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IPS - Inter Press Services

• GREECE: Austerity Plan Breaches Last Line of D ...
  As the Eurozone falls deeper into its sovereign debt crisis, the labour movement in Greece is being cudgelled to its knees by an austerity programme that has so far failed to bring any positive change for the crumbling Mediterranean country.
• The Green Economy, Boon or Menace?
  The development of the green economy is the subject of pitched debate among specialists. While some believe it will deepen social inequalities and increase corporate control over natural and biological resources, others highlight its potential role in protecting the environment and creat ...
• Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa
  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 some of the countries that have made tremendous achievements towards achieving these goals.
• CHINA: Dragon Drags the World In
  Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In the West though, Chinese superstitions about the precarious nature of Dragon years don't ...
• EUROPE: Unrest Spread Eastwards
  Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both countries indicate dissatisfaction with their governments' authoritarian turn, their origins differ, as does the European Union's reaction to them.

My AntiWar

• UN Says 120,000 in South Sudan Need Aid After ...
• Madagascar’s Exiled President Vows Retur ...
• How One Egyptian Sold a Revolution on the Web
• Iran Calls for Israel to Be ‘Punished’
• IAEA Rejects Iran Accusation Over Scientist&#8 ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Pressure Israel, Not Iran
  Summary: Under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has the legal right to produce nuclear power for peaceful purposes. The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found no evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program. Defense Secretary Leon ...
• Russia Warns Against US Attack on Iran
  Summary: Russia has strongly objected to Western belligerence towards its allies Syria and Iran, warning that a military assault on the Iranian regime could cause a “chain reaction” that would destabilize the entire world. source: antiwar.comread more
• The top 5 U.S. misconceptions on Iran
  Summary: Top five, 10 or 100 lists are standard at the end of the year. Though the Iranian year doesn’t end for roughly two months, given the escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran, with threats and counter threats over the Strait of Hormuz — to say nothing of most GOP presidential ...
• Iran in the US Republican Presidential Primaries
  Summary: Every candidate bids to insinuate a more radical view on Iran; as if the fate of their candidacy depends on their policy on Iran. source: www.irdiplomacy.comread more
• 'US waging war on Iran with oil ban'
  Summary: MarandiUS efforts to pressure other countries into imposing sanctions on Iran's oil exports is as an act of war against the country, a political analyst tells Press TV. source: Press TVread more

The Daily Galaxy

• First Ever Solar Death of a Comet Captured
  On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun. That the comet met its fate this way was no surprise – but the chance...
• From the X-Files Dept: NASA Refutes Triangula ...
  UFO conspiracy theorists have attempted to use publicly available NASA images to prove that the space agency must be engaging in an elaborate cover-up, calling attention to new footage captured by a telescope onboard NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft — one of...
• Helix Nebula's Molecular Knots --Each the Size ...
  The Helix Nebula is one of the closest and most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. It lies in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Bearer), about 700 light-years away from Earth. This strange object formed when a star like...
• Image of the Day: A Dark Matter Galaxy 10-Bill ...
  At the center of this infrared image is a massive red galaxy, 9.8 billion light-years from Earth, which acts like a cosmic magnifying glass, distorting the light from an even more distant galaxy, 17.3 billion light-years away. The result is...
• EcoAlert --NASA Data Predicts Continuing Droug ...
  "Conditions are ripe for a stormy, wet winter in the Pacific Northwest and a dry, relatively rainless winter in Southern California, the Southwest and the southern tier of the United States," says climatologist Bill Patzert of JPL. "After more than...

Natural News

• Medical sanity - and a call for natural healin ...
  I have written miles on pharmaceutical terrorism and medical insanity so naturally I am very happy that I developed a system of medicine that serves humankind more effectively than traditional allopathic pharmaceutically based medicine. When the world economy collapses...
• Change the way you think about your health
  People who use Western medicine have for a long time viewed their health as something they can manage rather than something that is affected by everything they do. After all, it might seem a lot easier to some people to just pop a pill to take care of an ailment rather...
• Mental health breakthrough: Study links sleep ...
  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 link between schizophrenia...
• Hospital bills man $44 million for treating hi ...
  Anyone who has ever looked at an itemized hospital or doctor bill already knows just how absurdly inflated the nation's healthcare costs truly are. But when 28-year-old Alexis Rodriguez from New York recently received a bill from Bronx - Lebanon Hospital for $44 million...
• Drug companies slash thousands of jobs as new ...
  For years, many major drug companies have had it made with a steady stream of new "blockbuster" drugs that carry with them 20-year patents, ensuring years of billion-dollar profits. But many of these patents are now expiring, and these same drug companies have largely...

Threat Level

• Anonymous Tricks Bystanders Into Attacking Jus ...
  Anons demonstrated a new trick Thursday in their attack on the Justice Department for taking down a popular file-sharing site. They shared links supposedly sharing info about the attack that actually added the unwary to the action.
• Reid Calls Off Protect IP Act Vote
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) on Friday delayed indefinitely a vote on the Protect IP Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a widespread internet revolt Wednesday. Reid's announcement means that, for the moment, there is no time-certain action scheduled on either the ...
• Hoping to Teach a Lesson, Researchers Release ...
  Researchers discovered security holes in a wide variety of control systems for industrial equipment, and to the consternation of DHS, also released code that can be used to muck with the systems.
• SOPA Getting a Face-Lift: How Evil Will It Be?
  The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread internet revolt Wednesday, is likely to undergo a radical overhaul to muster passage, a House aide said Thursday. But it's too soon to say what might be amended. The chorus of ...
• Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives
  Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered Thursday and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”

PERRspectives : Blog

• Gingrich Proposes New Tax Rate for Mitt Romney ...
  As the outcry grows over Mitt Romney's shockingly low 15 percent tax rate, his bitter rival Newt Gingrich rushed to his defense. "My goal is not to raise Mitt Romney's taxes," Gingrich declared," It's to let everybody pay Mitt Romney's rate." Of course, as with his marriage vows, Newt isn't te ...
• Mitt Romney's Three Tax Scandals
  As the imbroglio grows over his mystery IRS returns, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney is confronting not one but three tax scandals. It's bad enough that Romney pays only about 15 percent of his income to Uncle Sam each year, a rate well below most middle class families. Worse still, the notorious ...
• Romney Contradicts Own Tax Plan, Calls for Low ...
  Mitt Romney made twin revelations on taxes during last night's GOP debate in South Carolina. First, after previously claiming "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either," Romney suggested he might release his tax returns in April after clinching the Republican nomination. (On Tuesday, Mit ...
• Romney's Big Lie on the Economy Gets Bigger
  If nothing else, Mitt Romney seems dedicated to proving that repetition of a lie will make it true. On no point is Romney's tilting against the windmill of truth more comically pathetic than his long-ago debunked claim that President Obama "did not cause this recession, but he made it worse." ...
• GOP War on the IRS Costs U.S. Billions
  For any American concerned about the federal budget deficit, job one must be to collect all of the tax revenue owed to the United States Treasury. That's why supposed Republican deficit hawks simply aren't serious about the national debt. After all, a new report confirmed that steep GOP budget ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Also, this and some other things happened:
  Also, this and some other things happened:
• Former IAEA Inspector Calls for Transparency o ...
  Robert Kelley: The IAEA should allow peer review of its data, Iran should resolve outstanding questions
• Tariq Ali: Obama's Expansion of Af-Pak War "Ha ...
  Amid ongoing U.S.-Pakistani tensions and fears of a military coup in Pakistan, we are joined by British-Pakistani political commentator, historian, activist, filmmaker and novelist, Tariq Ali. Ali discusses Pakistan's internal turmoil, as well as Pakistani attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy, t ...
• Ahead of South Carolina Primary, GOP Candidate ...
  Leading up to the South Carolina primary, several Republican presidential candidates have been criticized for comments made over issues of race. This week Newt Gingrich defended his description of President Obama as "the food stamp president," while offering praise for President Andrew Jackson, ...
• GOP Contest Rattled Before SC Primary as Perry ...
  Republican presidential candidates gathered in Charleston, South Carolina, Thursday night for their final debate before Saturday's primary. The debate capped a busy day that saw the departure of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Rick Santorum's defeat of Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucus recount, and new deta ...

Consortium News

• Asking Questions Before a War
• Foreclosing a Real ‘House of Lies’
• Israel Tamps Down Iran War Threats
• How Not to Celebrate Liberty
• Web Sites Protest ‘Anti-Piracy’ Bills

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• 2011 Hottest La Niña Year on Record, Eleventh ...
    The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) both released their final evaluations of global temperatures in 2011 yesterday. They provide two of the longest-standing and most reliable annual evaluations o ...
• Climate Change a Top Priority for U.S. Agency ...
    Originally posted on Climate Progress, with only the photo added: by Zachary Rybarczyk Developing countries (including China) are expected to account for more than 90% of global energy growth in the next 30 years.  The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) is addressing the ur ...
• 90% of Americans Want GMOs Labeled (They Aren’ ...
    News: Via Eat Drink Better, this ‘fun fact’: “Genetically engineered food does not have to be labeled in the U.S., but 90% of Americans want labels on GMOs.” Why this is important: Basically, GMO companies and our policy makers are conducting a massive experiment ...
• 2008 McCain Playbook Leaked — Has Romney Nailed
    Who beat Romney to the GOP presidential nomination in 2008? That would be John McCain. And McCain’s 2008 playbook on how to nail Romney has now been leaked. It’s got some nice bits on global warming, climate change, and the environment. Check out more in this repost from siste ...
• WWF’s 100% Renewable Energy Plan Gets Discusse ...
    by WWF Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – At the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) held in Abu Dhabi this week, WWF Director General Jim Leape called for agencies, governments and industry to proactively collaborate in transitioning towards a sustainable energy future on a global level, f ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Stormdrains from Tar Pits to Ballona
  Los Angeles County Storm Drains in Google Earth Since this post about tar on Ballona seems to have g
• Oil leak from refinary spilling cancer causing ...
  brightcove.createExperiences(); An oil leak coming from a Commerce City refinery is spilling a dange
• Occupy COGCC
  State Rep. Deb Gardner, D-Longmont, testifies at a Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission hear
• Dr. Oz and Friends Bust Common Health Myths
  Dr. Oz and Friends Bust Common Health Myths Fri, Dec 02, 2011 A panel of experts and MDs speak up on
• $1 Million in MO State Revolving Funds to Reme ...
  Kimberling City, MO, September 13, 2011: Ozarks Water Watch (OWW), a local water quality organizatio

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Occupy Wall Street: The Agent Provocateur’s Gu ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dec. 8, 2011 Image by Dandelion Salad via F
• Exclusive: The insulting oxymoron of the words ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
• Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Mo ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Dec. 7, 2011 Image by Dandelion Salad v
• "Rumours of war" By William Bowles
  Image by kryptyk via Flickr by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 4 D
• Democracy and Debt: Has the Link been Broken? ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Dec. 2, 2011 *This artic

Axis of Logic

• Forgiving - Axis Reflections
    "We cannot sit down and negotiate with our adversary in good faith unless we have forgiven him." - Nelson Mandela...
• Obama backs regime change in Syria amid calls ...
  19 January 2012 President Obama voiced his support for regime change in Syria on Tuesday as calls for intervention in the Middle Eastern country continued to mount. Following White House talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Obama declared the actions of the Syrian government “unacceptable” ...
• Hunger Is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’, says ...
  "Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger.  – Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. – One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic." (Jean Ziegler)   In his latest bo ...
• World Music Potpourri - Black Mambazo (South A ...
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• 100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Min ...
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They Gave Us a Republic

• How a Modern Democracy Regresses to the Dark Ages
  By @KYYellowDog By empowering conservatives and freakazoids, of course. This week, the Republican National Committee rejected 35 years of bipartisan U.S. diplomacy to declare itself in favor of genocide in the Middle East. The Republican National Committee (RNC), at their winter meeting in New O ...
• Good Call, Mr. President
  By @BGinKC Today President Obama stood up for women and, at the same time, told the Catholic Bishops to go pound sand, they won't be forcing Catholic authoritarian, anti-woman doctrine on the entirety of the nation this go-round. The Bishops -- those paragons of virtue and defenders of child rap ...
• It's time to go
  By @BGinKC Today marked a sea change in the way the war in Afghanistan is being reported to the 'folks back home.' Today is the day that the admission was made that the Afghan army is not an ally of the NATO forces and attacks by members of the Afghan army against those ostensible allies stopped ...
• FOX News Maven: Poverty Is Good For The Little ...
  FOX News takes the Newt's attitudes toward people who haven't had the same opportunities he has to make himself rich through graft, corruption, influence peddling and the myriad other routes to the 1% available to amoral scumbags with no morals, conscience or sense of ethics to new depths. Bear ...
• The Yankee Bull Connor
  By @KYYellowDog Which state is, right now this minute, doing the most to deny voting rights to African-Americans? It's not Mississippi, or Alabama, or even South Carolina. It's Michigan. Rachel Maddow Monday night: Governor Snyder`s administration is currently considering whether or not to use t ...

Care 2

• New Year Resolutions for Great Finances in 2012
  Every year, people make resolutions for New Years Day. Some of the more popular resolutions involve losing weight, eating healthier, quitting smoking, and finding love, but these shouldnt be the only focus. Submitted by Jarvis J. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |&nbsp ...
• Patty Has a Big Mouth! ;-)
  Honoring the person who posted the 28,000th comment at Politics Plus. She's Care2 gal. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• The week in wildlife - in pictures
  A mass dolphin stranding, endangered monkeys, and a sea cucumber are among this week's images from the natural world Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• A song soothes a frightened rescued pig
  Bitter winter winds pushing them forward, the Humane Officers stepped gingerly around the corpses of ponies and chickens as they searched desperately for signs of life. Out of the corner of her eye, one of the officers saw movement. Was it the wind, or Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |&nb ...
• Cats rehomed thanks to Christmas carol video!
  Our Gonsal Farm Animal Centre has found homes for all but three of the cats featured in their unique Christmas carol video - 12 Cats of Christmas. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Working and Poor in the USA
• Lynching the Dream
• Cartoon for January 20th, 2012: Name the Moral ...
• Bad Bankers, Bad Fraud Deals, and the Presiden ...
• Labor, Consumer Agency Fights Aren't Over: Now ...

Paul Krugman

• George Washington Was A Hypocrite
  According to the current, warped definition of hypocrisy.
• Debt And Transfiguration
  The situation is actually improving.
• More About Corporate Taxes And The .01 Percent
  Who pays them? The answer seems to keep shifting.
• Corporate Taxes And The .01 Percent
  Not telling the story you may want.
• The Dubious Case For Privileging Capital Gains
  Not good economics in the real world.

No Quarter

• Grandiose Gingrich
  I realize that most of the media coverage is focused on Newt Gingrich’s faux outrage over being asked about his ex-wife’s claims, but the most important nugget from last night’s debate came in this exchange between Newt and Rick Santorum: Newt is not cogent, he is crazy. Santor ...
• Share Your Reactions: CNN Debate, 8:00 p.m. ET
  8pm ET on CNN – Live Stream || Location: Charleston, SC Sponsors: CNN & Southern Republican Leadership Conference Below, some thoughts, some psychoanalysis on Mitt Romney … What’s below is not a full essay. It’s merely some notes I jotted down throughout the day. ...
• Rick Perry Answers Obama’s Prayer (UPDATED WIT ...
  Historically, a sitting President presiding over a faltering economy and burgeoning budget deficit would have a snow balls chance in the Sahara desert under the August Sun of getting re-elected. But these are not normal times and Republican Obama Derangement Syndrome is promoting a level of insa ...
• IRS Capital Gains On Trial!
  The DNC launches a well-constructed attack on Mitt Romney as a plutocrat who pays profoundly less than his fair share of taxes. The DNC does not mention, but I will, that the reason Romney pays as little at 15% is that this is the tax codes of the US as constructed by a thousand thousand [...]
• Obama’s Keystone Cops + Open Thread
    It’s all about the politics of the 2012 presidential race. Obama’s #1 (and only) concern? Obama winning the 2012 reelection race. But what about the rest of us, about whom Obama does NOT care? Besides the few thousands who might have gotten Keystone jobs but who’ll remai ...

Futurismic

• Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
    The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
• Out of Destruction, Transformation?
  Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
• Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
  My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...
• A chat with Eric Drexler
  Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...
• Skyrim and the Quest for Meaning
  Lithium I’m old enough to remember when video games were comparatively simple things. For example, I remember the side-scrolling video game adaptation of Robocop (1988). Relatively short, Robocop had you shooting and jumping your way from one side of the world to another. Once you got to the end ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

• Old School vs. New - Fenceviewer
  Old School vs. New Fenceviewer So what is Mountain Top Removal anyway? Essentially Mountain top removal is an extraneous surface mining process. In surface mining, you remove the summit or the ridge of a mountain in order to reach a coal seam, gaining easier access, ...
• Peacemaking Team presents Robinsons in benefit ...
  Peacemaking Team presents Robinsons in benefit concert Elizabethton Star The concert will raise funds for First Presbyterian Church's Peacemaking Team's continued work to prevent mountaintop removal mining in Tennessee. Not One More Mountain is a campaign launched in 2011 by the church&# ...
• US Thirst for Fossil Fuels is Decimating Natur ...
  DigitalJournal.com US Thirst for Fossil Fuels is Decimating Nature's Wildlife: Report The Indypendent Whether or oil exploration in the arctic (Bowhead Whale and Polar Bear), mountaintop removal and coal mining in Appalachia (Kentucky Arrow Darter and Tan Riffleshell), tar sands extraction i ...
• Background Check - Fenceviewer
  Background Check Fenceviewer One thing in particular that has struck a note is Mountain Top Removal. So much so, that I am dedicating myself to writing on the topic six days a week! I have my fingers crossed you'll keep up!
• Readers' Voice: Jan. 20, 2012 - Charleston Gazette
  Readers' Voice: Jan. 20, 2012 Charleston Gazette Let's try this interpretation of Isaiah in regard to mountaintop removal. You reap what you sow, more than you sow, later than you sow it and it isn't always good. To the person that bought the Black & Decker iron from Walmart and ...

Memeorandum

• ABC News' textbook lesson in media hackery (Wi ...
  William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: ABC News' textbook lesson in media hackery  —  Last night ABC News aired the much ballyhooed interview with Marianne Gingrich, Newt's ex-wife.  —  The ballyhoo was not warranted.  The ...
• Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shop ...
  aina.org: Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shops, Attack Church  —  (AINA) — A Muslim mob attacked Copts today in the Upper Egyptian village of Rahmaniya-Kebly, Nag Hammadi, Qena province, destroying and torching their homes, straw huts and shops, while chanting A ...
• SCOTUS kills judge-drawn Texas map (Alex Isens ...
  Alex Isenstadt / The Politico: SCOTUS kills judge-drawn Texas map  —  The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to Democrats Friday, throwing out a district court-drawn Texas redistricting plan that Republicans vigorously fought to have overturned.  —  The justi ...
• Supreme Court sides with Texas on redistrictin ...
  Robert Barnes / Washington Post: Supreme Court sides with Texas on redistricting plan  —  The Supreme Court on Friday set aside Texas redistricting plans drawn by a federal court that were favored by minorities and Democrats, and ordered the lower court to come up with new plans ...
• AQAP commander says 'the Islamic Caliphate is ...
  Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal: AQAP commander says ‘the Islamic Caliphate is coming’  —  Tariq al Dhabab.  Image from the SITE Intelligence Group.  —  The al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander who took control of a town in central Yeme ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green Blog: 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, with the idea of selling them to homeowners to store solar energy and to help businesses reduce their peak loads.
• Green Blog: 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.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: Compensation for Yel ...
  Exxon Mobil will pay the state of Montana $300,000 in cash and spend $1.3 million on environmental projects there.
• Green Blog: Pushing the Green Button for Energ ...
  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.
• Green Blog: 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.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
  Friday, January 20, 2012 13:30:50 UTC Friday, January 20, 2012 11:30:50 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.50 km (12.74 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:06:41 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 03:06:41 PM at epicenterDepth: 42.80 km (26.59 mi)
• M 5.2, Santa Cruz Islands
  Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:26:02 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:26:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 31.70 km (19.70 mi)
• M 5.4, Santa Cruz Islands
  Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:02:56 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:02:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.20 km (21.25 mi)
• M 5.2, Santa Cruz Islands
  Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:01:25 UTC Thursday, January 19, 2012 04:01:25 AM at epicenterDepth: 30.30 km (18.83 mi)

China Dialogue

• What the smog can’t conceal
  The air quality crisis confirms China’s once-bold environment ministry has become sluggish, weak and bureaucratic, writes Chu Long.Since the autumn, a series of polluted “hazes” in cities across China – and discussion of that now ubiquitous term for fine particulate matte ...
• The new capitalist manifesto
  From Rio+20 to the birthday of Silent Spring, this year’s sustainability milestones mark decades of effort, writes John Elkington. Now the agenda is shifting its focus to the large-scale remodelling of capitalism.Some people raised their eyebrows when, in a 2009 study called “Th ...
• How not to discuss water with China
  Debating the quantum flow of the Brahmaputra will not foster regional cooperation. Water diplomats should discuss the river’s environmental value instead, argues Rohan D’Souza.China has never been daunted by big engineering. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and recently the Three Gorg ...
• "China's courts fail the environment"
  It’s been a disappointing decade for environmental litigation in China. Writing from the frontlines, Xia Jun analyses the problems.As a lawyer with a decade-long involvement in environmental rights, I still remember the sighs of my colleagues when I set out on this path: litigation is hard ...
• Sharing the benefits of large dams
  Planners and donors for a new wave of African dam projects should learn lessons from the past and not treat local people as mere obstacles, argues Jamie Skinner.It’s been nearly 50 years since the Akossombo dam was built in Ghana in 1965, flooding the lands and homes of 80,000 people, crea ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Facing Influx of Cartels, New Guatemalan Presi ...
  Newly installed Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has called for talks about a regional drug strategy, including drug decriminalization.
• Kentucky Governor Firmly Rejects Hospital Merg ...
  Written by Rev. Matthew Westfox and Carol Savkovich for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said January 9, 2012 for the second time in two weeks that he was rejecti ...
• Bone Scan Mania: A 12 Year Drug Industry Con F ...
  Where did the medical establishment get the idea that women are in such danger of osteoporosis they need regular bone scans? An idea debunked in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine? In 1994, a year before Fosamax, Merck’s blockbuster bone drug, was approved, Merck began marke ...
• The Onerous Toll of the Helms Amendment and Wh ...
  Written by Jessica Mack for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. It’s been almost three years since President Obama repealed the global gag rule, one of the most ludicrous and paternalistic U.S. for ...
• Mitt Romney Debates Martin Luther King and Lie ...
  Related StoriesIowa and Beyond: For the Tea Party GOP “Common Sense” Racism is the Road to the White HouseResolutions, Political Resolutions and Damned LiesThe Top 10 Greatest Moments of the Iowa GOP Debate

Threat Level

• Anonymous Tricks Bystanders Into Attacking Jus ...
  Anons demonstrated a new trick Thursday in their attack on the Justice Department for taking down a popular file-sharing site. They shared links supposedly sharing info about the attack that actually added the unwary to the action.
• Reid Calls Off Protect IP Act Vote
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) on Friday delayed indefinitely a vote on the Protect IP Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a widespread internet revolt Wednesday. Reid's announcement means that, for the moment, there is no time-certain action scheduled on either the ...
• Hoping to Teach a Lesson, Researchers Release ...
  Researchers discovered security holes in a wide variety of control systems for industrial equipment, and to the consternation of DHS, also released code that can be used to muck with the systems.
• SOPA Getting a Face-Lift: How Evil Will It Be?
  The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread internet revolt Wednesday, is likely to undergo a radical overhaul to muster passage, a House aide said Thursday. But it's too soon to say what might be amended. The chorus of ...
• Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives
  Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered Thursday and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”

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PDA AMERICA

• Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
  Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
• IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
  Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
  Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
• War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
  WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
• An American Suicide Terrorist
  William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

• Why would you buy Raw Milk from Mark McAfee of ...
  That is the question I am asking myself after reading the letter Mark McAfee, CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy LLC received from the California Department of Public Health, Food and Drug Branch (FOB) after the dairy was linked to five E. coli O157:H7 illness (three resulting in hemolytic uremic syn ...
• 68 Salmonella Victims in Texas, Oklahoma, Kans ...
  Shhh, do not tell a soul which “Mexican-style Fast Food Restaurant” has sickened 68 with Salmonella in 10 states. Really, CDC? Do you think the public “can’t handle the truth?” According to the CDC report today the CDC collaborated with public health officials in ...
• Smoking Gun Found in Organic Pastures Manure a ...
  Thanks to my good friend David Gumpert over at the Complete Patient for providing me the California Department of Public Health letter to Organic Pastures outlining the likely cause of the 2011 E. coli outbreak linked to Organic Pastures products.  According to David, here are the highlight ...
• Jensen Farms linked to 32 Listeria Deaths now ...
  AP reports that Jensen Farms, who was implicated following an outbreak of listeria that killed 30 people last year was fined by the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday for failing to provide safe migrant worker housing. The federal agency said grower Eric Jensen rented migrant workers unsanita ...
• Winn-Dixie Recalls LEASA Sprouts Due to Salmon ...
  Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., today announced an immediate Class I voluntary recall of all LEASA Living Alfalfa Sprouts sold in the 6 oz. package with a UPC code of 7546555912. According to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the product is potentially contaminated with Salmonella, an organism tha ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: What SOPA hath wrought
  What a week. The SOPA/PIPA story got even bigger, as MegaUpload was shut down and Anonymous launched a successful attack against government sites. The battle between the content industry and the open Internet may be going nuclear. We discuss with three great guests, all experts at CNET: ...
• Startup Secret No. 21: Don't over-think
  No matter how smart you are or how much data you have, you're judged on what you actually do. So do something. ...
• Startup Secret No. 20: Easy money, it ain't
  Running a startup is harder than you can possibly imagine, those who've done it say. And also a lot more fun. ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: SOPA blacks out the Web
  Hope you're not trying to do homework today. Or buy a motorcycle. Both Wikipedia and Craigslist blocked themselves to protest the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), two bills getting close to votes in Congress. Other sites showed protests of their own, including Google, ...
• Startup Secret No. 19: Shift your own gears
  You need to run the business manually for a while before you shift it into automatic. ...

Camera Obscura

• No title
• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• "The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History" By A ...
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan An unprecedented wave of online opposition to the SOPA and PIPA bills before Congress shows the power of a free internet. Today marked the largest online protest in the history of the internet. Websites from large to small "went dark" in prote ...
• From Our Archives: Mitt Romney, Bain Capital P ...
  ABC News is reporting Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has "millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven." The link between Romney and offshore tax havens is not new. Check out our 2008 re ...
• "Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosec ...
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan. Ten years ago, Omar Deghayes and Morris Davis would have struck anyone as an odd pair. While they have never met, they now share a profound connection, cemented through their time at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Deghayes wa ...
• "Republicans Divided, Citizens United." By Amy ...
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan. The Republican caucuses in Iowa, with their cliffhanger ending, confirmed two key political points and left a third virtually ignored. First, the Republicans are not enthusiastic about any of their candidates. Second, we have entered a new era in politic ...
• New York Times Coverage of Media Crackdown on ...
  The article, "The Rules on News Coverage Are Clear, but the Police Keep Pushing," in today’s issue of The New York Times, outlines how New York police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, should do more to ensure that his officers “respect the public’s right to know about these event ...

Suzie-Q

• Bill Moyers to return to PBS
  Is This Land Made for You and Me – or for the Super-Rich? truth-out Thursday 12 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, ...
• Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace
  Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace truthout Sunday 25 December 2011 by: , When I heard the president speak to returning troops last week, my mind flashed back to an article I once wrote for our local newspaper. Each week, a different member of the local clergy would write a column, ...
• Newt Gingrich Calls For Moving U.S. Embasy in ...
  Well, it’s anther Christmas in Hooland and “The Grinch” just can’t stand it. With copious amounts of unpremeditated gall, he re-affirms his alliance with AIPAC, and CUFI “Christians United for Israel, Reverand John Hagee’s religious empire that has heavy ties ...
• The Dictator
  The Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this wa ...
• The Republicans: They Are Who We Thought They Were
  Addicting Info December 16, 2011 By Bryian Revoner After watching this latest Republican Debate on Fox News, one thing becomes clear, and that is the very real split between the insane and the reasonable. For whatever reason, there just does not seem to be any middle-ground in this GOP nominatio ...

Solari

• Big Media Strikes Back: SOPA and PIPA
  YouTube (18 Jan 12)
• Tribute To Graffiti
  Street Art By El Mac – A Collection By Vitaly Friedman Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ...
• GM Becomes World’s Top Selling Automaker ...
  [click on the image for a larger version] Source: Reuters General Motors Co reclaimed its title as the world’s top selling automaker for the first time since 2007, after sales of more than 9 million vehicles globally in 2011. GM’s return to the top slot comes more than two years aft ...
• Democratic Allies Battle For New Ohio House Seat
  U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland By Bill Rice Rep. Dennis Kucinich is most in his element when he’s fighting against social injustice. Wherever he sees an outrage against the little guy, you’ll find the Ohio Democrat railing against it — li ...
• SOPA Getting a Face-Lift: How Evil Will It Be?
  By David Kravets The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread internet revolt Wednesday, is likely to undergo a radical overhaul to muster passage. The measure, along with the Senate’s proposed Protect IP Act, faces an ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• South Carolina: Ground Zero for the GOP Candid ...
  The little-noticed National Labor Relations Board has somehow become red meat for Republican crowds in South Carolina.
• Will 2012 be the Year of State-Required Drug T ...
  Statehouse politicians across the country are already racing to see who can be next to introduce a bill that would require drug testing of people receiving public benefits.
• Why Is an Atheist High School Student Getting ...
  Her state representative has called the student "evil" and she has been threatened with violence, rape and death. What gives?
• Suicide Threats and Strike Attempts at Apple M ...
  Foxconn, a factory that makes iPhones and Xboxes among other gadgets, is seeing strikes by workers over low wages, long hours, and terrible conditions.
• MLK, Modern Visionary: An Illustrated Guide Wh ...
  This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, but we will hear very little about why he is as relevant today as ever.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• Let’s look at ourselves in the mirror cr ...
  Summary:  Knowledge is power, including knowledge about ourselves.  One way to gain it is by looking at ourselves, what our leaders say, as others do — foreigners in our world, and the foreigners that will be our descendents.  Here will look at some statements about Iran, and some perspect ...
• Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
  Summary:  Since our side has initiated assassination of Iranian scientists, we have a guest article by Kevin Jon Heller discussing the status of these actions under international law.  That is, under the global regime instituted by the US after WWII, one of the nation’s greatest contributi ...
• CyberSecurity Question Time on the FM website!
  Ask any question about cyberwar or computer security, broadly defined. This is a topic area in which, in my experience, there is a great deal of “established wisdom” that is neither wise nor established. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the commen ...
• CyberSecurity Question Time on the FM website!
  Ask any question about cyberwar or computer security, broadly defined. This is a topic area in which, in my experience, there is a great deal of “established wisdom” that is neither wise nor established. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the commen ...
• Has Iran won a round vs. US-Israel?
  Summary:  The long game continues between Israel-US and Iran, which began in 1979.  Iran may won this inning.  That would astonish most American geopolitical experts, who describe Iran’s resistance as either foolish or insane.  How can Iran even imagine defeating US-Israel, with our coalit ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• USA Outlines Big Plans for UN Reform
  The United States Ambassador to the UN for Management and Reform Joseph Torsella outlined a new American push for reform at the United Nations in a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC today. The plan itself is good on substance. Some highlights include reigning in personne ...
• Empathy with the Ayatollah
  “Empathize with your enemy.” It is the first of eleven lessons offered by the former US Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara in the award-winning 2002 documentary “Fog of War.” In that film, a feisty MacNamara laments how a talented US foreign policy team lost the war in ...
• Grand Strategy in Four Points
  In the next week or so, details of next year’s defense budget will begin to seep from the halls of the White House and the Defense Department. The budget will, at least in theory, be guided by the Defense Strategic Review released by the White House earlier this month. That document laid out a m ...
• Seeking Consensus, Egypt's Brotherhood Party R ...
  Despite widespread speculation to the contrary, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing -- the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) -- has consistently ruled out the possibility of forming any strategic alliance with the Salafist Nour Party. Although the two parties have been indiscriminate ...
• You Might Have Missed: The Iranian Nuclear Thr ...
  Freedom in the World, Freedom House, January 2012. The political uprisings that have swept the Arab world over the past year represent the most significant challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism … A total of 26 countries registered net declines in 2011, and only ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• South Carolina Doesn't Hate Romney
  Noam Scheiber: The Romney can’t break 25 percent narrative may be overdone, but no other way to explain Newts resilience than deep dissatisfaction w/Romney. I think there is another way besides “deep dissatisfaction with Romney.” After all, the notion of Newt’s resilience is really built on abo ...
• Perry Supporters Don't Endorse Gingrich
  Now that Rick Perry has dropped out of the presidential race, where are his Perry supporters likely to go?  Nate Silver has one take on this here.  Here is another snapshot from Lynn Vavreck and me, using a Jan. 14-17 YouGov poll. For the plurality of Perry voters (43%), their second choice  is ...
• Potpourri
  Every scientist vs. journalist debate.  Guilty as charged. How to be an academic talking head. What do we know about democratic transitions.  Great list by Jay Ulfelder. Americans don’t really like big government or big business.
• Bob McDonnell Endorses Romney
  Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell—a rising star in the Republican Party—has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Here’s McDonnell in his own words: “President Obama’s lack of leadership experience is now clear—he has failed to turn around the economy and end the gridlock in Washington. Mitt Romney ...
• Surprising Ally
  In her report about the recent oral arguments in a Texas redistricting plan that was created by a panel of three federal judges, Dahlia Lithwick noted a compromise floated by Justice Kagan: Clement and Garza seem almost to agree on a Kagan-suggested compromise whereby the lower court starts aga ...

Buzzflash

• Chicago Joins the Growing Number of Cities Tha ...
  MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A lot of politicians went through the motions of honoring Martin Luther King this week, but then trampled on his commitment to nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. As BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote just a couple of days ago, "the United States may have ...
• Meet Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s Billionair ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Of the three billionaires - Sheldon Adelson, Jon Huntsman, Sr. and Foster Friess -- that Politico's Ken Vogel writes about in his recent piece titled "3 billionaires who'll drag out the race," we probably know the least about Rick Santorum's pal, Foster ...
• Education Will Get You a Job! But We're Cuttin ...
  PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We're often reminded that education is the key to adapting to globalization and changing technologies. Reports from Georgetown University, the New York Times, and the Brookings Institution cite the growing importance of higher education. Foreign companies ...
• Dewey Beats Truman! I Mean Santorum Beats Romney!
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In Iowa, this appears to have been the case: Romney says it was a "virtual tie." I suggest Mitt knew he lost all along and his Claim of winning was a "virtual lie."   http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/santorum-wins-iowa-gop-officials-now-call-state- ...
• SOPA and PIPA Are Stalking Horses for Silencin ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT All you need to know about SOPA and PIPA are that they are intentionally harmless-sounding acronyms that would further encroach on the informational freedom of the Internet.read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• A hypochondriac’s dream
  It’s almost a hypochondriac’s dream come true…a chance to be tested for all kinds of physical and health parameters. Fitness tests, dual x-ray absorptiometry for body composition determination, blood pressure, height and weight, urine tests, jogging test on a treadmill with hea ...
• Incurable TB hits India
  A strain of tuberculosis (TB), wholly resistant to antibiotics has been reported and confirmed in India among patients from the slums of Mumbai. Drug-resistant strains have emerged before in Italy and Iran and multiple-resistant strains have been seen in China and Russia. This emergent strain ha ...
• Drug addict spam
  A few days ago, I blogged about the “drug addict’s Facebook timeline”, which showed the fictional life and alternative life of Adam Barak. It was “a creative social media campaign” by media agency McCann Digital Israel. Within a few minutes of posting, I had a tweet ...
• Have they found a miracle cure-all?
  If someone suggests trying a medicine from the realm of complementary or alternative medicine and it sounds too good to be true offering to cure almost any ailment and illness, like some kind of panacea, then check this handy chart before you part with your hard-earned cash or put your life in t ...
• Pistachio penis pump for erectile dysfunction?
  Pistachio nuts apparently improve erectile function parameters and serum lipid profiles in patients with erectile dysfunction. So says a research paper in the imaginatively named International Journal of Impotence Research (a section of The Journal of Sexual Medicine from Nature Publishing Group ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Bacteria Widely Pres ...
  New peer-reviewed research published January 19 found methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pork samples collected from retail stores at a higher rate than previously identified.read more
• Obama Administration Protects Birth Control Ac ...
  The Obama administration announced today that it will keep in place a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services that determines which essential services are covered by new health insurance plans.read more
• Bank of America is Main Target of Economic and ...
  Today, Bank of America will be at the center of attention as the country protests the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, including major Occupy Wall Street West actions in San Francisco. Hundreds are expected for a Bank ...
• Victory for Men’s Health; Medicare Will Keep C ...
  After Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Dan Burton (R-IN) and Don Young (R-AK) organized a bipartisan group of 44 Members of Congress to object to a recommendation by the United States Preventative Task Force (USPTF) that healthy men should not receive a blood test to screen for prostate cance ...
• Russia Drops Slander Case Against Leading Huma ...
  Today's closure of the criminal proceedings against the head of a well-known Russian human rights organization is a victory for human rights, Amnesty International said. Oleg Orlov, head of the Russian human rights center Memorial, was charged with criminal slander on July 6, 2010, after ...

Common Dreams-Views

• After Tragedy, Apple Tries to Polish Image on ...
  Michelle Chen Apple’s trademark is the intuitive elegance of its designs. Yet when it comes corporate and labor practices, Apple’s track record looks like a morass of obfuscation and murky public-relations smokscreens.read more
• The Fading Dream of Higher Education in the US
  Ellen Schrecker It seems fitting that some of the activity inaugurated by the Occupy Wall Street movement migrated from city squares to college campuses, where students, from Berkeley to the City University of New York (CUNY), are protestin ...
• Why Obama's 'Targeted Killing' is Worse than B ...
  Mary Ellen O'Connell By June 2004, it was confirmed that the US was using torture at secret detention sites and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was in that month that piles of "torture memos" were released to the public.r ...
• Blood on Whose Hands?: Bradley Manning, Wikile ...
  Chase Madar Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about... civilian war casualties?  What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as upli ...
• We Know How to Curb Poverty, We Simply Fail to Act
  Greg Kaufmann This week, at a forum on poverty and the 2012 election, Republican pollster Jim McLaughlin said 88 percent of voters view a candidate’s position on equal opportunity for children of all races as important in deciding the ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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Water Wars

• Allen Bushnell, Fish Rap: Bay still crawling w ...
  Allen Bushnell Fish Rap Sand dabs and mackerel took top billing again this week for local fishing, along with a steady catch of Dungeness crab.
• No Name Group secretive, potentially powerful
  It's been so secretive, members acknowledge little more than its existence.
• UPDATE: Rhythm discussed but no action taken
  CHIPLEY – Washington County Planning Commission held discussions on Rhythm, but took no action during their regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 10 and had several guests to speak with the commission as well as with citizens, which included four...
• Italian Sparkling Water Plans to Burst Pellegr ...
  Water wars! Italy's top sparkling mineral water, Ferrarelle, is planning a massive takedown of all other fizzies, especially San Pellegrino, with a spillage into the U.S. market. The marketing campaign recently kicked off at the Leopard at des Artistes . There, Ferrarelle enlisted the " ...
• Allegan Historic Farm & Learning Center kicks ...
  The Allegan Historic Farm & Learning Center will host a series of film screenings focusing on sustainability each Sunday in February.

WordPress | Economics

• Variable Pricing Means Prices Sometimes Go Up
  And for some reason they always seem to go up at exactly those times when you want to buy.  Like Tax
• book reports - THE THEATER WILL ROCK, Elizabet ...
  THE THEATER WILL ROCK: A HISTORY OF THE ROCK MUSICAL FROM HAIR TO HEDWIG (2006) There does seem to b
• California Short and Sweet
  Governor Jerry Brown talked a lot when he asked for higher taxes last night.  The article is here, b
• A "Reasonable Profits Board"? If Only It Were ...
  A Congressional Bill proposing a “Reasonable Profits Board” so that profits on the sale
• The Earth's "High Noon"
  KEYSTONE EXTRA LARGE by Hal Ginsberg/ Dagblog.com/ Jan. 19, 2012 It’s a great life. You risk y

Electronic Intifada

• "Talk to us," says Hamas in rare visit to Europe
  Adri Nieuwhof The Electronic Intifada A delegation of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council travelled to Switzerland to attend a meeting on parliamentarians under threat.
• Bunker state cemented by new Israeli law again ...
  Jonathan Cook The Electronic Intifada Nazareth Just as Israel did — and still does — with Palestinians wanting to return to their homeland, thousands of desperate asylum seekers from Africa are being criminalized under the “Prevention of Infiltration law.”
• Waging liberation in and outside Israel's pris ...
  Ameer Makhoul The Electronic Intifada Gilboa Prison The official Palestinian position on the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails serves to undermine their cause, which is a central component of the Palestinian people’s liberation struggle, comments Ameer Makhoul from Gilboa&n ...
• Bamboo furniture-making tradition, brought fro ...
  Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Gaza City It is a craft that has been passed down from one generation to the next. The al-Mathloums were one of the best-known bamboo furniture-making families in Gaza but now, of his brothers, only Zakariya, the eldest son, is struggling to keep the tradit ...
• Blockade dictates types of flowers grown in Gaza
  Mohammed Omer The Electronic Intifada Rafah Israel’s ongoing blockade has suffocated countless export industries and continues to dictate the types of crops grown in Gaza, including flowers.

The Wonk Room

• Gingrich Says ‘Work’ Is A ‘S ...
  Newt Gingrich launched a now-infamous tirade against moderator Juan Williams during Monday night’s GOP debate after Williams dared to ask him if he could understand why some African-Americans were offended by Gingrich’s obsession with food stamps and child labor. “No, I don’t s ...
• NJDC Condemns Editorial Suggesting That Israel ...
  Gawker reported today that Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the weekly newspaper the Atlanta Jewish Times, wrote in a January 13 column about what options Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu might have if he receives a report that Hezbollah is about to attack with thousands of rock ...
• Going Too Far Fighting Crime In ‘Dredd&# ...
  As a new Judge Dredd convert, and a big fan of innovative action movies, I’m actually starting to get excited about Karl Urban-starring Dredd even though the production’s hit some difficulties. What really got my juices going was the news that Olivia Thirlby’s going to be playi ...
• Consumer Spending On Health Care Surged Since ...
  Bloomberg.com’s “Chart of the Day” notes that consumer spending’s share of the U.S. GDP is experiencing a surge as household purchases, including health care expenses, has grown as a proportion of the economy, climbing from 61 percent in the mid 1960s to 71 percent today. ...
• U.S. Considers Shuttering Syria Mission Over S ...
  Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin reports that the U.S. is considering shutting down its embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus. Violence has recently reached near the central city, raising concerns among several missions there. The U.S. is negotiating with the Syrian government over new securit ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Respect
  This article by Tyler McCreary; "An Essay on Respect" focuses on how the chairperson of the Joint Review Panel for the community hearings into the Enbrigde Pipeline simultaneously disrespects the Haisla, Tsimshian, and Wet’suwet’en First Nations while asking them to respect everybody else, inclu ...
• Staying on the Lie
  That's what we should call it when the harpercon scum start doing what is ordinarily called "staying on the message." Because with harpercon scum, "the message" is generally some laughably stupid concoction that most sane people would refer to as "a lie." Case-in-point: The oil-shilling harperc ...
• Goodbye To All That ...
  I left rabble.ca/babble. I'm glad I got the boot from breadandroses.ca I'm pretty much done with emasse.ca
• Busy Again. Here's Another Video ...
  Gotta post something. I guess. Whatever. "Order Out of Chaos"
• Record-low Mortgage Rates
  This CBC story isn't all that convincing. I'll quote commenter "Belgarion" to summarize it: So the banks tossed out the laws of supply and demand and started setting mortgage rates to...bonds? So if people had lots of money saved up to buy houses the rates would still be low today? Pardon my ...

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Digital Journal

• Critical acclaim ahead of Leonard Cohen's new ...
  Canadian poet and song-writer Leonard Cohen is set to release his first album for seven years on January 31. The album is called 'Old Ideas'.
• With this Twitter account I thee unwed: Katy P ...
  In what may be a sign of things to come, singer Katy Perry has used her Twitter account to send a strong message to her husband Russell Brand, and the world, that the two are really over and out. How?
• Ontario schools divert over 25 tonnes of waste ...
  200,000 elementary school students in Ontario helped divert over 25 tonnes of waste from landfill in a single week by lacking waste-free lunches.
• Ontario: Niagara region hosts icewine festivals
  There is a mystique and romance that's grown up around Icewine. It's called Canada's "liquid gold", receives critical acclaim, wins gold medals in international competitions and commands high prices. Here's your chance to discover the magic.
• Sarah Burke dead at 28 after ski accident in Utah
  She was a beautiful blonde skiing maverick changing the sport for women worldwide. The slopes were her second home, a home that would claim her life. On Thursday skier Sarah Burke, 28, died in a Utah hospital from injuries on the slopes Jan. 10.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

• New U.S. defence strategy to impact Canada?
  Earlier this month, President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced a new U.S. defense strategy, shaped in large part by projected Pentagon budget cuts. According to the New York Times (Elisabeth Bumiller & Thom Shanker, “Obama Puts His Stamp on Strategy for a Lean ...
• Peacekeeping: Lessons unlearned from Rwanda?
  Earlier this month, civil conflict in South Sudan between the Murle and Nuer tribes resulted in the deaths of hundreds or possibly thousands of Murle people. A UN source said the number might be as high as 1,000, while a local Murle official estimated the number of deaths to be as high as 3,000 ...
• U.S. Marines video: How not to win hearts and ...
  The actions of four U.S. Marines caught on video laughing and urinating on Afghan bodies have been condemned by the United States, NATO, and the government of Afghanistan. Globe and Mail correspondent Paul Koring examines the potential consequences of the scandal (“Obama’s ‘hearts and minds’ eff ...
• Is the covert war with Iran becoming overt?
  Earlier this week, another Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in a bomb attack (Ali Akbar Dareini, “Bombs kill another nuclear scientist in Iran,” Globe and Mail, 11 January 2012): Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university pro ...
• U.S. Marines video: How not to win hearts and ...
  The actions of four U.S. Marines caught on video laughing and urinating on Afghan bodies have been condemned by the United States, NATO, and the government of Afghanistan. Globe and Mail correspondent Paul Koring examines the potential consequences of the scandal (“Obama’s ‘hearts and minds’ eff ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Can Mindfulness Curb Overeating?
  January 10, 2012 Health.com By Anne Harding Supersized portions and high-calorie dishes in restaurants are often blamed for contributing to America’s obesity epidemic, and for good reason. People tend to carry more body fat if they eat out frequently, and they tend to consume more calories ...
• Lack of Sleep Means Lack of Weight Loss
  November 3, 2011 DrAxe.com BY DR. AXE Sleep is one of the most undervalued essential practices in modern society. In 1910, an average night’s sleep was 9 hours. By 1975, it was down to 7.5 hours. From 2000 to 2002, polls found that it had fallen to 6.9 hours. Today, many people average just 5-6 ...
• Green Tea Can Be Beneficial to General Health
  January 10, 2012 Proven4.com By Cathy Jen, PH.D. Tea—both green or black or anything in between—has been a traditional daily beverage in Asian countries for centuries. The color of the tea is dependent upon the length of the leaves that are fermented (oxidized). The longer the fermentation proce ...
• Homeland Security Monitors Journalists
  07 January, 2012 RT Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what. Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiativ ...
• Proof that Your Own Thoughts and Beliefs Can C ...
  January 7, 2012 Infowars.com by: Andre Evans If you are struggling with any major health concern, it is important to realize that your mind can sometimes be your own worst enemy, or it could be the main reason for treating a problem. Increasingly, it is being recognized that a ‘mind over matter’ ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Ohio voters want fracking halted for safety st ...
  CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio voters by a wide margin want a halt to hydrofracking until more impact studies are conducted, though they believe there are economic benefits to drilling for natural gas and oil, a Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found. The poll comes just weeks a ...
• Initial Results Show that Ron Paul Won the Sou ...
  Initial Results Show that Ron Paul Won the South Carolina Republican Debate By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Many online polls are showing that Ron Paul won the Charleston Republican debate tonight, and is picking up steam. For example, here is Newsday: Poll Daddy: Naples News: View the ori ...
• Kucinich proposes public financing to overturn ...
  Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced a constitutional amendment to the U.S. House on Thursday that would overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission. The court held that corporations have the same First Amendment rights as people a ...
• Anonymous Shuts Down Corporate and Government ...
  Anonymous Shuts Down Corporate and Government Websites Worldwide … The Timing Couldn’t Be Worse By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Anonymous Shuts Down MPAA, RIAA, FBI, DOJ and Copyright Office Anonymous launched one of the largest hacking attacks in history today. Gizmodo reports ...
• Democrats Are the Ones Pushing Web Censorship
  Democrats Are the Ones Pushing Web Censorship By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Dems Still Pushing Web Censorship While the chief baddy on SOPA – Lamar Smith is a Republican, it is really the Democrats who are the ones still trying to censor the web. MPAA head Chris Dodd is the former ...

Dandelion Salad

• Chris Hedges and Carl Mayer: NDAA – Who ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 17, 2012 democracynow on Jan 17, 2012 www.democracynow.org – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense ...
• In Signal to Israel and Iran, Obama Delays War ...
  by Gareth Porter and Jim Lobe Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS January 16, 2012 WASHINGTON, Jan 16, 2012 (IPS) – The postponement of a massive joint U.S.-Israeli military exercise appears to be the culmination of a series of events that has impelled the Barack Obama admin ...
• Why I’m Suing Barack Obama by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Jan. 16, 2012 Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the ...
• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr: I Have Been to the ...
  Dandelion Salad Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just thirty-nine years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he ...
• Tavis Smiley: Remaking America: From Poverty T ...
  Dandelion Salad C-SPAN Washington, DC Thursday, January 12, 2012 Panelists discuss a recent report from Indiana University on how poverty is changing in America. Participants include Princeton professor Cornel West, TV host Suze Orman, filmmaker Michael Moore, and author Barbara Ehrenreich. Tavi ...

Your New Reality

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  Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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  Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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  A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...
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  Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...
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  Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

Wired - Science

• 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!

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Air Force Gets First An-140 Passenger ...
  The Russian Air Force took delivery of the first Antonov An-140-100 passenger/transport plane on Friday, Defense Ministry spokesman Col Vladimir Drik said.
• Russia Denies Paying Fine on Iran Missile Contract
  Russia has returned a prepayment it received for S-300 surface-to-air missile systems it ultimately refused to deliver to Iran but has paid no penalty, Russian Technologies chief Sergei Chemezov said on Friday.
• Aerospace Defense Holding Proposed for Russia
  The expert council on Russia’s Aerospace Defense System (ADS) has proposed consolidating all the related defense-industry enterprises into a single holding, council executive director Boris Cheltsov said on Friday.
• Bulava missile: test-launch history
• Russia’s Bulava Carrying Sub to Enter Service ...
  Russia’s newest nuclear-powered submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, will be put into operation in the second quarter of the year, the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Friday.

NewsWise

• Tactile Imaging Sensor Can Assist Doctors with ...
  A handheld tactile imaging sensor developed by Temple University engineers could aid doctors in early identification of cancerous lesions or tumors.
• Greenwich Hospital Embraces a Holistic Approac ...
  It's the combination of 21st century innovation with healing arts dating back over a thousand years that forms the basis of Integrative (also known as Complementary and Alternative) Medicine at Greenwich Hospital ( Jan 24 and Mar 6 events).
• University of Virginia Darden School of Busine ...
  Research published in the December 2011 issue of the academic journal Business & Society recognizes the University of Virginia Darden School of Business as the leading MBA program in the field of Business Ethics.
• Gottlieb Awarded National Accreditation for Ec ...
  Cardiovascular diseases are the No. 1 cause of death in America and echocardiograms help detect disease. National protocols such as those by the ICAEL help increase patient quality of care.
• UTHealth's Carmen Dessauer Elected to Scientif ...
  Carmen Dessauer, Ph.D., a cell signaling researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), has been named a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Scien ...

Natural Health News

• This Vitamin Found to Rejuvenate Aging Eyes
  New research reports that vitamin D supplementation in aged mice had an eye-rejuvenating benefit.  Old mice were given vitamin D3 for six weeks. They demonstrated improved vision, a reduction in their number of retinal macrophages -- immune cells that can sometimes cause excessive inflammat ...
• Why Are Your Kids Being Injected With 125 Anti ...
  Challenges to a child’s immune system during early development, including those induced by vaccines, can lead to permanent and detrimental alterations of brain and immune function. Evidence also shows that as few as two or three vaccine adjuvants, simultaneously administered, can overcome geneti ...
• Without This Marine Nutrient Your Brain Could ...
  Humans evolved with a staple source of the omega-3 fat docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in their diets. The introduction of high-quality, easily digested nutrients from seafood into the human diet coincided with the rapid expansion of grey matter in the cerebral cortex -- a defining characteristic of ...
• Why is This Widely Recommended When the Scienc ...
  The startling results of a recent study show that vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine are at odds with each other.  The research looked into the effectiveness of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine against cervical cancer, and found that the efficacy of HPV vaccines for this purpo ...
• A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug
  “Toxic stress” early in life -- perhaps even before birth – may be the most widespread danger faced by children.  The American Academy of Pediatrics is issuing a landmark warning stating that, based on the results of two decades’ worth of scientific research, it is now clear that toxic stre ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Israel: Iran Hasn’t Decided to Build a Bomb
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It’s difficult to accuse these guys of being soft on Tehran, so it’s hard to quibble with their conclusion: The intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to Dempsey indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether ...
• Morison on the Relationship Between the ATS an ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Samuel Morison, Appellate Defense Counsel with the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, Department of Defense, has posted a suberb new esssay on SSRN entitled “Accepting Sosa’s Invitation: Did Congress Expand the Subject Matter Jurisdiction o ...
• Another Round on IHL and IHRL
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Gabor Rona posted a response to Jens Ohlin yesterday.  Jens responded at LieberCode — and now Gabor has responded to Jens’s response (and John Dehn’s comment on his OJ post).  Here is what Jens wrote (reposted with permission): Many tha ...
• Thanks, Republicans!
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration announced the demise today of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have done nothing to promote America’s energy independence but everything to promote climate change: President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected a Canadia ...
• What Governance Role Is the German Constitutio ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson English-language OJ readers are fortunate to have University of Connecticut’s Peter Lindseth spending the semester in Berlin as the Daimler Fellow at the American Academy, where among other things he is posting to the Eutopia law blog on various go ...

Public News Service

• 39 Years Later, Abortion Restrictions Hit Reco ...
  39 Years Later, Abortion Restrictions Hit Record High Phoenix, AZ - With the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade coming up this weekend (Jan 22), activists from both sides continue to debate the issue. Meantime, abortion restrictions have hit a record high, according to the Guttmacher (GOOT-mocker) ...
• Arizona's Strawberry Source Puts Pesticide on ...
  Arizona's Strawberry Source Puts Pesticide on Trial Phoenix, AZ - The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has until the end of the week to defend its approval of a controversial pesticide used on fields that supply most of Arizona's strawberries. Environmental and farmworker groups say ...
• What You Eat Can Impact Your Cancer Risk
  What You Eat Can Impact Your Cancer Risk Phoenix, AZ – Eating better and taking care of yourself can lower your cancer risk. Comments from Denise Kolba, regional member services director for the American Cancer Society. The ACS has just updated its guidelines on cancer prevention.
• Are Safety and Academics Keeping AZ Preschoole ...
  Are Safety and Academics Keeping AZ Preschoolers from the Playground? Phoenix, AZ – Concerns about injury and academic skills may be preventing some preschool children from getting enough outside time in child care, according to a new study that examines the role played by parental and soc ...
• The New Year: A Great Time to Quit Smoking
  The New Year: A Great Time to Quit Smoking Phoenix, AZ – A New Year’s resolution to quit smoking could add years to your life and the lives of those around you, and there’s plenty of help available to make it happen. Comments from Keri Schneider, regional manager of the Tobacco ...

Center for Food Safety

• California Bill to Label GE Fish Fails
  AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...
• Dow Chemical requests unprecedented USDA appro ...
  Dow Chemical is currently requesting an unprecedented USDA approval: a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological ...
• FDA Bans Extra-Label Use Of Cephalosporin Drugs
  EXTRA-LABEL BAN A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MORE ACTION STILL NEEDED   The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for pre-releasing its long awaited prohibition on the extra-label use of cephalosporin drugs i ...
• Coalition calls for FDA to halt approval of ge ...
  Discovery of undisclosed infection of salmon eggs calls into question company claims that GE salmon are safe for the environment Yesterday afternoon a coalition of 11 food safety, environmental, consumer and fisheries organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) c ...
• Senate Holds First Hearing on Genetically Engi ...
  Experts Warn GE Fish Too Risky to Environment. CFS Calls for New Framework, Mandatory Environmental Impact Statement The Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing at 10:30 AM today to di ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Defend our Right to Create and Share!
  I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...
• Meet the Rollerman
  Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...
• RSA: The Empathic Civilization
  With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...
• Hitchiking the Platforms
  Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...
• Siri, AI and TV Collide
  Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Megaupload empire crumbles, owner arrested in NZ
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• Concordia death toll rises to 11, many more mi ...
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• Five year old girl, father, among Concordia mi ...
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• Passenger video captures shipwreck terror, sur ...
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• Provocative politician reveals all in new book
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh fr ...
  As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...
• Six Common Misconceptions About Gaza That Are ...
  Reposted with permission from www.gazagateway.org In sixth place: “The civilian closure has been lifted and only security restrictions remain”. Gaza is not as isolated from the rest of the world as it was a few years ago, but it is still cut off from the West Bank and it’s hard to find convi ...
• IDF Investigations: Will There Be Justice for ...
  IDF policy requires a criminal investigation be launched immediately when military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories cause death. But a defective system essentially ensures that the investigation will not be conducted in a fair and impartial manner, enabling soldiers to contin ...
• Who’s Afraid of Women’s Song?
  Who’s Afraid of Women’s Song? The following is a testimony of one of the women, out of the 23 activists, who were arrested in this week’s Nabi Saleh demonstration (above video). This demonstration was the first after Mustafa Tamimi’s murder. It was extremely brutal, which is a relative te ...
• Update about Sausan and Amal, 2 Palestinian Gi ...
  Our last Villages Group post reported the demolition of structures, including homes and a mosque, in the Palestinian village of Al-Mufaqara (also known as Umm-Faqra) in southern West Bank. The destruction was perpetrated on November 24 by Israeli civilian contractors (see here for a brief report ...

Politics in the Zeros

• 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 [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• MegaUploads Dangerous Secrets affect YOU, Mike ...
• From al Qaeda to the American People: Bringing ...
    The Intel Hub By Michelle Jones January 20, 2012 We all knew it was coming. The Department of Homeland Security has spent an enormous amount of time on an exhaustive campaign to indoctrinate the American people about the “threats” of terrorism in their own backyard. Now DHS wants to turn ...
• U.S. ready to shut down its embassy in Syria ( ...
    The Cable   Amid growing concerns about security in Damascus, the Obama administration is considering closing the U.S. Embassy in Damascus unless the Syrian government can guarantee security in the area, The Cable has learned. An administration official confirmed to The Cable Friday ...
• Chuck Sells Out! Why Chuck Norris Endorsed Gin ...
    From Chuck Norris (MY COMMENTS IN BOLD ~ JB) via Neo Con Daily Our republic as America’s founders created it is under assault from extremists outside our country and anti-constitutionalists inside our country. Combined with the flailing American economy and global markets, Western civiliz ...
• ADMITTED: Much of Britain was exposed to bacte ...
  Some of this is at the heart of why Fort Detrick / CIA employee Frank Olson was murdered. First AEROSOL SPRAYING TESTS IN FRANCE! Read “Its a Terrible Mistake” by Hank Alberelli (or roll back our Vintage section here to listen to our interview with Hank.) Or go here to listen Can we ...

The Air Vent

• The Blog Trap
  Tom Fuller has started blogging again. He used to post at the SF examiner – until he also quit. Many of you will remember that he and I hold different views on politics but I find him honest and a far better writer than me. According to his email, his new blog will focus on [...]
• Full length NSIDC Sea Ice Data
  Below is the full length of the NSIDC SEA ice data. From 2.8 gb of data. The graphs of the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales having a pixel resolution of 25km. The satellite ice data comes from the NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations as collected from the Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/ ...
• Improved Sea Ice videos
  UPDATE: High speed video from 2004 to present added below. In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice.  I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub.  And I rescaled the graphs so that the ...
• Improved Sea Ice videos
  In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice.  I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub.  And I rescaled the graphs so that the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales.   The pixel re ...
• Boo!
  S0 I’m actually getting to where I feel better about things and have begun looking at actual data.  Then I ran across this. It is a call to action to limit black carbon emissions, a far more sensible thing to attack than CO2, but the article is so insane that I simply refuse to accept [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Smiles, Amazon, Netflix, MySpace, dating, more ...
  Applications asking users to share smiles or friendship with their friends, an Amazon sweepstakes, videos, photos, Netflix, Myspace, dating, Identified and more made our list of emerging apps by monthly active users this week.  The apps grew from between 130,000 … Continue reading →
• Facebook career postings: engineering, data ce ...
  Facebook posted several engineering and data center positions this week on its Careers Page and LinkedIn feed. The company also posted a several positions for different departments and revamped its Careers interface. Each category now lists the number of available positions, such as 25, … ...
• Facebook hires and departures: design, enginee ...
  Positions for engineering, business operations, policy and communications went missing from Facebook’s Careers Page this week, hinting that these positions have been filled. The company also hired a designer, according to its LinkedIn feed. New hires per LinkedIn: Zach Miller, Designer &#8 ...
• Facebook contest to award ad credit to small b ...
  Facebook quietly launched a contest Tuesday called Small Business Boost that will award $10,000 to 10 small businesses that gain the most new Likes by April 1. Small business owners in the U.S. that manage pages on the social network … Continue reading →
• Facebook approving any Open Graph Timeline int ...
  Facebook will approve any Open Graph app that wants to integrate Timeline starting today, the social network announced at a San Francisco press event. Facebook’s Carl Sjorgreen took the stage on Wednesday night’s event to walk the audience through the … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: The fight over the Keystone XL pipel ...
  truthout: The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline is far from over. http://t.co/f2Pt9tTX #KeystoneXL #Keystone #P2 #OWS
• truthout: Defense Budget Flip - Dick Armey: "C ...
  truthout: Defense Budget Flip - Dick Armey: "Cut the Budget" Obama: "Slow the Increase" http://t.co/5ZAXkCWl #DOD #OWS #TPOT #TCOT
• truthout: #Guantanamo Military Commission "Rea ...
  truthout: #Guantanamo Military Commission "Really About Secrecy," Defense Attorney Says http://t.co/hpZ1W326
• truthout: Defense Budget Flip: Dick Armey - Cu ...
  truthout: Defense Budget Flip: Dick Armey - Cut the Budget, Obama - Slow the Increase http://t.co/bz8o31c9
• truthout: John Pilger: The World War on Democr ...
  truthout: John Pilger: The World War on Democracy http://t.co/1PqbNBEi

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “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 ...
• BFP Announcement & Site Updates: “Empire, Powe ...
  New Weekly Podcast Series, BFP Members Discussion Forum & More! Our website has been expanding, our readership and membership has been growing, and my to-do list and objectives for this site has been getting longer instead of getting shorter. Such is life … or ambition … or being drive ...
• Antiwar.com – Your Best Source for Antiwar News?
  Antiwar.com – Your Best Source for Antiwar News? By Maidhc Ó Cathail Launched in 1995, Antiwar.com describes itself as a site “devoted to the cause of non-interventionism” whose “initial project was to fight against intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency.” Explaining their “key ...
• 2012 US Terrorist Identification Chart
  NDAA & the Profile of All Potential American Terrorists This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by subscribing .
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.” –Daniel Webster International Newsworthy U.S. & Israel Preparing for “Bi ...

Afro Spear

• Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus
• sat’day riddymz
• The Tebow Phenomenon
  The Tebow Phenomenon isn’t really a phenomenon at all, if you understand the dynamics of his upbringing. Here’s an enlightening and insightful article by sports columnist Jason Whitlock from December 11, 2011: If this works, if Tim Tebow  keeps winning games, keeps getting better, ke ...
• “What a year that 2011 was!” by Nk ...
  December is a time when writers, editors, analysts and all who make news what it is, are busy researching on what to write to wind up the year. Likewise, all media houses and outlets are busy hunting for a sound summary of the year. This is what this article is all about today. Truly, the [...]
• A Sister’s 2012 Resolution

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• It Is All One Big Thing
  Remember now, that China imports only to fuel her exports, importing raw materials to export finished goods. Much in the same way the British Empire once did it and the Americans once did it in that former American Century. In 2001, China exported $510 billion in goods and this year she will exp ...
• Two-Party Tyranny
  How the two major parties shift elections in their favor.
• Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sues Obama Over NDAA, Sa ...
  Today Occupy DC pressed the message of getting the influence of money out of politics by descending on Congress. The protesters carried signs saying: "Face it liberals, the Dems sold us out," "Congress for sale" and "Banksters of America."
• To Error and Back Again, or How I Learned to S ...
  Part 1 of a three part piece on Christopher Hitchens and the New Atheism, originally written in 2007 for a class on cultural criticism that Hitchens co-taught.
• Three False Assertions by the Grand Jury turne ...
  Three misrepresentations in the grand jury summary of what Mike McQueary actually saw and actually reported to Joe Paterno inflamed both the press and the public against Joe Paterno and Penn State.

Switchboard

• Pearls Before Swine: The FDA Dodges Effort to ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Over the past several weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has been in the news for its stance on antibiotic use in farm animals. Yet instead of making good on its 1977 promise to limit these dru ...
• Designing healthy communities with Dr. Richard ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A provocative new 4-hour series soon to air on public television, Designing Healthy Communities, examines the impact of our built environment on key public health indices, inc ...
• Detroit and DC 2012 Auto Shows: It's all about ...
  Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco The 2012 season for major American auto shows is in full swing, with the Detroit venue running through this weekend, and Washington D.C. starting next week.  Already, we are seeing th ...
• Leading Experts Call for Action to Combat Ocea ...
  Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica Today two of the world’s leading marine mammal experts published an op-ed on CNN.com, calling on the U.S. to recognize a major threat to marine life: the rapidly rising le ...
• Guardians of the Ogallala
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC The battle over the proposed 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline has raged across the political corridors of the nation’s capitol. President Obama rejected the tar sands pipeli ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Anti-Choice Fail
  Some excellent news from Jessica Arons: Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-sharing such ...
• Etta James
  A really great one. Treat yourself or someone you love to Her Best or The Chess Box and much pleasure will ensue. R.I.P.
• The Death Penalty and the Right to Counsel
  The Maples decision earlier this week contained one of Scalia’s great “parade of horribles” that point to a future superior to the status quo.   I’m not sure if it’s possible to top his reverse slippery slope in Lawrence, when he admonished us that the decision woul ...
• Not So Much A #Slatepitch as an #Onionpitch
  Shorter Simon Doonan:  a couple small restaurant chains you’ve never heard of represent a universal trend, the small minority of women who get breast implants for aesthetic reasons can be safely conflated with pretty much all women, and I find it puzzling that to find examples of small-bre ...
• The Kind of Union Leader I Can Get Behind
  What is your vision of a 1970s union leader? Lane Kirkland and his lame leadership of the AFL-CIO? Jimmy Hoffa? A bunch of old men in suits? One could hardly blame you if you had that in your mind. Every narrative tells us unions were moribund and bloated by the 70s. They all sold out [...]

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Featured in Scientific American
  The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.
• Experience of a Visiting Scholar
  What began as a scientific collaboration turned into so much more when Prashant Gargava, Ph.D. applied to work with his colleague Judith Chow, Sc.D. through the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
• DRI Scientist Earns Fifth Patent
  Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.
• Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
  Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...
• Truckee River Fund Supports DRI’s Integrated W ...
  DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).

Earth Techling

• Arizona Emissions Program Repealed In Favor Of ...
  Cronkite News reports on how Arizona state government recently repealed a set of tailpipe-emissions standards adopted in 2008 despite objections from some.
• BLM Wants Solar, Wind To Pay To Play
  The Bureau of Land Management is moving to establish a competitive lease process for wind and solar development on public lands.
• China Unleashes New Initiatives In Its Push To ...
  Worldwatch Institute reports on how China is undertaking various new initiatives as it looks to expand its collection of sustainable development goals.
• Personal Rover Electric Scooter Has Its Sway
  The Personal Rover electric scooter uses an 800-watt electric motor for a maximum speed of up to 15 mph, a 12-mile range and a potential trip to the emergency room.
• Wind And Solar Power: Uncooperative Reality
  American Enterprise Institute argues that despite widespread support from government, clean energy produces only a small amount of U.S. power and faces inherent limitations that can be overcome only at very high cost.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• OPINION: Growing backlash against 'Citizens Un ...
  We can expect citizens and courts to continue to rally against the case until it ceases to be the law of the land.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: The great social media c ...
  Lawyers have tended to nod their heads but balk at actually changing their behavior. So a few months ago, I tried something ­different. I challenged a group of lawyers to a contest. The first-place prize was an iPad 2. As it turns out, lawyers are quite competitive.
• OPINION: Make jobs more family friendly
  Unfriendly firm policies have a ripple effect, leading to low numbers of women in leadership roles in society.
• THE PRACTICE: Recent cases on evolving directo ...
  Delaware courts will largely defer to board decisions but will scrutinize those involved in conflict transactions.
• Vermont launching agricultural law center
  Vermont Law School is launching a Center for Agriculture and Food Systems with the help of a $1.25 million grant from an anonymous donor.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Corbett Administration Cuts Funds
  I heard this piece from State Impact PA (WITF/NPR) this morning on my drive to work. Corbett wants to make decisions about gas drilling based on facts, not emotional…and then his administration goes and cuts the funding for research that provides just the sort of facts he is talking about. ...
• It’s Like We’re Losing Our Love…
  This video documents Simona Perry’s research on the emotional and traumatic effects of the natural gas drilling, specifically in Bradford County, PA. http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=689293c50f404f12b8c628b8f2285780
• Hydraulic Fracking the Propaganda and Truth
  I know I’ve been away from this blog for a while now but it looks like folks are still finding it. The following link was passed on to me, and good for a few laughs despite the depressing topic, and I just had to pass it along. Enjoy and share! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZptKESRzio&#3 ...
• Shale Gas Drilling Photos
  The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening.  Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling
• Marcellus Shale case appealed to Pa. Supreme C ...
  By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...

News Blaze

• 'Operation Free' Asserts Stronger Mileage Stan ...
  The longer the U.S. remains dependent on fossil fuel, the more the U.S. will have to engage in tough wars just to protect our energy supplies, putting American lives at risk.
• Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Critical ...
  She noted that one key way in which the international community has signaled that impunity for the most serious crimes will not be tolerated is the creation of international and mixed tribunals, as well as commissions of inquiry and fact-finding mec
• US Strongly Supports Russia's Entry To World T ...
  He said the United States wants to strengthen relations not just between the two governments but also the two societies.
• 'National School Choice Week' Set to Kick Off ...
  Officials involved with NSCW work throughout the year to encourage lawmakers at various levels of government to maximize the number of educational options for children, therefore maximizing their opportunities for success.
• The World Welcomes The Year of Dragon With Ric ...
  She noted that President Obama is committed to U.S. 21st century partnership with the people of the Asia-Pacific region. She stressed that the United States will continue to deepen ties with its allies and partners, while strengthening lasting bonds

environment 360

• NASA Graphic Depicts Significant Spike in Temp ...
  A new NASA graphic shows that temperatures in several global regions were appreciably higher in 2011 than at mid-century, with large swaths of Siberia and Click to enlarge NASA GISS Global temperature anomalies, 2011 the Arctic experiencing temperatures as much as 4 degrees C (7 degrees F) ...
• Value of Conserving Habitats Could be Worth $5 ...
  A new study says that compensating the world’s poorest communities for helping conserve the planet’s most vital habitats would help solve two major challenges: biodiversity loss and poverty. In fact, if global leaders were to put an economic value on the preservation of the world’s biodiversity ...
• Satellite Images Depict Transformation of Sibe ...
  A pair of satellite images taken four decades apart shows the shifting ecological landscape of the Siberian Arctic, where warming temperatures have enabled a swath of thick shrubs to thrive in once-open tundra. The Click to enlarge NASA Siberian Arctic, 1966 to 2009 photos, posted by the ...
• China Sets First-Ever Cap On Greenhouse Gas Em ...
  The Chinese government has ordered five cities and two provinces to set caps on greenhouse gas emissions in preparation for a series of regional carbon markets. Last week, China’s National Development and Reform Commission urged Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, as well as the ...
• China’s Reforestation Programs: Big Success or ...
  China has undertaken ambitious reforestation initiatives that have increased its forest cover dramatically in the last decade. But scientists are now raising questions about just how effective these grand projects will turn out to be. BY JON R. LUOMA

Red Ice Creations

• Lucknow Residents Scared Sleep Will Turn Them ...
  There are plenty of reasons why we sometimes struggle to sleep, but being scared of turning into stone overnight is rarely one of them. That fear, however, kept dozens of people awake in Lucknow and other parts of India’s most populous state this week. It all started with a message late Monday, ...
• The Ancient "Doctrine of Signatures" Suppresse ...
  The Doctrine of Signatures is profound ancient wisdom that is purposely being suppressed. It states that every fruit and vegetable has a certain pattern that resembles a body organ, and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to that fruit or vegetable’s benefit to us. Modern science confi ...
• Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite "Serious Rese ...
  Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified that authority, even as he said he would not use it. The National Defense Authorization Act states how the military is to be funded, but also includes a n ...
• Will Lord Obama Send Americans to Gitmo? Ray M ...
  Though the 9/11 attacks occurred more than a decade ago, Congress continues to exploit them to pass evermore draconian laws on "terrorism," with the Senate now empowering the military to arrest people on U.S. soil and hold them without trial, a serious threat to American liberties, says ex-CIA a ...
• Texas airport explosives found: US military ma ...
  A member of the US military has been charged with trying to take explosives onto a plane at a Texas airport, says the FBI. Thirty year-old Trey Scott Atwater was detained at a security checkpoint at Midland International airport, as he tried to board a flight on Saturday. He was carrying explosi ...

Russia Today

• Buckling under the pressure? Senate postpones ...
  US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has postponed voting on an online piracy prevention bill originally scheduled for next week. Observers say the Senate is retreating after millions of outraged Internet users took...
• Battle of the bucks: UK court defers verdict i ...
  Russian billionaires Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky are waiting to see who comes out on top in their $5 billion London court duel. The posh squabble has plunged the British court into the scandalous realms of...
• Maiming plague: No salvation from Taliban bombs
  The home-made bombs used by Taliban insurgents leave their victims with horrible injuries doctors have trouble treating, which inevitably adds to an attack's death toll. And half of those who do survive the initial...
• Unfriendly fire: French pullout looms after tr ...
  France has suspended training operations for Afghan troops and is threatening to pull its entire force out of Afghanistan early after an Afghan soldier killed four and injured 17 French soldiers in Afghanistan.
• Boeing pilot dies in mid-air
  The co-pilot of a Russian UTair airliner has died in mid-air after feeling unwell while piloting a Boeing en route from Bangkok to Moscow. The plane with 239 passengers on board – all Russian citizens – was able to land...

Not My Tribe

• New Gingrich’s ex wife warns us to keep ...
  In the interview with ABC’s Brian Ross aired last night on “Nightline,” Marianne Gingrich said her former husband lacks the moral character to be president and that his campaign positions on family values and marriage don’t reflect his personal behavior. Really? I didn’t know… Actual ...
• Mr. 1%er- Mitt Romney
  Romney was walking the rope line outside of his headquarters in Charleston, S.C., just today when a person off camera asked, “What would you do to support the 99 percent, seeing as how you’re part of the 1 percent?” Romney responded in anger saying, “If you’ve got a ...
• Good riddance, Rick Perry
  Just one week after defending the actions of US soldiers who were pissing on corpses of Afghans and laughing about it and filming it, Rick Perry has had to withdraw from the race to get the Republican nomination for President. Perry defends Marines accused of urinating on corpses Good riddance, ...
• Stop American Censorship- Stop SOPA
  Go here to sign The Anti-SOPA Petition
• The Cooking Network Deen of diabetes is in trouble
  Aug 2011- Anthony Bourdain told TV Guide that Paula Deen was “the worst, most dangerous person to America,” who “revels in her unholy connections with evil corporations” and is “proud of the fact that her food is f—ing bad for you.” Anthony for all his e ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Please Read What I Actually Wrote Before Sayin ...
  James B. of Screw Loose Change recently commented on my FAQ article posted at AE911Truth and, surprise surprise, he wasn't very impressed. He says the claims in my article are "ironic (and moronic)," but the real irony here is that he clearly didn't carefully read what I wrote. So, what are Jame ...
• JREFers acknowledge the nanothermite hypothesi ...
  It seems after almost three years, the debunkers are finally putting up. Chris Mohr has found a scientist willing to independently test the findings of Harrit et al: Here is my official request for funds to analyze the WTC dust. To summarize, after three months of investigating this, the best pe ...
• New Journal of 9/11 Studies Paper: "No plane a ...
  The Pentagon Attack: Problems with Theories Alternative to Large Plane Impact By John D. Wyndham (PhD, Physics) Abstract: The widespread belief among those who question the official account of 9/11, that a large plane did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11, is unsupported by the evidence. The failur ...
• http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2011/12/angie-had-me-killed.html
  angie had me killed
• 9/11 Theories: Expert vs. Expert - Aluminum Wa ...
  I'm glad Jonathan Cole included the part about the new theory that water and melted aluminium from the aircraft was the cause of the explosions in the Twin Towers. I just recently learned of this myself and was planning on posting about it anyway. I found the theory interesting because in purp ...

Fooducate

• Light Beer and Calorie Economics
  The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Coors Light moved up to the #2 position in terms of annual sales, dethroning Budweiser. The kicker was that the #1 most sold beer in the US is Bud Light. We haven’t really focused on alcoholic beverages on Fooducate, so we found it odd that li ...
• NEW: Get Fooducated Online at www.Fooducate.com
  We are happy to announce that in addition to the mobile format, Fooducate is now available as a website for online use. You can search for products by name, keywords, or UPC. The information displayed is identical to what you would see on your Android or iPhone screen. Click here for a sample pr ...
• NYC Relentless in Obesity War. This Time: Port ...
  We visited New York this week and were happy to see that at least one local government in this country is willing to face up to the big money that is junk food. The latest subway ad campaign is calling out a growing (pun intended) problem – the increase in portion sizes over the last [...]
• The Fancy Food Show: A 7 hour, 150 Course Tast ...
  The Fancy Food Show convenes every January in San Francisco for three days. Small and smaller purveyors of quality foods inhabit the booths at Moscone Convention Center and dish out tasty morsels to a crowd of supermarket buyers, distributors, media, and the public. We walked around the floor of ...
• Resveratrol Health Benefits Relied on Faked Data
  Red wine aficionados take note: The health benefits of antioxidant resveratrol may have been exaggerated or outright falsified. A researcher from the University of Connecticut played around with data in 145 different studies over the course of seven years, in order to make the chemical compound, ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• ‘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 ...

Greg Palast

• XL Keystone - The Pig in the PipelineThe GOP i ...
  by Greg Palast President Obama just nixxed the permit for the XL Keystone Pipeline for now.  But - and this is one big but - he's talking about authorizing other pipelines to replace the XL. Look out! In my investigation for UK's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, our team disclosed information ...
• No Child Behind Left
  By Greg Palast This month marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of No Child Left Behind. Before George W. Bush invaded Iraq he knew he would have to invade our classrooms first. While the occupation of Iraq has ended the brutal occupation of our classrooms by the Forces of Stupid remains. ...
• My Declaration of War on Christmas
  by Greg Palast Click on the image to watch the segment I don't usually watch Today or any American TV because my reports appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation, a network run by highly-educated America-haters. But there I was, last Friday, in this hotel room in Atlanta, a city preten ...
• Occupy Wall Street comes home to roost with Co ...
  Nowhere are the ill-gotten gains of the 1% more grossly apparent than in the activities of 'debt vulture' hedge funds by Greg Palast as published by The Guardian America This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Peter Grossman. Photo by Zach Roberts © 2011This past Sunda ...
• Our Photographer (& His Lens) Busted@Occupy Wa ...
  By Greg Palast Special to Truthout.org "So this Bishop, three priests and a comedian are locked up together in this paddy wagon and ...." "Zach! This is NOT funny, and I do NOT want to hear the punch line." Actually, I appreciate the fact that our photo-journalist has a sense of humor ab ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle an old cast iron ca ...
  Good friend (and bully ;) ) of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su has emailed with a question: Me again! With an actual, proper reuse question! My much used enamelled, cast iron casserole dish has died. Proper died, a large section of the enamel has come off the bottom & I dropped the ...
• How can I reuse or recycle leached wood ash le ...
  Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, [...]
• How can I reuse, recycle or upcycle biscuit/co ...
  (I still need more inspiration for green new year’s resolutions or green goals for 2012. I think I’m probably going to end up doing 12 small things – one a month – rather than one big thing over the year — and I need ideas! But for now, back to regular scheduled &#8 ...
• What are your green goals for 2012?
  I hope everyone has had a cracking start to 2012. I feel a bit bogged down catching up on everything leftover from 2011 but other than that, it’s been good! One of the things I’ve been struggling over all week has been my first Recycle This post of 2012. At this time of year, I [...]
• Don’t wait until Spring cleaning to decl ...
  So much stuff comes into our houses in the last two months of the year – presents, new clothes for parties and all sorts of decorations & whatnot – and after such a busy period, it’s all to easy to tuck it all to the back of the cupboard to consider mañana. But now is [...]

Age of Autism

• “The hell with balance!” - Paul Offit Throws O ...
  By Jake Crosby Millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit lied about me again. Unlike at NIH, where Tara Palmore had me removed after I asked Paul Offit a question during Q&A, at Yale, Dr. Offit himself demanded I leave after repeating...
• In Memoriam Paul Foot: Private Eye in an Ethic ...
  By John Stone The editor of the British satirical journal Private Eye, Ian Hislop, told the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics on Tuesday concerning the MMR controversy: "Yes, we got it wrong. I was advised by our MD not...
• Why the DSM-5 Should Concern Us All
  By Mary Romaniec On December 13, 2006, a four year old girl named Rebecca Riley died of an overdose of prescribed medication. Her parents had given her a toxic combination of Seroquel, Clonodine and Depakote, along with an over-the-counter cold...
• AUTISM ONE AND HEALTH FREEDOM EXPO JOIN HANDS: ...
  LOS ANGELES, CA : In a defining moment in the history of American health, the Health Freedom Expo and AutismOne joined forces today and announced that they are working together to present, protect, and preserve the best health choices for...
• LeRoy New York Girls' Plight Highlights The Du ...
  Editor's Note: It is clear from Tuesday's Today Show Segment (confirmed on Wednesday) that doctors believe the "tics" afflicting teen girls in LeRoy, New York, are a psychiatric illness -- specifically, conversion disorder. (That's all that's left when you rule...

Global BDS Movement

• Report: Third National BDS Conference, Hebron, ...
  On 17 December 2011, Palestinians gathered in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank for the Third National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference
• Sodastream’s reply fails to convince
  The Italian Stop Sodastream campaign exposes the Israeli company's deceptions
• UK’s student body endorses divestment
  The National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK has thrown its weight behind campaigns targeting companies complicit in Israel’s occupation and breaches of international law.
• Campaign launched against French purchase of I ...
  French BDS campaigners have called on their government to abandon a €318 million deal to buy Heron TP drones from Israel Aircraft Industries
• 2012 PennBDS National BDS Conference
  In February, academics, activists, students and community leaders from across the US will converge on the University of Pennsylvania for the 2012 National BDS Conference

Farm Wars

• Nevada County’s Sustainable Food and Farm Conf ...
  Local farmer's conference to promote back to the earth, natural farming techniques.
• Why PIPA/SOPA and the DNS are a Joke!
  VIDEO - Must see to understand the background and implications of SOPA and PIPA.
• Monsanto Patents and Chemtrails
  Every dead plant means another dollar for Monsanto.
• The Drugs I Need
  Musical video commentary on the use of Big Pharma drugs.
• Go Ahead And Die! (Pirates Of The Health Care- ...
  Health care piracy music video.

Open Your Eyes News

• Turkey hits back at Iraq’s warning, summons Ir ...
  MiddleEastOnline – Turkey summoned Iraq’s ambassador to Ankara to protest claims that it has been meddling in its neighbour’s affairs by voicing concerns about a domestic political crisis, a diplomatic source said Tuesday. Feridun Sinirlioglu, the foreign ministry’s under ...
• Hedge Funds May Sue Greece if It Tries to Forc ...
  NY Times – Hedge funds have been known to use hardball tactics to make money. Now they have come up with a new one: suing Greece in a human rights court to make good on its bond payments. The novel approach would have the funds arguing in the European Court of Human Rights that Greece [...]
• Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ t ...
  Wired – Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to build a set of sensors that peer into people’s soul ...
• Cuban hunger striker Wilmar Villar dies in jail
  BBC – A jailed Cuban political dissident has died, 50 days after beginning a hunger strike, a human rights group says. Wilmar Villar was protesting against a four-year prison sentence for taking part in a demonstration. The Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission said the ...
• Mitt Romney Downplays $374,000 In Speaking Fee ...
  HuffingtonPost – Mitt Romney has a new definition of “not much”: $374,327. On Tuesday, the Republican presidential candidate finally admitted that the effective tax rate he has been paying for the last several years is likely below that of middle-class workers, which would also ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Give a Recurring Gift
  Thirsting to make a DIFFERENCE this year? Sign up for a recurring donation. Every month you can transform the life of someone without safe water.
• Reflections on Haiti, what comes next
  January 12th marks the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti, leaving widespread destruction in and around Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of people died and over a million were left homeless. One can still see the legacy of the earthquake with rubble and tent ...
• Thank You
  Your support has made a difference in the lives of people around the world this year.
• Atseda's story of hope
  Thirteen-year-old Atseda is lucky. Her friends in neighboring villages walk miles to collect dirty water each day. But not Atseda. Thanks to donors like you, she has clean water from a well right by her home.
• Collecting Water in Ethiopia
  Throughout Africa, and the rest of the world, women and children spend hours collecting water. Last month we met Birhane and this is her story.

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters block ro ...
  Fauth doesn't put anyone above the law. Submitted by Glenn Byrnes to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Citizens United or Not -- We Aren't Helpless
  But any highly ambitious American politician, whatever their original motivation, values, or ideology, now understands that the path to high office lies in cultivating super-wealthy supporters with strong corporate power bases. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't &nbsp ...
• Prove It---Video
  Intense video and song by Chill EB asking one very important question regarding mental illness labels put on kids and adults---PROVE IT Submitted by Kenneth L. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Uri Avnery: "The Stolen War"
  Hamas has repudiated terrorism! Hamas has embraced non-violent resistance! Israel, hoping to launch Cast Lead II and slaughter more Palestinians, has now been thwarted. The hoped-for war has been STOLEN -- by Hamas. Peace! How dastardly! Submitted by Charles O. to World  |&nbsp ...
• Rick Perry Not Dropping Out? 'Here We Come Sou ...
  Rick Perry says he will remain in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, despite his poor showing in Iowa. Perry tweeted on Wednesday morning, "And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State... Here we come South Carolina... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• DoD Sites in Western States Could Generate 7 G ...
  Nellis Air Force Base solar installation According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Office of Installations and the Environment, the agency&r ...
• SunPower Begins Construction on 13.76 MW Solar ...
  SunPower Corporation stocks were up over 5% Wednesday afternoon following the company's announcement that it had begun construction on a utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) project in California. read more
• First Solar Sets another Record for CdTe Solar ...
  Nevada Solar One, image courtesy Beth Wellington First Solar Inc. read more
• New Agreement Could Help CSP Energy Hit Renewa ...
  CSP Energy has selected OCI Solar Power to develop up to 400 MW in solar power projects to add its renewable energy portfolio. read more
• PSEG Solar Source Acquires Arizona Solar Project
  Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) through its wholly owned subsidiary, PSEG Solar Source, has finalized the purchase of an Arizona solar farm from juwi solar, Inc. read more

News Blaze

• 'Operation Free' Asserts Stronger Mileage Stan ...
  The longer the U.S. remains dependent on fossil fuel, the more the U.S. will have to engage in tough wars just to protect our energy supplies, putting American lives at risk.
• Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Critical ...
  She noted that one key way in which the international community has signaled that impunity for the most serious crimes will not be tolerated is the creation of international and mixed tribunals, as well as commissions of inquiry and fact-finding mec
• US Strongly Supports Russia's Entry To World T ...
  He said the United States wants to strengthen relations not just between the two governments but also the two societies.
• 'National School Choice Week' Set to Kick Off ...
  Officials involved with NSCW work throughout the year to encourage lawmakers at various levels of government to maximize the number of educational options for children, therefore maximizing their opportunities for success.
• The World Welcomes The Year of Dragon With Ric ...
  She noted that President Obama is committed to U.S. 21st century partnership with the people of the Asia-Pacific region. She stressed that the United States will continue to deepen ties with its allies and partners, while strengthening lasting bonds

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• President's Choice baby cereals recalled over ...
  Loblaws is recalling eight varieties of infant cereals under the President's Choice Brand label because they may have an "unpleasant rancid odour." (Source: CTV Health)
• Blog - Do Solar Cells Offer Kodak a Way Back?
  Kodak hopes to use its expertise in film making to produce flexible solar cells. It may be a long shot, but Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy today, thinks it might have a use for its idle film production equipment: making solar cells.
• SOMBRA COOL THERAPY (Menthol) Gel [SOMBRA COSM ...
  Updated Date: Jan 19, 2012 EST
• Expansion of CD8+ T cells lacking Sema4D/CD100 ...
  Sema4D, also known as CD100, is a constitutively expressed immune semaphorin on T cells and NK cells. CD100 has important immune regulatory functions that improve antigen-specific priming by antigen-presenting cells, and can also act as a costimulatory molecule on T cells. We investigated the co ...
• Lower lead levels deemed harmful for kids
  A panel reported that lead in homes harms children at lower levels than previously believed, while funding for a prevention program fell.

Common Dreams

• 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: ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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• ExamineReligion: We need more (holy) jealousy ...
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• ExamineReligion: Sasquatch represented unfairl ...
  ExamineReligion: Sasquatch represented unfairly in Horror films. Who let the Squatches Out? http://t.co/7Vp3mvSk
• ExamineReligion: He who is without sin can cas ...
  ExamineReligion: He who is without sin can cast the first stone! http://t.co/IJP71vqM

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Wisconsinites v. Governor Scott Walker
  by Stephen Lendman Last winter's epic battle between Wisconsin public workers and Republican Governor Walker ended badly for social justice. Nonetheless, struggling for it continues. As issue was old-fashioned union busting. It included eroding collective bargain rights before ending the ...
• Racist Israeli Supreme Court Decisions
  Stephen Lendman Two recent Israeli High Court rulings follow a disturbing trend. On January 11, divided justices ruled 6 - 5 for Israel's Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. It denies citizenship rights to Palestinians with Israeli spouses. Enacted in 2003 as temporary legislation, it ...
• Will a pro-Gadhafi “Green Revolution&#82 ...
  Franklin Lamb Tripoli This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organizing, in countries bordering Libya, one of them, in all earnest, asked me, “Do ...
• Obama Sending US Forces to Libya
  by Stephen Lendman On January 13, Cynthia McKinney said Obama has 12,000 US troops in Malta heading for Libya. Throughout 2011, Washington and rogue NATO partners committed Nuremberg level crimes. They made Libya a charnel house. Terror bombing caused massacres, mass destruction and ...
• Is Lindsey Williams a Baptist Order Whistleblower?
  Lindsey Williams is the ordained Baptist minister who went to Alaska in 1971 and allegedly learned about the secret agenda of the Elite. Lindsey is a regular guest on the Alex Jones Show. The show is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over sixty AM and FM radio stations across th ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Canada's Wealthy: They're richer than you think!
  Director of the Saskatchewan Office, Simon Enoch, discusses the causes and consequences of income inequality with Planet S Magazine's Stephen LaRose. View the article here.
• Did you know poverty costs New Brunswick $2 bi ...
  The direct cost of poverty for the NB government is an estimated $500 million per year--6.5% of the 2009/10 provincial budget.  Health care spending alone amounts to $196 million per year, an amount that could be saved or reallocated if we lifted the poorest 20% of New Brunswickers out ...
• Did you know poverty costs PEI $315 million pe ...
  The direct cost of poverty for the PEI government is an estimated 100 million dollars per year — 6.7% of the 2009/10 PEI government budget.  When the costs to government are added to the broader costs to the economy, the total cost of poverty for the province is $315 million dollars, which ...
• Premiers meet to talk health care: it's time f ...
  As Canada's premiers gather in Victoria today and tomorrow to discuss the future of health care, a new study from the CCPA-BC calls for a system-wide, integrated approach to health care reform. The study assesses BC's recent efforts at health care reform, including the introduction of "activity ...
• 4th Annual CCPA-NS Fundraiser with Laura Penny ...
  Our 4th Annual Fundraiser was held on October 6th, 2011 at the Italian Cultural Centre in Halifax. We want to thank everyone who bought tickets and our table sponsors for their generous contributions. We had a terrific night!  Our guest speaker, Laura Penny, gave an entertaining ...

World Wide Hippies

• Etta James, Blues and Soul Legend, Dies at 73
  You Tube – Blues and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Etta James has died of complications from her battle with leukemia. The powerful and versatile singer, also known as Miss Peaches, had an ups and down career spanning more than half a century. She won six Grammys and opened for the Rolling S ...
• Your Weekly Hippie Trivia
  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Support Citizen Journalism – Support Worldwide Hippies You can post your answer in the comments section below the question ...
• Trade You a BJ for some Chicken McNuggets
  By Diana May-Waldman, Worldwidehippies – Thirty one year old Khadijah Baseer, a homeless woman is receiving a lot of attention after she allegedly offered customers at a Burbank, California McDonald’s drive-thru, sexual favors in exchange for the chicken McNuggets. Her story has gone ...
• ‘Evidence of attack’ Loggers to blame – ...
  Worldwidehippies,From survivalinternational.org - 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 operating 400 meters away from an uncontacted Awá  ...
• The Invisible Hum
  by David A. Schmaltz Worldwidehippies – Piracy used to concern me deeply. Over a decade ago, I discovered than an ex-business partner had been passing off stuff I owned as his own, so I consulted with an intellectual property attorney. He determined that I did own the stuff, then sent a na ...

FourWinds10

• SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
• STORMTROOPER: THE MILITARY'S WAR ON THE EARTH
• The BP spill in the Gulf: One year later
    (NaturalNews.com) - It's been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and rightfully so, if for no other reason than because, one year later, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmare gift that keeps on giving, some experts are saying. The Deepwater ...
• Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
• 'On The Beach'
  1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]
• Venture Socialism?
  Join the forum discussion on this post With the recently announced foreclosure of Vinod Khosla venture Range Fuels, followed by the fire sale of Range Fuels’ assets to Vinod Khosla venture LanzaTech, I have been getting a lot of calls from reporters wanting to discuss exactly what happene ...
• The Carbon Emissions Quandary – R-Squared Ener ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some ...
• What’s So Bad About Exporting Gasoline?
  Join the forum discussion on this post One of my Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 was the fact that the U.S. had become a net exporter of finished petroleum products such as diesel and gasoline. In fact, because gasoline and diesel prices were so high, fuel exports were valued at $88 billion, whic ...
• The Oilman in the White House
  Join the forum discussion on this post No, I am not talking about George W. Bush. I just finished the chapter on politics for my book, and I created a number of graphics to show the behavior of oil prices, production, imports, and consumption through the last eight presidential administrations. ...

Discovery Educator Network

• BLOG USING GR8 WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPS IN XXI C ...
  Comments:#curation is #socialmedia king . Top 10 #edtech20 tools who will change research in #education20 this year . I invite you to subscribe free to our monthly newstelller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller . This post was made after 1 year research in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation proje ...
• High-Low Tech – PROJECTS
  Tags: tech, projectsby: Jackie Gerstein
• Infographic Of The Day: The Magic And Madness ...
  Tags: infographic, process, design, creativity, infographics, visualby: Dean Mantz
• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Creating and Fi ...
  Tags: creating, forms, ipad, administrators, tips, mguhlinby: Dean Mantz
• The Bamboo Project : The Six 21st Century Skil ...
  Tags: 21stcenturyskills, education, pedagogy, fundamentalsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• The Nickel Pincher: The Tastiest Way to Eat Yo ...
  With food prices rising, even junk-food makers are feeling the pinch, as people are deciding that it's not worth it to dole out $3.50 for a bag of pesticide-soaked potato chips or genetically modified corn chips. Go for a healthier choice like vegetable chips, and expect to pay $5 a bag for abo ...
• The Truth About Natural Foods
  When you grab a bottle of "all natural" cooking oil at the grocery store or a bag of "all natural" corn chips, you think you're getting an "all natural" product. But like any product advertised as "natural," that all depends on your definition of the word—and that of the people selling it to yo ...
• Your Medications Are Coated in Plastic
  Medications and supplements are supposed to make us feel better, and the main ingredients often do. But researchers are finding that certain plastic additives designed to release the ingredients into our systems more slowly could actually be making us sick. In a recent study published in the j ...
• 9 Things Jillian Michaels Can't Live Without
  When you think Jillian Michaels and weight loss, images of dumbbells and treadmills probably come to mind. While exercise is certainly what makes the fitness guru famous, she's equally concerned about the things she puts into—and onto—her body. Michaels, author of Unlimited and Master Your Meta ...
• 3 Surprising Reasons to Give Up Soda
  By now, it's probably fair to say that most Americans know soda isn't a health-promoting drink. Over the years, the carbonated beverage has been blamed for the obesity epidemic and rising healthcare costs. Some public health experts have even called for a soda tax to help deter people from drin ...

big think

• How Twitter Can Benefit Your Business
  What's the Latest Development? For Michele Obama and Rupert Murdoch, the twittersphere's latest headliners, tweeting is a way of engaging their public beyond their well-established brands. In Obama's case, Twitter gives a healthy dose of transparency. For Murdoch, perhaps there is a humani ...
• Hurray for SOPA!
  What's the Big Idea? Big Think co-founder Peter Hopkins is fond of thinking against the grain, and when it comes to the current debate over the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), Hopkins's thinking is true to form.  According to Hopkins, while SOPA has been "vilified and grossly mi ...
• Will Angry White Man Performance Win Gingrich ...
  S. rarely says much about current events when we get up in the morning. But today she was visibly agitated over the visual of the group, comprised largely of white men, who stood up and clapped when Newt Gingrich angrily put the CNN debate moderator in his place last night. If Gingrich’s ...
• How to Sell Your Great Idea
  What's the Latest Development? If you think you've got a good business idea, you've got to know how to sell it. Approaching investors, customers and colleagues can be tricky so here are some tips: Appear credible by doing what you know. Investors are looking for someone with solid knowledg ...
• Start a Business for Under $500
  What's the Latest Development? Don't have the time, money or youth to move to Silicon Valley and look for venture capital funding? You can still start your own business and do it without putting everything on the line. In fact, starting a business on the side is a good way to get your feet ...

Information Liberation

• TSA Is NOT Planning To Test Employees For Radi ...
  Despite numerous reports this week suggesting that the TSA is to buy equipment to test employees for radiation exposure, the agency itself says it has no intention of doing so. The LA Times reported that the agency was planning to equip its sec...
• Conservatives versus Libertarians on Income Ta ...
  The current debate over income-tax rates in the GOP presidential race highlights another major difference between conservatives and libertarians. It is a debate that involves moral, philosophical, economic, and practical issues. Most important, it i...
• Our Internet
  The whole foundation of the internet is at risk. Call your Senators today. Please visit http://stopthewall.us The Internet is a thriving ecosystem that powers our economy and our society. PIPA and SOPA threaten the web....
• It Begins...
  Google... Wikipedia... Craigslist... Wordpress... Reddit... Archive.org... ...and many others. Watch the rent-seeking parasites squirm. See: The Evils of Intellectual Property | by Jeffrey A. Tuck...
• Blackout Wednesday: The Time Has Come
  Wikipedia, that ever-evolving monument to human collaboration in the cause of global enlightenment, goes completely black tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 18. The blackout is a choice, and a brilliant one, made by founder Jimmy Wales in consultation with th...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• A hypochondriac’s dream
  It’s almost a hypochondriac’s dream come true…a chance to be tested for all kinds of physical and health parameters. Fitness tests, dual x-ray absorptiometry for body composition determination, blood pressure, height and weight, urine tests, jogging test on a treadmill with hea ...
• Incurable TB hits India
  A strain of tuberculosis (TB), wholly resistant to antibiotics has been reported and confirmed in India among patients from the slums of Mumbai. Drug-resistant strains have emerged before in Italy and Iran and multiple-resistant strains have been seen in China and Russia. This emergent strain ha ...
• Drug addict spam
  A few days ago, I blogged about the “drug addict’s Facebook timeline”, which showed the fictional life and alternative life of Adam Barak. It was “a creative social media campaign” by media agency McCann Digital Israel. Within a few minutes of posting, I had a tweet ...
• Have they found a miracle cure-all?
  If someone suggests trying a medicine from the realm of complementary or alternative medicine and it sounds too good to be true offering to cure almost any ailment and illness, like some kind of panacea, then check this handy chart before you part with your hard-earned cash or put your life in t ...
• Pistachio penis pump for erectile dysfunction?
  Pistachio nuts apparently improve erectile function parameters and serum lipid profiles in patients with erectile dysfunction. So says a research paper in the imaginatively named International Journal of Impotence Research (a section of The Journal of Sexual Medicine from Nature Publishing Group ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

• Leap Second Granted Extra Time
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenh ...
  Add methane emissions to the growing list of environmental risks posed by fracking. [More]
• Scientists Call for 60-Day Suspension of Mutan ...
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• Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?
  The raging battle over SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws, is looking more and more likely to end in favor of Internet freedom -- but it won't be the last battle of its kind. Although, ethereal as it is, the Internet seems destined to survive in some form or another, experts warn t ...
• Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space ...
  Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. These so-called gravitational waves ought to be ubiquitous but faint, and no experiment has yet regi ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• When will we see justice for Anas Benis?
  Media reports continue to echo myths put forward by police, government The following op-ed was submitted to The Gazette (in Montreal) on December 8, 2011, but was never published. December 8, 2011 In a summary of the Mohamed Anas Bennis cas ...
• Loneliness, and Space for the Other
  A discussion on mental illness, isolation and public responsibility HALIFAX--The pain and negative stigma that often accompanies mental illness afflicts everybody--even those who operate under the label "normal"--according to a di ...
• Winning the battle, losing the war?
  Ford loses control of council; City loses millions in budget fiasco Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was dealt several major losses during Wednesday's budget meeting, as Council's 'mushy middle' rejected a radically conservative, anti ...
• CKUT's Off The Hour: Lights Out: Why an Americ ...
  Interview with Lindsay Pinto, communications manager of Open Media.   Interview with Lindsay Pinto, communications manager of Open Media.   OpenMedia.ca is joining a growing number of people and popular websites in speaking out ag ...
• McGill Students to launch strike movement Janu ...
  Interview with McGill students, Jaime MacLean and Kevin Paul  The AUS Mobilization Committee has collected and submitted hundreds of  signatures in support of a General Assembly of the Society on Tuesday,  January 24, 2012. T ...

David Seaton's News Links

• SOPA + PIPA (additional reading)
  David Seaton's News LinksIf nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself ...
• Iran's bomb... the bottom line
  David Seaton's News LinksThe selling point of starving or beating Iran into submission is that if they had an atomic bomb they would use it to attack Israel, who has at least 200 such weapons. The idea being that Iran is planning to turn Israel, its Jewish inhabitants and a considerable numbe ...
• Why do they suddenly quote Marx and Gramisci i ...
  David Seaton's News Links All of a sudden Karl Marx and Marxist thought are being talked about in the most unlikely places... like the Financial Times. Here is a sample that I identify a lot with from Gideon Rachman, the FT's chief foreign affairs commentator. Like Rachman, when I was a student ...
• Themes for 2012: The Technology (special for t ...
  David Seaton's News Links Probably the most useful service that older people can perform for young people is to convey to them the reality of life-modifying change. Anyone in their sixties, or older, today has seen the "unthinkable" occur several times in the course of their lives and as the son ...
• Themes for 2012: Petraeus and the fantasies of ...
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Brazil's Di ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 20 January 2012
  On the left, we have a rare archive photo of Domino playing in the Christmas wrapping paper. I'm using "rare" here in the sense that's recently become so common for this kind of thing: not that there are actually any fewer Christmas photos of Domino than there are of any others, but simply in ...
• Fundraising Set to Become a Great Fundraising ...
  Greg Sargent reports on the latest lefty cause: With unprecedented amounts of cash set to flood the airwaves this year, campaign finance reform advocates have slowly began to coalesce around a far-fetched idea: How about a constitutional amendment to ban big money in politics? The idea, fl ...
• Always Ask Yourself, Compared to What?
  Responding to my piece about capital gains tax rates this morning, Matt Yglesias makes a couple of useful points. The first is that there's a big difference between a capital gains tax cut that simply raises the deficit (almost certainly worthless) and a cut that remains deficit neutral becaus ...
• The Bad News From Afghanistan Just Keeps Rolli ...
  The latest from Afghanistan: President Nicolas Sarkozy of France suspended military operations as part of the American-led coalition in Afghanistan on Friday and said he was considering an early pullout of his nation’s forces after a man in Afghan Army uniform shot and killed four Fre ...
• Michael Kinsley's Inflation Demons Are Still H ...
  Two years ago Michael Kinsley wrote a piece in the Atlantic explaining that he was worried about inflation: For this, I was widely ridiculed, and I’d like to take this opportunity to claim vindication. That is, I’d like to —  but I can’t. Inflation (CPI) has be ...

Insanity Report

• FacePalm of the Week: Mark Wahlberg
  Mark Wahlberg is one of today’s biggest action movie stars, but as he sees it, his heroism doesn’t end at a film’s credits. Instead, he fancies himself a real badass off screen, too. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, Wahlberg says that world history would have been d ...
• IC 298: Nuking Bridges
  Topics: Brian White wants you to watch shitty movies Quality over Quantity when it comes to black movies Bad movies don’t put good actors on SOPA: Why old people shouldn’t make laws Keep your kids off of social media Share with your friends:
• IC 297: Twinkies
  Topics: Great sports last night Fuck those kind of fans Patriots are so disrespectful MJ was an asshole Drake’s Tattoos Amber Rose, succeeding at doing nothing Companies promoting the fact that they finally got it right When trolling goes wrong Share with your friends:
• IC 296: Shit the Pope Says
  Topics: Fan appreciation Podcast/Blogging for the fun of it George Lucas & Red Tails What Tyler Perry should be doing “Blue” Dumb celebrity children names Using slaves on math word problems Shit the Pope Says Mitt Romney will be the nominee Share with your friends:
• FacePalm of the Week: Georgia School Uses Sla ...
  Gwinnett County parents and activists have blasted the school district’s response following reports that students at a Norcross elementary school received a math worksheet that used examples of slavery in word problems. School district officials said the principal at Beaver Ridge Elementary Scho ...

Simple Climate

• The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
  After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.
• Warming puts species on collision course
  Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.
• The world’s New Year’s resolution: ...
  Tense negotiations in South Africa in December laid a path for controlling greenhouse gas emissions across the world, and with those emissions and average temperatures controlling for short-term fluctuations reaching highs in 2010, we should encourage and help efforts to make controls law.
• Did climate change make it harder to get your ...
  Floods in Thailand have affected supplies of PCs and other electronic devices that we might have bought for Christmas. Should this demonstration of the everyday consequences of nature’s power give us pause for thought before we commence our annual celebration?
• Fjord beds show climate role in glacier mass loss
  Having established that increasing Atlantic sea surface temperature is playing a role in shrinking the Helheim glacier, Camilla Andresen from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland says that further warming will very likely make it lose more ice.

e!Science News

• 'Pulverized' chromosomes linked to cancer?
  They are the Robinson Crusoes of the intracellular world -- lone chromosomes, whole and hardy, stranded outside the nucleus where their fellow chromosomes reside. Such castaways, each confined to its own "micronucleus," are often found in cancer cells, but scientists haven't known what ...
• UC Davis researchers refine nanoparticles for ...
  A new class of nanoparticles, synthesized by a UC Davis research team to prevent premature drug release, holds promise for greater accuracy and effectiveness in delivering cancer drugs to tumors. The work is published in the current issue of Angewandte Chemie, a leading international chemistry j ...
• Native forest birds in unprecedented trouble, ...
  Native birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge are in unprecedented trouble, according to a paper recently published in the journal PLoS ONE. The paper, titled "Changes in timing, duration, and symmetry of molt of Hawaiian forest birds," was authored by University of Hawai'i a ...
• UCSF team uncovers how immune cells move again ...
  UCSF scientists have discovered the unexpected way in which a key cell of the immune system prepares for battle. The finding, they said, offers insight into the processes that take place within these cells and could lead to strategies for treating conditions from spinal cord injury to cancer. r ...
• Study finds potential key to immune suppressio ...
  In a study investigating immune response in cancer, researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida have found that interaction between the immune system's antigen-specific CD4 T cells and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) -- cells that play a maj ...

unEarthed

• Friday Finds: Meatless Mondays Go Mainstream
  Olympic air challenge, Nemo’s CO2 problem, NYC trashes trash Bacon cheeseburger (Like_the_Grand_Canyon) Ag industry takes beef with Americans eating less meat ...
• More Than Cranes Are Whooping Over the Keyston ...
  Time to examine harmful effects of tar sands mining The entire global population of wild, migratory whooping cranes migrates through the tar sands region twice annually. (U.S. FWS) ...
• Victories Bring Hope As 2012 Begins
  Power of law shines through political rhetoric We will continue to use the law to protect wild places, propel the clean energy economy forward, and safeguard our health. ...
• The Florida Everglades--A Jewel Preserved By L ...
  Twenty years of Earthjustice legal work praised for its impact in Florida The Everglades. Photo by USGS. Twenty years after we settled our first lawsuit in Fl ...
• Happy New Year, Grand Canyon!
  Finally, something to cheer about for the West's public lands Grand Canyon National Park. As compared to doing nothing, the 20-year withdrawal will reduce impacts to wildlife habi ...

Brave New Climate

• Burning energy questions – ERoEI, desert ...
  Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re  at it again, this time for ...
• Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the g ...
  I have published a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy with the title “Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the greenhouse problem? The affirmative case” (currently online first, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.041 — it will appear in the print version, with v ...
• The nuclear fission ‘Flyer’
  Below is the foreword I wrote, on invitation of Chuck Till and Yoon Chang, for the book “Plentiful Energy” (I included a shorter version in my review of the book on Amazon). In this short essay, I draw an analogy between the IFR and the Wright brothers’ 1903 ‘ ‘Flye ...
• Plentiful Energy – The book that tells t ...
  Yesterday the hard copy of the book “Plentiful Energy — The story of the Integral Fast Reactor” (CreateSpace, Dec 2011, 404 pages) arrived in the post. It is wonderful to see it in print, and now available for all to enjoy and absorb. I was honoured to play a small part in its ...
• 2011 on Brave New Climate
  So the year 2011 draws to a close. What a tumultuous year it was, particularly for nuclear energy! For climate change, alas, the freight train just keeps gathering steam. For 2012, I will expect the unexpected, but also hope to see some better signs of progress towards the downfall of fossil fue ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

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

+972

• Palestinians reopen E. Jerusalem road to prote ...
  Last week, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) began work on its plan to construct a new “national park” in the middle of Issawiya, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem adjacent to Hebrew University. Israeli activists joined Palestinian residents to unblock the road ...
• Three Arab Israelis arrested after calling for ...
  Three Palestinian citizens of Israel who study at the Jerusalem College of Engineering (JCE) were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly threatening other students planning to attend a lecture by Israeli President Shimon Peres. While they themselves openly boycotted the lecture, their arrests were ...
• Republican party appears to officially back on ...
  A brilliant piece of reporting from Mitchell Plitnick, former director of the US office of B’Tselem. According to Plitnick, the Republican National Committee has adopted a resolution supporting one state in Israel-Palestine. The text of the resolution can be found here. As Plitnick points ...
• Bit by bit, coverage of occupation disappears ...
  At first it was only Gaza. Now – it’s the West Bank. Bit by bit, without our noticing, the Israeli media has stopped reporting on the occupation. By Haggai Matar It’s been two weeks now that I’ve been wanting to write this post. I wanted to write two Fridays ago, when it became ...
• Ethiopian Jews find inspiration in MLK, Malcolm X
  Thousands of members of the small Ethiopian-Israeli community demonstrated yesterday in Jerusalem against racism and discrimination. This was the last rally in a wave of protest that erupted after religious homeowners in Kiryat Malakhi, a town south of Tel Aviv, announced in a public letter that ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Stormwater harvesting for Melbourne Park
  A $5.9 million stormwater harvesting project at Melbourne Park is well on its way to seeing gardens watered and toilets flushed with treated stormwater, saving precious drinking water.
• Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project S ...
  The Australian and Victorian governments have reached a new agreement to deliver the nation's largest irrigation infrastructure renewal project.
• Stormwater creating a green future for Kardini ...
  Kardinia Park, home to AFL Premiers Geelong Football Club, will be kept green through sustainable stormwater reuse technology.
• Fellowship to tell the story of the first woma ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced Australian writer and academic Jesse Blackadder had received the 2011 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship.
• Productivity Commission final report into Aust ...
  The Productivity Commission report on Australia's urban water sector has been released today.

Matt Weidner Blog

• My Dear Fellow Attorneys:
  I have spent this week, the week we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr and his accomplishments during the civil rights movement, thinking about the very real parallels between that tumultuous time and where we are today in this country.  Especially today, when I am in a jail of sorts, I have been c ...
• There is no Such Thing As A FREE HOUSE and why ...
  I have had an extraordinary number of my foreclosure cases dismissed in the last year.  The number is frankly staggering.  The foreclosure mills started dismissing or dropping them in January 2011 and they just keep on dismissing them right up until today.  This fact is a recognition of what I&# ...
• It’s Not Illegal to yell FIRE! Inside a ...
  The rumors that Attorneys General from across the country are prepared to sign a sweetheart settlement with the banks should have everyone in this country ready to get up in arms….. You know how everyone says, “you can’t yell FIRE in a crowded building!”  Well, that&#8217 ...
• THE USA CAUSED THE WARS IN IRAQ AND IRAN…..
  This video is absolutely stunning…and critical for every American to watch. What is the true cost of endless war? But before we even get to that, why did we get started with the wars anyway? Don’t you remember the pictures with Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein? It really is terribl ...
• BOMBSHELL! SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS RIGHT V. WR ...
  In yet another major blow to the Rule of Law, an unprecedented decision was just released by the United States Supreme Court.  It’s no real headline frankly, we’ve all sat back and watched as our courts and the Rule of Law have been decimated over the last decade, but this really is ...

abelard - news

• we'll never get back in again unless we return ...
  As their weak leader sinks, the New Fascist New Labour Party hunts for old lies to help them.
• willard l. beaulac, two reviews | book and oth ...
  Objective perspective on the politics and behaviours of countries in which his American diplomat serve, as well as sound political advice.
• refugees from the Spanish civil war | politics ...
  As with most wars, the Spanish Civil War generated disruption to food supplies and hosts of refugees. Illustrated.
• a very special case - dividing by 0 (nothing) ...
  What ever your age, having seemingly simple, but actually tricky, stuff explained is always helpful.
• the scorpions gathering around the iranian loo ...
  We don't c are about Iran having nuclear capability, really peally we don't.

The Parallel Parliament

• The New Iron Curtain
  Can capitalism be remade? Undoubtedly, but first we must dispose of its most frequent apologia that not all business is …Continue reading »
• Both Ends
  In 1800, about 90% of Americans worked on farms; by 1900 it was 41%; today it is slightly under 2%. …Continue reading »
• Roots
  If the recently concluded Liberal convention in Ottawa showed anything, it was the pundit’s penchant for predicting the end of …Continue reading »
• Labour Pains (10) – Our Town
  At some point last week my wife Jane did some calculations on the computer, swiveled in her chair and said, …Continue reading »
• Labour Pains (9) – Altogether Now
  Standing in line with the ElectroMotive workers yesterday, I was asked repeatedly what could be done. It’s clear I am …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk ...
  How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek affair as you might imagine, but ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
• Lost in the Maize
  I’m writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as it’s the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck i ...
• Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
  Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can pr ...

Reader Supported News

• Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
  Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
• Honeybee Problem Nearing a 'Critical Point'
  Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...
• Honeybee Problem Nearing a 'Critical Point'
  Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...
• Five US Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants
  Intro: "Five senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score from the Koch brothers' Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers' right-wing petrochemical empire on such is ...
• Five US Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants
  Intro: "Five senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score from the Koch brothers' Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers' right-wing petrochemical empire on such is ...

War Resisters League

• More Deaths and Injuries from US Tear Gas in P ...
  [This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...
• What does justice for Danny Chen look like?
  by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →
• “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
  As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →
• Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the ...
   [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...
• Occupation: Liberation-Building Sustainable Re ...
  by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

• 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.

k2p blog

• The dark side of the sun in Germany
  The costs of subsidizing solar electricity have exceeded the 100-billion-euro mark in Germany, but poor results are jeopardizing the country's transition to renewable energy.
• The new censors – McCarthyism by Hollywood
  The new McCarthys in the US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Diane Feinstein(D -California), Harry Reid (D- Nevada), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Motion Picture Association of America, Chris Dodd (Lobbyist and Chairman of MPAA and former Senator) News Corp., Time-Warner, Sony ...
• Benefits of shale gas are real and measurable
  The gas glut is real in the US and is moving to Europe. Gas prices are coming down and electricity generation prices will follow. The gas turbine market had a boom in 2000 and again in 2007/8 and the next boom will come, I think, in 2013/14 when industrial production picks up after the current d ...
• 145 counts of data fabrication against Univers ...
  Depak Das, a professor in the Department of Surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center, has been accused of serious scientific misconduct. UConn has informed 11 scientific journals about the investigation. He is to be sacked.
• Will SAS be acquired by Qatar or Lufthansa?
  But something is due to happen with SAS ownership this year. And my guess would be that the clear fit and benefits would point to Lufthansa rather than Quatar.

Left Foot Forward

• Look Left – The human cost of the government’s ...
  The horror of the welfare reform bill continues to loom large, with the stress and fear engendered by the government’s inhumane reforms taking an ever more worrying toll.
• Thames Water gets nationalised (by the Chinese)
  Alex Hern asks why the public sector is fine for this government - so long as it's the Chinese public sector
• Boris Johnson’s words show he doesn&#821 ...
  Val Shawcross attacks Boris Johnson over his astonishingly heartless comments about the job prospects for young people.
• Questions multiply over financial status of an ...
  Alex Hern presents further questions, and an answer, for Alex Salmond on Scottish independence.
• Playing the blame game – it’s all ...
  Don Flynn of the migrants' rights network responds to Chris Grayling's appalling dog-whistle announcement over welfare cheating migrants.

Consumerist

• Here's Another Way To Raise Your Voice In Oppo ...
  Even though the Protect IP Act appears to have gotten caught in a cul-de-sac in the Senate, the Stop Online Piracy Act is still very much alive in the Congress, which is slated to take up the legislation again in February. So it's more important than ever for you to let lawmakers know you objec ...
• Game Company Apologizes For Failure To Upgrade ...
  We love the rare instances where a company makes a proactive effort to fix a problem before customers have to resort to a barrage of complaints. In this case, Mojang apologized for an upgrade glitch for Minecraft users, and as reader Derick puts it, "You just gotta love it when a company assume ...
• Walmart Casts Itself As "Retail American Idol" ...
  Your dream of putting hard work into inventing a new product so that it can be sold for bargain prices at big box stores around the country is about to come true. Walmart is holding a contest for inventors to compete for a spot on their shelves. Walmart's "Get on the Shelf" competition is alon ...
• SOPA Also Shelved Indefinitely
  The same day that the Senate decided to postpone its voting on the Protect IP Act, the House Judiciary Committee has decided it's probably time to give more than cursory thought to the Stop Online Piracy Act and has postponed the piece of legislation for the time being. Committee Chairman and ...
• If You Don't Have The Full Bus Fare, Punching ...
  Take a bus often enough and you're likely to find yourself in a situation where you don't have sufficient funds to pay the required fare. There are many options here; you can ask the driver to let you slide, ask your fellow passengers to help make up the difference, get off and get some cash an ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary Settles for $158 ...
  Associated Press: Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary Settles Texas Lawsuit Over Anti-Psychotic Drug for $158 Million Courtesy of Flickr user Housed Putting an end to a high-profile whistleblower saga, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. – a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson – has settled a case "alle ...
• Espionage Targets Bizarre Quest to Recoup "Ube ...
  Today's Baltimore Sun has a front-page article describing the surreal battle National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers Bill Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, J. Kirk Wiebe, and former Congressional staffer Diane Roark are fighting to recoup property the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FB ...
• Problems 'Plague' Hanford Cleanup: Daily Whist ...
  USA Today: Problems Plague Cleanup at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site Summary: This excellent, in-depth look by USA Today into the efforts to clean up the toxic Hanford nuclear site chronicles the various problems it has encountered, including major safety concerns brought forward by whis ...
• NSA Assertions About Whistleblower's Seized Co ...
  Politico: Feds – Ex-NSA Analyst Had Top-Secret-Plus Info on Home Computers Summary: In a court filing from yesterday, the National Security Agency (NSA) is claiming that retired analyst and whistleblower J. Kirk Wiebe, a GAP client, had information on his federally seized computer that is "bey ...
• NSA Refuses to Return Whistleblowers' Computers
  In a response to a lawsuit filed by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers J. Kirk Wiebe, Thomas Drake (the whistleblower unsuccessfully prosecuted under the Espionage Act), Bill Binney, and Edward Loomis, and former congressional staffer Diane Roark, NSA incredibly claims that ...

UK Progressive

• The Romney Tax Loophole
  After refusing for weeks to release his taxes, Mitt Romney now says he’ll do so — by tax day, April 15. But the real news is what Romney has now admitted about his taxes. It’s not how much Romney earns. Everyone knows he’s comfortably in the top one-tenth of one percent. It’s how much he [...]
• Michelle, Hillary, Elizabeth
  This is a story about three great women and two historic waves that embody the political, social, cultural, economic and consumer waves that are transforming America and the world in real time. The three women are: The first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, is one of the most popular p ...
• Occupy’s 4-Month Anniversary Protest: Small, D ...
  The plan for the four month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street was the first national direct action by the movement thus far, a protest called Occupy Congress or #J17. Activists from all over the nation were to convene on the West Lawn of the Capitol for a National General Assembly (GA), followed ...
• Western Oil Firms Big Winners in Iraq
  Western oil producers have emerged as the big winners of the Iraq war. “Prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq US and other western oil companies were all but completely shut out of Iraq’s oil market,” industry analyst Antonia Juhasz told Al Jazeera wire service. “But thanks to the in ...
• Free Enterprise on Trial
  Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina says he’s supporting Romney because “we really need someone who understands how r ...

NewsAlert

• Rich family with 8 babies raises cries of 'unf ...
  The L.A. Times
• Cleveland TV News station uses puppets to act ...
• Obama Averages 44% Approval in 3rd Year
  Gallup reports:Despite the improvement in Obama's rating in the 12th quarter, it ranks as the lowest Gallup has measured in the comparable quarter for all elected presidents.
• Video: Obama sings R&B at New York fundraiser
• Former Chicago Mob Bookie Re-Hired as Illinoi ...
  Fox News Chicago reports on the Barack Obama's Illinois. Just a reminder: these "heroic" government workers are who Barack Obama calls the "backbone" of the middle class. Former Mob Bookie Re-Hired as IDOT Supervisor, Taxpayers Shoulder $130K in Back Pay: MyFoxCHICAGO.com

JoNova

• SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) – Designed ...
  They control our money, our armed forces, our tax inspectors, jails, and police. Against that, we the people wield our biggest weapon — information. The biggest threat to people in positions of power is the flow of news and ideas. The internet is the largest menace, the most powerful tool ...
• Love it: Skeptics winning in the classrooms
  “Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms” The LA Times laments the loss of the totalitarian educational view — pity the poor students subjected to hearing both sides of the story: Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to ...
• In 2002 Ron Paul saw the next ten years coming
  Ron Paul is painted as fringe by the Establishment. (If you’re not part of the establishment then you must be “fringe”, right?). Ten years ago Ron Paul made long series of detailed economic and foreign policy predictions that he hoped he would be proven wrong on.  It was a year ...
• Unthreaded
  For all those comments that don’t fit somewhere else… Jo Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• Does the PDO drive global temps, and is there ...
  This is a post for those who like the intellectual stimulation of unraveling the cause and effect links at the bleeding edge.  It’s a weekend puzzle. Frank Lansner (of Hidethedecline) wants to toss out his latest thoughts and findings for discussion. With a very simple equation he’s ...

ReNew America

• Santorum soars, Romney falters in SC debate
  (Washington Examiner) - Newt Gingrich had what will be the most talked about moment on the first question of tonight's South Carolina debate, when he brutally smacked down CNN moderator John King for asking him about his ex-wife saying in an interview that he wanted an open marriage...
• Santorum edges Romney in final Iowa GOP count
  (Associated Press) - Rick Santorum edged front-runner Mitt Romney by 34 votes in a surprise flip to the final results of the Iowa caucuses, Republican officials said Thursday. However, the officials did not declare a winner because some votes remain missing in the event's closest finish ever...
• Romney's record of judicial capitulation
  (Rick Santorum) - Name the last nominee to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president who turned out to be a judicial conservative. Maybe Justice Byron White, appointed by John F. Kennedy, who dissented from Roe v. Wade, but one largely draws a blank...
• Ron Paul: wrong on the Taliban
  (Andrew C. McCarthy) - Ron Paul knows even less about the history of our enemies than he does about their proper treatment under the Constitution. He actually interrupted Monday night's Republican candidates' debate so he could interject the following: "I would like to point out one thing about ...
• Ron Paul? No thanks
  (Tim Dunkin) - I want to like Ron Paul. I really do. There are a lot of things that he says he believes that I find attractive in a candidate. He obviously talks the talk with respect to economic liberty. His pledges to cut a trillion dollars from the federal budget are just the kind of red meat ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Wired & The Science of Doomsday
  After all the poorly written 2012 news items of recent weeks, Wired has come out with an excellent article on the scientific possibilities of doomsday. I’ve summarized their list and added my comments: SuperVolcano Wired: Yellowstone’s giant volcanic crater ...Wired & The Sc ...
• Some 2012 Survival Vehicles
  This Top 10 list is actually from a car site, but everybody is talking about 2012 this month… 1. Knight XV - fully armored, hand built luxury SUV 2. Pirate 4×4 – not much luggage space! 3. TRAX ...Some 2012 Survival Vehicles is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:eBoo ...
• Early Fishing in East Timor
  The main thrust of this news item is evidence suggesting humans were fishing 43,000 years ago, whereas the previous earliest date was just 12,000 years ago. But of equal interest was the fish they were ...Early Fishing in East Timor is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Mystery: 67 Dino ...
• Mysterious Stone Wheels / Stored Temporal Patterns
  Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ‘wheels’ that are more numerous and older than the Nazca Lines in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The structures are thought to date back 2,000 ...Mysterious Stone Wheels / Stored Temporal Patterns is a post from: ...
• Catastrophe: Guaranteed
  Usually I’m telling people that nobody knows for sure what will happen in 2012 – but it’s best to prepare for the worst, just in case. Today I am guaranteeing that certain disasters will occur ...Catastrophe: Guaranteed is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Reduce the ...

Facing South

• US education chief watching NC school board de ...
  Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in North Carolina yesterday to tout the president's jobs bill -- and he said he was keeping a close eye on the Wake County school board battle over ...
  
• The crisis of crisis pregnancy centers
  Unregulated organizations posing as comprehensive healthcare providers called "crisis pregnancy centers" are slated to begin receiving state funds in North Carolina from the ...
  
• Cain revamps 9-9-9 tax plan, but it still hurt ...
  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income A ...
  
• U.S. oil companies, security contractors look ...
  American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya.
  American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya. read more
  
• Alabama workers meet harsh immigration law wit ...
  As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
  As all-out attack cont ...
  

One News Page

• Reggae Icon Winston Riley Dies
  Celebrated reggae producer Winston Riley has died weeks after he was shot in the head in his native Jamaica The star fell into a coma after he was gunned down in Kingston on 1 November 11 and he passed away on Thursday 19Jan12 He was 65 Widel...
• Etta James - Etta James Dies
  Soul legend Etta James has died at the age of 73 The singer passed away at a hospital in Riverside California on Friday 20Jan12 after a two-year battle with leukaemia She also suffered from dementia and hepatitis C James was born Jamesetta Hawk...
• Vanessa Bryant Gets $75 Million From Kobe Divorce
  VANESSA BRYANT has secured a 75 million divorce settlement from husband Kobe Bryant according to TMZ com Vanessa will reportedly receive the huge lump sum as well as three properties the couple own in Newport Beach California Sources say Bryant wil...
• Rob Lowe - Rob Lowe Sparks Outrage Over Peyton ...
  Hollywood actor Rob Lowe has outraged Nfl fans by suggesting Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is retiring from the game Lowe 47 best known for his roles in St Elmos Fire The West Wing and Tommy Boy told Twitter followers that his peop...
• Elizabeth Banks is Violent to Directors1
  ELIZABETH Banks has revealed how she gets what she wants when it comes to Hollywood roles. The 37-year-old actress is set to be one of the biggest stars of the year thanks to her role in the highly anticipated Hunger Games movie but she may never have got the part had she not been so [...]

Global Research TV

• Friend Turned Foe: Turkey Rounds on Syria in R ...
• SOPA Sledgehammer Could Smash Any Site on Web
• Bahraini Women and Children are Being Terroriz ...
• US Mainstream Media: Beating the Drums of War?
• What Did Martin Luther King Jr. Say About War ...

Daily Tech

• We the People: Populist Protest Kills SOPA (Again)
  Lobbyist bribery goes to waste for once, as Rep. Smith is forced to "postpone" SOPA indefinitely
• Further Down the Food Chain, Smartphones Killi ...
  More casual users turn to smartphones for their point-and-shoot needs
• 1/20/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• FBI Lets Megaupload's U.S. Superstar Musician ...
  The stink of differential justice is yet again smelled surrounding a massive "anti-piracy" effort
• Time Warner Cable Offers TWC TV App for iPhone
  The app can be downloaded for free from the App Store

Oriental Review

• Campaign Finance Revolution
  Several Occupy Wall Street splinter groups are now coalescing around a set of political demands. One that is long overdue and enjoys unanimous support is campaign finance reform. All the formulas that I have seen center on publicly funded elections. While this would be a huge step in the right d ...
• The Sacred Cow of “Democracy”
  I recently happened to criticize Western-style democracy, and my Italian friends objected: “We don’t get any complaints about democracy!” I think it’s a taboo—an notion of recent decades during which Western-style democracy has become a kind of sacred cow. It was no taboo for the esteemed democr ...
• Aggravation Game: Why the US Win In Case Iran ...
  The Hormuz Strait closure by Iran will mainly benefit US oil companies and defense industry. The action will spark a crisis that would make easier to find a solution to the US economic woes and even create an opportunity to curtail its huge external debt. The USA puts pressure on their European ...
• Free Speech, Its Loss and the Consequences
  We in the “West” have long thought that we have free speech, that’s only true in a limited way. For freedom of speech is much more than being able to go down to the bar and bad-mouth the government, however important that is. It also means a press free to hold government to account but [...]
• US Will Punish Its NATO Allies, Not Iran
  Will the economies of Greece and Italy finally collapse without Iranian oil? Having declared that the US-EU friendship will depend on whether Brussels supports Washington in its bid for imposing sanctions against Iran, the US president left Europe with no choice. The European Union, desperate to ...

BlogHer

• 5 Ways To Banish Facial “Peach Fuzz” Ladies!
  Ladies, if you’re plagued with facial “peach fuzz,” you’re not alone. Mine starts at the sideburns area and continues down my entire jaw line. (I swear if my peach fuzz were any thicker and darker, I could give an Elvis impersonator a run for his money.) And there’s no two ways about it: facial ...
• Reducing Your Paper Trail
  Reducing the amount of paper you use daily is easier than you think. It just might take some extra effort on your part at he beginning to start out, but once it is all on in place, it should be second nature to go paperless!Just think of the impact your actions will have- about 90% of paper come ...
• Whip Up a Batch of Hot and Fresh Sock Doughnuts
  No play kitchen is complete without some play food. You could sit and hand sew tons of felt food or you could roll up a batch of deliciously cute sock doughnuts. Chocolate glazed, candy sprinkles, coconut flakes - how you adorn them with felt and embroidered French knots is totally up to you.The ...
• Transgender Response to Girl Scout Calling For ...
  A few days ago, news started making the blog rounds that a 14-year-old Girl Scout named Taylor was calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies due to the Scout's support of "transgender promotion." BlogHer posted about the issue, although the video has since been made private. I made transcript ...
• Roadblock, Schmoadblock!
  Ugh. This week I hit a roadblock. My intentions for exercise were almost immediately sideswiped by a nasty head cold that has made it difficult to stand let alone exercise. BUT. This will not stop me.  Since I have had to be, out of necessity, light on exercise this week, I took this op ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Jan. 20, 2012
  A lift unloads a coal barge that broke away on the Monongahela River , right, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012,  in Pittsburgh. U.S. Coast Guard officials say an incident that occurred about 2:30 on Thursday morning started a chain of events resulting in three loose barges going downriver and temporar ...
• MSHA moving ahead with unenforceable dust rule
  Despite legislation that prohibits it from being enforced — at least until the GAO completes a report on the proposal — the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has quietly announced plans to finalize its new rules aimed at ending black lung disease. A new Labor Department regu ...
• Is OSMRE merger part of Obama’s ‘w ...
  It was kind of funny that last night’s public meeting on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s plan to merger the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement with the Bureau of Land Management was held out at the West Virginia National Guard Armory, behind a door that was ...
• Study: More emission cuts needed to reduce aci ...
  There’s a new report on acid rain out this week from the folks at the U.S. Geological Survey. According to the agency’s press release: Measurable improvements in air quality and visibility, human health, and water quality in many acid-sensitive lakes and streams, have been achieved t ...
• U.S. records first coal-mining death of 2012
  Sad news this morning from Virginia, where the first U.S. coal-mining death of 2012 has occurred. The accident happened  on Jan. 11 at CONSOL Energy’s Buchanan Mine where, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration: … A miner was struck in the face and forehead by ...

Daniel Miessler

• If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Stra ...
  “For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired,” says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this idea that if they pay their taxes and do what they’re told, there’s some kind of safety net, or pension p ...
• Obama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of Gay S ...
  via youtube.com So satisfying to see them being ridiculed for being bigoted idiots. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)David Simon on the End of the American EmpireAdding Malware ...
• Google’s Browser Security Principles | ZDNet
  Defense in depth: Our goal in designing Chrome’s security architecture was to layer defenses, and avoid single points of failure. Chrome’s sandbox architecture represents one of the most effective parts of this strategy, but it’s far from the only piece. We also employ the best available anti-ex ...
• Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Ou ...
  What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane pers ...
• Andrew Sullivan on ObamaCare | The Daily Beast
  Yes, it crosses the Rubicon of universal access to private health care. But since federal law mandates that hospitals accept all emergency-room cases requiring treatment anyway, we already obey that socialist principle—but in the most inefficient way possible. Making 44 million current free-ride ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Etta James, Blues and Soul Legend, Dies at 73
  You Tube – Blues and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Etta James has died of complications from her battle with leukemia. The powerful and versatile singer, also known as Miss Peaches, had an ups and down career spanning more than half a century. She won six Grammys and opened for the Rolling S ...
• Your Weekly Hippie Trivia
  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in! Support Citizen Journalism – Support Worldwide Hippies You can post your answer in the comments section below the question ...
• Trade You a BJ for some Chicken McNuggets
  By Diana May-Waldman, Worldwidehippies – Thirty one year old Khadijah Baseer, a homeless woman is receiving a lot of attention after she allegedly offered customers at a Burbank, California McDonald’s drive-thru, sexual favors in exchange for the chicken McNuggets. Her story has gone ...
• ‘Evidence of attack’ Loggers to blame – ...
  Worldwidehippies,From survivalinternational.org - 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 operating 400 meters away from an uncontacted Awá  ...
• The Invisible Hum
  by David A. Schmaltz Worldwidehippies – Piracy used to concern me deeply. Over a decade ago, I discovered than an ex-business partner had been passing off stuff I owned as his own, so I consulted with an intellectual property attorney. He determined that I did own the stuff, then sent a na ...

reference frame

• Megaupload shut down: SOPA unnecessary
  I am sure that most TRF readers have heard of MegaUpload.COM. It was one of the servers where some people uploaded the ClimateGate files, among other things that were vastly more important for the accounts of the people behind the server. Megaupload.com was the 72nd most visited si ...
• DHCP and SENS service hang, timeout
  Problem that has occurred to me, too Your computer may get restarted once, after you wake it up from hibernation. At any rate, next time, once you choose your user name to log in, you are waiting for long minutes before you can see your desktop. You're told that some Windows services fai ...
• Madrid IFT inaugural conference: slides & videos
  Luis Ibáñez sent me links to an impressive high-energy physics conference that took place in Madrid's new theoretical physics building right before the Christmas: IFT Inaugural Conference & Xmas Workshop (Madrid, December 13-16th, 2011, main web page) Transparencies and videosAmong ot ...
• Václav Klaus: notes from Saudi Arabia
  Czech president Václav Klaus has wrapped up his visit of Saudi Arabia. TRF brings you his observations published at klaus.cz, as translated by your humble correspondent. Click to zoom in. Part I: January 17th It's extraordinarily interesting to visit Saudi Arabia at the t ...
• Obama expected to reject Keystone XL today
  Today, Wikipedia, Anthony Watts' blog, and others are protesting against a planned legislation to fight online piracy. In principle, it is directed against servers such as thepiratebay which are not exactly something whose survival is a condition for my happy life. However, I seem ...

Tatumba 2.0

• From the WTF Department: The Mad Ape Gets Cazy ...
  Someone going by the handle of Alias Hanz sent me a postcard from…um…hell…I think. He subscribed to me through Google and my post yesterday on the Internet Fight Song must have stirred up a cauldron of a hot soup – Cream of Bat-Shit Crazy. WTF? Technorati Tags: Alias Hanz ...
• Local Area Blogger, Charles Leblanc, Arrested ...
  I do not normally blog on local issues much because, for the most part, there is nothing worth the effort or the time around these parts.  But that changed tonight when local area blogger, Charles Leblanc, was arrested for defamation of character of a Fredericton Police Officer. Charles has been ...
• The Fastest Way To Build a BuckyBalls Cube
  I love to play with my balls…my gold BuckyBalls that is. I got these damn things for Christmas and have quickly become addicted. The first thing I set out to do was to destroy them and then restore them to their original factory setting…a cube. I messed with it for about one day and ...
• INTERNET FIGHT SONG! (Anti-SOPA/PIPA song by F ...
  Site back online an hour early as I have to go to bed. I hope some of you have discovered the seriousness of SOPA. INTERNET FIGHT SONG! (Anti-SOPA/PIPA song by Funk Vigilante) If you feel like being cool to us you can like us at facebook.com/funkvigilante or check out our website FunkVigilante.c ...
• TATUMBA.COM GOING OFFLINE AT 12AM EST TO PROTE ...
  Main page access to this will go dark at the stroke of midnight EST to protest SOPA and PIPA. These two acts, if passed, will change the Internet and give 100% control to the Entertainment Industry and the US Government. Sites such as YouTube, facebook, Google all risk the prospect of forever sh ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Marine brass wants to limit Camp Lejeune water ...
  By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Fraccidents
  Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
• Louisville Water Co. Slashes Chrome-6 Pollution
  By Alex Formuzixs, EWG Communications Director In 2010, EWG identified chromium-VI contamination in the drinking water of 31 of the 35 cities we tested. One Kentucky city has stepped up to solve that problem. A change in how drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental S ...
  By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
• 'Tis the Season for Being Green in the Kitchen
  Treat your guests to a home and food that are healthy for them and the environment. New for you this year: our Meat Eater's Guide to Climate and Health. What's the difference between cage-free and free-range? Grass-fed and pasture-raised? Our... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• In Crown Heights, the nerve center of a projec ...
• The 'Outside of Syracuse' conference
• Gustavo Rivera wishes the Republicans would de ...
• FAQ: What's wrong with Mitt Romney?
• Former Obama critic Ed Koch says he'll be 'ter ...

Views & News from Norway

• Hate-video maker held in custody
  A local court in Telemark County went along with prosecutors who asked to keep a 21-year-old man in custody for at least two more weeks, with media and personal communication prohibited. The young man has admitted producing and publishing a video that threatened Norway's crown prince, prime mini ...
• Islamic demonstration faces boycott
  Muslims themselves were urged to boycott a planned demonstration in front of the Norwegian Parliament on Friday by an Islamic group considered to be extremist. One local Muslim leader in Oslo claimed the group’s attitudes, actions and slogans actually violate Islamic principles. Dr Usman R ...
• Ambassador downplays PST leak
  Intelligence chief Janne Kristiansen’s leak of classified information about Norwegian intelligence agents in Pakistan seemed to be taken in stride by Pakistan’s ambassador to Norway on Thursday. He headed to the Foreign Ministry for a crisis meeting, though, just hours after Kristian ...
• Giske faces disciplinary action
  A united opposition in Parliament rejected Trade Minister Trond Giske’s explanation of how and why he behaved as he did when he actively tried to halt the sale of Norway’s largest commercial television station TV2 to a Danish company. Giske made few if any apologies, and that sparked ...
• Oil minister keen on more production
  Ola Borten Moe has been called “the perfect minister” by some players in the oil industry, not least because of his bullishness on their business and his desire to boost Norway’s oil and gas production. After handing out dozens of new exploration licenses this week, he’s ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and ...
  A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico — the remnants of a now defunct railway. Alternately barren and spectacular, the southwest United States has piqued the imagination of Americans and people across the world for generations. The site of gold rushes, Native American home ...
• Swale Fail?
  Editor’s Note: It’d be great if more people would share their successes and failures in similar fashion as Greg has below. The reason I say this is three-fold — 1) you get valuable feedback from readers on how to overcome your challenges, 2) readers can learn from your mistakes ...
• When Orthodox Science Meets Permaculture Princ ...
  Design science is at the root of any definition of permaculture or put simply, permaculture is design science. — Bill Mollison Permaculture is a design/holistic/integrative science, whereas the mainstream/academic science is reductionist — that is, to understand how things work, ...
• Who Needs Grass?
  The Kniskerns’ yard is a sustainable smorgasbord Over a period of less than 10 years, James and Mary Kniskern transformed their sod-based lawn into a vibrant, blooming habitat that not only reduces their impact on the land but also rewards them with a bounty of edible plants as we ...
• Gold Coast Permaculture Prepares for Another G ...
  by Vanessa Fernandes Dani, Mel, Judy, Kristy and Pond in the house garden 2011 has been seminal in the development of permaculture on the Gold Coast, NSW, Australia. The incorporation of Gold Coast Permaculture (GCP) early in the year has seen the organisation and the concept become very much ...

Pointman's

• Oh, what a wonderful MSM.
  I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...
• They’re just words.
  If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...
• Green Myths : There’s only one evil species on ...
  I am not a religious man. For a number of reasons, some intellectual but mostly personal, I don’t even believe in a God but I acknowledge the overall good religion has done in the world, as well as the bad. A religion is after all a man-made thing directed by human beings and will therefore&#160 ...
• 2011 and climate alarmism.
  We’re nearly at year’s end and in the fight against climate alarmism, it can only be called a vintage year. This was supposed to be the year when they thought they would regain the initiative but it’s only served to confirm how jaded people are with it all. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Event was in ...
• Being there and not being there.
  It’s Christmas day and I’m in fat city, living high off the hog. There’s a warm orange glow about it all. I’m home and we’ll sit around the table and I’ll join in and wear the silly paper hat, after dutifully reading the pithy joke from the cracker. I’m going to be enjoying the day.& ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Dick Gregory vs. BP
  Journalist Pete Tucker, blogging at TheFightBack, reports that Gulf Coast residents have a new ally in the struggle for justice after the BP Drilling Disaster: Legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory. The original report is posted below. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory wasn’t thrown beh ...
• Working and Poor in the USA, By Bill Quigley
  “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 th ...
• Deon Haywood, Leader in Struggle Against Louis ...
  Deon Haywood, who has tirelessly led the successful struggle against Louisiana's so-called Crime Against Nature statute, has been named Queen of Krewe du Vieux, the raucous parade that signals the start of Mardi Gras parade season. Haywood, who was also just named as one of the People Who Made ...
• Louisiana Justice Institute Joins Challenges t ...
  The New Orleans City Council Decision to impose a curfew on minors in the French Quarter has been called a racist policy by critics, who have called it "the equivalent of a Black code." Louisiana Justice Institute joins those who have condemned the law, and is taking action. As local station WWN ...
• Angola Warden Burl Cain on "Black Pantherism"
  Last week, the newsletter of the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three published recently transcribed testimony of the October 2008 deposition of Burl Cain, Warden of Angola Prison, questioned by Nick Trenticosta, an attorney representing former Black Panther and Angola Three membe ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://boycott-hollywood.org/ How To Participate Today, Hollywood lobbyist and Motion Picture Association of America CEO Chris Dodd threatened the President of the United States and members of Congress: “Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’ ...
• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Abou ...
  LordLindsey wrote: This is an example of "trolling." LINDSEY It may well be... but we should, as decent people, give her the benefit of the doubt. TiU always finds the trolls and outs them in time anyways. So for the time being; Welcome!Statistics: Posted by GordZilla — Fri Jan 20, ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  LordLindsey wrote: Who controls the money-supply of our world, AND BY CONTROLLING IT ALSO CONTROL/DESTROY NATIONS BY MANIPULATING THE MONEY? the same "A-rabs" that run Hollywood ?Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:47 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16652356 20 January 2012 Last updated at 15:57 Iran's Press TV loses UK licence George Galloway George Galloway is one of the more well known faces who presented on Press TV Continue reading the main story Related Stories Iran's battle for TV ...
• Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
  Autonomy Wins Enterprise Homeland Security Contract Autonomy Selected As Core Infrastructure Behind Multiple Agencies' Information Aggregation, Analysis and Collaboration Programs SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - October 21, 2002 - Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; LSE: AU., Nasdaq Europe: AUTN), ...

TVNZ

• Former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart to marry
  Elizabeth Smart, kidnapped for nine months at age 14, is engaged to be married.
• Romney's silence on wealth affecting campaign
  Mitt Romney is acknowledging he could lose the primary in South Carolina.
• US threatens to close Syrian embassy
  Worsening security in Syria has the US warning it may close its Damascus embassy.
• Six dead in bomb blasts in Nigeria's second city
  At least six people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts in Nigeria.
• Urgent checks ordered on Airbus fleet
  Europe's safety regulator has ordered urgent inspections on almost a third of the Airbus A380 fleet.

environment 360

• NASA Graphic Depicts Significant Spike in Temp ...
  A new NASA graphic shows that temperatures in several global regions were appreciably higher in 2011 than at mid-century, with large swaths of Siberia and Click to enlarge NASA GISS Global temperature anomalies, 2011 the Arctic experiencing temperatures as much as 4 degrees C (7 degrees F) ...
• Value of Conserving Habitats Could be Worth $5 ...
  A new study says that compensating the world’s poorest communities for helping conserve the planet’s most vital habitats would help solve two major challenges: biodiversity loss and poverty. In fact, if global leaders were to put an economic value on the preservation of the world’s biodiversity ...
• Satellite Images Depict Transformation of Sibe ...
  A pair of satellite images taken four decades apart shows the shifting ecological landscape of the Siberian Arctic, where warming temperatures have enabled a swath of thick shrubs to thrive in once-open tundra. The Click to enlarge NASA Siberian Arctic, 1966 to 2009 photos, posted by the ...
• China Sets First-Ever Cap On Greenhouse Gas Em ...
  The Chinese government has ordered five cities and two provinces to set caps on greenhouse gas emissions in preparation for a series of regional carbon markets. Last week, China’s National Development and Reform Commission urged Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, as well as the ...
• China’s Reforestation Programs: Big Success or ...
  China has undertaken ambitious reforestation initiatives that have increased its forest cover dramatically in the last decade. But scientists are now raising questions about just how effective these grand projects will turn out to be. BY JON R. LUOMA

oldephartte/Diigo

• People Investigating Toxic Sites
  Tags: sites landfills toxins groundwater pollution health
• Thomas Pogge
  Tags: pogge poverty health freedom justice globalism
• Realm Of Scotland - Welcome To
  Tags: realm scotland forum redress
• Environment - Research - European Commission
  Tags: environment research commission european
• Payvand Iran Energy, Oil News
  Tags: iran energy oil news

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• The Porn World Says No to Condoms
  Richard Abowitz finds rebellious reactions to L.A.’s new condom ordinance at the adult film convention.
• The Final Four
  Did Newt best Romney? Daily Beast contributors weigh in on the South Carolina CNN debate.
• The GOP’s Winning Final Four
  In Charleston, three looked presidential, two are plausible nominees, and one might even beat Obama.
• Better Than Sex?
  The Daily Pic: Tantric paintings yield deep satisfaction.
• RIP Etta James
  Singer Etta James died Friday at age 73. See full coverage of her life.

Loonwatch

• Robert Spencer Runs Away from Debating Danios ...
  ABN lies, Robert Spencer chickens out. Will the debate happen or will Spencer keep running?
• Pam Geller Announces New International Anti-Mu ...
  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.
• Islamophobe Frank Gaffney Endorses Newt Gingri ...
  "Newt Gingrich has, in my judgement, rendered a real public service."
• Muslim College Student Reports Sexual Harassme ...
  African-American Muslim student Balayla Ahmad: School Said I Was A Terrorist In Retaliation For Sexual Harassment Complaint.
• Juan Cole: God’s Way of Teaching America ...
  I suggest a new regulation on war. If a majority of your country cannot find the enemy country on the map, they aren’t interested enough to justify making war against it.

Energy News

• Mark Your Calendars: Next survey inside Reacto ...
• Tokyo hospital president doubts Tepco claim th ...
• Mainichi: Japan now looking to Chernobyl info ...
• Japan nuclear professor warns melted fuel may ...
• 8 trillion becquerels of cesium found in pit o ...

Japan Times

• Writer Higashino in Edgar running
  Mystery Writers of America on Thursday announced its nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including "The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino of Japan for the best novel category. The awards, which are given to honor the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television publishe ...
• Woman, father held for dumping, burning body o ...
  A 23-year-old part-time worker was arrested Friday on the technical charge of abandoning her baby's corpse, while her father was arrested on suspicion of burning the body in a park in the city of Fukui, police said. Both Momoko Miyanaga and her father, Yoshihiro, a 51-year-old textile company ...
• Olympus to digitally revive OM line
  Olympus Corp. plans to revive its once popular OM brand for a new digital mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera it plans to release this spring, industry sources said. The company is hoping the new product will symbolize its recovery from the ongoing accounting scandal stemming from the cover ...
• Aum's Hirata charged with kidnapping, confinement
  Prosecutors Friday charged Aum Shinrikyo ex-fugitive Makoto Hirata with abducting and confining a Tokyo notary who was believed killed in captivity in 1995. Hirata, 46, who turned himself in to Tokyo police on Dec. 31 following nearly 17 years on the run, was arrested on New Year's Day in conn ...
• Quake shrinks Tokyo condo supply
  New condominiums put on sale in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures fell 0.1 percent to 44,494 units in 2011 as the disasters in March prompted suppliers to delay their release by about six months, a research institute said. Compared with the previous year, the supply of new condos fell 4 ...

Alexander Higgins

• Gingrich: Gov. Should Allow Terror Attacks To ...
  Newt Gingrich says the Government should allow terror attacks so people are reminded how much we need them. Newt also thinks it's ok to have no right to privacy or 4th amendment if you're not plotting with terrorist.
• It Begins… #OccupyWallStreet Labeled As ...
  Occupy Wall Street protestors are now being listed as a Domestic Terrorist Group being disseminated on a list that includes Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations
• US Army Preparing To Crush #OccupyWallStreet
  An analyst informs that the US has its army on standby against the Occupy and student movement as the economic situation in America deteriorates day by day.
• BBC: Politicians Exploiting Neuroscience To Ma ...
  A BBC investigative reports top government officials are exploiting the last neuroscience research to manipulate the masses.
• Police State: 75 Years in Prison For Videotapi ...
  You know America has become a Police State when our corrupt government hands out sentences worst than murder for.. Videotaping Police Brutality

Macleans - Central

• Mitt Romney’s awful week
  After successful starts to the primary season in Iowa (even though Rick Santorum was...
• Stressed out
  Earlier today the Canadian Press reported that the Defence Department was looking to purchase...
• Why did SOPA get so far? Geeks don’t lobby.
  Congress received way more money from the entertainment industry
• The Quebec campaign
  The text of a letter sent out today by Thomas Mulcair’s campaign. Fellow New...
• Life after the Bloc
  Thierry St-Cyr was the Bloc MP for Jeanne-Le Ber from 2006 until he...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Day of Action: Why it matters to higher education
  The fight for public education in Canada is part of a global effort to maintain education as a basic right for all. Around the world, governments are tabling “austerity” budgets containing massive cuts to post-secondary education and other public services. In country after country, ordinary peop ...
• Lower Inflation Frees Carney’s Hand, But Shelt ...
  Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices decreased in December, lowering the annual inflation rate to 2.3%. The Bank of Canada’s core inflation rate declined to 1.9%. Tame inflation leaves room to lower interest rates. If unemployment continues to rise, the Bank of Canada should red ...
• Are There Labour And Skills Shortages In Canada?
  Further to my earlier post on this topic, whether or not we are or will soon be experiencing labour and skills shortages is a question of critical importance to the development of sound public policy. Next week, we will get some new Statistics Canada data on job vacancies which will help support ...
• EI Benefits Decline Amid Rising Unemployment
  Today, Statistics Canada reported that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance (EI) benefits fell for a third consecutive month in November. This decline would be good news if it reflected an improving labour market. Unfortunately, unemployment has also increased for three consecu ...
• Federal Budget Must Focus On Jobs, Not Cuts
  The Mark have published a pre Budget commentary from your’s truly.

ReDress

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

Physics Today

• US education advocates prepare to take on clim ...
  New Scientist: After decades of fighting over the teaching of evolution in classrooms, US science education advocates are bracing themselves for the next battle—concerning the teaching of human-caused climate change. Over the past few years, several states, including Texas, Louisiana, and ...
• Amateur astronomers discover new planet
  Telegraph: Two British amateur astronomers, Chris Holmes and Lee Threapleton, may have discovered a new planet. Inspired by Brian Cox’s Stargazing Live TV series, they studied time-lapse images of stars posted online at Planethunters.org. The site, which is part of the Zooniverse citizen s ...
• Diamonds travel to Earth's surface on fizz
  Science: New lab tests demonstrate how diamonds embedded in molten material deep beneath Earth’s surface can survive volcanic eruptions. A study conducted by Kelly Russell of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, shows that molten rock that is rich in carbonate—suc ...
• Crowd funding provides new source of research ...
  Nature: As traditional funding sources, such as universities and research funding agencies, face budget cuts, some scientists are turning to “crowd funding,” raising money for research directly from the public. A number of websites, such as Kickstarter and FundaGeek, have already lau ...
• Shale gas could shut out greener alternatives
  National Geographic: Over the past five years, shale gas production through hydraulic fracturing has increased; the gas now accounts for a quarter of all natural gas generated in the US. If production continues to expand, natural gas prices will stay low over the next several decades and natural ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Obsolescence Management Tools
  by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...
• B. Schneier: TSA a stupid game and we should s ...
  by johnscarbrough (Posted Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:06:40 GMT) This game is disgusting really
• 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
  by albertodegama (Posted Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:08 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...
• FF News: President Abdulla on Properties...
  by requintn (Posted Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:34:59 GMT) doudoune homme moncler "Bingjie populaires vêtements d'hiver!" - Ville Bingjie Down.Geo Bas et à la mode, avec la tendance du dialogue, afin de répondre aux besoins modernes de différents secteurs depuis des décennies avec d'excellents résul ...
• FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
  by footprints888 (Posted Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:02:33 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...

Peakwater

• Groundwater Dropping Globally
  “Groundwater levels have dropped in many places across the globe over the past nine years, a pair of gravity-monitoring satellites finds. This trend raises concerns that farmers are pumping too much water out of the ground in dry regions. Water has been disappearing beneath southern Argent ...
• Yellowstone River Spill: Exxon Reaches $1.6 Mi ...
  “Exxon Mobil agreed Thursday to pay the state of Montana $1.6 million in penalties over water pollution caused by a pipeline break last summer that fouled dozens of miles of shoreline along the scenic Yellowstone River. Montana Department of Environmental Quality director Richard Opper tol ...
• France accuses Israel of water ‘apartheid’ in ...
  “The French parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee published an unprecedented report two weeks ago accusing Israel of implementing “apartheid” policies in its allocation of water resources in the West Bank. The Israeli Embassy in Paris had no foreknowledge of the report and thus did not re ...
• Klamath Dams: Surcharge Rolled Out
  “As of Jan. 10, Pacific Power customers in Northern California will begin seeing the company’s new dam removal surcharge on their bills, a press release from the utility company announced. “The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) notified the company on Jan. 3 that the trust accou ...
• Colombia’s El Quimbo in Limbo
  “The Occupy Movement reached Colombia’s Upper Magdalena River on January 3, 2012. Communities affected by the proposed El Quimbo Dam project paralyzed dam construction by blocking a bridge and road access for 15 days. Inhabitants of this area are concerned that flooding 21,000 acres ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Continues Efforts to Save Cleveland A ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today requested a personal meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to close DOJ antitrust field offices in Cleveland, Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia. See Kucinich’s letter here. Kucinich requested a meeting aft ...
• Victory for Men’s Health; Medicare Will Keep C ...
  After Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Dan Burton (R-IN) and Don Young (R-AK) organized a bipartisan group of 44 Members of Congress to object to a recommendation by the United States Preventative Task Force (USPTF) that healthy men should not receive a blood test to screen for prostate cance ...
• Kucinich Announces ‘Game Changing’ Constitutio ...
  On the eve of the second anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling known as Citizens United, which opened the floodgate of unlimited, shadowy corporate spending in public elections, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced H. J. Res. 100, a constitutional amendment to rescue Amer ...
• Kucinich Invites Parma Resident and Iraq War V ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will attend the 2012 State of the Union Address with Iraq war veteran and resident of Parma, Ohio, Mr. Joseph Sykes. “The service and sacrifice of our veterans cannot be overstated. All Americans across this great nation come together in recognition and grati ...
• Kucinich Introduces Plan to Lower Gas Prices
  As promised in late December, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced H.R. 3784, the Gas Price Spike Act, which would reduce the price of gasoline. Kucinich’s bill would address rising gas prices by placing a windfall profit tax on oil companies and use that money to provide tax cre ...

Authentically Wired

• … You can’t say that …
  … You can’t say that …   BofA paints over angry customer’s message   View video here … http://www.azfamily.com/video     Camera crews were there as painters came onto a Phoenix man’s property to paint over the graffiti he’d put on his garage. It said "B ...
• step one in the uber-rich use of EUGENICS
  … Consider this step one in the uber-rich use of EUGENICS … are you next … ?   India reports first cases of killer TB strain ‘resistant to all available drugs’ 01/17/2012  •  godlikeproductions.com A virtually untreatable strain of the killer lung dis ...
• … Yea … right … we’re ...
    … Yea … right … we’re corporate America and “we” have your back … tru$t u$ … sure …! Intelligent RFID chip on sale now inside medicines 01/17/2012  •  godlikeproductions.com Its called HELIUS which means "the personification of the sun god ...
• So do you really believe “white” A ...
    … Manifest Destiny is an outgrowth of … We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now… America, especially “white” America used and continues to use the concept of Manifest D ...
• Benson not at fault
    … I suggest Mr. Little, the real shame is “we” (that’s you & me) believed the bullshit “W” and Co put out as “truth” respecting Iraq and WMD … who was really behind and accountable for 9-11 … and for putting America’s soldiers in “harm’s way” …   Filed und ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Controversial plan taps volcano heat for green ...
  Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this year to demonstrate new technology they hope will boost a green energy sector yet to live up to its promise.They...
• Sleep after quakes can cement negative memories
  Sleep experts in quake-shaken Canterbury have backed the findings of a US study that has found sleeping after a traumatic event like an earthquake cements - and could even amplify - negative emotional memories.In experiments by...
• Sir Peter Gluckman: Science key to richer country
  New Zealand's export economy has been dominated by its primary industries, commodities and tourism, but in the 21st century most strategic thinkers would accept that science and knowledge-based innovation is central to a better and...
• Will you live to 100? New test can predict
  Scientists are claiming a genetic test can predict whether someone will live to 100 years old.The study, undertaken by researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston Medical Center, IRCCS Multimedica...
• Search for the g-spot ends in anti-climax
  It will come as some relief to chaps up and down the country - though perhaps not to their wives.The elusive female G-spot may not actually exist at all, according to scientists.After reviewing 100 studies conducted over the past...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

• Salman in No Rush to Die….
  ...decided to skip the Jaipur Literary Festival, the most prestigious confab of its kind in the region, after some churlish Muslim clerics protested his visit and demanded that the Indian government revoke his visa. Rushdie, who has attended the event many times in the past without ...
• What’s the Conservative Case for Upholding Oba ...
  At the Volokh Conspiracy, George Washington law professor Orin Kerr has a very interesting post explaining why at least some conservatives would want the Supreme Court to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. As Kerr notes of his own legal view ...
• Romney Prepares to Lose South Carolina, Feds E ...
  Mitt Romney is prepared for a Gingrich victory in South Carolina. Feds end investigation of Chevy Volt. U.S. considers closing Syria embassy.  Senate shelves the Protect IP Act.  Megaupload wants confiscated assets back in order to fight lawsuit. Church-affiliate ...
• Solyndra Destroys Brand-New Equipment
  Solyndra, the bankrupt Fremont, California maker of tube-component solar panel that lost $518 million in a taxpayer-guaranteed loan approved by the Obama Energy Department, is disposing of its assets the old-fashioned way: by throwing them in the garbage.  As I have noted in the ...
• "You Can Smell China’s GDP in the Air"
  In the aftermath of Solyndra, politicians have been looking for new reasons to justify government financing for renewable energy. Since green jobs have been a bust and many Americans don't care about climate change, beating China is the new raison d’être du jour. In 2010, the ...

Mercury Rising

• Percentagewise, Wells Fargo Pays Less Tax Than ...
  While unrepentant silver-spoon trustafarian one-percenters like Alan Simpson keep telling the rest of us that our Grandmas must starve in the name of deficit before any rich people are forced to give their second summer homes in the Hamptons, some decent civic-minded souls are asking why Wells F ...
• Don’t Let This Happen
  see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz! The blackout is over but the risk from SOPA and PIPA is still great. Protect creativity, freedom of expression, and lolcats. Tell your members of Congress to oppose SOPA/PIPA.
• Friday Cat Blogging
  Reflective cat reflects on life, the universe, and everything. Or maybe on his reflection.
• Murdoch phone hacking scandal, 1/20/12
  Dan Sabbagh and Amelia Hill, The Guardian: Mr Justice Vos, the judge presiding over the hacking cases, told News Group Newspapers (NGN) he had seen evidence which raised “compelling questions about whether you concealed, told lies, actively tried to get off scot free”. The judge orde ...
• Honduras, the warm-up for Michigan or Michigan ...
  Via Adrienne, Suzy Dean of the London Independent: A worrying development in Honduras echoes anti-democratic trends in Italy and Greece, whereby technocracy is usurping popular rule. …A year ago, the National Party, with support from the opposition Liberal Party, decided to form the Región ...

Reality Sandwich

• The Electric Jesus Hits the Road
    For those of you on the West Coast, I invite you to celebrate the release of my debut book, The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic. These Evolver gatherings will feature aliens, ayahuasca, and chakra activations -- oh my!  (I'll be hitting the East Coast l ...
• HOPE: Healing Our People & Earth.....2012 and ...
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• Corporations Are Not People
  This Friday and Saturday, join the protest against the 2010 Citizens United v. F.E.C. Supreme Court ruling on the streets of NYC. read more
• Healers Unite
  Evolver is proud to be a media sponsor of a "Healing Info Share and Exchange" taking place this Saturday, January 21st at City Life Wellness in Brooklyn.   Anthony Whitehurst, the event coordinator, puts out a call to all NYC area healers:  read more
• Future Farmers
  The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture has a six-year plan for a robotic "Dream Project": automated tractors and robot farmers will transform land ruined by the March 2011 tsunami into a futuristic super farm. read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

• January 19 2012: Don't Be Fooled : Nothing's P ...
  National Photo Co. Bond Vault 1914"Treasury Department, Office of Comptroller of Currency -- bond vault. Contains bonds to the value of $900 million securing government deposits and postal savings fund" Ilargi: Double treat today: a thourough big picture interview with Nicole by KMO at C-Realm, ...
• January 16 2012: Quo Vadis, Britannia?
  Howard Hollem George Lane April 1942"George Lane, served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Seven of his nephews are ...
• January 14 2012: Housing and Oil: Dark Invento ...
  National Photo Co. Ingenious cheat February 13, 1922"Washington, D.C., Unidentified woman demonstrating an ingenious Prohibition-era fashion accessory, the cane-flask" Ilargi: I'd like to try a little intellectual exercise. There were two pieces in my mailbox this week that concerned posts at Na ...
• January 10 2012: The Year of the Trojan Water ...
  Harris & Ewing Listening to the Future September 12, 1938Washington, D.C. "Acting Czechoslovakian Minister listens to Hitler speech. Dr. Karel Brejska, Charge d'Affaires and acting Minister in the absence of Minister Vladimir Hurban in Czechoslovakia, is pictured listening to Adolf Hitler's ...
• January 7 2012: Death of an Institution: Despe ...
  Detroit Publishing Co. Curb Market 1905"New York City, Broad Street exchange and curb brokers" Ilargi: In a nice coincidence, while Nicole Foss (Stoneleigh) wrote about decentralization a few days ago in The Storm Surge of Decentralization, today Ashvin Pandurangi, independently from Nicole, al ...

Press TV

• 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.
• TUC urges solution to UK jobs crisis
  The UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) calls for the British government to propose “bold solutions” for the country's unemployment crisis, as figures show a sharp rise in the number of jobless Britons.
• UK PM, Miliband clash on jobless rise
  The UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Ed Miliband have clashed over unemployment figures, showing an increase by 118,000 to 2.68 million in the number of jobless people in three months to November.
• Scot unemployment rate rises to 231,000
  New official figures have revealed that the number of people out of work in Scotland has increased by 19,000 to total of 231,000 over three months between September and November last year.
• Occupy London campaign vows to fight on
  Occupy London protesters have vowed to appeal in the court against a ruling by the City of London Corporation, which has won its High Court bid to evict them from outside St Paul's Cathedral.

SciDev.net

• Colombia's mining royalties divide scientists
  Colombian scientists have questioned the government's decision to give large portions of science royalties to areas with poor R&D capacity.
• Indian scientists visit Pakistan
  Pakistan's science academy hosted six scientists from its Indian counterpart this week, leading to pledges on joint research projects.
• Don't teach maths and science in English
  English may be the language of science, but students learn better and contribute more when taught in their local tongue, says Giovanni Tapang.
• How to tell policymakers about scientific unce ...
  Uncertainty is part of science but it's no excuse for indecision. Chandrika Nath shows how to communicate uncertainty to policymakers.
• Brazil chooses a scientist for science minister
  The physicist Marco Antonio Raupp will take up the position of science minister next Tuesday, replacing the career politician Aloizio Mercadante.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects ...
  In the past two decades, Medicare’s administrators have conducted demonstrations to test two broad approaches to enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in Medicare’s fee-for-service program. Disease management and care coordination d ...
• Raising the Ages of Eligibility for Medicare a ...
  Raising the ages at which people can begin to collect Medicare and Social Security benefits would be one way to lower federal outlays, raise revenues, and reduce long-term fiscal imbalances. A CBO issue brief released today reviews how ages of eligibility affect beneficiaries under current law a ...
• Do Public-Private Partnerships Build Roads Mor ...
  Currently, the federal government and state and local governments face calls for more and better highways but confront budgetary constraints in providing them. Some analysts have suggested that public-private partnerships might supply at least a portion of that capacity by providing additional f ...
• Federal Budget Deficit for the First Quarter o ...
  The federal budget deficit was $320 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $49 billion less than the deficit recorded in the same period in fiscal year 2011. But $26 billion of that difference resulted from shifts in the timing of ce ...
• Deforestation and Greenhouse Gases
  The destruction and degradation of forestland, caused mainly by expanded agricultural activity in tropical developing countries, currently accounts for roughly 12 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Slowing or halting deforestation in developing countries is a potentially low-cost ...

Naked Scientists - News

• Reducing Cancer Risk Factors
  The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer... Kat - For my day job I work for Cancer Research UK and we put o...
• Fred Flintstone's bed uncovered
  Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...
• Seed and soil - understanding how cancers spread
  Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...
• Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
  A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
• Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
  A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

Nick Turse

• In Newt’s new Crusade against the Arab Spring, ...
  In Newt’s new Crusade against the Arab Spring, the ever-insightful Juan Cole writes: Weirdly, he began his attack on the 2011 protest movements in the Middle East by lamenting that the number of Christians in Iraq has fallen from 1.2 million to 500,000. He observed, “This is why the current ...
• "The French army is in Afghanistan at the serv ...
  “The French army is in Afghanistan at the service of the Afghans against terrorism and against...
• 1 Student Arrested Every Day In NYC Schools, 9 ...
  1 Student Arrested Every Day In NYC Schools, 94% Are Black Or Latino: According to new data...
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• Demonstrators gather during protests against a ...
  Demonstrators gather during protests against a nuclear waste transport in Dannenberg, northern Germany, Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. The shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France is on its way to a controversial storage site in Gorleben that protesters say is unsafe. It is ...