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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.

Monday, January 16, 2012

16 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • EUROPE: Separate Schools for Roma Challenged
    A school in Slovakia has defended its decision to segregate Roma children from other students after a court ruled the practice breached equal rights laws.
  • INDIA: The Tribal Show Goes On
    In the eastern city Kolkata, a tourist just back from a holiday in India's Andaman islands last week boasts he threw bananas to Jarawa tribe members and secretly photographed them when their car passed through a jungle.
  • HUNGARY: Civil Society Steps in as Opposition
    The massive overhaul of Hungary's political system by the conservative Fidesz party is raising fears the country's days as a liberal democracy may be numbered. With opposition parties powerless, it is civil society that has awakened to support a more participatory democracy.
  • CHINA: Building a Cultural Front Against the West
    President Hu Jintao of China made headlines in the early days of the new year saying China and the West were engaged in an escalating culture war, and calling on Chinese people to strengthen cultural production to defend themselves against the assault.
  • INDIA: Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Right ...
    As the amount of protected forest dwindles rapidly in India, indigenous groups and wildlife find themselves living cheek to jowl in an increasingly contested space.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Herding Americans to War with Iran
    Summary: For many Americans the progression toward war with Iran has the feel of cattle being herded from the stockyard into the slaughterhouse, pressed steadily forward with no turning back, until some guy shoots a bolt into your head. source: Consortium Newsread more
  • China denounces U.S. sanctions on company deal ...
    Summary: Jan 15 (Reuters) - China critised U.S. sanctions on a Chinese company selling refined petroleum products to Iran, calling Washington's punishment an unreasonable step beyond international sanctions on Tehran's nuclear programme. source: Reutersread more
  • Will Israeli terrorism and US military threats ...
    Summary: There will be few in the Middle East who doubt Israel's involvement in the latest terror attack inside Iran, and many round the world will be horrified at another escalation on the road to all-out war. source: Stop the War Coalitionread more
  • US Military Officials Complain of Iranian Vess ...
    Summary: Left out of CNN’s equation is whether the U.S. waging two aggressive, unnecessary wars directly along Iran’s east and west borders, constantly flooding the Persian Gulf with fleets of navy warships, bribing client states surrounding Iranian territory with weapons systems and money to ...
  • Iran ‘has evidence’ CIA masterminded nuke scie ...
    Summary: "We have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided and supported by the CIA," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a rare letter handed to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, according to state television. In 2010 John Sawers, the head of MI6, declared ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Instead of drugs and behavioral therapy for AD ...
    It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that many of the symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the often over-diagnosed condition tacked on many young people, can be treated by simply altering or supplementing one's diet...
  • New legislation would strip you of your citize ...
    You remember that loathsome, constitutionally questionable provision of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act that allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain even American citizens only suspected of terrorist and other activities, right? Now comes...
  • Spiritual Medicine
    Though I have spent the last 10 years writing about and defining Natural Allopathic Medicine twenty-five years ago I created Biogenic Medicine, which on a diagnostic level, combines many levels of perception into a holistic framework that amplifies medicine's ability...
  • Was teen prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa's tragic ...
    (NaturalNews)Arfa Karim Randhawa, the 16 year-old girl deemed the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), passed away at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on Saturday night.(http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C01%5C15%5Cstory_15-1-2012_pg1_5) On...
  • Federal government limits chimpanzee research
    (NaturalNews)The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced in December 2011 that it will apply more stringent standards limiting government-funded experiments on chimpanzees. The announcement came after new recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), concluding that...

Threat Level

  • White House Blasts Internet Blacklisting Bills
    The Obama administration said Saturday that it would not support legislation that would mandate changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright and trademark infringement.
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney's Big Lie on the Economy Gets Bigger
    If nothing else, Mitt Romney seems dedicated to proving that repetition of a lie will make it true. On no point is Romney's tilting against the windmill of truth more comically pathetic than his long-ago debunked claim that President Obama "did not cause this recession, but he made it worse." ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • MLK: Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam
    Martin Luther King Jr gave this sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967
  • What A Comics Script Is For
    This may seem obvious, but give me a minute. I think it’s often misunderstood. A script is a set of instructions to the artist(s), letterer, editor, colourist if applicable, and designer if applicable. This set of instructions is intended to present the mechanics of your story with the greatest ...
  • SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Ow ...
    Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause ...
  • Why I’m Suing Barack Obama by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jan. 16, 2012 Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the ...
  • Rev. Martin Luther King Jr: I Have Been to the ...
    Dandelion Salad Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just thirty-nine years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he ...

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

  • Meatout — Coming to a City Near You
      Meatout activists are looking to help more people dump the cause of at least 51% of our global warming pollution emissions this March. These activists are organizing events around the country and around the world for March 20. All 50 U.S. states and at least two dozen other [...]
  • 5 Organizations Teaching Students about Conser ...
      Curriculum in U.S. schools is often a contentious topic, with various interest groups battling over what material is “right” or “useful” for the nation’s children, and concepts like conservation often get lost in the shuffle. Conservation knowledge is good to have and wise to impart no ma ...
  • MLK Quotes
      I just posted this over on my personal blog. But in the process of putting the quotes together, I realized that it would (obviously) be a great fit for Planetsave. So, here’s a quick repost. MLK was amazing, and amazing human. Hope these inspire you as they just did me: [...]
  • Top 10 Posts of the Week
      In case you missed them, or are just interested in seeing which of our posts from the last week have gotten the most views, here’s a list of our top 10 posts from the past 7 days: US Map of Biggest Polluters (Interactive) Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day – End Modern [...] ...
  • Patrick Michaels Loves to Delete Inconvenient Data
      If you follow climate science and global warming denial (two different things, of course), you are familiar with Patrick Michaels. Even if you don’t follow these things, there’s a good chance you’ve seen him on TV or seen him quoted in the mass media. He’s sort of ...

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Axis of Logic

  • 100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Min ...
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  • Statement: Venezuela Withdraws Consular Person ...
    Statement Venezuela Withdraws Consular Personnel in Miami The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has verified with extreme concern the increase in threats against Venezuelan consular personnel in Miami, Florida. The U.S. government’s decision to declare the Consul Gener ...
  • Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Emp ...
    Editor's Note: Our publication of this interview with Chris Hedges does not necessarily mean that we are on board with everything he has to say. Actually, that's never the case with anything we publish on Axis of Logic. For example, at about 46 minutes into the interview he states that...
  • Nasrallah Thanks UN Secretary General for Worr ...
    Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah secretary general of Hezbollah in a speech in Baalbek – Lebanon on Saturday January 14th declared that he would like to thank Mr. Ban Ki Moon Secretary General of the United Nations for worrying about Hezbollah’s growing military strength. Sayyed Nasrallah on Arbaeen: ...
  • Culturecide: Saving Egypt's precious fire-bomb ...
    "Farewell, my library! Farewell, the house of wisdom, the abode of philosophers, a house and witness for literature! How many sleepless nights I spent there, reading and writing, the night is silent and the people asleep… goodbye, my books!... I know not what has become of you after we left:...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Smart Shoppers Want to Know: Why is the GOP Fi ...
    By @TedFrier Washington Post editorial editor Fred Hiatt asks the $64,000 question many of us have been asking for a long time: "Why is the Republican presidential field so weak?" The short answer is: Why would anyone with a reputation for seriousness risk that reputation trying to lead a party ...
  • The war is over but the conflict continues apace
    By @BGinKC Although the last American military personnel left Iraq last month, it would be foolish and naive to believe that we were "outta there." Quite the contrary -- we left behind the largest embassy we have anywhere on the planet -- it's really just a ginormous bunker -- and more State Dep ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Union Thru ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by CMEUNION: A gutsy, rousing union song!!!! 'Union Thru and Thru' by the Eureka's- Rob Mitchell and Ken Walther (c) Walther Music- downloads available in the links section at www.cfmeuwa.com or email rmitchell@cfmeuwa.com
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD @RupertMurcoch found out the hard way that the web has less than zero respect for plutocrats. "When News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch attacked Google on Twitter for its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, he had no idea what he was letting himself in for. ... "Piracy leader is Googl ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: 1913 Massacre
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by an3yt. "The Italian Hall disaster (sometimes referred to as the 1913 massacre) is a tragedy which occurred on December 24, 1913 in Calumet, Michigan. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death when s ...

Care 2

  • Open Thread - 1/16/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 4 short takes, including a Bill Maher video, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NEW PETITION TO ENSURE TONY IS RELEASED TO A R ...
    LDWF: Ensure Tony The Tiger Is Released To A Reputable Sanctuary. Petitioning:- Secretary, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (Secretary Robert J.Barham) Mr. Fred Kimmel Ms. Maria Davidson Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Submitted by Julie Away No ...
  • A First Giant Step
    See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Poll Results - 1/16/2012
    A completely unscientific poll of Politics Plus readers on the relative importance of the January primaries. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Animals Petition: South African Government: Pu ...
    At the turn of the 19th century, there were approximately one million rhinos. In 1970, there were around 70,000. Today, there are fewer than 24,500 rhinos surviving in the wild. Three of the five species of rhino are Critically Endangered Please help. Submitted by Elizabeth S. to Animals   ...

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No Quarter

  • Jon Huntsman Done UPDATE
    NY Times reports that Jon Huntsman is calling it quits and will endorse Mitt Romney: Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina p ...
  • Did Mary Schapiro Engage in a Fraud?
    Will we learn in 2012 if Mary Schapiro, current chair of the SEC, and other then senior executives at the Wall Street self-regulatory organization, FINRA, engaged in a fraud? The case addressing this question, Standard Chartered v FINRA, has been appealed to the highest court in our land. As suc ...
  • Yes, A Double Dip Looks Likely
    Obamabots are in denial. They keep insisting that the economy is doing swell, that job creation essential for an economic rebound is going full steam. I truly wish that was the case, not because I want Obama to succeed, but because of the pain this stagnating economy is inflicting on too many Am ...
  • Who is Defending the Honor of the “Political M ...
    In its 2010 “Citizens United” decision, the US Supreme Courts held that: Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections.  ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mining industry should not demonize 40 Days of ...
    Mining industry should not demonize 40 Days of Prayer The Tennessean It is truly disturbing that the Tennessee Mining Association's response to the 40 Days of Prayer held to stop mountaintop removal is so sadly misguided, thoroughly misleading and ultimately disappointing. I guess it would b ...
  • 'Justified' returns for third season with a ne ...
    Lexington Herald Leader 'Justified' returns for third season with a new major villain Lexington Herald Leader Also like last season, story lines familiar to Kentuckians — mountaintop-removal coal mining, the interstate pill pipeline — will figure in the show. Yost says OxyContin will re- ...
  • Lou Martin: Boone County, Blair march stays wi ...
    Lou Martin: Boone County, Blair march stays with historian Charleston Gazette In fact, I would not have been on the march if it weren't for the leadership and vision of people who live in the coalfields and are tired of their land and their health being destroyed by mountaintop removal. The ...
  • 'Last Mountain' Opens Series of Films - ABQ Jo ...
    'Last Mountain' Opens Series of Films ABQ Journal (subscription) By Kathaleen Roberts / Journal Staff Writer on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 Tweet New Energy Economy is sponsoring an environmental film series addressing everything from mountaintop removal to activism-as-terrorism in a pockmarked an ...
  • Group offer prayers to end mountaintop mining ...
    Group offer prayers to end mountaintop mining as lawmakers gather in Nashville The Republic For 40 days before lawmakers arrived in Nashville, Christian groups around the state offered up prayers for the end of mountaintop removal coal mining. A prayer was posted online each day beginning on Dec ...

Memeorandum

  • Group spends $6 million linking Obama to Solyn ...
    Kevinliptak / CNN: Group spends $6 million linking Obama to Solyndra in ad  —  (CNN) - A conservative group announced Monday they were spending millions to spotlight President Barack Obama's involvement in the failed green energy firm Solyndra, which received loan guarantees fro ...
  • $44 million bill from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital ( ...
    NY Daily News: $44 million bill from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital  —  ‘System error’ is blamed  —  Alexis Rodriguez got a bill exeeding $44 million for Bronx-Lebanon Hospital outpatient services.  —  The hospital cured his pneumonia, but the ...
  • Holder: Same voting issues as MLK (Mj Lee/The ...
    Mj Lee / The Politico: Holder: Same voting issues as MLK  —  Attorney General Eric Holder used Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on the anniversary of the civil rights leader's birthday Monday to emphasize the Obama administration's dedication to protecting the American people fro ...
  • The strange birth of NY's gun laws (New York Post)
    New York Post: The strange birth of NY's gun laws  —  Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry back home.
  • GOP poll: Gingrich wins for 'nastiest' campaig ...
    Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box: GOP poll: Gingrich wins for ‘nastiest’ campaign  —  Newt Gingrich leads the field of Republican presidential candidates for running the nastiest campaign, according to a new poll on Monday.  —  Twenty-nine percent of regis ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • "China's courts fail the environment"
    It’s been a disappointing decade for environmental litigation in China. Writing from the frontlines, Xia Jun analyses the problems.As a lawyer with a decade-long involvement in environmental rights, I still remember the sighs of my colleagues when I set out on this path: litigation is hard ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Ethiopia Gets On the Pill, and That Matters fo ...
    Written by Jessica Mack for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. African countries are too often lumped together as one big composite of grave statistics and chronic epidemics. Because of this, it’s ...
  • Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks ...
    With their district already under an embarrassing desegregation order, the Governing Board of the Tucson Unified School District acquiesced to the demands of notorious Tea Party state officials last night and voted 4-1 to terminate the city’s nationally acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican Ame ...
  • Compost Cuisine: Amazing Ways to Make Deliciou ...
    Chefs are taking sustainability to new heights by gazing into the depths: that is, at what would otherwise be deemed not fit to eat.
  • The Barbie Syndrome: Interchangeable Fundament ...
    Written by Vyckie Garrison for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. by No Longer Quivering guest writer, “Calulu” A few weeks ago I was witnessing internet wide that one thing is certain ...
  • An Open Letter To NYT Staffers: Leave The Plan ...
    New York Times boss Arthur Sulzberger Jr.Recently, New York Times staffers boldly confronted their institution. In a near outright insurrection, published December 23 as an open letter to their boss, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., 561 staffers and a few retirees signed a declaration of frustration. We’v ...

Threat Level

  • White House Blasts Internet Blacklisting Bills
    The Obama administration said Saturday that it would not support legislation that would mandate changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright and trademark infringement.
  • 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 ...

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  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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  • 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

  • LAWRENCE EMMETT MARLER JR. - 1929 - 2012
    My father died last evening. I had the honor of being with him for the last days, hours, minutes and seconds of his long life. A former high school and college basketball star, Korean War veteran, college math teacher, gentleman farmer and fisherman - but never a “former” marine, m ...
  • The Ambassador Sickens Seven with Shiga-Toxin ...
    Western U.P. Health Department is investigating a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 cases who became ill over the Christmas holidays. Initially 3 local and 2 non-local cases were identified. Investigation has led to the identification of two additional cases. Four of the cases were hospitalized; no de ...
  • Norovirus cause of 146 Illnesses at Bob Chinn' ...
    A Cook County Health Department spokeswoman says test results have confirmed that the number of people who contracted norovirus food poisoning connected to Bob Chinn's Crab House in Wheeling has now risen to 146. Amy Poore, a Public Health spokeswoman, confirmed Wednesday evening that 146 peopl ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Lynne McTaggart on Rethinking Intelligence
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on The Solari Report (6pm PT/9pm ET) we are in for a real treat. I will be speaking with someone who has long been a favorite thinker and author – Lynne McTaggert. I first become intensely interested in shared intelligence and group learning ...
  • Martin Luther King Day
    “Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m no ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 1.15.12
    Jamie’s Fightin’ Words JPMorgan Chief Slams Feds After 23% profit Drop The New York Post (15 Jan 12) Der Verkauf Ist Verboten – Germany Considers Ban On Sovereign Bond Sales Zero Hedge (14 Jan 12) The $U.S. Dollar Centric Derivatives Complex: Progenitor of Parasitic, Ponzi Price-Fixing ...
  • Precious Metals – Week of 1.15.12
    Steve St. Angelo: Silver Coin Production in U.S., Canada Exceeds Mine Output GATA (14 Jan 12)
  • Geopolitical – Week of 1.15.12
    The Prospect of War with Iran Latitude (13 Jan 12) Activist Appeals Felony Ruling for Exercising Free Speech Activist Post (13 Jan 12) Matching Funds Available for City Council Campaigns to End Aid to Israel! Democracy in Action (12 Jan 12) The [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What the conflict with Iran can teach us about ...
    Summary:  The frequency of 4GW in the post-WWII war — insurgent and highly armed criminal syndicates — can obscure the importance of traditional State-to-State conflict.  The conflict of US-Israel with Iran (see links to other chapters at the end) illustrates the dynamics we’ll ...
  • Why do men fight wars? (part two of two)
    Summary:  One of the great mysteries of history is why men fight wars.  Peace and prosperity in the 21st century might depend on understanding and managing these forces in a world caught in a pincer between the horrors of 4GW and atomic wars.  Here guest author Callie Oettinger shows several per ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Stealth Engagement with Iran?
    The past few weeks have made me scratch my head about the dramatically dissonant signals coming out of Washington. One possible conclusion is pure chaos and incompetence, with no one in control of the message.   But there is an alternative explanation that intrigues me. Perhaps messages are be ...
  • Things Getting Pretty Dicey With Iran
    Depending on how you look at it, tensions with Iran are mounting to: an accidental war, an intentional war, a recession-causing oil price spike, a dizzying sequence of moves / countermoves / signals, an escalating cycle of assassinations, renewed negotiations, or a combination thereof. At any ra ...
  • Israel Discusses Military Option While US and ...
    As tensions between Iran and the United States reach levels unprecedented in recent years, the United States seeks to pressure nations and corporations with a stake in Iran’s oil industry to join in an embargo on the Islamic Republic’s most lucrative source of revenue. read more
  • The Syrian Conflict Is Already a Civil War
    The headline of Anthony Shadid’s article in Sunday’s New York Times reads “Fear of Civil War Mounts in Syria as Crisis Deepens.” The Arab League’s Secretary General, Nabil el-Araby, is quoted as saying “I fear a civil war, and the events that we see and hear about now could lead to a civil war.” ...
  • What's the Spanish Civil War Got to Do with Syria?
    In a typical column in the slow but steady (and, as far as I can tell now, futile) drumbeat for intervention in Syria, this line stood out to me: As in the Spanish civil war, when Britain and France preached non-intervention while Hitler and Mussolini sent arms and men to help Franco’s fas ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Huntsman: It's Not Me; It's You
    Jamelle Bouie Jon Huntsman speaks during a Q&A session at the University of South Carolina. MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA—By the time Jon Huntsman tried to sell himself as a conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, it was too late—he had already defined himself as a moderate Re ...
  • Day of Honor
    Slideshow Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the National Mall Memorial For the first time Monday, the public was able to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at his namesake memorial on the National Mall. Visitors sang "Happy Birthday" and laid wreaths to commemorate the life of the civil-r ...
  • The Internet Strikes Back
    The coming week is shaping up to feature a hostile fight between tech companies and content producers as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP bills are debated in Congress. Reddit and Wikipedia have announced their intention to go dark for 12 hours on Wednesday to protest the bills, ...
  • Huntsman '16: Catch the Fever
    When he first got into the presidential race, I assumed Jon Huntsman was playing a long game. In the 2012, Tea Party-dominated Republican Party, a guy who had worked for the Obama administration and who, though ideologically conservative, was not inclined to treat anyone who disagreed with him ...
  • Evangelical Ballot Stuffing
    An endorsement from a group of 150 social conservatives over the weekend should have been a huge gain for Rick Santorum's campaign. The South Carolina primary—Santorum's last real shot to block Mitt Romney's waltz to the general election—is right around the corner, and 60 percent of the Republi ...

Buzzflash

  • Ahmadinejad in Managua: WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT read more
  • Republican Vultures' Primary: "My Super PAC is ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Surely you're longing to hear some scathingly humorous remarks concerning the New Hampshire Primary. And it would be our honor to relate a few pithily amusing jibes about 2012's primary Primary. Only, sorry. Not going to happen. Can't be done. NH is so... ...
  • Global Corporations Have No Allegiance to US, ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If you want to debunk the myth of American corporations - as a group - coming to the salvation of the US economy, you need to go no further than following the daily, financial news. On January 13, The Chicago Tribune reported that Aon Corporatio ...
  • I'm Confused: It's Okay to Kill Afghanis, But ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Hmm, is there something wrong with this picture? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have been making the media rounds lately, speaking out against the US Marines urinating on the corpses of slain Afghans with the inte ...
  • Will Occupy’s Winter of Discontent Morph into ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The holidays are over. It's the beginning of a new year. The kids have gone back East, and the grandson is once again minding the nation's rail system at his magnificent train table. Iowa and New Hampshire GOPers have weighed in; the Republican Party's pr ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Have they found a miracle cure-all?
    If someone suggests trying a medicine from the realm of complementary or alternative medicine and it sounds too good to be true offering to cure almost any ailment and illness, like some kind of panacea, then check this handy chart before you part with your hard-earned cash or put your life in t ...
  • 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, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Peace Activists Occupy Nuclear Sub Base Entran ...
    On January 14, 2012 activists from a local peace group blocked entry to the main gate at the Navy’s West coast Trident nuclear submarine base for nearly a half hour in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons.read more
  • Organizations Announce Plans for Actions Durin ...
    On the week honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a coalition of social justice, community, and labor organizations are announcing plans to protest during the Democratic National Convention. There will be a press conference on Wednesday, January 18, at 1pm outside of the Time Warner Cable Arena. ...
  • The Two Faces of Mitt
    Earlier today, SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina participated in a telephonic news conference hosted by America’s Voice, and which also included Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. The following are Medina’s remarks: “I must say that I am absolutely amazed that, when ...
  • Romney to Campaign with Anti-Immigrant Radical ...
    Today at 11 a.m. EST, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), other immigration reform leaders and a leading civil rights group will discuss a stunning development.  Mitt Romney has fully embraced Kris Kobach, the controversial author of the anti-immigrant bills enacted in Arizona, Alabama, South Carol ...
  • 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

Common Dreams-Views

  • Occupying the Future: From Here to Everywhere
    Marta Daniels In less than three months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has gone from inhabiting hundreds of physical spaces in large cities, to occupying public discussion and action in thousands of small communities everywhere, including ...
  • Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
    Martin Luther King, Jr Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City:read more
  • How to Learn Nonviolent Resistance as King Did
    Mary Elizabeth King How does one learn nonviolent resistance? The same way that Martin Luther King Jr. did—by study, reading and interrogating seasoned tutors. King would eventually become the person most responsible for advancing and ...
  • 'Right-to-Work' and the Jim Crow Legacy That A ...
    John Nichols When the Congress of Industrial Organizations launched “Operation Dixie” in the aftermath of World War II, with the goal not just of organizing unions in the states of the old Confederacy but of ending Jim Crow dis ...
  • For Too Many African-Americans, Prison is a Le ...
    Gary Younge According to Jeffrey Gamble, the luckiest day of his life was when his car hit the kerb at the corner of Jefferson and National in Los Angeles while he was drunk-driving. It flew over a fence, falling 80ft into a creek below, le ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • UK Labour Party student officials face backlas ...
    Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada London A member of the UK’s National Union of Students Executive Council has denounced several youth and student officers from the opposition Labour Party for taking part in an all-expenses-paid tour of Israel and its illegal settlements in the occupied Wes ...
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • ‘The Good Wife’ Open Thread: Bitco ...
    By Kate Linnea Welsh “Bitcoin for Dummies” was one of those episodes of The Good Wife that revolves around everyone manipulating everyone else. Unfortunately, since Will is facing the very real prospect of jail time and Eli isn’t in the episode at all, the machinations are grim ...
  • How Far Can Stephen Colbert Push Boundaries In ...
    When I wrote about Stephen Colbert a couple of weeks ago, I said that the thing I admired most about him was his willingness to disrupt the system, whether he’s nuking the vibe at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner or pushing the limits of what you can do with a Super PAC. A ...
  • “Thinking Big” on Efficiency Could ...
    America is thinking too small when it comes to energy efficiency … according to a major new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The new report outlines three scenarios under which the U.S. could either continue on its current path or cut energy consump ...
  • U.S. And Israel Cancel Joint Military Exercise ...
    It was supposed to be the largest joint military exercise ever carried out by the U.S. and Israel, with thousands of American troops travelling to the Mid East to work on missile defense issues. But now, the scheduled May date has been indefinitely postponed. An Israeli official told the Jewish ...
  • Peter Dinklage’s Remarkable Golden Globe ...
    It was a dull show, though I appreciated Meryl Streep calling out the long list of wonderful roles for women in 2011 (and I bet Pariah, which is on my list to see soon, will get a nice bump from this). But for my money, Peter Dinklage had the most powerful moment of the evening [...]

thwap's schoolyard

  • Goodbye To All That ...
    I left rabble.ca/babble. I'm glad I got the boot from breadandroses.ca I'm pretty much done with emasse.ca
  • Busy Again. Here's Another Video ...
    Gotta post something. I guess. Whatever. "Order Out of Chaos"
  • Record-low Mortgage Rates
    This CBC story isn't all that convincing. I'll quote commenter "Belgarion" to summarize it: So the banks tossed out the laws of supply and demand and started setting mortgage rates to...bonds? So if people had lots of money saved up to buy houses the rates would still be low today? Pardon my ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Jake Gardiner plays 1 game in AHL, sent back t ...
    It didn't last long as Jake Gardiner played just one game in the AHL with the Toronto Marlies - a 2-1 loss in Hamilton to the Bulldogs - before being recalled to the big club on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.
  • Report: Bilingualism costing Canadians $2.4 bi ...
    Would you like English or French? A new report from a leading think tank suggests that bilingualism is costing the country approximately $2.4 billion per year. The province of Ontario spends the most out of all provinces with $623 million per year.
  • Tim Hortons brewing up new XL 24-oz. coffee cu ...
    After conducting tests at some Tim Hortons locations in Ontario, the popular Canadian coffee chain will introduce its 710 ml (24-ounce) extra-large coffee cups. This means the names of its other sizes will change.
  • Baby Blue Ivy gets Daddy Jay-Z to drop 'bitch' ...
    Rap music has long been criticized for frequent usage of certain words, in particular a word universally considered hateful toward women: 'bitch'. Rapper Jay-Z, immensely popular with young people still, has used it liberally.
  • Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, Councillor vow to lose ...
    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford entered the Cut the Waist Challenge. The brothers, alongside former Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader John Tory, urged the rest of the city to step up to the challenge.

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

  • U.S. Marines video: How not to win hearts and ...
    The actions of four U.S. Marines caught on video laughing and urinating on Afghan bodies have been condemned by the United States, NATO, and the government of Afghanistan. Globe and Mail correspondent Paul Koring examines the potential consequences of the scandal (“Obama’s ‘hearts and minds’ eff ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • North Korea Calls For “Human Shields” To Prote ...
    January 2, 2012 Reuters By Jack Kim and Sung-won Shim “The new leader of North Korea is really fat. How is that possible when the people living in his country are starving?” –KTRN North Korea called on its people to rally behind new leader Kim Jong-un and protect him as “ ...
  • The History of Health Tyranny
    January 2, 2012 Activist Post By Brandon Turbeville Contrary to popular belief Codex Alimentarius is neither a law nor a policy. It is in fact a functioning body, a Commission, created by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Health Organization under the direction of the United N ...
  • Can Diet Affect Your Alzheimer’s Risk?
    January 2, 2012 Boston Globe By Deborah Kotz “More proof that diet is key to reversing ailments and diseases.” –KTRN Does eating a lot of fish and few processed foods really help protect against Alzheimer’s disease? A new study indicates that nutrition could play nearly as stro ...
  • Low-Salt Diets Increase Risk Of Stroke And Hea ...
    January 2, 2012 Natural News By Elizabeth Walling For years we’ve been told to lower our salt intake for our health. Individuals at risk for heart attack are especially admonished to drop their salt intake as low as possible. As it turns out, this seemingly harmless recommendation is actua ...
  • Gold Left Some Investors in the Dust – Bullion ...
    January 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN AND LIAM PLEVEN Gold has been among the best investments in 2011. Shares of gold miners? Among the worst. Gold is up 12% this year but shares of gold miners have fallen almost 16%. Smaller gold miners are down almost 40%, based on the retu ...

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

  • Colbert: ‘The more money you have, the more yo ...
    Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert declared Sunday that he believes in Super PACs because “the more money you have, the more you can speak.” Last week, Colbert turned the Super PAC that he founded over to Comedy Central host Jon Stewart so as not to run afoul of campaign laws while ...
  • Boycott Expansion: ‘First steps to fasci ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Activists are continuing calls for people to stop buying goods from Israel, in protest over its expansion into Palestinian land. In Israel, the Boycott Law adopted half a year ago makes it illegal for critics to speak out against settlement building. Shortly after the leg ...
  • Voters Choice: Ron Paul or Bibi Netanyahu
    By Prof. William A. CookSunday, January 15th, 2012 by William A. Cook   A curious glance at the current crop of presidential candidates makes it clear that Ron Paul stands alone when it comes to the issue of US engagement in foreign wars. He stands with George Washington against foreign ent ...
  • What IAEA reports about Iran’s nuclear energy/ ...
    What IAEA reports about Iran’s nuclear energy/medicine, how US War Criminal 1% lie for war By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in their inspection role for compliance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has their November 2011 report in similar ...
  • Study shows humans were skilled fishermen 42,0 ...
    HONG KONG (Reuters) – Fish hooks and fishbones dating back 42,000 years found in a cave in East Timor suggest that humans were capable of skilled, deep-sea fishing 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Australia and Japan said on Friday. The artifacts — nearly ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Why I’m Suing Barack Obama by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jan. 16, 2012 Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the ...
  • Rev. Martin Luther King Jr: I Have Been to the ...
    Dandelion Salad Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just thirty-nine years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he ...
  • Tavis Smiley: Remaking America: From Poverty T ...
    Dandelion Salad C-SPAN Washington, DC Thursday, January 12, 2012 Panelists discuss a recent report from Indiana University on how poverty is changing in America. Participants include Princeton professor Cornel West, TV host Suze Orman, filmmaker Michael Moore, and author Barbara Ehrenreich. Tavi ...
  • What Would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Do Abou ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer January 12, 2012 Would he impose sanctions to make the Iranian people, not their leaders, suffer? Would he impose sanctions which are tantamount to a declaration of war? Would he authorize the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and the bombi ...
  • Heroes By Gary Corseri
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 8, 2012 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 war, performing as expect ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Top Dome and Drogue Chute Jettison System
    Last week Capsuleman did not explain how the top dome was jettisoned in order to deploy the drogue for space capsule Tycho Deep Space. So it is my duty to continue where Capsuleman failed. In short, the top dome of the space capsule must be jettisoned to deploy the drogue. The top dome is fixed ...
  • Underwater Noise Disturbs Whales 120 Miles Away
    Underwater acoustics can affect the communication of whales as far away as 120 miles.
  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • IOA interview with Haneen Zoabi: Challenge Zio ...
    Palestinian Knesset member Haneen Zoabi is known for her fierce opposition to Zionism, to the concept of Israel as a Jewish state which she sees as inherently racist and unjust, and to the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Jonathan Cook: EU report on Israel – saving th ...
    Using phrases that imply Israel is conducting a policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Area C, the report notes the Palestinian population has shrunk dramatically to only 150,000, compared to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • New Indicator May Help Identify Patients with ...
    Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a new indicator that may predict which patients with a common type of throat cancer are most likely have the cancer spread to other parts of their bodies.
  • Neurologist Named AAN Palatucci Advocacy Leade ...
    The American Academy of Neurology(AAN) has named neurologist Constantine Moschonas, MD, of Scottsdale, Ariz., as the AAN Donald M. Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum Advocate of the Year. Moschonas received his award at the Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum on January 14, 2012, in Austin, Tex ...
  • January 15 - 21 is 'Teen Cancer Awareness Week ...
    Because teen cancer patients do not fall into the typical care model for younger pediatric patients, they often face many difficulties in the adult medical setting. It is because of these patients' unique needs that legislation was signed in 2010 designating the third week of January as "Teen C ...
  • Some Like it Hot: Popular Yoga Style Cranks up ...
    Yoga is one of the hottest fitness trends and a style known as "hot yoga" is gaining in popularity. While the practice can offer health benefits, people practicing hot yoga, especially beginners, should take certain precautions, according to a PT at Hospital for Special Surgery.
  • Fewer Children Require Hospitalization Followi ...
    Fewer children required hospitalization following a drowning incident over the last two decades, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. According to the study, pediatric hospitalizations from drowning-related incidents declined 51 percent from 1993 ...

Natural Health News

  • How to Break Up With Your Pediatrician
    It's a normal and common thing to switch doctors.  Physicians are there to provide a service; if you’re not getting the service you think you need, go elsewhere -- particularly when your children’s health is at stake. CNN suggests looking for the following 5 signs that it may be time to ma ...
  • $29 Billion Reasons to Lie About Cholesterol
    $29 Billion Introduction from 29billion on Vimeo.Millions of people take medications to lower their cholesterol.   But have the facts about cholesterol and heart disease have been distorted by drug companies eager to increase their profits?  A new documentary film looks for the an ...
  • Are Schools Making Kids Sick?
    Research estimates indicate that a third or more of U.S. schools have mold, dust and other indoor air problems serious enough to provoke respiratory issues like asthma.  One national survey of school nurses found that 40% knew of children and staff who had been adversely affected by indoor ...
  • Is the Water You Are Drinking Calcifying Your ...
    New research has revealed that fluoride is likely contributing to the epidemic of cardiovascular disease by stimulating arterial calcification.  Scientists assessed the connection between fluoride uptake and calcification in the major arteries of more than 60 patients, and they found a sign ...
  • Monsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India
    Monsanto is currently facing biopiracy charges in India.  In an unprecedented decision, India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), a government agency, declared legal action against Monsanto for accessing and using local eggplant varieties to develop a genetically engineered version wit ...

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

  • ASIL Event: A Conversation with Meg Kinnear, S ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Tomorrow, as part of its Leading Figures in International Dispute Resolution Series, the ASIL’s International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group (ICTIG) will host a talk by Meg Kinnear, Secretary General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...
  • Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
    by Kevin Jon Heller There has been much debate the past couple of days about whether the bomb attacks that have killed at least three Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010 qualify as terrorism.  Glenn Greenwald and Kevin Drum on the left and Andrew Sullivan on the right say "yes"; many of thei ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Are Safety and Academics Keeping AZ Preschoole ...
    Are Safety and Academics Keeping AZ Preschoolers from the Playground? Phoenix, AZ – Concerns about injury and academic skills may be preventing some preschool children from getting enough outside time in child care, according to a new study that examines the role played by parental and soc ...
  • The New Year: A Great Time to Quit Smoking
    The New Year: A Great Time to Quit Smoking Phoenix, AZ – A New Year’s resolution to quit smoking could add years to your life and the lives of those around you, and there’s plenty of help available to make it happen. Comments from Keri Schneider, regional manager of the Tobacco ...
  • Jaguar Art Part of Events Marking Tucson Shoot ...
    Jaguar Art Part of Events Marking Tucson Shootings Anniversary Tucson, AZ – A coalition formed by the extended family of a victim of the Tucson shootings will stage a number of events around the first anniversary of the tragedy. One of those events involves a very long piece of jaguar art. ...
  • AZ's Lowest-Wage Workers to See Bump in Next P ...
    AZ's Lowest-Wage Workers to See Bump in Next Paycheck Phoenix, AZ – Arizona's minimum wage goes up 30-cents an hour this week, to $7.65. It's the first increase in two years. Comments from John Schmitt, senior economist, Center for Economic Policy Research.
  • Preparation is Key to Safe Winter Travel in Ar ...
    Preparation is Key to Safe Winter Travel in Arizona's Mountains Phoenix, AZ – If you live in the Arizona desert, it's easy to forget that winter travel in our mountains can be hazardous or even deadly. Just last week, an ASU senior was rescued after being trapped in heavy snow southeast of ...

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

  • The Utah Compact and immigration reform
    The Catholic Church had a conference in Salt Lake City last week about immigration reform. They choose Salt Lake City as the location because of the Utah Compact. The Utah Compact on immigration, endorsed by LDS, is hugely sane. Among the points, local law enforcement should not focus on federal ...
  • MLK
    I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. – Martin Luther King, Beyond Vietnam speech. April 1968
  • Independent voting activist Randy Miller. Meet ...
    It was great meeting Randy Miller and his wife Andrea on Friday in Salt Lake City! He’s an independent voting activist who blogs here some. You can also find him on the Utah League of Independent Voters Facebook Page and website. There are now more independent voters in Utah than Republic ...
  • Michael Monroe. Trick Of The Wrist
    It’s about nasty habits and dark times left behind, from ex Hanoi Rocks vocalist Michael Monroe, who has no doubt been there – as have many of us. They were a great band them and he’s still got it. I had a nasty habit it didn’t work for me I shook it off like [...]
  • Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake
    Antelope Island in the Great salt Lake is about 15 miles long. It has bison, antelope, longhorn sheep, and drinkable water from springs. The bison are not fenced in and there are warning signs saying “Bison are dangerous.” The Great Salt Lake is 75 miles long, 35 miles wide, and is ...

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

  • Chicago Prepping for Biological Attack!
    Everything Points to this becoming 2012 October surprise…. Fake Bio attack OR lab engineered Geese Flu, leading to mass quarantines, forced vaccinations, and govt clamp downs all over the world.  Hope we are wrong!   Homeland Security Newswire Via Intel Hub January 9, 2012 Chicago is ...
  • (Intel inside)- Pills with Edible Microchips? ...
    Brave New World Order? Its called HELIUS which means “the personification of the sun god.” (according to wikipedia)   Medicine of the future arrives on High Street as pharmacy offers pills with edible microchips to help doctors monitor patients’ health An edible microchip ...
  • PROOF of Racism? Arian comes out in support of ...
    Ha – No – Not THAT Aryan – But one of the coolest guys in the NFL… Arian Foster. (moms had a sense of humor I guess) Houston Texans running back, Arian Foster tells football official he is voting for Ron Paul this upcoming election! -Sound FX–NFL network (Crank IT!) ...
  • Israel creates a super PAC(s) to attack Ron Pa ...
    This video exposes Israel’s increasing role in American politics, which has led to the Iraq war, September 11, 2001, and a great deal of other tragedies that have befallen the United States. Israel’s lobby in America, AIPAC, is the only foreign agent in America that does not have to ...
  • King Assassination Was a Conspiracy (No Theory)
      Via Eddie Leaks December 9, 1999- National Public Radio NPR’s Debbie Elliott reports that yesterday a Tennessee jury found that the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the result of a murder conspiracy, and not the act of a lone gunman. The king family sued Loyd Jowers, ...

The Air Vent

  • Boo!
    S0 I’m actually getting to where I feel better about things and have begun looking at actual data.  Then I ran across this. It is a call to action to limit black carbon emissions, a far more sensible thing to attack than CO2, but the article is so insane that I simply refuse to accept [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Jan. 9 to Jan. 14. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.  Monday, January 9 Moblyng’s Shutdown: Enthusiasm For HTML5 Gaming is … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Tapjoy, Jana, 6waves Lolapps, Addmired, TubeMogul, Inc. and IMVU. I ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Politico, NBC, CES
    Facebook teams with Politico – Facebook’s data team is providing Politico with exclusive stats about conversation taking place on the social networking site about the Republican presidential primary candidates. Facebook will also survey voting-age users in South Carolina daily leading &#82 ...
  • 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 →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • When is a terrorist not a terrorist - and war ...
    Alan Hart views the USA's traditional tolerance of Israeli terrorist activities - and abuse of the alliance with the US - and wonders whether this tolerance will extend to providing cover for an Israeli attack on Iran, even if this is not endorsed by Washington.
  • Window for Palestinian state "rapidly closing" ...
    A European Union study says that expanding Israeli settlement in the West Bank and limits imposed on Palestinian movement and building are eroding the chances of a Palestinian state.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Iraq: Began with Big Lies; Ending with Big Lie ...
    Does Mr. Obama, the Peace Laureate, believe the words that come out of his mouth? By William Blum “Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “W ...
  • The EyeOpener- Police State 2012: No Need to W ...
    The Real Key to Dismantling Our Police State One of the greatest problems in talking about the police state is that all such discussion of the subject is hampered by the lack of a clear-cut definition. Given the public’s own ignorance of the true nature and function of a police state, stor ...
  • The Origins of Imperial Israel- Part II
    Organized Terror & Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine By Andrew Gavin Marshall The official Israeli government explanation for the ‘disappearance’ of 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from the land (roughly half the Arab population in Palestine in 1948) was that they left “voluntarily.” The “new history” ...
  • Imperialism & the “Anti-Imperialism of the Fools”
    Resist the Temptation to Access the Mass Media by Providing a ‘Progressive Cover’ to Imperial Dubbed “Rebels” By Professor James Petras One of the great paradoxes of history are the claims of imperialist politicians to be engaged in a great humanitarian crusade, a historic “civilizing mission” d ...
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Afro Spear

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  • 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

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

  • U.S. Corporations: Closely Allied With China, ...
    U.S. Corporations, supposedly the bedrock of America's system of capitalism, have decided that their best bet for the future is to closely ally themselves with China, its manufacturing industry and cheap labor to maximize their profits. In doing so, they have sold out America, its manufacturing ...
  • Texas Police Bungle OWS Greyhound Discriminati ...
    Thirteen OWS protesters are discriminated against. Who is at fault? The local authorities missed a chance to enforce the law and send a clear message to the perpetrator and his employer.
  • Why Bain Won't be Romney's Bain
    GOP presidential contenders Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, GOP strategist Karl Rove, and a few other GOP stalwarts loudly claim that the Bain issue is a potential presidential game loser for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
  • Oil Companies Big Winners in Iraq War
    Life in Iraq may have changed for the worse for its people----little electricity, soaring unemployment, broken-down medical care, worsening poverty---but the Western oil companies that have taken over Iraq's oil fields are enjoying their best times ever.
  • Mitt Romney's Health Care Fantasy World
    Wendell Potter explains that not everyone can cavalierly "fire" their insurance companies, as Mitt Romney boast he enjoys doing. In the real world the insurance company holds all the cards, we have little choice but to go submit to their demands.

Switchboard

  • Finding the Polluters: A Step Toward Accountab ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City A new EPA web tool documents global warming pollution from about 6,700 facilities across the United States, filling a critical gap in the public's right to know about pollution. Polluters have been r ...
  • King Kong vs. Godzilla: Does Big Oil Get a Pa ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. When EPA released the first comprehensive “right-to-know” data on America’s biggest carbon polluters last week, there was a curious reaction from the o ...
  • Images and a song for this day
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I am old enough and was lucky enough to have heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person.  It was not long before his death, at a mountain retreat facility owned by ...
  • Obama's Call to Move NOAA Could Undermine Ocea ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City President Obama has announced a plan to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration out of the Commerce Department and into the Department of the Interior. While streamlining government ...
  • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Why ...
    David Goldston, Director, Government Affairs, Washington, DC There may be no subject that sounds more arcane, dreary and trivial than governmental reorganization.  “Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” is one popular lin ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • O’Keefe vs. The State of New Hampshire
    Apparently, James O’Keefe’s latest illegal stunt ended up being more illegal than he intended it to be. He only intended to commit voter fraud to demonstrate that voter fraud could be committed, but because he chose to impersonate a living voter and misrepresented himself as that per ...
  • Ron Paul Ain’t Good on Foreign Policy
    Freddie De Boer gives us a heartfelt defense of Paul-curiosity: I don’t know if that grave was one of the few to be opened and explored. Even now the Indonesian government broadly obstructs attempts to investigate the events of the Year. The “conservative estimate”– that ...
  • Uh, No?
    I understand that I have been admonished to not write about such trivialities, but having come across Larry Johnson interrupting his search for the Whitey Tape to give his reaction to the news that GOP sixth-stringer Jon Hunstman is dropping out, I can’t resist quoting: So? What do you thi ...
  • “A memoir might conveniently free Flanag ...
    The pay at online journals being what it is, I’m pretty sure Irin Carmon isn’t getting paid nearly enough to justify consuming 200+ pages of Caitlin Flanagan in a narrow time frame.   But fortunately for us, we get an excellent takedown out of the deal.   On the phenomenon described ...
  • On MLK Day
    We should perhaps celebrate the real MLK, as opposed to the complacent defender of purely formal equality that conservatives would prefer to imagine him as: At the end of his all too short life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to realize that the full meaning of the black freedom struggle was no ...

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE PRACTICE: Confusion over Telephone Consume ...
    Justices to rule on whether suits under the law, targeting robo-calls and unwanted faxes, can be brought in federal court.
  • OPINION: Sex-segregated public schools: illega ...
    Single-gender education is legally vulnerable on equal protection and other grounds; it is also a regressive social policy.
  • OPINION: More recess appointments needed
    Senate's confirmation process — dilatory and dysfunctional — needs a fundamental reboot.
  • The 2012 Forecast
    With storm clouds in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S., which Washington practices will flourish and which will fail this year? We asked three D.C. managing partners.
  • A new role for community courts in D.C.
    The East of the River Community Court program was widely considered a success and, as of Jan. 1, the court has expanded the model citywide. Under the new system, one judge takes most misdemeanor cases, excluding domestic violence, for each of the city's seven police districts.

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

environment 360

  • Mandatory Roof Gardens Urged As Solution to Si ...
    A panel formed to study solutions to increased flooding in Singapore has urged the government to require green roofs on new and retrofitted buildings. The 12-member panel, which was created after torrential rains caused flash flooding across eastern and central Singapore last year, said improved ...
  • More Efficient Solar Design Draws Inspiration ...
    Finding inspiration in the structure of a sunflower, a group of scientists has designed a concentrated solar power plant (CSP) that will require 20 percent less land than existing plants while increasing the amount of Shutterstock sunlight its solar mirrors are able to collect. At the sp ...
  • 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 ...
  • New Interactive EPA Website Tracks Nation's Bi ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled an interactive website that allows users to track the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in their states. Click to enlarge EPA The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data project The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data project, which is based ...
  • Quota Market to Save Whales Proposed by U.S. R ...
    A team of U.S. researchers has suggested that a system of tradable quotas for whales could significantly reduce the number of the animals killed each year. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Veer A humpback whale California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State U ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • PICS: Colorado Springs coal plant poisons prot ...
    OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- We got up close to take pictures of the Drake coal-fired power plant. We wore gas masks without filters because the image was meant to be symbolic, but now we’re sick. Three hours, two days in a row, caused nausea and shortness of breath.
  • Rather this Monday was called The Black Panthe ...
    Point 8- WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desire of the United States ruling circle and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the world. We believe tha ...
  • God fails Tim Tebow
    Tom Brady leads Patriots’ 45-10 rout of Broncos and Tim Tebow in NFL playoffs. Maybe God will deliver to Tim next year? ..and then again, maybe not.   God was not on ‘our’ side after all.
  • US Aircraft Carriers- built to start wars with
    The aircraft carrier is not a defensive weapons system but one meant to start wars within other people’s nations and terrains. In short, it is an assault system, or mobile fort and airfield. Global Security states that ‘America has nearly twice as many aircraft carriers – 20 &# ...
  • Old CIA hand made new Guatemalan ‘presid ...
    US School of Americas, Fort Benning Georgia trained Latin American death squad leader, Otto Perez Molina, has just been sworn into the Guatemalan presidency with the pledge that he will be brutal in carrying out Barack Obama’s Latin American ‘War Against Drugs’. Perez has been ...

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

  • Resveratrol Health Benefits Relied on Faked Data
    Red wine aficionados take note: The health benefits of antioxidant resveratrol may have been exaggerated or outright falsified. A researcher from the University of Connecticut played around with data in 145 different studies over the course of seven years, in order to make the chemical compound, ...
  • Woohoo!!! McDonald’s Burgers Come from Grass F ...
    At least that’s what we’re seeing in the latest commercials featuring rancher / beef producer Steve Foglesong in Illinois. And all these years we thought Mcdonald’s was so cheap because they source beef from CAFOs (factory farms) where cows lead a short and miserable life confi ...
  • Broccoli With Peanut Sauce Is For Everyone (Ev ...
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Raise your hand if you like steamed broccoli with nothing on it! One, two…..TWO of you I’m just being silly. I am sure many of you can just chomp away on broccoli with zero added and make the rest of us who like it drenched [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • 'Mainstreaming' the Jarawa would be a disaster ...
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival Any attempt to ‘mainstream’ the Jarawa by force would be a disaster, said Survival International, in a statement today. ‘By mainstreaming, what the authorities really mean is the assimilation of the Jarawa into nati ...
  • 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 ...

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 leached wood ash le ...
    Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, [...]
  • 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 [...]

Age of Autism

  • Autism Speaks Continues "To Sleuth the Causes ...
    By Anne Dachel Autism Speaks caught my attention recently. I watched a Public Service Announcement from AS featuring American fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and his daughter who has autism. It actually says nothing about autism but it does remind us...
  • Autism Parenting: Master of Disaster
    By Cathy Jameson I recently talked to my typical kids about a house emergency plan. We hadn’t had a review of that topic in a few months. I wanted the kids to remember how to safely leave the house should...
  • House of Cards by Kim Stagliano FREE Today!
    My gift to you Sunday, January 15th - FREE download of my funny, fast paced romantic suspense House of Cards. #1 in the Family Saga category (oh, autism it's a saga isn't it, friends?" And it's in the top 25...
  • Petition Asks Children's Hospital of Philadelp ...
    You have likely heard of the child Amelia who has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome and has been denied a life saving kidney transplant by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Below is her mother's heart wrenching blog entry about the doctor's visit. So, a...
  • White House Call on Federal Internships and Em ...
    The White House Office of Public Engagement invites you to a nationwide conference call on federal internships and employment opportunities for young Americans with disabilities on Tuesday, January 17th at 3 p.m. EST. Program representatives will explain how to apply...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • New York Schools ‘spy’ on fat kids
    NY Post – Big Brother is joining the battle of the bulge. A group of Long Island students will soon be wearing controversial electronic monitors that allow school officials to track their physical activity around the clock. The athletics chair for the Bay Shore schools ordered 10 Polar Act ...
  • Doctors unsure why thyroid cancer cases on the ...
    USA Today – National Cancer Institute statistics suggest that in recent years the number of cases of this often curable cancer has increased by about 6.5%. Over a decade, that has added up to make thyroid cancer the fastest-increasing cancer, says Tod Huntley, an otolaryngologist and head and ne ...
  • Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
    There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...
  • Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou wins sec ...
    BBC – Taiwan’s incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou has won a second term in office, promising to further improve ties with neighbouring China. Read article
  • Taliban storm Pakistan police station
    Reuters – Soldiers worked to secure a police station in northwestern Pakistan after it was attacked by Taliban members wearing explosive vests. Deborah Gembara reports.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Reflections on Haiti, what comes next
    January 12th marks the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti, leaving widespread destruction in and around Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of people died and over a million were left homeless. One can still see the legacy of the earthquake with rubble and tent ...
  • Thank You
    Your support has made a difference in the lives of people around the world this year.
  • Our Postal Mailing Address
    Postal mail can be sent to Water.org, 920 Main Street, Suite 1800, Kansas City, MO 64105 USA
  • Atseda's story of hope
    Thirteen-year-old Atseda is lucky. Her friends in neighboring villages walk miles to collect dirty water each day. But not Atseda. Thanks to donors like you, she has clean water from a well right by her home.
  • Collecting Water in Ethiopia
    Throughout Africa, and the rest of the world, women and children spend hours collecting water. Last month we met Birhane and this is her story.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters block ro ...
    Fauth doesn't put anyone above the law. Submitted by Glenn Byrnes to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Capitalism or Cannibalism? ..
    Is there a difference? You bet your boots there is. Capitalism gives us all the equal right to reach for the stars. Make money or lose money. Our choice if we decide to take the chance. Personally I have saved every cent I could in my lifetime. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  | ...
  • Jack Abramoff As Reformer Raises Caution In Fo ...
    He was once the most reviled man in Washington, the latest embodiment of Washington corruption. Now, ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is trying to make amends by talking up reforms that seek to stanch the very venality in which he participated. VIDEO Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...
  • Citizens United Seen As Root Of Evils By Edito ...
    "Buy A Politician" seems to be the name of the game when it comes to campaign financing, passing legislation and downright shady deals between corporations and American policy makers. This will be the topic on this week's BTR, Lies My Country Told Me. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics ...
  • Jerusalem police detain 7-year-old Palestinian ...
    Soon afterwards, reported the Palestinian news service Maan, policemen detained Muhammad Ali Dirbas, aged seven, carried him off to a nearby police station, interrogated him for three or four hours, and then released him. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!   ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Vitamins and medicines often don't mix
    Nearly half of all Americans take a vitamin or other dietary supplement every day, and most people assume they are harmless. What many people don't realize, however, is that vitamin supplements and prescription medicines can cause dangerous and sometimes life-threatening interactions. Some v ...
  • Cruise ship disaster wipes £1bn off Carni ...
    Shares in the global cruise firm that owns the Costa Concordia fell 21 per cent today, wiping nearly £1billion from its market value. Analysts have suggested that the disaster off Giglio, Tuscany, could reduce the company's profits by a tenth this year. The timing of the fatal sinking could ...
  • Evra vows to show right example
    Patrice Evra believes he must show leadership on and off the field after inheriting the Manchester United captaincy. With Nemanja Vidic ruled out for the season, Sir Alex Ferguson has given Evra the job. It has set the fiery France defender up for a...
  • Harry Redknapp can profit from a sudden f ...
    Has there been a season more refreshing since the top division was rebranded in 1992? I don't recall one. There are genuine races for both the Premier League title and Champions League passports. Spurs are playing football fit for the celestial gaze of Nicholson and Blanchflower and Swansea ...
  • Clegg dismisses royal yacht call
    Nick Clegg has dismissed calls by a Tory Cabinet minister for cash-strapped taxpayers to buy the Queen a new royal yacht to mark her diamond jubilee. While voters see this year's milestone as a "wonderful occasion", a multimillion-pound vessel is not their priority at a time of cuts elsewher ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Full Face Transplant Recipient Smiling
    Ten months after receiving the first full face transplant in the U.S., Dallas Wiens is able to smile.
  • Researchers Identify Pivotal Immune Cell In Ty ...
    This study marks the first time that the presence of beta cell-reactive T cells has been directly proven in pancreas tissues from type 1 diabetes patients," explained Ken Coppieters, Ph... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
  • Work-life balance tougher for couples with sim ...
    Couples with similar jobs are more likely to have trouble finding a good work-life balance than those in different lines of work, according to ...
  • “I Like Being Manipulated”
    Actors who think they can sing are commplace. But unlike other truant thespians – Scarlett Johansson with her wretched album of Tom Waits covers, say – Charlotte Gainsbourg has what you might call a family stake in the matter. ...
  • How to Take Care of Your Running Clothes
    If you run regularly, it's a good idea to invest in some technical running clothes. Unlike cotton clothing, synthetic fabrics, such as CoolMax or Dri-Fit, wick moisture away from your skin, so you'll stay dry and comfortable during your runs.... Read Full Post

Common Dreams

  • Occupy Davos Builds Igloo Village in Shadow of ...
    As the world's elite get set to gather this month to attend the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland protesters aligned with the global occupy movement are busy building a home for themselves in the shadows of the fancy hotels, chalets, and restaurants of the pos ...
  • Goodbye, Fish: Rising CO2 Direct Threat to Sea ...
    New research shows the disastrous consequences the world's rising carbon dioxide levels are having on ocean life. A team of researchers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University published their findings in the journal Nature Cl ...
  • Israel Cyber Networks Targeted by Hackers
    Israel's cyber infrastructure came under attack on Monday as a hacker, or hackers, targeted  the Tel Aviv stock exchange, several banks, and El Al Airlines. The Los Angeles Time reports today: read more
  • Rumblings of Shock Doctrine: Long Beach, NY to ...
    The Associated Press reports that the city of Long Beach, New York is about to declare fiscal emergency. From the Long Beach Patch: read more
  • On MLK Day, Romney Steps Up his Attacks on Imm ...
    Mitt Romney is set to reinforce his strict anti-immigration stance today in South Carolina with an appearance with recent endorser Kris Kobach. Kobach is known for his work on anti-immigration laws in both Mitt Romney and Kris KobachArizona and Alabama, as well as his work with the Federation fo ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Airline Griping Over EU Aviation Carbon Tax Is ...
    Here’s my take on the EU aviation carbon tax that is causing a stink with major world airline carriers: ———————————————— Tyler Hamilton My family flew to North Carolina during the holiday to visit relatives and, being aware of new baggage fees, we made every effort to pack lightly.
  • Facts About The German EEG Program
    As a result of Germany's decision to decommission its nuclear plants by 2022 and meet CO2 reduction targets, Germany will need to build out its renewables capacity to increase its renewable energy production. Almost all of that increased energy will be covered under existing renewable energy law ...
  • Ben Franklin – America’s First Proponent of En ...
    Ben Franklin, the first American genius, achieved fame and notoriety for his electricity research, which included that famous kite-flying experiment.  But did you know that he first described the concept of treating energy efficiency as an energy resource?  He memorably stated “A penny ...
  • Vestas Lays off 10% of Workforce, Restructures ...
    The world's biggest wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, has announced plans to lose 2,335 employees worldwide, stop production at one of its 26 plants, and has warned that further cuts are likely, in order to save €150m by the end of the year.
  • Because That's Where the Emissions Are
    Yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency released its tabulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from large facilities in the US. In perusing the data I couldn't help thinking of the quote attributed to Willie Sutton concerning why he robbed banks.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Is the Internet the Fulfillment of Biblical Pr ...
    By Melanie Lamport The Bible says knowledge shall increase at the end of the days. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Daniel 12:4 King James Version) Perhaps the greatest evi ...
  • Just another Palestinian year
    By Khaled Amayreh Israeli settlement expansion continued to annul any chances of peace, while the 2011 Arab Spring buoyed Palestinian hopes, at least for a while, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah Like in previous years, 2011 was more or less another "normal" year for the Palestinians as Israe ...
  • American Intransigence and Pakistani Deception ...
    By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. When George Bush called General Musharaf at midnight a day after the 9/11 attacks, he spelled out the doctrine - “either you are with us or against us.” The Pakistani self-appointed President and military dictator had no sense of the time and history to ...
  • The Inauguration Of Police State USA 1962
    By Melanie Lamport “The Best Way To Control The Opposition Is To Lead It Ourselves,” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Global Research, January 1, 2012 “With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones, the “National Defense ...
  • Miss America: Auditioning for Center Stage
    by Walter Brasch Tucked between the New Hampshire primary and Ground Hog Day, and directly competing against an NFL playoff game, is Saturday's annual Miss America pageant. Although the headquarters is still near Atlantic City, where it originated in 1921, the pageant—don&# ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Premiers meet to talk health care: it's time f ...
    As Canada's premiers gather in Victoria today and tomorrow to discuss the future of health care, a new study from the CCPA-BC calls for a system-wide, integrated approach to health care reform. The study assesses BC's recent efforts at health care reform, including the introduction of "activity ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Hippie TV News and Stuff w/Winston Smith and t ...
    In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Ed Croft; Mikel K. Poet Mikel K Minute Nibiru Magick This Week;This week;Don’t pee on my back and call me taliban, The docs gone soft, Don’t believ ...
  • Adding Insult to Injury: The Impacts of Coal E ...
    By Glenn Ashton,sacsis.org- Significant developments in the energy sector are underway in western Limpopo because of the extensive coal resources in that region. Besides Eskom’s massive Medupi power station, near the existing Matimba power station, there are several other mega-projects in the pi ...
  • Can You Identify Me?
    WWH-My story is not unlike many featured here on this site. If you’ve read any of them you probably have a good idea what mine is about. Not unlike a couple of the others it appears I’m married, but my husband seems to be MIA. Not unlike another here I seemed to end up at [...]
  • Naomi Klein’s Inconvenient Climate Conclusions
    By ANDREW C. REVKIN,dotearth.blogs.nytimes – Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including “The Shock Doctrine,” recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” a much-discussed cover story for The Nation that has been ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates; We’re ...
    Occupy protester: ‘Idly watching’ no longer an option BY ZACH PATBERG,northjersey - Much like the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, post-9/11 Americans have experienced an “awakening” over cultural disparity that makes the “urgency of now” as relevant today as when coined by Martin ...

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

  • Venture Socialism?
    Join the forum discussion on this post With the recently announced foreclosure of Vinod Khosla venture Range Fuels, followed by the fire sale of Range Fuels’ assets to Vinod Khosla venture LanzaTech, I have been getting a lot of calls from reporters wanting to discuss exactly what happene ...
  • 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. ———— ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Winter Workout You Want to Avoid
    New Year's resolutions to exercise more and live a healthier life send a lot of people to health clubs—a great idea, unless you plan on visiting the indoor pool while you're there. New research published in the International Journal of Andrology has found that chlorine, and the byproducts of d ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • How To Make Your Performance Review Truly Useful
    Most career-oriented managers approach their annual performance reviews hoping to get useful feedback about what they need to do to increase their chances of getting promoted. But more often than not, they come away dissatisfied, feeling the feedback was inadequate. Even high-performers with top ...
  • Are Newspapers Civic Institutions or Algorithms?
    The current state of the newspaper industry is unsettled at best: more than two hundred newspapers have either folded or stopped publishing their print editions since 2007. Even the most acclaimed newspapers in the country are downsizing their newsrooms or suspending home delivery of physica ...
  • Ghana: An African Success Story
    What's the Latest Development? International aid programs targeted at alleviating poverty are having a real effect in the African state of Ghana. Last week, American economist Jeffrey Sachs, who directs the UN's Millennium Development Project, traveled to Tamale, Ghana, to announce that it ...
  • Technology for a Cause
    The XO 3.0 tablet was one of the most talked about gadgets at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The tablet has a hand cranked accessory that powers the device which can run on Linux or Android. This is helpful for children living in rural areas of developing countries ...
  • Does Democracy Work Anymore?
    What's the Latest Development? The separation of powers ingrained in the American constitution, along with a host of other rules, seem ill-suited to solving the social and economic crises of our day. Obstructionist partisanship has paralyzed government at such crucial moments that politica ...

Information Liberation

  • Director of Iranian nuclear program is assassi ...
    Leaning out a hand, the motorcyclist attaches a magnetic explosive device * sometimes called a *sticky bomb* * to the door nearest the man he is trying to kill and then speeds off. Seconds later, the bomb is detonated by remote-control. It is so soph...
  • Obama to Send US Troops to South Sudan
    Citing recent ethnic violence and with the apparent certainty that every nation on the planet needs at least a few US boots on the ground, President Obama has announced his intention to send troops to the Republic of South Sudan to help the new gover...
  • Cop Punches woman in face on camera then tries ...
    "A Metro passenger used his cell phone's video camera to capture a confrontation between a woman and two LA County sheriff's deputies on a bus in Bellflower."...
  • IRS Used 'Bait-And-Switch' on Tax Amnesty: Wat ...
    The Internal Revenue Service has persuaded U.S. taxpayers to disclose hidden offshore bank accounts but then sometimes failed to cap the penalties, as promised, an agency watchdog said on Wednesday, accusing the IRS of "bait and switch." The Taxpa...
  • 'League of Legends' Game Makers Come Out Again ...
    If you don't know League of Legends, it's a massively popular RTS game with millions of users. Wikipedia states, "As of November 2011, League of Legends had over 32 million registrations and averages millions of players per day, with the number of...

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

  • Have they found a miracle cure-all?
    If someone suggests trying a medicine from the realm of complementary or alternative medicine and it sounds too good to be true offering to cure almost any ailment and illness, like some kind of panacea, then check this handy chart before you part with your hard-earned cash or put your life in t ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • Test Tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity
    The transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms was one of the most significant developments in the history of life on Earth. Without it, all living things would still be microscopic and simple; there would be no such thing as a plant or a brain or a human. How exactly multicellul ...
  • EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers In New York F ...
    New York's emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, environmentally sensitive areas and gas industry workers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has informed state officials. [More] ...
  • 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]

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

  • Dr. Glen Coulthard in Halifax
    Audio Productions From Both of Dr. Coulthard's Halifax Talks Dr. Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene and a scholar of contemporary Indigenous politics and political thought. He is an Assistant Professor in First Nations ...
  • Occupy NS to Participate in International Bahr ...
    Occupy NS will assemble in solidarity along with 1,000,000 activists around the globe for an international day of solidarity at Grand Parade Square. The Enough! Bahrain Solidarity rally will take place in Grand Parade Square, January 17th a ...
  • No Fracking Way!
    The Provincial Day of Action against Fracking in Nova Scotia. Saturday January 14th was the Nova Scotia Provincial Day of Action Against Fracking.  Rallies were held in Halifax and Cape Breton, organized by Occupy NS and local organiza ...
  • Off The Hour: Report on sentencing of Mandy Hi ...
    Interview with Toronto organizer SK Hussan & excerpts of Hiscocks' statement to the court On Friday, Mandy Hiscocks, one of the seven out of 21 so-called "main G20 conspirators" who pleaded guilty last November, was sente ...
  • Solidarité avec Farshad Mohammadi, tué par un ...
    extrait sonore d'une commémoration pour Farshad Mohammadi tenue le 10 janvier au métro Bonaventure

David Seaton's News Links

  • Iran's bomb... the bottom line
    David Seaton's News LinksThe selling point of starving or beating Iran into submission is that if they had an atomic bomb they would use it to attack Israel, who has at least 200 such weapons. The idea being that Iran is planning to turn Israel, its Jewish inhabitants and a considerable numbe ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Romney Finally Breaks 40%
    The campaignerati like to say that states are the only things that matters, so you should ignore national polling. That's a little bit right but mostly wrong. As the nation moves, so do the states, which means that national polls mean a lot even when the individual contests are fought at the st ...
  • Why Greece Doesn't Tell the Germans to Piss Off
    Atrios writes: Mysteries I still really just have no idea why Greece doesn't tell them all to piss off, and give the opportunity to French and German leaders to explain to their people why they're going to shovel taxpayer money into the maws of the banksters. Since Atrios has said this so man ...
  • The Cost of College is Probably Going to Keep ...
    Via Andrew Sullivan, Kevin Carey uses a parable to explain why college tuition costs have risen so steeply over the past few decades: Then the government decides that more people should have the opportunity to buy apples and society would benefit from a net increase in apple consumption. So it ...
  • Jon Hunstman, It Turns Out, Just Isn't That Go ...
    Since I'm feeling lazy this morning, I'm going to outsource my Jon Huntsman commentary to a reader. As it happens, he says exactly what I was thinking anyway about Huntsman's exit from the race: This was a bit of a headscratcher. Same day he gets out, he endorses Romney. He has had some of t ...
  • Evangelicals to Romney: No, We're Not Praying ...
    Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on whether evangelicals will support the eventual Republican presidential nominee: If Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, or Rick Santorum would clear the nomination there would be passionate support. Beyond that I can't necessarily say. Hmmm. Seems ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 297: Twinkies
    Topics: Great sports last night Fuck those kind of fans Patriots are so disrespectful MJ was an asshole Drake’s Tattoos Amber Rose, succeeding at doing nothing Companies promoting the fact that they finally got it right When trolling goes wrong Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
    After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Revolutionary surgical technique for perforati ...
    A revolutionary surgical technique for treating perforations of the tympanic membrane (eardrum) in children and adults has been developed at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre, an affiliate of the Université de Montreal, by Dr. Issam Saliba. The new technique, which is as effec ...
  • Engineering team completes ambitious Antarctic ...
    A team of four British Antarctic Survey (BAS) engineers has returned to the UK after completing a gruelling journey to one of the most remote and hostile locations on the planet to put in place equipment and supplies for an ambitious project later this year. Enduring temperatures of minus 35&deg ...
  • Scientists shed new light on link between 'kil ...
    Killer T-cells in the human body which help protect us from disease can inadvertently destroy cells that produce insulin, new research has uncovered. read more
  • Fewer children require hospitalization followi ...
    Fewer children required hospitalization following a drowning incident over the last two decades, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. According to the study, pediatric hospitalizations from drowning-related incidents declined 51 percent from 1993 ...
  • Researchers use sugar to halt esophageal cance ...
    Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett's dysplasia, making it much easier to detect and remove these cells before they develop into esophageal cancer. ...

unEarthed

  • The Florida Everglades--A Jewel Preserved By L ...
    Twenty years of Earthjustice legal work praised for its impact in Florida The Everglades. Photo by USGS. Twenty years after we settled our first lawsuit in Fl ...
  • Happy New Year, Grand Canyon!
    Finally, something to cheer about for the West's public lands Grand Canyon National Park. As compared to doing nothing, the 20-year withdrawal will reduce impacts to wildlife habi ...
  • Friday Finds: Congress Brakes on Transit Breaks
    The oceans' acid test, playing with wildfire, raising a glass to climate change Napa Valley vineyards in autumn. (tibchris) Transit riders run over by re ...
  • 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) ...

Brave New Climate

  • Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the g ...
    I have published a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy with the title “Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the greenhouse problem? The affirmative case” (currently online first, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.041 — it will appear in the print version, with v ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Hands Not Bombs: From the cave of your invente ...
    “Dare to look for the handprints, dare to acknowledge the humanity of an invented people.” A Palestinian-American student, writer and activist takes a journey of discovery,  in an essay inspired by the culture and literature of liberation, an ancient symbol, and a prehistoric cranium ...
  • Likud MK: Israeli hikers can help in identifyi ...
    The Knesset is outlawing Nazi references, but stupidity is still legal. [Likud MK] Danny Danon – דני דנון I held an emergency meeting in the Knesset on the Thailand travel warning for Israeli tourists. The Counter-Terrorism Bureau clarified that there are still high alerts. I decided to se ...
  • A reminder to Israel from Dr. Martin Luther Ki ...
    As Americans remember civil rights leader Martin Luther King, his messages ring true for many Israelis looking for this sort of inspiration that their own leaders are simply not providing. There are few times in which journalists get to say “the politicians done good.”  This is one o ...
  • Settlers attack Palestinians, property in week ...
    Settler violence over the weekend in West Bank: 100 trees cut down. Car burned. Two additional cars damaged. Two Palestinians attacked. The Israeli army’s answer: to arrest the very Palestinians who were beaten just moments before. This report was compiled, in Hebrew, by Uri Yacobi Keller ...
  • Palestinian citizens cannot be expected to do ...
    By Fady Khoury In an earlier post, I argued that the expectation for Palestinian citizens of Israel to serve in the army or in any alternative service lacks moral justification. I will elaborate on this argument here. It goes as follows: If (1) national service is an alternative to military serv ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • “OUR” Government—gone comple ...
    It’s really not ours you know….the government belongs to those that can buy and corrupt it.  You and I only get to feel the hard sole of the heel of the boot. Just read the following detailed analysis from Abigale Field: Perhaps the clearest window into a nation’s soul is its crimina ...
  • FLORIDA SENATE WANTS TO CUT DEALS…IN SECRET!
    It is no secret at all that Florida has become The Most Corrupt State in The World!  And now we are on a full tilt march to go EVEN MORE CORRUPT THAN EVER BEFORE! No sense in disclosing private contracts to the public…like the private deal the Republicans tried to cut over prisons…re ...
  • Max Gardner’s Truth In Mortgage Documents
    NO WAY THIS WILL EVER PASS……  MAX GARDNER’S TRUTH-IN-MORTGAGE DOCUMENTS ACT 1. On every Mortgage Assignment, and every Missing or Lost Assignment Affidavit, filed in the Official Records of any county in this State, or filed in any Court in this State, each signer, including an ...
  • NO, IT’S NOT ABOUT A FREE HOUSE!
    I agree with the author of the attached piece that the argument against the FREE HOUSE FRACAS is clouding legal analysis all across this country….from the article: Recently, an article appeared in the Advocate, a magazine circulated to Idaho attorneys which supposedly addresses the legal c ...
  • Martin Luther King’s Last Speech- I HAVE ...
    Today, more than ever, we all need to focus very intensely on the tremendous evil and inequality that exists in this country today and the desecration of our most basic rights. We may have made some progress after Martin Luther King’s death, but this country is fast slipping backwards. Lat ...

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

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

Reader Supported News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Italian Cruise Ship Crashes, Causing Deaths, I ...
    A disastrous Italian cruise crash Friday night killed at least five passengers and injured at least 20 more. As of Sunday night, two of the 120 Americans onboard had yet to be located after more than 4,000 were evacuated. The Costa Concordia suffered a hull breach and is 50 percent submerged. R ...
  • 24 Million Zappos Accounts May Have Been Compr ...
    Late Sunday night, several readers wrote in to say they had received an e-mail from the shoe-selling folks at Zappos.com letting them know that their personal information, including part of their credit card number, may have been compromised by hackers. According to MSNBC, it looks like all 24 ...
  • Upgrade Your Laptop's Hard Drive In 3 Easy Steps
    If your laptop goes kablooie, or you just run out of space by filling it from totally legal downloads, it's probably time to swap it out. The operation may sound difficult, but it's deceptively easy. If you can handle a screwdriver, you're more than capable. CNET offers a step-by-step guide: ...
  • The Dos And Don'ts Of Dealing With Grieving Co ...
    It's sadly inevitable that at some point one of your coworkers will cope with the death of a loved one. The grieving process is intensely personal and changes the dynamics and etiquette of the office. An article from UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources wrestles with the issues that com ...
  • Morning Deals
    ClothingJCPenney: [Apparel] 60-80% off Red Zone Clearance plus Extra 10% off with Coupon WALLET106pm.com: [Apparel] Nike Clothing, Shoe, and Swimwear Sale: Up to 85% off & Free ShippingRoaman's: [Apparel] 25% off your Entire Purchase w/ Coupon RDTAKE25Target: [Apparel] 20% Off $75+ Clothing Pur ...

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

  • MLK Day Reflection for LGBTQ Justice in the Bl ...
    Today’s MLK Day. I am proud to count myself among the many people working for social justice today who stand on the shoulders of Martin Luther King, Jr. Too many people think King’s statements regarding justice are only about race and the African-American community – thus exclu ...
  • The Monday Line: Why UK Supermarket Chain Tesc ...
    Tesco, PLC announced sales figures for the recent holiday season were far below expectations. Beaten by Sainsbury for the 2nd year running and WalMart-owned ASDA, investors hammered the stock last week wiping out £5 billion pounds ($8 billion dollars) or 16% of its value in one furious trading d ...
  • The Youthful Magic of Ron Paul
    South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint, the darling of the Tea Party wing nuts of the GOP, is urging Republican candidates to listen to Ron Paul. “One of the things that’s hurt the so-called conservative alternative is saying negative things about Ron Paul,” DeMint told conservative radio ...
  • What Do Abused Dogs and Laid-Off Workers Have ...
    In fairness to Mitt Romney, on the matter of his poor dog riding atop his deluxe car on a long drive, Romney suggests his dog enjoys this. Even assuming this is true, what does it tell us that on the trip in question the poor dog became ill, and Romney cleaned him up, put him back [...]
  • Fracking Companies Promote Jobs Across US Hopi ...
    The “Halliburton loophole” was created by Congress in 2005, at the “urging” of then, Vice President, Dick Cheney (immediate past chairman of Halliburton and beneficiary of a $34 million dollar payout in 1999 before running for office). Despite serious concerns, from the US Environmental Protecti ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • In 2002 Ron Paul saw the next ten years coming
    Ron Paul is painted as fringe by the Establishment. (If you’re not part of the establishment then you must be “fringe”, right?). Ten years ago Ron Paul made long series of detailed economic and foreign policy predictions that he hoped he would be proven wrong on.  It was a year ...
  • Unthreaded
    For all those comments that don’t fit somewhere else… Jo Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Utah: the establishment strikes back
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - In years past, incumbent office-holders more often than not could count on a popular passivity to enable them to get by on name recognition and thirty-second sound bites. That neat little arrangement has been interrupted in many places. The state of Utah presents a cas ...
  • Evangelical groups endorse Santorum
    (Bloomberg News) - Rick Santorum won the support of a group of U.S. family and religious leaders who called for social conservatives to coalesce behind one Republican presidential candidate as an alternative to Mitt Romney...
  • Santorum gets political lifeline
    (Joseph Farah) - As the once-crowded GOP primary race thins out, Christian conservatives are getting serious about how they can be a factor. Over the weekend, hundreds of the biggest names in the movement met here -- on short notice -- to see if a consensus could be reached on a course of action...
  • Santorum: Romneycare disqualifies Romney
    (NewsMax) - Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Sunday that Mitt Romney's backing for "Romneycare" -- the Masschusetts healthcare plan that was a model for Obamacare -- should disqualify him from being the GOP nominee for president...
  • Healthy families key to healthy economy
    (Gary Bauer) - The media have honed in on Republican presidential contenders who are attacking Mitt Romney 's economic and business background. Meanwhile, one candidate is talking about the economy in a way that could be very helpful to Republicans on Election Day. Some of Romney's opponents hav ...

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

  • Early Fishing in East Timor
    The main thrust of this news item is evidence suggesting humans were fishing 43,000 years ago, whereas the previous earliest date was just 12,000 years ago. But of equal interest was the fish they were ...Early Fishing in East Timor is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Mystery: 67 Dino ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Will Punish Its NATO Allies, Not Iran
    Will the economies of Greece and Italy finally collapse without Iranian oil? Having declared that the US-EU friendship will depend on whether Brussels supports Washington in its bid for imposing sanctions against Iran, the US president left Europe with no choice. The European Union, desperate to ...
  • Forget Muslim Arab Terrorists: America’s Enemy ...
    President Obama’s recent decision to re-focus U.S. military power away from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region and, to a lesser extent, Africa, means that China and certain rebel groups in Africa have replaced the old contrived bogeyman of Osama bin Laden’s “Al Qaeda” at the top of ...
  • US In the Pacific: Permanent Democracy
    The United States currently has two problems. The first is fairly objective: the American economy needs to undergo a systemwide restructuring. It cannot be said that the Anglo-Saxon model has stopped working. There is a subtle point to be made. The model is now working against the United States. ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Complete Life
     “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.Today, the third Monday in January, is Martin Luther King Jr. day in the US.  It is "…the only federal h ...
  • What Were Your Favorite Moments at The Golden ...
    Did you watch the Golden Globes on Sunday night? After all the hype leading up to Ricky Gervais' second time as the "naughty" host who would say anything, I thought his performance was rather tame. Over the years, the Golden Globes have started to surpass the Academy Awards as the live televisio ...
  • Week 3: Become a Sugar Sleuth
    Welcome to week three of BlogHer's Inspiration to Fitness, 8 Weeks & 8 Life-Changing Ways to Upgrade Your Diet. Katherine and I are very excited to be blogging every week to challenge you to make a positive change to your eating. If you missed week one and week two, there's plenty of time to ...
  • Warm Up With a Winter Knit Along
    [Editor's Note:Knitting with friends is more fun. Even if you are not a member of your local Stitch-n-Bitch you can still find a group of chicks with sticks to compare yarn and patterns with. Join a KAL and knit up a storm with some cyber friends. Luv in the Mommyhood is currently hosting a Warm ...
  • How I Learned to Love Myself As A "Fat" Girl
    [Editor’s note: From the time she was little, Teri Heidenreich was told she was fat. Like many girls, for years she fantasized about being thin and how fantastic her life would be if she could only lose weight. Then one day in college Teri noticed an ad for art models and the happenstance moment ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • What will we do about coal’s ‘cris ...
    There’s an op-ed in this weekend’s Gazette-Mail that is worth a look — and worth a detailed read by our region’s political leaders. It’s by West Virginia native Lou Martin, who teaches history now in western Pennsylvania at Chatham University. Lou writes of a &#8220 ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 13, 2012
    A group of Bosnians transport coal for heating in horse drawn carts, on a road near Sarajevo ,Bosnia, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. The average unemployment rate is up to 42 percent according to the Bosnian government. Collecting coal by hand and selling it on a local market is the only way an impove ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Programming as a Life Skill
    Perhaps the most obvious and powerful of changes in our world is the penetration of computers into our personal lives. This is penetration to the point of integration — to the point of augmentation. No surprise there; everyone’s talking about it. One less obvious result of this monum ...
  • New Headz Up App | SNL
    via youtube.com I pre-ordered. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentAn Intro to DubstepThe Samsung Smart WindowHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)David Simon on the End of the American Empire
  • Two Sites With Brilliant Content
    There are two sites you absolutely must become familiar with if you are interested in finding good content to read on the Internet: Art and Letters Daily The Browser I’ve not seen any place with content as high quality as these two sites. If you have, do let me know. Related ContentIf You ...
  • Collaborative vs. Individual Creativity | NYT
    Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people to disappear into personalized, private spaces when they want to be alone. Our schools should teach children to work with others, but also to work on their own for sustained periods of time. And we must recognize that ...
  • Collaborative vs. Individual Creativity | NYT
    Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people to disappear into personalized, private spaces when they want to be alone. Our schools should teach children to work with others, but also to work on their own for sustained periods of time. And we must recognize that ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates; We’re ...
    Occupy protester: ‘Idly watching’ no longer an option BY ZACH PATBERG,northjersey - Much like the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, post-9/11 Americans have experienced an “awakening” over cultural disparity that makes the “urgency of now” as relevant today as when coined by Martin ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    S&P, Greek standoff pressure euro zone to boost defenses ONDON (Reuters) – Mass euro zone ratings downgrades are unlikely to shake up investors too much, but with Greek debt talks at an impasse, pressure has been loaded on the bloc to shore up its defenses and glimmers of optimism fro ...
  • Next Up, Or Maybe Not
    By Ed Croft,WWH – One thing I am glad of is that Obama is going for a second term. Now before some of you get on the “got to get rid of Obama” band wagon, let me clarify. By having Obama continuing to run for a second term, we are spared a two ring circus. [...]
  • Paul Simon’s long meandering spiritual journey
    By Kim Lawton|, Religion News Service – Paul Simon says there’s always been a spiritual dimension to his music. But the overt religious references in his most recent album, “So Beautiful or So What,” surprised even him. There are songs about God, angels, creation, pilgrimage, prayer a ...
  • United States, biofuel production is taking ov ...
    WWH,RT news – It’s a process that comes with a price tag – the American way not just from farm to food, but from farm to fuel. And this is where it all starts…where the seeds are planted and the corn grows. It is the most simple part of a process that has become anything [...]

reference frame

  • Could the Koide formula be real?
    Warning: the following line contains spoilers Nope. That was the compactified version of the article. Below you may find the decompactified one. The page containing this picture explains how to associate numbers 0-9 with planets and how to remember the author's telephone num ...
  • NASA: Canada is focal point of climate change
    Canada became the first country that has withdrawn from the Kyoto protocol a month ago. NASA's experts similar to James Hansen and CapitalistImperialistPig have already incorporated this event into their models. The result is described here: NASA says Canada in 'hot spot' of eco ...
  • Friendship: dog and dolphin
    An emotional video for Monday. A dog and a dolphin in Croatia are the heroes. By Jelena of Croatia, peugeot255.
  • Getting ready for 1100 °C greenhouse runaway Earth
    The current global average mean temperature is about 15 °C. However, Colin Goldblatt and Andrew J. Watson have submitted a preprint called The Runaway Greenhouse: implications for future climate change, geoengineering and planetary atmospheresto the Royal Society which discusses a balmier t ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

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

  • Taxi swindler finally back in Norway
    Norwegian police could finally escort a convicted taxi swindler back to Norway over the weekend. Mohammed Aslam had fled the country four years ago and has since been living in his native Pakistan. Aslam now faces the prison time to which he was sentenced in January 2008, reports newspaper Aften ...
  • Cold relations with China ‘damaging’
    The ongoing diplomatic freeze between Norway and China is damaging to both parties, which would do well to put the conflict behind them, according to a major Chinese investment expert. Meanwhile, China’s ambassador to Norway continues to blame Thorbjørn Jagland, head of the Norwegian Nobel ...
  • NRK demands editing of ‘Lilyhammer’ TV series
    Officials at state broadcaster NRK say they still want to air the television series called Lilyhammer, starring US actor and musician Steven Van Zandt, but only if a long string of scenes are edited or re-touched. Otherwise, broadcasting the series will violate Norwegian law against product plac ...
  • Oslo tops in bottle returns
    Never before have Oslo residents returned so many beverage cans and bottles as they did last year, and a grocery store in the east-side district of Lambertseter saw record high activity around its bottle-return machines. Norway imposes deposit fees on cans and half-liter bottles of one krone (ab ...
  • Derailment aside, trains now on time
    The derailment of a cargo train over the weekend has disrupted a line over the mountains known as Dovrebanen, but otherwise there’s been a lot of good news for rail passengers this winter. For the first time in a long time, most trains are running on time and commuters are regaining confid ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A Step and a Stride: From Academia to Abundance
    How exactly did I get here? When did I embark on this journey of abundance? Here I am looking back on my life, and seeing how it all started…. Raised on 75 acres of subsistence farm I was an unlikely candidate to moving to the big city of Montreal at age 20. After five [...]
  • The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Per ...
    by David Bollier Joline Blais Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such wisdom and depth. Joline Blais’ 2006 essay, “Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl,” is a wonderfully insightful analysis that reveals the underly ...
  • John Hardy: My Green School Dream
    Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world’s largest freestanding bamboo building. — Ted.com
  • Permaculture Urban Landscape Design Course
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’d love to take this course myself, but alas, I’m unable to make it. Those of you who’re itching to get started, or to do better, with your urban patch (or with someone else’s urban patch!), should seriously consider jumping on this course ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Membe ...
    I scoured my folders for the supporting documents proving, more or less, that the Koch Brothers are Jewish. I can not find them and I may not have even saved the articles, thinking that I was satisfied with my investigation that they are. Since there has been a major cleaning up of all thing ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    US scientists have unveiled a device which translates what we are seeing in our heads onto a screen. Here are a few other "mind-reading" breakthroughs. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... oughs.html 1) A team from the University of Glasgow announced in May they had come one ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Scientists unveiled a device which translates what we are seeing in our heads onto a screen. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-IwbS75KOM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... heads.html 'Mind-reading device' recreates what we see in our heads Mind reading could become a realit ...
  • Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Membe ...
    Are the Kochs Jewish?Statistics: Posted by Roy Hobs — Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:04 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Is anyone aware of an MP3 of the interview?Statistics: Posted by Roy Hobs — Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:20 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Mandatory Roof Gardens Urged As Solution to Si ...
    A panel formed to study solutions to increased flooding in Singapore has urged the government to require green roofs on new and retrofitted buildings. The 12-member panel, which was created after torrential rains caused flash flooding across eastern and central Singapore last year, said improved ...
  • More Efficient Solar Design Draws Inspiration ...
    Finding inspiration in the structure of a sunflower, a group of scientists has designed a concentrated solar power plant (CSP) that will require 20 percent less land than existing plants while increasing the amount of Shutterstock sunlight its solar mirrors are able to collect. At the sp ...
  • 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 ...
  • New Interactive EPA Website Tracks Nation's Bi ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled an interactive website that allows users to track the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in their states. Click to enlarge EPA The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data project The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data project, which is based ...
  • Quota Market to Save Whales Proposed by U.S. R ...
    A team of U.S. researchers has suggested that a system of tradable quotas for whales could significantly reduce the number of the animals killed each year. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Veer A humpback whale California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State U ...

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

  • Bond perks eyed for green utilities
    Bonds issued by companies that generate electricity from renewable energy may get preferential treatment, government sources said. The government may revise the Electricity Business Law to give corporate bonds from such companies repayment priority over other unsecured debt in case the issuer ...
  • Corporate Japan: woeful lack of outside directors
    Japan Inc. is often criticized for its poor corporate governance, especially when it comes to monitoring how top management makes decisions. The Olympus Corp. scandal, based at the very least on the camera maker being caught covering up massive investment losses over almost two decades, has do ...
  • Entrance exam system faces review
    The education ministry on Monday ordered a review of how the nation's unified college entrance exams are managed after delays and slipups affected more than 4,500 test-takers over the weekend. According to the National Center for University Entrance Examinations, which administers the tests, e ...
  • Medical review to probe child deaths
    The Japan Pediatric Society plans to establish a registration system to review and investigate child death cases in an effort to reduce their number. A study committee set up by the society convened its first meeting at the end of 2011 and decided to start model projects in Gunma and Kyoto pre ...
  • U.S. eyes 3,000 dogwoods for 'sakura' anniversary
    As Japan and the U.S. prepare to mark the 100th anniversary of the presentation of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington by Tokyo as a gift in 1912, the U.S. government is drawing up a plan to present Japan with 3,000 dogwood seedlings this spring as a new symbol of friendship, sources involved in Ja ...

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

  • When is a terrorist not a terrorist - and war ...
    Alan Hart views the USA's traditional tolerance of Israeli terrorist activities - and abuse of the alliance with the US - and wonders whether this tolerance will extend to providing cover for an Israeli attack on Iran, even if this is not endorsed by Washington.
  • Window for Palestinian state "rapidly closing" ...
    A European Union study says that expanding Israeli settlement in the West Bank and limits imposed on Palestinian movement and building are eroding the chances of a Palestinian state.
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Russian Mars probe will probably crash Sunday
    National Geographic: Phobos-Grunt, the failed Russian Mars probe that has been stuck in low Earth orbit for more than two months, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere around Sunday. The Russian space agency Roscosmos expects about 20–30 satellite fragments to reach the ground; the rest s ...
  • Global warming could cause colder winters
    Science: Although it may seem counterintuitive, warmer-than-average summers may trigger more severe winter cooling and excessive snowfall, writes Sid Perkins for Science. The relationship showed itself in a new study published in Environmental Research Letters by Judah Cohen and colleagues at th ...
  • 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 ...

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
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
    by footprints888 (Posted Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:02:33 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...
  • 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 ...

Peakwater

  • Saving energy means saving money as well as sa ...
    “Numerous rivers are being dammed for power production as Laos pursues its vision to become the “Battery of Asia”, and about 90% of this power is for export to Thailand and Vietnam. Obviously Laos is not the only country growing in this region, and the demand for electricity is ...
  • 1m affected by drought in E China
    “The drought has sharply reduced water levels in Poyang Lake, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and rivers in Jiangxi, threatening water supplies to more than one million people residing near the lake and rivers, said an official with the province’s flood control and droug ...
  • Thawing Permafrost Reduces River Runoff
    “Chinese researchers have revealed that the amount of water entering the Yangtze River near its source on the Tibetan plateau has fallen by 15% over the past four decades, despite a 15% increase in glacial melt and increased rainfall over the same period. Wang Genxu, an ecologist at the Ch ...
  • China To Divert Flows Of Its Rivers
    “This year, China will spend over 10 billion U.S. dollars to divert the flows of its rivers in the direction of the arid areas in its north. This was announced by E Jingping, head of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project commissioned by the State Council. It must be said in the past f ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • The year in review for rainforests
    2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...
  • Our top nature pictures of 2011
    My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...
  • Herpetology curator: behind-the-scenes of 'new ...
    Bryan Stuart’s mission as a curator of amphibians and reptiles at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is to understand the diversity of life on earth. For that, he documents what species occur where and why. He’s particularly attracted to areas where there’s a dearth ...
  • Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?
    Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...
  • WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Archaeologists find tomb of female singer in V ...
    In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings.It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families found in the Valley of the...
  • French return more Maori remains
    Te Papa will welcome home to New Zealand 20 toi moko (human remains) from France at a ceremony next week.Staff from the museum's Karanga Aotearoa repatriation programme team are in Paris for a handover ceremony at the Musee du Quai...
  • Space probe debris splashes down
    Russia believes fragments of its Phobos Grunt space probe has splashed down somewhere.But there are wildly differing reports on just where it has ended up, with one spokesman saying it landed in the Pacific, and another saying it...
  • Doctor's melanoma showed no outward signs
    A family doctor who died from cancerous melanoma had no outward sign of the deadly disease.Auckland GP Christine Morgan-Conquer died on New Year's Day after a two-year battle. The respected doctor suspected something was wrong when...
  • Watch out for space junk
    Kiwis may have to watch out for 'space junk' falling from the sky as an out-of-control Russian satellite orbits over the country over the next two days.After a decade of planning and an estimated cost of $205 billion (NZD), "Phobos-Grunt"...

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

  • Ira Stoll on Mitt Romney and John Hancock
    John Hancock, like Mitt Romney, was one of the richest men of his time. Hancock had a three-story, 56-foot-wide granite mansion atop Boston’s Beacon Hill, complete with a ballroom and stables. Mr. Romney reportedly has a $12 million beachfront house in La Jolla, Calif., and a $10 mill ...
  • Melbourne Police Kick, Punch, and Taser a 66-Y ...
    A 66-year-old Melbourne man with dementia spent a month in the hospital after he was violently arrested in October 2011 by officers from the Melbourne Police Department in Melbourne, Florida. The officers who arrested Albert Flowers charged him with battery on a police officer, but ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Why Opposing Imperialism Is ...
    Ron Paul is for unilateral, unconditional free trade. He believes any American should be perfectly free to buy from or sell to any person in the world. In that sense—the laissez-faire sense—he favors globalization, which, applied consistently, would require a worldwide free market. He ...
  • Greg Beato on Skyscrapers
    In the late 19th century, as ever-taller buildings began to lift man closer to the heavens in Chicago, New York, and other American cities, they inspired awe, envy, and, of course, regulatory efforts to impede their development. As Greg Beato notes, early skyscrapers were charged with ...
  • Reason on Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Ever ...
    Today is a national holiday that commemorates the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the larger civil rights movement of which he was such an important part. Here are some of Reason's writings about King and other movement leaders. Justice for All: The new Martin ...

Mercury Rising

  • Murdoch’s WSJ Misleads Again, This Time ...
    Right-Wing Fantasists, National Media Edition: Rupert Murdoch’s campaign to drag the rest of the once-proud Wall Street Journal down to the level of its editorial pages proceeds apace: Today’s lead editorial, with its graph of “Obama’s Growing Payroll,” is a perfect ...
  • Stillwater Bridge Boondoggle So Big, North Car ...
    It’s really sad when the alleged local papers of record won’t state the facts on a local issue as clearly as an East Coast blogger does here, apparently quoting from Taxpayers for Common Sense: Several lawmakers want Minnesota and Wisconsin to spend upwards of $700 million to build a ...
  • It didn’t have to end this way: Marigold ...
    James G. Hershberg, via National Security Archive: Who Murdered “Marigold”? Warsaw, Poland. December 6, 1966: a date which should live in diplomatic infamy. Five thousand miles away, the Vietnam War is raging, with the dead piling up and the escalating violence poisoning internationa ...
  • Gingrich’s Race Triangulating: South Car ...
    I saw what you did there, Newt: Newt Gingrich veered off the traditional GOP primary campaign trail Saturday for an African-American church — and a colloquy on race relations and urban policy that only seemed to strengthen the audience’s resolve to vote for Barack Obama. Far from where his rival ...
  • Another datapoint on Egyptian Spring
    Peter Beaumont, The Guardian: The Egyptian reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has dramatically announced his withdrawal from the presidential race in protest at the ruling military council’s failure to put the country on the path to democracy. The Nobel laureate, regarded as a driving force b ...

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 16 2012: Quo Vadis, Britannia?
    Howard Hollem George Lane April 1942"George Lane, served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Seven of his nephews are ...
  • January 14 2012: Housing and Oil: Dark Invento ...
    National Photo Co. Ingenious cheat February 13, 1922"Washington, D.C., Unidentified woman demonstrating an ingenious Prohibition-era fashion accessory, the cane-flask" Ilargi: I'd like to try a little intellectual exercise. There were two pieces in my mailbox this week that concerned posts at Na ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

  • 'Israel behind Iran assassinations'
    Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says Israel is behind terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists, noting Tehran will punish Tel Aviv so it realizes such actions have consequences.
  • Snowfall kills 16 in Afghanistan
    Heavy snowfall and avalanches have killed at least 16 people in Afghanistan with many more citizens missing and feared dead.
  • World must be free from nukes: Iran
    Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the world must be free from nuclear weapons.
  • Welfare reforms face another setback
    The British government's embattled welfare reform has hit another stumbling block in the House of Lords after calls for piloting a disability assessment scheme.
  • Dutch scientists rap US for censorship
    The Dutch scientists who created a mutated strain of bird flu have criticized the US government's decision to censor their ground breaking research.

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...

Nick Turse

  • If you’ve ever wondered what the “cockpit” of ...
    If you’ve ever wondered what the “cockpit” of an Air Force drone looks like, then look no further than this pic (courtesy of the Air Force).  And if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to bring down a drone, then read my latest article, “The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare,” which uses do ...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:#Jan14. Tunisians yeste ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: #Jan14. Tunisians yesterday marching in celebration of the one year anniversary of the ousting of former dictator Zine El Abedine Ben Ali. Tahia Tunis!  Photo Credit: Ali Garboussi [via]
  • thepoliticalnotebook:Picture of the Day. Out ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: Picture of the Day. Outside the town of Qusair, Syria. A defector from the Syrian army, now a member of the Free Syrian Army poses outside an FSA base with his RPG. Photo Credit: Reuters/Stringer. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.
  • bostonreview:Occupy Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy Re ...
    bostonreview: Occupy Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy Removal Protest: Day 4 - Ojota, Lagos.
  • How Occupy Has Raised Class Consciousness
    bostonreview: Source: Pew Research Center, “Rising Share of Americans See Conflict Between Rich...
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