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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

24 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Criminology of the Current Crisis
    If you go back to the savings and loan debacle, we got more than a 1,000 felony convictions of the elite. These are not, you know, tellers or something. We today have zero convictions, zero indictments, zero arrests of any of the elite, non-prime lenders that, through their fraud, drove this cri ...
  • Gould: Insidious attacks on NZ press freedom
    Many will recall the extraordinary episode of the Prime Minister’s conversation over a cup of tea with John Banks during the election campaign. The Prime Minister was clearly very keen that the contents of that conversation should not be made public. When it became clear that a record of that ...
  • The rise of the overclass
    We’ve all heard of the 'underclass’: now its mirror image – a super-rich elite that is equally cut off from the rest of us – is defining the political debate.
  • Why I'm Suing Barack Obama
    Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in ...
  • Megaupload: the real meaning
    The Feds’ takedown of Megaupload shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that SOPA, PIPA or any similar legislation is wholly unnecessary. ... that might be why SOPA’s chief sponsor – who said he’d still push SOPA even after Wednesday’s web blackout – backed down right right after megaupload was ta ...

Independent - London

  • Stanford's defence: only 'bogus' fraud charges ...
    Allen Stanford's dream of turning Twenty20 cricket into a multibillion dollar industry was just one of a string of Caribbean business ventures that would have reaped huge profits for his investors – if only the US government hadn't moved in with bogus fraud charges against him.Related StoriesEx- ...
  • Saudi woman who defied driving ban involved in ...
    A Saudi woman who defied a ban on female drivers in the country has been severely injured and her passenger killed in a car crash.Related StoriesScores killed in car bomb blasts in BaghdadSyria to continue crackdown14 killed in car bomb blasts in BaghdadGulf countries pull support for Arab Leagu ...
  • Obama's formula for fairness: 'No bailouts, no ...
    President Barack Obama served notice last night that he plans to seek re-election by drawing a bright line between his commitment to create an America that will give everyone a "fair shot" and the Republican alternative where, he said, "a shrinking number of people do really well".Related Stori ...
  • Zulu king alleged to have made anti-gay slurs
    South Africa's government human rights agency is investigating whether the Zulu king made comments that could increase anti-homosexual sentiment in a country where gays face discrimination despite liberal laws being in place to protect them.Related StoriesEgyptian parliament opens after historic ...
  • Husband not ready to run as Giffords steps down
    The husband of Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who is standing down while she recovers after being shot in the head, has confirmed he will not run for his wife's seat this year.Related StoriesHockey star skates clear of White House 'over rights'American woman who returned Russian b ...

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Coronal Mass Ejection's ground current surge
    As expected, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 24th at approximately 1500 UT (10 am EST). Geomagnetic storms are likely in the hours ahead. If it's dark where you live, go outside and look for auroras. In Lofoton, Norway, the CME's arrival produced a surge in ground currents outside the ...
  • The Disease Machine: Why Drug Makers Keep You Sick
    Why are ineffective and dangerous drugs peddled by supposed 'public health' organizations in place of well-established natural solutions with virtually zero side effects? The truth of the matter is that drug makers simply would not profit if the world were to awaken to the plethora of free healt ...
  • US: Court to Vermont: "Drop Dead"
    A federal judge has told the people of Vermont that a solemn contract between them and the reactor owner Entergy need not be honored. The fight will almost certainly now go to the US Supreme Court. At stake is not only the future of atomic power, but the legitimacy of all deals signed between c ...
  • Space station sees southern lights
    We've been talking a lot about the northern lights lately, but here's a must-see view of the southern lights, as captured by the crew of the International Space Station on Jan. 3. The time-lapse video begins over the Indian Ocean, with the camera looking eastward toward southern Australia. The ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: War On the Obese aka Blaming the V ...
    The topic of obesity is popular in mainstream media. We are constantly warned of the dangers of being overweight, and while many groups have been targeted for 'health advice' in the past, it seems those labeled as obese bear the brunt. While having more weight than one is physically comfortable ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • A bit rich, dontcha think?
    Steph Harper. "To be sure, our government has no grand scheme to repeal or to unilaterally rewrite the Indian Act," Harper said in his opening speech. "After 136 years, that tree has deep roots. Blowing up the stump would just leave a big hole." This, from a man who seems quite comfortable with ...
  • Follow the money . . .
    WHILE WE WAIT FOR STEVIE and the chiefs to get really going, check out WIRED's accounting of who spends how much to advertise on Google. According to John C. Abell's article, "Who Buys All Those Google Ads? An Infographic Breakdown",  Google cleared $37.9 billion in 2011 revenue, which eq ...
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    Revolting.
  • Dear Keith Baldry and associates ...
    We don't believe you anymore. All of you need an assignment where the food ain't so good, the alcohol can kill you and the perks mean you don't get eaten alive by bedbugs. You guys are far too comfortable being thrown a comforter by the slimy creatures that inhabit the halls of power. You pe ...
  • Language . . .
    PARAPROSDOKIAN SENTENCES: A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect. If you are ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News, Daily Caller Embrace Dubious Asserti ...
    Fox News and The Daily Caller have promoted the idea that unemployment rates are dropping in Alabama because of the state's new immigration law. In fact, the state's governor -- who supports the law -- and economists say there's no definitive evidence about the law's effects on unemployment.AL ...
  • Fox Gives Right-To-Work Laws A Helping Hand
    Fox News displayed a graphic suggesting that unemployment was 0.8 percentage points lower in right-to-work states than the national average. This statistic is misleading, and a fairer comparison shows that Fox overstated the difference by a factor of four.Fox Says Average Unemployment Is 0.8 Pe ...
  • Fox Gets The Message: Calls Obama "The Food St ...
    After Newt Gingrich defended his oft-repeated claim that President Obama is "the best food stamp president in American history," Fox News took up the theme and amplified it. But as numerous experts have pointed out, increased enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is due ma ...
  • Right-Wing Media Freak Out Over Obama Speaking ...
    The right-wing media have used President Obama's speech at Walt Disney World as an opportunity to attack him, despite the fact that previous presidents, including Ronald Reagan, have given speeches at Disney parks while in office.Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of "Ruin[ing] Families' Vacations" ...
  • The Right-Wing Media's Flawed Keystone XL Reje ...
    Right-wing media figures are slamming President Obama for the State Department's decision to reject plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline until a full assessment can be made, claiming that he is "killing jobs." But the administration had long warned that it would be unable to complete the leg ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The writing has always been on the wall
    The human body is an amazing creation. It's not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar signaling system exists in political bodies. Those tasked with reading the signals--be they individuals, p ...
  • Social Conservatism May Be Wrong, But It's Not ...
    Two days ago Dissent magazine ran my warning that we critics of the racism in Republican presidential campaigns should beware of compounding that scourge by reinforcing Republicans' social-conservative claim on "whiteness." But that's precisely what's reinforced in a January 15 New York Times, e ...
  • Perry's Greatest Hits! Gone but not Forgotten
  • The Past and Future of the Internet
    in response to the Atrios post here I'm a big admirer of Atrios (Duncan) and hope he doesn't think I'm being picky. But he doesn't have it quite right as to the past; yes as to the future. As to the history, the way it was was this way: The entrenched interests were not interested enough o ...
  • Protesting SOPA
    As the internet's avatar Google uses its huge billboard -- the search screen -- to protest the proposed legislation aimed at enhancing intellectual property rights (or censoring the Net, depending on your point of view), some say this is the first time Netizens have used their prowess to lobby. ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • RR Commission instituting “real” penalties for ...
    Chronic violators of Texas Railroad Commission safety rules may be looking at steeper fines if they don’t clean up their acts. In response to the agency’s Sunset review last session, the commissioners who regulate the state’s booming oil and gas industry are expected to approve penal ...
  • Sierra Club sues TCEQ for failure to provide a ...
    The Sierra Club claims the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally gave four coal-fired power plants passes to pollute the air. The Sierra Club says the state in December illegally approved permit amendments for Luminant Generation Co.-owned plants in Freestone, Rusk, Titus and Milam ...
  • Senator Watson asks PUC Chair, Donna Nelson, t ...
    As interim legislative hearings and ERCOT workshops grapple with the drought’s anticipated stresses for Texas electric generation and reliability, Sen.Kirk Watson (D-Austin), is calling on the Texas Public Utility Commission to give solar energy a push. “You stated that your highest priori ...
  • Obama’s Rejection of Keystone A Sensible Decision
    In a statement this afternoon, Obama said that he received a recommendation from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier today recommending that the Keystone XL tar sands Presidential permit application be denied. TransCanada’s first tar sands pipeline leaked 12 times in its firs ...
  • Bill would give Oklahomans the right to vote o ...
    As Texas struggles to determine how they will meet their water needs in the face of what could be an extended 5 to 10 year period of drought, Oklahomans are looking to protect their water rights as their neighbors to the south look on lustfully. An Associated Press story says proposed legislatio ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO photographed over Devon
    A bridge worker has captured an unusual flashing object in the night sky over Devon, England. Gary McDermott snapped the photograph at around 9pm on S...
  • Mysterious 'winged' structure discovered
    A new structure has been discovered in England that has no typical Roman era building characteristics. Archaeologists have discovered a Roman era stru...
  • Arctic Ocean freshwater bulge detected
    Scientists have detected a huge bulge of fresh water 8000 cubic km in size in the western Arctic Ocean. The bulge is thought to be the result of stron...
  • 3,500-year-old tree destroyed in a fire
    A giant, ancient tree that was alive before the days of King Tutankhamun has been killed in a fire. Known as 'Senator', the tree was situated in a swa...
  • Weed zapper fires 2,500-volt charges
    Dr Mike Diprose has invented a new device for killing weeds that works by zapping them with electricity. The device is able to kill off weeds without ...

Grassroots

Climate

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

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • Romney's taxes: Who Cares?
    It seems the Mitt payed only a 13.9% effective income tax rate in 2010 on $21.6 MILLION. And all I can say to that is so what? I know 30 "people" who paid no US income taxes between 2008 and 2010 and they made a lot more money than Mitt did: Thirty large and profitable U.S. corporations pai ...
  • Limbaugh's Half-Right
    All of the GOP bigwigs who took a pass on challenging the president had reasonable reasons. Jeb Bush probably concluded that not enough time had elapsed since his brother's disastrous terms in office. Mitch Daniels couldn't convince the wife and kids to go along. Chris Christie had a healthy ...
  • Romney's Layabout America
    The Christian Science Monitor reports on Mitt Romney's tax returns and it paints an interesting picture of what it's like to be unemployed in contemporary America: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seve ...
  • REMINDER: Join Rep. Ellison tonight at 8PM ET
    At eight o'clock eastern time tonight you can participate in a teleconference with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) who will be discussing his bills to prevent a state-issued photo ID requirement in federal elections and to create same-day registration in all federal elections. You can participate on ...
  • GOP Debate Thread
    Mitt Romney is supposed to go on the offensive in this debate. I think Gingrich will probably rip out his aorta and leave him bleeding helplessly on the floor. It's kind of like telling a Griffon Fauve de Bretagne to attack a Pit Bull. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • 11 Hottest Links of the Week
    What does a nuclear detonation look like up close? Just how big are the world's largest ships? Find out this and more in this week's collection of link-y goodness! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • 11 Coolest Links of the Week
    Urbex from down under kicks off this week's 'coolest' roundup, which also features links to some killer art, educational titbits, and a life-size Stormtrooper cake! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • The Fairy Chimneys and Underground Cities of C ...
    The Cappadocia region of Turkey is full of amazing historical sights, but its most beautiful and intriguing treasures lie in landscapes where rock has been carved into... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • The Gruesome Reality of Amputations in the Ame ...
    Images of men who lost their limbs – and almost their lives – during the Civil War, when an staggering 50,000 amputations were performed in less than sanitary conditions. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • How the Mind Controls the Way Your Body Respon ...
    In a recent experiment, allergic reactions were shown to be stronger in body parts which volunteers had "disowned" through an illusion. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Wasting the Wastewater
    The reuse of municipal wastewater will be important to meeting future demand for freshwater in the United States, a new report from the National Academy of Sciences says.
  • Can the Cowman and the Panther Coexist?
    The recovery of the endangered Florida panther has led to killings of calves in the southwestern corner of the state, scientists and ranchers say.
  • On Our Radar: Solar Kits for Haitians
    A government program aims to promote gridless electricity as well as repair and extend power lines.
  • Wanted: Parking Space for Nuclear Waste
    The nuclear industry's policy group joins with utility coalitions to press for centralization of the waste and renewing the hunt for a permanent resting place.
  • Sounding an Alarm on Birds and Mercury
    Mercury, which drifts into the Northeast largely from coal-burning power plants in the Midwest, is being deposited on dry land, and songbirds that survive solely on insects are taking in dangerous amounts of it.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Newt Gingrich proposes child labor for US: 13 ...
    Newt Gingrich has recently been lauded by some and under attack by others for his comments regarding child labor.  Newt, you might remember, proposed that children should be janitors in their schools so they might learn personal responsibility and the value of a ‘job’. This of course is familiar ...
  • #sixwordessay Helps Teachers Reclaim Education ...
    In the last year, the national education debate has been occupied by economists, billionaires, hedge-fund managers, corporate columnists and party-politicians –indeed, it seems like the further a person is from the classroom, the more weight his opinion carries. Call it the Gates Paradox – the p ...
  • PuppetGov video: We are the ones we’ve been wa ...
    video here. The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s We are the ones we’ve been waiting for video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated. Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions. Resources: US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979 ...
  • 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 orde ...
  • PuppetGov powerful video: Why resistance is es ...
    video here. The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s Why resistance is essential video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated. Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions. Resources: US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, helped Ir ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • Don't Believe NY Times; Iran NOT Building Nukes
    US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes January 24, 2012 Exclusive: Recent comments by U.S and Israeli military leaders indicate that the intelligence services of the two countries agree that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear bomb, a crack in the Western narrative that the U.S. press cor ...
  • The North Carolina Connection To Extraordinary ...
    A well-researched report here: PDF.
  • Kucinich Speaks on Floor of House About Corpor ...
  • Do the Right Thing: Self-Deport!
    AUSTIN (January 24, 2012) The grassroots organization Patriots for Self-Deportation, formed last year in response to legislative inaction on the issue of birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants (also known as the “anchor baby” problem), announced today the launch of their websi ...
  • If You Want to Kill 24 People And Get Away Wit ...
    From the Los Angeles Times: Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the court-martial of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, accused in the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqis in 2005, announced an agreement Monday to settle the case. Wuterich will plead guilty to a single count of negligent dereliction of duty. O ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Quote of the Day – I believe the federal ...
    “I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal ...
  • Iran To Survive US Oil Embargo
    By Konstantin Garibov | Voice of Russia | January 21, 2012 The ongoing US pressure on the European Union, Turkey, Japan, China and India to halt imports of Iranian oil and suspend any related financial transactions is facing resistance by oil importing companies and nations. Last week ...
  • Congressmen Who Received Money for SOPA Vote
    Here is a list of Congressional politicians in favor of the bill known as SOPA and PIPA and the amounts of money they received from the SOPA backers who bought their favor in voting yes for both bills. The Winners are: Money Received from Pipa Sponsors: Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $864,265 Sen. ...
  • Stop The False Flag Attack On The U.S.S. Enter ...
  • Ron Paul Campaign Statement Concerning TSA Abuses
    LAKE JACKSON, Texas – The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign released the following statement concerning TSA abuses like the ones that resulted in U.S. Sen. Rand Paul being inconvenienced at the Nashville, Tennessee airport. Below please find comments from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX): “The police stat ...

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    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • World Health Organization’s Amman HQ Receives ...
    The World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Amman, Jordan has been awarded the LEED Gold certification, making it the first building in the country to receive the qualification. As you all know, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program was developed by the US Gree ...
  • Kiev’s Twister Restaurant Serves Molecular Foo ...
    Ukraine’s capital Kiev has a new restaurant where you can feel like a bird while drinking a cocktail or eating molecular style food. Designed by local architects Serghii Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko, Twister Restaurant was inspired by two natural phenomenas: tornado and rain. Featuring round ...
  • Puzzling Patchwork Bedroom Floor Created From ...
    Read the rest of Puzzling Patchwork Bedroom Floor Created From Timber Offcut Scraps in Japan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 403architecture, atsumi floor, bedroom floor, eco interiors, floor of atsumi, flooring, green design, green floor, green interiors, offcut floor ...
  • Top 6 Green Skyscrapers in New York City!
    As one of the greenest citites in the nation, New York City is known as being a sustainable urban trail blazer, whether it’s through turning aging infrastructure into world class parks or passing groundbreaking green building legislation. So it’s no surprise that the Big Apple is fil ...
  • “Contaminant Slick” Leaking from Shipwrecked C ...
    As divers and rescue workers continue to provide aid to the massive shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship, a thin contaminant slick has begun to appear on the surface, raising concerns of a full-fledged oil spill in the bay. Fears of a fuel leak have been on everyone’s minds si ...

Pogue's Posts

  • A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
    Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do.
  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...
  • A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
    If you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.
  • The New Improved Heckling of Movies
    If you're willing to watch a movie DVD on your computer (instead of your TV), then you can use the new Rifftrax Player app to simultaneously play the DVD and the usually hilarious Rifftrax audio, which is like sitting in an audience of hecklers.
  • Hollywood-Style Tricks on the Cheap
    A $250 kit lets you play around with green screen techniques, setting actors in front of any background of your choosing. It takes the pain out of a process that can be difficult to get right.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • DIY Space Capsule Uprighting Bags Emerging
    I have made several blog posts about the uprighting system needed for space capsule Tycho Deep Space. They can all be found further down on this page in the “previously”-section. So, if you are not familiar with the previous works and thoughts please take a closer look for more detai ...
  • Strange Forgotten Space Station Concepts That ...
    Astronauts living and working in space rely on the International Space Station as their port of call. The iconic ISS is a modern engineering triumph, zipping around the Earth every 90 minutes at a height of 200 miles above the surface.
  • Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of Inte ...
    Are the values we hold most dear truly sacred? Or are they merely cost-benefit analyses masquerading as noble intent? Let your better self rest assured: Sacred values truly are special, concludes a new study on the neurobiology of moral decision-making.
  • Sputnik Launch Tower Be Gone
    Today the launch tower of launch platform Sputnik was removed. It was done because Sputnik needs to service missions where we need a free flat deck for the LES test of Tycho Deep Space and a new and smaller launch tower for rockets SMARAGD and SAPPHIRE. The new tower for the “minor” ...
  • Curious Snow Leopard Cub Steals Camera Trap
    A camera trap set on the Afghan Border has captured images of elusive snow leopards, but also the moment when one of the cubs made off with a cameras.

PakAlert

  • CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MILITARY BLOCS: The Eura ...
    Despite areas of difference and rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, ties between the two countries based on common interests have developed significantly. Both Russia and Iran are both major energy exporters, they have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus. They are both firmly oppos ...
  • US to send old warship to Persian Gulf
    US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has vowed to maintain a fleet of eleven warships despite budget pressures, mostly to project sea power against Iran.
  • One Death is a Tragedy; One Million is a Stati ...
    As a media frenzy surrounds the death of embattled Penn state coach Joe Paterno, I wonder how many innocent lives have been taken by Western forces in Iraq in the past 24 hours, or Afghanistan, or Pakistan, or Yemen, or perhaps Libya, because from what I hear people are still dying there, too. ...
  • Is The U.S. Preparing To Militarize The Street ...
    One quick note as I watched this video: All of the vehicles being transported are painted the original ‘OD Green’ and not ‘Desert Tan’ like they would be if they in transport to/from the Middle East.
  • Police State USA and the NDAA: Creating Americ ...
    Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter, have claimed that the White House will only use it ...

Andy Worthington

  • Please Call for the Closure of Guantánamo By S ...
    It’s three years since President Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Remind President Obama of his promise. Sign the petition on the White House’s “We the People” website urging him to honor his promise. 25,000 signatures are needed by February 6 to secure a response, so ...
  • Read the Center for Constitutional Rights&#821 ...
    In December, I was privileged to work with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights on three reports about Guantánamo that were published to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, 2012, and released at a press conference in Washington D.C. that I reporte ...
  • Video: US Protests on the 10th Anniversary of ...
    In the final article following my 12-day visit to the US to join protestors calling for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of its opening, I’m posting below three videos by filmmaker Ed Haas of the protests in Washington D.C. on the ...
  • Moazzam Begg, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash ...
    On Tuesday January 24, at 7 pm, there will be a special screening of the acclaimed documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the European Parliament in Brussels. The screening will take place in the main European P ...
  • Andy Worthington’s “Close Guantána ...
    Last week, I was in the US for a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which I wrote about here and here. I also made three TV appearances, and undertook seven radio interviews, one of which was covered here. Thr ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Mistrial Declared in Case of Antigovernment Ac ...
    The second trial of self-described Oath Keeper Charles Dyer, who is accused of raping his 7-year-old daughter in 2010, came to an abrupt end on Tuesday when a judge declared a mistrial after discovering the district attorney’s office had improper conduct with jurors. District Attorney James Walt ...
  • Hate Group Founder’s Post on Homeland Security ...
    How could the founder of a virulently racist, anti-Semitic group whose leaders urge violence against whites and the police be appointed to a Dallas group that advises elected leaders on how to improve homeland security? That’s the burning question, as the Dallas County Commission cancelled a vot ...
  • Alaska Militiamen Again Charged With Murder Co ...
    Like this winter’s near-record snowfall in Alaska, federal criminal charges keep piling up against imprisoned militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox. With six additional federal charges filed in a superseding indictment just last Friday, the trial for Cox and Alaska Peacemaker Militia co-defendant ...
  • Georgia Judge Orders Obama to Appear at ‘Birth ...
    A Georgia administrative law judge has ordered President Obama to appear at a hearing on Thursday regarding a “birther” complaint challenging the president’s eligibility for office. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi issued his decision Friday, writing that the president’s legal team “failed to e ...
  • Another ‘Sovereign’ Accused of Shooting at Pol ...
    A self-described “sovereign citizen” – part of what the FBI recently described as a growing and dangerous antigovernment movement – goes on trial this week near Fort Worth, Texas, on charges of aggravated assault on a public servant. James Michael Tesi is accused of shooting at police officer Jo ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Big Spending by Unions in Walker Recall Has So ...
    Unions have been investing heavily to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a move that has some Democrats worried that there will be little money left for other battles across the nation. read more
  • High Hopes, Low Expectations: Progressives Awa ...
    Tonight's State of the Union address delivered by Barack Obama will mark a clear starting line for his 2012 presidential election campaign.  Though predictable and broadly forecast, the speech may be more interesting for what it excludes than what it includes. First, the predictable. He ...
  • Romney: 'I Pay All the Taxes That Are Legally ...
    During the debate in Tampa on Monday, Mitt Romney declared: "I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more." While this is true, Romney's tax returns show flawed tax laws that favor investment gains over actual earned wages.photo: Brett Beanan ...
  • Wikileaks Founder to Host New Television Series
    Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, has announced plans for a new television series. The program will launch mid-March and will include ten weekly half-hour episodes featuring "in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world." ...
  • Occupy Davos: Attendees Confront a New Wave of ...
    This years’ World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, marks the start of the perennial capitalist meet-and-greet summit season. The economic equivalent of the Oscars, the WEF is a time for the 0.1% to celebrate the achievements and successes of free-markets, and to discuss how to k ...

Lifehacker

  • The White Ferrari Home Screen [Featured Home S ...
    Modder extraordinaire Mortem Taum put together this great looking, near-monochromatic home screen based on the looks of HTC Sense 3.0. Here's how. More »
  • How to Make Skype Play Nicely with Google Voic ...
    Landlines are so 1990s. If you'd rather not use your cellphone at home but don't want to pay for an expensive landline, you can use Google Voice and Skype to set up a cheap home phone system that won't require everyone learning a new number. H ...
  • Remains of the Day: Google Overhauls Privacy P ...
    Google combines its privacy policies, fixes Chrome bugs, and adds Google Docs to Takeout, while Ubuntu swaps menus for a HUD, and a judge declares encrypted hard drives fair game in court. More »
  • UndoClose Reopens Windows You've Accidentally ...
    Sometimes we get a little trigger happy with our window-closing mouse clicks. UndoClose keeps track of the windows you close and lets you reopen them with a keyboard shortcut. More »
  • Quickly Open a Document in Any Supported App v ...
    Previewing a document in Mac OS X Lion using Quick Look? Want to open it in an application instead? You don't have to use the default application that Quick Look suggests in the top righthand corner of the preview window. Just click and ho ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • State of the union 2012: live coverage of Obam ...
    Follow live coverage of President Obama's 2012 state of the union address to Congress, promising 'No bailouts, no handouts and no cop-outs'9.40pm: So there's one thing that can get everyone on their feet here tonight – oil:Right now, American oil production is the highest that it's been in eight ...
  • Google user data to be merged across all sites ...
    New privacy policy means Google could log browsing habits on YouTube or Google+ to sell targeted ads in Gmail or search • Google rivals launch 'Don't be evil' add-onGoogle is under fire for plans to collect data on individual users across all of its websites and merge the information into a sin ...
  • State of the union address: excerpts hint at c ...
    With Republicans slugging it out in Florida, Obama will use speech to launch campaign as a champion of the working classBarack Obama will use his annual state of the union speech to launch his 2012 re-election campaign, portraying himself as the champion of working-class America against the smal ...
  • LA Fitness shamed into dropping contract
    Gym chain bows to pressure over contract it was enforcing in the case of a pregnant woman who had fallen on hard timesGym chain LA Fitness has been shamed into dropping the £360 contract it was enforcing in the case of a heavily pregnant woman who had fallen on hard times, thanks to pressure fro ...
  • Harry Redknapp payment to offshore Monaco acco ...
    Jury told that former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric paid 'bungs' into account that went undeclared for six yearsThe former Portsmouth FC chairman Milan Mandaric tried to mislead police and avoid paying tax by disguising a secret six-figure payment to the club's former manager Harry Redknapp ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • No Connection Among Afghan Soldier Attacks
    Recent deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers on NATO troops are not connected and do not appear to be part of a broader campaign to undermine the U.S.-led mission there, an alliance spokesman ...
  • Iranian Interior Minister Blames West for Incr ...
    January 24, 2012 Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar lambasted the US-led forces for their lack of care and action in combating drugs in Afghanistan, and said that the western ...
  • Afghanistan's humongous holy book
    Afghanistan 's seemingly endless war, one local calligrapher has endeavored to prove that his nation still has a rich, vibrant culture by creating the world's largest Quran.Measuring in at ...
  • Too early to say if Taliban behind French atta ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Tuesday it was premature to say the Afghan Taliban were behind last week's killing of four French troops. ...
  • Lincoln High ROTC mentor instilled strong ethi ...
    Marine Sgt. Xuchill Laput of Stockton, right, explains operations at Forward Operating Base Whitehouse, Afghanistan, to Chief Warrant Officer Three Robert Lee, left, and Staff Sgt. Joseph ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 7 Ways the Grimm Act Will Help Wall Street Steal
    Corporate criminals rejoice. The Grimm Act packs seven deadly punches for whistleblowers. This law would make it more difficult for employees to report Wall Street corruption, Ponzi schemes, and other fraud – not easier. What happened to Congress fighting fraud? The leadership in the Hous ...
  • OSHA sides with former pilot who blew the whis ...
    Last week, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered AirTran Airways to reinstate a whistleblower pilot and pay more than $1 million in back pay and compensation. The pilot worked at AirTran Airways which is now a subsidiary of Southwest Airlin ...
  • Dr. Coleman-Adebayo on C-SPAN this weekend
    You can catch Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's lecture at the Mid-Manhattan Library on C-Span/Book TV starting tomorrow. Called No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph, the lecture draws on her book, NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA.  You can read our coverage of he ...
  • California Assemblyman sacrifices his own righ ...
    California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (pictured; D-La Cañada Flintridge) has won committee approval for his bill to give employees in the Legislature the same protections afforded to other state workers when they report waste, fraud and abuse. Assembly Bill 1378 will give legislators ...
  • Honest Appalachia launches whistleblower site
    On-line activists in West Virginia have launched a whistleblower web site called Honest Appalachia.  It provides a means for whistleblowers to upload documents for public disclosure. The project’s lead developer, Garrett Robinson, told WFPL that the objective is to help local journali ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Wil Wheaton Says Chris Dodd Is Lying About Los ...
    We've discussed a few times in the past about how actor Wil Wheaton seems to understand that piracy isn't an enforcement issue, but a business model/service issue. He's also been somewhat vocal (since before many others caught on) concerning his opinion that SOPA/PIPA are a bad idea. And now h ...
  • New Market Research: Music Streaming Services ...
    For a long time, the copyright industries have taken the position that they won't launch new digital music services until piracy is "solved" – or at least punished. The inevitable consequence of that position is obvious to everyone outside the copyright industries – people turn to o ...
  • The Internet Begins Discussing What To Do With ...
    Even before last week's "uprising" by the internet, lots of people had been talking about how the larger internet generation needed to be more engaged in policy issues. This was part of the very reason that I helped start the new organization Engine Advocacy over the past couple months -- becau ...
  • Megaupload Indictment Shows That Google Does A ...
    One small point in the Megaupload indictment is worth calling out for reasons that have little to do with the case at hand. It seems that it's become vogue in Hollywood over the last couple of years to blame Google for everything. You see all sorts of stories claiming that Google is the main c ...
  • Ownership Mentality: Art Gallery Prohibits Ske ...
    I've always been a bit baffled by No Photography signs in museums and art galleries. Presumably they exist to make the exhibits more exclusive and attractive, but that misses the point of why people visit museums: they want to see these things in person, which is a vastly different experience fr ...

VacTruth

  • Radical Idea: Paper Suggests Forcing Your Chil ...
    The suggestion of mandating participation in medical trials has no place in a free society. It ought to go where it rightly belongs – in the trash along with their vaccines.
  • Premature Babies Used As Lab Rats In Manipulat ...
    A vaccination trial on premature babies funded by GlaxoSmithKline...just by reading this study through anyone with an ounce of sense can see that it is weighted in favor of the researchers.
  • Excuse Me Waiter – There’s a Fly i ...
    We can laugh at the waiter’s reply to our complaint about the fly in our soup: “- Never mind, it won’t eat much!” However it is no joke that vaccines may contain residue from insect cells, yeast, mouse brains, tissue from pigs, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, calf lymph, hens’ eggs, chick embryos ...
  • Should New “Smart Pill” Be Able To ...
    Shortly there will be a ‘smart pill’ that will be able to transmit information about your body’s insides to a patch on your arm with the information being collected via a Bluetooth connection. Then, here’s another question for the smart pill developers: Can your ‘smart pill’ track vaccines too?
  • Baby Dies After 9 Vaccines in One Day
    Stacy died just one week after her first vaccinations and left her twin sister Lesly behind. Devastated by their loss their parents are convinced that vaccines and hospital failures were the cause of their beautiful daughters death.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The caging of America: Why do we lock up so ma ...
    Adam Gopnik writes: Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today — perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system — ...
  • Music: Salif Keita — The Golden Voice of Africa
  • Video: Daniel Wolpert — the real reason for brains
  • The Wall Streeters Obama loves most
    Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write: We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.” When we saw it on the website Gawker.com we had to smile — but the smile didn’t last long. There’s simply too much truth in ...
  • Iran is not an existential threat
    Bruce Riedel writes: The danger of war is growing again over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran is rattling its sabers, the Republican presidential candidates and others are rattling theirs. But even if Tehran gets the bomb, Israel will have overwhelming military superiority over Iran, a fact that s ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Death Valley’s Big Bang Theory
    From the The Earth Institute at Columbia University Waiting for Death Valley’s Big Bang A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential In California’s Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe … Continue ...
  • The Message in the Dye 3 Data
    Guest post by David Archibald The story so far: in this recent post – Ap Index Neutrons and Climate, we had looked at the Dye 3 oxygen isotope-derived temperature record to see how big climate swings have been over the … Continue reading →
  • Refutation of Stable Thermal Equilibrium Lapse ...
    Guest post by Robert G. Brown Duke University Physics Department The Problem In 2003 a paper was published in Energy & Environment by Hans Jelbring that asserted that a gravitationally bound, adiabatically isolated shell of ideal gas would exhibit a … Continue reading →
  • President Obama’s Very Dishonest Campaig ...
    Guest post by David Middleton 19 January 2012 Obama clean energy ad airing in Va. A new ad from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign that touts his energy and ethics record began airing in Virginia this week even as Republican … Continue reading →
  • It’s “dead heat” – Ame ...
    It appears that only the zealots care much about global warming anymore, yet it doesn’t stop them from making grand pronouncements of gloom and doom or taking fossil fueled publicity stunt boat trips to Antarctica. The Pew Research Center released … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Study shows man-made fat may limit damage to h ...
    FINDINGS: A man-made fat called Intralipid, which is currently used as a component of intravenous nutrition and to treat rare overdoses of local anesthetics, may also offer protection for patients suffering from heart attacks. Current treatment for a heart attack focuses on limiting the duration ...
  • Human Skin Cells Converted Directly into Funct ...
    Columbia University Medical Center researchers have for the first time directly converted human skin cells into functional forebrain neurons, without the need for stem cells of any kind. The findings offer a new and potentially more direct way to produce replacement cell therapies for Alzheimer’ ...
  • New approach a step forward for hepatitis C va ...
    French scientists have developed a novel hepatitis C vaccine that may offer the first effective way to prevent an infection that can cause chronic liver disease and cancer. There is currently no available vaccine for hepatitis C, though some companies are developing so-called “therapeutic ...
  • Gene Discovery Could Lead to New Stroke Treatments
    Plaque buildup in the arteries is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attack, but some plaques are far more dangerous than others. The problem is there is no good way to distinguish relatively benign plaque on artery walls from plaque that will break off and cause harm, but that may soon c ...
  • Elsevier introduces Genome Viewer
    Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, introduces the Genome Viewer, a new interactive feature on SciVerse ScienceDirect for applicable life sciences journals. The Genome Viewer is a SciVerse application that displays detailed g ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • New single: "Traktor" by Francis
    “I Was Never Bored at All” from Francis made my best of 2010 list.  Petter Nygårdh from the group sends word of their new single, “Traktor.”  Give it a listen at Spotify or Soundcloud.  Or both! (The B-side contains a Simian Ghost remix.)
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, 22, of Willis, TX.Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, 25, of Colonia, NJ.Marin ...
  • Partial transcript, Up with Chris Hayes - Sund ...
    I wanted to write about SOPA this week and thought Chris Hayes had a very nice segment on it. Since MSNBC doesn’t provide transcripts of his show I had to provide my own - which crowded out the blogging time. I’ll do a SOPA post next week, referencing this as needed.I did my best t ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Neil I. Turner, 21, of Tacoma, WA.Army Pfc. Michael W. Pyron, 30, of Hopewell, VA.Army Pfc. ...
  • Is Gingrich taking Bain off the table for Romney?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postNewt Gingrich’s recent (and apparently brief) flirtation with attacking Mitt Romney for his time at Bain Capital is already being discussed in traditional election year terms. Some on the right are spinning it as a benefit ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Newt's Victory: Was it a "Surge" of Popularity ...
    By now you've heard the story a million times: The Gingrich bandwagon limps into South Carolina trailing frontrunner Mitt Romney by a full 10 points (or more), but the pugnacious Newt rallies the troops with his fiery performance at the debates turning certain defeat into a landslide victory. Wo ...
  • The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to M ...
    James E. Hansen never thought his decision to study atmospheric models would lead to his arrest. But there he was in handcuffs last summer, protesting at the White House against a pipeline that would carry crude oil from Alberta's oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico. Hansen-portrait Click here to re ...
  • Monsanto: 'There is No Need for, or Value in T ...
    There is a growing body of scientific evidence which proves that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are inherently different from natural organisms, including the way the body processes them, as well as how the immune system responds to them. But Monsanto, the largest purveyor of GMOs in the ...
  • Ten Steps for Radical Revolution in the US
    "I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967Click here to read this article
  • Native Oregonian Robina Suwol Makes a Differen ...
    California Safe Schools, a leader in the environmental health and environmental justice movement continues their recycling efforts while earning free technology, recreational equipment or cash by participating in the Funding Factory Recycling Program. By donating to California Safe Schools , bus ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • SPRAWL: A Six-Letter Word with a Four-Letter W ...
    Sprawl can be bad, and it can be necessary, depending on the source and the treatment of the land. As the human population grows, how do we reclaim the word sprawl?
  • Decline in U.S. Meat Consumption: Public Healt ...
    According to USDA estimates, per capita meat consumption in the United States nearly doubled between 1930 and 2007. On average, each American today eats about 200 pounds of meat per year, or almost nine ounces per day—roughly twice the global average. With a few exceptions, intake has been on a ...
  • When Is Enough Enough?
    If one does not have limits—and indeed, all of life is based on limits, whether the free-market economists and politicians want to admit it or not—one can never arrive and find fulfillment.
  • The Cellulose Quandary
    Cellulose-based ethanol may be a bust. Ethanol produced from switchgrass is proving very different. Much will depend on innovations in ethanol production from corn stover and corn cobs.
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: FDA on Cepha ...
    In the span of just two weeks, then, FDA has moved to prevent misuse of one drug while shirking its responsibility for two others.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Forging the American Garrison State by Privati ...
    Galbraith defined a predator state as a coalition of relentless opponents of the regulatory framework on which public purpose depends Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Natural Gas: Avoidable Health Hazard
    If you value your health, don't burn gas indoors. Natural gas has caused more cases of environmental illness than any other substance, even than pesticides. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Magic of Magnesium
    Calcium has received an enormous amount of attention. Magnesium and calcium work together, but magnesium may actually play a more important role: It controls the entry of calcium into each and every cell. Submitted by Organic Connections to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • SBS K-POP STAR AUDITION
    Park JiMin wows a Korean talent show - at 15 Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Libya's Security Problem
    Destruction of government leads to chaos Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Is the NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over the ...
    ShareThisIs the NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over the City? Evidence Points to Yes --Miami, cities in Texas also said to be trying this new way to be eye in the sky 23 Jan 2012 They're used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Appl ...
  • FTC Owned By AntiSec
    ShareThisFTC Owned By AntiSec By A Guest 23 Jan 2012 #opmegaupload #antisec #anonymous #ANTISEC SEZ ITS SOPA/PIPA/ACTA RETALIATION TIME. PASS THAT TRASH AND WE WILL RM HALF THE CORPORATE INTERNET. "OnGuardOnline.gov, a partnership of fourteen federal agencies managed by the Federal Trade Commiss ...
  • Five Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza
    ShareThisFive Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza 24 Jan 2012 Israeli forces have carried out five airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say, but no casualties have been reported so far. The Israeli air force claimed that its warplanes targeted "an arms factory" in the center of the Palestinian ter ...
  • EU oil sanctions doomed to fail: Iran
    ShareThisEU oil sanctions doomed to fail: Iran 23 Jan 2012 Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says unilateral sanctions adopted by the European Union against Iran are "unfair" and "doomed to fail." "The method of threat, pressure and unfair sanctions against a nation that has a strong reason for ...
  • Russia rejects sanctions against Iran
    ShareThisRussia rejects sanctions against Iran 23 Jan 2012 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected unilateral sanctions against Iran, saying such sanctions would be counterproductive. "Unilateral sanctions do not help matters," Lavrov said on Monday. "We will restrain everyone from m ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Messages from Joint Chiefs of Staff
    23 January 2012 The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) provided a document to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) about MEDEVAC issues in Afghanistan.  The document was provided with no cover or signature page.  Congressman Todd Akin (MO-2), a senior HASC member, received that document ...
  • Time to Leave Afghanistan
    21 January 2012 This war is going to turn out badly. We are wasting lives and resources while the United States decays and other threats emerge.  We led the horse to water. Importantly, there is no value in pretending that Pakistan is an ally. We should wish the best of luck to the Afghan ...
  • All In: The Education of General David Petraeus
    Dear Friends and Family, After three years of effort, the day has nearly arrived!  My book, "All In:  The Education of General David Petraeus," written with Vernon Loeb, will be released in just one week.  I’ll soon appear on Fox and Friends, CNN,  Jon Stewart's “The Daily S ...
  • CBS Video of MEDEVAC Issue
    20 January 2012 What do you think of Lieutenant General John F. Campbell's remarks in this video? Please click to view.
  • JCS: Curiouser and Curiouser
    19 January 2012 I published a letter that I received from Congressman Todd Akin's office.  Mr. Akin is on the House Armed Services Committee.  According to Mr. Akin's office, HASC received the letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  After I published the letter, I read an email t ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Norway companies ‘readying for Burma’: FM
    Norwegian investment could help Burma reintegrate into the global economy and spur responsible business in the country, says FM
  • Pakistani president eyes trade on Burma visit
    President Asif Ali Zardari arrives today, and will meet with Aung San Suu Kyi and the government to strengthen economic ties
  • Burma rights body lays into HRW report
    Government-formed National Human Rights Commission labels report 'unreasonable' for failing to emphasise progress in 2011
  • Simple dreams, harsh realities
    For as long as most can remember, the sound of gunfire has been a constant echo in Karen state. Generations have come and gone as the war raged on. For over 60 years, countless people have been killed, raped, tortured, maimed by landmines and forced to fight. After a recent ceasefire agreement w ...
  • Animating Burma’s reform from within
    Perceived obstacles to democracy in Burma, like the flawed constitution, can in fact give the opposition an excuse to start doing creative politics outside of official political channels

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Canada deports Rwanda war crimes suspect
    [JURIST] The Canadian government on Monday deported Rwandan war crimes suspect Leon Mugesera, after a Quebec Superior Court [official website] judge ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on immigration cases. Mugesera, who has been fighting deportation from Canada since 1995, is ...
  • Spain high court begins second trial of judge ...
    [JURIST] The second trial of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] began on Tuesday before the Spanish Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish]. Garzon has been charged with abusing power [JURIST report] by opening an investigation into war crimes allegedly committ ...
  • France senate passes genocide denial ban
    [JURIST] The French Senate [official website, in French] on Monday passed a bill that outlaws denial of genocide crimes [materials, in French], including the World War I-era killings of more than one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers. The Senate voted 126-86 [press release, in French] in fav ...
  • Serbian war criminal arrested after more than ...
    [JURIST] Convicted Serbian war criminal Radovan Stankovic [Court of BiH materials] was arrested Saturday in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) after being on the run since May 2007 when he escaped from a Bosnia prison. Stankovic was convicted of multiple war crimes [JURIST report] in 2006, including r ...
  • Supreme Court rules on sex offender registrati ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled 7-2 [opinion, PDF] Monday in Reynolds v. United States [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) [final guidelines, PDF] does not require pre-act offenders to register before the attorney gener ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Global Military Index Ranks Israel Most Milita ...
    The Bonn International Center for Conversion maintains the Global Military Index, which lists the nations of the world according to the level of militarization of their societies.  Coming in first again in 2012 is Israel. Here are the criteria used to determine a country’s ranking: With it ...
  • Adelson Doubling Down on Gingrich
    Sheldon Adelson is doubling-down on his fair-haired white boy, Newt Gingrich, with a second $5-million Super PAC gift given through his wife, Miriam.  If God forbid, Newtie wins the nomination I’d bet we can expect gifts in the $50-100 million range from Big Shel.  This gift, and the NY Ti ...
  • Tale of Sodomy and Torture in Occupation Prison
    Haaretz this week noted that the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has brought suit before the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of a Palestinian torture victim.  Two police officers allegedly brutally abused their client in a prolonged police interrogation in 2007. After arresting him ea ...
  • Bibi Seeks Iran War Hawk as New Air Force Comm ...
    During the Great Depression, FDR reacted to the Republican-dominated Supreme Court’s stymieing of his New Deal proposals by packing the Court with his own hand-picked supporters.  It didn’t work out for him as he was forced to roll back the initiative as a violation of constitutional ...
  • Gingrich’s Implicit Anti-Semitism in Primary V ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina victory speech, and ones he’s been giving for the past 20 years, offered a pointed reference to famed community organizer, Saul Alinsky.  Alinsky, who was Jewish, was the model who inspired the young Barack Obama when he first moved to Chicago and train ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Pew Report: Tablet Ownership Doubles. What's L ...
    The shift from print to mobile reading went into overdrive this holiday season, with ownership of e-readers like the Kindle and tablets like the iPad doubling in a single month. A new survey-based study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that the percentage of adults ow ...
  • How to Create a Minimalist Map Design With Ope ...
    Mapping can be as much about choosing what data not to include as to include, so you can best focus your audience on the story you are telling. Oftentimes with data visualization projects, the story isn't about the streets or businesses or parks, but rather about the data you're trying to layer ...
  • How Public Lab's Thermal Flashlight Could Impr ...
    In December, Public Laboratory members made themselves a "public lavatory." Six members of the online DIY science community gathered in the well-appointed, but small bathroom of staff member Liz Barry with the lights off -- for citizen science. Two staff members (Leif Percifield and Jeff Wa ...
  • Why Unions Should Not Support SOPA
    A version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog. I was supposed to speak on a panel about SOPA recently with the Northeast chapters of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. It was to serve as an educational discussion ...
  • NextDrop's Dashboards Look Great, But Mobile C ...
    One year ago, when we were just a team of graduate students with a big idea, our teammate Thejo Kote came to Hubli, India and demoed a web-based dashboard to the executive engineer and commissioner here. The dashboard uses Google Maps to show the status of valves and other system components in r ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Defense Edge - Air Force Needs to Maintain ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the Air Force has struggled to maintain standards of excellence when fulfilling one of its most important missions: being prepared to respond to an adversarial nuclear attack. Recently, the Air Force has decided to move away from having one squadron of bombers dedi ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Preoperative MRI May Re ...
    Preoperative MRI helps surgeons make more informed decisions about nerve-sparing procedures in men with prostate cancer, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Excluding skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in American men, according to th ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Generation X: How Young ...
    Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X. But about 65 percent were at least moderately concerned about the flu, and near ...
  • Turkey's Genocide of Armenians - Turkey Enrage ...
    On January 23, the French Senate approved a bill which acknowledges that some 1.5 million Armenian Christians were slaughtered by Ottoman Turks during the First World War. The denial of this historical truth in France, under the legislation, will bring a year in prison or a fine of up to 45,000 ...
  • The Digital Edge - Megaupload Founder At Cente ...
    Kim Dotcom, the founder of one of the world's largest file-sharing websites, is accused by U.S. authorities of being a money launderer who built up a fortune through Internet piracy. The German-Finnish computer programmer and businessman is the creator of the Megaupload empire -- a file-sha ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Obama Wins Nobel Prize I ...
    I guess it was bound to happen,  President Obama impromptu rendition Al Green's soul classic “Let's Stay Together caused such a stir that now the Nobel Committee wants to award the former peace prize winner a Nobel prize in Music.  Of course it matters not that Barack Obama is not ...
  • The Unspoken Truth, Under Obama Israel Can No ...
    By Barry Rubin Do not speak of it in public. Do not expect any Israeli official to admit it. But Israel is facing an issue unlike anything it has had to deal with during the past 50 years: It cannot depend on the United States. True, the relationship in terms of weapons’ supply remai ...
  • HYPOCRISY! Romney Whines About His Opponents ...
    Granted, I was a bit tired last night but Governor Romney confused me a bit during the debate yesterday. I could have sworn he said something about Republican candidates not using Democratic Party tactics against each other just before he launched into a Nancy Pelosi-like tirade about the Gingri ...
  • Brzezinski Tells Salon: Those Rich Jews Contro ...
    Brzezinski is someone I have learned an immense amount from", and "one of our most outstanding scholars and thinkers--Senator Barack Obama This Salon headline will bring agreement from many anti-Semites who believe the Jews (or Zionists) control the world. Zbig: Israelis “bought influe ...
  • Message To The Four GOP Candidates: End the Ci ...
    This morning I saw Mitt Romney surrogate Chris Christie take a page out of Nancy Pelosi's playbook calling Newt Gingrich an embarrassment to the GOP, Gingrich keeps harping on the "non-Issue" of Romney's tax returns (the financial disclosure forms have long-since been filed), Rick Santorum accus ...

The Real Agenda

  • Remember SOPA and PIPA? Meet their cousin OPEN
    by Heather Callaghan Activist Post January 24, 2012 Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming amount of Americans banned together and voiced their opposition to Congress over both the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Protect Intellectual Property Act. Sites that dimmed the screen for ...
  • Are People Forgetting How to Remember?
    Search engines like Google and social networks that facilitate the access to information without humans having to remember details about such information, are causing people to forget. by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda January 24, 2012 I am not going to be a hypocrite, Google is a great search ...
  • Ron Paul Florida Debate Highlights
    Filed under: North America, Politics Tagged: florida debate, Florida primary, republican primaries, Ron Paul debate highlights
  • Elites to Blame Capitalism for Financial Crisis
    The same 1 percent that used, abused and desecrated Capitalism to bring about the current crisis will now claim that a centralized system controlled by themselves is the only way out of it. Enter the Global Technocracy. by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda January 24, 2012 There is no doubt that w ...
  • Nuclear Assassinations Just the Tip of the Iceberg
    by Dr. Ismail  Salami Global Research January 24, 2012 “I saw a motorcycle. They were wearing ski masks — black ski masks. They were two people. I saw the motorcycle speed by. I saw them. It seemed as if they had something in their hands,” this is how a female witness described the s ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles
    A controversial wind farm proposed near Red Wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades. U.S. Fish and Wildlife offi ...
  • Birds at risk from South Florida ‘wind f ...
    Splattered birds make going green a tough sell. The risk of birds flying into fast-spinning blades atop wind-catching turbines the size of the Statue of Liberty threatens to torpedo a proposed “wind farm” that could produce non-polluting energy on the edge of the Everglades. The same ...
  • Farm federation wants block on wind power
    Plans to dot Ontario’s countryside with wind turbines should be shelved, says the province’s largest agricultural organization. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is calling on the government to properly address a range of concerns, including the health effects of turbines, before ...
  • State board deals potentially fatal blow to Fi ...
    Last April, Maine’s largest wind energy developer, First Wind, trumpeted a multimillion-dollar deal that would pay for the company’s ambitious plans to erect more wind turbines throughout Maine and the Northeast. But the Maine Public Utilities Commission dealt a potentially fatal blow to the dea ...
  • Wind farm plan canned; Landscape saved, &#8216 ...
    The unique Central Otago landscape was safe from corporate industrialisation after the withdrawal of the $2 billion Project Hayes plan, artist and objector Grahame Sydney said yesterday. Meridian Energy’s 633-megawatt plan was one of the most controversial energy projects in New Zealand and spar ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Obama to Assess State of the Union Tonight
    “Addressing a divided nation amid a determined GOP campaign to take his job, President Barack Obama is preparing to issue a populist cry for economic fairness as he aims to corral the sympathies of middle-class voters 10 months before Election Day.” (Washington Post) He will propose ...
  • Justices Rule Police Need Warrants for GPS Tra ...
    “In a major decision on privacy in the digital age, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that police need a warrant before attaching a GPS device to a person’s car. The ruling, which marked the justices’ first-ever review of GPS tracking, was unanimous. The justices divided, however, ...
  • Two Kinds of Government Failure
    One emphasizes incentive problems, the other knowledge problems.
  • Government Employees Have Unpaid Taxes
    “Congressional staffers owed about $10.6 million in unpaid taxes in 2010, a slight increase from the previous year and a growing slice of the roughly $1 billion owed by federal and postal workers nationwide.” (Washington Post) Government employees don’t pay taxes; they consume them. ...
  • U.S. Oil Production Rises
    “Federal forecasters are expected to confirm on Monday what the energy industry already knows: Oil production is surging in the U.S.” (Wall Street Journal) Imagine if the market were freed. FEE Timely Classic “Rising Prices: The Markets Way of Conserving Oil” by Jorge Amador

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Money for something
    A new report from Good Jobs First makes the case that state programs offering corporations financial incentives to keep or create jobs need tougher oversight.
    A ...
  • How to expose a $40 million secret
    Invest in fearless journalism and a powerful voice for change in the South -- help us raise $7,000 by Wednesday 22nd for the Institute Investigative Fund!
    Invest ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The cost of war
    With the U.S. war in Iraq declared to be officially over, a look at the conflict's costs by the numbers.
    With the U.S. war in Iraq declared to be officia ...
  • Feds provide welcome guidance on use of race a ...
    The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have reaffirmed the educational and civic benefits of diversity and the damaging pitfalls of school segregation.
    Th ...
  • Monopoly concerns hinder Duke-Progress merger ...
    Federal regulators have ruled that the plan to create the nation's largest electric utility could allow the company to act anti-competitively. The decision comes after major environme ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as ...
    Mitt Romney’s collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 financial meltdown that resulted in both the wave of populist anger now being channeled by Romney’s Republican competitors ...
  • Preserving the "Ideal of a Property Owning Dem ...
    Demographia and Performanceurbanplanning.org  have just released the 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with an introduction by Professor Robert Bruegmann of the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History. The Survey is unique in ...
  • Against Cosmopolitanism
    All science fiction agrees. History is leading to the unification of earth. The united world may be governed by benign world federalism or by a dystopian global tyranny. But the modern literature of prophecy is clear: the age of competing nation-states is coming to an end. There are no visio ...
  • This Is America's Moment, If Washington Doesn' ...
    The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that China has already surpassed the U.S. as an economic power. These views echo those of the punditry, right and left, who see the U.S. on the r ...
  • Mistaking an Aberration for the End of Home Ow ...
    It is well known that home ownership has declined in the United States from the peak of the housing bubble. According to Current Population Survey data, the national home ownership rate fell 2.9 percentage points from the peak of the bubble (4th quarter 2004) to the third quarter of 2011. I ...

GM Watch

  • USDA greenlights utterly useless GM corn
    NOTE: Embedded links in the original article at Mother Jones. --- --- USDA Greenlights Monsanto's Utterly Useless New GMO Corn Tom Philpott Mother Jones, Jan 23 2012  http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/monsanto-gmo-drought-tolerant-corn You've got to keep an eye on US regulatory agenci ...
  • Shred the GM welcome mat
    1.German biotech giant flees Europe 2.Chemical giant BASF flees Europe - no bad potatoes here please! NOTE: Two excellent commentaries on the real lessons of BASF's departure from Europe. --- --- 1.German biotech giant flees Europe Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Ground Truth, 23 January 2012 http://www.p ...
  • Occupy and anti-GM protests converge in Hawaii
    Monsanto Responds as Maui Occupy Group Launches Demonstration Wendy Osher Maui Now, January 23 2012 http://mauinow.com/2012/01/23/monsanto-responds-as-maui-occupy-group-launches-demonstration/ A week of Occupy Wall Street Maui events kick off today with the establishment of an encampment near t ...
  • Resistance and counter-terrorism in St Louis
    NOTE: The anthropologist Glenn Davis Stone, Prof. of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St Louis, has a new photo essay Genetically Modified Crops: From St Louis to India published in Anthropology News - see the link below. The following text accompanies one of th ...
  • Monsanto advisor's pseudo-scholarship + other news
    Here's some of the recent news we've put out via Twitter. More here: https://twitter.com/gmwatch Big controversy over Oxford University Press publishing Monsanto advisor's pseudo-scholarship bit.ly/yfXURx  Monsanto VP stands for AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science - boar ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
    Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
  • America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
    When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve?  Of course it would.  By going into large amounts of debt, it is possible to live a lifestyle that you can't really afford, at least for a while.  But if you keep racki ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...
  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...

Desertification

  • Networks to expand into other services : irrig ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/indian-villagers-lives-transformed-by-new-energy-delivery-system/ Indian villagers’ lives transformed by new energy delivery system by Anna da Costa It’s late December and an icy fog cloaks the northeastern state of Uttar Pradesh. Here, far from the cities, s ...
  • Strengthening agro-processing and creating emp ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2421 Antigua and Barbuda to tap potential of avocado An ambitious million dollar project is underway in Antigua and Barbuda to construct the twin-island nation’s first avocado oil processing factory, with the aim of strengthening agro ...
  • The nexus of rural development, food security ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2012/01/beyond-arab-awakening-food-security-and.html Beyond the Arab Awakening: Food security and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa Posted by Timothy Ledwith As popular discontent swept across much of the Arab world over the past year, some observ ...
  • Reuse of Municipal Wastewater (SEMIDE / EMWIS)
    Read at : http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/2012/01/water-reuse-potential-expanding-nation-s-water-supply-through-reuse-municipal Water Reuse: Potential for Expanding the Nation’s Water Supply Through Reuse of Municipal Wastewater http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13303&fb_ ...
  • Female farmers involvement in agricultural ext ...
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=59478?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29 Gender approaches in agricultural programmes – Zambia country report Ensuring female farmers involvement in agricu ...

The Paper Trail

  • FACT CHECK: Flubs in Florida
    The four remaining candidates debated once again, this time in Tampa, Florida — where facts took a beating.
  • Adelsons double down on Gingrich, kick in anot ...
    The Israeli-born wife of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is matching her husband and placing her own $5 million bet on a super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich in the upcoming Florida primary.The gift came from Miriam Adelson, according to sources familiar with husband Sheldon’s previous $5 million don ...
  • Four reasons GOP lawmakers aren't backing Gingrich
    Mitt Romney lost the South Carolina primary to Newt Gingrich by a double digit margin. But in the race for congressional endorsements, the former Massachusetts governor is way ahead of the ex-Speaker of the House.
  • ANALYSIS: Park City vantage point puts tragedy ...
    The journey I embarked on when I made the decision to leave a successful career in the health insurance business was a spiritual one. I can trace the decision to a true epiphany, to the very moment I saw hundreds of people standing, soaking wet, in long, slow-moving lines, waiting to get medica ...
  • Anniversary of 'Citizens United' decision draw ...
    Two years after a controversial Supreme Court ruling lifted many restrictions on political spending, America’s campaign finance laws have officially become a joke.Stephen Colbert, a comedian who says he wants to be the “president of the United States of South Carolina,” has used the "Definitely ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • 'A Superb Start?'? I Doubt It!
    Antifa.jpg The EDL claim they are off to a 'superb start.' Antifascists, however, think rather differently. ‘Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! The English Defence Lea ...
  • Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics or Popular ...
    The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis. Many imagine the economic crisis forced up a spontaneous gathering of forces of a new generation. In Atlanta, that new gathering really only lasted for a few days ...
  • Protest at Roche Against Dismissal and Shady P ...
    rochesm.png The ZSP takes the pharmaceutical giant to task for denying workers their basic rights. On January 20, the ZSP organized a protest at the headquarters of Roche Poland ...
  • The Bloody Utopia of JSTREET
    A look at the true nature of the rise of the self proclaimed 'liberal Jewish Lobby' in the U.S.A. or really should we say Zionism-lite. The rallying cry of JSTREET seems to be gathering up an increasing numbers of support ac ...
  • The 'pitchfork movement' shuts down Sicily for ...
    Movimento forconi.jpg Report on the struggle of the 'Pitchfork Movement' in Sicily which has seen a major blockades around the island (including the port of Palermo) for the past four days i ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Why is Edom (Modern-day Israel) so AFRAID of Iran?
    Check it out, folks.   We are talking FREE ENERGY (plasma cold fusion) from Iranian Labs. Here is the Edomite’s PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, and his BIO!!!  Mr. Keshe has even developed a FLYING SAUCER for the Iranian Air Force: http://keshefoundation.com/en/media-a-papers/keshe-news/185-was-u ...
  • More Edomite Atrocities
    This is yet another example of Edomite-sponsored genocide. Try not to weep, my friends.  Imagine – 50,000 innocent children: And finally, THIS: Is it Nothing to You? Another Hero Falls Ricky Lavallie: 1960-2012 By Kevin D. Annett     Ricky Lavallie is dead. He was a 51 year old n ...
  • Michael King (aka Martin Luther King) A RED ED ...
    The “Story Behind the Story” of Martin Luther King is a story of Edomite (Jewish) Hegelian Dialectic in action.  A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK case, actually. It’s the story of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement today.  Edomite agitators funding stooges to “protest” ...
  • Another Christian “Red” (Edomite) ...
    REFLECTING ABSENCE “Reflecting Absence”.  That’s the “official name” given by Israeli citizen and “architect” Michael Arad to the 9-11 memorial in New York.   Is this monument to death harmless and meaningless, or is it a very real and conscious effort b ...
  • WHO IS RICK SANTORUM?
    It’s official – Mormon Mitt Romney and Catholic Rick Santorum accounted for over 50% of the Iowa Caucus Tuesday. How did Santorum surge so quickly and so miraculously?   A clue may be this quote in the “Jewish Daily Forward” : “He takes his religion very seriously,” said ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
    Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
  • Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
    We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
  • Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
    His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
  • Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
    It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and ...

Scotts Contracting

  • Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Needs
    Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...
  • Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
    Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...
  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
  • CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
    UPDATE:  Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market.   Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • VIDEO: Meir JAVEDANFAR on France 24 Debate
    Will EU sanctions on crude oil bring Tehran to the bargaining table or push the West and Iran closer to military confrontation? François Picard’s panel ponders the potential for escalation in an election year. DEBATE read more
  • A growing rift in the Revolutonary Guard
    As reported earlier, former supporters of Ahmadinejad formed a new political group, Jebheh Paaydaari Enghelaab-e Eslami (JPEE) [the Durable Front of the Islamic Revolution] and fielded their own candidates for the March 3 Majles elections. The leader of JPEE is the reactionary cleric Mohammad Ta ...
  • Well-known literary translator detained in Iran
    Family and friends of a well-known literary translator in Iran are concerned for his well-being after he was detained for unknown reasons nearly two weeks ago. Mohammad Soleimani Nia, 39, has been held since January 10, according to a source close to his family. The family doesn't know where he' ...
  • '۲۰۰۰ مورد نقض حقوق دانشجویان'
    کمیسیونِ حقوقِ بشرِ دفترِ تحکیمِ وحدت، گزارشی را از "بیش از ۲۰۰۰ مورد نقض حقوق دانشجویان"، از فروردین ۱۳۸۸ تا شهریور ۱۳۹۰، تهیه و آن را به دفتر احمد شهید، گزارشگر ویژه حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد برای ایران، ارائه کرده است.read more
  • ۲۰ درصد نفت خام ایران تا شش ماه دیگر خریداری ندارد
    با تحریم‌های جدید اتحادیه اروپا علیه ایران، کشورهای عضو این اتحادیه هیچ قرارداد جدیدی را برای خرید نفت خام با ایران امضا نخواهند کرد و به تمام قراردادهای کنونی خود با این کشور هم تا شش ماه آینده پایان می‌دهند.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
    2010 Protest at World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum Weighs In A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents to be used when world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January25-29. The document is called Global Risks 2012 (ht ...
  • Preparedness: A Good Alternative to Denial
    Community garden in New York City Book Review-Part VI Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Fleeing Vesuvius finishes with an Epilogue (Part 7), in which different authors give practical suggestions about preparing for the eventual collapse of our present ...
  • The Recipe for Change in a Post-Carbon World
    http://transitionculture.org/ Book Review-Part V (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 5 and 6 of Fleeing Vesuvius are entitled “Changing the Way We Live” and “Changing ...
  • Surviving the Collapse – Possible Strat ...
    Biochar pellets Book Review-Part IV (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 3 and 4 of Fleeing Vesuvius, “New Ways of Using the Land” and “Dealing with Climate Change,” focus mainly on  local and national strategie ...
  • Money and Energy Scarcity
        Local currency used in Ithaca, NY Book Review-Part III Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) The second part of Fleeing Vesuvius is entitled “Innovation in business, money and finance.” It draws on the main theme of Part ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Mitt pounces, Newt pouts: Two rich guys squabble
    Newt Gingrich clearly missed the rabid South Carolina crowds at Monday night's debate. NBC asked the Tampa, Fla. audience not to cheer, and mostly they didn't, leaving Gingrich listless without angry mob energy. He didn't bash the media the way he did in last week's Fox and CNN debates, and he t ...
  • The SOPA battle in a wider war
    The Internet blackouts to protest the pending Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act legislation currently working their way through the U.S. House and Senate have ignited a much-needed discussion of the question of censorship in the United States — though the discussion ou ...
  • The Wall Streeters Obama loves most
    We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: "Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff." When we saw it on the website Gawker.com we had to smile -- but the smile didn’t last long.  There’s simply too much truth in that headline; it says a lot about h ...
  • Rate of Americans killed in Afghanistan soars
    In the past six months, President Obama has repeatedly declared that "the tide of war is receding."And, if one measures by reduction in the aggregate number of troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the president is right. But it's also true that Obama has presided over a significant escalatio ...
  • The secret to making American workers competitive
    Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign.In his State of the Union address, President Obama will make the case that government has a vital role. His ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Is Economic Contraction a Climate Solution ?

  • The Environmental State of the Union
    The annual State of the Union Address is a time for taking stock.  Tonight President Obama will assess our nation's progress on a range of urgent issues of urgent issues, but today I want to look closely at one critical indicator of America's well being: the health of our environment. Is Am ...
  • America's First Solar Power Tower
  • NY, Cuomo Pushing Hard for New Solar Incentives
     The Empire State continues to step up as an emerging national leader in supporting residential solar, as Governor Cuomo's recent budget plan includes new provisions that will open more opportunities for homeowners to install panels on their roof. The provisions are just the latest proposed ...
  • How the Keystone XL rejection is inspiring you ...
    It’s not often that we win. Especially for the current crop of college students, who grew up in the Bush years, environmental victories have been small, few and far between. Last week, though, we won. Let January 18th, 2012 go down in the record as the day when the people stood up to Big Oil ...

EU Times

  • France outlaws denial of Armenian Genocide
    The French Senate has passed a bill which makes it a crime to publicly deny that the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 killings of Armenians was a genocide. The move sparked fresh condemnation from Turkey, and could lead to further tension. The upper house of parliament voted 127-86 in favor of the le ...
  • India to buy Iran oil in Gold not Dollars
    India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first country to drop the US dollar for purchasing the Iranian oil. According to a report published by DEBKAfile news website, unnamed sources have stressed that China is also expected to follow suit. ...
  • Hot Rain: High Radiation Levels Recorded In Mi ...
    Radiation readings from the EnviroReporter have revealed high levels of HOT particles in Michigan, possibly from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Radiation levels after a storm in the area read 561% over normal background levels. Then, after a second storm, the levels were even higher, 6.5 times ...
  • George Soros predicts Riots, Police State and ...
    Billionaire investor George Soros has a new prediction for America. While it might be as dire as it gets for the financial wiz, this bet concerns more than just the value of the buck. According to Soros, there’s about to be an all-out class war. Soros, 81, previously bet against the Britis ...
  • Oldest Dinosaur Nest Site Found
    Scientists have uncovered multiple clutches of fossilized eggs at a dinosaur nesting site in South Africa that are 10 million years older than any found before. The newly discovered nesting ground, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is located in Golden Gate Highla ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Peyton Manning Says Heâs Not Retiring, Talks F ...
    Despite rumors spread by random actors saying differently, Peyton Manning has no plans to throw in the retirement towel just yet. In an interview with the Indianapolis Star published today, Manning, who missed the entire 2011 NFL season with a neck injury, revealed that while he is planning on ...
  • Flip Saunders Firing Is Failure Of Status Quo ...
    I come here not to bury Flip Saunders, nor to praise him. Instead, I believe that his dismissal should instead be viewed as a continuation of the status quo at the Verizon Center, and one that should bring no small amount of worry to Wizards fans who are currently celebrating the exit of a coac ...
  • Apple: iPad’s The Key, Says JP Morgan; BGC Rei ...
    Shares of Apple ( AAPL ) are down $3.12, or 0.7%, at $424.37 heading toward this evening’s fiscal Q1 report for the quarter ended last month. Analysts are modeling $39.14 billion in revenue and $10.16 per share in profit. For next quarter, the Street consensus is $32.07 billion and $8.01 per sh ...
  • Yankees Notes: Posada Retires, DH Trade Possib ...
    Jorge Posada's retirement presser was this morning , and by all accounts it was packed and went off as well as any presser in New York could go. Before we move on to the notes and rumors, I'd like to do some custodial work with this slightly puzzling tweet from Joe Sheehan: Twitter / @joe_sheeh ...
  • Romneyâs Tax Returns are Remarkably⦠Unremarkable
    Image via Wikipedia I know, I know. You, like me, woke up this morning and your first thought was: what’s on those darn Romney tax returns? Okay, maybe you didn’t. But I did (true story, ask my husband). And not because I really care in a this-will-dramatically-change-my-life kind of way but ra ...

Groklaw

  • Reactions to Jones v. United States: The gover ...
    A final note. I think that it will be a long time before people realize that this is one of Justice Sotomayor's most significant opinions. Justice Thomas has received significant recognition for his willingness to rethink broad areas of the law. Today, Justice Sotomayor indicated her interest ...
  • Why the Jones Supreme Court Ruling on GPS Trac ...
    Writing alone, Justice Sotomayor makes the strongest case for updating our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to protect privacy in this digital age. Sure, she says by way of explaining her signature on the majority opinion, the physical trespass of attaching the GPS device was a violation of a Four ...
  • Ordering defendant to decrypt hard drive did n ...
    The Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. For the most part, this privilege only covers testimony. But an act that implicitly communicates a statement of fact may be within the purview of the privilege as well. For exampl ...
  • Congressional Record
    The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. FDsys contains Congressional record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present. At the back of each daily issue is the "Daily Digest," whic ...
  • United States Courts Opinions - BETA
    United States Courts Opinions (USCOURTS) collection is a pilot project between the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) to provide public access to opinions from selected United States appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts. ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Unemployment. Long lines in freezing weather
    Rapper J-Hustle videoed a six block line of people in Chicago standing in minus 8 wind chill weather waiting to get an application to work at Ford. And then Ford closed the doors early. The unemployment rate there and in too many other areas is off the charts. Make no mistake, these are people w ...
  • California could generate massive tidal and wa ...
    The Department of Energy says California has the potential to generate enough power for 14 million homes if its wave and tidal power were developed fully. Even if it was only half of that, it would be a substantial new source of clean renewable energy; all produced a few miles off California co ...
  • Priceline Negotiator’s last deal! End of an era
  • Real journalism. Irish reporter rips ECB evasions
    This is what real Journalism looks like. Those of you in America might not recognize it: In this video from a European Central Bank press-conference in Ireland, journalist Vincent Browne demands that the ECB representative explain why the ECB required the Irish people to bail out a bank’s unins ...
  • North Dakota has state-owned bank. Other state ...
    Cut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets—these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation, but the budget crises that nearly all the states are now suffering did not arise from too much spending or too little taxation. The crises arose from a credit freeze on Wall ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Labour Should Join Call for Immediate Moratori ...
    Today Labour renewed its call for an investigation into hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, and its implications for New Zealand. Considering Labour’s concerns, they should commit to backing the call for an immediate moratorium, the only way we can safeguard our rights to clean water and air an ...
  • General debate, January 25, 2012
  • Talking Child Poverty in Whangarei
    Yesterday I went on my first official trip as an MP, to Whangarei. My colleagues tell me the novelty of the travel will wear off, but I don’t think the buzz from connecting directly with people doing amazing and inspiring work on the issues I care about is going to wear off any time soon. ...
  • Cycling to Southland — Epilogue
    This is how the story ends. Yesterday I took apart my bike and crammed it into the small rental car of a friend attending the festival. We drove back to Dunedin airport, where incredibly helpful people gave us materials to pack up the bike. Upon arrival in Wellington, I unpacked it, put it back ...
  • SOPA. Web victory or strategic withdrawal?
    It was incredibly inspiring to see the Internet mobilise to oppose the two draconian online copyright bills going through the US House and Senate. Whilst it was a victory it’s still too early to see if it will be enduring

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • New Evidence Refutes Fraud Findings in Dr. Wa ...
    By Dr. Mercola In February 1998, the Lancet published Dr. Andrew Wakefield's case series of a group of autistic children with gastric problems, which has become one of the most controversial studies in medicine because part of the patients' story included regression after receiving the MMR va ...
  • 213 Women Who Took This Suffered Permanent Dis ...
    By Dr. Mercola Naomi Snell, a 28-year-old woman in Melbourne, Australia, is leading a class-action civil lawsuit against drug maker Merck after suffering autoimmune and neurological complications following injections with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. After receiving the first of three doses of ...
  • This Food Robs Your Brain Power - Avoid It for ...
    By Dr. Mercola Grains should represent a small part of your diet, regardless of your age. I personally seek to avoid most grains, except rice. But if you're going to eat some grain-based foods, how much is too much? This debate heated up earlier this year when two nutritional experts, Dr. ...
  • Dangers of Feminine Hygiene Products that Ever ...
    By Dr. Mercola Many women have heard of toxic shock syndrome (TSS), a rare bacterial infection that can lead to a potentially fatal drop in blood pressure (shock) and organ damage, and most associate it with the use of tampons -- particularly super absorbent varieties that are left in too lon ...
  • Dr. Oz Proves This Fruit Juice Can be Toxic
    By Dr. Mercola Inorganic arsenic, the form most likely to cause cancer, occurs naturally in the earth and is released into ground water that travels through rocks and soil. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limits the amount of trace arsenic allowable in drinking water to 10 part ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Further threats as Guarani Indians remember mu ...
    Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen © Survival Guarani Indians in Brazil have come under further threat since gunmen murdered their leader Nísio Gomes last November. The Guarani of Guaviry community have reported that a non-indigenous man who claimed to be employed by a local ...
  • ‘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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • CAQ offers new approaches, but ill-defined pol ...
    With Gilles Duceppe's decisive declaration that he will not attempt a political comeback, it is now clear that barring some unforeseeable event, Pauline Marois will lead the Parti Québécois into the next provincial election.
  • If the PQ disappeared, would Quebecers care?
    all appearances, Bernard Drainville was verging on emotional meltdown in a session with Le Devoir's editorial board last week when he delivered the money line that the paper subsequently trumpeted on its front page: "The PQ could disappear!"
  • Let calm reason, not rhetoric, prevail on Gateway
    The proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, intended to funnel heavy oil from northern Alberta through the Rocky Mountains to the British Columbia coast, could turn out to be one of two things.
  • The upbraided captain and the call of duty
    There seems no end recently to opportunities to reflect on why it is always better - personally, nationally and internationally - to behave responsibly.
  • West Island commuters deserve better service
    Clifford Lincoln may have been a little over the top in his characterization of West Island commuter-rail service. "A Third World situation," he called it in a Gazette interview this week.

Food World Order

  • Food Waste Denounced by Ministers as Almost 1 ...
    from businessweek: Food waste was denounced by farm ministers and policy makers gathered in Berlin as almost 1 billion people in developing countries go hungry. Consumers in rich countries dispose of 220 million metric tons of food waste every year, equal to the entire food output of sub-Saharan ...
  • on corbett report radio - jan19
    on thursday nights, media monarchy joins corbett report radio live on republic broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health ... this week we get a gmo gut check with fakes, fads and more... previous: jan12 episode
  • 1/19 binge & purge: fakes, fads & gmo omg!
    Celebrity Chef Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed Hi-Fats* Video: Deen Has Diabetes* Anthony Bourdain slams 'most dangerous woman to America'* Many Restaurants Fake it as Demand for Organic Food Rises* 'Put An Egg On It': 5 Ways to Embrace the Breakfast-for-Dinner Trend* GMO OMG! ...
  • A Gut Check for Many Ailments
    from wsj: What you think is going on in your head may be caused in part by what's happening in your gut. A growing body of research shows the gut affects bodily functions far beyond digestion. Studies have shown intriguing links from the gut's health to bone formation, learning and memory and ev ...
  • BASF to Stop Selling Genetically Modified Prod ...
    from nytimes.com: BASF, the German chemical group, has abandoned efforts to sell genetically modified products in Europe, including its Amflora potato, because of overwhelming opposition to the technology, the company said Monday. “There is still a lack of acceptance for this technology in ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
    Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
  • America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
    When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve?  Of course it would.  By going into large amounts of debt, it is possible to live a lifestyle that you can't really afford, at least for a while.  But if you keep racki ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...
  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 24th January 2012
    "Satan Sarkozy" - Turkey's Sozcu newspaper H/T: Daily Mail
  • BREAKING: Rand Paul detained by TSA agents for ...
    More on this as it develops. Major news story. RT have just 'tweeted': "Rand Paul detained by TSA officials at Nashville Int Airport. Ron Paul tweeted his son got detained for refusing full body pat down #news" More as it happens. This should be big on Alex Jones tonight. 5pm our time. ...
  • Abandon Aberystwyth, the Croatians are coming ...
    So, on a low turnout and despite all the warnings that those of us with common sense and experience gave, it appears that the people of Croatia have voted in favour of joining the European Union. Quite why anyone would want to join such an anti-democratic dictatorship that bankrupts all who g ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 22nd January 2012
    If you're one of those who wish that the politicians in Westminster would just pack up and leave us alone, one of the most unthinkable stories imaginable suggests part of that dream could come true. The Mail on Sunday tells how essential repairs to site of the Palace of Westminster are needed ...
  • Croatia gets a taste of EU fascism: Arrests as ...
    Absent from most of our media, it is to RT's reporter Tom Barton that we are hugely grateful for 'tweeting' news of scuffles between anti-EU demonstrators and police in Zagreb today. According to his account, protesters - gathered on the eve of a referendum on Croatian EU accession - chanted ...

Facing South

  • Money for something
    A new report from Good Jobs First makes the case that state programs offering corporations financial incentives to keep or create jobs need tougher oversight.
    A ...
  • How to expose a $40 million secret
    Invest in fearless journalism and a powerful voice for change in the South -- help us raise $7,000 by Wednesday 22nd for the Institute Investigative Fund!
    Invest ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The cost of war
    With the U.S. war in Iraq declared to be officially over, a look at the conflict's costs by the numbers.
    With the U.S. war in Iraq declared to be officia ...
  • Feds provide welcome guidance on use of race a ...
    The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have reaffirmed the educational and civic benefits of diversity and the damaging pitfalls of school segregation.
    Th ...
  • Monopoly concerns hinder Duke-Progress merger ...
    Federal regulators have ruled that the plan to create the nation's largest electric utility could allow the company to act anti-competitively. The decision comes after major environme ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • 50,000 GERMANS NOW SUFFER FROM NARCOLEPSY &#82 ...
    *ONE IN SIX VICTIMS DIAGNOSED WITH SLEEPING DISORDER IN GERMANY IS A CHILD *AVERAGE AGE OF VICTIM IS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 *NARCOLEPSY IS AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE CAUSED BY ADJUVANT, CONFIRMS AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITY,  PREDICTED BY DR REBECCA CARLEY IN 2009 A staggering 50,000 Germans now suffer from the sl ...
  • Why I will be suing the Austrian government al ...
    One element I will emphasise in my claim for damages against the Austrian government is the psychological distress I have been forced to suffer. In February 2010, I twice came close to being confined by a researcher employed by the Austrian government, who works for one of the most notorious res ...
  • IRISH PARENTS ORGANIZE TO GET JUSTICE FOR THEI ...
    Concern over narcolepsy/vaccine link [Posted: Sun 18/09/2011 by Deborah Condon www.irishhealth.com] A group of parents who believe their children developed the serious sleep disorder, narcolepsy, as a result of receiving the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, has officially launched a new support gro ...
  • Irish Health Ministry’s e-mail to me in ...
    In November I emailed the then Irish Health Minister Mary Harney and gave evidence that the swine flu vaccine was dangerous – but she ignored me as the e-mail reply below proves. Culpable ignorance. Your recent e-mail concerning the safety of vaccines given to children. 1 message Minister& ...
  • Irish swine flu vaccine victims disappointed a ...
    Disappointment at HSE on narcolepsy progress Updated: 12:26, Friday, 13 January 2012 Families who believe their children developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy after vaccination are disappointed with how little progress has been made. 1 of 1 The group representing families who believe their ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – I believe the federal ...
    “I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal ...
  • Iran To Survive US Oil Embargo
    By Konstantin Garibov | Voice of Russia | January 21, 2012 The ongoing US pressure on the European Union, Turkey, Japan, China and India to halt imports of Iranian oil and suspend any related financial transactions is facing resistance by oil importing companies and nations. Last week ...
  • Congressmen Who Received Money for SOPA Vote
    Here is a list of Congressional politicians in favor of the bill known as SOPA and PIPA and the amounts of money they received from the SOPA backers who bought their favor in voting yes for both bills. The Winners are: Money Received from Pipa Sponsors: Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $864,265 Sen. ...
  • Stop The False Flag Attack On The U.S.S. Enter ...
  • Ron Paul Campaign Statement Concerning TSA Abuses
    LAKE JACKSON, Texas – The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign released the following statement concerning TSA abuses like the ones that resulted in U.S. Sen. Rand Paul being inconvenienced at the Nashville, Tennessee airport. Below please find comments from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX): “The police stat ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: January 24, 2012
    ==== ThalesRaytheon Gets New NATO Interceptor Missile Contract Finnish Foreign Minister Needs NATO Chief At Bloc’s Headquarters Latvia: NATO Chief Discusses Afghan War, Cyber Warfare Fresh U.S. Drone Strike Kills Six In Pakistan U.S.-Philippines Drills Raise Questions About U.S. Asian Inte ...
  • Anatole France on Émile Zola, military terrori ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts … Anatole France on Victor Hugo: People to substitute justice and peace for war and bloodshed Anatole France on war Emile Zola on war mania: A blind and deaf beast let loose amid death and destruction, laden with cannon-fodde ...
  • U.S. And NATO Are On The March Worldwide: Part III
    End the Lie January 19, 2012   U.S. and NATO are on the march worldwide – part III   By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Geopolitical developments continue at a pace that likely makes most peoples’ heads spin, and for good reason. With the situation in Syria, the push for war with ...
  • Stop NATO news: January 23, 2012
    ==== U.S. Aircraft Carriers To Deliver “Direct Message To Iran” Obama, Saakashvili To Discuss Caucasus, Afghan War Pakistani Political Leader: End U.S. Drone Strikes World Island: U.S. Commander Looks To Mackinder For Naval Strategy ==== U.S. Aircraft Carriers To Deliver “Direc ...
  • The Eurasian “Triple Alliance.” Th ...
    Global Research January 23, 2012   CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MILITARY BLOCS: The Eurasian “Triple Alliance.” The Strategic Importance of Iran for Russia and China by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research, January 23, 2012 Strategic Culture Foundation - 2012-01-21 Despite areas of ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • BP Binds with Obama White House to Cover-Up Ac ...
    The Intel Hub January 24, 2012 During the height of the BP oil spill Americans were pumped full of propaganda from the corporate controlled mouth pieces of both the media and the White House. It has now been admitted through a series of emails that the White House and BP settled on figurative nu ...
  • 10 to the Chest: Cops Murder Man with ‘E ...
    The Intel Hub January 24, 2012 A man shot dead outside a Los Angeles Carl’s Jr. fast food chain by trigger happy cops (unfortunately) sets the stage for more of what is to come with the looming economic collapse. This is a sign of the times as people (some more desperate than others) will ...
  • Kansas State Takes Over Pathogen Research From ...
    HomelandSecurityNewsWire January 24, 2012 As New York’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center begins to shut down, much of its pathogen work will be transferred to Kansas State University’s Biosecurity Research Institute in preparation for the opening of DHS’ new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facili ...
  • Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Use ...
    The Intel Hub January 24, 2012 The Supreme Court has sided with the American people in their decision to ban police throughout the country from using GPS technology without first obtaining a warrant. The five justices who ruled in favor of civil liberties, made it clear that this would not be th ...
  • Witnesses Document Potential Vote Fraud in S.C ...
    By Brandon Turbeville Activist Post January 24, 2012 After Newt Gingrich’s stunning victory in the South Carolina Republican primaries on Saturday, there are now questions surrounding the vote counting process that took place Saturday night. Indeed, some individuals who witnessed the actual cert ...

FRS

  • The Palestinian children – alone and bewildere ...
    Palestinian children in Israel’s Al Jalame jail, posted with vodpod Special report: Israel’s military justice system is accused of mistreating Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones Harriet Sherwood in the West Bank, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 January 2012 The room is barel ...
  • The Palestinian children – alone and bewildere ...
    Palestinian children in Israel’s Al Jalame jail, posted with vodpod Special report: Israel’s military justice system is accused of mistreating Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones Harriet Sherwood in the West Bank, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 January 2012 The room is barel ...
  • India: Maoist statement to world-wide friends ...
    CPI(Maoist) Press Release, January 13, 2012:   Revolutionary greetings from CPI (Maoist) to the friends of Indian revolution and well wishers Comrades and Friends,  On 24 November, 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant ...
  • India: Maoist statement to world-wide friends ...
    CPI(Maoist) Press Release, January 13, 2012:   Revolutionary greetings from CPI (Maoist) to the friends of Indian revolution and well wishers Comrades and Friends,  On 24 November, 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant ...
  • January 24, 2011–DC: Protest the Private ...
    by etucke, Detention Watch Network Please join other DWN members and allies, along with friends from OccupyDC, to protest the private prison corporations who are driving the mass incarceration of people of color in the United States, including nearly 370,000 immigrants every year. The action wil ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • PRESS RELEASE: Ofcom Bans Press TV in the UK & ...
    OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement:
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Rand Paul "Detained" at Nashville Airport, Ref ...
    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. was reportedly detained Monday morning when he refused a fully body pat-down after an abnormality was found in a full body scanner.Contributor: Brian Koenig Published: Jan 23, 2012
  • Just Beautiful Campaign Puts Spotlight on 'Tox ...
    The Just Beautiful campaign seeks to raise awareness about potentially harmful substances in cosmetics.Contributor: Jamie Brown Published: Jan 20, 2012
  • Many Politicians Softening Opposition to Same- ...
    It seems that there is a decided increase in the number of influential politicians who are supportive of same-sex marriages. Are politicians leading or following the people?Contributor: Morris Armstrong Published: Jan 20, 2012
  • SOPA/PIPA Indefinitely Shelved After Massive P ...
    After a massive protest led by several Internet firms, Congress has indefinitely postponed voting on SOPA and PIPA.Contributor: Frederick Reese Published: Jan 20, 2012
  • Microchipped Dog Will Make a Cross Country Tri ...
    “Toby”, a beloved family pet that was missing for two years will soon make a cross country trip to be reunited with his military family, thanks to a microchip and quick action by a veterinary clinic.Contributor: William Ray Fullmer DVM Published: Jan 19, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • A Dozen Science and Tech Stories to Expect in 2012
    The coming year is going to be a big one in all kinds of areas, from space to supercomputing, research done both above and below the ocean, examinations into our distant past and into our future. And salmon. Expect to hear lots about salmon. Click to launch our guide to the upcoming year in scie ...
  • FYI: How Long-Running Is the Longest-Running L ...
    Eighty-five years so far. The pitch-drop experiment—really more of a demonstration—began in 1927 when Thomas Parnell, a physics professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, set out to show his students that tar pitch, a derivative of coal so brittle that it can be smashed to pieces wi ...
  • A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered A ...
    Is some research so dangerous it shouldn't be done at all? In an unusual move, an international coalition of flu researchers agreed last week to a hiatus on work surrounding a highly contagious, mammal-adapted version of the avian influenza virus. Research on transmissible H5N1 flu will halt, a ...
  • Physicists Hope to Catch Neutrons in the Act o ...
    The notion of multiple universes is one that cosmologists like to theorize about but generally don’t relish proving, mainly because doing so would be very difficult. But a team of researchers that showed a few years ago how matter might travel between our universe and others now think they ought ...
  • The Maximum Airspeed Above Which Birds And Dro ...
    In pursuit of fleet-footed prey, the northern goshawk wings through thick forest canopies and underbrush at breakneck speeds, dipping and diving to avoid colliding with trees or other obstacles. But it can only go so fast, apparently obeying an unspoken speed limit dictated not by biology, but b ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Will we see the Northern Lights again tonight?
    The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, featured prominently across the skies of Northern Britain last night. The fabulous photograph below, taken at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, is courtesy of North news and pictures. Auroras are caused by charged particles such as electrons and ...
  • Will winter pass us by this year?
    As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...
  • 2011 - 9th warmest globally on satellite record
    The Global temperature in December, according to the UAH satellite measure, showed little change from the previous month with an anomaly of +0.127C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.380C abov ...
  • Gales continue to batter Britain
    The Met Office have again warned of severe gales into this evening and overnight across much of Eastern England from the Pennines to the coast, and the Scottish Borders to the Wash. Gusts could reach 70mph in more exposed areas. This comes hot off the heels of yesterday's storm, more powerful ...
  • Weather review of 2011 - a year of extremes
    It has been the most remarkable twelve months since I began forecasting twenty years ago. The brutal weather of last December, which was the coldest since 1890, continued into the New Year, with more widespread disruption due to ice and snow for commuters as people ventured back to work. The ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Goin' Down: Those Crappy US Airlines, Cruise Lines
    For those of you who remember your high school literature, Charon in Dante Alighieri's Inferno was the ferryman of Hades who transported the souls of the dead across the river Styx on a journey to farther reaches of the underworld. In today's international political economy, you can argue that A ...
  • RIP Japanese Trade Surplus, 1981-2010
    There's grim news care of Reuters in anticipation of Japan's release of trade figures tomorrow. The country is expected to have run a trade deficit for the first time in nearly 30 years in 2011. Worse, prospects are for it continuing to do so in the near future despite the (hopefully) one-time ...
  • Allah & Moolah: Muslim Brotherhood Meets IMF
    Elected with a convincing majority, Muslim Brotherhood-linked legislators under the Freedom and Justice Party umbrella are now the forces to be reckoned with in Egypt. It will be fun to see how Yanqui hypocrites of the "elections are great...except when you elect Hamas" variety will respond if a ...
  • Axis of Upheaval: Iran-Russia Trade in Own Monies
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper. Vladimir Putin: They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. Factually speaking, the ongoing long-term devaluation trend of the dollar is not in dispute. However, America #1 ...
  • Indonesia Got It Right: A Post-Crisis Success ...
    To say that I didn't rate Indonesia's prospects highly after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 would be an understatement. It was going from one transitory leader to another after Suharto's ouster. Its economy contracted hugely. All the while, various secessionist movements were tearing the ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank P ...
    Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse.  Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global f ...
  • America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Ramp ...
    When the sun goes down every night, America becomes a very frightening place.  There are communities all over the country where drug dealing, human trafficking and gang violence have gotten so out of control that authorities don't really know what to do about it.  In America toni ...
  • If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Li ...
    If you increased your credit card spending by a couple thousand dollars per month would your lifestyle improve?  Of course it would.  By going into large amounts of debt, it is possible to live a lifestyle that you can't really afford, at least for a while.  But if you keep racki ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...
  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • France outlaws denial of Armenian Genocide
    The French Senate has passed a bill which makes it a crime to publicly deny that the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 killings of Armenians was a genocide. The move sparked fresh condemnation from Turkey, and could lead to further tension. The upper house of parliament voted 127-86 in favor of the le ...
  • India to buy Iran oil in Gold not Dollars
    India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first country to drop the US dollar for purchasing the Iranian oil. According to a report published by DEBKAfile news website, unnamed sources have stressed that China is also expected to follow suit. ...
  • Hot Rain: High Radiation Levels Recorded In Mi ...
    Radiation readings from the EnviroReporter have revealed high levels of HOT particles in Michigan, possibly from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Radiation levels after a storm in the area read 561% over normal background levels. Then, after a second storm, the levels were even higher, 6.5 times ...
  • George Soros predicts Riots, Police State and ...
    Billionaire investor George Soros has a new prediction for America. While it might be as dire as it gets for the financial wiz, this bet concerns more than just the value of the buck. According to Soros, there’s about to be an all-out class war. Soros, 81, previously bet against the Britis ...
  • Oldest Dinosaur Nest Site Found
    Scientists have uncovered multiple clutches of fossilized eggs at a dinosaur nesting site in South Africa that are 10 million years older than any found before. The newly discovered nesting ground, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is located in Golden Gate Highla ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-01-23 #WikiLeaks News: Julian #Assange t ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News WikiLeaks issued a Press Release announcing the launch of a global television series in ...
  • A proposal for governance: Privacy and Transpa ...
    TweetThis article is a continuation of the ideas begun in A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world It was agreed by most of the world in the past that privacy was a basic individual right. All individuals are private individuals, only their actions which affect public life are of public ...
  • 2012-01-22 Chronology of charges the US govern ...
    TweetThis is a chronological list of charges against Bradley Manning alleged by the US government. They are derived from the July 5, 2010 original charge sheet and the March 1, 2011 charge sheet. The charges from the original charge sheet are below in italics, and grouped beneath corresponding ...
  • 2012-01-21 #WikiLeaks News: Australia Day Call ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News In a message published today at jaraparilla.blogspot.com (the blog of WikiLeaks support ...
  • 2012-01-20 #WikiLeaks News: Updates on #Mannin ...
    Tweet [The severity of our battles] is a reflection of the quality and importance of our work. - Julian Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of ex ...

U N News

  • Haiti: UN opens probe into cases of alleged ch ...
    The United Nations announced today that it is investigating two cases of sexual exploitation of children allegedly committed by its police personnel in Haiti.
  • UN rights chief speaks out against US failure ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today spoke out against the failure by the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to ensure accountability for serious violations - including torture - that took place there.
  • El Salvador must address social inequality to ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today on El Salvador to address its socio-economic inequalities and advance rule of law reform to ensure its citizens can experience positive and tangible results from the peace process that was initiated 20 years ago at the end of its civil war.
  • Guatemala ratifies UN-backed treaty banning nu ...
    Guatemala has ratified the United Nations-backed international treaty banning nuclear tests, bringing the number of State parties to 156.
  • On anniversary of deadly quake, UN urges conti ...
    As Haiti marks the second anniversary of the massive earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people and devastated an already poverty-stricken country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged continued international support for recovery and rebuilding.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

  • Media Interviews
             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  >  >| page: 1 of 10   total items: 99 Statistics for Suicide, Domestic Violence, Crime Reveal Tragedy of Overstretched and Demoralized US Military After a Decade of Multiple Wars PressTV – January 21, ...
  • To Avoid War, Russia and China Must Announce T ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 17, 2012 recorded on January 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The United States is working hard to persuade other countries to obey its domestic law on sanctioning the Iranian Oil industry. Many experts believe that the US will face strong res ...
  • “Free Syrian Army” Unleashes Suici ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 12, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Press TV talks with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and lecturer in Washington who shares his in-depth insights of the movements by Western and Arab elements behind the scenes to destabilize Syria and terroriz ...
  • Ron Paul’s $1 Trillion of Austerity Cuts ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com January 4, 2012 [download audio]
  • Israel Threatens Gaza After Panetta Signals Gr ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 30, 2011 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • 5 Best Weather Radios for 2012
    The top 5 best weather radios for 2012, (popular, with the least number of bad reviews coupled with the number of good reviews) as measured from Amazon statistical data are as follows… # 1 First Alert Public Alert Radio # 2 Sangean CL-100 Table Top Weather Radio # 3 Midland WR-120B NOAA We ...
  • String of Rotten Luck? Try This To Help
    Guest post: by ‘Be informed’ One bad incident after another seems to be hitting you, it’s unsettling, it’s eerie, it’s messing up your life. All sorts of superstitious thoughts could be floating through your mind, including the possibility that you did something and ...
  • Sell-by, Use-by, Dates
    Most canned food products have a “for best quality use by” date stamped on the top or bottom of the can. “Expiration” dates are rarely found on canned food. The general rule of thumb is that as long as the can is intact, not rusty and not bulging, the food is probably OK. ...
  • How To Fix-Troubleshoot Your Pressure Canner P ...
    Guest post: by Christine Coburn There is nothing more frustrating than when you have worked hard to get a batch of food prepared to can and then your canner doesn’t work right or for you to have Old Faithful erupting on your stove instead of staying in Yellowstone… After 30 years of canning I ha ...
  • How To Select Firearms On A Budget
    Guest post: by ‘TripodXL’ The dictionary defines logic as; a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration: the science of the formal principles of reasoning. Basically this means that you use a reasoned basis, i.e. based in supported ...

Fast Company

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Touches On Kindle Fire, And ...
    In the world of boring corporate earnings calls, Apple's investor Q&A sessions are about as exciting as it gets--the equivalent hardcore pornography for most tech geeks. Offering a rare peek inside the famously secretive company, Apple's earnings are watched by every industry analyst and new ...
  • Apple Beats Estimates Again: $46.33 Billion In ...
    Apple's released the summary of its finances for the first quarter of 2012--the first real quarter when Tim Cook was in power immediately after Steve Jobs's death. The figures are amazing, confounding every analyst expectation, and are records for the company--the world's biggest (when Exxo ...
  • Leadership Lessons From Community Maven Tara H ...
    Any entrepreneur or community-building connector worth their salt should know when to crowdsource, and when to listen to their inner voice.Tara Hunt is having a bit of a disconnect. Which is odd considering Hunt’s networked her rising star into the connected constellation of the social web for t ...
  • The Weigh-In: What's The Best Way To Motivate ...
    Motivation is a hot topic year-round, but particularly in January, the month of fresh starts, checklists, and lofty goals. It's the time of year we try to figure out how to prod our employees to excel, to hit and surpass ambitious targets. Happy, motivated employees are, simply, good for ...
  • The 3-D Printing Pirates Who Could Render SOPA ...
    The Pirate Bay loves to be controversial--how could it not be, with its very existence an affront to much of the political mechanisms of American government? And now the organization is suggesting something that, in the light of the semi-failed SOPA/PIPA attempt to regulate the Net and squash pi ...

Jadaliyya

  • Video of Security Forces' Violence in Battles ...
    The following video, recently released by hoqook.com, shows Egyptian security forces shooting protesters at face and chest levels during the Mohamed Mahmoud battles near Tahrir Square last November. During that week of 19-24 November, at least forty people were killed and thousands ...
  • مقابلة: تحديات العمل من أجل حقوق العمال الاجان ...
    تعرض السيدة ليندا الكلش في الفيديو التالي، والذي قام بتصويره وسام الصليبي، الإنتهاكات التي يتعرض لها العمال الأجانب في الأردن والدور الذي يلعبه مركز „ تمكين“ لمساعدتهم . تدير السيدة ليندا الكلش مركز „تمكين“ للمساعدة القانونية وحقوق الإنسان في الأردن وقد حصلت على جائزة „الجمهورية الفرنسي ...
  • Murdoch's Homeland
    Terrorists have backstories, and American politicians play dirty in the “war on terror.” These revelations propel Showtime’s hit series, Homeland, seemingly setting it apart from other pop culture representations of post-9/11 America. “How do you tell a thriller in the post-9/11, post-Ab ...
  • The War on Error
               
  • The Current Media Landscape in Egypt: An Inter ...
    With the first anniversary of the January 25 uprising in Egypt fast approaching, Egypt’s military junta has stepped up its media campaign against democracy activists. Since February 2011, sixteen private channels, many of them owned by bussiness tycoons, have received licences from the s ...

mediagazer

  • Almost 70% of British public distrust red-tops ...
    Josh Halliday / Guardian: Almost 70% of British public distrust red-tops  —  Survey in wake of phone-hacking scandal finds only 14% of respondents trust red-tops ‘to do what is right’  —  Polly Curtis: Why has trust in the media increased?  &mdas ...
  • Arthur Sulzberger to introduce 'New York Times ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Arthur Sulzberger to introduce ‘New York Times’ top editor Jill Abramson to Davos set with big dinner  —  “Helicopter from Munich to @Davos landed 100km away because of snow,” Arianna Huffington tweeted today as she arrived ...
  • Mitt Romney's Taxes (Ryan Chittum/CJR)
    Ryan Chittum / CJR: Mitt Romney's Taxes  —  All the major papers are devoting lots of resources to covering Mitt Romney's tax return, putting the national spotlight on how taxes, and particularly on how little taxes the ultra-wealthy actually pay.  —  It's top st ...
  • How CNN Is Going To Handle Its Debate Crowd (M ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: How CNN Is Going To Handle Its Debate Crowd  —  NEW YORK — Newt Gingrich won't have to worry about the audience being completely quiet during Thursday's debate in Jacksonville, the final primetime face-off before the Jan. 31 Florida ...
  • Audiobooks.com launches unlimited book streami ...
    Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: Audiobooks.com launches unlimited book streaming service for $24.95 a month  —  If you're a voracious audiobook listener and want access to as many books as you could possibly listen to, the just-launched Audiobooks.com streaming service might be wor ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • India just unlucky - off-spinner Ravi Ash ...
    INDIA'S cricketers aren't embarrassed - they're just unlucky, off-spinner Ravi Ashwin says. The tourists copped another pounding from Australia yesterday in Adelaide, blowing out their odds of avoiding a 4-0 series whitewash. But Ashwin says the continued failure on a grim...
  • No bad blood with Michael Clarke - India
    INDIA says it has no bad blood with Michael Clarke despite an appeal against the Australian captain for obstructing the field that resulted in two deflected overthrows. The visitors made the bizarre appeal two balls before tea as Clarke and Ricky Ponting mounted an afternoon fightback that t ...
  • Typhoid outbreak hits Zimbabwe
    Harare - At least 90 people were admitted to hospital and over 600 affected in a typhoid outbreak in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, a health official said on Tuesday. “We have attended to over 600 cases in...
  • Kenya ICC: Kenyatta and Muthaura 'won't b ...
    Kenya's deputy prime minister and civil service head will not have to resign despite a ruling that they will face trial for crimes against humanity. The attorney general said their future would be decided after the outcome of their appeal to stop the International...
  • Syria spurns solutions by Arab League 'pl ...
    Syria on Tuesday said it would spurn further Arab efforts to resolve its political crisis, as Gulf states piled on pressure by pulling their observers out the country and urging strong UN action. "Enough of the Arab solutions from now," Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told a televised news co ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/19/12 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Histori ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Historical Timeline - Our timeline traces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its related history from the development of the earliest known human society in the Middle East in 10,000 BC all the way to the present day. Read a ...
  • 1/11/12 - 50 Famous Vegetarians
    vegetarian.procon.org – NEW: 50 Famous Vegetarians – Bill Clinton, Carl Lewis, Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Steve Jobs, Natalie Portman, and Prince are just a few of the many celebrities in our authoritative new resource. See all the famous vegetarians on our list and find out ...
  • 1/9/12 - Is one bi-national state an acceptabl ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Is one bi-national state an acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - Read pro and con arguments from former Speaker for the Israeli Knesset Avrum Burg (pro), Palestinian National Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki (con), ...
  • 1/4/12 - Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overa ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overall Harm - Marijuana ranked #8 out of 20 drugs in overall harm according to a study in The Lancet, a British peer-reviewed medical journal. Alcohol ranked #1 in overall harm and harm to others. Crack cocaine had the high ...
  • 1/3/12 - Should insider trading by Congress be ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - UPDATED: Should insider trading by Congress be allowed? - Read pro and con arguments from Newsweek Senior Editor Daniel Gross (pro), US Senator (D-NY) Kirsten Gillibrand (con), Cato Institute Director Jim Harper (pro), Hoover Institution Research Fellow Peter Schweize ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • MIT launching certificate program based on Ope ...
    John Timmer A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online certification program, currently termed MITx. Although these certificates won’t ha ...
  • How Does the Brain Perceive Art?
    In 1995, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted a controversial exhibition entitled “Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt,” in which works considered to be genuine Rembrandts were displayed alongside those done by his students and admirers. (These lesser paintings are often dismissed as “the school of Rembra ...
  • Does Alcohol Improve Your Writing?
    Putting Hitch’s theory to the test. Brian Palmer Writer, philosopher, gadfly, and Slate contributor Chrisopher Hitchens died on Thursday of complications from esophageal cancer. While drinking and smoking may have contributed to his untimely passing, Hitchens didn’t regret either habit: “Writing ...
  • A Child in Time
    New frontiers in treating premature babies. Recent advances have boosted parents’ hopes, but great uncertainties remain. Jerome Groopman The entryway to the neonatal intensive-care unit in my hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, is lined with photographs of children who wer ...
  • What a difference a decade makes
    Ten years ago the American short story was in decline. Now it is once again a vital genre Ruth Franklin The short story is an amuse-bouche: luscious, glittering, to be consumed in a single bite. It should be artfully conceived, but not so dainty that you can’t sink your teeth into it. It should ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Thomas Kean: “aftershocks” from pl ...
    This muddle headed, government-appointed chair of the 9/11 Commission does not even know what his government found to be the cause of the collapse of WTC 7. For me, this is the final nail in the coffin of the "official" 9/11 narrative. The ignorance and impudence of this man is breathtaking. H ...
  • Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
    Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...
  • Highlights from Skid Row Radio with Hereward, ...
    Today we bring you highlights from the Workers Radio breakfast show on Radio Skid Row 2RSR 88.9 FM Sydney, from 1 December 2011. You can tune in to the show every morning from 6-9 AM, and if you're outside Sydney you can listen via the web stream here. I am joined on air by the show host Jack ...
  • Kim Bax gets a Supreme Court injunction
    Kim Bax, webmaster of Women for Schapelle, reported  that she had received a Supreme Court injunction (post since removed), which threatens her with severe consequences if she mentions certain "serious allegations" about the Seven Network. These allegations are connected to the disclosures ...
  • Welcome to a “Hung” Democracy
    And so it came to pass that a small band of the selfish or deluded came to steal the blood, sweat and toil of the many. They lied, broke solemn promises, failed to provide evidence, and displayed a singular lack of good-manners. They viciously insulted anyone who disagreed, they hid the models ...

Beacon

  • Join Us for SeaBlue on March 3
    Looking for an excuse to celebrate the oceans this winter? Look no further. On March 3, we are holding our inaugural SeaBlue benefit event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and you are invited! SeaBlue will feature a musical performance by The Honey Brothers with Oceana Ambassador Adrian Grenier, ...
  • Marine Monday: Olive Sea Snake
    An olive sea snake in Australia. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] When you think of ocean animals, snakes are not usually the first thing to come to mind, but they live as comfortably underwater as they do on the ground. Today’s Marine Monday features one of these swimming snakes, the olive sea ...
  • Another Victory: Protecting Sea Lions in the P ...
    A steller sea lion. © Oceana Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I’m pleased to report two victories this week for some of the oceans’ most threatened creatures. First, Oceana and its allies won protections for endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles with the establishment of the first ...
  • Victory! Pacific Leatherbacks Gain Protected H ...
    This leatherback will now have a safe haven in the Pacific. [Photo credit: NOAA] As of today, the ocean’s largest sea turtle now has 41,914 square miles of Pacific Ocean it can call its own. Oceana has been working for five years to protect habitat critical to the survival and recovery of th ...
  • Costa Concordia Capsizes near Med's Biggest Ma ...
    A fish documented during Oceana's 2006 Mediteranean expedition. © Oceana/Inaki Relanzon The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia in Italy is a sobering human tragedy, with at least 11 deaths and more missing. Sadly, it could become an environmental tragedy as well. The Costa Concordia ca ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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  • The Douglas XB-42 Mix Master.
        In 1944, a single Douglas XB-42 Mix Master flew. With dual pusher propellers, the experimental plane  handled fairly well. It  had all the speed of a Mosquito Fighter Bomber but more armament and greater payload.  Not too much later one set a speed record by flaying from Long Beach ...
  • Do Countries Even Matter?
      Are Countries Passé?   In 1945 at the end of WWII, there were approximately 71 sovereign nations. Today there are 205 nations.   Recently Scottish news agencies announced a movement afoot that would bring independence to Scotland from its august ties to the United Kingdom’s mona ...
  • Strange Massive Chinese Graphics In The Gobi D ...
      A few years ago, cartographers and readers of Gizmodo searching through Google Earth began noticing large grids of zig sagging lines appear in the Gobi desert. In Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, and north of the Shule River, you can see what look like artwork, or QR codes. The lines are 65 to 9 ...
  • Movie Review: The Battle Of Algiers
      I watched the movie The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film about the 8 year insurgency by the citizens of Algeria against the French occupational force. It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvino. It is a powerful, moving movie, about two hours and twenty minutes long. The acting is superb. The ca ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Obama to Thank the Republicans Running for Pre ...
    During his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama will announce the creation of a special unit to investigate misconduct and illegalities that contributed to both the financial collapse and the mortgage crisis. The office, part of a new Unit on Mortgage Origination and Securitizatio ...
  • Obama says it’s “make or break” time: What’s y ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Time limited political campaigns as usual are a much easier sell than indefinite work of activism, but you get what you pay for. Or more accurately, if you go the politics as usual route, you get what major donors pay ...
  • Ryan Lizza and The Hillary Effect, Case Proved ...
    The reason I wrote my book was to tell a piece of history. It was to set the record of events out for people to read and connect. The Hillary Effect gets another big boost from recent reporting that bolsters the case I make, which is backed up by the facts I offer. A memo [...]
  • How Many Democratic Millionaires Pay 10% to th ...
    The Wall Street Journal got an early peek at Mitt Romney’s tax returns. I wonder how many conservative Christians gave over 10% to their church in 2010. How many Democratic millionaires gave that much to their church or their favorite charity? Did Mitt Romney abuse the tax code? No, it&#82 ...
  • Newt’s Mistake: Pivoting to General Election Mode
    There was no sports arena atmosphere. No applause. None of which benefited Newt Gingrich. …or Brian Williams, who made The Elite Media and the Professional Left antsy. The video above was released as the debate began, driving home Mitt’s theme of the night. “In the 15 years after he ...

Hudson New York

  • Planning Genocide in Plain Sight
    When a group of high-ranking Nazi bureaucrats sat down 70 years ago today (Jan. 20, 1942), they didn't plot the death of 6 million Jews; they aimed at 11 million. Dubbed the Wannsee Conference, after its location, it was chaired by SS Obergruppenfuhrer
  • Former German President to Praise Anti-Israel ...
    Since 1992, the German concern Media Control has awarded an annual prize, known as "Deutscher Medienpreis." According to the company website, it is given "to a person who had outstanding importance in the media during the past year." Remarkably, the list
  • God Bless the Hungarians
    Hungary is almost broke. That is the country's great tragedy. It needs financial help from the other members of the European Union (EU), who are already helping EU states in financial difficulties, and from the IMF. But both the EU and the IMF refuse to
  • Turkish Ties with France Face Crucial Test on ...
    Turkey could downgrade its diplomatic ties with Paris and cut cooperation in education and culture as part of a second round of sanctions against France if the country's Senate approves a bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide today. The
  • Britain's Rising Tide of Islam
    The number of young Muslims in British prisons has skyrocketed over the past two decades and, according to a Muslim advisor to the United Kingdom's Prison Service, Islamic preachers are to blame, There are now almost 11,000 Muslim males, mostly in their

Urban Survival

  • The Great Dichotomy
    Reader Note:  This morning’s report is a posted early – and a bit short, to, come to think of it.  Taking G2 to the airport…been a fun visit, but he’s anxious to get back to the big city, for heaven … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Noticing Colours
    In our every-so-often tromp down to the martial arts platform where hard science meets hot anomalies, we have a reader who sends this… I have, and believe me when I say the flat screen works fine, noticed NOTHING but blue … Continue reading →
  • The Bitter Harvest at Davos
    Ain’t it rich?  (I love lousy word plays on Monday).  I mean after putting on a decades-long press for global corporate domination, the folks at helm of some of the world’s largest pools of money are meeting at the World … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With N.P.D.
    Got up right on schedule this morning and had a delightful breakfast: A chicken sandwich on a croissant follow by PIE.   Yessir, in keeping with the spirit of this being National Pie Day, Elaine was in the kitchen most of … Continue reading →
  • Is Solar Putting in a Bottom?
    Every so often we like to get practical and hands-on  with economic notes that make sense even for the non Wall Street investor, since, coming up to whatever it is this spring, now could be a dandy time to be … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • A Round of Thanks for Standing Up to Polluters
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. Late last year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated Clean Air Act safeguards to protect our children’s and families’ health from mercury and other d ...
  • Chicken Fingers with a Side of Penicillin?
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco Let’s face it; feeding our children isn’t always easy. I was lucky with my first child, my daughter, who will try just about anything. So when she was you ...
  • How to Deny that Fish Need Water
    Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco I recently came across this checklist for global warming deniers on Michael Campana’s post: Deny global warming. After global warming is determined to be real, deny that it's human caused. After ...
  • The Terry Keystone XL Bill: Heads, TransCanad ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC The Republican leadership’s latest gambit to force through TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a measure proposed by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) in December. GOP leader ...
  • Philadelphia Freedom: SEPTA Promises, SEPTA De ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. The week before last Rob Perks and I trekked up to Philadelphia and met with (among others) the executive director and several staff members of the Southeastern Pennsyl ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct we were able to track in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, January 23, 2012: California state trooper was convicted of murder for fatally shooting her husband during an alleged drunken dispute [0] lat.ms/zJXxWe Lincoln RI cop c ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 01-21 ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of January 21-22, 2012: Austin TX police allegedly kept a citizens panel ruling that a fatal shooting incident by a cop violated policy a secret while they continued to justify that ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, January 20, 2012: Seattle WA police seem to have an ace in the hole in their effort to stop the DOJ from forcing them to stop committing civil rights abuses in the form of a [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, January 19, 2012: Las Vegas NV police are set to settle suit for $1.7mil to the family of an unarmed man fatally shot during a drug raid that went bad before police even got the [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, January 18, 2012: DeKalb Co GA cop went to the wrong address while responding to a domestic disturbance call where he then fatally shot a dog that was chained to a garage… t ...

Total Collapse

  • Iran definitely closing Strait of Hormuz over ...
    Tensions in the Gulf could reach a breaking point as a senior Iranian official said Iran would “definitely” close the Strait of Hormuz if an EU oil embargo disrupted the export of crude oil, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. The announcement came in response to a decision by the Europe ...
  • EU adopts oil embargo on Iran
    The EU will immediately ban new oil deals with Iran and implement a total boycott of Iranian oil in July 2012, under sanctions discussed by the 27 Foreign Ministers today. Sanctions could also target the activities of a number of Iranian companies, individuals and financial institutions, includi ...
  • Report: Russia to deliver combat jets to Syria
    Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime’s bloody crackdown. The respected business daily Kommersant, citing an unidentified source cl ...
  • Syria Rejects Arab League Plan To End Crisis
    Syria rejected Monday a new Arab League plan aiming to end the country’s 10-month crisis by calling on the government and the opposition to form a national unity government within two months. The Syrian statement carried by the state-run news agency SANA came a day after Qatari Foreign Min ...
  • US deploys 12,000 troops in Libya
    The United States has sent some 12,000 soldiers to Libya, in the first phase of deployments to the oil-rich North African nation. According to Asharq Alawsat, the troops landed in the eastern oil port city of Brega. Although the deployment is said to be aimed at generating stability and security ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Anonymous hacks the FTC. London will get Internet on the Tubes…sort of. Julian Assange is going to host a talk show. But who would actually want to end their career...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Tumblr.com is about to get better when it comes to discovery. Google might be selectively censoring some of its Blogger blogs. YouTube has hit 4 billion daily page views. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Megaupload is down and the Department of Justice is behind the act. So Anonymous decided that the DOJ’s site should go down too. Turnabout, eh? Google+ tops 90 million active...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook announces its Open Graph partners, numbering 60 so far. An Iranian-born Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in Iran for code that he wrote, which was use in...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Sites across the Web black out to protest against SOPA and PIPA, Samsung says it’s not looking to buy RIM, and Grooveshark pulls out of Germany. It’s all in today’s...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Australian Car Manufacturing must go electric
    Australian car manufacturing to become extinct unless we shift to electric vehicles. "The Australian car manufacturing industry will suffer a "Kodak moment" (they announced bankruptcy this week) if it fails to shift from polluting internal combustion engines (ICE) to efficient electric engines, ...
  • Losing farmland to fossil fuels
    Matthew Wright Climate spectator reports:Today, across NSW, farmers are participating in wind projects by co-locating wind turbines on their land. Just 2,000 modern 7.5MW on-shore wind turbines would provide enough electricity to power more than half of NSW. The NSW government is opposed to w ...
  • Piers Akerman's call for apartheid era coal to ...
    Piers Akerman (Daily Telegraph Jan 20,2012) is calling for Coal-to-Liquids to be deployed in Australia. Coal to liquids is the technology choice of desperate regimes including the Nazis in Germany during WWII and the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is highly polluting and has only ever be ...
  • Solar programs pay for themselves and reduce t ...
    This is an updated version of what was published in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Solar energy benefits the state by providing electricity at much cheaper rates than those of traditional sources, writes Matthew Wright. It may appear counter-intuitive, but getting millions of solar panels ont ...
  • Renewable Energy Lifeline for Australian Manuf ...
    By Matthew Wright Coal’s days are numbered. The transition to renewable energy is now well underway. It will put an end to the adverse health impacts coal mining and combustion now has on the health of Australian families such as those in the Hunter Valley. The increased rates of asthma, respir ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Photos: 46 new species found in little-explore ...
    South America's tiniest independent nation still hides a number of big surprises: a three week survey to the sourthern rainforests of Suriname found 46 potentially new species and recorded nearly 1,300 species in all. Undertaken by Conservation International's (CI) Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) ...
  • 87 marine mammals still eaten by people
    Threats to marine mammals usually include climate change, drowning as by-catch, pollution, depletion of prey, but what about eating marine mammals? A new study in Biological Conservation finds that a surprising 87 marine mammals—including polar bears, small whales, and dolphins—have ...
  • Acid oceans: in some regions acidification a ' ...
    Emissions of carbon over the last two centuries have raised the acidity of the oceans to the highest levels in 21,000 years and likely beyond, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change. The change threatens a number of marine species, including coral reefs and molluscs.
  • Economic slowdown leads to the pulping of Latv ...
    The economic crisis has pushed many nations to scramble for revenue and jobs in tight times, and the small Eastern European nation of Latvia is no different. Facing tough circumstances, the country turned to its most important and abundant natural resource: forests. The Latvian government accept ...
  • Pangolins imperiled by internet trade--are com ...
    You can buy pretty much anything on the internet: from Rugby team garden gnomes to Mickey Mouse lingerie. In some places, consumers have even been able to purchase illegal wildlife parts, such as ivory and rhino horn. In fact, the internet has opened up the black market wildlife trade contributi ...

Sierra Express

  • Davidson out – Robbin-Coker in as Minister of ...
    In a press release issued today by State House, His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma deemed it necessary to relieve Prof. Ogunlade Davidson of his duties as Minister of Energy and Water Resources with immediate effect. In Davidson’s place, President Koroma has appointed Mr Oluniyi Robbin-C ...
  • Standard Chartered launches hunt for Liverpool ...
    Sierra Leone 31st October 2011 – Liverpool FC’s main sponsor, Standard Chartered, has launched a search for the Club’s most committed supporter as part of a new Fan of the Month competition. Each month during the 2011-12 English Premier League season, one fan who has gone above and beyond to dem ...
  • Landmark again for Pilot National Legal Aid!
    Pilot National Legal Aid (PNLA) was established by the Government of Sierra Leone and the Justice Sector Development Programme on January 6th 2010 to provide sustainable, affordable, credible and accessible legal aid scheme for those living in Sierra Leone who cannot afford to pay for the servic ...
  • Famous to release ‘No to All Man Go Lek U’ Feb ...
    ‘Sebe’ star, Fredrick Peters, aka Famous, is set to release his 4th consecutive album on February 4th 2012.  (Photo: Famous on stage) The 12-track album, which is tentatively titled: ‘No to All Man Go Lek U’, was recorded in the UK, USA and Sierra Leone. The famous artist told Salonejamboree tha ...
  • Nasser Ayoub in ‘State Crime’
    Popular businessman and award winning philanthropist, Nasser Ayoub, has landed a part in the much anticipated movie, ‘State Crime.’ Details of his involvement in the ‘State Crime’ are still sketchy, but SaloneJamboree gets a sneak preview of his role in it. The story of a soldier caught in the m ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Govt deaf to Fonterra on forced milk sales
    Fonterra's cost of complying with special regulation is "significantly outweighed'' by the benefits of its privileged position in the New Zealand dairy market, agriculture ministry officials have concluded.But Fonterra says the...
  • Crafar farm bid decision close
    The Overseas Investment Office now says it will make a decision whether or not to approve Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms before the January 31 deadline for the deal set by receiver Michael Stiassny.Should...
  • Fay ready to fight China farm deal
    Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms will face a high-powered legal challenge from a rival group of buyers led by businessman Sir Michael Fay if it gains Overseas Investment Office approval.However,...
  • Crafar fraud case - third person charged
    Hong Kong authorities have charged a third person alleged to be an accomplice to fraud involving the spurned Natural Dairy NZ bid for the Crafar family's dairy farms. Singaporean national and New Zealand resident Yee Wenjye, also...
  • Legal challenge looms if Chinese win Crafar farms
    The Overseas Investment Office faces an unprecedented public examination of its process for approving sales of New Zealand farmland to foreign investors if it approves the bid by China's Shanghai Pengxin Corporation for the 16 farms...

The Bovine

  • About psychopathic personalities
    Is the fact that many psychopaths gravitate to positions of power part of the reason why we’re so seldom governed “as if people mattered”? From the Lyme Disease Sentinel blog: “Narcissists, sociopaths, or psychopaths come from all walks of life, … Continue reading & ...
  • Seven picky eaters and the foods they wouldn&# ...
    From “Seven foods you should never eat”, Health Freedom Alliance: “Here is article which shows why a toxicologist won’t eat microwavable popcorn or why a farmer will not eat non organic potatoes or why a fishery expert stays away from … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk debate at Harvard Feb. 16th
    This should be good. Let’s hope they publish the proceedings of this landmark debate in some readily accessible format. From Pritzkerlaw.com: “Attorney Fred Pritzker has been invited to participate in a raw milk debate sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Food Law Society. … Conti ...
  • Bill Marler recants earlier statement on raw m ...
    From Bill’s “Real Raw Milk Facts” blog: “My dear friend, David Gumpert (“The Pope of Raw Milk”), suggested that I may have jumped the gun on linking Twin Rivers Farm raw milk to the Brucella illness.  Mixed into his typical … Continue reading →
  • Health Canada not so worried about Fukushima f ...
    Finally, some mention in the mainstream media of potential health risk from Fukushima fallout, be it ever so dismissive: From Michael Platt in the Calgary Sun: “There’s no need to panic — probably. But not knowing whether to shrug or … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Economic Insanity from Gingrich on Marijuana U ...
    Anyone wondering what kind of economically-illiterate, big-brother expansionist ideas Newt Gingrich might embrace as president can find the answer in several recent articles regarding his positions on marijuana usage, food stamps, drug testing, and surprisingly even "free radios". Please co ...
  • Premature Dollar Obituaries and Mainstream Eco ...
    A pair of articles by Austrian economist professor Antal E. Fekete just might have one wondering who is more in the loony bin, mainstream economists like Krugman or those consistently chanting about the death of the dollar coupled with hyperinflation. Premature Obituaries Please consi ...
  • Greek Bondholders Reject Deal; History Lesson ...
    Reuters reports Euro zone ministers reject private bondholders' Greece offer Euro zone finance ministers Monday rejected as insufficient an offer made by private bondholders to help restructure Greece's debts, sending negotiators back to the drawing board and raising the threat of Greek defaul ...
  • Obama's Praise and Support of Union Bullying
    Paul Munsch is the owner of St. Louis Paving in St. Louis, Missouri. He and his employees have faced years of bullying by the union bosses with whom President Obama continues to side. Please listen to this video message. Note, the video starts out grainy, I believe on purpose. ...
  • Fannie, Freddie Would Need Another $100 Billio ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have already cost US taxpayers over $200 billion. If Obama gets his way on mortgage writedowns, the GSEs estimate it would take another $100 billion. Since such estimates are always overly-optimistic by a factor of 3 to 10, I estimate the cost to taxpayers would b ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.&#82 ...
  • The Fastest Growing Bank in the West
    Defending our Future in the Financial System Investors and regulators are frequently cautioned that rapid growth in banking can be a sign of trouble.  With most of their incoming cash protected by public guarantees like deposit insurance, banks can grow by taking on more risk without as much sen ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “COWARDICE, n. A charge often leveled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These ‘cow ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The first casualty when war comes is the truth.” – Senator Hiram Johnson  International Newsworthy Iran: The War Dance is in Full Swing Report: “US Builds Hospital in Georgia, Readies for War with Iran” Iran Bans Unofficial Money Trade after Rial ...
  • Romney Says the Magic Words …
    Turning the Magical Mega Dollar Wheels When it comes to elections and political fundraising there are certain magic words, sentences and phrases. Of course I am not talking about ‘increasing employment’ or ‘creating jobs.’ Those lines are used later- after the competition is almost ended, and th ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
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  • EI financing agency spends millions doing noth ...
    So much for being fiscally responsible! Maybe the reason the number of Service Canada's E.I. offices is being slashed by over 80% is to pay for this boondoggle. EI financing agency spends millions doing nothing - Politics - CBC News: Backlogged by Design Conservative ridings benefit from.. ...
  • Parliament in Review: November 18, 2011
    Friday, November 18 saw two pieces of legislation discussed. And the contrast couldn't have been much more stark between an opposition effort to develop better legislation, and a government focused on nothing more than sticking to talking points regardless of whether they made the slightest sens ...
  • The One-For-One Rule an Over-Simplified Approa ...
    President of the Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement Minister Tony Clement's released their new One-For-One rule on Jan 18th.  Put simply the press release is announcing that the federal government plans to treat regulations like trading cards. This means that regulato ...
  • Floor-crossing heart-switching mind-changers
    John L. is my best friend And I believe with all my heart In this man's vision for our land. I'm thrilled to be a part Of positive change. John L., you know, is dead. I must confess: at heart My views are not the ones he had And I'm no more a part Of positive change.
  • Council of Canadians sponsored Trudeau’s BC sp ...
    Besides the obvious hilarity of having the son of a multi-millionaire speaking at an event co-hosted by Occupy Kelowna, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau was also here in the Okanagan at the request of the organized labour-backed group, Council of Canadians. “We have a government right now that&#8 ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Iraq twin car bombs kill 10, injure 38
    At least ten people have been killed and 38 others injured in twin car bomb attacks in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, as the violence gets momentum in the volatile country.
  • 'Turkey backs AL decision on Syria'
    Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country will back new decisions adopted by the Arab League (AL) regarding Syria, Press TV reports.
  • Yemen sends extra troops to SE town
    Yemen's army has dispatched more troops to the southeastern town of Rada, seized by a group of revolutionaries after negotiations with the group's leader failed.
  • Palestinian protesters storm ICRC office
    Palestinian protesters have stormed the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the occupied east al-Quds (Jerusalem) to protest Israel's abduction of two senior Hamas officials.
  • Five Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza
    Israeli forces have carried out five airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say, but no casualties have been reported so far.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Those Crazy Chain Emails and Those Who Believe ...
    I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...
  • What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
    One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...
  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...
  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...

Dissident Voice

  • Old Goodman Brown
    There’s a place called the Devil’s Pulpit in the Berkshires in New England. It’s a basket of rock at the top of a cliff with a crag shaped like a snake’s head craned out over nothing. Nathaniel Hawthorne went up there long ago, back when the Whigs were on the wane. Not lo ...
  • The State of Obama’s 2008 Promises
    Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Democratic primary last time around largely on the strength of his extremely limited and inconsistent opposition to the war on Iraq.  Then he chose as his running mate Senator Joe Biden, a man who had led efforts in the U.S. Senate to support the invas ...
  • The Plow and the iPhone
    A central doctrine of evangelicals for the “free market” is its capacity for innovation: New ideas, new technologies, new gadgets — all flow not from governments but from individuals and businesses allowed to flourish in the market, we are told. That’s the claim made in a recent op/ed in o ...
  • Showdown Averted: ILWU and EGT Reach Agreement
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the international conglomerate EGT Development came to a tentative agreement on Monday to resolve their long simmering labor dispute.  The agreement was announced in a statement released by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire, who convene ...
  • The CEO Who Chained Himself to a Bridge
    His name is Petter Stordalen, and he’s a billionaire Norwegian property developer and the chief executive of Choice Hotels. In 2002,he chained himself to a bridge in Seascale England, demanding that the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant be shut down. Here’s his photo, chained to the bridge, ...

Destructionist

  • Oliver Stone: I Would Vote For Ron Paul Over O ...
    Acclaimed film director Oliver Stone, known for such masterpieces as Platoon, JFK and Born on the Fourth of July, has declared he would vote for Ron Paul over Barack Obama, if Paul could secure the 2012 GOP nomination. Stone made the comments in an interview with Rock Cellar magazine, noting ...
  • SOPA and PIPA Fully Alive — And a New Bill Joi ...
    Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming amount of Americans banned together and voiced their opposition to Congress over both the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Protect Intellectual Property Act. Sites that dimmed the screen for a day or two have gone back to normal — Facebook ...
  • The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirt ...
    “The West is headed to dictatorship. It’s already happening. The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism. I just mentioned the Defense Authorization Act. Before you had that you had the abrogation of the Constitution under Bush, with the Patriot Act, which Obama reins ...
  • Ron Paul in South Carolina: “Beginning of a Lo ...
    “The message of liberty is being received by more people every single day.”
  • Wayseer Manifesto – “V” Edition
    Tagged: occupy wall street protests, revolution is NOW, the destructionist, Wayseer Manifesto V Edition, We are change, we are the 99%, we the people

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    More renewable energy vital to Arizona, forum told
    Arizona Republic
    24, 2012 06:58 PM With Arizona's annual electricity demands projected to double to 32000 megawatts by 2030, the state must have more renewable-energy resources such as solar and wind power, said Kris Mayes, former chairwoman of the Arizona Corporation ...
    Buffett's MidAmerican Starts Renewable-Energy Business
    Fox Business
    The MidAmerican Energy unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKA, BRKB) said Tuesday it has started a new company to oversee a growing stable of solar, wind and other renewable-energy projects. MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., ...
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    Iberdrola Renewables laying off Portland workers, employees say
    OregonLive.com
    By Richard Read, The Oregonian View full sizeOLIVIA BUCKS/THE OREGONIANManagers lead a tour of the Leaning Jupiter Wind Farm, developed by Iberdrola Renewables south of Arlington, Ore. Employees say that solar and wind-farm company Iberdrola Renewables ...
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    UEC Wants Break On Renewable Mandate
    OPB News
    24, 2012 Where and how Umatilla Electric Cooperative fits into the 2007 Oregon renewable portfolio standards law could cost its 14000 customers in higher rates. Whether that cost amounts to $15 million or $56 million over the next 20 years may depend ...
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    Human Habitat

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    State finds no ecology obstacles to new NY bridge
    Wall Street Journal
    AP WHITE PLAINS, NY — A new Tappan Zee Bridge would do no lasting harm to the water quality of the Hudson River and might even improve air quality in the area, a state analysis says. However, nine homeowners in South Nyack, including two in a historic ...
    Global Ecology Produces Its First Organic Soil Amendment in Alabama
    MarketWatch (press release)
    Peter Ubaldi, CEO of Global Ecology and President of GEC Organics, added, "Our Castleberry, Alabama location will use state of the art production procedures and sell its products, not only in the immediate region, but nationwide as well.
    Ecology Coatings Cancels Shareholder Conference Call
    Sacramento Bee
    A business opportunity has presented itself and Ecology Coatings CEO Bob Crockett will be unavailable to attend this call. The conference call is expected to be rescheduled in the near future. About Ecology Coatings, Inc.Ecology Coatings, Inc. (OTCQB: ...
    Ecology Center Closed After Being Struck by Pickup
    Patch.com
    By Ted Glanzer The Salmon Brook Ecology Center will be shut down for several weeks after being struck by a pickup truck during the snowstorm early Sunday morning, according to a school official. Granby Superintendent of Schools Alan Addley said that ...
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    Water Power

    water floods pollution
    LCRA proposes water plan: Cities, power plants would get more, rice farmers less
    Austin American-Statesman
    By Farzad Mashhood Releasing a new proposed model for managing its water, the Lower Colorado River Authority published its draft water plan Tuesday, detailing stricter guidelines for releasing water to rice farmers and nearly doubling water reserves ...
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    Legoland Water Park On Track to Open in Summer
    The Ledger
    Adrian Jones, general manager of Legoland Florida, tries out a raft at what will be the Build-A-Raft River at Legoland Water Park in Winter Haven, FL on Tuesday January 24, 2012. Media tours were given for the new water park attraction that will open ...
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    Year of the Water Dragon
    Santa Barbara Independent
    In Chinese Zodiac, 2012 (January 23, 2012 to February 9, 2013) is year of the yang water dragon which contains earth, water, and wood signifying growth. It occurs every 60 years (the next one is 2072) – from the east/southeast in the hours of 7 to 9 in ...
    DEC Fines U.S. Energy For Water Quality Violations
    North Country Gazette
    By North Country Gazette On January 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has filed an administrative complaint seeking an order requiring US Energy Development Corporation to pay $187500 for water quality ...
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