sex marriage, filed a motion this week contesting Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that the ban is unconstitutional, becau ...
- Chart of the Day
Republicans are fond of describing the Obama administration's policies as a "record spending binge," unprecedented in the modern era. On the face of it, given our $1.5 trillion deficit, that seems accurate. But as Paul Krugman shows, this is far from true; our current deficits are a product of e ...
- Dick Cheney's Legacy of Fracking America to Death
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Are natural gas companies "fracking" some Americans to death, thanks to Dick Cheney? If you review a recent report by a Congressional committee and watch the documentary "Gasland," (available as a premium with a minimum contribution to Truthout/BuzzF ...
- Tim Pawlenty’s New Campaign Manager on a Missi ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Meet Nick Ayers, the 28-year-old 'wunderkind' who apparently believes he's received a directive from God to help lead Pawlenty to the Promised Land. While Donald Trump has been making the most buzz-nutty moves, Mitt Romney the most predictable, Mike Hucka ...
- We Are Fed a Starvation Diet of News That Is E ...
Body It isn't always that politicians deliver a pack of lies when they appear in public, though they may. And it isn't that there is a lack of information available. Rather we are fed a starvation diet of news that is easily digested but not very nourishing. What seems to att ...
- The "Glory Days" of Scott Walker May Already ...
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT These are not the glory days that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was envisioning as he assumed his Napoleonic reign. Walker, for instance, is openly complaining that the apparently successful effort to initiate recall elections for at least five (now ...
- Sen. Bernie Sanders: Banks Play Shell Game wit ...
BERNIE SANDERS ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The following April 26 news release is from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont): A study requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) found numerous instances during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 when banks took near zero-interes ...
- Latest science news
Crowdsourcing a clinical trial to treat ALS – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a pretty grim disease. Victims experience progressive muscle weakness, leading to death; patients survive a median of only two to five years following the onset of symptoms. Currently, there are no effective the ...
- Five feisty science books on David’s desk
Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
- Recent science news roundup
Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
- Five more science stories
Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
- Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...
- Syria: Arab States Should Push for End to Killings
Arab countries should join international efforts to establish an independent international inquiry into the Syrian government's use of lethal force against peaceful protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt and Tunisia should lead in advocating sanctions against those leaders responsible ...
- Blue Revolution Key to Getting "More Crop per ...
Increasing demand for water continues to threaten the livelihood of millions of small-scale farmers who depend on water for their crops.read more
- Cost of Medicare Equivalent Insurance Skyrocke ...
The budget plan put forth by Representative Paul Ryan has been described by some as a serious, smart plan that will help reinvigorate the economy and reduce the deficit. Ryan’s plan, to revamp Medicare has been described as shifting costs from the government to beneficiaries. A new report from t ...
- Kucinich Plan to Lower Gas Prices: Windfall Pr ...
As the summer peak driving period begins and as oil companies are expected to announce record profits again while gas prices continue to rise, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that he will reintroduce the Gas Price Spike Act, which would reduce the price of gasoline. The bil ...
- Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl Disaster, Hi ...
It’s been 25 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and today, the area surrounding the plant is still uninhabitable. While the catastrophe, which spread radioactive fallout over tens of thousands of square miles, serves as an eerie reminder ...
- The African 'Star Wars'
Pepe Escobar From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world's remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The stakes are tremendous. Most battles will be invisible. All will ...
- Until Death Us Do Part: Wedded to Wealth We D ...
Donna Smith Perhaps it’s the media fever over the Royal wedding in Great Britain or perhaps it’s my own disgust about hearing that Exxon Mobil makes $100M a day in profits, but either way I am pretty certain many Americans would rather go ...
- It’s Time to Revive an Old Rallying Cry: Labor ...
Joe Burns During last year’s strike against Mott's, the apple juice maker, Tim Budd, an employee on the bargaining team, heard a plant manager say across the bargaining table that employees were “a commodity like soybeans and oil, and the ...
- Wall Street Tames Washington
Jim Hightower They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived than the corporate lobbying ...
- Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don ...
Ellen Brown “Deficit terrorists” are gutting governments and forcing the privatization of public assets, all in the name of “deficit reduction.” But deficits aren’t actually a bad thing. In today’s monetary scheme, in which most money co ...
- Nablus, beautiful and unvisited
Ray SmithThe Electronic IntifadaNablus Few visitors make it to the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, causing the city’s tourism sector to suffer.
- Arab league's double standard
Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-OmraniThe Electronic Intifada As the Cairo-based Arab League continues to back western military intervention in support of the popular rebellion in Libya, the League’s failure to back similar uprisings in other Arab countries — most notably Bahrain — has led to c ...
- "For as long as I can, I will continue": Hajo ...
Adri NieuwhofThe Electronic Intifada Since being interviewed by The Electronic Intifada in 2009, Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer has toured numerous countries to speak about his efforts to combat Zionism and his support for the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and�equality.
- Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored
Josh RuebnerThe Electronic Intifada Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, US military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed through this month’s passage of the 2011 budget, but reached the record level of $3 billion. Josh Reubner ...
- Interview: Raja Khalidi on the neoliberal cons ...
Ray SmithThe Electronic Intifada The Electronic Intifada contributor Ray Smith interviews Raja Khalidi, a senior economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, about the PA’s economic policies and its implications for statehood.
- 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 ...
- EPA tells POLITICO it will investigate DeLeon
POLITICO reporter Robin Bravender released a story on Friday saying that EPA spokesperson Brendan Gilfillan promised that EPA would "look into" the allegations of the open letter the National Whistleblowers Center released last week. Gilfillan told Bravender that Jackson is “deeply committed to ...
- NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director
Today I am writing to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asking her to remove Mr. Rafael DeLeon, the Director of the EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Last month, Deloitte Consulting issued a report on OCR finding that it is essentially dysfunctio ...
- Senate confirms Carolyn Lerner
Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Senate confirmed Carolyn Lerner as Special Counsel. This post, which investigates and takes positions on federal employee whistleblower allegations, has been vacant for over two years. I reported here last month about her confirmation hearing. Ms. Lerner has a ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on April 28th in Austin ...
On April 28th, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center will host a seminar entitled "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions" from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (CST) in Austin, Texas.�The seminar is at the Radisson Hotel in Austin and is CLE-app ...
- NWC Executive Director will hold an open forum ...
On Sunday April 10, 2011, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center, will be available at 5:00 pm (EST) for an online chat forum at Firedoglake’s Book Salon. The topic of this book salon will be The Whistleblower’s Handbook. For two hours Mr. Kohn will be holding an ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- Targeted Advertising? Patented! Bunch Of Media ...
Back in 2004, we wrote about a ridiculous patent (6,712,702), for a "method and system for playing games on a network." The guy behind the patent, Sheldon Goldberg, was claiming that a bunch of online solitaire games violated his patent. When the EFF launched its patent busting project, they w ...
- BBC Journalist Admits He Took Out Super Injunction
We've been discussing the ridiculously anti-free speech super injunctions in the UK, which block the press or anyone from reporting on certain things (even if factual). What's amazing is how frequently these seem to be used by famous people in the UK, basically, to avoid being embarrassed by th ...
- Professional Photographers Find Massively Succ ...
One of the most vocal groups of folks we've seen, when it comes to resisting the changing market dynamics brought about by digital technologies and the internet, is not the music or movie industries... but photographers. We've seen photographers compare microstock photo sites to pollution and d ...
- Be Your Own Souvenir
We've been interested in the potential legal implications of 3D printing for a while, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact that some of the natural uses of 3D printing can be pretty cool as well. There's something really remarkable about this new project, from blablabLAB, posted on Notcot, a ...
- How Do The NY Times Paywall Results Compare To ...
One of the oddities in the NY Times introducing its recent emperor's new paywall is the fact that the NYT already played this game and failed a few years ago. Back in 2006, over a year before the NYT finally realized this was a dumb idea, we had pointed out that it appeared its subscriber numbe ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Apologies in advance for any misspellings or nonsensical statements. Just got back from having a vat of margaritas with the girls. I have not mentioned the DC Anarchist Meetup in a while. There are now two regularly scheduled dates. One of them is packing at the local Books to Prisons. If you l ...
- Selling Social (In)Justice
Last week, I was invited to an awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center. The event was put on by an organization called Vital Voices, an NGO that “trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.” Sunitha Krishn ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Sorry for disappearing last week. My schedule has been hectic. I haven’t had too many days or nights off the last few weeks. Not enough time for reading and writing. I did; however, have time to go to the New York Anarchist Book Fair. Â Aside from meeting with people I never get to see (or [...]
- The Big Show
Why do anarchists spend months organizing protests around events like the G20 or the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings? I’ve heard some reasons over the years, but none of them are very convincing to me. Some people say that we need to publicly protest those institutions of power. Some say it is ab ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Any of you going to be at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair this weekend? Â I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office. Â In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget. Â Ahem. ...
- A Report to Helga: How To Make Sense
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- Killing the Future: When Obama Attacked NASA, ...
Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- The Empire’s Genocide Policy, Key Threat to Ma ...
By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- Documentation: Obama Budget Guts Earthquake Pr ...
By Carl Osgood Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- LPAC-TV Weekly Report: Galactic Challenge Dema ...
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, April 8, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 14
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- In Yemen, Many Protests, One Villain
It was only sheer chance or serendipity perhaps that southern Yemen’s “Day of Rage” was scheduled for Friday, earning the #Feb11 hashtag on Twitter. The Southern Uprising Facebook page drew nearly two thousand members since its founding two weeks ago in a nation with 2 percent Internet penetrati ...
- Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practi ...
My interview with the Aden News Agency Jane Novak⦠a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized b ...
- Jane Novak Interview with Aden News Agency Arabic
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- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- Share the Road (Cartoon)
Click to enlarge "Share the Road" by Option-G This the latest in a series of daily cartoons on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual art....Read the full story on TreeHugger
- How Throwing Stuff Away Makes You Frugal (and ...
Image credit: Joe Shlabotnik, used under Creative Commons license. I've argued before that saving money makes us more mindful of our consumption. I've also made the case that reuse can quickly become hoarding, and that sometimes the best approach is to throw something away—or at least donat ...
- Natural Nitrogen Ice Cream Tastes Good
Photo: B. Alter Welcome to the chin chin laboratorists, Europe's only nitro ice-cream parlour. On first glance it looks like a mad scientist's lab, with figures in white coats at work and clouds of white gas appearing out of nowhere. They are using liquid nitrogen to make delicious creamy i ...
- Real Birds Tweet on Twitter With a Peckable Ke ...
In this era of high-speed internet, smartphones and social-networking, keeping in contact has never been easier -- but in being so plugged-in, we run the risk of losing touch with the beautiful sounds of the world around us. As a sort of tongue-and-cheek response to this and the growing popu ...
- With Gas At 4 Bucks A Gallon, Who'll Un-Pimp ...
"big engine, little car!" Image credit:Flicker, Stephen Bowler Five years back I wrote an Earth Day Plea to car makers of the world: "Un-Pimp My Ride", making the point that all we need is smaller engines to make a cost saving, quantum leap in mileage improvement. I was chastised, of cours ...
- Neuroscientists discover new ‘chemical p ...
A team of neuroscientists at the University of Leicester, UK, in collaboration with researchers from Poland and Japan, has announced a breakthrough in the understanding of the ‘brain chemistry’ that triggers our response to highly stressful and traumatic events. The discovery of a critical and p ...
- What’s your intestinal bacteria type?
As partners in the international research consortium named MetaHit, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have contributed to show that an individual’s intestinal bacteria flora, regardless of nationality, gender and age, organises itself in certain clusters. The cluster of intestinal bac ...
- MicroRNA mediates gene-diet interaction relate ...
Eating more n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, commonly known as omega-3 fatty acids, may help carriers of a genetic variant on the perilipin 4 (PLIN4) gene locus lose weight more efficiently. Led by Jose M. Ordovas, PhD, director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA, researc ...
- Vegetarians May Have Lower Risk of Cataracts
People who eat meat may be at increased risk of developing cataracts compared to vegetarians, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Oxford in England say vegetarians and vegans are 30% to 40% less likely to develop cataracts than people who eat a lot of meat. Other factors, such as ...
- FDA Approves Roche’s HPV Test for Identi ...
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the cobas HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Test which identifies women at highest risk for developing cervical cancer. This test will help physicians make early, more accurate decisions about patient care, which may prevent many women from developing ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. By the way, want to know why I link to the Iranian state news agency for drone reporting? Because it’s less biased than the New York Time ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Joseph A. Kennedy, 25, of St. Paul, MN.Army Spc. Donald L. Nichols, 21, of Shell Rock, IA.Ar ...
- 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 12-Apr-2011
Lots coming up starting this weekend. OCSEA has a list of places to get training here. More details to come. For those near Shaker Heights:Thursday, April 145:00 - 7:00 pmShaker HeightsRally for Our RightsWhere: 12601 Shaker BoulevardOur Lady of Peace ChurchNorth side of Shaker Blvd just 4 bl ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Some views from over there here, here and here. Just because we aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean no one else is.Combat operations ha ...
- Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
(Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...
- Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
- Corn Panic
By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
- Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Firm defending Defense of Marriage Act withdra ...
Paul D. Clement, the partner who had been selected as the lead attorney on the case resigned from King and Spalding. He will continue to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act as a partner at another firmSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- Another Shocking UN cover up about Libya
The Council was about to vote on a report that affirmed and praised Libya and Colonel Ghaddafi for THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD for the nation's treatment of religious minorities, and the "human rights training" received by security forces.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- Secret Guantanamo Files, New Insights: Hundred ...
Senior US commanders have concluded that in dozens of cases there was �no reason recorded for transfer.�Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian M ...
The Davidian cult in Waco was dealt with by armored vehicles,� remarked Muammar Gaddafi in February, defending his own crackdowns in light of the U.S. government�s. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Teenage Mutant Theocrats
Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights reports racist "birther" attacks on President Obama, discussions of the conspiracy behind the problem facing America (complete with anti-Semitic illustration), Christian nationalism, anti-environmentaliSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
- Fukushima city removing radioactive topsoil in ...
ShareThisFukushima city removing radioactive topsoil in schools 27 Apr 2011 A city in Fukushima Prefecture started Wednesday to remove topsoil from playgrounds in its elementary and nursery schools, following radiation leaks from a crisis-hit nuclear power plant nearby. Heavy machinery began sco ...
- Afghan pilot kills, injures NATO forces
ShareThisAfghan pilot kills, injures NATO forces 27 Apr 2011 An Afghan army officer has opened fire on foreign troops at Kabul airport, leaving one dead and several others injured, a report says. According to the afghan Defense Ministry, the local army officer, an afghan military pilot, opened f ...
- Missouri sues to block demolition of river levee
ShareThisMissouri sues to block demolition of river levee 26 Apr 2011 The Missouri attorney general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plans to detonate the levee at Birds Point on the Mississippi River. Attorney General Chris Koster said ...
- Suspect arrested in Columbine-area bombing attempt
ShareThisSuspect arrested in Columbine-area bombing attempt 26 Apr 2011 Authorities on Tuesday arrested a recently paroled bank robber suspected of planting a bomb at a crowded shopping mall near Columbine High School last week on the 12th anniversary of the school massacre. Earl Moore, 65, was ...
- Ron Paul announces possible Republican 2012 pr ...
ShareThisRon Paul announces possible Republican 2012 presidential bid --Long-time Texas politician and Tea Party favourite has made a key step on the official route to the White House 27 Apr 2011 Ron Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican congressman beloved of many Tea Party supporters, has ann ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
- VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
- VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
- VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- The Mysterious Well: Part II of II
Axe Handle Cam Events from Farah Province, Afghanistan Published 24 April 2011 The previous dispatch ended with Kris LeBoutillier lowering his camera into the mysterious well at Kafir Qala, which is believed to be more than 2,000 years old. The depth and contents of the ancient well were unkn ...
- Important Message From Libya
22 April 2011 I�ve been reading traffic from a private worldwide group regarding the sad loss of journalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington in Libya.� The people discussing the loss include names you sometimes see on national television, in books, and so on and so forth.� The bylaws of the ...
- The Mysterious Well
Kak Kohzad 21 April 2011 In Afghanistan, there is a mysterious and ancient well.� Nobody knew how deep it was, or what might be down there, but some locals thought it might contain bones of their ancestors.� My friend Steve Shaulis came upon the well while working in Farah Province, and decide ...
- After Action Report - Visit Columbia March 2011
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- Alexander the Great
Sunrise over Farah 07 April 2011 Afghanistan contains many treasures of ancient history.�� Climate conditions here preserve old structures whose origins often remain a mystery. Alexander stormed through here a thousand years before the Arabs introduced Islam.� Today, after travelling arou ...
- Today's election thoughts
Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
- 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
- Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
- I went over my twitter limit...
So I'm just going to make a few notes: -Ignatieff was right when he says Harper's offering "fantasy economics". He also answered the financial question directly. And Harper seemed to make eye contact for the first time. And then went back to the camera. Harper: "Every credible economic analyst" ...
- Cancer is sexy
I don't have a TV, so I just checked if my livestreaming CBC is working and it seems to be, so I will be able to watch the debate tonight. Two chapters left to go in Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" and I also just picked up Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power" yesterday and have read chapter 1. A ...
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