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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, May 8, 2011

8 May - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • 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 ...

Scoop - NZ

  • 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.

Independent - London

  • Dramatic footage of tornado
  • William Hague backs Syria reforms
    It is "not too late" for Syrian president Bashar Assad to abandon brutal repression of his people, Foreign Secretary William Hague insisted today.
  • 'Foreign troops' killed in Kabul airport attack
    Foreign troops were among a number of people killed and wounded when an Afghan Army officer opened fire after an argument at Kabul's airport today.
  • Morgan's modest viewing figures give his criti ...
    For a man who uses Twitter to broadcast his every thought, deed, and minor foray into the public eye, Piers Morgan has been surprisingly slow to update followers about the smattering of fresh headlines that pertain to the performance of his nightly talk show on the rolling news channel CNN.
  • Bernanke to confront his critics as US economi ...
    Weakening economic growth and sliding house prices in the world's largest economy form the backdrop to the first-ever press conference by a Federal Reserve chairman, to be held after the US central bank makes its latest interest rate decision today.

Rogue Government.com

  • Geithner Defends So Called Strong Dollar Policy
    US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vowed Tuesday that the United States would never follow a strategy to weaken the US dollar.
  • Guantanamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin worke ...
    An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military's Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
  • 540 Taliban militants flee Kandahar jail
    At least 540 Taliban militants, including 106 commanders, have escaped from Kandahar central prison in southern Afghanistan, an official says.
  • UN Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' ...
    A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that would grant the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Mother Nature.
  • World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Found G ...
    A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle."

Innovation Canada

  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • 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 ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • 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.

Media Matters for America

  • 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: ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • 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, ...
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    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 ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Digesting Half-Truths: Dietary restrictions du ...
    Oscar-nominated director Tim Hetherington and Pulitzer finalist photojournalist Chris Hondros, both killed in Libya last week (4/20/11), were eulogized on the Democracy Now by show host Amy Goodman. Carroll Bogert of Human Rights Watch, who worked closely with Hetherington commissioning and diss ...
  • Capitalism and Class Struggle - Critical Analysis
    Introduction The class struggle continues to play a central role in the process of capitalist accumulation, albeit it takes different forms depending on the socio-economic context. In order to map out the unfolding of the class struggle it is necessary to specify key concepts related to the ( ...
  • Controversy in Venezuela over Arrest of Altern ...
    Mérida, April 25th 2011 – At the request of the Colombian government, the Venezuelan government has arrested and says it will soon deport a supposed ex-FARC leader and alternative journalist, Joaquin Perez Becerra, despite opposition to the deportation from many groups on the Venezuelan left. ...
  • 'US knew Guantanamo detainees were innocent' - ...
    The United States held hundreds of inmates who were either totally innocent or low-risk for years and released dozens of "high-risk" Guantanamo inmates, according to leaked classified files. The new leaks reveal that inmates were held without trial on the basis of often seriously flawed informat ...
  • 'No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli - NATO wages w ...
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They Gave Us a Republic

  • 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 ...

Care 2

  • 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 ...

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No Quarter

  • 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, [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • 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

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Second Life for the Electric Car Battery
    Researchers are exploring the possibility of repurposing batteries to serve the electric grid, as well as battery ownership models that would reduce the financial burden on a car's owner.
  • When Refrigerators Warm the Planet
    While the hydrofluorcarbons used in refrigerators do not destroy ozone, they trap heat when they are released and they reach high altitudes.
  • Obama Again Demands an End to Oil Tax Breaks
    "High oil and gasoline prices are weighing on the minds and pocketbooks of every American family," the president writes, saying the nation must reduce its dependence on foreign oil.
  • Sale of Oil Leases Planned for Gulf of Mexico
    The proposed lease area contains as much as 420 million barrels of oil and 2.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
  • A 21st-Century Water Forecast
    A new federal report on climate change and the West supports predictions of future stress on supplies -- and offers a window on how the Obama administration is dealing with the fraught subject of climate change.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • 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 ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #503
    Dutch forces' covert operations in Africa revealed. Israel destroys spying devices found in Gaza. Leaked documents reveal Guantanamo secrets. Continue reading →
  • Controversial Swiss master-spy dies in Ireland
    One of Switzerlandâs most controversial Cold War figures, who set up a clandestine guerrilla unit to combat a feared Soviet invasion, has died in Cork, Ireland. Continue reading →
  • Book claims CIA framed Bulgaria over assassina ...
    A new book claims that the United States Central Intelligence Agency concocted a link between the Bulgarian intelligence services and the 1981 failed assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #502
    Interesting interview with career US intelligence officer. CIA reveals World War I documents. Israel indicts Australian for spying for Hamas. Continue reading →
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    Ex-double agent Hanssen's house goes on sale. Ex-CIA officer critical of US activities in Pakistan. US agents descending on Mexico Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Afghanistan War Weekly: April 26, 2011
    By Sharon Miller DEVELOPMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN “Hundreds of Taliban Escape from Kandahar Jail” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8472419/Hundr... Hundreds of Taliban prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel from Sarpoza Prison in Kandahar. The escape calls the disci ...
  • Video of Nicole Sandler Arrested at Congressio ...
  • Iraq to Search for Missing Since 2003
    Fresh effort to trace missing persons Photo: Afif Sarhan/IRIN: Rayhan Nasir, 24, is losing hope after two years spent searching for his father (file photo) 27 April 2011 (IRIN) - The government has set up a committee to trace thousands of Iraqis missing since the 2003 US-led invasion that topple ...
  • Vermont Gets Closer to Feds Blocking Its Singl ...
    The Vermont Senate is on board with single-payer healthcare. Too bad Washington, D.C., isn't, and Obama insisted that last year's healthcare bill effectively block state initiatives.
  • Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency ...
    By John Perkins "Information Clearing House" -- WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest. Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank's early role in the reconstructi ...

Grist - News

  • 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 ...

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    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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • White House Releases Obama’s Long-Form B ...
    White House hands out Obama’s long-form birth certificate The Hill- By Sam Youngman – 04/27/11 09:07 AM ET The White House tried to put the issue of whether President Obama was born in the U.S. to rest on Wednesday by distributing his long-form birth certificate to reporters. The surprise move c ...
  • 2 RINO’s & One Stealth Democrat = 1 Thre ...
  • Trump’s Rebuttal To Proof Of Obama’s Birth Cer ...
    . Trump’s Rebuttal To Proof Of Obama’s Birth Certificate: ‘Somebody’ Told Me ‘It Doesn’t Exist’ Think Progress- By Tanya Somanader at 11:45 am America’s current political jester Donald Trump has fed his unquenchable need for attention by repeatedly touting the disproven “birther” myth. Trump pur ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox: Love In An Elevator
    Aerosmith – Love In An Elevator
  • Progressive Ad Campaigns Take On Republicans&# ...
    by Joan McCarter for Daily Kos Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 05:20 PM PDT The progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change is taking on the GOP, running versions of this ad on broadcast television in the districts of Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), and Paul Ryan ...

Solari

  • State Dept. Proposes “Biographical Questionnai ...
    The Identity Project The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants. The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history including employersâ and supervisors names, addresses, and telephone numbers; pe ...
  • Method of the Year 2010: Optogenetics
    YouTube Related reading: Optogenetics - Wikipedia Controlling the Brain With Light - Scientific American (Nov 10)
  • The Dollar’s Omnious New Record
    Clusterstock (25 Apr 11)
  • The American War Machine
    I just finished Peter Dale Scott’s new book on the American military-industrial-intelligence establishment and its historical dependency on the global drug trade. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the real twists and turns in the global economy and master the political ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “Focusing the mindâs eye is for determining impending perils. Events have natural courses, people have successes and failures: it is imperative to examine movements signalling impending perils.” - Thomas Cleary, translator, Thunder in the Sky: On the Acquisition and Exercise of Power

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • 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��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • 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 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • 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 ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • The African 'Star Wars'
    It is the Pentagon's Africom versus China's web of investments - the ultimate prize: Africa's natural resources.
  • Water wars: Bottlers play defense vs. environm ...
    The next time you go to the vending machine for a bottle of water (costing 6 cents an ounce) or, instead, sip from the drinking fountain (free), you will be taking part in a debate that touches on the fate of humankind.
  • 10 cool things about Palm Springs
    PALM SPRINGS There are a million reasons you might find yourself in Palm Springs - film, fine arts and music festivals, conventions, golf tournaments.
  • Atlanta Forward / Another View: We succeeded i ...
    Atlanta Forward / Another View: We succeeded in positioning state for jobs
  • Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
    The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions an ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • 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.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan forces attack Pak check post in South W ...
    The Afghan National Army launched an unprovoked attack on a Pakistan Army check post at Angoor Adda in South Waziristan on Wednesday.
  • Afghan officer fires on NATO troops, kills 9
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; Eight NATO service members and a contractor are dead after an Afghan military pilot opened fire on the foreign troops following a dispute at the airport in Kabul. ...
  • Pakistan denies reports of efforts to split U. ...
    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan denied media reports on Wednesday that it was lobbying Afghanistan to drop its alliance with Washington and look to Islamabad and Beijing to forge a peace deal with ...
  • Interpol slams 'security breach' aft ...
    PARIS (AFP) - Interpol on Wednesday slammed the international community's "shocking" failure to properly train Afghan police and said a mass Taliban jailbreak had revealed an ...
  • Afghan, Pakistan border clash kills 1
    DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -; Afghan border guards fired mortar shells toward a Pakistani military post in a northwestern tribal region on Wednesday, killing a soldier and wounding two others, a ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 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 ...

Science Express

  • 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 ...

TechDirt

  • 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 ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • 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.  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?  I’ll be there. So here is some info from the Government Accountability Office.  In short, the DOD’s 1.68 trillion dollar weapons acquisitions programs are out of control and billions of dollars over budget.  Ahem. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • 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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Dark Politricks

  • 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 ...

food and water watch

  • By: April
    Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

  • Share the Road (Cartoon)
    Click to enlarge "Share the Road" by Option-G This the latest in a series of daily cartoons on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual art....Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • How Throwing Stuff Away Makes You Frugal (and ...
    Image credit: Joe Shlabotnik, used under Creative Commons license. I've argued before that saving money makes us more mindful of our consumption. I've also made the case that reuse can quickly become hoarding, and that sometimes the best approach is to throw something away—or at least donat ...
  • Natural Nitrogen Ice Cream Tastes Good
    Photo: B. Alter Welcome to the chin chin laboratorists, Europe's only nitro ice-cream parlour. On first glance it looks like a mad scientist's lab, with figures in white coats at work and clouds of white gas appearing out of nowhere. They are using liquid nitrogen to make delicious creamy i ...
  • Real Birds Tweet on Twitter With a Peckable Ke ...
    In this era of high-speed internet, smartphones and social-networking, keeping in contact has never been easier -- but in being so plugged-in, we run the risk of losing touch with the beautiful sounds of the world around us. As a sort of tongue-and-cheek response to this and the growing popu ...
  • With Gas At 4 Bucks A Gallon, Who'll Un-Pimp ...
    "big engine, little car!" Image credit:Flicker, Stephen Bowler Five years back I wrote an Earth Day Plea to car makers of the world: "Un-Pimp My Ride", making the point that all we need is smaller engines to make a cost saving, quantum leap in mileage improvement. I was chastised, of cours ...

Biosingularity

  • 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 ...

CFACT

  • Power for the people
    You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty.
  • Nuclear safety: Reactors that can't meltdown
    Nuclear power remains a vital power source for the future. The crisis in Japan underscores the needs to make these reactors as safe as possible. New technology shows us the way to reactors that remain stable even under a scenario as extreme as Japan's.
  • Welcome to the Third World
    Develop American energy - or say good-bye to jobs, revenue and modern living standards.
  • Fearing EPA's carbon tax
    The EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country - and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers’ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else’s.
  • More biofuels, more greenhouse gases
    A new study estimates that the world has more than 702 million hectares of marginal land suitable for growing biofuels, while another finds that plowing would release massive amounts of soil carbon - mostly as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times as powerful as CO2.

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Ramps: When is Local not Kosher?
    This spring more than a million plants of wild leek or ramps will be harvested and consumed by individuals, ramp festivals, and especially the culinary industry. Ramps are one of the first harbingers of spring in the forest and for wild food enthusiasts a special treat. Recent demand and consump ...
  • Food Rights Network to Hollywood: Stop Greenwa ...
    We have been investigating how, across the nation, sewage sludge is being dumped on farms and gardens, deceptively labeled as "organic compost," "natural fertilizer," or sometimes the PR term "biosolids." Our investigation has discovered that EMA has -- unknowingly -- made an alliance with a ...
  • THE SCOOP - April 2011 Organic Center Newsletter
    The April edition of the Organic Center Newsletter.Click here to read this article
  • Food Prices: World Bank Warns Millions Face Po ...
    The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty.Click here to read this article
  • Eliminating Packaged Foods Can Lower BPA Exposure
    The endocrine-disrupting chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) is in the news again following the release of a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. This time it is good news. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Game, set and 2012
    Obama’s releasing the original “long form” birth certificate today. Modern day Republicans really are the stupidest people on earth. Having hanged George Bush’s massive deficit and two-war fuckup around Obama’s neck, they gave 2012 away with crazy aunt-in-the-attic candidates, napkin-based econo ...
  • Troy ounces: the Achilles heel of the right
    Still weening myself off my Google Reader RSS subs (again) and there are a few stories that amply illustrate why I can’t keep aggregating about fools and liars. You may remember Jerry Kane. He and his stepson shot it out with Arkansas cops last year, not that that had anything to do with militia ...
  • I’m back
    I’m back, but I’m not back. As it turns out, a couple weeks off was more than time enough to ween me off the intertubes. I wish I could say I lost my anger in the process, but today’s Toles explains why that’s not possible. The worst people in the world have doubled down on [...]
  • Merry Easter
  • What the clerk barfed up
    Very busy day today filled with client projects ranging from a resume to MBA editing for an ESL student with a gluten-free menu to design if time permits, so I’m taking the day off. I grabbed a number of links about this as the story developed, but it appears that Prosser’s won in Wisconsin. The ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

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

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

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

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

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

The Real Agenda

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

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

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

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

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

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • India Cinema Showcases Strong Sense of Nationalism
    The work of every film producer, director and writer of that time reflected a strong sense of nationalism, as they experimented with subjects, music and actors. They all showcased the aspirations of the common woman and man.
  • Nevada Assembly Opens With Hindu Prayers
    He recited from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world. He also recited some lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, both ancient Hindu scriptures. He started and ended the prayer with 'Om,' the mystical syllable containing the universe. In
  • Tragic Saga of Bahl Sisters Reflects Society's ...
    Nobody bothered to ring the doorbell of the Bahl residence in Sector 29 in NOIDA, where the two sisters had withdrawn into a deep depression. The local Residents' Welfare Association (RWA) was well aware that the water and electricity connections h
  • Flight Experiences Offered to Students and Tea ...
    Students and educators nationwide will have the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers and scientists through two newly developed NASA flight initiatives.
  • EPA Announces New Category for Commercial Frye ...
    Fryers are one of the most common appliances in the food service industry. Large vat fryers are used in a variety of high-volume food establishments including fast food, grocery, retail, institutional and full-service restaurants.

Worldnews

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

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

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

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

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

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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

Energy Collective

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

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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

Groklaw

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

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

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