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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.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

11 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Rio+20: The Moment When Everything Changed?
    Humanity is driving Earth's climate and ecosystems towards dangerous tipping points, requiring radical new forms of international cooperation and governance, experts say.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Clean, Efficient Wood Stoves G ...
    In his quest to make the most efficient possible use of energy generated through wood combustion, Salvadoran René Núñez developed a simple but highly efficient wood stove that produces no smoke and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 95 percent.
  • Africa Begins to Rise Above Aid
    An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as the domestic private sector becomes the engine of growth across much of Africa.
  • A Touch of Spring for LGBT Arabs
    With a yearning for human rights playing a vital role in the Arab revolts; putting an end to discriminatory LGBT laws may determine how the future democratic process unfolds.
  • Salvadoran Poet Roque Dalton's Murder - Case C ...
    It was the first time that a Salvadoran judge was holding a hearing to decide whether the case of Roque Dalton, a poet murdered 36 years ago, should go to trial. But the hopes of his family were dashed.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • This covert war on Iran is illegal and dangerous
    Summary: Dr ShahriariIran is right to be suspicious about Britain. Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, was once caught on the record endorsing covert actions against Iran. "We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons," he said ...
  • 'Mossad, MKO killed Iranian scientist'
    Summary: The Israeli spy agency, Mossad, and the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group are the main perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack against an Iranian scientist, an American blogger quotes an Israeli source as saying. source: Press TVread more
  • Official Blames Zionist Regime for Assassinati ...
    Summary: Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan"The bomb was a magnetic bomb similar to the bombs that were earlier used for the assassination of (the Iranian) scientists and actually the job was done by the Zionists," Secretary of Tehran province's Security Council Safar Ali Baratlou told FNA on Wednesday. ...
  • Goal of Iran Sanctions is to Stoke Public Disc ...
    Summary: The intelligence community and the administration acknowledge that Iran has no weapons program, but continue aggression anyway source: antiwar.comread more
  • Reckless Talk of War with Iran Makes Confronta ...
    Summary: The temperature between the West and Iran has increased dramatically. Escalation by both sides coupled with a reckless discourse that has normalised the idea of war have created an environment where military confrontation is a rising probability. The next escalatory step pondered by ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Scientists Set to Research Largest Unexplored ...
    The igneous ocean crust --the rocky realm of hard volcanic lava exists beneath ocean sediments that lie at the bottom of much of the world's oceans-- is largely unexplored and unknown to science.While scientists have estimated that microbes living in...
  • NewsFlash: Extreme Monster Galaxy Cluster from ...
    El Gordo — which means "the fat one" in Spanish — is officially known as ACT-CL J0102-4915 located located more than 7 billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers hope it could one day reveal secrets about the invisible dark matter that...
  • Five Galaxies Discovered in Deep Wells of Dark ...
    In a sky survey made in near-infrared light the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted five clustered galaxies so distant that their light has taken 13.1 billion years to reach us. These galaxies are among the brightest galaxies at that...
  • Cygnus X Star Birth Region --Massive Pillars & ...
    The image above shows one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our galaxy, a region called Cygnus X. The choppy cloud of gas and dust lies 4,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan....
  • EcoAlert: NASA Radar to Study Hawaii's Most Ac ...
    An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active volcano. The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, mounted in a pod...

Natural News

  • Hugely-expensive Chicago homeland security pro ...
    They say the road to hell (and financial ruin) is paved with good intentions. And so it is with a massively expensive project for Cook County, Chicago that cost taxpayers more than $45 million and has been an abject failure. The goal was to make citizens safer, but...
  • Just how much alcohol do Brits drink anyway? L ...
    Alcohol consumption patterns in the UK are apparently out of control, as certain members of parliament (MPs) have suggested new drinking guidelines for the nation. Citing dated standards last updated in the 1990s that suggest daily drinking maximums. Members of the House...
  • Physicians going broke because the health care ...
    In the US, most people, upon hearing that someone is a physician assume that person has a higher than average income. However, a recent article on the CNN Money website drew attention to a new trend -- doctors declaring bankruptcy. Bankruptcy and practice closuresThe...
  • Two important victories against evil GMO corpo ...
    (NaturalNews)With all the bad news about Monsanto and other corporations who create and promote GMOs, here's a couple of good news items from the last couple of years to relieve some doom and gloom. Hopefully, these victories against GMO companies, one by an individual farmer in...
  • Fabric softeners contain toxic chemicals
    Fabric softener ads often portray an image of comfort, freshness and sweetness. Yet most fabric softeners contain a grim list of known toxins which can enter your body through the skin and by inhalation, causing a wide range of health problems, particularly for young...

Threat Level

  • 2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictato ...
    Anonymous, the trickster group that keeps morphing, spent the year wrestling with the question of whether their hacks, protests and bombastic videos actually make a difference. Which makes them not very different from you or me.
  • Mystery Buyer Wins Auction for Copyright Troll ...
    The online domain for Righthaven — a copyright-troll law firm that failed in its attempt to make money for newspapers by suing people for sharing stories online — has sold at auction for $3,300 to help satisfy the Las Vegas company’s debts, but the winning bidder has yet to com ...
  • Geeks to Testify (Finally!) About SOPA Blackli ...
    Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), a major opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act, announced Monday he is bringing in the techies to hold a public hearing highlighting the online security implications of a proposed bill that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright ...
  • Supreme Court to Decide if Cops Can Raid Homes ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide for the first time whether judges may issue search warrants for private residences when a drug-sniffing dog outside the home detects dope inside it.
  • Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimm ...
    A Romanian man has been arrested in a $1.5 million card-skimming operation that targeted 40 ATMs belonging to HSBC branches in New York.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Romneys Shall Inherit Mitt's Worth
    The past week has been a very good one for Mitt Romney's 17 grandchildren. On Wednesday, Romney told a New Hampshire audience he wanted to leave all of his estimated $250 estate to his grandkids. Then on Monday, a new CBS poll showed their grandfather beating President Obama in a head-to-head ...
  • 'Scorn and Disdain' for McCain on Iraq
    A friendly piece of advice to John McCain: never use the words "Iraq" and "as I predicted" in the same sentence. After all, from his predictions of a short war in which Americans would be "greeted as liberators" and his repeated declarations of "mission accomplished" to his certainty about find ...
  • Romney's New Rules
    In October, Mitt Romney famously advised struggling homeowners, "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up." But while his policy for underwate ...
  • GOP Candidates Vie to Give Romney the Biggest ...
    That Mitt Romney's tax plan delivers a windfall for the wealthy and boosts the burden on lower income families while piling up trillions in new debt should come as no surprise. After all, that's true of every contender in the GOP presidential race. Which means that Mitt Romney, the $250 millio ...
  • McCain Endorsement Cost Romney $45 Million
    As their uncomfortable joint appearance Wednesday in New Hampshire made clear, 2008 GOP rivals Mitt Romney and John McCain really don't like each other. With good reason. Four years ago, Romney suggested McCain's out-of-control temper made him unfit while the Arizona Senator called the Massach ...

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

Planetsave

  • The Conversation That my Brother-in-law’s “Rea ...
    I don’t see my brother-in-law, Bob too often. We disagree on just about every major thing two people could disagree on. However, we love each other and enjoy one another’s company. So even though Bob likes to provoke (much like his hero Glenn Beck) sometimes it’s best to put po ...
  • Were Siberian Volcanoes Responsible for Permia ...
    New research adds more information to the long discussed cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event by looking into the possibility that Earth’s largest known extinction event was caused by a massive eruption of the Siberian Traps. The research, published January 9 in the journal Earth ...
  • Climate Change Causes Dramatic Ecological Changes
    A new multi-year study has determined that reduced winter snowfall in mountainous regions as a result of climate change is causing cascading shifts in plant life and animal communities by allowing elk to stay through winter and consume the plants that would normally be home to a variety of bird ...
  • 3 Whale Warriors to be Released from Japanese ...
      If you haven’t heard, three anto-whaling activists, or whale warriors, were ‘taken captive’ by Japanese whalers after boarding the Shonan Maru 2 several days ago are supposedly to be released. The Australian activists from Forest Rescue — Geoffrey Owen Tuxworth, Si ...
  • Bike Protesters in London Hold 1st Organized P ...
      London cyclists brought traffic at King’s Cross station to a stop Monday evening to protest Transport for London’s less than satisfactory approach to bicyclist safety. The group organizing the protest was Bikes Alive, and it was the organization’s first such event. The p ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Bringing Ska-P back on Israel and Palestine - ...
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  • Reinventing the Middle East lexicon - Middle East
    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is...
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    Editor's Note: During my years in prisons (ahem! i.e. working in prisons) ... bank robbers were by far the most respected convicts of all. - LMB...
  • India reports completely drug-resistant Tuberc ...
    Well, this is a bad way to start the year. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in India of the existence of at least 12 patients infected with tuberculosis that has become resistant to all the drugs used against the disease. Physicians in Mumbai are calling the strain...
  • Foreign Ministers of CELAC Troika to Meet in C ...
    HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 9 (acn) The Foreign Ministers of Chile, Cuba and Venezuela, which make up the troika of the recently created Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (CELAC) will have their first meeting in Santiago de Chile, reported Prensa Latina news agency. Chilean FM Alfred ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Because Citizens United didn't quite finish of ...
    By @BGinKC Good gawd they're brazen. In this climate, with states and cities all over the place introducing legislation and passing ordinances against the free-for-all of corporate cash in the political process, with THE topic of discussion on the post New-Hampshire coverage being the change sup ...
  • Number 104
    By @KYYellowDog Kentucky's 104th sacrifice to the insatiable maw of Permanent War is a 20-year-old from London, in the eastern mountains. He got married in October. From the Herald: Pfc. Dustin P. Napier, 20, died in an exchange of small-arms fire in the city of Qalat, in Afghanistan's Zabul ...
  • Deep Thought: New Hampshire primary edition
    By @BGinKC Whatta shocker. Romney won in a Boston media market. But look at it this way: If the GOP field is a circus, he's the ringmaster -- and > 60% of the people in a Boston media market found the idea of voting for one of the clowns that came tumbling out of the little car more appealing t ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD As expected, @MittRomney won the New Hampshire primary but Nate Silver's analysis was that he needed to win with at least 39% of the vote to clinch the nomination, but he fell slightly short of that mark. That sets the stage for a bruising slog all the way to Super Tuesday, with the ent ...
  • Defending the Indefensible
    By @BGinKC Willard the Rat let the mask slip yesterday when he said at a breakfast gathering in Nashua, NH that he likes "to fire people" -- and putting the remark in context doesn't help him one iota. In fact, it makes things worse by highlighting -- again -- just how out of touch he is with va ...

Care 2

  • URGENT! PROSECUTE REPEAT DOG KILLER! Animals P ...
    Sept. 2011: Zeak was killed on my neighbor's property. He ran over him with his truck & strung him to the fence by the street for the children to see. My own two children have nightmares due to this horrific act. He is a repeat dog killer! SIGN! Submitted by Michelle Sibinovic to Animals &nbsp ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Last Chance to Reject Rosemont ...
    This is your last chance to speak out against the proposed Rosemont open-pit copper mine, a poster child for national mining-law reform. Acquired by mining companies for $5 an acre, the ore body holds potentially billions of dollars worth of copper Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifest ...
  • TAKE ACTION! One More Day to Act: Gas Drillin ...
    It's down to the final wire for public comments on the proposed regulations to allow for industrial gas drilling and fracking in New York. PLEASE submit your comments by January 11, the deadline on this. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
  • Seeds Are The Key to a GMO-Free Food Future
    A single food seed can be as tiny as a grain of sand. Yet many say the fate of the entire organic industry rests upon our efforts to protect the integrity of these small, but vital agricultural inputs. Submitted by Barbara W. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • UK--FORESTS NEW OWNERS REVEAL PLANS TO PLANT 1 ...
    THE new owners of a former publicly-owned forest plan to significantly expand it Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Daley Exit
    “The Obama presidency is entirely about the Obama elections.” Bill Daley’s quick exit of the White House underlines what is the reported case for some time, that the Obama administration is a handful of insiders from the Chicago campaign days, and that there is no prospect of a ...
  • Romney Avoiding Paying US Taxes?
    Why won’t Mitt Romney reveal his tax returns unlike other candidates? OK, nothing illegal. But if we have to pay taxes to keep the US alive (especially now), doesn’t it look bad for an extremely wealthy—the most wealthy–presidential candidate who touts his love for this country to utilize ...
  • Tonight’s the Night – New Hampshire Results & ...
    6:00 p.m.: Fox News Network is reporting some exit polling results. document.write(''); Below the fold, enter your own vote, and let us know …in the Comments section why you voted for that candidate: By the way, I added Buddy Roemer because, in one poll I saw on Morning Joe, Roemer had inc ...
  • Romney and Seamus: How Far Back Do We Go?
    Politics is a dirty game. But when it comes to smears, should some sort of statute of limitations for matters unrelated to one’s political/leadership record apply? Maybe with very few exceptions (e.g., murder and treason)? Ron Paul got heat for newsletters coming under his name in the 1980s and ...
  • Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina Nonsense
    The political circus surrounding the New Hampshire primary today should give us pause. Why? New Hampshire is an inconsequential state. Don’t get me wrong. Great place to visit. I’ve been to several of the ski slopes around North Conway (Wild Cat is fun but cold). But seriously, New H ...

Futurismic

  • Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
    My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...
  • A chat with Eric Drexler
    Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...
  • Skyrim and the Quest for Meaning
    Lithium I’m old enough to remember when video games were comparatively simple things. For example, I remember the side-scrolling video game adaptation of Robocop (1988). Relatively short, Robocop had you shooting and jumping your way from one side of the world to another. Once you got to the end ...
  • Long Term and Long Distance Thinking
    Last month, I wrote about the government. I asserted that we need to get business interests out of government or we’ll keep making decisions based on next quarter’s profits instead of the health of the next decade. This month, I want to talk about a whole industry that seems to be falling victim ...
  • Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
      Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...

Therapy News

  • Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
    When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
  • Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
    One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
    November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
  • Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
    Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
  • Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
    Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • 40 Days of Prayer Launches Fight for Tennessee ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) 40 Days of Prayer Launches Fight for Tennessee's Mountains Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Will this be the year that Tennessee becomes the first state to ban mountaintop removal mining? Leaders in the state legislature are once again pressin ...
  • Alpha fights to block health studies from perm ...
    Alpha fights to block health studies from permit lawsuit Charleston Gazette Lawyers for Alpha Natural Resources are trying to keep testimony about West Virginia University studies linking mountaintop removal to birth defects and cancer among coalfield residents out of a legal challenge to one of ...
  • Prayers over mountain top removal offered in T ...
    Prayers over mountain top removal offered in TN The Tennessean All is a blessing to Dawn Coppock and Pat Hudson, who have spent five years lobbying for a halt to the controversial coal mining practice that is often called mountaintop removal. “I thought it would take one year and three to four t ...
  • Green Around the Hills: There is nothing like ...
    Green Around the Hills: There is nothing like a mountain Elizabethton Star First, we hope to provide verifiable information about the process of Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR), its human and environmental impacts and the real costs involved. We will examine MTR's place in the context of ou ...
  • Reader shares thoughts on mountaintop removal ...
    Reader shares thoughts on mountaintop removal Elizabethton Star By Staff Reports I would like to thank The STAR and the Bonnie Kate Theatre for having the courage to educate the public on the devastating consequences of mountain top removal. For too many years coal companies kept their dirty lit ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama Scores Easy Win; Rivals Pick Up 18% of N ...
    Mary Lu Carnevale / Washington Wire: Obama Scores Easy Win; Rivals Pick Up 18% of N.H. Vote  —  While few noticed, President Barack Obama cruised to an easy victory in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, though a baker's dozen of others on the ballot and write-in ...
  • Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas (Wille ...
    Willem Van Lancker / Core77: Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas  —  It is often the case in interaction design that the best solutions simply get out of the way, allowing the user to achieve their goal and get on with their life.  With Google Maps, this is certainly th ...
  • Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing ...
    New York Times: Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist  —  LONDON — At a time of growing tension over its nuclear program and mounting belligerence toward the West, Iran reported on Wednesday that an Iranian nuclear scientist died in what was te ...
  • German Economy Contracted at End of 2011 (Wall ...
    Wall Street Journal: German Economy Contracted at End of 2011  —  FRANKFURT—Germany's economy contracted slightly in the fourth quarter, putting Europe's powerhouse on the verge of a mild recession and raising questions about how much longer Berlin will continue to shoulde ...
  • Michelle Obama denies White House tensions (By ...
    Byron Tau / The Politico: Michelle Obama denies White House tensions  —  First Lady Michelle Obama took issue with reporter Jodi Kantor's characterization of East Wing-West Wing tensions in her latest book “The Obamas.”  —  “I never read these b ...

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China Dialogue

  • China’s thirst for water transfer
    Many Chinese provinces now divert water across river basins to meet urban demand. But while cities enjoy the extra supplies, the environment has paid a heavy price. Gong Jing and Cui Zheng report.Water diversion is back in the news in China thanks to the announcement of the 20-billion yuan (US$3 ...
  • Get the kids back to nature
    City children in China have become cave-dwellers in an urban jungle, with many unable to connect with the natural world, writes Liu Xinyan. Educators are working to rebuild the links to plants and animals.We all met by the roadside before setting off for the nature camp. It was a clear, early-sp ...
  • The post-wild world
    Now that we’re in the Anthropocene – Earth’s human age – what happens to nature? We need to rethink the whole concept, Emma Marris tells Jared Green.Jared Green: In your new book, Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, you argue that “we are a ...
  • Disaster in paradise
    Two years ago a massive landslide devastated Pakistan’s Hunza Valley. People in the region remain stranded even now and not enough has been done to prevent future calamities, writes Noreen Haider.Two years ago this week, as 2010 was getting under way, a huge landslide changed the landscape ...
  • The biofuel revolutionary
    From encounters with orang-utans to sugar palm projects in Indonesia, Willie Smits has been on a curious journey – and he may have found a promising source of clean energy along the way. Isabel Hilton reports. Willie Smits’s personal revolution began in 1989 when he encounte ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 24 States Enacted 92 Abortion Restrictions In 2011
    Lawmakers across the nation pursued a record number of reproductive health and rights-related provisions in 2011. Here's a rundown of the worst.
  • “Judenrat Jon” Stewart
    Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. by David Harris-Gershon When Jon Stewart is called a “smug, self-loathing Jew” by a right-wing Jewish personality (who is often called upon by conservative pundits to wax political), it’s tempting to dismiss the comment as a disgusting tribal dig. When Jon S ...
  • Why You Should Decolonize and Support Occupy
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Wendy Kenin The messages we take from the stories of homeless people, veterans, women, indigenous peoples, and volunteers involved with Occupy Wall Street demonstrate the keen effectiveness and high spiritual status of the international movement. These points of h ...
  • There’s Something They’re Not Telling Us&#x202 ...
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Craig Wiesner When I first heard about Congress adding a provision to a Defense Authorization bill that would allow for the U.S. MILITARY to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens, without trial, just for being suspected of supporting anyone who was &#82 ...
  • Losing Ground on Women’s Rights: In 2011 ...
    Written by Elizabeth Nash for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at the state level received unprecedented attention in 2011 ...

Threat Level

  • 2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictato ...
    Anonymous, the trickster group that keeps morphing, spent the year wrestling with the question of whether their hacks, protests and bombastic videos actually make a difference. Which makes them not very different from you or me.
  • Mystery Buyer Wins Auction for Copyright Troll ...
    The online domain for Righthaven — a copyright-troll law firm that failed in its attempt to make money for newspapers by suing people for sharing stories online — has sold at auction for $3,300 to help satisfy the Las Vegas company’s debts, but the winning bidder has yet to com ...
  • Geeks to Testify (Finally!) About SOPA Blackli ...
    Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), a major opponent of the Stop Online Piracy Act, announced Monday he is bringing in the techies to hold a public hearing highlighting the online security implications of a proposed bill that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright ...
  • Supreme Court to Decide if Cops Can Raid Homes ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide for the first time whether judges may issue search warrants for private residences when a drug-sniffing dog outside the home detects dope inside it.
  • Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimm ...
    A Romanian man has been arrested in a $1.5 million card-skimming operation that targeted 40 ATMs belonging to HSBC branches in New York.

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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.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • 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 ...
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    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, Shah ...
  • 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

  • 2011 Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak - blame enou ...
    I was reading the “Staff Report on the Investigation of the Outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes in Cantaloupe at Jensen Farms” as it was released today. Frankly, it did not break any new ground on the cause of this devastating outbreak. The staff restated that FDA officials cited se ...
  • Get Poisoned for free before it is in paperback
    A few months ago I offered to give a book to each new person who subcribed to my blog up to 500 - I have 200 hardcover books left.  So, the next 200 new subscribers will get a free hardcover book.  Just subscribe here and email me your address at bmarler@marlerclark.com. I given the b ...
  • "I'm Number Nine!"
    Usually it is best to be number 1, but considering that Marler Blog was 9th out of 100 in this years ABA Top Blawgs, I feel pretty damn good. So, I want to thank all the 340 voters – especially my mom who voted 339 times.
  • Where the Hell did Shiga Toxin E. coli come fr ...
    In recent months, a surge of papers have appeared in the literature describing findings from the deadly 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany linked to sprouts (2-10, 12-14).  The speed at which this information is being published in the literature—much of it free to the public thr ...
  • Is it past time to ban animals at state fairs ...
    I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth over such an un-American suggestion. Yet again the CDC is reporting on yet another “multiagency task force is being created in North Carolina to evaluate the preventive measures that were in place during the 2011 state fair and to identify addi ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Detroit: Mercedes-Benz says E-Class hybrid mak ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury In between debuting the Smart for-us and SL on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show today, Mercedes-Benz thought it right to bring out two brown cars that are actually green: diesel and gasoline flavors of the E-Class hybrid. ...
  • Detroit: XC60 Plug-In Hybrid shows where Volvo ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Technology, Crossover, Volvo, Electric, Luxury Volvo has made it a point to emphasize - surprise - the safety of its plug-in vehicles at recent auto shows. Now, at the Detroit Auto Show, the Swedish automaker has showed off the XC60 Plug-In Gasoline Hyb ...
  • Teased: Infiniti looking ahead to Geneva with ...
    The Detroit Auto Show media days are still in full swing, but Infiniti is already looking ahead to the Geneva Motor Show with another teaser of the company's plug-in hybrid electric sports car. Yes, we've seen other sketches of the car (this one) but not of this section, the general rear pil ...
  • Detroit: 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid debuts w ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Volkswagen The lithium-ion battery in the new Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid may be small (just 1.1 kWh), but it can pack a punch big enough to move the gas-electric to speeds up to 44 miles per hour using nothing but electrons. Throw in a combined esti ...
  • Detroit: 2013 Ford Fusion Energi PHEV will plu ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford, Electric Along with the standard and hybrid versions of the 2013 Fusion, Ford brought something completely different - for the mid-size segment, anyway - to the Detroit Auto Show this morning with the Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid. It's the ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • "Republicans Divided, Citizens United." By Amy ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan. The Republican caucuses in Iowa, with their cliffhanger ending, confirmed two key political points and left a third virtually ignored. First, the Republicans are not enthusiastic about any of their candidates. Second, we have entered a new era in politic ...
  • New York Times Coverage of Media Crackdown on ...
    The article, "The Rules on News Coverage Are Clear, but the Police Keep Pushing," in today’s issue of The New York Times, outlines how New York police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, should do more to ensure that his officers “respect the public’s right to know about these event ...
  • If You Can’t Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting)
    All eyes are on Iowa this week, as the hodgepodge field of Republican contenders gallivants across that farm state seeking a win, or at least “momentum,” in the campaign for the party’s presidential nomination. But behind the scenes, a battle is being waged by Republicans—not against each other ...
  • Bradley Manning and the Fog of War
    Accused whistle-blower Pvt. Bradley Manning turned 24 Saturday. He spent his birthday in a pretrial military hearing that could ultimately lead to a sentence of life … or death. Manning stands accused of causing the largest leak of government secrets in United States history. More on Manning ...
  • Lori Berenson Allowed To Come to U.S. For Holi ...
    The once-imprisoned U.S. activist Lori Berenson will be allowed to travel to New York City to spend the holidays with her toddler son for the first time since her arrest in 1995. Last week, three judges granted her permission to take the trip, but on Friday she was prevented from boarding a fli ...

Suzie-Q

  • Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace
    Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace truthout Sunday 25 December 2011 by: , When I heard the president speak to returning troops last week, my mind flashed back to an article I once wrote for our local newspaper. Each week, a different member of the local clergy would write a column, ...
  • Newt Gingrich Calls For Moving U.S. Embasy in ...
    Well, it’s anther Christmas in Hooland and “The Grinch” just can’t stand it. With copious amounts of unpremeditated gall, he re-affirms his alliance with AIPAC, and CUFI “Christians United for Israel, Reverand John Hagee’s religious empire that has heavy ties ...
  • The Dictator
    The Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this wa ...
  • The Republicans: They Are Who We Thought They Were
    Addicting Info December 16, 2011 By Bryian Revoner After watching this latest Republican Debate on Fox News, one thing becomes clear, and that is the very real split between the insane and the reasonable. For whatever reason, there just does not seem to be any middle-ground in this GOP nominatio ...
  • Tea Party Patriots Founder Arrested On Gun Cha ...
    Mark Meckler, founder of the influential Tea Party Patriots, was arrested early this morning at LaGuardia International Airport in New York City after he “tried to board a flight with a semi-automatic handgun and its ammunition in his luggage.” Meckler was charged with second degree criminal pos ...

Solari

  • Ron Paul’s Plan to Restore America Challenges ...
    By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. Ron’s Paul’s strong second place finish in New Hampshire’s Presidential Primary greatly raises his prospects in the Republican Presidential race, and will lead to more attention on his policies. Paul’s policies are laid out in his “Plan to Restore America” where he ta ...
  • The Post Empire Survival Guide
    By Sam Smith Since 1989, we have occasionally published a guide to getting through the crummy era that we are still in. In 2003, we intially noted that the First American Republic was over. Last year for the first time, however, it seemed that our view was no longer radical nor unique; quietly i ...
  • 2012 and The Planetary Discontinuity
    By Clif High Following all of the longer term data sets from 1997 to the present day we have seen a developing, and forecast, trend of [exposed duality] or a [split] between the [rulers/elites/officialdom/minions] and the [growing numbers of awake humans within the populations of earth]. As the ...
  • 2011 Stock Market Returns By Country
    Source: Thomson Reuters [click on the image for a larger version]
  • Credit Card Firms: They Don’t Just Steal ...
    By Matt Taibbi Great story out this morning by Bloomberg reporter Thom Weidlich, detailing yet another devious and dirty scheme in the consumer credit industry. The story outlines the misfortunes of a successful Park City, Utah restaurant called Cisero’s that is best known for serving th ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What happens if Iran gets nukes?
    Summary:  We’re driven to war like sheep herded by dogs, both sheep and us manipulated by fear.  Today we’re driven to war by fear of what a nuke-armed Iran will do, as described by our ever-hawkish geopolitical experts.  How reliable are their forecasts?  Ninth in a series; at the e ...
  • What happens when a nation gets nukes? Sixty ...
    Summary:  The drive for war comes from hawks’ terrifying forecasts of what a nuke-armed Iran will do.  Similar warnings were made in the past about today’s nuclear powers.  What does history tell us?  Eight in a series; at the end are links to the other chapters. “The US is alm ...
  • What does the IAEA know about Iran’s nuc ...
    Summary:  What do we know about Iran’s program to build atomic weapons?  For decades Americans have been subjected to saturation bombing by misinformation and outright lies about Iran.  However the information from our intelligence agencies has painted a more accurate picture, if we choose ...
  • Question time on the FM website (plus The Week ...
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! Contents Questions received so far Quote of the week To start the discussion: interesting sources of information Dumbest co ...
  • Why do men fight wars? (part one of two)
    Summary:  One of the great mysteries of history is why men fight wars.  Peace and prosperity in the 21st century might depend on understanding and managing these forces in a world caught in a pincer between the horrors of 4GW and atomic wars.  Here guest author Callie Oettinger shows several per ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Iranian Scientists: A Few Quiet Little Murders
    I can only imagine the pride with which University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, must peruse the front pages of our national newspapers, now that he can read about the wholesale adoption of one half of his splendid plan to “quietly kill radical mullahs and Ir ...
  • Defense Politics: a Lot of the Time, What Ough ...
    First read this from a Politico story (mentioned by Charles Hoskinson today in Morning Defense) about Mitt Romney making calls to voters on Monday in advance of the New Hampshire primary: [Romney] also secured the support of the second voter he reached, who was apparently a defense industr ...
  • Top of the Morning: Security Council Gets Syri ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service– DAWNS Digest. Sign up to receive the full digest of global humanitarian news delivered directly to your inbox. 400 Protesters Killed Since Arab League Monitors Set Foot in Syria The Security Council received its first briefing ...
  • Ten Whats With…Dr. Susan Bissell of UNICEF
    Dr. Susan Bissell is Associate Director and Programmes Chief Child Protection, UNICEF, based in New York.  Susan joined UNICEF in 1987 where her work has taken her to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Haiti, Guatemala and Ethiopia. She holds a PhD in public health and medical anthropology from the U ...
  • Seapower, Piracy, and Iran
    Thoughts on the recent USN rescue of Iranian fishermen: To be sure, this version of the rescue represents public relations spin, but soft power often amounts to framing narrative for the purposes of public relations. The Iranians’ claim that Iran frees pirate hostages all the time without the sa ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ads and Debates Rule the Day
    Yesterday I speculated that the traditional dynamic of the early states weeding out the also-ran candidates could be upended this cycle by the increased reliance on debates and super PACs. Last night, Mitt Romney won a resounding victory yet no candidates are rushing to exit stage left this mor ...
  • The Spoils of War
    Manchester, New Hampshire—This year’s Republican primaries look increasingly less like a battle and more like a mopping-up action after the fight.  The dominant fact of the 2012 GOP contest is the complete absence of plausible alternatives to Mitt Romney.  When those plausible alternatives eith ...
  • It's the Money, Honey
    Mitt Romney's march to the GOP nomination became even more likely last night after he thumped everybody else in the New Hampshire primary. Now the guesswork turns to South Carolina with the campaign press cadre picking up their bags and hopping on the next flights to Charleston and Columbia. Bu ...
  • Mitt Is It
    Mitt Romney took another big step toward the Republican nomination on Tuesday night. Romney was expected to cruise to victory in New Hampshire—but even the former Massachusetts governor probably didn’t anticipate giving a victory speech at 8:25 p.m. With the early returns matching the latest p ...
  • Great Expectations
    New Hampshire voters are justly famous for pitchforking presidential frontrunners—LBJ in 1968, Walter Mondale in 1984, Bob Dole in 1996, George W. Bush in 2000 and Barack Obama in 2008 all had their paths to nomination gummed up by the famous contrarians of Yankeedom. Could it happen to Mitt Ro ...

Buzzflash

  • Just Passed New Hampshire Law Is Broadside Rad ...
    What you know could hurt you has become a reality in New Hampshire public education. We are not kidding. In what is now a law in the Granite State, through a veto override last week, parents can object to any part of a public school curriculum and have it replaced for their child. Perhaps born ...
  • Corporations Hate Taxes, So They Let the Child ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Two recent studies, both rather troubling on their own, are even more disturbing when the relationship between the two is considered. The first is a study by Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) that shows tax avoidance at the state level. The CTJ study, which e ...
  • Romney’s Foot Enters Mouth With “I Like To F ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It plays into his being a cold-hearted fat cat And it really, c'mon, is an amazing gaffe at that. Guys like Mitt always need to stay on text; No one later buys, "It was taken out of context." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/mitt-romney-firing-peo ...
  • MSNBC Should Finally Drop Kick "Brown Shirt" P ...
    Will Pat Buchanan finally get the boot at MSNBC? It is way past time for the "progressive" channel to drop kick the "brown shirt" pundit into oblivion. Although ThinkProgress has announced his departure, statements from MSNBC President Phil Griffin are more ambiguous.read more
  • Why is Lying and Fraudulence So Integral to Ge ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We should expect more of our politicians and pundits than blithely to accept lying as just part of the political process. It is despicable behavior that has made voters cynical and distrustful and created a dysfunctional government in which our leaders st ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • A drug addict’s Facebook timeline
    In what Mashable calls “a creative social media campaign”, media agency McCann Digital Israel has exploited the Facebook Timeline feature to promote the Israel Anti-Drug Authority. It uses the split-screen layout to create two views of a year in the life of fictional addict/non-addic ...
  • Digging up a fossilised Google Doodle
    Nicolas Steno (1638-1686) was a scientist and Danish Catholic cleric who was a pioneer in both anatomy and geology. By 1659, he had decided not to accept a statement as true simply because it was written in a book, but rather to rely on his own research. He is considered the father of geology an ...
  • 10 body myths debunked by science
    Myth 1: Calories Counting Is All That Matters for Weight Management – Calories are the energy content as measured by complete combustion of the food. But, our bodies don’t burn food, they digest, ingest and metabolise it, so different foods even if they have the same “calories& ...
  • Goats have smaller feet than cows
    Could you switch from cow’s milk to a healthier, environment friendly alternative? Like ewe’s or goat’s milk? Ruminant milk synthesis involves pre-gastric fermentation of plant cells into mainly volatile fatty acids (VFA), peptides, ammonia, and microbial mass. Sounds delicious ...
  • Meerkats on Look East
    A quick intro to the Meerkats exhibition as run by BBC Look East. I appear with Skalene’s Julian White and his black box recorder for cars at 3 seconds in and again at about 13 seconds with Smart Architects’ Dan Cvrcek developer of sCrib. I assume extracting such a short snippet from ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • NYT Responds on Iran Alarmism
    New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane has responded to concerns raised in a FAIR action alert last week (1/6/12), agreeing that the paper wrongly suggested that the International Atomic Energy Agency has concluded that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon. read more
  • Two Years Later, Haitians Are Worse Off Due to ...
    Two years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the dire conditions in which a majority of Haitians live have failed to improve and in many cases have deteriorated, due to a consistent lack of progress in the relief and reconstruction efforts and the ongoing cholera epidemic, Center for Ec ...
  • Environmental Coalition Concludes New York Sta ...
    Catskill Mountainkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Riverkeeper, Inc. announced today that, after extensive evaluation and technical expert review, they have concluded that the state must go back and revisit significant aspects of it ...
  • South Carolina Jail Agrees to End Unconstituti ...
    Officials at a South Carolina jail today agreed to stop barring prisoners from accessing books, magazines, newspapers and other periodicals as part of an agreement to settle an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.read more
  • Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Oklahoma Sharia ...
    A federal appeals court today unanimously upheld a ruling that blocked implementation of a discriminatory and unnecessary Oklahoma state constitutional amendment that would have prohibited state courts from considering what is broadly described as Islamic “Sharia law” and “inte ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • On Iran IAEA Reporting Complaints, NYT Public ...
    Robert Naiman Responding to complaints over a New York Times report that purported to cite "a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's nuclear program has a military objective," New York Times Pu ...
  • Psychologists’ Collusion in Ongoing Illegal De ...
    As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantánamo Detention Center, several thousand miles away sits another United States detention facility, less well-known but with a history perhaps even more gruesome. Obscured throughout the decade-long &ldquo ...
  • Energy Wars: The 2012 Edition
    Michael T. Klare Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy “chokepoint” could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.  With energy d ...
  • Tone Deaf US Foreign Policy Announcements Crea ...
    Alice Slater On UN Day, at a panel on Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary General Ban-ki Moon spoke about his 2008 five point proposal for nuclear disarmament, including the requirement for negotiations to ban the bomb. It was dismaying when the ...
  • Pundits and the Romney Pass
    Peter Hart In theory, presidential campaigns are a valuable opportunity for journalists to evaluate candidates' positions on important issues so citizens can make an informed choice. Actual media coverage is different, of course. And i ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • How my uncle in Gaza filled me with hope of return
    Fidaa Elaydi The Electronic Intifada Maghazi refugee camp Traveling back to Gaza, Fidaa Elaydi finally meets her uncle, who was released from Israeli jail as part of the prisoner swap in October. With his release, and the ability to spend time together, she says it changed the dynamic of her&nbs ...
  • The phony war over which US party loves Israel ...
    Josh Ruebner The Electronic Intifada US support for Israel, once a carefully nurtured bipartisan consensus, is fast degenerating in the context of the 2012 presidential election into a mud-slinging partisan contest as to which party, in the words of Mitt Romney, who leveled the accusation agains ...
  • Judge dismisses claims of "anti-Semitic climat ...
    Dalia Almarina The Electronic Intifada Berkeley A lawsuit over anti-Semitism at the University of California Berkley has been dismissed after a judge determined that students alleging a hostile climate on campus failed to support their claims.
  • Why is "terror expert" attacking US solidarity ...
    Kristin Szremski The Electronic Intifada A “terror expert” in the US is trying to entangle an American non-profit organization in a shroud of secretive conspiracy theories intent on branding it a “supporter of terrorism.”
  • Delegitimizing discrimination: struggle of Pal ...
    Rod Such The Electronic Intifada Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy by Ben White links the struggle of Palestinians within Israel with those in the occupied West Bank and Gaza and the global diaspora. Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination an ...

The Wonk Room

  • Russian Gay Activists Arrested For Spreading & ...
    Russian LGBT equality activists Nikolay Alekseev, Alexey Kiselev, and Kirill Nepomnyaschiy have been “arrested at solitary pickets next to children regional library in Arkhangelsk,” the group reports through Twitter. In 2006, the Russian regions of Ryazan and Arkhangelsk adopted legi ...
  • GOP Strategist Frank Luntz: ‘Conservatives Sho ...
    Last year, Mitt Romney told a Tea Party gathering, “I believe in free enterprise, I believe in capitalism.” Now, Romney’s practice of “vulture capitalism,” in Rick Perry’s words, is coming under attack. As Rush Limbaugh observed recently, “Here we have capitalism being attacked by Republicans, c ...
  • Republican National Committee Files Brief Seek ...
    One of the few remaining limits on corporations’ power to buy and sell American elections is that corporations are not allowed to give money directly to federal candidates. Citizens United frees them to spend billions of dollars running ads or otherwise trying to change the result of an el ...
  • What Strong Ratings For ‘Downton Abbey&# ...
    Downton Abbey scored 4.2 million viewers in its return on Sunday, 1.28 million viewers more than Mad Men averaged in its most recent season and just 280,000 viewers below what Community averaged in its second season (in other words, numbers NBC would like to see again as a minimum). The numbers ...
  • Despite Dreadful Ozone Decision, Bill Daley Ov ...
    by Daniel J. Weiss On Monday, President Obama surprisingly announced that Chief of Staff Bill Daley would depart the White House at the end of January. Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew would replace him as chief of staff – one of the most powerful positions in government. Some e ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Time For Lesser-Evilism Has Arrived: Last ...
    Let's be clear. We have a semi-democracy in Canada. But even the low-level of corporate-capitalist democracy was too much for stephen harper. Too many restrictions on his arbitrary policies. Anyway, I was reading Orwell's Bastard and he was talking about how the Liberals should reconcile themse ...
  • Another Victory For The Mushy Middle?
    Wow! A Quebec NDP MP plans on jumping ship to the Liberal Party of Canada! So that an MP for the party of Bob Rae is moving to Bob Rae's new party. And we still have an electoral system that allows the scuzziest 25-30% of the electorate to lord their stupidity and greed over the rest of us. Wh ...
  • The Syrian Crackdown
    Syria's government is a revolting abomination. I recall Abdullah Almalki, the Canadian citizen who CSIS had Syria torture for them mention how he could hear children being tortured in the other room behind the back wall of his cell. I despise it just as much as I despise the rapist theocratic bu ...
  • The Human Element
    I've been meaning to type this for quite a while. The picture I'll be talking about has been in my memory for over a year. It was a news article about stephen harper and the picture showed him sitting with his wife watching their son playing a basketball game with his highschool. At the time I t ...
  • One of harper's Senate Appointments
    So, harper the un-Canadian racist corporate stooge homophobic sexist war criminal appointed some people to the Senate. One of them was Ottawa police chief Vernon White. You know, ... the guy who cleaned house within the Ottawa Police Service, expelling all the scum-bag pigs who got their jollie ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Global market price of orange juice soars due ...
    The price of orange juice has spiked in the global markets. Orange juice futures hit a record high after authorities discovered unapproved fungicide in Brazilian imports. The cold weather blast in Florida has also been a contributing factor.
  • Canadian Resources Minister calls enviros 'rad ...
    Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, has called opponents of the country’s energy markets “radical groups” who threaten its energy market with their “radical ideological agenda.”
  • 'Monsieur Lazhar' named best Canadian film
    As the Golden Globes get ready to hand out their awards Sunday night, more and more awards are trickling in. Meanwhile, before the Globes, the Broadcast Critics will voice their opinions in a show that will air on VH1 Thursday night.
  • Canadian health care makes me feel lucky
    Americans are very down on government involvement in health care. Many, especially Republicans, worry the government will tell them what health care they can or cannot have. Instead, they willingly give that control to insurance companies.
  • Man charged with stealing purse of fatal hit-a ...
    As a 20-year-old international exchange student lay dead or dying on a Hamilton, Ontario street, a man is alleged to have taken her purse and used her credit cards.

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 an ...
  • 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 100 ...
  • 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

  • Saunders: Why was Canada in Kandahar?
    Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders examines how the Canadian Forces ended up at war in Kandahar (“Canada picked its Kandahar moment,” Globe and Mail, 7 January 2012): What on earth were we doing in Kandahar? Now that it’s all over, that question hangs in the air…. How did w ...
  • Great moments in national security punditry: “ ...
    Columnist Bernie Quigley makes a bold bid for the all-time silly pundit record — an almost insanely ambitious goal while Frank Gaffney still wields a keyboard — with “Russian troops above America’s border: Canada’s ‘Red Dawn’ moment?” (The Hill, 27 December 2011): Until r ...
  • Take our Annual Survey for 2012!
    Answer this short survey about Ceasefire.ca, leave your comment about your priorities for 2012, and read what others are saying.
  • War on the decline?
    Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard, and Joshua S. Goldstein, professor emeritus of international relations at American University, argue that war is in long-term decline around the world, both in frequency and in deadliness (“War Really Is Going Out of Style,” New York ...
  • War and peace in the Middle East
    The United States has declared its involvement in the war in Iraq over (Thom Shanker & Michael S. Schmidt, “U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over,” New York Times, 15 December 2011): The United States military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday eve ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Council on Foreign Relations and the “Gran ...
    December 15, 2011 The Intel Hub By Andrew Gavin Marshall The process of establishing an American Empire during and after World War II was not – as has been postulated (by those who even admit there is such a thing as an ‘American Empire’) – an ‘accident’ of history, something America seemingly s ...
  • The ABCs of Re-hypothecation in Gold and Secur ...
    December 15, 2011 Gold Seek By Kevin Brekke A new polysyllabic term has entered the Wall Street lexicon and is sweeping through the investing world like a brush fire through a dry canyon: “hypothecation.” With its connection to the MF Global bankruptcy and aftermath, it engenders the ...
  • The Sad But True Story Of Wages In America
    December 15, 2011 EPI By Heidi Shierholz and Lawrence Mishel Recent debates about whether public- or private-sector workers earn more have obscured a larger truth: all workers have suffered from decades of stagnating wages despite large gains in productivity. The current public discussion illogi ...
  • UFOs Are 100% Real
    December 16, 2011 KTRadioNetwork.Com By Chris Davis (KTRN Exclusive)   When the topic of UFOs comes up in conversation, the question usually asked is: “Do you believe in them?”  My response is always the same: “What is there not to believe?”  There is historical proof that people have been seein ...
  • Low Vitamin D In Children Behind Current Explo ...
    December 16, 2011 Natural News By John Phillip “Vitamin D isn’t just for adults. Everyone needs it.” –KTRN Researchers publishing in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism have found that children with low vitamin D levels, especially when overweight and obe ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • Amazing Chi Gung Demonstrations
    Amazing Chi Gung Demonstrations By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Jump to 4:50, where a pile of bricks are broken on his head: View the original article at Washingtons Blog Link to this post!
  • 73-year-old woman forced to enter bank with an ...
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan 10 (Reuters) – Authorities searched on Tuesday for a man who made a 73-year-old grandmother enter a bank wearing an ankle bomb in an attempt rob it. On Monday, Betty Davis entered an Arvest Bank branch in Fayetteville, Ark., about 140 miles from Little Rock. She told ...
  • Nick Gillespie explains why conservatives shou ...
    In a video released on Tuesday, Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie gave three reasons why conservatives should support reducing U.S. defense spending. “Conservative Republicans are happy to talk about cutting spending on the poor, education, and cowboy poetry readings, but they insist that s ...
  • Everything You Need to Know About SOPA and PIPA
    Everything You Need to Know About SOPA and PIPA By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   Here is everything you need to know about the proposed SOPA and PIPA internet “anti-piracy” bills: Job Creators, Internet Architects and Security Experts Hate SOPA Sopa Would DESTROY Jobs and ...
  • White House and State Department are in No Pos ...
    Dissident Voice Article By Dave Lindorff I wouldn’t want to be Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the 28-year-old former US Marine just recently sentenced to death by a court in Iran after being convicted of being an American spy. Hekmati, who was born in Arizona to Iranian exile parents, and who grew up in ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges at Freedom Plaza: Teach-In on the ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 11, 2012 ebecker2000 on Jan 9, 2012 Chris Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. He discusses his book “Death of the Liberal Class” and t ...
  • The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginal ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jan. 9, 2012 “The Cross and the Lynching Tree are separated by nearly two thousand years,” writes in his new book, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree.” “One is the universal symbol of the Christian faith; the other is the quintessential symb ...
  • Obama: Drones and Change by Sean Fenley
    by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything January 4, 2012 “[Obama] didn’t just embrace the Bush policies he kissed them on the lips and ran with them.” – Ret. United States Air Force Colonel, Morris Davis “The buck stops here!” – Harry S. Truman The Washington Po ...
  • Michael Parenti: Democracy and the Pathology o ...
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Jan. 9, 2012 brightpathvideo on Jan 8, 2012 http://lapena.org presents social critic and noted author Michael Parenti speaking about Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth. Parenti will be discussing ...
  • The Politics of Lowered Expectations By Ralph ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page January 3, 2012 Ezra Klein, the bright, young, economic policy columnist for the “Washington Post” believes that Obama came out ahead last year in the “administration’s bitter, high-stakes negotiations with the Republicans in ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...
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    Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...
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    Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

Wired - Science

  • Oil Rigs May Turn Migratory Birds Into Shark Food
    Tiger sharks in the Gulf of Mexico are eating migratory land birds. Yet while brightly lit oil rigs may be to blame, there's not enough data to know. Simply changing the color of oil rig lights, however, may be an effective preventative measure.
  • Black Hole Fires Cosmic Bullets
    Astronomers have captured an image of a black hole firing off two enormous "bullets" of ionized gas at nearly a quarter the speed of light. The cosmic explosion produces as much energy in an hour as the sun emits in five years.
  • Massive Galaxy Cluster Caught in Midst of Viol ...
    Tipping the scales at two quadrillion times the mass of the sun, the El Gordo galaxy cluster is the largest, hottest, and most energetic cluster ever seen.
  • How the Brain Spots Faces
    Our brains are tuned to find faces so well, in fact, that we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or craters on Moon. The brain always knows a real face from a fake, however, and a new brain scan study reveals why. But another amazing thing about our brain is ...
  • Amazing Archive of High-Res Photos from NASA’s ...
    There's something about old photographs. The perfect amount of faded light, outdated coloring, and nostalgia seems to make them more beautiful with age. Perhaps that's why this collection of images from NASA's Gemini Program is so stunning.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Tikva Honig-Parnass: The 2011 uprising in Israel
    Israeli protests in 2011 looked at first as if they constituted another link in the chain of militant uprisings sweeping the world in 2011. It seemed that the rage and indignation were directed... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Dismantle Israeli democracy and replace it wit ...
    Benny Katzover: "The main role of Israeli democracy now is to disappear. Israeli democracy has finished its role, and it must disassemble and give way to Judaism... In Jewish faith, the Land of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Right-wing extremists cite Israeli MK as sourc ...
    Likud MK and coalition chairman Ze'ev Elkin contacted right-wing activists over Israeli army movements in the West Bank, investigation documents reveal. Five right-wing extremists were charged by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • IDF rabbinate edits out Dome of the Rock from ...
    IDF Reserve Officer: “We get material from the rabbinate every week and it’s mostly positive things,” adding that the edited picture was part of an “official release, which is why it’s problematic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Marwan Barghouti: Peace process ‘dead’
    In a letter penned in jail to the Palestinian people, commemorating his Fatah party’s 47th anniversary, Barghouti said peace negotiations with Israel are finished, “and there is no point to make... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Stenting for Stroke Prevention Becoming Safer ...
    Placing a stent in a key artery in the neck is safer than ever in patients ineligible for the standard surgical treatment of carotid artery disease, according to a new study published online today in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
  • Washington Auto Show Features Boise State's Gr ...
    The world's fastest vegetable oil-fueled vehicle - conceived, built and driven by a team of Boise State University undergraduate students dubbed Greenspeed - will be on display Jan. 26-Feb. 5 at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, D.C.
  • Paleontologists Give Madagascar's Fiercest Din ...
    66 million years ago, the fearsome, meat-eating dinosaur Majungasaurus crenatissimus prowled the semi-arid lowlands of Madagascar. Its powerful jaws bristled with bladelike teeth, and its strong legs terminated in formidable claws, and it was known to engage in cannibalism. A new study shows tha ...
  • Study Offers Clue As To Why Alcohol Is Addicting
    Drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, according to a study led by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco.
  • Discovery of the Smallest Exoplanets: the Barn ...
    The smallest exoplanets yet discovered orbit a dwarf star almost identical to Barnard's star, one of the Sun's nearest neighbors. The similarity helped the astronomers calculate the size of the distant planets.

Natural Health News

  • How to Find Time for Exercise
    Many people have jobs that have taken the physical element out of work -- and also take up so much time that exercise is at the bottom of the to-do list.  But exercise doesn’t have to take very long, and it can be built into your day-to-day life. BBC Health suggests a number of ways in whi ...
  • Using Primitive Wisdom to Radically Improve Yo ...
    In his seminal book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston Price emphasized the degeneration in human health caused by the transition to the modern industrial diet.  But simplifying his observation into the idea that tooth decay and other degenerative diseases are just the result of mo ...
  • Many Teen Girls Mistakenly Think HPV Vaccines ...
    Nearly 25 percent of girls who gets the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine mistakenly believe that they also have a lowered risk of getting other sexually transmitted diseases.  A study polled close to 350 girls, average age nearly 17, after their first of three HPV doses, and their mothers ...
  • Twinkies Maker Files for Bankruptcy
    Hostess Brands, the manufacturer of sugary snack foods such as Twinkies, Hohos and Ding Dongs, is filing for bankruptcy.  The company has accumulated more than $860 million in debt. This is Hostess’s second bankruptcy filing in under 10 years. Although Americans bought 36 million packages ...
  • How Grief Can Break Your Heart
    Recent research shows that grief can be extremely damaging to your heart.  The study was the first to compare how grief affects your heart disease risk within a period of time. The researchers found that losing someone raises your risk of having a heart attack the next day 21 times.  ...

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 “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • European Governance: Professor Kenneth Armstro ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson (Professor Kenneth A. Armstrong is  professor of European Law at Queen Mary University, London; this comment was posted in response to KA’s framing questions on European governance, and we are delighted to bring it up to the main page.  We welcome ...
  • John Yoo Reviews David Scheffer’s Memoir in WSJ
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen The choice of book reviewer might be surprising but the result, unfortunately, is not.  Yoo reviews two books: David Scheffer’s memoir All the Missing Souls  and William Shawcross’ Justice and the Enemy. Scheffer’s book details his time working ...
  • Congratulations to Professor Chris Jenks!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Lt. Col. Chris Jenks — currently the head of the International Law Branch at the U.S. Army JAG, an occasional contributor to Opinio Juris, and my very first PhD student (my colleague Gerry Simpson is his other superv ...
  • Congratulations to Professor Chris Jenks!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Lt. Col. Chris Jenks — currently the head of the International Law Branch at the U.S. Army JAG, an occasional contributor to Opinio Juris, and my very first PhD student (my colleague Gerry Simpson is his other superv ...
  • FATCA Fallout: Mass Renunciations?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) continues to prompt intense opposition from Americans overseas.  In my post below, I suggested that some would simply take their citizenship underground, on the expectation of imperfect enforcement and the continuing ...

Public News Service

  • New FDA Ban Aimed at Reducing Prevalence of "S ...
    New FDA Ban Aimed at Reducing Prevalence of "Super Bugs" Phoenix, AZ - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is banning certain off-label uses of a class of antibiotics known as Cephalosporins (SEF-uh-la-SPOR-inz). Supporters of the ban say this type of drug is vital for treating human infectio ...
  • Se Prohibien nuevas Denuncias de Minas cerca d ...
    Se Prohibien nuevas Denuncias de Minas cerca del Gran Cañón Phoenix, AZ -Una prohibición de 20 años para nuevas denuncias de minas de uranio cerca del Gran Cañón ha sido finalizada por el Secretario del Interior de los Estados Unidos, Ken Salazar. La prohibició ...
  • New Mining Claims Banned Near Grand Canyon
    New Mining Claims Banned Near Grand Canyon Phoenix, AZ - A 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims near the Grand Canyon has been finalized by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The ban covers some one-million acres to the north and south of the National Park. Comments from Arizona Wildlife F ...
  • Women Will Be Watching As AZ Lawmakers Return ...
    Women Will Be Watching As AZ Lawmakers Return Monday Phoenix, AZ – Monday is opening day for the Arizona Legislature, and hundreds of reproductive-health advocates will be on hand to press for unrestricted access to care and for expansion of sex education in Arizona schools. Comments from ...
  • Arizonans Encouraged to Pledge: ‘Be Out ...
    Arizonans Encouraged to Pledge: ‘Be Out There’ for 2012 Phoenix, AZ – Now that all the Christmas electronics have been unwrapped and tested, the National Wildlife Federation is encouraging families to make a resolution for 2012 to spend more time outside. NWF naturalist David M ...

Center for Food Safety

  • FDA Bans Extra-Label Use Of Cephalosporin Drugs
    EXTRA-LABEL BAN A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MORE ACTION STILL NEEDED   The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for pre-releasing its long awaited prohibition on the extra-label use of cephalosporin drugs i ...
  • Coalition calls for FDA to halt approval of ge ...
    Discovery of undisclosed infection of salmon eggs calls into question company claims that GE salmon are safe for the environment Yesterday afternoon a coalition of 11 food safety, environmental, consumer and fisheries organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) c ...
  • Senate Holds First Hearing on Genetically Engi ...
    Experts Warn GE Fish Too Risky to Environment. CFS Calls for New Framework, Mandatory Environmental Impact Statement The Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing at 10:30 AM today to di ...
  • “Big 6″ Guilty of Human Rights Vio ...
    Citing Systematic Human Rights Violations, International Court Hands Down Verdict to Six Largest Pesticide Manufacturer After an intensive public trial covering a range of human rights violations, jurors issued a scathing verdict to the six largest pesticide and biotechnology corporations, urgin ...
  • Help CFS Demand Labeling of GMO Food
    Filed under: GE Animals, GE Crops, GE Food, Legal Actions, Politics and Policy, Take Action

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Israel's Nightmare: Jew Against Jew - OpEd
    Israel's Nightmare: Jew Against Jew - OpEd: By Lillian Rosengarten I have such a problem with Zionism today, some kind of distorted incarnation of what was once created from the ashes of the Holocaust to be a safe haven for Jews within a model of a secular nation state. I rage against attempts ...
  • Occupy Oakland Activist May Face Three Strikes ...
    Occupy Oakland Activist May Face Three Strikes | Politics and Breaking News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California | 92510: The threat of life imprisonment looms for Occupy Oakland activist Marcel Johnson - better known by his alias, Khali - after a third-strike arrest during the demonst ...
  • Daily Kos: At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was ...
    Daily Kos: At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why.: I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at the ...
  • Why Black America Should Care About Private Da ...
    Why Black America Should Care About Private Danny Chen's Suicide | News One: Chen had only been deployed to Afghanistan for six weeks, but his family revealed in a press conference that their son documented several instances of racial attacks in troubling letters that he sent home. From being c ...
  • Tim Wise - The Pathology of White Privilege
    Tim Wise - The Pathology of White Privilege: Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color but to white people as well.

Pensieve

  • Meet the Rollerman
    Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
  • RSA: The Empathic Civilization
    With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
  • Hitchiking the Platforms
    Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...
  • Siri, AI and TV Collide
    Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...
  • Bon Voyage, Steve Jobs
    There isn’t much I can say about Steve Jobs. I never met him, personally, but his influence was felt from my childhood. Like many reacting to the news of his passing, I am doing so on a device he was involved in designing. He has inspired me greatly, as with countless others. The official ...

Green Times

  • All Curled Up
    This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers.   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel  
  • 2012 Global Energy Prize Now Accepting Nominations
    The Global Energy Prize annually rewards innovation and solutions in global energy research and its concurrent environmental challenges.
  • Environmental News 22/12/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • One Moment Meditation
    Tips to take a moment for yourself This a great video for everyone who feels like they have no time to meditate. All you need is a 'moment', if you know what to do.Watch and try it for yourself! Video found on the Padre Ralph blog.   
  • Iguazu Falls
    The Iguazu Falls are located on the border of Brazil and Argentina and divide the Iguazu River into a high and a low part. You can visit the falls through two main towns: Puerto Iguazu in Argentina and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil. These falls are shared between two national parks: (glossary/wildlif ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Six Common Misconceptions About Gaza That Are ...
    Reposted with permission from www.gazagateway.org In sixth place: “The civilian closure has been lifted and only security restrictions remain”. Gaza is not as isolated from the rest of the world as it was a few years ago, but it is still cut off from the West Bank and it’s hard to find convi ...
  • IDF Investigations: Will There Be Justice for ...
    IDF policy requires a criminal investigation be launched immediately when military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories cause death. But a defective system essentially ensures that the investigation will not be conducted in a fair and impartial manner, enabling soldiers to contin ...
  • Who’s Afraid of Women’s Song?
    Who’s Afraid of Women’s Song? The following is a testimony of one of the women, out of the 23 activists, who were arrested in this week’s Nabi Saleh demonstration (above video). This demonstration was the first after Mustafa Tamimi’s murder. It was extremely brutal, which is a relative te ...
  • Update about Sausan and Amal, 2 Palestinian Gi ...
    Our last Villages Group post reported the demolition of structures, including homes and a mosque, in the Palestinian village of Al-Mufaqara (also known as Umm-Faqra) in southern West Bank. The destruction was perpetrated on November 24 by Israeli civilian contractors (see here for a brief report ...
  • Updated: A year bookended by the death of unar ...
    On January 3rd, 2011 protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah was killed by a tear gas inhalation at an earlier march in Bil’in. At the time, the Israeli Army made some bizarre claims that her death was caused by cancer, which they later retracted. Now almost a year later on December 9th, another nonv ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock
    Little River Farm, 1979. Yvonne Jacquette, American (Metropolitan Museum) American farmers have been feeding antibiotics to their livestock (which includes cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys) since the 1950s, claiming that the practice keeps the animals healthier and enables them to grow faster. ...
  • Liberty Square is free! Jan 11, 2012
    Liberty Square is free! Thanks to the awesome work of our legal allies at the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) the NYPD, AKA Bloomberg’s Army, was forced to take down their barricades around Liberty Square. Since the eviction the park was fortres ...
  • Whither the bees, go we
    Mother Jones: A study from Purdue researchers casts further suspicion on Bayer’s money-minting concoctions. To understand the new paper—published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One—it’s important to know how seed treatments work: The pesticides are applied directly to seeds before planting, a ...
  • Jerry Brown. Trust fund governor
    American Leftist takes the interesting view that California Gov. Jerry Brown is just another out-of-touch, uncaring member of the 1%, and as such, supports them not us. Jerry Brown has never had kids, never had to rely upon the public educational system for his education, never had to worry abou ...
  • Water forecasts for the Colorado River system ...
    The prediction is for a drop of 2.6 million acre feet. The largest single water user on the Colorado River, the Imperial Irrigation District in southeast California, diverted 2.9 million acre feet from the river at Imperial Dam in 2011. Arizona’s entire consumptive use was 2.7 million acre feet ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • Guantanamo prison now 10 years old
    Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay. “I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever,” the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his la ...
  • Magnetic bomb kills nuclear scientist in Iran; ...
    TEHRAN, Iran — Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported. The attack in Tehran bore a strong resemblance to earlier ...
  • THE INEVITABLE
      By Attorney Jonathan Emord (The Dragon Slayer) Author of “The Rise of Tyranny” and “Global Censorship of Health Information” January 9, 2012 NewsWithViews.com As the nation continues to spend like a drunken sailor, pushing the national debt in excess of $14 trillio ...
  • Feel Safer? TSA officers jailed for stealing $ ...
      Two former Transportation Security Administration officers based at John F. Kennedy Airport are going to jail after admitting to stealing $40,000 in cash from a checked bag. The Queens District Attorney’s Office says 44-year-old Coumar Persad, of Queens, and 31-year-old Davon Webb, ...
  • How JP Morgan And George Soros Ended Up With M ...
      Clearingandsettlement.com In recent testimony before a Congressional committee, MF Global’s former chief Jon Corzine as well as other MF Global executives said repeatedly the didn’t know where the failed brokerage firm’s $1.2 billion of missing client money was. In fact, MF Global executi ...

The Air Vent

  • The Truth about Wikipedia
    Some wonder why I’m tired and grumpy about climate blogging.  Wikipedia is a great example.   No matter the evidence, they will publish whatever revisionist truth compliments the leftist message.  I  will never contribute to that group although it could have been a wonderful source, it has ...
  • Where do we draw the line?
    In continuation of my investigation of the actions of the tax exempt 501c corporation the “PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, AND SECURITY”, I have dug deeper into the tax reporting and operations of Peter Gleick.  It appears that this organization operates co ...
  • Brazen Tax Exempt Pacific Action Committee Dir ...
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  • Grumpy Blogger
    It is hard to have any emotion about climate these days. It is like I’ve reached the end of the road and can see over the edge of the cliff. All is in view as far as you can see. They call it green but after Climategate 2.0, all I see is brown. Pound on [...]
  • Grumpy Blogger
    It is hard to have any emotion about climate these days. It is like I’ve reached the end of the road and can see over the edge of the cliff. All is in view as far as you can see. They call it green but after Climategate 2.0, all I see is brown. Pound on [...]

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...
  • Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
    Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...

Inside Facebook

  • Breaking: Sponsored Stories begin to appear in ...
    Facebook is now showing Sponsored Stories in users’ News Feeds, a Facebook spokesperson tells us. These paid units include a subtle indication that the post is “Featured.” However, to respect the user experience, the social network is putting more controls … Continue reading →
  • Facebook continues coupon test with larger New ...
    Facebook has partnered with another national restaurant chain to test a feature that lets pages post coupons and promote them with Sponsored Stories. This time around, claiming coupons generates a more prominent story in users News Feeds, which could lead … Continue reading →
  • Announcing the Agenda at Inside Social Apps 2012
    February 8 – 9, 2012 | San Francisco     Inside Social Apps 2012 is coming back to San Francisco in just four short weeks. Join us for two days of panels, discussions, and networking with leaders in the social … Continue reading →
  • ‘People Talking About This’ defined
    Facebook introduced “People Talking About This” in October, but the new metric is still unclear to many page owners. Part of the confusion comes from the name, which sounds like it calculates the mentions of a topic across the social … Continue reading →
  • Facebook, NBC partnership expands to political ...
    Facebook is working with NBC News to implement research polls leading up to U.S. elections. The effort to conduct legitimate online polling is significant as the social network seeks to establish itself as the single source of people’s real identity … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • America on Israel's altar
    Paul J. Balles argues that while US Republican presidential candidates, except for Ron Paul, bend over backward to support anything and everything that Israel has done, does or proposes, the current primary contests may reveal a growing public tiring of blind support for Israel.
  • Zionization of American politics and how it co ...
    Alan Hart maps out a way for the de-Zionization of US politics: making politicians accountable to those who elect them and not the big money special interest lobbies through new legislation requiring that all elections be funded from taxation, with the revenue ring-fenced so that it could be use ...
  • USA's flawed political system and the push for ...
    Lawrence Davidson finds the drivers for the push for war on Iran inside the USA's structurally flawed political system, in which the warmongering neocons and faceless Israeli agents in the guise of lobbyists have primacy, and in amoral, cash-hungry politicians and a corrupt media.
  • Iran economic sanctions: the diplomacy of cowards?
    Stuart Littlewood reminds UK Foreign Secretary William Hague about the questions he has so far failed to answer regarding his inexplicable hostility to Iran, noting that this failure may simply be due to the probability that Hague and his government colleagues are acting on behalf of Israel, not ...
  • Israeli warmongers itching to attack Gaza desp ...
    Uri Avnery argues that, in his desperation to make a mark by starting a war but unable to attack Iran for fear of the apocalyptic consequences, Israel's new chief of staff, General Benny Gantz, is itching to attack Gaza instead, even without a pretext.

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government’s ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submissio ...
  • MF Global – “Self-Regulation” Actually Worked
    Maybe This is What Market Discipline Means Take yourself back to the early 1900s.  You are rich, and you just bought a ticket on a worldwide tour offered by a touring company.  But then the tour company goes bankrupt.  Assume it had enough cash on its balance sheet just before its bankruptcy to ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile a ...
  • The Arab League: There Comes the ‘G’ Word Again
    It is the Genocide Season-Bring on the Invasion! I’ve been waiting; waiting for the ‘G’ word on Syria, and here it is, arriving right on time, as expected: Arab League Observer: Assad Committing Genocide in Syria A member of the Arab League observer team in Damascus told Al Arabiya broadcaster M ...
  • Pakistan US Relations Determinant: Money, Mone ...
    The Long-Used Carrot Dangling- Call it Aid, Call it Bribes, Just Call it ‘Whatever’ If you’ve been listening to our podcast with real experts and truly independent analysts, then you know all about this media trick: omit the context-disconnect the dots. Basically they give you the news and facts ...

Afro Spear

  • The Tebow Phenomenon
    The Tebow Phenomenon isn’t really a phenomenon at all, if you understand the dynamics of his upbringing. Here’s an enlightening and insightful article by sports columnist Jason Whitlock from December 11, 2011: If this works, if Tim Tebow  keeps winning games, keeps getting better, ke ...
  • “What a year that 2011 was!” by Nk ...
    December is a time when writers, editors, analysts and all who make news what it is, are busy researching on what to write to wind up the year. Likewise, all media houses and outlets are busy hunting for a sound summary of the year. This is what this article is all about today. Truly, the [...]
  • A Sister’s 2012 Resolution
  • Merry Christmas Riddymz
  • A Christmas Lesson
    A few weeks ago I took my 4 year old son Christmas shopping. At the church we attend, our family participates in a yearly charity sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse called “Operation Christmas Child”. We pack a shoe box with a variety of gifts, which is sent to children in “T ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • A Republican Stronghold Spawns a Serial Child ...
    Here is an example of Republican "family values."
  • My Brother is Dying
    Grief that the world we have known is dying. We are living through earthquakes of a dying society, racked by violent "hiccups" as Howard is by his own. The economies, the ecologies, the sexualities, the families, the communities and traditions we have known, are all gasping, coughing, shaking. I ...
  • Iran Has Chance To Reconsider Death Penalty of ...
    Rather than execute a convicted American CIA spy, Iran has an opportunity to practice restorative justice in the case of Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine translator of Iranian origin.
  • Lies to Live By
    From Rome's conquering of Carthage to Washington's chopping down of the cherry tree, history has frequently had a tendency to be "full of it." In this essay, we add three more "lies to live by."
  • Freedom: An Endangered Species in America
    Last September, marking the 9/11 tenth anniversary, the ACLU published a report titled, A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11."

Switchboard

  • Rio+20: oceans and the "zero draft"
    Lisa Speer, Director of the International Oceans Program, New York I’ve been reviewing  the oceans portion of what is called in UN-speak the “zero draft” of the Rio+20 intergovernmental outcome. This is the document government ...
  • Lots of news (bad) about the health risks from ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Over the last few days there has been a lot of news related to the human health impacts of oil and gas production. In Erie, Colorado (in the Denver area), moms are complaining about family ...
  • Action Plan for Nation's First-Ever Ocean Poli ...
    Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney and Director, Ocean Initiative, New York The year 2012 promises hope for the future of America’s oceans. Changes are expected that will help the creatures that live below the surface, the people who live and vacat ...
  • Don't be fooled - the Keystone XL tar sands pi ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. You’ll hear the GOP, the American Petroleum Institute, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce make wild claims about the job creation potential of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Don& ...
  • EPA's New Web Tool Reveals Carbon Polluters In ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released a new, interactive reporting tool for major greenhouse gas (GHG) sources in the US.  It’s a user-friendly way to explore what faciliti ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Seapower, Piracy, and Iran
    Thoughts on the recent USN rescue of Iranian fishermen: To be sure, this version of the rescue represents public relations spin, but soft power often amounts to framing narrative for the purposes of public relations. The Iranians’ claim that Iran frees pirate hostages all the time without the sa ...
  • The Court and Indecently Arbitrary Violations ...
    Dahlia Lithwick’s piece on the oral arguments on the latest round of the FCC “fleeting expletives” case that the Supreme Court kicked back to the circuit court 3 years ago is excellent. The two most salient points: Based on FCC v. Fox and today’s oral argument, this looks ...
  • Live With Mittens or Die
    Ezra: Possible outcomes tonight: 1) Romney wins NH and goes on to win the nomination. 2) Romney loses NH and goes on to win the nomination. Well, eliminate #2 and this is correct. But we can have an open thread for those into that kind of thing. I plan to largely skip television coverage to [...]
  • On Leverage (“The Van Gogh Job”)
    (This be yet another one of them posts.) Before analyzing a sequence from the “Van Gogh Job” episode of Leverage, I need to discuss a little something about color and continuity. First, you may be familiar with Vincent Van Gogh, but if not, all you need to know is the man loved his y ...
  • Government is not a business, part MMMCXXIV
    Somewhere in Bourdieu’s conversation with Wacquant, he observes — and I’m paraphrasing here — that the purpose of social science is to make it difficult to say idiotic things about the social world. Now I’m not an economist, of course, but to the degree that idiotic ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Scientist Earns Fifth Patent
    Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.
  • Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
    Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...
  • Truckee River Fund Supports DRI’s Integrated W ...
    DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).
  • Dilworth students participate in Mission Antar ...
    Students at Dilworth STEM Academy join a team of scientists in Antarctica as they study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms. The work has implications for understanding impacts of climate change and the ecology and evolution of organisms in the Southern Ocean.
  • Communicating Science with Animation
    Derek Norpchen calls his work eye candy. “I take the data that the scientists gather in the field and turn it into animations and visualizations so that the projects sponsors and the public can better understand the science behind the issue.”

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • In bias suit by former Dechert associate again ...
    In a discrimination lawsuit brought by a former Dechert associate blaming the firm's macho culture for his work troubles after being out on leave, a Boston federal judge has dismissed a state law handicap discrimination claim.
  • 10th Circuit finds Sharia ban is 'likely uncon ...
    A federal appeals court on Jan. 10 upheld a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of an Oklahoma ballot initiative that banned the practice of Sharia law, the religious law of Islam.
  • In indecency case, government faces tough path ...
    Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made a strong appeal to the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold the government's rules against broadcast indecency, asserting the need to preserve a television and radio "safe haven" devoid of foul language and nudity amidst a proliferation of new and coarser ...
  • The Constitution on your corner
    Mutual respect and collegiality between judges and legislators is key to making the Constitutional system work well.
  • Dean departs La Verne following ABA's accredit ...
    The dean of the University of La Verne College of the Law resigned unexpectedly on Jan. 9. The shakeup came eight months after the Ontario, Calif., school lost provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association because of concern over the school's bar passage rates.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Shale Gas Drilling Photos
    The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening.  Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling
  • Marcellus Shale case appealed to Pa. Supreme C ...
    By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...
  • Learn the FACTS about Marcellus Shale
    Thurs. Nov. 3rd at 7 PM GAS TRUTH OF YORK is sponsoring  the YORK MARCELLUS SHALE FORUM so that you can learn what you need to know about Shale Gas drilling in Pennsylvania.  In South Central PA we do not have Marcellus Shale drilling but the Oil & Gas Industry is affecting our water, land, ...
  • Gas Truth of Central Pennsylvania Wants to Hea ...
    Give Your Testimony to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION GAS TRUTH is giving support to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION that has been formed by 8 organizations that want to get out the truth about the effect of Shale Gas drilling on Pennsylvania.  Governor Corbett formed his Gas in ...
  • GASLAND and Josh Fox Come to York, PA
    Wed. Sept. 21st at 6:30 PM HACC York Campus is sponsoring a special outdoor screening of the Emmy award-winning film, GASLAND.  GASLAND’s Director, Josh Fox will answer questions following the film.  GASLAND is the story of the effect of Fracking for Natural Gas on families and communities ...

News Blaze

  • EPA Announces Winners of 2011 Game Day Challenge
    As part of the challenge, more than 75 schools across the nation designed a waste reduction plan for one 2011 regular season home football game, measured their results and submitted them to EPA.
  • Female 'Jyotisha' Popularizes Horoscope Readin ...
    Want a dream life partner? Consult the stars. Need to buy property? Only the planets can predict the right time. Studies or career not going according to plan or expectations? A 'jyotisha' (astrologer) can draw up a fool-proof rescue plan.
  • Charter Schools Help Transform Pittsburgh Publ ...
    Pittsburgh school officals understand that the landscape has changed and that we need to be more competitive in the new world,Lisa Fischetti, chief of staff and external affairs for Pittsburgh Public Schools, wrote in an email to EAG.
  • Killing of Filipino Journalist Draws Condemnation
    Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova today expressed condemnation on the recent murder of a prominent journalist in the Philippines.
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory Discovers Exceptiona ...
    Officially known as ACT-CL J0102-4915, the galaxy cluster has been nicknamed 'El Gordo' ('the big one' or 'the fat one' in Spanish) by the researchers who discovered it.

environment 360

  • Missing Galápagos Tortoise Likely Still Alive, ...
    A giant tortoise thought to have been hunted to extinction more than 150 years ago — and whose distinctive saddle-shaped shell helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — may still be living in the Galápagos Islands, according to a new Yale Click to enlarge Yale University ...
  • Renewables Provide Greater Share of U.S. Power ...
    Renewable sources of energy provided a greater share of U.S. domestic energy production than nuclear during the first nine months of 2011, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In its latest monthly energy review, the EIA reports that renewable energy — i ...
  • U.S. Limits Use of Antibiotics In Livestock to ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will prohibit the use of a class of antimicrobial drugs in livestock, citing concerns that overuse of the drugs could promote the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens that could infect humans. Beginning April 5, the FDA will limit the use of c ...
  • Interview: Putting a Price On the Real Value o ...
    How do you put a price on the value of nature? That’s the question Indian banker Pavan Sukhdev and Pavan Sukhdev his colleagues are seeking to answer in their international project on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), which published its latest report last month. The c ...
  • Putting a Price on The Real Value of Nature
    Indian banker Pavan Sukhdev has been grappling with the question of how to place a monetary value on nature. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses the ways natural ecosystems benefit people and why policymakers and businesses must rethink how they assess environmental costs and ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Ancient "Doctrine of Signatures" Suppresse ...
    The Doctrine of Signatures is profound ancient wisdom that is purposely being suppressed. It states that every fruit and vegetable has a certain pattern that resembles a body organ, and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to that fruit or vegetable’s benefit to us. Modern science confi ...
  • Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite "Serious Rese ...
    Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified that authority, even as he said he would not use it. The National Defense Authorization Act states how the military is to be funded, but also includes a n ...
  • Will Lord Obama Send Americans to Gitmo? Ray M ...
    Though the 9/11 attacks occurred more than a decade ago, Congress continues to exploit them to pass evermore draconian laws on "terrorism," with the Senate now empowering the military to arrest people on U.S. soil and hold them without trial, a serious threat to American liberties, says ex-CIA a ...
  • Texas airport explosives found: US military ma ...
    A member of the US military has been charged with trying to take explosives onto a plane at a Texas airport, says the FBI. Thirty year-old Trey Scott Atwater was detained at a security checkpoint at Midland International airport, as he tried to board a flight on Saturday. He was carrying explosi ...
  • Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
    Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The project’s organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ...

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • Colorado Springs Drake Power Plant
    CLEAN COAL SPRINGS- Apparently it’s not the dirtiest coal-fired power plant in the country, defenders insist DRAKE is only half that dirty. That’s an interesting benchmark. Clean enough for horseshoes.
  • On building the American Dream, railroads, tow ...
    These lyrics seem awfully familiar:   They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead, [...]
  • Say goodbye to 2011 and bad bad Walmart. FRIDA ...
    OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- Occupy Walmart continues today at Platte and Chelton. JOIN US. Why Walmart — where have you been?! If the 99% can come together on anything, it’s against capitalism’s most despotic retailer. Judging by the support from traffic passing on Platte Avenue ...
  • OCCUPIED: Colo. College documentary on early O ...
    OCCUPIED by Colorado College student Elyse Miller, featuring Steve, Mario, Patrick, Tony, Drew and Occucar.
  • The Last Girl Scout
    Yesterday marked an invigorating shift for me.   I’ve been beset by the common malady among Occupiers, wherein the sheer weight of the task at hand and the sly, evasive Jung Fu practiced by the adherents of the Darkness has been a bit stifling. Given the way the City Court in Colorado ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • JREFers acknowledge the nanothermite hypothesi ...
    It seems after almost three years, the debunkers are finally putting up. Chris Mohr has found a scientist willing to independently test the findings of Harrit et al: Here is my official request for funds to analyze the WTC dust. To summarize, after three months of investigating this, the best pe ...
  • New Journal of 9/11 Studies Paper: "No plane a ...
    The Pentagon Attack: Problems with Theories Alternative to Large Plane Impact By John D. Wyndham (PhD, Physics) Abstract: The widespread belief among those who question the official account of 9/11, that a large plane did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11, is unsupported by the evidence. The failur ...
  • http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2011/12/angie-had-me-killed.html
    angie had me killed
  • 9/11 Truth Versus The BBC
    My video editing software hasn't been working for months, then all of a sudden it inexplicably came to life about three weeks ago (although it's still really slow), so I decided to finish a video that I started literally over a year ago. I thought it was time to go back to my roots and make ano ...
  • 9/11 Truth Movement Trying to Co-opt the Occu ...
    Please spread to individual Occupy movement supporters, affiliated groups, websites, and forums. This is a plea for the Occupy movement to drop any preconceived notions about, and take careful consideration of, forming an alliance with the 9/11 truth movement, specifically the OccupyBuilding7.o ...

Fooducate

  • Fooducate iPhone App Version 2.00
    Please download or update to version 2.00 of our Fooducate iPhone app. We’ve redesigned the product  view page based on your feedback and usage patterns: Alternatives are now a big button that you can’t miss. Commenting is now much easier and clearer. We’ve killed the compare t ...
  • Twinkies are Going Bankrupt
    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hostess Brands, maker of Twinkies and other baked goods, is about to go bankrupt. This is a company that shipped 36 million Twinkies last year and had sales in excess of 2 Billion dollars. The reasons cited were high costs of labor, rising prices of comm ...
  • Kellogg’s Chocolatey Krave Cereal [Inside the ...
    Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App  RSS Subscription or  Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate As if the cereal aisle wasn’t crowded enough. Kraft is introducing a new cereal called Krave: Satisfy your inner chocovore with Ke ...
  • Controversy Over Childhood Obesity Ads in Georgia
    Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, has published a website and ads depicting obese children and their struggles. The goal is to empower Georgians to reverse their childhood obesity trends by providing tools and support for families and children. The ads a ...
  • The Black Bun Darth Vader Burger. Seriously
    As we all know, there is a huge merchandising business around Hollywood movies. But what French Belgian fast food chain Quick did is taking it to the next level. Instead of a toy giveaway, or branded packaging, they are actually changing their menu items! In the picture above is a limited editio ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • Loggers invade tribal home of Amazon Indian ch ...
    Awá men travel down a road cut by loggers. © Uirá Garcia Loggers have invaded the Amazon home of uncontacted Awá Indians, one of whom has reportedly been ‘burned alive’. Members of the Guajajara tribe, which also inhabits the area, have said that they came across the burned remains of an A ...
  • Police involvement in ‘human safaris’ exposed ...
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival British newspaper The Observer has revealed evidence of police involvement in ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands. The scandal, first exposed by Survival in 2010, involves tourists using an illegal road to enter the reserve o ...
  • Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest ...
    The reindeer is central to the lives and cultures of indigenous peoples across the sub-Arctic © Joelle Taillon/Survival The world’s largest reindeer herd has plummeted in size, with local indigenous people blaming the spread of massive industrial projects in the area. The George River herd ...
  • Jumma woman killed as tension mounts in Chitta ...
    The body of Chigon Mila Chakma, who was killed on Wednesday © Survival A Jumma tribal woman, Chigon Mila Chakma, was killed in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh when settlers attacked Jummas at a market on Wednesday. At least ten Jummas, the indigenous inhabitants of the Chittagong H ...
  • Guarani man dies of gunshot wound following attack
    Guarani man. The Guarani have been suffering increasing threats and violence in recent months. © Joaó Ripper/Survival A Guarani Indian from central Brazil has died of his injuries, two years after his community was attacked by gunmen. Rosalino Lopes, 50, was shot in the abdomen and left pa ...

Greg Palast

  • My Declaration of War on Christmas
    by Greg Palast Click on the image to watch the segment I don't usually watch Today or any American TV because my reports appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation, a network run by highly-educated America-haters. But there I was, last Friday, in this hotel room in Atlanta, a city preten ...
  • Occupy Wall Street comes home to roost with Co ...
    Nowhere are the ill-gotten gains of the 1% more grossly apparent than in the activities of 'debt vulture' hedge funds by Greg Palast as published by The Guardian America This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Peter Grossman. Photo by Zach Roberts © 2011This past Sunda ...
  • Our Photographer (& His Lens) Busted@Occupy Wa ...
    By Greg Palast Special to Truthout.org "So this Bishop, three priests and a comedian are locked up together in this paddy wagon and ...." "Zach! This is NOT funny, and I do NOT want to hear the punch line." Actually, I appreciate the fact that our photo-journalist has a sense of humor ab ...
  • Don't Get Scrooged at Christmas
    This holiday season, why not roast a One Percenter's chestnuts on an open fire? Donate $60 or more to the Palast Investigative Fund, and I'll personally sign and send you and yours a gorgeously illustrated hardbound copy of the book Mitt Romney's favorite billionaire says, "Is full of errors" - ...
  • XL Keystone - The Pig in the PipelineThe GOP i ...
    by Greg Palast Special to TruthOut.org Palast conducted a five-continent investigation of Big Oil for British TV's premier current affairs program, Dispatches, and for BBC Worldwide. This report is based on the broadcast seen prime-time worldwide—but not yet in the USA. Whistleblowers have to ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle water from a conden ...
    We’ve had an email from Mark: What is the best way to recycle small quantities of hot water from a condenser tumble dryer? I know i could pour it down the toilet, put it on the garden etc, but what are the economical benefits of reusing this clean water. Can it be used (when cold) [...]
  • How can I reuse, recycle or upcycle biscuit/co ...
    (I still need more inspiration for green new year’s resolutions or green goals for 2012. I think I’m probably going to end up doing 12 small things – one a month – rather than one big thing over the year — and I need ideas! But for now, back to regular scheduled &#8 ...
  • What are your green goals for 2012?
    I hope everyone has had a cracking start to 2012. I feel a bit bogged down catching up on everything leftover from 2011 but other than that, it’s been good! One of the things I’ve been struggling over all week has been my first Recycle This post of 2012. At this time of year, I [...]
  • Don’t wait until Spring cleaning to decl ...
    So much stuff comes into our houses in the last two months of the year – presents, new clothes for parties and all sorts of decorations & whatnot – and after such a busy period, it’s all to easy to tuck it all to the back of the cupboard to consider mañana. But now is [...]
  • Recycled Christmas Decorations: our favourite ...
    Who wants generic shop-bought Christmas decorations when homemade ones are so much nicer, cheaper and better for the environment? ;) Our 2010 round-up of our favourite ideas for making upcycled/recycled Christmas decorations has been very popular this year and I hope it’s provided lots of ...

Age of Autism

  • AofA Science Summary: Autism spectrum disorder ...
    Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012 Jan;69(1):46-52. Autism spectrum disorders and autisticlike traits: similar etiology in the extreme end and the normal variation. Lundström S, Chang Z, Råstam M, Gillberg C, Larsson H, Anckarsäter H, Lichtenstein P. Source Department of Clinical Sciences,...
  • 25,000 Signatures Needed to Help End Autism Th ...
    Managing Editor's Note: This is a petition request so military families can receive services for their children. You do NOT to be in the military to show your support and sign the petition. To learn more about autism and the...
  • Harry Horne-Roberts Death Ruled Heart Attack
    Managing Editor's Note: For background on Harry Horne-Roberts' death please read Harry Horne-Roberts's Parents Welcome Probe into Death While in Autism Care Home . I was recently at a therapy center and noticed a huge weight gain in two teen...
  • AofA Science Summary: The relationship between ...
    Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2012 Jan 5. [Epub ahead of print] The relationship between the increased frequency of serum antineuronal antibodies and the severity of autism in children. Mostafa GA, Al-Ayadhi LY. Source Autism Research and Treatment Center, AL-Amodi Autism...
  • It’s a New Year: Dr. Wakefield is Fighting Back
    It’s a New Year: Dr. Wakefield is Fighting Back Community Rallies to his Aid Files Suit against British Medical Journal, Fiona Godlee, Brian Deer Dr. Wakefield filed a lawsuit in Travis County, TX District Court, January 3rd against the British...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • New Jersey Will Pay You $1000 To Destroy The 2 ...
    There is nothing more disgusting or detestable than a citizen informant. Without citizen informants, tyrants could never retain the kind of power they wield. In fact, without citizen informants, totalitarian movements would never gain traction. This is why EVERY functional oligarchy throughout h ...
  • USDA Scientist Reveals All: Glyphosate Hazards ...
    Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University and USDA senior scientist linked glyphosate to reduced nutrient availability in plants, increasing plant diseases, the emergence of a new pathogen, animal illness and possible effects on human health.
  • Iowa Caucus 2012: GOP Establishment Steals Vot ...
    No photo I.D. required to vote, and suddenly Santorum pulls ahead? REALLY???
  • The USDA Agricultural Survey: Voluntary NOT Ma ...
    The USDA is trying to trick you into supplying them with information about your source of food through a voluntary survey that it claims is mandatory.
  • TS Radio….Planning for the New Year
    Join us Tuesday mornings at 9:30 CST!   7:30 PST 9:30 CST 10:30 EST Listen Live HERE: Call in #: 917-388-4520 Skype There is a lot going on. The ndaa, the monsanto corn deregulation, the chemtrail seminar and many other issues. Join us for our first show of the new year to find out what [...]

Open Your Eyes News

  • Iran’s uranium enrichment is escalation, ...
    BBC – The US has said Iran’s enrichment of uranium at an underground site is “a further escalation” of its ongoing violation of UN resolutions. Read article
  • Pakistan: Militants Kill 10 Soldiers
    NY Times – Islamist militants killed 10 paramilitary soldiers they had been holding hostage since last month, government officials said Monday. It was the second time the insurgents have killed security force captives near the Afghan border in a week. The bodies of the Frontier Corps soldi ...
  • Emerging Stocks Fall as Europe Recession Conce ...
    Bloomberg – Emerging-market stocks fell for the first time in three days as concern that Europe may be headed for a recession led to a decline in commodity prices, outweighing optimism about the strength of the U.S. economy. Read Article
  • Chinese human rights lawyer jailed in remote X ...
    Washington Post – Relatives of an outspoken human rights lawyer jailed after being secretly held by Chinese security agents were told Tuesday that he is undergoing a three-month “education period” and will be denied visitors for at least that much time, his wife said. Authorities told rela ...
  • Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega begins new pre ...
    BBC – Daniel Ortega has been sworn in for a controversial third term as Nicaragua’s president following his landslide victory in November’s polls. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Advocacy group's extreme weather map brings cl ...
    A new map published today by the Natural Resources Defense Council makes it plain that extreme weather attributable to climate change isn’t something that only happens in other parts of the world. Chances are, you’ve had your own Hurricane Irene, or drought, or something like it, in your own bac ...
  • New Cook Islands Shark Sanctuary proposed
    Activists in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific are proposing a huge new shark sanctuary in the face of fishing pressures and the continued massive drop in shark numbers over the last decade worldwide. The Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, or PICI, is working with local fisheries autho ...
  • San Diego water deal upheld, Salton Sea fight ...
    A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a 2010 ruling by a Sacramento Superior Court judge that the deal was improper because the Legislature had essentially signed blank-check to repair damage done to the Salton Sea.
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer seeks climate-change action ...
    Senator Barbara Boxer stepped up today to deliver an appeal for action at the mostly lackluster UN Climate Change Conference, which wraps up this week in Durban, South Africa. Her speech was delivered to an almost-empty Senate TV/Radio gallery, which is indicative of the low priority given ongoi ...
  • Inupiat whaling, drilling at stake in recent A ...
    Independent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on Alaska’s North Slope in November to document traditional whaling by the native Inupiat people, and found themselves at the height of a highly charged mayoral election season, with whaling and a gargantuan new Shell oil drilling p ...

water.org

  • Reflections on Haiti, what comes next
    January 12th marks the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti, leaving widespread destruction in and around Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of people died and over a million were left homeless. One can still see the legacy of the earthquake with rubble and tent ...
  • Thank You
    Your support has made a difference in the lives of people around the world this year.
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  • Atseda's story of hope
    Thirteen-year-old Atseda is lucky. Her friends in neighboring villages walk miles to collect dirty water each day. But not Atseda. Thanks to donors like you, she has clean water from a well right by her home.
  • Collecting Water in Ethiopia
    Throughout Africa, and the rest of the world, women and children spend hours collecting water. Last month we met Birhane and this is her story.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Jack Abramoff As Reformer Raises Caution In Fo ...
    He was once the most reviled man in Washington, the latest embodiment of Washington corruption. Now, ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is trying to make amends by talking up reforms that seek to stanch the very venality in which he participated. VIDEO Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...
  • Citizens United Seen As Root Of Evils By Edito ...
    "Buy A Politician" seems to be the name of the game when it comes to campaign financing, passing legislation and downright shady deals between corporations and American policy makers. This will be the topic on this week's BTR, Lies My Country Told Me. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics ...
  • Prove It---Video
    Intense video and song by Chill EB asking one very important question regarding mental illness labels put on kids and adults---PROVE IT Submitted by Kenneth L. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Jerusalem police detain 7-year-old Palestinian ...
    Soon afterwards, reported the Palestinian news service Maan, policemen detained Muhammad Ali Dirbas, aged seven, carried him off to a nearby police station, interrogated him for three or four hours, and then released him. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!   ...
  • BTselem 2011 West Bank video summary
    In 2011, volunteers in BTselems camera project filmed over 500 hours of footage in the West Bank. These are two minutes they collected and edited from it, depicting life under occupation and military rule, as a way to sum up the year that passed. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |&nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • EPA Announces Winners of 2011 Game Day Challenge
    As part of the challenge, more than 75 schools across the nation designed a waste reduction plan for one 2011 regular season home football game, measured their results and submitted them to EPA.
  • Female 'Jyotisha' Popularizes Horoscope Readin ...
    Want a dream life partner? Consult the stars. Need to buy property? Only the planets can predict the right time. Studies or career not going according to plan or expectations? A 'jyotisha' (astrologer) can draw up a fool-proof rescue plan.
  • Charter Schools Help Transform Pittsburgh Publ ...
    Pittsburgh school officals understand that the landscape has changed and that we need to be more competitive in the new world,Lisa Fischetti, chief of staff and external affairs for Pittsburgh Public Schools, wrote in an email to EAG.
  • Killing of Filipino Journalist Draws Condemnation
    Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova today expressed condemnation on the recent murder of a prominent journalist in the Philippines.
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory Discovers Exceptiona ...
    Officially known as ACT-CL J0102-4915, the galaxy cluster has been nicknamed 'El Gordo' ('the big one' or 'the fat one' in Spanish) by the researchers who discovered it.

Worldnews

  • Lavasa power to acquire land challenged
    In what could spell further trouble for the Lavasa Corporation Limited, two tribals have now challenged the government notification that conferred special powers upon the company to acquire land for its hill station in Pune district. According to the petition filed by Bandya and Babu Walheka ...
  • Lose Weight By Eating In Restaurants?
    Ah yes. The dream. To lose weight while eating in restaurants and thus maintaining needed contact with other humans. Can it be done? According to one study, yes, it can. Let's pass it over to our scientific sisters at Consumer Reports for the...
  • Rwandan president cleared in 1994 air cra ...
    A French investigation has found that the missile which brought down the Rwandan president's aircraft in 1994 and prompted the country's genocide, was not fired by circles close to the current Rwandan president, Paul Kagame. The findings essentially clear several people close to Kagame, who ...
  • Guantanamo detention centre is 10 years o ...
    Wednesday marks 10 years since the US military opened its detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The camp was set up to hold detainees from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where the practice of holding prisoners indefinitely without charge has long been a source of controversy and inte ...
  • Kodak sues Apple, HTC over digital image ...
    New York: The struggling Eastman Kodak Co on Tuesday sued Apple Inc, whose market value is more than 2,400 times greater, accusing it of infringing four patents related to digital camera images. Kodak also sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, alleging violations of the four patents as well as a fifth. It ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Drone Strikes Return to Pakistan
    Agencies are reporting that a missile attack from a U.S. drone killed at least 4 in Pakistan on Tuesday. The attack marks the first time a drone strike has occurred since late November, when a drone attack killed over 20 Pakistani soldiers. Yesterday's attack hit a home on the outskirts of t ...
  • Growth of Global Inequality Sowing 'Seeds of D ...
    The World Economic Forum released its global assessment on Wednesday, and it paints a stark future if world institutions - including governments, private industry, academic institutions, and civil society organizations - don't make some radically practical changes. From the report: ...
  • Iran Accuses Israel, US of Assassinating Nucle ...
    Iran has accused Israel and the United States of being behind the Wednesday morning assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. The Associated Press is reporting: read more
  • NH Primary: Romney Limps to Victory Over Paul, ...
    As expected, Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire primary tonight. Earlier in the day, exit/entrance polls had predicted the vote outcome to be: January 10, 2012 -- 2,760 Respondents. Top line are men voters (56%). Bottom line are women (44%).   ...
  • Detroit May Be Next Michigan City to Get 'Emer ...
    In March of last year, Michigan Gov. Snyder signed into law Public Act No. 4, the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act, also known as the “emergency financial manager law.” read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Protecti ...
    This post originally appeared on The Green Skeptic in March 2008, when I was about to speak at the Aspen Environment Forum. It's reprinted here as I am on hiatus from writing the blog. I promise to be back at it soon. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this piece. --Scott ## Everything we think abou ...
  • MIT Study: Rebound Effects Erode Auto Efficien ...
    Automotive engines steadily improved in efficiency by roughly 60 percent from 1980 to 2006, according to a new study by MIT economist Christopher Knittel. That means we could already be driving cars that get an average of 37 miles per gallon (MPG), well above today's average of 27 MPG.
  • A Look Forward to 2012 from Carbon War Room
    Dear friends, colleagues, and fearless change-makers,The Carbon War Room had a very busy and productive 2011 which would not have been possible without all your support. As we enter 2012, we also acknowledge strong headwinds in the form of an embattled global deal, low carbon prices, and in ...
  • What Would It Be Like if the GOP Abolished the ...
    The Republican Party has turned the Environmental Protection Agency into a political punching bag in the past year. GOP lawmakers routinely call for abolishing the agency and scraping the government standards that protect us from pollution. These attacks are part of the GOP’s larger ideological ...
  • New Privacy Guidelines for Electricity Data Wi ...
    It’s difficult to imagine life without electricity.  Our lives and lifestyles are so thoroughly intertwined with electricity that any disruptions in power can rapidly transform from minor inconveniences into life-threatening situations.  Thus the need for grid modernization – the Smart ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Racist Discrimination Against Israeli Arabs
    by Stephen Lendman According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Arab citizens (below called Israeli Arabs) "are discriminated (against) in almost every aspect of their lives," including: ● employment; ● education; ● housing; ● land; ● in ...
  • A Culture of Resistance is Born in 2011: the P ...
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers In 2012, the Real Conversation will be in the Occupations, while Corporate Candidates have a False Conversation The Occupy Movement that developed in 2011 profoundly shook the foundation of the 1%. Almost instantly a new form of political power was created, ...
  • Just another Palestinian year
    By Khalid Amayreh Palestinian and foreign activists in Ramallah rally in support of UN recognition of a Palestinian state, which is opposed by Israeli leaders, but is gaining momentum with reconciliation between Hamas and the PLO Israeli settlement expansion continued to annul any chances ...
  • How To Succeed In Egypt Without Really Trying
    by Keith Johnson Late last month, Egyptian police raided the offices of 17 so-called “pro-democracy and human rights groups.” Among them were the U.S.-based International Republican Institute (IRI), Freedom House (FH) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI). All of these organiz ...
  • Lew Rockwell and Michel Chossudovsky: The CIA ...
    By Katherine Smith, PhD January 4, 2010 The Peoples Voice front page featured The LBJ-CIA Assassination of JFK by Robert Morrow. Morrow writes: Here is an absolutely spectacular article why the National Security State murdered John Kennedy: John Kennedy was despised by and did not control his C ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • There’s no contest when it comes to CEO compen ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual look at CEO compensation looks at 2010 compensation levels for Canada’s highest paid 100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of an average $8.38 million in 2010 – a 27% increase over the average $6.6 million they took in 2009. Even in thes ...
  • Payroll taxes in Canada
    The Caledon Institute of Social Policy has a brief research note showing that taken together, Employment Insurance premiums and Canada Pension Plan contributions net of federal non-refundable tax credits have increased only modestly in real terms since 1995, and have been essentially flat since ...
  • Public and Private Sector Pay Differences
    The Canadian Union of Public Employees has released an extensive analysis of public-sector and private-sector wages entitled, Battle of the Wages: Who gets paid more, public or private sector workers?  The report joins several other recent studies critical of the Canadian Federation of Inde ...
  • Pooled plans won’t solve pension crisis
    A new CCPA report finds that the government's proposed Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) program will do nothing to solve Canada’s pension crisis. The report, by Monica Towson, concludes that rather than proposing yet another voluntary savings scheme, the government should instead focus on e ...
  • OECD: Canada's income gap is at a record high
    A new OECD report on income inequality among 34 industrialized nations asserts what CCPA research has long revealed: Canada's income gap is at a record high. As the Globe and Mail reports in this story , "Two factors explain Canada’s growing gap: a widening disparity in labour earnings between h ...

World Wide Hippies

  • “Heads” Up Hippies! Major Study Fi ...
    by Scott Morgan,stopthedrugwar.org - Among the most frequent words to fall from the lips of your typical anti-pot propagandist are almost always some sort of insistence that the stuff destroys your lungs. According to them, you hippies are all gonna choke on your bongs, and probably a lot sooner ...
  • 10 Years Too Many: National Day of Action agai ...
    From vtdigger.org – January 11, 2012, marks 10 years since the first detainees were transferred to the U.S. detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to U.S. authorities, 779 detainees have been held in Guantánamo, the vast majority without charge or criminal trial. Presently 171 ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Iran says bomb kills nuclear scientist, blames Israel TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said one of its nuclear scientists was killed on Wednesday by a magnet bomb fixed to his car by a motorcyclist and blamed Israel for the attack, intensifying diplomatic tensions the West over Tehran’s nucle ...
  • Japan to Release Australian Anti-Whaling Activists
    By Phil Mercer | Sydney,VOA news- Australia has welcomed Japan’s decision to release without charge three anti-whaling activists who boarded a Japanese whaling support vessel two days ago.  The Canberra government has warned protest groups that they might not receive such lenient trea ...
  • Doomsday Clock Moves 1 minute closer to midnight
    The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: It is Now 5 Minutes to Midnight WASHINGTON, D.C. — January 10, 2012 – Faced with inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • What’s So Bad About Exporting Gasoline?
    Join the forum discussion on this post One of my Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 was the fact that the U.S. had become a net exporter of finished petroleum products such as diesel and gasoline. In fact, because gasoline and diesel prices were so high, fuel exports were valued at $88 billion, whic ...
  • The Oilman in the White House
    Join the forum discussion on this post No, I am not talking about George W. Bush. I just finished the chapter on politics for my book, and I created a number of graphics to show the behavior of oil prices, production, imports, and consumption through the last eight presidential administrations. ...
  • War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barr ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Happy New Year everyone! I should be back on a regular posting schedule in about two weeks, and should have a new episode of R-Squared Energy TV up next week. For now, I offer the following timely guest post from OilPrice.com. ———— ...
  • Soliciting Reader Feedback for Power Plays
    Join the forum discussion on this post Most regular readers are aware that I am writing a book. The title of the book is Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil. While I have contributed several chapters to books in the past, this is my first full book, and I only recently [...]
  • Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011
    Join the forum discussion on this post Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2011. Don’t get too hung up on the relative rankings. They are mostly in no particular order, although I think the top story is pretty obvious. 1. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Save Your Eyes—Change Your Light Bulbs
    Eyes take a lot of abuse at the office. Between staring at a computer screen from the time the workday begins and staring at a tiny Blackberry when running between meetings, it's a wonder any office worker out there isn't staring at the world through Coke-bottle-thick glasses. Now, office work ...
  • Maria's Hot Apple Cider Recipe
    Warm up this winter with Maria Rodale’s easy recipe for fragrant and delicious apple cider. Recipe-maria-apple-cider-300.jpg http://www.organicgardening.com/cook/marias-hot-apple-cider ...
  • The Pet You Don't Want to Buy After Age 20
    Thinking about adding a new pet to your household? If you're over 20 and have never owned a pet before, you might want to opt for a dog, according to a new study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Buying a cat for the first time as an adult, the study found, could up your risk o ...
  • FDA Limits Use of Critical Antibiotics in Live ...
    The cramped, filthy conditions at U.S. feedlots, or concentrated animal-feeding operations (CAFOs), breed numerous diseases in animals that require heavy doses of antibiotics to control—so much so that 70 to 80 percent of all antibiotics in this country are used on livestock. Thanks to a small ...
  • Sharks Are Eating Your Favorite Backyard Birds
    When you think oil industry catastrophes, oil spills probably top the list. But scientists now have overwhelming evidence that the nighttime light coming from offshore drilling rigs is also spelling disaster for wildlife, particularly the backyard birds Americans have come to love. Migratory b ...

big think

  • It's 11:55pm on the Doomsday Clock. Do You Kno ...
    Like any good gimmick, the so-called Doomsday Clock, an invention of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is meant to grab your attention. No, scientists have not discovered a way to accurately measure our distance in time from the end of the world. What they have done is convened a distinguis ...
  • The Web Address Gold Rush
    What's the Latest Development? This week, the organization that oversees the Internet will begin accepting applications to manage new domain names that will appear at the end of website addresses. While just applying to control a domain name will cost $185,000, some entrepreneurs see a pot ...
  • Who Owns Your Twitter Followers?
    Who owns the Twitter followers you accumulate while working for an employer? This is the question under consideration in new lawsuit filed by Phonedog.com against former employee Noah Kravitz. Whether the courts will rule correctly on this question remains to be seen. But in my mind, with rare . ...
  • Big Tech Show Will Feature Small Advances
    What's the Latest Development? While you can't ignore the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, don't expect the release of any blockbuster products. As the nature of the technology industry changes, larger companies like Apple and Amazon prefer to host their own ...
  • Social Networks Facilitate Surveillance, Terrorism
    What's the Latest Development? Facebook's new Timeline feature, which encourages you to fill in the gaps between the time you were born and the time you started sharing your life on Facebook, will surely be used by advertisers to learn more about your personal life. Government access to da ...

Information Liberation

  • Elections and the Illusion of Choice
    The political season has unleashed its predictable frenzy, much to delight of people who make a living off it. But to what end? There are only two types of politicians who end up holding office, wrote H.L. Mencken: "first, glorified mob-men who genui...
  • Jeffrey Tucker Interviewed by Stefan Molyneux
    Jeffrey Tucker of Laissez-Faire Books talks with Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, about intellectual property, the growth of libertarianism, and the short-term future of the freedom movement. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popul...
  • The Department of Homeland Security Is Terrori ...
    As reported recently, heavily armed agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stormed a Leesburg, Florida Social Security office. This supposed drill was unannounced, and was understandably frightening to the local visitors to that of...
  • Santorum: pursuit of happiness harms America
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  • New Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Drain Cleaner
    CHICAGO (CBS) * A new state law requires those who buy drain cleaners and other caustic substances to provide photo identification and sign a log. It*s getting a rough reception from customers and merchants alike although perhaps none more than a ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Waste Not, Want Not
    A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →
  • A Few Days Yet
    G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →
  • Merry Christmas To All
    That’s it from me this year folks. LibertyGibbert will be officially closed from Friday, 16th December till Thursday, 5th January. You’ll still be able to access all articles in the archive, and comment if you like, but all posts will … Continue reading →
  • The Non-Conference
    It’s all I can think of calling it. The MSM aren’t touching it; you even have to search WUWT carefully to find much mention of it. Perhaps it’s because of the sadly damp weather in Durban at the moment (in … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part IV – The Rise ...
    And on it goes. The Gillard government clearly believes it was about to lose its one-seat parliamentary majority, either with this bloke making good with his threat to withdraw support, or this one being carted off to jail. It’s the … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A drug addict’s Facebook timeline
    In what Mashable calls “a creative social media campaign”, media agency McCann Digital Israel has exploited the Facebook Timeline feature to promote the Israel Anti-Drug Authority. It uses the split-screen layout to create two views of a year in the life of fictional addict/non-addic ...
  • Digging up a fossilised Google Doodle
    Nicolas Steno (1638-1686) was a scientist and Danish Catholic cleric who was a pioneer in both anatomy and geology. By 1659, he had decided not to accept a statement as true simply because it was written in a book, but rather to rely on his own research. He is considered the father of geology an ...
  • 10 body myths debunked by science
    Myth 1: Calories Counting Is All That Matters for Weight Management – Calories are the energy content as measured by complete combustion of the food. But, our bodies don’t burn food, they digest, ingest and metabolise it, so different foods even if they have the same “calories& ...
  • Goats have smaller feet than cows
    Could you switch from cow’s milk to a healthier, environment friendly alternative? Like ewe’s or goat’s milk? Ruminant milk synthesis involves pre-gastric fermentation of plant cells into mainly volatile fatty acids (VFA), peptides, ammonia, and microbial mass. Sounds delicious ...
  • Meerkats on Look East
    A quick intro to the Meerkats exhibition as run by BBC Look East. I appear with Skalene’s Julian White and his black box recorder for cars at 3 seconds in and again at about 13 seconds with Smart Architects’ Dan Cvrcek developer of sCrib. I assume extracting such a short snippet from ...

RFF Library

  • 2010 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysi ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/tri/NationalAnalysis/index.htm [From Press Release]  …The 2010 TRI data show that 3.93 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide, a 16 percent increase from 2009. The increase is mainly due to changes in the metal mining secto ...
  • Critical Materials Strategy
    US DOE http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/DOE_CMS_2011.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Joel Kirkland] “In general, global (rare earths) material supply has been slow to respond to the rise in demand over the past decade due to a lack of available capital, long lead times, trade policies ...
  • EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterial Risks More Ef ...
    US EPA Office of the Inspector General http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2012/20121229-12-P-0162.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jeremy Jacobs]  U.S. EPA lacks an effective program to collect information and monitor the possible health risks posed by nanomaterials, according to a new report by the a ...
  • Saving a National Treasure: Debunking the &#82 ...
    Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1023 [From a story in the Suffolk News-Herald] Extensive government regulation of Chesapeake Bay pollution would create jobs, rather than kill them, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims in a new report… In December 2010, the U.S. ...
  • Phase 1 Report: Formation of Stakeholder Proce ...
    Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) for DOE http://www.eipconline.com/uploads/Phase_1_Report_Final_12-15-2011.pdf [From an E&E Daily story by Paul Behr]  Utility executives and state regulators from 39 states will study three widely different scenarios for the future of the ...

Scientific American - News

  • Casual Marijuana Smoking Not Harmful to Lungs
    It wouldn't have mattered if Bill Clinton inhaled, as far as his lungs are concerned. Smoking up to a joint per day doesn't seem to decrease lung function, according to a study published in Jan. 11 edition of Journal of the American Medical Association. [More]
  • Doomsday Clock Moved 1 Minute Closer to Midnight
    In a sign of pessimism about humanity's future , scientists today set the hands of the infamous "Doomsday Clock" forward one minute from two years ago. [More]
  • The $1,000 Human Genome: Are We There Yet?
    The race to the $1,000 genome heated up today as Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, Calif., announced that it will debut a new sequencing machine this year that will eventually be capable of decoding entire human genomes in a day for less than $1,000. The machine, called the  Ion Proto ...
  • Airport Screeners to Be Monitored for Radiation
    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to monitor the levels of radiation that its employees are exposed to from X-ray technology, including airport body scanners, a document from the agency says. [More]
  • What If There Were No Gravity?
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gamow-gravity There's nothing like a nasty cold to make you appreciate good health. The same goes for the state of the universe: Tweaking just one of the fundamental physical laws or constants, normally perfectly "fine-tuned" at the ...

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Crown Land Lease Revision Connected to Port Ha ...
    1961 Land Lease to Stora Expired Last Year, No Longer Reflects Current Conditions, say EAC's Miller & Plourde “In 1961 we leveraged a tremendous amount of Crown Land to get a company to come to Nova Scotia,” says Matt M ...
  • First Montreal police killing of 2012 raises s ...
    Groups condemn police actions, call for independent inquiry and better resources for city's homeless The first fatal police shooting of the year in Montreal is raising questions and criticisms about how the incident is being investigat ...
  • Inverness County Passes Resolution For Increas ...
    But Does it Have the Wording to Stop Petroworth? Yesterday, Inverness County council unanimously passed a resolution that aims to increase the municipality's clout when it comes making decisions on oil and gas exploration. The immediate ...
  • A simple campaign asks a big question
    Can You Solve This? movement arrives in Halifax A small group of Mount Saint Vincent students launched the Halifax chapter of the Can You Solve This? campaign on Jan. 9. This international effort targets the Iranian government&rsq ...
  • Entrevue avec Alexandre Popovic de la Coalitio ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Themes for 2012: The Technology (special for t ...
    David Seaton's News Links Probably the most useful service that older people can perform for young people is to convey to them the reality of life-modifying change. Anyone in their sixties, or older, today has seen the "unthinkable" occur several times in the course of their lives and as the son ...
  • Themes for 2012: Petraeus and the fantasies of ...
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Brazil's Di ...
  • Themes for 2012: America's relations with Israel
    David Seaton's News Links The United States of America's relationship with Israel is probably the touchiest subject in American politics... a classic "third rail", touch it and you die, sort of subject, and yet it has become one of the major focus points of US political life.  How can it ...
  • 2011: the year of the Arab Spring and the year ...
    David Seaton's News Links“The foreseeable future is Islamist – this much we know. It’s just a reality that people have to come to terms with,” says Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Doha Center. “People want to see Islam play a larger role in political life and liberals are going to have to learn to ...
  • Merry Christmas from News Links
    David Seaton's News LinksThe Holy Family with St Anne, 1628, Rubens, Museo del Prado, Madrid. I have been posting this same piece every Christmas since 2006, so you might call it an "instant tradition". I wrote it in the depths of Bush's hate filled "war on terror", but I don't see any reaso ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Tonight's Political Lesson: Nothing
    I guess I'm expected to say something about tonight's primary. So here it is. Mitt Romney has always been the inevitable nominee. After Iowa, he continued to be the inevitable nominee. After tonight, he is, still, the inevitable nominee. In other words, nothing happened.     
  • Comment Registration: Boon to Mankind or Threa ...
    I've been talking with the MoJo brain trust for a while about whether we should require registration for commenters. The pros and cons are fairly obvious, I think, and we've pretty much come to the conclusion that we should do it. Before we do, though, I wanted to run it by my readers. If you ...
  • Information Might Want to be Free, But Then Ag ...
    From Ars Technica: Aaron Swartz [] was arrested Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, “unlawfully obtaining information from,” and “recklessly damaging” a “protected computer.” He is accused of downloading 4.8 million documents from the academ ...
  • The Week So Far
    What have we learned over the past couple of days? A short list: Mitt Romney doesn't, in fact, enjoy firing people. On the other hand, firing your insurance company isn't quite the cake walk he seems to think it is. Republicans don't really give a rat's ass about free enterpri ...
  • David Brooks and Obama's Dilemma
    From David Brooks: If you’ll forgive some outside advice, President Obama might consider running for re-election as Luthor. Jeez, first he's a Kenyan socialist who hates America, and now Brooks wants him to run as Lex Luthor? This is the worst — Oh wait. Not Luthor. Luther. ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 296: Shit the Pope Says
    Topics: Fan appreciation Podcast/Blogging for the fun of it George Lucas & Red Tails What Tyler Perry should be doing “Blue” Dumb celebrity children names Using slaves on math word problems Shit the Pope Says Mitt Romney will be the nominee Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Georgia School Uses Sla ...
    Gwinnett County parents and activists have blasted the school district’s response following reports that students at a Norcross elementary school received a math worksheet that used examples of slavery in word problems. School district officials said the principal at Beaver Ridge Elementary Scho ...
  • IC 295: The State of the Blah Union
    Topics: The Sam Worthington Defamation League Liam Neeson is awesome 8th grader shot by police People think police shoot like they do in movies Rick Santorum and the Blah People The GOP and poor people World’s oldest divorcee Share with your friends:
  • Teen Mother Shoots and Kills Intruder
    A recently widowed teen mom shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old son on New Year’s Eve after asking the 911 operator for permission, local media reported. Sarah McKinley, 18, was alone with her son in their Blanchard, Okla., home about 2 p.m. Dec. 31 when two men tried to ...
  • IC 294: The ‘Fuck It Gene” Part Deux
    Topics: Kriss diagnoses himself with “Premature Fuck It Gene Syndrome” Calling out Bitchassness in 2012 Fuck Your Degree January Movie preview Animal Planet is Reparations for Black People Finding Bigfoot Janet Jackson doesn’t use Nutrisystem Romney comes in first in Iowa, Sant ...

Simple Climate

  • Warming puts species on collision course
    Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.
  • The world’s New Year’s resolution: ...
    Tense negotiations in South Africa in December laid a path for controlling greenhouse gas emissions across the world, and with those emissions and average temperatures controlling for short-term fluctuations reaching highs in 2010, we should encourage and help efforts to make controls law.
  • Did climate change make it harder to get your ...
    Floods in Thailand have affected supplies of PCs and other electronic devices that we might have bought for Christmas. Should this demonstration of the everyday consequences of nature’s power give us pause for thought before we commence our annual celebration?
  • Fjord beds show climate role in glacier mass loss
    Having established that increasing Atlantic sea surface temperature is playing a role in shrinking the Helheim glacier, Camilla Andresen from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland says that further warming will very likely make it lose more ice.
  • Greenhouse focus confirms humans’ warmin ...
    Reto Knutti and Markus Huber from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich find just a one-in-twenty chance that natural variability has contributed more than a quarter of the warming seen since 1950, supporting previous studies that used a different method.

e!Science News

  • Why do dew drops do what they do on leaves?
    Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore once wrote, "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf." Now, a new study is finally offering an explanation for why small dew drops do as Tagore advised and form on the tips, rather than the flat surfaces, of ...
  • ALMA early science result reveals starving gal ...
    Astronomers using the partially completed ALMA observatory have found compelling evidence for how star-forming galaxies evolve into 'red and dead' elliptical galaxies, catching a large group of galaxies right in the middle of this change. read more
  • OU researchers predict the next big thing in p ...
    A better understanding of the universe will be the outgrowth of the discovery of the Higgs boson, according to a team of University of Oklahoma researchers. The team predicts the discovery will lead to supersymmetry or SUSY -- an extension of the standard model of particle physics. SUSY predicts ...
  • Is there a dark side to moving in sync?
    Moving in harmony can make people feel more connected to one another and, as a result, lead to positive collective action. Think of those feel-good vibes created in a yoga class as students move in unison through their downward-facing dogs. Yet given that synchronized physical activities are als ...
  • Lab-made tissue picks up the slack of Petri di ...
    New research demonstrates that previous models used to examine cancer may not be complex enough to accurately mimic the true cancer environment. Using oral cancer cells in a three-dimensional model of lab-made tissue that mimics the lining of the oral cavity, the researchers found that the tissu ...

unEarthed

  • Monday Reads: The Hybridizing Shark Edition
    Genetically distinct species make a strong, surprising hybrid showing A hybrid black-tip shark comes in for a camera close up. (University of Queensland) Clim ...
  • Friday Finds: The FDA’s Drug Addiction
    Natural gas guessing games, green hog waste, melting mountains Under current guidelines, pigs and other farm animals are routinely given drugs. (friendsoffamilyfarmers) ...
  • Six Environmental Imperatives for Obama in 2012
    The no-brainer decisions the president must make this year President Obama won the White House on a platform of hope and change – promising an end to dirty corporate influence over our political system and a beginning to an e ...
  • For Insurers, Climate Change is Very Real
    Weather disasters taking a toll on the bottom line Hurricane Floyd approaching Florida in 2011. (Hal Pierce / NOAA) A vibrant climate change denial industry k ...
  • Pikas Can Run But Not Hide From Climate Change
    California seeks to protect tiny creature from a warming earth Pika You’re adorable but you will die if the temperature rises much above 80°F. So cl ...

Brave New Climate

  • The nuclear fission ‘Flyer’
    Below is the foreword I wrote, on invitation of Chuck Till and Yoon Chang, for the book “Plentiful Energy” (I included a shorter version in my review of the book on Amazon). In this short essay, I draw an analogy between the IFR and the Wright brothers’ 1903 ‘ ‘Flye ...
  • Plentiful Energy – The book that tells t ...
    Yesterday the hard copy of the book “Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor” (CreateSpace, Dec 2011, 404 pages) arrived in the post. It is wonderful to see it in print, and now available for all to enjoy and absorb. I was honoured to play a small part in its ...
  • 2011 on Brave New Climate
    So the year 2011 draws to a close. What a tumultuous year it was, particularly for nuclear energy! For climate change, alas, the freight train just keeps gathering steam. For 2012, I will expect the unexpected, but also hope to see some better signs of progress towards the downfall of fossil fue ...
  • Global Energy Prize and Breakthrough Institute
    The Christmas to New Year period is traditionally ‘hibernation mode’ for blogs, when page views and comment counts plummet (my hits have dropped about 70% compared to early December!). I suppose this is a time when people find better things to do than sit in front of a computer scree ...
  • Feeding 10 billion in 2050′s sauna (Part ...
    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 article on BNC was: Feeding the billions on a hotter planet (Part II) —————— Welcome to Part III of my still presumptu ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Israel's Nightmare: Jew Against Jew - OpEd
    Israel's Nightmare: Jew Against Jew - OpEd: By Lillian Rosengarten I have such a problem with Zionism today, some kind of distorted incarnation of what was once created from the ashes of the Holocaust to be a safe haven for Jews within a model of a secular nation state. I rage against attempts ...
  • Occupy Oakland Activist May Face Three Strikes ...
    Occupy Oakland Activist May Face Three Strikes | Politics and Breaking News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California | 92510: The threat of life imprisonment looms for Occupy Oakland activist Marcel Johnson - better known by his alias, Khali - after a third-strike arrest during the demonst ...
  • Daily Kos: At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was ...
    Daily Kos: At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why.: I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at the ...
  • Why Black America Should Care About Private Da ...
    Why Black America Should Care About Private Danny Chen's Suicide | News One: Chen had only been deployed to Afghanistan for six weeks, but his family revealed in a press conference that their son documented several instances of racial attacks in troubling letters that he sent home. From being c ...
  • Tim Wise - The Pathology of White Privilege
    Tim Wise - The Pathology of White Privilege: Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color but to white people as well.

Republicans are a Disease

  • Met A Wonderful Republican Yesterday – Not!
    Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]
  • The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
    No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...
  • Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
    Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...
  • Megyn Kelly
    Is Megyn Kelly the dumbest blonde in the world? No, I mean really…..
  • Chris Wallace Claims Americans Are Fed Up With ...
    Folks, you have to understand. Fox Lies tells it’s lemming viewers what they are supposed to think so they can repeat the same Fox lies around water coolers. Anyone who watches Fox is already brainwashed and lives in some alternate universe where giving billionaires all the breaks help ...

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- ...
  • 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

  • Get Ready for OWSnews.org
    Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...
  • Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on ...
  • Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland
    By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...
  • Marine Down in Oakland – “We&#8217 ...
    Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...
  • #OccupyOakland: Riot police fire tear gas, fla ...
    Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear ...

+972

  • Popular anchorman’s entry into politics ...
    Yair Lapid left his position in Channel 2 News and announced his intention to enter politics. He is likely to split the secular vote in a way that won’t allow anyone but the Likud to form the next government One of the questions that has dominated the political landscape in Israel in the l ...
  • Palestinian ‘car protest’ in West ...
    Palestinians attempted to set out in a motorcade of about 50 cars from Jericho en route to Ramallah this morning, to protest and challenge the system of Israeli-only roads throughout the West Bank, according to Twitter updates over the last few hours with the hashtag #carprotest. According to an ...
  • Reframing non-violent resistance: An act of mo ...
    When we allow non-violence to be distorted as illegitimate, we fail to uphold our most cherished principles. It is not a strange phenomenon for morality to be the object of contestation. Competing groups often battle for the moral high ground when presenting their case to the outside world in a ...
  • Israel terrifies me
    The vendor at the Subway sandwich shop on King George Street was the kindest kid I’ve met in years. He kept cracking jokes with Ruthie and me while fixing my sub, praised my choice of meat, and expressed curiosity over the guitar I was carrying. “So do you play music?” “Y ...
  • Noam Schalit – instead of Knesset, go home
    It’s not enough that for years, Israeli society dropped everything it was doing and ultimately risked people’s lives to bring Noam Schalit’s son home. Now he wants Israeli voters to send him to the Knesset. The whole Gilad Schalit saga was so weird, so unnatural, so out of prop ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • JEFF THINGPIN- AN ELECTED OFFICIAL STANDING UP ...
    I appreciate the struggle our government officials face in dealing with the Fraudclosure crisis. Please listen to a very clear, very simple explanation of what bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, corruption and respect for the law and our courts means. JEFF THIGPEN VIDEO       &#1 ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Your Honor, We Don’t Represen ...
    The following is a transcript from a hearing when I was sitting in a courtroom where a most extraordinary exchange occurred. The Plaintiff in the case is, “US Bank”. “US Bank” is suing a homeowner, trying to throw them into the street.  There is an attorney standing in th ...
  • A RIPPING DISSECTION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL/I ...
    If you are not TERRIFIED of your government and the power they, along with the companies serve, wield, then you simply are not paying attention. Our government, at all levels is owned and controlled by corporations who direct who to attack, and who should be allowed to continue conducting illega ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Here’s How To Create False Do ...
    I’ve been at this so long I’ve forgotten 90% of all the allegations that led me to conclude the entire foreclosure process was flawed and fraudulent.  Much has changed, some have left the building, but there has been no day of reckoning, no admission on the part of those that committ ...
  • A MOst BiZAree ASSignMENT of MoRTGage….
    So you know how I’m always yelling about how the banks aren’t sure who owns mortgages and how that is utterly repugnant to an orderly and honest system of law and finance…..well…… Jakob MW LPS AOM unless title is in the name     Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safe ...
    The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal &#8 ...

Reader Supported News

  • Romney Buys Victory Over Paul, Huntsman
    Intro: "As expected, millionaire Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts Governor (and New Hampshire summer resident) has won the New Hampshire Republican primary tonight with 39% of the vote." Mitt Romney celebrates his New Hampshire primary victory on Tuesday night surrounded by family, 01/10/12. ...
  • EPA's Database Doesn't List All Hazardous Chem ...
    The EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) doesn't provide a full picture of pollution. The EPA database claims emissions are down, but self-reporting makes the data suspect, and the TRI does not cover all toxic chemicals released into the air. PG&E's new Colusa Generating Station near Maxw ...
  • Florida Bill Would Make Abortion a Felony
    Excerpt: "... the Florida for Life Act would essentially (and unconstitutionally) make it a felony to perform an abortion except when a physician meets very specific circumstances. ... If physicians fail to meet these stipulations or provide abortion services in any other case including rape or ...
  • Cities, States Pass Resolutions Against Citize ...
    Intro: "Several cities and states are passing resolutions against corporate personhood. The resolutions are the result of Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which gave corporations the same first amendment rights as individuals and thereby opening the floodgat ...
  • Cities, States Pass Resolutions Against Citize ...
    Intro: "Several cities and states are passing resolutions against corporate personhood. The resolutions are the result of Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which gave corporations the same first amendment rights as individuals and thereby opening the floodgat ...

War Resisters League

  • What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
    by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
  • “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
    As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →
  • Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the ...
     [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...
  • Occupation: Liberation-Building Sustainable Re ...
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →
  • Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement f ...
    [This article was originally published on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog on Thursday, November 17, 2011.] By Randall Amster I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: FDA on Cepha ...
    In the span of just two weeks, then, FDA has moved to prevent misuse of one drug while shirking its responsibility for two others.
  • Where is Public Health in the Farm Bill?
    For those of you who do not believe that the Farm Bill is a Public Health bill, read on, and we just might convince you.
  • Swimmable and Fishable by 2020?
    After three hundred years of damage, will Baltimore's Inner Harbor be swimmable in eight years’ time?
  • Fight the Resistance
    You might be thinking that your best bet is to stay away from angry boars. But while farm workers are at an elevated risk of infection, you’d be mistaken if you thought that they were the only susceptible ones.
  • 2011 CSA Season at JHSPH: It’s a Wrap!
    A big thanks to our 186 members, on behalf of One Straw Farm, Albright Farms and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, for participating in the Community Supported Agriculture project at JHSPH this season!

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Consumerist

  • Comcast AnyPlay: For When You Must Watch TV In ...
    At last we know what that guy is doing with his tablet computer in the bathroom in that razor commercial: He's watching cable streamed from his Comcast account via the company's AnyPlay iPad app. The AnyPlay app, like Cablevision's Optimum app, let's subscribers stream their cable programming ...
  • Here's A Credit Card That Looks To Trap ID Thi ...
    We've already seen credit cards that generate unique, random security codes every time a card user makes a purchase, so that it would require the buyer to have the physical card on them in order to buy something. But here's a card that wants the ID thief to think he's more clever than he is. F ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Consumer Credit ...
    Credit card companies scored a win yesterday, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that credit card claims by consumers must go to arbitration, instead of being tried in a court room. The ruling overturned one made by a U.S. appeals court in San Francisco that had said the Credit Card Repair Orga ...
  • The ShamWow Guy Crawls Out From Wherever He's ...
    Raise your hand if you thought Vince Offer, aka ShamWow guy, was gone from informercials for good after that whole prostitute-punching incident. You were wrong, we all were, as it turns out he's back with a new product perfectly designed for terrible jokes, the Schticky. It looks like a lint r ...
  • Boners BBQ Apologizes For Ridiculing Dissatisf ...
    Perhaps the kids over at Boners BBQ in Atlanta are sick and tired of being picked on for the restaurant's name, or else they just can't take a negative review. Either way, immaturity reigned, as one diner says she was called out on Boners' Facebook page after she had a bad dining experience and ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Ammoniated Beef Whistleblower Vindicated by Fa ...
    Ammoniated Beef Whistleblower Vindicated by Fast-Food Industry's Move Summary: The recent move by fast food giants McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell to drop a controversial ammoniated beef product – supplied by Beef Products Inc. (BPI) and known as 'pink slime' in the industry – vindicate ...
  • The Danger of Labeling Whistleblowers "Spies"
    Iran sentenced American citizen Amir Mirzael Hekmati to death for alleged spying. The U.S. is justifiably outraged: U.S. officials said the charges were false and politically motivated, describing them as the latest in a series of provocations by Iran’s clerical rulers. “We str ...
  • Twitter Ordered to Hand Over Data of WikiLeaks ...
    Tech Week Europe: Judge Denies Twitter Data Block Request Summary: A US District judge has ordered Twitter to release the account information of three of its users who allegedly support WikiLeaks to the Department of Justice. The users’ account information will be used in the US investigation ...
  • Survey Shows Whistleblowers Face More Corporat ...
    Los Angeles Times: Whistleblowers Face Most Corporate Retaliation Ever in 2011 Summary: According to a recent survey by the Ethics Resource Center, nearly half of all US workers were aware of misconduct and of those, 65 percent reported wrongdoing – a record number. However, 22 percent also ha ...
  • Prosecutor Welch Withholds Exculpatory Evidenc ...
    Prosecutor William Welch II is up to his old tricks at the helm of Obama's record-breaking Espionage Act prosecutions against so-called "leakers," who are more often than not whistleblowers. Politico's Josh Gerstein reported last week that a federal Judge took the e ...

UK Progressive

  • How a Little Bit of Good Economic News Can Be ...
    Two years ago the unemployment rate was 9.9 percent. Now it’s 8.5 percent. At first blush that’s good news for the President. Actually it may not be. Voters pay more attention to the direction the economy is moving than to how bad or good it is. So if the positive trend continues in the months [ ...
  • Our Guide to the Best Coverage on Rick Santoru ...
    by Lena Groeger, ProPublica This is the latest installment in a series of reading guides on 2012 presidential candidates. Here are the other guides. The Basics Rick Santorum’s strong showing in the Iowa caucuses has vaulted him from obscurity to presidential contender. Just a few months ag ...
  • The Recess Appointment(s) Obama Hasn’t Made
    A move by President Obama this week to proceed with a handful of recess appointments has top GOP leaders crying foul, complaining that the move is questionably legal because it ignores a clever procedural technicality used by Republicans to prevent such appointments. But if the White House feels ...
  • UK’s Two Main Political Parties Back GMOs And ...
    Last week the Guardian announced that the two main political parties in the United Kingdom (UK), Tories and Labour, were backing genetically modified (GM) food crops. This came as a surprise and disappointment to many, however, it should not have. The director of Rothamstead Research in the UK, ...
  • US Obligated to Take Iran Dispute to Internati ...
    It may come as a surprise to Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum but the U.S. is obligated under international law to the peaceful resolution of its grievance against Iran. Santorum has criticized President Obama’s attempt to negotiate with Iran and, according to The ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • THAT famous email explained and the first Volu ...
    Years before Climategate, THAT email, from Phil Jones to Warwick Hughes told us everything we needed to know about the scientific standards at the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia. THAT email was the tip of the iceberg, and below is what lay underneath the surface — the things that we ...
  • Scripps blockbuster: Ocean acidification happe ...
    There goes another scare campaign. Until recently we had very little data about real time changes in ocean pH around the world. Finally autonomous sensors placed in a variety of ecosystems “from tropical to polar, open-ocean to coastal, kelp forest to coral reef” give us the informat ...
  • Unthreaded
    Let those comments flow. Thanks! Jo Rating: 7.7/10 (3 votes cast) Rating: 7.7/10 (3 votes cast)
  • Ian Hill: There have only been 78 other heatwa ...
    It’s another mindless record used to remind the public to “keep the faith” and recite the litancy: “Adelaide had it’s hottest start to the year since 1900″ Sky news Picking three particular days  outof 365 and comparing them over a century is about as cherry-p ...
  • John O’Sullivan puts his house on the li ...
    It’s slipped past most skeptics with all the action lately, but John O’Sullivan is putting in above and beyond what any single skeptical soul ought to. He’s already been a key figure helping Tim Ball in the legal fight with the UVA establishment, which has spent over a million ...

ReNew America

  • Iranian nukes: thanks to unsolved spy coverup ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - There is no effort within the U.S. intelligence community -- as far as we know -- to find out how on earth 16 intelligence agencies bestowed an imprimatur upon a 2007 "estimate" that totally inaccurately declared that Iran had given up its pursuit of nuclear weapons. I ...
  • Rick Santorum, conservative stalwart
    (National Review) - Just as the conservative movement finally has the first real chance since Ronald Reagan to see one of its own -- a "full-spectrum conservative," as Rick Santorum now calls himself, picking up the phrase from Rep. Steve King (R., Iowa) -- win the Republican presidential nomina ...
  • Santorum will fight for issues others ignore
    (Garrett M. Fahy and Shonda Werry) - Bolstered by his unexpectedly strong finish in the Iowa caucuses, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is now the talk of the GOP nomination race...
  • Santorum reaches beyond social conservatives
    (Reuters) - Sleeper Republican candidate Rick Santorum wants to show voters he is more than just a social conservative in a sweater vest, and judging by a pair of debate performances this weekend, he might be making headway...
  • America's disarmed future
    (Arthur Herman) - You have to give President Obama credit. It takes serious gall to tell the American military to its face that you are putting it on the road to second-class status. That's exactly what our commander-in-chief did at the Pentagon yesterday, as he announced nearly half a trillion ...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • Ancient Mayans Could Measure Solar Activity
    Many ancient cultures knew of planets that could not be seen with the naked eye, and therefore it is possible they counted sunspots as well. Yet there is a far easier way to keep track ...Ancient Mayans Could Measure Solar Activity is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 Solar Storm ...
  • USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP
    This time last year there was a lot of talk about mass animal die-offs. These things happen from time to time, but the cluster of events made it newsworthy. Turns out some mass deaths can ...USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Gingrich Fears ...
  • 2012: Transit of Venus
    The planet Venus was important to the Maya civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war. They ...2012: Transit of Venus is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomday ...
  • Disasters Can Destroy Economies
    For many 2012ers economics is a boring topic. Unless you have achieved the dream of 100% self-sufficiency, any decline in the economy will affect you. And that could range from hardship to starvation. In the current ...Disasters Can Destroy Economies is a post from: 2012 Blog Related pos ...
  • Volcanic Threats Galore
    Renewed Activity at El Hierro in the Canary Islands (Wired) 300 small earthquakes at Chile’s Lascar (Wired) 500 people living near Mount Lewotolok in Indonesia district abandoned their homes (Jakarta Globe) A total of 7 Indonesian volcanoes are on ...Volcanic Threats Galore is a post from: 20 ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Anti-human trafficking unit established in Delhi
    The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has designated one Unit in Special Crime Zone of CBI in Delhi as Anti-Human Trafficking Unit.
  • Computer worm hits Facebook logins
    Petach-Tikva, Israel (UPI) Jan 5, 2012 A computer worm has stolen login credentials and compromised more than 45,000 Facebook accounts, Israeli security firm Seculert said. Facebook has issued a statement saying most of the login credentials were outdated but it was informing the affected ...
  • Kim Kardashian learns from split
    After a fairytale wedding and much publicised split, Kim says she plans to follow her heart through 2012.
  • Floyd Mayweather Jr. Challenges Manny Pacquiao ...
    Floyd Mayweather Jr. just issued the challenge the world has been waiting for -- demanding Manny Pacquiao fight him once and for all ... May 5th in Vegas.As we reported, Floyd's jail sentence was postponed to June so he could fight at the MGM Grand… TMZ Floyd Mayweather Jr. Challenges ...
  • Sarkozy gains in French Presidential race: Poll
    A new poll indicates conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy is gaining ground against Francois Hollande.

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Muslim Brotherhood And Plan For Protection of ...
    It’s no secret, the events that shook the Middle East to protect Israel from the serious repercussions of the defeat of the U.S. project in Iraq. And everything that the Western alliance, led by Washington, in the context of that “Arab Spring” falls into this category. The deal reached between t ...
  • Why The US Needs a Major War
    At the moment, we find ourselves in the middle of a turbulent phase of the global evolutionary cycle which commenced in the 1980s and is projected to end by the middle of the XXI century. In the process, the US is clearly loosing its hyperpower status… Estimates offered by experts from the Russi ...
  • Smashing Greater Central Asia (IV)
    _ Part I Part II Part III Smashing Systematically The pipeline wars are real wars, in that two or more nations are ordering their civilian and military foot soldiers, on a daily basis, into life or death contests to the finish. For the United States, it is a contest which must be won, if we [...]
  • Blackwater Rebranded ‘Academi’ Wants Back in Iraq
    Say goodbye to Xe. The company formerly known as Blackwater — the world’s most infamous private security corporation — has jettisoned the name it chose in its 2009 rebrand and adopted the new name of “Academi.” The “security solutions provider” wants to wash away the taint of what came to be kno ...
  • Obama’s Byzantine Style in the ‘Greater ...
    For the last few years the incumbent US administration was getting adhered to a new, more sophisticated principle in foreign policy: to act overseas by means of its allies and to promote American initiatives as multilateral through the international organizations. Thus, the war against Libya was ...

BlogHer

  • Throw Out the Gold Stars
    When I began raising my daughters I was a proponent for the support of self-esteem development to the point of keeping them from situations that could be disappointing.  They received gold stars for making the bed, brushing their hair, being nice to each other. Bad idea.  I am still a ...
  • New Hampshire Primary: What Women Are Saying Today
    As New Hampshire voters head to the polls in the first Republican primary of the 2012 Election, BlogHer is keeping an eye to what women in social media are saying, and will also be tweeting results. Check out what the politics bloggers in the BlogHer Publishing Network are saying, too! (Note: Th ...
  • From HBO to PBS: What's Coming Up on TV this S ...
    The holidays are over and that means so are the doldrums of television.  Finally, we TV addicts will get new episodes of favorite shows and premieres of a whole crop of new shows.  And as your intrepid TV watcher, I'm here to tell you about the shows I'll be excited to see debut on my ...
  • Need a Lunchbox Pick-Me-Up?
    I've only been making school lunches for our oldest son for a few months now. I'm bored. He's bored (though not bored enough to attempt school provided lunches). We need a pick-me-up, a change-up... a lunchbox revolution, which is exactly what Louise at Late Night Plays offered in a recent post ...
  • Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
    Are you sometimes your own worst enemy? I know with myself and my clients this is SO often the case. Brilliant women, action oriented, lots of great stuff to offer the world and yet? Who is standing in the way - themselves. Read this smart post about someone facing that exact challenge. Thi ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Collecting rainwater now illegal in many state ...
    Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly ...
  • Year in review: 37 communities vote to end art ...
    A total of 37 communities vote to end artificial water fluoridation in 2011. Is your community on that list? With all the toxins in today’s drinking water it should be. ~ Health Freedoms The year 2011 ...
  • True fact: A common ingredient in commercial b ...
    Did you know that most breads you eat have been derived from human hair? It’s true! ~ Health Freedoms If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient ...
  • Explosive reports reveal HFCS in processed foo ...
    Why has the FDA ignored the fact that mercury, an element that is highly toxic in all forms, was found in a large number of brand-name processed foods? Specifically, the mercury content was found to ...
  • 7 ‘healthy’ foods that are making ...
    Ever wonder why you go all day munching on fat-free pretzels and granola yet never seem to lose any weight? Why your tasty yogurt with fruit is leaving you feeling blah and your ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • What will Gov. Tomblin say tonight?
    That headline almost seems like a silly question … I mean, don’t we pretty much know what Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s going to say about the coal industry? Would anyone be shocked if he didn’t use the phrase “backbone of our economy,” trash the U.S. Environmental ...
  • Nobody wants to hear about studies that link m ...
    Is it really all that surprising that, as we reported in the Gazette this morning, Alpha Natural Resources is trying hard to keep any discussion of West Virginia University’s studies linking mountaintop removal to human health problems out of a pending lawsuit over one of the company&#8217 ...
  • Settlements expected in Upper Big Branch mediation
    UPDATED: Here’s a link to a news story in which we report that all 29 settlements have been reached. By the end of the day, settlements are expected to have been finalized between Alpha Natural Resources and the families of all of the miners who died in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. ...
  • Will Tomblin, Legislature fix mine cleanup fund?
    Ry Rivard has an important story at the top of the front page of today’s Daily Mail, reporting: Coal companies should pay more to help clean up forsaken mine sites in West Virginia, the board overseeing state mine reclamation money said Monday. The state Department of Environmental Protect ...
  • National Research Council starts mine rescue study
    A government photo shows the SCSRs that Sago miners tried to use to survive after the January 2006 explosion. Later this week, the National Academy of Sciences will begin a new study of mine rescue called, Mine Safety: Essential Components of Self Escape.  A summary describes the effort this way ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Two spaces after a period: Why you should neve ...
    Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It’s one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men’s shirt buttons on the right and women’s on ...
  • Looking For a New Blogging Platform
    I think I’m looking for a new blogging platform for my ‘/’ location here on the site. Only the root of my site is actually WordPress — everything else is pure HTML/PHP. I’m mostly done with WordPress. Here are the things I need: It needs to be faster than my existin ...
  • New Year’s Resolutions | Patrick Rothfuss
    1. I’m going to hang out with Oot at least two hours every day. I’m going to make it a priority, rather than something I try to fit in around the edges of the other stuff I have going on in my life. 2. I’m going to do my damnedest to hang out with my [...]
  • How to Properly Debunk Something
    http://www.skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf# Related ContentCreating Polls Using Google DocsTired of Mincing WordsGoogle Instead Of Local Applications?The Pubsubhubub ProtocolQuicksilver + Quicksearches = Ultimate Power [Screencast]
  • If I ruled the world: Steven Pinker | Prospect ...
    My first edict as global overlord would be to impose the following rule on pundits: No one may bemoan a decay, decline, or degeneration without providing (1) a measure of the way the world is today; (2) a measure of the way the world was at some point in the past; (3) a demonstration that [...]

Fitwatch

  • No justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
    Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...
  • Resist plainclothes cops
    More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...
  • Plainclothes cops spotter card
    SPOTTER CARD PLAINCLOTHES PDF - please copy and distribute freely. We must remember these faces and not allow them near our protests again!
  • Plainclothes Police and “Agents Provocat ...
    FITwatch have been inspired by the amount of people taking an interest in the policing operations on November 9th. FITwatch recognise critical enagagement with policing strategy as being crucial to our success as a protest movement. However, FITwatch wanted to flag one particular area of concern ...
  • Plainclothes cops on education demo
    These are a selection of the plainclothes cops spotted on the education demo on 9th November. Fitwatchers witnessed the violent arrest or one protester and followed the officers. Other photos have come from various sources. REMEMBER THESE FACES! THESE COPS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED ON OUR PROTESTS AGA ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pr ...
    by Richard Sanders,globalresearch.ca - The following article by Richard Sanders published in May 2002, prior to the onslaught of the Iraq war, carefully documents the History of War Pretext Incidents. This historical  review raises an important issue: Is the Pentagon seeking to trigger military ...
  • “Heads” Up Hippies! Major Study Fi ...
    by Scott Morgan,stopthedrugwar.org - Among the most frequent words to fall from the lips of your typical anti-pot propagandist are almost always some sort of insistence that the stuff destroys your lungs. According to them, you hippies are all gonna choke on your bongs, and probably a lot sooner ...
  • 10 Years Too Many: National Day of Action agai ...
    From vtdigger.org – January 11, 2012, marks 10 years since the first detainees were transferred to the U.S. detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to U.S. authorities, 779 detainees have been held in Guantánamo, the vast majority without charge or criminal trial. Presently 171 ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Iran says bomb kills nuclear scientist, blames Israel TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said one of its nuclear scientists was killed on Wednesday by a magnet bomb fixed to his car by a motorcyclist and blamed Israel for the attack, intensifying diplomatic tensions the West over Tehran’s nucle ...
  • Japan to Release Australian Anti-Whaling Activists
    By Phil Mercer | Sydney,VOA news- Australia has welcomed Japan’s decision to release without charge three anti-whaling activists who boarded a Japanese whaling support vessel two days ago.  The Canberra government has warned protest groups that they might not receive such lenient trea ...

reference frame

  • Michael Mann: Standard Model is a climate model
    Freeman Dyson shouldn't be allowed to use cars, airplanes A superstitious tabloid ironically calling itself Scientific American has asked one of the most notorious fraudulent crooks on this planet, Michael Mann, to defend the climate models. If you need to increase your blood pressu ...
  • Canada, Greece, Iran, Germany
    Various things are happening in the world. Canada declares war on James Hansen and other green radicals Reuters writes about the Canadian government's decision to blast insane critics of the Alberta tar sands pipeline. The Natural Resource minister accused the local green luna ...
  • Virgo favors 20-60 GeV SUSY dark matter particle
    This blog has repeatedly updated the story about the ongoing war between Dark Matter Witnesses and Dark Matter Deniers. Some experiments claim that they have seen hints of a dark matter particle in direct searches; others claim that there's nothing there and that the first group has to be del ...
  • Will CO2 save us from next ice age?
    In 2010, I wrote about a groundbreaking article, In defense of Milankovitch by Gerard RoeThis paper by a former student of Richard Lindzen finally managed to fix Milutin Milankovič's theory which hadn't worked and the outcome was a theory that does work. The graph below contains both theore ...
  • Compositeness and SUSY at LHC
    Attempts to import Seiberg duality from string-friendly research to routine model building The first hep-ph paper on the arXiv today is called Light Stops from Seiberg Duality.Csaba Csáki (Cornell), Lisa Randall (Harvard), and John Terning (UC Davis) propose a novel framework that coul ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Ron Paul is Dangerous
    Ron Paul is a very dangerous man. Watch this video and see why. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Tim TJ Wass: 16 FACTS THAT PROVE RON PAUL IS BEST CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT Tonight I read an online article about how an Iowa... In less than 10 minutes you can wake [...] Relate ...
  • Iranian Jews to Israel: Our National Identity ...
    Iranian Jews to Israel: Our National Identity is Not for Sale I have heard about how the Iranians hate Jews and want to exterminate them. I guess someone forgot about the Jewish population that lives in harmony with Muslims. Anyone having a ‘duh’ moment? Here is evidence that Iranian ...
  • Ben Breedlove: This is my story
    No words…just watch. On December 25th, 2011 Ben Breedlove, 18, went to Heaven. This song is for you Ben   Kid Cudi responds: “I watched the video he left for the world to see, and him seeing me in detail, in his vision really warmed my heart. I broke down, Iam to tears because I [...] ...
  • SOPA is the End Game: Entertainment Industry i ...
    So let’s talk SOPA. SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act where the Entertainment Industry is lobbying congress to give them control of the Internet under the guise of stopping online piracy. The average Joe will think that preventing illegal downloads and file sharing all sounds well and goo ...
  • A doctor, confined to a wheelchair, cures hers ...
    In our busy day-to-day lives the majority of us get a bit lazy and neglect our bodies, turning to convenient New World Order Frankenfood to satisfy our hunger and save on time. The problem with this is a nation of sick and obese people that feed billions of dollars into the Frankenfood Industry ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

  • Fraccidents
    Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Louisville Water Co. Slashes Chrome-6 Pollution
    By Alex Formuzixs, EWG Communications Director In 2010, EWG identified chromium-VI contamination in the drinking water of 31 of the 35 cities we tested. One Kentucky city has stepped up to solve that problem. A change in how drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental S ...
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • 'Tis the Season for Being Green in the Kitchen
    Treat your guests to a home and food that are healthy for them and the environment. New for you this year: our Meat Eater's Guide to Climate and Health. What's the difference between cage-free and free-range? Grass-fed and pasture-raised? Our... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...
  • No Coincidence: Camp Le Jeune's Contaminated D ...
    By Alex Rindler, Government Affairs Associate Nearly 40 Marine veterans diagnosed with male breast cancer today urged President Obama to support legislation in Congress that would provide health care for those made ill by carcinogenic chemicals that... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

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 moto ...
  • 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

Views & News from Norway

  • Trondheim tops ‘most expensive’ list
    A new list of the world’s most expensive cities has suddenly catapulted the Norwegian city of Trondheim into the top spot. The relatively small metropolis in north-central Norway is now ranked as more expensive than both Oslo and Zurich. The ranking by website Numbeo.com is based on a comp ...
  • Opera House put under protection
    State preservationists normally target historic buildings in their efforts to protect Norway’s architectural heritage, but now they’ve already decided to make sure that the Opera House that opened in Oslo in 2008 will be preserved as well. “We don’t just have responsibili ...
  • Majority support lower environmental speed limits
    They may not have shown it in practice, but a new survey indicates that a majority of Oslo residents support reducing speed limits to help cut air pollution. Posted lower limits were widely ignored by motorists and proved unenforceable under current law. State and city officials admitted defeat ...
  • Evacuees finally allowed home
    Around three dozen people who were evacuated from their homes on New Year’s Day, following a major landslide, were finally allowed to return to their homes this week. One family, however, still had to wait. Some had been allowed to return earlier to their property at Byneset in Trøndelag b ...
  • Revised constitution to boost equality
    Norway is in the process of revising its constitution (grunnlov) in advance of its bicentennial in 2014. The goal is to strengthen constitutional provisions for human rights, but at least one local politician sees the revision as an opportunity to tackle racism, anti-semitism and discrimination ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Glo ...
    by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The world’s farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tons, up 53 million tons from the previous record in 2009. Consumption grew b ...
  • One Application Beauty Solution
    We don’t normally get into personal beauty products on this site, but I thought this product presentation on what to buy so you can feel good about yourself — with the bonus feature of making everyone else feel inferior compared to you — might be just the thing for some of you ...
  • Permaculture and Philosophy
    We can teach philosophy by teaching gardening, but we cannot teach gardening by teaching philosophy. – Bill Mollison The place of philosophy in Permaculture has always been a contentious subject and for very good reasons. The very identity and credibility of the design system of permacul ...
  • The Rise of Tricycle Pushcarts
    Wandering tortillas Even in backward mining communities, as late as the sixteenth century more than half the recorded days were holidays; while for Europe as a whole, the total number of holidays, including Sunday, came to 189, a number even greater than those enjoyed by Imperial Rome. Nothing ...
  • Maya Mountain 7th Annual Permaculture Design C ...
    Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course: Where: Maya Mountain Research Farm, Belize When: Feb 20 – Mar 2, 2012 Instructors: Albert Bates, Andrew Leslie Phillips, Cliff Davis, Chris Nesbitt Cost: US$1250 (including food and accommodation) Advanced Design Course: Where: Maya ...

Pointman's

  • Green Myths : There’s only one evil species on ...
    I am not a religious man. For a number of reasons, some intellectual but mostly personal, I don’t even believe in a God but I acknowledge the overall good religion has done in the world, as well as the bad. A religion is after all a man-made thing directed by human beings and will therefore&#160 ...
  • 2011 and climate alarmism.
    We’re nearly at year’s end and in the fight against climate alarmism, it can only be called a vintage year. This was supposed to be the year when they thought they would regain the initiative but it’s only served to confirm how jaded people are with it all. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Event was in ...
  • Being there and not being there.
    It’s Christmas day and I’m in fat city, living high off the hog. There’s a warm orange glow about it all. I’m home and we’ll sit around the table and I’ll join in and wear the silly paper hat, after dutifully reading the pithy joke from the cracker. I’m going to be enjoying the day.& ...
  • In a cloud above TallBloke Towers …
    Zeus stomped back over to the couch and sat down with a sigh. He put the unopened can of Special Brew in his hand on the coffee table without so much as a glance. Flicking through TV channels, he shouted with increasing frustration: ‘I bloody hate Christmas telly. Every bloody year it’s the same ...
  • It’s not just Tallbloke who’s in t ...
    Tallbloke’s fighting fund has been set up and people are generously donating whatever they can afford. This post at his place gives the current situation and how you can contribute to it. You don’t have to read very hard between the lines to see how difficult the last few days have b ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we ca ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Louisiana Justice Institute Joins Challenges t ...
    The New Orleans City Council Decision to impose a curfew on minors in the French Quarter has been called a racist policy by critics, who have called it "the equivalent of a Black code." Louisiana Justice Institute joins those who have condemned the law, and is taking action. As local station WWN ...
  • Angola Warden Burl Cain on "Black Pantherism"
    Last week, the newsletter of the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three published recently transcribed testimony of the October 2008 deposition of Burl Cain, Warden of Angola Prison, questioned by Nick Trenticosta, an attorney representing former Black Panther and Angola Three membe ...
  • Of Traitors and Fools: Robert King Comments on ...
    In a recent newsletter published by the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three, former New Orleans Black Panther Robert King has written his first comments on notorious FBI informant Brandon Darby. His comments are quoted here: Unfortunately this year has seen the rise of the far righ ...
  • City Council to Establish Allison “Big Chief T ...
    From a press release from Faces of Culture/Allison Montana Institute of Art, Culture, and Tradition Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indian Tribe: New Orleans City Council Pays Tribute to the Legacy Of Allison “Big Chief Tootie” Montana by Acknowledging and Establishing the first day Carnival /Ma ...
  • Haiti: Seven Places Where the Earthquake Money ...
    Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed and many more wounded. The UN estimated international donors gave Haiti over $1.6 billion in relief aid since the earthquake (about $155 per ...

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Good time to buy gold right now. And silver for that matter.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:23 am
  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • THE INVISIB ...
    Walter Bowart biographical sketch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bowart Life and career Born Walter Howard Kirby[3] in Omaha, Nebraska, Bowart was adopted as a newborn by Walter and Fenna Bowart. He was raised in Enid, Oklahoma, and won a McMahon Scholarship in journalism to the Univer ...
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Tuesday, October 23rd 2007 Halle Berry's "Jewish" Nose Halle Berry was on Jay Leno last night (taped last Friday) and she brought out pictures of herself that were distorted with Mac's Photo Booth program. She showed a picture of herself with a big nose and said: "'Here's wh ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Yep... keep this one always in mind... when it the sell-off starts... it will be a mass liquidation... even if you think Precther is full of crap. --- The Market is Forming Its "Biggest Head and Shoulders Top Ever": Prechter In October 2011, Robert Prechter made a presentation at t ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • New Obama Chief of S ...
    New Obama Chief of Staff — It’s Jack Lew, one more of the wandering Who? 1/9/2012 One of the Chosen is chosen to be Obama’s new Chief of Staff The headline and first sentence of of the Jerusalem Post article says it all. Why is it that hardcore Jewish Zionists repeatedly find their way into t ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Missing Galápagos Tortoise Likely Still Alive, ...
    A giant tortoise thought to have been hunted to extinction more than 150 years ago — and whose distinctive saddle-shaped shell helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — may still be living in the Galápagos Islands, according to a new Yale Click to enlarge Yale University ...
  • Renewables Provide Greater Share of U.S. Power ...
    Renewable sources of energy provided a greater share of U.S. domestic energy production than nuclear during the first nine months of 2011, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In its latest monthly energy review, the EIA reports that renewable energy — i ...
  • U.S. Limits Use of Antibiotics In Livestock to ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will prohibit the use of a class of antimicrobial drugs in livestock, citing concerns that overuse of the drugs could promote the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens that could infect humans. Beginning April 5, the FDA will limit the use of c ...
  • Interview: Putting a Price On the Real Value o ...
    How do you put a price on the value of nature? That’s the question Indian banker Pavan Sukhdev and Pavan Sukhdev his colleagues are seeking to answer in their international project on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), which published its latest report last month. The c ...
  • Putting a Price on The Real Value of Nature
    Indian banker Pavan Sukhdev has been grappling with the question of how to place a monetary value on nature. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses the ways natural ecosystems benefit people and why policymakers and businesses must rethink how they assess environmental costs and ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Tech in ’12: Apple may be in more troubl ...
    by Eric Pettifor First of all, I’m not going to predict the end of the world. I know, 2012 is the year that the Mayan long count calendar ends, on December 21st, to be exact, but somehow I doubt it will be terminal. Really, our best shot at near term extinction comes from science. But [...]
  • Joe Bodolai’s final hit
    A BoB short: A last blog post by Joe Bodolai has gone viral today after the L.A. Police ruled the well-loved comedy writer’s death a suicide. Bodolai, who worked on both “Saturday Night Live” and the “Kids in the Hall” before helping to launch Canada’s Comedy ...
  • War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.
    By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless ...
  • On Blatchford, Hitchens, and why babies suck
    By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public — that would be you — can be. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. Conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article. But conventional wi ...
  • Kent Kills Kyoto: Even the Taiwanese animators ...
    By Montreal Simon I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating effects of climate change “will be seen in our children’s lifetime. Or I could run this picture of him ret ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Southpaw Chen joins Orioles
    Taiwanese pitcher Chen Wei-yin spurned a multiyear offer from Chunichi to sign a three-year deal with the Baltimore Orioles, the Dragons said Tuesday. Chen will hold a news conference in Nagoya next Tuesday to formally announce his move. The Dragons wished the 26-year-old lefty well after five ...
  • Stricker collects first win of season
    Steve Stricker always believed experience would go a long way toward winning the PGA Tour season opener at Kapalua. This wasn't the kind he was thinking about.
  • Shimane garden selected best for ninth-straigh ...
    The U.S. magazine Journal of Japanese Gardening has picked the Adachi Museum of Art garden in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, as the best Japanese garden for the ninth consecutive year. The 165,000-sq.-meter site housing traditional moss and dry gardens has been selected as 2011's finest Japanese ...
  • Are protests loosening Putin's grip on power?
    Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone, No ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
  • U.S. no longer a land of opportunity
    "Over the past three years, Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an Entitlement Society," Mitt Romney wrote in USA Today last month. The coming election, Romney told Wall Street Journal editors last month, will be "a very simple choice" between Obama's "European social de ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • When Will the Baby Boomers Retire?
    Canada’s population, we are frequently told, is rapidly aging. The big baby boomer cohort is headed out of the workforce, meaning  that we face a future of very slow labour force growth and even possible shortages of workers. CIBC Economics has just gone so far as to argue that the Bank of ...
  • More Than 1.4 Million Unemployed
    Statistics Canada reported today that unemployment exceeds 1.4 million for the first time in eight months. December’s unemployment figure was the highest recorded since April. And these official figures significantly understate the problem of underemployment by not counting people who have given ...
  • The Clash for the Cash: CEO vs. the Average Joe
    Today the CCPA released its annual look at CEO compensation and found that by 12:00 noon on January 3rd, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s Elite 100 CEOs (the 100 highest paid CEOs of companies listed in the TSX Index) will have already pocketed $44,366. It takes the Average J ...
  • Social Insurance Benefits Increase for 2012
    Amidst the plethora of media reports on “payroll tax” increases for 2012, there was little mention of increases in benefits. There are, of course, two sides to social insurance programs. Starting in January,  CPP benefits – indexed to inflation – rise by 2.8% to a new mon ...
  • Flaherty’s Christmas List — all Mi ...
    Following recent dismal reports on rising unemployment, stagnant GDP growth, and a deteriorating economic outlook, we can only hope federal Finance minister Jim Flaherty will provide some Christmas cheer with changes “to better promote job creation and economic growth” (as he’s  asked for advice ...

ReDress

  • America on Israel's altar
    Paul J. Balles argues that while US Republican presidential candidates, except for Ron Paul, bend over backward to support anything and everything that Israel has done, does or proposes, the current primary contests may reveal a growing public tiring of blind support for Israel.
  • Zionization of American politics and how it co ...
    Alan Hart maps out a way for the de-Zionization of US politics: making politicians accountable to those who elect them and not the big money special interest lobbies through new legislation requiring that all elections be funded from taxation, with the revenue ring-fenced so that it could be use ...
  • USA's flawed political system and the push for ...
    Lawrence Davidson finds the drivers for the push for war on Iran inside the USA's structurally flawed political system, in which the warmongering neocons and faceless Israeli agents in the guise of lobbyists have primacy, and in amoral, cash-hungry politicians and a corrupt media.
  • Iran economic sanctions: the diplomacy of cowards?
    Stuart Littlewood reminds UK Foreign Secretary William Hague about the questions he has so far failed to answer regarding his inexplicable hostility to Iran, noting that this failure may simply be due to the probability that Hague and his government colleagues are acting on behalf of Israel, not ...
  • Israeli warmongers itching to attack Gaza desp ...
    Uri Avnery argues that, in his desperation to make a mark by starting a war but unable to attack Iran for fear of the apocalyptic consequences, Israel's new chief of staff, General Benny Gantz, is itching to attack Gaza instead, even without a pretext.

Physics Today

  • The mystery of rhinoceros feet
    BBC: Rhinos are one of the biggest living land mammals, yet little is known about the physics and mechanics of their relatively small feet. Unlike elephants, which have five forward-pointing toes and one "false toe" that points toward the heel, rhinos have three rigid toes and a more evenly spre ...
  • New carbon dioxide scrubber
    Science: A new kind of plastic that can remove large amounts of CO2 from the air has been produced by a research team led by George Olah of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Olah and his team needed a CO2 absorber for iron-based batteries they were working on; they tried usin ...
  • Canadian province cuts university research money
    Toronto Star: The Ontario government has cut Can$42 million in university research grants from its budget in order to meet “current fiscal challenges.” The money would have been used to support research in such areas as clean technologies and the bio-economy. In addition, soon after ...
  • Complex pasta shapes inspire mathematical studies
    New York Times: An essential part of an authentic Italian meal, pasta comes in a variety of different shapes that are both decorative and utilitarian: The shape of the pasta complements the sauce it is paired with. Recently, the various complex shapes that pasta can take have inspired people to ...
  • Stephen Hawking unable to attend 70th birthday ...
    BBC: Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was too ill to attend the 8 January symposium at Cambridge University that was held in honor of his 70th birthday. However, he was able to address the audience via a recorded speech. Unable to speak because he suffers from motor neurone disease, Hawking ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • B. Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should s ...
    by johnscarbrough (Posted Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:06:40 GMT) This game is disgusting really
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by albertodegama (Posted Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:35:29 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Gardens...
    by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:49 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla speaks about GARDENS... 1 Month ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there is a lot of mystery and mythology surrounding gardening. Should you plant your vegetables depending on the phases ...
  • FF NewS: President Abdulla 'tees off...'
    by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:15 GMT) FF News: President Abdulla 'tee's off...' 1 Month, 1 Week ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla finally worked his way into the upper reaches of the Footprintsfilmworks.com Open leaderboard in Saturday's third round, though h ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack ...
    by footprints222 (Posted Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:36:19 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack Obama 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there will be road closures and traffic restrictions over the next two days during United States president Barack Ob ...

Peakwater

  • Water cyclists: An epic ride to raise awarenes ...
    “On July 4, 2010, Joost Notenboom and Michiel Roodenburg set off from Deadhorse, Alaska, on a more-than-18,000-mile journey to the southern tip of Argentina. Their chosen mode of transport: bamboo bicycles. Their mission: to raise awareness of the global water crisis that leaves more than ...
  • Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossi ...
      “The latest ominously arrived in Republican-dominated Ohio on New Year’s Eve, quickly prompting Youngstown’s mayor to buy earthquake insurance and lament, “You lose your whole house, that’s your life savings, and if you have no money or no insurance to replac ...
  • Water Pollution In Israel Threatens People, An ...
    “Water pollution in Israeli lakes, streams and groundwater aquifers is reaching alarming levels. Although the country has regulations in place to prevent discharges, including a comprehensive Water Law, contamination is commonplace. And now scientists are finding that water quality problem ...
  • Federal agency cancels water delivery to Pa. town
    “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly changed its mind Saturday about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were found to be tainted by a natural gas drilling operation. Only 24 hours after promising them water, EPA ...
  • China Set To Frack America In Shale Deal With ...
    “Showing that it isn’t worried about the upswell of angst over hydraulic fracking technology, the Chinese government, through state-controlled Sinopec, today struck a deal with Devon Energy to buy into five prospective new exploration areas in the U.S. The deal, which includes $900 million ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Leads Opposition to Garbage Incinerator
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today led opposition to a proposed garbage incinerator being built on Ridge Road by Cleveland Public Power. Kucinich spoke to supporters at a rally before testifying in a public hearing held by the Ohio EPA and the Cleveland Division of Air Quality Followin ...
  • Kucinich Statement on the Proposed Waste Incin ...
    Today Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement regarding the proposed trash incinerator at the Ridge Road Transfer Station in Cleveland.  “Despite seeming benign, trash incinerators have left a trail of pollution which is borne disproportionately by inner city com ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Adoption of CDC Lead Adviso ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) congratulated the Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its comprehensive policy recommendations in response to new science on the health effects of lead for children.  Th ...
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    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (OH-10) and U.S. Representatives Fudge, Ryan, Kaptur, Sutton, and Senator Brown sent a letter to Governor John R. Kasich requesting that the successful Ohio PASSPORT program for low-income seniors and disabled persons not be privatized.  Kucinich led the eff ...
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    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Congressman Michael Michaud (D-ME) today won $10 million for the Gulf War Veterans’ Illness Research Program (GWVIRP), which aims to identify treatments for veterans of the first Gulf War.  The funding was included in H.R. 2055, the Consolidated Approp ...

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  • "Year of Consciousness"
    … ( www.NaturalNews.com … "Year of Consciousness" Something to consider if you live in Arizona where chemtrails are prevalent every day … Here’s how to detox your body of aluminum — a very important topic given all the exposure to aluminum these days (chemtr ...
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Monga Bay ( Articles )

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    Bryan Stuart’s mission as a curator of amphibians and reptiles at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is to understand the diversity of life on earth. For that, he documents what species occur where and why. He’s particularly attracted to areas where there’s a dearth ...
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Science - NZ Herald

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    The male Y-chromosome is shrinking - but blokes are not about to vanish.Australian National University (ANU) researchers have found that genes are disappearing from the chromosome across species, from wallabies to humans.The Y-chromosome...
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Hit & Run | Reason

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    Two L.A. County Sheriff's deputies tried to remove a woman with special needs from a public bus. When she refused, one of the deputies clocked her in the face. NBC has the video, which was taken on a cell phone by another passenger. The deputies attempted to confiscate the video, but ...
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Mercury Rising

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Automatic Earth

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Press TV

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    Creating catastrophic failure
    (a) We describe in detail the key role that the US played in the 1970s in starting Iran's nuclear program. We show that not only did the US push the Shah to buy nuclear power plants (NPPs) from the US, but was also willing to offer Iran the technology for uranium enrichment if Iran agrees to buy eight US-manufactured NPPs. This should be compared with the present state of affairs whereby the US and its European allies are pressuring Iran to refrain from utilizing its uranium enrichment facilities and, instead, import enriched uranium for its NPP.
    (b) We then compare what we describe in (a) with the present positions of the US neoconservatives and their sympathizers, which reveal the extent to which they are willing to inflict CIVILIAN casualties and economic damage on Iran to stop it from starting the Bushehr reactor.
     
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     According to Miroslan Lipar, section head of operational safety at the IAEA, the IAEA has conducted several years of technical cooperation in Iran at nuclear facilities such as Bushehr, and is implementing national emergency plan and training programmes:
    "There is quite a huge cooperation project, financed by the Iranian side, that is carrying out training programmes and evaluation of safety requirements," he said. "Iran is developing a national emergency response plan that has several aspects, including earthquakes, tornados, flooding, and radiation, and (in mid July) there was an expert mission to review offsite emergency response plans. The team made several recommendations to the emergency response plan," he added.
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