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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

18 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: Worries Mount over Blowback of Israeli A ...
    A former senior adviser on the Middle East to the last four U.S. presidents says that "the negatives far outweigh the positives" of war with Iran and the United States should augment Israel's nuclear weapons delivery systems to dissuade it from attacking the Islamic Republic.
  • JAPAN: Pushing Nuclear Exports After Fukushima
    Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11, last year.
  • From Peacekeeping to Partisan Policing?
    The image of United Nations peacekeeping operations has become seriously tarnished in recent years, say some independent experts who monitor the U.N. missions around the world.
  • Woe Betide the Return of the Zimbabwean Dollar
    Tinashe Zuze's story is a typical one of Zimbabwe's professionals who have shunned formal employment. Instead of working for someone else, Zuze left his job as a bank teller and entered into the world of "wheeling and dealing" in illegal foreign currency.
  • Montevideo Tackles Gas Emissions from Solid Waste
    The government of the Uruguayan capital plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the solid waste produced by its 1.3 million inhabitants, through a project set to enter into operation in March. The carbon credits generated will be purchased by the World Bank.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Myth of an 'Isolated' Iran
    Summary: Let’s start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the Iranians, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capab ...
  • Iran's nuclear scientists are not being assass ...
    Summary: These "men on motorbikes" have been described as "assassins". But assassination is just a more polite word for murder. Indeed, our politicians and their securocrats cloak the premeditated, lawless killing of scientists in Tehran, of civilians in Waziristan, of politicians in Gaza, i ...
  • The Absence of International Law in Iran Terro ...
    Summary: The assassinations that have taken place in the last two years show a gap in the existing international conventions regarding the protection of scientists. Interview with Mohsen Abdollahi. source: www.irdiplomacy.comread more
  • Sunday Times Says Mossad Behind Scientist Murder
    Summary: Sunday Times has also reported the Israeli Mossad were behind the killing, citing “unnamed Israeli sources” who argued that the assassination was a prelude to a military attack, saying Israel was hoping to ensure Iran could not rebuild the nuclear sites the war would destroy. sour ...
  • 'US, Israel backed Iran scientist killing'
    Summary: An Iranian scholar and political analyst condemns the terrorist attack that killed Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, saying the attack was undoubtedly a US-Israeli coordinated assassination. Watch full video at the provided link. source: Barackobama.irread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The End of the World!" --The Day the Earth Pa ...
    Halleys comet's 1910 pass of Earth was especially close and, thanks to extensive newspaper coverage, eagerly awaited by the general public. In fact, Earth’s orbit carried it through the end of the comet’s 24-million-mile-long tail for six hours on May...
  • Extreme Weather: Saturn's 1.5-Billion Square-M ...
    These false-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle a day in the life of a huge storm that developed from a small spot that appeared 12 weeks earlier in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes. It was the largest and most intense observed...
  • New Tech Reveals Unknown Galaxy Clusters with ...
    This past summer, Using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered 96 new open clusters hidden by the dust in the Milky Way. Thirty of these clusters are shown...
  • Evolution from Single to Multi-Cell Clusters R ...
    More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth's surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question that has eluded evolutionary biologists. Now, scientists have replicated that key step...
  • One-Light-Year Tall 'Ninjas' --The Molecular C ...
    This image is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken in 2005 and 2010, of the dark pillars of cool gas and dust in the Carina Nebula region. The immense nebula lies an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the...

Natural News

  • Treating multiple sclerosis
    There are many people, an estimated 350,000 people in the United States that are living with this painful, debilitating, and sometimes fatal disorder of the central nervous system. Western medicine has not come up with good treatment strategies for this disease and the...
  • Researchers detail lifestyle changes that lowe ...
    It may come as no surprise to many natural health disciplinarians that cancer is largely an avoidable disease that develops and advances due to poor lifestyle habits adopted over the course of a lifetime. Researchers from Britain have found that more than 100,000 cancer...
  • Coffee promotes cortisol production and weight ...
    Conventional wisdom about weight loss suggests coffee may be a good addition to a diet plan since it has minimal calories and no fat. While this seems logical, a more holistic view evaluates coffee from the perspective of its influence on the body's ability to metabolize...
  • 'Totally drug-resistant' tuberculosis now swee ...
    A highly-contagious lung disease that has become increasingly difficult to treat, tuberculosis (TB) appears to be making a deadly comeback in India. As was predicted by the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2009, drug-resistant strains of TB for which there is...
  • Study proves 95% of people really are sheeple
    Scientists at the University of Leeds have conducted research that proves the tendency many have to act like sheep, unwittingly following crowd as if they didn't possess a reasoning mind. While this tendency may have its uses in some situations, such as planning pedestrian...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright P ...
    Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The top court was ruling on a petition by a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers and film archivists who urged the justices to reverse an appellate cou ...
  • Why We’ve Censored Wired.com
    We've blacked out the headlines on our website today as part of a global internet protest against two radical anti-piracy bills pending in Congress. Here's why.
  • A SOPA/PIPA Blackout Explainer
    Hundreds, if not thousands of websites are expected to go dark or alter themselves Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that many believe goes too far fighting online copyright and trademark infringement. But what's all the fuss about? Here's an explainer of the basics of t ...
  • Supreme Court Rejects Student Social-Media Cases
    The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to decide to clarify on what grounds public schools may punish students for their off-campus online speech. The justices have not squarely addressed the student-speech issue as it applies to the digital world, with the advent of social-networking tools such as ...
  • 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.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney's Three Tax Scandals
    As the imbroglio grows over his mystery IRS returns, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney is confronting not one but three tax scandals. It's bad enough that Romney pays only about 15 percent of his income to Uncle Sam each year, a rate well below most middle class families. Worse still, the notorious ...
  • Romney Contradicts Own Tax Plan, Calls for Low ...
    Mitt Romney made twin revelations on taxes during last night's GOP debate in South Carolina. First, after previously claiming "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either," Romney suggested he might release his tax returns in April after clinching the Republican nomination. (On Tuesday, Mit ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Will 2012 be the Year of State-Required Drug T ...
    Statehouse politicians across the country are already racing to see who can be next to introduce a bill that would require drug testing of people receiving public benefits.
  • Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis
    New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform
  • Expansion of Indefinite Detention under NDAA C ...
    Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was with WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange when the pretrial military hearing for accused Army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning was taking place in Fort Meade, Maryland, last month. Hastings says the military's case against Mannin ...
  • "The Operators": Michael Hastings on the Insid ...
    We speak with reporter Michael Hastings about the "disastrous past year" in Afghanistan and the mentality a decade of war has bred there. The U.S. has "funneled billions of dollars in weapons and training into a chaotic place like Afghanistan ... training these young guys to kill people, and the ...
  • Debating Tucson School District's Book Ban Aft ...
    Public school officials in Tucson, Arizona, have released a list of seven banned books that can no longer be used in classrooms following their suspension of the district's acclaimed Mexican American Studies program. Last year, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal ruled t ...

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

  • 10 Reasons to Visit NYWEA Annual Meeting and E ...
    In a time when the climate and environment of our planet is constantly in mind for many of the world’s people, there are groups that are being pro-active in their efforts to help make our way of life sustainable. These groups exist to bring together like-minded thinkers on environment topi ...
  • Thousands Protesting Peru’s Largest Mining Pro ...
      The News: In Peru, a “US-backed billion-dollar gold mine has attracted thousands of protestors in recent weeks.” The reason? As one protester puts it, “It’s about protecting our water supply, nothing more.” The $4.8-billion mine is expected to significantly harm dr ...
  • SOPA Blackout: Threat to Your Internet Has Wik ...
      Some of the biggest sites on the internet are taking strong action today to oppose SOPA (and PIPA). Huge sites like Wikipedia and reddit are blacking out, as are many others. Why? What is SOPA? To put it simply, SOPA is a huge threat to your internet and your freedom of speech (more on th ...
  • San Francisco Bank of America ATM Machines Tur ...
      News: “An activist group has taken it upon themselves to turn San Francisco Bank of America ATM machines into ‘Automated Truth Machines’ by using overlay stickers that point out where they say BofA invests its own resources,” NBC Bay Area reports last weekend. 85 ...
  • “FUGMO”: The Anti-GMO Mascot
    Writers, Bloggers, Photographers, Cartoonists, please feel free to place the FUGMO seal of disapproval on any of your anti-GMO work. Readers, you are invited to add the seal to your avatar. FUGMO says: “F U, GMOs!” More on why you too should say F U to GMOs: From Grist: The [...] ...

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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

  • We're on SOPA Strike
    By @BGinKC We are standing in solidarity with Reddit and Wikipedia and hundreds, if not thousands, of other sites and refraining from posting content between the hours of midnight and midnight on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. We will be back at 12:00 a.m. Thursday with the newswrap, but in the me ...
  • Wisconsin: any way you count it, recall
    Oh, my: Over One Million MADISON - United Wisconsin today announced that more than one million Wisconsinites have signed a petition to recall Scott Walker, representing the most-participated-in major recall effort in American history, and a number so significant that it is beyond any legal chall ...
  • As South Carolina Nears: Just When You Think H ...
    Texas Gov. Rick "El Pendejo" Perry is staying in the presidential race even though few people take him seriously anymore. With his latest ploy, it looks as though he's trying to outflank Romney by being a Republican Party bottom-feeder, scraping up as much of the right-wing Gothic vote as he can ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Where the ...
    By @KYYellowDog One of Joe Hill's earliest songs, about an IWW railroad workers strike in British Columbia in 1912. Uploaded by Idonegotold: Lyrics here.
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD Even corrupt-to-the-gills Pakistan demands its government prosecute corrupt politicians, but we still let war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Yoo and the rest of them walk the streets. The Pakistani prime minister has said he will comply with a supreme court order summoning him for a ...

Care 2

  • Tell the U.S. Government to Declare All Chimpa ...
    The National Anti-Vivisection Society has worked for decades to end the use of chimpanzees in research and their abuse in entertainment and as personal pets, through advocacy, education and legislation. There is now a critically important opportunity Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Ask Wayne State University to Stop Inhumane Do ...
    Queenie, pictured, was a friendly dog when she came to Wayne State University, but two major surgeries left her scared and in pain. She was forced to run dozens of strenuous treadmill tests, suffering for months inside of the lab until experimenters Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • Support a Federal Ban on Hunting Animals in Ca ...
    In the cruel practice of captive or canned hunting, hunters pay to shoot exotic mammals, sometimes endangered species, that are confined within fences. The animals are often very tame and are accustomed to being fed in certain areas, making for an Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  & ...
  • Martha Stewart speaks out about cruelty to far ...
    Please understand these animals have feelings and are social beings..... Submitted by Penny Ryan to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 12/18/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 4 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama’s Keystone Cops + Open Thread
      It’s all about the politics of the 2012 presidential race. Obama’s #1 (and only) concern? Obama winning the 2012 reelection race. But what about the rest of us, about whom Obama does NOT care? Besides the few thousands who might have gotten Keystone jobs but who’ll remai ...
  • The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy – REVEALED!
    OUCH!! I just slapped my forehead so hard it hurt!  I just had an “Aha!” moment like you wouldn’t believe!  Duh!  Or is it Doh? I feel like a dimwit for not seeing it before!  Oh, those Republicans!  I knew they were clever, I knew they were diabolical, but I never dreamed just ...
  • Jarrett’s Pulpit a Bully + Open Thread
    Valerie Jarrett bullied GOP law makers Sunday at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, perhaps violating “IRS tax rules for churches’ political activities. …” First, here’s the video of the White House heavyweight speaking Sunday, the day before the national holiday th ...
  • Is Newt Gingrich a Racist?
    Newt’s response to Juan Williams question about black kids getting off food stamps and going to work brought the largely white South Carolina audience to its feet. Gee, white people in South Carolina, getting excited about putting the blacks to work. Yep, color me surprised: I realize many ...
  • Conservative Republican Kamikaze Politics
    Are Conservative Republicans nuts? I understand the discomfort with Mitt Romney. If you are going to win an election and govern in the State of Massachusetts then you will have to make some compromises that don’t sit well with bedrock conservatives. But now that the quest to select a candi ...

Futurismic

  • Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
      The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Blue-Green Alliances and the Future of Coal - ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Blue-Green Alliances and the Future of Coal Charleston Gazette (blog) The media, especially in the coalfields of West Virginia, has done little to help — mostly ignoring the growing scientific evidence that links living new mountaintop removal to increase rates of serio ...
  • San Francisco Bank of America ATM Machines Tur ...
    San Francisco Bank of America ATM Machines Turned into “Truth Machines” PlanetSave.com And, of course, Bank of America is a top supporter of mountaintop removal coal mining companies. Opportunities for action: Team up with RAN or others fighting mountaintop removal coal mining and climate change ...
  • Why Wind Power Doesn't Live up to its Environm ...
    Why Wind Power Doesn't Live up to its Environmental Promises OilPrice.com I believed industrial wind offered the best opportunity to accomplish that goal and, even recognizing industrial wind also consumes our forest lands, it seemed an excellent alternative to the coal industry's horrib ...
  • Home Sweet Home? - Fenceviewer
    Home Sweet Home? Fenceviewer Reasons for involvement vary, but I want to challenge every person who reads this blog, whether they support Mountain Top Removal, or despise it to their core to stop and think about West Virginia and the people that live there. ...
  • The Rich Will Not Be Silenced - Ashland Current
    The Rich Will Not Be Silenced Ashland Current I, instead live in a region where a company wants to try using mountain top removal to extract iron ore and process it into taconite pellets. Although we are talking about two different products here, there are many similarities: In both situations, ...

Memeorandum

  • Woman Who Got Cash From Romney Now Part of His ...
    ABCNEWS: Woman Who Got Cash From Romney Now Part of His Stump Speech  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The unemployed woman who was given cash by Mitt Romney last weekend has now become a line in the presidential hopeful's stump speech.  —  “I spoke with a woman the ...
  • David Brooks: Gail, I'm sorry we missed each o ...
    Opinionator: David Brooks: Gail, I'm sorry we missed each other in South Carolina, but I've moved on to the next primary state, Florida, in search of people who pay Mitt Romney's 15 percent tax rate.  I'm in Palm Beach now.  I think I've found them.  —  By the way, why ...
  • Unpopular Nationally, Romney Holds Solid GOP L ...
    Paul Polls / Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Unpopular Nationally, Romney Holds Solid GOP Lead  —  OVERVIEW  —  Days ahead of the South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney maintains a substantial lead nationally in the race for the GOP nomination.&nbs ...
  • Corbett aide who edited journal resigns (Phill ...
    Philly.com: Corbett aide who edited journal resigns  —  HARRISBURG - A high-level Corbett administration adviser resigned his $104,470 position Tuesday after questions were raised about his outside role as editor of a conservative faith-based journal.  —  Along w ...
  • Cinema-goers complain that Oscar favourite The ...
    Richard Alleyne / Telegraph: Cinema-goers complain that Oscar favourite The Artist has no dialogue  —  The Artist is being tipped to collect a raft of Baftas - but some cinemagoers are demanding their money back because it is a silent film.  —  The tribute to 192 ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
    Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:06:41 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 03:06:41 PM at epicenterDepth: 42.80 km (26.59 mi)
  • M 5.2, Santa Cruz Islands
    Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:26:02 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:26:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 31.70 km (19.70 mi)
  • M 5.4, Santa Cruz Islands
    Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:02:56 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:02:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.20 km (21.25 mi)
  • M 5.2, Santa Cruz Islands
    Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:01:25 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:01:25 AM at epicenterDepth: 30.30 km (18.83 mi)
  • M 5.1, Molucca Sea
    Wednesday, January 18, 2012 16:09:12 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 01:09:12 AM at epicenterDepth: 41.80 km (25.97 mi)

China Dialogue

  • How not to discuss water with China
    Debating the quantum flow of the Brahmaputra will not foster regional cooperation. Water diplomats should discuss the river’s environmental value instead, argues Rohan D’Souza.China has never been daunted by big engineering. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and recently the Three Gorg ...
  • "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 ...
  • Sharing the benefits of large dams
    Planners and donors for a new wave of African dam projects should learn lessons from the past and not treat local people as mere obstacles, argues Jamie Skinner.It’s been nearly 50 years since the Akossombo dam was built in Ghana in 1965, flooding the lands and homes of 80,000 people, crea ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Will 2012 be the Year of State-Required Drug T ...
    Statehouse politicians across the country are already racing to see who can be next to introduce a bill that would require drug testing of people receiving public benefits.
  • Kill the Bill: The “Stop Online Piracy Act” an ...
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Max Coleman I’m fairly certain that, as you read this sentence, you match a certain demographic. In fact, I can say with 100 percent confidence that you do. You are an Internet user and, by virtue of this fact, should be filled with tremendous outrage at the ...
  • A Brief History of America's Dumb Policies Tow ...
    In more than 50 years, America’s leaders have never made a move in Iran (or near it) that didn’t lead to unexpected and unpleasant blowback.
  • “Art is My Occupation”: Rethinking ...
    Crossposted on Tikkun Daily. by Josh HealeyAs a member of the self-identified “slash profession” – writer/organizer/educator/whatever pays the rent that month – I have learned how to wear multiple hats. How to move between different worlds and code-switch my headgear ...
  • Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri: ...
    The Queens native seeks to serve the borough's working-class immigrant community.

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright P ...
    Congress may take works out of the public domain and grant them copyright status, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The top court was ruling on a petition by a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers and film archivists who urged the justices to reverse an appellate cou ...
  • Why We’ve Censored Wired.com
    We've blacked out the headlines on our website today as part of a global internet protest against two radical anti-piracy bills pending in Congress. Here's why.
  • A SOPA/PIPA Blackout Explainer
    Hundreds, if not thousands of websites are expected to go dark or alter themselves Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that many believe goes too far fighting online copyright and trademark infringement. But what's all the fuss about? Here's an explainer of the basics of t ...
  • Supreme Court Rejects Student Social-Media Cases
    The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to decide to clarify on what grounds public schools may punish students for their off-campus online speech. The justices have not squarely addressed the student-speech issue as it applies to the digital world, with the advent of social-networking tools such as ...
  • 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.

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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

  • America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2012
    #46. Bill Marler, Foodborne Illness Lawyer and Attorney – So says the Daily Meal. In the last several days since my father died, I have been putting things in the context of what he would think or say.  “As one friend put it, once your parents are gone, you are ‘on deck.& ...
  • What's up at Zappos? Bacillus Cereus Sickens 58
    The Bullitt County Health Department updated its investigation into the event which sickened employees at the Zappos warehouse in Shepherdsville on December 5, 2011. A total of 58 employees who worked the same shift became ill with a gastrointestinal illness early on Monday morning. At least tw ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • "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

  • Catherine Speaks in the Rogue Valley, Oregon!
      Catherine will be speaking in The Rogue Valley, in Ashland, and Medford, Oregon, on Thursday, January 26, and Friday, January 27, 2012. The theme for the weekend will be “Getting Beyond Fear to Real Prosperity.” Seating is limited, so reserve your tickets now
  • Report on Sheriff Mack – PayPal Froze Funds
      Note from Catherine: We have been informed that Paypal has frozen Sheriff Richard Mack’s accounts. We are asking for prayers for all concerned. Here is the report: PayPal froze funds ($40,000+) donated  for the Constitutional Sheriff’s Conference.   PayPal had refused to rele ...
  • US Pressured Spain to Implement Online Piracy ...
    US ambassador Alan Solomont wrote: ‘[Spain] has unfortunately failed to finish the job for political reasons, to the detriment of the reputation and economy of Spain’ Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters By Dominic Rushe The US ambassador in Madrid threatened Spain with “retaliation ...
  • Supporting The Blackout
    By Catherine Austin Fitts As you can see from the posters at the top of our blog, we are supporting the blackout promoted by Wikipedia against SOPA and PIPA. I have contacted Senator Bob Corker and Congressman Marsha Blackburn requesting that they do everything possible to make sure this legis ...
  • The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods
    New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA. By Ari LeVaux Update 1/12: Thanks to science and biology bloggers, Christie Wilcox and Emily Willingham at the Scientific American blog network and T ...

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

  • CyberSecurity Question Time on the FM website!
    Ask any question about cyberwar or computer security, broadly defined. This is a topic area in which, in my experience, there is a great deal of “established wisdom” that is neither wise nor established. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the commen ...
  • CyberSecurity Question Time on the FM website!
    Ask any question about cyberwar or computer security, broadly defined. This is a topic area in which, in my experience, there is a great deal of “established wisdom” that is neither wise nor established. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the commen ...
  • Has Iran won a round vs. US-Israel?
    Summary:  The long game continues between Israel-US and Iran, which began in 1979.  Iran may won this inning.  That would astonish most American geopolitical experts, who describe Iran’s resistance as either foolish or insane.  How can Iran even imagine defeating US-Israel, with our coalit ...
  • Has Iran won a round vs. US-Israel?
    Summary:  The long game continues between Israel-US and Iran, which began in 1979.  Iran may won this inning.  That would astonish most American geopolitical experts, who describe Iran’s resistance as either foolish or insane.  How can Iran even imagine defeating US-Israel, with our coalit ...
  • What the conflict with Iran teaches us about m ...
    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 ...

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

  • Egyptian Style Democracy
    U.S. democracy-building organizations -- one Republican, one Democrat, both funded by the U.S. taxpayer -- that have been telling Egyptians how to be good democrats, how to demonstrate peacefully and have truly free elections didn't sit too well with the Egyptian military, which has ruled Egypt ...
  • Worries Mount Over Blowback of Israeli Attack ...
    A former senior adviser on the Middle East to the last four US presidents says that "the negatives far outweigh the positives" of war with Iran and the United States should augment Israel's nuclear weapons delivery systems to dissuade it from attacking the Islamic Republic. Bruce Riede ...
  • Political Ethics in a Complex World
    I’ll echo Greenwald in encouraging people to check out Freddie De Boer’s post on liberalism and American empire (and incidentally Ron Paul, but not really). Part of my political id instinctively responded in exactly the way De Boer laments, both for valid reasons and invalid ones, but the post i ...
  • Will Romney Defend Our Turkish Allies?
    I don't really care that Rick Perry has doubled down on his attacks on Turkey's government as "Islamicterrorists," that his top foreign policy advisor* said that Ankara's democratically-elected government "has some explaining to do," and is "extremely supportive of Hama ...
  • Top of the Morning: Hillary Clinton’s West Afr ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest. Hillary Clinton’s West African Democracy Tour Togo, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia and Cape Verde on the schedule…(but Ghana totally gets snubbed!) “Clinton’s whirlwind trip – four countries in two days ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Tax Return Cometh
    Although Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, and he is the runaway favorite in the polls, his image has taken a severe beating lately. His economic credentials are the foundation of his campaign, but it has become embarrassingly easy to portray the front-runner as som ...
  • Business Is Doing All Right
    At a rally this morning at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Mitt Romney deployed an unusual line in his stump speech. “I feel under attack” by Obama’s policies, said Romney, referencing the administration's policies on business. When you consider that Romney has already defined h ...
  • Resistance Is Not Futile
    Slideshow Resistance Is Not Futile The grassroots movement against the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Protesters across the country mobilized against plans to build the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. Critics of the project argued that the dir ...
  • Food-Stamp President?
    So it turns out that I can still be shocked by public discourse. Yes, South Carolina is famous for primaries with dirty tricks and low blows; one almost looks forward to it, wondering what they'll do this time around. But my jaw dropped when Newt Gingrich called Barack Obama the "food-stamp pre ...
  • A Party with Pirattitude
    Question: What do some disgruntled pirates do when they want to advocate for more privacy rights and government transparency? Answer: They form a political p-ARRR-ty. (For those of you who don't get pirate humor, well, I'm sorry.) In honor of the SOPA protest day, I thought I'd point everyone t ...

Buzzflash

  • The Rightward Tilt of the GOP Becomes an Avalanche
    STEVEN JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A Republican candidate for his party's nomination known as "moderate" would abolish Medicare as we know it, adopting something very similar to the infamous Paul Ryan plan (which happened to sink any presidential aspirations Ryan himself might have had). In ...
  • The Rise of the Authoritarian State in the US: ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a chilling commentary in The Washington Post, noted Law Professor Jonathan Turley makes the persuasive case that the United States may have become the authoritarian state - in legally assumed powers - that it regularly condemns in nations around ...
  • GOP Lawmaker Bob Marshall Says Children With D ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Any people espousing views along these lines Should be tossed in public bins. Guys like him are God's punishment for man Having invented Republicans.   http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/02/22/83337/disabled-abortion/?mobile=nc  
  • Six Reasons Mitt Romney is a Bain to America
    ROBERT CREAMER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The last few weeks of the Republican Presidential road show has been dominated by discussion of Mitt Romney's career as head of a Wall Street private equity firm - Bain Capital. Most people who enter politics have some previous career in the private secto ...
  • The Only Abiding Faith of the Right Wing is in ...
    Body The race to the bottom in which Republican potential nominees are  engaged continues apace. Nobody expects politics to be a non-combative  clean exercise in terms of truth and fresh ideas. But the diabolically  perverse inventions that clog media outlets and confuse debate on a ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Incurable TB hits India
    A strain of tuberculosis (TB), wholly resistant to antibiotics has been reported and confirmed in India among patients from the slums of Mumbai. Drug-resistant strains have emerged before in Italy and Iran and multiple-resistant strains have been seen in China and Russia. This emergent strain ha ...
  • Drug addict spam
    A few days ago, I blogged about the “drug addict’s Facebook timeline”, which showed the fictional life and alternative life of Adam Barak. It was “a creative social media campaign” by media agency McCann Digital Israel. Within a few minutes of posting, I had a tweet ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Unjustly Fired Bakery Workers Announce First V ...
    After protesting the unjust closure of their factory, where workers were illegally denied 60 days notice or severance pay, 136 former Rolf’s Patisserie workers have won their first victory in a larger campaign: commitment to payment of a small amount of what their former employer owes them ...
  • Online Piracy Legislation Gets Vote of Confide ...
    On a recent episode of "Meet the Press," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threw his support behind advancing legislation to curb online piracy. Both chambers of Congress have drafted legislation to address online piracy from foreign websites, but both bills have faced strong public ou ...
  • Romney Tells Undocumented Youth He Will Veto t ...
    Bracing signs saying “WE VETO ROMNEY”, undocumented youth gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City to challenge Mitt Romney yet again about his promise to veto the Dream Act.  They were there delivering a message to Romney during his fundraiser on how he needs to change h ...
  • Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline
    President Barack Obama is expected to deny the controversial Keystone XL pipeline today, finding that building the pipeline is not in the national interest. However, the president is expected to leave open the possibility that a reconfigured pipeline could be considered and approved, provided it ...
  • ACLU Lawsuit Charges Los Angeles County Sherif ...
    Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and his top commanders condoned a long-standing, widespread pattern of violence by deputies against inmates in the county jails, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern California (ACLU/SC) charge in a federal class-action lawsuit filed tod ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Tucson says Banished Books May Return to Class ...
    Jeff Biggers In a clarification of last Friday’s announcement of a list of Mexican American Studies books to “be cleared from all classrooms” in order to comply with a state ban on ethnic studies, the Tucson Unif ...
  • Occupy Wall Street’s Next Phase: Avoid Cooptat ...
    Glen Ford “This is Occupy 2.0, not Occupy on the fringe” said Rev. Jamal Bryant, outside the Federal Reserve building on Constitution Avenue, in Washington, DC.read more
  • What’s So Radical About Caring for the Earth a ...
    David Suzuki Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suici ...
  • More Intellectual Dishonesty at the New York Times
    Thomas S. Harrington In an article in Sunday’s New York Times co-signed by Isabel Kershner and Ethan Bronner, the readers of the “Paper of Record” were informed that, “…Israelis are turning inward an ...
  • Cult of Personality: On Dictators and Reformers
    John Feffer He is, in the words of Barbara Walters, a “mild-mannered ophthalmologist.” Indeed, the rather squeamish leader-to-be chose eye surgery because it didn’t involve much blood. He speaks fluent English and can get ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Italian Sparkling Water Plans to Burst Pellegr ...
    Water wars! Italy's top sparkling mineral water, Ferrarelle, is planning a massive takedown of all other fizzies, especially San Pellegrino, with a spillage into the U.S. market. The marketing campaign recently kicked off at the Leopard at des Artistes . There, Ferrarelle enlisted the " ...
  • Allegan Historic Farm & Learning Center kicks ...
    The Allegan Historic Farm & Learning Center will host a series of film screenings focusing on sustainability each Sunday in February.
  • Jordan River Returns To Forefront Of Interest
    The mighty River Jordan cuts a tiny ribbon through the geological depression stretching from Syria to Ethiopia. The river’s output is paltry.
  • Slow Motion Water Wars Split Western States
    BAKER, Nev. -- Denys Koyle parked an 8-foot bucket on the lot in front of her small motel, here on a lonely stretch of pavement crossing the Utah-Nevada line. A sign on the bucket reads: "Don't Let Las Vegas Destroy Nevada. Stop the Water Pipeline." [More]
  • Will Water Scarcity Increase Tensions Across Asia?
    Governments across the underdeveloped regions of the world are already facing the threat of water wars. We believe 2012 will be the year the world starts looking for solutions to its aqua problems.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Waging liberation in and outside Israel's pris ...
    Ameer Makhoul The Electronic Intifada Gilboa Prison The official Palestinian position on the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails serves to undermine their cause, which is a central component of the Palestinian people’s liberation struggle, comments Ameer Makhoul from Gilboa&n ...
  • Bamboo furniture-making tradition, brought fro ...
    Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Gaza City It is a craft that has been passed down from one generation to the next. The al-Mathloums were one of the best-known bamboo furniture-making families in Gaza but now, of his brothers, only Zakariya, the eldest son, is struggling to keep the tradit ...
  • Blockade dictates types of flowers grown in Gaza
    Mohammed Omer The Electronic Intifada Rafah Israel’s ongoing blockade has suffocated countless export industries and continues to dictate the types of crops grown in Gaza, including flowers.
  • 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.

The Wonk Room

  • ‘Strict Constitutionalist’ Ron Pau ...
    GREENVILLE, South Carolina — Standing in front of a statue of long-time South Carolina Sen. and former Vice President John C. Calhoun, Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) endorsed the idea that states should be able to nullify federal laws they don’t like at a press conference at the South Carol ...
  • Romney Invests In Several Bain Funds That Use ...
    Mitt Romney yesterday admitted for the first time that his tax rate is about 15 percent, lower than the rate paid by millions of middle class families. Romney is able to pay such a low rate (even though the top income tax rate is 35 percent) because his income comes overwhelmingly from investmen ...
  • Ten Books That Could Be Kicked Out of Classroo ...
    In December, an Arizona judge upheld a state law that bans classes that “promote the overthrow of the United States government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the t ...
  • New Hampshire House Votes To Ban Funds For Pla ...
    New Hampshire’s GOP-led House voted to prohibit the state from contracting with “organizations that provide abortions even if private money is used to pay for the service,” including Planned Parenthood. Though the women’s health organization predominantly provides contrac ...
  • New Jersey Committee To Take Up Marriage Equal ...
    The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to consider and vote on a bill extending marriage equality to gays and lesbians next Tuesday, Freedom to Marry is reporting. New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D) has said he expects the Senate to vote on the measure by March and th ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Staying on the Lie
    That's what we should call it when the harpercon scum start doing what is ordinarily called "staying on the message." Because with harpercon scum, "the message" is generally some laughably stupid concoction that most sane people would refer to as "a lie." Case-in-point: The oil-shilling harperc ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Huddle Up Bullying Prevention Program tackles ...
    On the playing field the Toronto Agronauts tackle their opponents but off the field players are working to stop violence and bullying in area schools.
  • Poll: Bob Rae top choice for Canadian Liberal ...
    A new poll suggests that voters believe Canadian Member of Parliament and interim Liberal Party leader Bob Rae would be the best person to lead the federal party. Rae has been quiet on whether or not he will seek the party's leadership.
  • Kraft to split company and slash 1,600 jobs
    Last summer Kraft Foods, Inc. announced its plans to make some significant changes in the corporation in 2012. Yesterday the company issued a statement that outlined several moves it intends to make in the near future.
  • American Idol and Jackson, Lopez and Tyler set ...
    After two seasons of waning numbers 'American Idol' picked up last season and heads into its 11th season on Wed., Jan. 18, 2012 with great expectations. The show has competition but it also has a returning panel that America seemed to love.
  • Protester: Who's running Toronto, Mitt Romney ...
    Prior to the chaos that engulfed city hall Tuesday night, there was a massive rally opposing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's budget cuts that would impact various social and community initiatives. Unions, activists and community workers vowed to fight back.

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Plants For A Strong Immune System
    January 4, 2012 The Herb Companion By Jaclyn Chasse Your immune system is amazing. When exposed to something that could potentially be harmful, it kicks into action, providing a defense against infectious organisms and other invaders. Your strong immune system’s specialized cells, proteins, tiss ...
  • In new year, stick to safety
    January 4, 2012 Market Watch By Mary Anne & Pamela Aden As we kick off this new year, we hope for the best, but must also be prepared for whatever comes… The past year was frustrating for many investors and with good reason. Nearly all of the markets were volatile and erratic, reflecti ...
  • Negativity In Gold Reaches Epic Levels
    January 4, 2012 Mine Set By Jim Sinclair The incoming negativity on gold last week reached epic levels. Friends of mine and gold for more than 40 years were looking for a towel to throw into the gold ring. When fear overtakes your intellect and you call, it is like molten magma spewing out of [...]
  • Can You Change The World?
    There is a question that I get from a lot of listeners. They want to know what they can do in the next election to get the representative that is currently in office out of there. They want to know what they can do as an individual to start helping things change. Well, in my [...]
  • Are Microwaves Harmful?
    January 5, 2012 DrAxe.Com By Dr. Josh Axe “Dr. Axe agrees with KT on the dangers of microwaves. Do you really need to eat in 5 minutes? Can’t you wait 40 minutes to cook your food properly. Plus, it tastes so much better in a real oven.” –KTRN

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

  • Ron Paul Tries to Kill the Indefinite Detentio ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 18, 2012 Rep. Ron Paul left the campaign trail on Wednesday to speak on the House floor about the National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law on the first day of the new year by President Obama. Ron Paul introduced legislation to strike the NDAA’ ...
  • DOCTORED PHOTO IN MARINE MURDER PROBE (PART 2)
    By Robert O’DowdWednesday, January 18th, 2012 Government hit team involved in homicide; fraudulent photo and pathologist’s affidavit support murder. Second in a three part series. (IRVINE, CA) Colonel Sabow was found dead in his quarters at MCAS El Toro on January 22, 1991, after he ...
  • PM Gilani Has Cooked His Goose
    By Brig Asif H. RajaWednesday, January 18th, 2012 by Asif Haroon Raja   It is now an established fact that PPP as a party claiming to be champions of democracy, rule of law and rights of the poor is in actuality anti-democratic, lawbreaker and anti-people. PPP and democracy repel each other ...
  • Sinai Torture Camps
    By Stephen LendmanWednesday, January 18th, 2012 by Stephen Lendman   A November 30 Physicians for Human Rights/Israel (PHR-I) report explains “chilling evidence” of atrocities committed against sub-Saharan African refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. Titled, “Hundreds o ...
  • AMA Journal: Make Participation In Vaccine Tri ...
    Population should be forced to take experimental shots “for the greater good” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, January 18, 2012 An article published by the American Medical Association’s Virtual Mentor journal advocates making participation in vaccine trials mand ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges and Carl Mayer: NDAA – Who ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 17, 2012 democracynow on Jan 17, 2012 www.democracynow.org – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense ...
  • In Signal to Israel and Iran, Obama Delays War ...
    by Gareth Porter and Jim Lobe Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS January 16, 2012 WASHINGTON, Jan 16, 2012 (IPS) – The postponement of a massive joint U.S.-Israeli military exercise appears to be the culmination of a series of events that has impelled the Barack Obama admin ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • No title
    Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

Wired - Science

  • How a Diamond Is Like a Champagne Cork
    Scientists have long known that a diamond's trip from deep below Earth's surface must be quick indeed: Lab tests show that at conditions found in the crust, the gems would burn up in a matter of days, if not hours. New experiments reveal the chemical secret behind such rapid ascent.
  • Fruit Flies Use Sunlight to Stay on Course
    The fruit fly has the ability to coordinate its compound eye and brain functions for navigation by using natural sunlight, according to a new study. Other insects with similar eyes and similar flight patterns likely have the same capability.
  • Live Chat Now: Nuclear Power in the Wake of Fu ...
    Japan’s Fukushima disaster last spring hit the nuclear industry like, well, an atom bomb. Get your questions about the future of nuclear power in a live chat with Wired's Spencer Reiss and PBS's Frontline team today. Enter your questions in this post.
  • Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory
    An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days.
  • Incredible New View of Eagle Nebula’s ‘Pillars ...
    The European Space Agency's Herschel space telescope has captured this gorgeous new view of the famed Eagle Nebula.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • STOP PIPA (Senate 968) and SOPA (HR 3261)
    Imagine a world without the IOA, Google, Wikipedia, craigslist, [your favorite sites here]... News Corp, RIAA, MPAA, Nike, Sony, Comcast, VISA and others want to make that world your reality. 80... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Amira Hass: The VIPs’ hush money
    Contrary to the interpretation that this was an intentional humiliation of Abbas, for once it's actually believable that this was a mere technical error. Humiliation is part of the system's DNA, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Palestinians for Dignity: Stop the negotiations
    The PLO’s reneging on their promise to the Palestinian people and their return to negotiations implies that the leadership accepts the continued theft and seizure of Palestinian lands, legitimizes... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Welcome to the world’s first bu ...
    The new infiltration law is the latest in a set of policies fortifying Israel's status as the world's first "bunker state"- and one designed to be as ethnically pure as possible. The concept was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • EU delegates: Reinstate Palestinian Liberation ...
    The current report holds that, among other things, Israel is working to annex the Eastern part of Israel – a policy that the European Union sees as illegal, and holds that Israeli policies in East... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • The Great Gas Hydrate Escape
    Computer simulations revealing how methane and hydrogen pack into gas hydrates could enlighten alternative fuel production and carbon dioxide storage industries.
  • Combination of Oral Drugs Suppresses Common Ty ...
    A new combination of investigational drugs successfully suppressed hepatitis C genotype 1 infection in a high percent of patients who had not responded to previous treatment in a study led by a University of Michigan hepatologist.
  • Salk Scientist Ronald M. Evans Wins 2012 Wolf ...
    Salk Institute scientist Ronald Evans has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2012 Wolf Prize in Medicine, Israel's highest award for achievements benefiting mankind. According to the Wolf Prize jury, Evans was selected for his discovery of the gene super-family encoding nuclear re ...
  • Internet Law Expert Available to Comment on Pi ...
    Internet law and copyright expert Ned Snow is available to comment on the House's Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate's Protect IPA Act, both of which have begun to lose Congressional support. If passed, the bills would curb illegal downloading and streaming of TV shows and movies online.
  • Warner Named Chief Executive Officer for UT So ...
    UT Southwestern Medical Center today announced that Dr. John Warner has been named chief executive officer for UT Southwestern Hospitals, effective Feb. 1.

Natural Health News

  • How Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse and Kill Pa ...
    Research is showing that a type of cancer treatment aimed at shrinking tumors can actually make them spread more efficiently and kill patients more quickly.  Anti-angiogensis, treatment by blocking the blood supply to tumors, might actually cause those tumors to metastasize aggressively.&nb ...
  • A Gut Check for Many Ailments
    A growing body of research shows that your gut affects many more bodily functions than digestion.  In fact, the function of your gut is linked to bone formation, learning and memory, and even conditions such as Parkinson's disease. Disruptions to stomach or intestinal bacteria can prompt de ...
  • Are Polio Vaccines Actually INCREASING the Rat ...
    The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI) points to the nation of India as a prime example of its success at eradicating polio.  They claim that as of January 2012, India has gone 12 months without any case of polio being recorded. But in fact, between 100 and 180 Indian children are ...
  • 13 Things Your Housecleaner Won't Tell You
    Good Morning America has teamed up with Reader’s Digest to let you know 13 secrets that your housecleaner isn’t telling you.  Here are a few of them: After your housecleaner leaves, check the base of the toilet and the top of the fridge. If they're clean, you know they’ve been thorou ...
  • Red Wine Researcher Charged With Falsifying Data
    Dipak Das, a researcher who has published extensively on the positive health effects of resveratrol, a component of red wine, has been found guilty on 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data. An investigation of his work was launched in 2008 following an anonymous tip of “research ir ...

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

  • What Governance Role Is the German Constitutio ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson English-language OJ readers are fortunate to have University of Connecticut’s Peter Lindseth spending the semester in Berlin as the Daimler Fellow at the American Academy, where among other things he is posting to the Eutopia law blog on various go ...
  • It’s Not The Onion, It’s Fox Nation. (Not Tha ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Here’s an actual headline from Fox Nation, part of that fair and balanced news organization we all know and love: Sovereignty’s a bitch, isn’t it?
  • Ohlin Response to Rona
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Jens Ohlin has continued the conversation about IHL and IHRL at LieberCode.  Here is a snippet, self-servingly chosen because I want to comment on it: It strikes me as curious that human rights activists are so quick to cabin CIL application of the IHL r ...
  • A Response to Ohlin about IHL and IHRL
    by Gabor Rona The following is a guest-post by Gabor Rona, the International Legal Director of Human Rights First.  It is a response to a post at LieberCode by Jens Ohlin, a Professor at Cornell Law School, that argues international human rights law (IHRL) does not apply in armed conflict, b ...
  • A Response to Ohlin about IHL and IHRL
    by Gabor Rona The following is a guest-post by Gabor Rona, the International Legal Director of Human Rights First.  It is a response to a post at LieberCode by Jens Ohlin, a Professor at Cornell Law School, that argues international human rights law (IHRL) does not apply in armed conflict, b ...

Public News Service

  • What You Eat Can Impact Your Cancer Risk
    What You Eat Can Impact Your Cancer Risk Phoenix, AZ – Eating better and taking care of yourself can lower your cancer risk. Comments from Denise Kolba, regional member services director for the American Cancer Society. The ACS has just updated its guidelines on cancer prevention.
  • 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.

Center for Food Safety

  • Dow Chemical requests unprecedented USDA appro ...
    Dow Chemical is currently requesting an unprecedented USDA approval: a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological ...
  • 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 ...

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?

  • Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh fr ...
    As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Wyoming to get humongous 2.5 GW wind farm
    It’ll be the biggest wind farm in the Americas.
  • Doctors, drugs and money: new disclosure rules ...
    Selling drugs and medicines in doctor's office in rear of country store. Faulkner County, Arkansas, 1940 Marion Post Wolcott, American (US Farm Services Administration photo) Doctors are supposed to put their patients’ best interests ahead of their own financial concerns but pharmaceut ...
  • LightSquared ‘significantly interferes’ with G ...
    A multi-agency government panel says the proposed Lightsquared broadband wireless network would interfere with GPS and several safety-of-life systems. Lightsquared is primarily financed by Harbinger Capital, which is controlled by Philip Falcone, a politically connected billionaire now under in ...
  • Replace janitors with children, says Gingrich
    Newt Gingrich’s justification for his proposition that unionized school janitors should be replaced by children is his contention that his daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, spent a time as a part time janitor at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Georgia when she was 13. I know a few thing ...
  • The 2012 election, mediocrities all
    Are these not the most pathetic bunch of gasbags ever running for president as Republicans? And Obama is a deliberately bland technocrat who never met a bankster he didn’t want to give billions to. The 2012 election looks to be a slime fest between, as Ralph Nader put it, “the evils ...

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

  • Ron Paul is the Only Electable Candidate for P ...
    The corporate controlled, establishment mass media would still have you believe that Ron Paul is some crazy fringe candidate. They still insist that he is unelectable despite his 3rd place finish in Iowa (one wonders how Santorum got so many votes there) and his second place finish in New Hampsh ...
  • “BAIN Trust” – New Obama OMB ...
    Washington Examiner Jeffrey Zients will serve as President Obama’s new acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but the president’s decision might undercut attacks on Republican Mitt Romney’s career as a venture capitalist, because Zients and Romney are bot ...
  • Libya Redux? Obama calls on Assad to step down ...
    O’Bomba getting tough before the general Neo Con Election.   India Times WASHINGTON: Expressing his dismay over the continued and “unacceptable” level of violence in Syria, US President Barack Obama has urged the country’s president Bashar al-Assad to step aside. &#8 ...
  • Russia says strike on Iran would be ‘cat ...
    No deal with Russia? India Times MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday warned that a military strike on Iran would be a “catastrophe” with the severest consequences which risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. “As for the chances of this catastrophe happenin ...
  • BLACKOUT: Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take ...
    WE DO NOT REALLY HAVE THE PEOPLE AND RESOURCES to join the Blackout. BUT… ALL OF US HERE AT DEADLINELIVE.INFO SALUTE THE STRIKE! and are with you to keep the internet legislation free. NEVER SACRIFICE YOUR FREE SPEECH AND PRIVACY! NYT With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24 ...

The Air Vent

  • Full length NSIDC Sea Ice Data
    Below is the full length of the NSIDC SEA ice data. From 2.8 gb of data. The graphs of the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales having a pixel resolution of 25km. The satellite ice data comes from the NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations as collected from the Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/ ...
  • Improved Sea Ice videos
    UPDATE: High speed video from 2004 to present added below. In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice.  I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub.  And I rescaled the graphs so that the ...
  • Improved Sea Ice videos
    In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice.  I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub.  And I rescaled the graphs so that the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales.   The pixel re ...
  • 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 [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Predictions for Facebook Credits in 2012
     [Editor's note: This is a guest post by Peter Vogel, co-founder of Plink, which lets consumers earn Facebook Credits for dining out and shopping online. He argues the rise of Open Graph applications will push Facebook Credits beyond social games … Continue reading →
  • Unified launches all-in-one social ad platform
    Unified announces its Social Operating Platform today to help brands and agencies manage paid media campaigns across networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and StumbleUpon. Operating in stealth mode since April 2011, Unified already claims Microsoft, Unilever, Digitas and more &#8230 ...
  • 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 LolGames, Plumbee, Tapjoy, Addmired, Lolapps, TubeMogul, Inc., Jana ...
  • TBG Digital reveals Facebook ad performance trends
    Facebook advertising agency TBG Digital experienced a decrease in clickthrough rate and increase in cost per click in the U.S. between Q3 and Q4 last ear, though overall Facebook ad performance is up since Q1. This is according to data … Continue reading →
  • Lionsgate offers newest release ‘Abduction’ on ...
    Lionsgate has made its 2011 thriller “Abduction” available for streaming on Facebook for $3.99. This is the first time a studio has released a film on DVD and Facebook simultaneously. Users can purchase 48-hour access to the movie that will … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Syria, the myth of Assad's popularity and the ...
    Nureddin Sabir views the misleading results of a flawed survey which suggests that more than half of the Syrian population want Bashar Assad to stay as president, and notes with dismay the uncritical coverage given to the survey by prominent mainstream and alternative media.
  • Room for Jews only in Israel's "villa in the j ...
    Jonathan Cook looks at the progress Israel is making in fortifying its status as the world's first ethnically pure "bunker state" and thereby realizing the dream of its founders.
  • Gaza tunnel smuggling OK, says confused Britain
    Stuart Littlewood highlights how the British government dissembles and prevaricates in order to shield Israel from pressure and allow it to continue subjecting the 1.5 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip to unbearable hardships.
  • Divergent faces of Israel: fascism, indifferen ...
    Lawrence Davidson takes a snapshot of Israeli society - the fascists who constitute a quarter of the population, the indifferent majority who enable the fascists to "assure the country's status as a truly apartheid state", and the minority who are "just large enough to remind us of what good hum ...
  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in [...]
  • Syria Update: US Government Gives Green Light ...
    MSM News, 6 Months Late: “Obama Secretly Preparing for Syria Intervention” This morning I woke up to the following news headlines. Let me correct myself: This morning I found the US media and their quasi extension reporting on stale, at least 6-month old US operations on Syria. Now, that’s much ...
  • Video: My RT Interview on the Arab League in S ...
  • Back Story on Syria: Sibel Edmonds & Journalis ...
    Peter B. Collins Podcast Show Interview Cutting through the disinformation and spin, Sibel Edmonds and Pepe Escobar reveal back stories about the conflict in Syria that are not reported in the mainstream media. Edmonds has deep sources in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and the US policy community, and has ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”– James Madison International Newsworthy Pentagon ‘Confident’ Supply Routes in Pakistan will Soon be Reopened US Trajectory on Syria ‘a Self-Ge ...

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
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Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • A Rainy Day in D.C., Marching to Close Guantanamo
    It's hard to know what to do, as mere citizens, to try and fix things so many years after the United States government decided it did not have to follow its own laws, the Geneva Conventions... It's not 10 years since the U.S. went off the rails. It seems more ordinary citizens must therefore ta ...
  • Spaceborne Nuclear Russian Roulette
    Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe, with 22 pounds of radioactive Cobalt-57 on board, fell to Earth Sunday. What happened demonstrates what could have occurred to the plutonium-fueled rover which NASA calls Curiosity which was also launched in November.
  • Did a Conservative Newspaper Help Pave the Way ...
    A conservative newspaper expresses outrage now about a child molester after ignoring wrongdoing in a GOP stronghold for years.
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  • Prophesying On This Crazy Election Year: What ...
    Get set for the craziest election year on record! The viciousness the calumny, the lies, the distortions will be out in full force...along with the craziness and hilarious stupidity. There may even be a few fake miracles thrown in for good measure. Fasten your seat belts...

Switchboard

  • New Report Highlights Existing Authorities for ...
    Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, Washington, DC What can America do to promote energy efficiency and sustainability in residential, multifamily and commercial buildings if Congress remains gridlocked in an election year? A new analysis shows ...
  • EIA's Powerful "Hunt for the Whalers"
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the Environmental Investigation Agency’s (EIA) video “Hunt ...
  • Keystone XL rejected: Tar sands pipeline once ...
    Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC The great pipeline showdown has backfired on the Republican leadership, just as we predicted it would back in December when they forced a 60-day time-frame for approving or rejecting the pipeline on ...
  • Obama Rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline and Pro ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The Obama Administration has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline for tar sands oil. This decision puts the health and safety of the American people above the interests of Big Oil. And it confirms Pres ...
  • Millions of bats have died due to whitenose sy ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC Yesterday the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced a new estimate of the number of bats that have died due to whitenose syndrome – the mysterious fungal disease that is devastating bats in the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • People Who Care About Issues Are So Gross
    Shorter Dana Milbank: If people were really serious about abortion, they would stop and admit that I’m right about everything, including the fact that the idea that anti-choicers should have a monopoly in determining what is “moral” and “life-affirming.” Also, there ...
  • The More Strained the Reasoning Leading to a T ...
    Shorter Scalia and Thomas: By stopping Cory Maples’s execution, the majority has violated Alabama’s rights. Look, sure, he didn’t really have a “lawyer” in the sense of someone responsible for his case and working on it, but someone with “no substantive involvement& ...
  • Keystone
    Congressional Republicans ensured the death of the Keystone XL pipeline. By forcing Obama to decide on granting a permit within 60 days, they made it impossible to re-route the pipeline in a way that Nebraska lawmakers would find less unacceptable than the original route. Republicans did this to ...
  • SOPA and PIPA
    The movement to fight against SOPA and PIPA, bills that would destroy much of what the internet is good for, is winning. When Marco Rubio and John Cornyn back away from a corporate-driven bill, you know it is dead. It’s another of the still too few but growing examples of how people are ef ...
  • Working for free and class privilege
    Three or four years ago, things were finally getting bad enough that even legal academics were starting to notice that a lot of our graduates seemed to be having trouble getting jobs. In fact the only real change in the situation was that a bunch of big firms laid off a lot of junior associates ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
    The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.
  • 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).

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Court approves act extending copyrights to for ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Constitution did not bar Congress from extending copyright protection to previously free foreign works, such as Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
  • Citing law firm's errors, high court rules for ...
    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an Alabama death row inmate should not be penalized for missing a crucial appeal deadline when the error was caused by his pro bono lawyers from New York's Sullivan & Cromwell.
  • Cold Spring Harbor's malpractice suit against ...
    A Boston federal judge has denied motions by Ropes & Gray and former partner Matthew Vincent to dismiss a malpractice case based on claims that they mishandled patent applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • MGA attempts to revive $1 billion antitrust ca ...
    The manufacturer of the Bratz doll, seeking to revive its $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Mattel Inc., has asserted that the Barbie maker's seven years of "baseless litigation" enabled it to maintain a monopoly in the fashion doll market and attempt to put MGA Entertainment Inc., its compet ...
  • ABA panel would require law schools to get spe ...
    Following months of discussion, a committee reviewing the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards has agreed upon changes in the way law schools report graduate employment and salaries.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • It’s Like We’re Losing Our Love…
    This video documents Simona Perry’s research on the emotional and traumatic effects of the natural gas drilling, specifically in Bradford County, PA. http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=689293c50f404f12b8c628b8f2285780
  • 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, ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Warming Temperatures Help Trumpeter Swans Thri ...
    The trumpeter swan, nearly hunted to extinction across much of North America during the 19th century, has experienced a strong resurgence with the help of a warming climate, U.S. researchers say. The large bird, Wikimedia Commons A trumpeter swan which depends on long summers for breeding ...
  • Natural Gas Boom to Slow Growth of U.S. Renewa ...
    The sheer abundance of recently discovered natural gas resources in the U.S. could drive down gas and electricity prices in the next few decades, yield an overall increase in energy use, and stunt the nation’s still-emerging renewable energy sector, a new report says. Using economic modeling, re ...
  • Reducing Methane and Soot Will Reduce Warming, ...
    A team of scientists says that governments can significantly reduce global warming, and prevent millions of premature deaths, by targeting emissions of methane and soot. In a new study published in the journal Science, the researchers say strategies that target those emissions and use existing t ...
  • Automakers Unveil More Hybrids, But Consumer D ...
    While the major automakers have unveiled new electric plug-in and hybrid cars at this week’s North American International Auto Show, including a cheaper version of the Toyota Prius, industry observers say Getty Images The new Toyota Prius C consumer demand for alternative fuel cars remains ...
  • Missing Galápagos Tortoise Likely Still Alive, ...
    A giant tortoise thought to have been hunted to extinction more than 150 years ago — and whose distinctive saddle-shaped shell helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — may still be living in the Galápagos Islands, according to a new Yale Click to enlarge Yale University ...

Red Ice Creations

  • OHSU creates world’s first primate chimeric of ...
    Three chimeric monkeys created by scientists at Oregon Health and Science University represent a stepping stone for understanding stem cells and their differences species to species. Monkeys Roku, Hex and Chimero are called chimeric, or genetically mixed, because they are comprised of tissue com ...
  • How governments have tried to block Tor [28C3]
    torproject.org Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in Syria in June 2011. China has been harvesting and blocking IP addresses for both public Tor relays and private Tor bridges for years. Ro ...
  • Pendulum Waves - Simple Harmonic (and non-harm ...
    What it shows: Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the pendulums is stunning! Aliasing and quantum ...
  • Grey Alien depicted on Canadian $20 Silver Com ...
    The story, as told by the artist Jason Bouwman The canoe has become as much a part of the Canadian visual lexicon as the Canada goose, the beaver and the maple leaf. This design shows a young person enjoying a recreational outing. The boy breaks from paddling to dip his hand in the water ...and ...
  • Stone Age Temple in Orkney 800 years older tha ...
    A 5000-year-old temple in Orkney could be more important than Stonehenge, according to archaeologists. The site, known as the Ness of Brodgar, was investigated by BBC2 documentary A History of Ancient Britain, with presenter Neil Oliver describing it as ‘the discovery of a lifetime’. So far the ...

Russia Today

  • SOPA, PIPA would change free and open web – Ja ...
    As Wikipedia joined a 24-hour protest against two anti-piracy bills making their way through the US Congress, Jay Walsh of the Wikimedia foundation told RT he hopes the new laws will not be passed.
  • Israeli strike kills two in Gaza as peace talk ...
    Palestinian officials say two have died and two more were injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza. Israel says it targeted a group of militants it alleges were planting a bomb in this latest bloodshed.
  • Wikipedia to RT: SOPA sledgehammer could smash ...
    John Davies, the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK - the umbrella foundation in charge of Wikipedia - said the site's unprecedented blackout was a tough decision to make, but a necessary one in the bid to raise global...
  • Europe - the 'laughingstock of the world’
    Greece finds itself at yet another standstill, with a mass strike underway as IMF inspectors pay another debt-settling visit to Athens. But “resorting to the IMF” is not a productive method of settling the crisis,...
  • ‘BoingBoing’ editor: SOPA bill ‘badly written ...
    Rob Beschizza has told RT that the Stop Piracy Online and Protect IP Acts will not, in fact, stop piracy or protect anything – but they will damage the very founding ideals of the world wide web.

Not My Tribe

  • Stop American Censorship- Stop SOPA
    Go here to sign The Anti-SOPA Petition
  • The Cooking Network Deen of diabetes is in trouble
    Aug 2011- Anthony Bourdain told TV Guide that Paula Deen was “the worst, most dangerous person to America,” who “revels in her unholy connections with evil corporations” and is “proud of the fact that her food is f—ing bad for you.” Anthony for all his e ...
  • The US FDA has helped create a new Tuberculosi ...
    In 1972, that (FDA) task force published a report acknowledging that the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals was associated with the development of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. Over the past several weeks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been in the news for its stanc ...
  • 99 to 1 – Occupy Movement Song
    99 to 1 This song is getting to be the national anthem of the Occupy Movement
  • 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.

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 Theories: Expert vs. Expert - Aluminum Wa ...
    I'm glad Jonathan Cole included the part about the new theory that water and melted aluminium from the aircraft was the cause of the explosions in the Twin Towers. I just recently learned of this myself and was planning on posting about it anyway. I found the theory interesting because in purp ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • NYC Relentless in Obesity War. This Time: Port ...
    We visited New York this week and were happy to see that at least one local government in this country is willing to face up to the big money that is junk food. The latest subway ad campaign is calling out a growing (pun intended) problem – the increase in portion sizes over the last [...]
  • The Fancy Food Show: A 7 hour, 150 Course Tast ...
    The Fancy Food Show convenes every January in San Francisco for three days. Small and smaller purveyors of quality foods inhabit the booths at Moscone Convention Center and dish out tasty morsels to a crowd of supermarket buyers, distributors, media, and the public. We walked around the floor of ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Vehicles queue to enter the Jarawa reserve along the Andaman Trunk Road © G Chamberlain/ Survival The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival International – but the problem has continued. On January 11, 2010, Survival wrote to the Lieut ...
  • '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 ...

Greg Palast

  • No Child Behind Left
    By Greg Palast This month marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of No Child Left Behind. Before George W. Bush invaded Iraq he knew he would have to invade our classrooms first. While the occupation of Iraq has ended the brutal occupation of our classrooms by the Forces of Stupid remains. ...
  • 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" - ...

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

  • LeRoy New York Girls' Plight Highlights The Du ...
    Editor's Note: It is clear from Tuesday's Today Show Segment (confirmed on Wednesday) that doctors believe the "tics" afflicting teen girls in LeRoy, New York, are a psychiatric illness -- specifically, conversion disorder. (That's all that's left when you rule...
  • Age of Autism Contest: EmFinders Wearable Loca ...
    Managing Editor's Note: I received an email from EmFinders (watch a video here) about their location system. Wandering is always a concern in our community. I asked, and they kindly agreed, to donate ONE UNIT to an AofA reader,a long...
  • LeRoy NY Girls With Neurological Tics: Science ...
    By Teresa Conrick I have a teen daughter very affected with vocal tics, OCD, enuresis, estrogen-related seizures and a significant past history of streptococcus infections as well as numerous viral illnesses. Her diagnosis in 1995 - AUTISM - and additionally...
  • 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...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Occupy Belfast seizes bank building
    PressTV – Some of the demonstrators had occupied the top floor and draped anti-capitalist banners over the exterior, the report said. A police helicopter hovered over the former bank but did not initially attempt to make any arrests. Bank of Ireland is one of the Irish banks rescued from c ...
  • Pentagon Transfers War on Drugs to Private Mer ...
    BBC – The Department of Defense United States, the Pentagon is delegating its fight against drug trafficking through multimillion-dollar contracts with private companies that are responsible for providing advice, training and conducting operations to drug producing countries and with links ...
  • Web Protests Piracy Bills, and Senators Change ...
    New York Times – Online protests on Wednesday quickly cut into Congressional support for online antipiracy measures as lawmakers abandoned and rethought their backing for legislation that pitted new media interests against some of the most powerful old-line commercial interests in Washingt ...
  • IDF preparing for major Gaza action within months
    Jerusalem Post – Concern growing over anti-tank missile smuggling into Strip; senior officer says Hamas, Islamic Jihad have increased weaponry. The IDF General Staff has ordered the Southern Command to prepare for a possible large Gaza operation that could occur within the next few months, ...
  • Open Your Eyes News supports the SOPA/PIPA pro ...
    We support today’s protests by Wikipedia, Watts Up With That, SOTT and many others who are protesting against proposed legislation in the USA – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate – that, if passed, would ...

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

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    Thirsting to make a DIFFERENCE this year? Sign up for a recurring donation. Every month you can transform the life of someone without safe water.
  • 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
  • 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

  • Carlo - Drogba devours rivals
    Carlo Ancelotti has suggested his former club Chelsea need to offload Didier Drogba in order to get the best out of £50million man Fernando Torres. Chelsea spent a British transfer record sum to sign Torres from Liverpool 12 months ago, but the Spaniard has...
  • Fight colds and flu with weapons from the ...
    Many individuals are now fighting the sniffles. Cold symptoms can make you feel sick and miserable. Congestion of the upper airways, dry mouth, sneezing, cough, runny nose, fatigue and altered appetite are just some of the symptoms. In mild cases without complications, we are advised to hydr ...
  • Greenpeace urges government to halt 'reck ...
    At a special House of Commons hearing, ministers will be asked to reconsider support for Cairn Energy drilling in the far north Greenpeace activists protesting against Arctic oil exploration, Greenland. Photograph: Markel Redondo/Greenpeace...
  • Jennifer Aniston, boyfriend Justin Therou ...
    Jennifer Aniston has sparked rumours that she is pregnant after sporting an...
  • Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola & the wo ...
    From Maradona to Mourinho, we've compiled a list of the bosses earning the greatest pay-packets in the game, with the United chief set to accept a bumper new deal at Old Trafford Sign up with 188BET for a FREE bet up to £25 – Great Prices, Every Game Open an account with Sportingbet to ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Obama Administration Set to Reject Keystone XL ...
    The White House is set to reject the proposal for the tar sands carrying Keystone XL pipeline today, news sources are reporting. The Toronto Star reports: U.S. administration officials are expected to make the official announcement Wednesday afternoon to kill the pipeline proposal from Canadian ...
  • Israeli Forces Kill Two in Gaza in First Strik ...
    Israeli forces struck today in northern Gaza leaving two dead and at least one wounded. Israeli officials reportedly suspected the Palestinians to be militants - planting a bomb along Gaza's border. Palestinian sources report that the victims were unarmed civilians. The attack is the first I ...
  • Protester Pushback: Mayor 1% Emanuel Concedes ...
    In December Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced anti-protester legislation for the upcoming NATO and G-8 summits in Chicago. Part of his plan was to to increase the minimum fine from $25 to $200 and double the maximum fine to $1,000. His plan, dubbed the 'Sit Down and Shut Up' ordinanc ...
  • Hedge Funds, Goldman Sachs Lurk Beneath Greek ...
    Greek workers have taken to the streets again this week to fight against further austerity measures in their country as the nation's political leadership tries to strike a deal with private creditors, bond holders and the IMF to restructure its debt in hopes that it can avoid a full, and dis ...
  • Websites Go Black to Protest Internet Censorsh ...
    Thousands of websites have gone dark today in protest of anti-piracy bills in Congress. The proposed bills, SOPA in the House and the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate, were written to stop online copyright infringement, say supporters. But opponents of the bills believe they would lead to unnecessar ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Unaccountable: Private Military Contractor Abuses
    by Stephen Lendman Wherever they're deployed, they're menacing and feared for good reason. Known historically by various names, they include mercenaries, soldiers of fortune, dogs of war, and Condottieri for wealthy city state leaders and the Papacy in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance Italy ...
  • Reinventing the Middle East lexicon
    Eric Walberg Gilad Atzmon“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different thin ...
  • Palestinian Liberation Requires Unity
    by Stephen Lendman PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi wants EU help to end Israel's occupation. She said America's preoccupied with elections and grossly biased for Israel. Calling the current situation "dangerous" she said Israel's "dragging the region into the abyss." As a re ...
  • Israel Plans More Walls
    by Stephen Lendman Instead of peace, reconciliation, equity and justice, Israel plans settlement expansions and more Walls. More on them below. At the same time, Abbas broke his pledge about no peace talks unless settlement expansions stop. Chief negotiators Saeb Erekat and Yitzhak Molcho a ...
  • PA security agency harasses non-conformist Jou ...
    Khalid Amayreh This is not the first time I'm subjected to harassment and abuse at the hands of Palestinian Authority (PA) security operatives. On several occasions, I had been abused, imprisoned and humiliated by these agencies. In one episode in 2009, I was made to sleep in a rancid cell aft ...

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

  • Strange Fruit: The Poisonous Legacy of Liberation
    WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD,chris-floyd.com – In a remarkable piece of reportage, the Guardian’s Ghaith Abdul-Ahad details the glorious fruits of the “liberation” that America has so generously and selflessly gifted to the people of Iraq: Um Hussein had six children. Her eldes ...
  • Are seniors trying to legalize marijuana? Edit ...
  • Volunteer nurses backbone of agency founded in ...
    By Linda Friedel linda.friedel@npgco.com – Scores of Kansas City nurses treat patients stretched so thin they cannot pay for a visit to the doctor. Many say it is simply the right thing to do. “To give back to the community,” said Dan Marx, RN, BSN and CPN. Marx volunteers three hours ever ...
  • GETTING YOUR BATTLE PLAN IN GEAR
    WWH- SOPA, PIPA will severely curtail INNOVATION on the Inernet   Frugal Living By Jennifer Toth,Worldwidehippies - -No matter what your goal is in terms of saving money, you will always fare better if you have an organized plan of attack.  Isn’t that what our government tells us – preparat ...
  • Rebranded Occupy will take new message to SF s ...
    By: Dan Schreiber,sfexaminer.com - The Occupy SF movement could come back with a bang Friday when more than 50 supporting groups and possibly thousands of protesters have plans to wreak havoc on banks in the Financial District. The protest is being billed by organizers as the largest San Francis ...

FourWinds10

  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ...
  • Environmental Devastation: The Gulf Oil Spill ...
    While the Japanese nuclear crisis might upstage the Gulf crisis, it hasn't gone away. As the Wall Street Journal notes today: Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency… compared the contamination of seawater by the Fukushima complex with an oil spill in the G ...
  • 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
    The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...

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

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]
  • 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. ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Your Medications Are Coated in Plastic
    Medications and supplements are supposed to make us feel better, and the main ingredients often do. But researchers are finding that certain plastic additives designed to release the ingredients into our systems more slowly could actually be making us sick. In a recent study published in the j ...
  • 9 Things Jillian Michaels Can't Live Without
    When you think Jillian Michaels and weight loss, images of dumbbells and treadmills probably come to mind. While exercise is certainly what makes the fitness guru famous, she's equally concerned about the things she puts into—and onto—her body. Michaels, author of Unlimited and Master Your Meta ...
  • 3 Surprising Reasons to Give Up Soda
    By now, it's probably fair to say that most Americans know soda isn't a health-promoting drink. Over the years, the carbonated beverage has been blamed for the obesity epidemic and rising healthcare costs. Some public health experts have even called for a soda tax to help deter people from drin ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Pop-Up Human Capital: A New Employment Model?
    Around the world, it's becoming easier than ever to sell your human capital - the sum total of your knowledge, experiences and talents - to the highest bidder. Using new P2P marketplaces like Sidetour and Gidsy, you can sell a lifetime’s worth of experiences and memories the same way yo ...
  • The Big Thinker's Guide to SOPA & PIPA
    One need not read all 145 pages of the SOPA and PIPA bills to understand the debate in Washington DC. Big Think has provided a brief guide to the issue for your convenience.  Legislative Overview & Supporting and Opposing Interest Groups OpenCongress.org provides a ...
  • SOPA: Innovation Black Out
    Who's even heard of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act? And who really cares about the outcome of this legislation? Isn't it really just "an insiders' game" played between "a bunch of rich guys" -- the tech industry and the content industry? We heard the answer to those questions loud a ...
  • Does Internet Piracy Really Hurt the Economy?
    Large swathes of the Internet today are protesting legislation now pending in Congress that would censor the Internet and burden many sites with impossible-to-meet regulatory demands. What's the rationale behind enormously meddlesome regulations like SOPA/PIPA? Among others reasons, the "piracy" ...
  • Here Comes the Smart City
    What's the Latest Development? The availability of intelligent technology will begin to differentiate cities in the coming years. Governments willing to invest in more efficient public infrastructure, and encourage their citizens to do the same in the home, will reap a healthier, happier a ...

Information Liberation

  • Paradise Lost For Maui Couple After Police Mis ...
    Heavily armed Maui Police mistakenly raided a Maui couple in the middle of a dinner party. The couple reportedly informed the police they got the wrong house, but the police insisted on searching their house nonetheless, leaving their furniture ...
  • Wild Cops Who Shoved & Pepper Sprayed Handcuff ...
    Astonishingly violent police officers have just been reinstated with back pay to the Denver police force despite being fired for allegations of excessive force and lying on police reports, 9 News reports. "I'm upset. I'm very hurt," Ana Ortega told ...
  • Mitt Romney: I Would Sign NDAA
    Aspiring dictator-in-chief Mitt Romney says people the government accuses of terrorism don't deserve any rights, he assures the crowd he won't abuse the power to detain US citizens indefinitely because of his "sufficient character." Mitt then ...
  • Indefinite Detention: The NDAA and the Enemy E ...
    TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3719 With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act into law, more Americans than ever before are wondering how the country could have descended so quickly into a police state. ...
  • Who are the victims of civil liberties assault ...
    In The Washington Post*yesterday, Law Professor Jonathan Turley has an Op-Ed*in which he identifies ten major, ongoing assaults on core civil liberties in the U.S. Many of these abuses were accelerated during the Bush administration in the wake of 9/...

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

  • Incurable TB hits India
    A strain of tuberculosis (TB), wholly resistant to antibiotics has been reported and confirmed in India among patients from the slums of Mumbai. Drug-resistant strains have emerged before in Italy and Iran and multiple-resistant strains have been seen in China and Russia. This emergent strain ha ...
  • Drug addict spam
    A few days ago, I blogged about the “drug addict’s Facebook timeline”, which showed the fictional life and alternative life of Adam Barak. It was “a creative social media campaign” by media agency McCann Digital Israel. Within a few minutes of posting, I had a tweet ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Dirty Dancing: Dung Beetles Get Down to Walk t ...
    As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along the ground it periodically stops, climbs onto the ball and does a little dance. Why? It's probably getting its bearings. A series of experiments published in the January 18 issue of PLoS ONE shows that the beetles are much more likely to ...
  • Rainforest in Transition: Is the Amazon Transf ...
    The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have "become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin," as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world' ...
  • Trumpeter Swans Rebound, with an Assist from G ...
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Outside Alaska's largest city, where wildlife is more common than pigeons, locals bearing field glasses turn out every year to watch blazingly white trumpeter swans stop to feed on their way south for the winter. [More]
  • SOPA Opera: White House Shuts Down Online Anti ...
    Rather than deliver an ultimatum to those on either side of the debate, the recent White House statement related to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (PIPA) encourages the entertainment and technology industries to work together to find a solution. This call for a ba ...
  • Green Chemist: A Q&A with Departing EPA Scienc ...
    Editor's Note :  Paul Anastas, the father of green chemistry, is leaving his high-ranking post at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency next month and returning to Yale University . During an interview with Jane Kay of Environmental Health News, Anastas, who will remain at his ...

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

  • Viva La Revolucion!
    Valentina Latorre to Hold Teach-In for Nova Scotia's Students As Nova Scotia's Universities stand to suffer yet more cut-backs, and higher tuitions, it seems like time to call in the reinforcements... Enter stage left Valenti ...
  • Toronto Stop the Cuts Budget Rally- Police Con ...
    Toronto Stop the Cuts Budget Rally- Police Confrontation outside of City Hall -January 17, 2012  
  • Stop The Cuts: Final Budget Showdown: Toronto ...
      Related stories: Justin Saunders "Police Crack Heads as Major Budgets Cuts Reversed", January 18th Krystyna Balaban, video on Toronto Stop the Cuts Budget Rally- Police Confrontation January 18th D ...
  • Photo Essay: Toronto Stop The Cuts - January 1 ...
    For more information on this Toronto Stop the Cuts rally and the movement in general, see these related Media Co-op stories: Police crack heads as major budget cuts reversed Budget Showdown: Victoria Barnett on Stop the Cuts and this video       Dominion Stories
  • Police crack heads as major budget cuts reversed
    Toronto residents are breathing slightly easier after a long awaited City Council vote on large cuts to core city services took place earlier tonight. The cuts, part of the proposed 2012 city budget, have been looming ever since Mayor Rob Ford manufactured a budget crisis upon taking office. In ...

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

  • Better Healthcare Turns Out To Be Really, Real ...
    Today the CBO released a study of various demonstration programs designed to improve care and reduce costs for Medicare patients. One category of program, disease management and care coordination, attempts to get patients with chronic illnesses to understand their treatment better and take bet ...
  • Newt Gingrich, the Yacht Club Candidate
    Was Newt Gingrich's comment about Barack Obama being a "food stamp president" a racist dog whistle? For chrissake. Of course it was. But I'm a little curious about why he's only now getting so much attention for it. Back in October 2010 Gingrich said that Democrats are "earning the title of the ...
  • The World Bank's Worst Case
    The World Bank is pessimistic. They've reduced their 2012 growth forecast for Europe by 2.1 percentage points and for other rich countries by about a point. But this is only their mildly pessimistic scenario, and it assumes that the crisis in the eurozone is reasonably well contained. But what ...
  • On Second Thought, Saudi Opinions About Oil Pr ...
    Yesterday I wrote that Saudi Arabia has very little spare oil production capacity, which means it also has very little ability to affect world oil prices. On Twitter, Ed Crooks of the Financial Times took issue with that, suggesting that Saudi Arabia has spare capacity of 2 million barrels per ...
  • Barack Obama and the Long Game
    Is President Obama playing a "long game," as Andrew Sullivan says, or mostly just reacting to political realities, as I think? A Democratic staffer emails to take issue with me on one particular topic: The big place where I think Sullivan is right and you’re wrong is on deficits/ jobs ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 298: Nuking Bridges
    Topics: Brian White wants you to watch shitty movies Quality over Quantity when it comes to black movies Bad movies don’t put good actors on SOPA: Why old people shouldn’t make laws Keep your kids off of social media Share with your friends:
  • 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:

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

  • New study evaluates impact of land use activit ...
    A new paper published January 18 in Nature reveals that human land use activity has begun to change the regional water and energy cycles -- the interplay of air coming in from the Atlantic Ocean, water transpiration by the forest, and solar radiation -- of parts of the Amazon basin. In addition, ...
  • Good intentions ease pain, add to pleasure: UM ...
    A nurse's tender loving care really does ease the pain of a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better, if we perceive them to be made with love -- suggests newly published research by a University of Maryland psychologist. The findings have many real-world applications, inc ...
  • Mapping the destructive path from cigarette to ...
    From the cherry red tip of a lighted cigarette through the respiratory tract to vital lung cells, the havoc created by tobacco smoke seems almost criminal, activating genes and portions of the immune system to create inflammation that results in life-shortening emphysema, said researchers led by ...
  • Polar growth at the bacterial scale reveals po ...
    An international team of microbiologists led by Indiana University researchers has identified a new bacterial growth process -- one that occurs at a single end or pole of the cell instead of uniform, dispersed growth along the long axis of the cell -- that could have implications in the developm ...
  • The great gas hydrate escape
    For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, reveals key details of its structure. The results show that hydrates can hold hydrogen at ...

unEarthed

  • More Than Cranes Are Whooping Over the Keyston ...
    Time to examine harmful effects of tar sands mining The entire global population of wild, migratory whooping cranes migrates through the tar sands region twice annually. (U.S. FWS) ...
  • Victories Bring Hope As 2012 Begins
    Power of law shines through political rhetoric We will continue to use the law to protect wild places, propel the clean energy economy forward, and safeguard our health. ...
  • 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 ...

Brave New Climate

  • Burning energy questions – ERoEI, desert ...
    Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re  at it again, this time for ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis protest racism ...
    By Max Schindler Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis and their supporters marched through central Jerusalem on Wednesday to call attention to a recent groundswell of racism and discrimination. Holding picket signs and shouting “a new generation demands change,” the demonstrators joined a wave of pro ...
  • Supreme Court’s latest decisions inch to ...
    The country’s highest court supports Israel’s right to despoil the West Bank – but won’t allow its residents to marry Israelis About two weeks ago, the Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, rejected an appeal by the Yesh Din NGO against the activities of quarries in th ...
  • A call to support the Orthodox majority opposi ...
    In the struggle within the Orthodox Jewish community between reactionaries who use Judaism as a weapon against democracy, and modernists whose worldview is based on integrating the two, the reactionaries have been the dominant voice – but the silent majority is starting to raise its own. B ...
  • Interior Minister Yishai: “We lost Lebanon War ...
    The audacity (combined with a sprinkling of stupidity and garnished with arrogance) of Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) knows no limits. Channel 10 news reported last night that Yishai believes that if only IDF soldiers had spent a few minutes praying before they went to battle in the Litani ...
  • Palestinian goes on hunger strike to protest s ...
    According to the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), Hana Abu Haikel has gone on hunger strike on behalf of her family to protest both settler violence and the Israeli army’s failure to stop settler attacks on Palestinians and their property. CPT reports that the Abu Haikel family has filed ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • THE USA CAUSED THE WARS IN IRAQ AND IRAN…..
    This video is absolutely stunning…and critical for every American to watch. What is the true cost of endless war? But before we even get to that, why did we get started with the wars anyway? Don’t you remember the pictures with Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein? It really is terribl ...
  • BOMBSHELL! SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS RIGHT V. WR ...
    In yet another major blow to the Rule of Law, an unprecedented decision was just released by the United States Supreme Court.  It’s no real headline frankly, we’ve all sat back and watched as our courts and the Rule of Law have been decimated over the last decade, but this really is ...
  • THE COURT SAYS: THERE IS SAND IN THE GEARS OF ...
    It is apodictic there can be no cause of action to foreclose a mortgage unless we know where the paper is and that it actually represents something. There is much “sand in the gears” of our property transfer system in these times. However, we cannot bend the rules. A person seeking to enforce an ...
  • How Long Does It Take To Foreclose In Floriduh ...
    A central theme that has developed in my professional and national existence is that we are all being lied to in massive,  systemic and crippling ways. There are no “BIG LIES”. They are all big lies. Certainly some are bigger than others, but if you’re stuck on trying to quanti ...
  • “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 ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Roots
    If the recently concluded Liberal convention in Ottawa showed anything, it was the pundit’s penchant for predicting the end of …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • Honeybee Problem Nearing a 'Critical Point'
    Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...
  • Honeybee Problem Nearing a 'Critical Point'
    Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...
  • 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 ...

War Resisters League

  • More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
    [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
  • 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 →

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

  • The new censors – McCarthyism by Hollywood
    The new McCarthys in the US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Diane Feinstein(D -California), Harry Reid (D- Nevada), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Motion Picture Association of America, Chris Dodd (Lobbyist and Chairman of MPAA and former Senator) News Corp., Time-Warner, Sony ...
  • Benefits of shale gas are real and measurable
    The gas glut is real in the US and is moving to Europe. Gas prices are coming down and electricity generation prices will follow. The gas turbine market had a boom in 2000 and again in 2007/8 and the next boom will come, I think, in 2013/14 when industrial production picks up after the current d ...
  • 145 counts of data fabrication against Univers ...
    Depak Das, a professor in the Department of Surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center, has been accused of serious scientific misconduct. UConn has informed 11 scientific journals about the investigation. He is to be sacked.
  • Will SAS be acquired by Qatar or Lufthansa?
    But something is due to happen with SAS ownership this year. And my guess would be that the clear fit and benefits would point to Lufthansa rather than Quatar.
  • Light blogging while on assignment
    I am travelling again on an assignment and blogging will be light for a week or so.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • NYC's Tech Industry Protests SOPA & PIPA Outsi ...
    This afternoon, Consumerist headed over to check out an emergency NYC Tech Meetup protest outside the offices of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, both co-sponsors of anti-piracy legislation. Crowds gathered to hear speakers from the tech industry raise the cry against SOPA and PI ...
  • Let's Meet Two SOPA & PIPA Protestors We Talke ...
    While Consumerist was outside in the chilly, sunshiney streets of NYC with anti-SOPA/PIPA protestors gathered outside the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, we made some friends! David Moore had one of our favorite signs, and a lot to say, while Emily is an English teac ...
  • Anti-SOPA Movement Unites Trent Reznor, Opera ...
    While SOPA and PIPA have the support of every major record label, the unions representing performing artists, and the organizations that manage licensing for musicians, some performers, writers and artists have stood up against the bills, including MGMT, OK Go, Trent Reznor and the members of O ...
  • Mark Zuckerberg: We Need Political Leaders Who ...
    The folks at Facebook have made no secret of their objection to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. And while it would have been a huge statement for Facebook to shut down, even for a few hours, you can't fault the company for not wanting to turn off the money machine. Regardless ...
  • Two Senators Change Tune On Online Piracy Legi ...
    As you may have noticed, the Internet isn't happy with proposed anti-piracy legislation before Congress and the Senate that could have a huge impact on everything from e-commerce to your 13-year-old niece's Glee fan blog. And as the voices continue to grow louder in opposition to the SOPA and P ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • NSA Assertions About Whistleblower's Seized Co ...
    Politico: Feds – Ex-NSA Analyst Had Top-Secret-Plus Info on Home Computers Summary: In a court filing from yesterday, the National Security Agency (NSA) is claiming that retired analyst and whistleblower J. Kirk Wiebe, a GAP client, had information on his federally seized computer that is "bey ...
  • NSA Refuses to Return Whistleblowers' Computers
    In a response to a lawsuit filed by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers J. Kirk Wiebe, Thomas Drake (the whistleblower unsuccessfully prosecuted under the Espionage Act), Bill Binney, and Edward Loomis, and former congressional staffer Diane Roark, NSA incredibly claims that ...
  • Whistleblower Details New Concerns about Hanfo ...
    KUOW (WA): Hanford Nuclear Safety Manager Questions Waste Treatment Plant Summary: This article details concerns from the latest major whistleblower to emerge from the Hanford nuclear waste treatment plant. The whistleblower, the manager for environmental and nuclear safety at the plant, alleg ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Free Enterprise on Trial
    Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina says he’s supporting Romney because “we really need someone who understands how r ...
  • For God’s Sake – Who KILLED Martin Luther King?
    Many know the answer but our rulers are afraid to explore the question. First know: “powerful smart people NEVER kill an adversary for an action already decided.” MLK’s struggle for Civil Rights legislation had been fought and won, all-be-it not completely. He, nay, we all knew ...
  • The Case for Cutting and Running
    Who would have guessed we’d have a national conversation about urinating on corpses? And worse yet to have people with a media megaphone attempting to defend it. The video of four marines desecrating the remains of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan surfaced on YouTube last week. The first thing w ...
  • In Mississippi, Identities of Pardon Applicant ...
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica The legality of last-minute clemency decisions by outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour appears to hinge on whether the recipients gave sufficient public notice of their intent to seek release. The state’s attorney-general, Jim Hood, has said there was not pro ...
  • Rose Parade Protest and Gays Make History – Again!
    Who can forget the January 2, 2012 presence of Occupy LA at the 113th Tournament of Roses Parade? Protesters marched against corporate person-hood and the foreclosure crisis. However, I want to remind you of January 1, 1990, 22 years ago, when “Only 10 minutes after it started, the 101st Tournam ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Love it: Skeptics winning in the classrooms
    “Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms” The LA Times laments the loss of the totalitarian educational view — pity the poor students subjected to hearing both sides of the story: Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Shocker! Supreme Court lets stand lower bench' ...
    (Ken Klukowski) - Pastors and priests in five states cannot mention 'Jesus' more than once or twice if they pray in public at an official function after the U.S. Supreme Court stunned constitutional law experts earlier today by letting stand a lower court ruling...
  • Romney preys on evangelical weaknesses
    (Bryan Fischer) - The signs right now are ominous for those who believe deeply in the sanctity of life and marriage. Mitt Romney, a pandering politician who has no core convictions on either issue, is likely to be the GOP frontrunner from now until the GOP convention...
  • Final count could show Romney lost Iowa
    (Washington Examiner) - It's conventional wisdom in Republican circles here in South Carolina that if Mitt Romney wins the state's primary this Saturday -- having already won in Iowa and New Hampshire -- he'll be the GOP presidential nominee...
  • The Tebow effect
    (Lloyd Marcus) - Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Tim Tebow is an unapologetic, outspoken born-again Christian. No politically correct, careful not to offend anyone, skirting around the issue of his faith for Tebow. When interviewed after winning a game, Tebow says, "First, I would like to than ...
  • Senator Jim DeMint says it's 'Now or Never'
    (John Hayward) - Senator Jim DeMint's new book, Now or Never: Saving America From Economic Collapse, begins genially enough, with a brief history of American exceptionalism, the philosophies of liberty and capitalism, and a look at the perils facing us. The first three chapters set the stage for ...

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

  • Some 2012 Survival Vehicles
    This Top 10 list is actually from a car site, but everybody is talking about 2012 this month… 1. Knight XV - fully armored, hand built luxury SUV 2. Pirate 4×4 – not much luggage space! 3. TRAX ...Some 2012 Survival Vehicles is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:eBoo ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Pepe ready for Messi
    Real Madrid defender Pepe says he is ready to play in midfield in Wednesday’s Copa del Rey clash against Barcelona,...
  • Emily Maynard to be next 'Bachelorette'?
    Emily Maynard split from Bachelor Brad Womack in June.
  • Bruce Jenner - Bruce Jenner's Cancer Scare
    Bruce Jenner underwent surgery last week to remove a cancerous growth from his face The Keeping Up with the Kardashians patriarch discovered a red mark on his face was malignant after undergoing a biopsy and was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital...
  • Wikipedia blackout lets in some light
    Wikipedia blackout lets in some light: Despite the blackout, it is still possible to access Wikipedia's content in a number of ways.
  • Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Stripped of Cont ...
    Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of the controversial SOPA congressional bill, said Friday he would move to strike the ISP-blocking powers from the proposed law. SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, were written late in 2011 to help fight against online piracy and ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Sacred Cow of “Democracy”
    I recently happened to criticize Western-style democracy, and my Italian friends objected: “We don’t get any complaints about democracy!” I think it’s a taboo—an notion of recent decades during which Western-style democracy has become a kind of sacred cow. It was no taboo for the esteemed democr ...
  • Aggravation Game: Why the US Win In Case Iran ...
    The Hormuz Strait closure by Iran will mainly benefit US oil companies and defense industry. The action will spark a crisis that would make easier to find a solution to the US economic woes and even create an opportunity to curtail its huge external debt. The USA puts pressure on their European ...
  • Free Speech, Its Loss and the Consequences
    We in the “West” have long thought that we have free speech, that’s only true in a limited way. For freedom of speech is much more than being able to go down to the bar and bad-mouth the government, however important that is. It also means a press free to hold government to account but [...]
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • The Door Is Always Open And The Laughter Is Free
    My dream of having lots of children has actually come true. Sure, I can only claim two on my taxes, but our house is always full of kids! If it's just the four of us sitting down for dinner, I am surprised and shocked. The kid's friends know they can come in, any time, even if we aren't here. I ...
  • Skier Tina Maze's Underwear Sparks Controversy
    Slovenian ski racer Tina Maze flashed her sports bra over the weekend in response to a controversial complaint that her underwear gave her a competitive edge in a World Cup super-G race. When she stripped down after a race in Italy on Sunday, the words “Not Your Business” were written across her ...
  • I Chose This, but It's Hard
    [Editor's Note: Being a mom... is hard. End of discussion. But if you've ever owned up to that fact -- actually said it out loud -- you may have been chastised. That's why it's good to occasionally meet up -- even online -- with like minded moms and have an honest chat. kk at The Mom Diggity rec ...
  • The College Question: Factoring in Money and D ...
    [Editor's Note: The "to go or not to go" to college question is a big one for many families of teens. For some, it's not an option: you go, you graduate, end of story. For others, especially for those with children who don't excel in school settings, the college question looms bigger -- and even ...
  • Newt Gingrich Is Not an Orthopedist: The Dange ...
    My husband and I have a few opposing political views, which has lead to some rather heated discussions. Over the past few weeks, and especially as the South Carolina primary approaches, these conversations have become more frequent. On top of the frequency of conversation, we have an open floor ...

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

  • Breaking: Patriot agrees to huge selenium cleanup
    Photo by Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition In federal court down in Huntington, attorneys for the Sierra Club and other groups have just filed copies of a major lawsuit settlement that insiders are saying could require Patriot Coal to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to t ...
  • Coming soon: Latest DEP report on Prenter water
    After filing my own blog post and print story on yesterday’s press conference on the new reports concerning coal-slurry contamination of the Prenter community’s water supplies, a couple folks pointed out to me the story that Taylor Kuykendall did for The State Journal’s website ...
  • Groups plan suit over EPA coal-ash delays
    Here’s the latest, just announced by Earthjustice: Environmental and public health groups announced their intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court to force the release of long awaited public health safeguards against toxic coal ash. The EPA has delayed the fi ...
  • Blue-Green Alliances and the Future of Coal
    A coal truck drives through an railroad tressel near downtown Welch, W.Va., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011.  (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock) Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that when most politicians start talking about balancing jobs and the environment, it signals they’re getting re ...
  • Sludge Safety Project: ‘The science is i ...
    SSP organizer Bobby Mitchell labeling a black water sample from Prenter. Photo from the Sludge Safety Project. I’m just back from the Capitol here in Charleston, where folks from the Sludge Safety Project held a press conference to publicize the public release of two expert reports filed i ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Ou ...
    What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane pers ...
  • Andrew Sullivan on ObamaCare | The Daily Beast
    Yes, it crosses the Rubicon of universal access to private health care. But since federal law mandates that hospitals accept all emergency-room cases requiring treatment anyway, we already obey that socialist principle—but in the most inefficient way possible. Making 44 million current free-ride ...
  • TIL: Cousin Means Common Ancestor
    Interesting. I just now learned that cousin technically means “shares common ancestor” rather than “child of parent’s brother”. I’m not sure how I went this long without knowing that. Credit to 23andMe for forcing me to learn this. Related Content23andMeBirthd ...
  • Who’s To Blame for the Financial Crisis | NPR ...
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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

  • It’s a Matter of Time
    Worldwide Hippies Supports Internet Freedom and Citizen Journalism  By Phil Polizatto,Worldwidehippies – Perspective is a function of time and space. We are three dimensional beings living in four dimensions, the fourth being time. How we measure time has evolved since ancient Egyptians in ...
  • Strange Fruit: The Poisonous Legacy of Liberation
    WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD,chris-floyd.com – In a remarkable piece of reportage, the Guardian’s Ghaith Abdul-Ahad details the glorious fruits of the “liberation” that America has so generously and selflessly gifted to the people of Iraq: Um Hussein had six children. Her eldes ...
  • Are seniors trying to legalize marijuana? Edit ...
  • Volunteer nurses backbone of agency founded in ...
    By Linda Friedel linda.friedel@npgco.com – Scores of Kansas City nurses treat patients stretched so thin they cannot pay for a visit to the doctor. Many say it is simply the right thing to do. “To give back to the community,” said Dan Marx, RN, BSN and CPN. Marx volunteers three hours ever ...
  • GETTING YOUR BATTLE PLAN IN GEAR
    WWH- SOPA, PIPA will severely curtail INNOVATION on the Inernet   Frugal Living By Jennifer Toth,Worldwidehippies - -No matter what your goal is in terms of saving money, you will always fare better if you have an organized plan of attack.  Isn’t that what our government tells us – preparat ...

reference frame

  • Obama expected to reject Keystone XL today
    Today, Wikipedia, Anthony Watts' blog, and others are protesting against a planned legislation to fight online piracy. In principle, it is directed against servers such as thepiratebay which are not exactly something whose survival is a condition for my happy life. However, I seem ...
  • How bad science becomes common knowledge
    Two case studies (solar and climate change) by Eric Dennis ►► The author holds a PhD in physics from UC Santa Barbara and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Industrial Progress. For related posts, see “Go Industrial, Not ‘Green’” by Alex Epstein (Parts 1 and 2). ◄◄ “When we hear of ...
  • U.S. classrooms beating unlimited alarmism
    A few years ago, kids could only hear one thing about the climate at school: man-made climate change is making the apocalypse imminent, there is no God who could save us, and Al Gore is His prophet. ;-) A typical lecture on climatology in the contemporary EU schools. This desc ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • TATUMBA.COM GOING OFFLINE AT 12AM EST TO PROTE ...
    Main page access to this will go dark at the stroke of midnight EST to protest SOPA and PIPA. These two acts, if passed, will change the Internet and give 100% control to the Entertainment Industry and the US Government. Sites such as YouTube, facebook, Google all risk the prospect of forever sh ...
  • 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 ...

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
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • 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

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

  • Police investigate deaths of mother and child ...
    Norwegian police were working with Swedish police after a 38-year-old woman from Sunnmøre was found dead in her home in the small town of Arboga in Sweden. Also found dead was her eight-month-old daughter, and police suspect they were murdered. The woman reportedly had moved to Sweden because sh ...
  • ‘Exploration boom’ off Norway’s coast
    Never before have so many companies won permission to search for oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf as they did this week, while discussion flies over whether Norway should construct a new pipeline from fields in the Barents Sea. Environmentalists dislike all the oil and gas activity ...
  • EU agreements unlikely to waver
    NEWS ANALYSIS: There’s been a lot of debate in Norway lately over the country’s trade and cooperation agreements with the European Union (EU), and a political strike was planned Wednesday over yet another EU directive. The debate is tied to a new study of how especially the so-called ...
  • Locals react to embassy’s crime warning
    A warning about recent violent assaults in Oslo that was sent out this week by the US Embassy to resident American citizens hasn’t been particularly well-received by local Norwegians. Several claim the embassy has over-reacted, and that crime in Oslo is no worse than in most American citie ...
  • Video threatens Crown Prince, Stoltenberg with ...
    A video published on the social media site Facebook threatens Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre with both “painful revenge” and death, in retaliation for Norway’s military involvement in Afghanistan. The vi ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Who Needs Grass?
    The Kniskerns’ yard is a sustainable smorgasbord Over a period of less than 10 years, James and Mary Kniskern transformed their sod-based lawn into a vibrant, blooming habitat that not only reduces their impact on the land but also rewards them with a bounty of edible plants as we ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture Prepares for Another G ...
    by Vanessa Fernandes Dani, Mel, Judy, Kristy and Pond in the house garden 2011 has been seminal in the development of permaculture on the Gold Coast, NSW, Australia. The incorporation of Gold Coast Permaculture (GCP) early in the year has seen the organisation and the concept become very much ...
  • How To Graft A Fruit Tree
    How to Graft a Fruit Tree YouTube is full of ‘how-to’ videos but only a few give clear instructions with professional presentation, good sound and really clear visuals. This is why I give top marks to the series of three fruit tree grafting videos from Dave Wilson Nurseries w ...
  • Pre Permaculture Urban Permaculture Landscape ...
    Open to 10 persons (only) with PDC in hand that are keen to learn & assist in the design and planning of a kitchen garden, main-crop and animal system design for a young family in the beautiful town of Bangalow, Northern NSW, Australia, as a preamble to the Permaculture Urban Landscape Desig ...
  • The Sacrificial Caste
    In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Texas is a largely-Christian state that appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Las ...

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

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Warming Temperatures Help Trumpeter Swans Thri ...
    The trumpeter swan, nearly hunted to extinction across much of North America during the 19th century, has experienced a strong resurgence with the help of a warming climate, U.S. researchers say. The large bird, Wikimedia Commons A trumpeter swan which depends on long summers for breeding ...
  • Natural Gas Boom to Slow Growth of U.S. Renewa ...
    The sheer abundance of recently discovered natural gas resources in the U.S. could drive down gas and electricity prices in the next few decades, yield an overall increase in energy use, and stunt the nation’s still-emerging renewable energy sector, a new report says. Using economic modeling, re ...
  • Reducing Methane and Soot Will Reduce Warming, ...
    A team of scientists says that governments can significantly reduce global warming, and prevent millions of premature deaths, by targeting emissions of methane and soot. In a new study published in the journal Science, the researchers say strategies that target those emissions and use existing t ...
  • Automakers Unveil More Hybrids, But Consumer D ...
    While the major automakers have unveiled new electric plug-in and hybrid cars at this week’s North American International Auto Show, including a cheaper version of the Toyota Prius, industry observers say Getty Images The new Toyota Prius C consumer demand for alternative fuel cars remains ...
  • Missing Galápagos Tortoise Likely Still Alive, ...
    A giant tortoise thought to have been hunted to extinction more than 150 years ago — and whose distinctive saddle-shaped shell helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — may still be living in the Galápagos Islands, according to a new Yale Click to enlarge Yale University ...

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

  • Obama’s Correct Call on Keystone
    Denying the permit for the Keystone oil pipeline, the president defied conventional wisdom—and big oil.
  • The Concordia’s Daredevil Captain
    Barbie Latza Nadeau on perma-tanned womanizer Francesco Schettino —and the charges he faces.
  • Geeks Revolt
    Thousands ditched their computers to protest anti-piracy bills outside the offices of New York senators.
  • Note to Readers
    It's been an exciting week and a half since launching my blog here at The Daily Beast. In addition to welcoming a new audience, I've been especially gratified by the migration of the FrumForum readers, who are reconstituting their community in the comments section. As with any start-up ...
  • Why Obama Rejected Keystone XL
    Rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline was almost a no-brainer for Obama, Daniel Stone writes.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Shimane opens show on dispute over Takeshima
    The Shimane Prefectural Government started a six-week exhibition Wednesday to call attention to the sovereignty dispute over a nearby group of islets controlled by South Korea but claimed by Japan. The special exhibit, "The Syngman Rhee Line and Takeshima," runs through Feb. 29 in a reference ...
  • Regulators may lower competitive barriers for ...
    Japanese regulators may consider rule changes to make it easier for alternative stock markets to compete with a merged Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Osaka Securities Exchange Co. SBI Japannext, Chi-X Japan Ltd. and other new venues that display prices handled 5 percent of the trades in T ...
  • Lost Kennedy photo now to be found in museums
    John F. Kennedy is framed by the heads of seven TV cameramen. His hands are cupped in a some kind of explanatory gesture, but his mouth is closed. Perhaps he's just finished saying something about his chances in the 1960 election, which is just five days away. The photograph, which shows Kenne ...
  • Man admits putting prison footage on YouTube
    A 44-year-old man temporarily uploaded footage of Kagoshima Prison on the video-sharing website YouTube, prison officials said. The man told reporters at the prison in Yusui, Kagoshima Prefecture, he took the footage just for fun on Dec. 21 when he was driving a truck to transport materials th ...
  • James ignites Miami rally
    First half, all San Antonio. Second half, all Miami — and then some.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Deregulation: A Bad Idea Crosses the Atlantic
    The Harper government announced today that federal “regulators will be required to remove at least one regulation each time they introduce a new one that imposes administrative burden on business.” At the risk of imposing a proofreading burden on communications staff, that sentence is missing th ...
  • The Harper House Rules: An Intervention
    Stephen: We recognize that no roommate is perfect, and from time to time we have all gotten on each other’s nerves. But you take the cake (and let’s be honest, sharing anything—including cake—is not exactly your thing). Because you have signed a sub-lease (with a previous tenant who, we mi ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Syria, the myth of Assad's popularity and the ...
    Nureddin Sabir views the misleading results of a flawed survey which suggests that more than half of the Syrian population want Bashar Assad to stay as president, and notes with dismay the uncritical coverage given to the survey by prominent mainstream and alternative media.
  • Room for Jews only in Israel's "villa in the j ...
    Jonathan Cook looks at the progress Israel is making in fortifying its status as the world's first ethnically pure "bunker state" and thereby realizing the dream of its founders.
  • Gaza tunnel smuggling OK, says confused Britain
    Stuart Littlewood highlights how the British government dissembles and prevaricates in order to shield Israel from pressure and allow it to continue subjecting the 1.5 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip to unbearable hardships.
  • Divergent faces of Israel: fascism, indifferen ...
    Lawrence Davidson takes a snapshot of Israeli society - the fascists who constitute a quarter of the population, the indifferent majority who enable the fascists to "assure the country's status as a truly apartheid state", and the minority who are "just large enough to remind us of what good hum ...
  • 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.

Physics Today

  • New material adds chrome-like shine to cars
    New York Times: The chrome look is making a comeback for automobiles, writes Tudor Van Hampton for the New York Times. However, rather than actual chrome, which is expensive and heavy, manufacturers are using materials that mimic chrome. One such material has been produced by Hamlin Jennings, a ...
  • Flu and climate may be connected
    BBC: Global climate shifts and flu pandemics may be linked, say researchers. Weather can influence the migratory patterns of wild birds; thus different species are brought together that don’t normally mix. The birds then share viruses, which can morph into different strains to which the hu ...
  • Obama's plan to shift NOAA to Interior Departm ...
    Science: Although the Obama administration has proposed to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from the US Department of Commerce to the Department of the Interior, it looks unlikely that the move will be approved by Congress, writes David Malakoff for Science. The proposal, ...
  • 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 ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Obsolescence Management Tools
    by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...
  • B. Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should s ...
    by johnscarbrough (Posted Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:06:40 GMT) This game is disgusting really
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by albertodegama (Posted Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:08 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 Properties...
    by requintn (Posted Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:34:59 GMT) doudoune homme moncler "Bingjie populaires vêtements d'hiver!" - Ville Bingjie Down.Geo Bas et à la mode, avec la tendance du dialogue, afin de répondre aux besoins modernes de différents secteurs depuis des décennies avec d'excellents résul ...
  • 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 ...

Peakwater

  • Fracking May Be Behind Oil Well Blowout
    “The process of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, has recently been linked to earthquakes in Ohio, and fracking chemicals were confirmed in Wyoming groundwater just a month ago. Now, the controversial project may be under even further scrutiny. On Friday afternoon, The Calgary Heral ...
  • What Risks Lie Ahead for African Water Security?
    “Africa is home to some of the largest lakes in the world, both in size and volume. These lakes play a significant role in the political, social, economic and environmental life of many of the continent’s people and their importance is set to increase. However, the strain placed upon ...
  • Project to pour water into volcano to make power
    “Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise. “They hope the water come ...
  • 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 ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Announces $3.2 Million to Fund Renova ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today joined Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff to announce $3.2 million in new federal funds from the Department of Transportation to help renovate and protect the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. “Today, the federal government is making a sound investm ...
  • Kucinich: I-90 Innerbelt Bridge Must Be Replac ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) immediately wrote to Governor John Kasich (R) today urgently requesting the state overrule an advisory council’s expected recommendation and to reprioritize the replacement of the I-90 Innerbelt Bridge. Kucinich wrote to the Governor after reports that an advis ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • …The military –industrial-congress ...
    …The military –industrial-congressional-corporate-complex must send a clear, concise, understandable message to you & me that information and truth is solely what they choose and no interference with their dissemination of information will be tolerated … Court Martial For Private ...
  • tarnished image…?
    … Until “we” (that’s you & me) know, believe and understand precisely the manner in which the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM came into existence and what their end-game object is … a slightly “tarnished” image is not sufficient to terminate their existence …   Fed’s image tarn ...
  • biometrics and India
    … One I have never physically been to India … Two my knowledge of India is limited to those Indians I know many of whom immigrated from India to the USA … Three, any movement to make “believers” of India’s 1.2 billion citizens in a BIOMETRIC society is fraught with a host of ob ...
  • Starve Cancer Out
    How to Starve Cancer Out of Your Body – Avoid These Top 4 Cancer-Feeding Foods   Posted By Dr. Mercola | January 14 2012 … http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/14/dr-christine-horner-interview.aspx?e_cid=20120114_DNL_art_1   View vi ...
  • … Yes … when people are made aware ...
    … Yes … when people are made aware and given information they will ask questions … New York State Gets 20,000 Comments on Its Gas Drilling Rules by Deadline   By MIREYA NAVARRO …  Published: January 11, 2012  …  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/0 ...

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

  • Dope quadruples in THC strength
    Sophisticated growing techniques have led to super-strength strains of cannabis, with some of the most potent dope coming from Northland, says a senior drugs investigator.However, a drug foundation spokesman says it is difficult...
  • UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils
    British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University...
  • Scientist to move after death threats
    Euthanasia reform campaigner Sean Davison is to move to a secret location after having his Dunedin residence attacked and receiving two death threats last week.The move was "imminent'', he said last night."It's my friend's house...
  • 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...

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

  • Special Interests Against the Keystone XL Pipe ...
    It's official - the Obama Administration is refusing to allow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast to proceed. As the State Department press release states:  Today, the Department of State recommended to President Obama that the presiden ...
  • New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on Pity The Bill ...
    To hear author Thomas Frank tell it in his new book, Pity The Billionaire, “the main political response to [the financial crisis of 2008] is a campaign to roll back regulation, to strip government employees of the right to collectively bargain, and to clamp down on federal spending.” ...
  • American Public Wants to Hear Less About "Long ...
    A new poll from the Pew Center for the People & the Press finds that the two groups on either side of that annoying ampersand disagree on how much coverage the 2012 election merits: Half of Americans say the presidential campaign has been too negative and 55% of the public d ...
  • Iran Refuses to Return U.S. Drone, Offers Cool ...
    In response to President Barack Obama's recent request for the return of an errant unmanned U.S. spy plane that crashed in eastern Iran in late November of last year, Iranian officials have offered a compromise. Iran plans to keep the original, which totally, absolutely, defin ...
  • In Which We Learn That the Government's Innova ...
    Today we learned that when the government tries to make America's health care system perform better, it doesn't work very well. It also tends to cost a lot of money.  Let's start with a new Congressional Budget Office report on Medicare demonstration programs designed to improve bot ...

Mercury Rising

  • Which side are you on, Ron? Part 1
    An interesting debate began, initiated by a recent troll graduate of our School on Manners. With a national machine of committed supporters, Ron Paul could be the GOP nominee for the presidency as Santorum’s deficiencies become more obvious and the attacks on Romney continue to chip away. ...
  • Yes, Scott Walker is in trouble
    From Wisdems: Right now, volunteers from counties all across Wisconsin are turning in more than 1.9 million signatures to recall Scott Walker, Rebecca Kleefisch and their right-wing cronies in the state legislature. [Clarification: this is over one million signatures for Walker. The remaining si ...
  • Yves Smith Catches A Koch Operative Posing As ...
    The sad irony that the overall utterly unacceptable Ron Paul — unacceptable, that is, if you like among other things Social Security, paved roads, and birth control (for starters) — is on some issues better than many Democrats, including Obama, is the stuff of unending arguments onli ...
  • No wonder they’re afraid of voter fraud& ...
    If their pastors and priests do it. Ralph Z. Hallow in the ::cough!:: Washington Times (via Rachel and Quentin Compson at Atrios): In an evolving power struggle, religious conservatives are feuding about whether a weekend meeting in Texas yielded a consensus that former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Sa ...
  • If corporations are people, they are very bad ...
    John LaForge, truthout, on the latest atrocity: In the amoral milieu of the corporate bottom line, you can’t blame Tokyo Electric Power Co. for trying. Tepco owns the six-reactor Fukushima complex that was wrecked by Japan’s March 11 earthquake and smashed by the resulting tsunami. I ...

Reality Sandwich

  • 24 Hour Sacred Theater Marathon
    Dzieci (djyeh-chee) is an international experimental theatre ensemble dedicated to a search for the “sacred” through the medium of theatre. On January 21st they will host "Maraton", an annual 24 hour total immersion into ritual creation. After decades of investigation and practice, com ...
  • Occupy This Week
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  • When You Have the Right Vibe, It's Not a Coinc ...
      The following is excerpted from Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within [1], recently released from R.L.Ranch Press.   read more
  • Biopsychosocial Technoetics and the 99%
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  • Great Transformations?
    Penelope Green, an editor at the Home section of the New York Times, is very interested in what changes people are making in their lives and especially in their homes to get ready for the "great transformation" and the completion of the Mayan long count at the end of this year. She wri ...

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

  • Luxembourg warns of EU recession
    Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has warned that an imminent recession may beset the eurozone, exacerbating its already serious economic crisis.
  • 'EU agrees in principle on Iran oil ban'
    The European Union has reportedly agreed in principle to freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Iran in line with new sanctions the 27-nation bloc plans to impose on the country's crude exports.
  • Putin promises transparent polls
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised transparent polls in March where he is competing for a third presidential term.
  • Turkey 'terrorists-led,' Perry reasserts
    After calling Turkey a country run by 'terrorists,' US presidential hopeful, Rick Perry, not only defends his remark, but adds salt to injury by stepping up his criticism of the government in Ankara.
  • 'West using Qatar as tool'
    Syria has rejected a Qatari proposal to send Arab troops to the country to quell the unrest, saying the move would pave the way for foreign intervention.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects ...
    In the past two decades, Medicare’s administrators have conducted demonstrations to test two broad approaches to enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in Medicare’s fee-for-service program. Disease management and care coordination d ...
  • 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 ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • 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...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

Nick Turse

  • Sarah Elbaroudy, age seven, from Long Island, ...
    Sarah Elbaroudy, age seven, from Long Island, stands during a collaborative protest between the Occupy Wall Street movement and people supporting the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the current social unrest throughout Egypt, near the Egyptian Embassy to the United States, at ...
  • Oxfam (a confederation of 15 organizations wor ...
    Oxfam (a confederation of 15 organizations working together to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice) activists make a protest aimed at 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban on November 27, 20 ...
  • An Egyptian girl holds an anti-Israel banner d ...
    An Egyptian girl holds an anti-Israel banner during a protest at al Azhar mosque, the highest Islamic Sunni institution, after Friday prayers in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The Muslim brotherhood demonstration was to denounce Israeli control over Jerusalem’s Al Aqs ...
  • From TomDispatch today:  An eye-opening reeva ...
    From TomDispatch today:  An eye-opening reevaluation of the Iran crisis and why “regime change” is on Washington’s agenda — Pepe Escobar, “The Myth of ‘Isolated’ Iran, Following the Money in the Iran Crisis.”  In his latest TomDispatch post, Pepe Escobar, roving reporter for Asia Times, off ...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:Syrian cartoonist Ali F ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat perfectly sums up his country’s political situation. Read Max Fisher’s Atlantic article on Farzat and his artistic activism. See a further sampling of Farzat’s work.
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