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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, January 22, 2012

22 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CZECH REPUBLIC: Castration for Sex Offenders T ...
    The Czech government has defied calls from international human rights groups to stop the "degrading" practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.
  • MIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year
    An elderly Palestinian woman spent last week on hunger strike to protest violent attacks by Israeli settlers. Hana Abu Heikel went on the hunger strike on behalf of her family after settlers burned the family car during the previous weekend. Since Israeli settlers moved into the houses sur ...
  • U.S.: "Money Isn't Speech, Corporations Aren't ...
    In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections and a crumbling democracy is very ...
  • U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not B ...
    Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco's financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing atop Wells Fargo counters, pitching a tent in a Bank of America lobby, hanging banners across Citibank wi ...
  • INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Unde ...
    Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Censorship as a Badge of Honor? Britain Bans P ...
    Summary: For the first time, British government censors have banned a 24-hour news channel from British viewers. As of the afternoon, UK-time, 20th January 2012, viewers of Press TV, an avowedly anti-imperialist TV channel headquartered in Tehran and featuring many of the voices found in Coun ...
  • Key Reasons against Sanctions and Military Int ...
    Summary: The current US stand-off against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining US pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according t ...
  • “No war, No Sanctions, No Internal Interventio ...
    Summary: Below is a statement by United National Anti-War Coalition on the assassination of Iranian scientists and the growing threat of war against Iran. Also, UNAC members participated in a national conference call on Tuesday with many other antiwar and Iranian groups. The meeting called ...
  • Stop the Madness
    Summary: Despite all the hype, Iran's nuclear program has yet to violate international law. It's time to calm down, think, and above all halt the rush to war source: Foreign Policyread more
  • Mixed Signals From EU on Potential Iran Talks
    Summary: In what she termed a “dual track approach,” European Union FM Catherine Ashton has insisted that the union is “open” to the idea of additional talks with Iran, in spite of the member nations focusing almost exclusively on imposing new sanctions on Iran. source: antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Europe's Orbiting Observatories Capture Stunni ...
    Two of the European Space Agency's (ESA) orbiting observatories have captured new and spectacular views of the gas pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16) that were the subject of the iconic 1995 Hubble images dubbed "Pillars of Creation." In 1995,...
  • Weekend Feature: NASA's Search for Extraterres ...
    Scientists confirmed this week that rocks collected recently in the Moroccan desert came from the Red Planet. A little-known fact is that each year Earth is hit by by half a dozen or so one-pound or larger rocks that were...
  • Russia Takes Lead to Create Manned Moon Base w ...
    Officials from Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, are reportedly in talks with Europe’s ESA and NASA over possibly establishing a collective an orbital station around the moon, or a manned lunar research base. According to Russian news site RIA Novosti, while...
  • Weekend Feature: New NASA Discovery --A Super ...
    The exo planet 55 Cancri e, a close alien planet, just 40 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cancer (The Crab), is a super-dense world circles so close to its host star that it takes a mere 18 hours...
  • 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...

Natural News

  • Dealing with Parkinson's Disease
    Today I begin to introduce my Batman and Robin Medicine for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Magnesium is Batman and Cannabis is Robin and they do make for a holy medical combination. In Multiple Sclerosis marijuana can limit the muscle pain and spasticity caused...
  • Choose healthy lifestyle, nutritious food over ...
    It's understandable that a woman would like to avoid discomfort while going through menopause. After all, what woman likes having hot flashes or experiencing vaginal dryness? The problem, though, is that taking hormones is not the answer. Natural News has covered the...
  • Ron Paul wants to kill indefinite detention pr ...
    You may not agree with him on every foreign and domestic policy point, but you can't deny the fact that Congressman Ron Paul from Texas is the most consistent, literal interpreter of the U.S. Constitution in the current race for the Republican presidential nomination...
  • CDC researchers say mothers should stop breast ...
    Remember when it was considered crazy talk to suggest that mainstream medicine viewed humanity as being born lacking in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, as if these synthetic inputs are necessary miracle nutrients for proper human development? Well, researchers from...
  • Kinesiology, a tool of consciousness - how to ...
    There are almost fifty years of documented scientific research on a quick, easy and reliable method for testing whether something is true and under the circumstances whether it's good. As an example: should you eat animal protein? On the subject of animal protein versus...

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

  • Romney Plays the Victim Card
    Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary by playing the victim card. Now, Mitt Romney hopes to win the Republican nomination by doing the same thing. But while Gingrich's ploy of portraying himself as the latest conservative target of a liberal "elite" media assault is always a winner with ...
  • Mitt Romney Dogged by Empathy Gap
    Over the past few days, conservative forces have mobilized to protect Mitt Romney from incoming fire over his rapidly multiplying tax scandals. Former Bush press flack Ari Fleischer and the Wall Street Journal editorial page predictably - and comically - argued the rich already pay too much in ...
  • 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 ...

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Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • World-Leading Climate Scientist from NASA: “Ex ...
    by Dr. Joe Romm of Climate Progress (repost) “Climate dice,” describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons relative to climatology, have become progressively “loaded” in the past 30 years, coincident with rapid global warming.   The distribution of seasonal mean temperature anomalies h ...
  • The Truth about 2012, from NASA
      There’s a bit of hysteria about the whole end-of-the world in December 2012 thing. I’ve got some comments on it–researched it a bit several years ago–but will leave that for another day. For today, here’s a response from NASA on the concern that there will b ...
  • MUST-WATCH Video of Senators Investigating Sci ...
      This video is a little long, which is why it’s gotten me awhile to post on it. However, after watching it, I am labeling it a MUST-WATCH. If you think it’s too long, just watch a few minutes, at least. The whole thing, really, in one awesome segment after another. Senator Fra ...
  • Piglets Playing with Dog (VIDEO)
      OK, which is cuter, these adorable little piglets playing with a dog (video below), or that rat and cat drinking milk together video that I posted 10 minutes ago? h/t Your Daily Dose of Vegan Outreach
  • Cat & Rat Drinking Milk Together (VIDEO)
      The rat seems to be the one in charge Don’t go away, got another cute animal video coming up in a few minutes. h/t Your Daily Dose of Vegan Outreach

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Axis of Logic

  • Tariq Ali: Obama’s Expansion of Af-Pak War "Ha ...
    Editorial comment:The video attached contains about 45 minutes of pre-election talk. If you prefer to avoid that, move forward to 45+ minutes into the video, where Tariq Ali comes in.  - SON Amid ongoing U.S.-Pakistani tensions and fears of a military coup in Pakistan, we are join ...
  • Nigeria violence: Scores dead after Kano blast ...
    Co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday killed about 150 people, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured. A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings, passport offices and ...
  • BFP Breaking News: The New Desperate Concoctio ...
    War Architects Have Written a New Script- This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fa ...
  • Is Iran preparing nuclear weapons? - Featured
    The United States claims Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Israel says Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says it is trying to build nuclear power generation - you know, the same kind of activity the US paid Iran to do during the reign of the Shah....
  • The (Un)Occupy Movement. Anatomy of Conscousne ...
    A hearty congratulations to Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Axis of Logic columnist and resident poet, for the publication of his exciting new anthology, The (Un)Occupy Movement. This anthology is a topical, historical, forward-thinking, and holistic look at some of the problems Mother Earth and h ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Boss Hogg Wins Big In South Carolina!
    Well, shut my mouth! He's popular in the South!! Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who bears a resemblance to actor Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard), didn't merely win the South Carolina Republican primary Saturday. He administered a serious ass-kicking to former Mass. Gov ...
  • Not Dog-Whistle, Not Racism, Just a Desperate ...
    By @KYYellowDog David Atkins "thereisnospoon" on Newt Gingrich's real message: What Newt Gingrich is doing here, then, is not making a coded racist argument against Barack Obama and minority communities. He is, rather, presenting himself as the anti-Obama: the Great Conservative Racial Uniter, t ...
  • Why Libraries Are Better Than the Internet
    By @KYYellowDog There is nothing cooler than a public library. And you don't have to go to the Library of Congress or the New York Public Library - or even the Kenton County Public Library in Covington, KY - to find treasures that no one will ever see online. They're waiting for you at your loca ...
  • Arizona: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) stepping down
    Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D) will be resigning from Congress: Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:30 am Giffords to step down from Congress U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will step down from Congress this week to focus on her recovery, her staff announced Sunday.... ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "What Did Yo ...
    By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by PopulistParty: Pete Seeger sings Tom Paxton's song live on the "Tonight In Person" Show (1964). Here's some of the "best" lyrics: I learned that Washington never told a lie. I learned that soldiers seldom die. I learned that everybody's free. And that's what the te ...

Care 2

  • Stop Big Ag's Push To Hide Animal Abuse By Pun ...
    In recent years, undercover investigators have successfully exposed horrific cruelty in the animal agriculture industry on video and in photos. Instead of improving conditions for animals and workers, "big ag" (the corporate agriculture industry) Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &n ...
  • Tales of Survival
    Patient is a demented, chronically ill elderly male lying in bed attached to a ventilator, appearing anything but his stated age. Contracted in a fetal position, huddled under the bed sheet with only his bald head Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • Sumatran Tiger Given a Fighting Chance by Glob ...
    Indonesia is set to get Rp 300 billion ($33.3 million) to double its wild tiger population by 2022, as part of a global initiative to bring the iconic species back from the brink of extinction. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • Urgent: Animals Languishing in Clarksdale, Mis ...
    Sick, injured, and starving dogs and cats are suffering at the taxpayer-funded Clarksdale-Coahoma County Animal Shelter (CCCAS) in Mississippi two years after it was closed down because of similarly horrific conditions and severe crowding Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note ...
  • More haste less speed for dog stuck in gate
    An eager, curious or perhaps hasty English bull terrier was the subject of an unusual RSPCA call after the dog got its head and body stuck in a metal gate. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Pirate Strategy
    “We can go in two directions, one is for less opportunity and less fairness…I am going to lay out a blueprint…homegrown and alternative energy sources…getting people the skills they need…a return to American values…how we do it… “ (See video below. ...
  • South Carolina Returns (Open Thread)
    It’s nearly time for the results to come in, so … prognosticate away until the actual counts come in, and tell the rest of us what you think is going to happen next in Florida. – Much more to come on the blog — stay tuned, as they say on television –
  • The End of Conservatism
    Conservatives have lost their minds. Some on the left would assert that conservatives never had a brain, but that’s a topic for a different time. By rallying around Newt Gingrich and embracing the fantasy that he is a true-blue conservative then conservatives expose themselves as simpleton ...
  • Dueling Solyndra
    The duelling ad buys between the Koch Brothers (Karl Rove) Americans for Prosperity and the Obama re-elect ignite the 2012 presidential campaign with a Napoleonic crescendo. The facts about Solyndra are trite, tawdry and most unflattering to the Obama White House. It is fresh to me that the Obam ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Southwest Virginia needs a progressive represe ...
    Southwest Virginia needs a progressive representative TriCities.com However, the current practices of mountain-top removal, strip mining and “fracking” inflict environmental damage that far outweighs any short term benefit. Mountain-top removal and strip mining result in unstable “valley fill.” ...
  • Occasional spats don't bother state legislator ...
    Occasional spats don't bother state legislators Knoxville News Sentinel The Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act would ban mountaintop removal on peaks above 2000 feet in Tennessee. Rep. Dunn, a proponent of legislation banning mountaintop removal, answered questions on the topic that has ...
  • 'The Evening Hour' review: Sickels is mining f ...
    OregonLive.com 'The Evening Hour' review: Sickels is mining for a story in gritty Appalachia OregonLive.com Sickels didn't know anything about mountaintop removal, an environmentally destructive form of coal mining, until he saw something about it online. "Shocked and devastated ...
  • Whats All the Rucks About? - Fenceviewer
    Whats All the Rucks About? Fenceviewer So now that it's established what Mountain Top Removal is, you are probably curious why I have taken such a privy to the topic. Long story short, my backyard (well almost) is being blown away like specs of dust to satisfy our mere lust for coal and the ...
  • 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, ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS WILL STEP DOWN FR ...
    Gabrielle Giffords: U.S. REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS WILL STEP DOWN FROM CONGRESS THIS WEEK  —  In a video message to her constituents, congresswoman says she will ‘do what is best for Arizona’ as she recovers from shooting a year ago  —  TUCSON - U.S. Re ...
  • Christie: Gingrich 'embarrassed' GOP (Daniel S ...
    Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Christie: Gingrich ‘embarrassed’ GOP  —  Gov. Chris Christie called Newt Gingrich an embarrassment to the Republican Party.  —  “I think Newt Gignrich has embarrassed the party, over time,” Christie (R), who end ...
  • Giffords to step down from Congress (Arizona D ...
    Arizona Daily Star: Giffords to step down from Congress  —  U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will step down from Congress this week to focus on her recovery, her staff announced Sunday.  —  “I have more work to do on my recovery, so to do what is best for Arizo ...
  • Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to Step Down from Cong ...
    Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to Step Down from Congress  —  Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will step down from the House this week and not seek re-election when her current term expires this year, she announced today.  —  Giffords has ...
  • Quick Thoughts on Tonight's Results (Josh Mars ...
    Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: Quick Thoughts on Tonight's Results  —  Tonight's results — a blowout win for Newt Gingrich — upend all the equations governing the GOP presidential primary.  So which variables can we still be relatively sure of?  &mdas ...

Energy & Environment News

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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

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.”

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The "Mexican-style fast food Restaurant Chain ...
    Seriously, which “Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain, Restaurant Chain A” has restaurants in all these states? As the CDC reported as of January 19, 2012, a total of 68 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis have been reported from 10 states. T ...
  • Safe Employees = Safe Food
    When AP reported this week that an owner of Jensen Farms was being fined by the U.S. Department of Labor for failing to provide safe migrant worker housing, I must admit even I was a bit shocked.  Could it be that an owner of a business that allowed the deadly fecal bacteria Listeria to coa ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • This is smart: Seconds opens SMS channel to re ...
    New company lets you text your local businesses. And get a reply back. Yeah, you think that'd already be a thing, bu ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • Citizens United: A Tsunami of Secret Corporate ...
    http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.html (Photo: JasonUnbound / Flickr) Truthout Saturday 21 January 2012 by: Isaiah J. Poole , Campaign for America’s Future | News Analysis Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court th ...
  • Pawlenty Defends Unlimited Campaign Donations ...
    Think Progress-  By Scott Keyes and Travis Waldron  on Jan 21, 2012 at 12:10 pm Two years ago today, the Supreme Court struck down longstanding restrictions on corporate money in American elections, paving the way for super PACs and major third party spending. Since January 21, 2009, the Citizen ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    ‘Portrait of Michelangelo’, 1535 Florence, Casa Buonarroti “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo Related reading: Michelangelo Wikipedia Michelangelo Buonarroti The Wh ...
  • 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 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • George Orwell sends us a note, giving some per ...
    Summary:  None of our problems are unique.  Even the problems of Empire, and the distorting effect of global power on our minds.  Today we have some insights from George Orwell, examining the effect of cancerous nationalism on a nation’s thinking. Here is an excerpt from “Notes on Na ...
  • Question time on the FM website (plus The Week ...
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! Contents Questions received so far Quote of the week, advice that America’s leaders have taken to heart To start the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Politics of Resentment
    Jamelle Bouie/The American Prospect Newt Gingrich supporters hold up signs in support of the candidate after his victory in South Carolina. COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA—At 7:01—one minute after the polls closed—the local news affiliate announced the results of the South Carolina Repub ...
  • Dark Horse Victory
    In one of the most startling turnarounds in presidential-primary history, Newt Gingrich has beaten Mitt Romney in South Carolina. When the week began, Romney was coming off an easy win in New Hampshire and had a comfortable-looking lead in every state poll—and every political forecaster in Amer ...
  • No One Cares About the Affair
      Jamelle Bouie Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to a crowd in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina—One of the larger tourist landmarks in the Charleston-area is a decommissioned warship that’s been converted to a museum. Naturally—as a “grandiose” ...
  • Take Your Free Speech Elsewhere
      NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—Mitt Romney’s events are usually calm, which is why it was a surprise to hear yelling and see police drag two people, apparently Occupy protesters, out of the crowd. “She’s being choked! She’s being choked!” yelled one of the protesters, and I—along with sever ...
  • 99 Problems But This Ain't One
    Judging when to use tabloid stories as teaching moments on issues regarding race, gender, and class isn’t always easy. Sometimes the connection is clear, as when bloggers and activists used the Chris Brown/Rihanna blowup to raise awareness about domestic violence. Other times, a point can’t be ...

Buzzflash

  • Corporate Media Long Ago Abandoned Reporting t ...
    ROBERT PAPPAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Editor's Note: Robert Pappas is the writer, director and narrator of the acclaimed "Orwell Rolls in His Grave," which is available through Truthout. In "Orwell Rolls," Pappas reveals a devastating portrait of a corporate media that long ago abandoned ferre ...
  • Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Personal Des ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Well for once I have to agree with Newt Gingrich. Questioning him about his former wife's interview during the debate was an unfortunate detour. His past relationships, while they indicate a rather offhand approach to marriage and accepted standards of ...
  • "I Will Believe in Corporate Personhood When O ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT As the anniversary of the infamous Citizens United decision nears (January 21), you can count on Jim Hightower to stick it to the Supreme Court (5-4 corporate majority): "If a corporation is a person, where's its navel?"read more
  • 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 ...
  • 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- ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Viscous fluid on a moving belt
    A stream of very viscous syrup falling from a nozzle on to a moving belt. At first, the speed of the belt is enough that the thread of syrup is just pulled out straight. However, as the belt is slowed down, the thread at first bifurcates to a meandering state, producing a sine wave and [...]Visc ...
  • Bird flu research halted
    The UK’s Guardian newspaper is reporting that researchers working to prevent the spread of bird flu and the possible millions of deaths it could cause should a pandemic occur, have suspended their research for 60 days amid fears that they might accidentally trigger the very  epidemic they ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Roe v. Wade Turns 39, Abortion Rights Still Un ...
    As we celebrate the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that recognized a woman's constitutional right to legal abortion, we can't forget how many times women's lives have been put at risk in the past year. Legislators in 24 states passed 92 anti ...
  • Human Carcinogen Found in Drinking Water Near ...
    The federal Environmental Protection Agency's detection of arsenic, a known human carcinogen, barium and other contaminants in the well water of homes near natural gas drilling operations in Dimock Township, Pennsylvania, should prompt a nationwide investigation of drilling-linked water poll ...
  • Human Carcinogen Found in Drinking Water Near ...
    The federal Environmental Protection Agency's detection of arsenic, a known human carcinogen, barium and other contaminants in the well water of homes near natural gas drilling operations in Dimock Township, Pennsylvania, should prompt a nationwide investigation of drilling-linked water poll ...
  • 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
  • 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

Common Dreams-Views

  • Banning Books in Tucson
    Dennis Bernstein Outrage and disgust continue to build over the decision by the Tucson, Arizona, unified school system to ban books by Chicano and Native-American authors. The punitive action follows on the heels of the decision by state po ...
  • Poverty in America: The Subject Presidential C ...
    Marsha Coleman-Adebayo This week in Johannesburg, South Africa a mother was trampled to death as thousands of young people surged, desperate to register for university, because there are no jobs and studying seems a way of waiting out the r ...
  • Overturn Citizens United: Amend the Constitution
    Matthew Rothschild I was asked to speak at an “Occupy the Courts” rally outside the federal courthouse in Madison, Wisconsin, yesterday. It was nine degrees out, and it was snowing, but about 85 people showed up to denounce the ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy: Supreme Court Weighs ...
    Michelle Chen One day in August 2007, Daniel Coleman, an administrator in the Maryland court system, decided he should stay home to recover from an illness, as his doctor had ordered. But the day after he requested time off, he suddenly had ...
  • Shades of an American Kristallnacht?
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Watching the spectacle of the Republican primaries evokes deep sadness over the unavoidable truth that now, in the wake of Citizens United, it has become totally legal for rich people to run politicians the same ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

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 Falsely Claims He Was Completely Exon ...
    The 1997 House ethics investigation into then-Speaker Newt Gingrich has resurfaced on the campaign trail, but Gingrich told CNN’s Candy Crowley that all information relevant to the scandal was already public. Gingrich said the $300,000 penalty he was ordered to pay by the House Ethics Comm ...
  • Wired Pulls a Charlie Sheen on Clean Energy: E ...
    In 2011, global investment in renewable energy surpassed fossil fuels for the first time.  And the U.S. surged back into the lead in clean investment ahead of China by about $8 billion. So what, other than bad journalism, explains this nonsensical headline and image from the top tech magazine Wi ...
  • Mitt Romney Says He Won’t Release More T ...
    Today on Fox News Sunday, Mitt Romney said he would release his 2010 tax return (along with an estimate of his 2011 taxes) on Tuesday. Fox’s Chris Wallace pressed Romney on why he would only release two years of returns when his father released twelve during his run for President. Romney s ...
  • Clyburn Says Newt Gingrich Is Using Coded Raci ...
    On the campaign trail, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has repeatedly referred to President Obama as a food stamps president. Many have claimed the comment, and others, are dog whistles for “ugly racial stereotypes” and are insulting to African Americans. This morning, Rep. James ...
  • Toles Cartoon Nails Keystone-Climate Contradiction
    See also James Hansen slams Keystone XL Canada-U.S. Pipeline: “Exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts”

thwap's schoolyard

  • Farm Labour Abuses
    Canada's marketing boards are squeezing Canadian consumers dry (or so the argument goes) because it's possible to pay less for farm produce in the USA. The fact that lower prices for food often times stems from abusive conditions, corporate farms pumping the earth full of poison, and exploitativ ...
  • This Country Has Turned To Shit
    Latest example: The anti-Canadian, oil-puppet, anti-democracy asshole stephen harper has refused to compensate Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin for their having been tortured by the monstrous Syrian government at Canada's behest. As a result, these three CANADIAN CITIZENS a ...
  • 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

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Saving Lives, One Note At A Time
    Teaching The Life Of Music explores the life-changing (and sometimes life-saving) effects of a music program pioneered in the barrios of Venezuela and brought to Canada.
  • Mayor of London: 'Get your ass down here, Prim ...
    "Get your ass down here, Prime Minister Harper!" bellowed Joe Fontana, mayor of London. In 2008 Harper visited the city's EMD plant, announcing corporate tax cuts to increase job security for Canadians. Now, EMD workers are locked out by their U.S. owner.
  • Amaal Nuux: Canadian Singer Destined for Inter ...
    The dramatic entry of multi-talented, young Somali-Canadian singer Amaal Nuux into the performing arts arena has generated a great deal of enthusiasm within the Canadian musical landscape.
  • 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?

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

  • Stop Harper’s pro-war lobby and the stealth fi ...
    More than 1,500 people answered the Ceasefire.ca annual New Year’s Day member survey and contributed 200 comments.
  • Maritime helicopter procurement flounders
    Before the F-35 fiasco, there was the Maritime Helicopter Program, another disastrous, wasteful military procurement program. Whatever happened to that program? As David Pugliese reported earlier this month (“Sikorsky hasn’t paid $8M fine for late helicopter delivery,” Ottawa Citizen ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Miscellaneous Miscellany of Mischievous Malevo ...
    By Michael FarrellSunday, January 22nd, 2012 Etta James Music. The incredible Crispin Sartwell and I had a brief discussion of Etta James over at his blog Why the Selection of Newt Gingrich for Pope is part of my master plan to save the universe? Crispin’s Blog is highly recommended if you ...
  • UK Government Suppresses Truth
    By Stephen LendmanSunday, January 22nd, 2012 by Stephen Lendman   Press TV broke the news headlining, “Ofcom revokes Press TV’s UK license,” saying: In a questionable move and without offering a valid response to the Press TV CEO’s letters, the British Office of Comm ...
  • Scarborough: GOP ‘base is revolting’ against R ...
    Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on Sunday that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s thumping of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in South Carolina Saturday showed that the Republican base was “revolting” against the party establishment. During a round table di ...
  • Weekly Intel, January 22, 2012
    By Gordon DuffSunday, January 22nd, 2012 THE BRINGER OF TRUTH ENJOYS HIS REWARD Disappearing Dialog, Why America Has Stopped Asking   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor —————————————– This week, we are trying a b ...
  • Rick Santorum gets glitter bombed again
    Glitter has certainly found a way towards Rick Santorum’s face on the campaign trail. While greeting supporters after a third place finish in the South Carolina Primary, the former Pennsylvania Senator was approached by ‘Occupy’ protesters not pleased over his anti-gay views. & ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Jefferson Bethke: Why I Hate Religion, But Lov ...
    Dandelion Salad bball1989 on Jan 10, 2012 A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it’s core Jesus’ gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure ...
  • Moyers & Company: On Winner-Take-All Politics
    Dandelion Salad With Bill Moyers Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com January 13, 2012 Bill Moyers explores how America’s vast inequality didn’t just happen, it’s been politically engineered. Bill Moyers: On Winner-Take-All Politics see Chris Hedges: Occupy the Courts + Citizens Unite for ...
  • Welcome to Amerika, the ‘Obedience Factory‘ by ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 18, 2012 All you baby boomers and 50 somethings out there must remember the ‘air raid drills ‘of our youth. How we were pounded with that alarm gong, and then hurried either beneath our desks or out in the hallways of our schools. Th ...
  • Hunger Is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’, says ...
    by Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com Lyon, France Jan. 19, 2012 “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 ...
  • The World War on Democracy by John Pilger
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger www.globalresearch.ca www.johnpilger.com Jan. 19, 2012 Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democr ...

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publish ...
    The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate US President Barack... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

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

  • WCL Lunch Meeting to Release “Indefensib ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Rick Wilson, who heads the human rights clinic at my school, Washington College of Law, asks me to pass along the following invitation to anyone interested in the DC area on Friday: Please join Human Rights USA and American University Washington College ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 superb new esssay on SSRN entitled “Accepting Sosa‘s Invitation: Did Congress Expand the Subject Matter Jurisdiction o ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • Tucson bans schoolbooks about Mexican-American ...
    … And making Mexican American kids clean up if they speak out against it. In America. Today.
  • Viewing the earth and sky: here are two apps
    These two apps are awesome. There’s Star Walk - 5 Stars Astronomy Guide which costs $2.99 (and worth every penny). Star Walk Star Walk enables you to point your iPhone at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time. Please note, you will need ...
  • Athena vs. the LP
    In which my 13-year-old daughter handles an LP for the very first time in her life. And quite rightfully says, how can it be so big and only hold 10 songs?
  • Hedge fund managers only pay 15% capital gains
    #bbpBox_160767994451083264 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_160767994451083264 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }"Can you believe i get away with only paying 15% . What a scam but we own Congress." There, that's what i hear. Is that a good thing?about 13 hours ago via TweetD ...
  • Missed phone calls control water use on farms
    GiagaOm profiles RealTech in India, which uses deliberately missed phone calls to turn water pumps on and off. What a great, innovative idea. No more walking out to vastly scattered pumps to turn them on and off.

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

  • Same S#!T – Different Dictator… Li ...
    Jan 21, 4:04 PM (ET) BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) – Hundreds of angry Libyans on Saturday stormed the transitional government’s headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi, carting off computers, chairs, and desks while the country’s interim leader was still holed up in the building. ...
  • Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Ev ...
      WIRED Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, managed to hide an ...
  • Arizona sting catches 2 officials in drug smug ...
      PHOENIX (Reuters) – A U.S. Border Patrol agent and an Arizona jailer trapped in a sting operation have been arrested on charges they conspired to help traffickers smuggle drugs from Mexico, authorities said on Friday. Ivhan Herrera-Chiang, 29, a Border Patrol agent in Yuma, Ariz., and Mic ...
  • Monsanto Patents and Chemtrails
      Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars While I might assume a particular position on an issue, that position is subject to change when new or more relevant information becomes available. Remember the sorghum aluminum resistance patent that we thought was created by Monsanto to counter the effects ...
  • Newt Gingrich, Marianne and the Arms Dealer: ...
      DCbureau.org On October 5, Sarkis Soghanalian, once the world’s largest private arms dealer, died at 82. He had sold weapons to scores of dictators including Saddam Hussein, and he took many secrets with him to his grave. But one secret he did not take involves Newt Gingrich when he was S ...

The Air Vent

  • Fun Stuff
    A guest post by Dr. Weinstein in response to a post by Dr. Spencer. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC MASS AND CO2 ON GROUND TEMPERATURE Leonard Weinstein, ScD January 17, 2012 The issue has been raised about the effect of the mass of an atmosphere on surface temperature.  It can be shown that if no optical ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Jan. 16 to Jan. 21. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.  Tuesday, January 17 DeNA Picks NetDragon to Run a Mobile … Continue reading →
  • New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Tapjoy, Plumbee,  LolGames, Jana, IMVU, Funcom, Addmired, Lolapps a ...
  • Facebook roundup: subscribe, SOPA, online vide ...
    Featured page owners get subscribe button – Fans can now more easily subscribe to Facebook page admins who make themselves visible as “Page Owners.” Facebook added a subscribe button to this featured section of pages on Friday. This only applies … Continue reading →
  • Gingrich gains steam this week on Inside Faceb ...
    Newt Gingrich got a boost in new Facebook Likes since Rick Perry endorsed him Thursday, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. Rick Santorum is also on an upswing ahead of the South Carolina primary on Saturday. Mitt Romney, who has fallen … Continue reading →
  • Analysis: What Facebook could gain with Vevo
    Facebook and Vevo have met at least twice and the most recent talks took place earlier this month about bringing the popular music video service to the social network’s platform and sharing ad revenue, according unnamed CNET sources. Scoring a deal … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.
  • 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.

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

  • The Formula: Inform, Organize, Action
    They Say it all Starts with ‘Informing’ … Those of you who’ve been listening to our podcast series know how impatient I sometimes get when the question boils down to ‘what do we do? Where do we go from here?’ Look, I understand and agree with the general consensus out there among the intellectua ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Welcome to Soothing the Beast. All week we work, stay involved, fight and just try to survive and come to grips with everything in this world around us. We need a break and that’s what this segment is all about. At Boiling Frogs Post when Saturday night r ...
  • BFP Breaking News: The New Desperate Concoctio ...
    War Architects Have Written a New Script- This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fantastical ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Dear Boiling Frogs Post Readers & Supporters: Every weeknight we’ve been presenting to you ‘BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials,’ a thorough round up of international and national news, select editorials, videos and podcasts. We have been consistent in providing you with balanced select ...
  • Podcast Show #73
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Shahid Buttar This is Part I of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. Shahid Buttar joins us to discuss the continuous erosion of our civil liberties from illegal domestic surveillance to Guantanamo, NDAA and its discretionary detention provision autho ...

Afro Spear

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

  • America's Mobility Problem
    2012's dominant political issue will be jobs and income inequality. Recent studies suggest that we add social mobility to the list: an American born into poverty is increasingly unlikely to be able to move up and out.
  • To Error and Back Again, or How I Learned to S ...
    Part 3 of a three part essay on Hitchens and the New Atheists.
  • Why Conflict With Iran Isn't Likely ... Probably.
    Why Conflict with Iran is unlikely...probably
  • Govt remains adamant to reopen graft cases aga ...
    Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has again refused to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in a Swiss court. Gilani appeared before the Supreme Court on Thursday (1-18-2012) to explain his refusal to ask Switzerland to re-open graft cases against President Asif Ali Z ...
  • Book whitewashes Guantanamo military tribunals
    Jack Goldsmith's review of William Shawcross's book, Justice and the Enemy, in the New York Times Book Review, January 22, 2012, contends that the military tribunals of Guantanamo detainees are reasonable attempts of a government, acting in good faith, to provide fair trials. The tribunals, cons ...

Switchboard

  • Pipeline Politics Hit Illinois: Leaders' Keyst ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois I was surprised to see Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady had been scheduled to take part in a big Keystone XL pipeline rally this week in the Quad Cities. Given the decision to deny th ...
  • Listening to General Anderson: Keystone XL tar ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Brigadier General (Retired) Steven Anderson is a crusader against dependence on oil and in our fight against climate change. He has been speaking out against TransCanada’s ...
  • California Cap and Trade Program Expected to B ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Since the release of Governor Brown’s budget two weeks ago, there have been a lot of questions about how much revenue could be coming from auctioning emission ...
  • From Durban to Rio: Taking action on clean ene ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC The global warming negotiations in Durban made important progress, but much more work lies ahead to address global warming. Countries have committed to action and are beginning ...
  • Next Week's Vote on California's Clean Car Sta ...
    Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco At a time when consumers and businesses are being held hostage to oil rising to over $100 a barrel, our oil dependency is once again threatening our economic recovery. It would seem like ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • NFL Conference Championship Open Thread
    On Pats/Ravens, I wouldn’t make too much of how dominant the Patriots looked in the last round; without first round Broncos MVP Dick LeBeau involved, Tebow turning into a pumpkin was inevitable, and the Broncos defense was overrated. On the other hand, while Flacco is an NFL QB and at this ...
  • A True Story
    I’ve been reading William Ian Miller’s latest book, Losing It, which is about getting old: Occasionally I flatter myself that I am earning my keep, contributing more than I am consuming. And unlike those football players and boxers who do not know when to quit, professors, like me, cannot be cut ...
  • Joe Paterno, R.I.P.
    I assume Paul will have more. ESPN has a front page article arguing that his “legacy outweighs the scandal.” I believe this is the more plausible account: I know that child assault comments directed at Paterno are old hat and may seem predictable and a little cheap. But let’s be clea ...
  • Roe at 39
    For the birthday of Roe v. Wade, allow me to note again that it was a straightforward application (1, 2) of long-entrenched constitutional values, it has already been watered down substantially, and its opponents still doing what they can to ensure that access to safe abortions is limited to the ...
  • Kindly Ol’ Ron Paul
    I decided to tune out the GOP primary coverage and return to Hockey Night In Canada once it became clear that Ron Paul’s speech would consist of reciting the entire first side of 2112 with extended solos. (I did like the warm-up line about how people accuse his monetary policy of being &#8 ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 2012: PRO BONO HOTLIST
    It's an ugly situation — pro bono work by large law firms is on a steep decline. This year's Pro Bono Hot List highlights 10 firms that haven't forgotten their professional obligations even — especially — during hard times. Often, at considerable expense or risk to themselves.
  • The 2012 Forecast
    With storm clouds in Europe and political uncertainty in the U.S., which Washington practices will flourish and which will fail this year? We asked three D.C. managing partners.
  • 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.

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

environment 360

  • Keystone Pipeline Decision Aimed at President ...
    Top aides to President Obama say that his desire to satisfy two key political constituencies — environmental advocates and affluent Democratic donors — played a major role in his decision to reject an application to build a pipeline to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. The president’s p ...
  • As Roads Spread in Rainforests, The Environmen ...
    From Brazil to Borneo, new roads are being built into tropical forests at a dizzying pace, putting previously intact wilderness at risk. If we hope to preserve rainforests, a leading researcher says, new strategies must be adopted to limit the number of roads and reduce their impacts. BY WILL ...
  • Warming Temperatures Help Trumpeter Swans Thri ...
    The trumpeter swan, nearly hunted to extinction across much of North America during the 19th century, has experienced a strong resurgence with the help of a warming climate, U.S. researchers say. The large bird, Wikimedia Commons A trumpeter swan which depends on long summers for breeding ...
  • Natural Gas Boom to Slow Growth of U.S. Renewa ...
    The sheer abundance of recently discovered natural gas resources in the U.S. could drive down gas and electricity prices in the next few decades, yield an overall increase in energy use, and stunt the nation’s still-emerging renewable energy sector, a new report says. Using economic modeling, re ...
  • U.S. Bans Import of Exotic Snakes That Are Inv ...
    U.S. officials have announced a national ban on the import of four large exotic snake species, including the Burmese python, which wildlife officials say are devouring endangered species across the Florida Wikimedia Commons A Burmese python Everglades. Five years after Florida officials ca ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Grey Alien depicted on Canadian $20 Silver Com ...
    The story, as told by the artist Jason Bouwman The canoe has become as much a part of the Canadian visual lexicon as the Canada goose, the beaver and the maple leaf. This design shows a young person enjoying a recreational outing. The boy breaks from paddling to dip his hand in the water ...and ...
  • Stone Age Temple in Orkney 800 years older tha ...
    A 5000-year-old temple in Orkney could be more important than Stonehenge, according to archaeologists. The site, known as the Ness of Brodgar, was investigated by BBC2 documentary A History of Ancient Britain, with presenter Neil Oliver describing it as ‘the discovery of a lifetime’. So far the ...
  • The "black hole" of Britain - Top Secret milit ...
    Villagers in Hampshire, near the world-famous Watership Down hill, fear they have become the latest victims of a ‘black hole’ mystery which has hit other parts of Britain. One family, the Smiths, were baffled when their heating, shower, doorbell and even their cars’ remote door locks refused to ...
  • Generation OS13: The new culture of resistance
    Generation OS13 is an explosive insight into the attack on civil liberties occurring in western democracies and how artists, musicians, journalists and authors encourage the peoples right to resist against Banker occupation. Examining economic dictatorships, puppet regimes, tax havens, tax dodge ...
  • The Rosslyn Bones
    Is the Tale of the Murdered Apprentice More Than Just a Legend? Photographic pioneer and artist Louis Daguerre’s 1824 painting, The Interior of Rosslyn Chapel, shows two workmen crouching by the base of a pillar, with three Templar Knights nearby. One workman is staring intently at some bones th ...

Russia Today

  • Chinese New Year celebrations mark Year of Dragon
    Chinese New Year celebrations began throughout the world on Sunday. Colorful parades and spectacular fireworks will usher in the Year of Dragon, which symbolizes courage and prosperity.
  • Death toll in Nigeria terror onslaught tops 17 ...
    More deadly attacks have hit northern Nigeria two days after the country endured one of the bloodiest spates of sectarian violence in its history, claiming up to 178 lives.
  • US tag: Gingrich leaves competitors behind in ...
    Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich has won a very clear victory in the Republican primary in South Carolina, breaking a 30-year tradition. It’s the first time since 1980 that three different candidates have won the...
  • US aircraft carriers to deliver 'direct messag ...
    In an apparent show of strength, Washington is deploying a second carrier strike group in the Gulf. US officials also confirmed their commitment to maintaining a global fleet of 11 aircraft carriers despite budget...
  • Half a dollar a day: The life of a Gaza tunnel ...
    Did you know Gaza Strip has a Ministry of Tunnels? It’s an important ministry too, as tunnels are a lifeline bringing food and consumer goods to Palestinians. Without them, it’s doubtful that people here would survive...

Not My Tribe

  • What is the real Joe Paterno legacy?
    ………………………………………… Penn State’s Joe Paterno has died
  • America’s counter revolution in Libya be ...
    While the reign of Moammar Gadhafi and his family was not exactly paradise for many Libyans, the overthrow of his government ending in the US directed torture death of Gadhafi himself is not bringing anything good to Libya at all. And the Western imperialist counter revolution is now falling int ...
  • State of Colorado admits torturing prisoners
    Solitary confinement is the favorite manner that the US tortures people with and the State of Colorado has just admitted to torturing people in this manner to the federal government, yet the Obama Administration will not begin to punish the governments in Colorado that use this torture method on ...
  • Is Ron Paul really against supporting more US ...
    Many desperate citizens have this round of corporate Presidential selectioning, taken to backing Ron Paul and his Libertarian backed campaign in some hopes of finding some avenue forward to changing the sorry state of current US politics. We think that a very mistaken idea, as Ron Paul in no way ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Superbowl Snacks: Persimmon-Avocado Nachos [Re ...
    To counter our processed-food bashing and ensuing depression, we like to showcase healthy, tasty recipes here on Fooducate. With the Superbowl coming up, you may be tempted to Dorito-fy your household. STOP! We want to show you how easy and fun it is to prepare finger foods that are both tasty a ...
  • Paula Deen and the Fallacy of Moderation
    This a guest blog post by Carol Plotkin, MS, RD, CDN Moderation is a word that has been used quite often when describing healthy eating and drinking patterns. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines moderation as avoidance of extremes or tending toward average. What does this really mean w ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • The Pig in the XL PipelineInsider reveals conc ...
    For Firedoglake by Greg Palast “They threatened me. Last night I got a call and they threatened me. If I talked.” “Pig Man #2,” a pipeline industry insider, had a good reason to be afraid.  He was about to blow the whistle on a fraud, information that could blow away the XL Keystone Pipeline ...
  • 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 ...

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 or recycle water from a conden ...
    We’ve had an email from Mark: What is the best way to recycle small quantities of hot water from a condenser tumble dryer? I know i could pour it down the toilet, put it on the garden etc, but what are the economical benefits of reusing this clean water. Can it be used (when cold) [...]
  • How can I reuse, recycle or upcycle biscuit/co ...
    (I still need more inspiration for green new year’s resolutions or green goals for 2012. I think I’m probably going to end up doing 12 small things – one a month – rather than one big thing over the year — and I need ideas! But for now, back to regular scheduled &#8 ...
  • What are your green goals for 2012?
    I hope everyone has had a cracking start to 2012. I feel a bit bogged down catching up on everything leftover from 2011 but other than that, it’s been good! One of the things I’ve been struggling over all week has been my first Recycle This post of 2012. At this time of year, I [...]

Age of Autism

  • A World of Hurt
    By Cathy Jameson Thank you, Dr. James Conway for the title for this post. Conway is a pediatric disease specialist according to in this article. You’ll hear more about him toward the end of my post. I tried not to...
  • Tics and Toxins: LeRoy Officials Gave Little A ...
    By Dan Olmsted Health experts say they’ve eliminated every possible environmental and infectious cause for the “tics” afflicting 12 girls at LeRoy Junior/Senior High School in New York state. They’ve scoured the building for mold and carbon monoxide (nothing, they...
  • How to Diagnose Young Women with Inconvenient ...
    If only this weren't on the mark....
  • Register for National Vaccine Advisory Committ ...
    The Committee meets three times a year in Washington, DC. These meetings are open to the public. Time is allotted at every meeting for public response and comment. Meeting details are posted in a Federal Register notice at least 15...
  • “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...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Economists pan idea of new US gold standard
    Sydney Morning Herald – As Republican presidential hopefuls entertain calls to fix the value of the US dollar to the price of gold, a panel of leading economists has roundly panned the idea of a return to the gold standard. A poll of nearly 40 bipartisan economists showed no support for th ...
  • The Inventor Of The World Wide Web Says SOPA V ...
    Business Insider – Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has voiced his frustrations about SOPA, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Speaking at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference, Berners-Lee said, “If you’re in America then you should go and call somebody or s ...
  • Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain ...
    NY Times – The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to give other international experts time to discuss the work and determine how it can proceed without putting the world at risk of a potentially catastrophi ...
  • Thailand recognizes Palestinian state
    JPost – Thailand on Thursday joined a long list of countries that have recognized a Palestinian state along pre-1967 lines. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas subsequently thanked the east Asian country as its envoy to the United Nations officially announced the move. Read article
  • Nigeria’s Kano rocked by multiple explosions
    BBC – The Nigerian authorities have imposed a 24-hour curfew in Kano after at least seven people were killed in co-ordinated bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city. Police stations and the regional police HQ were among the targets. Gunfire was also heard in several locations. Read Article

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

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

  • Montreal: Human rights activists encouraged by ...
    The report urged the government to adopt anti-discrimination training and put more effort into hiring visible minorities. The commissions president, Gaétan Cousineau, said Tuesday that the police departments new policy is good news. Submitted by JennySick NOmsgsPLS to World  |    ...
  • Israel's High Court doesn't deserve to be defended
    The ruling of the justices in Jerusalem means breaking up thousands of Israeli families whose mother or father will be expelled. Vladimir can marry Yana, but Mohammed cannot marry Sana. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Capitalism or Cannibalism? ..
    Is there a difference? You bet your boots there is. Capitalism gives us all the equal right to reach for the stars. Make money or lose money. Our choice if we decide to take the chance. Personally I have saved every cent I could in my lifetime. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  | ...
  • Jack Abramoff As Reformer Raises Caution In Fo ...
    He was once the most reviled man in Washington, the latest embodiment of Washington corruption. Now, ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is trying to make amends by talking up reforms that seek to stanch the very venality in which he participated. VIDEO Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...
  • Citizens United Seen As Root Of Evils By Edito ...
    "Buy A Politician" seems to be the name of the game when it comes to campaign financing, passing legislation and downright shady deals between corporations and American policy makers. This will be the topic on this week's BTR, Lies My Country Told Me. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Soon, blood test may identify those likel ...
    Kiwi researchers are on the verge of developing a blood test, which would help in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. According to team leader, Professor Cliff Abrahams, treatments for the disease would perhaps be developed in the near future, but to be useful, they would need to be admi ...
  • Build strong bones
    Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body. It ensures strength and rigidity of bones. The ends of the long bones are a storehouse of calcium. This reserve can be used during pregnancy, adolescence and lactation when there is an increased need for calcium. When this reserve is not ther ...
  • Holy cow!
    Going organic? Well, the best way to do it might be to go gobar. For the last several months, an intriguing cow-centric farming project — the ‘Bharatiya Vedic Krishi Parampara' (Indian Vedic Agricultural Traditions) — has been unfolding just outside the city, in Kayerampedu ...
  • Tweaking solar cell can double its effici ...
    Washington: Doubling the amount of sunlight that a solar cell converts into electricity may be possible just by tweaking its tiny parts. The technology can boost solar cell efficiency by a maximum of 45 percent, said Vladimir Mitin, professor of electrical...
  • Britney Spears to regain control of her f ...
    London, Jan 22 (ANI): Britney Spears' father is said to be willing to hand the control of her life and finances back to his daughter, when she...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • The association between family health status a ...
    [Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated)) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.
  • Britain OKs television ads for abortion clinics
    Britain's broadcast advertising body has given the go-ahead for private abortion clinics to advertise their services on television, angering those who say that the move desensitizes the public to the practice.
  • Dot Earth Blog: Tallying Disasters and Gauging ...
    An environmental scientist explains the challenges in efforts to gauge global warming through disaster patterns.
  • Wait A Second, And What Else To Do With It
    Every few years, official clocks around the world repeat a second. It's not much, but in an age of atomic clocks it's time enough to give the matter a second thought.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science) MedWorm Message: ...
  • Autoantibodies Targeting Tissues In 32 Million ...
    In the United States, 32 million individuals have autoantibodies, the most prevalent of which are antinuclear antibodies (ANA), according to an investigation carried out by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

Common Dreams

  • Study Points Towards a Future of Toilet-to-Tap ...
    A report from the National Research Council said that advancing technologies make it possible to convert sewage wastewater to potable drinking water and that doing so could confront the growing issue of water scarcity.photo: david buedo re ...
  • GOP Still Pushing Tar Sands Pipeline
    Speaking on Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner indicated that he may again try to tie the Keystone XL pipeline project to the payroll tax cut. read more
  • Thousands Protest in Yemen Against Immunity fo ...
    Thousands of Yemenis are protesting in the capital, Sanaa, against immunity from prosecution for outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Agence France-Presse reports: Yemen’s parliament on Saturday adopted a law giving Saleh "complete" immunity from prosecution in return for step ...
  • BP Oil Disaster a Distant Memory for Oil Compa ...
    BP's Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe in 2010 appears to be a distant memory for oil companies drilling in the Gulf today. The Houston Chronicle reports: read more
  • West Africa Oil Boom Overlooks Tattered Enviro ...
    On November 3, 2011, fishermen working near the Jubilee oil field 60 km. off the coast of Ghana spotted a large oil slick floating towards land. The next day a dark, syrupy ooze arrived onshore, coating beaches of several fishing communities and waterfront hotels in Ghana’s Ahanta West Dis ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • PEV-Related Patent Issuances Set Record Levels
    The New York-based IP law firm of Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C tracks cleantech patent filings in the United States and around the world. According to Heslin Rothenberg, annual cleantech patent applications have more than doubled since 2008. In the third quarter of 2011, the numbe ...
  • $1 Billion More Pumping Into U.S. Wind
    Dire predictions abound for U.S. wind power development if a federal production tax credit dies as scheduled at the end of this year, but projects already in the works appear to retain solid investment appeal. Sempra Energy sure seems to think so.
  • 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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Criminalizing Dissent in America
    by Stephen Lendman America has a sordid repressive history. Among others, First Amendment rights are violated. It guarantees freedom of religion, expression, to petition government for redress of grievances, and right to peacefully assemble. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restrict ...
  • Planned Regime Change in Iran and Syria
    by Stephen Lendman Plans are longstanding. Timing alone isn’t known. Signs suggest 2012. If sanctions, subversion, cyberwar, and targeted assassinations fail, expect hot conflict to follow. On January 9, the Washington Post quoted an anonymous US intelligence official saying America's go ...
  • All This and Heaven Too
    By Robert Singer All This and Heaven Too (1940), directed by Anatole Litvak, staring Charles Boyer and Bette Davis, aired this month on Turner Classic Movies. The movie, and Rachel Field's novel by the same name, is based on the true story of Field's great-aunt, Henriette Deluzy Desportes, a g ...
  • Just Short of Treason in Georgia and Kansas
    By Michael Collins It's official. The crazies have arrived for the 2012 presidential race, florid in their deviant and repulsive rhetoric. Andrew B. Adler, editor of The Atlanta Jewish Times, called on Israel's President Benjamin Netanyahu to "Order a hit on a president in order to preserve I ...
  • Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use ...
    Ellen Brown An electronic database called MERS has created defects in the chain of title to over half the homes in America. Counties have been cheated out of millions of dollars in recording fees, and their title records are in hopeless disarray. Meanwhile, foreclosed and abandoned homes are bl ...

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

  • Occupy Wall Street West Ends Hibernation in Q ...
    By Kat Anderson,ogcityjournal.com – Soggy, but undaunted, Occupy activists pulled off a coordinated day of action Friday in San Francisco that highlighted banks’ role in bringing citizens of the 99 percent to their financial knees. Protesters also decried the role that the Supreme Court ca ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Fast-moving snowstorm hits Northeast (Reuters) – After an unusually mild winter across much of the United States, a fast-moving snowstorm struck the Northeast from central Pennsylvania to Connecticut on Saturday, while the Pacific Northwest struggled to recover from a rare heavy snowfall. ...
  • Occupy the Movie – Interactive Activism ...
               Please visit;  Interact With Us What is Social Film? The Inspiration Credits Contact Us We invite you to interact with the speakers themselves! OccupyMovie is a unique experience that continues beyond the film. Click any of the speakers above to learn more about each of them. You’ll r ...
  • (Being Frugal) Social Networking and Couponing ...
    By Jennifer Toth,WorldWideHippies – With a second email address and Facebook account, you can search Facebook for all favorite products. Chances are there is a Facebook page for what your looking for. When you “LIKE” the Facebook page, you will see their daily news updates, giveaways, etc. ...
  • The Loving Story: New Look at Couple Who Chall ...
    by riese,autostraddle.com - In a 1966 story for LIFE Magazine, Richard Loving told the reporter that Caroline County, Virginia, the rural Virginia area in which he and his wife Mildred grew up, “never was like a lot of other places.” He continued: “It doesn’t matter to fo ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 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

  • For a Healthy Brain, Play the Long Game
    What's the Latest Development? Psychologists are learning that the brain stays agile well into middle age, retaining the ability to learn new skill sets and take on different points of view by building new neural connections. And nothing is more important to maintaining a healthy brain tha ...
  • MIT Study Confirms: No Money, No Honey
    What's the Latest Development? American men are willing to go into debt quickly to try to secure a mate, says a new MIT study. Looking at the correlation between per-capita debt rates and the ratio of men to women across 134 cities, the study found that men are more likely to spend proflig ...
  • How Genetic Is Intelligence?
    What's the Latest Development? A pair of previously confidential data sets out of Scotland have allowed scientists to examine the role genetics play in cognitive decline as part of the aging process. The data comes from a survey taken of thousands Scottish 11-year-olds in 1932 and 1947. Af ...
  • How Diversity Sparks Creativity
    What's the Latest Development? New research shows that while we may praise diversity with our words, our actions tell another story. The larger the group of people we form a part of—a running club, a college campus, an office, etc.—the more likely we are to stick by others wh ...
  • Saying vs. Doing and Gingrich vs. Obama
    So, as I predicted, Romney is now 1-2.  And he's gone from overwhelming favorite to a probable underdog.  Mitt is collapsing across the nation.  It's easy to predict that Gingrich will now win Florida.  What happens after that nobody can predict with any degree of confid ...

Information Liberation

  • The Rise of the Praetorian Class
    Much attention has been paid to the *disappearing middle class* and the *vanishing American Dream.* While the observations are largely accurate, they are also misleading. The traditional three-tier model of the upper, middle and lower class broad...
  • Alaska Man Cited For Illegal Bartering: "I Nee ...
    If you*re planning on bartering emergency stockpiles and supplies in the event of a disaster then be sure to check applicable state and Federal laws or you may end up being the subject of a sting operation, as was the case with Chad Gerondale of Alas...
  • Could the Government Outlaw Lying?
    Could the government outlaw lying? Not just lying that causes injury * lying that defames, for example, or defrauds * but could the government outlaw lying more generally? The Justice Department appears to think so. In a case called United Stat...
  • Former Secret Service Agent Claims Police Brut ...
    SILVER SPRING, MD (WUSA) --- A retired US Secret Service agent says his 17-year-old son was in handcuffs with his feet bound when he was attacked by a Montgomery County police officer who grabbed him by the throat and slammed his head into a patrol c...
  • Bill Maher Says He Supports SOPA
    Bill Maher loves democracy, unless of course the people are actually being represented over his personal business interests, then strong-arm thuggery is the highest virtue and the people are a mob who want free handouts....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Viscous fluid on a moving belt
    A stream of very viscous syrup falling from a nozzle on to a moving belt. At first, the speed of the belt is enough that the thread of syrup is just pulled out straight. However, as the belt is slowed down, the thread at first bifurcates to a meandering state, producing a sine wave and [...]Visc ...
  • Bird flu research halted
    The UK’s Guardian newspaper is reporting that researchers working to prevent the spread of bird flu and the possible millions of deaths it could cause should a pandemic occur, have suspended their research for 60 days amid fears that they might accidentally trigger the very  epidemic they ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • The Police Killing of Farshad Mohammadi: Expos ...
    This piece is an expanded version of a text initially drafted for publication in two Montreal dailies. The Gazette published a heavily-edited version of the op-ed that was submitted to them. The op-ed published in the Saturday, January 21, 2012 print edition of The Gazette (in english) can be re ...
  • Shit Students CAN'T Say on Campus (About Israel)
    After "Shit Homophobes Say", the REAL crazy sh*t you CAN'T say on campus about Israel because of intimidation, censorship and legal threats. More info: http: ...
  • Occupying the Budget
  • 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 ...
  • Commons Conference 2012 - Claudia Medina on 'P ...
    Claudia Medina speaks on the Plunder of the Planet: the Ecological Crisis panel at the Tragedy of the Market: from Crisis to Commons conference on January 8, 2012 in Burna ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Goodbye to Etta James
    Too many leaving too fast! DS
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Americans Don't Like Their Presidential Candid ...
    Ross Douthat makes a good point today about the endlessly repeated observation that Republican voters don't seem very thrilled by any of the presidential candidates on offer: What’s remarkable is how often this seems to happen. As weak as this year’s Republican field has proved, ...
  • Quote of the Day: President Obama is Pathetic
    From John Boehner, asked about President Obama's upcoming State of the Union address: I’ve read a lot about what the president will talk about Tuesday night. It sounds to me like the same old proposals we’ve seen — more spending, higher taxes, more regulation — the s ...
  • Newt Gingrich's Secret Ally: Time
    What's the big difference between the Republican primaries this year and the primaries in 2008? I think one of the key changes is how sparse the early schedule is. This year we had Iowa, then a week until New Hampshire, then eleven days until South Carolina, and now another ten days until Flor ...
  • Congressional Eyeballs are Worth More Than Yours
    This isn't going to come as a surprise to anyone, but the chart below is instructive nonetheless. It comes from Matt Glassman, a fellow skat fan, and it shows the cost per rider to buy up all the ad space in a DC Metro station (i.e., "station domination"). For the most part the cost runs aroun ...
  • Mitt Romney: Not as Unlikeable as the Media Wa ...
    Steve Benen sends me to Benjy Sarlin and Kyle Leighton, who write: What If Voters Just Don’t Like Mitt Romney? Mitt Romney may be on the verge of securing the nomination, but his campaign is still struggling with a pretty basic problem as it looks towards the general election: people ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 299: Racial Free Agent
    Topics: Red Tails is not a good movie Black people’s fear of not supporting Kriss wants to be traded in the racial draft Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe Jay-Z inspires black fathers? Feminista Jones on Open Marriages and relationship advice MLK on a strip club flyer Great moments in White P ...
  • 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:

Simple Climate

  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.
  • 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?

e!Science News

  • MIT researchers find critical speed above whic ...
    The northern goshawk is one of nature's diehard thrill-seekers. The formidable raptor preys on birds and small mammals, speeding through tree canopies and underbrush to catch its quarry. With reflexes that rival a fighter pilot's, the goshawk zips through a forest at high speeds, constantly adju ...
  • Lawson researchers engineer a switch to tame a ...
    When cancers become aggressive and spread they are the most deadly. Unfortunately, little is known about how to stop this development. A new imaging platform developed by Lawson Health Research Institute's Drs. Ann Chambers and John Lewis is providing insight into just that -- the exact moment w ...
  • Catching a comet death on camera
    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 to watch it first-hand amazed even the most seasoned comet watchers. read more
  • Many strategies to increase physical activity ...
    A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documents a need for increased injury prevention efforts in many of the most popular activities for kids (walking, bicycling, swimming, sports and playgr ...
  • Autism redefined: Yale researchers study impac ...
    Getting an autism diagnosis could be more difficult in 2013 when a revised diagnostic definition goes into effect. The proposed changes may affect the proportion of individuals who qualify for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, according to preliminary data presented by Yale School of Medi ...

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 ...

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  • Obama’s campaign video is ‘Israel ...
    As part of its bid to counter Republican attacks on its “pro-Israel” record, the Obama Administration has publicized its first campaign video directly addressing its treatment of Israel entitled: “America and Israel: An Unbreakable Bond.” The fact that the Obama Administr ...
  • Newt Gingrich: The most dangerous man in DC
    There won’t be a real difference between another Obama term and a possible Romney presidency. But Gingrich – with his ties to the Israeli right, destructive track record from the 1990s and very personal connection to Netanyahu – could turn out to be a real nightmare Watching th ...
  • Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey won&#82 ...
    Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been on a visit to Israel in the last few days, apparently trying to make sure the government doesn’t make any hasty moves against Iran – without U.S. approval. The Americans have every right to be a bit jumpy and ner ...
  • Egypt’s election results are none of Isr ...
    Outsiders who wish for a return of the dictators are pushing against the inevitable tide of history. And Israelis who express a preference for Mubarak only contribute to the perception, widely held in Egypt, that the dictator was able to survive because he was supported by ‘the Zionists.’ The Eg ...
  • Unsubstantiated ‘false flag’ story ...
    Mark Perry’s report on a false flag operation is not only unverifiable, it displays naivety about American foreign policy and bolsters the ludicrous thesis that Israel is the mastermind behind American Middle East belligerence. By Rafael D. Frankel The “false flag” operation conducted by t ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • WHAT IF? AMERICANS FINALLY WAKE UP…..
    IT’S JUST CRAZY Scridb filter
  • ELECTION FRAUD 2012! HEY, THIS IS FUN!
    Just google, “iowa election fraud”….what a HOOT! What a great place to be….after all these years of doing this election thing, I mean really…we still can’t get elections right? BREAKING NEWS: now that South Carolina’s Attorney General has admitted voter ...
  • Forgive Them, They Know Not What They Are Doin ...
    Last week I made a pilgrimage of sorts. I traveled to Florida’s Capitol City, Tallahassee. The trip was long, inconvenient and expensive and quite frankly I did not exactly go willingly.  I had been summoned to the Capitol as part of my punishment for speaking out, but I do not want to dwe ...
  • RED ALERT- THE BANKSTER/GOVERNMENT DEAL WITH T ...
    WAKE UP PEOPLE, the devil is seriously at the door….it you look through the peep hole, you can see his horns.  In yet more proof that the banksters own both the ReThUGlicans and Democrats it is rumored that in 48 hours, the deal with the devil will be inked in blood…. DEAL WITH THE D ...
  • HUGE! Foreclosure Mediation Returns to Pinella ...
    I am going to write a whole lot more about this later, but it is a HUGE statement that mediation is back up and running in Pinellas County. I am convinced that his program CAN produce very, very high success rates…..if both sides start coming to the table and working the program. Notice I ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The City We Dream Of
    The following is my column for the London Free Press on the day of the massive Electro Motive rally in …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Swedish Social Democrats implode as Juholt resigns
    I have long felt that Håkan Juholt was inappropriate as the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats. But what was most disturbing - in this time of transparency - was the opaque manner of his being "appointed and anointed" as leader of the party.
  • 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.

Left Foot Forward

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

  • A Far Cry From ‘CSI’
    by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica This story was co-published with the Los Angeles Times. California Gov. Jerry Brown is considering granting clemency to Shirley Ree Smith, a grandmother convicted in 1997 of shaking to death her 7-week-old grandson, Etzel Glass. Sentenced to 15 years to life in priso ...
  • Barbour Says Pardoned Murderers Deserved ‘a Se ...
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica In an interview and opinion piece in the Washington Post, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said this week he was confident that a group of convicted killers, rapists and other criminals had been successfully rehabilitated in state prison and did not pose a risk t ...
  • Years After Evidence of Fracking Contamination ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica First, the earth around the rural town of Dimock, Pa., was cracked open as gas drillersused fracking to tap the vast energy supplies of the Marcellus Shale. Then, in April 2009, residents there lost their access to fresh drinking water. Wells turned fetid. Some b ...
  • Deutsche Analyst Sounded Alarm When Asked to A ...
    by Carrick Mollenkamp, Special to ProPublica At a time when mortgage-backed securities were imploding and customers were fleeing the market, a junior analyst at Deutsche Bank AG protested when he was asked to alter the numbers in a spreadsheet to make a Deutsche security look less risky to ratin ...
  • 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 [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Carbon Ship Sinking: Barclays Bank closes it&# ...
    Gillard once lauded the genius of the carbon market. That part of the “free” market which is free to move, is moving — and right out. The smart money is saying that carbon trading is a dead dog. It’s a has-been-tulip, a sick puppy, a sinking ship. The future of global car ...
  • 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)

ReNew America

  • Newt defeats Romney in SC rout
    (NewsMax) - Newt Gingrich scored a sweeping victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday, riding two strong debate performances to upset former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Just a week ago, Romney led polls by double digits, but found his lead collapse under questions about his tax returns...
  • Santorum: South Carolina is not end of line
    (Washington Times) - Rick Santorum said Friday he will continue his campaign on into Florida regardless of how he does this weekend in South Carolina's primary, saying the last 24 hours have been so dramatic they could alter the race in fundamental way...
  • Romney may skip Florida debate as lead fades
    (NewsMax) - Mitt Romney's campaign won't firmly commit to Monday night's GOP debate in Tampa, Fla., leaving some to suspect the former Massachusetts governor will not be participating, according to a report by The Hill. With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hour ...
  • Religious liberty: the latest target of Obamacare
    (Grace-Marie Turner) - The Obama administration announced today it will wait for a year (coincidentally until after the elections) before requiring religious organizations to comply with an Obamacare mandate that they provide coverage for contraception -- including controversial drugs that can a ...
  • Those promoting ignorance are desperate
    (Star Parker) - The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas gave good reason for celebration for the hundreds of thousands who will arrive in Washington Monday for the 39th annual March for Life...

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

One News Page

  • UPDATE: Southwest Airlines Reports 16% Rise In ...
    Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) reported a 16% rise in its fourth-quarter net income. Southwest Airlines' quarterly earnings rose to $152 million, or $0.20 per share, from $131 million, or $0.18 per share, in the year-ago quarter. Its shares outstanding surged 4.4% to 783 million. ...
  • Steven Tyler's National Anthem -- Did It Suck?
    'American Idol' judge Steven Tyler is finding himself on the other end of the criticism this afternoon ... he's being mercilessly attached for his rendition of the National Anthem today. Tyler, in a glittery New England Patriots scarf, sung… TMZ Steven Tyler's National Anthem -- Did It Suck?
  • Oprah Winfrey -- Sari 'Bout It
    While on a trip to Mumbai on Monday, Oprah Winfrey got all decked out in a chic sari, the silk garment popular with women in India.In related news, worldwide sales of saris are now expected to go through the roof. TMZ Oprah Winfrey -- Sari 'Bout It
  • Stephen Colbert 'campaigns' in South Carolina
    CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Television comedian Stephen Colbert took his political shtick down south on Friday, staging a mock campaign rally in South Carolina, the site of the next Republican presidential primary.
  • Year of the Dragon may burn Putin, light up fo ...
    TAIPEI (Reuters) - The coming Year of the Dragon will bring actor Al Pacino good fortune, but Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin needs to watch out -- he may lose vast sums of money.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Fake Crystall: Reflections on US Human Rights ...
    Thousands of years old cultural taboos are reasonable and logical unlike US State Department statements. All deviations from family traditions impede the full performance of the most important natural function: to give birth and raise descendants, to transmit one’s genetic, intellectual and mora ...
  • 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 [...]

BlogHer

  • (VIDEO) Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Steps Down fro ...
    Today, just over one year after Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az.) and others were shot at a political event at a Tucson grocery store, she announced in a video posted to her Facebook page that she is stepping down from Congress to focus on recovery. According to a press release on her of ...
  • Former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno: 1926-2012
    The news about Joe Paterno’s rapidly declining health was a big story all weekend. Saturday night, it was reported that Paterno died but his sons, Scott and Jay, both took to Twitter to refute the reports. Sunday morning comes word that the iconic coach is dead at 85.A family spokesperson confir ...
  • GOP Primary after South Carolina: Three Races, ...
    What a difference a day -- or 48 hours in this case -- makes. Newt Gingrich has gone supernova since his Thursday night debate performance in South Carolina, where he lambasted the media for making him address a media-revealed narrative about allegations levied by his second wife, Marianne Gingr ...
  • Bak Kwa: A Chinese Lunar New Year Treat
    [Editor's Note: Chinese Lunar New Year begins tomorrow, ushering in the Year of the Dragon. There are many festive foods that are traditional to eat during the Lunar New Year festival, but Bak Kwa, a pork jerky, is not one that I've ever tried. Learn more about this fascinating treat from Biren ...
  • Newt Gingrich Wins: The S.C. GOP Primary in So ...
    Newt Gingrich won the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina today, with Mitt Romney coming in second and Rick Santorum third. In his victory speech, Gingrich said that if he won the GOP candidacy, he'd challenge President Obama to seven three-hour debates. BlogHer Politics Contributi ...

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

  • Worldwide Hippies Book Nook
    WWH – Book Nook will appear every Sunday here at WorldWide Hippies. We want to bring you some of the best writers and poets–whether they are new writers, weary older writers, experimental, funny, romantic, and innovative and energetic writers. You’ll find them here, each and every Sunday. “A boo ...
  • Occupy Wall Street West Ends Hibernation in Q ...
    By Kat Anderson,ogcityjournal.com – Soggy, but undaunted, Occupy activists pulled off a coordinated day of action Friday in San Francisco that highlighted banks’ role in bringing citizens of the 99 percent to their financial knees. Protesters also decried the role that the Supreme Court ca ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
    Fast-moving snowstorm hits Northeast (Reuters) – After an unusually mild winter across much of the United States, a fast-moving snowstorm struck the Northeast from central Pennsylvania to Connecticut on Saturday, while the Pacific Northwest struggled to recover from a rare heavy snowfall. ...
  • Occupy the Movie – Interactive Activism ...
               Please visit;  Interact With Us What is Social Film? The Inspiration Credits Contact Us We invite you to interact with the speakers themselves! OccupyMovie is a unique experience that continues beyond the film. Click any of the speakers above to learn more about each of them. You’ll r ...
  • (Being Frugal) Social Networking and Couponing ...
    By Jennifer Toth,WorldWideHippies – With a second email address and Facebook account, you can search Facebook for all favorite products. Chances are there is a Facebook page for what your looking for. When you “LIKE” the Facebook page, you will see their daily news updates, giveaways, etc. ...

reference frame

  • Miller’s grizzled langur goes unextinct
    The disappearance of species and biodiversity fears belong among the classic themes of the environmentalist movement – it has been talked about since the beginning and every new mutation of the environmentalist movement has recycled the concept in a new way. Global warming alarmism is no exce ...
  • Quantum field theory variants
    Jimi asked: I am a math guy, so sorry for the naivety. When I peruse the wikipedia I see many "variants" of quantum field theory... conformal quantum field theory, topological quantum field theory, axiomatic/constructive quantum field theory, algebraic quantum field theory, etc. Whether or no ...
  • GISS: how to defend a 2.3 °C climate sensitivity
    NASA's GISS has completed their 2011 global temperature dataset. According to GISS, 2011 was the 9th warmest year. The average warming trend in 1880-2011 was 0.60 °C per century; in the satellite era 1979-2011, it was 1.58 °C per century, not too much greater than those 0.14 °C per century ac ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • My site appears to be caught up in the crossfi ...
    I apologize for the lag in the site tonight. It looks like there may be a DDOS attack underway on many sites across the Web. Since my site is hosted on GoDaddy.com it has been caught in the crossfire. Hopefully this will be rectified quickly. I have sent a support ticket to GoDaddy. Hopefully th ...
  • 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 ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Labour soars in latest poll
    Another public opinion poll has shown Norway's Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) jumping way beyond its biggest rival at present, the Conservative Party (Høyre), and dwarfing all the other small parties that now seem to be simply hanging on to win representation in Parliament. Labour's gain is ...
  • Farmers’ lobby loses members
    One of Norway's most traditionally powerful lobbying organizations, the farmers' group Norges Bondelag, has reported a decline in membership for the first time in several years. That hasn't hindered record turnout at an international exposition in Germany, however. Bondelaget, best known for ...
  • Oslo attracts more ‘coffee tourists’
    Norway's capital has established itself as a magnet for coffee lovers, with aficionados and baristas arriving from around the world to study various brewing techniques. Now the country's coffee expertise is turning into an export product. Norwegians' traditional passion for drinking coffee has ...
  • Little political support for forced municipal ...
    In the midst of all the publicity around the recent annual conference of employers' organization NHO, the powerful business lobbying group's main message almost got lost and then got politically squashed: Neither the government nor many opposition parties in Parliament support NHO's call to forc ...
  • Terror trauma six months later
    The flowers in front of the Norwegian Parliament are long gone, as they are from other impromptu memorials around the county, but Sunday marked a half-year since Norway was attacked by a home-grown right-wing terrorist. Mourning for his victims continues and survivors are calling for more help i ...

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 ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpOi5fkHub0 The Audio Spotlight, a device that uses ultrasound to project audible sound with pinpoint accuracy, can also be used by Organized Stalkers as a psychological weapon against Targeted Individuals. Microwaves penetrate through walls, brick, etc. ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: The Jews' number ...
    ICLEI’s Murder Meters and Spy Grid Turning Mr Roger Neighborhood into Electronic Internment Camps January 21, 2012 by ppjg Mark Anthony in his famous monologue in Julius Caesar: “Why, friends, you go to do you know not what. “Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course th ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    This is where "magic" comes from... the Chaldean Magi... that helped create the "oral law" otherwise known as the Jewish Talmud.Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:46 am
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    http://www.safehaven.com/article/24076/ ... capitalism I am prepared to defend Capitalism until my dying days. I expect this endeavor to be no less of a challenge than it's been the past 12 years trying to explain the great dangers associated with a runaway Credit Bubble. Over the long-term, f ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: The Jews' number ...
    2012 Called Make or Break Year for Smart Grid Vladimir Lenin, who needs no introduction, famously or perhaps notoriously said that communism equaled Soviet power plus the complete electrification of Russia. A Russian joke had it, QED, that Soviet power equaled communism minus electrification. B ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Keystone Pipeline Decision Aimed at President ...
    Top aides to President Obama say that his desire to satisfy two key political constituencies — environmental advocates and affluent Democratic donors — played a major role in his decision to reject an application to build a pipeline to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. The president’s p ...
  • As Roads Spread in Rainforests, The Environmen ...
    From Brazil to Borneo, new roads are being built into tropical forests at a dizzying pace, putting previously intact wilderness at risk. If we hope to preserve rainforests, a leading researcher says, new strategies must be adopted to limit the number of roads and reduce their impacts. BY WILL ...
  • Warming Temperatures Help Trumpeter Swans Thri ...
    The trumpeter swan, nearly hunted to extinction across much of North America during the 19th century, has experienced a strong resurgence with the help of a warming climate, U.S. researchers say. The large bird, Wikimedia Commons A trumpeter swan which depends on long summers for breeding ...
  • Natural Gas Boom to Slow Growth of U.S. Renewa ...
    The sheer abundance of recently discovered natural gas resources in the U.S. could drive down gas and electricity prices in the next few decades, yield an overall increase in energy use, and stunt the nation’s still-emerging renewable energy sector, a new report says. Using economic modeling, re ...
  • U.S. Bans Import of Exotic Snakes That Are Inv ...
    U.S. officials have announced a national ban on the import of four large exotic snake species, including the Burmese python, which wildlife officials say are devouring endangered species across the Florida Wikimedia Commons A Burmese python Everglades. Five years after Florida officials ca ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Paterno experiencing health complications
    Former Penn State college football coach Joe Paterno is in serious condition after experiencing health complications from lung cancer. "Over the last few days Joe Paterno has experienced further health complications," family spokesman Dan McGinn said in a brief statement Saturday to The Associ ...
  • ASIMO chief arrested on DUI charge in Tochigi
    The lead engineer for Honda Motor Co.'s ASIMO robot has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Tochigi Prefecture, police said Sunday. Masato Hirose, 55, executive chief engineer at Honda R&D Co., the automaker's research arm, was arrested Saturday night after failing ...
  • Shaping a human rights panel
    The Justice Ministry in mid-December made public an outline of a bill to set up a human rights protection committee. In 2002, the Liberal Democratic Party government submitted an earlier version to the Diet, but it was eventually quashed mainly because it contained a clause to control mass media ...
  • All parties should debate tax hike
    Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Azuma Koshiishi on Thursday requested that opposition parties take part in consultations with the DPJ over a planned increase of the consumption tax and reform of the social welfare system. But the opposition parties have declined. Given the impact o ...
  • Foreign minister to handle parental abductions
    Responsibility for collecting data on parental abductions to Japan and settling cross-border child custody disputes resulting from failed international marriages will rest with the foreign minister, new guidelines said Sunday. The guidelines, drafted by the Foreign Ministry ahead of Tokyo's si ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Wall Strikes Out on Fiscal Federalism
    Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall recently issued a statement exhorting his fellow Premiers to blaze largely unspecified new trails on healthcare, Employment Insurance and Equalization. Unfortunately, he misses the ball on all three issues. Greg Fingas and Verda Petry have already refuted Wall’s call for ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.
  • 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.

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

  • Chinese Dam Project in Cambodia Raises Environ ...
    “But after the Chinese company Sinohydro, one of the world’s largest construction companies, started work on the 193-megawatt Kamchay Dam in 2007, access to the countryside surrounding this tranquil town has been restricted. Mrs. Thavry’s husband, Kim Sopha, 39, like hundreds of others in ...
  • EPA Delivers Water to Dimock Residents
    “It comes after the EPA reviewed numerous water test samples and found contaminates it says are consistent with drilling for natural gas. “We have a team of toxicologist at EPA that have reviewed and found some things at these particular four homes where we are delivering water today ...
  • Garbage Plant Polluting Drinking Water Source
    “TRIVANDRUM – The wastes from Kerala’s capital city of Trivandrum dumped at the garbage treatment plant at Vilappilsala village have been polluting Karamana River, a major source of drinking water for the people in the city. This was revealed by the Advocates Commission appointed by ...
  • Why Alabama Will Keep Fighting
    “Communities in Alabama and Georgia that share the Chattahoochee and Coosa river basins have come to depend on a certain level of flows in dry times and wet times. When we are experiencing plentiful rainfall, those communities know how much river flow they can expect to receive, just as th ...
  • 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 ...

D. Kucinich

  • Dennis Kucinich, Russell Simmons Combine Force ...
    Two years ago today, the Supreme Court, in a ruling known as Citizens United, opened the floodgate of unlimited, shadowy corporate spending in public elections. Today, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Russell Simmons, creator of Def Jam Records and the Phat Farm fashion empire, have teamed up in ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • MONTINI IS RIGHT ON …
      MONTINI IS RIGHT ON …   … Should you even wonder how they are able to play this game … read … Dumbing Us Down  by John Taylor Gatto … puts quite a different spin on how civics is taught and who benefits …   Filed under: Blogroll
  • … Doubtful anyone educated in America in ...
      … Doubtful anyone educated in America in the last 20 years is even remotely aware of what FULLY INFORMED JURY is …? … That is precisely what corporate will never permit … full disclosure … not a snowballs change in hell …   Cop Block & Fully In ...
  • … While to us it may appear the FED is i ...
    … While to us it may appear the FED is incompetent but might it be the world economy is unfolding and progressing precisely as they anticipate …??   Illustrated: The Incompetence of the Fed At a time when many in the alternative media were shouting out loud about an impending fi ...
  • … Maybe in New York in Arizona we are ab ...
      … Maybe in New York in Arizona we are about to allow guns on campus … Wild West Lives …   New gun scanner that scans you as you walk down street 01-17-2012  •  CBS NYC The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detec ...
  • … How did we allow it to come to this &# ...
    … How did we allow it to come to this … Who benefits from this form of repression …?   Another one in the net   Thou shalt not watch whales eating   Jan 14th 2012 | LOS ANGELES | from the print edition ·      &#16 ...

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

  • 3 Takeaways from the South Carolina Primary
    In the wake of Newt Gingrich's commanding win over Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul, Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics lays out Three Takeaways: According to the exit polls, Romney lost among every major category of voter. The demographic groups he managed to win incl ...
  • ABC, Others Project Gingrich Win in SC as Poll ...
    ABC calls the South Carolina primary for Gingrich over Romney. The network doesn't say who filled out the other slots. 8.22: OK, the projections are currently Gingrich (41 percent), Romney (28 percent), Santorum (17 percent), and Paul (13 percent).
  • Nick Gillespie Talks Ron Paul & S.C. with ...
      I was on Fox Business' Freedom Watch on January 17, talking about Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), today's South Carolina GOP primary, and what comes next for Dr. No (who will surely not win today) and the other Republican candidates. The short version? The fight for the soul of ...
  • S.C. Early Signals: Gingrich in First (or Seco ...
    Palmetto state voters are giving Newt Gingrich a new lease on life, according to this exit-poll tease that I would view with a grain of salt.  That same poll is showing a Ron Paul surge to second place. Gallup, on the other hand, has Mitt Romney at 31 percent, Gingrich at 23 p ...
  • Ron Paul on the Crest of South Carolina
    The world seems to agree Newt Gingrich is poised to take that momentum of coming in fourth in Iowa and New Hampshire to the toppermost of the poppermost in South Carolina (his 10-point polling gain the past week in that state a mystery too hideous for me to want to contemplate), even ...

Mercury Rising

  • The way we do business: genocidal African lead ...
    Bryan Bender, Boston Globe: When Charles G. Taylor tied bed sheets together to escape from a second-floor window at the Plymouth House of Correction on Sept. 15, 1985, he was more than a fugitive trying to avoid extradition. He was a sought-after source for American intelligence. After a quarter ...
  • China Property Bubble Pops, Dooming Keystone X ...
    Lost in all the hubbub over whether Obama is siding with the oil barons or the environmentalists on the plan to pipe Athabascan tar sands muck down to Houston is the economic fact that the window of profitability for the stuff is rapidly shrinking. As most informed persons know, the muck’s ...
  • South Carolina GOP Primary Turnouts, 2008 and 2012
    While the 2012 Republican caucus and primary turnouts in Iowa and New Hampshire (121,503 and 248,485, respectively) weren’t substantially different from 2008 (119,188 and 234,851 respectively), particularly considering the population growth in both states over the past four years, South Ca ...
  • Meet the homeless
    The Guardian has a truly remarkable set of photos of homeless people by Lee Jeffries.
  • A long train of abuses
    I really, really hope that Ernest Canning is wrong: …on Tuesday, opponents of Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker (R) delivered a Recall petition to the state’s Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.) containing more than one million signatures… Those one million signatures ar ...

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 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

  • Yemenis protest Saleh immunity law
    Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Yemen to reiterate their calls for the trial of outgoing dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides, Press TV reports.
  • Anti-Falklands protesters burn UK flag
    Argentinean protesters, opposing Britain's colonial policy in the occupied Falkland islands, have burnt the flag of the United Kingdom while demonstrating outside UK embassy in Buenos Aires.
  • Militants blow up school in NW Pakistan
    In a fresh wave of violence in Pakistan, unknown militants have launched a bomb attack on a state-run school in Khyber Agency northwest of the country, Press TV reports.
  • China stresses diplomacy on Iran
    China has once again expressed its opposition to the US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, reiterating that dialogue is the sole way to resolve the country's nuclear issue.
  • Iran envoy warns West about info war
    The Iranian ambassador to Russia has warned Western countries against threatening Iran with military action or increasing pressure on the country, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Statins in the water?
    Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are safe and a very effective way to reduce the risk of heart attacks, new research has confirmed. The latest study, which is published in the Lancet me...
  • Nerve transplants wire themselves into host brains
    Embryonic nerve cells transplanted into a recipient brain survive, wire themselves up and can even correct a metabolic disorder in vulnerable individuals, scientists have discovered. Successful brai...

Nick Turse

  • Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indi ...
    Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indian Workers Group, raise slogans at a protest rally in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. The supporters demanded that the government protect workers rights in the ongoing economic reform process as well as the financial ...
  • Worker Pat Revell pickets outside Unilever’s P ...
    Worker Pat Revell pickets outside Unilever’s Port Sunlight factory on the Wirral, Merseyside on December 9, 2011 in Port Sunlight, England. The workers are on strike in protest against the company’s plan to axe their final salary pension scheme. The strike is the first in t ...
  • Police officers in riot gear (L) keep an eye o ...
    Police officers in riot gear (L) keep an eye on Occupy LA protestors as the deadline for eviction approaches in Los Angeles on November 27, 2011. Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters in Los Angeles were bracing for eviction from a park near city hall, with some packing up to avoid confro ...
  • An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/ ...
    An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co, shows female recruits how to disarm an armed attacker during a training session for China’s first female bodyguards in Beijing, January 13, 2012. REUTERS/David Gray
  • Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indi ...
    Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indian Workers Group, raise slogans at a protest rally in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. The supporters demanded that the government protect workers rights in the ongoing economic reform process as well as the financial ...
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