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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.

Friday, January 13, 2012

13 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MEXICO: Cross-Border Child Custody, a Legal Tangle
    Mexican or foreign-born children being held by one of their parents in this or another country are caught up in a legal tangle marred by red tape and the arbitrary powers of judges, according to experts.
  • Iran's Relations with Latin America Less Than ...
    Its economy hurting from sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been making a show of bolstering its ties to Latin America, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this past week making his sixth official visit to the region since taking office in ...
  • Egypt Follows Israel, Eyeing U.S. Aid Without ...
    The United States, the largest provider of military aid to Israel, has rarely, if ever, succeeded in using its leverage to get the Jewish state to abandon its continued repression of Palestinians or halt illegal settlements in occupied territories.
  • EUROPE: Berlin Urged to End Austerity Measures
    Bolstered by Germany's strong economy, Berlin has become the unofficial capital of the battered European monetary union.
  • GUATEMALA: For the Maya, the World Isn't Endin ...
    The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world's natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Western Values, Barbarian Conduct
    Summary: Another Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated in cold blood; but does the West care? source: Iran Diplomacy Editorial read more
  • What War With Iran Might Look Like
    Summary: Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between Iraq and Iran could easily escalate into what would eventually become a global conflict, was w ...
  • Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of ‘Covert’ Ira ...
    Summary: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s charge Tuesday that Iran had intended to keep the Fordow site secret until it was revealed by Western intelligence revived a claim the Barack Obama administration made in September 2009. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Nothing US does will solve "Iran problem"
    Summary: Tehran Peace MuseumThe government is less powerful than it was, but the regime itself is firmly in control. The nuclear program continues; Iranians go about their business, grumbling as they do. But a nation that weathered a revolution, an eight-year war with Iraq, and more than 30 y ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Tuna labeled 'dolphin safe' is still caught wi ...
    Starting the late 1980s, cans of tuna sporting "dolphin safe" labels started to appear in U.S. grocery stores. Brands carrying these labels were preferentially purchased by consumers appalled by fishing practices that had led to the death of 8 million dolphins since...
  • Marijuana smoking better for lungs than cigarettes
    Marijuana smoking, at least at moderate levels, does not harm lungs but actually improves airflow rates and lung capacity. That's the finding of a recent study published in the January 11, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Large-scale...
  • Seaweed fibers boost weight loss
    A team of scientists at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark has discovered evidence that seaweed fibers have a high corrective impact on obesity. Dietary fibers increase health statusPrevious studies have already established...
  • Fiji government bans all non-fluoridated tooth ...
    Health freedom in the South Pacific nation of Fiji has taken an extreme turn for the worst with newly enacted government legislation that has banned the market and sale of any toothpastes that do not contain added fluoride chemicals. The Fiji Times reports that, effective...
  • 2012 The Year of Troubles
    We have finally arrived at the fateful year of 2012 and we can expect all kinds of troubles. We might as well get used to it; we are now living in a year of prophecy -- that is, if you are attuned to such things. Where I built my Sanctuary in Brazil they have been talking...

Threat Level

  • Rep. Smith Waters Down SOPA, DNS Redirects Out
    Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, said Friday he is removing a major provision of his bill that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright and trademark infringement. The announcement from the chairman of the House Judiciar ...
  • Nevada State Bar Investigating Copyright-Troll ...
    Steve Gibson, copyright-troll Righthaven's chief executive, said Friday that he is "fully cooperating" with a Nevada State Bar inquiry into him and two former Righthaven lawyers. The bar, which supervises lawyers, has declined to divulge the allegations. But a Nevada federal judge this summer ca ...
  • TSA Air Marshal Arrested for Stealing Boston O ...
    A TSA federal air marshall was arrested in December for allegedly striking a female Occupier, stealing her phone and fleeing. Now the TSA is investigating, but it's still unclear why he was there in the first place.
  • Leahy Offers to Remove Net-Altering DNS Redire ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said Thursday he is having second thoughts on a major provision of a bill he is sponsoring that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright infringement. The legislation under the Protect IP Act mandates that ISPs alter records in the n ...
  • Manning Should Be Court-Martialed, Court Offic ...
      All charges against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning should stand, according to a recommendation made by the investigating officer who presided over Manning’s pretrial hearing last month. Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, the investigating officer who presided over Manning’s Article 32 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP War on the IRS Costs U.S. Billions
    For any American concerned about the federal budget deficit, job one must be to collect all of the tax revenue owed to the United States Treasury. That's why supposed Republican deficit hawks simply aren't serious about the national debt. After all, a new report confirmed that steep GOP budget ...
  • Romney Recycles 2008 Attack on Hillary Clinton ...
    His Democratic foe, Mitt Romney declared, would "drag America down to Europe's standards." His opponent represents, Romney insisted, "the old, classic, European caricature that we describe of big government, big taxation, welfare state." But those now-familiar slanders weren't directed at Bara ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • On Eve of MLK Day, Michelle Alexander & Randal ...
    On this eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, we host a wide-ranging discussion with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson and author Michelle Alexander about the mass incarceration of African Americans that has rolled back many achievements of the civil rights movement. Today there are ...
  • "Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Soci ...
    "Makeda," the new novel by TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, is set at the dawn of the civil rights era. The book follows a young man coming of age in segregated Richmond, Virginia, who discovers his roots in Africa through his blind grandmother. "Sometimes when we think of slavery, we calcu ...
  • 2 Years After Devastating Earthquake, Haiti's ...
    On the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed roughly 300,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless, we speak with Randall Robinson, author of "An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President." The United Nations estimates intern ...
  • Headlines for January 13, 2012
    Presiding Officer Recommends Court-Martial for Manning, Report: U.S. Uses Secret Channel to Warn Iran Strait Closure a "Red Line", U.S. Identifies 2 Marines in Urination Video, Gingrich Claims Pressure from "Extraordinarily Wealthy Institutions" to Drop Bain Criticism, Nigerian Oil Workers Set S ...
  • Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page January 11, 2012 The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remark ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • 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

  • Cat Fights Hairdryer
    This is another too-cute-not-to-share video. I’ve always had a bit of fun with the strong air stream of a hairdryer, but not as much fun as this cat seems to be having. Cats are funny creatures, aren’t they? But, it turns out, this cat hasn’t lost its mind; it’s just blin ...
  • Chipmunk in Slow Motion
    Too cute not to share. I love chipmunks. But a chipmunk in slow motion?! Too cute.
  • Life is Resilient
      I ran across this nice photo the other day. Not sure of the photographer. But it’s a good reminder of how resilient life is,.. and how life can pop up and grow even in the most unfriendly of circumstances (sometimes). It’s a good reminder of the beauty that can spring out of t ...
  • World 5.0 Offers Priorities to Cincinnati City ...
      On Thursday, 1/5/2012, World 5.0, in concert with a dozen or so Occupiers from Cincinnati, presented Cincinnati City Council with ideas for priorities for the council in this new year of 2012. I also presented the council members with a copy of the book, “World 5.0 – Healing O ...
  • South Africa: 448 Rhinos Killed in 2011 [Warni ...
    © naturepl.com / Mark Carwardine / WWF An announcement made today by WWF confirms that 2011′s rhino death toll in South Africa reached a record-breaking 448. Of the 448 rhinos murdered for their horns, 19 were critically endangered black rhinos. 252 of the rhino killings occurred in K ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Bringing Tracy Back on Axis of Logic - Music a ...
    Axis Reader, CanDoJack's comment today in the Reader Comment section below, prompted us to bring Tracy and her brilliant music back for a replay. Her lyrics and music in these three songs are prophetic, even more relevant today than when she first wrote and sang them. - LMB Editor's Note:...
  • Bringing Ska-P back on Israel and Palestine - ...
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  • Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Opposition P ...
    Editor's Comment: Venezuela's opposition once again appears to be withering on a vine that has not taken root since President Chavez was first elected 12 years ago. The men who would be president this year are little more than plastic media candidates, reading scripts written by their funding so ...
  • Venezuela: The Threat of a Good Example? - ...
    Washington has made no secret of its disdain for Venezuela’s President Chavez and mass media have turned a democratic leader into a dictatorship. Does Venezuela really represent a threat to the United States or is the hype just an excuse for regime change? [NOTE: I accompanied President Chave ...
  • Glossy façades can’t hide an Indian spring - India
    From Jammu Kashmir to Maharashtra, in a land of empty advertising slogans and fantastic wealth that barely conceals vast poverty, you can see the first signs of a popular new uprising. When the early morning fog rises and drifting skeins from wood fires ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: All You Fas ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by UnAmericanBandstand: A short song from one of Woody's radio broadcasts. (1940's?) Featured in this performance are: *Woody of course-guitar and voc. *the great SONNY TERRY on harmonica, "whooops" and voc. other musicians most likely featured in this performance: *P ...
  • Job Creation Numbers Shrinking Like Woolen Mittens
    By @BGinKC Remember how Mittens used to boast that he had created over a hundred thousand jobs in his career as a vulture capitalist? It hasn't been quite a week since he made that very claim in a debate in New Hampshire last Saturday night. That number has shrinking like your wool socks the las ...
  • Taking a Critical Stand in Indiana
    By @KYYellowDog Hard as it is for a Kentuckian to admit that hoosiers do anything worthwhile, what's happening right now in the Indiana legislature is huge - even bigger than what happened in Wisconsin last February. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: Maybe we should shift our attention to ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD So, was it the third murder of a nuclear scientist or Leon Panetta insisting that Iran is not building a bomb? "Iran's parliamentary speaker has said that he believes that the standoff over his country's nuclear programme can be solved through serious talks. Ali Larijani told a news con ...
  • Zucotti Re-Occupied! But No Sitting.
    By @KYYellowDog Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake: The barricades around Zuccotti Park were finally taken down after NYCLU took issue with how the presence of the barricades were in violation of Brookfield Properties' zoning permit and wrote a letter. The removal led many Occupy Wall Street proteste ...

Care 2

  • End bobcat trapping in New Hampshire forever ! ...
    Bobcats in NH have not been trapped since 1989. However, trapping of bobcats may soon be legal again in NH, if our opposition to trapping them is not expressed and heard. Thus this petition and request for you to sign it. Trappers want to exploit bobcats Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |& ...
  • Tell Obama to Protect Animals in 2012 ! PLEASE ...
    One thing is clear, Obama didn't wow us with his commitment to animal issues in 2011. In fact, the opposite is true. Animal welfare advocates are disappointed in many of the decisions that the Obama administration has made through the year. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Ask the EU to Protect Rescued Whales and Dolph ...
    Ask the European Union to regulate that rescued cetaceans are rescued animals, not strokes of good fortune for aquariums, and if an animal is to be held temporarily that does not mean permanent confinement Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Submergence threat to Palamu Tiger Reserve
    Another development project, though long in the pipeline, is set to take its toll on a tiger habitat. The upcoming North Koel irrigation project has been assessed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) as potentially harmful for Jharkhand Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  | ...
  • World's smallest frog discovered in Papua New ...
    The world's smallest vertebrate -- animals that have a backbone -- is a frog that could sit within the confines of your fingernail, a new study reports. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Is This What President Obama’s ‘Change’ Looks ...
    While driving my truck and listening to Bloomberg Radio, I almost gagged on my coffee. What caused my knee jerk reaction? Let me set the table as to what I heard, prompted my thinking “You have got to be kidding me”, and why I feel compelled to write this commentary today.   I believ ...
  • Friday the 13th Open Thread
    “When a corporation farts, I’ll believe it’s a human being.” – Dylan Ratigan. Ratigan’s appearance today on Morning Joe was to promote his new book, Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry. ...
  • Jon Stewart Loves Tea Party Terrorists?
    I know that many readers here dislike Jon Stewart. But the following piece illustrates the genius of his show. He indirectly comes to the aid of the Tea Party. Can you believe it? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Civil Disservice www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Ep ...
  • RAC Audits
    As you know, CMS (Medicare) governs the medical profession. Appointed and hired bureaucrats who have little or no experience in the health-care business interpret the rules and regulation without oversight.    Health care providers are now subject to audit of medicare charges.  These ‘audi ...
  • Double Dip Recession Starting?
    Americans have grown accustomed to being lied to. Take inflation stats, for example. The Feds claim to measure inflation but exclude food and fuel from the calculation. That’s like claiming to measure one’s weight gain by excluding all weight added from eating and drinking. Food and ...

Futurismic

  • Out of Destruction, Transformation?
    Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A hard look at coal, by Marcus McCarroll - The ...
    A hard look at coal, by Marcus McCarroll The Keene Sentinel The visual effect of flying over a mountaintop removal coal mining operation, from deep forest green to ash-gray devastation is overpowering. This documentary ought to be shown to every student in this country, young and old, and every ...
  • Laughter, tears and fond recollections at Gate ...
    Laughter, tears and fond recollections at Gatewood Galbraith memorial service Lexington Herald Leader 4 at age 64, ran for governor five times, pushing eclectic platforms that favored legalization of marijuana, opposed mountain-top removal and backed the relaxation of gun laws. He never won a ra ...
  • Readers' Voice: Jan. 13, 2012 - Charleston Gazette
    Readers' Voice: Jan. 13, 2012 Charleston Gazette I am appalled that a reader would call in and say that mountaintop removal is doing God's work. My Lord. That is just so far out of line that I cannot even comprehend it. It's funny to hear an individual want to celebrate the accomplis ...
  • The cognitive dissonance of coal politics in W ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) The cognitive dissonance of coal politics in W.Va. Charleston Gazette (blog) ... counties — make somewhat contorted faces and try desperately to change the subject when anyone dares mention the growing body of science linking living near mountaintop removal operations t ...
  • Topangan Declares Green Party Candidacy - Topa ...
    Topangan Declares Green Party Candidacy Topanga Messenger I am against coal and mountain-top removal but will support some fossil fuel exploration and extracting, such as natural gas as a bridge fuel that is less polluting and creates jobs—but only real oversight and easy redress for citizens. . ...

Memeorandum

  • TV chef famous for Southern-fried decadence to ...
    The Daily: TV chef famous for Southern-fried decadence to reveal she has diabetes  —  Paula Deen's “brunch burger” uses a donut instead of a bun.  —  Deen, with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” could make millions endorsing a Novartis diabe ...
  • Penny wise, pound foolish (Steve Benen/Washing ...
    Steve Benen / Washington Monthly: Penny wise, pound foolish  —  Suzy Khimm offers a great example of budget cuts costing, not saving, us money. … The agency, the report (pdf) said, “lacks the resources to maximize revenue collection, thereby exacerbating the federal ...
  • Gallup: Wealthy worry about deficit, poor worr ...
    Suzy Khimm / Washington Post: Gallup: Wealthy worry about deficit, poor worry about jobs  —  Gallup shows that there's a direct correlation between household income and concern about the deficit.  A recent survey found that the national debt/deficit was the most frequently ...
  • Menendez drops hold on judicial pick (Seung Mi ...
    Seung Min Kim / The Politico: Menendez drops hold on judicial pick  —  Sen. Robert Menendez on Friday gave the green light to one of President Barack Obama's judicial nominations — following media speculation that he had blocked the appointment due to a personal vendetta.& ...
  • Chronicling Mitt's mendacity (Steve Benen/Wash ...
    Steve Benen / Washington Monthly: Chronicling Mitt's mendacity  —  Paul Krugman noted this morning that Mitt Romney tells so many falsehoods so often, he seems determined to rehabilitate George W. Bush's reputation “by running a campaign so dishonest that it makes Bush loo ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Building on “toxic land”
    As factories have moved out of Chinese cities, housing and public buildings have been built on contaminated sites. Bao Xiaodong and Zhang Xinyuan investigate.Former industrial land is referred to in Europe and the United States as “brownfield”. It is a more refined term for this ofte ...
  • A business plan to stop ecocide
    Nature is under constant attack from corporate forces, but a British lawyer wants to find a capitalist to fight for the environment, writes Juliette Jowit. William Wilberforce is popularly credited with the abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire in the 1800s. But the anti-slaver ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Rep. Smith Waters Down SOPA, DNS Redirects Out
    Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, said Friday he is removing a major provision of his bill that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright and trademark infringement. The announcement from the chairman of the House Judiciar ...
  • Nevada State Bar Investigating Copyright-Troll ...
    Steve Gibson, copyright-troll Righthaven's chief executive, said Friday that he is "fully cooperating" with a Nevada State Bar inquiry into him and two former Righthaven lawyers. The bar, which supervises lawyers, has declined to divulge the allegations. But a Nevada federal judge this summer ca ...
  • TSA Air Marshal Arrested for Stealing Boston O ...
    A TSA federal air marshall was arrested in December for allegedly striking a female Occupier, stealing her phone and fleeing. Now the TSA is investigating, but it's still unclear why he was there in the first place.
  • Leahy Offers to Remove Net-Altering DNS Redire ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said Thursday he is having second thoughts on a major provision of a bill he is sponsoring that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright infringement. The legislation under the Protect IP Act mandates that ISPs alter records in the n ...
  • Manning Should Be Court-Martialed, Court Offic ...
      All charges against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning should stand, according to a recommendation made by the investigating officer who presided over Manning’s pretrial hearing last month. Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, the investigating officer who presided over Manning’s Article 32 ...

Equality Trust

  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

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 ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    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 ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, 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

  • Hey, email me your mailing address after you s ...
    A few days ago I posted this: A few months ago I offered to give a book to each new person who subscribed to my blog up to 500 - I have 200 hardcover books left (now about 50).  So, the next 200 new subscribers will get a free hardcover book.  I then added: Just subscribe here and e ...
  • Kids making our meat safe when we do not
    I received this email this evening: Please view the video below. It is regarding food safety and Federal Register No. 2011-8408 Not Applying the Mark of Inspection Pending Certain Test Results. A group of 5th, 6th and 7th grade students made this video and would like your support in getting t ...
  • 190 with Salmonella Heidelberg Due to Meal Mar ...
    CDC Final Outbreak Report:  A total of 190 illnesses due to Salmonella Heidelberg with the outbreak pattern were reported from 6 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state the product is distributed to is as follows: New York (109), New Jersey (62), Pennsylvania (10), Maryl ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • No title
  • 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!

  • "Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosec ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan. Ten years ago, Omar Deghayes and Morris Davis would have struck anyone as an odd pair. While they have never met, they now share a profound connection, cemented through their time at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Deghayes wa ...
  • "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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • Bill Moyers to return to PBS
    Is This Land Made for You and Me – or for the Super-Rich? truth-out Thursday 12 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Where Can We Look For Hope?
    Source: Wegelin & CO. Investment Commentary No. 280 1. History tells stories It may be in the nature of the way we deal with crises, and are ultimately able to overcome them, that we need to tell them as stories. Sometimes as short stories, such as we read every day in the papers: [...]
  • Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank ...
    By Ellen Brown Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack.  Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt, critics are pushing legislation that would defuse the postal crisis by breaking the backs of the p ...
  • George Friedman on Stratfor’s Security B ...
    YouTube (10 Jan 12) Related reading: Stratfor Back Online After Cyberhack abc News (11 Jan 12)
  • 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 ...

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

  • 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 To start the discussion: articles of interest this week A disturbing fact to disturb thi ...
  • Continuity and dysfunctionality in US foreign ...
    Summary:  Today we gain some insights about ourselves from Cold War uber-hawk Colin Grey.  Nations have different strategic cultures, different styles of foreign policy.  Like those of the US and Iran,  global prosperity in the next decade might depend on how these two cultures interact.  Here w ...
  • Status report on the war with Iran (we’r ...
    Summary:  We’re marching towards a war.  Like our others this past decade, an ill-considered conflict based mostly on lies.  This might be larger, more expensive, and more painful.  Take a deep breath while reading this post and consider what we’re doing.  Only our passivity, our imp ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • You Might Have Missed: Nuclear Materials, Econ ...
    - Nuclear Materials Security Index (PDF), Nuclear Threat Intiative, January 2012. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Nuclear Materials Security Index includes findings for each of 176 countries, including thirty-two with at least one kilogram of weapons-usable nuclear materials and 144 with les ...
  • Top of the Morning: Ante Way Up in Nigeria Pet ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest. The Ante is Way Up in Nigeria’s Petrol Protests As protests enter its fifth day, the main union of oil workers said it would call for a strike on Sunday should the Nigerian government not reverse its decision to end ...
  • US Marines Desecrate Bodies of Taliban Dead: T ...
    The video of what appears to be four US Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters has gone viral. The outrage expressed by Secretary of Defense Panetta, Secretary of State Clinton, and other official spokesmen is genuine. Presuming this is authentic--and there's no reason to think oth ...
  • Don’t Neglect the Biological Weapons Convention
    The December 2011 review conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) demonstrated the danger of the bioweapons ban drifting into irrelevance. Standstill was the motto of the meeting. Only incremental improvements on some procedural issues were achieved. Between now and the next review ...
  • Iranian Scientists and US Targeted Killings
    Driving in rush hour traffic yesterday morning in Tehran, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, chemical engineer and department supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was killed. Reportedly, two men on a motorcycle attached a “sticky bomb” to Ahmadi Roshan’s Peugeot, killing the scientist an ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Right's Quixotic Quandary
    With the South Carolina primary eight days away, and Rick Perry having morphed into the Incredible Shrinking Candidate, conservative Republicans are down to two options in their quixotic quest for a non-Romney. The only problem: One has already displayed more political personalities than Sybil, ...
  • Google and the Dread Pirate Roberts Strategy
    A blogpost that I wrote elsewhere, complaining about Google, has led to a disagreement between Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias. Drum Just out of curiosity, did anyone ever really believe that “don’t be evil” stuff? I mean, Google’s a big corporation. They’ve been a big public corporation for nearl ...
  • Why Romney Can Win South Carolina
      Mitt Romney greets voters at a rally in Charleston, South Carolina. Two of the most recent polls from South Carolina show a tight race for victory in the primary. A new survey from the American Research Group finds Mitt Romney in the lead with 29 percent of the vote, to 25 percent ...
  • Geithner's Not-So-Terrific Forecasting Skills
    Would Barack Obama have appointed Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary had he been privy to the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s meetings with its regional leaders, which became public yesterday? Geithner, who headed the New York Fed at the time, comes off as utterly clueless about the potential for ...
  • Friday Miscellany
    Good lord, the week goes by fast, and I don't get to comment on 10 percent of what's interesting out there. So here are a few items not to be missed: Jerry Sandusky. Sara Ganim, the amazing young reporter who tracked down and revealed the sordid story at Penn State, reports on the back story be ...

Buzzflash

  • Michelle Obama Takes on Bigoted Stereotypes an ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Stereotypes are hard to break, particularly when it comes to race. That issue was just directly confronted by First Lady Michelle Obama in a CBS interview, reposted on CNN with the headline "Michelle Obama: I'm no angry black woman." The "angry bla ...
  • Selling Military Weapons to Create Jobs: A Mom ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "But no matter how futile, repulsive or dysfunctional war may be," Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her book Blood Rites, "it persists." A fascinating story in the New York Times just after Christmas showed this persistence unfolding before our very eyes. T ...
  • For-profit Medicine Can Be a Killer
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When patients become profit centers, all our health is at risk. First, for those who are lucky enough to have private insurance, we are at the mercy of claims adjusters and benefit managers whose prime objective is to minimize health insurance compa ...
  • Gingrich Attacks Romney as "Predatory Capitali ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's make or break time for the disgraced former Speaker as he aims to dismantle the Romney campaign with a massive ad buy and new film charging the former Massachusetts governor with being a ‘predatory capitalist.' Money from the multi-billionaire Las Ve ...
  • 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Pistachio penis pump for erectile dysfunction?
    Pistachio nuts apparently improve erectile function parameters and serum lipid profiles in patients with erectile dysfunction. So says a research paper in the imaginatively named International Journal of Impotence Research (a section of The Journal of Sexual Medicine from Nature Publishing Group ...
  • Check your drink for roofies
    No matter how diligent a person is, there’s always a chance that someone malicious could slip something into your drink on a night out. Even an innocent non-alcoholic beverage can ruin your night and perhaps your life if spiked. "Date rape drugs," have led to at least 200,000 rapes ...
  • Red wine, resveratrol, retraction
    You know all that guff about drinking red wine being somehow good for you despite the fact that it is up to about 15% potent organic solvent by volume? It was the resveratrol wasn’t it? The substance red wine that’s supposed to have had health benefits…well…The University ...
  • Zappar the flaming elements
    My issue of Education in Chemistry arrived today complete with a nice big poster of burning elemental symbols, each coloured to represent the actual flame test colour you get when burning lithium, barium, potassium etc. It is a promo for the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge Lower Sixth (C3L6). But, ...
  • Placebos, quackery and alternative medicine
    A placebo is “a substance or procedure a patient accepts as medicine or therapy, but which has no specific therapeutic activity”. In other words, it simulates a medical treatment and deceives the patient. Is this why practitioners of spurious complementary and alternative medicine (s ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Amnesty International Urges Caution as U.S. Re ...
    Suzanne Nossel, Amnesty International USA’s new executive director, issued the following statement in response to announcement that the United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Myanmar: read more
  • Gov. Brewer’s Decision to Implement Arizona Me ...
    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer today said she will implement the state’s voter-approved medical marijuana law, nine days after a federal judge granted a request by the American Civil Liberties Union to throw out a lawsuit filed by Brewer seeking to strike it down.read more
  • Dr. King Jr. March for Jobs and Justice
    Dr. King Jr. March for Jobs and Justice Planned for Saturday, January 14, 2012 Protesters Plan 41 mile Civil Rights Walk from Baltimore to Occupy Washington D.C. A host of organizations committed to economic justice, civil rights and peace will be joining together this Saturday to hold a Jobs Ma ...
  • As Anniversary of Citizens United Looms, Publi ...
    As the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s damaging Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling looms, thousands of people across the country will stage demonstrations, rallies, protests and other actions to magnify the urgent need to overturn the decision and ensure d ...
  • A Movement Moment: Growing Support for Overtur ...
    More than 60 organizations have now joined the effort to combat the anti-democratic corporate and special interest spending in our elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, by supporting a constitutional amendment to overturn that decision.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Who Knew There Was So Much Poverty? The Poor, ...
    Donna Smith Last evening, Tavis Smiley hosted a program that was broadcast live on C-SPAN live and that focused for two-and-a-half hours on the issue of poverty in America.  It was terrific.  The energy and commitment of the exper ...
  • Arthur Brisbane, The NYT and Selective Stenogr ...
    Glenn Greenwald The New York Times‘ Public Editor Arthur Brisbane unwittingly sparked an intense and likely enduring controversy yesterday when he pondered — as though it were some agonizing, complex dilemma — whether ...
  • 'We're Not Broke': The Movement That Helped Sp ...
    Allison Kilkenny Back in February 2011, I started reporting on a movement called US Uncut that formed in opposition to the practice of tax-dodging. As it turns out, corporate tax evasion is a huge, huge problem.read more
  • The (Remote-Controlled) War at Home
    Valerie Schloredt Nearly a third of the aircraft used by the United States military don't carry pilots, according to a new Congressional report. The aircraft are drones, and their pilots are often thousands of miles away, controlling th ...
  • America Isn't a Corporation
    Paul Krugman “And greed — you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.”read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Why is it open season on Palestinians in US pr ...
    Hasan Abu Nimah The Electronic Intifada Amman The pro-Israel rhetoric of some election hopefuls is so extreme that they make George W. Bush seem reasonable by comparison.
  • 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 ...
  • I saw Sabra hummus for sale at my high school ...
    Nadine Darwish The Electronic Intifada Nadine Darwish felt a strong urge to do something when she saw Sabra hummus for sale in her school’s cafeteria, knowing Sabra’s mother company gives money to the Israeli army.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • Over Two Dozen Amicus Briefs Filed This Week S ...
    Today amicus briefs supporting the Affordable Care Act’s minimum coverage provision are due in the Supreme Court. It is likely that as many as thirty briefs will be filed by the time today is over, and the Center for American Progress has released a synopsis of 22 of these briefs. One thin ...
  • Super PACs Outspending Candidate Committees Tw ...
    Super PACs supporting candidates are outspending those candidates’ campaign committees two-to-one in South Carolina, having already spent $7 million so far compared to a combined $3.2 million for presidential campaigns. The difference, of course, is that Super PACs can accept unlimited don ...
  • New York Republican Marriage Equality Supporte ...
    New York state Sen. Steve Saland (R) crafted the religious protections that helped the state’s marriage equality law pass last year and was one of four Republican senators to vote for it. Groups like the National Organization for Marriage have tried to counter their reelection, but Saland& ...
  • GOP Rep. Berates Student Concerned About Pell ...
    To avoid a government shutdown at the end of 2011, Republicans succeeded in their campaign to cut the federal Pell Grant program by effectively kicking up to 100,000 low-income students off the rolls. Last week, Arkansas constituent Kelly Eubanks, a college student who has two jobs and two child ...
  • 25 Kansas Lawmakers Endorse Anti-Abortion Pers ...
    Lawmakers in Kansas are hoping to add another anti-abortion bill to their long list of laws that aim to restrict women’s access to the procedure. Today, 25 House members endorsed a personhood amendment to the constitution that would, if passed by legislators in the 2012 session and approve ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • harper the Homophobe
    harper's cold, clammy, homophobic hands are all over the asinine statement from the Justice Department lawyer that non-Canadian gays and lesbians who got married in Canada were never married to begin with. If there's a residency requirement for divorce, then say so and STFU. You gotta know that ...
  • The Lying Contractor
    So, we needed some bathroom renovations done. Unbeknownst to me the wife decided to go with a contractor who didn't have a clue what he was talking about. His "estimate" was ridiculously low because it wasn't based on reality. Maybe if he gets all his materials for free and finished in less than ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Panic over legality of same sex marriages perf ...
    A report of the position federal government lawyers are taking in a case involving the right of a foreign same sex couple who married in Canada to get a divorce, has put the legality of some Canadian same sex marriages in limbo.
  • Madonna; Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' copies 'E ...
    The Material Girl seems to think that the Fame Monster has in essence copied - stolen is perhaps too strong a word - a song of hers, at least that would seem to be the gist of a remark Madonna made to Newsweek about a certain Lady Gaga anthem-like song.
  • Tests reveal 8 Canadian drug deaths from ecsta ...
    The drug-related deaths of 8 young Canadians, 3 in the Vancouver area, 5 in Calgary, in the past two months are now being blamed on ecstasy laced with a drug called Paramethoxy-methamphetamine, or PMMA.
  • NASA predicts massive ecological change in Canada
    A NASA study predicts that parts of Canada are among the areas that will experience massive ecological changes by the year 2100.
  • Justin Bieber loses People's Choice award to B ...
    While it may not be as disappointing as his loss at the 2011 Grammy Awards, Canadian superstar singer Justin Bieber failed to win the at the 38th People's Choice Awards on Jan. 11, 2012 at the Nokia Theatre in L.A..

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

  • Is the covert war with Iran becoming overt?
    Earlier this week, another Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in a bomb attack (Ali Akbar Dareini, “Bombs kill another nuclear scientist in Iran,” Globe and Mail, 11 January 2012): Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university pro ...
  • Five minutes to midnight
    It is estimated that the United States will spend $700 billion or more over the next decade on nuclear weapons and related programs. Russia continues to modernize its own nuclear arsenal, China, India, Israel, and Pakistan are expanding theirs, and Iran may be on the verge of joining the nuclear ...
  • 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 ...
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    Answer this short survey about Ceasefire.ca, leave your comment about your priorities for 2012, and read what others are saying.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Is The Government Lying To You?
    There was a story not too long ago that had such minor coverage on the mainstream media, but has a major impact on America. Here’s the story: a medical doctor took her infant in to get a vaccine.  That night, the infant had major convulsions and got major, major medical problems.  The doctor the ...
  • More Retailers Pull Formula After Missouri Inf ...
    December 23, 2011 KMOV By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER “There is a solution to this – breast feed infants. It’s the natural thing to do.” –KTRN Several more national retailers have joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in pulling a batch of powdered infant formula from their shelves aft ...
  • Upon Release of Martial Law Documents, The Pla ...
    December 23, 2011 The Excavator By Saman Mohammadi The top news story of 2011 is not the assassination of Osama Bin Laden (a CIA psyop), but the advancement of the Martial Law agenda in America under the public radar. On Wednesday, December 21, Infowars.com published a brand new Federal Emergenc ...
  • Police Pepper Spray Rowdy Shoe Shoppers In Seattle
    December 23, 2011 The Seattle Times By The Associated Press “Another example that cops are out of control.” –KTRN Police used pepper spray to break up fights among pushing and shoving customers waiting outside a Seattle area mall to buy the first Nike retro Air Jordan basketbal ...
  • Americans Will Be Transferred To Foreign Priso ...
    December 23, 2011 RT By RT If you’re upset that congressional approval of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 can send you away to military prisons and be tortured in America, don’t worry — it could be worse. The US could send you somewhere else. No, really. They could. A ...

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

  • 9/11 killed 1, injured 2 if US was a city of 1 ...
    9/11 killed 1, injured 2 if US was a city of 100,000. US wars: CRIMINAL response By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com An analogy to understand US wars after 9/11 are Orwellian unlawful. Americans, especially US military, are under Oath to refuse and end them. The analogy has US, Afghanistan, Iraq, ...
  • South Carolina: Ron Paul Surges Past Santorum ...
    Texas Congressman leaps to 20 per cent in new poll, Santorum collapses to 7 per cent Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, January 13, 2012 Ron Paul has surged past Rick Santorum into the top tier in South Carolina, gaining a staggering 11 per cent in the last week alone to climb to third ...
  • Ron Paul Is More Conservative Than Rick Santorum
    Joe Deaux The Street Friday, January 13, 2012 During a Republican presidential debate Saturday, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had a spat about who was more conservative as each clawed for blocks of Republican voters needed to topple front-runner Mitt Romney. Acco ...
  • Video: Murdered Iran nuke scientist funeral
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran&#821 ...
  • Pharmageddon: Profits peak from Prozac nation’ ...
    Russia Today Friday, January 13, 2012 The United States has a passion for pills, being the world’s biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And as RT’s Marina Portnaya explains, pharmaceutical firms plan to keep cashing in even if it costs people their heal ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page January 11, 2012 The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remark ...
  • Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Cover ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS January 11, 2012 WASHINGTON, Jan 11, 2012 (IPS) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s charge Tuesday that Iran had intended to keep the Fordow site secret until it was revealed by Western intelligence re ...
  • US Steps Up Covert War Against Iran with yet A ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 11 January 2012 The US covert war against Iran raised the stakes even higher today with the assassination of yet another nuclear scientist, with some analysts saying that the Islamic Republic is being pushed into a corner to either ba ...
  • 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 ...
  • War Plan Iran: China Snubs Washington’s ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 10 January 2012 Why should China shoot itself in the foot to accommodate hostile American chauvinists? Chinese leaders dealt a blow to US plans to strangulate Iranian oil exports just hours before Washington’s Treasury Secretary ...

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 ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    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

  • DIY Space Parachute Updates and Progress
    Today, the parachute “department” of Copenhagen Suborbitals, consisting of led guy Søren Gregersen, para-jumper Mads Stenfatt and myself, met at Sørens place to discuss all issues related to the parachutes for the Tycho Deep Space LES mission. We came up with a somewhat final idea for the overal ...
  • New Animal Virus Takes Northern Europe by Surprise
    Scientists in northern Europe are scrambling to learn more about a new virus that causes fetal malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep, and goats. For now, they don't have a clue about the virus's origins or why it's suddenly causing an outbreak.
  • High-Speed Animal Flight Videos Show Hidden Ae ...
    From upside-down geese to dueling sparrows and clumsy beetles, these amateur high-speed videos provide stunning glimpses of animal behaviors usually hidden in a blur of motion.
  • Get Photos Sent Directly From Mars to Your Phone
    Text messaging and e-mail is so yesterday. Why not use your smartphone to get pictures from the surface of another planet?
  • Sunflowers Inspire Better Solar Power Tech
    Engineers at MIT have created a new design for concentrated solar power plants that reduces the required amount of land while boosting the amount of sunlight that heliostat mirrors can collect. Best of all, it's inspired by sunflowers.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel: living conditions det ...
    By Lia Tarachansky, The Real News Network – 11 Jan 2012 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=7796 Russians, nearly a quarter of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian graffiti artists hit West Jerusale ...
    Activists said the artwork was the start of a campaign which will target other locations in Jerusalem and may spread across Israel. It is a message "to both our occupiers and our people here in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • EU report: Israel policy in West Bank endanger ...
    Survey by European Heads of Mission in Jerusalem, Ramallah criticizes Israel for the ‘forced transfer’ Palestinians from Area C, defined by the Oslo Accords as those parts of the West Bank under full... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli-Palestinian couples on Citizenship Law ...
    Taysar Hatib: “The decision is proof that one shouldn’t have any faith in the Israeli judicial system. It is clear that the Supreme Court is influenced by the wave of fascism and racism sweeping... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • 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, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • AAMC Medical Schools Pledge to Improve Health ...
    First Lady Michelle Obama announced an unprecedented commitment made by more than 100 of the AAMC's member medical schools to improve the health and wellness of military service members and their families as part of the Joining Forces initiative.
  • Stony Brook's WTC Health Program Expands to Wi ...
    The Stony Brook University World Trade Center Health Program is expanding its clinical Center of Excellence to Winthrop-University Hospital which enables care and treatment for thousands more who were exposed to toxic chemicals and who continue to suffer from upper and lower respiratory ailments ...
  • English Lit Influenced Prize-Winning Paleontol ...
    It wasn't a boyhood fascination with prehistoric life that influenced Kevin Boyce's interest in paleontology. It was instead the medieval literary world of Chaucer that he discovered in college.
  • Study Shows Obese Nurses More Stressed, Less A ...
    Job stress and shift work have a lot more to do with obesity among nurses than previously thought, according to a study by the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
  • Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart & Vascula ...
    With a commitment to medical innovations and minimally invasive treatments, physicians at Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart & Vascular Care are recognized as leaders in cardiovascular care. From prevention to treatment of cardiac conditions, experts are available to comment on all aspects of ...

Natural Health News

  • That Isn't Wax On Your Organic Apple!
    Even if your purchase fruits and vegetables that are organically grown, they may have cow, pig, and chicken collagen coating them instead of wax -- along with many other things much worse than you can probably imagine. Wax was first applied to the skins of fruits and vegetables for lo ...
  • Reality Check: Defective Genes 'Cause' Less Th ...
    Defective genes are often spoken about as if they were "disease time bombs" inevitably leading to inherited chronic disorders.  But in fact, fewer than 1% of all diseases are monogenic diseases, or diseases that result from errors in the nucleotide sequence of a single gene. The outdated m ...
  • Implanted: The Myth of the Cancer-Free 'Boob Job'
    Most media attention to the risks of silicone breast implants fixates on the potential rupture problem.  But there are less well-known, but equally serious health risks. Saline and silicone breast implants are well known to cause: Breast pain Potentially permanent changes in ni ...
  • What Parents Can Do to Make their Child Have 2 ...
    This fascinating video about total body iodine sufficiency will tell you why lack of iodine can severely affect the mind of your child.  Sufficient iodine, however, can have dramatic beneficial effects on intelligence.  This essential trace element is the only one required for and in t ...
  • The Healthiest Foods You Should Be Eating But ...
    An article in the Huffington Post lists some foods filled with good-for-you vitamins, minerals and disease-fighting phytochemicals that you may not already be eating.  Here are some of them: Pomegranate:  This fruit is full of antioxidants, natural chemicals that fight the harmful fre ...

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

  • Treaties as Art
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I had the good fortune yesterday to spend the afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. To my great surprise, I experienced my first encounter with treaties as art. A special exhibit on display through March 26, 2012 of the work of Sanja Iveković entitl ...
  • Treaties as Art
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I had the good fortune yesterday to spend the afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. To my great surprise, I experienced my first encounter with treaties as art. A special exhibit on display through March 26, 2012 of the work of Sanja Iveković entitl ...
  • Yes, Pamela, Some People Do Care — Inclu ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The media has been abuzz the past couple of days about a video that shows four U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers.  The military's response to the blossoming controversy has been admirable.  In addition to the Pentagon quickly confirming its authenticity, the ...
  • Yes, Pamela, Some People Do Care — Including t ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The media has been abuzz the past couple of days about a video that shows four U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers.  The military's response to the blossoming controversy has been admirable.  In addition to quickly confirming its authenticity, the Navy has sta ...
  • Laurie Blank on the Rationales for Targeted Ki ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a very useful new essay written by Emory’s Laurie Blank, which is forthcoming in the William Mitchell Law Review.  Here is the abstract: Targeted strikes – predominantly using drones – have become the oper ...

Public News Service

  • Taking to the Skies to Combat Global Warming
    Taking to the Skies to Combat Global Warming Phoenix, AZ - International air carriers serving Phoenix and Tucson, such as American and United, are dealing with tougher air-pollution standards for their European flights, with an eye toward curtailing global warming. Comments from Martin Wagner, m ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
  • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
    The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

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

  • Dean’s Beans on the confusing Fair Trade coffe ...
    We are drowning in a sea of seals! There are so many different seals on products these days, all promising to solve this or that problem and make the world a better place. What do they really mean? Who do they really benefit? Here is a very rough primer to help navigate around the [...]
  • California water system in need of major repair
    The California Department of Water Resources warned in a December report that 50% of the state’s aging levees are not up to standard and up to $17 billion is needed in repairs and infrastructure investment. This of course comes at a very bad financial time for California, as it is already suffe ...
  • This is weird
    I’m getting no audio from YouTube but do from iTunes Radio. No idea why. Anyone have ideas? Windows Vista. Update: Bob, the database professional and web developer who has been on the net since 1994, had YouTube volume control set at zero. Sigh.
  • Climate change: what’s good for elk is bad for ...
    When elk are excluded, aspen growth dramatically increases (Coconino National Forest, Arizona, May 2011) Photo: Tom Martin, USGS A just-published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of Montana study demonstrates how the declining snowpack in the Arizona mountains over a 22-year span has ...
  • Ikea replacing wooden pallets with cardboard p ...
    Cardboard pallets hold the same weight as wooden ones and are used once then recycled. Ikea says the 90% reduction in pallet weight will save them nearly $200 million a year in transportation charges.

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

  • The Long History of Government Distrust and Abuse
    For the Western world, the philosophy of government goes back thousands of years. In the very ancient past, at the dawn of civilization, authoritarian style autocracies dominated. This was likely due to the tribal hierarchy we as a species evolved, and perhaps the need for rulers to organize tas ...
  • Anonymous – Message of Solidarity &#8211 ...
  • Santorum’s Communist Clan, and his Fascist Opu ...
      The Daily Beast   In the tiny town of Riva del Garda in northern Italy, 83-year-old-Maria Malacarne Santorum keeps her family’s secrets—including those of her late husband’s cousin, Rick. In an exclusive interview with the Italian weekly magazine Oggi, Mrs. Santorum recalls fondly wh ...
  • Mexican cartoonist: The global financial syste ...
    Mexican cartoonist, writer, and commentator Rafael Barajas says the war on drugs cannot be won because the world itself is addicted to drug money. In an interview with Chilean newspaper El Clarín, Barajas details the role and involvement of the CIA, international banking interests, and governmen ...
  • First NDAA; Now the “Enemy Expatriation ...
      By Chuck Baldwin On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any reason it ...

The Air Vent

  • Openly Confidential
    Steve McIntyre has an interesting post on how certain members of the most controversial sections of Climate Science™ have influenced the openness and transparency of the IPCC.   As usual, he has put considerable time into the effort and discovered a unique chain of events in the public documenta ...
  • Oops, we hit average.
    Apparently sea ice doesn’t agree with the global warming agenda.  I haven’t looked in months and would love to update the sea ice videos but I have to re-download the GB of data.   Today I took at the Cryosphere site (after literally months) and found this plot: Sea ice is above aver ...
  • 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 ...
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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

  • Facebook integrations prove popular at CES
    Without even having to build any of its own devices, Facebook was everywhere at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As more products are designed to connect to the Internet, developers are integrating Facebook into everything from televisions … Continue reading →
  • Football, beer, Myspace, Netflix and more on t ...
    An app that allows users to personalize football jerseys and then share them to the stream, and act testing how many types of beers a user has tried, as well as a few Connect integrations and professional apps comprise our … Continue reading →
  • Romney, Paul lead this week on Inside Facebook ...
    Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have experienced the most Facebook growth of all the GOP presidential primary candidates this week, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. The two are following similar growth patterns, though Romney had been earning more … Continue reading →
  • Facebook introduces ‘listen with friends’ for ...
    Facebook today announced the “Listen With” button, which will allow users to listen to the same song simultaneously. The feature will roll out over the next few weeks, starting with Spotify, then adding other Open Graph music services. From the … Continue reading →
  • Platform update: infinite scrolling, stream fi ...
    Facebook’s latest platform update includes infinite scrolling for the apps and games dashboard and API support for News Feed filters. The company also announced it will require all apps to include a an email address for user support starting April … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Why doesn't the European Union pull the plug o ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that given Israel's reliance on exports to Europe and its contempt for the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which calls for "respect for human rights and democratic principles", the EU should impose sanctions on the Jewish apartheid state but won't because of the power o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Who Does NED Work For?
    The Government Funded National Endowment for Democracy The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is frequently described as a ‘private, not-for-profit foundation.’  At least, at its website, NED acknowledges funding from the US Congress.  In NED’s latest IRS Form 990 filing, over $135 million o ...
  • Santorum Puts American ‘WMD Scientists’ on Cod ...
    Applying a “Fairness Doctrine” to Santorum’s ‘Dead Scientists are a Wonderful Thing’ This post is a major exception for Boiling Frogs Post. I almost never bother commenting or giving coverage to ‘easy-come, easy-go’ dime-a-dozen flake personalities in politics. As you know we have never even nam ...
  • Alert to Boiling Frogs Post Members
    We are currently experiencing software problems related to membership accounts. We are working with the software providers and hope to have corrected the problems within the next 48 hours, and request your patience if you experience difficulties accessing the site.  Thank you for your patience a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Liberties are not given; they are taken.” – Aldous Huxley International Newsworthy Iran War Propaganda: Clinton Revives Dubious Charges of ‘Covert’ Site  Russian Official: No Proof of Iran Nuclear Bomb Program Iran: Obama Edges Toward Regime Chang ...
  • “Heroes” – A Poem by Gary Corseri
    This powerful, moving poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by Gary Corseri: Heroes Do not call them “heroes” if they have done your killing for you. Say that they have done your bidding; say they were your “soldiers.” Say that you have trained them well: They are the oiled machinations of ...

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

  • Is Wordpress Free, Priceless or Both?
    Matt, with his toothy grin, and the guys at Google who want to "make money without doing evil" are just a bunch of geeks who got morally and ethically born again by Richard Stallman, pastor at the Open Source Software Community Church. Matt and Google, get over it. The Christians thought they we ...
  • 'Confession' of Accused CIA Spy Reveals Link t ...
    A hard-to-track-down "confession" of an accused CIA spy yields a surprising claim -- Amir Mirzai Hekmati's alleged link to a US-based videogame firm that specializes in combat "shooters" based on actual US military actions in foreign countries.
  • No Free Press in Iraq
    A 2011 report by Human Rights Watch on Freedom of Expression in Iraq confirms this: "In 2010, Iraq remained one of the most dangerous countries in the world to work as a journalist. Extremists and unknown assailants continue to kill media workers and bomb their bureaus..."
  • Americans Ignored NDAA Precedents At Their Peril
    The dark night of totalitarianism has been spreading across the American sky for years. Enactment of the NDAA is only the last nail needed to close the coffin. As the U.S. has gained power and expanded its military, it has weakened its laws at home and denied its citizens their basic rights.
  • A Hard Act to Follow
    For the first time in my life I've contemplated self-censorship. It was John Cleese as Basil Fawlty who said, "Well let me tell you something ... this is exactly how Nazi Germany started!" But this is no joke. This is exactly how Nazi Germany started. People in all walks of life censored themsel ...

Switchboard

  • Chicago River: Fights Afoot to Choose Dead Zon ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois I was truly pleased to see President Obama visit with the beleaguered staff at the Environmental Protection Agency this week. Given the withering and unfair attacks launched at the ...
  • The Top Twenty Climate Polluting States
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. As my colleagues Kim Knowlton and Meleah Geertsma wrote Wednesday, members of the public now have a powerful new tool to find out who are the biggest carbon polluters in their ow ...
  • America's World-Best Fishing Model Must Not Be ...
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York The ocean waters under America’s jurisdiction are larger than any other nation. From the Coast of Maine to the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, U.S. marine waters are 23 percent greater than the n ...
  • The Greatest Challenge of 2012: Can the World ...
    Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC It is the start of a new year and the time for making resolutions to change our ways.  Yet we all know how hard it is to give up old habits.  This reality was evidenced by ...
  • New Yahoo survey -- The American dream home t ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC A recent Yahoo survey about the American consumer's evolving view of housing provides interesting and strong evidence of a definite market trend.  According to the Yahoo ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “Not suffering like starving 19th-centur ...
    That, according to Victor David Hanson, is the contemporary version of “the good life.” From a man who compulsively reminds anyone in earshot that “for 20 years I taught classics,” defining “the good life” as the absence of suffering is surprising. I always th ...
  • Spring 2012: Bring it On
    Gots my Defense Statecraft syllabus more or less done, gots my Airpower syllabus pretty much done, gots my podcasts up and running, blog could use an update, but otherwise ready to go!
  • Lie to me
    I got an email from a prospective law student who is applying for admission to various schools this fall. He’d gotten this solicitation from Drexel’s law school to participate in an online chat with current Drexel students: Dear Congratulations once again on your admission to the Ear ...
  • Good Faith Convictions of the Innocent Are Tot ...
    As was expected, the Supreme Court declined to create a heightened standard for judges to use in evaluating the admissibility of eyewitness testimony, despite the overwhelming evidence that it is much less reliable than commonly assumed. The opinion, written by Ginsburg, argued that judges only ...
  • Great Moments in Roger L. Simon
    After reading this, I can’t resist a quote from Brian Kellow’s excellent Pauline Kael bio.   It’s particularly entertaining if chased with Simon’s witless-old-fart rambling about how there hasn’t been a good movie released since Chinatown: One evening that January s ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Experience of a Visiting Scholar
    What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
  • 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.

Earth Techling

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Hydraulic Fracking the Propaganda and Truth
    I know I’ve been away from this blog for a while now but it looks like folks are still finding it. The following link was passed on to me, and good for a few laughs despite the depressing topic, and I just had to pass it along. Enjoy and share! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZptKESRzio&#3 ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

  • Opium Production Soars 'High' in Afghanistan
    Export earnings from Afghan opiates may be worth $2.4 billion, equivalent to 15 per cent of GDP.
  • Food Prices in 2011 Hit Record High
    However, despite the steady decline in prices during the second half of the year, the Index overall averaged 228 points in 2011 - the highest average since FAO started measuring international food prices in 1990. The second highest average occurred
  • NASA's RS-25D Shuttle Engines Relocated To Stennis
    The RS-25Ds - to be used for the SLS core stage - will be stored at Stennis until testing begins at a future date. Testing is already under way on the J-2X engine, which is planned for use in the SLS upper stage.
  • US Committed to Combat Hate and Intolerance
    She stated that religion often teaches respect for the rights and dignity of each individual. She said religious freedom and tolerance are integral for building stable and harmonious societies, and this means freedom for all people of all faiths or
  • New Study Highlights Pollution Control Measure ...
    Shindell and an international team considered about 400 control measures based on technologies evaluated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria.

environment 360

  • Reducing Methane and Soot Will Reduce Warming, ...
    A team of scientists says that governments can significantly reduce global warming, and prevent millions of premature deaths, by targeting emissions of methane and soot. In a new study published in the journal Science, the researchers say strategies that target those emissions and use existing t ...
  • Automakers Unveil More Hybrids, But Consumer D ...
    While the major automakers have unveiled new electric plug-in and hybrid cars at this week’s North American International Auto Show, including a cheaper version of the Toyota Prius, industry observers say Getty Images The new Toyota Prius C consumer demand for alternative fuel cars remains ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Burning indignation: Tunisians still striving ...
    On the eve of the anniversary of regime change in Tunisia a female protester has set herself ablaze. As it is the fourth such case in a week, many ask if anything has changed since a similar self-immolation triggered...
  • France to say ‘au revoir’ to perfect financial ...
    It’s a new year but old problems continue to plague the euro as Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is set to downgrade the credit rating of several European countries. But will a French downgrade spell collapse for the eurozone?
  • Arab Spring sequel? Nigeria faces mass anti-go ...
    Nigeria is facing mass protests after the government canceled a fuel subsidy, effectively doubling gas prices. With anti-government feeling rapidly growing, some fear the demonstrations may soon turn violent, repeating...
  • Handshakes over arms? Cameron visits Saudi Arabia
    David Cameron’s first visit to Saudi Arabia is intended to “broaden and deepen” the UK-Saudi relationship. But as the British PM plays lip-service to the Arab spring, keeping the repressive oil kingdom armed remains on...
  • ‘Arms deal’: Pensioner buys dozens Kalashnikov ...
    A Russian pensioner has found 79 Kalashnikovs and a whole stock of ammunition hidden in wooden boxes he bought to use as firewood and construction material at home.

Not My Tribe

  • Stephen Colbert- A Clown for President we coul ...
    As many of my friends and enemies alike have guessed, I am not a Democrat. I don’t vote for those jerks because they want big government to be run completely for and by capitalists, and therefore like to feed the Pentagon contracts out right and left, forward and backward, up and down. The ...
  • Occupy Congress? Who is that really keeping oc ...
    A number of my friends want to OCCUPY CONGRESS. Jan 17 Opening Day. I suppose every day might be appropriate to read our representatives the riot act, but doesn’t such an action perpetuate the delusion that our legislators ever listen? Proponents, Dems typically, argue “well, it&#821 ...
  • Our Pissy GI ‘Heroes’
    By now most of America knows that many of the idiots that the US government is putting into military uniforms are quite often enough so stupid as to film themselves doing their Pentagon directed work, killing and maiming foreigners abroad. And they are not exactly appearing as hero film stars wh ...
  • Close this poison cloud maker now!
    OCCUPIED COLO. SPRINGS- Meet at Confluence Park on Friday 3PM. http://www.facebook.com/events/164143430357190/
  • 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.

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

  • Oxymoron? Chick-Fil-A Debuts A Nutritious Kid’ ...
    Chick-Fil-A brands itself  as the second largest quick serve chicken restaurant in the US. They did $3.5 billion in business last year in 1,600 locations. And this week they announced their commitment to healthy fast food by announcing a revamped, healthy kids meal: In recent months, many fast f ...
  • Mommy, Why is There Fungicide in My OJ?
    The FDA is halting imports of orange juice this week. The reason: a potential for contamination with a fungicide called carbendazim. Carbedazim is used to prevent mold on oranges in various countries, but has not been approved for use on oranges in the US. High dosages of carbendazim have caused ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Undercover audio tape proves Andaman ‘human sa ...
    Vehicles queue to enter the Jarawa reserve along the Andaman Trunk Road © G Chamberlain/ Survival A secret recording of a tour operator in the Andaman Islands telling an undercover journalist to provide 10-15,000 rupees (£120-180/ $180-275) to pay off the police proves that the now notoriou ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Write to Hacked Off about Brian Deer and Evan ...
    Managing Editor's Note: From the Hacked Off site: Hacked Off was founded to campaign for a public inquiry into illegal information-gathering by the press and into related matters including the conduct of the police, politicians and mobile phone companies. Only...
  • Dr. Wakefield and the Problem of Pseudo-Courts
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Henry VI - Shakespeare This line even got a laugh in Shakespeare's time. But it's important to understand the context. Henry VI was planning a...
  • Child in Vermont Dies After Flu Shot: Public H ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Our condolences to the Mattens. Without sensationalizing a tragedy, keep in mind that a case of whooping cough or measles is written up in the media as an immediate cause for alarm and action (vaccination.) This article...
  • The Mnookin Virus Infects CBS and HuffPo
    By Jake Crosby Seth Mnookin has spread his deceit to CBS and The Huffington Post, with the help of accomplices from both sources. It is amazing just how much Seth Mnookin continues to be propped up as having credibility he...
  • Ron Paul's Stance Against Vaccine Mandates Fea ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Here is an excerpt from Ron Paul: No To Mandatory Immunization by James Freedman on Huffington Post. Paul came in second in NH, and Bachman opened the vaccine safety conversation the 2012 race. The topic is as,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Japan ‘to reduce Iran oil imports’
    BBC – Japan will take “concrete steps” to reduce its oil dependency on Iran, its finance minister has announced. Read article
  • Video Inflames a Delicate Moment for U.S. in A ...
    NY Times – A video showing four United States Marines urinating on three dead Taliban fighters provoked anger and condemnation on Thursday in Afghanistan and around the world, raising fears in Washington that the images could incite anti-American sentiment at a particularly delicate moment ...
  • Loggers ‘burned Amazon tribe girl alive& ...
    Daily Telegraph – Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land, reports claimed on Tuesday night. Read article
  • Australia: Inpex, Total green light $33bn Icht ...
    Wall St Journal – INPEX and Total have given the green light to build one of Australia’s most expensive energy projects at an estimated cost of $US34 billion over the next five years. The Ichthys gas-export development will tap a remote deepwater field off Australia’s northern ...
  • Bradley Manning moves step closer to full cour ...
    Guardian – Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of having been the source of the massive WikiLeaks dump of state secrets, is one step closer towards the possibility of spending the rest of his life in military confinement after the officer who presided over his pre-trial hearing recomme ...

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 ...
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    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

  • Citizens United or Not -- We Aren't Helpless
    But any highly ambitious American politician, whatever their original motivation, values, or ideology, now understands that the path to high office lies in cultivating super-wealthy supporters with strong corporate power bases. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't &nbsp ...
  • 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
  • Uri Avnery: "The Stolen War"
    Hamas has repudiated terrorism! Hamas has embraced non-violent resistance! Israel, hoping to launch Cast Lead II and slaughter more Palestinians, has now been thwarted. The hoped-for war has been STOLEN -- by Hamas. Peace! How dastardly! Submitted by Charles O. to World  |&nbsp ...
  • Rick Perry Not Dropping Out? 'Here We Come Sou ...
    Rick Perry says he will remain in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, despite his poor showing in Iowa. Perry tweeted on Wednesday morning, "And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State... Here we come South Carolina... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...
  • +972 Person of the Year: Woman activist of the ...
    From Bahrain to Tunisia... they repeat, We will not be quiet. In their refusal to view the rights of women as a cause separate from civil rights, human rights and pro-democracy activism, female Arab protestors have taken feminism to a new level. Bravo! Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Opium Production Soars 'High' in Afghanistan
    Export earnings from Afghan opiates may be worth $2.4 billion, equivalent to 15 per cent of GDP.
  • Food Prices in 2011 Hit Record High
    However, despite the steady decline in prices during the second half of the year, the Index overall averaged 228 points in 2011 - the highest average since FAO started measuring international food prices in 1990. The second highest average occurred
  • NASA's RS-25D Shuttle Engines Relocated To Stennis
    The RS-25Ds - to be used for the SLS core stage - will be stored at Stennis until testing begins at a future date. Testing is already under way on the J-2X engine, which is planned for use in the SLS upper stage.
  • US Committed to Combat Hate and Intolerance
    She stated that religion often teaches respect for the rights and dignity of each individual. She said religious freedom and tolerance are integral for building stable and harmonious societies, and this means freedom for all people of all faiths or
  • New Study Highlights Pollution Control Measure ...
    Shindell and an international team considered about 400 control measures based on technologies evaluated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria.

Worldnews

  • Powering battery cars into mainstream
    The biggest problem with battery-powered cars is range; about 150km seems to the best anybody can do with current nickel metal-hydride or lithium-ion batteries. And until drivers are confident they are going to reach their destination every time, they won't buy them - the so-called “ra ...
  • Pranab stands by Ahmed's TMC spat
    Kolkata, January 13: Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that AICC general secretary Shakeel Ahmed had made clear the party's stand over its differences with ally Trinamool Congress on the issue of renaming Indira...
  • TITLE DEMANDS BIGGER THAN EVER - FERGIE
    Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes a points total in the high 80s could be needed in order to retain the Barclays Premier League title. United required only 80 to claim a record 19th championship last term, by an impressive nine-point margin from Chelsea and Manchester City ...
  • Stocks, euro fall on downgrade rumours
    Stock markets and the euro traded lower amid reports that ratings agency Standard & Poor’s will announce a downgrade of some European economies Friday. The report, by Dow Jones Newswires,...
  • Honeybee problem nearing a 'critical poin ...
    Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so severe that some US beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief funds The state of honeybees is 'inching... toward a critical tipping point', says beekeeper Steve Ellis. Photograph: Will Sanders Anyone who's been stung by a bee knows they can inflict ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Portland, Maine Joins Growing Movement to Repe ...
    Thanks to an effort by a Portland City Councilor, Maine could be among the states working towards a repeal of Citizens United. photo: seth_schneider read more
  • After High Tension in Nigeria in Week of Prote ...
    After five days of mass protest and a widespread general strike in Nigeria, labor leaders have requested a temporary halt on demonstrations in lue of planned weekend talks with government officials. Fury over the government's decision to remove a fuel subsidy brought thousands into the stree ...
  • Unexpected Road Block to Afghanistan Peace: Gitmo
    Negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban after 10 years of war in Afghanistan is hard enough. But the stalemated politics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility risk effectively killing the negotiations before they even have the chance to end the war. The Taliban leadership has evidently deci ...
  • Report: Massive Movement Needed to Fix 'Perver ...
    Martin Luther King's dream of racial equality is far from reality. Census Bureau figures show the U.S. on track to be a majority minority nation by 2042. But if the trends of the last 30 years continue, according to a new report, the economic racial divide is set to increase. ...
  • Group: Enough Signatures Gathered to Recall Wi ...
    Today, the group working to recall Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has announced they have collected more than the required number of signatures to force a recall election. photo: sarae read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Adapting to Mild Winters
    Just before the holidays, I posted this short video about how the shrinking lake ice "season" across much of the Northern Hemisphere is one of the cle
  • The Carbon Emissions Quandary
    In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some viewers. Some of the topics discussed are:
  • Enlightenment and Renaissance: Which Should Co ...
    Several months ago I blogged about an engineering presentation at Dartmouth. Dr. Swartz presented a talk with the provocative title: If Vermont Yankee Had an Accident Like Fukushima.Swartz concluded that the "worried well" would be the major problem after any type of nuclear accident. Civilian ...
  • Don't Believe the Fantasy Job Claims on Keysto ...
    Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable say they speak for the country’s business interests.When it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline, they most definitely do not.In his “State of American Business speech,” U.S. Chamber president Tom Donohue once again trotted out hi ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Manufacturers Lukewarm on AP1000
    There is so much excess production capacity for pumps, pipes, and parts that few plan expansion when orders show up This is my updated coverage for Fuel Cycle Week, V11;N454 January 5, 2012 published by International Nuclear Associates, Washington, DC. 

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • THE ENEMY EXPATRIATION ACT
    ANONYMOUS H.R. 3166: Enemy Expatriation Act (#EEA) The Enemy Expatriation Act is yet another treasonous bill similar to the National Defense Authorization Act that was signed into law by President Obama on New Years' Eve. The NDAA, which authorizes the indefinite detention of American citizens ...
  • Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank ...
    by Ellen Brown Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack. Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt, critics are pushing legislation that would defuse the postal crisis by breaking the backs of ...
  • 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 ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • 4th Annual CCPA-NS Fundraiser with Laura Penny ...
    Our 4th Annual Fundraiser was held on October 6th, 2011 at the Italian Cultural Centre in Halifax. We want to thank everyone who bought tickets and our table sponsors for their generous contributions. We had a terrific night!  Our guest speaker, Laura Penny, gave an entertaining ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Q&A with comedian Lewis Black
    By Edward Ortiz,sacbee.com - There are no sacred cows when Lewis Black goes on the attack. Not even himself. That much is clear in the new comedy set he’s touring titled “Running on Empty,” which Lewis will perform at the Community Center Theater on Saturday. As a baby boomer, ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates: Media,1%ers ...
    Occupy Wall Street Branches Out After Regaining Its Home Base A late Wednesday afternoon seems like an odd time to protest, especially while most people are still at work. Even in Times Square, crowds were hard to come by yesterday, as few tourists took in the sights on a cold, cloudy weekday. B ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Frday
    Pentagon condemns Marines’ behavior in graphic video, as unit identified Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday harshly condemned alleged behavior in a video that appears to show U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. The Pentagon chief said he’d ordered a full inve ...
  • VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: PREVENTION, PROTECTION ...
    WWH, United Nations – It is a lesser known reality of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January 2010 and left more than 200,000 dead. The merciless disintegration of the Haitian State created a situation of utter chaos for the country’s most vulnerable. In less than 55 seconds of ...
  • Iranian ‘Mothers’ Ask, ‘Who ...
    From rferl.org – The Mothers of Laleh Park (previously known as the Mourning Mothers of Iran) — a group of women whose children were killed or detained during Iran’s 2009 postelection crackdown — have issued the names of seven members or supporters who have in recent months bee ...

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

  • The Carbon Emissions Quandary – R-Squared Ener ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some ...
  • 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 [...]

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Doctors Agree: Popular Energy Source Could Thr ...
    You've probably heard that natural gas is a cleaner-burning fuel. That's true. But top scientists and doctors are finding that the unconventional method increasingly being used to extract gas from deep underground (it's called fracking) is wrecking something even more important than fuel…clean ...
  • Trans-Fats STILL Lurking In Grocery Store Foods
    Think trans fats are a problem you no longer need to worry about? Think again, says the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Despite all the bad press these artificial, man-made fats have gotten over the years (and an increasingly large body of science linking them to hea ...
  • BPA Found In Trace Amounts "Everywhere"
    Bisphenol-a, or BPA, is such a ubiquitous chemical in our environment that it's been detected in everything from toilet paper to beach sand. Considering that 8 billion tons of the chemical are produced every year, there are a lot of chances for this hormone-disrupting chemical—which has also be ...
  • Organics from China Face Greater USDA Scrutiny
    Can you trust organic food from China? It's a question that's plagued organic consumers for years, as demand has outpaced the ability for U.S. farmers to supply Americans with organic food. Between food safety problems in China and the inability of U.S. regulators to reliably inspect imported f ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: The Best Snack You'll Ever ...
    Whether you've resolved to hit the gym more or your busy afternoons require a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, energy bars are a full of foods that provide slow-burning fuel, such as dates and sunflower seeds, that will keep you going through a 12-mile run or that 3 p.m. slump. The problem? Commercial ...

big think

  • How Yoko Ono Is Still Giving Peace a Chance
    Long before she ever met John Lennon, Yoko Ono established herself as a significant international avant-garde artist. With John by her side, Yoko’s political performance art found a larger audience to witness the "Bed-In for Peace" and Bagism. Alas, the idealism of the late 1960s that hel ...
  • Leadership - Lost and Found
    President Obama has been chided – and even derided – for his lack of leadership over the past year. Indeed, the man who was elected on fervent hope and sweeping change in the midst of the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, was being compared to hapless Jimmy Carte ...
  • Welcome to the Post-CEO World
    What's the Latest Development? The passing of Steve Jobs marked the end of the CEO era. Jobs embodied the popular notion of the lone visionary but Doreen Lorenzo, president of frog, a global innovation firm, says that romantic version of reality poses a threat to innovation. As the world b ...
  • Genius or Crazy? Jonathon Keats
    Today's homepage article shares the latest work of experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats – a kind of tightrope walker over the chasm of Possibility. This is a man who has copyrighted his own brain on the grounds that its neural networks are a kinetic sculpture he created by th ...
  • How to Make a Business a Great Place to Work
    What's the Latest Development? When Matthew Swyers started his Web-based law firm, he made his office space worker-friendly like Google, gave everyone benefits like Starbucks, created a collaborative environment like video game makers and fostered a culture of dedication like Zappos. But i ...

Information Liberation

  • Is the Head of One Tyrant Worth the Lives of M ...
    As NATO and other Western nations are staging war games right off the shores of Iran, the mainstream media is waging an extensive propaganda campaign back home. Excuse after excuse has been handed down to us in the past few months, but is there real...
  • Rush Limbaugh slams NDAA indefinite detention ...
    Rush Limbaugh says the NDAA is totally not like the patriot act, which is awesome and ONLY for terrorists, this NDAA is directed at indefinitely detaining AMERICANS and is more like something an authoritarian dictator would pass! ...
  • Obama Ready to Use Military Force to Stop Nucl ...
    No one should doubt that President Barack Obama is prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon if sanctions and diplomacy fail, the president*s former special assistant on Iran said. Obama has *made it very clear...
  • Rights? In The New America You Don*t Get Any R ...
    One of the unique things about the Constitution of the United States was that it guaranteed certain rights for its citizens.* Those rights provided the foundation for an era of freedom and prosperity that was pretty much unprecedented in human histor...
  • Every Single Day, Every Word You Say, I'll Be ...
    The Department of Homeland Security has declared its intention to gather personal data on journalists or others who might use "traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed." I suppose that would...

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

  • Pistachio penis pump for erectile dysfunction?
    Pistachio nuts apparently improve erectile function parameters and serum lipid profiles in patients with erectile dysfunction. So says a research paper in the imaginatively named International Journal of Impotence Research (a section of The Journal of Sexual Medicine from Nature Publishing Group ...
  • Check your drink for roofies
    No matter how diligent a person is, there’s always a chance that someone malicious could slip something into your drink on a night out. Even an innocent non-alcoholic beverage can ruin your night and perhaps your life if spiked. "Date rape drugs," have led to at least 200,000 rapes ...
  • Red wine, resveratrol, retraction
    You know all that guff about drinking red wine being somehow good for you despite the fact that it is up to about 15% potent organic solvent by volume? It was the resveratrol wasn’t it? The substance red wine that’s supposed to have had health benefits…well…The University ...
  • Zappar the flaming elements
    My issue of Education in Chemistry arrived today complete with a nice big poster of burning elemental symbols, each coloured to represent the actual flame test colour you get when burning lithium, barium, potassium etc. It is a promo for the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge Lower Sixth (C3L6). But, ...
  • Placebos, quackery and alternative medicine
    A placebo is “a substance or procedure a patient accepts as medicine or therapy, but which has no specific therapeutic activity”. In other words, it simulates a medical treatment and deceives the patient. Is this why practitioners of spurious complementary and alternative medicine (s ...

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

  • Jet Lag: What's Causing One of the Driest, War ...
    A little snow and rain are falling in a few states today, but the 2011–12 winter has been extremely warm and dry across the continental U.S. Meteorologists think they have figured out why. [More]
  • How to Buy Time in the Fight against Climate C ...
    Humanity has done little to address climate change. Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all-time peak in 2010. The most recent international talks to craft a global treaty to address the problem pushed off major action until 2020. Fortunately, there's an alternative-- curb ...
  • Anti-GM Groups Attempt to Sully Transgenic Con ...
    Genetically engineered mosquitoes developed by British biotech firm Oxitec as an approach to controlling dengue fever have been caught up in controversy since 6,000 of them were deliberately released to an uninhabited forest in Malaysia in a trial in December 2010. [More]
  • Red-Wine Researcher Implicated in Data Miscond ...
    A three-year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications. [More]
  • Three Tiny Exoplanets Suggest Solar System Not ...
    Adding to its already long roster of firsts , NASA's Kepler spacecraft has found the three smallest extrasolar planets ever detected -- all of them smaller than Earth, and the most diminutive no larger than Mars. The newly discovered trio forms a miniature planetary system orbiting a cool, ...

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

  • The Media Co-op is hiring: Toronto-based editor
    The Media Co-op is looking for a Toronto-based editor to co-ordinate coverage and work with contributors and Media Co-op members in Toronto. The Editor will bottom-line development of content for The Dominion from Toronto and will contribute to developing national content along with the other me ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why do they suddenly quote Marx and Gramisci i ...
    David Seaton's News Links All of a sudden Karl Marx and Marxist thought are being talked about in the most unlikely places... like the Financial Times. Here is a sample that I identify a lot with from Gideon Rachman, the FT's chief foreign affairs commentator. Like Rachman, when I was a student ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 13 January 2012
    Go ahead and admit it: you're jealous. I have an Inkblot for President t-shirt and you don't. It was a Christmas gift from my sister Inkblot's Super PAC, and it was produced with absolutely no coordination with his campaign. But you can tell he likes it thanks to the extremely presidential loo ...
  • Let's Provide the New York Times With a List o ...
    New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane has been on the business end of a shit-ton of flack since yesterday for asking whether the Times should challenge statements of fact from public figures. I've sort of ignored the whole kerfuffle because the quality of the conversation on both sides ...
  • Beyond Good and Google
    I don't use Gmail, but Henry Farrell does and he's pretty unhappy with its latest iteration: It used to be that Google claimed that their motto was ‘don’t be evil.’ Now it appears to be ‘I’m sorry, but we have to be evil to compete with Facebook.’ ...
  • How Much is a Famous Forgery Worth?
    Felix Salmon has an interesting post today about the phenomenal recent sales growth of works by two early/mid 20th century Chinese painters, Zhang Daqian and Qi Bashi. In 2008, both accounted for only a few million dollars in paintings sold at auction. In 2011, extrapolating from auction sales ...
  • Chart of the Day: Jobs vs. Deficits
    Via Suzy Khimm, here's a shocker: according to Gallup, low-income people are worried about jobs. High-income people are worried about the deficit. Naturally, this means that Congress and the media can talk about almost nothing except the deficit these days. Welcome to America.  &nbsp ...

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

  • 'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going t ...
    Robotics experts at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. After a round of final tests, five of the systems will be shipped to medical robotic ...
  • Cold winters caused by warmer summers, researc ...
    Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more snowfall in the autumn months at lower latitudes. read more
  • Discovery of plant 'nourishing gene' brings ho ...
    University of Warwick scientists have discovered a "nourishing gene" which controls the transfer of nutrients from plant to seed -- a significant step which could help increase global food production. read more
  • Managing private and public adaptation to clim ...
    New research has found that individuals and the private sector have an important role to play in the provision of public policies to help society adapt to the impacts of climate change. read more
  • Superconducting current limiter guarantees ele ...
    For the first time, a superconducting current limiter based on YBCO strip conductors has now been installed at a power plant. At the Boxberg power plant of Vattenfall, the current limiter protects the grid for own consumption that is designed for 12 000 volts and 800 amperes against damage due t ...

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

  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
  • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
    The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

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

  • Professor bullied for criticizing ultra-nation ...
    Im Tirtzu – the movement behind the ongoing intimidation of progressive lecturers in Israel provided us this week with a textbook example of political bullying, after taking offence at disparaging comments made in their address by  Tel Aviv University’s Yehouda Shenhav. It should be ...
  • Marching obediently to war with Iran
    The whole world knows the Mossad was behind the latest killing of an Iranian atomic scientist, the Iranians are swearing revenge, and nobody in Israel sounds bothered.  Vibrant democracy, huh? Not one peep has been heard from any Israeli journalist or politician or public figure of any kind agai ...
  • New bill would condition Knesset electability ...
    Palestinian citizens cannot be expected to serve an institution that protects the Jewish identity of the state. If Israel prohibits its Palestinian citizens from participating in elections, it would cease to function as a democracy, and it would lose its case against claims of apartheid. By Fady ...
  • Government Press Office doing PR for the settl ...
    It seems that every state agency in Israel is becoming a tool in the effort to further colonize the West Bank and deepen the control over the lives of Palestinians. Soon after the government reached an internal “deal” with the settler movement that would keep the families who settled ...
  • Just a quick note before the word ‘Nazi’ is ou ...
    Just a few days ago, the Israeli government approved a bill that would “impose penalties of up to six months in jail and a $25,000 fine for using the word ‘Nazi’ or Holocaust symbols for purposes other than teaching, documentation or research.” This wonderful infringement on my freedom of expres ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Read What Torture Your Government is Dishing O ...
    We all need to own what has happened for ten years in Cuba, and what continues even today.  Ironically, we think we have the moral authority to criticize Fidel Castro for what he did on this very same island? (just take a look here for some real examples) GOD HELP US ALL is all I [...]
  • A Foreclosure Trial…..
    I want everyone to read this attached transcript very, very carefully. Get a picture in your mind of a crowded courtroom and of a court staff and personnel that are extraordinarily overworked and underpaid. Remember that Florida’s entire court system is funded with less than 1% of Florida& ...
  • Transcript of a Foreclosure “trial&#8221 ...
    I am utterly speechless here.  For those that wonder what life trying to see what standing up for consumers and the Rule of Law is like, I want you to read the attached transcript: Transcript-of-Foreclosure-Trial-Ticktin That’s all. No commentary. No editorial content. Just. Well. I don&#8 ...
  • The Federal Reserve (again) Is (finally) Accep ...
    Last week I posted a most extraordinary White Paper signed by none other than Ben Bernake that supported entirely what those of us on this side of the aisle have been saying for years now…..foreclosure is not the answer and we must start to work in good faith with homeowners.  WOW. Breatht ...
  • EXTRAORDINARY- EATON v. FANNIE MAE, Court Amer ...
    WOW! The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court seems poised to drop another Ibanez-like bomb….only this time, the fallout could be much, much bigger. The case is Eaton v. Fannie Mae….the extraordinary thing the court seems to be signaling is they are poised to issue a ruling that will ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Labour Pains (10) – Our Town
    At some point last week my wife Jane did some calculations on the computer, swiveled in her chair and said, …Continue reading »
  • Labour Pains (9) – Altogether Now
    Standing in line with the ElectroMotive workers yesterday, I was asked repeatedly what could be done. It’s clear I am …Continue reading »
  • Labour Pains (8) – Concentration
    Almost 50 years ago, economic guru Milton Friedman made an observation that was destined to have dramatic results: “Every act …Continue reading »
  • Labour Pains (7) – The Great Reversal
    We’ve all heard the scenario, right? North American companies say wages and benefits are too high in Canada and that …Continue reading »
  • Labour Pains (6) – Take Protection
    When the state of Wisconsin’s Republican-dominated assembly voted to strip the rights of public sector unions earlier this year it …Continue reading »

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

  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    I’m writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as it’s the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck i ...
  • Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
    Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can pr ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...

Reader Supported News

  • Five US Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants
    Intro: "Five senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score from the Koch brothers' Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers' right-wing petrochemical empire on such is ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • When Is Enough Enough?
    If one does not have limits—and indeed, all of life is based on limits, whether the free-market economists and politicians want to admit it or not—one can never arrive and find fulfillment.
  • The Cellulose Quandary
    Cellulose-based ethanol may be a bust. Ethanol produced from switchgrass is proving very different. Much will depend on innovations in ethanol production from corn stover and corn cobs.
  • 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?

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Woman Claims Wine Store Owner Called Her A Dru ...
    In another troubling example of businesses behaving badly and lashing out at customers over negative online reviews, a Chicago woman is suing a wine store owner for posting a fake blog in her name and calling her a drug addict and a prostitute -- all because he didn't like her review on Yelp. ...
  • Car Auction Company Says It's Selling Off John ...
    Many admirers of President John F. Kennedy have tried to walk in his footsteps, but now a car auction company says it has the hearse that drove his body from the hospital to the airport after his assassination. Which means you could ride in his deathmobile, if that's your kind of macabre thing. ...
  • FedEx Seems To Think Any Front Door Will Do Fo ...
    Clayton was waiting at home for a very important package to arrive -- his passport via a travel visa service -- for which he had paid FedEx for overnight delivery. So when he his package was instead dropped off at a front door nearby, and not his own, he was a bit unnerved. He says he heard a ...
  • How Going To HR Made A Health Insurance Co-Pay ...
    The beginning of a new year often brings an unhappy change: rate and co-pay hikes for your health insurance. E's insurer made a change to ER visit copays that, given that his daughter is being treated for cancer and makes more frequent emergency visits than most children, would have cost the fa ...
  • Report: Delta, U.S. Airways Among Those With A ...
    As American Airlines parent company AMR tries to sort itself out during bankruptcy proceedings, there are already a few vultures circling it. A report says Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airways are considering buying AMR, along with a buyout firm called TPG Capital. The Wall Street Journal cites p ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Marine Corps Whistleblower Wins Giraffe Award, ...
    Giraffe Heroes ProjectTo start the new year, Marine Corps whistleblower Franz Gayl – who recently was allowed to return to work in a remarkable victory for a Defense Department employee – received a Giraffe Commendation, an honor awarded by the nonprofit Giraffe Heroes Project to people who "sti ...
  • Court-Martial Recommended for Bradley Manning: ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user savebradleyWashington Post: Officer Recommends Court-Martial for Bradley Manning in WikiLeaks Case Summary: The investigating officer (basically a judge) of Bradley Manning’s pre-trial hearing recommended yesterday that Manning should face full court-martial. Manning is ...
  • Lawmakers Criticize Private Food Safety Audito ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user eddie.welkerDenver Post: Report on Listeria Outbreak Blames Jensen Farms and Third-Party Auditors Summary: Lawmakers urged the FDA to reform domestic third-party audits in the food industry after an investigation into the cantaloupe Listeria outbreak – that killed 30 pe ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Conservatives in Crisis
    As conservatives prepare for an urgent meeting this weekend to discuss their options in the 2012 campaign, they face an epic crisis of identity and electability that creates rising odds for the reelection of President Obama. Throughout the 2012 campaign, there has not been one credible conservat ...
  • Lesbians and Miss California USA
    Lesbians have moved one step closer to becoming an even stronger presence in mainstream American culture! Two openly gay women, Jenelle Hutcherson, 26, of Long Beach and Mollie Thomas, 19, of West Hollywood were the first openly gay contestants in the 60-year history of the recent Miss USA Calif ...
  • Film Review: A Sister Outsider in “Pariah”
    Seldom do I see my image anywhere, especially portrayed in non-stereotypical and non-heterosexist ways on the silver screen. As a matter of fact, if you Google “black lesbians” or “black lesbians in film” you’ll get a plethora of porn sites to visit. But writer-director D ...
  • America’s Welfare reform Laws Deepen & Perpetu ...
    The tougher welfare laws instituted by President Bill Clinton with great fanfare have only worked to keep the poor poverty-stricken longer, a former welfare mother who knows the story from the inside, contends. Since 1996, politicians have bragged about the success of Temporary Assistance to Nee ...
  • The GOP’s Long Sad March to the Inevitable Nominee
    Republicans have a wide variety of conservative white males vying to be their nominee. No really. Bear with me: They have former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich summing up the worst of the ‘90s GOP. Not only did he shut down the government during his tenure, he attempted to oust a president f ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Does the PDO drive global temps, and is there ...
    This is a post for those who like the intellectual stimulation of unraveling the cause and effect links at the bleeding edge.  It’s a weekend puzzle. Frank Lansner (of Hidethedecline) wants to toss out his latest thoughts and findings for discussion. With a very simple equation he’s ...
  • Nir Shaviv: On IPCCs exaggerated climate sensi ...
    Nir Shaviv, the well known astrophysicist from Israel, points out that climate sensitivity (according to the IPCC and co) has barely changed in 33 years. Therefore their predictions from the FAR (IPCC, First Assessment Report) in 1990 ought to mean something. Yet observations are now tracking o ...
  • 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)

ReNew America

  • Judge orders removal of Rhode Island school pr ...
    (Reuters) - A federal judge has ordered the immediate removal of a Christian prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Cranston high school, saying it violated a U.S. constitutional ban on state-sponsored prayer in public schools...
  • Conservatives remain the largest ideological g ...
    (Gallup) - Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which modera ...
  • GOP, what's your hurry?
    (Jordan Gehrke) - Republicans do not need to nominate a candidate anytime soon. On the contrary, if they want to beat President Obama, they should take their time before settling on a nominee...
  • As expected, Romney captures N.H.; eyes South ...
    (Newsroom America) - In New Hampshire, it was all Mitt Romney, all the time. In results that were wholly expected, Romney steamrolled his GOP rivals Tuesday in New Hampshire's first-in-the-country primary, winning by double digits over second-place finisher Ron Paul...
  • Rick Santorum is right
    (Stephen Kokx) - Now that Rick Santorum has emerged as a viable alternative to Mitt Romney, he will have to face a media onslaught that very few candidates can handle. But this time, it's not just the liberal media he'll be up against; the libertarian right is making their opposition heard as we ...

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

  • Mysterious Stone Wheels / Stored Temporal Patterns
    Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ‘wheels’ that are more numerous and older than the Nazca Lines in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The structures are thought to date back 2,000 ...Mysterious Stone Wheels / Stored Temporal Patterns is a post from: ...
  • Catastrophe: Guaranteed
    Usually I’m telling people that nobody knows for sure what will happen in 2012 – but it’s best to prepare for the worst, just in case. Today I am guaranteeing that certain disasters will occur ...Catastrophe: Guaranteed is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Reduce the ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Is military spending good for creating jobs?
    With looming budget cuts threatening to dig into the military budget, politicians and pundits are warning of big job losses in defense jobs. But a new study finds that military spending isn&a ...
  • Pension busting at American Airlines
    The Texas-based carrier is using Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a strategic weapon in a class war against decent wages and benefits for its workers.
    The Texas-based ca ...
  • Teachers call for holiday boycott of Pope stores
    The North Carolina Association of Educators has called for shoppers to boycott stores owned by Raleigh multimillionaire and conservative operative Art Pope for his "anti-public educa ...
  • Fresh testing shows persistent contamination i ...
    Results suggest that dangerously high levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde linger in the more than 130,000 trailers that the federal agency provided to families displaced by the 2005 disaste ...
  • Fracturing democracy?
    As the grassroots movement opposing the controversial gas-drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" racks up political victories, the industry embraces ...

One News Page

  • Vinny Guadagnino leaves 'Jersey Shore'
    Vinny Guadagnino reveals that he is suffering from anxiety and exhaustion.
  • Internet addiction is like drugs: Study
    Addiction to the internet could cause damage to the brain similar to that by use of alcohol and drugs, a Chinese study has said.
  • Kate Beckinsale's costume drama
    Actress Kate Beckinsale, who is all set to reprise her role as vampire warrior Selene in 'Underworld: Awakening', says it was not the action scenes but trademark leather costume that posed one of the biggest challenges for her.
  • Courteney Cox: ‘I’m a Hard Laugh’
    COURTENEY Cox admits she’s a bit of a sourpuss! The Cougar Town actress — who raises seven-year-old daughter Coco with estranged husband David Arquette — says she has the tendency to lack a laugh or two. “I am a hard laugh,” she said. “I don’t think things are that funny. I’m ...
  • Mullaperiyar row: Kerala CM to meet Union minister
    Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is due to meet Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday.

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Why Washington is opposed to Vladimir Putin el ...
    There seems to be no limit to Washington’s idiocy in international relations, when clearly as a premier economic power US is declining fast and like a seriously diseased patient, on drip, just about surviving. Yes, it spends over $ 700 billion on defense at the behest of military and energ ...
  • Can Iran Defeat the US in a Major War?
    US President Dwight Eisenhower used to say that his country would achieve peace even if it takes a war. Naturally, what he had in mind was the kind of peace acceptable to Washington. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, German writer Thomas Mann dropped a wise remark that “War is only a ...
  • The Iran/Iraq War: Mutual Assured Destruction
    In 1979, as Iranian revolutionaries were taking charge in Tehran, Carter National Security Adviser, Afghan Frankenstein godfather and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Kuwait City meeting with Kuwaiti Emir Sheik Jaber Ahmed al Sabah, House of Saud envoys and Iraqi Presi ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • How To Make Your Child’s Hair Grow Faster
    Believe it or not, this is a question that I get asked all the time! There’s no magical trick to making hair grow, because mostly it’s a matter of genetics. There are, however, some things you can do to help the natural process along and you may actually see your child’s hair grow faster.Here ar ...
  • You Won't Believe What Nursing Home Patients A ...
    Do you have a loved one who can no longer be cared for at home? If so, you probably already know how bad nursing home food is. Although it's really no different than school food or hospital food. All of it should be illegal. We shouldn't be able to feed our pets this stuff, let alone those we lo ...
  • The Things We Never Imagine as Moms
    [Editor's Note: There are things we never imagine we will experience or endure as parents. The loss of a child is one that we don't even want to consider... for a second. Miss Molly at Hope Smiling Brightly lost her daughter Lucy in a tragic accident. Molly shares a bit about those things she ne ...
  • Hollywood, High Heels, and My Big Pregnant Bel ...
    The 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards aired live last night on VH1... Viola Davis, George Clooney and a little, silent-but-amazing-must-see film called The Artist took the top prizes. Spielberg, Pitt and DiCaprio showed up. Scorsese and Sean Penn were honored. Bob ...
  • Trash in Cape Town
    I realized one of my travel dreams recently, when I spent eight days on a holiday break in Cape Town, South Africa. The scenery was breathtaking, the weather perfect, the food delicious.And then there was the trash.Somehow, when you go so far away, to a place so exotic, you don’t expect to find ...

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

  • AFL-CIO’s Trumka calls for talk about fu ...
    Here’s a speech my old buddy Rich Trumka, the former United Mine Workers president who now heads the national AFL-CIO, gave today about climate change (and he talks a fair amount about coal too): Good afternoon. I am honored to be here with all of you. And thank you, Denise (Napier), for t ...
  • The cognitive dissonance of coal politics in W.Va.
    West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin certainly did a lot of Washington bashing last night in his State of the State address. For example: This is not Washington D.C., where partisan bickering has subverted the legislative process. This is West Virginia, where the republican and democrat, liberal ...
  • ‘One death in our mines is one death too ...
    Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin speaks Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 during his state of the state address at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) Here is what Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said in his State of the State speech to summarize his promised mine safety reform legislation: Just as we mu ...
  • Gov. Tomblin repeats promise to oppose ‘ ...
    Here’s what West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin had to say in tonight’s State of the State address about his efforts to help stop any tougher regulation of the coal industry: Let me now speak very directly about one of my problems with Washington. As long as I am Governor I will cont ...
  • New EPA data pinpoints global warming polluters
    Here’s the latest from Dina Cappiello at The Associated Press: The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming. Power plants released 72 percent of the greenhouse gases report ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Mandatory States
    I’ve been thinking recently about what states of being are required for optimum health. A few things bring this on: 1) Paul Graham’s writing on how he manages inputs and controls distractions has always penetrated deeply for me, and 2) when I find myself without options for inputs I ...
  • How to Nap | Boston Globe
    via boston.com Über. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentAnother TimeThe sting of poverty – The Boston GlobeHow facts backfire | The Boston GlobeWalk of Ideas | GermanyA Digital IO Workflow
  • Small teams beat large teams in software devel ...
    A study done by consultancy QSM in 2005 seems to indicate that smaller teams are more efficient than larger teams. Not just a little more efficient, but dramatically more efficient. QSM maintains a database of 4000+ projects. For this study they looked at 564 information systems projects done si ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Deep fears drive Japanese whaling
    By Trevor Watson,smh.com.au - Understanding why Japan persists with whaling will help us stop it. Japan’s claim that it kills whales in the name of science is one of those “we know that they know that we know” exercises that serves no real purpose other than to allow members of ...
  • Q&A with comedian Lewis Black
    By Edward Ortiz,sacbee.com - There are no sacred cows when Lewis Black goes on the attack. Not even himself. That much is clear in the new comedy set he’s touring titled “Running on Empty,” which Lewis will perform at the Community Center Theater on Saturday. As a baby boomer, ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates: Media,1%ers ...
    Occupy Wall Street Branches Out After Regaining Its Home Base A late Wednesday afternoon seems like an odd time to protest, especially while most people are still at work. Even in Times Square, crowds were hard to come by yesterday, as few tourists took in the sights on a cold, cloudy weekday. B ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Frday
    Pentagon condemns Marines’ behavior in graphic video, as unit identified Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday harshly condemned alleged behavior in a video that appears to show U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. The Pentagon chief said he’d ordered a full inve ...
  • VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: PREVENTION, PROTECTION ...
    WWH, United Nations – It is a lesser known reality of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January 2010 and left more than 200,000 dead. The merciless disintegration of the Haitian State created a situation of utter chaos for the country’s most vulnerable. In less than 55 seconds of ...

reference frame

  • James Annan lost his bet against a skeptic
    Reason Magazine, Benny Peiser, James Delingpole, and WUWT mention an amusing story. In April 2008, climate skeptic and astrophysicist David Whitehouse – who is currently an adviser to the Global Warming Policy Foundation – stated that the 1998 record warm year according to HadCRUT3 would ...
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed on the meaning of the 125 Ge ...
    I've seen parts of some talks at a recent Jerusalem winter school in theoretical physics. For example, the physicist from the title has updated our knowledge about the twistor'n'grassmannian minirevolution. It was interesting to hear that the Yangian is composed of diffeomorphisms. ...
  • Warm winter 1911-1912
    Time for another climate edition of the Centennial Courier by Mr Ivan Motýl [Mr Ivan Butterfly]. Let's look at the beginning of the year 1912 from the perspective of Prague. Butterflies took off, ice-hockey is suffering and the beer is warm – or: a strange winter Czech ice-hoc ...
  • Thames & Kosmos: Global Warming
    A wonderful gift I received from a famous Ivy League professor teaches the most curious kids and deniers about global warming. So I have constructed my own Earth with the continents etc. and just like the real one, it can be embedded into a transparent greenhouse ball. ...
  • Goodbye, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
    Four casualties of a certain type in five years isn't exactly an entry for the Guinness book of records. However, the precision and focus of these operations are symptoms of intelligent design behind them. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a 32-year-old professor (with expertise in chemist ...

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

Enviroblog

  • Marine brass wants to limit Camp Lejeune water ...
    By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • People from Poland ‘will be heard’
    Immigrants and guest workers from Poland make up the largest group of foreign residents in Norway, and now they’re expected to start making their voices heard. With tens of thousands of people from Poland now living permanently in Norway, they can form an important political lobbying group ...
  • Cod fishing better than ever
    Fishing fleets off Northern Norway are suddenly hauling in enormous amounts of torsk (cod), not least around Senja. They say the fishing has been “exceptional,” and capacity is bursting at terminals on shore. “There’s no point saying this is like fishing used to be in the ...
  • Court orders new evaluation of terrorist’s men ...
    Oslo’s City Court has appointed new psychiatrists to seek a second opinion on the mental health of confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who was controversially declared insane in November. Meanwhile, Norway’s leading advocate for the rights of crime victims is calling for chan ...
  • Avalanche warnings in the mountains
    Norway’s state meteorological institute was warning Friday of high avalanche danger in the mountains of southern Norway, following heavy snowfall earlier in the week and rising temperatures. Two persons were dug out of the snow at a ski resort in Ørsta after a slide  Thursday evening. Both ...
  • Female MPs sexually harassed
    Female Members of Parliament (MPs) are frequent targets of  anonymous sexual harassment from the public, often of a nature so obscene and graphic that they dread having to turn the e-mails and text messages they receive over to the police. They’re being encouraged, though, to go public wit ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Peak Oil Can Fuel a Change for the Better
    The advent of peak oil means we should prepare for a downscaling of our highly energy and resource-intensive lifestyles. What is peak oil and why does it matter? And what effect will it have on the Western lifestyles we take for granted? These are not questions that many people are asking themse ...
  • Peak Oil, Energy Descent, and the Fate of Cons ...
    Western-style consumer lifestyles are highly resource and energy intensive. This paper examines the energy intensity of these consumer lifestyles and considers whether such lifestyles could be sustained in a future with declining energy supplies and much higher energy prices. The rise of consume ...
  • Permaculture at The Farm
    Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training Center transformed his life. He quit his job, bought a keyline plow and compost tea brewer, and moved to The Farm. Climate Prophy ...
  • Living, Green and Circular
    The new Truly Green Economy needs to be modeled after and embedded within the circular economy of nature to generate and regenerate wealth for people and planet. by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Note: A fully illustrated and referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise ...
  • Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Ec ...
    Editor’s Note: The recently-formed PRI Hellas (Greece) team are making good progress in difficult times, as evidenced by this nice piece from The Ecologist below. If you want to support this work, whilst having a great learning experience in an incredibly beautiful location, be sure to che ...

Pointman's

  • They’re just words.
    If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Deon Haywood, Leader in Struggle Against Louis ...
    Deon Haywood, who has tirelessly led the successful struggle against Louisiana's so-called Crime Against Nature statute, has been named Queen of Krewe du Vieux, the raucous parade that signals the start of Mardi Gras parade season. Haywood, who was also just named as one of the People Who Made ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Hey bluejelly, i agree more knowledge needs to be out their cause ppl really have no idea. try those things yourself... i wouldn't advise it... anyway they close you in the corner from all directions, Mizrahi parents don't get to have the land/property on their name... ashkenazis do. everyth ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    "For ashkenazis: the "Continuing Son" law gives the children the land and property after the parents death." Yeah well if the parents were smart they would have transfered the property into the siblings name. Sorry if you are too stupid then too bad Sorry if I don't feel t ...
  • Gun Talk • The Best Guns for Home Defense -- M ...
    I largely agree with this list... IMHO. A good, reliable sotgun is #1 hands down in CQs. -------- The Best Guns for Home Defense by Brett on July 23, 2009 in Manly Skills homedefense Source Life Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jon at Armslist.com. Armslist.com is an online firea ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Two laws in israhell: For ashkenazis: the "Continuing Son" law gives the children the land and property after the parents death. For the rest: Displacement after the parents death.. Mizrahi homeless: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVxLFhn428o iframe http://www.youtube.co ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Mizrahi economist: "ashkenazis frustrated because Germany's money finished" 11.01.2012 (vid) khazar destruction is coming as expected: Shlomo Maoz, Iraq born, the chief economist of israhelli investment firm Excellence Nessuah, was fired the day after he said the things in a talk at a ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Reducing Methane and Soot Will Reduce Warming, ...
    A team of scientists says that governments can significantly reduce global warming, and prevent millions of premature deaths, by targeting emissions of methane and soot. In a new study published in the journal Science, the researchers say strategies that target those emissions and use existing t ...
  • Automakers Unveil More Hybrids, But Consumer D ...
    While the major automakers have unveiled new electric plug-in and hybrid cars at this week’s North American International Auto Show, including a cheaper version of the Toyota Prius, industry observers say Getty Images The new Toyota Prius C consumer demand for alternative fuel cars remains ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Kajima to build Ford plant in India
    Major constructor Kajima Corp.'s Indian subsidiary has landed an order from a Ford Motor Co. Indian unit to build an auto factory in the city of Sanand in Gujarat Province. The factory will be constructed on a 1.86-sq.-km site and be built by 2014, while its production capacity in the first ye ...
  • Escaped convict caught in Hiroshima
    Police recaptured a Chinese fugitive Friday, two days after he escaped from Hiroshima Prison dressed only in his underwear. Li Guolin, 40, fled Wednesday by scaling a 5-meter prison fence that was undergoing repair work. The National Police Agency had placed Li on a special wanted list. ...
  • Ryan confident on deal with Darvish
    Texas Rangers president and Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was impressed by his first meeting with pitching sensation Yu Darvish and is confident a contract will be completed by next week's deadline. "My expectations are that we'll get something done," Ryan said Thursday night, then added the ...
  • Expansion team awarded to Tokyo
    A Tokyo-based expansion team will join the bj-league next season, giving the capital city a new franchise after the disappearance of the Tokyo Apache. The league made the announcement on Friday, two days before its sixth annual All-Star Game, which will be held at Saitama Super Arena, venue fo ...
  • Fewest crimes in 30 years seen in '11
    The number of crimes handled by police in 2011 declined 6.6 percent from the previous year to about 1.48 million, falling below 1.5 million cases for the first time in 30 years, preliminary data by the National Police Agency showed Thursday. The number of crimes is almost half the record-high ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Wall of Silence on Canpotex
    Saskatchewan’s newspapers reported today that BHP Billiton intends to sell the province’s potash outside of Canpotex, the marketing board that helps to maximize the price for which Saskatchewan potash is exported offshore. BHP executive Tim Cutt stated, “We will not market through Canpotex. We t ...
  • The “Other” Side of the Story
    The latest Labour Force Survey summary tables released by Statistics Canada contain something salient and troubling. It’s not the unemployment rate. It’s the fact that more and more prime-age workers are finding themselves working part-time hours simply because they can’t find full-time hours. I ...
  • It’s up to the Senate to stop the Crime Bill
    The omnibus crime bill passed the House of Commons handily, thanks to the Conservative majority and the invocation of closure and time limits throughout the process. It is now over to the Upper House to hear evidence and make a decision about Bill C-10. For the second time in living memory, Cons ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Why doesn't the European Union pull the plug o ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that given Israel's reliance on exports to Europe and its contempt for the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which calls for "respect for human rights and democratic principles", the EU should impose sanctions on the Jewish apartheid state but won't because of the power o ...
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Medical physicists advise patients to not decl ...
    Inside Science: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has stated that the benefits of diagnostic radiation procedures far outweigh the risks. Specifically, the association said that the risks from medical imaging at effective doses below 50 millisieverts for a single procedur ...
  • X Prize seeks Star Trek-style tricorder
    BBC: The latest X Prize, worth $10 million and funded by telecoms manufacturer Qualcomm, challenges inventors to develop a portable diagnostic tool similar to that used in the science fiction TV series Star Trek. Wireless and noninvasive, the handheld device, called a tricorder, was used by the ...
  • Russian space chief suggests sabotage interfer ...
    New York Times: The Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt, launched this past November, wound up stranded in low-Earth orbit shortly after launch instead of heading for Mars's larger moon Phobos as planned. It's expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this Saturday. In an interview with the newspaper ...
  • Flying telescope gives deeper view of Orion nebula
    BBC: The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, is a 15-ton telescope mounted in the back of a converted Boeing 747. The telescope can see in both the visible and IR spectra. The first of SOFIA's images of the Orion nebula were released in late December, and James De Buizer ...
  • Astronomers create largest map ever of dark ma ...
    Science: Representing five years of work in imaging 10 million galaxies at distances of about 6 billion light-years, the new dark-matter map is 100 times larger than the largest one to date, writes Govert Schilling for Science. Although dark matter, which represents 98% of the mass of the univer ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Obsolescence Management Tools
    by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...
  • 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 ...

Peakwater

  • South Sudan Tribal Conflict 2011-12
    “An estimated 60,000 people have been displaced in South Sudan’s Jonglei state since late December, when some 6,000 to 8,000 armed members of the Lou Nuer tribe carried out a series of attacks on members of the rival Murle community. There have since been fatal revenge attacks by Murle mem ...
  • 8 Mighty Rivers Run Dry From Overuse
    “One of the largest rivers in North America, the 1,885-mile (3,033-kilometer) Rio Grande runs from southwestern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. It defines much of the border between Texas and Mexico. But the once grande river is looking more poco these days, thanks to heavy use on both sid ...
  • Nev.’s water fight — slow-motion w ...
    “In many parts of the world, cities are on the forefront of preparing for a climate-changed future. Here it is happening with a peculiar twist: Las Vegas wants the water beneath their feet, and residents scattered through White Pine County and other targeted rural areas aren’t budgin ...
  • Rivers must flow: The case against big dams
    “More than 50,000 large dams now choke about two-thirds of the world’s largest rivers. The consequences of this massive engineering programme have been devastating. Large dams have wiped out species; flooded huge areas of wetlands, forests and farmlands; displaced tens of millions of ...
  • Navajo Nation Running Out Of Water
    “Now, with the help of veteran Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican and one of Capitol Hill’s senior experts on water law, Navajo leaders and their lawyers appear to be steadily inching closer to a long-awaited legal settlement to draw millions of gallons of water for the reservation from ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Applauds Help for Ohio Homeowners
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac directed mortgage servicing companies to offer unemployed borrowers up to twelve months of forbearance on their mortgage payments.     “This official change in policy is welco ...
  • Kucinich Efforts to Protect Downtown Businesse ...
    Kucinich’s multiyear efforts to protect Downtown and Midtown businesses may have finally paid off after the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) agreed to reconsider plans to close down access ramps along the Innerbelt (I-90) in Downtown Cleveland. “I am glad that the Department of Transpor ...
  • Kucinich Details New High-Tech Energy Proposal ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) shared his pending legislation to promote high-tech clean energy development while speaking at the Canada-Ohio Aerospace Institute today. Speaking to experts in fields of space exploration and aerospace development, Congressman Kucinich unveiled a plan to harne ...
  • Kucinich Moves to Save Cleveland’s Two Million ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today appealed to the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary to reverse a decision that would take away $2 million from a lead paint abatement program in the City of Cleveland. “Twenty-one percent of children tested in the Cleveland area had elevated le ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • NO “COJONES” …
      NO “COJONES” …   … Now the battle line$ are clearly drawn and we will $ee how Congre$$ knuckles under when their sponsors … boosters … lobbyists … came calling to cash in their IOU’s… … I’m betting there will be a backroom deal cut and mining will ...
  • US Agents Laundered Money, Shipped Drugs for C ...
      US Agents Laundered Money, Shipped Drugs for Cartels 01-10-2012  •  www.antiwar.com  The same old drug war tactics lead to more powerful cartels and illicit activity by US authorities … Filed under: Blogroll
  • … And we want to know … who do we ...
    … And we want to know … who do we blame … the answer will not make you laugh or put a smile on your face … the truth is look in any mirror … that reflection is culpable … … 34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger [...]
  • … So what … in Arizona we STRIP yo ...
    … So what … in Arizona we STRIP your right to LIFE if you are poor …   Bill Known As Enemy Expatriation Act Would Let Govt. Strip Citizenship Without Conviction First, Congress considered the National Defense Authorization Act, sections of which gave the President the auth ...
  • STENCH
      The Stench of Tony Blair Continues   Posted by Christopher Manion on January 8, 2012 10:04 AM "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair channelled millions of pounds through a complicated web of companies and paid just a fraction in tax," The Sunday Telegraph reveals. ...

Popular Technology

  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
  • 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
    WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Matt Miller: don't oversimplify issues in envi ...
    Matt Miller is director of communications for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, a position he’s held for ten years. He is responsible for the chapter’s publications and digital media. He writes for the Conservancy’s blogs Cool Green Science and Idaho Nature Notes. He has also co ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Interview with conservation legend George Schaller
    Dr George Schaller is a veteran ecologist affiliated with two conservation organizations in New York, Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Spending much of his time during the past six decades in various countries of Asia, Africa and South America, he has studied and helped protect sp ...
  • Palm oil, pulp companies commit to zero-tolera ...
    Two Indonesian plantation companies have signed an agreement to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans and other protected species. The agreement was brokered by the Indonesian government between Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), a non-profit with operations in Central Kalimantan ...
  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • From last in class to top of the tree
    At 60, surgeon Ben Carson has eased off a bit from the scalpel.By his count he does eight operations a week, half the number he did when he was 40. He works on adults but his favourite patients remainchildren."I like to get a...
  • Aircraft biofuel plan may bring trans-Tasman boon
    The future of aviation fuel may be growing on trial plots in northern Australia, as scientists search for new means of keeping the world's airliners aloft.The Australian government science agency CSIRO and American aviation giant...
  • Teeny-weeny frog leaps into scientific records
    A frog that can perch on the tip of your pinkie with room to spare has been claimed as the world's smallest vertebrate species, out-tinying a fish that got the title in 2006. But the discoverer of another weensy fish disputes the...
  • Revealed: the secret of happiness
    There's now scientific proof that alcohol makes people feel happy.Researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Centre at the University of California have found drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas...
  • Professor: Low toothfish numbers will 'screw t ...
    Vessels fishing for toothfish continue to get into trouble in the Southern Ocean, but scientists warn they are endangering more than human life.The fire on board the Korean vessel Jung Woo 2 follows the rescue of the Sparta and...

Truth Survival + RSS

  • NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND VISITORS
    As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Can a White Libertarian Man Represent NY's Chi ...
      Meet Dan O'Connor, a self-described libertarian Democrat who wants to represent New York's District 12 - which includes Chinatown and parts of Queens and Brooklyn - in Congress. O'Connor spent six years living in China, so he feels a connection to the inhabitants of Manha ...
  • Nicotine Gum and Patches May Not Work, but at ...
    A study published online this week by the journal Tobacco Control casts further doubt on the effectiveness of "nicotine replacement therapy" (NRT) as a method of quitting smoking. The researchers followed 787 Massachusetts smokers who had recently quit, interviewing them three t ...
  • Peter Suderman on Newt Gingrich's Attacks on R ...
    Believe it or not, Newt Gingrich is doing Mitt Romney a favor. Gingrich has spent the past week attacking Romney’s tenure as the head of Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney helped found in the 1980s. The attacks, however, have mostly backfired. In fact, they've managed to gen ...
  • Peaceniks Should Love Murder Drones, Say Drone ...
    For the month of January, Cato Unbound is probing the West's use of murder drones. The lead essay is by Notre Dame's David Cortwright, who begins by asking "whether drone technology makes war more likely." Are decisionmakers more prone to employ military force if they have acc ...
  • High-Speed Rail Scorecard: Bees = 1, Dead = 1, ...
    A California state politician has written a masterpiece.  Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton) was only seeking fame as one of the admitted authors of Proposition 1A, a popular referendum authorizing the sale of $9.95 billion in public bonds for the Golden State's high-spee ...

Mercury Rising

  • Yes, they are all corrupt/updated
    Thanks to Sam Seder for hopping on this. Lena Groeger, ProPublica: Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National Institutes of Health. There you’ll find thousands ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • And The Difference Between Pam Oshry Geller, D ...
    Not much, as it turns out. If one were to edit both Pamela Oshry Geller’s and Dana Loesch’s comments and replace all the instances of Islamic references with Jewish references, the result would fit easily on any Stormfront webpage. Eliminationist, bigoted hate speech is distressingly ...
  • Pakistan on edge
    Kalbe Ali and Munawar Azeem, Dawn: Still the presence of some 600 extra security personnel in the city, particularly in the Red Zone area where the Presidency, the Prime Minister`s House and the Supreme Court are located, looked ominous to the common citizens and even hospital and emergency serv ...
  • Laffer Sued Over Ponzi Scheme, Cheap Cottage-I ...
    Two bits of news you won’t find at any “NewsRight” affiliate, but which may be the most important things you read today: – You always knew supply-side economics was a con job. Now we see that its popularizer, Arthur Laffer, is being sued over an alleged Ponzi scheme (h/t ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
    Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.
  • KENYA: Thirsty Eucalyptus Good for Absorbing C ...
    On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years.
  • AFRICA: Watermelon Farming in a Drought
    On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung'u's homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.
  • Observing Deforestation from Space
    Global climate change can now be observed from space. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) launched a new technology that can survey the world's forests via satellites and provide a more accurate, global picture of common threats to the environment, such as deforestat ...
  • CLIMATE CHANGE-AFRICA: Farming By Phone
    Francis Mburu used to keep indigenous cattle in Entasopia village in the semi- arid Kajiado region, 160 kilometres southwest of Nairobi. However, increasing temperatures and frequent droughts in Kenya have made this difficult in recent years.

Automatic Earth

  • January 10 2012: The Year of the Trojan Water ...
    Harris & Ewing Listening to the Future September 12, 1938Washington, D.C. "Acting Czechoslovakian Minister listens to Hitler speech. Dr. Karel Brejska, Charge d'Affaires and acting Minister in the absence of Minister Vladimir Hurban in Czechoslovakia, is pictured listening to Adolf Hitler's ...
  • January 7 2012: Death of an Institution: Despe ...
    Detroit Publishing Co. Curb Market 1905"New York City, Broad Street exchange and curb brokers" Ilargi: In a nice coincidence, while Nicole Foss (Stoneleigh) wrote about decentralization a few days ago in The Storm Surge of Decentralization, today Ashvin Pandurangi, independently from Nicole, al ...
  • January 3 2012: The Storm Surge of Decentraliz ...
    G.G. Bain Hey Mrs. Tambourine Woman New York, August 1913"Suffragettes on way to Boston: 'suffrage caravan' campaign for women's voting rights" Stoneleigh: Happy New Year from The Automatic Earth! One of our consistent themes at TAE has been not expecting solutions to come from the top down. Exi ...
  • December 29 2011: Trends 2012: The End of the ...
    G. G. Bain Fire 1916"W.T. Grant department store fire at New York's Sixth Avenue and 18th Street in April 1916" Ilargi: Oh, sure, don't get me wrong, there may still be a Euro a year from now. And there’ll certainly be some investors left.But the Euro, if it manages to survive, will have to do s ...
  • December 25 2011: Most. Tragic. Species. Ever.
    Esther Bubley Li'l Skeptics Washington, D.C. July 1943"Spectators at the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers" Ilargi: We're supposed to be celebrating the birth and the life of the man whose only ever act of aggression was he threw the money changers out of the temple, right? Just chec ...

Press TV

  • UK's Iran stance, 'humiliating idiocy'
    Britain's sabre-rattling against Iran as desired by hawkish neo-cons inside the U.S. is the most humiliating idiocy she is committing on behalf of pro-Israeli lobbyists.
  • Britain warns Scotland about currency
    The UK government has warned Scottish authorities that an independent Scotland would not be able to keep the pound as its currency, according to media reports.
  • 'Tech facilitates intimate lives in UK'
    A new survey has found that worrying numbers of British teenagers are turning online contacts or a sexting culture into real life sexual relationships.
  • 'US approaching debt ceiling again'
    US debt is again nearing its currnet account debt limit prompting President Obama to ask Congress for another 1.2 trillion dollars to prop up the US economy.
  • Kuwait police attack stateless protesters
    Kuwaiti police have attacked stateless protesters demanding citizenship in the city of Jahra, northwest of the capital, injuring several demonstrators.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Raising the Ages of Eligibility for Medicare a ...
    Raising the ages at which people can begin to collect Medicare and Social Security benefits would be one way to lower federal outlays, raise revenues, and reduce long-term fiscal imbalances. A CBO issue brief released today reviews how ages of eligibility affect beneficiaries under current law a ...
  • Do Public-Private Partnerships Build Roads Mor ...
    Currently, the federal government and state and local governments face calls for more and better highways but confront budgetary constraints in providing them. Some analysts have suggested that public-private partnerships might supply at least a portion of that capacity by providing additional f ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit for the First Quarter o ...
    The federal budget deficit was $320 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $49 billion less than the deficit recorded in the same period in fiscal year 2011. But $26 billion of that difference resulted from shifts in the timing of ce ...
  • Deforestation and Greenhouse Gases
    The destruction and degradation of forestland, caused mainly by expanded agricultural activity in tropical developing countries, currently accounts for roughly 12 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Slowing or halting deforestation in developing countries is a potentially low-cost ...
  • Actual ARRA Spending Over the 2009-2011 Period ...
    Almost three years have passed since the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Back in November 2009, we reported in a blog post that actual spending in fiscal year 2009 of funds provided by ARRA was about 1 percent higher than CBO’s estimate for that year ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
    The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
  • Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
    Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
  • Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
    Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...

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