Fair Use Note

WARNING for European visitors: European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.

Thomas Paine

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

Friday, January 20, 2012

20 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Al-Jazeera TourImage by Sugar Cubes via Flickr
English: Barbie PortraitImage via Wikipedia
Opit's LinkFest! RSS feed returns at My Opera
Sidebar Search for water related topics at bottom

Scoop - NZ

  • Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
    In recent months, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics, and to fulfill its promise of treating its audience “with ...
  • Pilger: The World War on Democracy
    Beyond the drivel, as the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg had predicted, a military coup was taking place in Washington, and Obama was their man.
  • Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
    Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the 'Times,' his stint in solitary and the future of journalism
  • Escobar: The myth of 'isolated' Iran.
    On that crucial Eurasian chessboard, Pipelineistan, the Iran-Pakistan (IP) natural gas pipeline - much to Washington's distress - is now a go. Pakistan badly needs energy and its leadership has clearly decided that it's unwilling to wait forever and a day for Washington's eternal pet project - t ...
  • US, Israeli rift over Iran; joint exercise can ...
    US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive Sunday, Jan. 15 when the White House called off Austere Challenge 12, the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have every staged, ready to go in spring, in reprisal for a comment by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon in ...

Independent - London

  • Police raids aim to stamp out sales of Barbie ...
    Iran has opened up a new front in its propaganda war with the West – by cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls. Iran's feared morality police has raided shops selling Barbie dolls, confiscating the popular toy from stores and forcing some shopkeepers to close.Related StoriesAssad's tanks with ...
  • Hitmen are after me, says Rushdie as he pulls ...
    From modest beginnings it has become one of the biggest literary festivals on earth. This year the roster of big names talking about their work includes Michael Ondaatje, Tom Stoppard, Richard Dawkins, Annie Proulx, Hari Kunzru, Shashi Tharoor and William Dalrymple, the festival's co-director.R ...
  • A very different perspective on French history
    A military deterrent, constructed from wood, paper and silk? A royal and imperial toy collection? A time machine? A 17th century Google Earth?Related StoriesCaptain claims owners knew of evacuation delayDiplomat caught illegally fishingMP backs out of smoking joint27,000 miles, 500 days – and sh ...
  • Is Gingrich about to turn the US election on i ...
    A surging Newt Gingrich could be on the brink of a crucial upset victory in today's Republican primary in South Carolina, dooming the hopes of front runner Mitt Romney of effectively wrapping up the contest for the party's presidential nomination by the end of this month.Related StoriesArrests ...
  • Belarus minister accused of torture defies EU ...
    A prominent Belarusian politician accused of spearheading the arrest and torture of pro-democracy protesters travelled to France for a meeting with Interpol this week despite being subject to a European Union travel ban.Related StoriesCaptain claims owners knew of evacuation delayDiplomat caught ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • The Vaccination Agenda: An Implicit Transhuman ...
    Let's face it: the only real justification for using vaccines to "immunize" ourselves against disease is derived from the natural fact that when challenged by infectious agents the humoral arm of our immune system launches a successful response capable of conferring lasting immunity. Were it not ...
  • Australia: Storm strikes coast: people, houses ...
    Four people have been struck by lightning and thousands are without power as dangerous weather sweeps Perth and the outer metropolitan coast. The State Emergency Service has warned people to stay safe as the storm sweeps through Perth and the coast from Lancelin to Mandurah. A man was hit by ...
  • 5 Unemployed Moroccans Set Selves on Fire
    Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for university graduates, a rights activist said Thursday. Three were burned badly enough to be hospitalized. Once rare, self-immolatio ...
  • Britain Admits Moscow Spy Rock
    Britain has for the first time admitted it was spying when Russia's state security service, the FSB, accused British diplomats of using a transceiver hidden inside a rock on a Moscow street. Footage showing the alleged spies using the device was aired on Russian TV in January 2006. The FSB des ...
  • Iran Quake Leaves at Least 230 Injured
    Iran's state TV says the number of people injured by a Thursday earthquake of moderate strength affecting the northeastern city of Neyshabour has increased to around 230. The Friday report says 30 of the injured people were hospitalized, with the others treated for minor injuries and released. ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Ya know,
    I'm all for not passing judgment until the facts are all in and examined, but it is becoming much harder to do that in light of what's coming out in the media now about the [in]actions of Costa Concordia's master and crew (and possibly further up the chain, the ship's owners). This could be one ...
  • And on the maple flag side...
    There's this from Cathie. Oh dear! Did the Harper government lie to us again? A federal agency created by the Harper government with great political fanfare in 2008 is costing millions of dollars to achieve pretty much nothing. The Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board has just about ev ...
  • If you haven't read Skippy...
    The Bush Kangaroo lately, well, now is a good time. Because, as Jon Stewart says: When I want news, I go to CNN. And they turn to Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo.Said brother Newt: "I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, h ...
  • Northern Gateway, Northern Wall
    At the end of the day it won't matter what the JRP recommends or what the Cons and Enbridge do to negate or subvert the process.  Something was different about this pipeline proposal compared to others. The context is in so many ways changed from past proposals. The hearing process commenc ...
  • Delights . . .
    WHILE DAVE, BORIS & REV regale us with an outrageous string of things to get outraged over, I ran across this small delight, worth 1:27 of your time. It's a video, as you see, with the title: "Aston Martin Loves Women. Women love Aston Martin." Chris Shunk, at AUTOBLOG, points out that it's ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Gets The Message: Calls Obama "The Food St ...
    After Newt Gingrich defended his oft-repeated claim that President Obama is "the best food stamp president in American history," Fox News took up the theme and amplified it. But as numerous experts have pointed out, increased enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is due ma ...
  • Right-Wing Media Freak Out Over Obama Speaking ...
    The right-wing media have used President Obama's speech at Walt Disney World as an opportunity to attack him, despite the fact that previous presidents, including Ronald Reagan, have given speeches at Disney parks while in office.Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of "Ruin[ing] Families' Vacations" ...
  • The Right-Wing Media's Flawed Keystone XL Reje ...
    Right-wing media figures are slamming President Obama for the State Department's decision to reject plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline until a full assessment can be made, claiming that he is "killing jobs." But the administration had long warned that it would be unable to complete the leg ...
  • Fox & Friends: Scott Walker's #1 Fan
    After Wisconsin officials reported that opponents of Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) turned in more than 1 million signatures calling for a recall election, Fox & Friends hosted Walker for a softball interview in which the co-hosts reassured him that the recall is "not really about" him and said t ...
  • Arguing In Support Of SOPA, WSJ Ignor ...
    In a January 18 editorial arguing in support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), The Wall Street Journal noted that the White House as well as "Wikipedia and many other websites" are opposed to the legislation. But the Journal ignored that many congressional Republicans and cons ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Perry's Greatest Hits! Gone but not Forgotten
  • The Past and Future of the Internet
    in response to the Atrios post here I'm a big admirer of Atrios (Duncan) and hope he doesn't think I'm being picky. But he doesn't have it quite right as to the past; yes as to the future. As to the history, the way it was was this way: The entrenched interests were not interested enough o ...
  • Protesting SOPA
    As the internet's avatar Google uses its huge billboard -- the search screen -- to protest the proposed legislation aimed at enhancing intellectual property rights (or censoring the Net, depending on your point of view), some say this is the first time Netizens have used their prowess to lobby. ...
  • Things Getting Pretty Dicey With Iran
    Depending on how you look at it, tensions with Iran are mounting to: an accidental war, an intentional war, a recession-causing oil price spike, a dizzying sequence of moves / countermoves / signals, an escalating cycle of assassinations, renewed negotiations, or a combination thereof. At any ra ...
  • Presented By: Strengthen Customer Relationships
      Ads by Pheedo

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Senator Watson asks PUC Chair, Donna Nelson, t ...
    As interim legislative hearings and ERCOT workshops grapple with the drought’s anticipated stresses for Texas electric generation and reliability, Sen.Kirk Watson (D-Austin), is calling on the Texas Public Utility Commission to give solar energy a push. “You stated that your highest priori ...
  • Obama’s Rejection of Keystone A Sensible Decision
    In a statement this afternoon, Obama said that he received a recommendation from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier today recommending that the Keystone XL tar sands Presidential permit application be denied. TransCanada’s first tar sands pipeline leaked 12 times in its firs ...
  • Bill would give Oklahomans the right to vote o ...
    As Texas struggles to determine how they will meet their water needs in the face of what could be an extended 5 to 10 year period of drought, Oklahomans are looking to protect their water rights as their neighbors to the south look on lustfully. An Associated Press story says proposed legislatio ...
  • What is Environmental Justice and Why did the ...
    Reprinted with permission from Christopher Searles blog – http://chrissearles.blogspot.com/ In January of 2011 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights Affirmative Employment and Diversity at an event honoring Dr. ...
  • DFW Air Quality Standards – EPA Public Comment ...
    The EPA has published a federal register notice to solicit public comments on their ozone designation recommendations to the states.  This comment period closes on January 19th and we have included the notice for information on where and how to submit your comments. Public Citizen and Sierra Clu ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Russia proposes manned Moon base
    Russia is discussing the possibility of a permanent manned outpost on the Moon with NASA and ESA. Vladimir Popovkin of the Russian space agency Roscos...
  • NASA debunks triangular UFO
    NASA has debunked the idea that a triangular shape on a STEREO-B spacecraft image is an alien ship. The image shows the inner solar system as seen by ...
  • Saddam Hussain's statue buttock hidden
    Saddam Hussain's derriere taken from the bronze statue in Iraq is now being hidden in Derby, England. The strange series of events started when ex-SAS...
  • Princess Diana's ghost filmed in church
    A video taken by tourists in a Glasgow church is thought to show the ghost of the late Princess Diana. The footage taken inside the church shows the s...
  • JFK's Dallas hearse up for sale
    The hearse used to transport the late President John F. Kennedy will go up for sale for the third time. The 1964 model, Miller-Meteor Co. white hearse...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...
    Source:  The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
  • NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
    Source:  AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
  • Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
    Source:  The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    Source:  Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
  • 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
    Source:  USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • Nut Cases Lose...Again
    The Obama administration strikes again: Most healthcare plans will be required to cover birth control without charging co-pays or deductibles starting Aug. 1, the Obama administration announced Friday... ...Congressional Republicans slammed the decision as an assault on religious freedom. ...
  • A Look Ahead at the Primaries
    Taking a look at the Republican primary schedule and considering the polling out of South Carolina is indicating that Newt Gingrich will win there, I don't think Romney can lock up the nomination before February 28th at the earliest. Florida votes on Tuesday, but a loss there won't be enough to ...
  • I Don't Watch Train Wrecks
    Apparently there was a dog and pony show GOP debate last night in which many candidates vomited all over the stage regurgitated talking points that the Republican fanboys and fangals base lapped up. Oh and some personal attacks against Obama and each other, and "the librul media" (i.e., John Ki ...
  • Stupid Ass of the Day: Charles Krauthammer
    I'm confused by Charles Krauthammer's latest piece. He accuses the Republicans of committing suicide, but his reasoning seems pretty flawed. His first accusation is that the president is deflecting criticism on the economy by talking about wealth inequality. If you cant run on stewardship ...
  • They Wanna Kill Something
    I've seen versions of this image for the past forty years. It's a classic bit of pop culture: And it's basically the way Republican voters feel right now (and pretty much all the time), which is why Newt Gingrich is doing so well, and Mitt Romney isn't. Steve Kornacki explains why Gi ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Gruesome Reality of Amputations in the Ame ...
    Images of men who lost their limbs – and almost their lives – during the Civil War, when an staggering 50,000 amputations were performed in less than sanitary conditions. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Beautiful Geometry of Suburbia from Above
    A bird's eye view of the fascinating patterns that make up suburbia... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Chilean Town Engulfed by a Volcanic Mudflow
    How a devastating lahar swept through a town inhabited by 4,200 people, swallowing up much of what lay in its path... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Book of Kells: Ireland's Finest National T ...
    The intriguing and turbulent history behind Ireland's finest National Treasure – and one of Europe's priceless historical artifacts. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons: How Man D ...
    The demise of the passenger pigeon highlights the devastating effect human actions can have on nature. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Car Batteries Are Not Just For the Car
    Coda Holdings will make minor changes to battery packs for its cars and sell them individually or grouped together. The idea is to sell them to homeowners for use when rooftop solar panels generate more than they use, and to help businesses reduce their peak loads.
  • On Our Radar: Compensation for Yellowstone Spill
    Exxon Mobil will pay the state of Montana $300,000 in cash and spend $1.3 million on environmental projects there.
  • First Round: Entergy 1, Vermont 0
    A federal court ruling suggesting that Vermont overreached in seeking to shut down a nuclear plant allows the plant's owner to avoid having to decide whether to keep the plant running while the legal battle unfolds.
  • Pushing the Green Button for Energy Savings
    Companies show off tools for helping homeowners make use of energy usage data they can download remotely at any time from a utility's Web site.
  • State Department Readies an R.S.V.P.
    House Republicans want Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to testify before a subcommittee on a decision to forgo a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Aides say she will probably send a top expert.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
    It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...

Daily Censored

  • THE OYS HAVE IT!
    By Saul Landau   “Oy,” sobs the old woman. “Oy! Oy!” “What’s the matter, grandma?” asks a man passing by. “Oy, I’m so thirsty!” He returns with a glass of water. She drinks it and says: “Oy!” “What’s the matter now?” “Oy, was I thirsty!” Watching the Republican presidential debates has turn ...
  • PuppetGov video: How you ended the war: before ...
    video here. The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated. Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions. Resources: US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, helped Iraq invade 1980-1 ...
  • Paulo Freire’s book, ‘A Pedagogy o ...
    Dear Rethinking Schools friends, Did you see the news last week? On Friday, we learned that our book Rethinking Columbus was banned — along with other books used in Tucson’s Mexican American Studies program, including Paulo Freire’s A Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Rodolfo Acuña’s ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
      A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents to be used when world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January 25th through 29th. The document is called Global Risks 2012. It can be downloaded from http://www3.weforum.org/docs/W ...
  • 76 Percent of For-Profit College Students Atte ...
    Did you now that 76 Percent of For-Profit College Students Attend Schools that are Wall Street Owned?  Did you know that 86 Percent of Revenues Come from Federal Taxpayer Dollars?  Did you know that For-Profit Colleges Spend the Majority of Revenues on Marketing and Profit while Few Services Are ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Republican Presidential Race: Comedy or Farce?
    Did a perverse talent agent find actors in an insane asylum by asking the inmates: "Anyone want to play a Republican presidential aspirant on TV?"
  • So Long, Rick Perry
    Mediocre polling numbers in South Carolina - following lousy showings in Iowa and New Hampshire - finally convinced Texas Governor Rick Perry to drop out of the GOP presidential race.
  • Law and Order 24/7, Except at Tax Time
    The rich don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either.
  • Approaching North Korea in the Kim Jong Un Era
    Every time a new administration takes office in Washington, it behaves like an amnesiac toward North Korea.
  • Cult of Personality
    When we focus our analysis on personalities like Assad in Syria or Kim Jong Un in North Korea, we succumb to our own personality cult.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #669
    UK admits using fake rock to spy on Russians. New book examines forgotten CIA officer Jim Thompson. Sweden to probe fate of WWII hero Wallenberg.
  • Canada reportedly expels Russian diplomats ove ...
    Canadian government officials have refused to confirm or deny media reports that Ottawa expelled several Russian diplomats recently in connection with an alleged espionage affair.
  • News you may have missed #668
    Ex-CIA chief says war against Iran would be "very bad option". US warns Israel on Iran strike. Iran tightens security for scientists after killing.
  • US admits African war crimes suspect Charles T ...
    Ever since his 2006 arrest for war crimes, Liberia’s former President, Charles Taylor, has consistently claimed that he was an agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Now declassified US government documents have officially confirmed that Taylor was indeed an agent of the CIA and ...
  • News you may have missed #667
    Canadian authorities spied on political leader. US intel community says Taliban want Afghanistan back. Canadian naval officer charged with espionage.

War is a Crime.org

  • Okinawan Delegation Visits DC for Base Closure
    Contact: John Feffer, Institute for Policy Studies Washington, DC - A delegation of politicians, lawyers, activists and students from Okinawa, Japan, will travel to Washington, DC, from January 21 to January 27 to advocate for the closure of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma.  The del ...
  • State of Virginia to Regulate Illegal Mining o ...
    From VA State Senator Creigh Deed's email today: This week has also seen the uranium issue perhaps come to a head for 2012. The Governor is proposing that his agency heads look at ways to develop a regulatory scheme for mining of uranium in Virginia. While this will give everybody some more brea ...
  • Complaint Filed with U.N. Special Rapporteur A ...
    CCR U.S. and Spanish Authorities Attempted to Stop Cases Seeking Accountability of U.S. Officials for Torture and Unlawful Killing press@ccrjustice.org January 19, 2012, Madrid, New York, Berlin – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Berlin-based European Ce ...
  • Our Trainers Are Doing a Heck of a Job in Afgh ...
    From the NYTimes: American and other coalition forces here are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity between the supposedly allied forces, according to American and Afghan officers and a classi ...
  • Israel says ... Iran isn't building a nuclear ...
    From the Christian Science Monitor: ... Front and center is an op-ed by Mark Helprin in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled "The mortal threat from Iran." He writes that the "primitive religious fanatics" who rule Iran don't think rationally about their own nation's interests, and that, abs ...

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Popular Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
    Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating pol ...
  • Exposed: Deadly Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Cancer drugs, pushed by many drug companies as the only ‘scientific’ method of combating cancer alongside chemotherapy, have been found to actually make cancer worse and kill patients more quickly. The findings come after research was conducted on the cancer drugs ...
  • McCain, Bachmann Confronted Over ‘Incident’
    By Victor Thorn Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) knows the truth about what happened to the USS Liberty, because his father was directly involved in the cover-up. During a Jan. 4 interview with AFP, James Morris, the editor of a news and commentary website entitled “America Hijacked,” referenced a mon ...
  • Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No ...
    The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the morning of January 13, explaining that there is no weapons threat from Iran’s fully safeguarded nuclear power and research ...
  • Amish Men Jailed — “We’re Just Not ...
    Heather Callaghan Activist Post Mayfield, KY has a real problem with hooligan Amish men repeatedly breaking the laws. Sheriff DeWayne Redmon said, “We’re citing them for their own safety as well as the safety of others.” Graves county in Mayfield boasts the most Amish arrests o ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • 6 Incredible Ice Sculptures That Will Melt Awa ...
    Read the rest of 6 Incredible Ice Sculptures That Will Melt Away When Spring Comes Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, eco-art, frozen water, green art, green design, hongtou zhou, ice, ice art, ice sculptures, ice wall, incredible ice sculptures, nicole dextras, okam ...
  • Hiriko Citycar EV Folds Up For Easy Parking, C ...
    We have all tried to park our cars in spaces that were too small — but wouldn’t it be easier if we could just get out, fold up our car and place it in a gap that no other vehicle could fit? That is exactly what a group of engineers at Hiriko Driving Mobility have made possible [...]
  • Ingrid Siliakus Creates Intricately Layered Ar ...
    Move to Trash Read the rest of Ingrid Siliakus Creates Intricately Layered Architectural Models Using Just One Sheet of Paper Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: architecture made from paper, artwork paper, craft paper, eco-art, green art, ingrid siliakus, masahiro chatani ...
  • Gorgeous ‘Skyphos 1′ LED Chandelier Hypnotizes ...
    Read the rest of Gorgeous ‘Skyphos 1′ LED Chandelier Hypnotizes Like a Bioluminescent Jellyfish Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: deep sea inspired designs, eco lighting, energy efficient lighting, green designs, green lighting, Jellyfish Chandelier, jellyfis ...
  • ‘Bicycle Portraits’ Feature Cyclists from All ...
    Last year, we covered the efforts of Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler, who set out to turn stunning portraits of cyclists in South Africa into a spectacular book. It appears that their fundraising efforts on Kickstarter, and elsewhere, have paid off, and it is now possible to own one of several ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...
  • A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
    If you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.
  • The New Improved Heckling of Movies
    If you're willing to watch a movie DVD on your computer (instead of your TV), then you can use the new Rifftrax Player app to simultaneously play the DVD and the usually hilarious Rifftrax audio, which is like sitting in an audience of hecklers.
  • Hollywood-Style Tricks on the Cheap
    A $250 kit lets you play around with green screen techniques, setting actors in front of any background of your choosing. It takes the pain out of a process that can be difficult to get right.
  • If Car Companies Were Run Like Tech Companies ...
    What if the car companies were as innovative as the tech industry? That alternative industry may not be as wonderful as you would think.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Near-Extinct Monkeys Rediscovered in Borneo
    Deep in a pristine Borneo rainforest, researchers have found an endangered species of monkey recently feared to be extinct, and never before photographed.
  • Photo: Male Bowerbirds May Use Optical Illusio ...
    Complex structures erected by male bowerbirds may create an optical illusion that entices females into mating.
  • Infrared Image Shows Helix Nebula in Fresh Light
    The nearby Helix nebula just received the piercing infrared gaze of a telescope in Chile, and the resulting image reveals cold gas normally hidden among warmer star-lit material.
  • Op-Ed: What Scientists Under Pressure Can Lear ...
    Spock takes his fair share of abuse for being the stereotypically unemotional, weird and strangely driven scientist. But today's scientists could learn a lot from him. Marine scientist Christopher Reddy argues that Spock is the ideal role model for scientists dealing with a crisis, such as the D ...
  • The Best Fictional Scientists From TV and Movies
    With so many great, funny, scary, sexy and sinister fictional scientists on TV and in the movies, it's hard to pick the best. But we did it anyway. Here is our list of favorites. We like our list, but we know you'll let us know who we forgot and where we went wrong!

PakAlert

  • FBI website crippled in Anonymous-led retaliat ...
    The Bureau’s official website, FBI.gov, went down Thursday evening after hacktivists participating in campaigns waged by the loose knit collective Anonymous attacked a series of sites in retaliation for a raid earlier in the day against the Megaupload service.
  • Pentagon ‘prepared’: US set for Operation Iran ...
    Washington is prepared to engage in war over the Strait of Hormuz at any moment, the Pentagon says. Some observers say the dangerous move is being viewed as a far from worst-case scenario in America, especially by its hawks.
  • Pressure Israel, Not Iran. Israel has an Arsen ...
    Neocons in Israel and the United States are escalating their rhetoric to prepare us for war with Iran. Even the infamous John Yoo, architect of George W. Bush’s illegal torture and spying programs, is calling on the Republican presidential candidates to “begin preparing the case for a military s ...
  • Megaupload finished: Feds shut down file-shari ...
    A lot of good those Wednesday blackouts did for the Internet. Not. One day after thousands of websites temporarily shut-down to highligt the dangers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), federal prosecutors have pulled the plug on Megaupload.com, a website that was a ...
  • UK jamming IRIB signals from Bahrain
    The signal of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) channels on the Hotbird satellite provider has reportedly been jammed by British technicians operating from Bahrain.

Andy Worthington

  • Moazzam Begg, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash ...
    On Tuesday January 24, at 7 pm, there will be a special screening of the acclaimed documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the European Parliament in Brussels. The screening will take place in the main European P ...
  • Andy Worthington’s “Close Guantána ...
    Last week, I was in the US for a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which I wrote about here and here. I also made three TV appearances, and undertook seven radio interviews, one of which was covered here. Thr ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington on Guantánamo’s ...
    Last week, while I was in the US on a 12-day tour to call for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison, I did three TV interviews as part of my busy schedule (which also involved nine speaking events, and seven radio interviews). The first of these was [...]
  • With Right on Our Side: The Inspiring Guantána ...
    Last week, I was in Washington D.C., attending events to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a 12-day US tour organized by some of my great friends in the US — the activists of The World Can’t Wait, and their national director Debra Sw ...
  • Video: “Guantánamo Forever?” – Jim Moran, Andy ...
    See the entire event on C-SPAN here (and also via UStream below, from the website of the New America Foundation). On the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which belonged to George W. Bush for seven of those ten years, but has belonged to ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • After Conviction, Kreis Quits as Leader of Tin ...
    Long-time racist August B. Kreis III says he’s stepping down as leader of a splinter faction of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, just weeks after being convicted of federal fraud-related charges. Kreis, who’s reported to be suffering from diabetes-related health problems, doesn’t give a specific reas ...
  • Just in Time: From Wisconsin, a Tax Preparer f ...
    With W-2s and 1040s in the mail, tax season is getting into full swing. And even white nationalists have to pay their taxes if they’re not living off the grid. But where does a proud Aryan go to find a tax preparer who understands the special needs of white people? They needn’t look any farther ...
  • Georgia Court to Hear Arguments on Obama’s Eli ...
    The birther movement, which has bedeviled President Obama since well before his inauguration with questions about his citizenship, is celebrating something of a watershed moment as it prepares to have a day in court. Earlier this month, Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi in Georgia’s Office of S ...
  • Pam Geller Announces New International Anti-Mu ...
    Anti-Muslim zealot Pam Geller announced this week the formation of a new international organization, Stop the Islamization of Nations (SION), for which she will serve as executive director. This “new global force” will merge the work of the two major anti-Muslim groups in the U.S. and Europe – S ...
  • Anti-Gay Groups Protest SPLC with Claims of Ha ...
    About a dozen African American pastors joined anti-gay extremists today in condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center for using its “hate group” label to describe faith-based organizations that demonize the LGBT community, characterizing it as part of an orchestrated liberal plot. The pastors s ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Maine's Tea Party Governor: 'Slash Health and ...
    Republican Governor of Maine and Tea Party favorite, Paul LePage, angered many residents of the northeast state Thursday when he said that if the legislature did not pass his proposed cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services' budget, he would order a statewide closure of public sc ...
  • PIPA, SOPA Bills Delayed
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to delay a vote scheduled for Tuesday on the online anti-piracy bill. From the BBC: "In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT IP Act," Mr Reid, a Democrat, said in a statement. ...
  • On Anniversary of Citizens United, Group Says ...
    The coalition Move to Amend has called for a day of action today to occupy federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to mark the second anniversary of the Citizens United vs. FEC ruling. CNN reports on the timing of the action: ...
  • Report: US Soldiers Bringing Their Violence Ho ...
    After more than ten years at war, soldiers in the US military are more prone to sexual violence, domestic abuse (including spousal and child abuse), and suicide, according to a report released by the Pentagon on Thursday. Reuters reports: ...
  • Fracking the World: Energy Companies Set Their ...
    While the drilling technique known as fracking has primarily occurred in North America, energy companies are now setting their sites far and wide to extend its use across the globe.  The U.S. can expext to see even more fracking in the near future. The energy news service Platts reports: ...

Lifehacker

  • Try a New Operating System This Weekend [Weeke ...
    We write about a variety of platforms here at Lifehacker, and even if you're perfectly happy with what you're using, nothing makes you feel more appreciative (not to mention knowledgeable) than trying something new. Take some of your free time ...
  • Wrapsol Non-Slip Grip Pad Keeps Your Gadgets I ...
    When it comes time to kick back with your iPad and some light reading, there's nothing more annoying than having to balance your tablet on your lap in just the right way. Wrapsol's grip pad solve this problem by keeping it in place on any slan ...
  • Remains of the Day: Unsuspecting Accomplices U ...
    Thousands unknowingly participate in website shutdowns, Zoho down for most of the day, and banned Android apps will get their day in a new store. More »
  • This Week’s Most Popular Posts: January 14-20 ...
    This week we got learned a whole lot about SOPA, ten helpful ways to get better sleep, how BitTorrent magnet links—the future of BitTorrent—work, and more. Here's a look back. More »
  • DreamHost Hacked; Change Your Passwords Now [P ...
    Not even a whole week after Zappos was hacked, our favorite hosting service, DreamHost, has also had a breach. They say there's "no evidence that customer passwords were taken", but they''re pushing out password changes to everyone just to be ...

Water Privatization

  • Fitch Affirms Pontiac, MI's Water and Sewe ...
    Fitch Ratings takes the following rating action on Pontiac, MI as part of its continuous surveillance effort:
  • Water policy includes metering
    City of Powell River council recently adopted a water conservation policy, a plan that includes the implementation of universal water metering by 2020.
  • Former water chair convinced P3 is good
    At the recent Mission all candidates meeting there were a number of candidates, including current councillors, who were opposed to the 'privatization' of our water yet, ironically, most of them were drinking bottled water, from, guess who, a private company.
  • Dirty piped water after 5 decades of BN rule
    Who do we blame for the dirty and brownish piped water that flows into our homes these days? The rakyat or their Creator? Please let sanity prevail.
  • Water policy includes metering
    City of Powell River council recently adopted a water conservation policy, a plan that includes the implementation of universal water metering by 2020.

Guardian

  • Nigerian city of Kano rocked by explosions and ...
    Eyewitnesses describe panic and pandemonium on streets as residents ran for cover and smoke rose into skyAt least seven people were killed as explosions and gunfire rocked the biggest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north after Friday prayers yesterday. The radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has c ...
  • Diablo Cody: devil's advocate
    A pregnant schoolgirl, a housewife with multiple personality disorder and now, in Young Adult, a thirtysomething who won't grow up: Diablo Cody's characters may not be nice, but they're never boring. The Oscar-winning screenwriter reveals why Hollywood storylines make her 'want to throw up' ...
  • Body of Iraq hostage Alan McMenemy handed over ...
    Security guard from Glasgow was kidnapped in Baghdad with three colleagues and man they were protecting in 2007 • The Guardian's special investigation into Iran's involvement in the kidnappingThe body of a Briton, who was taken hostage in Iraq and later killed, has been handed over to the Briti ...
  • Bird flu scientists suspend work amid epidemic ...
    Researchers announce 60-day suspension to allow debate about security of their attempts to prevent spread of virus Scientists trying to prevent bird flu from killing millions of people have suspended their work because of fears they might accidentally cause the epidemic they hope to stop, accord ...
  • Belfast neonatal centre evacuated after baby d ...
    Decision to evacuate comes after four more babies found to have been infected with bacteriumThe Belfast neonatal unit at the centre of a deadly infection that has killed three babies has been evacuated.The Belfast Trust, which runs the Royal Hospital, confirmed that all the babies in the unit ar ...

McClatchey

  • Tax breaks lure big-name films to North Carolina
    Thanks to new but controversial tax breaks, 2011 was a marquee year for North Carolina's film industry, which landed big-name projects "Iron Man 3," "Homeland" and "Hunger Games."Click to Continue »
  • Electronic Arts claims First Amendment rights ...
    A leading producer of high-tech and action video and computer games is asking a federal court to rule that it can use images of modern weapons and aircraft, such as…Click to Continue »
  • South Carolina Mormons welcome GOP spotlight o ...
    As in 2008, the S.C. Republican Presidential Primary offers the political spectacle of Mitt Romney's Mormon beliefs running head on into a Bible Belt electorate.Click to Continue »
  • Obama to speak at Bank of America stadium on D ...
    On the final night of this fall's Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama will deliver his acceptance speech at Bank of America stadium, party sources told the Observer on Monday…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. to announce ban on python imports
    The United States is poised to formally and finally ban that slithering scourge of the Everglades, the Burmese python. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has championed the ban, is…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Eight U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    Twelve Nato troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan including 6 Americans killed in a helicopter crash, and four French troops gunned down by an allied Afghan soldier.
  • 6 killed in Afghan helicopter crash were Marin ...
    WASHINGTON - A senior U.S. defense official says all six reported killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were U.S. Marines. The helicopter crashed Thursday in Afghanistan's ...
  • 4 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    PARIS (AP) -- France is suspending its training operations in Afghanistan and threatening to withdraw its entire force from the country early, after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French ...
  • 4 NATO troops killed by Afghan soldier, offici ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan soldier shot and killed four NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan today, the U.S.-led coalition said. The shooting underscores the fragile relationship between Afghan ...
  • France withdraws troops from Afghanistan after ...
    France is suspending its training operations in Afghanistan and threatening to withdraw its entire force from the country early, after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops Friday and ...

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • California Assemblyman sacrifices his own righ ...
    California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (pictured; D-La Cañada Flintridge) has won committee approval for his bill to give employees in the Legislature the same protections afforded to other state workers when they report waste, fraud and abuse. Assembly Bill 1378 will give legislators ...
  • Honest Appalachia launches whistleblower site
    On-line activists in West Virginia have launched a whistleblower web site called Honest Appalachia.  It provides a means for whistleblowers to upload documents for public disclosure. The project’s lead developer, Garrett Robinson, told WFPL that the objective is to help local journali ...
  • FBI has "blackballed" records, violated FOIA
    Truthout reporter Jason Leopold is reporting today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released five pages of a PowerPoint presentation that describe a previously unknown program of "blackballing" records that would not be disclosed in response to requests under the Freedom ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, guest host Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo interviews Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report and host of Black Agenda Radio, about his recent article, “Occupy Wall Stree ...
  • ARB limits SOX protections outside the US
    By a 3-2 vote on a major case, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has limited the application of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) whistleblower protection outside the boundaries of the United States. The case is Villanueva v. Core Laboratories, NV, ARB No. 09-108, ALJ No. 20 ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians ...
    Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what's happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they'd better pass Hollywood's fa ...
  • ESA Tucks Its Tail Between Its Legs And Pulls ...
    The SOPA protests certainly seem to be having their desired effect. We have already seen both SOPA and PIPA shelved, while support within the House and Senate is eroding fast. And now that support is eroding outside Congress, as well. The ESA is the first industry trade group to see the writing ...
  • DailyDirt: Cooking Up Some Mystery Meat
    Protein is protein to some folks. But not all protein comes from happy soybeans or chicken eggs. Domesticated animals are pretty tasty sources of meat, but the treatment of farmed vertebrates is distasteful to some people. Here are just a few interesting links on cooking meaty meals. Squirr ...
  • Good Debate On The Unintended Consequences Of ...
    I recently was able to attend an interesting Cato/Techfreedom/CEI debate on the unintended consequences of the rogue website crackdown. The specific focus (not surprisingly) was the debate over SOPA/PIPA, but thankfully some of the debate went further back, to discuss how the government and pri ...
  • Busta Rhymes Backs Megaupload, Says Record Lab ...
    Well, well. As we pointed out when the Megaupload shutdown happened yesterday, the company had recently named top producer (and husband to Alicia Keys) Swizz Beatz as CEO. Swizz knows tons of artists who respect him, and it seems that some of the biggest names in the business are pretty pissed ...

VacTruth

  • Should New “Smart Pill” Be Able To ...
    Shortly there will be a ‘smart pill’ that will be able to transmit information about your body’s insides to a patch on your arm with the information being collected via a Bluetooth connection. Then, here’s another question for the smart pill developers: Can your ‘smart pill’ track vaccines too?
  • Baby Dies After 9 Vaccines in One Day
    Stacy died just one week after her first vaccinations and left her twin sister Lesly behind. Devastated by their loss their parents are convinced that vaccines and hospital failures were the cause of their beautiful daughters death.
  • How Ron Paul Helps You Be a Better Parent
    As the presidential race unfolds, citizens of the United States have been introduced to a handful of individuals who are seeking to be the leader of our nation. Do you know which candidate will help you be a better parent?
  • Healthy 7 Year Old Girl Dies in Mother’s ...
    It has been reported a fit and healthy 7-year-old girl died unexpectedly before Christmas after a flu vaccine. The girl died in her mother’s arms four days after she was given a flu vaccine by her doctor at her annual check up.
  • Was Dr. Andrew Wakefield Right After All?
    Maybe those who were quick to professionally eviscerate Dr. Wakefield ought to listen up to what’s breaking in cutting-edge scientific research regarding autism and intestinal/gut problems associated with children on the autism spectrum.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...
  • Shoot the Messenger
    Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a post about Ron Paul the other day. He featured a clip of Paul talking about the civil war. In the clip, Tim Russert asks Paul about his statement that “Abe Lincoln should never have gone to war. There were better ways; there were better ways of getting rid of slave ...
  • Please Don’t Come
    I’m hearing various rumors that occupiers are planning to descend on the capital for national actions. I don’t want to belabor the points I made in my previous post about activism in DC, but I just have to plead with you. Please don’t come. For the first time since I have been ...
  • Sex, Age, Consent, and Power
    Just after I turned sixteen, I met this guy who would end up being my boyfriend for about a year. He was twenty-two. He didn’t think I was that young at first. I never lied to him, mind you. He just didn’t ask me the night we met. I regularly passed for older in clubs, buying cigaret ...
  • Doorknob Licking?

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • The Birth of CGR Science
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading a study published in November 2011 in Science mag, paywalled of course. It’s called “The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems”, by Burrows et al. (abstract here,  hereinafter B2011). … Continue reading ...
  • Regulatory Czar wants to use copyright protect ...
    Guest Post by Alec Rawls As Congress considers vastly expanding the power of copyright holders to shut down fair use of their intellectual property, this is a good time to remember the other activities that Obama’s “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein … Continue reading →
  • Told ya so: Al Gore + Kilimanjaro = alarmist hype
    I’ve said many times that the claims of receding glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro by Al Gore in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth, and by extension, the claims of Dr. Lonnie Thompson  are nothing more than alarmist hype. The cause, deforestation … Continue reading →
  • Perpetuum Mobile
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since at least the days of Da Vinci, people have been fascinated by perpetual motion machines. One such “perpetuum mobile” designed around the time of the civil war is shown below. It wasn’t until the … Continue reading →
  • NOAA and “climate disasters” &#821 ...
    I got a chuckle out of this new buzzword that NOAA has created in this press release: “climate disasters”. Personally, I think they’ve been caught up the disaster hype. Why? Well, because the term is undefined. It isn’t even in … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Nanofiber Regenerates Blood Vessels
    Regenerating blood vessels is important for combating the aftereffects of a heart attack or peripheral arterial disease, and for ensuring that transplanted organs receive a sufficient supply of blood. Now researchers at Northwestern University have created a nanomaterial that could help the body ...
  • Brain Shrinkage Linked to Smoking, Obesity, Di ...
    People who smoke, are overweight, and have other health problems in middle age may be at increased risk of developing signs of brain shrinkage and diminished planning and organization skills as they age, new research indicates. Other health problems linked to brain shrinkage and mental decline i ...
  • Colon Cleansing May Be Risky, Study Finds
    Colon cleansing, promoted as a natural way to boost well-being, has no proven benefits and may be risky, according to a new report. Ranit Mishori, MD, a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, looked at studies that evaluated colon hydrotherapy or irrigation. She also ...
  • Disease-causing tangle could spawn new materia ...
    When most people hear the word amyloid, they immediately think of Alzheimer’s disease. And indeed, it was in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients that these dense protein masses were first identified. But it turns out that besides playing a role in a number of diseases, amyloids also p ...
  • Recognizing voices depends on language ability
    Distinguishing between other peoples voices may seem like a trivial task. However, if those people are speaking a language you dont understand, it becomes much harder. Thats because you rely on individuals differences in pronunciation to help identify them. If you dont understand the words they ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Partial transcript, Up with Chris Hayes - Sund ...
    I wanted to write about SOPA this week and thought Chris Hayes had a very nice segment on it. Since MSNBC doesn’t provide transcripts of his show I had to provide my own - which crowded out the blogging time. I’ll do a SOPA post next week, referencing this as needed.I did my best t ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Neil I. Turner, 21, of Tacoma, WA.Army Pfc. Michael W. Pyron, 30, of Hopewell, VA.Army Pfc. ...
  • Is Gingrich taking Bain off the table for Romney?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postNewt Gingrich’s recent (and apparently brief) flirtation with attacking Mitt Romney for his time at Bain Capital is already being discussed in traditional election year terms. Some on the right are spinning it as a benefit ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postStill quiet on the drone front. Nothing reported in Afghanistan/Pakistan. This reported in Somalia from Press TV, presented with the usual caveat. Allegations of torture at Bagram; Karzai wants control transferred. The Taliban ...
  • Placeholder
    Non-internet related activities have taken precedence this week.  Back on the weekend (I think).

Organic Consumers.org

  • Pork Industry, for All the Wrong Reasons, Says ...
    Here's one increasingly hostile campaign that the food industry can totally defuse, and it could start tomorrow, with almost guaranteed success. It's the issue of labeling GMOs, food products made with genetically modified ingredients.Click here to read this article
  • 2012's Civil Liberties Apocalypse Has Already ...
    In case you missed it, President Barack Obama has signed a death knell for the Bill of Rights. It's a hell of a way to begin a year many believe will mark the end of the world.Click here to read this article
  • Climate Code Red: Implications of the Arctic P ...
    Of the many "Elephants in the Room" in the climate change debate, none are larger than the potential release to atmosphere of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane contained in the Arctic permafrost.Click here to read this article
  • Fair Trade USA Changes Label Policy
    OAKLAND, Calif. - Fair Trade USA has revised its multiple ingredients policy after considering feedback from stakeholders. Click here to read this article
  • Organic Group Questions Need to Produce More Food
    The government needs to encourage consumers to reform their diets rather than calling on farmers to produce more food, according to a leading European organic group.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • SPRAWL: A Six-Letter Word with a Four-Letter W ...
    Sprawl can be bad, and it can be necessary, depending on the source and the treatment of the land. As the human population grows, how do we reclaim the word sprawl?
  • Decline in U.S. Meat Consumption: Public Healt ...
    According to USDA estimates, per capita meat consumption in the United States nearly doubled between 1930 and 2007. On average, each American today eats about 200 pounds of meat per year, or almost nine ounces per day—roughly twice the global average. With a few exceptions, intake has been on a ...
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Heroes
    Torture, secrecy, genocide, and lies : history in the raw Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Back to a Non-Resilient Future
    The failure to match growth in our dependence on electric power with appropriate investment in the resilience of the infrastructure is a political one. End of January The Islay Energy Trust will publish outline plans for Community Energy Cooperative Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cul ...
  • Haiti: The republic of NGOs? - we ask where bi ...
    If we take the US contribution alone, about 99 per cent of it goes back to the Pentagon, the State Department, the NGOs and the contractors The growth of the republic of NGOs in Haiti began 40 years ago, before that Haiti could feed and clothe itself. Submitted by Sacha Jones to US Politics &amp ...
  • Doctor Exposes Fluoride as Poison
    It is now known thanks to the meticulous research of Dr. Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England that the pineal gland is the primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body. Also, Fluoride is known to have tremendous effects on Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Pol ...
  • 28 Signs That US Public Schools Are Rapidly Be ...
    Our children are being trained how to live as subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state. Today, nearly everything that children do in public schools is watched, monitored, recorded and tracked. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...

Angry Indian News

  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
    Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
    Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
    Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbia ...
    Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • PETA Alleges US Soldiers Took Part in Sheep Be ...
    ShareThisPETA Alleges US Soldiers Took Part in Sheep Beating 18 Jan 2012 Less than a week after Corps officials were forced to deal with an embarrassing video of Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, Army officials are now fielding questions about a new online video that appears ...
  • Bioterror fears halt research on mutant bird flu
    ShareThisBioterror fears halt research on mutant bird flu 20 Jan 2012 Scientists who created a more deadly strain of bird flu have temporarily stopped their research amid fears it could be used by bioterrorists. In a letter published in Science and Nature, the researchers call for an "internatio ...
  • Marine's Iraq killings trial resumes in California
    ShareThisMarine's Iraq killings trial resumes in California 20 Jan 2012 A major war crimes trial resumed Friday with the prosecution showing outtakes of a 2007 "60 Minutes" interview in which a Marine squad leader charged with killing unarmed Iraqis says he was trained to "positively identify yo ...
  • Anonymous claims responsibility for attacks on ...
    ShareThisVideo: Anonymous claims responsibility for attacks on U.S. government and recording industry websites 20 Jan 2012 Hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched a series of attacks on U.S. government and recording industry websites following the takedown of file sharing website MegaUpload ...
  • Two British soldiers arrested over allegations ...
    ShareThisTwo British soldiers arrested over allegations of sex abuse with 10-year-old children while they served in Afghanistan 19 Jan 2012 Two British soldiers are being investigated over claims they sexually abused two Afghan children. A sergeant and a private are alleged to have encouraged a ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • All In: The Education of General David Petraeus
    Dear Friends and Family, After three years of effort, the day has nearly arrived!  My book, "All In:  The Education of General David Petraeus," written with Vernon Loeb, will be released in just one week.  I’ll soon appear on Fox and Friends, CNN,  Jon Stewart's “The Daily S ...
  • CBS Video of MEDEVAC Issue
    20 January 2012 What do you think of Lieutenant General John F. Campbell's remarks in this video? Please click to view.
  • JCS: Curiouser and Curiouser
    19 January 2012 I published a letter that I received from Congressman Todd Akin's office.  Mr. Akin is on the House Armed Services Committee.  According to Mr. Akin's office, HASC received the letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  After I published the letter, I read an email t ...
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff: Bogus Report to Congress
    19 January 2012 The Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a bogus letter on MEDEVAC to the House Armed Services Committee.  The JCS letter is so filled with errors and deceptions that it has taken more than a week for me to respond.  The JCS directly refutes my work on MEDEVAC. Thirteen pilots ...
  • Congressman Akin MEDEVAC Letter to SecDef
    You can download a pdf version here.

The Killing Train

  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
  • An interview for occupy Toronto
    Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
  • The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
    The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
  • The Housing Crisis in Haiti
    There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which proposes to resettle residents of 6 large camps in 16 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince. In total, if the program succeeds, it will touch 5000 families, or 4% of the ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court rejects interim Texas redistrict ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled Friday rejected [opinion, PDF] Texas's interim redistricting maps. The emergency appeal [JURIST report] challenged an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a separate map drawn up by the state ...
  • Germany prosecutors: convicted Nazi criminal s ...
    [JURIST] The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office [official website, in German] filed a motion on Thursday to jail Klaas Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands in 1947 of Nazi war crimes. He is one of the last on the Simon Wiesenthal Center [advocacy website ...
  • Ethiopia court convicts three journalists, two ...
    [JURIST] The Ethiopian Federal High Court [official website, in Amharic] on Thursday convicted three Ethiopian journalists, a political opposition leader and a politician's assistant for conspiring to commit acts of terrorism in violation of the country's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009 [tex ...
  • Pakistan PM appears in court on contempt charges
    [JURIST] Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] honored a summons issued by the Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] by appearing Thursday to answer contempt charges brought by the court earlier this week [JURIST report]. Gilani was ordered to appe ...
  • China court sentences rights activist to priso ...
    [JURIST] Chinese authorities on Wednesday sentenced a prominent rights activist to 10 years in prison, marking the third such sentence in a month. Dissident Li Tie was sentenced for subversion [BBC report]. The charges were brought in response to pro-democracy articles Li wrote in 2010. Li profe ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Obama Got Us Out of Iraq, but Voters Just Don' ...
    Although it was a signature issue for Sen. Obama during his campaign, President Obama won't get much political capital for following through on his promise. The leitmotif of Sen. Barack Obama's early presidential campaign was the inherent wrongness of the war in Iraq and how it represente ...
  • U.S. Drone That Went Down in Iran Was High-Tec ...
    The drone that Iran claims to have shot down was a stealth RQ-170 "Sentinel" The RQ-170 "Sentinel," a stealth unmanned U.S. drone / Wikimedia Commons The super-secret drone that Iran claims to have recovered was on a CIA "Focal Point" mission, gathering intelligence and likely crash ...
  • A Hot Flash in the Cold War With Pakistan
    A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...
  • Mitt Romney Ramps Up Attacks on Obama
    Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...
  • Newt's Gift to Obama: A GOP Immigration Rift
    With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Republican National Committee Endorses Elimina ...
    Not only does Newt Gingrich believe there’s no such thing as a Palestinian people, the Republican National Committee does as well.  That mean that 20 years of bipartisan agreement between political parties and the foreign policy of presidents both Republican and Democratic, has been overtu ...
  • Bruce Riedel: Netanyahu’s Goal is ‘Regime Chan ...
    Earlier this week, Brookings Institution scholar Bruce Riedel spoke (listen to audio here) at an Atlantic Council Iran symposium.  He made some very incisive comments which are worth mentioning.  First, he began his remarks with the colorful phrase which fittingly integrated the world political ...
  • Israeli Attorney General Expects to Indict Lie ...
    Born in Moldova in the former Soviet Union, Mr. Lieberman also commands the loyalty of many of the one million Israelis who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union and tend toward rightist nationalist politics.Mr. Lieberman…is highly pessimistic about democracy’s evolving in the Arab ...
  • New Pro-Israel Hasbara Meme: Blackwashing
    You’ve heard of pinkwashing, greenwashing–now “blackwashing” joins the cast of pro-Israel hasbara communities exploited in order to combat the major criticisms of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.  Pinkwashing is the effort to promote Israel to the gay community in ...
  • Which is Worse Israeli Enemy? Hezbollah, Hama ...
    Of all the enemies facing the State of Israel, or more specifically Bibi Netanyahu (but why distinguish between the two–aren’t they identical?), who do you think he would single out as the most dangerous: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Turkey?  None of the above.  His worst enemies are two ...

If Americans Knew

  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...

David J. Gregory

  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How to Create a Minimalist Map Design With Ope ...
    Mapping can be as much about choosing what data not to include as to include, so you can best focus your audience on the story you are telling. Oftentimes with data visualization projects, the story isn't about the streets or businesses or parks, but rather about the data you're trying to layer ...
  • How Public Lab's Thermal Flashlight Could Impr ...
    In December, Public Laboratory members made themselves a "public lavatory." Six members of the online DIY science community gathered in the well-appointed, but small bathroom of staff member Liz Barry with the lights off -- for citizen science. Two staff members (Leif Percifield and Jeff Wa ...
  • Why Unions Should Not Support SOPA
    A version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog. I was supposed to speak on a panel about SOPA recently with the Northeast chapters of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. It was to serve as an educational discussion ...
  • NextDrop's Dashboards Look Great, But Mobile C ...
    One year ago, when we were just a team of graduate students with a big idea, our teammate Thejo Kote came to Hubli, India and demoed a web-based dashboard to the executive engineer and commissioner here. The dashboard uses Google Maps to show the status of valves and other system components in r ...
  • The Top 10 Data-Mining Links of 2011
    Overview is a project to create an open-source document-mining system for investigative journalists and other curious people. We've written before about the goals of the project, and we're developing some new technology, but mostly we're stealing it from other fields. The following are s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Oil Addiction - Labor Union Leaves BlueGreen A ...
    The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) left the BlueGreen Alliance Friday, citing a disagreement with the group’s members over the Keystone XL pipeline. LIUNA, a vocal Keystone supporter, took aim at other unions for opposing the project. “We’re repulsed by some of our suppos ...
  • Afghanistan on Edge - France Suspends Afghan M ...
    France has suspended its military operations in Afghanistan and may withdraw its force from that country after an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops and wounded several others. The French government has described Friday's attack against the soldiers as an assassination. French officials ...
  • Cyber Wars - The Hack on Stratfor
    In early December I received a call from Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice president of intelligence. He told me he had received information indicating our website had been hacked and our customer credit card and other information had been stolen. The following morning I met with an FBI special agent ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Hamas Seeks a New Patron
    The emergent winner of the Arab upheavals of 2011 is Sunni Islamism. This is reflected most centrally in the election results in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extreme Salafi trend have won a landslide victory. Arab Sunni Islamist regimes are set to emerge in the period ahead a ...
  • The Arab Fall in Egypt - If Tourists Can Wear ...
    The answer to that headline is, “No. But seeming to answer ‘yes’ proves the West is hypocritical about supporting human rights.”Oh, wait, what if a democratically elected government decides to enforce such a system in a law legally passed by a democratically elected government? I guess that’s ju ...

High Country News

  • Picking ranchers' brains, from Colorado to Mon ...
    Colorado State University professor Maria Fernandez-Gimenez researches traditional ecological knowledge to better understand how ranchers learn and adapt management practices, form their attitudes and opinions on environmental change, and interact with their neighbors and resource scientists.
  • An Obama-Huntsman ticket would get my vote
    It might be a radical pairing, but if Huntsman ran as Obama's vice president, he'd get this writer's vote.
  • How to find a 13,000 year-old mammoth
    After seeing a drawing of a wooly mammoth in a Utah cave, the author ponders on the possibility they existed along with the humans who inhabited the U.S. Southwest years ago.
  • Getting a ski pass the hard way
    The author wins a season pass at Aspen by "boot-packing" a steep ski slope, which helps reduce the risk of avalanche
  • Resolutions for living smarter in 2012
    We could all live healthier, more fulfilling and sustainable lives if we would try to do more with less.

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • " Arabism Is Dead! Long Live...???"
    By Barry Rubin An editorial in the moderate Lebanese publication, Lebanon Now, reminds us of just how dramatically the Middle East has changed. Many of the arguments and assumptions that governed the Arabic-speaking world for six decades have simply vanished. Others, though, have just been ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama to Register 215,000 Illegal ...
    This election season President Obama plan's to eliminate the middle-man. In an exclusive story from Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller we learn that the President is delaying the deportation of 215,000 illegal immigrants till 2013. He plans to make sure that they are registered and get to vote (Democ ...
  • Can Real Liberalism and the Democratic Party B ...
    by Barry Rubin “I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain’t bad.” – Jack Nicholson as “President Dale” in Mars Attacks. The far left has at least temporarily won the battle of ideas in the United States a ...
  • Asking Some Questions About Democratic Party E ...
    Unless you were stuck in a cave, you probably have already heard about today's big Drudge revelation about Newt Gingrich's second wife giving a supposedly explosive interview to ABC News. Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband's career with a single interview. Earlier this wee ...
  • Gingrich Closes in on Romney in Post Debate Ra ...
    If Newt Gingrich ends up with the GOP nomination he owes Juan Williams a major thank you gift.  In a national Rasmussen poll taken on Tuesday (the day after the Myrtle Beach debate), the former Speaker of the House jumped to within 3% points of Mitt Romney (well within the margin of error). ...

The Real Agenda

  • Ron Paul: “Corporations Run the Media”
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda January 20, 2012 “We are dangerous to the status quo in this country”. That was the opening line with which CNN decided to present presidential candidate Ron Paul last night before the start of the South Carolina debate. The thing is, not even CNN c ...
  • Rick Santorum used his position in Congress to ...
    by Andy Kroll Mother Jones January 20, 2012 Like any good presidential candidate, Rick Santorum heaps praise on America’s soldiers and veterans. He’s pledged to “make veterans a high priority” if elected president, adding, “This is not a Republican issue, this is not a Democratic issue, it is an ...
  • Study links sleep problems to schizophrenia
    by Elizabeth Walling NaturalNews.com January 21, 2012 Getting quality sleep could be a vitally important piece for solving the puzzle of mental health. Previous studies have linked poor sleep to depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and ADHD. Now for the first time, research also shows a strong ...
  • State of Texas air drops rabies vaccines on 7, ...
    NaturalNews.com January 20, 2012 The weaponization of vaccines just took another leap forward in America with the recent air-dropping of rabies vaccines by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Using a battery of small planes based out of Del Rio, Texas recently dropped 1.8 million edib ...
  • Medicamentos contra o câncer tornam tumores ma ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 20 de janeiro de 2012 Quando os defensores da medicina natural questionam os tratamentos tradicionais usados ​​para combater o câncer, incluindo quimioterapia e radiação, as preocupações são muitas vezes dirigidas para o fato de que as terapias podem enfraquec ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm plan canned; Landscape saved, &#8216 ...
    The unique Central Otago landscape was safe from corporate industrialisation after the withdrawal of the $2 billion Project Hayes plan, artist and objector Grahame Sydney said yesterday. Meridian Energy’s 633-megawatt plan was one of the most controversial energy projects in New Zealand and spar ...
  • Duke bails on wind farm plans
    TRAVERSE CITY — Duke Energy Renewables pulled the plug on plans for a wind farm in Benzie and Manistee counties. The company proposed installing wind turbines on about 13,000 acres to generate up to 200 megawatts of output. Duke Energy announced Wednesday it discontinued the project, citing &#82 ...
  • Q&A: Low frequency noise from wind turbines
    The Environmental Protection Agency has revised the Statutory Order on Wind Turbines to include limit values for low frequency noise. The new limit values applies to turbines for which applications are made after January 1st 2012 where the new statutory order entered into force. Link t ...
  • Millions blown paying wind farms to close
    Wind farms are receiving millions of pounds to shut down when the weather is too windy, The Times has learnt. Dozens of onshore facilities shared £25 million last year, a 13,733 per cent increase on 2010, after a particularly blustery year, according to the figures released by National Grid. The ...
  • Objections put Cairngorm wind farm plan on hold
    A controversial wind farm earmarked for the edge of the Cairngorms National Park will be examined at a public inquiry after councillors lodged an objection. RWE-npower Renewables wants to build the 31-turbine Allt Duine wind farm on the Alvie, Dalraddy and Dunachton estates, near Kincraig. The 4 ...

Tippers News

  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Obama to Revive Budget-Cutting Effort
    “In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee to cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion, the White House says.” (CBS) Cuts from future increases, that is. FEE Timely Classic &#8220 ...
  • Government Issues Guide to Stopping Teacher Ch ...
    “The Obama administration is creating a manual showing how schools can fight teacher-led cheating on standardized tests, asking educators to help stomp out ‘testing irregularities.’” (USA Today) Only in the government’s schools. FEE Timely Classic “The Origins of the Public Sch ...
  • The Internet Dodges the SOPA Bullet — fo ...
    Last week the acronyms SOPA and PIPA were unheard of, much less decipherable, by most people.
  • Internet World Sends Message to Washington: Ha ...
    “When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the reliable giants of K Street — the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association of America and, of course, the motion picture lobby, with its new chairman, ...
  • Fed Urges Support for Housing Market
    “Top Federal Reserve officials are prodding the White House and Congress to take more aggressive action to stop the free-fall in the housing market, warning that the U.S. economy will remain sluggish and vulnerable and will not fully recover until housing returns to better health.” ( ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
    With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.
  • The Unsolved Mystery of Agnès Dury
    Four years after a young French aid worker was assassinated in a small Burundian town, family members and coworkers are still pressing for a proper investigation.
  • HIV and AIDS: The End of the Beginning
    A large number of HIV infections have been treated or prevented in the last decade, but in some ways the battle against the global epidemic has just begun.
  • HIV and AIDS: The End of the Beginning
    A large number of HIV infections have been treated or prevented in the last decade, but in some ways the battle against the global epidemic has just begun.
  • Repression of the Press in Cote d'Ivoire
    Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara came into office promising to uphold democracy, but members of the press find themselves under threat.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
    I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do.  Grow the economy sustainably, help the downtrodde ...
  • Ron Paul Hysteria
    So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...
  • Ron Paul Hysteria
    So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...
  • You don’t get the payroll tax “cut”
    There has been much ballyhoo about how there is a payroll tax cut and that an extra $40 per paycheck (every two week) will make a big difference. Sure, if you get to keep it (via Americablog): Some rates will be significantly higher, such as a 27.4% increase to $17 from $13.34 just to receive [...]
  • You don’t get the payroll tax “cut ...
    There has been much ballyhoo about how there is a payroll tax cut and that an extra $40 per paycheck (every two week) will make a big difference. Sure, if you get to keep it (via Americablog): Some rates will be significantly higher, such as a 27.4% increase to $17 from $13.34 just to receive [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
    An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
  • US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
    Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
  • NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
    A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
  • Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
    More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
  • Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
    Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

  • This Is America's Moment, If Washington Doesn' ...
    The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that China has already surpassed the U.S. as an economic power. These views echo those of the punditry, right and left, who see the U.S. on the r ...
  • Mistaking an Aberration for the End of Home Ow ...
    It is well known that home ownership has declined in the United States from the peak of the housing bubble. According to Current Population Survey data, the national home ownership rate fell 2.9 percentage points from the peak of the bubble (4th quarter 2004) to the third quarter of 2011. I ...
  • Florida’s Quick Rebound
    Adding nearly 119,000 people in 2011, Florida has capped a decade of steady population increase  to see the state grow 19% since 2000.  Despite 2009, an historic year where more people left than arrived, the overall net growth of Florida has yielded two additional congressional seats, m ...
  • Fresh Winds Blowing on California High Speed Rail
    For California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project, last week brought plenty of  surprises and challenges.  Dominating the headlines were the resignations of several top officials of the High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA). Among them were board chairman Tom Umberg, CEO Roelof van ...
  • After Seven Million
    An interview in Social Intelligence with Neil Howe on the changing nature of human population growth and its implications for politics, culture, and business. Headlines around the world are trumpeting the United Nations’ announcement that the world population is now hitting seven billion a ...

GM Watch

  • Now glyphosate found in people's urine
    According to an article in German in the Ithaca journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for ...
  • Bio-Lab's untold story
    EXTRACTS: Nicknamed "Extreme Genetic engineering" or "Biohacking," synthetic biology, (or syn-bio) goes Genetic Engineering one better... Synthetic biology is pitched as "cool science" – an enthralling world of lucrative, cutting edge research spearheaded by outsized young vanguardists sporting ...
  • Bio-Lab's untold story
    EXTRACTS: Nicknamed "Extreme Genetic engineering" or "Biohacking," synthetic biology, (or syn-bio) goes Genetic Engineering one better... Synthetic biology is pitched as "cool science" – an enthralling world of lucrative, cutting edge research spearheaded by outsized young vanguardists sporting ...
  • Another Luddite victory
    NOTE: The Scientific Alliance claims to be protecting scientific integrity but it promotes climate scepticism, is headed by a former DuPont PR man, and was founded by ultra-rightwing business interests.  http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Martin_Livermore http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Sci ...
  • Another Luddite victory
    NOTE: The Scientific Alliance claims to be protecting scientific integrity but it promotes climate scepticism, is headed by a former DuPont PR man, and was founded by ultra-rightwing business interests.  http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Martin_Livermore http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Sci ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • The Neil Keenan / “Dragon Family” ...
    The full text of the lawsuit (Case 1:11-cv-08500-JFK, Filed 11/23/11, downloaded from pacer.gov) has been posted at the Divine Cosmos website: This is a civil claim arising out of the concerted, knowing, malicious scheme and international conspiracy engaged in by the Defendants for the designed ...
  • Blackwater, Xe, ACADEMI
    Via: AFP: The US security firm formerly known as Blackwater, which was barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, has renamed itself a second time. USTC Holdings, the investor consortium that acquired ex-Blackwater firm Xe Services in December 2010, announced ACADEMI as the new name and brand ...
  • South Korea: Seoul Skyscraper Resembling Twin ...
    Pic at link. Via: Bloomberg: The design of twin skyscrapers planned for Seoul may be modified in the wake of criticism that a cloud-shaped bridge joining the buildings resembles the explosions that felled the World Trade Center towers. MVRDV, the Dutch architecture firm that drew the plans for t ...
  • MIT Scientists Create Camera That Allows Photo ...
    Via: New York Times / MIT News Office: More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk. Now scientists a ...
  • Multimillion Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Grow ...
    Incredibly, laughably, this piece doesn’t mention things like the U.S. Military’s desire to develop persona management software or Team Themis (HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico): After having spent several months studying those emails and otherwise investigating the industry depic ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...
  • Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
    The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesd ...
  • 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012
    The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how o ...
  • Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Def ...
    I wish that I had an "aha moment" to share with you today, but instead all I have is an "ack moment" to share.  As I was analyzing all of the info coming out of Europe in recent days, I came to the following realization: "Ack! They are actually going to let Greece default!"  The ...
  • If You Are A Blue Collar Worker In America You ...
    Have you ever heard of the dodo bird?  Once upon a time, dodo birds lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.  But if you go there today you won't find any because they are extinct.  Well, if you are a blue collar worker in America today it looks like you are headed [...]

Desertification

  • A swifter reaction from the international comm ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://hornofafricanews.blogspot.com/2012/01/slow-africa-drought-response-cost-lives.html Slow Africa drought response ‘cost lives’ http://youtu.be/8Ofyzq2xQw8 The deaths of up to 100,000 people in the drought-affected Horn ...
  • Many of the victims could have been saved if t ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Charities-Say-Africa-Drought-Aid-Delay-Cost-Tens-of-Thousands-of-Lives-137719078.html Charities Say Africa Drought Aid Delay Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives Two international aid agencies say t ...
  • Food-Secure Africa (IPS)
    Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106497 Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa By Miriam Gathigah A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are som ...
  • Land rights for women and child malnutrition ( ...
    Read at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/jan/20/land-rights-india-women-ease-malnutrition?CMP=twt_fd Land rights for women can help ease India’s child malnutrition crisis Despite progress on many fronts, India’s child malnutrition rate rivals that o ...
  • Combining energy access with anti-poverty proj ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40977&Cr=energy&Cr1= UN calls for combining energy access with anti-poverty projects in Asia Services that combine access to modern energy for heating, cooking and electricity, with measures that generate cash, supplement incomes and ...

The Paper Trail

  • Anniversary of 'Citizens United' decision draw ...
    Two years after a controversial Supreme Court ruling lifted many restrictions on political spending, America’s campaign finance laws have officially become a joke.Stephen Colbert, a comedian who says he wants to be the “president of the United States of South Carolina,” has used the "Definitely ...
  • Haley Barbour's money mission
    Last month, about two dozen deep-pocketed Republicans gathered in New York City to hear a money pitch from then Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.
  • FACT CHECK: Did Gingrich ‘slash’ federal spending?
    Winning Our Future’s new TV ad falsely claims Newt Gingrich “slashed” spending in his four years as House speaker. Federal spending went up 18 percent from 1995 to 2000, the time frame mentioned in the ad.
  • Presidential super PAC spending hits $30 million
    Mitt Romney continues to enjoy a huge advantage in support from “super PACs” overall, but is running about even with a pro-Newt Gingrich group in South Carolina, records show.
  • FACT CHECK: Final four GOP candidates face off ...
    Facts were sometimes used as blunt instruments as the four remaining GOP presidential candidates hammered away at each other in the last debate before Saturday’s South Carolina primary.Santorum and Romney tangled on the Massachusetts health care law. Santorum wrongly claimed it was a “government ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • The Bloody Utopia of JSTREET
    A look at the true nature of the rise of the self proclaimed 'liberal Jewish Lobby' in the U.S.A. or really should we say Zionism-lite. The rallying cry of JSTREET seems to be gathering up an increasing numbers of support ac ...
  • The 'pitchfork movement' shuts down Sicily for ...
    Movimento forconi.jpg Report on the struggle of the 'Pitchfork Movement' in Sicily which has seen a major blockades around the island (including the port of Palermo) for the past four days i ...
  • Man in coma loses benefits as he's classified ...
    atos_dr_nick[1].png The government's decision to crack down on the disabled took a bizarre turn this week after a man in a coma was stripped of his benefits - because he'd not handed his fit ...
  • All eyes on Longview: An injury to one is an i ...
    longshore.jpg A call-out to participation in an upcoming conflict in Longview, Washington State. January 14, 2012 Dear friend(s) and comrade(s): We are writing to inform you abo ...
  • EULEN fires all striking workers at ABB Cordoba
    eulen-15-des-010.jpg Outsourcing of workers at the ABB factory in Cordoba is currently being used as the pretext to get rid of militant workers, leading to 34 workers being fired. ...

Free Range International

  • Back in the USSA
    I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
  • The Gladiators
    Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
  • War Groupies
    This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...
  • THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
    Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...
  • EFP’s
    During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home.  The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines.  EFP’s were a big prob ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Michael King (aka Martin Luther King) A RED ED ...
    The “Story Behind the Story” of Martin Luther King is a story of Edomite (Jewish) Hegelian Dialectic in action.  A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK case, actually. It’s the story of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement today.  Edomite agitators funding stooges to “protest” ...
  • Another Christian “Red” (Edomite) ...
    REFLECTING ABSENCE “Reflecting Absence”.  That’s the “official name” given by Israeli citizen and “architect” Michael Arad to the 9-11 memorial in New York.   Is this monument to death harmless and meaningless, or is it a very real and conscious effort b ...
  • WHO IS RICK SANTORUM?
    It’s official – Mormon Mitt Romney and Catholic Rick Santorum accounted for over 50% of the Iowa Caucus Tuesday. How did Santorum surge so quickly and so miraculously?   A clue may be this quote in the “Jewish Daily Forward” : “He takes his religion very seriously,” said ...
  • WHO IS RICK SANTORUM?
    It’s official – Mormon Mitt Romney and Catholic Rick Santorum accounted for over 50% of the Iowa Caucus Tuesday. How did Santorum surge so quickly and so miraculously?   A clue may be this quote in the “Jewish Daily Forward” : “He takes his religion very seriously,” said ...
  • Righteous Blood Part VI – (Attention Chr ...
    PAY ATTENTION ALL CHRISTIANS!!!!!  This is a RED (Edomite) Alert of the highest import!!!  (Does EVERYONE love Raymond?) I submit this is the single most important headline of the last 2000 years!  It doesn’t matter who (or what) is “elected” President.  It doesn’t matter ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring

Scotts Contracting

  • Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
    Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...
  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
  • CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
    UPDATE:  Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market.   Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...
  • Repair It-Don’t Replace It-Concrete Steps
    Repairing Concrete Steps instead of Replacing-Job Notes, Suggestions, and Hints. Whether it is downturn of economy or people choosing to save money, many of my clients are choosing to “Repair rather than Replace” the materials used in the construction of their home or business. If yo ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Obama vs. Netanyahu vs. Ahmadinejad
    Whether Israel was behind the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran last week or not, much indicates that the Obama administration fears that the intent was to spiral things out of control by goading Iranian retaliation. This might explain the unprecedented step by Secretary o ...
  • French President Warns Attack On Iran Could Un ...
    F French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned that a military strike on Iran would "trigger war and chaos in the Middle East."  His comments come days ahead of a European Union debate on possible oil sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program and with tensions seemingly ...
  • Human Rights Lawyer Seifzadeh Refused to Parti ...
    Mohammad Seifzadeh, prominent lawyer and one of the founding members of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, did not participate in his court trial on 11 January 2012, his wife and lawyer Fatemeh Golzar told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. read more
  • Iran confirms death sentence for 'porn site' w ...
    Saeed Malekpour faces imminent execution on basis of confessions he retracted in letter, saying they had been beaten out of him read more
  • اتحاديه اروپا از سرگيری مذاکرات با ايران را تک ...
    دويچه ‌وله:اتحاديه اروپا ادعای مقامات جمهور اسلامی در مورد از سرگيری مذاکرات در مورد برنامه‌های هسته‌ای ايران با اين اتحاديه را تکذيب کرد. يکی از سخنگويان کاترين اشتون، مسئول سياست خارجی اتحاديه اروپا، با رد اظهارنظر مقامات ايرانی گفت: «ما همچنان منتظر پاسخ ايران به نامه‌ای هستيم که در ماه اکتبر ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Recipe for Change in a Post-Carbon World
    http://transitionculture.org/ Book Review-Part V (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 5 and 6 of Fleeing Vesuvius are entitled “Changing the Way We Live” and “Changing ...
  • Surviving the Collapse – Possible Strat ...
    Biochar pellets Book Review-Part IV (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 3 and 4 of Fleeing Vesuvius, “New Ways of Using the Land” and “Dealing with Climate Change,” focus mainly on  local and national strategie ...
  • Money and Energy Scarcity
        Local currency used in Ithaca, NY Book Review-Part III Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) The second part of Fleeing Vesuvius is entitled “Innovation in business, money and finance.” It draws on the main theme of Part ...
  • Peak Oil and the Importance of EROI
    Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Book Review-Part II Obviously getting by without fossil fuels (owing to impending shortages of oil, natural gas and coal) will be an incredibly rude shock for all of us. Our current telecommunication, transportation a ...
  • Bye, Bye Capitalism
    Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Book Review In my experience, there are two main forms anti-corporate resistance can take. The first involves direct confrontation of government and corporate official over their criminal and unethical activities. The hu ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Democratic National Committee Chairwoman decli ...
    OccupyTheIowaCaucuses.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, January 01, 2012 Contact : Stephen Toothman 515-480-5682 stoothman@yahoo.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday people Occupy the Caucus extended an invitation to Democratic National Committee Chairwoma ...
  • Listen to Michael Moore Read 'Gratitude,' the ...
    Excerpted from
  • Christmas ’43
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore My dad had noticed for some years that I no longer wanted to shoot guns. He had taken note of when we boys in the neighborhood had stopped playing War. I didn’t know much about his time as a Marine in the South Pacif ...
  • Pietà
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I was lost. I had paused for perhaps too long to inspect the statues in the hallways and the Rotunda, bronzed and marbled renditions of an odd assortment of great and not-so-great Americans: Will Rogers, Daniel Webster, G ...
  • Taxes (and Pepper Spray) Are for the Little Pe ...
    The New York Daily News reported on December 5th, 2011 that Brookfield Properties -- taking its cue from Leona Helmsley -- owes New York City $139,000 in back taxes. Brookfield is the owner of Zuccotti Park, site of the original Occupy Wall Street encampment, and one of the main forces behind it ...

Salon

  • Creeping authoritarianism on Capitol Hill
    On the day Occupy Congress came to Washington, I tagged along with seven Bard College students who went to talk to their representative, first-term Republican Chris Gibson from the 20th Congressional District of New York.  Listening to Gibson defend his vote for the National Defense Authorizatio ...
  • The “appeasement” parrots of the GOP
    With the country still struggling to pull itself out of an economic recession, foreign policy has not rated the highest among issues discussed by the Republican presidential candidates. But among those foreign policy issues that have been debated, one has dominated the agenda: Iran. And other th ...
  • Colbert assesses GOP primary insanity
    Last night on "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert checked in with the Republican candidates for president and took stock of the nominating contest. The verdict: It's been a weird few days for the Republican Party, huh? Mitt Romney, who looked like the inevitable nominee after a pair of victori ...
  • Zbig: Israelis “bought influence” ...
    Zbigniew Brzezinski’s new book, "Strategic Vision," imagines a world without American power. He envisions profound instability, faltering international cooperation and weak states falling prey to their more dominant neighbors. Describing the dystopia that would emerge if America goes under is a ...
  • Our selective stance on bigotry
    If they have any value at all anymore, presidential election campaigns at least remain larger-than-life mirrors reflecting back painful truths about our society. As evidence, ponder the two-sided debate over Republican candidate Ron Paul and bigotry.One camp cites Paul's hate-filled newsletters ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Vermont Yankee Lives to Power Another Day
    The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, supplier of 73% of Vermont's emission-free electricity (and approximately one-third of the state's total electricity), won its day in federal court today, thus granting it the right to keep the doors open and the lights on (for the rest of the state).
  • Avoiding a Natural Gas Bridge to Nowhere
    Just as the history of unconventional natural gas production in America was fundamentally shaped by government support
  • EDF’s Utility Proposal Could Scale Up Distribu ...
    The California Public Utility Commission is accepting comments through January 25 and holding workshops February 8-10 on a proposal by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to create the nation’s first statewide on-bill repayment (OBR) program for energy efficiency and solar energy upgrades to be fin ...
  • A Surprising Call From The Investment Community
    A recent report from a UN session on climate risk and energy solutions had a leading speaker at the event argue that "Putting a price on climate-warming carbon emissions, which has been instituted in parts of Europe and elsewhere with limited success, would be “nice to have” but not essenti ...
  • Playing Games with US Energy Security
    Well, that didn't take long. The administration issued its decision denying the Keystone XL Pipeline application today, rather than using the remaining 34 days in the Congressionally mandated timeline to attempt to find a better solution. This is a prime example of what frustrates so many Americ ...

EU Times

  • Romania Police Fire Teargas at Rally
    Romanian police have fired teargas canisters at demonstrators protesting against the government’s austerity measures in the Romanian capital Bucharest. On Thursday, the police arrested about 50 people, who allegedly threw bricks and bottles and other materials at them. Earlier on the day, ...
  • Hollywood threatens Obama over SOPA
    If you see the White House invaded by aliens, blown up by laser beams or bombed by terrorists in any of the big summer blockbusters this year, consider it a subtle hint to the Oval Office by way of Hollywood. After US President Barack Obama demanded revamped provisions in the controversial Stop ...
  • Rick Perry Quits Republican Presidential Race
    Republican presidential hopeful, Rick Perry has decided to drop out of the White House race and endorse former House speaker Newt Gingrich, US media reports says. The South Carolina -Texas governor has called for a press conference at 11 am in North Charleston on Thursday to announce the news to ...
  • Russia to hold US accountable for loss of Phob ...
    Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency, named the main versions, which became the reasons for the failure of the nation’s Phobos Ground Mars exploration project. US officials stated that the US government was in no way connected with the breakdown of the spacecr ...
  • Megaupload.com Shutdown, its Founder Arrested
    Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws. The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated f ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • On Anniversary of Citizens United, a Look at C ...
    Tomorrow will mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC . The justices voted 5-4 that corporations and unions had First Amendment rights to spend as they pleased to favor or oppose candidates. A lot has happened since then, including several legal c ...
  • General Electric Tops Profit Estimates, Whiffs ...
    Image by Getty Images via @daylife Fourth-quarter earnings season is in its early stages, but already a number of big names from Corporate America have issued better-than-expected reports with a a few flaws. The latest of those came Friday morning, when General Electric booked an 11% gain in op ...
  • Absinthe iOS 5.0.1 iPad 2 & iPhone 4S Jailbrea ...
    Untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S is few hours away from release. Pod2g has revealed the name of the new tool that will jailbreak A5 devices. It’s called Absinthe, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S 5.0.1 jailbreak tool. Tool is developed by the Chronic Dev Team and it is expected to re ...
  • L.A.: The Beautiful Kate Beckinsale @ "Underwo ...
    Photo Credit: WENN The new year has definitely started with a big bang for Kate Beckinsale seeing how this is already her second release. " Contraband ," alongside co-star & ubiquitous tough-guy Mark Wahlberg, hit theaters last week. As for her latest film " Underworld: Awakening ," it’ ...
  • Chris Graham: Breaking down the McDonnell-Romn ...
    The cynic’s view could be that Bob McDonnell is jumping on the Mitt Romney bandwagon with his endorsement today of presumptive GOP presidential nomination frontrunner Mitt Romney. If you believe that Romney is not only the frontrunner but the all-but-declared nominee, then the Virginia governor ...

Groklaw

  • Lamar Smith: Why we need a law against online ...
    A great deal of misinformation about the bill has been spread around the Internet. This information does a disservice to consumers, and it is being disseminated by those who have profited from working with illegal websites that steal and sell America's intellectual property. For instance, Goog ...
  • PIPA/SOPA debate: Where do the GOP candidates ...
    Thursday night's Republican primary debate in South Carolina, the four remaining candidates largely sought to draw contrasts, sharply attacking one another over issues both policy-oriented and personal. But in asking their views on the House's Stop Online Piracy Act, CNN moderator John King hom ...
  • Reid Statement On Intellectual Property Bill
    "In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act. "There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved. Counterfeiting and piracy cost the American economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs each year ...
  • The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Autho ...
    But if you look at the end-user license agreement (EULA) for iBooks Author, accessible via the app's About box, the following bold note appears at the top: "IMPORTANT NOTE: If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a "Work"), you may only sell or d ...
  • MPAA Chief Chris Dodd 'Hurt,' Defends His Pira ...
    THR: To pass this bill needs 60 votes in the Senate to get cloture. Some say now you don't have the votes and this legislation can't be passed. What do you think? Dodd: We may not. I don't know the answer to that. I'm not in the business now of counting. All I can do is rely on what other peopl ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Agents Provocateurs?
    Handing the US government further justification for its ongoing crackdown on the Internet: Gizmodo reports that in response to the Feds shutting down the extremely popular file-sharing site MegaUpload, the “Hacktivist” collective “Anonymous” have shut down the websites of the main corporate copy ...
  • The Freeway Blogger explains how to make signs
    The signs are made by painting cardboard white and lettered by tracing with an overhead projector. I use a one inch foam brush and cheap black paint to fill them in and you wouldn’t believe how quickly it goes once you get the hang of it. [...]
  • TSA: what they’ve done for you lately (re-revi ...
    Untitled (Children with Carnival Carts and Suitcases), 1934. Joseph Cornell, American (Smithsonian American Art Museum) Here’s what our friends at TSA list in their Week At A Glance covering the period between January 9th and 15th, 2012: 4 artfully concealed prohibited items found at check ...
  • Romney, Gingrich, Paul: SOPA is a threat to fr ...
    Gingrich: “The idea that we’re going to preemptively have the government start censoring the Internet on behalf of giant corporations’ economic interests strikes me as exactly the wrong thing to do.” Romney: “The law as written is far too intrusive, far too expansive, far too t ...
  • Contextly. Relevant links for WordPress
    Contextly takes a new approach to having relevant links at the bottom of a blog post. Rather than attempting to find links based on the title of the post and the content, it lets you choose them. You can have internal links from the blog and external links as well. The interface is easy [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
  • 2012: A good year to boycott Sabra (& Shatila) ...
    I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the September 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As some of you may know, my company, Just World Books, will soon be publishing a reissued version of former WaPo journo Jon Randal's classic 1 ...
  • J. Alterman's on America and Egypt
    Jon Alterman has an op-ed in the NYT that has some good sense in it but also some very troubling ideas and policy prescriptions. Alterman is quite right to note that by far the most important thing that's happening in Egypt right now is not the confrontations or lack of them in Cairo's very vis ...
  • Democracy and human rights in Libya??
    I just caught up with this piece by the Guardian's Chris Stephen in Tripoli. (H/T B of MofA.) Tell me again why anyone ever thought that NATO missiles were capable of somehow 'delivering' democracy and a system of respecting basic human rights in Libya? Stephen writes of the country's current ...
  • Mrs. Peled and the Palestinian homes of West J ...
    I am delighted that my company, Just World books, is publishing Miko Peled's intimate and thought-provoking memoir The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. (We're already taking advance orders though the book won't be available before the end of February.) Miko has been giving out ...

frogblog

  • Day 7 — Serenity to accept that I cannot ...
    I’ve cycled 120km in one day before. Once, when I was 23. It was exhausting then, though I didn’t have much weight on my bike and hadn’t spent the previous week cycling five to eight hours a day. Oh, and I was probably fitter, too.  Eight years later, I thought if there were en ...
  • Day 6 – just 110km or so to go
    I’m nearly in Southland, having traversed coastal Otago, and headed west into the strong winds this evening. I left beautiful Karitane this morning, after an incredible breakfast that included gluten free pancakes made by my exceedingly generous hosts. The morning was cool and overcast, pe ...
  • General debate, January 20, 2012
  • Day 5 — Serendipity and Community
    You know when things don’t go as planned, and it unexpectedly  works out much better? That was my day today. (Long distance solo bike journeys, in my experience, have this seemingly magical effect… Though I’m sure there’s nothing supernatural about it.) The plan was to cy ...
  • Good news for landlords, not for renters
    Hey guys, guess what? GOOD NEWS! TradeMe Property has analysed house rental listings for the last three months and determined that tenant demand is up. The number of enquiries from potential tenants about rental properties in the December quarter was up 13 percent since the same time in 2010. Gr ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • No Matter What the FDA Says - Clear This Out o ...
    By Dr. Mercola On December 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly posted a notice in the Federal Register that it was effectively reneging on its plan to reduce the use of antibiotics in agricultural animal feed – a plan it has been touting since 1977. Now, with virtually no ...
  • As Bad as Cocaine and Amphetamines - Will Auth ...
    By Dr. Mercola Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has issued controversial draft guidelines that could put parents' right to choose whether or not to medicate their children with ADHD at risk. There are clearly many superior alternatives for addressing ADHD tha ...
  • Never Do This with Your Teeth - No Matter How ...
    By Dr. Mercola After enormous public pressure from scientists, dentists, health professionals, and consumers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) promised to make an announcement about dental amalgam by the end of 2011. Dental amalgam, of course, is composed 50% of the dreadful ...
  • Be Careful of 'Green' Cleaning Products as the ...
    By Dr. Mercola Demand for safe "green" cleaning products is on the rise, as consumers are increasingly unwilling to risk their health for the sake of a "clean" home. The truth is, most cleaning products on the market are toxic chemical cocktails, and when you spritz your bathtub or kitchen ...
  • New Warning About Manicures, Piercings and Tattoos
    By Dr. Mercola About 4.4 million Americans are living with chronic hepatitis -- and most of them have no idea they have it. A new study has shown that customers in nail salons could be putting themselves at risk for the deadly disease.  Many nail salons use sharp instruments, which carr ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Evidence of attack’ discovered where Indian c ...
    An Awá man whose uncontacted relatives were victims of an alleged attack by loggers © Survival An investigation into the reported killing of an uncontacted Indian child by loggers, has uncovered disturbing ‘evidence of an attack’ deep in the Amazon forest. The findings suggest loggers were ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Let calm reason, not rhetoric, prevail on Gateway
    The proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, intended to funnel heavy oil from northern Alberta through the Rocky Mountains to the British Columbia coast, could turn out to be one of two things.
  • The upbraided captain and the call of duty
    There seems no end recently to opportunities to reflect on why it is always better - personally, nationally and internationally - to behave responsibly.
  • West Island commuters deserve better service
    Clifford Lincoln may have been a little over the top in his characterization of West Island commuter-rail service. "A Third World situation," he called it in a Gazette interview this week.
  • Legal pot: political stunt or idea whose time ...
    Every weekday morning, the members of The Gazette's editorial board meet to discuss issues of the day and in particular what topics to consider for the next day's editorial. On Tuesday, in the wake of the federal Liberal Party voting at its convention in Ottawa on the weekend to call for the leg ...
  • Stopping the 'trend' of sex-selected abortions
    Refusing a woman information about the sex of her fetus is the wrong way for Canada to try to stop a trend toward sex-selected abortions - if in fact there is such a trend.

Food World Order

  • 1/19 binge & purge: fakes, fads & gmo omg!
    Celebrity Chef Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed Hi-Fats* Video: Deen Has Diabetes* Anthony Bourdain slams 'most dangerous woman to America'* Many Restaurants Fake it as Demand for Organic Food Rises* 'Put An Egg On It': 5 Ways to Embrace the Breakfast-for-Dinner Trend* GMO OMG! ...
  • A Gut Check for Many Ailments
    from wsj: What you think is going on in your head may be caused in part by what's happening in your gut. A growing body of research shows the gut affects bodily functions far beyond digestion. Studies have shown intriguing links from the gut's health to bone formation, learning and memory and ev ...
  • BASF to Stop Selling Genetically Modified Prod ...
    from nytimes.com: BASF, the German chemical group, has abandoned efforts to sell genetically modified products in Europe, including its Amflora potato, because of overwhelming opposition to the technology, the company said Monday. “There is still a lack of acceptance for this technology in ...
  • portland's food creatives expand restricted di ...
    from oregonlive.com: For diners at Northeast Portland's Natural Selection, the seasonal, vegetarian, mostly vegan, often gluten-free restaurant doesn't always go far enough. "I had one person call who couldn't have any sugar of any kind, natural or refined," says chef Aaron Woo. "I said I c ...
  • apple juice made in america? think again
    from inquirer: Americans are finding some surprises lurking in U.S. government about where the food they eat comes from. One food revelation came when low levels of a fungicide that isn’t approved in the U.S. were discovered in some orange juice sold here. It was then revealed that Brazil, ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...
  • Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
    The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesd ...
  • 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012
    The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how o ...
  • Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Def ...
    I wish that I had an "aha moment" to share with you today, but instead all I have is an "ack moment" to share.  As I was analyzing all of the info coming out of Europe in recent days, I came to the following realization: "Ack! They are actually going to let Greece default!"  The ...
  • If You Are A Blue Collar Worker In America You ...
    Have you ever heard of the dodo bird?  Once upon a time, dodo birds lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.  But if you go there today you won't find any because they are extinct.  Well, if you are a blue collar worker in America today it looks like you are headed [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • 371,000: The number of "beneficial to the econ ...
    These are hard times for the economy, not just of Britain but for most of Europe and the Western world. So, while you're sat there - unemployed - in a miserable rain soaked Rochdale or Margate, don't you ever say to yourself: "Sod this for a game of soldiers! We're in the EU now! I can sig ...
  • The British TV Enigma of the Inescapable Jacqu ...
    Jacqui Smith - we all remember her. Jackbooted, totalitarian Home Secretary who was hellbent on turning Britain into a concentration camp within a police state while personally committing expenses fraud and getting the British taxpayer to pay for filthy films for her husband to jerk off over. ...
  • Hello Europe, Nigel Farage calling...
    And still the people of Europe stood by and did nothing. Remember watching all those war films and asking yourself: "Why did nobody stand up and say something?" Well, why is Nigel Farage the only one standing up and saying something?
  • ITN News asks: Is this the ghost of Diana?
    Keep in mind that we are big supporters of Diana and about the only way one can get banned from our comments board is by saying nasty things about our Princess... Ahem! Have a look at this, posted an hour ago by ITN News: Now, no matter what you think of that video clip our point is t ...
  • Now Hungary joins the list of countries where ...
    A number of we British patriots have been burning the EU flag in mostly small scale, private rituals for quite some time. Last year, a number of people attending a major demonstration in Greece blew us out of the water when EU flags with Nazi swastikas placed in their centre were photographed ...

Facing South

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 4 New Professionally Done Ubuntu Adverts[Official]
    Canonical is slowly stepping up its marketing pitch. When you look back at the history of Ubuntu, you will see that Canonical has invested almost nothing into any sort of serious Ubuntu promotional activities yet. But that is changing. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin release, which is only ...
  • Temple Run for Android Arriving on Feb 2012
    Temple Run is a hugely popular endless-running game which was released for iPhone and iPad in August 2011. Temple Run has already been downloaded more than 20 million times now and there are about 7 million daily active users. It is now the number one free app for iOS platform. Imangi Studios, ...
  • 3 Nice Blender Made Games for Linux
    Blender is known for its 3D creation capabilities worldwide and is widely used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications and games with cutting edge computer graphics. Quite a number of videos and animated movies have already been created using Blender and we hav ...
  • Android 4.0 ICS Inspired GNOME Shell Theme
    More GNOME Shell themes for ya. Following is one of the most distinctive GNOME Shell theme I have seen so far. This particular GNOME Shell theme, aptly named as Ice Cream Shell, is inspired from the latest version of Android OS called Android 4.0 codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. To put it lightly ...
  • Samsung's Profits Soar Powered by its Arsenal ...
    Asia's largest consumer electronics company, Samsung Electronics, is on a roll. Beating all estimates, Samsung reported a record quarterly profit, primarily on back of surging sales of its Galaxy line of Android smartphones. Smartphone shipments were so massive that it completely masked Sa ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NOW AVALIABLE: “THE FOURTH EMPIRE&#82 ...
    THANKS  TO  A  FANTASTIC  TRANSLATION JOB  BY  CLAUDIA  CALVO  THE  FOURTH  EMPIRE  THRILLER  IS  NOW  AVAILABLE  IN  SPANISH. CHECK  IT  OUT  AT: http://elcuartoimperio.uni.me READ  THE  SPANISH  VERSION  OF  THE  FINANCIAL  THRILLER  TODAY  BY  CLICKING  ON THIS  LINK. For donations to support ...
  • WHY I PLAN TO SUE THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT AND ...
    *Government paid researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) tried to have me confined in February 2010 without ever having met me *Presisdent of the LBI is Raiffeisen banker Christian Konrad *Former health minister sits on the board of LBI *Vienna state prosecutors involved in efforts to ...
  • SOPA internet black out code for bloggers
    I couldn’t figure out how to set the code, but here it is for anyone who wants to black out their website or blog in the event of another protest against the SOPA and PIPA internet kill switches. See Infowars for updates: http://www.infowars.com/congress-retreats-on-sopa-and-pipa/ Thanks t ...
  • SPRINGER SMEAR MACHINE FAILS TO OUST GERMAN PR ...
    Germany’s main corporate media smear machine, the Springer Verlag, has failed to oust President Christian Wulff from his position. Springer’s news outlets, Bild and Die Welt, launched an unprecedented barrage of attacks against Wulff on December 13th, 2011, blowing a small house credit deal out ...
  • ANTI SEMITISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD IN GERMANY A ...
    *Facebook protests Vienna Professor Franz Hörmann’s links to Anti Semititic movement *Hitler’s Mein Kampf to reappear on German newsstands *German politics professor praises Hitler’s racist trash as proof of “systematic thinker in Die Welt Vienna University Professor Fran ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
    Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating pol ...
  • Exposed: Deadly Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Cancer drugs, pushed by many drug companies as the only ‘scientific’ method of combating cancer alongside chemotherapy, have been found to actually make cancer worse and kill patients more quickly. The findings come after research was conducted on the cancer drugs ...
  • McCain, Bachmann Confronted Over ‘Incident’
    By Victor Thorn Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) knows the truth about what happened to the USS Liberty, because his father was directly involved in the cover-up. During a Jan. 4 interview with AFP, James Morris, the editor of a news and commentary website entitled “America Hijacked,” referenced a mon ...
  • Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No ...
    The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the morning of January 13, explaining that there is no weapons threat from Iran’s fully safeguarded nuclear power and research ...
  • Amish Men Jailed — “We’re Just Not ...
    Heather Callaghan Activist Post Mayfield, KY has a real problem with hooligan Amish men repeatedly breaking the laws. Sheriff DeWayne Redmon said, “We’re citing them for their own safety as well as the safety of others.” Graves county in Mayfield boasts the most Amish arrests o ...

Veterans Today

  • How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans
    As a result of cutbacks and declining quality in care, the suit claimed, the suicide rate at the Home spiked from 59 in 2000 to 131 in 2003
  • Uri Avnery on Israel – Peace versus Raci ...
    Our first job is to break the barriers...change reality, create a new Israeli society. We need blockbusters. Uri Avnery
  • The Key Catalyst for Reform is 9/11 Truth
    Human antipathy to murder is hard-wired. Consider murder mystery novels, TV forensic dramas, sensational news stories, and political murder (assassination). Discovering and prosecuting the guilty, “bringing them to justice” is the goal. Exploring and analyzing antecedents and psychop ...
  • Iran Press TV Removed From U.K-George Galloway ...
    British media regulator OFCOM have removed Iranian Press TV Ltd's broadcasting license, with SKY satellite being the first to remove Press TV .
  • Lucid Derangement
    One would think that if condemned to lose sanity it would be preferable not to be aware of what was happening.

electric politics

  • One of Our Other Cold Wars
    As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...
  • Seeking Economic Truth
    John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...
  • Accelerated Ideas
    When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...
  • Codebreaker
    In celebration of Veterans Day, here's a question: What if the U.S. had lost the battle of Midway? Mercifully, we'll never know. But the U.S. victory could not have happened without the codebreaking skill and the unflinching courage — a relentless determination to be heard — of Joe R ...
  • Made in America
    Since elected officials don't seem so interested, around the country local groups are organizing to promote the reindustrialization of America. One of these is SFMade. Robin McRoskey Azevedo is on the board of SFMade and is also President and owner of the McRoskey Mattress Company of San Francis ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • It's Now or Never for the Castle
    Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Take action TODAY to stop logging of Alberta's Castle Special Management Area, and support its permanent protection. The Castle was announced as a protected area in 1998 ...
  • Casino volunteers needed
    Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Northern Alberta ...
  • Pipe Up About Enbridge's Dirty Pipeline!
    Council of Canadians — Edmonton Chapter 24 Jan 2012 - 08:30 Starting next Tuesday, the public hearings on Enbridge’s destructive tar sands pipeline comes to Edmonton ...
  • Alberta Government kicks public out of protect ...
    Sierra Club Canada 19 Jan 2012 BEAVER MINES: This afternoon, Alberta Government’s Sustainable Resource Development Department (SRD) issued a notice closing part of the popular ...
  • Pembina reacts to Obama administration's denia ...
    Pembina Institute 18 Jan 2012 EDMONTON — Ed Whittingham, executive director at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Obama administration ...

Stop NATO

  • U.S., NATO Actions Make Russia-China Alliance ...
    Global Times January 20, 2012 US actions make China-Russia alliance appealing ==== The US has somewhat defused two powder kegs in the Middle East: Iraq and Afghanistan. It also helped bring about the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslavia. Now it is preparing for a potential confrontation wit ...
  • BRICS Back Russia: Hands Off Iran And Syria
    The Hindu January 19, 2012 Keep off Iran and Syria: Russia Vladimir Radyuhin Russia warned the West against military intervention in Iran and Syria and rejected unilateral sanctions against the two nations. Military action against Iran would have “catastrophic consequences,” Russia’s Forei ...
  • Target Iran: Dystopian, Morally Challenged Wor ...
    Russia & India Report January 20, 2012 Target Iran: The morality of killing nuclear scientists Rakesh Krishnan Simha The serial murder of Iranian nuclear scientists is a pointer to the West’s moral compass. It is also a sign of desperation and double standards. “Physics is an unhealthy line ...
  • U.S. Military Strategy – Is It Really New?
    Strategic Culture Foundation January 20, 2012 U.S. Military Strategy – Is It Really New? Andrei Akulov Edited by RR ==== The idea of having an agile, high-technology, ready-to-move on short notice force is not new. It has been the same concept in force before the protracted land operations in Ir ...
  • Stop NATO news: January 20, 2012
    ==== U.S.-NATO Interceptor System Includes 1,000 Missiles: Russian Official U.S., NATO Have 1,000 Missiles To Intercept Russian ICBMs: Official 67-Nation NATO Military Council Discusses Changes In Middle East U.S. Military Chief Arrives In Israel After NATO Military Meeting Worst-Case Scenario F ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Escalating Cyber War Spells Trouble for Intern ...
    Eric Blair Activist Post January 20, 2012 “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” – Gandhi The cyber war escalated to a whole new level yesterday. The U.S. government shut down the popular website MegaUpload at the behest of corporate interests. The Fedsaccused MegaUpload of stealing $5 ...
  • NASA: 2011 Was Ninth Warmest Year in History
    The Intel Hub January 20, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since at least 1880, according to NASA scientists on Thursday. Nine of the ten warmest years have occurred since the year 2010. An updated analysis released by ...
  • Doda and Vintage: Bringing the Illuminati Agen ...
    Vigilant Citizen January 20, 2012 The Illuminati Agenda in popular culture has become a worldwide phenomenon and it hasn’t spared Eastern Europe. Doda’s “Bad Girls” and Vintage’s “Trees” are two examples of very symbolic music videos that are extremely popular in Russia and Poland. We’ll look at ...
  • Beating Up on Chavez
    The Intel Hub By Stephen Lendman January 20, 2012 Since inaugurated in February 1999, he’s faced open US hostility, including by go-along major media scoundrels. New York Times writer Simon Romero‘s among them. On January 6, he and William Neuman played both Chavez and Iranian cards ...
  • New Scientists May Unleash Censored Weaponized ...
    The Intel Hub By Anthony Gucciardi – Natural Society January 20, 2012 The United States government recently blocked virologist Ron Fouchier from releasing the blueprints to develop heavily weaponized H5N1 bird flu virus thanks to pressure stemming from the alternative media, but now a new ...

FRS

  • India: Maoist statement to world-wide friends ...
    CPI(Maoist) Press Release, January 13, 2012:   Revolutionary greetings from CPI (Maoist) to the friends of Indian revolution and well wishers Comrades and Friends,  On 24 November, 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant ...
  • January 24, 2011–DC: Protest the Private ...
    by etucke, Detention Watch Network Please join other DWN members and allies, along with friends from OccupyDC, to protest the private prison corporations who are driving the mass incarceration of people of color in the United States, including nearly 370,000 immigrants every year. The action wil ...
  • Greece so poor families are abandoning their c ...
    by David Collins, Daily Mirror,  11/01/2012  Poverty-stricken families in Greece are so hard up some have abandoned their children. Charities in Athens are reporting a big rise in the number of youngsters dumped by parents unable to make ends meet following the Euro crisis. In one case a four-ye ...
  • Philippines: New People’s Army calls fo ...
    “Establish the People’s Barricade against state brutality” “Advance the revolutionary urban mass movement toward greater victories and contribute to the People’s War” Lucille Gypsy Zabala Brigade Kabataang Makabayan – Metro Manila January 15, 2012 The Kabataang Makabayan- ...
  • Philippines: Police demolition team meets mas ...
    23 hurt in demolition of shanties in San Juan By Jose Rodel Clapano, The Philippine Star, January 12, 2012 MANILA, Philippines – At least 23 persons were hurt when the demolition of shanties along P. Narciso street in Barangay Corazon De Jesus in San Juan City turned violent yesterday morn ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".
  • Dale Farm Video – ‘Green Belt&#821 ...
    On this Christmas Day, like many Christmas Day’s past, I hope to do something good, as opposed to the base level conditioned craving for material crap. So today I give a gift to the residents of Dale Farm, to all Gypsies and Travellers who know all too well the sting of injustice. I only wish ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • President Obama Nixes Keystone Pipeline Ahead ...
    On Wednesday President Barack Obama Killed the Keystone Pipeline that would have ran from Canada to Texas.Contributor: Roy Branson Published: Jan 19, 2012
  • Burger King Announces Home Delivery
    The No. 2 in fast food burger chains, Burger King, has just announced that they will be delivering hot and fresh food straight to your doorstep in a few locations in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. This is a test for these areas.Contributor: Kim Brandow Published: Jan 18, 2012
  • Occupy Gathers in West Portland
    Occupy Portland held neighborhood meetings around the city last weekend, bringing activism into the heart of West Portland and reaching a new audience.Contributor: Cate Patricolo Published: Jan 18, 2012
  • Factbox: Costa Concordia, Titanic Eerie Parall ...
    A comparison factbox look on two luxury cruise ships in the news with striking parallels. One suffered a recent disaster on January 13 hitting a reef. The other famous ship struck an iceberg and will celebrate its centenary this year on April 14-15.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jan 17, 2012
  • Zappos.Com Hack Affects 24 Million Customers
    Zappos.com was hacked and this has left 24 million customers vulnerable. Payment data, such as full credit card numbers, are said to not be affected, but other critical personal information may have been.Contributor: R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen Published: Jan 16, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, January 1 ...
    We've got a delightfully plant-and-animal-heavy Images roundup for you this week, like newly rediscovered monkeys, unbelievably beautiful polar invertebrates (above), gorgeous orchids, and more. Of course, there are also some pretty space pics, because we love them, and you love them, and everyo ...
  • Images of the Week, January 16-20
  • Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Peruvian Burial ...
    An offering of children and llamas Last August in Huanchaquito, a town on the arid northern coast of Peru, the winter winds uncovered six human skulls. A villager alerted Yale University archaeologist Oscar Gabriel Prieto Burmester to the find, and soon thereafter Burmester and his team had une ...
  • A Tiny Transistor Hooks Up To Individual Prote ...
    Listening to lysozymes with one of the smallest transistors ever made Wiretapping an enzyme and listening as it unfolds could shed new light on the way proteins work, allowing researchers to monitor structural changes over a longer period of time than was previously possible. To do it, scientis ...
  • Video: How Flies Somersault to Safety Just Bef ...
    Ever wonder why flies always get away when you try to swat them? It turns out they’re extremely acrobatic. Like, Neo-in-the-Matrix acrobatic. And New Scientist has captured one in near bullet-time to prove it. This video is one of the winners in a contest held by the Flight Artists group at the ...

Veterans Today

  • How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans
    As a result of cutbacks and declining quality in care, the suit claimed, the suicide rate at the Home spiked from 59 in 2000 to 131 in 2003
  • Uri Avnery on Israel – Peace versus Raci ...
    Our first job is to break the barriers...change reality, create a new Israeli society. We need blockbusters. Uri Avnery
  • The Key Catalyst for Reform is 9/11 Truth
    Human antipathy to murder is hard-wired. Consider murder mystery novels, TV forensic dramas, sensational news stories, and political murder (assassination). Discovering and prosecuting the guilty, “bringing them to justice” is the goal. Exploring and analyzing antecedents and psychop ...
  • Iran Press TV Removed From U.K-George Galloway ...
    British media regulator OFCOM have removed Iranian Press TV Ltd's broadcasting license, with SKY satellite being the first to remove Press TV .
  • Lucid Derangement
    One would think that if condemned to lose sanity it would be preferable not to be aware of what was happening.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Will winter pass us by this year?
    As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...
  • 2011 - 9th warmest globally on satellite record
    The Global temperature in December, according to the UAH satellite measure, showed little change from the previous month with an anomaly of +0.127C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.380C abov ...
  • Gales continue to batter Britain
    The Met Office have again warned of severe gales into this evening and overnight across much of Eastern England from the Pennines to the coast, and the Scottish Borders to the Wash. Gusts could reach 70mph in more exposed areas. This comes hot off the heels of yesterday's storm, more powerful ...
  • Weather review of 2011 - a year of extremes
    It has been the most remarkable twelve months since I began forecasting twenty years ago. The brutal weather of last December, which was the coldest since 1890, continued into the New Year, with more widespread disruption due to ice and snow for commuters as people ventured back to work. The ...
  • Fabulous display of Lenticular clouds
    Cloud enthusiasts have been in their element this afternoon by a wonderful display of stationary lens-shaped clouds, called Altocumulus Lenticularis, visible across many parts of Yorkshire. The clouds have formed as stable but moist air has travelled across the Pennines, causing a standing wav ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Axis of Upheaval: Iran-Russia Trade in Own Monies
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper. Vladimir Putin: They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. Factually speaking, the ongoing long-term devaluation trend of the dollar is not in dispute. However, America #1 ...
  • Indonesia Got It Right: A Post-Crisis Success ...
    To say that I didn't rate Indonesia's prospects highly after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 would be an understatement. It was going from one transitory leader to another after Suharto's ouster. Its economy contracted hugely. All the while, various secessionist movements were tearing the ...
  • More "Internet Freedom" Hypocrisy c/o the Yanks
    This post will be brief: I have identified the several contradictions of Hillary Clinton's hoary notion of "Internet Freedom" in a previous co-authored essay. Mind you, that bit of writing even preceded the WikiLeaks dustup which permanently consigned that bit of digital exceptionalism to the sc ...
  • Islamization: Libyan Rebels' Price for Qatari ...
    It may have been a self-serving argument, but hardline leaders in the Middle East who successfully beggared the West on the premiss that even more fundamentalist forces would take over in their stead were not really being disingenuous. Witness Egypt. While wet-behind-the-ears white kids with a p ...
  • Apple & Samsung: Who's Got Whom by the Balls?
    [NOTE: For those who don't get the title, play this AC/DC song.] There are two broad debates going on regarding the current dominance of Samsung in the consumer electronics space. First we have the perennial question about the role of industrial policy for its success. Widely lauded for being a ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...
  • Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
    The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesd ...
  • 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012
    The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how o ...
  • Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Def ...
    I wish that I had an "aha moment" to share with you today, but instead all I have is an "ack moment" to share.  As I was analyzing all of the info coming out of Europe in recent days, I came to the following realization: "Ack! They are actually going to let Greece default!"  The ...
  • If You Are A Blue Collar Worker In America You ...
    Have you ever heard of the dodo bird?  Once upon a time, dodo birds lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.  But if you go there today you won't find any because they are extinct.  Well, if you are a blue collar worker in America today it looks like you are headed [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Romania Police Fire Teargas at Rally
    Romanian police have fired teargas canisters at demonstrators protesting against the government’s austerity measures in the Romanian capital Bucharest. On Thursday, the police arrested about 50 people, who allegedly threw bricks and bottles and other materials at them. Earlier on the day, ...
  • Hollywood threatens Obama over SOPA
    If you see the White House invaded by aliens, blown up by laser beams or bombed by terrorists in any of the big summer blockbusters this year, consider it a subtle hint to the Oval Office by way of Hollywood. After US President Barack Obama demanded revamped provisions in the controversial Stop ...
  • Rick Perry Quits Republican Presidential Race
    Republican presidential hopeful, Rick Perry has decided to drop out of the White House race and endorse former House speaker Newt Gingrich, US media reports says. The South Carolina -Texas governor has called for a press conference at 11 am in North Charleston on Thursday to announce the news to ...
  • Russia to hold US accountable for loss of Phob ...
    Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency, named the main versions, which became the reasons for the failure of the nation’s Phobos Ground Mars exploration project. US officials stated that the US government was in no way connected with the breakdown of the spacecr ...
  • Megaupload.com Shutdown, its Founder Arrested
    Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws. The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated f ...

Voiceless Victim

  • You Ensured We Never Had A Chance
    This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...
  • More Damning Evidence Vatican Couldn’t G ...
    The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...
  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
  • State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
    The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...
  • Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
    Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...

WL Central

  • 2012-01-19 Almanza #Manning Pretrial IO FB Fri ...
    Tweet Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, the Investigating Officer at Manning's Article 32 Pretrial Hearing is an "impartial fact finder". Please disregard the rumor that he is a career prosecutor at the Department of Justice (since 2002, the year he received his license); or that the Department of Justice ...
  • Don't Shoot the Messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks, a free press publishing and media organisation, has revealed human rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in governments across the world. Yet the US Administration wants to close WikiLeaks down and prosecute its founder Julian Assange. International financial services organi ...
  • 2011-01-19 US Command 'Clinton, Gates too expe ...
    Tweet Manning's defense lawyer, David Coombs reports that Colonel Carl R. Coffman Jr., the Commander of Joint Base Myer and the Special Court Martial Convening Authority, [*pictured to the left] denied the defense's request to conduct oral depositions of nine essential witnesses including forme ...
  • 2012-01-17 Poetry of Master Sgt. Adkins, highe ...
    Tweet Ucityreview.com says "Paul David Adkins grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He attended Mercer and Washington University. He lives in New York."  Borderlinepoetry.com says, "Paul David Adkins grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He entered the Army in 1991 and has served in Iraq three ...
  • 2012-01-16 #WikiLeaks News: Updates on Julian ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News Information about media coverage of Julian Assange’s Supreme Court extradition appeal, o ...

U N News

  • El Salvador must address social inequality to ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today on El Salvador to address its socio-economic inequalities and advance rule of law reform to ensure its citizens can experience positive and tangible results from the peace process that was initiated 20 years ago at the end of its civil war.
  • Guatemala ratifies UN-backed treaty banning nu ...
    Guatemala has ratified the United Nations-backed international treaty banning nuclear tests, bringing the number of State parties to 156.
  • On anniversary of deadly quake, UN urges conti ...
    As Haiti marks the second anniversary of the massive earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people and devastated an already poverty-stricken country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged continued international support for recovery and rebuilding.
  • Violence against women: Prevention, protectio ...
    It is a lesser known reality of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January 2010 and left more than 200,000 dead. The merciless disintegration of the Haitian State created a situation of utter chaos for the country's most vulnerable.
  • Haiti: UN urges investing in water and sanitat ...
    Dramatic improvements in water and sanitation services are needed to eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, health experts who took part in a United Nations-organized briefing to outline concrete steps to stem the spread of the disease in the region said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • She’s Alive . . .
    She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage, agonizing conclusions.
  • Man Swarm: the slaughtering of the world’s wil ...
    By Frosty Wooldridge A book review: Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman Part 1 of 5: Humans devastating habitat and poisoning it The Bible said, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it and take dominion over all living things on land and in the seas.”At the time ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Piety, ...
    Perhaps the two topmost organizing dares before the wilderness and wildlife network today are to grow our web of friends among those who are politically middle-of-the-road or even slightly to the right, and among those in small towns and the hinterlands.  Too often we think the only field where ...
  • Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)
    Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James on Vimeo. Is fear of the “Dirty Oil” label behind Canada’s tarring of Artist’s European tour? What lengths will the Canadian Government go to ensure that oil from the Alberta Tar Sands is not labelled “dirty”? Watch this video abo ...
  • Fat Cat Canada’s Giant Litter Box
    Fat Cat Canada’s Giant Litter Box by Franke James Prime Minister Stephen Harper PMO’s Ottawa Office: (+1) (613) 992-4211 Toll-free: 1 (866) 599-4999 Calgary office: (+1) (403) 253-7990 Twitter: @PMharper e-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca fax: 613-941-6900 What Canadians Can Do If you’re a Canadian reading thi ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Incestuous Bloodlines of the US Presidents
      Who are these people? Where do they come from? How do they get in power? These were compelling questions I pondered after hearing an author explain the special incestuous bloodlines of the US presidents. read more
  • Kissinger Promises China... 'JEB BUSH Will Be ...
      A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Prime Minister Putin on the just completed meeting between China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that the Chinese were told that former Florida Governor John Ellis “Jeb” Bu ...
  • First Place?... Gingrich Cancels Big Campaign ...
      Newt Gingrich has cancelled a campaign appearance in South Carolina because of poor attendance. read more
  • Exposed... Cancer Drugs are Virtually Ineffect ...
      Cancer drugs, pushed by many drug companies as the only ‘scientific’ method of combating cancer alongside chemotherapy, have been found to actually make cancer worse and kill patients more quickly. read more
  • Dr. James David Manning Message for Ron Paul.. ...
    Dr. Manning shares some light on Ron Paul's Weapon "THE CONSTITUTION"... (Gotta love Dr. Manning!) ~ Videos read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Winter Survival Insulated Outerwear
    Winter survival involves keeping warm! When outdoors, we keep warm by adding a layer of insulation (in our coats and jackets) to trap body heat. Down is nature’s best insulator. Synthetic fibers are engineered to mimic down. Fleece is usually made from synthetic fibers although some wool s ...
  • 22 Government Excuses For Your ID Implant
    Guest post: by ‘Be informed’ Sometime in the NOT too distant future there will be western countries that will begin to require their citizens to have tracking implants put somewhere into their bodies. The leaps and bounds of miniaturized electronic technology is probably almost ready ...
  • List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies
    Ken adds: Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy have a unique website in this survival niche, and I enjoy reading their posts with their combined medical backgrounds. I am happy to post this article and help promote their website.   Guest post: by ‘Nurse Amy’ Here’s my list of Collapse ...
  • Great Depression
    I discovered this succinct brief summary/story of the Great Depression and thought you may be interested to read it, especially given today’s very uncertain times. Things were quite different then (attitudes, respect, lack of motor travel, infrastructure, gov’t handouts) and one wond ...
  • Terahertz Radiation Scanners for NYC Cops
    fictional representation Police in New York City, along with the U.S. Department of Defense, are researching new technology in a scanner placed on police vehicles that can detect concealed weapons. It’s called Terahertz Imaging Detection. It measures the energy radiating from a body up to 16 fee ...

Fast Company

  • Inside Megaupload's Megamind: Kim Dotcom's Pla ...
    In the Wild, Wild West-era of digital media, there is no cowboy quite like Kim Dotcom. Part Sean Parker, part Kevin Mitnick, with a whiff of Notorious B.I.G., Dotcom embodies the most savage age of online piracy, having made a fortune on the edges of Internet freedom.Dotcom, the megamind behind ...
  • 4 Strategic Requirements For Corporate Tweeting
    Michelle Obama’s first day on Twitter was the tweet heard 'round the world, with more than 60,000 followers signing up to follow her the morning she launched. Initial tweets from @MichelleObama noted that her staff would be doing the heavy lifting initially, but that every tweet from the First L ...
  • This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex ...
    The Dog-Bark Snake BotYou've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them loc ...
  • Cinchifieds' Simple, Grand Plan To Disrupt The ...
    Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way. Eric Berry is one of the untold thousands of people who’ve tried (and failed) to sell his stuff on Craigslist."Every time tried to make a genuine listing, take photos, and write copy, it was really f ...
  • For Brands, Twitter's Enhanced Profile Pages M ...
    HP, Best Buy and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing.It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews? Dubbed # ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Idiot's Guide to Fighting Dictatorship In ...
    [Writing this in Beirut is apt, where there's a deep polarization between those who would die for the Syrian regime and those who just want it to die at any cost. Those who do not support either position "as is," are dubbed cowards and opportunists by both sides and the pro-Sau ...
  • القيمة الأخلاقية للثورة العربية
    عام ٢٠١١ كان عام الثورات العربية بدون أدنى شك.  ويبدو أن عام ٢٠١٢ سيكون هو الآخر عام الثورات العربية، جديدها وقديمها. فالعديد من الثورات التي تفجرت في العام المنصرم مازالت متقدة تشتعل، والبعض منها هدأ قليلاً ثم عاد للانتفاض أو هو موشكٌ على الثوران مجدداً إما لإدراك ثواره أن ثورتهم ل ...
  • هنا دمشق
    لم أرَ دمشق كئيبة كما رأيتها هذه المرة. هدوء حزين يخيم على شوارعها وأزقتها. أصوات الناس باتت خفيضة، مكسورة، مقهورة، بالكاد تخرج. وفي الصوت الخفيض، ثمة حياء وإحساس بتأنيب الضمير. صوت الموت يغطي على كل الأصوات. يبتلعها ويتلاعب بإيقاعها فتبدو خافتة، بائسة. مثلها مثل ملامح الوجوه الكئيبة. حت ...
  • بيان الحملة الشعبية لاسقاط ديون مصر عن قرض الصندوق
    ستعقد الحملة مؤتمرا صحفيا يوم السبت 21 يناير عن الموضوع في مركز البدائل العربي شقة 4 ـ الطابق الرابع ـ 5 شارع المساحة ـ الدقي ـ القاهرة ـ جمهورية مصر العربية. الحكومة المؤقتة تقترض أربعة أضعاف متوسط الاقتراض الخارجي أيام مبارك. عاد قرض صندوق النقد الدولي ليتصدر المشهد من جدي ...
  • 18 January 2009: The Abu Rujailah family
    [The following is narrative twenty-two, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by ...

mediagazer

  • Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestim ...
    Clay Shirky: Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood  —  Writing in his blog on the New York Times yesterday, David Pogue, one of the Times' tech columnists, advises toning down the alarmist rhetoric over SOPA, suggesting that opponents of the bill (and its ...
  • Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight ch ...
    Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters: Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges  —  (Reuters) - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a l ...
  • Editor overhears councilwoman's phone conversa ...
    Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: Editor overhears councilwoman's phone conversation, tweets about it  —  While on a train Thursday, Bob Salladay, a senior editor at California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting, realized he was sitting near Santa Ana City Council mem ...
  • What's behind the grumbling at Rodale? (Daniel ...
    Daniel Roberts / Fortune: What's behind the grumbling at Rodale?  —  The independent publisher has quietly suffered a stinging series of departures over the past year.  It says it is simply feeling the same pressure as other publishers.  Ex-staffers blame CEO Maria Rod ...
  • Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to ...
    New York Times: Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet  —  WASHINGTON — When Jack Valenti walked the halls of Congress, friends by the dozen gripped, grinned and took note of what was worrying the movie industry's dapper chief lobbyist.  —  Chr ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Cowan still has Ponting's 'poster' in his ...
    Sydney, Jan 20(ANI): Australian opener Ed Cowan has revealed that he idolized Ricky Ponting when he was young and still has a poster Ponting on the wall of his bedroom at his family...
  • WORLD WILL BE WATCHING US - WENGER
    Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists games between his side and Manchester United remain as fascinating as ever, despite new title contenders emerging. The two clubs have often battled for domestic dominance in recent years, but now find the likes of Manchester City, Tottenham and Chelsea a ...
  • Jose Mourinho hasn't spoken to Kaka in fo ...
    The Santiago Bernabeu side's former supremo has stated that the Brazil international has a troublesome relationship with his coach, and added that several players are unhappy Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Real Madrid £11.81 Draw £67.50 Bilbao £130. ...
  • Yaya Toure reveals his 'guilt' at departi ...
    The Ivorian midfielder also spoke of the strength of the Premier League, suggesting it is more competitive than the duopoly of Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Manchester City £18.33 Draw £35.00 Tottenham £42.00 Be ...
  • Claudio Ranieri has brought a sense of ca ...
    The Nerazzurri defender hailed his boss' influence and stated that it is possible to play with a ‘Barcelona model’ in Italy so long as investment is supplied Sign up with 188BET for a FREE bet up to £25 – Great Prices, Every Game Open an account with Sportingbet today and get up to £10 ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
    Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/11/12 - 50 Famous Vegetarians
    vegetarian.procon.org – NEW: 50 Famous Vegetarians – Bill Clinton, Carl Lewis, Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Steve Jobs, Natalie Portman, and Prince are just a few of the many celebrities in our authoritative new resource. See all the famous vegetarians on our list and find out ...
  • 1/9/12 - Is one bi-national state an acceptabl ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Is one bi-national state an acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - Read pro and con arguments from former Speaker for the Israeli Knesset Avrum Burg (pro), Palestinian National Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki (con), ...
  • 12/30/11 - Medical Marijuana Historical Timeline
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: Medical Marijuana Historical Timeline - Our timeline traces medical marijuana from its earliest reference in 2900 BC as a popular Chinese medicine to 2011 where it remains legal in 16 states (and DC) and illegal under federal law. Read all 150+ major events in ...
  • 12/22/11 - Is it legal for Congressional repre ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - UPDATED: Is it legal for Congressional representatives to trade securities based on insider information? - Read pro and con arguments from UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge (pro), insider trading legal expert Robert Walker (con), Hoover Institution Research F ...
  • 12/20/11 - Candidate Videos
    2012election.procon.org - NEW: Candidate Videos - Watch over 50 videos of the 2012 presidential candidates, including their candidacy announcements, speeches, and interviews which address a ProCon.org question.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • US Government tries to restrict publication
    of details on avian flu virus that spreads among mammals John Timmer Although avian flu viruses have infected humans in the past (often with lethal effect), so far, these infections have come directly from birds. Over this past summer, however, researchers presented disturbing results at a scien ...
  • A collapsing scientific hypothesis led to a la ...
    John Timmer In 2006, scientists announced a provocative finding: a retrovirus called XMRV, closely related to a known virus from mice, was associated with cases of prostate cancer. But other labs, using different sets of patients, found no evidence of a viral infection. Before the controversy co ...
  • Hackers gave Subway a $30 million lesson in po ...
    Sean Gallagher For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few years, paying for their $5 footlong sub was a ticket to having their credit card data stolen. In a scheme dating back at least to 2008, a band of Romanian hackers is alleged to have stolen payment car ...
  • Defendant asks US Marshals to drag Righthaven ...
    Timothy B. Lee The copyright trolling firm Righthaven hit a new low on Monday when one of its targets sought to have a US Marshal drag Righthaven officers into court to explain their failure to comply with a previous court order. When we began covering Righthaven last year, the firm seemed like ...
  • Firefox 9 and fancy JavaScript optimizations
    Peter Bright Another six weeks have gone by, and another version of Firefox has been released. Still not officially "live," Firefox 9 improves on Firefox 8 with a JavaScript engine that’s up to 30 percent faster and, well, not a whole lot else. Mac OS X users will have a little mor ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
    In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
  • Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
    FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
  • Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
    The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...
  • Discovery Reinvented? The Promise of European ...
    Next Thursday, the Policy Centre is holding an event in Brussels…   Chaired by Martin Porter, Managing Director, Edelman | The Centre  & Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh   Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 12.00 to 17.30, followed by a drinks reception The Centre is hosting ...
  • An African science base: what would it take fo ...
    From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • Pain of cash payments helps shoppers avoid jun ...
    LONDON - Consumers who make cash payments at shops and supermarts are more likely to avoid junk food than those who use credit or debit cards, a new study says. “Cash payments are psychologically more painful than card payments, and this pain of payment can curb the impulsive responses t ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Obama Signs the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act
    Obama signing the National Defense Appropriations Act Tonight we look at a variety of local and international stories, with a focus on the ominous passing of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA). The Act allows for the military detention of American citizens without due process, abou ...
  • 2012: what’s in store?
    Tonight I am joined by psychologist Karla Cryer as we look forward to the coming "Year of the Dragon" and try to anticipate what is likely to unfold on the world stage. Some topics we address include the  familiar, such as the looming attack on Iran, global financial collapse and the Nann ...
  • What Caused the Ejections of Dust and Debris i ...
    Q: What caused the "squibs"? Could they have been just puffs of dust being pushed out of the Towers by falling floors? Are they visual evidence of explosive charges? A: The isolated ejections 20-60 stories below the demolition front appear to be composed of pulverized building materials, incl ...
  • Thomas Kean: “aftershocks” from pl ...
    This muddle headed, government-appointed chair of the 9/11 Commission does not even know what his government found to be the cause of the collapse of WTC 7. For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of the "official" 9/11 narrative. The ignorance and impudence of this man is breathtaking. H ...
  • Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
    Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...

Beacon

  • Another Victory: Protecting Sea Lions in the P ...
    A steller sea lion. © Oceana Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I’m pleased to report two victories this week for some of the oceans’ most threatened creatures. First, Oceana and its allies won protections for endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles with the establishment of the first ...
  • Victory! Pacific Leatherbacks Gain Protected H ...
    This leatherback will now have a safe haven in the Pacific. [Photo credit: NOAA] As of today, the ocean’s largest sea turtle now has 41,914 square miles of Pacific Ocean it can call its own. Oceana has been working for five years to protect habitat critical to the survival and recovery of th ...
  • Costa Concordia Capsizes near Med's Biggest Ma ...
    A fish documented during Oceana's 2006 Mediteranean expedition. © Oceana/Inaki Relanzon The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia in Italy is a sobering human tragedy, with at least 11 deaths and more missing. Sadly, it could become an environmental tragedy as well. The Costa Concordia ca ...
  • Massachusetts Tackles Seafood Mislabeling
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, the state of Massachusetts became a national leader in the fight against mislabeled seafood with a clear message: with an abundance of local seafood, there is no place for mislabeled seafood in Massachusetts, and more must be done to combat ...
  • Oceana Sues on Behalf of Loggerheads
    A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling. © Oceana/Cory Wilson Fishing gear should be killing fewer sea turtles, not more – and today we filed a complaint with the government saying just that. Oceana’s complaint is in response to the U.S. government’s decision in October 2010 to allow eight East Co ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Movie Review: The Battle Of Algiers
      I watched the movie The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film about the 8 year insurgency by the citizens of Algeria against the French occupational force. It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvino. It is a powerful, moving movie, about two hours and twenty minutes long. The acting is superb. The ca ...
  • The Adze.
        The adze was a weapon developed from a similar looking tool used in battle in the New Kingdom 1550 to 1070 BC. Egyptians made the adze with stone striking blades, flint blades and later with bone, and finally bronze. It was used for digging, and knapping flint, and barrel stave sha ...
  • FP-45 Liberator. We Made 1,000,000 Of These An ...
      Inland Guide Lamp Manufacturing Division of General Motors hired 300 people and in 6 months manufacturer 1,000,000 of these stamped metal single shot .45 cal handguns. Primitive and close range, the FP-45 Liberator were an attempt to create a gun that could be dropped en masse behind enem ...
  • Boy Has Complete Memories Of Previous Life As ...
      This is an amazing story. If you ever get the chance, look through a book called Twenty Cases Highly Suggestive Of Reincarnation by Dr. Ian Stevenson out of the University of Virginia, 1970. In it, Stevenson culls together children all over India who also remember previous lives and puts ...
  • Martin Luther King’s Speech Opposing The ...
      Source: YouTube

Taylor Marsh

  • Our Womb is Finally Equal (at least for now)
    Most healthcare plans will be required to cover birth control without charging co-pays or deductibles starting Aug. 1, the Obama administration announced Friday. The final regulation retains the approach federal health officials proposed last summer, despite the deluge of complaints from religio ...
  • “The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington,” O ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Which headline would you guess would grab the most attention: “The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington” or “Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!” Or, keep “The 50 Most” and put it up against “#Charleston protesters ra ...
  • Gingrich Soars on Wings of Obama Fluffing Media*
    *See note below “The liberal media,” she added, “and some of that GOP holier-than-thou machine overplayed their hand this time. … I call them ‘dumb arses,’” she said. … “Their target in this case, Newt,” Palin added, “is now going to soar even more because we know the game now and we ...
  • The System won’t change by waiting until after ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. All the arguing, sniping and even actual, respectful conversation about the big problems with our Two Partying System are not something new and unheard of. Well, “unheard of” does sort of fit, because the years, decad ...
  • Newt Unloads
    **UPDATED BELOW** “I thought John did a great job.” – Newt Gingrich, with Anderson Cooper in post-debate Kaboom. Every person in here knows personal pain. Every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. To take an ex-wife and make it two days befor ...

Hudson New York

  • A Palestinian Hero
    Mahmoud Abu Rahma is perhaps one of the bravest Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Because of his courage, he has been stabbed several times in various parts of his body. This is what happens under Hamas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority
  • Government Forces to Make Overhaul in Judiciary
    The government announced a series of planned reforms Wednesday to speed up the justice system under growing pressure over lengthy pre-trial detentions, but the opposition and jurists have cast doubt on whether the package can change things on the ground.
  • Germany's New Islamic Centers
    One of the oldest universities in Germany has opened the country's first taxpayer-funded department of Islamic theology. The Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen was inaugurated on January 16 and is the first of four planned Islamic
  • Islam's OIC: The World's Thought Police
    On December 19, 2011, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the negative stereotyping and stigmatization of people based on their religion, and urged member states to take effective measures towards addressing and combating "such
  • China: Dissident Writer Details Torture by Police
    In a statement today at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Yu Jie, a dissident writer and former vice president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center who left China a week ago, recounts his torture by state security police after he was kidnapped on

Urban Survival

  • Is Solar Putting in a Bottom?
    Every so often we like to get practical and hands-on  with economic notes that make sense even for the non Wall Street investor, since, coming up to whatever it is this spring, now could be a dandy time to be … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Friday at the WuJo and 314
    We are almost swimming in oddities from the land where woo-woo runs smack into science and fights it out in the mental arts dojo we call the WuJo.  In particular we have problems with disappearing things and disappearing time as … Continue reading →
  • The Consumer Price Myth Continued
    With the latest assertion that the Consumer Price Index remained unchanged in December, we wryly note that’s hardly the case if you zoom out to look at something a little broader than one month’s worth of data.  Shall we begin … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Vostok and Mascon
    Although it would be tempting to jump right into the further discussions and disclosures of the upward move in “woo-woo” we have a couple of other items on the agenda which may possibly be of more immediate concern, namely the … Continue reading →
  • Fed in the Box
    The economic boogeyman is in our immediate future, because regardless of what the Fed does at their rate meeting next week, it’s bound to be wrong.  If, as some are hinting, the economy actually is staging a modest recovery and … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • From Durban to Rio: Taking action on clean ene ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC The global warming negotiations in Durban made important progress, but much more work lies ahead to address global warming. Countries have committed to action and are beginning ...
  • Next Week's Vote on California's Clean Car Sta ...
    Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco At a time when consumers and businesses are being held hostage to oil rising to over $100 a barrel, our oil dependency is once again threatening our economic recovery. It would seem like ...
  • Finally, Some Real Good News for Dimock - EPA ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City An announcement yesterday from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brought a welcome patch of good news for the residents of Dimock: the federal agency will use its authority under the Comprehensive ...
  • Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline, Missing Op ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City What exactly did President Obama reject when he denied a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline? He denied a Canadian company the right to pipe their oil past Midwestern refineries and ship it overseas, t ...
  • Mayors applaud Keystone XL tar sands pipeline ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Local communities are on the frontlines when it comes to the impacts of climate change and for the past few years we have seen mayors speaking out on the need to move off of hig ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, January 19, 2012: Las Vegas NV police are set to settle suit for $1.7mil to the family of an unarmed man fatally shot during a drug raid that went bad before police even got the [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, January 18, 2012: DeKalb Co GA cop went to the wrong address while responding to a domestic disturbance call where he then fatally shot a dog that was chained to a garage… t ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, January 17, 2012: Eastchester NY cop was sentenced to 3-9 yrs in prison for fatally shooting his friend in the throat while playing with his laser sighted gun in his car [0] lohud.u ...
  • NOTE: January 16 Outages
    My apologies for the series of outages yesterday, not only on the site, but also on the News Feed as well. The site issues were apparently issues at the hosting server that have been repaired, but those outages, in combination with some ISP issues I had yesterday and an insane amount of work fro ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 01-14 ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of January 14-15, 2012: San Antonio TX police accused of excessive force when they allegedly repeatedly stomped on a man who was laying down prone after a female officer knocked him d ...

Total Collapse

  • Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Inv ...
    The Jerusalem Post reports today that Israel’s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a “large scale” invasion of the Gaza Strip, likely to begin within the next few months. The revelation is hardly a surprise, as Israeli Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has repeate ...
  • Iranian Al Qods cells for Saudi Arabia, Turkey ...
    In the past 48 hours, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey have alerted Washington to intelligence reports of Iranian Al Qods Brigades operatives heading their way for attacks on oil installations and American targets. The alert was accompanied by a query about how the US intended to respond to the a ...
  • U.S., Allies Discussing Military Option in Syr ...
    Russia dismissed denials by NATO and three alliance members about plans for military intervention in Syria, saying it has information that a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors are under discussion. “Our partners in the West are in fact discussing a no-fly zone,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavro ...
  • Details of Obama’s letter to Iran released
    A number of Iranian officials have released the details of the letter that U.S. President Barack Obama recently sent to Tehran. The New York Times, citing U.S. government officials, wrote on January 12 that the Obama administration had sent a message to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution A ...
  • Iran warns region against dangerous stance on ...
    Iran’s foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a “dangerous position” by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran’s nuclear activity. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Megaupload is down and the Department of Justice is behind the act. So Anonymous decided that the DOJ’s site should go down too. Turnabout, eh? Google+ tops 90 million active...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook announces its Open Graph partners, numbering 60 so far. An Iranian-born Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in Iran for code that he wrote, which was use in...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Sites across the Web black out to protest against SOPA and PIPA, Samsung says it’s not looking to buy RIM, and Grooveshark pulls out of Germany. It’s all in today’s...
  • GroupMe is built right into the new Winter X G ...
    ESPN has just released its X Games app for iOS and Android (link available soon), which among other features, includes integration with GroupMe, the easiest way to create an instant SMS style chatroom across...
  • Not sure what SOPA is? ExplainSOPA puts you in ...
    With news about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hitting mainstream publications and broadcasts, more Americans are becoming interested in what it’s all about. Reading proposed bills isn’t the easiest...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar programs pay for themselves and reduce t ...
    This is an updated version of what was published in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Solar energy benefits the state by providing electricity at much cheaper rates than those of traditional sources, writes Matthew Wright. It may appear counter-intuitive, but getting millions of solar panels ont ...
  • Renewable Energy Lifeline for Australian Manuf ...
    By Matthew Wright Coal’s days are numbered. The transition to renewable energy is now well underway. It will put an end to the adverse health impacts coal mining and combustion now has on the health of Australian families such as those in the Hunter Valley. The increased rates of asthma, respir ...
  • Renewable Energy Milestone - Renewable Investm ...
    The journey to a 100 percent renewable energy economy reached a major milestone as investment in renewables has overtaken investment in fossil fuel energy for the first time. A new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance  demonstrates that a massive $187 billion was invested in wind, solar, ...
  • CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
    Matthew Wright, November 24: The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor for the minerals resource rent tax, the Labor government has a ...
  • Trophies and Titles - BZE awarded for climate ...
    The determination and enthusiasm of Beyond Zero Emissions and its members has been acknowledged with two prestigious awards over the last month. The honours build on BZE's momentum leading into 2012 with the anticipated launch of the visionary Zero Carbon Australia plans for the buildings and tr ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Biofuel breakthrough: kelp could power cars
    Scientists have devised a new way to produce ethanol directly from seaweed, offering the potential to generate biofuels that don't compete with terrestrial food production and won't suck up scarce freshwater, reports a study published today in Science.
  • Recognizing value of nature could boost income ...
    The rural poor would substantially boost their income if the ecological services of the ecosystems they steward were valued and compensated by the rest of the world, claims a new study published in the journal Bioscience.
  • Feared extinct, obscure monkey rediscovered in ...
    A significant population of the rarely seen, little-known Miller's grizzled langurs (Presbytis hosei canicrus) has been discovered in Indonesian Borneo according to a new paper published in the American Journal of Primatology. Feared extinct by some and dubbed one of the world's 25 most threaten ...
  • National Association of Music Merchants does ' ...
    The National Association of Music Merchants is doing a 'disservice' to its members by misrepresenting the provisions and spirit of the Lacey Act, a law that aims to curb illegal logging abroad, states a letter published by a coalition of environmental groups. The letter, issued Thursday, urges t ...
  • Scientists discover over 19,000 new species in ...
    In 2009 researchers described and named 19,232 species new to science, pushing the number of known species on Earth to just under two million (1,941,939 species), according to the State of Observed Species (SOS). Discoveries included seven new birds, 41 mammals, 120 reptiles, 148 amphibians, 314 ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone-flagged ship in collision in Bosp ...
    Thirteen crew members of a cargo ship involved in a collision in Turkey’s Bosphorus strait, one of the world’s busiest waterways, were evacuated today as the vessel was in danger of sinking, shipping agency GAC said. The Bosphorus remained open to shipping after the stricken vessel, ...
  • London Mining at first national job fair
    As part of its drive to boost the workforce in Sierra Leone, London Mining recently took part in a two-day National Job Fair held in the Atlantic Hall at the National Stadium in Freetown. The decidedly noticeable London Mining stall, which among other things showcased samples of processed iron o ...
  • Standard Chartered Bank – ‘Teach English’ Radi ...
    Opening remarks by Kumba Ngongou, Head of Corporate Affairs, Standard Chartered Bank at the Teach English Radio presenters training at the British Council Hall, at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday January 18th, 2012.  Presenters from the various Radio Networks, Our Guest Facilitator from Fourah Bay Colleg ...
  • Prime land + Le25,000,000 up for grabs
    Join the Airtel winning team, grab Nokia phones +3000 units, Le500,000, hamper,  Samsung phone, Le1,000,000, 5,000,000, refrigerator, shopping vouchers, home theatre, Man-U tickets, Air tickets to Dubai, from Airtel today and make life comfortable. To be the next winner, top up 100 units or more ...
  • Mines officer in US$800,000 scam
    Peter Kamara, an officer of the Mines Ministry, spent days in a police cell for conspiring with a Ghanaian Professor and others to defraud three foreign investors of a sum totaling US$800,000. Peter, who doubles as senior officer in the Mines Ministry, conspired with unknown fraudsters to sell f ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Crafar farm bid decision close
    The Overseas Investment Office now says it will make a decision whether or not to approve Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms before the January 31 deadline for the deal set by receiver Michael Stiassny.Should...
  • Fay ready to fight China farm deal
    Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms will face a high-powered legal challenge from a rival group of buyers led by businessman Sir Michael Fay if it gains Overseas Investment Office approval.However,...
  • Crafar fraud case - third person charged
    Hong Kong authorities have charged a third person alleged to be an accomplice to fraud involving the spurned Natural Dairy NZ bid for the Crafar family's dairy farms. Singaporean national and New Zealand resident Yee Wenjye, also...
  • Legal challenge looms if Chinese win Crafar farms
    The Overseas Investment Office faces an unprecedented public examination of its process for approving sales of New Zealand farmland to foreign investors if it approves the bid by China's Shanghai Pengxin Corporation for the 16 farms...
  • Fonterra breaks export record
    Fonterra says it has broken its own record for the highest export month, helping to boost New Zealand's economy by $1.3 billion last month.The dairy giant said it loaded 246,000 tonnes of dairy products onto ships during December,...

The Bovine

  • More e.coli controversy around Organic Pasture ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Controversy seems to be lurking in the supposed manner in which two of the children became ill from E.coli O157:H7 in OPDC milk. In a comment following my previous post, McAfee … Continue reading →
  • Article about Michael Schmidt from Biodynamics ...
    Editor’s note [part of the original Biodynamics article] : How many full time farmers do you know that put on a Bach festival between milkings? One dedicated farmer in Ontario, Michael Schmidt, is doing just that and a lot more … Continue reading →
  • Americans, tell your Congress reps to vote aga ...
    Everyone from Google.com to Boing Boing to Wikipedia are blacking out their websites today in protest against what amounts to an attempt to neuter that last bastion of free speech — the internet as we know it — through legislation. … Continue reading →
  • Interview with Ottawa-area raw milk farmer Jac ...
    The Bovine: Jacqueline, Thanks for taking time to answer some questions for our readers, and also thanks for being open enough to publicly identify yourself as a raw milk farmer. It seems that you and Michael Schmidt are about the only raw … Continue reading →
  • How bad news about industrial food is good new ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “The unsettling news about questionable factory foods just keeps coming. A few days ago, it was Coca Cola saying it found a fungicide in orange juice it produces in Brazil for sale in … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Italy Faces 2-Year Recession says IMF; Europea ...
    Slowly but surely global growth estimates have been ratcheted down. Courtesy of Google Translate from an Italian news site, please consider IMF estimates two years of recession for Italy Deep red for the Italian economy in the next two years. Against the background of a global recovery stalled ...
  • Mish on Capital Account Live TV: Discussion of ...
    On Thursday I had the pleasure of doing another segment on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster. I come in at about the 3:45 minute mark for much of the rest of the 30 minute session. Link if video does not play: SOPA's War on the Financial Blogosphere, Mark-to-Market and Depression Eco ...
  • Time to Concede Home "Ownership" is a Fraud; F ...
    Every week someone sends me an idea on how to fix various housing problems. Many want home prices to stop falling and many others want to bail out homeowners because banks were bailed out (as if two wrongs make a right). Others want to stop foreclosures even though the very best thing for ...
  • Chinese Manufacturing Recession Continues 3rd ...
    The manufacturing slowdown in China continues for the third consecutive month prompting a Bloomberg headline China Manufacturing Boosts Case for Easing A Chinese purchasing managers’ index signaled manufacturing may contract for a third month as a slowing economy boosts the case for the govern ...
  • Le Pen Inches Closer to Bumping Off Sarkozy in ...
    Latest polls show French President Sarkozy is losing ground to right-wing anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen in the first round of the France presidential election. Via Google translate, please consider Le Pen and Bayrou Back François Hollande is still leading the voting intentions of a preside ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Liberties are not given; they are taken.” – Aldous Huxley International Newsworthy Iran War Propaganda: Clinton Revives Dubious Charges of ‘Covert’ Site  Russian Official: No Proof of Iran Nuclear Bomb Program Iran: Obama Edges Toward Regime Chang ...
  • “Heroes” – A Poem by Gary Corseri
    This powerful, moving poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by Gary Corseri: Heroes Do not call them “heroes” if they have done your killing for you. Say that they have done your bidding; say they were your “soldiers.” Say that you have trained them well: They are the oiled machinations of ...
  • Mr. Obama, How About Sanctions – No Fly ...
    Let’s Make This Principled & Consistent; Let’s Go to War with All! Our nation is famous for many things. Things that it is known for. Things that in one way or another represent it. Things that become synonymous with America or being Americans. Our foreign policy and our presidents are no ex ...
  • The EyeOpener- Police State Gadgets & the Tech ...
    Taser: Popular Technology of Pain Compliance in Law Enforcement The popular conception of the police state, derived mainly from works of science fiction, revolves heavily around the deployment of exotic technologies for keeping the populace firmly under the thumb of an authoritarian government. ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Carnival To Conduct Safety Audit – gCaptain Ed ...
    The following editorial was written by a source trusted by the editors of gCaptain.com who wishes to remain anonymous due to his close relationship with Carnival. Carnival Corporation today announced [...]
  • Costa Concordia – The 3 Most Fatal Mistakes
    What Really Killed Costa Concordia’s Passengers? Captain Schettino has received a lot of criticism in the mainstream press and, possibly, even more from industry insiders including gCaptain for abandoning ship [...]
  • Shell Wins $970M Offshore Nova Scotia Ultra-De ...
    Royal Dutch Shell has won a $970 million bid (NS 11-1) for exploration rights offshore Nova Scota, says the Canada – Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB). This 9-year license covers [...]
  • Somali Pirates Release 15 Indian Hostages Endi ...
    A rather dramatic scene unfolded over the past three days in the Indian Ocean involving a EUNAVFOR warship, a group of pirates, 15 hostages, and an attack on a Dutch-registered [...]
  • Bienvenidos a Cuba! The Scarabeo-9 Deepwater D ...
    HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- An Italian drilling rig scheduled to drill a deep-water well offshore Cuba has arrived to the shores of Havana, Cuban media said Thursday. The website cubadebate.cu said [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • A Canadian with divided loyalties as leader of ...
  • Thoughts on the GOP South Carolina Debate
    Despite the GOP nomination contest being all but over, there is still some entertainment value to the sports team contests that are the seemingly never ending debates. What follows is a few miscellaneous thoughts on the most recent South Carolina debate. Attacking Romney's Bain Record: ...
  • Keystone XL oil pipeline dead?
  • Liberal voting reform endorsement reduces chan ...
    The question of a Liberal-NDP merger was something that was discussed quite openly following Harper's ascent to a majority. Such poltical heavyweights as Jean Chretien even weighed in on the idea, and Jack Layton (an opponent or merger) has now passed away. It is thus worth noting, ...
  • Backlogged by Design?
    It is an old tried and tested political trick.  If you want to look like a hero, break something while no one is looking... fix it and then take all the credit.  If that statement has you scratching your head consider the case of Service Canada. The offices are already dismally... ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Bones found in mass grave in SE Turkey
    Three sets of human remains were excavated by Turkish authorities in southeastern Turkey on Thursday as part of their investigation into alleged killings by the Gendarmerie Intelligence Anti-Terrorism Unit (JITEM) in the 1990s.
  • Bahraini killed in regime toxic gas attack
    A 25-year-old Bahraini man has died due to inhalation of toxic gas during an attack by regime forces, Press TV reports.
  • Syrians demand fair Arab League report
    Thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets in the capital to call on the Arab League observer mission to present a fair and just report on their country's crisis, Press TV reports.
  • Jordanians rally for promised reforms
    Jordanians have staged anti-government protest rallies in the capital, Amman, and other main cities to demand long-awaited reforms, reports say.
  • Bahraini child killed in crackdown
    An 11-year-old Bahraini boy has died from asphyxia after regime forces fired toxic tear gas to disperse an anti-government protest.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
    One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...
  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...
  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
  • What’s Your Story?
    I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]

Dissident Voice

  • Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better
    After lengthy negotiations, Hollywood’s two biggest actors unions have agreed to a merger. The parties reached a tentative pact on Monday, January 16, after being holed up for nine days at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. A vote by SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and AFTRA (American Federation of Tele ...
  • Working and Poor in the USA
    Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937 Millions of people in the ...
  • Gambling with Logic: New Map of Iraq
    Wall Street represents this legal form of gambling. And where there is gambling, there is extortion. Think of the global economy (which exploits the resources of the land causing pollution etc) as the casino. Do people in Iraq, Africa, Papua New Guinea, Syria, etc etc etc really want an American ...
  • A Captive Nation
    There are more young people of working age out of work than at any time in recorded British history according to the latest government figures. I started the current version of my online presence as it were in March of 2003 and have managed somehow to continue writing ever since, though I’ ...
  • A Failure for the “Progresssive” Peace Movemen ...
    For the Left, the big news of the New Hampsire primary has been greeted with an embarrassed silence. For there the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, for example “Progressive” Democrats of America, failed completely to put forward a candidate for peace. This failure was not unexpected sin ...

Destructionist

  • Vote On PIPA Internet Censorship Bill Postpone ...
    Following the announcement by the Department of Justice that it had shuttered file sharing website Megaupload last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today declared that the Senate vote on the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), scheduled for Tuesday, has now been postponed indefinitely. “In light o ...
  • Initial Results Show that Ron Paul Won the Sou ...
    Many online polls are showing that Ron Paul won the Charleston Republican debate tonight, and is picking up steam. (See various poll results here)
  • Ron Paul Introduces Legislation to Strike NDAA ...
    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 Obama. Paul introduced legislation to strike the NDAA’s Section 1021, the discretionary detention provisio ...
  • SOPA/PIPA Battle Rages: Tell Congress We Will ...
    The underhanded effort to fundamentally alter the internet under the guise of protecting the copyrights of Hollywood and its transnational “entertainment” corporations was delivered a distinct set-back a few days ago when Congress retreated on its full-steam ahead effort to ram SOPA down our thr ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide
    The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago. Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland. ...

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Renewable energy projects may soon provide power
    San Jose Mercury News
    AP LOS ANGELES—Southern California Edison says the utility has resolved many of the issues that stalled millions of dollars in renewable energy projects that were expected to provide power to facilities in California's national parks and forests. ...
    Innovative Projects Tap Renewable Energy Sources
    NPR
    Two projects aim to harness renewable energy using cutting-edge technology and engineering. AltaRock's Susan Petty discusses plans to turn hot rocks at a dormant volcano into a source of power. University of Maine's Habib Dagher talks about the ...
    Renewable energy holds key to growth, says Sheila
    Times of India
    Officials said REAP would meet water storage and pumping needs in both rural and urban India by harnessing renewable energy sources. "It will help in combating global warming and other environmental issues. In addition to reducing dependence on fossil ...
    GE Sells Solar to Wind Farms
    Forbes
    As renewable energy deals ago, General Electric's announcement this week that it would supply 23 megawatts of solar panels for an Illinois photovoltaic farm was rather small change. But it's the type of thin-film solar panels and where the photovoltaic ...
    Related Articles »
    powered by

    Human Habitat

    ecology water energy
    Ecology Action gears up for year of workshops and events
    Willits News
    By Jennifer Poole/TWN Staff Writer John Jeavons demonstrates Grow Biointensive techniques at a May 2010 workshop in the Xochitla Ecological Reserve in Mexico, as part of the Latin American Conference 2010: Biointensive Agriculture Facing Climate Change ...
    Ecology Coatings Enters into a License Agreement with BASF Coatings GmbH
    MarketWatch (press release)
    18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ecology Coatings, Inc. (otcqb:ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, announced it has entered into a license agreement with German-based ...
    Rejecting everything in name of ecology not correct: Ramesh
    IBNLive.com
    Ramesh said it was not possible to meet the energy demand of the country by rejecting everything in the name of ecology. "...rejecting everything in the name of ecology. How it is possible for India to grow? If dams are already ruled out, ...
    E&E adds to its green team
    Buffalo Business First (blog)
    Ecology and Environment Inc. has added to its executive team with the addition of Rebecca Flora as sustainable communities practice leader. The Lancaster-based environmental engineering company (NASDAQ: EEI) called Flora a pioneer in the green building ...
    Related Articles »
    powered by

    Water Power

    water floods pollution
    Water delivered to Pa. village with tainted wells
    The Associated Press
    (AP) — A tanker truck has made its first delivery of fresh water to four homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where federal regulators say they found arsenic and chemicals often used in gas drilling in the well water. ...
    Related Articles »
    Dolly Parton plans Nashville water/snow park
    Chicago Sun-Times
    (AP) — Dolly Parton plans a water-snow park in Nashville, described as the first of its kind in the country, to join her other tourist attractions in East Tennessee. The new $50 million venture, announced Thursday on Parton's 66th birthday, ...
    Related Articles »
    Cruise search resumes above water after shifting
    CBS News
    ... slide down that slope and sink into the deeper water. by metomjr January 20, 2012 8:18 PM EST I don't understand...if it's a recovery mission at this point, they should seal of the massive gash and start pumping out the water to right the ship. ...
    Related Articles »
    Water rights approved for proposed Utah nuke plant
    CBS News
    (AP) SALT LAKE CITY — The developer of a proposed nuclear power plant in eastern Utah has been given the rights to use about 17.5 billion gallons of water a year from the Green River despite safety and oversight concerns raised by conservationists. ...
    Related Articles »
    powered by
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by opit at 8:47 PM
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)