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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

24 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • A rebuttal of “An Unavoidable Challenge – Now ...
    Summary: John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is best known for his brief stint at the Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration (2001-2003), where he authored a controversial memora ...
  • Crude oil above $110 on Iran
    Summary: LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Brent crude oil held above $110 on Tuesday as supply concerns rooted in tension between Iran and the West offset fears over demand growth stemming from protracted negotiations over Greece's debt. source: Reutersread more
  • Censorship as a Badge of Honor? Britain Bans P ...
    Summary: For the first time, British government censors have banned a 24-hour news channel from British viewers. As of the afternoon, UK-time, 20th January 2012, viewers of Press TV, an avowedly anti-imperialist TV channel headquartered in Tehran and featuring many of the voices found in Coun ...
  • Key Reasons against Sanctions and Military Int ...
    Summary: The current US stand-off against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining US pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according t ...
  • “No war, No Sanctions, No Internal Interventio ...
    Summary: Below is a statement by United National Anti-War Coalition on the assassination of Iranian scientists and the growing threat of war against Iran. Also, UNAC members participated in a national conference call on Tuesday with many other antiwar and Iranian groups. The meeting called ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Supergiant Galaxy Perseus A ...
    Chandra's X-ray image of the core of the Perseus galaxy cluster shows hot gas in and around the supergiant galaxy, Perseus A. The colors represent low (0.5 - 1 keV = red); medium (1-2 keV = green); and high (2-7...
  • A Previously Hidden Solar-System Particle in E ...
    Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much electrically charged cold plasma exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our planet's interaction with the sun. A new method developed by Swedish researchers...
  • What Would Earth Look Like to Alien Astronomer ...
    What would Earth look like to alien astronomers in the Age of the Dinosaurs? Two astronomers from Spain -- Enric Palle and Esther Sanroma, of the Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands (IAC)--are modeling the clouds at different periods in...
  • EcoAlert: Massive Solar Radiation Hitting Eart ...
    A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) --a massive burst of solar wind, other light isotope plasma, and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space--is expected to hit Earth at about 0900 EST (1400 GMT) today, according...
  • Galaxy Clusters & Great Walls (The Largest Str ...
    A stunningly beautiful galaxy cluster 840 million light years from Earth with a few hundred galaxies gets its name from the strong radio source, Hydra A, above, that originates in a galaxy near the center of the cluster. Chandra Space...

Natural News

  • Sugar-slinging Paula Deen on the take from Big ...
    Her southern charm and delightful laugh are not enough to quell the massive backlash celebrity chef Paula Deen is receiving from the public after it became general knowledge that the Food Network star has type-2 diabetes. Reports indicate that Deen confirmed her condition...
  • Urge your Congressmen to co-sponsor HR 1830 an ...
    For 15 years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been overstepping its regulatory bounds by restricting individuals from buying and selling -- or even just transporting -- raw milk across state lines. But legislation authored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) will...
  • New Hampshire bills seek to outlaw foreign sub ...
    The State of New Hampshire is quickly gaining momentum to be the first entire US state to outlaw adding fluoride chemicals to public water supplies. The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has reported that two bills currently before committee -- HB 1529 and HB 1416 -- seek...
  • Avoid antibiotics - There are alternatives
    (NaturalNews)There are situations when antibiotics are necessary and sometimes life-saving. Severe infections of the nervous system, kidneys, blood, and lungs require antibiotics. But common respiratory and ear infections, for example, do not need antibiotics. Most of these are caused...
  • Aloe vera helps reverse cancer and AIDS
    One of the best kept secrets in the nutritional field is aloe vera. Commonly recognized for soothing ulcers, hemorrhoids, sunburns, wounds and other skin ailments, many don't know the power pure raw aloe vera juice has for improving and even reversing serious diseases...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Breached Railway Network, Disrupted Se ...
    Hackers attacked computers at an an unidentified railway company last December, disrupting railway signals for two days, according to a leaked government memo.
  • 10K Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
    A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants, and found that many could be open to easy hack attacks, due to lax security practices.
  • Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop
    A judge on Monday ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case. The defendant, accused of bank fraud, had unsuccessfully argued that being forced to do so violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against compelled ...
  • I Spy Your Company’s Boardroom
    Security researchers discover they can remotely infiltrate conference rooms in some of the top venture capital and law firms across the country by simply calling in to unsecured videoconferencing systems they found by doing a scan of the internet.
  • Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring, Supreme Co ...
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move. The decision (.pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the Obama ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Team USA Goalie Tim Thomas Snubs President Obama
    On Monday, goaltender Tim Thomas of the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins became just the latest high profile athlete to snub President Obama by refusing to attend a White House ceremony honoring his team. Nevertheless, Thomas' insult to the presidency is unique. After all, Thomas is the firs ...
  • Newt Gingrich's Big Idea
    "Where's the beef?" With that sound bite, Walter Mondale deflated the insurgent bid of the "candidate of new ideas" Gary Hart for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination.* Twenty-eight years later, rising Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich may be about to have his own "where's th ...
  • Romney Plays the Victim Card
    Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary by playing the victim card. Now, Mitt Romney hopes to win the Republican nomination by doing the same thing. But while Gingrich's ploy of portraying himself as the latest conservative target of a liberal "elite" media assault is always a winner with ...
  • Mitt Romney Dogged by Empathy Gap
    Over the past few days, conservative forces have mobilized to protect Mitt Romney from incoming fire over his rapidly multiplying tax scandals. Former Bush press flack Ari Fleischer and the Wall Street Journal editorial page predictably - and comically - argued the rich already pay too much in ...
  • Gingrich Proposes New Tax Rate for Mitt Romney ...
    As the outcry grows over Mitt Romney's shockingly low 15 percent tax rate, his bitter rival Newt Gingrich rushed to his defense. "My goal is not to raise Mitt Romney's taxes," Gingrich declared," It's to let everybody pay Mitt Romney's rate." Of course, as with his marriage vows, Newt isn't te ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • New Hampshire City Debates Moratorium on Refugees
    Members of the city’s Bhutanese community say they are opposed to a decrease in refugees, citing the economic contributions that they have made in the city of Manchester.
  • GUEST INFORMANT: Chip Zdarsky’s WATCHMEN 2
    Comics creator Chip Zdarsky — dimly related by birth to Canada’s National Post cartoonist and thwarted Toronto mayoral candidate Steve Murray — is currently writing his autobiography, and has very kindly shared a chapter of said tome with me.  Herein, he relates the story of th ...
  • Robert Redford on How Truth Telling, Challengi ...
    Robert Redford is well known as an actor, a director, a producer and an activist. Since 1980, through the Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Institute, Robert Redford has helped independent voices develop their craft—in film, in theater and in music—to reach larger and newer audiences. We s ...
  • "The Atomic States of America": Exploring a Na ...
    Nuclear power has drawn wide support from both sides of the aisle, with both Republicans and Democrats advancing a pro-nuclear agenda even in the aftermath of last year's Fukushima disaster in Japan. We speak with Sheena Joyce, co-director of the new documentary "The Atomic States of America," w ...
  • As Romney Releases Tax Returns, Fmr Senate Inv ...
    During the GOP primary, Mitt Romney has come under fierce attack for parking millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven. We speak with Tax Justice Network USA chair Jack Blum, a former top congressional investigato ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Sustainable: a Comic by XKCD
    Easily one of the internet’s greatest webcomics, XKCD suggests that “the word ‘sustainable’ is unsustainable’. Source: XKCD
  • Increaed Carbon Dioxide Levels Debilitating Se ...
    A new study has found that rising human carbon dioxide emissions may in fact be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fishes, decreasing their inherent ability to survive. Carbon dioxide concentrations predicted to occur in the ocean by the end of this century will interfere wi ...
  • Bill McKibben: Man Who Took Down $7-Billion Oi ...
      Well, of course, Bill didn’t do it single-handedly. However, if there’s one person to credit with getting thousands of people to submit to arrest in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, and getting over 10,000 to circle the White House in protest, and hundreds of thousands ...
  • Bicycling in Amsterdam: Beautiful Film with Cl ...
      Via Copenhagenize: “Brilliant film from Ed van den Elsken. As our friend Angela called it, ‘A short movie about cycling in the pre cycle chic era’. Fantastic footage from Amsterdam.” (Have to watch the video with sound!)  
  • Health Benefits of Ciclovia Far Outweigh Costs
      If you’re not familiar with Ciclovia, it’s the closing of roadways (temporarily or permanently) for bicyclists, runners, pedestrians, roller-bladers, and anyone else not using a form of motorized transportation. Ciclovia started in Colombia, but it has grown and spread to cit ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Cris ...
    New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform Source: Real News...
  • Tariq Ali: Obama’s Expansion of Af-Pak War "Ha ...
    Editorial comment:The video attached contains about 45 minutes of pre-election talk. If you prefer to avoid that, move forward to 45+ minutes into the video, where Tariq Ali comes in.  - SON Amid ongoing U.S.-Pakistani tensions and fears of a military coup in Pakistan, we are join ...
  • Nigeria violence: Scores dead after Kano blast ...
    Co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday killed about 150 people, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured. A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings, passport offices and ...
  • BFP Breaking News: The New Desperate Concoctio ...
    War Architects Have Written a New Script- This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fa ...
  • Is Iran preparing nuclear weapons? - Featured
    The United States claims Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Israel says Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says it is trying to build nuclear power generation - you know, the same kind of activity the US paid Iran to do during the reign of the Shah....

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Mitt Romney Is One Of Us? Bullshit!
    @TomBales1  I need to get a few things off my chest about Mitt Romney and his campaign's idiotic attempts to portray him as someone in touch with the problems faced buy ordinary everyday Americans.  Mitt Romney is NOT an ordinary everyday American.  He's not a "man of the people" ...
  • Elizabeth Warren Does Something Incredibly Stupid
    By @KYYellowDog Think Progress: The 2012 elections will undoubtedly see an unprecedented injection of third-party influence, thanks to the Citizens United ruling and the subsequent advent of super PACs, and now, "super super PACS" - groups that "not only raise mega cash to promote candidates, bu ...
  • Newt Gingrich: The Republicans' "Monster from ...
    By@TedFrier Fans of the 1956 science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet, will immediately recognize that for today's Republicans Newt Gingrich is their "Monster from the Id." Gingrich is the personification of the Republican Party's own deepest, darkest fears and hatreds -- in much the same way ...
  • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "A Hard Rai ...
    By @KYYellowDog: Uploaded by Librarian1972: Bob Dylan's live-performance of his legendary „A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" at „The Great Music Experience", Nara (Japan) in May 1994. Dylan plays before a massive orchestral scenery, which is the Tokyo New Philharmonic orchestra -- the first time ever ...
  • The Kids Are All Right, Part Two
    By @KYYellowDog We've been wondering for a while what it would take to get the video-glazed-eyed slackers out into the streets; now we know. Rebecca Leber at Think Progress: Youth activists interrupted the State of the Energy Industry earlier this week to deliver the 99 percent's message to poll ...

Care 2

  • Bobcat Trapped and Tortured ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    If you love animals, you may not be able to stand watching this video but someone has to speak out against this sort of sick, twisted, cruelty before one more bobcat ends up this way. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Justice for Cookie! Adopted sick and starved d ...
    According to data obtained by pet-abuse.com, Lace Walker has been charged with a misdemeanor due to her alleged neglect and torture of a dog named Cookie. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 1/24/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, including a Bankster video, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop Shark Finning in the Galapagos Islands ! ...
    The Galapagos Islands, an isolated set of volcanic islands off the western coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, are under attack. Native shark populations are being aggressively fished for shark fin soup, an Asian delicacy. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • Saving The Endangered Snow Leopard With Induce ...
    The survival of the endangered snow leopard is looking promising thanks to scientists who have, for the first time, produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of an adult leopard. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • How Long Before Gingrich Implodes?
    This ain’t a matter of if, but when. Newt Gingrich will metaphorically shoot himself in the head with a 50 caliber sniper rifle. And when it happens it will dirty up the rest of the Republican field. Most Americans despise Newt Gingrich. He mistakes his grandiosity for brilliance. He think ...
  • Romney Today * Open Thread (Several Updates)
    NOTICES: Join us here tonight in a live blogging thread to discuss, mock, cheer, and cringe during the latest GOP presidential nominee debate. The four-candidate debate in Tampa, Florida airs at 9pm ET/8pm CT and 9pm PT on NBC (FYI: NBC, I’m told, failed to update its programming schedule ...
  • Newt Gingrich Doing the Obama
    Newt is trying to do to Romney what Obama did to Hillary. Pretend to be something he ain’t and tap into the anger of his political base. Obama portrayed himself as a man of principle who was not a warmonger like Hillary. Obama was such a stand up guy, unlike that duplicitous, establishment ...
  • The Pirate Strategy
    “We can go in two directions, one is for less opportunity and less fairness…I am going to lay out a blueprint…homegrown and alternative energy sources…getting people the skills they need…a return to American values…how we do it… “ (See video below. ...
  • South Carolina Returns (Open Thread)
    It’s nearly time for the results to come in, so … prognosticate away until the actual counts come in, and tell the rest of us what you think is going to happen next in Florida. – Much more to come on the blog — stay tuned, as they say on television –

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmental group urges lawmakers to conside ...
    Environmental group urges lawmakers to consider health impact of coal Lexington Herald Leader They include air and water pollution from mountaintop removal mining, mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and toxic metals, such as arsenic and cadmium, that are found in coal-waste storage p ...
  • PNC meeting - Newsworks.org (blog)
    PNC meeting Newsworks.org (blog) ... and Penn got their wish yesterday when they met with PNC Bank about mountain top removal. Students from both schools, which use PNC for banking services, have been protesting the bank's support of businesses that engage in mountaintop removal.
  • PNC meets with students over mountaintop remov ...
    PNC meets with students over mountaintop removal lending Newsworks.org By Emma Jacobs Executives from PNC Bank met with students from Temple and the University of Pennsylvania Monday afternoon to talk about mountaintop removal. The students and other environmental activists want the bank to stop ...
  • Where it all Began... - Fenceviewer
    Where it all Began... Fenceviewer The idea of mountain top removal began in the 1960's, but extensive research did not take off until the mid seventies. The petroleum crisis occurred and developed monetary incentives for more economically friendly coal mining. Over time, this basically ... ...
  • Mr. McKibben, Take Heed - CounterPunch
    Mr. McKibben, Take Heed CounterPunch And fossil fuel extraction by fracking, drilling, and mountaintop removal adds outrageous amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, hastening the events just described. Yet many corporations, politicians, regulatory agencies, and groups that ...

Memeorandum

  • Why Democrats Think the GOP Race Might Last Un ...
    Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS: Why Democrats Think the GOP Race Might Last Until June  —  Game it out for a second.  Look at the calendar.  —  This GOP race could go on for a long time, and Democrats profess to be thrilled about that prospect, about Mitt Romney and ...
  • Gingrich Defends Medicare: 'I Have Always Publ ...
    Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress: Gingrich Defends Medicare: ‘I Have Always Publicly Favored A Stronger Medicare Program’  —  During Monday night's GOP presidential debate, Newt Gingrich defended his support for the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), an unfunded exp ...
  • The Newt-Mitt Electability Gap Shrinks (Jonath ...
    Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: The Newt-Mitt Electability Gap Shrinks  —  Shoot me now  —  The main reason the Republican Establishment overwhelmingly favors Mitt Romney over Newt Gingrich is that Romney stands a better chance of beating Barack Obama.  ...
  • Hour of Newt - South Carolina Republicans deli ...
    National Review: Hour of Newt  —  South Carolina Republicans delivered what former president George W. Bush once called a “thumpin'” to Mitt Romney.  Republicans have too many misgivings about Romney — misgivings we share — to give him a shortcut to ...
  • Dome: Vote for Marriage N.C. to push for amend ...
    Raleigh News & Observer: Dome: Vote for Marriage N.C. to push for amendment  —  The organization leading the push to define marriage as one woman and one man in North Carolina's Constitution is officially launching its campaign.  —  Vote for Marriage NC is le ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Living landscape
    As the need to reduce the amount of energy and materials used in manufacturing processes becomes more urgent, architects and engineers should look for inspiration in nature, writes Michael Pawlyn.At the start of the industrial revolution, people were scarce and resources were abundant. Today, th ...
  • Dominating the urban horizon
    Skyscrapers are costly to erect and permits are tough to get, so why do architects keep trying to go higher? Tall buildings have always been about ego, say Edwin Heathcote and Ed Hammond.Cass Gilbert, architect of New York’s early 20th-century Woolworth Building, called skyscrapers “ ...
  • What the smog can’t conceal
    The air quality crisis confirms China’s once-bold environment ministry has become sluggish, weak and bureaucratic, writes Chu Long.Since the autumn, a series of polluted “hazes” in cities across China – and discussion of that now ubiquitous term for fine particulate matte ...
  • The new capitalist manifesto
    From Rio+20 to the birthday of Silent Spring, this year’s sustainability milestones mark decades of effort, writes John Elkington. Now the agenda is shifting its focus to the large-scale remodelling of capitalism.Some people raised their eyebrows when, in a 2009 study called “Th ...
  • How not to discuss water with China
    Debating the quantum flow of the Brahmaputra will not foster regional cooperation. Water diplomats should discuss the river’s environmental value instead, argues Rohan D’Souza.China has never been daunted by big engineering. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and recently the Three Gorg ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Redefining Chutzpah: More Bad Ideas to Burden ...
    Written by On The Issues Magazine for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Originally written by Aram A. Schvey for On The Issues Magazine. What’s chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have d ...
  • Are the Koch brothers teaching you?
    What’s happening to academia in Florida demands national attention. Billionaires Charles and David Koch are infringing on intellectual freedom and independence in colleges and universities. It’s an old fashioned quid pro quo where the Koch brothers get allied professors who’ll ...
  • New Hampshire City Debates Moratorium on Refugees
    Members of the city’s Bhutanese community say they are opposed to a decrease in refugees, citing the economic contributions that they have made in the city of Manchester.
  • Fukushima Update: Why We Should (Still) Be Worried
    By Karen Charman, WhoWhatWhy.comAfter the catastrophic trifecta of the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan last March—what the Japanese are referring to as their 3/11—you would think the Japanese government would be doing everything in its power to co ...
  • Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk’d ...
    Four years ago, Cooper Tire told its workers they’d have to sacrifice to save the company. With a straight face, Cooper executives said it was essential for the corporation’s survival that workers take tens of millions in pay and benefit cuts. The workers understood the link between their livel ...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Breached Railway Network, Disrupted Se ...
    Hackers attacked computers at an an unidentified railway company last December, disrupting railway signals for two days, according to a leaked government memo.
  • 10K Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
    A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants, and found that many could be open to easy hack attacks, due to lax security practices.
  • Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop
    A judge on Monday ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case. The defendant, accused of bank fraud, had unsuccessfully argued that being forced to do so violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against compelled ...
  • I Spy Your Company’s Boardroom
    Security researchers discover they can remotely infiltrate conference rooms in some of the top venture capital and law firms across the country by simply calling in to unsecured videoconferencing systems they found by doing a scan of the internet.
  • Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring, Supreme Co ...
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move. The decision (.pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the Obama ...

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Jones' Seasoning Recalls Mock Salt due to Salm ...
    The FDA has announced that Jones’ Seasoning Blends LLC is conducting a recall of Jones’ Mock Salt Original as well as Jones’ Mock Salt Spicy Southwest Blend due to the potential contamination with Salmonella. To date, no illnesses have been reported in conn ...
  • Where the Hell did Shiga Toxin E. coli come fr ...
    The Discovery of E. coli O157:H7 as a Cause of Human Disease The discovery of E. coli O157:H7 as a cause of human disease was a relatively humble, unpublicized event in comparison to the identification of the E. coli O104:H4 strain that exploded in international headlines during the summer of 2 ...
  • So, Why do Public Health Agencies NOT name Tac ...
    Why is the public left to guess or hope for a reporter (or lawyer) to spill the beans (would they be refried)? After the CDC published its report a few days ago on 68 Salmonella illnesses linked to “Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain, Restaurant Chain A,” it got me thinking a ...
  • The "Mexican-style fast food Restaurant Chain ...
    Seriously, which “Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain, Restaurant Chain A” has restaurants in all these states? As the CDC reported as of January 19, 2012, a total of 68 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis have been reported from 10 states. T ...
  • Safe Employees = Safe Food
    When AP reported this week that an owner of Jensen Farms was being fined by the U.S. Department of Labor for failing to provide safe migrant worker housing, I must admit even I was a bit shocked.  Could it be that an owner of a business that allowed the deadly fecal bacteria Listeria to coa ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV to Torra ...
    Torrance, CA is going to the front of the line. Honda has delivered its first Fit EV to the city government Friday as part of an EV demonstration program that will include an unspecified number of the little electric vehicles in tests before the consumer launch in limited markets (read: Calif ...
  • Detroit: Mercedes-Benz says E-Class hybrid mak ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury In between debuting the Smart for-us and SL on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show today, Mercedes-Benz thought it right to bring out two brown cars that are actually green: diesel and gasoline flavors of the E-Class hybrid. ...
  • Detroit: XC60 Plug-In Hybrid shows where Volvo ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Technology, Crossover, Volvo, Electric, Luxury Volvo has made it a point to emphasize - surprise - the safety of its plug-in vehicles at recent auto shows. Now, at the Detroit Auto Show, the Swedish automaker has showed off the XC60 Plug-In Gasoline Hyb ...
  • Teased: Infiniti looking ahead to Geneva with ...
    The Detroit Auto Show media days are still in full swing, but Infiniti is already looking ahead to the Geneva Motor Show with another teaser of the company's plug-in hybrid electric sports car. Yes, we've seen other sketches of the car (this one) but not of this section, the general rear pil ...
  • Detroit: 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid debuts w ...
    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Volkswagen The lithium-ion battery in the new Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid may be small (just 1.1 kWh), but it can pack a punch big enough to move the gas-electric to speeds up to 44 miles per hour using nothing but electrons. Throw in a combined esti ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Egyptian Revolution: One Year Later
    On the first anniversary of the Jan. 25th protests in Tahrir Square, we’ll speak to Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous live from Cairo. We will also air an excerpt of the new HBO documentary, "In Tahrir Square," featuring Sharif. We’ll talk to the filmmak ...
  • 2011 Oscar Nominees Include Docs on Iraq Veter ...
    Nominations were announced today for the 84nd annual Academy Awards. In the documentary feature category, three films featured on Democracy Now! received nods: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front tells the story of environmental activist, Daniel McGowan. Click here to s ...
  • "The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History" By A ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan An unprecedented wave of online opposition to the SOPA and PIPA bills before Congress shows the power of a free internet. Today marked the largest online protest in the history of the internet. Websites from large to small "went dark" in prote ...
  • From Our Archives: Mitt Romney, Bain Capital P ...
    ABC News is reporting Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has "millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven." The link between Romney and offshore tax havens is not new. Check out our 2008 re ...
  • "Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosec ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan. Ten years ago, Omar Deghayes and Morris Davis would have struck anyone as an odd pair. While they have never met, they now share a profound connection, cemented through their time at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Deghayes wa ...

Suzie-Q

  • Citizens United: A Tsunami of Secret Corporate ...
    http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.html (Photo: JasonUnbound / Flickr) Truthout Saturday 21 January 2012 by: Isaiah J. Poole , Campaign for America’s Future | News Analysis Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court th ...
  • Pawlenty Defends Unlimited Campaign Donations ...
    Think Progress-  By Scott Keyes and Travis Waldron  on Jan 21, 2012 at 12:10 pm Two years ago today, the Supreme Court struck down longstanding restrictions on corporate money in American elections, paving the way for super PACs and major third party spending. Since January 21, 2009, the Citizen ...
  • Bill Moyers to return to PBS
    Is This Land Made for You and Me – or for the Super-Rich? truth-out Thursday 12 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, ...
  • Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace
    Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace truthout Sunday 25 December 2011 by: , When I heard the president speak to returning troops last week, my mind flashed back to an article I once wrote for our local newspaper. Each week, a different member of the local clergy would write a column, ...
  • Newt Gingrich Calls For Moving U.S. Embasy in ...
    Well, it’s anther Christmas in Hooland and “The Grinch” just can’t stand it. With copious amounts of unpremeditated gall, he re-affirms his alliance with AIPAC, and CUFI “Christians United for Israel, Reverand John Hagee’s religious empire that has heavy ties ...

Solari

  • All the Money on the Planet vs. MegaUpload
    By Simon Black With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was. [click on the image for a larger version] The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an [...]
  • Intelligence Support to Military Operations
    By Secrecy News From the Federation of Scientists Project on Government Secrecy The Joint Chiefs of Staff have produced updated doctrine on intelligence support to military operations.  The new doctrine (pdf) reflects changes in intelligence organizations, roles and missions. Among other thing ...
  • Leonard Cohen’s “Going Home”
    Posted by The New Yorker The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has a poem in the magazine this week, “Going Home,” that he also set to music on his upcoming album, “Old Ideas.” The ten tracks on the album are the first original recordings from Cohen since 2004. Listen to “Going [...]
  • The Caging of America
    Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss. By Adam Gopnik A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison lif ...
  • Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary America ...
    By Yves Smith Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union address to announce a mortgage “settlement” by Federal regulators, and at least some state attorneys general. It’s yet another gambit designed to generate a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • American faux history: why did the South leav ...
    Summary:  The history of the State-sponsored oppression of Black Americans (1776-1964) is the story about one of our two great national sins.  Rather than confess and repent, many Americans prefer to take refuge in lies (the other, our treatment of Native Americans, is resolved by amnesia).  How ...
  • American faux history: could we have avoided t ...
    Summary:  The campaign of Ron Paul reminds us of two of the three great lies that comprise such a large fraction of American history: slavery, stealing land from the Indians, and the role of government in US economic development.  These not only exacerbate divisions in our society but provide a ...
  • George Orwell sends us a note, giving some per ...
    Summary:  None of our problems are unique.  Even the problems of Empire, and the distorting effect of global power on our minds.  Today we have some insights from George Orwell, examining the effect of cancerous nationalism on a nation’s thinking. Here is an excerpt from “Notes on Na ...
  • Question time on the FM website (plus The Week ...
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! Contents Questions received so far Quote of the week, advice that America’s leaders have taken to heart To start the ...
  • Let’s look at ourselves in the mirror cr ...
    Summary:  Knowledge is power, including knowledge about ourselves.  One way to gain it is by looking at ourselves, what our leaders say, as others do — foreigners in our world, and the foreigners that will be our descendents.  Here will look at some statements about Iran, and some perspect ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Tehranis Blame Regime for EU Sanctions
    Editor’s Note: The following article is based upon interviews conducted with Iranians living inside Iran, but written by an author outside the country. The names stated in the article are pseudonyms in order to protect the safety of those interviewed. When Iranian state-run television was updat ...
  • Iranian Aspirations vs. Capabilities
    Thoughtful piece from Aaron Ellis (How do you solve a problem like Iran?) where considers several supposed options and then notes: So how do we solve a problem like Iran? The short answer is that nobody truly knows. President Obama commented in an interview recently that “this isn’t an easy prob ...
  • Ríos Montt to Appear Before Guatemalan Court
    Interesting news out of Guatemala today. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former genocidal president and darling of right-wing America, will be forced to appear before a Guatemalan court, a move that could lead to charges of genocide. It’s difficult to overstate how deep the United States is in the ...
  • The ICC and Kenya: In the Thick of Deterrence
    Antony Njuguna / Nairobi The big news out of the ICC today was the confirmation of charges against four of the "Ocampo Six" Kenyan elites accused of orchestrating and inciting the country's post-election violence in 2007-2008. Ruto, Arap Sang, Muthaura and Kenyatta had their charges conf ...
  • What to Do About Iran
    What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012. Republican presidential candidates are all over the strategic map. Rick Santorum wants the United States and Israel to bomb. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich accuse President ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Eurozone Overexposed
    Greece is once again the focal point of efforts to stem the bleeding of investor confidence and save the eurozone. Intense negotiations continue on the precise terms of the restructuring of privately held debt in the struggling Mediterranean country. Agreement is a necessary condition for the a ...
  • Other Things You Can Do with Rich People's Tax ...
    On the heels of a State of the Union that promises to address income inequality and a broken tax system, National Journal reports on the Democratic plan to revive a surtax on annual incomes greater than a million dollars: Democratic members of a conference committee working on a long-term exten ...
  • Vermonters United
      Sarah Harris Vermonters protest Citizen United outside the statehouse in Montpelier. “Hi. I’m Jerry. I’m a person,” said Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, as he introduced himself to the crowd with an ingratiating smile. “Ben and Jerry’s Homema ...
  • Capital Games
    Mitt Romney has now disclosed that he paid only 14.5 percent of his reported income in federal income taxes in 2010. That’s no surprise. My group, Citizens for Tax Justice, predicted as much last fall, based on Romney’s previous disclosure that almost all of his 2010 income came from capital ga ...
  • In Baseball as in Life
    I imagine being an Astros fan is not that different from being an old-style, Goldwater-type Republican. One day, you wake up and realize that you don't recognize the team you've spent your life rooting fo. In the case of the Astros, it's not so much that they've played poorly but that the new o ...

Buzzflash

  • Chris Dodd, Now Working for the "Old" Hollywoo ...
    PAUL MUTTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Candidly, those who count on quote, 'Hollywood,' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake," Dodd told Fox News. "Don't ask me to write a check for you when you t ...
  • We're Number One in the World in Putting Peopl ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT  One thing that the GOP doesn't bring up much anymore is crime. In the '70s and '80s, crime was one of the biggest red-meat issues that the Republicans demagogued about. An infamous political ad about an inmate released in Governor Dukakis' prison ...
  • Graphic Anti-Abortion Ad During the Super Bowl ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It has been a long time since Randall Terry, the founder of the notorious anti-abortion group, Operation Rescue, has been anything more than a gnat on the political landscape. Where once he commanded an army of anti-abortion activists, a series of financi ...
  • Who Is the GOP Nominee for President Going to ...
    PAT WELLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT So, who is the Republican nominee for president going to be - the adulterer, the flip flopper, the radical, or the homophobe? If I were a Republican faced with these choices, I would say, "Oh hell with it. Let's just give Obama another four years."read more
  • Sheldon Adelson's $5 Million Investment in New ...
    Paul Mutter for BuzzFlash at Truthout Much ado about Israel in South Carolina this past weekend? Not really. Israel policies were not the focus of anyone's efforts in the state. And casino mogul Sheldon Adelson's much-discussed infusion of $5 million into the Gingrich PAC "Winning Our Future" we ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Is antioxidant luteolin an anticancer super-nu ...
    A flavonoid compound found in fruit and vegetables, luteolin, was recently hailed as an anticancer supernutrient by the tabloid media. Aside from the fact that over-dosing on antioxidants could be detrimental to one’s front-line immune response to pathogens, the research was purely laborat ...
  • Cornstarch monsters on a speaker cone
    Sometimes an old viral video needs another airing. In this video from about three years ago, a mixture of corn starch poured into a speaker cone is vibrated at 30 Hz using a signal generator and the video shot at 30 frames per second (coincident timing with the speaker frequency). Corn starch is ...
  • Visceral manipulation
    My gut feeling is that visceral manipulation is yet another sCAM practice based on falsehoods, an economy of truth, and, basically, lies. Science-based medicine gives us the low down: “I think we can reasonably assume that any abdominal manipulation sufficient to disrupt adhesions would ri ...
  • Viscous fluid on a moving belt
    A stream of very viscous syrup falling from a nozzle on to a moving belt. At first, the speed of the belt is enough that the thread of syrup is just pulled out straight. However, as the belt is slowed down, the thread at first bifurcates to a meandering state, producing a sine wave and [...]Visc ...
  • Bird flu research halted
    The UK’s Guardian newspaper is reporting that researchers working to prevent the spread of bird flu and the possible millions of deaths it could cause should a pandemic occur, have suspended their research for 60 days amid fears that they might accidentally trigger the very  epidemic they ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Davos: World Leaders Protecting Business Over ...
    Governments’ failure to regulate business effectively is having a devastating impact on the rights of society’s most vulnerable people, Amnesty International warned today, ahead of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos. read more
  • Hundreds Protest Keystone XL on Capitol Hill
    At a protest on Capitol Hill this afternoon, hundreds of people dressed as referees called "foul" on members of Congress for supporting the Keystone XL pipeline while taking millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. The protest was the first of many s ...
  • Free Press Action Fund Calls on Congress to Re ...
    On Tuesday, the Free Press Action Fund called on Congress to return campaign donations from the Motion Picture Association of America. In an interview last week, MPAA President Chris Dodd, a former U.S. senator, threatened to cut off campaign donations to members of Congress who vote against le ...
  • Kucinich Speaks to the Urgency of Getting Priv ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took the House floor, urging fellow Members of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to rescue American democracy by publicly funding federal elections. See video here: Full text follows:read more
  • What Americans Hope to Hear in the State of th ...
    On the eve of President Barack Obama’s third State of the Union Address, Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey, the co-directors of the Campaign for America’s Future urge the President to put job creation in America as the top priority.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • This Is a Test... (And Too Many Americans Are ...
    David Macaray We’re being tested. Republican politicians and pundits are busy testing the American public, trying to assess how ignorant and distracted we are. While they already have a pretty good idea, they’re determined to ge ...
  • The Jirga Medal of Honor: The Colossal Folly o ...
    Ralph Nader The U.S. war in Afghanistan is testing so much futuristic detect and destroy weaponry that it can be called the most advanced all-seeing invasion in military history. From blanket satellite surveillance to soldiers’ infra- ...
  • Obama Can Win Big with FDR Formula
    Robert McElvaine Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn’t always “Franklin D. Roosevelt.”read more
  • Rules of American Justice: A Tale of Three Cases
    Glenn Greenwald Developments in three legal cases, just from the last 24 hours, potently illuminate the Rules of American Justice. First, the Justice Department yesterday charged a former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, with four felony coun ...
  • Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the O ...
    Mary Bottari While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Walker was no wh ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • ALEX HILDEBRAND
    Alex Hildebrand passed away at his rural south Manteca home Monday surrounded by what he loved and fought passionately for - his family, farming, and water.
  • Germany: Four-person water charge in Berlin is ...
    GERMAN HOMEOWNERS have a long list of bills to pay every month, starting with water and refuse charges and ending with bills for cleaning the street (dirt and snow) and even lighting the street lamp outside their door.
  • Allen Bushnell, Fish Rap: Bay still crawling w ...
    Allen Bushnell Fish Rap Sand dabs and mackerel took top billing again this week for local fishing, along with a steady catch of Dungeness crab.
  • No Name Group secretive, potentially powerful
    It's been so secretive, members acknowledge little more than its existence.
  • UPDATE: Rhythm discussed but no action taken
    CHIPLEY – Washington County Planning Commission held discussions on Rhythm, but took no action during their regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 10 and had several guests to speak with the commission as well as with citizens, which included four...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • "We won't be silenced," say students arrested ...
    Yara Sa'di 24 January 2012 Three Palestinian students at the College of Engineering in Jerusalem have been put under house arrest for a week after calling for a boycott of a speech by Israeli President Shimon Peres.
  • Interview: rapper Sphinx on why Egypt uprising ...
    Alexander Billet 24 January 2012 Hesham Alofoq (aka Sphinx) of the Egyptian hip-hop group Arabian Knightz speaks to The Electronic Intifada about the history of hip-hop in Egypt and the Middle East, the future of the Egyptian uprising, and the role that music plays in the revolt.
  • Medicines in Gaza are hostage to political riv ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 23 January 2012 Gaza health facilities continue to suffer shortages of medicines and equipment because of rivalry between Palestinian political parties, as well as the siege Israel has imposed on the Strip.
  • Hebron woman goes on hunger strike over settle ...
    Mya Guarnieri Hebron 23 January 2012 Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has risen 40 percent since 2010, and 165 percent since 2009, according to the UN. Protesting a wave of settler attacks on her home and property, one elderly Palestinian woman in Hebron went on h ...
  • "Talk to us," says Hamas in rare visit to Europe
    Adri Nieuwhof The Electronic Intifada A delegation of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council travelled to Switzerland to attend a meeting on parliamentarians under threat.

The Wonk Room

  • Sunday Morning Talk Shows Featured Twice As Ma ...
    The Sunday morning political talk shows have long played a key role in American political discourse, providing a venue for balanced discussion about key political topics. But in 2011 at least, they were heavily skewed to one political party over the other. According to a new analysis of shows li ...
  • Bernie Sanders And Climate Activists Blow The ...
    At a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joined 350.org founder Bill McKibben and hundreds of climate activists to “blow the whistle” on big oil’s corruption of our political process, including the continued efforts to construct the dangerous Keystone ...
  • New Hampshire Legislature Considers ‘Lic ...
    Today the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on HB 1264, which is essentially a “License To Discriminate” bill. The measure would allow businesses that oppose marriage equality to deny services to same-sex couples based on their “conscience” or religio ...
  • Grassley Names OLC Head Virginia Seitz As The ...
    Earlier this month, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) threatened to exact revenge for President Obama’s decision to recess appoint four critical consumer and worker protection officials by escalating the Senate GOP’s campaign of obstruction against the president’s nominees. In a speech on the Sen ...
  • Climate Of The Union: Icy Nightmare Cripples W ...
    As carbon pollution accumulates in the atmosphere, our weather is growing more intense and unpredictable, threatening the health of the union. Following the freakishly warm and dry start of this January, extreme storms then pummeled the nation: WASHINGTON ICE STORM: “A monster Pacific Nort ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Gingrich Upsets Romney in North Carolina Primary
    And I couldn't give a flying fuck about it. Matt Taibbi has confessed to enjoying the low comedy of the North Carolina primary, but I'm still in the same mood he was in on January 3rd at the beginning of the Iowa primary. This is a stupid, meaningless waste of time. This is a pointless contest b ...
  • Farm Labour Abuses
    Canada's marketing boards are squeezing Canadian consumers dry (or so the argument goes) because it's possible to pay less for farm produce in the USA. The fact that lower prices for food often times stems from abusive conditions, corporate farms pumping the earth full of poison, and exploitativ ...
  • This Country Has Turned To Shit
    Latest example: The anti-Canadian, oil-puppet, anti-democracy asshole stephen harper has refused to compensate Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin for their having been tortured by the monstrous Syrian government at Canada's behest. As a result, these three CANADIAN CITIZENS a ...
  • Respect
    This article by Tyler McCreary; "An Essay on Respect" focuses on how the chairperson of the Joint Review Panel for the community hearings into the Enbrigde Pipeline simultaneously disrespects the Haisla, Tsimshian, and Wet’suwet’en First Nations while asking them to respect everybody else, inclu ...
  • Staying on the Lie
    That's what we should call it when the harpercon scum start doing what is ordinarily called "staying on the message." Because with harpercon scum, "the message" is generally some laughably stupid concoction that most sane people would refer to as "a lie." Case-in-point: The oil-shilling harperc ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada, Russia, spies, and the Arctic
    A Canadian naval officer is charged with spying. Will this increase tensions with Russia?
  • Stop Harper’s pro-war lobby and the stealth fi ...
    More than 1,500 people answered the Ceasefire.ca annual New Year’s Day member survey and contributed 200 comments.
  • Maritime helicopter procurement flounders
    Before the F-35 fiasco, there was the Maritime Helicopter Program, another disastrous, wasteful military procurement program. Whatever happened to that program? As David Pugliese reported earlier this month (“Sikorsky hasn’t paid $8M fine for late helicopter delivery,” Ottawa Citizen ...
  • New U.S. defence strategy to impact Canada?
    Earlier this month, President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced a new U.S. defense strategy, shaped in large part by projected Pentagon budget cuts. According to the New York Times (Elisabeth Bumiller & Thom Shanker, “Obama Puts His Stamp on Strategy for a Lean ...
  • Peacekeeping: Lessons unlearned from Rwanda?
    Earlier this month, civil conflict in South Sudan between the Murle and Nuer tribes resulted in the deaths of hundreds or possibly thousands of Murle people. A UN source said the number might be as high as 1,000, while a local Murle official estimated the number of deaths to be as high as 3,000 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Possible Drug Mix-up
    January 9, 2012 CNN By Madison Park Machinery problems at a drug manufacturing plant prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to warn patients of a possible mix-up affecting various prescription pain medications and over-the-counter drugs. The FDA is advising patients who use certain presc ...
  • President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Int ...
    December 31st, 2011 American Civil Liberties Union by: Amanda Simon President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law. As you know, the White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA but reversed c ...
  • Important Victories Won Over Monsanto, Other G ...
    January 11, 2012 Natural News By PF Louis With all the bad news about Monsanto and other corporations who create and promote GMOs, here’s a couple of good news items from the last couple of years to relieve some doom and gloom. Hopefully, these victories against GMO companies, one by an in ...
  • Second in New Hampshire: Ron Paul’s Speech and ...
    January 11, 2012 Info Wars By IW “Ron Paul finishing second is HUGE. His message of liberty is making it to the masses. If he doesn’t win this one, there will be someone next election with these viewpoints that will have even a better chance. Can someone say Rand Paul?  Ron Paul stil ...
  • Malls Spy On Shoppers Via Their Own Mobile Devices
    January 11, 2012 Daily Mail By Sean Poulter Shopping centres have triggered a Big Brother row after installing equipment that allows them to track customers using their mobile phone signals. The technology has raised privacy concerns after it emerged that major shopping centre owner Land Securit ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Does Anti-Zionism equate to Anti-Semitism
  • Gay groups angry Kansas anti-sodomy law remain ...
    KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) – Gay rights groups are outraged that a Kansas state law banning sex between people of the same gender was left off statutes Governor Sam Brownback wants to repeal, even though the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 ruled such a Texas law unconstitutional. Kansas, Texas, ...
  • Another Fox News Attempt to label Ron Paul a c ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 24, 2012 On the heels of Ron Paul’s South Carolina promise to continue forward with his quest to gain the Republican nomination and the presidency, Fox News has dredged up an yet another newsletter attributed to him in an effort to sabotage the Ron Paul Presidenti ...
  • Rebellion vs Rebels: ‘Libyans kick NTC o ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Fighting has broken out in Libya between supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces loyal to the new government. The head of the National Transitional Council has warned that the country is on the verge of returning to a state of civil war. Last week, human ri ...
  • Japanese Delegation Wants the U.S. Out of Okinawa
    By David SwansonTuesday, January 24th, 2012 by David Swanson A 24-member delegation from Japan is in Washington, D.C., this week opposing the presence and new construction of U.S. military bases in Okinawa. Participating are members of the Japanese House of Councilors, of the Okinawa Prefectural ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Congress, Get to Work! by Ralph Nader
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Jan. 18, 2012 The editor of The Hill, a newspaper exclusively covering Congress, said that Congress was not going to do very much in 2012, except for “the big bill” which is extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment compensation, whi ...
  • Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jan 17, 2012 New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis see Hunger Is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’, says Jean Ziegler by Siv O’Neall Food for fuel – a sure way of creating a hunger crisis by Jean Ziegler and ...
  • The Stimulator: No Fracking Way!
    Dandelion Salad stimulator on Jan 23, 2012 http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2012/01/23/no-fracking-way 1. Oh Frack it! 2. Bullshit detector 3. Fugitive Methane 4. Romanian carbon offsets 5. Chinese rebellion 6. Occupy MayDay 7. Australia Day 8. Fracking Down Under No Fracking Way! see Fracking Hell ...
  • Tax Cuts, Privatization and Deregulation Disgu ...
    Dandelion Salad Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/ by Paul Kahnert and Sam Gindin Socialist Project | The Bullet January 20, 2012 Where are we going as a society? We once proudly invested in our schools, pools, libraries, daycare, healthcare, roads, electricity ...
  • Police State Chicago: Emanuel gets his clampdo ...
    Dandelion Salad by Brit Schulte and Caitlin Sheehan SocialistWorker.org January 23, 2012 The City of Chicago has enacted new measures to restrict free speech and protest–but not without a fight, as Brit Schulte and Caitlin Sheehan report. ON JANUARY 18, the Chicago City Council overwhelmin ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...
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    Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...
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    A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...
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    Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...
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    Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • South Korea looking to buy Israel’s Iron Dome ...
    South Korea has offered to buy a significant quantity of Israeli-made weapons and defense systems, including the anti-rocket Iron Dome system, if Israel agrees to purchase South Korean fighter... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Journalist Chris Hedges sues Obama Admin over ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Human Rights Watch reports ‘serious violations ...
    Annual report lists Israel's blockade of Gaza Strip, settlement expansion in West Bank, and home demolitions in East Jerusalem; report also accuses Hamas for carrying out judicial executions and for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Hala Gabriel: Road to Tantura
    The Road to Tantura is a gripping documentary film that follows a Los Angeles woman as she delves into the history of her family's past. In 1948, her family was ripped from their homeland of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publish ...
    The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate US President Barack... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • America's 10 Most Popular Prescription Drugs
    The contents of America’s medicine cabinets, according to Time Magazine, reflect an aching, aging, overweight citizenry.  Here is their list of the 10 most popular prescription drugs in the U.S.: Vicodin (131.2 million prescriptions) is used to treat chronic pain Zocor (94.1 mil ...
  • Last Year More Than 13% of Adults in the U.S. ...
    According to a new government report, more than 13% of American adults were treated for mental illness in 2010.  People aged 18 to 25 were more than twice as likely to experience problems or undergo treatment than those aged 50 and older. Women were also more likely to have undergone treat ...
  • Organize Your Mind to Organize Your Life
    An organized mind can enable you to fully engage in a health-giving lifestyle.  And the reverse is also true -- the symptoms of a disorganized mind, such as impulsivity, chronic negativity, high stress and multitasking, all correlate with higher weight. Writing for CNN, Dr. Paul Hammerness ...
  • Did Penn State's Sex-Abuse Case Bring On the D ...
    Former coach Joe Paterno was only months into his forced retirement, following allegations of sexual abuse within the Penn State sports programs, when he died.  The official cause of Joe Paterno’s death was lung cancer.  However, the trauma of recent months may very well have helped sp ...
  • Are You Exposed to this Common Contributor of ...
    This video has information about the harmful effects of electrosmog, and the beneficial effects of pulsed electromagnetic devices. It explains the causes of Rapid Aging Syndrome, another name for Electrohypersensitivity.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Kevin Jon Heller Responds to Professors Darryl ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] My thanks to Darryl Robinson and Carsten Stahn for their kind words about my Article. They are leading scholars in the area of co ...
  • A Response to Kevin Jon Heller by Carsten Stahn
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Carsten Stahn responds to Kevin Jon Heller, A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity. This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium. Carsten Stahn is Professor of Internationa ...
  • A Comment on Kevin Jon Heller’s Piece by Darry ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Darryl Robinson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, responds to Kevin Jon Heller, A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity. This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio ...
  • A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity by ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [ Kevin Jon Heller, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, describes his recently published article, A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity. This article is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio ...
  • Padilla and Kiriakou
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I don’t want to step on the Harvard symposium — I’ve moved it back to the top — but it’s worth noting that, on the same day, (1) the Fourth Circuit threw out Jose Padilla’s lawsuit seeking damages for his mistreatment ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Housing Crisis Opens a Unique Job Market
    AZ Housing Crisis Opens a Unique Job Market Phoenix, AZ - Thousands of Arizona homes sit empty due to the real estate market downturn. This has opened a whole new market for house-sitters and caretakers, who can live in a nice home for free - according to Gary Dunn, CEO of the Caretaker Gazette.
  • "Muchas Gracias", President Obama
    "Muchas Gracias", President Obama Phoenix, AZ – Luego del anuncio de la semana pasada sobre la prohibición de explotar una nueva mina de uranio cerca del Gran Cañón, un grupo latino sin fines de lucro está difundiendo en la radio un mensaje de agradecimiento al Preside ...
  • Arizona Scores Well On Taxpayer ‘Money-B ...
    Arizona Scores Well On Taxpayer ‘Money-Back Guarantees’ Phoenix, AZ – Arizona scores well in a new report from Good Jobs First that grades each state on how well they enforce requirements related to job creation, job quality and other performance measures. Comments from report ...
  • 39 Years Later, Abortion Restrictions Hit Reco ...
    39 Years Later, Abortion Restrictions Hit Record High Phoenix, AZ - With the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade coming up this weekend (Jan 22), activists from both sides continue to debate the issue. Meantime, abortion restrictions have hit a record high, according to the Guttmacher (GOOT-mocker) ...
  • Arizona's Strawberry Source Puts Pesticide on ...
    Arizona's Strawberry Source Puts Pesticide on Trial Phoenix, AZ - The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has until the end of the week to defend its approval of a controversial pesticide used on fields that supply most of Arizona's strawberries. Environmental and farmworker groups say ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Envoy: Rumors of plan to divide Afghanistan &# ...
    The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan on Tuesday condemned rumors that the United States is planning to divide the war-torn country, saying the suggestions were “lies that dishonor the sacrifice of more than 1,800 American service members who have died in the cause of a unified Afghanistan.&# ...
  • LAST GASP? Vote HERE if you want Jack Blood an ...
    Our last appeal before we go down… DEAR READERS, LISTENERS, FRIENDS, ACTIVISTS, AND SUPPORTERS (URGENT): In case you were not aware of it, we (JACK BLOOD and Crew at www.deadlinelive.info) are in the midst of our most important fund-raiser in our 11 year history. (If you have already donat ...
  • Ron Paul was right on Cuba; Newt Gingrich and ...
    I Was channeling it to Dr Paul… Just say IT: THE COLD WAR IS OVER! (John O’Boyle/The Star-Ledger)Ron Paul: The only candidate who has confidence in capitalism. NJ.com Ask a stupid question … That’s what NBC’s Brian Williams did on the subject of Cuba in that Republican presidential p ...
  • Last of secret Kennedy tapes released?
    For Immediate Release: January 24, 2012 Further information: Rachel Flor (617) 514-1662, rachel.flor@jfklfoundation.org  JFK Library BOSTON– The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that it has declassified and made available the final 45 hours of White House recording ...
  • Brian Williams was a Disgrace Silencing Ron Pa ...
    Met Brian “Bright eyes” Williams once… He is a total stuffed suit. He has no mind of his own, and might be the biggest Corp. presstitute, butt kisser on TV. Someone TOLD him to do what he did, which was noticed by every person who watch this so called “debate”! As w ...

The Air Vent

  • Fun Stuff
    A guest post by Dr. Weinstein in response to a post by Dr. Spencer. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC MASS AND CO2 ON GROUND TEMPERATURE Leonard Weinstein, ScD January 17, 2012 The issue has been raised about the effect of the mass of an atmosphere on surface temperature.  It can be shown that if no optical ...
  • The Blog Trap
    Tom Fuller has started blogging again. He used to post at the SF examiner – until he also quit. Many of you will remember that he and I hold different views on politics but I find him honest and a far better writer than me. According to his email, his new blog will focus on [...]
  • Full length NSIDC Sea Ice Data
    Below is the full length of the NSIDC SEA ice data. From 2.8 gb of data. The graphs of the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales having a pixel resolution of 25km. The satellite ice data comes from the NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations as collected from the Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/ ...
  • Improved Sea Ice videos
    UPDATE: High speed video from 2004 to present added below. In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice.  I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub.  And I rescaled the graphs so that the ...
  • Improved Sea Ice videos
    In response to recent discussions, I’ve taken the time to download the 2.8 gb of data required to plot sea ice.  I found a far better software for video creation called virtual dub.  And I rescaled the graphs so that the Arctic and Antarctic are plotted on equal grid scales.   The pixel re ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Zynga, Xbox, Adele, ‘Titanic,’ Angry Birds, mo ...
    Several Zynga games made our list of top growing Facebook pages this week, with several of them growing by the millions in what seemed to be a page consolidation effort. There were several other pages on the list that also … Continue reading →
  • Inside Social Apps 2012 is Coming in Two Weeks
    February 8 – 9, 2012 | San Francisco     Inside Social Apps 2012 will be coming to San Francisco in just two weeks. Join us as we host the industry’s leading developers for two days of panels, discussions, and … Continue reading →
  • Open Graph apps: what’s there, what’s next
    Dozens of developers have launched Open Graph applications for a range of interests and activities since Facebook expanded beyond “read,” “watch” and “listen” last week.  In our tests we’ve “collected,” “answered,” “recommended,” “nommed,” &# ...
  • Open Graph, tabs, birthdays, more on this week ...
    Open Graph apps, tabs and birthday calendar applications were popular on our list of apps growing by monthly active users this week. The titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between … Continue reading →
  • Facebook expands Questions API
    Facebook added the option to write structured question posts through the Graph API on Friday. Applications can now ask Facebook Questions on behalf of users or pages that authorize them to do so. This is particularly useful for page management … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The ongoing war against truth
    Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...
  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.
  • Israeli's demographic-cultural barriers to peace
    Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel's demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can establish roots, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental a ...
  • Syria, the myth of Assad's popularity and the ...
    Nureddin Sabir views the misleading results of a flawed survey which suggests that more than half of the Syrian population want Bashar Assad to stay as president, and notes with dismay the uncritical coverage given to the survey by prominent mainstream and alternative media.
  • Room for Jews only in Israel's "villa in the j ...
    Jonathan Cook looks at the progress Israel is making in fortifying its status as the world's first ethnically pure "bunker state" and thereby realizing the dream of its founders.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Who Does NED Work For?
    The Government Funded National Endowment for Democracy The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is frequently described as a ‘private, not-for-profit foundation.’  At least, at its website, NED acknowledges funding from the US Congress.  In NED’s latest IRS Form 990 filing, over $135 million o ...
  • Santorum Puts American ‘WMD Scientists’ on Cod ...
    Applying a “Fairness Doctrine” to Santorum’s ‘Dead Scientists are a Wonderful Thing’ This post is a major exception for Boiling Frogs Post. I almost never bother commenting or giving coverage to ‘easy-come, easy-go’ dime-a-dozen flake personalities in politics. As you know we have never even nam ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Liberties are not given; they are taken.” – Aldous Huxley International Newsworthy Iran War Propaganda: Clinton Revives Dubious Charges of ‘Covert’ Site  Russian Official: No Proof of Iran Nuclear Bomb Program Iran: Obama Edges Toward Regime Chang ...
  • “Heroes” – A Poem by Gary Corseri
    This powerful, moving poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by Gary Corseri: Heroes Do not call them “heroes” if they have done your killing for you. Say that they have done your bidding; say they were your “soldiers.” Say that you have trained them well: They are the oiled machinations of ...
  • Mr. Obama, How About Sanctions – No Fly ...
    Let’s Make This Principled & Consistent; Let’s Go to War with All! Our nation is famous for many things. Things that it is known for. Things that in one way or another represent it. Things that become synonymous with America or being Americans. Our foreign policy and our presidents are no ex ...

Afro Spear

  • Boko Haram: The New (Black) African Al-Qaeda?
    I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...
  • “The US Plan to Destabilize Sudan” ...
    As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. To start with, the US pays the salaries for the Sudan Peoples L ...
  • The Spell of the Albino
    From Aljazeera English: Africa Investigates  
  • sat’day riddymz
    Daude and Carlinhos Brown interpreting Pata Pata. Saludos, Ana
  • Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • A Way Around The Federal Nuclear Power Fix
    The nuclear power program in the U.S> was set up rigged--to allow the federal government to push atomic energy with state and local governments "pre-empted" on most issues. But there's a way around this federal nuclear fix--the use by states of their power of "eminent domain."
  • Are the Koch brothers teaching you?
    What's happening to academia in Florida demands national attention. Billionaires Charles and David Koch are infringing on intellectual freedom and independence in colleges and universities. It's an old fashioned quid pro quo where the Koch brothers get allied professors who'll preach Ayn Rand, s ...
  • A Family's Cat Is Murdered In the Name of Poli ...
    How low can our political discourse go?
  • Europe at war with Iran
    We have a post-surrealist situation of Britain's Big Oil -- via BP -- imploring for the US to exempt it from sanctions, otherwise European energy security will be at risk. Britain also happens to be an implacable foe of Tehran's regime, but still relies on Iran to "save" Europe from the claws of ...
  • #january 25 One Year Later: Social Media & Pol ...
    A year ago, a revolution began in Egypt that still reverberates there -- as well as among other repressive regimes in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and beyond, including thousands of miles away in New York City, where "Occupy Wall Street" protests in turn took root and then flowered into l ...

Switchboard

  • The green dividend from reusing older buildings
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   We already know that, in many cases, retaining older buildings - especially those of architectural or historic character - can strengthen the enduring legacy and enjoyment of ...
  • The Environmental State of the Union
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City 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 lo ...
  • Expensive, dangerous and risky - what do Congr ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. After the State of the Union address tonight, we can expect Governor Daniels’ GOP response to sing the praises of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline which would p ...
  • Court Finds New York State's Program to Stem B ...
    Larry Levine, Senior Attorney, New York A state court has ruled that New York State is failing to take legally required steps to clean up one of the biggest sources of pollution in its waterways -- stormwater runoff.  The January 10th decision ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • It figures a guy named Fielder would end up as ...
    Per the Twitter, the Tigers have just signed Prince Fielder to a 9-year $214 million deal. Since Detroit already has a pretty good first baseman who is also signed to a long-term megadeal, this means there’s either a trade for Cabrera in the works or that Dave Dombrowski has read The Obesi ...
  • Mitch Daniels to Deliver State of the Union Re ...
    In case you were questioning how central Republicans’ anti-labor zealotry is to their program, they are choosing Indiana’s Mitch Daniels to deliver the state of the union response. Daniels is currently shepherding a right to work a person to death law through the legislature. Despite ...
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Shitty?
    This was truly a banner year for terrible movies, with most of the worst directors in Hollywood coming out. Schumacher! Emmerich! Bay! Snyder! Marshall! Several films from Adam Sandler’s Straight-to-Video Quality Films LLC! But I was interested to see several critics in the New York survey ...
  • More From the NCAA Cartel
    Nocera is doing great work: When his coach, Jim Calhoun, broke the news that the N.C.A.A. was still investigating him, Boatright collapsed in Calhoun’s arms. In tears, he called his mother, Tanesha, who began weeping uncontrollably. As I chronicled on Saturday, it was her acceptance of plane tic ...
  • Mittens and Regressive Taxes
    If this is what he pays in the tax returns designed with public scrutiny in mind, one wonders how low the rate was in previous years.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Indiana Tech breaking ground on law school bui ...
    Officials at the Indiana Institute of Technology announced on Jan. 25 that they will construct a $15 million building on the Fort Wayne campus to house a new law school.
  • Full Federal Circuit to reconsider broadened d ...
    Patent owners may breathe a sigh of relief because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to review a ruling from last year in a case about an alleged infringer's right to sell a product based on a patent claim subsequently changed in a patent office action.
  • Wesley Brown, 104, was the oldest-serving fede ...
    U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown, the oldest sitting federal judge in the nation, died on Jan. 23 at age 104. The Kennedy appointee, who sat on the U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kan., for 50 years, had taken senior status in 1979.
  • At hearing, consumer financial protection chie ...
    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Richard Cordray did his best to reassure members of the House Oversight Subcommittee in a Jan. 24 hearing that his agency has no intention of "going off in some wild new unexpected direction."
  • Inventor of method for making compound is join ...
    Inventing a novel method of making a chemical compound is enough to ensure joint inventorship of a patent claim covering that compound, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Geoengineering Scheme Could Boost Crop Product ...
    Spraying particles into the stratosphere to help cool the planet could increase crop yields in most regions of the world, but could also introduce unintended risks, according to a new study. In a paper published in the online journal Nature Climate Change, researchers used computer models to tes ...
  • Real-Time Fisheries Information Could Reduce W ...
    A Japanese fisheries company has equipped some of its boats with technology that enables crews to publish details of catches online in real time, an innovation they say could significantly reduce waste and allow for more sustainable management of fish stocks. Using webcams and laptop computers o ...
  • Building a Better Bulb: Lighting Revolution Ad ...
    With the industry’s support, new U.S. lighting efficiency standards went into effect this month. This move, along with similar actions in Europe and China, is helping spur new technologies that will change the way homes and businesses are illuminated. BY DAVE LEVITAN
  • Rise in Ocean Acidity Unprecedented in Past 21 ...
    Carbon dioxide emissions caused by human activities over the last century have increased the acidity of the world’s oceans far beyond the range of natural variations, which may significantly impair the ability of marine organisms such as corals and mollusks to form their skeletons or shells, a n ...
  • NASA Graphic Depicts Significant Spike in Temp ...
    A new NASA graphic shows that temperatures in several global regions were appreciably higher in 2011 than at mid-century, with large swaths of Siberia and Click to enlarge NASA GISS Global temperature anomalies, 2011 the Arctic experiencing temperatures as much as 4 degrees C (7 degrees F) ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Bomb kills Iranian nuclear expert
    Iranian media say a bomb blast in Tehran has killed a university professor who also worked as a scientist on Iran’s nuclear program. Photo: Graphic The Fars news agency said two unidentified people on a motorcycle planted the bomb under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, killing him and his drive ...
  • McDonalds Restaurants to Spray Robbers With "S ...
    McDonald’s restaurants are ’fighting back against thieves’ by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee. Each outlet keeps the details of its distribution a close secret, but one McDonald’s restaurant in The Netherlands installed above the main door an orange ...
  • Twins born five years apart
    Reception class pupil Reuben Blake went back to school today, but his twin sister will have to wait another five years until she is old enough. That is because, despite the fact the brother and sister were conceived from the same batch of embryos, they were born five years apart to parents Simon ...
  • Forget Mayan 2012 prediction, expert says the ...
    Are you sweating over recent dire predictions that the end of the world is upon us? Relax, because according to one expert, we have at least 500 million years to worry about the problem. .A Solar Filament on the Sun Image Credit: Earth-orbiting TRACE satellite, NASA Colin Goldblatt is confidentl ...
  • Proof that Your Own Thoughts and Beliefs Can C ...
    If you are struggling with any major health concern, it is important to realize that your mind can sometimes be your own worst enemy, or it could be the main reason for treating a problem. Increasingly, it is being recognized that a ‘mind over matter’ approach can actually produce noticeable res ...

Russia Today

  • Libyans reject ‘hijacked’ revolution?
    Violent clashes between supporters of the new and old regimes have been seen in cities across Libya. The successful regrouping and attacks by former regime loyalists has raised fears that another civil war might take...
  • An ACTA of war: Secret censor tool to shake up ...
    As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest...
  • Gulf Arabs push diplomatic assault on Syria
    The Arab League is intensifying its diplomatic attack on Syria, recalling observers and preparing to address the UN Security Council on the violence, after Damascus rejected the League’s proposal urging President Assad...
  • Drug smugglers and dealers to get law thaw in UK
    Drug smugglers and street dealers could avoid prison in the UK even if caught with heroin, cocaine or thousands of pounds worth of cannabis, under new guidelines on drug offenses published by the Sentencing Council for...
  • 'Clear signal' to Iran: UK warns of more firep ...
    Britain could send reinforcements to defend the sensitive Strait of Hormuz against a possible blockade by Iran.

Not My Tribe

  • Verizon doesn’t want to hear you now
    OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- A photo from this weekend’s march against SOPA supporters AT&T and Verizon. SOPA and its House of Lords twin PIPA are not dead, their sponsors are playing possum until public outcry blows over. When Occupy freezes over –not even.
  • The Battle of the Strait of Hormuz might be ju ...
    Two countries, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, lie opposite each other at the Strait of Hormuz, and those two countries have enjoyed a long history of relative peace with each other as compared to the situation of many other areas in the Middle East. However, the US and its European allies, F ...
  • Obama pulls Washington’s injured killer ...
    This loyal Middle East henchman and US servant issued this statement upon his departure…. “I ask for pardon from all Yemeni men and women for any shortcoming that occurred during my 33-year rule and I ask forgiveness and offer my apologies to all Yemeni men and women,” said Mr. Ali Abdulla ...
  • Gen. James Mattis, Obama’s choice for be ...
    Thirty year military veteran, Brian Cloughley, writes in the latest online weekend edition of CounterPunch just exactly what he thinks about Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who continues to head up the U.S. Central Command in Asia. The following is what he has to say in brief… ‘The f ...
  • What is the real Joe Paterno legacy?
    ………………………………………… Penn State’s Joe Paterno has died

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • What to Eat With Braces
    Hi folks, My son just got braces and we’d like your advice on foods to eat in the first few days and then going forward for the next 9-12 months. The Orthodontist said that the teeth and gums will be sore and sensitive for a few days, so liquids will play a big role in [...]
  • Strange Fruit. What’s a Persimmon?
    The recipe we posted yesterday included persimmons. A comment by one of the readers bluntly asked – “This might sound goofy, but what are persimmons?” Here’s the answer: Persimmons are a fruit that can be likened to a cross between a tomato and an orange. The fruit, when ...
  • Superbowl Snacks: Persimmon-Avocado Nachos [Re ...
    To counter our processed-food bashing and ensuing depression, we like to showcase healthy, tasty recipes here on Fooducate. With the Superbowl coming up, you may be tempted to Dorito-fy your household. STOP! We want to show you how easy and fun it is to prepare finger foods that are both tasty a ...
  • Paula Deen and the Fallacy of Moderation
    This a guest blog post by Carol Plotkin, MS, RD, CDN Moderation is a word that has been used quite often when describing healthy eating and drinking patterns. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines moderation as avoidance of extremes or tending toward average. What does this really mean w ...
  • Light Beer and Calorie Economics
    The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Coors Light moved up to the #2 position in terms of annual sales, dethroning Budweiser. The kicker was that the #1 most sold beer in the US is Bud Light. We haven’t really focused on alcoholic beverages on Fooducate, so we found it odd that li ...

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • The Pig in the XL PipelineInsider reveals conc ...
    For Firedoglake by Greg Palast “They threatened me. Last night I got a call and they threatened me. If I talked.” “Pig Man #2,” a pipeline industry insider, had a good reason to be afraid.  He was about to blow the whistle on a fraud, information that could blow away the XL Keystone Pipeline ...
  • XL Keystone - The Pig in the PipelineThe GOP i ...
    by Greg Palast President Obama just nixxed the permit for the XL Keystone Pipeline for now.  But - and this is one big but - he's talking about authorizing other pipelines to replace the XL. Look out! In my investigation for UK's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, our team disclosed information ...
  • No Child Behind Left
    By Greg Palast This month marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of No Child Left Behind. Before George W. Bush invaded Iraq he knew he would have to invade our classrooms first. While the occupation of Iraq has ended the brutal occupation of our classrooms by the Forces of Stupid remains. ...
  • My Declaration of War on Christmas
    by Greg Palast Click on the image to watch the segment I don't usually watch Today or any American TV because my reports appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation, a network run by highly-educated America-haters. But there I was, last Friday, in this hotel room in Atlanta, a city preten ...
  • Occupy Wall Street comes home to roost with Co ...
    Nowhere are the ill-gotten gains of the 1% more grossly apparent than in the activities of 'debt vulture' hedge funds by Greg Palast as published by The Guardian America This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Peter Grossman. Photo by Zach Roberts © 2011This past Sunda ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle an old toaster oven?
    Joel has an old toaster oven and would like ideas on how he can reuse or recycle it: My wife just bought a new toaster oven. The previous one had problems in her eyes, because the spring-loaded door didn’t work as smoothly as when new, and the unit, after three years, had a couple unsightliness ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old cast iron ca ...
    Good friend (and bully ;) ) of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su has emailed with a question: Me again! With an actual, proper reuse question! My much used enamelled, cast iron casserole dish has died. Proper died, a large section of the enamel has come off the bottom & I dropped the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leached wood ash le ...
    Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle water from a conden ...
    We’ve had an email from Mark: What is the best way to recycle small quantities of hot water from a condenser tumble dryer? I know i could pour it down the toilet, put it on the garden etc, but what are the economical benefits of reusing this clean water. Can it be used (when cold) [...]
  • How can I reuse, recycle or upcycle biscuit/co ...
    (I still need more inspiration for green new year’s resolutions or green goals for 2012. I think I’m probably going to end up doing 12 small things – one a month – rather than one big thing over the year — and I need ideas! But for now, back to regular scheduled &#8 ...

Age of Autism

  • Tics and Toxins: Leroy School Site has History ...
    By Dan Olmsted The school where 12 girls developed tics attributed to "conversion disorder" has a history of water and structural problems, and an outbreak of rashes and sores occurred among students playing sports on land where the school is...
  • Anne Dachel on DSM5 Changes in The Health Care ...
    Congrats to our own Anne Dachel who has been autism's town crier for years in an effort to ensure services, treatment and care for ALL of our loved ones facing the challenges of a spectrum disorder from the most severely...
  • Dear DSM5 Team: Some Spontaneous Suggestions F ...
    Regarding DSM5 changes please read this action alert from NAA New York Metro. Seems our kids can just spontaneously "get better." So relax you uptight Moms and Dads. Isn't that nifty? Let's talk about spontaneous. This is a spontaneous kiss....
  • DSM-5: You're Still Autistic. You're Just Weir ...
    By Anne Dachel It’s hard to imagine more chaos in the world of autism than what we see happening right now. Autism is more and more in the public spotlight. The numbers are huge and no one can explain them....
  • HuffPo Mentions Changes to DSM5 -- Readers Wei ...
    Huffington Post ran a brief intro to a NYT post on the DSM5 proposed changes to the autism as a diagnosis. Click New Definition Of Autism May Exclude Many, Study Suggests.

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Outlook for global labour market worsens, ILO says
    BBC – The outlook for the global labour market has worsened from last year, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says. It called the situation an “urgent challenge” and said governments needed to create 600 million jobs over the next decade. The ILO said it was more pess ...
  • US Justices Say GPS Tracker Violated Privacy R ...
    NY Times – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. A set of overlapping opinions in the case collectively suggested that ...
  • New alert over Rio Tinto threat to Great Barri ...
    The Australian – Rio Tinto’s $1.4 billion bauxite mine expansion on Cape York has become the latest flash point over the threats caused by increased shipping in the Great Barrier Reef due to the mining boom. Read Article
  • We are seeking volunteers – Would you li ...
    We are currently looking for 2 new editors, Environment and Finance & Economics. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE
  • Yemen’s leader allowed to come to US
    AP – The Obama administration will allow Yemen’s outgoing president to come to the U.S. temporarily for medical treatment, a move aimed at easing the political transition in Yemen, a key counterterrorism partner. A senior administration official said Ali Abdullah Saleh would travel t ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Obama takes Israel pandering to dangerous levels
    Obama SURRENDERS to Israel. What else can one conclude, after watching this Obama campaign video? Obama recites the Israeli party line, calls for attacking Iran, and boasts about how he blocked the Goldstone Report. The groveling is shocking. Submitted by Charles O. to World  |&nb ...
  • Montreal: Human rights activists encouraged by ...
    The report urged the government to adopt anti-discrimination training and put more effort into hiring visible minorities. The commissions president, Gaétan Cousineau, said Tuesday that the police departments new policy is good news. Submitted by JennySick NOmsgsPLS to World  |    ...
  • Israel's High Court doesn't deserve to be defended
    The ruling of the justices in Jerusalem means breaking up thousands of Israeli families whose mother or father will be expelled. Vladimir can marry Yana, but Mohammed cannot marry Sana. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Capitalism or Cannibalism? ..
    Is there a difference? You bet your boots there is. Capitalism gives us all the equal right to reach for the stars. Make money or lose money. Our choice if we decide to take the chance. Personally I have saved every cent I could in my lifetime. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  | ...
  • Jack Abramoff As Reformer Raises Caution In Fo ...
    He was once the most reviled man in Washington, the latest embodiment of Washington corruption. Now, ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is trying to make amends by talking up reforms that seek to stanch the very venality in which he participated. VIDEO Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Articles] 2008 estimate of worldwide rotaviru ...
    Introduction of effective and available rotavirus vaccines could substantially affect worldwide deaths attributable to diarrhoea. Our new estimates can be used to advocate for rotavirus vaccine introduction and to monitor the effect of vaccination on mortality once introduced.
  • Churches attack organ donor plans
    Church leaders in Wales criticise "ill-judged" proposals to introduce presumed consent rules on organ donation. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition) MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network , and receive $5 free advertising.
  • How Protein In Teardrops Annihilates Harmful B ...
    A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling UC Irvine scientists to discover exactly how it destroys dangerous bacteria. The research could prove critical to long-term work aimed at diagnosing cancers and other illnesses in their very early stages...
  • At Annual Check-Ups Patients Receive Half Of R ...
    More than 20 percent of U.S. adults receive periodic health examinations (PHE) each year, yet new research shows that patients who have an annual routine visit to their doctor may not receive recommended preventive screening tests and counseling services that could benefit their health...
  • ROCURONIUM BROMIDEinjection [Bioniche Pharma U ...
    Updated Date: Jan 18, 2012 EST

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Afghan dust is settling
    Eric Walberg Yes, it really is another Vietnam, and just as in 1972, presidential elections will make no difference. Scarcely a word is heard about foreign affairs amid US election talk, despite the many fires around the world that the US military is either stoking or trying to douse -- depend ...
  • The Wondering Jesse
    by Gilad Atzmon This week, Jesse Lieberfeld an11th-grade American Jewish teenager won the Dietrich College’s 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards for composing a beautiful piece about his own moral awakening and journey away from Judaism. “I once belonged to a wonderful r ...
  • America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor
    by Stephen Lendman In 1962, Michael Harrington's "The Other America" exposed the nation's dark side, saying: "In morality and in justice, every citizen should be committed to abolishing the other America, for it is intolerable that the richest nation in human history should allow such needles ...
  • Gingrich Phony Populism Sells in the South
    By Michael Collins Bionic candidate Mitt Romney went from inevitable to simply evitable thanks to South Carolina Republican primary voters. With 600,000 voting, turnout was up 34% over 2008. Ninety eight percent of voters were white. This is even less representative of the nation than Iowa an ...
  • Criminalizing Dissent in America
    by Stephen Lendman America has a sordid repressive history. Among others, First Amendment rights are violated. It guarantees freedom of religion, expression, to petition government for redress of grievances, and right to peacefully assemble. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restrict ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Infographic: Canada's CEO Elite 100
    CBC Radio’s weekly series, Type A released a comprehensive infographic based on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' recent report, Canada’s CEO Elite 100: The 0.01%.  Click the image on the right to view infographic in full.   For more information, read the original re ...
  • Hard at work on our 2012 Alternative Provincia ...
    CCPA-NS, along with our partners, is currently working on the 11th annual Alternative Provincial Budget.  This flagship document demystifies the budgeting process, making provincial finances accessible to all Nova Scotians.  Look for its launch in March. Nova Scotia Alternative Provin ...
  • Federal cutbacks will cost more than 60,000 jo ...
    In its 2010 and 2011 budgets, the federal government announced cuts totalling $7.82 billion. A new CCPA study explores the impact of these cutbacks and finds between 60,100 and 68,300 jobs will be lost as a result. The study, The Cuts Behind the Curtain: How federal cutbacks will slash services ...
  • Canada's Wealthy: They're richer than you think!
    Director of the Saskatchewan Office, Simon Enoch, discusses the causes and consequences of income inequality with Planet S Magazine's Stephen LaRose. View the article here.
  • Did you know poverty costs New Brunswick $2 bi ...
    The direct cost of poverty for the NB government is an estimated $500 million per year--6.5% of the 2009/10 provincial budget.  Health care spending alone amounts to $196 million per year, an amount that could be saved or reallocated if we lifted the poorest 20% of New Brunswickers out ...

World Wide Hippies

  • US wastes up to 50% of food despite rising poverty
    Worldwidehippies,RTNews – New York, USA http://freevideo.rt.com/-America’s expanding waistline proves the country’s love affair with food. But almost as much as is consumed is being dumped in the trash every day. And that is despite the fact that millions in the US are now stru ...
  • UN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST FAILURE TO CLOSE GUANTAN ...
    Worldwidehippies,UN – 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. “It is 10 years since the US ...
  • Farmers Call it ‘Sucking Hind Teat’
    Dr. Bob Valient asks the question, “Can being rich and powerful be the only way to get a decent education for your children?” Take a look at what they get for their kids. By Dr. Bob Valiant, There are lots of ways to organize a school and provide a curriculum for the students. Take a ...
  • Resisting the Police State: Solutions and Answers
    by James Corbett,BoilingFrogsPost.com - With TSA abuses back in the headlines, continued concern over the NDAA and other legislation codifying martial law, President Obama’s unchallenged use of his self-proclaimed authority to assassinate American citizens without trial, and an increasingly bewi ...
  • New York City – Pot-bust capital – ...
    WWH- Must be those White Folks don’t get high in NYC. Thank goodness, Corrupt,Racist,1%er Mayor Bloomberg is ridding the “Big Apple” of this scourge. BYSTEVEN WISHNIA,indypendent.org - Despite a well-publicized police order instructing officers not to use bogus pretexts to just ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Are President Obama’s Policies Causing U.S. Oi ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my r ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]
  • Venture Socialism?
    Join the forum discussion on this post With the recently announced foreclosure of Vinod Khosla venture Range Fuels, followed by the fire sale of Range Fuels’ assets to Vinod Khosla venture LanzaTech, I have been getting a lot of calls from reporters wanting to discuss exactly what happene ...
  • The Carbon Emissions Quandary – R-Squared Ener ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some ...
  • What’s So Bad About Exporting Gasoline?
    Join the forum discussion on this post One of my Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 was the fact that the U.S. had become a net exporter of finished petroleum products such as diesel and gasoline. In fact, because gasoline and diesel prices were so high, fuel exports were valued at $88 billion, whic ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • TumbleBooks - eBooks for eKids!
    Comments:TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. - Carolyn RainsTags: ebooks, audiobooks, literacy, books, interactive, kids, children, readingby: Carolyn Rains
  • Shifting the Classroom, One Step at a Time | M ...
    Comments:emotional process. - Carolyn RainsTags: inquiry, Education, learning, mindshift, Flipping, flipped classroomby: Carolyn Rains
  • FETC-2012 | SlideRocket, Online Presentation Tools
    Tags: no_tagby: Jackie Gerstein
  • Ednovo | Gooru
    Comments:Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content - Fred DelventhalTags: teachers, students, social, lessonplansby: Fred Delventhal
  • BLOG USING GR8 WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPS IN XXI C ...
    Comments:#curation is #socialmedia king . Top 10 #edtech20 tools who will change research in #education20 this year . I invite you to subscribe free to our monthly newstelller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller . This post was made after 1 year research in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation proje ...

Rodale News

  • 9 Toxic Kitchen Rip-Offs
    The kitchen is often the heart of the home, a bustling place to enjoy a good meal and mingle. But many common convenience foods, drinks, and gadgets found in the kitchen could be putting your health at risk. In fact, just last month, researchers found evidence that bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemic ...
  • Why You Need To Eat More Fat (In the Winter)
    It’s the middle of winter, and for many of us, that means we’re craving carbs. Potatoes, pastas, pastries—it all sounds good right about now, and with the summer and swimsuits months away, it can be easy to give in to those cravings. But letting our excuses win does more than just sabotage the ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: The Tastiest Way to Eat Yo ...
    With food prices rising, even junk-food makers are feeling the pinch, as people are deciding that it's not worth it to dole out $3.50 for a bag of pesticide-soaked potato chips or genetically modified corn chips. Go for a healthier choice like vegetable chips, and expect to pay $5 a bag for abo ...
  • The Truth About Natural Foods
    When you grab a bottle of "all natural" cooking oil at the grocery store or a bag of "all natural" corn chips, you think you're getting an "all natural" product. But like any product advertised as "natural," that all depends on your definition of the word—and that of the people selling it to yo ...
  • Your Medications Are Coated in Plastic
    Medications and supplements are supposed to make us feel better, and the main ingredients often do. But researchers are finding that certain plastic additives designed to release the ingredients into our systems more slowly could actually be making us sick. In a recent study published in the j ...

big think

  • Self-Driving Cars Pose Big Legal Questions
    What's the Latest Development? Last month, Google said its self-driving automobile project had logged 200,000 miles without an accident. While today's automakers already use sensitive sensory technology to assist drivers and in some cases, correct them, Google's project goes a step furth ...
  • Mirthless Moralisers vs. Free Speech
    Whether it’s Sir Salman Rushdie not attending the prestigious Jaipur Literature Festival in India because of threats, or student unions being told to remove offensive material on their Facebook page, or even billboards that highlight anti-atheist sentiments, the roads we thought free spe ...
  • The State of Our Rebellious Union
    From Tea Parties to Occupy Wall Street, regular American citizens are sick and tired, and just can’t take it anymore. I am a proud tea partier, which means that I am fighting for fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Those three goals make up the core of o ...
  • Court Strikes Down Warrantless GPS Tracking
    What's the Latest Development? In a unanimous decision that may set precedent for future digital privacy cases, the Supreme Court has ruled that police officers who attached a GPS tracking device to car without a warrant acted unconstitutionally. Originally, police officers had obtained ...
  • Fearful? Fuhgeddaboutit!
                Take a moment, and remember, in as much detail as possible, a time in your life when you were REALLY SCARED!         If you tried, you could probably summon up a scary memory pretty easil ...

Information Liberation

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

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Very Selective Blindness
    What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →
  • Waste Not, Want Not
    A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →
  • A Few Days Yet
    G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →
  • Merry Christmas To All
    That’s it from me this year folks. LibertyGibbert will be officially closed from Friday, 16th December till Thursday, 5th January. You’ll still be able to access all articles in the archive, and comment if you like, but all posts will … Continue reading →
  • The Non-Conference
    It’s all I can think of calling it. The MSM aren’t touching it; you even have to search WUWT carefully to find much mention of it. Perhaps it’s because of the sadly damp weather in Durban at the moment (in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Is antioxidant luteolin an anticancer super-nu ...
    A flavonoid compound found in fruit and vegetables, luteolin, was recently hailed as an anticancer supernutrient by the tabloid media. Aside from the fact that over-dosing on antioxidants could be detrimental to one’s front-line immune response to pathogens, the research was purely laborat ...
  • Cornstarch monsters on a speaker cone
    Sometimes an old viral video needs another airing. In this video from about three years ago, a mixture of corn starch poured into a speaker cone is vibrated at 30 Hz using a signal generator and the video shot at 30 frames per second (coincident timing with the speaker frequency). Corn starch is ...
  • Visceral manipulation
    My gut feeling is that visceral manipulation is yet another sCAM practice based on falsehoods, an economy of truth, and, basically, lies. Science-based medicine gives us the low down: “I think we can reasonably assume that any abdominal manipulation sufficient to disrupt adhesions would ri ...
  • Viscous fluid on a moving belt
    A stream of very viscous syrup falling from a nozzle on to a moving belt. At first, the speed of the belt is enough that the thread of syrup is just pulled out straight. However, as the belt is slowed down, the thread at first bifurcates to a meandering state, producing a sine wave and [...]Visc ...
  • Bird flu research halted
    The UK’s Guardian newspaper is reporting that researchers working to prevent the spread of bird flu and the possible millions of deaths it could cause should a pandemic occur, have suspended their research for 60 days amid fears that they might accidentally trigger the very  epidemic they ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to M ...
    Editor's note: Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting short Q&A's with players large and small in the climate arena. Read others in the series at http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/climate-queries . [More]
  • Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men
    When a woman falls ill, her pain may be more intense than a man's, a new study suggests. [More]
  • Study Fails to Confirm Existence of Arsenic-Ba ...
    A strange bacterium found in California’s Mono Lake cannot replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic, according to researchers who have been trying to reproduce the results of a controversial report published in Science in 2010. [More]
  • New Target Discovered for Pain Relief
    An uncharted trawl through thousands of small molecules involved in the body's metabolism may have uncovered a potential route to treating pain caused by nerve damage. [More]
  • Online Gamers Achieve First Crowdsourced Redes ...
    Obsessive gamers' hours at the computer have now topped scientists' efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers say is the first crowdsourced redesign of a protein. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Call for Investigative Features
    The Media Co-op is seeking pitches for investigative features. Writers will be paid $400 for 2200 words. The pitch should demonstrate how the article will uncover something new, or dig deeper on an ongoing story—all with a Canadian angle. This could include anything from reporting on newly ...
  • CkUT's OTH: Harper's Bid to Dismantle the Cana ...
    interview with Laurence Nicholson and Saskatchewan farmer Stewart Wells CKUT's OTH look into the government's plan to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board. Prof. Barney, who is presently involved in research project on the politics of ...
  • CkUT's OTH: Harpers Bid to Dismantle the Canad ...
    interview with Laurence Nicholson and Saskatchewan farmer Stewart Wells CKUT's OTH look into the government's plan to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board. Prof. Barney, who is presently involved in research project on the politics of ...
  • Harper's Indian Meet-and-greet
    AFN-Ministerial summit promises more of the same abusive relationship “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” - STEVE BIKO A recently discovered note on my desk: “Answer questions from frien ...
  • Harper's Indian Meet-and-greet
    AFN-Ministerial summit promises more of the same abusive relationship “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” - STEVE BIKO A recently discovered note on my desk: “Answer questions from frien ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Barack Obama: a parenthesis between Bush and G ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWho knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics? Maureen Dowd - New York TimesWhy does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Christian Science MonitorGingr ...
  • Goodbye to Etta James
    Too many leaving too fast! DS
  • SOPA + PIPA (additional reading)
    David Seaton's News LinksIf nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself ...
  • Iran's bomb... the bottom line
    David Seaton's News LinksThe selling point of starving or beating Iran into submission is that if they had an atomic bomb they would use it to attack Israel, who has at least 200 such weapons. The idea being that Iran is planning to turn Israel, its Jewish inhabitants and a considerable numbe ...
  • Why do they suddenly quote Marx and Gramisci i ...
    David Seaton's News Links All of a sudden Karl Marx and Marxist thought are being talked about in the most unlikely places... like the Financial Times. Here is a sample that I identify a lot with from Gideon Rachman, the FT's chief foreign affairs commentator. Like Rachman, when I was a student ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • More Specialists Are in Your Medical Future
    According to a new study, doctor visits that result in a referral to a specialist have grown by 159% over the past decade. Suzy Khimm summarizes the reasons for us: The big question is why doctors have become more likely to send their patients to specialists. Part of the answer, Landon finds, ...
  • Newt Gingrich Not as Good a Debater as Newt Gi ...
    Jonathan Bernstein analyzes Newt's performance in last night's debate and says one thing I agree with and one thing I don't. First, here's the part I think is wrong: If people were looking for ammunition against Newt Gingrich, he supplied plenty of it Monday during an early and extended exchan ...
  • Bruce Bartlett's Freakishly Good Tax Reform Timing
    Last night I read Bruce Bartlett's new book, The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take. It's written as a primer on American taxes, and it's a great introduction for anyone who doesn't really know much about the U.S. tax system and wants to learn the basics. It ...
  • Iran Sanctions Bite Ever Harder
    While Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were busy giving rabble-rousing speeches about how the appeaser-in-chief has been touring the globe apologizing for America and hollowing out our military influence, guess what happened? Europe slapped a boycott on Iranian oil Monday, signaling that the Isla ...
  • Greek Debt Talks Going Down to the Wire
    Reuters reports on the "voluntary" restructuring of Greece's debt: Euro zone finance ministers on 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 default. .... ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 299: Racial Free Agent
    Topics: Red Tails is not a good movie Black people’s fear of not supporting Kriss wants to be traded in the racial draft Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe Jay-Z inspires black fathers? Feminista Jones on Open Marriages and relationship advice MLK on a strip club flyer Great moments in White P ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Mark Wahlberg
    Mark Wahlberg is one of today’s biggest action movie stars, but as he sees it, his heroism doesn’t end at a film’s credits. Instead, he fancies himself a real badass off screen, too. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, Wahlberg says that world history would have been d ...
  • IC 298: Nuking Bridges
    Topics: Brian White wants you to watch shitty movies Quality over Quantity when it comes to black movies Bad movies don’t put good actors on SOPA: Why old people shouldn’t make laws Keep your kids off of social media Share with your friends:
  • IC 297: Twinkies
    Topics: Great sports last night Fuck those kind of fans Patriots are so disrespectful MJ was an asshole Drake’s Tattoos Amber Rose, succeeding at doing nothing Companies promoting the fact that they finally got it right When trolling goes wrong Share with your friends:
  • IC 296: Shit the Pope Says
    Topics: Fan appreciation Podcast/Blogging for the fun of it George Lucas & Red Tails What Tyler Perry should be doing “Blue” Dumb celebrity children names Using slaves on math word problems Shit the Pope Says Mitt Romney will be the nominee Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Recycling carbon taxes can benefit planet and ...
    Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.
  • The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
    After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.
  • Warming puts species on collision course
    Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.
  • The world’s New Year’s resolution: ...
    Tense negotiations in South Africa in December laid a path for controlling greenhouse gas emissions across the world, and with those emissions and average temperatures controlling for short-term fluctuations reaching highs in 2010, we should encourage and help efforts to make controls law.
  • Did climate change make it harder to get your ...
    Floods in Thailand have affected supplies of PCs and other electronic devices that we might have bought for Christmas. Should this demonstration of the everyday consequences of nature’s power give us pause for thought before we commence our annual celebration?

e!Science News

  • It's evolution: Nature of prejudice, aggressio ...
    Prejudice against people from groups different than their own is linked to aggression for men and fear for women, suggests new research led by Michigan State University scholars. read more
  • Ancient dinosaur nursery -- the oldest nesting ...
    An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus-revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behaviour in early dinosaurs. The newly unearthed dinosaur nesting ground predat ...
  • Scientists discover new clue to the chemical o ...
    Organic chemists at the University of York have made a significant advance towards establishing the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life. read more
  • Researchers quantify muscle soreness
    Quantifying how sore a person is after a long workout is a challenge for doctors and researchers, but scientists from Loma Linda and Asuza Pacific Universities think they may have figured it out. Their research article describing a new technique to measure muscle soreness will be published in th ...
  • Gene therapy research from Penn Vet & Scheie E ...
    Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have shown that they can prevent, or even reverse, a blinding retinal disease, X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa, or XLRP, in dogs. read more

unEarthed

  • Monday Reads: The Fine Particulate Matter Edition
    When PM2.5 levels got 'crazy bad' Beijing is under all that smog... somewhere... A sight for sore lungs. (William Veerbeek) Just in time to ring in ...
  • Stand With Donna And All the People of Appalachia
    The story of one woman's fight to save her homeland To date, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried more than 2,500 miles of streams and leveled an area of Appalachia bigger than the state of Delaware. Perhaps even scarier ...
  • Friday Finds: Meatless Mondays Go Mainstream
    Olympic air challenge, Nemo’s CO2 problem, NYC trashes trash Bacon cheeseburger (Like_the_Grand_Canyon) Ag industry takes beef with Americans eating less meat ...
  • More Than Cranes Are Whooping Over the Keyston ...
    Time to examine harmful effects of tar sands mining The entire global population of wild, migratory whooping cranes migrates through the tar sands region twice annually. (U.S. FWS) ...
  • Victories Bring Hope As 2012 Begins
    Power of law shines through political rhetoric We will continue to use the law to protect wild places, propel the clean energy economy forward, and safeguard our health. ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • On Egypt and elsewhere: The Left’s fatal ...
    First of all, I’ve changed my mind about the point in my Saturday post that shocked people and got the most attention – that if I’d known last February that Islamists were going to democratically take over Egypt, I would have supported Mubarak instead of the protesters. Prodded ...
  • Dance film ‘Pina’ nominated for an ...
    I love a film that leaves a lasting impression. Maybe it’s because I love 3-D, maybe it’s because I’m a dancer, maybe it’s because it was so special, probably all of the above, that Wim Wenders’ Pina got lodged in my cerebrum. Not only was the film a gorgeous tribute to the legendary and recentl ...
  • Myths, facts and suggestions: Asylum seekers i ...
    ‘Asylum seekers’ are often confused with ‘migrant workers’ in Israel. Here is an info-sheet written by two experts in the field that explains the facts about the new faces in Israeli society, and suggests how the country should cope. By Yonatan Berman and Oded Feller &#82 ...
  • Citizenship Law prefers discrimination over hu ...
    Recent rejection by the Israeli High Court of the final petitions against Israel’s Citizenship Law – which denies status in Israel to Palestinian spouses of Israeli citizens – was described as a “watershed” ruling. Watershed indeed, but how exactly? By Hagai El-Ad Justice Asher ...
  • Knesset blocking of MK Tibi’s bills cens ...
    The recent mini drama in the Knesset that featured MK Ghaleb Majadele (Labor), MK Anastassia Michaeli (Yisrael Beiteinu) and MK Ahmad Tibi (Raam-Taal) has shifted the focus away from the real story: Knesset conduct prohibits the Palestinian minority from raising issues over their collective righ ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • EXCLUSIVE- OBAMA WILL ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATIONS& ...
    WASHINGTON — 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 Originatio ...
  • The Florida (un)fair Foreclosure Act Staff Ana ...
    CONTACT LEGISLATORS UNFAIR FORECLOSURE Scridb filter
  • FORECLOSURE MEDIATION IN A POST-APOCOLYPTIC WORLD
    The nuclear bomb has already detonated.  You know that don’t you?  Remember that scene in War Games when the Doomsday clock was ticking away, 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 BOOM! Well, the nuclear bomb called Financial Armageddon went off long, long times ago.  Today we’re all living in the bo ...
  • (another) BOMBSHELL! the SENSITIVE AND CONFIDE ...
    WOW….so you’re the newly elected president…elected on a wave of idealism and hope…. And then you get dumped in your lap a 57-page memo that laws out just how bad the economy really is….. The memo…MARKED SENSITIVE AND CONFIDENTIAL….is written in such simp ...
  • INSANITY BOMBSHELL- MITT ROMNEY COOS ABOUT PAM ...
    Just to show how bizarre and Alice in Wonderland this world is becoming, Mitt Romney went off his talking points and gave credit to Pam Bondi for something she is absolutely not doing….going after the banks….. “Where there has been fraud, where people who entered into a mortgag ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • We Shall Overcome
    It was an unusual journey, decades long, and accomplished in about an hour. The setting of St. Paul’s Cathedral in …Continue reading »
  • The City We Dream Of
    The following is my column for the London Free Press on the day of the massive Electro Motive rally in …Continue reading »
  • The New Iron Curtain
    Can capitalism be remade? Undoubtedly, but first we must dispose of its most frequent apologia that not all business is …Continue reading »
  • Both Ends
    In 1800, about 90% of Americans worked on farms; by 1900 it was 41%; today it is slightly under 2%. …Continue reading »
  • Roots
    If the recently concluded Liberal convention in Ottawa showed anything, it was the pundit’s penchant for predicting the end of …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safe ...
    The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal &#8 ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...
  • The Right to Be Healthy
    Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...
  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • Michigan Democrats to Finance Free College Tui ...
    Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...
  • Honeybee Problem Nearing a 'Critical Point'
    Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Swedish Social Democrats implode as Juholt resigns
    I have long felt that Håkan Juholt was inappropriate as the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats. But what was most disturbing - in this time of transparency - was the opaque manner of his being "appointed and anointed" as leader of the party.
  • The dark side of the sun in Germany
    The costs of subsidizing solar electricity have exceeded the 100-billion-euro mark in Germany, but poor results are jeopardizing the country's transition to renewable energy.
  • The new censors – McCarthyism by Hollywood
    The new McCarthys in the US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Diane Feinstein(D -California), Harry Reid (D- Nevada), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Motion Picture Association of America, Chris Dodd (Lobbyist and Chairman of MPAA and former Senator) News Corp., Time-Warner, Sony ...
  • Benefits of shale gas are real and measurable
    The gas glut is real in the US and is moving to Europe. Gas prices are coming down and electricity generation prices will follow. The gas turbine market had a boom in 2000 and again in 2007/8 and the next boom will come, I think, in 2013/14 when industrial production picks up after the current d ...
  • 145 counts of data fabrication against Univers ...
    Depak Das, a professor in the Department of Surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center, has been accused of serious scientific misconduct. UConn has informed 11 scientific journals about the investigation. He is to be sacked.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Postal Employee Caught With 10 Years Of Stolen ...
    For 10 years, a Postal Service employee in Texas has been stockpiling massive amounts of bulk mail in her office and home. And even though she's now under investigation by postal inspectors, the USPS worker says she wants to keep her job. "People can have mental issues," the 72-year-old tells ...
  • Milwaukee Police Invite You To Conduct Your Cr ...
    In an attempt to cut down on back alley Craigslist deals gone awry, Milwaukee cops are opening the doors of one police station to quell the surge of recent robberies by having transactions go down under the station's roof. Better there than behind the dumpster at the gas station, right? The Mi ...
  • Religious California Community Sees McDonald's ...
    Many of Loma Linda, Calif.'s citizens don't drink and don't smoke, so what do they do when McDonald's comes to town? They get up in arms and start complaining about the Golden Arches breaching their haven of health. The L.A. Times reports on the little town's history of healthfulness, which in ...
  • Unemployment Dropped In Most States In Decembe ...
    For everyone who so over these economic doldrums, the latest Labor Department jobs data for December 2011 may prove to be a bit of a belated holiday gift. Let's just hope that gift doesn't end up being returned in a couple months. According to the newest numbers, 37 states and the District of ...
  • U.S. Car Buyers Seeing Less Difference Between ...
    Not so long ago, saying the name of any of the top car brands -- Toyota, Chevy, Ford, Honda, etc -- conjured up very distinct associated images and preconceptions, especially when compared to the smaller and newer brands on the market. But it looks like that line between champs and challengers ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Mahmoud Mohieldin and the Perfect Crime
    "The perfect crime is the one that's not illegal." – Greg Palast, Vultures' Picnic World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCThe year 2011 was a long one of indecision between the new government in Egypt and the international financial Institutions (IFIs) over new loans. Because lending from the ...
  • Yet Another 'Leaker' Charged Under Espionage A ...
    Los Angeles Times: Ex-CIA Officer Charged with Disclosing Classified Information Summary: Yesterday, the Obama administration charged another ‘leaker’ under the Espionage Act. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was charged with disclosing classified information to journalists and could face deca ...
  • Another Whistleblower Indicted Under the Espio ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user publik15Yesterday, John Kiriakou, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, gained the dubious distinction of being the SIXTH person charged in the Obama administration's record-breaking war on whistleblowers: The Justice Department on Monday charged ...
  • 4th Amend. Privacy Protections Live: Supreme C ...
    Oh thank G-d. This is a great example of the Supreme Court conforming the law to new technology. The High Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY that the police must obtain a valid search warrant before using a GPS (global positioning system) device to track criminal suspects. For those of you who saw the ora ...
  • Fraud Detailed at Countrywide Financial's Mass ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user lewisha1990Boston Globe: Complaint Describes Loan Fruad Summary: This article looks at the Massachusetts connections of the Department of Labor whistleblower complaint filed by former Countrywide Financial/Bank of America employee and GAP client Eileen Foster, who repor ...

UK Progressive

  • London Estuary Airport Expansions: The Maplin ...
    by David Hurst, An Executive Review of Business Travel AERBT.co.uk Airports in the Thames estuary are nothing new.  They were headline news 40 years ago.  David Hurst, these days an aviation consultant, was a young press officer with the British Airports Authority at the time.  He now delves int ...
  • False Joe Paterno Death Report Relied on Fault ...
    by Daniel Victor, ProPublica This story was co-published with Poynter. The Onward State tweet that erroneously reported Joe Paterno’s death Saturday night and led to an avalanche of false reports in other outlets was based on the work of two student reporters: One was snookered by a false ...
  • Happy 1st Anniversary? Why Egyptians Remain Op ...
    It takes time for democracy ‘experiments’ to ‘settle.’ The US has 230+ years and still there are tensions. Many of those who achieved freedom in Egypt thought winning the 18 days equalled ‘job done.’ As they (and the Occupy movement) learned, you have to work within the system to change it or ri ...
  • GOP Hypocrisy Runs Rampant
    Hypocrites: Ron Paul’s ‘alliance’ with Mitt Romney, and the right’s double standard on Gingrich and adultery Let me first retract my comment about Rick Perry suggesting he had some deal with Mitt Romney to stay in the race. Now I would ask supporters of Ron Paul to explain his refusal to critici ...
  • Can America Withstand Its Own Political Rhetoric?
    As the Republican Party’s ideological drumline thins out in the primary race for the nomination to unseat President Barack Obama, the nation will witness political rhetoric unlike anything it’s ever seen — at least since the last Presidential election. All of them “gear up” for Armageddon. Four ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Dr David Evans: The Skeptic’s Case
    A new brief summary of the reasoning and evidence behind the skeptics case. –Jo ——————————————— The Skeptic’s Case Who Are You Going To Believe – The Government Climate Scientists Or The Data? Guest P ...
  • 2011 was 51st warmest year in Australia!
    Despite all the headlines we see, 2011 in Australia was remarkable for its extraordinary averageness. It is a rare year that is more average than 2011 was. (This email was spotted on it’s way to various government officials. No, Steve, isn’t expecting them to reply. – Jo) &#821 ...
  • The Doomsians are Panixilated
      Oil on Canvas George Crie (cropped). "Panic Attack or Anxiety PTSD" Neosurrealismart.com.   I just love some of these terms. Verity Jones (Diggingintheclay) and E. Michael Smith (Chiefio, see the postscript) are rolling on a neologistic wave, and they’re generating some ...
  • Carbon Ship Sinking: Barclays Bank closes it&# ...
    Gillard once lauded the genius of the carbon market. That part of the “free” market which is free to move, is moving — and right out. The smart money is saying that carbon trading is a dead dog. It’s a has-been-tulip, a sick puppy, a sinking ship. The future of global car ...
  • SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) – Designed ...
    They control our money, our armed forces, our tax inspectors, jails, and police. Against that, we the people wield our biggest weapon — information. The biggest threat to people in positions of power is the flow of news and ideas. The internet is the largest menace, the most powerful tool ...

ReNew America

  • Letters to conservatives: a plea for reason
    (Adam Graham) - Dear Fellow Conservatives, There is a time when it is time, to put aside what Speaker Gingrich's aide once called "tweets and trivia" and to lay out our concerns in a rational way. I write this as a supporter of Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and is the first in a series of letter ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Being George Washington'
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The life story of George Washington is "a miracle." After all, Glenn Beck asks, what other mortal "can lay claim to a legacy that has allowed so many to experience freedom around the world?" In "Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man as You've Never Seen Him," ...
  • The man who gave us Newt
    (Mark Steyn) - The nature of this peculiar primary season -- the reason it seems at odds with both the 2009--2010 political narrative and the seriousness of the times -- was determined by Mitt Romney. Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a mor ...
  • Gingrich win shows collapse of GOP establishment
    (Washington Examiner) - Being the establishment candidate, as Mitt Romney learned Saturday, was far easier when the establishment really mattered...
  • Newt Gingrich's big, slobbering mutual love af ...
    (London Daily Mail) - Newt Gingrich hates the media, right? He unloaded on John King at the Charleston debate for raising this issue of his ex-wife's allegations, blasting the "destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media"...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • The Final Four Republican Candidates
    The leader of the free world has enough power to cause TEOTWAWKI via bad policy or religious motivation. And Obama might be out-voted just before the Mayan calendar ends in December. Even for those who ...The Final Four Republican Candidates is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Ron Pau ...
  • Elaine Morgan on Aquatic Apes
    Ever wondered why we are hairless compared to other apes? Or why our tears are salty? Or even why we have breasts? Elaine Morgan has devoted decades to the topic of Aquatic Apes, and I’ve been ...Elaine Morgan on Aquatic Apes is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Rapid Darwinian ...
  • Wired & The Science of Doomsday
    After all the poorly written 2012 news items of recent weeks, Wired has come out with an excellent article on the scientific possibilities of doomsday. I’ve summarized their list and added my comments: SuperVolcano Wired: Yellowstone’s giant volcanic crater ...Wired & The Sc ...
  • Some 2012 Survival Vehicles
    This Top 10 list is actually from a car site, but everybody is talking about 2012 this month… 1. Knight XV - fully armored, hand built luxury SUV 2. Pirate 4×4 – not much luggage space! 3. TRAX ...Some 2012 Survival Vehicles is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:eBoo ...
  • Early Fishing in East Timor
    The main thrust of this news item is evidence suggesting humans were fishing 43,000 years ago, whereas the previous earliest date was just 12,000 years ago. But of equal interest was the fish they were ...Early Fishing in East Timor is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Mystery: 67 Dino ...

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 ...

One News Page

  • Avril Lavigne Splits From Brody Jenner?
    AVRIL Lavigne and Brody Jenner have reportedly split up. The singer and the reality TV star — who had been dating for almost two years — have decided to call time on their relationship because they couldn’t agree on their future. “They decided to end their relationship. It wasn’t ...
  • When is the State of the Union Address 2012? S ...
    When is Obama's  State of the Union Address 2012. Here is the Obama SOTU Start Time US President Barack Obama's  State of the Union Address 2012 will take place today.What Will Barack Obama talk about during the 2012 State of the Union?When is the State of the... read more
  • Jay Leno's remark on Golden Temple upsets India
    Jay Leno flashed a picture of the Golden Temple on his programme and termed it as a possible summer home of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
  • Why Facebook is Force-Feeding Timeline To Everyone
    Facebook will soon force everyone to update the social network to the latest iteration, Facebook Timeline. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has never been shy about his vision a world that shares information seamlessly.
  • How to Trade the 2012 State of the Union Speech
    Tonight, President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union Speech in front of a deeply divided, and unprecedentedly unpopular, Congress. In what many observers are characterizing as a kick-off to the President's 2012 re-election bid, the event is likely to be an opportunity for more ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
    The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Since th ...
  • Touch Iran in a War, You Will Hear Russia and ...
    Despite the areas of difference and the rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, Russian and Iranian ties are increasing. Both Russia and Iran share many commonalities. They are both major energy exporters, have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus, oppose NATO’s missile shield, and want to ...
  • Wise Bear on the Mountaintop
    At the regularly scheduled briefing in October 2011, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Liu Weimin said that “China has no intention nor energy to seek global leadership.” I need to make it very clear that I sympathize with the Chinese government’s position. Maybe in the future the internatio ...
  • Fake Crystall: Reflections on US Human Rights ...
    Thousands of years old cultural taboos are reasonable and logical unlike US State Department statements. All deviations from family traditions impede the full performance of the most important natural function: to give birth and raise descendants, to transmit one’s genetic, intellectual and mora ...
  • Campaign Finance Revolution
    Several Occupy Wall Street splinter groups are now coalescing around a set of political demands. One that is long overdue and enjoys unanimous support is campaign finance reform. All the formulas that I have seen center on publicly funded elections. While this would be a huge step in the right d ...

BlogHer

  • Breakfast In the Oven
    http://buzzmills.typepad.com/blog/2012/01/breakfast-in-the-oven.html Several months ago we (I) implemented breakfast for dinner. It started accidentally, at first, when we didn't have anything in the house for a quick dinner aside from eggs...Since then, every Wednesday night is breakfast for ...
  • The State of the Union: Our Real Social Wealth
    By Riane Eisler and Kimberly Otis Today's State of the Union address offers President Obama the opportunity to talk with Americans about what our nation really needs. As we shift from a manufacturing to a knowledge and service economy, what we urgently need for both individual and national eco ...
  • Teens, Tweens and Finances
    We forewarned our girls that this Christmas was not going to be a big one.  The Rooster had changed jobs halfway thru the year and my business was slower than last year. Even if that hadn’t been the case, when we saw the 13 YOs “list” it made us do a double take and realized that these kids ...
  • Saying Hello
    They say you never really know a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes, and after last week, I can confirm for you that the proverbial "they" are absolutely correct. Last week, Jes Ferris announced that she will soon be leaving BlogHer, and I am *beyond* excited to announce that I am ...
  • iBooks Author: What's the Reaction?
    Apple released its latest app, iBooks Author with the usual fanfare. It's a simple drag and drop system that will take your document from Word or Pages and format it into a book. You can add goodies like tables, charts, a glossary and widgets to the book. Apple is promoting the free app as perf ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Looming coal crisis: Will W.Va. leaders do any ...
    Anyone who is paying attention to government statistics, industry forecasts — and this blog — shouldn’t have been particularly surprised by the news about coal yesterday from the U.S. Department of Energy’s sneak peak at the Energy Information Administration’s 2012 ...
  • Update: Declines projected for Appalachian coal
    Here’s the latest from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration, in a preview of its 2012 Energy Outlook issued this morning: Over the next 25 years, the projected coal share of overall electricity generation falls to 39 percent, well below the 49-percent sha ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 20, 2012
    A lift unloads a coal barge that broke away on the Monongahela River , right, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012,  in Pittsburgh. U.S. Coast Guard officials say an incident that occurred about 2:30 on Thursday morning started a chain of events resulting in three loose barges going downriver and temporar ...
  • MSHA moving ahead with unenforceable dust rule
    Despite legislation that prohibits it from being enforced — at least until the GAO completes a report on the proposal — the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has quietly announced plans to finalize its new rules aimed at ending black lung disease. A new Labor Department regu ...
  • Is OSMRE merger part of Obama’s ‘w ...
    It was kind of funny that last night’s public meeting on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s plan to merger the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement with the Bureau of Land Management was held out at the West Virginia National Guard Armory, behind a door that was ...

Daniel Miessler

  • If Gingrich Wins the Primary, Obama Gets a Sec ...
    It’s that simple. I don’t understand how the GOP allows this to continue. Gingrich winning is a catastrophe for them. Romney has a chance to win against Obama as an “anyone but him” candidate. Gingrich doesn’t even have that, as his past is full of campaign-breaking ...
  • If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Stra ...
    “For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired,” says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this idea that if they pay their taxes and do what they’re told, there’s some kind of safety net, or pension p ...
  • Obama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of Gay S ...
    via youtube.com So satisfying to see them being ridiculed for being bigoted idiots. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentHitler Finds Out There’s No iPhone 5If China Attacks America (A Must See)David Simon on the End of the American EmpireAdding Malware ...
  • Google’s Browser Security Principles | ZDNet
    Defense in depth: Our goal in designing Chrome’s security architecture was to layer defenses, and avoid single points of failure. Chrome’s sandbox architecture represents one of the most effective parts of this strategy, but it’s far from the only piece. We also employ the best available anti-ex ...
  • Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Ou ...
    What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane pers ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • New York City – Pot-bust capital – ...
    WWH- Must be those White Folks don’t get high in NYC. Thank goodness, Corrupt,Racist,1%er Mayor Bloomberg is ridding the “Big Apple” of this scourge. BYSTEVEN WISHNIA,indypendent.org - Despite a well-publicized police order instructing officers not to use bogus pretexts to just ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates: Occupy Movem ...
    Contact: John E. Peck, executive director #608-260-0900 Family Farm Defenders Declares its Solidarity with International Longshore Workers Denying Workers The Right to Organize is a Gross Violation of Food Sovereignty Family Farm Defenders, a national organization based in Madison, WI expresses ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    Supreme Court rules police need warrant for GPS tracking WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police cannot put a GPS device on a suspect’s car to track his movements without a warrant, a test case that upholds basic privacy rights in the face of new surveill ...
  • How the European conquest affected Native Amer ...
    From cordis.europa.eu - Researchers from Germany and the United States suggest that the European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population. The results of their study provide new insight into the demise of the indigenous population. Experts recognise that Nativ ...
  • Hey Hippies! Job Openings: ASTRONAUT APPLICATI ...
    Worldwidehippies,NASA - HOUSTON — Individuals interested in becoming America’s future space explorers have until Friday to submit their applications. The deadline to apply for NASA’s next astronaut class is Jan. 27. The agency typically receives as many as 3,500 applicants for ...

reference frame

  • Some Boston Bruins meet Obama
    I must admit that during the 6 years in Greater Boston, I have never attended an ice-hockey match. After all, my Boston patriotism was very limited. If New York Rangers (then) with Jaromír Jágr came to Boston, be sure that I would root for the victory of the guests. Of course, an even mo ...
  • Armenian genocide: Turkey doesn't belong to Europe
    The French lawmakers passed a bill that makes it illegal to deny the Armenian Genocide. Nicolas Sarkozy's signature was considered to be a formality; a week ago, most French senators in a committee voted against the bill because it violates the freedom of speech. They were overruled on Monday ...
  • Leap seconds may be abolished in 2015
    When the new year began, I was discussing the subtle issues of leap years and the methods to approximate the tropical year by a rational number. The key number, 365.242189, was the ratio of the mean tropical year and the mean solar day. Note that both of these periods are defined astrono ...
  • Climbing inside a Fukushima reactor
    Four days ago, a friend in Japan who is a good mountain-climber teamed up with 40 Japanese workers, drilled a hole into the reactor, took an Olympus-made endoscope, a few ropes, and shot this short and simple 1-minute movie from the 2nd reactor of Fukushima I. The white mottles are ...
  • Why "semiclassical gravity" isn't self-consistent
    Sabine Hossenfelder recently discussed various gedanken experiments showing that "semiclassical gravity" can't be a consistent description of Nature: Backreaction on Eppley-Hannah's thought experiment Backreaction on this and Page-Geilker's thought experimentWhile she admits that "semicla ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • My site appears to be caught up in the crossfi ...
    I apologize for the lag in the site tonight. It looks like there may be a DDOS attack underway on many sites across the Web. Since my site is hosted on GoDaddy.com it has been caught in the crossfire. Hopefully this will be rectified quickly. I have sent a support ticket to GoDaddy. Hopefully th ...
  • From the WTF Department: The Mad Ape Gets Cazy ...
    Someone going by the handle of Alias Hanz sent me a postcard from…um…hell…I think. He subscribed to me through Google and my post yesterday on the Internet Fight Song must have stirred up a cauldron of a hot soup – Cream of Bat-Shit Crazy. WTF? Technorati Tags: Alias Hanz ...
  • Local Area Blogger, Charles Leblanc, Arrested ...
    I do not normally blog on local issues much because, for the most part, there is nothing worth the effort or the time around these parts.  But that changed tonight when local area blogger, Charles Leblanc, was arrested for defamation of character of a Fredericton Police Officer. Charles has been ...
  • The Fastest Way To Build a BuckyBalls Cube
    I love to play with my balls…my gold BuckyBalls that is. I got these damn things for Christmas and have quickly become addicted. The first thing I set out to do was to destroy them and then restore them to their original factory setting…a cube. I messed with it for about one day and ...
  • INTERNET FIGHT SONG! (Anti-SOPA/PIPA song by F ...
    Site back online an hour early as I have to go to bed. I hope some of you have discovered the seriousness of SOPA. INTERNET FIGHT SONG! (Anti-SOPA/PIPA song by Funk Vigilante) If you feel like being cool to us you can like us at facebook.com/funkvigilante or check out our website FunkVigilante.c ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Pesticide Defenders Say the Darndest Things
    By Alex Formuzis, EWG V-P for Media Relations In an interview last week (Jan. 16) at the pesticide lobby's D.C. headquarters, Washington State University Environmental Toxicology Professor Allan Felsot told Energy and Environment News (subscription... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Marine brass wants to limit Camp Lejeune water ...
    By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fraccidents
    Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Louisville Water Co. Slashes Chrome-6 Pollution
    By Alex Formuzixs, EWG Communications Director In 2010, EWG identified chromium-VI contamination in the drinking water of 31 of the 35 cities we tested. One Kentucky city has stepped up to solve that problem. A change in how drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Good, Bad and Truly Awful: Top Environmental S ...
    By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Moose rescued from the ice
    SEE THE VIDEO: Life isn't always easy for the Norwegian moose, especially young moose. This week, a calf wandered out onto a frozen lake southeast of Trondheim, Selbusjøen, and promptly ran into trouble. Just like in the classic Walt Disney cartoon about Bambi, the baby deer, this (relatively) l ...
  • Royal representation in Davos
    Norway will be royally represented, both literally and figuratively, at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that started this week and lasts through Sunday. Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be joining her husband this year at the high-power gathering of international movers and ...
  • Butter said to be back ‘soon’
    It's taken Norway's dairy cooperative Tine (pronounced "Tee-nah") longer than expected to produce enough butter to satisfy retail demand, but Tine officials claim it will be back on grocery shelves soon. Supplies, though, may be erratic for months. A Tine spokesman told Norwegian Broadcasting ...
  • Breivik may get own private hospital
    Norwegian authorities are reportedly considering building a one-man's psychiatric hospital unit to accommodate confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, inside the prison where's now being held. Meanwhile Breivik refuses to answer more questions from police until they promise him ongoing acces ...
  • Northern Lights to put on a show
    Meteorologists and space experts were forecasting an especially spectacular appearance of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) on Tuesday, linked to what they call the "strongest solar storm" in more than six years. If the weather is clear, the Northern Lights may be seen over most of the count ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed A ...
    by Mike Ludwig, Truthout For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops. Now, their worst fears could be coming true: under a new two-year pilot program at the USDA, regulators a ...
  • Anonymous Took Down Monsanto Website
    It’s not as good as seeing all of Monsanto’s plants and chemicals getting taken ‘offline’, but at least I can get a little mischevious pleasure from learning that Monsanto has been on the hit-list of the Anonymous team. The following video apparently shows how Monsanto w ...
  • Question What’s Inside – Anti GMO Music Video
    Download for iTunes here (50% of the 99 cent fee goes to support the Institute for Responsible Technology’s work to battle the GMO takeover of the world.)
  • How to Harvest Honey from Natural Comb
    Once you’ve harvested your natural honeycomb from your Warré (or other kind of top bar) beehive, it’s time to get some of that goodness into jars! Fortunately, like many other aspects of natural beekeeping, getting the honey out of natural comb is easy and simple, once you know ...
  • Michael Reynolds, Earthship Originator, Speaki ...
    Guess what? Milkwood are hosting a great evening talk with Michael Reynolds, that world-leading sustainability pioneer of Earthship Biotecture, in Sydney on the 26th Feb. Do you want to come? This community event is going to be a uniquely inspiring & informative evening of radical architect ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Possible MLK Day Hate Crime Against Civil Righ ...
    Family member had been founder of Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice The following article was originally published by journalist Pete Tucker at TheFightBack.org: Growing up in a civil rights family in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Chuck Hicks remembers the constant threats. “We ...
  • New Orleans Filmmakers Are Hit of Sundance Wit ...
    A new film by a collective of filmmakers based in New Orleans has emerged as one of the major success stories at this year's Sundance Film Festival with their new film that shines a light on the issues faced on Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Variety, the insider journal of the film industry, has named ...
  • Ten Steps for Radical Revolution in USA, By Bi ...
    “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. 1967 One. Human rights must be taken absolutely seriously. Every single person is entitled to dignity and human rig ...
  • Dick Gregory vs. BP
    Journalist Pete Tucker, blogging at TheFightBack, reports that Gulf Coast residents have a new ally in the struggle for justice after the BP Drilling Disaster: Legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory. The original report is posted below. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory wasn’t thrown beh ...
  • Working and Poor in the USA, By Bill Quigley
    “Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937 Millions of people in th ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Finally the Truth is going to get out. Assange is going to get a TV show and expose all the of Truth and get rid of all the bad guys. Up until now Alex Jones has had to carry all of the water. "The revolution will not be televised." -Gil Scott-Heron Julian Assange to Host Own TV ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • T ...
    While this guy is onto something I think he should be reminded that it's time to throw the zionists/elite jews out of power then work our way down... http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2012/01/infowar-is-over-now-it-is-time-to-take.html Sunday, January 22, 2012The Infowar is Over! Now It i ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/ 24 January 2012 Last updated at 13:13 Share this page Email Print 15 Share Facebook Twitter Russia row over Nazi massacre site in Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don map Continue reading the main story Related Stories The hidden graves of t ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    It's funny that the tapes show that Nixon found out early on that Felt leaked the story, and that Nixon learned that Felt was a Jew from Halderman. [An article at JWeekly claims that Felt was not a Jew. Whatever] We know that Felt leaked it to Woodward, who was Jewish and in naval intelligence. ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    In May of 2005, the Middle East Media Research Institute translated a news story from Iranian television called "The Untold Story of the Watergate Affair": "Today, it has become clear that Nixon's dispute with Israel and the Zionist lobby was among the main causes for his downfal ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Geoengineering Scheme Could Boost Crop Product ...
    Spraying particles into the stratosphere to help cool the planet could increase crop yields in most regions of the world, but could also introduce unintended risks, according to a new study. In a paper published in the online journal Nature Climate Change, researchers used computer models to tes ...
  • Real-Time Fisheries Information Could Reduce W ...
    A Japanese fisheries company has equipped some of its boats with technology that enables crews to publish details of catches online in real time, an innovation they say could significantly reduce waste and allow for more sustainable management of fish stocks. Using webcams and laptop computers o ...
  • Building a Better Bulb: Lighting Revolution Ad ...
    With the industry’s support, new U.S. lighting efficiency standards went into effect this month. This move, along with similar actions in Europe and China, is helping spur new technologies that will change the way homes and businesses are illuminated. BY DAVE LEVITAN
  • Rise in Ocean Acidity Unprecedented in Past 21 ...
    Carbon dioxide emissions caused by human activities over the last century have increased the acidity of the world’s oceans far beyond the range of natural variations, which may significantly impair the ability of marine organisms such as corals and mollusks to form their skeletons or shells, a n ...
  • NASA Graphic Depicts Significant Spike in Temp ...
    A new NASA graphic shows that temperatures in several global regions were appreciably higher in 2011 than at mid-century, with large swaths of Siberia and Click to enlarge NASA GISS Global temperature anomalies, 2011 the Arctic experiencing temperatures as much as 4 degrees C (7 degrees F) ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Duncan vintage in victory over Hornets S
    As Tim Duncan strode forcefully into the lane for a running hook in the final seconds, Tony Parker could not help but be reminded of a couple of the greatest players the NBA has ever known. "It was a mix of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson -a kind of sky-hook, and we'll take it," Parker s ...
  • Texas Instrument to shut Oita plant
    Texas Instruments plans to close chip factories in Texas and Japan in a cost-cutting move that will lay off about 1,000 workers. The company announced the cutbacks Monday in its fourth-quarter earnings report. The financial results topped analyst estimates.
  • Desperate Knicks could use Tinsley
    Kobe Bryant recently "pinpointed" Jamaal Tinsley as an ideal conductor of offensive arrangements, exactly what the Lakers (and Knicks) distinctly lack. While there's really no reason to solicit a second opinion on Tinsley once Kobe expressed his considered "viewpoint," it's germane to note the ...
  • Difficult case tests lay judges
    At the Saitama District Court on Jan. 10, six lay judges — three men and three women — together with three professional judges started to deal with not only three murder cases but also with seven other cases involving the defendant, Ms. Kanae Kijima — fraud, attempted fraud and ...
  • Narita part of U.K. open-skies deal
    Japan and Britain have agreed to add Narita International Airport, the country's largest international gateway, to their open skies agreement as a result of bilateral civil aviation talks, the transport ministry said Tuesday. The addition of Narita will take effect in summer 2013, when the com ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Corporate Taxes and Investment in Ontario
    Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Finance released the Ontario Economic Accounts for the third quarter of 2011. As The Globe reported, business investment was less than impressive: . . . investment in machinery and equipment fell slightly by 0.2 per cent between June and September, 2011, promptin ...
  • The Cuts Behind the Curtain
    Today, the CCPA released a study I authored titled: The Cuts Behind the Curtain: How federal cutbacks will slash services and increase unemployment.  The report examines all three waves of federal government cutbacks starting with the 2007-2010 strategic reviews, but also projecting the effects ...
  • Wall Strikes Out on Fiscal Federalism
    Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall recently issued a statement exhorting his fellow Premiers to blaze largely unspecified new trails on healthcare, Employment Insurance and Equalization. Unfortunately, he misses the ball on all three issues. Greg Fingas and Verda Petry have already refuted Wall’s call for ...
  • Day of Action: Why it matters to higher education
    The fight for public education in Canada is part of a global effort to maintain education as a basic right for all. Around the world, governments are tabling “austerity” budgets containing massive cuts to post-secondary education and other public services. In country after country, ordinary peop ...
  • Lower Inflation Frees Carney’s Hand, But Shelt ...
    Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices decreased in December, lowering the annual inflation rate to 2.3%. The Bank of Canada’s core inflation rate declined to 1.9%. Tame inflation leaves room to lower interest rates. If unemployment continues to rise, the Bank of Canada should red ...

ReDress

  • The ongoing war against truth
    Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...
  • Have Israel’s "inner circles" discussed assass ...
    Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.
  • Israeli's demographic-cultural barriers to peace
    Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel's demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can establish roots, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental a ...
  • Syria, the myth of Assad's popularity and the ...
    Nureddin Sabir views the misleading results of a flawed survey which suggests that more than half of the Syrian population want Bashar Assad to stay as president, and notes with dismay the uncritical coverage given to the survey by prominent mainstream and alternative media.
  • Room for Jews only in Israel's "villa in the j ...
    Jonathan Cook looks at the progress Israel is making in fortifying its status as the world's first ethnically pure "bunker state" and thereby realizing the dream of its founders.

Physics Today

  • Faster, faster, Fourier transform
    Tech and Computer: A new and faster Fourier transform algorithm has been developed by Dina Katabi of MIT and colleagues. The Fourier transform is a method for representing an irregular signal as a combination of pure frequencies. It's used in a wide variety of applications, including nuclear mag ...
  • Solar sails harness both wind and Sun
    BBC: An Australian company, SolarSailor, has been developing high-tech sails that will use both the Sun and the wind to reduce ships' dependence on fossil fuels. The giant sails are covered with solar panels, and the electricity generated is stored in a battery. The technology, which combines a ...
  • Solar storm peaks today
    Washington Post: A solar storm on Sunday was expected to send streams of radiation toward Earth today, which could affect satellite communications and GPS signals, as well as the electrical grid. The storm, the biggest since 2003, began with a burst of x rays shooting out of a sunspot; that even ...
  • Nanoparticles developed to boost immunity
    BBC: Researchers at Duke University have been working to develop synthetic nanoparticles that can boost the human body's immune system. They have engineered tiny capsules that mimic mast cells—which respond to fight infections near the skin—by releasing a body chemical called tumor n ...
  • Crowdsourcing earthquake activity
    Ars Technica: New technologies are enabling crowdsourcing in a number of scientific disciplines—most recently, seismology. After the 23 August 2011 earthquake on the US East Coast, a video rendering of the seismic waves’ travel was created by plotting the Twitter messages sent contai ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Drought, high feed costs prompt program to hel ...
    “A lengthy drought that has scorched Oklahoma pastures and sent the price of hay skyrocketing has led to sharp spike in the number of cases of livestock being abandoned or neglected. While most of the cases involve horses, there also have been reports of malnourished goats and sheep, offic ...
  • Looking At A New Strategy To Save The Sacramen ...
    “Water supply, flood control, and environmental management are fundamental challenges for the western United States. California’s unique development patterns, with nearly 20 million of its residents living in water starved southern California, has resulted in a system of water transfers and aque ...
  • No Doubt Pakistan’s Water Crisis Is Predominan ...
    “Pakistan has in most areas of agriculture a monsoon climate, and there might be abundant rainfall during the wet season and then a very long dry season where crop production depends very heavily on irrigation water. “Groundwater is a very important source of irrigation for farmers. ...
  • Morocco’s Berbers Had Water Management S ...
    “These indigenous traditions have been falling apart since dam projects funded by the World Bank have disrupted local practices. “Now families are fighting over water, this was never the case in the past, our system was perfect, we don’t know why international organizations have come to he ...
  • Fight Over Water Regulations Gaining Steam
    “The proposed regulations are meant to address a stronger nationwide push from the Environmental Protection Agency to cut the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus discharged from wastewater treatment plants into rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs. But opponents question the science used to ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Fights for the Middle Class
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is starting the new session of the 112th Congress fighting on the House floor for workers, seniors and the middle class.  Today, Kucinich went to the House floor three times. He first spoke in support of H.J.Res. 100, a constitutional amendment to get priv ...
  • Kucinich Speaks to the Urgency of Getting Priv ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took the House floor, urging fellow Members of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to rescue American democracy by publicly funding federal elections. See video here: Full text follows: “One of the biggest stumbling blocks to America’s econo ...
  • Kucinich Meets with GM Chairman and CEO to Dis ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today met with General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel F. Akerson to discuss the future of the automotive industry in America. They discussed safety issues related to the Chevy Volt and the role of GM and the American automotive industry to Ohio. “We all agree ...
  • Dennis Kucinich, Russell Simmons Combine Force ...
    Two years ago today, the Supreme Court, in a ruling known as Citizens United, opened the floodgate of unlimited, shadowy corporate spending in public elections. Today, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Russell Simmons, creator of Def Jam Records and the Phat Farm fashion empire, have teamed up in ...
  • Kucinich Continues Efforts to Save Cleveland A ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today requested a personal meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to close DOJ antitrust field offices in Cleveland, Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia. See Kucinich’s letter here. Kucinich requested a meeting aft ...

Authentically Wired

  • … Is this truly the secret behind SOPA & ...
    … Is this truly the secret behind SOPA … ?? The Secret Behind SOPA   Watch video here … http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yNSxuipta40 01-18-2012  •  www.prisonplanet.com   .. Paul Joseph Watson  … Prison Planet.com &# ...
  • … Do U really know what SOPA does or doe ...
    … Do U really know what SOPA does or does not do…?? The freedom-loving People across the internet achieved a decisive victory yesterday against the freedom-crushing SOPA bill (Stop Online Piracy Act). Over 7,000 websites went "dark" to raise awareness about the issue, includi ...
  • … This must scare the hell out of the &# ...
    … This must scare the hell out of the … GOP … Tea Party … FoxNew$ … Corporate media … Poll: The economy? It’s still Bush’s fault   A majority of Americans believe that former President George W. Bush is more responsible than President Obama fo ...
  • … So you really think that Ford, GM, Nis ...
    … So you really think that Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and other$ will allow the TESLA “electric” car to be successfully marketed to you and me …   Tesla’s Model S Sets a New Standard for Battery-Powered Cars Until now, there hasn’t been an all-ele ...
  • … What BS are you attempting to peddle M ...
    … As one employed as a 2010 census taker … I need Mr. Baldwin to explain to mo how merely counting anyone as an ILLEGAL rigs the outcome of the census … … What BS are you attempting to peddle Mr. Baldwin … ?   Obama Administration "Rigging" US Census By ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD mus ...
    A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as 'avoided deforestation', the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Matt Miller: don't oversimplify issues in envi ...
    Matt Miller is director of communications for The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, a position he’s held for ten years. He is responsible for the chapter’s publications and digital media. He writes for the Conservancy’s blogs Cool Green Science and Idaho Nature Notes. He has also co ...
  • Herpetology curator: behind-the-scenes of 'new ...
    Bryan Stuart’s mission as a curator of amphibians and reptiles at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is to understand the diversity of life on earth. For that, he documents what species occur where and why. He’s particularly attracted to areas where there’s a dearth ...
  • WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Study seeks to discover why West Coast seal nu ...
    A study is underway to try and find out why the West Coast fur seal population is declining.Massey University researcher Laureline Meynier spent the first week of this year armed with giant butterfly nets and shields, gluing six...
  • Controversial plan taps volcano heat for green ...
    Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this year to demonstrate new technology they hope will boost a green energy sector yet to live up to its promise.They...
  • Sleep after quakes can cement negative memories
    Sleep experts in quake-shaken Canterbury have backed the findings of a US study that has found sleeping after a traumatic event like an earthquake cements - and could even amplify - negative emotional memories.In experiments by...
  • Sir Peter Gluckman: Science key to richer country
    New Zealand's export economy has been dominated by its primary industries, commodities and tourism, but in the 21st century most strategic thinkers would accept that science and knowledge-based innovation is central to a better and...
  • Will you live to 100? New test can predict
    Scientists are claiming a genetic test can predict whether someone will live to 100 years old.The study, undertaken by researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston Medical Center, IRCCS Multimedica...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Staff Live Tweets the State of the Union!
    The Reason staff once again sets Twitter to stun as we take on the 2012 State of the Union address. Live tweeting starts at 8:45. For help getting through it, don't forget to play this year's Reason SoTU drinkng game: "There Are Some Who Say 'Drink!'" <a href="ht ...
  • Watch Matt Welch React Live to the State of th ...
    I'll be on Fox Business Network just moments after POTUS's SOTU, yakking with the great John Stossel (and Megan McArdle, and UPDATE: Sen. Rand Paul, and Gary Johnson, and David Boaz, and more!) about whatever non-great words tumble out of President Barack Obama's mouth tonight. ...
  • Ron Paul: A SuperPAC Spends for Him in Florida ...
    While the candidate himself and his official campaign are putting little effort into winning Florida's winner-take-all, only-50, closed-primary delegates, a Ron Paul SuperPAC announces it's going to spend $1.4 million on Paul-promoting ads in the state. This SuperPAC, called Endors ...
  • Matt Welch on the Eternal State of the Union A ...
    What will President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address look like tonight? We can be pretty sure Obama will talk about improving the economy, creating jobs for the 21st century, achieving energy independence, improving our schools, confronting America's enemies, championing the ...
  • Keystone XL is Dead! Long Live Keystone Light
    Fresh from President Barack Obama's decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, the Canadian government is already looking for new ways to export its tar sands oil. After all, one common argument in favor of Keystone was that if TransCanada's Keystone was rejected, Canadian tar ...

Mercury Rising

  • No words necessary. Or possible.
    Source: Think Progress Mallory Cooke, Fox40 KTXL Sacramento: Russellville police are searching for the person accused of killing a cat and writing the word “liberal” on the body. The animal’s owner, Jacob Burris, serves as campaign director for Ken Aden. Aden, a Democrat, is running for Arkansas ...
  • Actual reality TV: Assange to host series
    Josh Halliday, The Guardian: The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has announced that he is to host his own TV series, interviewing “key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries” from around the world. In a media release published on the WikiLeaks website on Monday, Assange s ...
  • Our next President
    Via Balloon Juice, excerpts of GingrichIdeas. I think the idea of a wartime language is brilliant. :
  • A film on homelessness: The Invisible Young
    Worth watching.
  • Better living through chemistry
    Nina Lakhani, London Independent: Magic mushrooms could one day be prescribed for depression after Professor David Nutt, the controversial sacked government drugs advisor, claimed research on healthy volunteers proved what a mistake it was to abandon therapeutic psychedelic drugs more than 50 ye ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Buddha, Jesus & Ayahuasca
    The rising interest in Eastern spiritual disciplines, shamanic ceremonies, “the psychedelic renaissance,” mystery schools, and neo-tribal festivals like Burning Man reveals a potential reemergence of the initiatory process in our techno-industrialized world. Could civilization itself be actin ...
  • Apocalyptic Machine Music?
    In recent months there have been a number of YouTube videos posted from around the world of unusual sounds emanating from either the ground or sky, with no clear point of origin. Videos have been posted from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, Budapest, Taipei, Chile, Mexico, Czech R ...
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  • Syllable and Sound
      The following was originally presented as a lecture at Duke University, January 2010; originally printed in Trigger93: The Word, Volume 1.   "The brain is just the weight of God," wrote Emily Dickinson, For, lift them, pound to pound, And they will differ, if th ...

Desertification

  • ARGENTINA: In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far Mor ...
    Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.
  • Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
    Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.
  • KENYA: Thirsty Eucalyptus Good for Absorbing C ...
    On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years.
  • AFRICA: Watermelon Farming in a Drought
    On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung'u's homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.
  • Observing Deforestation from Space
    Global climate change can now be observed from space. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) launched a new technology that can survey the world's forests via satellites and provide a more accurate, global picture of common threats to the environment, such as deforestat ...

Automatic Earth

  • January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is t ...
    Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...
  • January 19 2012: Don't Be Fooled : Nothing's P ...
    National Photo Co. Bond Vault 1914"Treasury Department, Office of Comptroller of Currency -- bond vault. Contains bonds to the value of $900 million securing government deposits and postal savings fund" Ilargi: Double treat today: a thourough big picture interview with Nicole by KMO at C-Realm, ...
  • January 16 2012: Quo Vadis, Britannia?
    Howard Hollem George Lane April 1942"George Lane, served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Seven of his nephews are ...
  • January 14 2012: Housing and Oil: Dark Invento ...
    National Photo Co. Ingenious cheat February 13, 1922"Washington, D.C., Unidentified woman demonstrating an ingenious Prohibition-era fashion accessory, the cane-flask" Ilargi: I'd like to try a little intellectual exercise. There were two pieces in my mailbox this week that concerned posts at Na ...
  • January 10 2012: The Year of the Trojan Water ...
    Harris & Ewing Listening to the Future September 12, 1938Washington, D.C. "Acting Czechoslovakian Minister listens to Hitler speech. Dr. Karel Brejska, Charge d'Affaires and acting Minister in the absence of Minister Vladimir Hurban in Czechoslovakia, is pictured listening to Adolf Hitler's ...

Press TV

  • Militants kill 4 troops in NW Pakistan
    At least four soldiers are killed and several others injured in separate attacks in Pakistan's troubled tribal areas in the northwest, where government troops are fighting militants, Press TV reports.
  • 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.
  • 'Iran oil embargo endangers EU economy'
    The Iranian ambassador to Serbia has dismissed the European Union's embargo on Iran's oil as illogical and unjustifiable, warning that the measure will endanger Europe's fragile economy.
  • 'Europeans to suffer from Iran oil ban'
    Iran's Foreign Ministry has denounced the European Union (EU) for adopting “imprudent and unjustifiable” decisions on Tehran, saying an EU embargo on Iran's oil will have adverse consequences for the Europeans.
  • EU ministers urge more Greek cuts
    EU finance ministers have urged Greece to prepare new budget cuts to reach a deal with international creditors more quickly to prevent a chaotic default.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

Nick Turse

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    A protester throws a petrol bomb against riot police guarding the parliament in Athens’ Syntagma (Constitution) square during clashes December 6, 2011. Greek police fired tear gas at dozens of black-clad protesters in Athens who hurled petrol bombs and stones, while hundreds marched to parl ...
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