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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 II

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

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

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

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

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

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

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO News: April 26, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Atlantic Club’s Passy: EU Must Become Collective Member Of NATO Middle East, North Africa: U.S. Risks War With China And Russia To Protect U.S. Interests, International Companies: 15,000 U.S. Troops, Thousands Of Contractors To Remain In Iraq Romania: U. ...
  • NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Stop NATO April 26, 2011 NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Rick Rozoff As it has done daily since it assumed control of the air war and naval blockade against Libya on March 31, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 25 p ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: April 26
    ==== NATO’s African War: Nearly 4,000 Sorties, Over 1,600 Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable NATO Playing With Fire In Libya: Analyst NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli As Former Colonial Master Italy Enters War NATO Escalates Bombing Assault, Libyans Fear Protracted War Al ...
  • Stop NATO News: April 25, 2011
    ==== Updates on Libyan war: April 25 ==== U.S. Marines Bring Iraqi And Afghan War Combat Experience To Gulf Of Guinea “Made In USA”: Yemen Targeted By Predator Drone Missile Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable Resurgence Of French Imperialism New Georgian Military Adventurism ...
  • Samuel Johnson on war
    Samuel Johnson Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771) Excerpts [W]ar is not the whole business of life; it happens but seldom, and every man, either good or wise, wishes that its frequency were still less. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

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

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

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

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

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

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Telecrap Urinal

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

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

Hudson New York

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

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

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

Radical Chic

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

Federal Court ( Canada )

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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

The Daily Galaxy

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

Natural News

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

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

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

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

Consortium News

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

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Booman Tribune

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

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

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

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

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

AlterNet Top Stories

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

Threat Level

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

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

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

AutoblogGreen

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

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

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

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

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

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

Lifehacker

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

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

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

McClatchey

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

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

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

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

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

Watts Up With That?

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

Dandelion Salad

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

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

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

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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